The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-12-26


iety E!kton is achieving as Gretna
Green can be CLEANED from the fol-
lowing article which appeared in a re-
cent issue Of "The Evening Bulletin,
after a couple Of investigators" had
been sent to this town to look over
the matrimonial situation as it ap-
pears under present conditions:
"Just get off the train, blush once
and the whole town does the rest. In
fact, it isn't even necessary to blush.
In olden times the torch of the mar
riage god Hymen glowed with a clear,
bright flame at weddings, and the an
clients thought it pretty good twenty
candle power lamp.
In Elkton, Md, Hymen's torch glows
with 180,000,0OO pid-power, and it
never goes out. 1t never even flickers.
Elkton is forty-five miles south of
Philadelphia and quietude broods so
deeply there that it might almost be
said to glover.
But nobody who goes to Elkton sees
its defects. To its visitors the town is
Il rosy place, place of orange wreaths
and wedding chimes, place revebey
ant with 81 wills" and 81 pronounce
yous." Elkton is a community of 5000
earnest souls, five remarkably busy
clergymen and $50 marriages a month.
Elkton, in short, is the greenest
Gretna Green in the Eastern States.
From various points Of the compass
where marriages are attended with
too much difficulty or too much public
ity, thirteen trains a daV run Elkton-
Waru. EacIl trali peaTS lts emoar-
Iasseu Vi ei"oor"'ely Se'l-PolSeu cou-
pes -, =, H.,
1t uoesli seem 2oS5i".- tndV UHeL9 ne,
IL so illucll loVe III ihe Worlu. Inc
maj lase meter III Ihe iiceilSe once
Leels'elS d" average OIL eiShI lI'enSeS
Haliy' vi SATURDAY OF ho.iuaI Tue
puS'eSt oayS-Ihefe are frequently
twenty hearVS pea'lL!g as one along
Lne curo IN 'front.' Oh the munster"
HOUSES IN nam ST. waiting Tor the
oNercTowaeu pariorS TO pe emPiled.
Oupiu mas eAciiailSeu exc tile o!u' cum
uersoMae @ me DOW aha arrow Tor Somethlng
very me gatllnE gun MS Vlctlh1S
az az IiIo"eu uo~l' pI the reEihieht' II
an a., the treiluIouS heafIS thaI go 10
EIHtoil Iof repairs were Placed eho TO
chu theN Wo.la cover an me me divorce
ueGreeS III 'he r., ChFea HtaIeS TWO
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aII rl 'ilc NaShiiS llaehIlleS III the world
ne "SSTilIpIea EN- S'N Sia.iceS thaI ch.t
",ouil9 r'lH'oI would II properly TO-
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PoIlL ne ne. ihSVeIIar spaces.
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powered -, 20 eralt marriage IlcehSes 10
.l'e i''aClGIlI alIer FeSloehce IN IhS
tTW'i eAacIiy lolg enough TO ADMIT OF
tI Siit M fo"1lel.s r progress aucoili'-
TILeIii9nl TLe Il;9 lhe statlqi 10 IAe registry
ne pllue ieeu not pe more 'tlah SIX
Teen years plu' although the bride
Laooili III; mus pe IwehlS-13e uhleSs ne
mas ms l9ther along Tather, now
ever ls Seiuoni alorg; Nj fathef Ir"t
.tNS Vi the IIlP 10 ElNVon IS usually
1Iili, yeI'oM telegI"Ih "hlch glee1ui'y
ie',i"i j NO. liapPllE nlarrieG' EiE1oN'
iGre T anu ioIEiye; Eu' ana oadle'
IWo inNeS'isaI0IS' man ana
woman Went 10 Elkt0h the other Gay
~, TO see now greatiy Ihe ,, rosy reports
ilau in oeett eAagsetated' Grated me tlcNet SCI,
lGI III proau 9tTeet 3IaIi0h smiled
S!ylS as ne handed out the tIkton tlcN-
o coo4 iiH siliile th was reliecCeu on Che