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BIG DAMAGE SUIT IAUSED BY VISITS UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN NEW YORK TRYING CASE. FIFTY THOUSAND CLAIMED * Lady Who Started Costly Talk Over Seventy Years of Age Showing They Are Never too Old to Gossip. Whether one can spend cold Winter evenings in * a yong clergyman's rooms and still preserve boarding house proprieties, is being argued in the United States District Court before Judge L. N. Hand in New York this week. The argument is between lawyers for Mrs. Marion W. Brash oars, the pood-looking treasurer of the Favary Tire and Cushion Company, of New York, and Mrs. Susan B. Smith a wealthy woman of Shelbyville, Ky. Mrs. Brash ears admits she visited the room of the Rev. Hudson Baker, a Unitarian clergyman, in Mrs. O. N. Denny's "exclusive boarding house" in Portland, Ore., hut she contends that Mrs. Smith, who lived in Portland at the time?the Winter of 1909 ?had no right to say the things shei did. And because of things she charg es Mrs. Smith with saying, Mrs. Brashears, demands $50,000 for alleged slander. Mrs. Brashears, sartorially, had the favorable opinion of the entire court room crowd. She was dressed in a green velvet gown and a coat trimmed with fox. She wore a trig little Green hat from which a paradise plume danced, as she shook her head indignantly when she declared that she went to Mr. Baker's room merely because her room was cold and his warm. She said that all the boarders did so and that Mr. Baker was a "most devout and sincere man." Accused is Over Seventy. Mrs. Smith, who is more than seventy, is a dignified looking woman. Sho worn rlflvlf wnll mil nlntlmo .?n/l has pretty gray hair. She denied emphatically that she had eved said anything scandalous about Mrs. Brashears' visits to Mr. Baker's rooms, but admitted that once she said that Mrs. Brashears "evidently did not care about insults as long as she made money." Mrs. Smith was visibly affected when Miss Mary A. Chase, whom she had adopted and given a musical education, took the stand for the plaintiff. Miss Chase is a contralto, and was once reported engaged to marry a son of Claus Sprecklcs, the millionaire sugar man. Miss Chase repeated a story told her by a friend in Portland to the effect that Mrs. Smith was gossiping about Mrs. Brashears. The greater part of the afternoon was devoted to reading a deposition made by Mrs. Denny. Much of Mrs. Denny's statement, it was admitted, was founded on hearsay. In her depo sition Mrs. Denny cited two instances when Mrs. Brashears was in Mr. Baker's room and both times, she declares, Mrs. Brashears asked a Mrs. Taylor whether she (Mrs. Denny) would mind if the door was locked. Raised Mrs. Brashears' Rent. Mrs. Denny, in her statement, declared she did not raise objection, but did raise Mrs. Brashears' rent, which caused Mrs. Brashears to leave the house. Mrs. Denny says Mrs. Taylor, who was visiting her, told her that once P O1/a%? ? b -1 i - . i^uivei W elti I1UUI U lO Siiy i "For God's sake, leave my room." Etherbert Favary, president of the Favary Tire and Cushion Company, escorted Mrs. Brashears out of the court room. Mrs. Brashears would not make public the letters which pass ed between her and Mrs. Smith, saying that "publicity would ruin her business." A R MIES K N E E-DEEP IN M U DD Y WATERS. OITejisive Movement bv Germans South of Ypres Repulsed. Kavs Report. Soldiers fighting in trenches kneedeep in water and swept by driving rains is the story which still comes out of West Flanders, where the German troops and the alied forces still hammer at each other with shot and shell. That serious encounters have taken place along the Yser Canal is indicated in the French official announcement that the Germans have been driven back On the right bard', and that the left bank, a small section of which the Germans had held for several days, has been completely evacuated. To the south of Ypres the allies also have been successful, rc pulsing a further offensive movement. This was accomplished, says the French general staff, with heavy losses to the Germans. - GIRL KILLER AFTER ALL M TANGO J. F. McGUIRE, WHO RECENTLY INHERITED FORTUNE AND DROVE PARTY. HELD BY THE CORONER. A girl's dead body under a wrecked automobile on Pelham Parkway New York City last Saturday was the tragic scene that marked the end of a gay allnight motor and tango party with two wealthy young men of New York as the hosts to three girls, one of whom was only sixteen years old. Elizabeth Dayton, twenty, was the oriy>1 \rV\n woe Vill/i/1 H/iv onrl I ?? ?? MO **V 1 111 VV11V I UIIVI stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Askenasy live at No. 2071 Broadway, but she has