Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Seeks Wife by Novel Means. [ARTICLE]

Seeks Wife by Novel Means.

Earnest Still, a Glencoe (Ok. T.) bachelor, has grown tired of single blessedness, and has hit upon a novel plan to get a wife and, at the same time, a nice little fortune to begin married life with. He proposes to put himself up to be drawn or raffled. The young women who are to invest are to pay $5 a ticket, and he expects to sell between 2,000 and 3,000 tickets between now and the opening of the new country. The young woman holding the winning ticket is to get Mr. Still for a husband, and'the money obtained by the sale of tickets Is to give them a start In life.