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...York and West Virginia Legislatures passed laws requiring three days' notice of intention to marry. To the conservative clergy's satisfaction, out of business went blatant, self-advertising ministers in West Virginia's "Gretna Green," Wellsburg. In Westchester County, handy to Manhattan, justices of peace found a profitable hasty-wedding trade cut off. Likewise in Maryland a two-day law disposed of a once-popular maritopolis, Elkton...
Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...
Married. William Larimer Mellon Jr., 20, Pittsburgh socialite, grandnephew of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon; and Grace Rowley, 19, of Pittsburgh; secretly, a year ago; in Wellsburg, W. Va. They planned to go through a second ceremony last week, changed their minds, announced they were already married. Friends & relations (among them Secretary Mellon) who had sent gifts, found that there was no wedding to attend, that bride & groom had gone honeymooning...