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VOL. XXII.
LECTURE AT INSTITUTE
MONDAY EVENING.
On Monday evening. May lth.
Col. 0. B. Whatley of Savannah
will deliver at tho U. B. I. audi
torium a lecture entitled the “Old
and tlie New South.”
This is a subject that should
readily appeal to all of us. The
speaker handles the subject in a
charming manner, giving through
out incidents and pictures from
Southern life, dealing with each
in t he light of reason and truth.
Col. Whatley is going to donate
to the U. 15.1. the proceeds of this
lecture. Let everybody shew their
appreciation of this gift by going
out, enjoying the evening, and
substantially aid the school.
Speaking of Col. Whatley, Ex-
Governor Allen D. Candler says:
“Col Whatley has read to me
his lecture on ‘The Old and the
New South,” and it affords me
pleasure to gile it my hearty en
dorsement, and to commend it to
all patriotic Southerners as a
scholarly production abounding
in historic facts, presented in a
forceful and pleasing manner. To
listen to it will be instructive to
the young and will give pleasure
to the old, who will bear testimo
ny to the correctness of the pic
ture presented by Col. Whatley of
the “old South,’ whose civilization
lias been equalled in few coun
tries, and surpassed in none.”
AN AGED MINISTER STILL
HAS MANY FRIENDS.
This is notice to his friends
that Rev. D. J. Mathews is now
stopping on Ailey Route No. 1,
and those desiring to communi
cate with him can address him
accord inly. He is now very old
and infirm, but will appreciate
letters from any acquaintance.
He is a worthy character, having
spent his life in the ministry, and
we trust that many will lend cheer
to the declining years of this val
iant old Soldier of the Cross.
MORE WATER COMING.
U. S. Weather Bureau Office.
Macon, Ga., Apr. 27.
River stage at Macon 20.1 ft.;
will probably reach 21 ft. today.
The flood will reach Abbeville by
May 3d with a stage of about IB
or 17 ft. Oconee at Milledgeville
is 27.3 ft. This flood will reach
Dublin by May Ist with a stage of
probably 22 or 23 ft. This flood
is the highest since 1903.
W. A. Mitchell, O bserver.
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A NEGRO SHOOTING
AT GRAY’S LANDING.
On Thursday morning last Dr. j
Hall was called to Gray’s Lading
in consultation with Dr. Grav,
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On aiming lie found that two
'turpentine negroes had become
enraged over some frivolous mat-.
■ ter, when one of them, Lewis
Long, had fired a load of shot into
Robert Robinson and a femnli
j companion : The woman received
painful wound in the hand and
arm; while Boh had his hand shot
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j to pieces, together with the entire j
i J front of his head, with no hope;
11 for recovery.
The negro doing the shootingi
left immediately lor parts not yet :
known. Both negroes were good!
[workers, but were considered fussy :
, among the colored population.
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Opportunity For
Having (Hasses
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Properly Fitted.
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j For several years the people ofj
t his section have had glasses fit - j
ted by C. H. Kittrell, the jeweler
and optometrist of Dublin, and >
no one has had cause to complain j
[of the merits of the glasses sent !
| out by his house.
i Those who are in need of glasses 1
wil'l be delighted to know that Mr.
Kittrell will he in Mount Vernon
during the first two days of Su
| perior Court (May 4th and sth)
prepared to fit glasses. While hoi
is here headquarters will be at <
Mrs. Higgs’s hotel on the court [
house square, very convenient to j
the public; and we especially urge
those in need ol glasses to call on
him. He will probably lie here
only two days—May 4th and sth.
Your eyes can very quickly be
ruined by wearing ill-fitted glasses j
and yon can have only one pair of
eyes. Pays to treat them well. '
I f you suffer with your t yes do:
not fail to see Mr. Kittrell in Mi
Vernon May 4th and stli. He will
make no charge for scientific ex-!
a mi nation —absolutely perfect
: and will sell you the glasses from ;
I *2.60 up, according to style of
' framing desired.
Dr. E. P. Bomar of Lyons was ‘
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called up yesterday to attend Mrs.
iJ. P. Duffie, who is ill. The Doe
tor is a genial gentleman and
while here dropped in to see us.
