he Monroe journals PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL.21. No. 95. BiONROE, N. O, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1916. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. v PRESIDENT WILSOX HURRIED BACK TO WASHINGTON. SrriotutntM of the International Sit uation U Oppressive Will !. Undone No Effort to M Full Facts or the Persia fane Austrian Mtn. iKter Aks That Judgment Be With, held. Washington Dispatch, Jan. S. President Wilson started to Wash ington from Hot Springs. Va., tonight to take personal charge of the Na tion's foreign affairs in the new crisis brought about by the sinking of the British steamship Persia with a loss of at least one American life. The situation is regarded In official cir cles as being the most serious to confront this Government since the submarine operations of the Central Powers began. The President will probobljr lay the facts thus far established before his Cabinet tomorrow. The destruc tion of the Persia, following closely upon Hje crisis precipitated by the Ancona disaster may .result in the United States determining to settle immediately all the questions involv ed In the submarine warfare. The subject is expected to find its way to the floor of the House and Sen ate tomorrow when Congress recon venes after the holidays. President Wilson decided to cut short his honeymoon and return to the Capital at once after telephone conferences with Secretary Lansing and Mr. Tumulty, his private secre tary. The United States is represented tonight as being prepared and deter mined to take any action that the facts concerning the Persia, yet to be established, may warrant. Officials still are trying to view the situation with an open mind, but it is apparent - that they are disturbed by the re ports received from Consular agents at Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt. Every effort will be made to estab lish the truth of the report that the Persia was torpedoed without warn ing. Secretary Lansing contemplates taking no step until the complete de tails are known. Officials find one source of grati fication in assurances given by Baron Enrich Swledlnek. Charge of the Aus-tro-Hungarian Embassy, to Secretary Lansing, during a conference today at the State Department. Baron Swledlnek Is said to have suggested that Judgment be withheld until the facts are known, and to have ex pressed the belief that the final ex planation of the latest incident would be satisfactory. H Is said to hove assured the Secretary of his belief that If an Austrian submarine com mander violated the principles of in ternational law and the rules of hu manity , his Government would be quick to take action which would fully satisfy the 1'nlted States. Ba ron Swledlnek also sought Informa tion for the benefit of his govern ment. Secretary Lansing today Instructed Ambassad.sor Pentleld at Vienna to make Informal Inquiries which might lead to the establishment of the identity of the submarine which sank the Persia or the receipt of Informa tion concerning the circumstances of the attack. The report that the liner was car rying a 4.7 gun served to revive con sideration of the position taken by the United States In regard to armed merchantmen. In the early days of the war it was announced that mer chant ships belonging to belligerents might be allowed to enter and leave American waters with guns of six inch' caliber or less, mounted upon their sterns. At that time cruisers of the Central Towers had not been . swept from the seas. Later Great 'Britain and France at the suggestion of the United States, agreed that their ships coming into American wa ters should not be armed, thus elim inating the possibility of a contro versy over that point so far as ves sels plying out of ports of the United States were concerned. , Since then all war crafts of the Teutonic Allies, with the exception of submarines, have disappeared from the high seas. Consequently, It Is considered in some quarters that merchantmen mounting guns even of small caliber and astern, might be considered prepared for resisting a hostile submarine. Secretary Lansing and other offi cials have considered this view with great carefulness. The Secretary said today he was not prepared to an nounce the attitude of the United States on this point in the future. It Is understood that he was awaiting an opportunity to discuss the matter and Its various ramifications with Presldeut Wilson During a later discussion of the subject Secretary Lansing revealed that Germany had abandoned Its contention that the Lusltanla was an armed merchantman. This claim was originally made in Justification of the sinking of that ship and affidavits were presented to substantiate it. The affidavits were proved to be false, however, and Mr. Lansing In dicated that Germany had dropped the contention some time ago. The Japanese Ambassador, Vis count Chtnda, also railed on the Sec 1 