The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-23
MAKE 4 NOVEL COMPACT
TWO SEATTLE YOUNG LADIES
ENTER INTO AGREEMENT
NOT TO MARRY.
First One Violates It Will Have to
Furnish a Years Board to
the Other.

SEATTLE. Wash, Dec. 23.-Dfsap-
pointed because of unsuccessful quests
for male mates during the year 1914
Miss Ella O'Bryan and Miss Edith A
Jenkins have entered into an agree
ment that they will not enter the mat
rimonial state during the coming
year.
While neither of the young ladies
| is prepared to admit that either made
any positive proposals to those of the
opposite sex during the leap year, it is
inferred from the articles of agree
ment filed with the county auditor
yesterday that they must have thrown
out few lures that failed to attract
the object aimed at.
Why it was is hard to understand.
Both are comedy, easily within the
early twenties, and both are at the
present time holding good positions
as stenographers in well-known down.
town offices. Miss Jenkins takes die
tation and transcribes in the Office of
the Seattle and Lake Washington
Waterway company, while Miss O'Bry-
an is a stenographer in the employ of
Daniel Jones & Co.
The conditions of the forfeit are
that the one who first violates the
n xxrifh tho 0f he
other, shall be liable for the board of
the one who is true to her vow for the
remainder of the year.
There is only one little saving clause.
It is that if either gives her consent
to the others marriage, then the pro-
visions of the agreement shall be null
and void.
1t was yesterday that the two young
women came to the office Of the coun-
ty auditor and requested that the fol-
lowing remarkable agreement be filed
for record. When informed that the
fee was 80 cents the money was paid
over to Cashier Mcclure, the only re-
quest being that he would not read it
until they had left the court house.
The document follows:
This agreement made. and entered
into this 10Th day of December, 1904,
by and between Ella M. O'Bryan, spin
ster, of Alki Point, King county, Wash.
party of the first part, ana Edith A.
Jenkins, spinster, Of Seattle, King
county, Wash, part of the second part:
'Witnesseth, that, whereas, the par
ties hereto have exerted themselves to
the utmost during this year of 1904 to
secure desirable man for a life part
ner, and hereby confess one TO the
other their complete failure to do so.
Now, therefore, the parties hereto
do promise and agree one with the
other not to enter into the bonds of
matrimony during the coming year of
1905. without the written consent of
the other party hereto: it being mu-
tually agreed by and between the par
of this contract event, the party so
violating this agreement shall forfeit
and pay to the other party hereto
board and lodging for the ensuing
year.
I'm witness thereof the parties here
to have set their hands at Seattle
Wash, the day and year first above
written. Made in duplicate.
EDITH M. BRYAN
EDITH A. JENKINS"
The document is attested in regular
form and sworn to before a duly au-
thorized notary public.
After the document had been filed
friends of the two young ladies sug-
gested that the agreement might
| reach papers and that their names
would be published.
IF my name comes out in the papers
| tomorrow I will change it before
morning." said Miss O'Bryan.
But if you do you pay my board
bills" said Miss Jenkins.
That's So" replied the first speaker,
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