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Million V Americ New High Mark Is Indicated in Reports Received by Government Bureaus. SAME IN OTHER COUNTRIES Single Men Are Scarce in England and France ? Matrimonial Rush Throughout World Puzzles Experts. Washington.?More than 1,000.000 marriages will be the record of 1921 In the United States, establishing a new high mark, according to indications In reports received by government bureaus. The number may go as high as 1,500,000 by December 31. Mutrimoniul records have been broken in all civilized countries in the last few months, even taking into consideration the war period, when young men and women rushed to the altar In numbers never known before. The rush throughout the world is puzzling officials, statesmen and social workers. Because of world-wide business depression and high prices the marriage rates should descend, it is assumed. 400,000 Weddings In England. In England 400,000 couples entered the wedded state last year, according to latest and reliable reports, an Increase of almost 100,000 over the previous year. In France and Italy also new records are being set up. Only in Germany Is marriage increasing at a rate that is not regarded as astonishing. At the same time the number of applications for divorce also is showing a big Increase In most countries coinpared with the prewar period. Tills Is attributed to the inability of war marriages to survive. Although no new reports on divorce in the United Btates are yet available, it Is known the number of separations is much larger than bef/ore the war. m Legion Pilgrims Most Impressive in the American glum was the visit to the American Major Emery, commander of the Leg! placed a wreath on the gruve of Lieu officer to be killed in France, while t ( dropped in his memory. King of Denn King Christian of Denmark Inspeci ship at Copenhagen recently with Adm of the American army of occupation o , WILL TRY TO RA1 4. .Syndicate Proposes to Establist ( Game Farm on Island. ~ 1 Deer Said to &e Easily Domesticate? ~ - J t> Wi-md lands Would ThriVO and Multiply?Elk Mora Hardy Than Deer. Seattle, Wash.?Plans r.re belnj made by a syndicate of capitalist here to attempt the domestication o deer and elk on a logged-off Island li 1 Puget Sound. There are several thou sand acres of wild land thereon, cov ;ered with brush and young growth o timber, affording Ideal cover for thes animals. If mude Into a deer rang this land could produce enough ven! son to supply a large city with meu several months each year. The shore land is to be fenced seve; feet high, by heuvy netting attache to trees. This will prevent escape o the deer aud elk by swimming. Th Ved in " a in 1921 # In Germany divorce Is frowned on nnd the government Is considering measures to eucouruge marriage. A world-vide shortage of marriageable men is assigned as the cause of the Increase In the marriage rate In England nnd some other countries, ali though this cause would be without foundation In tfie United States. Single Men Are Scarce. Single men under thirty are comparatively scarce In Englnnd and also lu France as a result of the heavy mortality during the war, official records 200,000^ Work \ . 1 Federal and State Governments Have $150,000,000 for Highway Building. RECORD IMPETUS IS EXPECTED Campaigns on to Stir Public Officials to Necessity of Undertaking Road Work Now and in Spring. Washington, D. C.?More than $150,* 000,000 will be expended during the next few months for road construction and repairs on more than 7,000 miles of highways as a result of Joint contributions by. state and federal governments, according to officials of the federal public roads bureau. With a nationwide surplus of labor and falling prices for materials, road building will take on a new and record Impetus, officials say. Contractors are at work In virtually every state preparing bids for work projected. at Feigl's Grave Legion's pilgrimage to France and Belcemetery lat Thlercourt, France, where rm ncckffl.1 hv ATnrchnl Forh of Frnnpp t. Jeff Felgl, the first American nrtlllery he standards of the two republics were lark Visits the Battl jjj| ^ ting the sailors uboard the U. S. S. Utah i lrul Nlblack aboard. Directly behind Klnj the Rhine. tSE DEER AND ELK *? j fencing will cost $200 per mile, and elk at $65 per head and deer at $35 each will be established there. The range Is half mountain and half vale, with abundance of grass winter and * sumiger. Fresh water streams and a t'.ny lake are on the Island. It Is said deer are easily tamed, and In woodlands will thrive and multiply. In live years one doe will prog duce 25 