Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1903 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADVERTISED FOR A WIFE. Wealthy Pulaakl County Parmer Marrlee Oae •f the Scores of Applicant* for Life Partnership. , Miss Mildred E. Smith, formerly of Indianapolis, but now of Noblesville, and Daniel Overmeyer of Pulaski county, were married in Noblesville, Tuesday night, October 6, 1903, the Rev. B. S. Hollopeter, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. The bridegroom is sixty-five years old, and the bride between twentyfive and thirty years. Mr. Overmeyer’S marriage to Miss Bmith is the result of an advertisement for a wife.

When he wrote to the newspapers that he desired a helpmate, he went into details as to his wealth by announcing that he was the owner of 320 acres of fine land with an elegant country home; that he had his farm stocked with fine cattle and horses; that he was a good provider to the extent of killing three beeves a year; that he was sixtyfive, but was still active; that he could broadcast fifteen acres a day against the wind, and that he had eleven children, all of whom are grown, and each of whom has received forty acres of land and S7OO as their fall share. In reply to this advertisement Mr. Overmeyer received fiftynine letters from Indiana women and several from foreigners. Qe did not consider the latter for the reason that he thought Indiana was good enough to furnish him a wife. “You ought to see some of the things they said to me,” said Mr. Overmeyer, when he reached Noblesville to claim his bride. “They asked me more questions than a lawyer could ask. They asked if I was of a loving disposition, if I was willing to show my wife a good time, if I snored when I slept. Oh, but the women are a lively lot! I have been so busy with my farm work that I did not have the time to answer all of them, but I am on deck all right to-day. “I do not want ope of the old campmeeting grandmothers, neither do I want one of these society women. I want a farmer’s wife, one of the kind that can tell a Canadian thistle from a hollyhock. Now I have found her, I intend to make her happy, and when I am gone I will leave her a ‘nest egg’ as big as a stack of hay,” Mr. and Mrs. Overmeyer left soon after the ceremony for their home near Monterey. : —Winatnac Journal.