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Show DIVORCE MILLS MAKE A RECORD Ratio of Separations to Marriages Makes a Radical Advance for the Month of March. March has been a record month In the litigation line. The Judges of the District Dis-trict court have been kept busy trying cases and the deputies In the county clerk's office have likewise been kept busy filing new actions. During the month a total of seventy-stven cases were brought, against seventy-one for the same month last year, and sixty-nine sixty-nine last month. Of the swenty-scven complaints filed twenty-four are actions for divorce and twenty-one were Impecunious Im-pecunious cases. For March, 1903, there were only eighteen divorce suits and seven charity cn.ves, j On the other side of the county clerk's, office ciipld has been kept fairly Jumping to issue more marriage licenses than the Judges do decrees of divorce. The marriage business wa. dull the first part of the month, and It was only through a lively spurt down the home stretch that cupid won the day. Nevertheless Never-theless the little fellow hi having a hard time in Zlon, and Is working overtime to keep ahead of the monster Divorce. Last year tho ratio of divorces to marriages mar-riages in Snlt Lako county was one to six. During the past month eighty-four, licenses to marry were- Issued by the county clerk and a comparison with the twenty-four casea of divorce shows that the ratio of last year has been lowered from 1 to C to 1 to 3.5 for the past month. This shows that the divorce di-vorce evil has almost doubled its number num-ber of victims. |