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Show U THEY SHOULD I BE GLAD IT i I DIFFERS HERE U 1 When Tony S Opary and Miss l a Qpgry, both Ot Hear River City, ap I pea red In the offjCI Of ClauQj T Moves, countv clerk, and sough; a I marriage license, there w;is doubi about Its Issuance for the rcjison that ihe couple .were of the same na m r Innd came from the same town In Albania, Al-bania, which led Deputy Wllfonl YontiK to believe that there might b I relationship. But the cloud was soon cleared I away when Mr Opary explained the Albanian customs were vastly different differ-ent from those In America The fact that the name of both the prospebtiV bride and groom were ihe s.mie. Mr opary declined. mean' nothing .it all In the matter Of relationship- In Albania. On lb other hand, he said. It was not their true ! names as we class them In the United 'Plates but rather the name of the town In which they lived Detailed explanation brought out 'the information that In Albania when la person moves to a certain town he takes the name of the town for his 'lust name and wears It accordingly until he mov es lo another town to I make his home. Mr. Opary said that he lived In Opary, Albania and consequently conse-quently his last name was opary The .bride's father aNo moved to Opary and took the girl with him which automatically au-tomatically made her an Opary, too. On coming to America thev both rc-Italned rc-Italned the name of Opary. where they bn,l last lived In Albania In order that the system might be j made perfectlv dear to the deputy ! countv clerk. It was explained that If jthc same name system was used In ; America as In Albania, Mr. Opary's i name would now be Toney S 'pary Pear River City and his bride would carry the moniker of Ml M. A. opary Hear ltlver City to say nothing ot nanus that mlj;ht be added lu. to former addresses she might have had in Albania. Deputy Young Immediately -aw through the svHtem after a half-hour's half-hour's explanation and remarked that it wns fortunate that the couple hadn't moved oftener In Albania. no |