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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1909)
" MTI lr '" I Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERV THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Kntered at Hie PostofTlce in Ms. Vernon, ns Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Prop. $i a Year, in Advance. •w-LkM nlvtrtwcineiiU niiint invariably bo |mid m advance, at the legal rate, ami aa the law direct*; and mnat be in band not later than Wtdneadav morning of the tlrat week of inaertion Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, March 18, 1909. And- now Ex-President Roose velt has turned out to he nit edi tor. We supposed his greatness would continue to develop. They say the wild animals will get Teddy in Africa; but Teddy is able to do anything from charm ing a glass snake to harnessing a hippopotamus, and will ho “dee lightod” to meet any of them. Even a fool may not err in the i idea that liduor is a curse, anil j the ever-roady pistol a deceiving second. Their deadly effects can be seen at our very doors, and yet many of young men pay but heed j to the terrible results of the two great evils appearing before them. The Philadelphia Record the other day carried a soulful story of how a happy mother-in-law broke up a happy home hy mak ing herself too Imsy about her daughter’s business. The only thing interesting in connection with the whole matter is that it carries out tho idea of the mother-in-law being a butter in where she isn't wanted. But the frozen truth is that tlioro ure lew mothers-in-lnw of that sort. —Savannah Press. Those who have studied the tariff question advance the same time worn opinion that its revision will only increase tho hourdod wealth of certain corporations, and that neither tho government or the common people will reap one iontii of benefit from it. The fact that tho United States government is and has been for years robbing itself in behalf of certain corpora tions is too well known for any sensible and well-read man to dispute. To the victors belong tlie spoils, and so it goes. ILLITERACY DECREASING. The report of the state school commisioner shows that there has been a substantial decrease in the percentage of illiteracy during the past five years among the children of school age in Georgia. According to those figures it is seen that, there were eighty-four thousand throe hundred and eighty illiterates out of a total populat ion of seven hundred and I thirty-fiye thousand four hundred anq seventy-one children of school age, which is to say that the per centage of illiteracy among Georgia children over the age of ton—below which age they can not. he regarded as illiterate —is eleven and a half per cent of the total number of chidfen between six and eighteen years of ngo. This is an unfortunate condi tion, of course, but the facts show nevertheless, that tho illiteracy of children of school age in Georgia has decreased one and six-tenths per cent during the past five years This is an encouraging sign of tho times, but there is yet work to do in tlie matter of educating our children. We cannot bring about that regeneration of our ( state materially and esthetic-ally to which wo are entitled until we hu\‘e given greater attention and more liberal assistance to the cause of education. We should now determine that the next live years shall show a still greater reduction in illi teracy than during the past five year period. A TOUCHING TRAGEDY. It is with a feeling of sadness and in a spirit of charity that we j speak of the tragedy that has I caused u pull of sorrow to be cast over our city. Never, perhaps, in the history of our city has an event occnrerd that caused such general sorrow und regret. We refer to the tragedy of I Monday morning, when two of our prominent citizens, Mr. W. L. Darby and Mr. O. G. Moore, be came involved in a diffculty which resulted in Mr. Moore’s death. It is not the purpose of this article to deal with the facts of this lamentable tragedy or the causes leading up to it, hut with the tragedy itself. Two happy homes, with the lovo und protection of a husband and father, have been made des olate and, heart-aches that time can never efface are results of the net of a moment. Without a thought of approaching disas ter, soenro in the happiness of the present, tho future lives of two families received a wound that will ho curried to the gruvo unheuled. The bitter tears of broken hearts have been mude to flow and tho agonizing cries of blighted lives havo reached the throne of God on high. It is n tragedy of hearts and homes, and a 1 feeling of utteruble sadness and i sorrow prevails over our]J city to day. A death-deuling pistol 111 the bunds of an open-heared,generous ' Imt impulsive man in a moment of auger—and a fellow man sleeps houenth the sod; while ebon , chains veil the future life of the survivor. All that has peon ac complished in a life of industry and generosity has been sacrificed to the passion of u moment and an ever ready revolver A sentiment of regret pervades censure and our people are united in sympathy for tho fumiles that are bowed in grief.