The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-12-01
EASY CHANCE TO
SECURE A FARM

How would you like to write t(
a man in South Dakota regarding
some land drawings and have hin
reply to your letter with proposa
of marriage?
Just supposlng you wanted tC
get some of the broad acres put uI
at the recent land rattle, and yOul
letter was answered by a man who
offered "a farm Of $40 acres, worth
! 1913 per acre, and himself if you
would marry him within six weeks
nov what would you do in q
case like that
This is just what happened to
Miss Many Hanna OF Twenty
eighth street and Woodland avenue
nurse at The Retreat who
wrote to South Dakota askin-
about obtaining some of the land
at the recent land drawing there.
The answer she received contained
not only the offer Of farm but al
so one of marriage.
Several of the nurses at The
Retreat thought they would in
vestigate the land proposition, and
wrote to South Dakota regarding
the recent Rosebud reservation
contest. They figured that there
might be a possible chance to get
some of the land and wanted to be
allowed to share in the division if
possible. The letter was dispatch
ed and reply was duly awaited
DESCRIBES HIMSELF WELL
The reply came in time, and was
embodied in this letter, dated at
Yankton, 5. D., Oct. %:
Dear Miss Hanna: In reply to
your letter just received, will make
you a good offer. | am man of
80 years, 5 feet 9 inches high,
weigh 1913 pounds, dark hair,
black eyes. DO not drink, swear,
smoke or chew. Have been mar
ried twice and both my loving
COMPANIONS lie beneath the sod.
Have nine children. Would like
to marry at once.
The offer l make you is this.
If you become my wife within six
weeks, farm of GAO acres is yours.
The land is worth $9S per acre.
Also have II COWS, 500 chickens, I
horses, 2 sows, l angOra cat and a
pair of goats, which are yours.
Will anxiously await an early
reply. Sincerely, Elisha Snod-
grass, Yankton, S. D. r. F. d.
No. %.
This offer, which is really a
muniicent one, so far as the valve
of land is concerned, was turned
down by Miss Hanna. The land
which her long distance suitOr Of
fers her would be worth $62, 72O,
but Judging from the tone of her
letter, even this wealth in land
does not entice Miss Hanna.
SHE'S MUCH SURPRISED
Her letter to Mr.. Snodgrass fol-
lows,
MY Dear Mr.. SnOdgrass:
Yours of Oct. Doth at hand. While
any good woman who has her liv-
ing to make would appreciate a
good husband and home, your let
ter came as a complete surprise
and as far as | am concerned | am
older than you by seven years !;
however, | may be able to help you
find some good, capable, cOnscient-
iOus woman whom proposition
such as you made to me would
meet with her approval.
How FAR out in the country do
you live! What are the ages OF your
children. Do you keep any helpi
We work hard in THE Retreat, y
but most of our patients are over
worked farmers wives, hence we
nurses are possibly more fearful OF
getting into something that we
cannot regulate.
You surely have gotten a good
start for young man, in more
ways than one. Do you mean to
say that land out there is worth
$9S dollars per acrei My brother
just sold ten acres for $500 pei
acre about three miles from Des'
Moines. Do you realize what YOU
are promising a wife, $62, 72O,
fortune. A man worth that much
surely would not have to 60 ia,
away from home, | am thinking
to get anything he wanted. Still
l can understand large family
would stand in the way of many
people entering into matrimOny.
PLENTY MATERIAL LEFT
I'VE will have a wedding, l un
derstand, prehaps next Sunday
and one Oi two of the other nurses
are contemplating taking the step
but we have plenty left. as WI
l. IL m