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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1909)
WILL SOON NAME HARRIMAN’S SUCCESSOR. “Robert .S. Lovett will do just as well as head of the railroad system recently controlled by the Edward H. Harriman interests as| the railroad king himself, in ease he is named to succeed Mr. Harn man as now seems evident.” Such was the statement made by Edgar Watkins, of the law firm of Wimbish, Watkins A Ellis, Saturday. Mr. Watkins) was associated with Lovett m several Texas cities as attorney for different railroads and lias great faith in the ability of the Texan who is about to rise to such a high place in the railroad world. “At the age of lb, Mr. Lovett started out earning his own liv ing and is a self-made man in every sense of the wprd,” con tinued Mr. Watkins. “At 20 he I began reading law by himself and ) a short time later was admitted to the bar in Sanjacinto county, Texas. From the time lie was, admitted to the bar his rise has i been phenomenal. “While very young he was) named local attorney for the i Houston East and West Texas j railroad and in this capacity at-1 tracted so much attention that he was made division counsel f<»r the Texas and Pacific with head quarters at Dallas. When Hun tington controlled m Texas, Lov ett was made general counsel for the entire Southern Pacific sys tem in Texas. Fie was at that time with the law firm of Baker, Butts Baker Sr. Lovett, which was recognized as one of the leading! law firms in the state. “Mr. Lovett remained in Texas until Edward IF. Harriman came into the control of the Southern i Pacific and he was then taken to New York as Mr. Harnman’s per sonal counsel at a reported salary of $250,000 a year. This was his first connection with the interests ' of the railroad king but he made j good from the start. By his strict J business methods and liin thor ough knowledge of the railroad J systems of the country he proved ) a valuable help to Mr. Harriman. Mr. Lovett is at present president of the Houston and Texas Central j THE BANK OF SOPERTON. I Capital Stock, $15,000.00 1 Surplus and undivided \ 1 profits $0,500.00 1 Total resources over $100,000.00 |j x General Banking Business Cbndueted. Accounts Solicited, ;i; ft. _ 11 Ii Interest on Time Deposits. i DIRECTORS: :j:j : X. L. Gill is, M. B. oTTlis, J. B. O’Conner, \V. C. Futrill, ij;j W. D.'Mnrtin, M. H. Newsom, A. J. Williamson. . OFFICERS: |i X. L. Gillis. President. J. 15. O’Conner, Vice-President. * J. E. Hall, Cashier. f: I sopektox, Georgia. j 1 SEABOARD 1 AIR LINE R’Y. j[ These arrivals and departures published only ;i« !; information, and are not guaranteed. jj Schedule Effective January 1009. j| jt I,V. Mt. VERNON ALT. TWAINS DAILY. 110:28 a. m. For Helena, Abbevrlle, Cordele, Americas, Columbus, ]l 8:22 p. m. Montgomery, and all points west, ij o :47 a. m. For Lyons, Collins, Savannah, 1' 4:->o p. m. and all points east. !; For further information, reservations, rates, etc., see your ;! nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent, or write K. H. STAX'S ELL, A. G. P. A., jj Savannah, .... ... Gkokoia. ................... ........a..... which runs from Houston to Dal -1 las. “Robert S. Lovett is a quiet, nnasuming man and au excellent lawyer. He is the greatest to- ! bacco chewer 1 ever came in con- I tact with, Manager Billy Smith of the local baseball club not ranking one, two, three with him. “It was while in Texas that Mr. Lovett married Miss Abercrombie the daughter of a well known Tex- j las lawyer. He has one child, a | boy about US years of age. Mr. ) Lovett is about 19 years of age j but looks much younger. He was one of the most popular lawyers in Texas and all are glad to learn that he is to succeed the railroad i king. “I was convinced on Saturday j S morning that Mr. Lovett would succeed Mr. Harriman when li noticed a dispatch in a Houston i paper. It. was in the nature of a l personal telegram from Mr. Lov ett to vice president Thornwall Fay. of the Southern Pacific road, telling of the death of Mr. Harri : man.” Edgar Watkins served as spe cial counsel for the Southern Pa ! c'.fic under Lovett and in this ca pacity was thrown with him on , many occasions. He is not at all 'surprised at the rapid rise of the | iyoung Texan. RFLE NISI. ; State of Georgia -Montgomery County. In the Superior Court, November Term, 1007. The Mr. Vernon Rank vs R. L. Smith. It bring represented to the Court by the i , petition of the Mt. Vernon bank an &MHignee , of X. li. < lihhs. that by deed of mortgage dated I theßt4i din of September. 