retary. His purpose was to obtain any details which might have been received regarding the sinking of the Japanese liner Yasaka Maru. The Secretary had no new reports of tin-' portance. He Indicated later that no ! action would be taken by the United States In that case, at least at this time. But one person aboard the Yasaka Maru was supposed to be an American citizen. He was W. J. Leigh. A dispatch received today from Consul Garrels at Alexander Informed the State Department that Leigh, who was born In China of American parents, never had elected to claim Americas cltltenshlp. His status may be the subject of further report, however, as It is pointed out that the United States maintains ex tra territorial Jurisdiction In China and If Leigh was born of American rnrents within the Jurisdiction of any lerican Consul In China he could Ld considered an American cititen unless he elected to become a sub ject to some other Nation. Anxiety in official circles increased tonight when it was learned that press dispatches reported the sinking of another British liner, the Peninsu lar Oriental steamer Geelong. No word of the latest disaster had reach ed the State Department. Official reports will await tomorrow with grave interest. APPROPRIATE TO NEW YEA It Wingate l'orreondent Make Some Observations Many Items of IVr Nonal Interest. Correspondence of The Journal. Wingate, Jan. 3. This is Monday morning, Jan. 3. 19 16 beautiful spring-like morning. The blue birds In the orchard are calling to each other and seem to be planning and conversing about building for the summer's brood. The bell over at the academy is calling "to books," the air resounds with the happy childish voices as they skip along In answer to its familiar rail. Even- thing seems lovely and lively as weflertalned to the very last that Mr. start out on the New tear. May such conditions continue to the end. Mr. Jesse Williams of Waxhaw, rpent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in Wingate. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Brewer and Mrs. Jonah Hartsell were most pleas ant guests In the home of O. P. T. and the Madam Sunday eafternoon. All the public school teachers whose homes are In Wingate, have returned to their posts to resume their work for the remainder of the school seasons. How much these' young teachers need the sumpathy and co-operation of their patrons! Mr. and Mrs. Cutchins, an account of whose wedding appeared recently in The Monroe Journal, have gone to Baden In Stanly county, where Mr. Cutchins will work as civil engineer for the American Allumlnuin Com pany. Mr. Jesse Lowery of the White Store community, spent several days last week with relatlves'ln Wingate. Lawyer 1). M. Johnson, formerly Prof. Johnson, was among the dis tinguished out-of-town guests Satur day night and Sunday. Sick list report: Master Seerest Hefner, Improving; Mrs. N. W. Blv ens, still right sick; Mrs. E. W. Grif fin, improving slowly; Dr. Jerome, about recovered; O. I'. T., feeling right good only short on air most of the time. Mesdanies E. H. Williams. John Watson, Lem Watson. Miss Hope Watson and little Miss .Mildred Perry were welcome visitors in our home Friday afternoon. Mr. Cull Griffin has moved his family back to their former home in Wingate. Their many friends extend to these good people a most cordial welcome to their old home. Mr. Rufe Hunnicutt has moved his family from Mr. Cull Griffin's house Into the residence of Mrs. Addie Jop lln, whose home is at Red Springs. Messrs. Hubert Sullivan and Hor ace Williams mude a head-on colli sion in a game of basket ball here Thursday evening, resulting In a bad ly bruised and broken nose for Mr. Sullivan and a pretty considerable Jolt for Mr. Williams. Dr. Jerome gave the necessary treatment to the olfactory member and the patient is doing nicely. Miss Dorothy Lowney, after spend ing several days In Wingate, return ed Thursday to Rock Hill to resume her studies in the Winthrop College. Miss Lowney was accompanied on her return by hf.r mother, whose home Is In New York, I believe. Mrs. Lowney will probably spend the winter in our warm and genial Southland. A happy and prosperous New Y'ear to all. Let us endeavor to make this. A. D. 1916, the banner year In our history. With new and better oppor tunities and superior advantages that come within our reach, we cannot af ford to fall short In our duties and obligations and thus prove our un worthlness for the rich blessings that we enjoy. Yes, the New Y'ear has arrived with all its duties, opportunities, ad vantages. Its new discoveries and in ventions to help fallen humanity to hlgeher levels, to greater love, to more light, better conceptions of the great Ruler of all things, nobler and loftier ideals. What shall we do about it? What am I going to do? What are you? What shall we all do with these glori ous opportunities to make the world a better place to live In and life the more worth