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VOL. XXXVII
ASHEBORO; N. C, MAY 23, 1912
No. 19
TIE
MRS.- W. GOULD BROKAW
"FILES
"We clip the following from a
recent isaue of the New York World
relating- to the divorce ault Instituted!
against Mr. Brokaw by his wife.
It will be remembered that Mrs.
Brokaw bad a suit for alimony 18
months ago- and that Ex-Sheriff
Finch, of Randolph, and Col. A- H.
Boydan, of Salisbury, attended the
trial In New York and were' import
ant witnesses.
Mi. Brokaw's estate in Trinity
township is estimated -to be worth
one and a half millions. He has
recently purchased valuable property
In Mecklenburg county, on which la
located the celebrated Mida Mineral
Springs.
Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw, the
ybung wife of W. Gould Brokaw,
who 18 months ago, after a sensa
tional trial at Mineola, L. I-, pro
cured a permanent separation and
an allowance of 115,000 a year front
him, has now filed suit for an ab
solute divorce.
The divorce trial, it is expected,
will be held in Nassau couftty.whlch
Is given as the residence of both
Brokaw and his wife, although since
,her separation Ms. Bokaw has
nnonf most of her time at the
home of Tier father, James A. Blair,
at Chlttenango, N. Y.
The complaint was not made
public.
While the process servers were
lurking about the home of Brokaw's
sister young Mrs- Brokaw was stay
ing quietly at the Garden City
Hotel and was getting reports of
the progress of the men there.
She came down from her father's
home about a week ago and regis
tered at the hotel. She planned
her divorce action so quietly that
not even her father knew what she
Intended doing.
"It's all news-to me," Mr. Blair
said over the long-distance telephone
last nignt. wneu maij iciu
some days ago I was under the im
pression that she was going to
New York to testify in some trades
man's suit brought against Brokaw.
He has had several of these suits
since he and my daughter separated.
She Didn't Tell Father
"She was at the Garden City
Hotel until this morning. I don't
know where she went from there.
We don't expect her back here for
a few days."
Mr. Blair was asked If Mrs. Bro
kaw had ever talked with him or
bther members pi his household re
garding 'a divorce from Brokaw.
"No; I can't say she has," he
answered. "She may have planned
to take this step, though, and kept
U secret from- me because of the
worry it would give me."
Every effort was made by Mrs
Brokaw's lawyers to keep secret the
divorce action. Brokaw it is said,
expects to sail for Europe in the
near future to be gone all summer,
and the lawyers were anxious to
serve him with the papers before
he left the country Although the
divorce: proceedings may cause him
to, change his plans, it was believed
by friends of his and Mrs. Brokaw
that he would probably sail at once.
Mrs. Brokaw yesterday morning
got word at the Garden City Hotel
that Brokaw had been Berved. She
packed up immediately and is be
lieved to have Journeyed to Man
hattan. ...
Mrs. Brokaw's suit for separation
In Mineola was one of the most senr
satlonal of the kind ever heard here
about. The trial began in Decern
ber,1910, before Justice Harrington
Putnam and lasted throughout an
entire special term ' of the su
preme court.
Won Sympathy at Trial
Mrs. Brokaw was subjected to a
gruelling at the hands of John F.
Mclntyre, of counsel for Broka
but throughout the long ordeal her
demeanor won the sympathy of the
court and the scores of society peo
ple who gathered atl the trial from
the Long Island colonies.
It was shown iat the trial that
at one time while at their estate
In North Carolina Mrs. Brokaw was
so abused, or thought that she
was, that she attempted suicide.
She only succeeded in making her
self very slcft. .
For several months prior to the
separation Mrs. Brokaw occupied
tone of the houses on the country
estate of Mrs. Emily Ladenburg
. near Westbury. Members of the
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Blair family were there with her
and every morning they drove to
court. 'Shortly after the trial be-
gan there was a ' heavy snow and
for three days Mrs- Brokaw and her
relatives drove to court in a big
farm sleigh. ,
On the stand Brokaw did not
fare as well as his wife. Many days
he was on the stand under cross
examination by Arthur Baldwin, Mrs
Brokaw's lawyer. Brokaw when
asked concerning his fortune said
that his entire estate was worth
$1,633,939, but that his annual
income was only $46,706,75.
