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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1906)
JONHSON’S CHARGES I ARE PROVEN FALSE. In his announcement some tune ago for state school commissioner Mark W. Johnson devoted quite a lot of space to charges against Hon. W. B. Merritt, the present incumbent. The following letters which we clip from the Madison Advertiser, show how ridiculous Johnson’s charges were: Madison, Ga.. May 4th, 1900. Hon. W. A. Wright, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir: —I see from lion. Mark Johnson’s announcement as candidate for State School Com missioner of Georgia, that he charges inordinate extravagance against the present incumbent, Hon. W. B. Merritt, especially in the matter of traveling expenses, postage, office furniture, etc. I desire to know the truth in refer ence to these charges, and am of the opinion that you can furnish the correct statistics from the records in your office. Will you do me the favor to give me the correct amount of ex penditures for the above mention ed items for the past three years? By so doing you will greatly ob lige me, as the official figures will enable me to form a more correct judgment of the correctness of Mr. Johnson’s assertions. Very truly and respectfully yours, F. L. Florence, C. S. C. Atlanta, Ga.. May 8, 1900. Hon. F. L. Florence, C. S. C., Madison, Ga. Dear Sir: —Your letter has been received. Thave read the article to which you refer, and take pleasure in giving you the correct figures in regard to the expense accounts of the State School Com missioner. These accounts are checked over and approved by the State Board of Education before they are paid. The records show that the traveling expenses of the State School Commissioner while on official business for the past three years are as follows: 5908, $lO7 72 1904, 200 20 1905, 244 77 and not $1,825.00 per year as stat ed in the article referred to. The postage account is not $14,- 000.00 for any year as is stated in said article, but for the past three years is as follows: 1903, $403 18 1904, 890 50 1905, 820 00 All other expense accounts of the Department of Education, in cluding the salaries of a steno grapher and a porter, are for 1908, - $1,223.04 1904, 1.896.80 1905,... 1,412.20 During the three years, the amount expended for office furni ture has been $41.50. Very truly yours, Wm. A. Wright, Comptroller-General. THE OLD SKINFLINT, Several years ago when Powell & Pimpton kept a drug and gro cery house on Washington street, in Buffalo, savs the Buffalo Times a farmerfrom Williamsville drove to Buffalo to buy a bill of goods for his country store. After com ing down stairs and waiting for his goods to lie packed, he noticed several men using the speaking tube. After awhile his curiosity got the better of him and he ask ed the proprietor what that thing was. “A speaking tube,” said the proprietor, “Speak to someone up stairs and see how the things i work.” “What will I say,” said the I farmer going over to the tube. “Oh, say anything you like,” ! said the prietor. “Hay!” shouted the farmer, “Are the goods Mr. Parsons of Williamsville ordered ready?” “Yes,” said the man upstairs, “the goods are ready, but we are looking the old skinflint up. We think lie is kind of shaky.” While the fun is on you need, The Monitor. Only SI.OO a year THE NEED FOR CLEAN MEN, ! If one were to g<> to the Presi dent of the United Slates and ask him to name the country’s great est need he would reply in his quick, conclusive way. “Clean men.” He knows. Smart men there are by the thousands; rich men abound more than any other age of the; able men are found in every state and township, but even from a population of eighty millions the chief executive has difficulty in finding the m'an of exceptional character for a post which requires a square and flaw less morality. It is to his credit, that he misses no opportunity to preach clean manhood. But nei- 1 thor presidents nor preachers nor ( teachers can do the woTk of lath- , ers except in their own families. 1 Wo do not mean to under-estimate the marvelous influence of the; mother. In most lands men who reach success give their mothers j the credit. “All that lam 1 owe to my mother,” said Lincoln. J “It was you who taught me to write so. You really did, dear mother,” said the crabbed Car lyle. We get our moral equali ties from our mothers, our men tal from out fathers, say the phy siologists, and as we look back we find this maternal affection the loveliest thing on earth. But isn’t there a conviction down deep in our souls that we should have done much better if our fathers had taken time and trou ble to shape our confidences in the years that counted most? — From The Delineator for June. A NEW SAN FRANCISCO. The city, f rom the point of view of site and geographical lo cation, is far more beautiful and i impressive than before the fire. Tiie old architecture was mostly bad, —heinously bad, as every body knows. The earthquake tried the works of men and found much of the construction also bad. Men will not veneer any more wooden buildings with thin skins of brick. Honest wooden structures on the one hand and steel-cage and re-infored concrete on the other have come off trium phant. Terra-cotta has been dis appointing. The new building aws will probably limit the height of buildings to one and a half the width of their streets. This will make fair division of the light of the sun, insure a reason