Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1919 — Wants to Change Absurd Name. [ARTICLE]

Wants to Change Absurd Name.

- New York. —Justice Callahan, tn the supreme court, has reserved decision in the application of Leon Abouta Beekh to change his name to Leon Atallah. Abouta Beekh said he was born in Damascus, Syria, February 10, 1877, arid has three children. *The name Abouta Beekh, he said, means “father of cooking," and is so absurd that It has all his life subjected him to ridicule, . De said he did not want his children to suffer ridicule. «