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7 I, A I (I I jt' ,i~) I 'K\~j}I JK' era an I VOL XLIV NO 102 NEWBEIRRY~ S. 0. TUESDAY~ DECEMBER 24. 1907. TWICE A WEEK $1.50 A YEAR 1~~ I EI711D fl a am~rt (IT ~D WIDOW SUBS C.LINTON MA Jacksonville Woman Demands Da ages of M. S. Bailey, Alleging Breach of Marriage Promise. News and Courier. In the office of the clerk of t United States circuit court, 4th c cuit, district of South Carolina, w filed yesterday afternoon the co: plaint in the case of Phena H. Lo, of Jacksonville, Fla., plaintiff, agair Mercer S. Bailey, of Clinton, S. I in a suit for damages for alleg breaoh of promise of marriage cc tract, at which the damages are la at $150,000. In the amount involv and in the prominence of the parti this suit is of larger interest than a: of the kind ever before brought this part of the country. The complaint, which is printed I low, states the salient facts of t ease from the plaintiff's point view. It will be seen that the allE ed courtship and engagement t tween the plaintiff and defenda dates from the 14th of Augu 1901; and began in the mountains North Carolina. Mrs.' Love will remembered by hundreds of perso tiroughout South Carolina as t former landlady of the Blue Rid Inn in Hendersonville, N. C. Mrs. Love is a woman said to somewhere about 50 years of age a is a widow. She is a woman of ei tivation, excellent manners and prr ence, and enjoys t.he friendship ai respect of many of the leading pi ple in the church and civil - life Jacksonville, and has promine friends in Charleston. The plaintiff, Mr. Bailey, who h been a widower for fifteen or twe ty years, is one of thz best knov men in the commercial and industri circles of South Carolina. For pi laps forty years he has conducted hlighly successful private bankii )(usiness in the town of Clinton, La rt*s county.' About eleven years a; he stablished the Clinton Cottr Milik, a plant having 37,000 spindl and Which has had a uniformly su cessfnl history, paying for the la seven or eight years good divideni Later one of his sons established the. suburbs of Clinton the Lydia Cc ton Mill. with 21L000 spindles, ai in this, too. Mr. Bailey is said to heavily interested. It is also a hig prosperous company. Besides I e appears at t;he head of one large mercantile houses of Cli The popular understanding he Bailey family, composed Bailey and his sons, own tl ~ng interest in these mills ai large owners of lands, hou ther pro.perties. Mr. Bail. here between 65 and aore, and is prominen't in r and other activities of life on. The Bailey family wealth eW imated in curront opinion as a gregating $500,000 and upwards. - What the trial of the case will d velop cannot be anticipated, but t1 allegations of the complaint, especia ly that relating to the engageme: ring as an evidence in the case, lea< to the assumption that in the cour of the litigation an intensely interes ing remablce will be revealed. TI hotel in Hendersonville, which Mi ye managed, is said to have bet the property at one time of Mr. Bai y, and the large aequaintance whic rs. love gained by reason of h; onnection with that establishmer ether with the alleged wealth at nding~ of the defendant, promis cause evary suceessive step in t] igation inaugurated yes'terday watched with the keenest intere oughout the South Atlantic Stata -e complaint follows: h- when the time for the pe -ice of said marriage approac. wit: about the -day of Se r1901. the defendant, becaur af'fliction in the family of sa .a?t. requested the plaintiff 1o the said marriage; ti T lh?reto agreed and consen ihe posu'ponemen~t at the d 'i insistence. and thereaft' e to time the said marria! nstanc'e of the defendant w; d so that on the 2.6th dayv< , 1902 th pliniff an:d d . fendant again renewed thleir promise and agreement to ,marry each other, n- ! the same being evidenced by a ring which the defendant on that date gave to the plaintiff, being a simple gold ring upon which the defendant had engraved the following: he M. S. B. to P. H. L. r- And thereafter the said promises as and agreements to so marry were con n- tinued until on the said 5th day of re, October, 1905, the. defendant promis Lst ed again to marry the plaintif on the 1st day of August. 