Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — WIDOW’S TROUBLES ARE OVER [ARTICLE]

WIDOW’S TROUBLES ARE OVER

How ■ Long Island Woman Secured “Help” to Work Her FarmTeam Work Now. St. James, L. ,1. —Everybody in St. James who knew the Widow Heimrich is glad her troubles are over and that Bhe has a husband to help work her six-acre farm. After the death of her husband 18 months ago she found her farm too much to till with her own hands. So when she saw an advertisement in a newspaper, inserted by Martin Hall of New York, asking for a wife, she hastened to reply. Hall said he was expecting a fortune of $85,000 from Germany and would settle $25,000 of it upon the woman he married. The widow and Hall met. Hall was sixty-two and the widow forty-eight. They agreed to marry and fixed last December 15 as the date. But Hall did not appear. In reply to a letter from him a few weeks later, asking if he could call, she said yes. The upshot of the interview was that Hall went to work on the farm. Ha quit weeding and hoeing a month

ago and, leaving hiß clothes, went to New York. This was too much for the widow and she tried to sell the farm. Among the men to look at it was Jacob Brig, an Insurance inspector of Hoboken, N. J. The widow showed him about the place and then asked hopefully: "Do you want to buy the farm?” “How large is it?” asked Brig. The widow told him it was six acres. “That’s too large for me,” said Brig. "I haven’t any wife to make life here endurable and to help with the work.” The widow cast down her eyes. A sudden light came into those of the insurance man. “Say, say,” he exclaimed, “you aren’t looking for a husband, are you?” • The widow blushed. Well, she didn’t just know if she would put it that way, but —but—he might call tomorrow and she would think about it. Well, the insurance man did call “tomorrow” and the next day and the next and the next to sdch good effect that the widow and Brig were made a team the other day in the St. James Episcopal church to work the six-acre farm each had found too large for single harness. Today Hall returned to St. James. He was told the news. This shocked him so much he had to go to a drug store and let the “doctor” prescribe something. After he got his clothes without so much as a glance from Mrs. Brig he threatened to sue for breach of promise.