living? It is up to us to answer. God has placed the mat ter Into our hands. The same signal that announced the birth of the new year, proclaimed the death of the old. Fare well old year! You are dead and He beside your predecessors in time's grave yard. In the folds of your shroud is written the history of a world a mo mentous history, whose saddest pages have been written in the blood of the best of humanity and in the yore of innocent men, women snd children. What an indictment! Let us hide our faces In shame and cease our boasting, repent of our mistakes and misdoings and pray and hope that little things may be written of the new year at Its demise. O. P. TIM 1ST. In all polite circles It Is asrumed that a prise husband sews on his own buttons. What is your status? NEY McNEELEY DROWNED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. WENT IK)WN WHEN SHIP WAS TORPEDOED LAST THURSDAY Young American Consul on Way to Take His Position at Aden Wat the Only American lost and Hfs Death Renews the tirave Situation Between this Country and Austria Submarine Attacked English Ship Without Warning and She Sank in Five Minutes An Inter- October for Washington, where he national Sensation. '"t for a month's special study in the State Department preparatory to Mr. Ney McNeeley of Monroe was taking up his duties at Aden, where drowned in the Mediterranean Sea he had previously been appointed last Thursday afternoon. He was on consul. His appointment was the re board an English ship, the Persia, suit of a very difficult competitive which was struck at 1:11) and sank examination which he took last spring in five minutes. The, ship had sailed and which placed him on the waiting from London for Bombay and had list for active service. He sailed touched at various ports, taking on ' from New York to London on No and putting off passengers. It wssvember 27th, and spent considerable figured that there were 161 passen- time In London before embarking gers aboard when she went down, : for his post. At the time he sailed beside the crew. The press din- there was an unusual activity of patches telling of the event began to ' submarines in the Mediterranean sea. come to this country Saturday morn : and the American consul at London Ing. and the news reached Monroe advised him to take another route. about eleven oc'clock. Hope was en-, McNeeley might have been among the ! saved, but there seems now to be no 1 tested sea, and whenever his friends reason whatever for any hope. The , spoke of the matter he always Jested last dispatches say that Mr. McNeeley about It. was seen struggling In the water Various dispatches In this paper about the time the ship went down, tell all that is known so far about As four boats got away from the the matter. The fact that Mr. Mc ship and two were carried down with j Neeley is the second American consul her, it must be that Mr. McNeeley' to lose his life in this way has given had been taken aboard one of the' the case an unusual sensation. His latter two, and seeing that they were : name has appeared in the last few J being taken down, Jumpd 1'ito lha.days In probably every large daily Bea. Mr. McXeeley's mother, Mrs. W. R. McNeeley of Jacksou t iwnslJp, has not been Informed of his loss. She has been sick for a long time and Saturday's Dispatch. ; opinion and determining upon any Washington Dispatch. Jan. 2. j "officials expressed themselves as Advices to the State Department not being convinced that a submarine today from American Consul Garrels ; sank the Persia. They were Impress at Alexandria. Egypt, indicate that ed by the statement in the dispatch ltohert N. McNeeley, American Con- J from Alexandria that the wake of sul at Aden, Arabia, who was on the, the torpedo had been seen, though steamer Persia when she was sunk no submarine was visible. Navy of In the Mediterranean, was lost. He 'fleers who were consulted said they was last seen In the water after the' won! ' consider It out of the ordinary Persia sank. Consul Garrels reports ' although not Impossible that a tor that Charles H. Grant of BoBton. pedo. fired by a submarine, should another American aboard the Persia, leave a visible wake. was saved. No submarine was seen - by survivors, according to Garrels' Persia Was Torpedoed Without report but an officer of the Persia Wa-iihig saw the wake of the torpedo which London Dispatch, Jan. 2. struck the ship. She sank In five I nofficial dispatches from Cairo, minutes. Anxiety over the news of the sink- ing of the Persia Increased In of fl-; cial circles when a consular dispatch brought the information that the ship bad been torpedoed without warning, At the same time officials were much gratified at the indication, emanating from Baron Erich Swledinek, charge of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy here, that the Vienna government i H. Grant, of Boston, w as saved, would be quick to "satisfactorily ad- i Details of the sinking