Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-17
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Iowa Woman Journeys All Way
to Toledo, Ohio, to Wed a
Wealthy Farmer
RED WHISPERS AND A WIG
This Combination Was Too Much for
the Prospective Bride and She Re-
turned on the Next Train = The
courship Was Conducted by Mail
General News.

Toledo, O., July IA red beard and
. wig blighted the hopes which Mrs
Minnie Drew, of Creston, Iowa, en-
tertained for a happy home with Ja-
cob Stein, wealthy farmer near here
whose offer of marriage she had accept
Cd after a four weeks courtship by
mail. So shocked was she that she
did not take the four trunks contain
ing her wedding trousseau out of the
baggage room at the depot, but with
her daughter caught an early train for
her home in Iowa.
Stein is a wealthy bachelor farmer
near here. He had lands and stock, but
somehow mere lucre has net seemed to
him what it used to in the days of his
youth. With passing years there came
= longing for a. home--a home in the
real sense of the word. The big house
/ on his farm furnished the essentials
OF a home except the wife. Jacobs
fifty-odd years seemed to act as bar
rier between himself and the maidens
about Toledo, when he sought to WOO
them That is, he ascribed their indlf-
ference to the difference in years. Then,
too, he blamed himself for missing the
opportunities of youth in his wild
scramble for gold. He had never court
ed, and he knew not how to begin. His
several attempts resulted rather disas-
trously, and he wondered why He had
talked of the weather, of the prospects
enc.
cessful he had been with his young
stock, and even tried to lead his fair
company on with limitations that his
chickens and turkeys needed woman
to look after them, and how much he
lost by not having a wife who could
make beautiful golden butter from the
milk from his dozen cows.
Happy for Moment.
Jacob was becoming detected In his
quest for wife. The experience OF his
attempted courtships brought him to
decision not to we'd a young and tickle
1 etrl. But somehow or other the quest
for women OF maturer years proved
1ust as futile. At last, one day ne ran
across an item telling of how an Iowa
Farmer had wooed and won bride by
mail. having secured her address thru
an advertisement. 1t caused Jacob to
stop and think. IL another had been
auccessful in that way, why couldn't
he?
IA few days later an ad telling how
haf'lv a. lonesome, shut wealthy, ONO
bachelor needed a bride was inserted
In several papers.
A week passed by, when suddenly
nne day Jacob Stein received more
mall addressed by feminine hand
than he had ever received during his
entire life.
One Of the several letters was from
: Mrs. Minnie Drew, of Creston, Ia
Somehow or other the tenor of the
epistle appealed to Jacob and he an
swered. Letters sped back and forth.
Jacob was happy, for 1T was not half
As hard for him to court by mail, and
although 1t was, difficult for him to
compose his letters, he did not feel as
abashed as when sitting in the pres
ence OF a woman and endeavoring TO
get IDEAS for conversation that he
felt tagging.
Finally a week ago. he wrote to Mrs.
Drew to come to his Ohio home and it
everything suited her, he proposed that
they should wed. She wrote that she
would be in Toledo Saturday.
Jacob Stein was at the depot to meet
her. Jacob had little difficulty in pick
ing her out, but she was surprised, all
most to the extent of being shocked.
when he stepped UP to her and asked
II. she was not looking for Jacob Stein
and introduced himself as Jacob. The
.ui,kemp, red beard she thought bad,
bat when he removed his hat and she
detected his wig, she uttered shrill
little Never"
+, What conversation passed between
them, only they know. It did not last
very long. Jacob returned to his farm
home and Mrs. Drew gave sigh Of
relief as she grasped her little daugh-
ter's hand and boarded the train for
Creston.
She almost succeeded in GLIDING the
reporters here, but was discovered just
before the train pulled out. When
asked about the report that she was
to marry Jacob Stein, the story of the
projected marriage having been given
out by people in whom Jacob had con-
f1ded his hopes. she said with little
show OF, remorse:
Marry an old man with wig and
red beard! Me? No, never"
COLLEGE FoR JEWS.