left there to live with Mrs. James Warren, her cousin, of No. 391 Decatur avenue Bronx. The man who drove and owned the machine on the fatal pleasure trip is Josept F. McGuire, twenty-four, son of the late James F. McGuire, Brook lyn pickle manufacturer, who left a large fortune to the son. Young McQuire lives at No. 562 West End avenue. He was urreut&d after the accident. t The others in the party, all of whom were hurled from the overturned car were slightly injured, were Violet Van Sehalck, sixteen, of No. 13, Franklin avenue, Anna F. Willy, twenty-two, of Winthrop avenue, and William Roche, of No. 68. West Sixty-eight street. The three girls went Thursday afternoon to St. Nichols rink to skate There they met Roche, who, it is said they had not met before. He invited them tr> dinner at Healv's and thov ac cepted. Among1 the diners in the restaurant was McGuirc. Accordng to the story the police heard, lie was accompanied by a young* woman. He knew Roche, and, after they had spoken together, McQuire took the young woman home and returned with his automobile to join the Roche party. They motored to Reisenweber's where they spent most of the evening dancing and drinking. It was about 1 o'clock in the morning when they started for the Woodmansten Inn on Pelham Parkway. There the merriment continued, and they did not leave until about 7 o'clock. They started for New Rochelle and the car was going at a fast rate when, at a curve in front of the Hunter's Island Inn, the wheels skidded and the auto turned over in the ditch. Miss Dayton was caught under the seat. Life was instantly crushed out. The others were only bruised. i\f A :,i ~ i li hi r. ^vsftuiiiihy Mini lius su'piiuuguifr did not know McGuire, who is hold by the Coroner's order as a material witness. WILL DIVORCE WIFE WHO FLEl) TO DRIVER. Wealthy Rye .Candy .Manufacturer .Seeks Decree for Sensational Desertion in 1910. William C. Dodge, a wealthy candy manufacturer of Rye, N. Y., appeared before Justice Guy in the Supreme Court in New York last week and asked for a decree of divorce from Margaret A. Dodge. She left her home which is the linest house in Rye, in 1910. to iro to the homo of Edward Sharp, her husband's coachman, in Brooklyn, us "Mrs. Sharp." This action on her part, which caused a sensation in Rye, was twelve years after her marriage to Dodge. She was then forty-six and the coachman twenty-two. Dodge, who holds a deputy sheriff's badge, went to the home of Sharp in Brooklyn and arrested him and Mrs. Dodge. The next day he failed to appear against them in the Magistrate's Court and they were released. It was subsequently announced that his wife was ill at the time and not accountable for her action. The testimony yesterday showed that Harvey J. Burgay entered the Sharp home with Dodge and another man. He said Dodge went over to a i bed in which Mrs. Dodge was lying and kissed her. Later his mother came into the room and said that the woman on the bed was her son's wife. Dodge, who was present with the raid mi', |j?ri,y, (iidci'cd nis mends out ot the house and closed the door. Justice Guy reserved his decision. Nevada Reelects Newlamls. Carson City., Vevada, Nov. lit.? Complete returns from thirteen of the sixteen counties in Nevada, and un>f:icir.l returns from tho remaining three indicate the re-election of I'piled Stales Senator Francis G. Newlands, Democrat, .over Samuel Piatt. Republican. The ofli.ial canvass of < the vote in thirteen counties gives1 N'jwlands a lead of hi. To Prevent Blood Poisoning *pply pt one? the \ronderful old reliable I)R PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL,a aur pical dressing that relieve* pain ard heals the aatne time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. li.uu i Beady for 1 Hcrscs digest their feed less the other tarm animals. In order to ins digestion of all the food eaten, and 1 horses readier for next day's work, evening feed a tcaspoonful of? Bee Dec It will lessen your feed bl It will Increase your prof COAST LINE WANTS MORE FARMERS HERE MEETING OF BUSINESS MEN AT FLORENCE AT REQUEST OF W. J. CRAIG. In accordance with a hurried call of the business men of Florence, a mass meeting: of the citizens was held in the auditorium of the Times building last week and was attended by a large number of representative business men. The meeting was called at the request of W. J. Craig, passenger traffic manager of the Atlantic Coast Line and for tho purpose of hearing C. A. Maull, advertising: agent of that line, on a matter of vital importance to the city, section and State. Mr. Maull, when introduced, said that the Coast Line realized that the only way that the country which it traversed could be properly developed