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Q.-Did he use the formal term of "my
lady, to her?
A.-Well, not always.
OIL think you were chiefly employed
in Denton Park, in Yorkshire, were you
not?
A.-Yes.
Q.-What did you notice?
A.-That he used to spend good deal
of time with her.
Q.-Where did he spend the time with
her?
A.-Chiefly in the morning room and
dining room.
Q.-Do you remember an occasion in
September, 1922, when you were taking
some silver somewhere?
Al did
Q.-Where did you take the silver to?
A.-Into the room that he occupied.
Q.-Into the room occupied by Nottage?
A.-Yes
Q.-Was anybody in the room?
A.-Lady Illingworth.
Q.-Was Nottage there, too?
A.-Nottage was also there.
Q.-Do you remember an occasion at
Wilton Crescent seeing notice on Lady
Illngworth's door?
Al do.
Q.-What was the notice?
A.-"Resting. Not to be disturbed"
Odd you hear any sounds coming
from Her Ladyship's room?
A.-Yes.
Q.-What did you hear?
Al heard mans voice.
Q.-Whose voice was it?
A-Well, | concluded it was Nottage.
A lawyers clerk testified that he had
served Nottage with a summons on behalf
of Lord Illingworth. The former buffers
most noteworthy remarking on hearing
the nature of the paper was, "Oh, my
Lordv' This was what the clerk had to
say: -.,.r
QUESTION-Whe you served Nottage
did he say anything?
ANSWER gave him the petition and
he read it. After he had read it through
he said, "What am to do with it," u
said, "Well, you had better take it to your
solicitor" He said, 81 have no wish to
employ solicitor" And he then said,
''This would not have happened if l had
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got the letters from my wife" He then
said, "Have you any letters?" | said,
eyes, one," and / then mentioned the
letter that Your Lordship has. He said,
"Oh, my Lordw
Neither Lady Illingworth nor the butler
offered any defense, as the evidence
against them was too clear to make it
worth while to expose themselves to public
shame. The divorce decree was promptly
granted.
- The event has led people to discuss
whether familiarity between women of
rank and their buffers has not been more
frequent than is generally supposed. OF
course, intimacy between the head of the
household and his maid-servants is diff
ferent problem. Although the butler is
supposed to be model of Difference and
dignity, one who never cracks a smile or
raises an eyebrow whatever pranks his
employers and their friends may perform
under his nose, nevertheless he enjoys
certain peculiar opportunities for intimacy
with his superiors. The woman of the
house may turn to him for consolation
when her husband is sta. .lg away at
night and neglecting her, and he is likely
to see her in moments of abandon and
relaxation.
Lady Ida Duff, sister of the Duke of
Fife, who married King Edwards daugh-
ter, was divorced by her husband for be-
ing infatuated with her butler, William
Wilson, whom she afterwards married.
The old Countess of Ravensworth, after
only few weeks of widowhood, caused
sensation by marrying her coachman,
James Wadsworth, who was about twenty
five years her junior. After the we'd
ding, at st. Georges, Hanover Square, he
drove her home as usual, and continued
to exercise his former duties for a long
time.
One of the Princesses of Chimay eloped
with her English butler, William Jobson,
but that was fifty years ago and has gem
orally been forgotten. She was the wife
of an uncle of the Prince de Chimay,
whose American wife, Clara Ward, ran
away with the gypsy Rigo.
But Lady Illingworth is the most con-
spicuous case of infatuation with butler
that has been revealed to the public in
many years.
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HOIiOn
What are the sentiments behind that
portly exterior and mask-like counte-
nance? Does he have a heart and emo
tons behind his gold-embroidered livery,
scarlet waistcoat, satin brooches and pink
silk stockings? Now, at last, the British
public knows a little more about the hu-
man weaknesses Of a butler.
Lord Illingworth is the head of an
immensely wealthy family of wooden man
ufacturers of Bradford, Yorkshire. They
have been prominent in the affairs of the
British Empire for generations. Lord
Illingworth was Postmaster-General of
England from 1916 to 1921. He has
magnificent estate, called Denton Park,
in Yorkshire, and house in London.
Lord Illingworth and his wife lived to-
gether for twenty-eight years. She was
a middle-aged woman, but still attractive
and very fond of the pleasures of life.
Champagne and cocktails were her favor
ite companions. At various times they had
had villas on the Riviera and in other
lively quarters of the world, and Lady
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Denton Park, the Yorkshire Mansion of Lord
Illingworth.
LONDON. Dec. 10.

