Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1912 — SCOTCH GIRLS ARE POPULAR [ARTICLE]

SCOTCH GIRLS ARE POPULAR

Many Steamships Bring Large . Parties of Highland Lassies to Marry American Farmers. " New York. —Judging by ’the frequency of their arrival in large parties, Scottish lassies are popular aa brides in some sections of the tar West. In similar proportion to that on many previous voyages of Anchor liners, 10 per cent of the 500-odd passengers on the steamer Columbia, just in from Glasgow, were young Scotch women. -V ——■ —- All of the fifty maddens announced themselves bound for various western states as brides-to-be of prosperous farmers. -