was by the increase of its population and the division of its farming lands into smaller farms in the hands of thrifty farmers, who owned them and worked them, men who understood and practiced the principles of making the farm support the family and niakinir a surnlus cron ns n mnnpvl crop. Ho explained the methods by which immigrants had been secured in the; West, particularly in California, and; along the Pacific slope, in Texas and throughout the Southwest; what meth ods had been most successful and had turned out well in the end. He emphasized the fact that no advertising ever was or ever could be successful that was not based on the truth and said that all the Coast Line or Florence had to do was to tell the people, and the right kind of people, the truth about this country and they would come and try it. After Mr. Maull's talk there was some general discussion, which resulted in the passage of a resolution calling for eight volunteers to raise by popular subscription a fund of $200, to be turned over to the advertising department of the Coast Line to be used in distributing literature about Florence and Florence County in a spirited campaign which that department is planning to carry out during the present winter through Woctm-n New York, Western Pennsylvania, Northern Ohio and elsewhere, where! the farmers are of pood American! stock and composed of people who will j make pood citizens. The committee immediately volunteered and is composed of Messrs. J. W. Ivey, R. C. Commander, S. Isadore Sulzbacher, M. D. Lucas, J. C. Hop-, ers, Edwin Sternberger, Sanborn Chase and Dr. R. P. Covington. GERMANS REPORTED DRIVEN FROM DI1UDE ONE Sl'CCESS IS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER DEFEAT IT APPEARS. London, Nov. 13.?The correspond ent of the Central News in the North of France telegraphs that the Germans have been driven out of I)rcmude. "The Germans," the correspondent says, "had not long in which to congratulate themselves on their seizure of the mass of ruins which once was Dixmude. They were sprayed with shrapnel and high explosive shells until extermination threatened them. , The appearance of French marines in I a bayonet charge convinced them that | the death rate would be tv>o high if they remained. Hence Dixmude is ours again. "The Germans have made a slight advance against Ypres, but it is doubt ful if they hold the village of Steloi. "At LaBassce the Germans are attempting to drive a wedge into the allied line by a concentrated heavy ,vl... i* rm i * - - ii11 11i nci'o r?as neon a consider able curve in the lino hero for some I time, but the allies hold their positions on either flank." RUB-MY-TtSRfl ' Will cure your Ilheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, j Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Ano(lyn??,used internally and e.Mernull/. i'rice 25c. " I to-morrow ? | >rouph!y than ure thorough 1 am using Bee Dec I to make your stock medicine with | n.\a iuai* niy horses regularly and add to their find it a saving proposition fl on feed. It also makes them healthy, thriving and OCR I C Can* Ira Johnston. I I irTiiv ^D?Na * I O'Neill. Nebr. ^ 20c, BOc and $1. pft can. I ROGKEFELLER DUPED IN $15 250 DEAL - TELLS TAX BOARD HE MADE BAD BARGAIN AND ART LIST ED AT $75,000 IS WORTH ONLY $5,000. Cleveland, Nov. 13.?John D. Rockefeller, in affidavits to the Cuyahoga County Tax Complaint Board today admitted he made a bad bargain when, at public auction in New York, in 1887, he paid $15,250 for "The Disputed Boundary/' a painting by Erstein Niehol. Now, according to Mr. Rockefeller's statements, the picture is not worth more than $5,000. and possibly only $2,000. These affidavits were filed with the board by Mr. Rockefeller in support of his contention that Cuyahoga County deputy tax commiscsioner grossly exaggerated the value of his prop crty in putting him on the duplicate for 1914. Mr. Rockefeller is fighting three > valuations nut on hie nrrmPi'tv ii^ I Ohio. They are the $75,000 valuatior on "The Disputed Boundary," an item of $100,000 in "Credits." and the $311 100.000 valuation against his stocks and bonds. The value of the painting was based on the amount for which it was insured when it was removed to the Rockefeller estate in New York, in February last. The painting was nsured for $75,000. An affidavit from Mr. Rockefeller's eretary said he had the picture insured without having any idea as to its value. Mr. Rockefeller submitted affidavits that he had intended moving to his home in New York in October, 1913, but the illness of Mrs. Rockefeller prevented this. He also referred to his Forrest Hill estate in Cleveland, as his "Summer Home," and New York City as "his home." One Lump