LONDON, Dec. 10.
n RIT1SH titled society has had many
n and severe jolts since the war as
the divorce courts have cast spot
light on the family skeletons of many
highly-placed personages. But nothing of
late years has more deeply shocked the
the sense of decency of the public than
the revelations in the recent suit for di-
vorce brought by Lord Illingworth against
his wife, Lady Illingworth.
Her Ladyship chose her butler for her
sweetheart. Overlooking all the young men
of her acquaintance, or, if she preferred,
the well-fed, rotund, middle-aged men of
her acquaintance and social equality
Lady Illingworth picked servant. 1t is not
that Her Ladyship forgot her duty to hei
husband-that has been common enough
of late in titled society-but it was Lady
Illingworth's shockingly bad taste in well
coming to her arms liveried mental
which has disgraced her eternally in the
eyes of her friends and acquaintance.
Buffers have, of course, been witnesses
of indiscretions in aristocratic society, but
they have generally been considered out
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Illingworth h a d
known all the de-
lights of gay Can
mes a n d NJ o n t e
Carlo.
1t was in May,
1923, t h a t L or d
Illingworth W a S
stunned to discover
the familiarity of
his wife with his
butler, the dig.ni-
fled William Not
tage.
And t h e n H S
Lordship did a re-
markable thing. He
was just leaving
for a fishing trip
when he was hand
ed a letter reveal
ing his wife's de-
linquency. Such a
surprise and shock
would have COM
pletely upset many
men and would
have driven out of
their m i n d S any
prospects of enjoy
ment of the outing.
Most h u S b a n d S
would have al d
aside the fishing
re e | a n d a b a n
doned the trip un-
til they could have
had a session with
the eri'ing wife.
But Lord Hing
worth stared at the
letter, put it in his
pocket and did not
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While the guilty Nottage was still serv-
ing as butler he was assisted by Edward
Davenport, as first footman, who later
succeeded to his position as butler. Dav-
export described the progress of Nottage's
familiarity with Her Ladyship; how he
saw her reclining in Nottage's room; how
he saw sign on Her Ladyship's room
while Nottage was there, reading "Rest-
ing. Not to be disturbed" Davenport's
testimony was as follows:
QUESTION-Is your name Edward
Davenport?
ANSWER-Yes.
Q-And have you been in Lord Hing
worth's service since the year 1921?
Ayes.
Q-I think, first of all, you were a
footman?
Ayes.
Q.-Are you now Lord Illingworth's
butler?
A.-Yes.
On the year 1921, when you went
into Lord Illingworth's service, was there
a man called William Nottage in His
Lordship's employ?
A.-Yes.
Q-Soon after you got there, in 1921,
did you notice anything in the terms be-
tween Her Ladyship and Nottage?
Ayes.
Q.-What did you notice?
A.-Familarity and friendliness.
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Odd that enclose letter written
by your wife?
A.-Yes, it did.
Q.-Is that the letter that was enclosed?
(Handed)
A.-Yes, that is the one.
Q.-Is that in your wife's handwriting?
Ayes.
(Letter handed to learned Judge, who
perused it,
THE JUDGE-It is not necessary to
read the letter. 1t shows in the clearest
terms, if it is accepted and upon the faith
of the statements in it, that Immediately
before the letter had been written the
respondent had been guilty of delin-
quency.
Mr.. BAYFORD Ito the witness)-I
think, in fact, you were just starting for
the north and you were away until 4th
June?
A.-Until the beginning of June.
Con your return did you consult
your solicitor, Sir Charles Russell?
Ayes, Immediately.
Q.-And did you go and see your wife?
Ayes, ! confronted her with the
letter.
Q.-Had you got the letter with you?
A.-Yes.
Q.-And did you speak to your wife
about it?
A.-Yes. I told her that / had got
letter addressed to Nottage, and began
to read it to her, and she said, Don't.
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correspondents. Any
woman of rank who
so far forgets her.
self as to be familiar
, NTH the butler has
Ast all sense of dig
fly.
Even familiarity
III speech with a
tier is contrary to
social conven-
ons, but when a
oman goes beyond
at her conduct is
J sgarded as unpar-
onable.
n Yet, since the IL
ngworth case, peo-
le ARE beginning to
kond er whether
buffers have not
: aroused more af-
lection than their
stolid appearance
would indicate, and
some strange ro-
mances of the past
ave b e en- un-
earthed.
British buffers are
Usually chosen for
heir portly figures
nd sphinx-like dig
Dity of manner.
Upon him devolves
the duty of seeing
that all the other
servants b e h a v e
properly.
The typical Eng
lish butler is a ia
miliar figure in the
palaces of the ultra
plutocratic as pre-
sented in the Ameri-
can motion pictures.
