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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 December 1913, Page 3

"If the newspapers publish notice of my marriage my business will be ruined,'-' said a man who applied for a marriage license at Milwaukee, and begged the county clerk to suppress the news. "I own a butchers shop and am coining money," he said. "There are more than !iOO unmarried young women living in my neighbourhood. Because everybody knows that I have money the matchmaking mother sent their girls round to my shop with a view to getting me interested. But if they found out I was married they would get mad and boycott me. When J got married 1 an going to introduce introduce my wife as a new hired girl." The County Clerk agreed to suppress the man's name.