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UJI1,-ndrerbeir-‘dslUsonterletm-dllileB SLUMP HUS DIM?es;d-ofer,n-a-hetriioniteis3i-Jeffersonville, Irid, (A.P.)— The - marrying squires” of Jeffersonville believe five can live almost as cheap as one, so they’ve joined forces. ' 'These five justices ot the peace have been striving valiantly to keep up the reputation of this village as the Gretna Green of Southern Indiana and Kentucky, but the turn of the year found them up against it.Folks just weren’t getting married—not in sufficient numbers, at least, to maintain the marry-jing squires in the style to I which they were' accustomed in I their five separate marriage parlors.They took a leaf from the book of big business, arid talked things over. It was agreed that everhead and wasteful1 competition must be reduced.So one- marriage parlornowflourishes where five languished before, at a strategic point near the approach to the Louisville bridge.Now there is rent to pay for only one house. There is only one constable to pay, instead of five. With competition • eliminated there is no need for the -runners” who used to rustle up prospects for their five bosses on incoming ferries or automobilesThe squires take turns in being on duty at the consolidated marriage parlor. Hie younger one are given the -night tricks,” and the elderly ones have the day hours.-It’s the only system,” declares Benson R. Veasey,* dean of the marrying squires by virtue of his 20-year record. “Competition. led to the ‘runners’ and the advertising signs which the people of the town didn’t like.Cooperation has eliminated all that. And helped the net income a lot.Jeffersonville’s marriage industry, which used to support 26 families, is based on the fact that Louisville is just across the river, and in Kentucky a girl under 21 must be married in the presence of her parents. Indiana law does not require this.In 1930 the county clerk here issued 2,952 marriage licenses.AMUSEMENTSNOW PLAYINGPRINCESS — Marlene Dietrich,9new sensation of the screen, andGary Cooper in the super love drama, -Morocco.”Actress’ Beauty Plashesto Fame ip Cooper HitA personality, a beauty as devastating as anything that ha's ever been seen on the screen flashed upon an amazed and awe-struck audience at Princess theatre in the tremendous spectacle of the French Foreign Leaffcfcstthy*w;oiw.axscloISat}r.Clt;gJrrisca%oxAlt;PimriiatDithtuar
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Rushville Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Mon, Feb 02, 1931
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