Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — PROPOSAL OVER PHONE WIRE [ARTICLE]

PROPOSAL OVER PHONE WIRE

"Hello” Girl Receives an Offer of Marriage Intended for Some Other Woman.

Kansas City, Mo.—A telephone operator at the Union depot had a proposal from a man she never saw and doesn’t even know his name. Although she . didn’t reject him, there is little likelihood of a wedding. A woman had just been in a booth and had hung up the receiver. The person at the other end of the line still was waiting. The girl operator “went in” on the line to tell that the party at her end of the line had hung up. * “Won’t you marry me, then?” asked a masculine voice at the other end. “Hadn’t thought of it,” was the answer. 'l’m the operator.” “Oh.” , t * „ And the man hnng np suddenly, probably afraid that ‘‘central” would bear him blush.