The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-01-11
HUSBAND HUNTING
Chicago Girls to Be Invited to Visit
Abbeville

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years ago, and who reads the Press
and Banner for information and the
Baltimore Sun for amusement, has
sent US the following clipping from
the latter paper:
'sDonalds, which has gained nation
wide reputation as being a town
without single marriageable woman
due to an epidemic Of weddings last
summer, is to be invaded by Chica-
go girls, who announce that they
expect to visit the 'Eveless Eden in
search Of swains. !
"The postmaster here received a
letter from Chicagoan who styled
herself as young, pretty and good
cook, with money saying that she
and others were planning motor
trip South and that they wanted the
postmaster to investigate the situa-
tion at Donalds and give confidential
reports on the boys, who, in the alb
sence of girls to 60 to see, have al
most crowded the stove out of the
village drug store"
This causes to remark that The
Greenwood-Index Journal, by its ar
ticles on the Donalds bachelors and
kindred subjects has not only put the
old town on the map, but it is likely
to bring wives, if not trouble, to
some of the bachelors there.
But that is not what we started
out to say. We are interested in the
motor trip which the pretty Chicago
girls are planning to make to DON
aids. It has occurred to us that per-
haps each of them may not be able
to find just what she is looking for
at Donalds, and that being the case,
why should we allow our lights to
remain under a bushel? Why should
a whole motor-trip load Of Chicago
girls who want to get married, cook
for some man, and probably spend
his money, come all the way to Don
aids and then return to the windy
city without a husband, when the
very man she is looking for is only
! fifteen miles away?
Now you may not have thought
about it but We have in Abbeville
and appurtenant to the city many
bachelors of manageable age, any
one of whom, might be the choice OF
half dozen, or even more pretty
Chicago girls. ....''
There is our old friend Col. Crom-
er. A good looking woman had as
soon spend his money as the money
of any other man. He is still young,
though old enough to have some
sense about small matters, he has
plenty of money, and could give 10
any woman who was not overly hard
to please happy home. "I-golly" we
claim that he would be "boid" of
la husband. '...
Then there is Uncle Pat McCaslan.
He has mortgage on one side of
the county and another one on a
part Of the other side. About all he
does is to clip coupons, rest well at
night, play setback in the day time,
and 60 to church on Sunday. He
could spend his time a great deal
more usefully by carrying home the
groceries, milking the cow, cutting
the stove wood, working the garden,
getting up and getting breakfast and
then calling darling" down to eat
it. Certainly he might be relieved of
the trouble of spending all the mon
ey he has to spend. If they were not
pleased with Uncle Pat, we could
trot out Nephew Jim Taggart who
can set a pace to please the swiftest
of them.
Then there is our young friend
Erwin Cleckley. Handsome, rich,
good-looking, easy to please, and al
ways in a good humor, what more
could girl who calls herself by some
fancy name like Gwendolyn want in
the way of a husband?
. And what about Lawyer Nickles,
Col. Louis Sondley, Victor Lomax
and host of others whom We might
mention?