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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 12

Fred Darris, 90 years old. has just married his seventh wife. Ail his wives were daughters of Peter Yost, who lived in Milwaukee a4id sailed a freighter on the Great Lakes in the sixties. Harris began by marrying the oldest daughter of Yost, and has gone right down the line. The last five were widows. Mrs. Gustave Eidelman is the latest bride, and she is now 78. Her husband, a farmer, perished in the Minnesota foiest fires of 'l9lB. She had been married twice before. Harris, who was a hack driver, and later driver of a horse car in Chicago after the great tire, recently bought a small fruit farm on which to pass his remaining years, In an interview at Martinborough, Mr A. D. McLeod, M.P., said that he remembered lower prices for stock and wool m the 90’s when he first started farming on his own behalf. The prices were much on the level they are to-day, but the difference to-day is that while in those days on a 4000-acre property he was paying less than £5O as a total for land tax, income tax, county tax. hospital tax; to-day on a property of 3000 acres, the payments under these heads amounted to not less than ten times that amount.