MT. V ERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL ,50, 100 S.
McArthur.
Special 1 tin t .apomli uc<\
As it is so wet l cannot plow, 1
will write of the events of ibis
section. The elounds. have gath
ered and the rains descended and
■as a consequence much corn and
[cotton jusl peeping above ihej
1 ground has been washed up. No
work can he done in the farming
line at present.
I see that the Atlanta .Journal
says that when ,loe Brown gets to
be governor of Georgia wool will
[grow on hydraulic rams. It that
he true the wool clip of the state
will not be cut short by aheep
[ killing dogs: Joe seems to he in
[ t he lead at present.
There is nothing new in ibis
• section except rain and more lain.
j The negroes of this place had a j
■ trrund melee a few days ago with!
| the loss of one arm. The Sabbath
is the chief day of festivity among
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• the negroes.
Mr. Dan -McMillan of Bartow
■spent a part of the past week with ,
! relatives in and near Ml . Vernon.
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Superior court will open here
on Monday morning, 4th.
Mr. J. YV. Sharpe, Jr. and a
little son and daughter were in to
| see The Monitor Tuesday morning.
Nothing old or stale hut every
thing new and fr< sh at the Ai 1• -y
drug store. Go to see them.
Hundreds of yards of that beati
! tiful embroidery st ill going at file
a yard at Mrs. Fox’s.
Assistant Cashier \V. K. McAl
-1 lister attended the convention of
j Group No. 1 Georgia Bankers As
sociation in Fitzgerald last week.
The state gathering will be held
in June at Brunswick.
Boarukrs. I am prepared to
accommodate a number boarders
during superior court. Table sup
plied with the- best the market
affords. Mas. Jok MeCri.i.oioii,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Mr. C. C. McAllister, Jr., one
jof The Monitor’s Longpond read
ers, was up on business Tuesday.
We desire to announce to tin
trade that we have made special
preparation in our Millinery line,
and cordially invite the trade to
[call. An inspection will be to
•your interest and profit.
494 t J. II Hudson.
Let the members of the Farm-!
liners’ Union remember that by •
having The Monitor send in their.
’ subscription to The Union News,
it can be had for 75 cents. The
; News is the oficiat organ and its
regular price is I. fKj a year.
For your ready-made shirt waists
and skirts come and see us.
Mrs. <j. W. Fox.
Lei the correspondents contin
ue to send in the matter from
their respective section. Paper
and envelopes will be furnished
to regular correspondents.
New lot of large sailors just re
ceived at Mrs. Adams’s millinery
parlors, Mt. Vernon.
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If you see our styles in ladies
and children’s Hut-, and compare
lour prices your own judgment will
prompt you to buy .
494 t J. H. Hudson.
If you need anything in white
goods and luces cull on Mr*. Fox.
M’RAE TO CONNECT
WITH BELL SYSTEM.
Mr. W. 1). llorton, manager of
M clUn -lielena telephone system,
went In At lama last week and
hail a conference with the mniinge
-1 incut of the Bell Telephone Go.
! lie made arrangements with them
by which their line will connect
with t he switchboard here and our
people will thus he put in con
nection with the entire Bell sys
tem. In other words, a man at
Jacksonville can call up the cen
tral office in Mcßae and get con
nection with a firm in Atlanta or
New York Gily and converse with
them. The 801 l phones go all
over the United Stales, and (un
people here who are subscribers to
the local system will hyve access
[to this whole big system. This
! new movemedt will he a matter of
[great convenience and will likely
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be largely patronized after May
Ist. when the plan will be put in
operation.—Telfair Enterprise.
A new drug store in Alley. Call
and see 1 hem.
Have your eyes properly fitted,
with glass*-s that will preserve*
them. Kittrell will be at Hotel
Higgs May 1 and 5 and will guar
antee you satisfaction with a pair
of up-to-date glasses. See him.
Col. Es'-lud Graham of Mcßae
cam*- over on business l'tesday
afternoon, ret tuning at 8:30.
Mrs K. M. Mcßae and lilt l*-
son Lee Mack envc returned from I
a visit among relatives in Dublin
and Mcßae.