Instead of Two. The beet sugar factories throughout the country are facing a peculiar situation. After working at full capacity to meet a supposed demand for high-priced sugar, they find that there I is no such demand. Although the sugar is offered at six cents per pound, wholesale, sales are low. The jobbers and wholesalers, it seems, stocked up heavily when the war broke out and. with warehouses loaded to the rafters they are not eager to put more money into the product. So the sugar is going begging at six cents. How long this condition will last is a question. The consumer, however, as long as he uses the usual quantity of sugar, may rest assured that he will not profit. The retail price of sugar has been advanced to about eight ctmts a pound and it is likely that it will be kepi there, indefinitely. The- old "law" of supply and demand appears to have been repealed in this century. The on ly way to touch the speculators is through the Docket. A lack of flomnnrl or a falling off in demand is likely to result in a reduction in price, for the jobbers will not care to carry big stocks that are slow sales. Therefore if every American would cut down his allowance of sugar, just a trifle, we would see the prices tumbling down in a few weeks. One spoonful or one lump, instead of two in your coffee every morning for a month would result in a return or five-cent sugar before Christmas. Asleep for Ten Months. Gardner, Mass., Nov. 14.?The sleep ing patient at the State Hospital who has been in a state of comma for ten months, is showing signs of returning consciousness. During his long sleep special treatment was required to keep him alive, and he is fed twice a day by means of tubes. Within two weeks the man several times has open n/l li i u f\\r*\ei "A " i > m mo i ji n uiiu ill, |Ji;i"HUIIS ill his cot. Dr. Charles F. Thompson says it is probable that in a few days the patient will become active, but whether he will be permanently cured of his strange ailment is a matter of conjecture. The name of the patient has not been made public. Congress liars Milk. IJoston, Nov. 13.?Pasteurization and other safeguarding methods adopted by the National Commission on Milk were refused endorsement by the American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality at its convention today. I |p53s3080?8 | RED! V j have reduced the i t.r? . ^? ? ? w anu winter nats, ai w Goods. I am noi V Goods at 25c. Si Call around and ins] X sure you will be pie Q Mrs. J. V\ feoooaos i Colds | kx\J should be "nipped in the A fL/l bud", for if allowed to run Vf rlflunchecked, serious results ?Y Mi may follow. Numerous oti | cases of consumption, pneu- I I monia, and other fatal dis- 1 1 eases, can be traced back to I I a cold. At the first sign of a | 1 cold, protect yourself by I I thoroughly cleansing your | || sysiem wiin a lew doses of THEDFORD'S BLACKDRAUGHT III the old reliable, vegetable 8 I I Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o? ? I | Madison Heights, Va., says: 1 |9 |"1 have been using Thed- |yj M J ford's Black-Draught for JUU Fill stomach troubles, indiges-F/I SAW tion. and colds, and find ittojAA aA| be the very best medicine lQ/\J IQ\iever used. It makes an oldf\T YxTS man feel like a young one." lk>| Insist on Thedford's, thcrU jA original and genuine. 111 ii ii ?? 111 1111 h?fc?> ill The Wet and Dry Line-up. As a result of the November elections there are now fourteen States in the dry column. They are : Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Missippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia. There remain 15 States in which the population live in so-called no-license territory. They are Alabama. Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Vermont. There remain eleven States in which 25 per cent of the population lives in no-license territory. They are California, Deleware, Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, At different times in the past 23 States have adopted the policy of prohibition. All but nine for one reason or another, abandoned it for local option or control by license. California and Ohio, out of the six States in which statewide prohibition amendments were voted on this fall, elected to remain in the wet column. In Ohio the new amendment to the constitution practically places the State in the wet column forever, as it provides that no new liquor legislation shall be introduced into the legis lature. The present laws, however, are very strict and are carried out to the letter. The new amendment does not prohibit the holding of wet and dry election in communities, under the laws that are at present in force. The States that have voted dry during the year 1914 are Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Virginia. Finds Hidden Will. Hay ward, Cal.. Nov. 14.?In the ho) low centre of a wooden German toy known as a "magic ball," which had been given as a plaything to children, Charles Sodcrbcrg discovered the last will of the late William Vogt. The will bequeathed Void's snvinirs. &l.f>00. to i o ?? - "o */ T Sodcrberg. Soderbcrg and other friends had been puzzled by their inability to find a will. He observed several children playing with a "magic ball" he had given Vogt several years aero. Tt bad been found in Vogt's room after his death. Soderberg, knowing the secret of the hidden inner chamber, opened the ball and found the missing will. KSKStO&O&t&ai JCED I , prices on alll my Fall V nd also on my Dress V v selling: 50c Dress w" peoi our line. I am X as ed. X J. Sparks * oboooooA ' FLOYDS TOWNSHIP ELECTION ROAD BONDS. Public notice is hereby given that a i petition certified by the County Auditor to contain the signatures of one-third of the freeholders of Floyds Township asking for an election upon the question of issuing Road and' Bridge Bonds in said Township to the amount of $25,000, at an interest rate of 0 per cent to run for 20 years, has been filed with the County Board of ^ Commissioners in due form and manner. n? 1 - ' ' X..CII. vivctiun nas Deen ordered to be held at the several precincts provided by law in said Floyds Township, on the '24th day of November, 1914, for the purpose of deciding whether said bonds shall be issued and for the election of two Road Commissioners for Floyds Township, to ad' minister the said bond issue and its vproceeds. That A. McG. Small, M. J. Bullock, and W. M. Grantham have been appointed Registrars of Electors for this election who shall make a certified list of all persons residing within the Township registered to vote at each precinct ami furnish the several Boards of Managers of soid electian ^ each with such list, retaining a copy of said list which will be filed with the County Board ten days before the elec tion. That the following Boards of Managers for the several precincts shall conduct the said election, at Spring Branch, R. M. Bullock, J. J. Enzor, and a. Williamson; at Floyds, C. F. a Dubois, W. J. Anderson, H. M. Elliott; at Vardelle, S. E. Williamson, W. F. Floyd and J. E. Harrelson; at Taylors ville, P. 11. Ger'rald, S. B. Gerrald and' B. F. Harrelson. The proceedings and conduct of this election shall be held under the terms and provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, entitled "An Act to provide for the f Election of Township Road Commis- V sioners in Horry County and to provide for the levy of a Special Tax in said Townships or for issuing Bonds by Townships for Road Purposes,"" approved the 25th day of Februar, 1914. A. C. Murrell, Supervisor, W. C. Hooks, ^ D. V. Richardscon, Commissioners. J. 0. Norton, Clerk. Commissioners Office, October 8, 1914 NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE The undersigned Zebedec Williamson, Guardian of William Bright Wil- ^ liamson, will apply to the Judge of Probate of Horry County, at his office at Conway, S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m., on the 19th day of November A. D. 1914, for a final discharge as such guardian. Zebedee Williamson, Guardian of William Bright Williamson, dec.d' i td ?pd. Sues Hospital for $15,000. Mrs. Clara N. Hasselbach last weekstarted a supreme court action in New York for the recovery of $15,000 damapes against the Mount Sinai Hospital. She alleges the hospital authorities permitted an autopsy to be performed upon the body of Robert Hasselbauch, her husband, without her permission, Pastor to Pfeach in Jail. Cadillac, Mich. ,Nov. 14.?That he is . going to stick to the ministry and 'vr expects to convert all the prisoners in ' the Wexford County jail, is the course j announced by Rev. William E. Gordon 1 who is serving a sentence for jumping a board bill. Gordon admitted stealing an overcoat from another minister. /-4T West Flanders Cut Off. German engineers last week dyna- i mited bridges across the Leopold canal at Dalgerhoeke, Stroopbridire. St. Laurent, St. Jean and Watervliot all places in the northwestern part of east Flanders near the Dutch frontier. , The Germans also throw a number of large trees across the roads leading* \ to the. Holland frontier. In this way the flight of peasants, which recommenced on November 8, is made impossible and the province of west Flanders is entirely cut off from the world. The Best Hot Weather Tonic I OROVB'8TASTKLKSSchiil TONIC enriches the I blood, builds V the whole A9a*em nnd will won- jl de;lullv stren^vhen and fortifj you to WitbfUoJ I the depressing effect of khe hot butuu?r. SOc. ^ !