The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-24
Fifteen New Jersey Couples Unit
ing to One Separating
Last Year.
HAPPY UNIONS INCREASING
Hunterdon County Has Best Record,
With Warren Last--Labor Cost,
Rain and Low Prices Cut
States Crop Acreage.

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ing to a preliminary report by the de-
partment of commerce from figures
collected by the Census. Bureau.
The number of marriages last year
in this state was 2S,730 and divorces
1854, ratio of ISL to 1, while the pre-
vious year marriages numbered TIA
and divorces 2,0S2, a ratio of but ID
to 1. In other words, while marriages
increased 1875, divorces decreased
22S, indicating presumably an increas-
ing number of happy marriages
However, despite the states In
crease in marital success, it is still
behind the record in 1916, the last
previous year for which the figures
are available. In that year marriages
numbered 31,169 and divorces but
1859, ratio of 26.6 to 1.
New Jerseys standing last year as
compared with other states in which
records are kept Is not given in the
preliminary report, but in 1922 it was
fifth from the lowest in the tabulation
by the department of commerce. The
average for the country in that year
was rs marriages for one divorce.
The New Jersey record last year
showed marriage twice as successful
as that
OF the Fl counties in the state II
showed increased ratios of marriages
to divorces, indicating more success
full marriages, one remained the same
as to ratio, while only three decreas-
ed. Twelve showed ratios in excess
to one divorce and nine under that
average.
Hunterdon, with 1875 marriages last
year and only five divorces, ratio of
1872 to 1, led the counties in success
in marriage, while Warren, with 263
marriages and % divorces, a ratio of
ia to l, was last Hunterdon also
led the state in 1922, with 17S mar
riages and eight divorces, a ratio of
223 to 1, while Warren that year was
next to last, with POI marriages and
80 divorces, a 81 to ratio.
Essex was ninth in the standing Of
the counties last year, it's ratio being
1876 to / as compared to only 12.5 in
1922. The figures for the two years
follow: 1928, marriages, 6,541; di-
vorces, 395; 1922, marriages, 6,002;
divorces, Ats. These show an in
crease of 539 in marriages and de-
crease of SO in divorces.
The figures for other counties fol
low:
Morris-1s23, marriages 626, d.
vorces As, ratio of 1879 to 1 1922, mar
riages 624, divorces 40, ratio of 1927
to l.
Sussex-1923, marriages 1853, d.
vorces Z, z19 to L 1922, marriages
14S, divorces 16, 9.3 to 1.
Union-1923, marriages, 1,649, d.
vorces los, ratio of 1871 to /; 1922.
marriages 1850, divorces 80, 1874 to 1.
Hudson-1923, marriages 6,5O7, d.
yorces 1856, a ratio of 1863 to /; 1922,
marriages, 6,168. divorces 1865, the
same ratio.
Atlantic marriages, 1904, d.
yorces 81, 1874 to 1; 1922, marriages
976, divorces "a, 1922 to l.
Bergen marriages 1859, d.
korces 127, ratio of 10 to 1; 1922, mar
riages 1850, divorces 129, ratio of IL
to l.
Burlington-1s2S, marriages, 544,
divorces 35, 1915 to / 1922, marriages
SIS, divorces 81, 10.1 to 1.
Camden-1923, marriages, 1,505, d.
vorces 1T, ratio of 1878 to /; 1922,
marriages 1,421, divorces 1876, ratio
of to 1.
Cape May-1923, marriages 211, d.
vorcesa 9, 23.4. to 1; 1922. marriages
j76, divorces 9, 1875 to 1.
Cumberland-1923, marriages 456,
divorces 3S, 12Nto 1; 1922. marriages
G81, divorces AZ, 11.5 to l.
Gloucester-1923, marriages 286, di-
vorces %, 10 to /; 1922, marriages 292.
divorces 20, LAG to 1.
Mercer-1923, marriages 1,415, d.
gorces 106, a ratio of 1875 to 1.
Middlesex-1923, marriages 1884, di-
vorces 81. 21.1 to 1 1922, marriages
LIS, divorces IS, 17.2 to 1.
Monmouth-1923, marriages 1866,
divorces 70, 1877 to L; 1922, marriages
1,025, divorces SO. 1917 to 1.
Ocean-1923, marriages PIP, di-
forces 8, 23.6 to /; 1922, marriages
X06.- divorces 81, 9S to 1.
Passaic-192S, marriages $500, d.
Torces 209, ratio Of 12.4 to /; 1922,
2.444, divorces 246, ratio
bf SO to 1.
Salem 1928, marriages 179, d.
vorces 7, 25.6 to 1; 1922, marriages
181, divorces 10, 1879 to /.
Somerset-1922, marriages 374, d.
vorces 10, 374 to /; 1922, marriages
342, divorces %, 12.2 to 1.
Less Acreage for Crops
Reduction on nearly all major crop
this year has been resorted to
by New Jersey farmers because of the
high cost of Yarn labor, unsatisfactory
prices for products and the cold, wet
weather this spring which prevented
planting.
This statement is made by the De-
partment of Agriculture in it's report
On the condition of crops July /, which
AowE that tns corn acreage is II per