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Show Mars Blamed for Marriage Failures; One in Ten Slips One of every ten marriages In Halt lake county en1fi In the divorce court, according to ISUO record compiled in the . county clerk's office. More than 3000 marriage licemtcs have been issued during tho year and approximately SOU marriage were declared void in the district court. The divorc figure wan particularly a great Increase of the TM9t fiKure, which won less than 200. After launching the matrimonial hark for more than 3000 couples during the year, Brlgham H. Young, county marriage, license clerk, has decided that Salt I-ake people "are marry mg young." Applicants for marriage licenses are almost always under 20 years of age, and the boys are frequently fre-quently forced to bring a parent to gain "consent," he says. Iw girls under the legal age of IS are married. Judge p. C. Kvans, presiding over the divorce court in the Third district, attributed the large i increase in divorces over the 1119 figure to "the war." Numlers of "hasty marriage ceremonies" were performed during the conflict, only to be repented later and taken into court for annulment. 1 hp s;iid. m j |