able uniformity of the sky line, and lend property-owners a natu ral motive for relinquishing land to widen streets. The pan-handle of the park will now undoubtedly be extended eastward to Van Ness Avenue. The new San Francisco will be tar stauncher and nobler than the old, but we shall always miss the old nooks and localisiins and bohemiauisms, and the vari egated flavors of many nationali ties mingled with glimpses and odors of Cathay which blended in •Old California’s solvent grace of freedom and love of elbow-room to make the dear old town so in exhaustible a spring of human in terest. —From “The New San Francisco,” by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, in the American Month ly Review of Reviews for June. NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLATION. Notice is hereby given as re-j quired by law, that at the next j session of the General Assembly; of Georgia, a bill will be intro-J duced and passed, with the follow ing title to-wit: An act to estab lish a local public school district in the county of Montgomery, to be known as the Soperton Public School District; to define the bounderies of the same; to regu ! late the management of the ’ J schools of the said district; to j j provide revenue for said schools; |to provide for the eleution of five j I trustees and to confer on them I powers and for other purposes. .Notice of Local Legislation. A Bill will be introduced at the j next session of the Georgia Legis ! lature to extend the incorporate; jlimits of the town of Mt. Vernon. June 21st, 1906. APPOINTMENTS MT. VERNON CIRCUIT. , Longpond, Ist Sunday. Mt. Vernon, 2d Sunday, morning and evening. Alley, 3d Sunday, both morning and evening. Glenwood, 4th Sunday, morning and evening: and Saturday before. Caroline’s i Chapel, afternoon of first Sunday, i J. B. Gpinef, Pa.'tor. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1906. Petition lo Sell ior Re-Investment. ! Slate of Georgia—Montgomery Co. To the lion.!. H. Mail in. judge of the superior court of said county-: ! The petition of Fannie Rountree jshows. 1. That she is the natural guard 1- !an and hns qualified as the legal : guardian of her said children, to wit: (its). M., Frias Emtio • 15.. Arete ! Moll. Jennie Thee.. Willie (’. and Annie Lee Rountree, all of said county. 2. That she owns a life estate in a certain p ece of land with remainder ; in her children its aforesaid and that j she desires to sell for re-investment at private sale, the remainder inter est of said land as follows* All that tract of land situate lying and being' jin the 1201st Disti iot, O. M. Johnson 'county, Oa., containing .">7 acres, more or less, hounded north by Sa | rah williams, east by Cedar creek, ! south by Joseph Jenkins and John j son Bros. R Petitioner and her said children j live some distance from the premises aforesaid, and owing to the small j amount of land, high taxes in said county, petitioner deems it best to j sell, owing to the lack of income, and being albo to invest in a larger i tract, at a much less price, j 4 Petitioner desires to invest pro | ceecls of this sale in certain farming ' lands, to wit: That tract or parcel of j land situate and being in Moi.tgom j ery county, being the south-east half lot lot No. 1(57 and hounded north by j K N. Adams, east, by liobt. Adams, j west by Henry Rowland and south by Thomas Kent, said tract contain ing 101 L acres. 5 Petitioner shows that notice of her intention to make this applica tion has been published once a week for four weeks, as required by law. Fannie Roe ntuee Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 20th day of March, 1000. A. A. Galdraith, N. P„ ex offle. J. P. Georgia—Montgomery county. After four weeks notice, pursuant to $2546 of Civil Code, a petition of which a true and correct copy is sub joined, will be presented to the Hon. J . H. Martin, judge of superior court at his office in Ilawkinsville, Ga., on the 20th day of J uly, 1906. Fannie Ron nicer. A. L, Hatcher, Pet,s Attorney. timber cart for sale. I offer for sale a new timber cart, at a bargain. Seven feet, four-inch tread. A bargain for cash or easy payments. J . W. 11 CTO 11 EH, Mt. Vernon depot. MONEY TO LOAN. Money to loan at 6 and 7 per cent on improved farms. A, lb Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. PETITION FOR INCORPORATION. To the 11 o.i ora Ido I hi lip (.'ook, See- j retnry of State, for the Slat:<*_of Geor gia. The undersigned, your peleli tioners, would respectfully represent: Ist, That They desire to form a rail road corporation under the laws of the state of Georgia. 2d, That, the munesgund residences of ear h of the persons desiring to form said corporation are: John S. Williams and H. L. Hernia of Richmond, in the state of Virgin al; J. Wm. Middendnrfof Baltimore, in the state of Maryland; E. *l. Cal laway, George it. Lombard, Jacob Ohinizy, Jus. F. McGowan, Janies T. Bothwell, Frederick 15. Pope,Win. E. Bush and Win. 15. Barrett of Au gusta, in the state of Georgia. That the name of the Railroad Company they desire to have incor porated is Georgia and Florida Railway. 