Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-10-19
TELEPHONE GIRLS WIN FARMERS
Sound of Voice Over the Wire Starts
Young Men Wooing.


Young Men Wooing.
Why does a prosperous young farm
er go into a telephone office to get
wife?
Down in Aurora recently a wealthy
young soil tiller of Bureau County
wen, into the office of the Interstate
Telephone and Telegraph Company to
transact some business over the wire.
He was alone with the night operator
and before he had left he had proposed
TO her, offered to give her everythi 1g
she cared to have, and would take
her 70 one of the finest farms in his
county. He didn't want her to be
farm slave, but to be the wife of
country gentleman. This girl told him
to call the next day, and when he did
so he found the day operator on duty.
He made up his mind that if the
night girl would not be his wife. he
would ask the pretty young day work
er, besides there we're a whole lot
more upstairs that he would try to
see.
1t was ascertained that this young
man owned in his own right a half
section of land that was worth $40
an acre. that he was an up to date
farmer. came from a good family of
farmers. and was possessed in all of
property that would enable him to re-
tire in ten years. During the time that
he was in the telephone office he asked
the kind of questions that showed he
had good ideas about picking out Il
wife
The Aurora. incident is but a siGgle
one of hundreds of the same kind.
Farmer boys are falling in love with
the sweet voiced creatures who are
continually singing the same song over
the wires Some people think they do
not have much more time than to say
'hello" and busy" but many of them
talk themselves into a wedding. Talk
is the right word in this connection,
for it is The sound of their voices that
infatuates a young man at the other
end of the wire.
Manager Clapp, of the Aurora office,
one of the oldest and most experienced
telephone men in the middle west.
says there is something about the
sound of the voice of Il girl on the
wire that sets a young man into Il
wooing mood. He says that girls who
have liyed through their teens with
out a proposal will enter a telephone
Uffice and before she has been at the
board a week ''some young man will
want to marry her. 1t is claimed
that the country telephone exchange
is a veritable recruiting office for mar
riageable young women. The great
web of wires that belongs to every
station of this kind seems to have been
spun by Cupid himself. and he liber-
ates any who have been caught only
when he finds some one 10 take care
of a good wife.
Within the last five years thousands
of girls have found employment in the
country or the Independent telephone
office. There are lines that connect
uI' a score or more of small towns with
the larger towns. Then there are hun
dreds of lines that are operated by
farmers almost entirely. The lines of
one company connect with another so
that one may talk clear across the
NLitS' me 0ACHduSe Oh country
town sometimes has all the way from
200 to 500 subscribers. A single in
dependent line may have 1900 sub
scribers. The director of the climate
and crop service of the department of
agriculture at Springfield has begun
agitating a project to send weather
reports to these telephone companies
so that they could relay them to a
large number Of people free of charge.
In a short time he had favorable re-
sponses from telephone lines that rep
resented 1850 telephones in 40
towns and on thousands of farms
This shows the wonderful scope of
country over which a pretty girl may
say the tender little things that sound
al! the sweeter on the wire and which
seem to have occasioned so many wed
dings from real love matches.-Chi-
cago Tribune.