of the Per Just" the matter should it develop sla came In slowly today, but such lhat an Austrian submarine com-' Information as was received made It mander had disobeyed instructions In regard to torpedoing passenger car- rying ships without warning. "Judgment should be withheld pending the receipt of the real facts surrounding the sinking of the steamer Persia." said Baron Zwiedl- nek. "It mav have happened in many ways. In the first place, it is not yet proved that a submarine sank the Persia. If It was an Austrian subma- rlne, It must bo determined whether the circumstances were such as to warrant the action taken. "I am confident, nt least hone, that the final explanation will be quite satisfactory. If the cammand-1 cr of the submarine disobeyed instrqc- lions I feel sure my government will Kcuters correspondent at lalro. sue not hesitate to satisfactorily adjust had disappeared completely by 1.15. the matter. "Survivors say It was little short "From the answer made to the last . of a miracle that anyone was saved, note on the Arconn alone, It Is quite There was no panic. Four boats evident that the Austro-Hungarian . were launched w ith utmost prompt! government will not countenance any; tilde. act which is wrong." j "The captain was drowned. When Complete confidence prevails in hist seen ho was swimming, after the Teutonic diplomatic circles that If an liner bad plunged beneath the sur Austrlan submarine sank the Persia ! face." without warning, the act would be I Both the Peninsular and Oriental disavowed, prompt reparation made company and Reuter's Cairo corres for Americans lost and the subma- 1 pondent say that Mr. Grant has been rlne commander severely punished. ', landed at Alexandria. The steam It Is understood that Baton Swled- ship company this afternoon had re Inek will call upon Secretary Lansing celved nc news of Mr. McNeeley's tomorrow for the purpose of Inform- i fate. ally conveying his views on the sub-1 Edward Rose, of Denver, left the Jert and endeavoring to gain an un- j Persia at Gilbraltar. as was reported derstanding of the views of the . yesterday. United States for the information of his government. ( Eleven More Survivor I.aiilc0. Only one dispatch concerning the - London Dispatch, Jan. 3. sinking of the Persia was received I The Peninsular i Oriental Steam today by the State Department, it ! ship Company has recdved a dispatch came from Consul Garrels at Alexan- i from Malta saying that 11 more sur- drla. Egypt, and Indicated that Con- sul McNeeley. on his wav to his post, had been lost. He was last seen in the water before the steamship went' down. Consul Garrels reported also that Charles H. Grant, of Boston, another American who was aboard the Persia, was among the survivors. No submarine was seen by the sur vivors, according to the consul's re port but an officer of the ship said he saw the wake of the torpedo. The Persia went down In five minutes. The dispatch was f or wa reded to Pres- ident Wilson st Hot Springs. . While Secretary Lansing tonight declined to comment upon the situs- tlon confronting the United States, It became known that he and other ad- ministration officials were awaiting recently grew so ninth v.ors- that most of the member ol h-r fan.ilv had come in home to t-ee he.. It was thought wise to u I1I1.1M the aho klng news from h.i jr. iowa .vic.-seeiey. lortner enor of the Waxhaw Enterprise, was re ported to have sailed with his broth er as private secretary, ami for awhile the papers said that he too had been lost. This was a mistake. Mr. Dowd McNeeley is in Florida. Mr. McNeeley left Monroe in but he had already engaged passage ion the Persia Mr. McNeeley had no fear of the dangers of the war in paper in me worm, i ne .-Norm taro- llna newspapers, to whom he was ; known, have been very warm and ' generous and sympathetic In theli 'comments. stale that the British steamship Per- sla, sunk In the Mediterranean on Thursday, was torpedoed without warning and sank In five minutes. Hetween 10 and 160 survivors have been landed nt Alexandria. Egypt. lleuter's Cairo corespondent makes the unreserved statement lhat Robert N. .McNeeley, American consul at Ayden, Arabia, lost his lite. Charles appear that the number of persons . who escaped in the lour boats which were put off was larger than was hoped when the first news was re- celved yesterday. The Peninsular and Orlential company, which owned the Persian announced this morning thai 158 survivors had arrived at Alexandria. A Lloyd's dispatch gives .the numher as ibi, matte up or b!i pasengers of w hom 17 are women. and 4 members of the crew incltid- ing a!) Lascars. The survivors Include 10 military officers and eight persons who are . not British subject. "The ship was struck amidships on the port side at 1.10 p. m., says vlvors of the steamship Persia have been landed Including Lord Mon- tague. Hohert N. McNeely. the American Consul at Aden, was not among