Although it is cold it is not blowing and the “kids” were able to go to school. Went to the Capitol to-day. A great many of the new clerks have come. There are about eighteen or twenty clerks. We have a snap of it too. Roy came back from Mandan – Marion came with him but she is visiting Boucher’s.
We went and heard Bishop Shanley lecture on the divorce question. He gave the startling report that in ’96 in Cass County N.D. there were 126 divorces and 130 marriages.
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NOTE
According to the North Dakota History Timeline at e-Reference Desk:
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1899 - North Dakota lost its reputation as being the national divorce mecca when a 90-day residency law expired.
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