—The Toombs County Local. MAY MAKE REELFOOT LAKE PUBLIC PROPERTY. Union City, Tenu.,March 15. After spending several days at the lake, the committee appointed to report to the legislature on the hill making Reel Foot Lake pub lic property returned lust night. The stockholders company own ing the lake will hold a meeting today and it is expected they will submit a price on the property. CALLAWAY HAS QUIT RAILROAD COMMISSION. Atlanta, March 15.—Fuller K. Callaway ot LaGrange resigned as a member of the state railroad comtuissou today and Mr. Mur phy Candler of DeKalb county was named as his successor. Mr. Callaway resigned so he states in a letter to the Governor because his private business in terests will not permit hiuc giv ing the tiuio to the office it de serves. The Governor expressed j sincere regret in lus letter accept- j ing the resignation. Murphy Candler has been a member ot the general assembly for the past twelve or fifteen years. He was returned to the house at the last election aud had 1 jhe qualified before he would in eligible to appointment to the commission. He is one of the authors of the new railroad com mission law and is recognized as lone of the ablest meu in the pub- S 'lie life of Georgia. THE: MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MAlt. 18, 1900. J A QUEEN OF HEARTS. I “The perfect woman nobly planned,” dreamed of by t lie poets, exists in the Twentieth century, according to the Euro pean press, m the person of the earth-quake heroine— Helene, Queen of Italy. A Berlin journal declares that the Queen combines in herself all the qualities of the great Bible women. She is a rein carnation of Esther in her sur i passing beauty and her devotion jto her people; she is a reproduc tion of Miriam 111 her courage; of Sara 111 her grucious dignity; her moral purity and her loving de deference to her husband, and of Rachel in her affection for her children. With all these traits of historic women, she possesses one quality which is the flower of modem social progress—a broad and active humaniturianism—a desire mid a will to help her fel low-heings. The story of the heroic service she hastened to render the woun ded and tarnished survivors of the Sicilian earthquake disuster was quickly Hashed over the world,but few recalled that on many prior occasions her courage and her humanity had helped to save and succor her stricken people. The courage of the Queen and her physical endurance are almost in credible in one so delicateiy reur ed. For hours she aided 111 the work of extricating the wounded and transporting them on stretch ers, on one occasion rescuing a child by clinbing the walls of u dismgntled hut and releasing the babe which had been pinioned be neath a fallen beam. With com plete mastery of her emotions —mid no evidence of her femi nine hysteria, she moved among the dead and dying, sometimes bruised and trampled by the panic-stricken crowds,showing no token of weakness until after two days of work and fasting she fainted while giving milk to a famishing babe. As showing the dramatic con trasts of her life, the same royal palace near Nuples which two evenings before had been the scene of her birthday celebration, was now transformed into a hos pital for the earthquake sufferers and she who had so lutely pre sided there, her strange classic beauty set off with jewels und lace now moved among the rows of beds and pallets, wearing a plain linen dress and cap, washing and dressing wounds and giving nour ishment prepared under her own supervision. Her simplicity of manner, her forgetfulness of self, the absence of posing in her attitude con stitute her crowning clmrni. No estimate can be made of the value of such an example, on the part of a soverign—a young and beau tiful woman—inspring other dwellers on the heights to deeds of charity, sympathy and fellow ship with those in the humble walks of life.—Mary E. Bryan, in Uncle Remus’s—The Home Magazine for March. Feed Stable. Horses properly fed and cared for at the Hicks stable (formerly 1 Hutcheson’s barn.) Low rates 1 by the month. New and safe | stable. See D. E. Mcßae or Apad Hicks, Mt. Vernon, Ga. Sheriff Sale. GcoibU— M.'ittgonicrr Oi.unty. Will lie siiM bt'Dii ti the cun t house drxw iu Mount V.rnon on the ttmt TuemUy in Ap il, : 1909. between the legtl limn* of „»|«. to tho | his'hi'*t bidder for c**h, certain property, ul i which the follow ini; it* » complete description: i One saw mill mu tit complete, being j known as the D. F. Wat nock & Km. j saw milloutfit, originally containing i one Frick engine 9x12 center link.one i ; firebox. Blips is boiler, one Fuck carriage anil headblock, forty feet of shafting, one Mallory satv mill feed, one sxß Frick engine, two Sim mons saws, cut off saws, belting, etc. j said outfit being now near Sopertoi. on the Ms. Vernon and tdaekvllle i public road, where it may been by prospective purchaser.-. Levied on os the property of L. A. Thigpen and j. S. Phillips to satisfy a certain i execution issued from the e ity j Court of Mount Vernon in favor of j. N. F. Holton vs L. A. Thigpen and |J. S. Phillips. Pointed out by attot- Inev for plaintiff and written notice of levy legally given. This Mar. 10. 1809. James Hester, Sheriff City Court, Mt. Vernon. