Evening journal., 1919-08-21
ELKTON CORNERS
MARRIAGE INDUSTRY
Quick Wedding Will Work
After You Answer
Ten Questions
GOLD FILLS BANK
OF GRETNA GREEN
The Phila, North American today says:

The Pnlla. Norm American To-Day says
"Elkion is booming as it never be
fore doomed, and the industrial pros
perity OF the little town cannot be at
iributed TO any increase in the pulp
plant nor TO the Fourth Of July spark
Ter concern
It's the marriage industry, with The
sppurtenances thereto, which is films
the Golfers OF the Elklon banks; max
Ing automobiles appear where they did
not appear before; working telegraph
operators overtime, and actually max
ans IL hard 20 have a good funeral
there any more.
"Elkton, which, a decade ago was a
typically tranquil Maryland village,
with easy plodding mules and carts.
births, deaths. weddings and other
sriefs, together with an occasional
election. has now set about cornering
OIL the stray marriages in the east.
Already, they have transformed the
town into a series of "ways," outnum-
bering those OF the New York ship
building Corporation, Hog Island and
Cramps put together, and 20 put 10
mildly, this Monte Carlo of Mairimony
has done for early weddings what
James j. Aulomat did for the quick
lunch
luke a woman and go down to Elk
ton some morning on the Honeymoon
Express. arriving there at i0ij.
It's nice It's interesting. Moreover,
It's educational
shortly after The Gamblers Limited
leaves Newark 10 cross The Delaware
MARYLAND line on It's last anxious iiye
miles. the whisper whisper because |
the Pennsylvania Railroad has taboocd |
sh0uting-whsper OF an organized |
body Of consumale cabhy caliphs may !
be heard above the lremulous beating |
OF lads and hsses hearts And The |
lads and assies are entirely oblivious /
O. the fact that eggs are not selling |
nj ~ cents a dozen in the United |
States OF America.
And when the train pulls up at Elk
Ton and halts, the taxi lerrOrists with /
flock OF petrol wagons not unlike
motor show at Madison square Garden,
pounce upon their prey, whether or moi.
Mayhap, George gels out of the
smoker, whRe the young creature who
IS ready 10 assume the better half OF
one-can-liye-cheaner-thanItwO part
nership, will alishl from the rearmost
coach Of the train. trip lightly across
The platform as though she were com
ing from days iypewriting and gum
chewing-w for all of her
hlase manner. She is lost and doesn't /
und herself again until the roundup is
pver. and she is deposited with her
Future source Of opcn-worl winter |
hose. summer fuI's, post toasties and !
one thing or another right smack bang |
before the low. gray portals Of The |
Cecil county courthouse
. IAN old Philadelphia aid his i6-year-
old daughter went down TO ElktOn yes
terday-iust 20 show how it works-to
visit friends. His chauffeur was there
10 meet him. but. caught in The vortex
bf the station-to-courlhouse rush, faith
fr and daughter landed In q laXcab and
!, ere halfway TO the palace OF justice {
before they could make themselves
heard People along the way said, on
.Nhai a young girl to marry that old &
bet her father doesn't 0
inow \
"Once at the entrance 20 The office OF :
Colonel William &. Burnell clerk of !
he circuit court the thing works IKE /
cootie mil' at Brest, France. during
NE height OF the American army's de
u
In an they ask you only about ten Z
main thing being 10 q
make correct change, so that you pay 2
My ST. Z
"Hore In Philadelphia. at the mar
iage license bureau. they ask YOU =
ONE thirty or more questions. one
as TO whether or not YOU are insane,
p have been insane The clerk Of the
ircuii court at Elkton takes that for
ranted
"He takes lot Of things FOR granted,
lst so the girl is i6 years old. and the
IAN looks 10 be. or swears he is. 81,
"The next process is even quicker
he taxi whirls YOU away TO The par
onage Of the Rev George +. Jones
astor Of the Methodist Episcopal.
hurch. or the Rev. Moon. whose FIRST
anne may or may not be Honey bu!
e is sure reaping IL.
From The time Good morning.
riends. be seated. is said in an auto
natic monotone until Whom God hath
oined together let no man put asun-
eE accompanied by the clnk OF sill
'er or The rustic Of green paper: The
lazed duo aren't very sure Of things
: Then the limousine lurches toward
hNNQexi train out OF twon and as the
ar deposits YOU on the station plat
prm, the'Snorcenary moguls OF The
machines-whOsc CONNER
ial catchllne is not any part OF the
ily. but any minister OF the city,
courthouse included, get in The work
hat puts a permanent crimp in the
isualizatons Of pretty golden oak
BEDROOM suites and "a maid for the
aturday housework.
sWiih all the tender feeling that
Warden Francis. Of the Western Peni-
,ntiary. might display in charging a
lurdered $40 for his breakfast Just be-
re they strap on the electrodes, the
XXI men relieve the male partner OF
'e marital combine Of anything they
n get out Of him. starting with 50
they put il, 'Charges-oh, how
uch have your
Nine trains from Philadelphia arrive
Elkton every day The first one is
1898 in the morning, and The last at
3 at night" \.