1!K»7. IV L. Smith eonveyed to the said X. Is. <Jil>l»H, assignor of j The Mt Vernon Rank, all that eertain tract or j pan el ot land situate, lying and being in tlie | I COOtti dist. G. M • of Montgomery Co.,(*a., and j in the Sixth land district of Montgomery Co.. | and known and distinguished as one-half of Rot No. One Hundred and Five (105) and containing One Hundred and One and One- Half acres, for the ) nrpoHC of securing the payment of a certain not* made by the said li. L. Smith to the said X. li. Gibbs as assignor of The Mt. Vernon Rank, due on the Ist day of October, 1907, for the sum of i #260, principal, eight per cent, interest and j ten per cent., attorney’s fees, which amours are now due and unpaid. It is ordered that the said R. L. Smith do pay into this#'«»iirt by the ti*st day of the next term the principal, interest, and cost due on said mortgage indebtedness, or show cause, it any he has to the contrary, or that in default | thereof foreclosure he "ranted to the said The 1/t. Vernon Rank of said mortgage, anfl tin ! equity of redemption of the said li. I*. Smith I therein he forever barred, and that service of this rub* Uc perfected on said R. L. Smith hc -1 « oiling to lavv. In open court, Mav 12, 1909. J. H. MARTIN. J. .S’. C. O. .1. < ’. A true copy of the minutes of this court. J. C. (’allnum, Clerk. Entered on minutes No. 11. page 197. Re corded on minutes No. 5—361. .1. R. (it iger, Attorney for The Mt. Vernon ) Rank, THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1900. TAMING WASPS. Th« Way One Woman Managed to Make Pets of the Insects. Directly 1 ea roll wasps 1 give ; them honev from my hand and I lion 1 plaoo thorn in a largo glass jar mid \ loave thorn to themselves for se\ ora! hours. By that time they arc generally hungry again, so. nncov- j •■ring the jar, 1 put ni\ hand in with some honey on it. As soon j as thev are eoinl’ortahly settled on ■ it 1 withdraw my hand slowly from | the jar. so that on flying ofl' after their meal they find themselves in free spaee. -The first things to he explored are the windows, and then. , when tliev have quite satisfied them- ( selves that they etui not get through the glass, they fly about the room, j alighting first on this object, then | on that, until 1 catch them and re ) place t Item in their home. The j easiest way to catch them to begin ! with is by inclosing them with one's I hands as they are flying. Later on I thev get so accustomed to this that | thev will dodge about in the clever ' cm manner and refuse to be caught in iliis way, but us by that time they are generally sufficiently tinned to be picked up gently between the finger and thumb it does not mat- ; ter. If they are never fed except from the hand they soon come to know their feeder, and all my wasps , when loose ill the room would fly , on to niv hand if they were hungry and refuse to go away from it until fed. As an example of these erea- j I hires' intelligence 1 would quote ! ihc following instance: * hie wasp that ! had for some time and that I was exceedingly tame used to he j loose in niv room constantly, and j she was so clever at (lodging me when 1 tried to catch her to put her ! ) home that I resorted to the ruse ol i placing a piece of him* stuff in front j of her so that when she imsuspecl | inglv walked on it I could drop both . : it and her into her home. After a time she learned this \ and would on no account gel on t<> i the stuff. Suppose she was walk- j ing toward the north. Directly I . put the stulT in front of her she! would wheel around to the south and go off in that direction, but no sooner bad I altered the cloth than she was around again to the north. She knew that piece of blue stuM meant home, and so she would have nothing to do with it. This same wasp would often creep down j niv neck iiifide my collar and then go to sleep there, and on several occasions I nearly lost her in this way, for I would forget completely about tier and on one occasion,actu ally went out of the bouse before I remembered. — Mavaie Black-J law - kins in National Review. Doe* Not Play Them Now. There was once a man who was very fond of playing practical jokes, ■ but stammered very badly. One day j lie was walking with a friend by the j Thames, when they met an Irish I sailor with an Indian parrot in a cage. “W-watch me,” said the joker; “I w-will have some f-fun w-w-with j this rn-nian.” Stopping the sailor, lie asked, : “M-in-my good m-inan, c-ean that I p-p-p-parrot talk!'" | "Well” said the Irish sailor, “if j i he couldn't talk any better than you j can I'd wring his bloomin’ neck.” Contraband. A lady crossing from France to England was asked by the customs l officer if she had anything dutiable. J She assured him that she had noth ing but wearing apparel in her trunks. But at the bottom of the largest one, which to him seemed the most suspicious, were found \ twelve bottles of brandy. “Madam,” said the officer sareas- ; tieallv, “do you call these wearing ! apparel?" . “Certainly,” she replied sweetly. “Those are rny husband s night caps.” —New York Journal. "Selected Self Made This Ink.” A CFiinese newspaper contains ; the following advertisement of a ! local ink manufacturer: “At the shop Tae Siting (‘Prosperous in the extreme'), very good ink. line! line! Ancient shop, great grand father, grandfather, father, very hard; picked with care, selected sell made this ink. Fine and bard, with attention. The ink is heavy; so i gold. The eves of the dragon glit ter ami dazzle; so does this ink. No one makes like it.”