Logan Republican | 1906-08-01 | Page 3 | A Legal Switch

A Legal Switch. The disgust of a lav man with legal phiaseology was shoA-n In tho will of Elphonzo Youngs, filed here. Mr. Youngs was n dignified, well-to-do gon-tleman, gon-tleman, best known for thirty years as a deacon In one of tho largest Congregational Congre-gational churches In Washington. He wrote his will himself, evidently starting start-ing out to copy from somo book form, which set the'oxamplo In this form. "Being by tho Grace of Ood In sound mind and bod, and mindful of tho uncertainty un-certainty of human life," etc Then suddenly on tho written page thero appears a wild dash of Ink and thp following" "Rats' This, Is too formal. All that Ih about It Is this: At my death I want my ever faithful and devoted wife, Amelia I.orotta L. Youngs, to hnvo and contiol cvdwihing I possess." pos-sess." Now York TlmW.