Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — WED OR LEAVE HOME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WED OR LEAVE HOME.

Four St, Louis Girls Must Hustle for Husbands. In St. Louis is a father who has grown tired of seeing young men call on his daughters with no apparent intention of marrying them. To prevent any more dilly-dallying, he has issued to his four girls an ultimatum which compels them to either marry before Dec. 1 or leave the parental roof and shift for themselves.

The man’s name is Jacob Burkhart, the daughters being Lotta, Emma, Ella and Laura. The family lives at 4511 North Twentieth street, at least Mr. Burkhart does, for all his daughters have now left him. The girls are good-looking, domesticated and accomplished. Each would make an excellent wife. One of them, Ella, might have been married before Dec. 1, but that her father’s ultimatum has caused her to defer her plans'rather than yield to his insistence. She has fled from her home, not; waiting for the ides of November to pass. The list of forgeries that have turned up at Toledo as the work of the suicide, Prof. Martin Friedberg, is growing. Up to the present time about 100 names have been discovered. One firm is out $14,000. It is believed his forgeries will reach $50,000. Louis Belew, his sister Susan, bath of whom were to hgve been married soon, and Bruno Kline, their hired man, were mysteriously peiocned at Dixon, Oal, and the two former died in a few hours, while the tatter is not expected to lire. ,

THE BURKHART GIBES.