The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-31
BRINGS BRIDE HERE
Peabody Ranchman Goes to
Sweden for Wife.
Editor Forms Club to Marry
Off Girls.
KANSAN HAS A ROSY STORY
Discusses Prosperity in Sun
flower State on Trip Home.
And Rush for American Hus-
bands Is Result.

paabodv Kan. Jan S1.-Weston
Toclrnev a prosperous young ranch
49,. so,,+b Of this city has arrived
home from a hurried trip 10 S"ee ei-s
bringing with him as a BRIDE the no
- +6a club of young Swedish women
u -. a,7liad TO William Payton, editor
- tta Pea bodv Herald, for huSDalus-
r1I,o b1ida was Miss Agatha olson Oh
e.+ocI-bolr1- Sweden. She was the sec
7etarv of the club who wrote 20 1aS
ton and told him that the youhs VIZ ae
+l,era7 had organized for the purpose 81
a++irt- husbands and asking him TO alu
fbe~n PAXTON got busy at once anu
~ is probable that. as a result u ne
EFFORTS every one of the young WoiilSls
In h supplied with a husband II
~ I, ocknev says of them is true. the
lei, nov is bound to be greater tnah
ever. Summing UP Lockneys oescrIp-
tion. all the young women are
peaches" g.. ., 7,..a,~
Hackney was one of the first to near
IF the club through Payton. At his sug-
<,aztior Payton cabled to the Secre-
+arv of the club that ICckney WouIu
take the first one offered 1t so nap
nened that Miss Olson was ready at
a1ce and she cabled back word to that
III 7 .ocISnev took the first steamer
e--o,,o New York. went to Stockholm,
married Miss Olson and now they are
setting ND housekeeping on the Lock
Tex ranch. Mrs. Lockney is well edu-
Gated and speaks English fiuently
Swedish Bride Tells Tale.
~About a year ago" she said, "a
x7o,1ne, man who was born and reared
in our neighborhood and who had come
10 Kansas and returned with a COM
Portable fortune told US all about the
state and the scarcity of young women.
He said there were a lot of fine young
men around Peabody who wanted
wives. He also told us about the
American leap year custom
HE married a young woman in our
neirhborhood and returned to Kansas,
and the idea came to Us TO organize d
club and study English and learn
American ways and try to win Amerl-
can husbands for ourselves
There are more women than men
where we lived, anyhow There We're
- of us at the start, but three OF them
were married at home before the club
got fairly organized, and four others
have been married since. That left five
of us Now I am married, two others
have become engaged to Americans and
Mr.. Payton has made arrangements TOT
the other three
"AH of US will live near each other
and we are going to supply the names
of other girls we know at home to good
young men who want wives"
Editor Is in Deep.
AS the result of Payton's efforts IN
behalf of the Swedish girls, he has
been compelled to spend a large part
of his time acting as a matrimonial
agent Letters come to him by the
dozen every day from both men and
women seeking mates To those who
send stamp for reply -Payton sends a
list of eligibles, reminding the women
this this is leap year and it is their
privilege to do the asking This is a
sample Of the letters:
Having read of the efforts of the
Swedish women to get American hus-
bands and being reminded that this is
leap year, I think it has come my time
to pop. I am resident of Arkansas
City, am the daughter of a well-to-do
farmer and a member of the United
Presbyterian church. Am not the hand
soonest girl in the world. but am pass
able, have blue eyes. brown hair. am
rather tall, weigh 160 pounds and am "a
years old. Miss Emma Marshall, Ar
kansas City, Kan"
Peabody Girls Gut In.
The girls of Peabody are not going to
be left out of the deal, however. Al
first they paid no attention to PaytOn' s
efforts, but now they are getting into
the game and several of them are de-
manding that the young men of the