The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-01
mt of Kenosha Peo-
Illinois Counties Is
| BY New ReguIa-
Ons Under Ill. Law.
MUST GIVE NOTICE HERE
People Seeking To Marry In Illinois
Must File Application For Marriage
License With County Clerk In
Kenosha County.

1T ism t going to be happy New
Year for clippers. Sweethearts who
have planned new years celebration
by slipping away to Waukegan or Chi
cago to get married and surprise their
friends are out of luck No, they are
not going to quit marrying and giving
in marriage in Illinois, but with mid
night tonight a new deal is in effect in
the state Of Illinois and that new deal
is going to make it hard work for
clippers from Kenosha to get married
without complying with certain definite
and set rules or without committing
perjury. Slipping away from the
friends is made infinitely hard for
people who want to marry in the future
and even though they select Waukegan
as the scene Of the marriage Kenosha
people must follow all the regulations
provided for in their home state Of Wis
consin. They must have a eugenic GER
tifcate and they must have formal no
tice from the county clerk of Kenosha
county that they have fled with him the
divper Tgtfte demanaed-sby law before
marriage license may be issued.
clerk Here is Notified
County Clerk Charles Holderness this
morning received from County Clerk
Robert M. Sweitzer of Chicago, copy
Of the new Regulations for the issuance
of marriage licenses in Illinois counties.
These are the death knell Of elope-
ments. No longer will Waukegan be
the happy marrying place for people
who have found it impossible tn ret
married in Kenosha on account Of re-
cent divorce DEGREES. No longer Win t.
be the haven Of bliss for the lovers
who want to get married without any
one knowing anything about it, The
Wisconsin law demands that people
seeking marriage license shall give
five days notice of the application for
The license and the officials at Chicago
and Waukegan are going to insist that
he formal notice showing that tue law
in Wisconsin has been complied with
must accompany every application for a
marriage license la Illinois counties.
Nc Chance TO Escape.
Here is the provision of the Illinois
law effective tomorrow as furnished to
he county clerk by Clerk Sweitzer
'Non-residents whose home iuris~
diction requires the giving of pub
lie notice Of intention to marry or
whose laws require the furnishing
of q Doctors certificate or other
obligations, viii be required to
furnish a certificate by the proper
home officer stating that such re-
quirements have been complied with
or where dispensations are per
mitted that such dispensations has
been granted, releasing the per
sons concerned from such obliga-
tions.
Stripping this notice Of all Of its
legal verbage, it means that people who
want to 90 from Kenosha to Illinois to
get married must file with County Clerk
IIolderness s notice Of their intentions
at least I'VE days before the day set
for the wedding and secure from him
properly signed and sealed statement
that they have complied with the pro.
visions of the law in Wisconsin.
1t is believed that the enforcement
of these new regulations will put an
end to Opponents to Waukegan. Rec
ords at Wapkegan show that more than
hundred and fifty couples from Ke-
nosha were married. in that city during
the year just closing.