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Show CUPID IS PUNISHED Bf LICENSE CLERK Love God Brings in Couple Not Eligible Under the Marriage Laws. Cupid ran amuck at tho city and county coun-ty building yesterday. It began when he piloted a young man and a young woman into the office of John Halvorsen, marriage mar-riage licenso clerk. To one of the first questions asked the young man admitted that he had been previously married and that less than six months had elapsed since a final decree of separation from his wife had been granted by the court. Thereupon the license cJerk informed the couple that there might be some question about issuing is-suing a license to them and advised them to return later, after he should have obtained ob-tained legal advice on the question. Once the candidates for wedlock had departed Clerk llalvorscn turned with stern countenance upon the little archer. Taking him mercilessly by the ear. he led him out through the hall and down the stairs. Fortunately, the hallway was deserted de-serted and the office of County Attorney H Li Mulliner was reached without anyone any-one having seen the humiliation of the godling. Once in Mulllner's office, Halvorsen caught his bow-and-arrow-clad charge up bodily and sat him down rather severely upon a corner of the attorney's desk. He explained to Attorney Mulliner that the rather juvenile person thus seated was i the general sales agent for "homesites" in the only one of the United States in which lighting is not now prohibited. After wetting a general understanding of the license clerk's complaint against the love god, Attorney Mulliner began thumbing his way through law books. In a few minutes the attorney had shown wherein it was provided by tiie state statutes that no divorced person can be rnarried in Utah within six months after the issuing of the final de-.ree of separation separa-tion from the former spouse. Ignoring the baleful glare In the eyes of the youngster he had chastened. Clerk Halvorsen returned to his office to an- I swer a telephone call. It was the would-be, would-be, second-!" and bridegroom, ringing up the clerk to know the fate of his matrimonial matri-monial hopes. He was told to possess his soul in patience. |