Show In dianas patrimonial aiu t daring the mouth month of march the clark county clerk issued eighty licenses to runaway couples from kentucky of this number one magistrate caught for ty four and the remainder were gobbled by the smaller fishes from a cursory examination of the marri mar madriago riago i ago records on file in the tha clerks office for the past fifteen years not less than licenses i benses censes have been issued to persona in quest of bliss of this nature 95 93 per cent of whom came from kentucky out of these seemingly startling figures one squire married couples another 2000 another 1500 another leav ing in persons whose religion ne cessa rily i ay dictated to them that they be married ima by a minister of their choice it will be remembered that some weeks sigo ago an ordinance was passed by the city council prohibiting matrimonial runners or steer ers from further following their disgraceful calling under penalty of a heavy fine the new law caused them to cease operations for the time being now they look upon the ordinances ordinance ordinance as as a dead letter and business in ia this line has been resumed at the same sam a old stand prine principally A pally at the ferry dock doch and on the streets jeffersonville Jeffer sonville cor indianapolis news |