1906, the plain ed 'tiff agreeing that on said date she 3- would marry the said defendant, and id said date was thereupon finally and a definitely fixed for the performance es -7f the ceremony of marriage. Fourth. That the plaintff, confid ' ing in and relying upon the said con tract and agreement of the defendant e- to marry her, as hereinbefore set he forth, has always since remained of ready a ad willing, and now is ready - and willing to marry the said de -a fendant. nt Fifth. That the defendant refuses to marry the plaintff, although a rea of sonable time elapsed before this ac be tion, and although she has repeated ly since the 1st day of August, 1906, requested him so to do. Sixth. That relying on said pro mise of the defendant to marry her the plaintiff at the request of t4e de i fendant abandoned her profession and business, to-wit, that of a hotel keep er, whieh she had theretofore follow ed as a means of livelihood, gave up her said profession and business and sacrificed her property and interest at in order to become defendant's wife as aforesaid. a Seventh. That the defendant has, notwithstanding his promise. so made an and acted upon by the plaintiff, al rantonly . reeiessly and malicfiously r- refused to perform and comply with a the same, whereby plaintif has suf ig fered great humiliation and mortifica u- tion. and has been compelled in eon o sequence of the wilful, wanton. reek m less and malicious conduct of the "s defendant and his failure to per e form his con-tract and agreemant. t Eighth. That by the breach of in contract aforesaid in the manner n aforesaid, and by all the aforesaid d actions of the defendant, the plaintiff dhas been demaged in the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is ($150,000.) >f Wherefore, the plaintiff prays - judgment against ,the defendant in is the sum of one hundred and fifty yf thousand dollars ($150,000) and the 1e ccsts of tfiis action. id nited States of America. District of - South Carolina. 7y Personally appeared before me 0 Phena H. Love, who being duly sworn, e- says she is the plaintif herein, and in thait she has read the foregoing comn is plaint and that the same is true of ? her own knowledge. Phena H. Love. e Sworn to before me this 17th .iay ie of beeember, 1907. .-A. 4'. Tobias, Jr. it Notary Public, Sooth Carolina. Is__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sLATIMER TO AID IN OAMPAIGN CSouth Carolinian Made a Member of Democratic Committee. Washington, December 23.-An nouncement has just been made that r .Senator Latimer will be a member tof the Democratic campagin congres dsional committee, on the part of the s senate, for the 1908 campaign. The eother members are Senators Taliafer ro. of Florida; Clay, of Georgia; Stone. of Missouri; Newlands, of Ne . vada; Owen, of Oklahoma: Taylor, of Tennessee; Culberson. of Texas, r-and Martin. of Virginia. IDemocrats here are hoping to larely increase their number in both e lonse and ser'ste as the result of the dn-t election, and it le probable that 4 in the n'ear future those members e x :io have been choseai ft'ha e en ite will meet and our ." :an active campaignl. r In nie house the Dar~'"its ares tro e o--a chairman earl e in Januiar:. wl!'t the preliminary wo:k of the >f; next compaign will bae in. THE NEWS of PROSPERITY. The Baby Show-Another Veteran Passes to the Beyond-Many Amusement for Week. Prosperity. Dee. 23.-The baby show in city hall given under the aus- I pices of the U. D. C. will ask all who go in to visit the show to deposit ten cents at the door to assist them in placing a monument to the veterans in Prosperity cemetery and No. 9 township. Nice candies will also be on sale at a booth in the hall. The public' is cordially invited to come and enjoy a pleasant show. Another veteran has been added to those who sleep their last long sleep in the bivouac of the dead. Mr. Si mon P. Taylor has joined the great majority and awaits the bugle call of the master in the silent city where rests so many of his comrades. Mr. Taylor was over 70 years of age and leaves many relatives and friends to < mourn their loss. Col. G. Sam Moore told us of an unusual case of honesty or clever ness <.n the part of Brady Derrick a negro living in his section. On his way to church at Mount Moriah ing found a -pocket hook containing $65.00. He