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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1906)
g«n» wr>c* *2*^*,*£ «• ' ' ~ ~ '*"£ g BEST GRADES *| I 0F I COMMERCIAL jj| §| STATIONERY. ;| § & VOL. xxr. NO. 7. Jumped From Seaboard Train and Broke Neck. The Sunday excursions to Sav annah and its summer resorts are very frequently the occasion of tragedies, and last Sunday was 110 exception to previous trips. There is always a rowdy element, full of cheap Sunday whiskey on the return trips on every train. Full of the infuriating liquid, coming out on the Seaboard Air Line train Sunday evening, was W. Preston O’Quin of Glennville. I He became boistrous and began firing his pistol from the rear of 1 A SAFE INVESTMENT, The citizens of Mt. Vernon have several opportunities for helping the town just at this time. One of our most pressing needs is 41 good hotel. No single citizen may have idle money to invest in such enterprises, but the building of a respectable hotel would lie dead easy if a stock company were formed and all put in small amounts. Naturally, we have a beautiful location for a town, but are sadly lacking in accomodation for the traveling public. We are adver tised —in the wrong direction —by every traveling man who calls here; because we have inadequate arrangements for caring for those who come and go. Summer boarders from large towns like Savannah could easily be induced to spend the heated term he/e on the Oconee. If any one cared to furnish accommoda tions. No town w r as ever made without people and no people ever made a town without effort. “the harvard BRAND.” The “Harvard Brand” clothing advertised in this paper by Mein hard, Schaul & Co. has proven a winner by all who have worn or handled the line. This popular firm would not spend money to advertise a poor article. Our mer chants should investigate this trade-maker. TEACHERS EXAMINATION. The teachers of Montgomery who had not previously been ex amined for license -to teach in our public schools, here on Friday and Saturday of last week and stood the examination. The following were present and took part: J. It. An Id, W. O. Allen, Chas . Priest, M. L. Purcell, Hardy J. Clark, 11. F. Clark, Miss Ruby Wells, Miss Charlotte Sharp, Miss Bessie Palmer, J. R. Carr, Miss Mabel Powell. A MONTGOMERY BOY’S SUCCESS* J. E. Ladson, a young man of this county, who, for the past eighteen months has been Stenog rapher for the Sibley Lumber Co, of Sibley, Ga, lias tendered his resignation to accept a position with the American Car & Foundry Co, of St. Louis, as Steuo-book keeper. Mr. Ladson, has developed marked talent as an office-man, and the offer lie has received and accepted, shows with what favor he is being received abroad. His many Montgomery friends are justly proud of his record, and _heartily rejoice with him in the deserved success he is winning. We think he,deserves the encour agement of all Montgomery county in his efforts to make a success in the world. Many of the good citizens of the county were in attendance at the County Commissioners meeting and court of Ordinary last Mon day. ilimtgom£rg ifurntto* the train. After having his pis tol and whiskey taken from him by the conductor and, he quited down for awhile; but when near Pembroke jumped from the train and broke bis neck. This was his last, but not his ! first escapade on the Seaboord, having been fined recently by Judge Gann SSOO for shooting on the" train between Savaunali and I Meldrim. He was taken to Glenn » ville for burial, where he leaves a 1 young wife. Bruce. Messrs. Everet & Meadow’s mill has been shut down on account of repairs on the boiler. Everybody is getting ready for the Fourth. Representative Sears has gone ■ to Atlanta and has taken up his work in the legislature. Mr. Carl Sears got badly kicked in the face by a mule last week. The wounds is healing. Miss Phenie Green has been quite si«k for some time, but we hope for her early recovery. While plowing cotton and his children hoeing last Friday, Mr. M. A. Yearly had his attention called by the bayingof his famous pointer dog, and found a huge rattier with eleven rattles, and soon dispatched his snakeship with a gun. Crops are growing finely now r so is the grass, but the boys are get ting it under control. Yours for good luck, Good Hoi*e. PROTRACTED MEETINGS. | At Ailey Sd Sunday in July, At Caroline’s Chapel 4th Sun -1 day in July. I At Longpond 011 Ist Sunday in . August. | At Glenwood on 4th Sunday in 1 , August. These meetings are to continue 1 indefinitely. J. B. Griner, P. C. PICNIC AT NAIL’S FERRY. There will be a picnic at Nail’s Ferry Saturday, July the 21 st. Every body is invited to go and carry well-filled baskets. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. The firm of Beacham Bros, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. R. H. beacham with drawing and L. T. Beacham as -1 suming all liabilities and will col lect all debts due said firm. Beacham Bros. It. 11. Beacham. L. T. Beacham. April 21, 1906. Oxen For Sale. I have for sale 18 fine oxen ap l ply to. ij « Floyd Calhoun, Tarry town, Ga. , j . „ Messrs. Thosj Thompson, O. V. Sharpe, J. 11. Odom, .J. M. Tay . lor, R. L. Sharpe, C. W. Sparks and others of the good citizens of Toombs were here on Monday last. i , Choice Line of Glassware and . table furnishings offered attemp ting prices now by. W. J. & T. A. Peterson, Ailey, Ga. Wanted —A good agent in each county to appoint sub agents for and represent the best Live Stock , Insurance Co. in Georgia. Gapi r tal stock SIO,OOO. Address P. L. Watson, Sec’y and Treas., Swains j boro, Ga. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1906. SEABOARD AIR LINE SURGEONS AT SAVANNAH. I The Monitor office turned out this week the program for the fourth annual session of the Sea board Air Line Surgeons, to con vene in Savannah July Ib-llth. About thirty papers are to he read, and the occasion promises 1 to bq 0110 of unusual interest. Virginia, Florida and the Car olinas are well represented by dis tinguished specialists, and our own section is honored with one) . of the most important offices, Dr. j J. W. Palmer being secretary and' treasurer. • The following are the officers: President, Surgeon G. A. Neuffer, Abbeville, S. G., Vice President: First Surgeon W. A. Monroe, Sanford N. C; Second Surgeon G. G. Holladay, Portsmouth, Va;! Third Surgeon J. B. 11. Ilolmes ; Atlanta, Ga. Secretary and treas-1 urer, Surgeon J. W. Palmer of J Ailey, Ga. ' MEETING POSTPONED. By request of Mr. Reuben Cor ner and others, on accoufc of the protracted meeting at Smyrna | Methodist Church, the appoint ment for a protracted meeting at Fairview school house, near J. J. Moses, by Rev. I). E. Green, is postponed from Friday, before fid Sunday in July to Friday at 5 p. 111. before the 4th Sunday in July. All Christians and everybody in vited to attend. 0 0000:00. 00:00.0 0. 0. © © 0 © © 00:00:0 ©G © t '©; | LOCAL - PERSONAL §! 0 % I sees ©0 .© ©s©i i®. m :©: ©a©©s>: ©©© mm 1 f?- r-V •,• " V . • Mr. Tom McCullough of Thom asville visited his old home and friends here last .Sunday. Rev. 1). E. Green of the Bruce section was transacting business here on Monday. Mr. I). W. Burch of Alamo was over on Monday, returning on the 10:29 train. Glass Fly Traps and Syrup Pitchers are going at right prices. See \VT.J. <fe T. A. Peterson, Ailey. Mr. A. C. Raby, engineer on the Southern road, spent part of last week here with relatives and friends, returning to his post of duty last Monday. After spending several days here pleasantly with friends Miss Mabel Powell returned to her home at Springhill on Monday, jaccompanied by her cousin, Miss Sadie McQueen, who will spend two weeks. Mrs. J. D. McLeod of Lumber City who came over last week to attend the family reunion at her fathers borne, Mr Mathew Sharp, | has retuned to her home. Dr. Jos. P. Williams of Jasper, Fla., with Mrs. Williams and children, are visiting his sister, Mrs. Sumner Morris here. Mrs. A. C. Raby is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mc- Gregor. Bargains in 4-piece (ilass Sets and genunine thin blown and en graved Tumblers at. W. J. T. A, Peterson, Ailey. Go-Fly keeps flies oIF Horses |and Cattle. Sold l\y S. I. Bul- I lard, Alamo; Rivers Drug Co., Gienwood ; and J. A. Peterson, Jr, Ailey: W, H. McQueen, Mt. Ver non, Ga. It is said that Dr. Bob Mobley will act us a special committee of one to see that all visiting young ladies will be furnished with lem onade and river water ut the pic nic at Nail’s Ferry on the 21st. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. The natal day of American In dependence was vgry quietly spent in Mt. Vernon yesterday. Some of our people are already away on their summer outing, and the stay-at-homes did not make any demonstrat ion/ A seining party, bent on raking out the fin 11 ies that have so far escaped the hook, left early to engage in the sport. Charles Abfc, tho satamc ink I man of The Monitor office, tired I the national salute with his shot 5 !gun, recently purchased with a pocketful of tobacco tags, and thus closed the great day. A PLAN TO UTILIZE ALL THE COTTON PLANT. 1 Hon. llarvio Jordan is very en-i thusiastic about the organization i of the Cotton States Product Co., recently organized in New York [with a capital of $15,000,000. The company is to utilize cotton , stalks in manufacturing paper,] • alcohol, fertilizers, smokless pow- , "der, gun cotton and other pro-! ducts. • It is claimed that the use of cot-, I ton stalks will add $100,000,000, to the value of the cotton crop. Plants will be established at sev eral places in the south, but the main office will be 111 New York. , Mr. J.J. Burkhaltor of Spring hill was over to see us on Monday and was in a good humor, as usu al. , ,y-V . , Iy —. y-v , , • ■-W V —» ■ ,- ' I Mr. ()sear Collins of Harnosvii!