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lur LVVIVBU Ut 0VIUV XVIUI Ui UM41pvj !v.(Continued on Page Twelve)ment more bitter man before In our history.9’everCrownPoint As Gretna GreenPorter County Clerk Sells2,000 Marriage PermitsWithin 2 Months[SPECIAL TO THE TIMES]VALPARAISO, Dec. 28.—Lewis Keller, Porter county clerk, will tell you there is a Santa Claus and that the jolly old fellow is still hanging around.Keller today reported that almost 2,000 marriage licenses have been issued during the past two months in Valparaiso, northern Indiana's newest Gretna Green.Replaces Crown Point Valparaiso’s marriage business boomed immediately after Judge T. Joseph Sullivan in Lake circuit court issued an injunction, based on an 1882 law, restraining County Clerk George W. Sweigart from issuing licenses to non-resident women.Yesterday Prosecutor Fred Egan of Lake county and attorneys for Sweigart were notified that oralarguments would be heard Jan. 4in the Indiana supreme court atIndfeiiapalis..■mThat Santa Claus had been around to see Keller was revealed yesterday when Keller paid $3,686 into the country treasury. It represents income from marriage licenses issued from October 1 to December 24. With marriage licenses at $2 each, simple division reveals that a total of 1,843 couples obtained the needed permits for marriage ceremonies here during that period.Over the Christmas holidays Keller and his assistants issued 75 more licenses to bring the total to date co nearly 2,000.Refuse Several Hundred Keller issues licenses at any time of the day or night. He skid that most of the 2,000 went to Illinois couples who desired to evade their state's hygienic marriage laws.Two months ago this county seat was just another place to secure a license with all the business going to Crown Point. But with the banning of licenses to outside residents at Crown Point, activitiy picked up here.Despite the high total, Keller said be refused to grant several hundred marriage permits for various reasons but mainly because the applicants were under age.- -.t•’Mi.s’3ing to repi plans to sen because 20,0 scattered in and Wuhu. The Japaiwas sunk b:nese war j to rid the i Meanwhile able specula American ol the Oahu wlt; open the Ui Nanking an the first aut tions in tbrule.TAXJ[SPECCROWN ] ty Assessor was elected ]County Assc annual meet last week, licity on tb used in valana.“Such pv ployed,” he should be lt;intelligible tHe condlt; session met erty and d suits and ments are general pu confidence.iii .lt;ir -rt‘•!. iC t it i £b'*f:£
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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Tue, Dec 28, 1937
Page 30
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