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If you ne* (I glasses and do not
see Kittrell (lining the first two
days of superior court, *1 is your
loss—possibly a serious on*-. 11
vour eves are examined by him
and he does not properly fit them
—it i- his loss. lb-eat mot, also rd
to impair his reputat ion.
The very pret t jest children s
hats t hat yon ever saw for Ihe
money just received by Mrs. .1. L.
Ada ms.
A complete line of drugs, am
d ries. toilet ai t ieles. etc , a I t In
new drug tore in Alley.
Mrs. \V. C. Glenn and Mrs. 1)
VV. Folsom attended a missionary
conference in Macon this week.
Don’t forget, that mercerized
embroidery cotton you want is to
! be found at Mrs. Adams’s.
Let Kittrell fil yon with a pa r
of glasses—in Ml. Vernon on May
It It and slh Hotel Higgs.
Rev. Churb-s Montgomery will
p ren eh at the Presbyterian church
here Sunday, 3d. lb- has been
recalled to this work and will in a
short while remove his family to
Mt. Vernon. A warm welcome
awaits them.
AFTER TWO YEARS.
Dr. 11. Gates of Manatee, Flu.,
brother-in law of Dr. Hall, spent
a lay or so with them last week.
Learning of Mr-. Ha M's cent in tied
ill health he came more especially
to see her. Dr. Gates was a visi
tor here two years ago and was
[ph-ased to note the substantial
: 1 rnpioyemeiit in and around Mt.
Vernon. lie lias great faith in
: the future of this section.
j RURAL SCHOOL
Wii ll <‘ii for Tick Momtdk. „
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1. 1 JJJThejlcfocts ol 1 1 u* nirii I schools
are many. These have never been
I all enumerated, and no on*: Imt an
experienced teacher could so do
a'l'h.-.v aiv not possible of cur*-
hy large money appropriations,
nor building of now s*dio**l houses
, and seating them, nor in 1« * no I li
<'i>inu; tin* months of the snlionl
I term, nor in increasing the -alary i
ol Iho teachers. None of these
things ean remove t he man y farces
—for they are farces—played on
i t lie rural school system of run
ning schools.'
Besides i he irregular at tendance
!t he no attendance ol a large per)
1 ni'iit of children, the prevalence |
iof immoral and vicmns hahits
, formed at home and at school,
| I here are ot her inconsistencies op- •
erative in I lies >untiy schools
which defeat the label's ol tile
! teachers and destroy the work "i
I t he schools.
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See the farco now being played.
It is l lie dwindling and shrinking
of the attendance of tin* schools
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when within a few weeks of the 1
close of iln* term. Who ean cure
! t his disease ?
Another farce operative in these
| schools is seen with what ease a
i teacher can he made step down
and out of Ins job. All i hat has
( to he dodo is to wit lid raw children *
. from school, and this stops th• ■;
school The causes which leadloj
this kind of break-up an* 1 <> llll < 1 ;
in the fact that it hoys or girls j
are reprimanded or disciplined by t
the teacher at once (ln-se girls or j
ho vs set up a howl and refuse In
jgo to selior*!, thus culling down
I lie at tendance below I lie mini
mum. Aunt her cause is found in
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t lie la men l a hie fact dial parents
have lost control ol • ludr hoy*
ia ml girls, hence ca nnol (or do
not ) make I hem go to school, il
I bov choose not to go. A great
iiijust ice is perpet rated on worthy
! workers who lose salary that would j
lx t heirs if permitted to leach out
ihe full term of t lie school. No
teacher has redress, iI is cm,lracl
la t ween I lie school board and him
self is not worth the paper it is’
written on for it gives no protec
t ion to the teacher where pl'otec
i ion is needed. Ii is not a legal:
I contract These are some ol tla
faivesthiit must lie enumerated
1 alongside of the farces of trying
< to cure rural sehool diseases w ith
out striking at tin- mot, the peo
ple. A large number m each com
munity who have ehihlreu hav*
no thought <*f any responsibility
as to having their children edu
Ic.-tted, so have no interest in tln !
building up of schools. This i
the root of the disease, and h
I must he “cut down” by a la* |
! compelling children to go h
'school, and a law that will protect
'the readier in his job, which i- i
j not found ran' operative.
