Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1912 — Getting Ready for Spring; Farmers are Seeking Mates. [ARTICLE]

Getting Ready for Spring; Farmers are Seeking Mates.

County Clerk Warner and his deputy, Miss Eva Moore, and Clerk-Elect Judson H. Perkins, who is. getting onto the ropes preparatory to tajjing "office on May Ist, all took a hand Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in issuing marriage licenses. A half dozen were granted during" those three days and in each case the grooms were farmers; They are all getting ready for the spring farm season and are getting married a couple of weeks ahead so as to have a little billing and cooing period before the hard work of spring farming commences. It looks as though the farmer boys tfere the only ones that are being chosen for husbands. The prosperity on the farms in Jasper county surely looks attractive to the young women and they are choosing wisely when they say “yes” to the pleas of a young man who answers “farmer” when the clerk asks them their occupation. In every one of the six instances too the girl in the case has answered “housekeeper” when the clerk has asked her occupation. That makes a combination that for real happiness and bright prospects can not be improved upon. The high price of butter and eggs, the big price for grain and all products bf the farmraarely would serve as a discouragement to any city couple these days and if there are any of our sensible girls who want to get married, we would advise that they turn their attention toward the young men who are soon to begin Miming the sod and preparing for' the planting of a crop so certain to bring a rich reward at harvest time. The city chap is laboring with a big handicap this year when he comes in competition with a young farmer for the hand and heart of a