4tii, That the lenglh of the road, as near as can be estimated, will be (including brancho ) three hundred and fifty (:>'>()) miles. Fifth, That the general direction of said road will he southwesterly from the City of Augusta in the gen eral direction of the < 'ity of Valdosia; and thence to some point on t he Flor ida line south of Valdosta. Sixth, That- the counties through which said road will probably run are the counties of Richmond, Burkin Jenkins, Emanuel, Toombs, Mont gomery, Jell' liavis, Coffee, Berrien and liowndes. the principal places iroin winch and to which said road ;isto be constructed are: The city of j Augusta, tiie city of Vidalia and the i city of Valdosta. Eight!), that the amount of the ! proposed capital stock of said cotn- I pany is one million dollars ($1,000,- 000. ') Ninth, That the number of years said company is to continue is one hundred and one years and as much longer as the laws in force-ui the ex piration of said one hundred and one years may provide or permit. Tenth, That the capital stock of said company is to consistst of ten j thousand share 1 ; of common stock. Eleventh, That the principal office jof said company is to b<- located in the cirv of Augusta, Georgia. Twelfth, That the undersigned pe j titioners do intend in good faith to jgo forward without delay to secure 'subscriptions to Lie- capital stock, ■construct, eiptip, maintain and oper ate said railroad. Thirteenth, That Ihe undersigned ! have given four weeks notice of their i intention to apply for said charter, ! by the publication of this petition in i one of the newspapers in which the Sheriffs advertisements are pnb j lished in each of the count ies through ■ which said proposed road will prob ably run. once a week for four weeks before the filing of this petition. Your petitioners therefore, res pectfully request that they be incor pyrated under the laws of Georgia, and in pursuance of this petition. Respectfully. John B. Williams, Jacob Phiui/.y, E. L. Bemis, Jas. F. McGowan, J. Win. Middendorf, Jas. T Bothwell, E. H. Callaway. Frederick B. Pope, j Geo. K. Lombard. Wm. E Bush, Wm. H. Bariett. j Notice. I According to recommendation ot last Grand Jury, no real estate in Montgomery will bo received for taxes at a valuation of less than four dollars per acre; and on uroporty returned before said rec ommendation, will be placed a valuation conforming to said j recommendat ion. Tax payers not i satisfied with the raise, will please 1111X31 me in Mt. Vernon Juno 20tli for arbitration. Very truly, K. M. Rack ley. T. R. M. Co. Ga. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Georgia—Montgomery County. The saw mill business heretofore operated under the firm name of Mc- Gahoe & Uiggerstntf on (ho John (‘onncll place iias this day deen dis solved by mutual consent, the entire interest having been sold to S. L. McGahee and F. T. McGahee who will collect all debts and pay all claims. This May 11,1906. S. L. McGahee, F. T. McGahee, H. W. Riggers!a IT. Notice of New District. Notice is hereby given that applcation bus been tiled in the ntliee nf the Hoard of Hoads and lb venue of Montgomery County for the establishment of a new Militia District in j said county, laid out and bounded as follows: j beginning at Love's Graveyard and running east across the Louisville road near ./ohu Wilkes’ place to Reuben Phillips’place, strik ing tiie Vidalia and /video distiiel line, thence south-west on said Vidalia and Zaideo line to eoruer of the Iliggston district, line, (lienee south on Vidalia and Kingston line b> M t.Vi i - non and Swainsboro road, thence along said road westerly toClias, Hamilton's. Tlionen west, crossing tins M. L>. ,V S. Road in Darby old field, to Cypress crock and along said crock to ford of Mt. Vernon and Boperton road and thence to point of beginning. Haul ap plication will lie heard on the first Monday m July, 10(1(5. Wm. Olamd, Clk. (10. Gum’s Salesmen Wanted. Three salesmen wanted for our new Railroad, County mid Stain Sur vey of Georgia. Just off the press j and absolutely new. Prepared to j meet the enormous demand for a map showing the new counties re cently established. A splendid opportunity for energetic men. Rand, McNally rt Co., Chicago, 111. You always get, your money in the homo paper at $1 a year. i \ The Lasting Pfl C .. ° m I II —-rn „< '>2) 111 & ■ 4' Bargains v || Are Always Found in My Store the Entire Year Found. THE SPRING SPECIALTIES 1 also lmve their Inning. Store Full of Everyday Goods, and Going Daily at niy Usual Fair Prices. Stock always Coming in and Being Sold Off, leaving no old ruhhish .V to work off on customers at so-called cost prices. In my f DRY ROODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, HATS, I | YOU WILL FIND THE BEST QUALITY | ii and at Satisfactory Prices. New Home Sewing Machines, I I Improved Farm Implements, | | High Grade Buggies and Wagons, 1 | are Leading Specialties with me. Yours to Please, I B New Goods Constantly Coni ing in, and my stock always contains all Household f Requisites. McQUEEN, \ M fit. Vernon, Ga. Jgr* | & & # & I PURITY I I ESSENTIAL | ■# #■ * *■ * # * * Jjk ;{fr Strict purity in Drugs is most essential. Your life depends sometimes on the best medicines. ; {£- The Mt. Vernon Drug Co. has opened a ?j tr I MODERN DRUG STORE % aS; jfe" that this section may bo supplied with the very best. A long-felt want has been supplied by the now drug store in Mt. Vernon. A visit will surprise you. jfc A Licensed Pharmacist with a magnificent new tj^r stock will be glad to welcome you. * & 5 y | MT. VERNON DRUG 00., | , I MT. VERNON, GA. t i & I vjj INTERNATIONAL E~“= S i. .. .—"-i . in Common makes ?$ STEEL HAY PRESS i>: : iVuson Opens 6 Pull Power Mounted on Wheels | -5 a •;> 8 js For Prices and Terms see I). S. WILLIAMSON | ?\ Mt. Vernon, (Ja. g In 9