euquired but could find no owner. Shortly after a white man came up to the church inquiring for a - lost purse. It was given to him and Brady refused to take $15.00 of fered him. A1!i the studeplts at the different colleges are home, so far as your cor respondent can learn, for the holi days. Among the'number I note Mises Willie Mae Wise, Clara Gibson, Iso line Wyche, Ethel Counts, Kate Thompson, Rosabel Harmon, Annie Moseiey, Minnie Boyd Brown, Messrs. Granville Wyche, Allen Lester, Wal ter and Robt. Wise, E. S. Kohn, Clif ton Kreps. Lindsey Fellers, Jas. Cal mes, Herbert Langford, Marks and Lillius Simpson, Harold Craig, mak ing a total of 20 students from the town and representing Wofford, Ers kine, Due West, Newberry, Clemson, S. C., Citadel, College for Women, Win'tihrop, Porter Academy. This is qite a showing for our town ani there are others whose names have escaped-as that will enlarge the list. Miss Gertrude Bobb is at home from Marion. N. C., for the' holidays. Miss Margaret Leekie, one of the tea-ehers in our graded school, will spend the holidays with her parents in Chester. Prof. Cecil Wycdhe, of the city schools of S.par'tanburg, is a~t home for the Christmas holidays. Miss Emma DeWoody, of Ft. Smit'h, Arkansas, will visit heir classmate, Miss Erin Kohn during the holidays. Hart Kohn, of Columbia. will spend a few days at home during the Christmas. The Sunday school exercises of Grace churelih will be given on Wed nesday. evening at t7.30. The Dime Reading will be given on Frid'ay evening at 7.30. This will be an enjoyable affair and all should attend. The play Jumbo Jum will be giveai Thursday evening. Thle ladies have arranged 3o as to give the good people of the town a .week of enjoymen't. The K. of P. and Wooaimen sup pers will be given tile following week. There are many good things in store for Prosperity's citizens.( This will 'praettieal'ly close another year in the lives cf many of us and what is the record? Another mile sitone in life'"s journey has been pass ed. Our roads did not always lie byI still waters nor were there green pas tures but there were many oppor- . tunit;ies to do good. Did we do it?~ Perhaps sorrow and sadniess did not i come to us or darken our homes. there ,. were mlany to which if did comne. D)id you dear reader help to iigh'ten the burdens or sweeten theC sorrows of those homes on which th-a shadows "0" tWe~ good we ali may do un1 it? May the nest y - ) us~ me'king good use of the op :rtuities that may be given us. t "Let us then be up and doing still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." Prof. E. S. Werts, of Meiiphis, renn., was in town for a day or two ast week. Mr. W. P. Harmon. of Greenwood, .s visiting his sons, C. M. and Geo. his week. Dr. R. B. Epting and daughter, of -reenwood, visited doctor's sister, Vqrs. Able. Sunday. Prof. Werts returne dto Memphis m Sunday. Very heavy rains have fallen here ;ince Saturday. Program Christmas. Services Grace Sunday school Dec. 5, 1907: Voluntary. Glory in the highest, doir. Processional by school. Prayer. Duett. Mrs. Kreps, Miss Kohn. Recitation, Miss Julia Schumpert. Song. Carol sweetly today. Ifan. lapartment. Song. Happy Chirstmas time, school. Recitatjon. Miss Mary Wheeler. Song. Peaceful rest. Master Geo. Fise, - Webster, Pat Wise, \Taey Kreps. Gift Exercise. Miss Eva Lester's ass, with uffering song. Song. Welcome. Mrs. Singley and liss Jessie Moseley's classes. Echo Song. You'ng girls of school. Exercise by school. The earthly if3 of the Christmas King. Quartetts. Silent night. Closing song. 'y to th. world. Bendiction. News From Excelsior. Excelsior, December 23.-We had a arge crowd: out at Sunday school 5unday afternoon. After our school was over we had an interesting ser non preached by Rev. Ira S. Cald vell. Mr. Cald,well put in a strong )lea for the Sabbath and how we hould spend Christmas. The sermon hroughout was fine and ought to do nuach good. Mr. Aumerle Loriek, of Columbia, iere to spend Christmas with the iome folks. Mrs. Kate Odell, of near Whitmire, s spendi'na a few of the holi.ays vith her sister. Mrs. Crumpton. Mr. George Richardson and family 6ave moved in their new home near rosperity. Miss Lora Nates will spend a few if flie holidays with her sister. Mrs. Nillie Blanton, of