the survivors landed at Malta. The Peninsula & Oriental Co. says the survivors consist of three Eng llsh. one Italian and seven Lascars. ft. G. Ferguson, a young white man, Is In jair in Charlotte charged with forgery and false pretenses. He has been hanging around Charlotte pool rooms for some time and It Is presumed that he lost his money and tesorted to forgery as a means of ! rehabilitating his finances. The for gery was practiced on the Selwyi , hotel, at which Ferguson was stop- A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION. Pet pie of Carinel Started Off With Example A MimIcI for Neighitor- IkmwI t o-otcrut ion. As previously announced, the peo ple of Cannti community met at the sc!i.ol house on New Year's Dav and organized a 'Community League wiili the following com mil lees: I. Committee on Education, Mr. R. I.. Helms and Misses Mamye Helms and Louise Blakency. Objects: 1. Increasing efficiency of school: teaching, studies, attendance, etc. 2. Improving school grounds, build ings, equipment and library. 3. Extension work: corn, pig, and canning clubs; travelling libraries; increasing book and newspaper read ing among the people; teaching adult illiterates to read; making school community center, etc. II. Committee on Farm Progress, Messrs. P. B. Blakeney, A. B. Shaw and C. J. Helms. Objects: 1. Better farm methods, aiming es pecially at rich lands and crop diver sification so as to make a self-feeding community with "money crops" as surplus crops. 2. Increasing Interest in livestock. dairying, poultry raising, canning and home Industries. 3. Getting better tools and ma chinery and better breeding sires, with co-operation to effect , this re sult. III. Committee on Co-operative Marketing, Messrs. S. W. Helms, R. K. Helms and J. W. Helms. Objects: 1. To secure standardization of sales products, scientific grading, warehousing and pooling. 2. To promote economical buying on cash basis and encourage thrift, credit unions, land and loan associa tions, etc., as aids to this end. 3. To encourage good roads as aids to economical marketing. IV . Committee on Health, Mes danies S. S. Richardson, R. L. Helms and T. J. W. Broom. Objects: 1. To study local conditions and promote community and home sani tation. 2. To teach individuals, adults and children methods of disease preven tion. 3. To combat agencies of fraud and superstition In treatment of disease. V. Committee on Organization and Social Life: Mesdanies P. II. Blake ney, C. J. Helms and Miss Elmina Helms. Objects: 1. To promote and assist the local farmers' organizations, farm women's. i iun, lit ii n ill t u v nulla, yuuiiK ini 1 1- n debating clubs and community fair. 2; To encourage lectures, debates, musicals, entertainments, local plays, picnics, celebrations, etc. 3. To promote wholesome sports, and recreation, outdoor and Indoor games, and a community playground. The next meeting will be held with the school on the afternoon of Fri day. Jan. 14, when reports and sug gestions of committees will be beard. Meeting with the school once or twice a month will be a feature until the end of the term. Nine Killed In Georgia Race War. Blakeley, (Ga.. Dispatch, Dec. 31. Two more negroes were killed and four negro lodge buildings burned today, In the western section of Early county in a renewal of clashes be tween whites and negroes, according to reports reaching here tonight. Re ports that negroes were threatening the lives of white farmers caused numbers of armed men to leave here for the scene and reports from the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee river, the dividing line between Ala bama and Georgia, said many white men had crossed I he river from Ala bama. Seven negroes were reported killed yesterday by white posses which sought Grandison Goolsby and his sons, Mike and Ulyssee, charged with killing Henry J. Vllliplgue, a white overseer. Today mobs scoured the river country on hearing a report that Goolsby 's sons had not been burned to death in a negro cabin as reported but had escaped. Iteports that members of these mobs found on the person of a negro killed yesterday, a lodge book show ing that a negro organization had delegated Goolsby and his sons to kill Vllliplgue because he thrashed one of the younger Goolshys, were said to have caused the burning of the negro lodges. The elder Goolsby was known as one of the leading spirits in negro Mason and negro Odd Fellows' lodges in this section of the country and also to be a mem ber of other negro lodges. Tonight a negro lodge building near the Alabama line was reported destroyed by fire. Early today a negro Masonic lodge building and a negro Odd Fellows' lodge building had been burned, and later in (he day a lodge building known as the Ne gro Supreme Circle lodge building was burned. Ed Law. a negro accused of aiding the younger Gooldsbys to escape, was said to have been killed later today with his son, known as "Precious" Law. The Goolshys, It was claimed were aided by these negroes reach a train to Montgomery, Ala. In retaliation negroes were said to have surrounded Ihe home of H. H. Grlmsley. a white farmer, threaten ing to kill him and his wife and chil dren. The negro mob dispersed, however, before Sheriff Howell, of Early county and a number of depu ties reached there. Jeff McCarn, former United States District Attorney for the Hiwaian territory, arrived In San Francisco yesterday with the announcement of his resignation, declaring that he gave up the position "because he could not be both honest and happy" In it. fat If . fir I 0' ROBERT NEY McNEELEY Born in Jackson township. Union county. November 12. 