The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-03-21

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETI.
TION FOR ADOPTION.
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF MORROW.
In tho Matter Of the Adoption
Laura May Stoy, = minor.
Now at this time this cause coming
on for hearing upon the petition Of
William H. Hays and Effie Ann Hays,
his wife, for the adoption of Laura
May Stoy, a minor, and 1t appearing
to the Court from said petition that
the mother Of said minor is dead ana
that the father Of said minor is not
within the State Of Oregon. 1t Is
therefore Ordered that said petition
and objections thereto be heard on
Saturday, the goth day of April,
1918, at the hour Of 10 o'clock in the
forenoon of said day, at the County
Court Room in the Court House at
Heppner, Oregon, and that copy OF
this order and copy Of the said pc.
tition be published for three consec-
utive weeks, beginning with the is
sue of February 2S, 1918, in the Ga.
zette-Times, newspaper published
weekly at Heppner, Oregon, and that
all persons interested will take no
tice accordingly.
Done this 23rd day of February
t191S.
(Signed) c. c. PATTERSON,
County Judge.
Copy of Petition.)
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR MORROW
COUNTY.
In the Matter of the Adoption
Laura May StOy, minor.
To the Honorable c. C. Patterson
Judge of the County Court of tn,
State of Oregon for Morrow County
Come now William H. Hays ant
Effie Ann Hays, his wife, and respect
fully show to the Court that they art
residents of said Morrow County
that said Laura May Stoy is a minol
child, who was born to Edgar Stoy
and -Stoy, his wife, at Weiser
in the County of Washington, State
of Idaho, on the End day of March
1904; that the mother of said minol
child is dead; that the father of sale
minor child deserted her in tnt
month of March, 1915, having lef
her in the care and custody of peti
TONERS on the 29th day of January
1915; that said Edgar Stoy, father
of said minor child, has not beer
heard from for nearly two years, an(
his whereabouts is unknown to thu
petitioners; that said Edgar Stoy
when last seen by petitioners ant
said minor child, stated that he in
tended to go to Alaska.
I Your petitioners declare that the.
and each of them do freely and vol
UNFAIRLY adopt said Laura May Sto,
as their own child that it is thei
wish to bestow upon said minor chilt
equal rights, privileges and immuni
ties of children born to them in law
full wedlock, and that the name O
said child be changed to Laura Ma.
Hays
Wherefore, your petitioners pra,
that said Court will fix time for tn
hearing on this petition, that motto
thereof be given all persons interes
ted as provided by law, that on SAT-
hearing decree of adoption be mad
and entered by said Court bestowin
on said child all the rights, privilege
and immunities of children born t
them in lawful wedlock, and that tn
name of said child be changed t
Laura May Hays.
(Signed) WILLIAM H. HAYS.
EFFIE ANN HAYS.
State of Oregon,
County of Morrow.
We, William H. Hays and Eftie An
Hays, being first duly sworn. each fo
; himself or herself, says: That hay
read the foregoing petition and kno'
the contents thereof, and that tn
same is true as I verify believe.
(Signed) WILLIAM H. HAYS.
EFFIE ANN HAYS.
Subscribed and sworn to before m
, this 21st day Of February, 1918.
(Signed) SAMUEL E. NOTSON,
,, (SEAL) Notary Public for Oregon
My commission expires Dec. II
1919.