<■ | is visiting liis sister, Mrs. W. C. j Hardee, in Mt. Vornon. Mr. Isaiah Casey, who has lioen I leaching at Alamo, came over. Saturday and stopped over Sun- j day with friends here. Tlie CountyjCommissioners held their regular monthly meeting Monday. The mem tiers of the hoard who were present and went through the routine work, W. '.V. Pope, Win. If land and J. C. Conner. Miss Bessie I’aimer, a talented young musician was over last week taking the examination for teach ers, and will probably engage in teaching. Mrs. W. A. Peterson and child ren are visiting relatives and friends at Cairo, <ia. It was reported yesterday at' noon that a tribe of Indians were encamped at the branch near the foot of Washington street, but it proved to be a bevy of little girls! celebrating under a wigwam rnadej of crocus sacks, with pie and j green plum accompaniments. Attend the union services at the j Methodist church, preaching at 1| and 8 p. m., each day. The R. F. D. men had a much needed day of rest on account "ft f j the Fourth yesterday. Ball Mason Fruit Jars, half-gal-, lons and pints, with metal cups, ! and genunint* Atlas Mason Jars ' with all glass tops, in quarts and half-gallons, at W. J. <k T, A. j Peterson’s bargain store, Ailey. The union meeting commenced at the Presbyterian church last i Sunday and is being continued at the Methodist church here. Mr. Russell Folsom of Reids ville came up lust Saturday, and is on The Monitor force. Mr. John W. Morrison Sr., was over from the Glenmvood section Tuesday. News Paragraphs From | The Week of Events. The house of J. C. McFoy at i Wnycross was struck by light ning on Friday night and badly damaged, but no one was killed. For making a false affidavit, Geo. P. Capiton was fined SBOO at j Macon Monday, and being unable to pay, was jailed. The killing of Stanford White on tho Madison Square roof gar den in New York on Monday | I night of last week ny Harry K. I Thaw has caused a great sensa tion and a noted trial will follow. Tho wool growers of Tift county met and sold this season clip last week, about 16,807 lbs, at auction for 28A cents. I . Carrying a lot of American pas sengers just arrived from New, [ York a fust train was wrecked j near Salisbury, Eng., on Sunday! j morning, killing 2fi Americans | and I of the trainmen. 1 A negro was hanged nml then j burned at Womack, I. T., on, 'Saturday night, for criminal as sault, on a 10-year-old white girl. Both fiouscs of Congress ad journed at 10 o’clock on Saturday night lact. While hunting pigeons with a negro boy, Janies Barnes, a white boy of Ifi years, was killed at Thompson, .(iu., 011 Friday even ing by a scramble oyer the gun they carried. A train known as the Colonial Express was dashing toward Phil indelphia on Saturday at tho rate jof 60 miles an hour, when the l fireman discovered that the engi j neer was dead and his hand stiff upon the throttie. Black root is reported as ruin ing many fields of cotton around Walden, Ga. | A 2-year-old hoy fell headlong ' into a 12-inch well being bored at Abbeville, La., a distance of 18 feet and was suffocated. The bill of Joe Hill Hall to create a board to assess the state taxes an corporations passed the' house Monday by a vote of 122 toj 8. i I PRESCRIPTIONS f * * * * * * * * £ * £ £ At our establishment special care is T taken with each prescription (and we ? fill many of them.) Stock being new, all £- jji our drugs and chemicals arc absolutely jjfc pure. We take no chances as to purity w and correctness; and likewise you take no risk when you have your prescriptions i filled at the new drug store. * I i P. S. —Have you visited the new soda jfc ■3J 1 fountain? If not, a hint to ihe wise is y | sufficient, these hot days. % t * 9 ifi * - % *- - f * £ * % | MT. VERNON DRUG CO, t I MT. VERNON, GA. | PAGES i TO io. Commissioner Hudson says the condition of the cotton crop in Georgia is worse than he lias ever known. Col. P. W. Mold rim of Sav lannah has boon appointed brevet brigadier general by Gov. Terrell, to succeed Col. E. 1). Hugueuin, resigned. A severe thunder storm at Fitz gerald on Saturday last did much damage, several buildings being struck by lightning. At Martin Ela., on Tuesday, lightning struck a tree, killing Thomas Ward and seriously injur ing two other men. W. T. Rycroft, a prominent mill man at Pitts, Ga., was shot and killed Monday afternoon by W, ' F. Findlay. • Cholera lias broken out m , Manila, and one American soldier , bus died already with the dread disease. The Populists of Georgia were ] called by chairman Holloway to meet in Atlanta yesterday to nom inate a full state ticket. Dimvard Lane, a 14-yoar-old boy at Franklin, Ga., was drown ed while bathing in 1 bo Chattahoo chee river on Saturday afternoon The Georgia senate adjourned for the Fourth, but .Joe Hill Halt hold down the house and prevenet od that body from having a holi day- Ike Kaiford, a Columbus negro, wrote an insulting note to the daughter of a prominent wiiite citizen, and got liis hide filled full of shot by the girl’s father, who got out of a sick bed to do the job. A big Kstill club was formed at Codartown last Monday, many prumicnt citizens becoming mem bers. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. I liaye the Questions and An swers of the Public School Exam inations of 190 bin print. Will , send t hem on receipt of 25 cents, or for the last, four years for 60c. B. S. Holden, Pub. Ellijay, Qa. .. , -iMiia ej t, : % OFFICIAL ORGAN | : 5 OF i MONTGOMERY j COUNTY. ! SI.OO PF.R YEAR, j :
