Show 1 1 t 1 i tg 14 1 4 ia I 1 PARADISE FOR ELOPERS a record breaker 1 ta the X kamber ber of knots tied no atty c tn in america has made quite such a good record in the number of knots tied for elopers as Jeffer jeffersonville sonville ind this year says the indianapolis Jour journal nid last month there were eighty live five such marriages located on the ohio river the town draws from two states and has hai special attractions for the romantic kentuckians Kentuck ians the squires and acid ministers are winning a reputation for the way in which they dispatch the nervous and lovelorn love lorn who come tc their doors doom A couple total stranger st rangen in the city will step from a train or a buggy or bicycles and ask for IL ce certain or squire so well however how eve r hata dav the magistrates arran arranger gei abb things thai no couple can manage f to 0 reach the city without having first been spotted bi some of the numerous runners wh kindly volunteer to escort them to t 0 the office of a mig magistrate istrate for this kind ness the runner always receives a afef fe from the officiating justice the justic having the widest reputation is squire john hause haug e who occupies a neat office ast at the head of the ferry landing made by the inviting sign matrimonial parlors and orthez placards showing to the public the nature of the business transacted by the justice during the last month mont h at least fifty of the couples were united tit in the th tie that binds by this dignitary the emoluments resulting from this channel are from 1 to 5 and sometimes 10 each A handsome income of from to per month is almost always al wa ys assured hinl him many are the queer requests which accompany the applications for the marriage ceremony recently one of the couples wanted to be b married while on their bicycles and the request was complied with the scene 90 VMS strange the bridal couple seated on wheels els supported by friends with clasped hands were made one another couple were married by request standing under the approach of the big foai bridge which spans the ohio at this thia point recently squire hause married a young lady who was the fifth and last daughter in a family of five girls and tour our boys all of the burls having eloped and been married three of them by squire hause |