deer. They eat all kinds oi 9 vegetation, nuts, lily-pads, fuller f leaves, lichens and moss. If pasture 3 Is scarce they will eat coarse haj j. and straw. Elk are more hardy than deer and f breed ns regular as cattle. They live e und fatten on oinerwise useless muu e but In winter must have some roughI age. The uverage weight of a dressed t bull elk Is between 700 and 1.00C pounds, or woro than the average D steer. d The deer and elk farmers will b< f subjected to the game laws of tht e state, and cun only kill the domestl t phow. At the same time the number of females under thirty Is vastly larger In proportion to the population than at any other time. Young British women are proceeding on the theory thnt "one had best get her boy now" while boys may be had. The larger number of marrlugenble women than men Is the explanation given for the daring modes In dress of the present, according to writers In some French and British newspaj>er8. In the United States the increase In the marriage rate is being applauded by tradesmen, modistes and others, who are experiencing better business as a result Heal estate salesmen and building contractors reckon thnt 1,000.000 additional homes or other accommodations will be required this year as a result of the record number of marriages. Vill Get /An rl c ! uii ivuaua It More than 200,000 workers can be given Jobs during the next 12 months In highway construction. Labor constitutes about 50 per cent of the cost of road building, exclusive of muterluls. Cumpulgns to stir public officials to the necessity of undertaking road work now and next spring are being staged In many localities by chambers of commerce, automobile associations, farmers organizations and civic groups. Highway construction undertaken now Is in line, it is pointed out, with the recommendations of the national conference on unemployment, which urged the building ofv as many miles now as possible to afford work for the Jobless. The permanent cbmmlsslon on economic readjustment left In Washington to carry out the recommendations of the national conference is keeping In touch with' the road campaigns In many sections. Congress has measures before It calling for contributions of $75,000,000 to states for road work, to be available where 6tate and local governments appropriate like sums. As a matter of practice the money now supplied by the federal government constitutes only 42 per cent of the total spent although It Is popularly believed that Wie Billies innien me icuciui ment dollar for dollar. Road building costs now are cheaper ?than at any time since 1914, and about 20 per cent below the maximum figures of 1920. The average cost ot highway construction In the United States last year was 521,000 a mile For some kinds of road the cost was $40,000. More than 27,000 miles of new highway have been constructed In the lasl three years under the federal appropriation of $260,000,000, made In 1910 Approximately $100,000,000 worth ol road contracts were let this year, providing for construction of nearly 5,00( miles. Approximately $68,000,000 ol the federal fund Is still avalluble foi the new work. Not a Ghost. Topeka, Kas.?The police have made many unsuccessful attempts to capture ghosts In the supposedly haunted house at No. 817 West 10th avenue A neighbor the other night eomplalnec of hearing a strange noise Irt the old house. The police car hurried to th< scfcne. Clarence Rundy, patrol driver, waf detailed to search the backyard while Lieut. Perry Brush explored the irj terlor. Suddenly Brush flnshed a light froir the attic. "I've found the ghost," be culled tc Bundy. The ghost Brush found was a little black kitten. leship Utah : & -'-; ' ;y^-y,. % * . ; ' .. v-:' hy v. ^ ^ hb^shhhbsf lpou tlie arrival of the American battle; Christian Is General Allen, commander i Owl Killed as He Holds Up "Rattler" , j. Riverside, Cnl.?Owls may be | wise birds, but one member of ; the family failed to use his | brains. Santa Fe train No. 54 t was Jogging along peacefully f when the engineer was startled i 1 | by a crash and extinguishing of I | the engine's headlight. Inves- J f tlgatlon revealed that a hand- ( | some owl of the monkey-faced j f variety had swooped down on j i | the light, with one cusualty In t the owl family. | The train limped Into River- | 1 t side by the light of an oil lan- < i t tern. ? ???? ??'? ?* ?' ? ? I ) > cnted animals during the open seasot and cannot market their product. II j however, the deer and elk furinlni s sliould become statewide, a revlsloi . of the laws would likely be *Jude. IT?! 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