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Show He Didn't Forget Kiss Given in '99 Woman Gets $500 From Lonely Bachelor. CHICAGO. For a kiss she gave ' nearly 50 years ago Mrs. Clara Mohr Carey, 66, of Highland Park, will receive re-ceive a bequest of $500 from a lonely bachelor who never forgot her. Mrs. Carey, now a pantry worker work-er at the Villa Moderne restaurant, 1904 County Line road, learned of the death of her former fiance, Arthur J. Machek, and of his bequest from a Chicago Daily News reporter. Machek, who died May 7 in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, willed the money to Mrs. Carey "with whom I kept company when we were both 21 years old, in 1899, and who made the only voluntary volun-tary demonstration of real affection I received in my life, and who gave me the only kisses I ever got." Mrs. Carey, her once golden hair streaked with gray, recalled they were engaged to be married. Because Be-cause of a religious difference Clara broke off the engagement. She married Frank Carey, who is a cook at the Villa Moderne. They have a son Lawrence, 25. But Arthur remained true to his first love. His faithfulness came to light when his will, disposing of a $40,000 estate, was filed in probate court in Milwaukee. "He said he never loved anyone else," said Mrs. Carey, who last saw Machek four years ago. "I never valued my kisses that high. "But I can use the money for my old age. I've worked since I was 11." Though shocked to hear of the death of an old friend, Mrs. Carey was not sorry she chose the path she did. "Arthur and I didn't think alike," she explained. "I've had a happy life." |