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Show Cupid in Flu Mask Frightens -Pair-Who Come Here to Wed Jumping from the frying pan into the fire, tieorge Hughes, prominent business man of Dillon, Mont., and a widower, decided to evade relatives and friends in the home town and came to Salt Lake to be married to Miss Dorothy Couch, a pretty young blonde, only to find that the Spanish Influenza haa a way of Interfering with well regulated plans. As soon ss they arrived they hied themselves to the county clerk's office to secure a license and be married. In the elevator of the city and county building upward bound, two sensation lovers were discussing the ravages of the "flu" epidemic In Salt Lake In the most extravagant and exangerated terms and gave the Information to all j who might he interested that they would not even allow people to be . married without "gas masks." The young bride-to-be went lntothe I y clerk's office with worried expression expres-sion and asked for the "gas masks.' John K. Clark, affable dispenser of permits to wed, expressed regret that he was nut of them, but whll the license li-cense was being made out a reporter who had taken in the situstlon In the elevator made a high dive to the basement base-ment tfour floorsr and Invading the county dispensary secured the next beit substitute for a "flu" mask, a roll t absorbent cotton. The man in the case had the marriage mar-riage license in his hand and the cere- , mony was on Its way when the reporter re-porter returned with the peeudo mask. The little hride gave It one haughty E lance and. Indignant at having her dream of romance so unromantically meddled with, marie a dash through i the door, the groom after her. The knot tier was left in the lurch, for they did not return. |