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mg.Te r—fn«^-aT rrtor-irj». mt .T« tta only way out of the matter was «teetioed to give It >m tta ground that f«»r on« to lay «¡aim to the eatat« and a wo-nan’a age Is ber private property | the ottiee to .¡¡«, .<« tta claim Th1.« Tta truth la that if ta knew ber age * would bring the matter tafora th« at»! It was tw-nrer th« |><lse tbau his court, w bo « oui«l giv e a dcv-talou. H« water. nothing umki i«e da»«« be he might prepare hltusclf to pros- that he was ol<)er <w younger than ata wax f >re th« 1st of June next, and that was ills» JuUs I*••!• wortb wss equally os •till threw m«*ntb» distant. Meanwhile prumtocut In eoclety as Koger Deane, Koger iw-aue aud Julia iKaiaworth had They met quite and tta pnesesstoo of property worth • «wmmoo Uitnreat several trnndo-d thousand dollar« wuoM often with a view to finding aom« way ta as mob of at» Ad>«i>tagv« to tar as by wb h they might at least divide to him Mta itatefore canrlutied to Hi« b*heritau «. It was suggested that cultivate him. with a view to getting* they bunt up the doctors who presided out of him hts agr Neither would be •I their birth hi order to discover <>o Jun* 1. MS®», much Ices than two which had been horn at ths earlier years atara twenty, but no «me >«f the hour of the day l>eane was stx-eaa- «tewvndan’s of tta original lirane or ful on bl« part. He found th« doctor Dodawretb ha<! turned up nearer tta wb<> brought him Into the world, who bv reference to certain notes he had required agw. ami It ere-med proiwble taken down with regard to bis pntleiKa that re»« nr the other of ttawa two found a record that Roger bad been woubl get |ta fiwtune bom at 5 oefock tn the morntng of As tta time drew near for tta turn April Id, l«TB This, the lawyers said tor over tb» s«-re to tta designated would not give him the property uulesa heir MesarA Ackley A Th- rp wrot« to proof was adduced that Mias I‘ «la tta Deanes and ItaJnwortlM to state worth Usd been tarn at a later hour of tbelr agre Roger Imane and Julia the dgy. t*<> there was wot blag gained Dodsworth were tnrlmlrd In tta tn for Itaatiu Aud as few Miss Dodn- quirles Each had been endeavoring to aorth. It simply meant that by h inting learn tta re tar’ a age. but ttelitar tad up tor owu record ab« would run sur»•<•!•*•! "Th, refere neither bad any twulva >*ban«*vs to on« of giving the advantage <wer the other In thia re property to Dvsn* spe« t There was nrehlug for either By this time this matter of mutual to d«> btif give the true date of birth Intacret had drawn tliem so closely to- Bore» after doing ao es*-h recelt«l a grtlwr that If II «-«mid ha»« been set* letter sating that tx-tli bed toen bum tied by their marrlara there would no tta sain» day and this would render have team n«> further dUBculty tta will inrewrattve «toe» it dUtltictly M um Dtaleworth remembered that a •I*«» i fie. I that Ibe pi**pcrty ta tumel woman usu>cl McCann bad lived with over eu tta 1st *«f June. HXM, to the tier mother •• houaekee|ier or upper re>e iwr«iw near««' to twenty years of servant for many years. When J nils I sge No one hud ret appeared to ta we« alxnit twelve year« of age Mrs nearer than they to the designated M'^'ann had left the family, lib« was age. but the property, tmder a literal with theta when Julia was born and iuierpretatiuu of the w bl. o-uid not be might remember the hour of ber birth. ¿1«en to either Julia tw-gan s system of sdvvrttalng Roger Iteane arxi Julia Ik.isworth for the wmnati, and a rrsi*ooaa was vlaited ths attorneys with a view to a filially elicited She wrote Julia that com|*r«>tnlae They at first suggreted she had k-|.’ a l«-ti«‘r Mank book. In that the property ta divide«! tatween whl«'h she had outed Iniportant «rente them Hut the lawyers would ure do Hits bo>>k was, with other effects, in • this without an order from tta ctaurt of trunk in a garret of uoe of Mrs M<- < turn ery. Imane took the man of law t'aiiu a relatives She wtaild get It and •side and asked him If marriage would settle the matter. Tta reply »»» that •re If It contained th« required Infer ■MlloO. tbougii m«i> jy’«* wife «ere ouo tn cor. While waiting for this Julia told iiuu respe« i,. U« the eye of tta law ta After Roger atH>ut It Roger said that if the •bey «' mt in «all «'«led that book cnctalne«t a memorandum of the llh I» ■ hour of Jnlia’a blrtb he re at» would inherit the acre. Hut