He has not always
been portrayed with
that inhuman dig
nifty and stolidity
which characterize
the best English but
lers. For these rea-
sons an English but
Ter of the highest
standing, Oh a rles
Green, was recently
imported into Amer
lea to show the mo-
ton picture audi
ences how it was
done.
T he Illingworth
butler, William Not
tage, was, in ap-
pearance, a perfect
specimen of the Brit
;sh butler, and would
have won a triumph
in the A mi e ric a n
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You need not go on reading it.
I remember writing that letter
quite well. 1t is all true and /
am very sorry for what | did,
but l did not commit miscon-
duct with Nottage very fire.
quently" and she asked for for
giveness. / told her | should
have to divorce her and could
not forgive her.
This very direct, clean-cut
and brief testimony ended Lord
Illingworth's story of the dis
covery of his wife faithlessness,
which His Lordship didn't let
interfere with his fishing trip.
After Lord Illingworth left
the witness-stand other interest
ing witnesses were called.
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tcl American Britain Rights Received
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Nottage, former
ly in your employ
as a butler?
A.-Yes.
Odd h e
leave about April,
1923?
"A pril OF
May, yes.
OIL til n k
from time to time
your wife gave
way to intemper-
ance?
A.-Yes, espe-
cially the last few
years-very bad
ly.
DIN M av.
1925, were you
going somewhere
north?
A.-On / a TIL
May I was going
salmon fishing in
the north of Scot
land.
Q.-On t h e
day you were
starting did you
receive a letter
from Mrs. Not
tage, the wife of
your former but
Ter?
Odd that e
by your wife
A.-Yes, it did.
Q.-Is that the
(Handed.)
A.-Yes, that is
Q.-Is that in y
Ayes.
(Letter handed
perused it,
THE JUDGE
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-01

Read it, too, for the information
which might be CLEANED about world
conditions when the Herald began
it's career.
In 1917, the Herald said
After considerable delay, we are
at length enabled to present the first
number of the Woodstock Herald to
its patrons; and we avail ourselves
of the opportunity to offer our sim
cerest thanks to those gentlemen
who have contributed by their pat
ronage and exertions, to its estab-
lishment. While we trust that they
will continue those exertions, on
which its future success and useful
ness will principally depend, we
hope they will find some reward in
the advantages to be derived to the
community from a newspaper tenn
perately and judiciously conducted,
in county extensive and populous,
where none has hitherto existed; for
paper thus conducted will extend
it's sphere of correct information,
collect and publish those local and
county concerns, which are deemed
worthy of notice, and become the
medium through which advertise
ments may be extensively circulated
to the interest of those concerned.
We are happy in commencing this
paper at a period so propitious as
the present; when the tumults OF
party are hushed; when in the pos
session of peace, prosperity, and all
the blessings of civil and religious
liberty, this country exhibits to the
eyes of the world the superior excel
lence of the Republican form OF
government, and commands univer-
sal respect and admiration. Such
distinguished blessings call for the
highest gratitude to the Almighty
Giver of every good, and become
doubly dear when the situation OF
other countries is taken into view
The Eastern continents, which con
tain the greater part of the human
race, present melancholy picture
of wretchedness.-Af is sunk in
barbarism; Asia is involved in
moral darkness and pagan idolatry;
and Europe, where the arts of civ
ilized life have attained an unri
vailed excellence, is loaded with
taxes and suffering under the iror
hand of oppression. Hence those
half-suppressed murmurs that reach
our ears on every gale. Hence too
those numerous migrations of hel
wretched inhabitants to seek on oul
shores an asylum from oppression
The striking contrast between oul
condition and theirs, while it af
fords an evidence of intelligence anC
virtue in this country, without
which no free government can ex
list, shows also the necessity of cul
tiVating the human mind and ex
tending the influence of truth, b,
which alone the liberty we enjoy cal
be pereptuated. With due atten
ton to these objects, we may fairl!
\ anticipate the long continuance o.
our liberties"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-01
CONTROL STOMACH WORMS In
SHEEP AND INCREASE
PROFITS

Stomach worms are probably the
limiting factor in sheep production
in the East and South. The raw
ages they cause to the sleeps thrift
and vitality are greater than any
other one trouble you can have,
hence if we can relieve this situa-
ton by judicious care and manage
ment, we will put into practice a
good, economical practice in our
flock management and increase our
profits from the flock.
If you will treat your flock regu-
larly through the summer and fall
seasons so that they can go into win
ter quarters in strong, healthy con-
dition, you will eliminate lots of
fatalities that often occur in the
flock during the winter, and lamb
ing season.