Gra.nite'ville. S. C. Prof. E. S. Werts, of Memphis, ['en., is visiting relatives in this see on. Miss Lucy Whieeler is up from Co umbia to spend Christmtas with the Lome folks. There will be eommunion service at ~t. Pilgrim church n sxt Sunday non.The service to be conduet d by the Rev. 0. B. Shiearouse. Our school closed Friday afternoon or Christmas with exercises i-n the ftrnoon. Quite a larg'e crowd gath ~red at th'e school-house to enjoy ifhe xercses whieh eorisisted of -speeches y the pupils of" school, the sehool ose 'being nicely decoraited for t'he casion. A- fish pond- was arranged in one orner of the building and all pres ~nts were 'pla.eed 'in this pond and on eine fished out and the name called he owner would g'o up and receive he present, all of the pupils receiv n' presents. Santa Clans was also n hand and as usnel was liberal arted amonest the pupils. We re 'n thanks to Miss Boulware. the p'e-her for an invitation to he pres nt. but circumstanees were such we ounl not he on hand. The exercises f the aft.?rnoon were presided over v Prof. .T. S. Wheeler. anperintend -t of edneation. Thus ended a nicas t aiftern"'n fer the puonils and will 'ni- he remembered by all present. A pleasan+' Christmas to Tb' Her 18 a'nd N-ews tynos and rerliers. Si2mra. Alevander was sighingr for more! -mvll to enuer. ''TThve you ev"e tried destroving onfidenne and then rebuilding it?'' bevy asked. Herewith the grea!t man hasitly ought n easie -Jnh -New York Sun. i ar c ti uni' a. Brings Renewed Assurances of Ja pan's Friendlines to the Unit ed States. New York, December 20.-Wm. H. Taft. Secretary of War, returned to day from his trip around the world, bringing renewed reassurances of Ja pan's friendliness towards the United States, but declining to say anything withIi respect to the political situation in this country. He said that he had not been too long out of intimate touch with political affairs at home to discuss them in any way. One of Mr. Taft'.s interviewers had the tem erity to ask: "Well, Mr. Secretary, tell us who is your choice for president?" Amid general laughter, in which he heartily joined, the secretary repli ed: "I guess I will have to leave that to conference." Mr. Taft left for Washington on the afternoon train, saying that ac crmulated matters in the war depart ment would keep his nose to the offi cial grindstone for some time to come, and that the preparation of his special report on the Philippines, which will be in book form, would also require much of his time in the near future. RAILWAY FACILITIES. Sumter Chamber of 'Commerce Fav ors Liberality Towards All Transportation Companies. Be it Resolved by the Sumter chamber of commerce, That we be lieve that the future increased pop ulation, prosperity and wealth of Sonth Carolina is largely dependent on increased railway mileage and facilities to take care of the con stantly increasing demands made up on them by the. growth of the state, and that it is encumbent upon every good citizen to interest himself in the matter as to the present need, as well as to insure a wider and ful ler development of the natural re sources of the state for the benefit of generations to come. Further: To insure increased trans portation facilities succh as is neces sary for the proper development of this state, the necessity for consis tent handling of the transportation problem is apparent. Be further resolved: T$iat this body favors the uitmost liberality on the part of its state authorities towards all transportation companies under taking to provide transportation in this state in conformity with our state and national laws. Fu'rther: That the inteerst of'South Carolina can best be serve~d by a pol-. icy of conservatism; that the essen tial need at this time is increased and improved facilities and not so much a. reduction of the revenues such as we believe will tend to de stroy the present facilities rather than increase their efficiency. Further: That we are not in sym pathy with the almost hostile atti tude assumed by the public in some localities towards the railroad inter ests, nor do we favor drastic jegisla tion as recently enacted in other states, but on the contrary, we fav or fair and reasonable laws, fairly and justly administered. Further: That a copy of these res