This is the second time the mil
lionaire and clubman has figured
In divorce proceedings. The first
Mrs. Brokaw was Miss Leonce Cou
dert, a nelce of Frederic R.. Cou
dert, the famous New York lawyer.
Following her div'orce.which she ob
tained in Rhode Island, she went
to Back Rock, Conn., to live with
her brother, Norman Coudert.
Sued for Breach of Promise ,
Brokaw then figured in a sen
sational breach of promise suit
brought by Katherine Foillon nine
years ago. She alleged that Bro
kaw had promised to marry her and
then cast her ofr. Cl.e cued
$25,000 damages and is said
have got about $30,000 before
case was finally settled.
Brokaw's engagement to
the
beautiful Mary Blair was announc
ed in the summer of . 1907. The
wedding took pace on September 6,
in the Blair home at Chlttenango
and was attended only by a few
intimate friends and relatives of
the families.
But quiet as this wedding was it
was not without incident. Brokaw
desired to be married by an Epis
copal clergyman and sent for the
Ilev. Dr. H. E. Coddington, rector of
the Grace Episcopal church of Sy
racuse, asking him to perform the
ceremony. Although ten years had
claprd since the first Mrs. Brokaw
had obtained her divorce, Dr. Cod-
dingtom refused to act and v the
Rev. George 'Spauding, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Syra
cuse tied the knot.
The troubes between Erokaw and
his girl wife dated from early in
their honeymoon. In fact there was
serious break between them five
months alter their marriage while
they were on Brokaw's North Car
olina estate. At that time Mrs. Bro
kaw's father said that the tr.oubles
between his daughter and son-in
law were due to Brokaw's intense
jealousy.
Mrs. Brokaw then came to New
York and for weeks was a patient in!
Dr. Cragin's sanitarium.
On several previous occasions af
ter a truce had been patched up and
husband and wife were brought to
gether ..the couple separated. Then
came the final .separation.
, Sunday School Convention
Back Creek Sunday School con
vention was held at Neighbor's
Grove last Sunday.'
The number of delegates in at
tendance was not so large as usual,
but we feel that the convention was
success. Some new schools have
been organized and seem to ' be
very much interested. At the
opening of the convention Rev.
Amos Gregson taught and explained
the lesson with much interest. We
were favored In - having with us
Mr. Elijah Moffitt, who spoke to as
on the subject of "An Ideal Sunday
School," or Christ as the Central
Figure " We also had -with us
Rev. J. A. McMillan, who gave quite
an impressive talk, his theme be
ing "The Teacher," pointing out
what a teacher ought to be, know
and do, leaving great emphasis on
the responsibility of the teacher.
The convention adjourned to meet
at Mountain View next year. We
hope to see the work more forward.
Corresondent. I
A Stay-a&home Man
Mr- Durant Ballance.a popular and
successful merchant of Old Trinity,
made a trip to High Point last
Monday for the first time in three
years. Mr. Ballance stays with his
business, and while his delivery wag-i
on goes to High Point nearly every
day, he says he had no business In
town and stayed In Trinity. " It is
suggested that he ought to have a
medal for biing the best " stay-at-
home' man in the county. '
Company K at Raleigh
The Asheboro boys representing
Company K in the recent " target
practice-sat Raleigh made a . most
creditable showing. This is one of
the newest companies organized in
the state; but, although theboys did
not excell, they showed such skill
and training as to indicate that
they will win the laurels in the near
future. (
Company K "belongs to the Third
Regiment. Mr. E. L. Auman has
resigned as captain, and is succeed
ed by Mr. J. H. Kivett. , Mr. Au
man is now First Lieutenant.
