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Show LOWS YOUNG DREAM IS RUDELY DISPELLED i I Just before Francis Peterson and Olive Blunt, love-smitten youths from Hunter, 1 stepped to the nfarrlage license counter In the county clerk's office late Tuesday afternoon to secure a license to wed a i telephone message was received from tho ! girl's irate parents 'settlnc; out that th proposed marriage was against their wishes and that the girl had not yet at-i at-i talned her majority, and instructing the ; county clerk to refuse to Issue the coveted cov-eted ileense. The girl declared she was of legal age, but the clerk declined to issue the license without proof, and the two left the office. Wednesday morning, carrying the proof of the dale of her birth, Miss Blunt, accompanied ac-companied by her lover, again started for the county clerk's office, but were halted by Miss Blunt's father and mother, who had come to the city to effectually put a stop to the proposed marriage. After a lengthy conference, the parents of the girl induced tho couple to return to Hunter Hun-ter and deliberate some more over the proposed step. |