Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — The Clerk’s Busy Day. [ARTICLE]

The Clerk’s Busy Day.

Monday, Dec. 24th was County Clerk Major’s busy day. He started out with his bargain counter full of lioenses for Christmas weddings, and disposed of five, before night. Five licenses in one day does not make a new record, in this county, but it equals the best former record. That at least was the largest number ever issued in one day by our former clerk, W. H. Coover, according to the best of his recollections