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR HOMESTEAD . Georgia—Moutgoraery County. John N. (iillis has applied for exemption of personalty and set- j 1 ting apart and valuation of home stead, and I will pass upon same at 10 o’clock a. ni , on the 25th ! day of March, 1909, at my office. Alex McArthur, Ordinary M. C. j CEDAR CROSSING CIRCUIT. Following are the appointments ■; for the Cedar Crossing Circuit: Symyrna, Ist Sunday, 11 u. m. . Caroline, 2d * 11 a. m. . Wesley, 3rd ‘ 11a. m. Harden, 3rd * 8:80 p. m. Cedar Crossing, 4th Sun. 11 a. m. . Cedar Crossing, sth Sun. 11a. m. H. D. Lee, Pastor. Notice. This is to notify all persons not to hire or shelter one Norman Brown, a minor, who is now in Montgomery county. Any one doing so must abide by the con sequences of the law. W. J. Brown, Mclntyre Ga. CITATION. Georgia—Montgomery County. Whereas, S. F. Reynolds, ad ministrator of the estate of Jas. L. Morrison, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and en tered on record, that he has fully administered said estate, this is . therefore to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause it any they can why said administrator should not be discharged from his admistration and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in April,l9o9. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Libel For Divorce. ! Georgia—Montgomery County. Nettie C.Ayres vs Harold W.Ayres. Complaint for Divorce. The defend * ant, Harold W. Ayres, is hereby re quired personally, or by attorney, to be and appear at the superior court , of Montgomery county, to be held in and for said county on the first Mon day in May, 1909, next, then and there to answer the plaintiff’s de i matul in an action of complaint, as i in default thereof I lie court will pro ceed as to justice shall appertain. Witness the Honorable J. H. Martin, i judge of said court, this 19th day of , January, 1909. Win. B. Kent, att’y for pl’ff. ROAD NOTICE. Georg i a—Mon tgome ry County. Alex Downie and others having applied for the opening and estab lishment of a new public road, commencing at point on the Long- j pond and Nail’s Ferry road at the 1 place of Carl McAllister and run ; ning in the direction of the War ren Conner old place to the new railroad and thence in an easterly direction to the Toombs county line. From the railroad one part of said road will run in a south westerly direction to the place of John B. Conner. Proposed road having been reviewed by proper authorities, application will be granted on the first Monday in April next if no good cause he show n to the contrary. This Mar 2d, 1909. J. F. Sikes, Clir. Board Co Corns. Sheri AT Sale. Georgia -Montgomery County. Will bo sold before the court house door in Ml. Vernon on the tirat Tuesday in April,! IDO9, between the legal houra of sale, to the j Inchest bidder for cash, certain property, of ! whieli the following is a complete description: J ; One certain top buggy, none liorsc wagon 1 | and a certain mouse colored horse mule, j ; named Hob. Levied upon aa the property of Louisa Horne to satisfy a mortgage ti fa ' issued from the City Court of Mt. Vernon in : favor of l>. A. Sapp and G. If. and K. E. Pon | dor vs Izuiiaa Horn. Property in possession I of defendant, levy made and returned to me by F E. Forrester, deputy, and written notice • lof lew given in terms of the law. This the jd day ut March, l'JOi). James He«tcr, | Sheriff Citv Court Mt. Vcruon. Wooten A Mann, Attys. for Plffa. Sheriff Sale. ; Georgia—Montgomery County. Will Ih« told before the court house door in j Mt. Vernon on flit* that Tuesday in April, : 19U9. Iw twren the legal hours us sale, to the highest bidder for cash, curtain property, of j ! which the folio* ing is a complete aiscripiion: 1 One certain saw mill outfit, consisting of one j boiler and engine, one shingle machifie, oue drag *uvv. one bolting and one stand, ] shailing, pulleys, and all fixtures. Said outfit four nules north Erick, Uh. Levied upon as the property of J. 2. Kiuchen to satisfy two i lien hu eckwure* issued from the City Court of Mclt«e Oue in favor ot E. L. Kinchen vs Jf E. Kioeheu and oue in favor ot M. K. Kin- I then va J E. Kioeheu. Levy made and rt tumed to me by F- E. Forrtstei. deputy, and I written of lew given defendant iu poa sesaion. This the 2d day of March, 190A Jam* s Healer, Sheriff Jrf. C. VYo»»txu A Mann, Ally*, IVm* Piffs. 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On about 8 acres we expect to make about 2 bales to the acre, and an estimate of adjoining farms not so fer tilized and under other cultural methods, will yield only 1 bait- to five acres.” An interesting picture of the cotton plants referred to will be found in the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers’ Year Book, copy of which may be had from your fertilizer dealer, or will be sent free, if you write our nearest sales office. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Sales Offices Sales Offices Columbia, S. C. [Wnla-Camijna|B Balt more, Md. Savannah, Ga. . Cf>. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. HERE'S your CHANCE Order by .Mail I Largest stock MEN’S CLOTHING j in er\tire Souths i|| NOW OFFERED AT !ji | GREATLY REDUCED PRICES SUITS OVERCOATS RAINCOATS j 1 810 to 13.50 815 to 818 I 820 to 825 ! jjj VALLES VALUES VALUES ;l; I $6.95 SIO.OO $15.00 ! B. H. Levy Bro. & Co., 1 SAVANNAH. 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