Permission was granted by Juds2 ition J. Helmick in the U. 8. Court for China last Wednesday morning for William Dalbey Patterson to chang®} his name to William Ceti Dalbey.
mie petitioner stated that he was ster old and a student at St John's University, and im his petition [declared that his' parents had been divorced in 1923, and that at that] Lime fe had come to live with his grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. William Curtis Dalbey. "He lived with his mother in America from the time he was ten Until 1901 when he returned China to make his home. henceforth with lifs grandfather, Dr. Dal-bey, whose name he was given per mission 10 assume (henceforth), Dr. Dalbey. questioned by the] Court, stated that he had not thought of adoption which the Court sug-[gested as a simpler and more satisfactory solution, and the court grant-fed the petition for a change of name without further questioning.
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