Lvel nnrs.
GREAT CUT-PRICE SALE
TO BEGIN MAT 4TH
One of the greatest cut-prio
I-ales ever inaugurated in Mt.Wr
non will be opened to the tradue,
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public on Monday, May the Ith
and will continue from day to da;
for lb days.
Mr, S*-ga 11 is the man who ha
arranged for this big sal*-, an.
.when you visit ins store you wii j
find the goods and prices just *
ad vert ised. lie will lake | leas n
jin showing you through his im
mens** stock . Remember tn* pi a •
the White Store (McNutt <».*
;«t and ) Ml. Vernon. ,
v $
yj OFFICIAL OROAM
ft OF «
i\ MONTGOMERY >3
COUNTY. $
I SI.OO PER YEAR
THE COUNTY FAIR
MUST BE HELD.
I'.dilor Monitor:—ln regard to
i Till’s suggest idh of a county fair,
j please allow ,'me to sav that there
is no kind of institution or exhi
bition than can well In* -uibstilu
(t d for « real county fair—a fair
that will show tin* development
el the agricultural, dairying and
i-tock raising kindred interests of
j tin* county. Let the people show
what they cun make anil their ex
hibits will count tor something.
A nninty's wealth depends upon
its maiiifestat ions ol pride and
general interests to a great extent-.
\ ppea ranee go a long wavs and
ale <d great value. But how can
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people find out t he t rue eoudit ion
of any sect.ion unless they are
properly advert isral?
We learn I lungs hy contact with
people who have things. We gain
information hy mingling with
those who are versed in the many
callings. A county fair would
bring together the host farmers in
the count v, with results oflluir
skill and labors ; and the exchange
of ideas is always profitable.
I ii ndei'sl and t hat thin I'a i r
would be primarily for
• • i'k of tiie county; however, every
loyal cii ixen should lake a keen
interest in an enterprise of this
charnel or Wo must have the
best information possible as io
corn, cotton, potatoes and the
Ix'sl breeds of cut I le. The ladies
can contribute a great deal to the
MieeosK of a fair, county or state
or county: and w<* feel sure the
good ladies ladies of Montgomery
would co-operate w it h a movement
o| l hi- kind. Wlum t In* people of
■i county take the proper interest
in i t iir it can la* made a success.
Let’s lium* a county fair this
fall. It can bo made the itiosl
interesting # vent ever celebrated
in Montgomery county. Y<-s,
It-i •* have a county fair.
Ymi is tml v, 11. R. Turner.
Savings nt Sii<li«*.
>'}»*-rial * ’ »i t *"»|uuihi »tr<\
The ground has been well sea
-oned by recent rains.
The K,aster egg limit ami school
'•v-reisi-s given by I be Sadie school
weic great ly enjoyed.
The ball game which came after
the egg hunt wns very interesting
to all present.
Mis- Alice Brown a charming
young ladv of Scotland has been
-pending a week pleasantly with
ier friend Miss Lillie 11 iirsey. M ins
Brown lias made nun y friends in
uir midst, ail of whom will be
, glad to have- her visit Sadie often.
(ming to “(forle.” scorns to be
he pleasure of t he day.
We are glad to see one ot our
young friends driving a double
team these lonely Sundays.
Lester Sharpe Misses Biown,
lur-ey and Sharpe spent a plea.s
■nt day aL larngpond Sunday.
We’ve had several of the Long
’ond boys in our community re
ently. They are welcome, and
i ,e ho|H- to have them with us
: 'ft.en.
Mi-s Ila McLeinore and brother
f Mt. Yernon >»[s:ni Saturday
ght the gmst of Miss Ruth
.ankford.
Messrs. I'atricand Hagan spent,
•uudav very pleasantly at Lite
mine of Mr. Mu'hew Sharpe’s.
Mockim. Bum.
If vnu want the broad sail r we
ive them. Mrs, C. V\ . Fox. Mt,
, Yernon,
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