The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-26

N'i"ho VI Ihe country There
Is Remarkable Falling OFF in the
Number of Licenses Issued. The
Merry Marriage Bells Are Not
Changing Loudly Now.
The capitalist and the working
man were not the only ones hit by
the hard times. Cupid, too. got
treated shabbily, and all over the
country, with rare exceptions, a wall
is going up because of the greatly
reduced number of marriages. Ex-
cept for handful of localities. chief
ly in the south, marriages in the
large cities everywhere this summer
have fallen off from 5 per cent. to
80 per cent. Minneapolis reports a
decrease of five per cent, while in
New York city the falling off is 80
per cent. In New York city alone
the number of marriages reported for
the month of June, this year, was
1903. In 1907 the number was
5,754, and in 1906 5,733. During
the first six months of the year, uD
to June 30th., the total number of
marriage licenses in the county of
New York was $500. Last year
during the same period the number
or marriages reported to the regis
trar was 18,108.
Boston Feels the Slump.
June, the month Of roses ana
brides, was a failure as regards to
the latter in Boston as we'll as in
New York. In June, 1907, there
were LOOP marriage licenses issued;
this year the number was 934. Dur
ing the first six months of last year
the marriages recorded totaled A.
IT'S, while the corresponding period
this year showed only 3,709-de-
crease of 466.
Philadelphia also experienced a
slump. Hard times, in the opinion
OF Chief Goebel of the marriage
license bureau, "seem to have put
June wedding bells on the dumb.
June last year started 1926 couples
enjoying heaven and their honey
moons. June this year furnished
bliss for only 1927. April dropped
$50 behind the record and flowery
May quit 400 to the bad. They're
afraid to get married until business
has picked up and the money saved
Sirloin steak at 28 and 80 cents let's
love down to bread and cheese and
kisses. ="
Chicago Affected.
Chicagos county clerk in sending
in report of Cupid's activities
submits: "Since this
office was established the number Of
licenses ISSUED during the month OF
June has steadily increased from
year to year until 1908, when 24O
fewer were issued than in 1907.
We attribute the change to unsettled
business conditions and lack of en-
ployment generally"
1t is pretty nearly the same cell
bate story everywhere. "Too MANY
men out of work" remarked Jacob
Falk, the license clerk of good, old.
Warm-hearted Cincinnati eve had
661 marriages in June of last wear
and only $50 during June of this.
In st. Louis there is a falling off Of
II H2 per cent. in June of this year
as opposed to the corresponding
month last year. Baltimore has the
same story to tell and so has Buffalo
In Buffalo in 1906 the record was
637 for June; in 1907 it was 657.
and in this year only 481.
In Minneapolis the merry marriage
month of June drops from 462 to
$50; and in fond old Louisville it
drops from 329 to 237, and the Off
cials of neither city will risk trying
to understand It,
Cupid's Work in the South.
But in Kansas City, with great
sums of hard cash in the bank vaults
throughout Missouri, the June we'd
dlngs have gone up from 402 to 435.
In Milwaukee, where the Wisconsin
grain money kept the population
busy grinning at the rest of the coun-
try last winter, the increase was from
522 to 500, a gain of IT for this
June.
The farther south one goes the
more desperately determined Cupid
seems to have been upon maintain
ing his record. In Atlanta there
were only two fewer in 1908 than in
1907. And as for New Orleans, for
all the hard times and business de-
preston and the rest there were 382
brides this June, IS more than June
saw last year.
Even in Washington, where so
many persons are happily intrenched
behind Uncle Sans payroll; where
it is sure money" in good times or
poor, there was a falling off in the
number of weddings A small de-
crease, to be sure-only fve-vet a
decrease none the less