be had a doaam «« to one <>! ba «-¡r Then be told her that be had become attach < h ! to ber and proi-cauMl that, whether be or »lie or neither the «me nre the other Inherited, they pa«a the reat of their livre as man awl wife. Jolla waa of the same mind, and they pltgbtel tbelr troth, their union to take plare Irre ap» tire of what by thia time they bad com« to ■ all the golden acre A few «lays after their betrothal Mrs klct'aun arut her notebredi by register ed mail t«> Julia. Julia turned over the leavre hastily till she came to May and June. 1S79. aud there found an eutry. "At HI o’chM-fc In th« morning nt Apr!) 10, a little girl was born.” Mias Ikap.worth «-onstrued this as proof that ah« tad won, sltw-e sb« was born nearer to the 1st of June. 1900, then liogrr She sent 11» u«*tebook to sttorueys wrote linger that she made up ber mind she did not love as much as ah« thought ■be did broke the engagement This break prevented any further eonferetn e. and when the 1st of June cam« round ea< b received a n«Hlc« to spi-ar at noon on that day at Ackley A Tborp'a offlee They found there quite a ntuutier of dewceudanta of the original Imane and I »«Is worth of va rtoua ages Mr. Ackley thus a fid rested UtoM present "By tta terms stipulated fifty year« ago today by Ellbu Deane and Herbert f»udaworth a certain acre of land was t*equcxthed to such one of lb<dr de >L.- scviidauta, male or female, who stwniM » «?-. »Äy tie nearest to twenty years of see an the 1st of Jun«. Rast There are four persons living wbo sstS l>oni near Utat date ami who are drecendants of H (her lMsne or l>«*d«w-onh—vis, ftogre I Marie. Julia Itodawurth. led ward Payne and F.mtna Osborne, t«orn May 3». I**-*«». Kmma Ogtarn«. having pro du«-«*d aatlafa<-t«»ry evidence of blrtb. will undoubtedly be adjudged th« heir rant ix by the siirrvguta" The nun with less than $1000 to «pend There was an Involuntary bum of simply cannot find another Six as economi dlsaattsfar tbm throughout the a seem t>ly Roger Iteane and Julia Imds cal, ns high-powered, as well built and worth kaiked at each other aud laugh finished, as roomy ami as easy riding as e>t H<«th Iwiug rl< h. they could aff«>rd to laugh the rant Mr. Ackley walked up to a demure No other popular-priced Six follows so looking girl dressed very plainly and doaely the standards of construction of the eougrat'ilated ber ou attaining tta poo session of the golden acre. Mr Sidney higher-priced cars. Walker also »«ngratulated ber. Yield T he only way to really appreciate the ing to an Impuls«, ata threw her arma about bla neck. exclusive quality of the rant ix is to Walker during Ma tnveatigatlnna as check it up point by point with all othep to wbo would inherit tta gulden acre popular-priced Sixes. bad fotmd a little schoolteacher living tn Missouri wbo wss about tta re According to the run of market prices quired age He corr«sf«»ndsd with bar. the rant ix is at least a $1000 car — yet told ber of tta fortune that was to ta you can Iniy it now for $875 — turned over to tta legal heir and helped her to obtain undoubted proof of tta on<f now ta tA« time to bay iL day and aven tta hour of ber Mrth This ta did merely In the line of buab neaa. Th« girl came to leva him. tat did not show ber love till tta dsty ata was adlwlgrd sn heiress yrt mu li. mif«-»«». any or «acca •v«y vbitwl It they oaw a part of the prairie, on wbkb. aflat a rata. ato«<d a pool of watrt varying from «•>• to twrhe luctaa la d«»i Wbeu forty yenra tad retied round oritber Iteatt» uur l»«*l«uretb u<<r any cMM of »Utar wa« tlrtag Tb« re were many grni.«l< Ulktren. n>me of whom It Was Half a Century knew anything about tta acre **f prop Before It Produced atty that bad bta» ita! Up f«w half a century Belare tta death of Ita I«* Crop« tatara a fund tad tareu provpied from wbk b the taie* were to ta paid. *nd By F. A. MITCHEL a «ertalo firm nt lawyers wet« to pay them In luuu thia Arm dl«a»h«4. and ■Ô Ô- tbo duty dr«olved upon their auecaan i In K*» Ellhn !