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Show Clerk Eldrcdgc Decides to Make Public AH tic Liar-;-"''0 riage licenses issued In This County - No longer will the couple wh wish to j be married but don't want their friends to know about it be allowed o keep their secret It they secure the license in Salt Lake county. Heretofore it has not been ah infrequent infre-quent occurrence for a couple to apply for a license and in a confidential voice Inform the deputy clerk that they would like to have it kept out of the papers, as they would niw to surprise their friends, or , they did not want - their friends to know that they were married just yet. - Another reason given is that they do not want people to know' how old they are. There are other reasons given, but these are the principal ones. As the applications for licenses are not numbered until they are flled.x it has been an easy matter for the obliging clerk to withhold them from the bands of the newspaper men. Now all is changed. When County Clerk Eldredge took possession of the office on the first of the year he issued an edict that thereafter all records of the office should be made public as far as possible. Marriage licenses were to be no exception. , Every application for a license, tha license Itself and the certificate cer-tificate of marriage have been numbered num-bered since the first of the year. Within With-in the next few days these will be in book form. When a couple apply for a marriage certificate they will sign the application as heretofore, and the license and certificate cer-tificate win be torn out and given to them, tha latter to be returned to the office later, but the application will remain re-main In the book as a stub and will be a matter of record open to Inspection at all times. . ''I have bad no complaint of the past methods in vogue in the office," said Mr. Eldredge, "but I wish to avoid an such complaints in the future. If theNpub-11c theNpub-11c desires this Information I intend' that it shall have It. . The marriage relation re-lation Is one of the most sacred that I know of. tod sacred to be trifled with in any way. and I do not propose that it shall be as far as the Issuing of licenses li-censes from this office is concerned." |