1S83. Drowned in the Mediterranean Sea at 1:15 p. m.. December 30, 1915, while on his way to Aden, to become American Consul at that place. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McNeeley, who, with sev eral brothers and one sister, survive him. One of the most popu.tr young men ever known in thin section. Self made. Began in the county schools, taught school, became a rural mail carrier, entered Stale University and took degree of LLB. Won Shepard Bryan prize for best thesis In law. Began prartlce in Monroe in 1907. Served in House of Representatives 1909; State Senate 1915. Appointed Consul to Aden 1915. Member of Monroe Presbyterian church. Xo Hoe Now, Washington Dispatch, Jan. 3. Every bit of information so far re ceived by the state department points to confirm the first reports received that Robert Ney McNeeley, of Mon roe, American consul at Aden, Arab la, lost his life when the British liner went to the bottom of the sea some time Thursday afternoon after be ing torpedoed by a submarine, pre sumably of Austrian or German na tionality. Senator Overman was an early cal ler at the state department today. He conferred at length with Secre tary of State Lansing and other of ficials, but was unab'e to get any assurances that young McNeeley bad been paved. On the other had the information so far received Indicates strongly that the young Union county lawyer had lost his life. Cables from Consul General Skin ner, at London, and the consul agent at Alexandria, Egypt, stated that while they had no affidavits from pas sengers, they had statements from several of those saved who said they saw McNeeley st rustling In the wa ter soon after (he Peivia went down. Unless Austria hastens to disavow the uct of the submarine commander and make reparation, there is nn doubting the fact that Congress will lake drastic action to end the sub marine warfare, even to the extent of placing an embargo on arms to the allies and breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany and Austria. Murder and Suicide. In Wilson county last week Fay ette Lnngley, a farmer, was shot from ambush and killed when he wont to his barn In the early morning to feed his stock. Bill Gay, who bad been employed by .Lnngley and dis charged, had threatened Langley amd his wife and had previously attempt ed to shoot Langley. When Mrs. Langley heard the hnt she suspect ed that her husband had been firei on and she left tho house In search of help. It developed that Gay wtfT the assassin and after shooting Lang ley he went to the house and made search for Mr. Langley. He offered no harm lo th? children, who had been left alone wli'lo their mother went for help. Search was mado for Gny for sev eral days and he was finally traced lo the Langley house, the Langley family being away. A posse sur rounded the house and Gay shot him sel. dead, blowing off the (op of hi head with the load from a shot gun. It is believed his second visit to the Langley home was to search for Mrs. langley and lo kill hr if he found her. The man was a desperate char acter and believed (o be mentally un sound. Itenton-Sitstare. Correspondence of The Journal. Matthews. Dec. 30. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Sustare near Matthers. a beautiful marriage wan solemnized on Wednesday, Dec. 29th. when their daughter, Minnie, became the bride of Mr. Oscar Benton. The house was prettily decorated with potted plants. The only at tendants were Miss Jessie Hooks and Mr. Lulher Williams, the marriage being a very quiet acalr witnessed only by the Intlmediate families or the contracting parties. Rev. E. C. Snider performed tho ceremony in his usual Impresslver manner. Immediately after the reremony Mr. and Mrs. Benton left for the home of the groom's parents, and from there on a trip In the east ern part of the State. The bride, who was lovely In n suit of blue broadcloth with acces sories to match. Is a young lady of charming personality, and number her friends by the score. Mr. Benton is a prosperous young farmer, and man of sterling worth. He haa any number of friends who will congratu late him on his good fortune. full Information before forming an 1 ping. i

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