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Show DAN CUPID HAS BEEN BUSY LITTLE FELLOW Dan Cupid has been exceedingly busy during the year of lOlS and. with one more week to go. has registered 2391 couples cou-ples with the county clerk this year, against a total of 2211 for 191:'. The past five years have recorded a steady Increase In the demand for marriage mar-riage licenses. The comparative figures for tho last five years aro: 1913, saijt: 1912. 2241; 1911. 1910, 20S5; 1909, 2051. While the marriage records show an Increase, tlie divorce records show, that fewer divorces are granted In Salt Lake than In any of the large western cities. Thus far this year 270 interlocutory decrees de-crees have boen issued by Judge C. W. Morse of the Third district court. In addition -to this, 233 final decrees were entered, making a total of 503 divorces. With the 1913 record more than doubling dou-bling the 1911 record. It Is belleed that the record for the entire year will show an Increase over l!M2. In 1911 23S decrees, de-crees, 179 Interlocutory and S9 final, were entered in the Third district court. The city board of health expects an Increase in the birth record for the year 1913. Tho reports of one month of the year are yet to be recorded and still the 1913 figures are within 140 of the 1912 records. Up to November ;!0, 1913. 2107 births fiad been reported to the board, against 2517 for the year 1912. |