JUDGE WALTER CLARK
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The candidte for United States
Watson as "Irreproachable by the
enemies of the people" Mr. Watson also says that the trusts and
monopolies, rather than try to control Walter Clark, would prefer to
'contract to feed an unbridled rattlesnake from a short-handled tea
spoon." Judge Clark has no campaign manager for the state and
says he would not run a money eaxpaign if he could, but asks all
v.ho are interested In the things he stands fcr or who desire a copyi
of the Watson letter or other literature, to send their names by letter
or card to him in Raleigh.
Successful Seventh-Grade Students
The following students were suc
cessful in the seventh-grade examin-'
ation held the lasti of March for the
covnty diploma: -
Edith Macon,' Climax; Hattie R.
Cox, Moffitt; Lucy Lambert, Moffitt;
Florence York.Eugene Williams.Ulah
Williams, Randleman Route 2 ; C
L. Surratt and Frank Surratt, Ri-
leys Store; Grady Cranford, Bombay
Grace Brown, Sol;- Ross Cameron,
Cox; Alta Winslow, Progress; Tom
Elder, Trinity Route 1; Ornie Yow,
Bertha Yow, Myrtle Farlow, Junie L.
Parks, Erastus Stutts and C. L.
Scott, Seagrove; Olive, Johnson,
Trinity Route 1; Olive Marsh, So
phia; Cabel Phillips, Julian; Min
nie Whitaker, Julian; Walter Bean,
G. D. Monroe, Lloyd E. Cagle and
Furman Auman, Seagrove; Gertrude
Richardson and Vera Richardson,
Randleman Route 1; H. Lynn Cav
iness, Lee Craven and J. D. Lam
bert, Coleridge; Katie Cox, Ramseur
Route 1 Ora Loflin, Clyde Ridge
and John Ridge,' Edgar; Ernest Fer
guson and Carl Beeson, Randleman
Route 3; Mary Osborne, Edgar;
Lillie Farlow, Bulus Coltrane and
Ruth Coltrane, Sophia Route 1;
Blanche Farlow, Randleman Route
3 and Eva N- Cox, Ramseur Route 1
Eight have been conditioned and
if they make up their deficiencies
by the beginning of next school
year, will be given their diplomas.
The above list represents 60 per
cent of those who took the examin
ation. If the eight who are con
ditioned make good their deficien
cies the per cent will be 72. This
is Ta good per cent. Those who fail
ed were not ready for any of the
work of the eighth grade. A care
ful study, of the seventh grade for
another year would mean much to
them. To have passed any of
those who failed would have
been
aa hindrance rather than a help. I
shall be glad to give an examination
here at the close of the county in
stitute in August to those who wish
to make up their deficiencies.
The above students can enter
Richeson Pays Penality
C. V.T. Richeson,, the former Bap
tist minister of Cambridge, and .the
confessed murdere of Avis Linnell,
rdied in the electric chair of the
Massachusetts state prison last
Tuesday. - Richeson had suffered a
collapse last Friday when he learn
ed that Gov. Foss would not inter
fere, but) would allow the law to
take its coursee. He recovered how
ever and walked to the death cham
ber apparently calm and composed.
saying that he had made his peace
vith God and was willing to die.
The body was taken, to Virginia
and buried by' the side of his moth
er at Amherst Courthouse.
5wt !" '"
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Senate,' who is described by Cy
people and unapproachable by the'
Subs Paid
G. T. Waddell, Mrs- E. Clark, W.
f. .Barnes, Millis Brown, C. T.
Ycunts, H. M. Cranford, J. C- Pool,
E. F. Strider, W. D. Lewis, J. D.
B'lint, W. J. Delk, Louis Underwood,
- -T. Pierce, Mrs. D. A. Yates, W.
F. White, John Farlow, J. C. Davis,
Mtb. C. C. Muse, Hattie M. Smith,
Jftrt." Alice Stout, John' C. Steven
sen, W. H. Watson, J. W. Johnson,
W. F. Pierce, J. G- Allen, E. D.
Pierce.
After .a warm fight in the Ire
dell Democratic primaries, last Sat
urday, A. D. Watts defeated form
er Lieutenant Governor W. D.
Turner for the nomination for the
State Senate.
