Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — CHURCH BUREAU A MARRIAGE ADJUNCT [ARTICLE]

CHURCH BUREAU A MARRIAGE ADJUNCT

Kansas City Catholic Church Has Brought 400 Couples Together Since Plan Was Adopted. A year ago Father W. J. Dalton, of the Church of the Annunciation of Kansas City, decided that there were many worthy people who would like to be married if they could he agreeably mated. He decided to establish a matrimonial bureau and did so at once. During the year 17,000 letters were received from persons willing to be mated. Four hundred weddings resulted. Eighty-five per cent of the letters were from women. Many of them were in quest of wealthy husbands. The men wanted good housekeepers. Letters were received from Jerusalem, Constantinople, Africa and South America and from nearly every state in the union. Father Dalton kept two stenographers busy answering letters. He undertook to put the writer into communication with some persons in his or her section of the country. The plan grew out of a gathering of unmarried people in the priestTs parlor. Father Dalton decided 1 that there were too many unmarried people in his parlor and that the same condition existed all over the country. He believes that all marriages that have occurred are to be happy ones.