>«ane and ft erbon on By Ibla tUu» tta property had ta Dodawortb Into a lawsuit over a cot»« a attug fortune, au ! ih -te w «a u>* (deco of l<«lrU land lotta) • mupl« «tangve of any f*»«nr <>r IkolaworUi wbo lived ta Cbk-ago n»t ka«*«lng of mile« from tta «'enter of the city of •nmethJug about It |t«>l botb famille« Cbkagu. The property was worth ba<l aproad oui far.lik« and bad scat oothtug. and the esi*enaea of the «ntt ter rd were henry They wer» advised by t» Ita A kley A Thorp, attoruey*. their lawyer« to meet with a »low to were <barg>l with tta payment of ita effecting ■ enmpr«»mise. They cam« to taxe« on tta acr«. and the «urna were auAclently large to ta notlcwabie Sid gether. atw! l<aUM «aid to Drelaworth "It 1« tmpoMlbi« for either you or me ney Walker, a young man who had just been admitted to tta tar, wan a to realize anything out of thia acre of clerk to Ita «afir» of Ackley A Tharp, wortblre« land We’re too old But I •nd tbe par men I of tta taxe« waa ta think there« guiug to ta a big city truated to him In this way ta came hero eouw «lay. and tta property tn. to a knowledge ot tta «tra»®» Joint i •ay. fifty yeera from now may come will of l*reue ami D<*!*woeth, It or- within the town ltml;a. It will then be eurra«i to IValkv-r that wiwm tta time worth «omettilng Kuppua« we tear a II can** r<xtnd to put tta property into Jointly to our hetraT ita ha 1« of rhe leglttmata tair It "That would be like dividing «n would ta important that all tta wren apple into a couple of d’»xen parts tara of tta Doane and lx»l««ortti fami- Families multiply, and I doubt if tba Ilea ab’ Uld I m * accounted for llealtl luheritan e wiu ever be worth morw Ing that wh«»-«er 'I'd th!« work would than. say. a hundred dollars. Suppose doubt I«*** be paid for It. be tagan a We arr.itue so that It alia! > t>> one eaareb for every member of Iwth fam person yet unborn F’ uli*« But he kept ilia lnre*iigati-*n to DodaWortb was ready for anv propo- btaaeif •Itiou that would roileve hl.a vi further Roger l«eaoe. agni twenty two. bother couverniug the pnput/. and I grande*» of I'.lHm Draue. a party tn legal documenta were drown up be th«- will mafic In lAfitt, rvo'iled In <’hl «Itaatblug It to aueb dew rndaut of rag** betwren 1BBO and !•>«> and bad either as ahouM tic nearest to twenty bl» eye on the at re «« being tta prewl- year« old on Juno 1. ll«M>. Both men bl« heir. He «»» • metnhrr XT of moat were over fifty at the time the arrange of tta clulw of the <->tr and prominent ment was made, ami both had son» aor'sily f]e hunts«! up all the Iwane« aud daughters. an<l Dodawortbs he ««>uM find Ttare But none of the«« sons or daughters was none nearer than b«- to tta re took the aiighlewt interest in the prop quired age Hut l»e f*> .i ■■! < ne thda erty that had, so to speak, been put worth. ■ wi«m.ni «1*01*1 his « wn age. • wav for the enjoyment of some^oue ab* might. be bearer than ta. The Golden Acre • Tí' n c >Xl In A Class By Itself T ‘HERE is no other car at less than $1000 that offers a// of the advan tages you ¡jet in the (« S . 4 G GBA£<T SIX . G »875 G S S FRED T. BILYEU, Agent SCIO. OREGON GRANT MOTO« CAM CORPORA TIOH. OXVELAND I •A » \ Balfour Has A »»«veg Hama. txjndon -Tore tar *- « retary Ratfonr arrived b«»ma from his 'rip to America of ths British DR. A. G. PRILL Phy »nun and Surjcon Call« Attf*nd«*d Day or Night SCIO > ORE. R. SHELTON Notary Public ana Convttycntor Abstracta oí Title Examined SCIO OREGON fl II . W. A. Ewing. l*residcnt A. E. Randall Vice i'rea. FL 1). Myers, t'«shier Does a general banking buaineaa, receive« deposit* subject tocheca, pays interest on Ume deposits. sells travelers check a and drafts, makes «'ollectHina. 61 FARM LOANS Notice, We have an un limited amount of fund« to lend «>n farm nrcuritv at ft per cent per annum Long time loans desired. No delay. FARM LOANS 6 | HEXKER & 133 Lyon St, BEAM Albany, Ore. • Best Meals in the City for 30 Cents Room 50c and Up St. Charles Hotel ALBANY, ORE GRANT PIRTLE, Proprietor Plumbing or Tinning FRED OHLEMIER tare. w. a tiw ta-«•• His Experience is Worth Money to You Repairing a Specialty Satisfaction Guaranteed Final Account Notice ia hereby given that the un dersigned a«fminl«tratrix of the estate of Joiin W Powell, deceased, has fib-«! her final account in said ratal« with the County Clerk of l.lnn County, tiro gon, and the County Court of s»i«l county has set Monday, August .l>. 1917, at one o’clock In tta afternoon, at the County Court Houa*- in Albany, IJnn county, Oregon, •« the tin««, and place for the hearing of objections to such final account, and the settlement thereof. Dated and published the first time thia 12lh day of July. 1917. M arqamt M P owbix , Administratrix of the estate of John W. Powell, deceased. S am ’ i. M. G a K mxb , Attorney for Administratrix. *• »*■ as**.’