Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-06
CUPID'S GOOD WORK.
Many Marriage Licenses Issued
During Month of October.
FORTY-ONE PERMITS WERE GRANTED

Only Six Legal Days During Month
That One or More Licenses Was
Not lssued-List of the Permits
Granted.
Cupid has been very busy in Wa
pello county during the past month
and as result eighty-two peo-
pie have been conquered by the
little god of love, or as the poet would
say, there are eighty-two souls with
but a single thought, eighty-two hearts
that beat as forty-one.
A Busy Month.
The month of October was one of
the best months for marriages Ottum-
wa has had for some time. During the
entire time there We're but six days |
when marriage licenses could be pro- |
cured that one or more did not take
advantage of the opportunity. The
best single day during the month was
October Is, when six permits to wed
We're granted Honors for second
October s, Is, and Is, three licenses
being issued on each of these days.
Do Good Times Affect Matrimony?
The question has often been asked
whether or not the business conditions
of the country had anything to do with
the number of marriages. To some,
such a question seems little short OF
sacrilege. They contend that love is
divine gift. bestowed alike on the
rich and poor and that prosperity or
business stagnation of country, has
no effect on the number of marriages;
that marriage should never be looked
upon in business way by prospec
tive groom; that he should simply shut
his eyes to the future, and lose sight
of all real or earthly objects in the all
consuming love in which he finds him
self completely enraptured. Others
say that such ideas are all right in
story book but are poor stock in trade
for the newly married young man who
realizes the responsibility which is
| placed upon him. Every sensible
young man before entering matrimony
figures upon his ability to care for
wife after he gets her. If he is out of
work, he is in all probabilities out of
money, and il in that state will hest
tate a good long time before asking
any one whom he really loves to share
such lot with him. On the other
hand when he is prosperous and max
ing money, he is in a situation to care
for wife and the thought of providing
for her does not bother him in the
least For these reasons some noted
men who have given the subject a
careful study, are of the opinion that
the number of marriages vary as to
/ the general prosperity of the country.
Judging from last months record
these are surely prosperous times. The
following permits to wed We're granted:
October IA. M. Jackson and Miss
Flora D. Watson. G. R. Greenhalgh
and Miss Leona NJ Baldridge; Newton
Aldridge and Miss Bertha Wireman.
4 October 2,-Henry Schmidt and Miss
Hattie Kitterman;S. c. Ross and Edna
Eta Payn.
4 October 3.-William Warner and
Miss Jessie Riggs.
Beatrice M. Silvers; H. G. Bane anC
MISS Alllld
October Frank Bonnet and Mis-
, Lille Thompson; N. w. Millisack and
Ella O'Brien.
October S,-H. c. Hall and Miss
Fannie R. Field; F. w. Avery and Miss
Orpha R. Reno; Louis Friday and Miss
Isabel Glib.
! October 10,-Pearl w. Webster ant
| Miss Alice E. Walker.
October 11,-Edward S. Harris ant
| Mrs. May Moholen.
October 1S,-Joseph w. Wilmotl
and Miss Sarah Dickson; w. N. Wal
g ker and Miss Lizzie Davis; Mike Nun
/ ply and Miss Agnes Munley.
/ October 14-Alfred P. Holehan ant
Miss Mary Gertrude Erbacher
October 15,-Albert l.. Loring an
e Miss Nora Burus; w. H. Wilcox an
n Miss Floy E. Humphrey; Samuel \
@ Mum and Miss Johanna E. Halberg
= l.. Griggs and Miss Clara E. Yoder
If Ross Steinhoff and Miss Laura
+. Crownover; ]. D. Johnson and Mis-
l. Grace Wheeler.
II October 17,-G. w. Bolinger an
e Miss Minnie May Moffat.
h October 1S,-Wm .Zacharias and Mis-
A. Matilda Beals; Everett Cummins an
o and Miss Jane Doane.
October GOWN. S. Arnold ar
1t Miss Jennie Ridley.
H. October 22,-P. j. Collier and Mis-
Anna Greendahl; E. P. Jeanne an
= Miss Laura Wilmoth.
October 23,-R. j. Blankenship ar