The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-06
Order of Publication

-TNT-o. $40 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Cours for Carroll County
Sitting rs Il court OF Equ4ty.
Alice Frances Payne, Plaintiff, VS. Will
lard Ernest Payne Defendant.
The object of this suit dis to pfoenfe a.
decree OF divorce II vincul0 matriIaonif by
Alice Frances Payne, plaintin, from Wiz
lard e. Payne, defendant, the bill states
that the plaintiff and defendant were mar
ried February A. 1905 at Westminster
MARYLAND, by ReFerened r. G.. Walker, pas
tor OF the Union Street Methodist Episco-
pal ChuFch,s te0tnEed1 Of Westminster, Carr
roll county, AId II that said plaintiff and
defendant resided8f QT q pefiod ofNthree or
foura years III the NCsty OF WestnansteJ
where they kept house; that SUBSEQUENTLY
the plaintiff, on or about the year 1910,
stored their furniture ian Westminster, Md.
and the plaintiff and, defendant went to
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, thence to
lIagerstown, Md, thence 10 fniladelphia
Pa, thence to Atlanticr City New jersey
which latter city prior to tho 10th day or
of August, 1916 tie defendant committed
the crime of adultery of divers women
whose, names to the plaintiff are unknown;
that upon the discovery of said adultrous
conduct on the part of the defendant the
plaintiff left and abandoned the defendant
and has not resided with him since hut
has maintained and provided for herself by
her own employment that the said plaintiff
has been employed in households and in
factories i'll the State of New York and in
y
that all the while the plaintiff had owned
all the furniture and household belongings
That were a part of the household eauip-
ments of the plaintiff and defendant in this
cause which the plaintiff stored i'll the
City of Westminster. Md, in the summer
OF the year 1910 and in which said City
stored her household furniture and has
maintained and claimed the City of eWest-'
minister, Carroll county, Md, as her home
and so now maintains said City of Vest
a~fn re h.Rrsl bow 80 Il
that the conduct of said plaintiff toward
her husband has always been above re-
proach and the separation between them
is beyond any expectation of reconciliation
and has continued for more than period
of three years; that the defendant has no
property nor any means whatsoever and
/ has not supported the plaintiff in this cause
since the year 1916; that no children were
born of said union of the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT in this cause; that the defendant
Willard e. Payne, is a nonresident of the
Safe of Maryland and when last heard Of
was resident of Atlantic City in the
State of New Jersey; and the bill prays
for q divorce a yinculo matrimonif and for
such and other further relief as the case
may require.
1t is thereupon this 29th day of July,
i'm the year nineteen hundred and twenty,
by the Circuit Court for Carroll County,
sitting as a Court of Equity, ordered that
the Plaintiff by causing copy Of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper
published in Carroll County for four sue
cessive weeks before the 30th day of Au-
gust 1920, give notice to William Il. Payne,
non resident defendant of the object and
substance of this Bill warning him to ap-
pear in this Court in person or by Solicit
tor on before the 10Th day of September.
next to show cause, if any he has, why a
decree ought not to be passed as prayed
EDWARD o. CASH, Clerk
= EDWARD o. CASH, Clerk
Charles o. Clemson, Solicitor,
Westminster, Md.
july 3o-5t