Show MISSING MARRIAGE I LIC LICENSES HINT OF DISAPPOINTED LOVE LOVEI I Marriage H licenses issued in 1916 1918 will wUl total approximately 2525 an I Increase of ot over the total for tor torI 1915 and an Increase of ot 99 over I tho the number issued in 1914 Either ministers and others au authorized nu- nu i gl to perform marriages are ePt Str violating the law in t frequently failIng fail fail- tog Ing to return the licenses to the i county clerk or several contemplated contemplated I plated marriages have not been performed according to tG the records Out of ot 2068 licenses issued for tor forthe forthe the first ten months of ot this year rear fourteen were not returned It Is believed by John Halvorsen marriage marriage marriage mar mar- license clerk that the missing missing missing miss miss- ing licenses have been used but not returned Considerable difficulty ty may result In a legal wa way In years to come as a result However there have been cases in which the couples receiving the licenses have mistaken the licenses for tor a marriage e certificate and be believing believing be- be lieving themselves married have kept ept the licenses Mr i ester ea day that hat if It the marriage is not properly recorded as required by bylaw bylaw bylaw law the right to estates of ot deceased husbands and wives may not be legally established |