Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — Cupid Becomes Alarmed By News of War. [ARTICLE]

Cupid Becomes Alarmed By News of War.

The ofwarfieemaAa have greatly stimulated the marriage business at Lake county’s Gretna Green, Crown Point, the increase of marriage licenses issued being greatly in excess of the same period of time last year- Whether the newly made benedicts hope to escape nulltary service, in the hiope that the government will draft the single men first it is not known, but since the chances of a possible outbreak of hostilities there has .been a noticeable increase in the number of couples married in Crown Point.