MUST MARRY TO WIN FORTUNE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 190, 29 July 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

MUST MARRY TO WIN FORTUNE.

BACHELOR FLOODED WITH PROPOSALS. NO YVIDOWS ELIGIBLE. Although marriage proposals have flooded in upon him by the dozen, both through mail and over the telephones, Charles A. Compton of the St. James Hotel. St, Louis, U.S., who must be a benedict before October in order to inherit the estate cf his late grandfather. valued at £sooo', still finds himself without a prospective bride. 'Hie contents of perfumed envelopes and sweet-voiced telephone calls have failed to strike a responsive chord. Maidens and widows of three States have offered their hands, each and every one expressing full confidence that they arc his real, true, and only affinities.

The maidens of one town in this State, however, have not been heard from, namely, Kansas City, Compton’s homo. This might possibly explain matters. “I have not received one lettci from Kansas City,” declared the ,benediet-who-must-be. Many of the fair sex who are more than willing to help the young man out of his predicament are residentsof St. Louis and vicinity. “I am a young widow with two children. I am sure you are the man I am looking for, and I am confident you will think the same of me, if you will only meet me,” wiote one St. Louis woman, who admitted having seen 25 summers. “No widows with children for mine,” commented Compton. A maiden of 16 years, residing in Huntsville, Tex., wrote that she was not altogether satisfied with present conditions in her home town and thought she would like to marry Compton.

“T am a Texas- girl from Georgia, and I know you would like a Texas girl,” sho penned. “I have dark brown eyes, and my father owns a hotel. 1 was thinking of going to school again, but I can do that afterwards.”