No medicine has yet been found
that will, under all circumstances,
kill all the adult worms at one
treatment, hence it is necessary to
repeat the treatment periodically
every three to four weeks during
the grazing season.
The State Extension Division is
recommending the copper-sulphate
(Blue Stone) treatment. 1t is SIM
pie, easy to give, cheap, and gives
good results. 1t is best not to try
to mix the mixtures from memory
but to have the printed directions
before you. These will be furnished
by the County Agent or the Office
at Blacksburg, and demonstrations
will be held in communities to show
how it is easily done. Four ounces
OF eopper-sulphate to three gallons
of water are used. A dose for ma
ture sheep is four ounces of this So
luton. For late lambs it is a good
practice to dose the lambs as well
as the ewes. A lamb weighing IS
to 40 pounds can be given one
ounce. A lamb weighing from 60
to 20 pounds, two ounces.
When your sheep scour, stay thin,
the wool becomes dead-looking and
dry. and the skin looses its pink
color and is pale, the indications are
that they are infested with stomach
worms.
Whenever it is possible, pasture
rotation will help also to eliminate
these parasites and should be prac-
ticed.
C. G. DICKINSON,
County Agent.
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POLICY REMAINS SAME

The marvellous, indeed miracu-
lous advance In the art of printing
from Gutenberg to Mergenthaler
are comparable to the development
In communication from the signal
fires OF the aborigines to the wireless
of Marconi.
And yet in the march of events
there are certain underlying princi-
pies OF success which are as un-
changeable as the laws of the Medes
and Persians.
Particularly is this true in the
newspaper world, and nothwith-
standing the progress which has
been made in the mechanical de-
partments Of publications there re-
mains the purpose for which the pa
per was started.
In its first issue, one hundred and
eight years ago. the platform or the
policy was laid down by its found
ers. and throughout ali these years
the policy of temporarily and judi
ciously conducting" the paper has
been adhered to by its successive
publishers.
We reprint the first editorial as
taken from the first Shenandoah
Herald. which came from the press
December "a. 1917.
Take time to read 1t and note as
you read that the policy and pur-
poses Of this paper, as heretofore
announced BY the new firm of pub
fishers. Is identical with that of the
original owners.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-05-01
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE

Office of C. C. Skyles, Commissioner
in Chancery Of the Circuit Court OF
Shenandoah County, Virginia, on the
18th day OF April 1925.
To +. S. Tavenner, E. d. Newman
and j. M. Bauserman, Trus Complts.
R. j. Lantz and Nellie S Lantz, his
wife, F. M. Hlsey, Shenandoah Ma
.ional Bank, Farmers Bank of Edin-
burg, w C. Painter, Lemuel r. Foltz,
jackson Natio nal Bank, The National
Bank of Woodstock, j. l. Triplett, Geo.
E. Irwin &: S A. Wilkins, partners trad
ing as Triplett, Irwin 6 Wilkins; Mollie
LantZ. Emma Lantz. Effie Lantz, L. A
Orndorff, j. R. Baker, r. F. Sheetz,
Robt. Helsley, w. c. Lantz, Edinburg
Garage, j. D. Marker, h. E. Shull, II.
S. Whitmore. Rockingham Bank, E. D..
Funkhouser, Edinburg Milling Co.
Shenandoah Farmers Unon, S. b.
Mlley, Bailey & Solenberger Inc, Bor-
den Bros. & Co., Inc, Drovers & Me-
chanics National Bank, W. G. Scarlet,
Trading as w. G. Scarlet & Co., Valley
Fertilizer &c Chemical Co. Inc, The
Greenbrier Joint Stock Land Bank OF
Lewisburg, w. Va, The Shenandoah
Valley Joint Stock Land Bank OF
Staunton, Va, Browning Stickley, F
F. Saum, Lewis Wetzel, L. S. Dinges,
Admir-. of H. A. Dinges, decd, Shenan-
doah Valley National Bank, B. Ney &:
Sons, Inc, Joseph Ney Sons & Co.
Inc, Hugh Saum, Shenandoah Pub
fishing House, Defts
You will taken notice that in pur-
suance to Decree of the circuit court
of Shenandoah County, Va, entered in
the above en- tiled cause on April 18th,
1925. directing one of the Commission
ers in Chancery of the circuit court oil
Shenandoah County, Va, to make re
port on the above entitled cause, &C
cording to the provisions of said de-
cree as follows:
1. A statement of the real estate o.
R. j. Lantz, with the value OF the
same, in separate tracts.