olution be addressed to the Hon. Donald McKay Frost, chairman of the legislative committee on rail roads with the advice that the reso intions carry the sentiment of the citizens of this city and county, urging that he recommend to our next legislature such measures as will tend to increase transportation investments in this state. Funther: Thbat a copy of these re solutions he directed to each rep resentative from Sumter county, al ex the mnay:- of eachi city in this ,tate. as we2il d to our city and coun Snorm r. and t-he News and Carier a'pi "The State'' and all nier .:-lh rowspers, asking that th'y -;i'e szme a!! '.nsistent publi it*e. Signed, H. J. McLauriri, Jr. Attest: E. T Reardon. Sec. Those Who Will Work During Next Legislature Selected. - Appointments in the engrossing department for the coming session of the leg'islature were announced by Attorney General Lyon as follows: Miss Lucile Jennerett, Georgetwon; Miss Julia Mixon, Aiken; Miss Mabel Hearon, Bishopville; Miss Ola Hunt ley, Cheraw; Miss Dubos. Jones, Co lumbia; Mrs. Rose Patton Hoke, Chester; Miss Pearl G. Holland, Spartanburg; Miss Almena Coleman, New. Market; Miss Carrie E. Simons, Charleston; Miss Mary Geo. Cher ry, Seneca; Miss May Moorman, Greenville; Miss Sara Nioholson, Edgefield; Mss Annie Aiken, Green wood; Miss Eleanor 'McQueen, Co lambia; Miss Janie C. Grace, Char leston; Miss Marie Long, Columbia; Mr. W. S. Wertz, Jbhnst on; Miss Onie Martin, Anderson; Mrs. Jas. Copes, Spartanburg. Mrs. Copes, of Spartanburg, for merly Miss Platte, of Orangeburg, has for several sessions been the chiesf clerk of the engrossing department, and her re'ppointment is due solely to her efficient service and her abil i'y. Mr. Lewis W. Haskell, of Co lumbia, will remain in charge of the department. The appointments dif the clerks are made by the attorney general and the ten solicitors, and there were, as usu al, a very large number of applicants. 'Queen Victoria's Courage. Chicago Daily News. In her recently published lett'ers Queen Victoria tells of the first at tempt that was made on her lib. "Writing to the King. ,of.the Belgians, she heys: "On returning from the chapel on Sunday Albert was observ ing how civil the people were and then suddenly turned to me and said it appeared to him as though a man had held out a pistol to the carriage and that it had hung fire. Accord ingly when we came home he men tioned it to Col. Arbuthnot, who was only to tPll it to Sir J. Graham and Sir Robert Peel, and have the police instructed and nobody else. No one, however, who was with us, such as footmen, etc., had seen anything at all. Albert began to doubt what he believer he had seen.'' Bat a boy, was found who had seen the same -thing and who 'had been standing closa to the man and had heard him mut ter, ''Fool that I was not to fire.'' It was therefore arranged that the Queen and the Prince should again drive out, carefully and secretly guarded, with a view to arresting the man should he take the opper-. tunity to make a further attempt. The Queen continues: ''After some consultation ***as nothing could be done, we drove out-many police men in plain clothes being distribut ed in and about the parks and the two equerries riding so close on eaeh side that they must have.been hit if anyone was; still the feeling of look ing out for such a man was -not 'des plus agreables.' However we drove through the parks, up to Hamp stead and back again. All was so 'quiet that we almost thought of noth ing-when, as we d.rove down Consti tution hill, very fast we heard the report of a pistol, but not at all loud, so that had we not been on the alert we shoul d hardly have taken notice of it. ''"We saw the man seized by a po liceman, next to whom he was stand ing when he fired, but he did not stop. Col. Ar'buthnot and two others saw him take him, but we only heard the report (looking both the other way). We both felt very glad that our drive had had the effect of having the man seized. Whether it was load ed or not we cannot yet tall, but wa are again full of gratitude to Urovi dence for invariably protecting us.'' Teacher (after explaining tae character of the Pharisee)-And now what do we mean by a ''hypo erite''* Pupil-Please, miss, a man wot says he is wot he isn't, but he ain't. -Pnnch.