The national convention of the
Socialist party met in Indianapolis
last week and named Eugene V
Debs, of Terre Haute, Ind., for
president and Emil Seldel, of
Milwaukee, for president of
the I'd i ted States.
the high schools of the county with
out further examination and with
no cost for tuition. The county Is
divided into three districts for the
three high schools of the county.
That is, students of certain town
ships can go to one of the high
schools, and those of other town
ships may go to another school. I
trust all the students named ' above
will avail themselves of the oppor
tunity which they have and attend
one of these high schools thecoming
school year.
- New teachers are added to the
teaching force every year, and
those students who are just out of
the elementary schools are not pre
pared for the work of teaching.
These high schools are preparing the
teachers of the county. In the fu
ture, we must look to these schools
for our teachers.
It might be interesting to add
that among the boys H. Lynn Cavi-
Dfces made the highest average per
cent with Lee Craven a close sec
ond. Miss Bertha Yow made the
highest per cent of the girls.
S. T. Lasslter, Co . Supt.
CORRESPONDENT UW J
GIVES THF .wS OF WASHINGTON
By C. H. Tavenner, spV Wash
ington correspondent.
Washington, May 20. When
thieves fall, out just men get their
dues, and whan Republican presi
dents and former presidents fall
out the people learn how they have
been misgoverned.
Since President Taft and former
President Roosevelti entered upon
their wild scramble to obtain dele
gates to the next Repubican Con
vention, the people have come into
the possession of the following in
formation, which they never knew
before; except as it came to them
through unproven charge's or un
verified rumors:
Thati Mr. Taft, by his own ad
mission, has been "a man of
straw."
That Mr. Taft, in his advocacy
of Canadian reciprocity, was not
thinking, primariy, of any benefits
that would come to "the American
farmer and wage earner, but that
he believed reciprocity would make
Canada an "adjunct" to the United
States, which "would transfer her
important business to New York and
Chicago." By his own confession
the president was thinking of the
big business interests when he was
advocating reciprocity.
That George W. Perkins, organ
izer of the harvester trust, and
member of the board of directors of
the steel trust was "highly pleas-
ad" with the present administra-
tjon s methods of prosecuting the
trusts.
That there is a clpse political al
liance between Mr. Perkins and
Theodore Roosevelt, as evidenced by
I he fact that Perkins, in a swnrn
tatemntet to the Secretary of
State of New York,, admits he spent
? 15,000 to help Roosevelt in the
primary election in New York-City
this spring, thus revealing that, the
big interests would be perfectly
siusueu to nave enner Taft or
Roosevelt president.
That Mr! Taft.in the present cam
paign, and Mr. Roosevelt, in his
campaign of 1908, made free and
unrestricted use of federal office
holders to obtain the nomination.
That Mr. Roosevelt, while con
stantly writing messages and giving
out interviews, while he was presi
dent, all professing the deepest
hatred of trusts and illegal corpo
rations, secretly and clandestinely
suppressed a report showing that
the harvester trust was an illegal
comlination in restraint of trade,
and later ordered that a contem
plated suit against that trust be
dropped "until he gave the word to
start it" which word he never gave.
That Mr. Roosevelt's trip to Af
rica was paid for by Andrew Carne
gie, the greatest beneficiary of a
Republican ' high tariff that ever
lived.
That Mr. Roosevelt was so
frightened by the possibility of
tariff agitaticn during his more
than seven years of office that la
all his messages and official papers
he never made any mention of tariff
except to say, once, that, ho would
discuss it in a future message;
wnich statement he withdrew from
the message before it reached
Congress.
If the present scramble for del
egates continues a while longer It
may safey be said, therefore, that
both Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt.at
the present rate, will thoroughly
demonstrated that neither of them
Is fit to be president.
How He Lores The Fanners
In his travels about the country
Mr. Roosevelt never loses anoppor
tunity to tell the farmers of his
affectionate regard for them. Dur
ing his term in the White House a
Chicago newspaper artist drew a
picture of a farmer sitting before a
fireplace, with bis shoea off, read
ing one' of the Roosevelt messages.