2. An account of preferred lien.
against the several tracts or lots ofrea
estate, arranged in order Of priority.
8. An account of debts against sale
R j. Lantz as principal that are pre-
scented on notice as hereinafter pro
vided, to be audited as claims, under
the general assignment OF said r. j
Lantz of Nov. 6, 1924. as follows:
(a) List of claims on which said R
j. Lantz is bound as principal debtor
(b) List of claims for which he i:
bound as endorser or surily.
(c) A list of claims for which he IL
jointly bound with k H. Lsntz
(d) A list of claims against R. j.
LantZ for which collateral or other
security is held, with the nature
amount, and value of such collateral
or other security held in each case.
4. To report any other matter deem
ed pertinent or that parties In iuteres
may require.
The undersigned Commissioner in
Chancery will sit in his office at Wood
stock, Va, on the 10th day OF May
1925, and on such other days there
after as he may fix at that time, OF
from day to day, for the purpose OF
executing the provisions of the above
Decree of Reference and reporting his
findings to the Circuit Court of Shen
andoah County, Va.
Given under my hand of Commits
sioner in Chancery this 18th day o
April, 1925.
C. C. SKYLES
Commissioner in Chancery.
Apr. Paw.
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WOMEN SHOULD REGISTER

In every community throughout
the state drive is being made by
the League of Women Voters and
other organizations and through the
pulpit to get citizens to do their
civic duty by paying their poll taxes
this week in order to enable them
to vote in the August primary.
A call has been sent to the men
and women of Virginia by Mrs. S.
S. Matthews, the citizenship chair
man of the League of Women Vot-
ers, as follows:
Uncle Sam needs you! So does
Virginia.! So does your own COM
munity. In peace quite as much as
in war!
Virginia showed a decrease in the
vote last year! Are we willing for
the South-for Virginia-to con-
tinue to pull down the average of
the Nation?
Are we willing for handful of
people to decide on your taxes, your
schools, your roads?
You have until May End to see
that your poll tax is paid. You can
register any time up to July 4th.
Important questions are to be de-
cided in this years elections. In
order to have a voice you must pre-
pare this week.
Election day is too late.
Do it now.
Yours for the restoration of De-
mocracy,
| (Sgd) (Mrs.) S. S. MATTHEW'S,
Citizenship Chairman, Va. League
of Women Voters.
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CORRESPONDENT

We want your cooperation in
making the Herald the medium of
news in your neighborhood. We
want your help in chronicling the
items from your locality which are
both interesting to your neighbors
and other folks as we'll.
To this end, sending newsy
breezy letters, eliminating personal
tiles which might be hurtful and
giving truthful, snappy items. Be
impersonal. If your neighbor does
something worth while, even if you
don't like him, or her, send it in
Stick to facts and let your stories
be pertinent and pithy.
Then be prompt. We must have
our correspondence, under the pres.
ent issuance of a paper once a week
not later than Thursday morning
Better get it in Tuesday or Wednes.
day. OF course, when we start twice
a week, which will be very soon, let.
ters can be arranged differently.
In the event that something unu.
sual should occur in your neighbor.
hood, telephone the facts. We will
write the story.
We want correspondents all ovel
Shenandoah County, for this is and
will be a county paper. 1t will be
your paper and the cooperative eff
forts of our correspondents will
make it So
We want to meet you personally
Come to see us and let's talk the
matter over.
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MONDAY, MAY II, 1925

'hohDhhp fbhh tkt 1917
at 1000 O'Clock, a. m, the following
stocks belonging to the estate of the
said Geooge w. Koontz, deceased:
shares of stock in the Shenandoah
National Bank, of Woodstock, Va.
IL shares of stock in the Nationa
Bank Of Woodstock.
shares of stock in the Mt. jackson
National Bank.
share of stock in the Farmers Mu
tual Telephone System.
Immediately following this sale. we
will offer at the Mill Building of the
said George w. Koontz, deceased, in
the rear of the Hotel Woodstock Annex
the following personal property:
| 8" international Feed Grinder
new
l Meadow Burr Mill.
l Meadow Graham Mill.
Reel.
IL h. p. Witt Engine with shaftine
and pulleys.)
l Mitchell Coupe.
/ Buggy.
This property may be inspected al
any time before sale, by applying te
K. X. Koontz at Triplett Mill.
TERMS OF SALE:
On machinery: Note at four months,
with good security, will be accepted.
On stocks and other property: Cash,
X. X. KOONTZ AND
w. l.. NEWMAN,
Administrators.
c. E. Tapley, Auctioneer.
April "a st.