Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1901 — Marriage and Divorce, [ARTICLE]

Marriage and Divorce,

The biennial report of the Indiana bureau of statistics, just published, contains a detailed re-1 port of the number of marriages divorces in this state during the last four years. In 1897 the number of marriage licenses granted in the state was 23,990, and in the satne year there were 3,080 divorces. In 1898 there were 25,043 marria.es and 2,896 divorces. The next year the number of marriages had increased to 25,232 and the number of divorces went up to 4,031. In 1900 the number of marriages was 27,671, the largest ever known in the state, while the number of divorces was 4,699.