FARMER’S BRIDE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1932, Page 6

FARMER’S BRIDE

NL CHOSEN BY PICNIC CROWD. MAKER OF “HOME-BREW.” SAN FIUNCISCO ; June 30. o t=. the bizarre in America took af’ stralige. form recently at the 'eute'rof Hollister some sevensouth of San Francisco, where 5000 critical judges of Lie and I'vc in a poultry ranch decided that a woman wvlio can make good Peer is my tq-he: prized than fine jewels,. James Dale, who is fifty-oig.nt, and owns ail '.elegant flock of white leghorns, wanted a wife. The only trouble was lie dr a d been a bachelor all his lif-v and he,;,Avas not exactly certain he would .make a good choice. So he issued a manifesto. All the girls who wanted to he All’s Dale, he said, should show up at the annual Elks’ picnic in Hollister, and he would let the crowd decided whom lie should wed. James did not even specify the contestants. ' Seven of them entered the lists —all of them strangers to him. Each got up in the grandstand and made a'campaign speech, while James blushed fosily, as bridegrooms sometimes do, “I make fine home-brew,” declared white-haired Mrs Johnson,, who is fiftytwo, and a school teacher. The crowd applauded again and again, and she was chosen. The six defeated candidates acted as bridesmaids, while Judge E. A. Pearce, of San Juan, read the marriage ceremony, and Governor James Rolph, who acted as best man. kissed the bride. “P’mon,” said James to his bride. “let’s start home and get that brew on.”