The picture was entitled: "His
Favorite Author," and Mr. Roose
velt often said it was the beat pic
ture he ever saw.
The harvester trust, which an
nually takes millions of dollars from
the farmers, sells binders in Russia
and South America for $90-00 and
the farmers of United States are
charged $120.00 for the self same
binder. During the Roosevelt re
gime no effort was made to break
up this trust, which so rankly dis
criminates against and over charges
the A merican farmer, and Mr.
Roosevelt secretly suppressed, that
effort by ordering his attorney-general
not to start a contemplated suit
until he gave the word, which .
word he never gave. Mr. Roose
velt thus aided and abetted the one
trust which more than, all others
combined robs and plunders the
farmer of this country.
G. W. Perkins, organizer of this
hpivester trust, is now putting up
the money for Mr. Roosevelt's cam
paign. A High Salaried .Boot Black
When Congressman Hamlin, of
Missouri,, was Investigating the
Slate Department he made inquiries
about a certain colored man who
was down on the pay roll at $2,000
a year. He was told that this man
never came around the department,
except to draw his pay, for the
reason that he was" detailed at Mr.
Knox's private residence.
"Where is he now?" Mr. Hamlin,
asked.
"He is down at the Panama canal.
acting as valet to Secretary Knox
during the latter's tour of Central
America," was the reply.
"And does he have to shine the
secretary's shoes?" Mr. Hamlin ask
ed. .4
"Yes, I suppose that is part of
his duties," was the answer.
Fixing it So They Can't Lose
According to sworn statements
filed with the Secretary of State of
Pennsylvania it cost the Taft and
Roosevelt managers approximately
$2,000,000 to conduct the recent
primary campaign. In Allegheny
which Includes Pittsburgh, the fol
lowing were among the contributors
to the Taft fund: James Laughlin
and Henry Laughlin, of the Jones
Laughlin Steel Co., $5,000 each;
B. F. Jones, of the Jones Laughlin
Steel Co., $3,000; G. F. Oliver,
owner of newspapers, banks and
steel stocks, $7,000; W. F. Snider,
bwner of lake steamer lines which
supply the steel trust with ore, $1,
C00; J. H. Reed, chief counsel for
tne Carnegie Steel Co., $1,000; W.
L. King, director of the steel trust,
$1,000; W. F. McCook, steel trust
attorney, $1,000; W. H. Rowe, presi
dent of the Pittsburgh Steel Co.,
$1,000; A. W. Mellon, banker and
George Westinghouse, large user of
steel, $1,000.
Mr. Roosevelt's chief supporters
in the present campaign are G.
W. Perkins, director of the Steel
trust, and Frank A. Munsey, lar- "
gest individual owner of the trust's
common stock.
Nothing could be more apparent
than that the steel interests of this
nation would be perfectly satisfied
to have either Mr. Taft or Mr..
Roosevelt in the White House.
In Honor of Professor Bradshaw
Mr. and Mrs. William Ed
Kearce, of Farmer, entertained a
number of their friends at theirr
home Friday, evening. May 17th h
henor of Prof. Bradshaw. ; The
home was beautifully, decorated in
yellow and white. The guests were
received in the west parlor by their -
After playing several games the
hostess passed paper and pencils and'
had a contest, "In Grandmother's
Kitchen.- Miss Linnie Dorsett re
ceived a beautiful pioture as a re
ward for her efforts. '
The
hostess then oasad tw
names of the counties and county
seats to the"hoys and girls respect
ively and let them find their part
ners in this unique manner. After
finding their partners they were
ushered into the dining room where-"
dainty refreshments consisting of
fruits, salads, cream and candies,,
were served by Misses; Cammle
Nance and Katherine DorMtt t
the center of the table was a large
daisy which revealed the fortune of
each one present.
After hearing the fortunes read
the guests departed declaring Mrs.
Kearns the most charming hostess,
possible.
Flint Spring Items
Several of our people attended
memorial service at Union Grove
last Sunday, and report a nice
time. i , , ,
Miss Lulu Mofltt has gone to
High Point. ,
Strawberry picking Is all the go
in this community. " ' t