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Show IH IDEGflOOiK ! HE !S GEHHII Falsified Age When First Married, Mar-ried, He Says, to Please Bride. ' Special to The Tribune. OGDI3N. May 23. After reading the various ncwspitper accounts of his mar-l mar-l ilagc In tills city Wednesday evening. &unucl Green of Poeatcllo. Ida., and who i declares that he Is 100 years old. was I rot pleased hecanse his age had been ! questioned. Mr. Green and his brldo are r,tll In the city and will remain hero for tho next week1, while the centenarian t bridegroom purchase-!- horses for a ahlp-I ahlp-I ment to Idaho, i The Pocatello man cannot understand I why his age should be questioned since i he has signed an affidavit to the effect I i that he Is 100 years old. Tn addition to ! thin he says he is known throughout the tvestorn country from Bawllns, Wyo., to Ran Francisco, and that all of his friends know him to be past the ccn-i ccn-i turv mark "I certainly am 100 years old and can 4 see no reason why 1 should not live an- 1 other hundred years." said Mr, Green i today after reading one of the papers ! In which his marriage was mentioned. ; '7 have had no sickness and feel as well i today as over As for my belntr 100 years old. I have a friend living over In Wyo-, Wyo-, nilng who is S7 years old. When I was a young man I knew him as a boy. When I secured the marriage license yesterday I jokingly told tho boys I was marrying' a nurse, so she could take care of me. but I need no nurse to look after me yet." Irs. Green declarod that she was a . I nurse nil right, but. corroborated her i husband's statement that Tip needod no nurse. She said neither she nor her husband hus-band had ause to bo ashamed of their age, sho having been i born In Germany in 1S67. Mr. i Green explained that he Is still ac- tlvelv engaged in the stockralslng and i mining business, being associated with I Is son In tho transfer business in Po-latello. Po-latello. Relative to the marriage license 1 granted to Mr Green in 1SSS. he said that his wife did not want him to give his i age as 75. because she was only 2S, so j he made It 42 years. |