—Shanghai Fou rier. Went Him One Better. Several of the scholar- bad re turned to Sunday school rf'er be ing absent some weeks on account of illness. “I had the mumps, -aid one. “So did I.’ -aid another. The superintendent heard them and. ad , dressing a curly headed boy. said’ “Well. Charlie, you were a brent too. What did yon have?” Charlie's face flushed. He thought a moment and then sang out in high treble. “1 had a little brtid dei!"—Louisville Tune.. RACCOON TACTICS. ' Effort* of Ona of the Animal* to Open Its Feed Box. That animals do not reason is the < uncompromising ennclusion reached J hv Mr. K. T. Brewster in an article I printed in McClure’s Magazine. In- j i idcntally In* finds that men do not j ; often reason and that many of the j I processes which they dignify by that 1 word are not reasoning at all. Some ; of the experiments on which his ; conclusions rest are amusing as well | as instructive this one, for in- . stance, with a raccoon : Tin* animal was fed from a box j with an outward swinging door, I which Ik* learned to open in one sec- I ond after it had been fastened by a j bolt on the left side. The bolt was j removed and the door closed by a I lever on the right side. Imagine'! for a moment what a man would j do. then compare this wtli what 1 | the coon did. ! Although the bolt bad been re- 1 moved, the coon continued to work ; away at the place* where it had ! been. Irving to push something ! ' where nothing was. He rolled over j ami over in the violence of hi< es j forts until he actually stood on his j head to work. Then hy accident In | left foot slipped oil' the corner of ! the box and. hitting the lever, re ; leased the door. i' The next time he was hungry, | ' like a wise coon, hut not like a wise i man, he got in front of the box. stood on bis bead and pawed the corner of the box until bis loot slipped again. Kiglit times he fol*,! [lowed this procedure; then lie dis -1 covered that, after his him! foot : 'struck the lever, an added push i with his lore paws helped to expe dite matters. At the twenty-eighth | | trial he discovered that standing on his head was not an essential part of the process. Nevertheless lie , still persisted in putting his hind | foot oil tin* lever before pushing it j down with his fore paws. In short, the coon hit upon the I proper action by pure v accident, j Then, being a clever little beast. In* j kept repeating as many of these j random movements as lie could re 1 member. Being clever, be used bis i band to help out his foot. Being ! I also scatterbrained, he forgot on the i ' twenty-eighth attempt to stand on Ids head. Obviously the coon did not rea j ! son. Vet if the right man had seen j him for the first time when he was making the hundredth trial and after he had forgotten to stand on I his head and forgotten to use three ; paws and forgotten everything else j except to put out one hand and i push, what a story it would have made! Clemency In Duration. A notorious burglar was recently | tried. Among Ids counsel, was a j young attorney, for whom, despite ! his youth and inexperience, the ue j eused had acquired a great, liking ! and whom he hud insisted on re taining to assist in the defense. “About hotv long do you.think 1 ought to make my speech to the jury?” asked the youthful expound er of the law to associate counsel. “1 should sav about two hours,'' ( i suggested the other. “Two hours! “Why,” exclainied j the young attorney, “1 thought that '• [ half an hour would be quite ku Mi - 1 eient.” “It’s this way.” explained tin* other lawyer. “They can’t sentence him until you’ve finished, and, of <•our.se, tin* longer you talk the longer lie’ll be out of jail.”—liar per's Weekly. The Better Book. Grant Allen was sitting one day ; under the shade of the sphinx, turn ing for some Jb-tlv point ol detail j to his Baedeker. A sheik looked at him sadly and shook his head. “Murray good,” he -aid in a solemn voice of warning. ‘Baedeker no good. What for you , use Baedeker?” “NO. no. Baedeker is best,” an- j swered Mr. Allen. “Why do you ! object. I<> Baedeker?” The sheik crossed his hands and I looked down on him with the pity ing eyes of Islam. “Baedeker had book.” lie repeated. “Murray very, j I verv good. Murray say, ‘Hive the sheik half a crown.’ Baedeker say, ‘(live the sheik a shilling.*” Nearly Sold Out. A country man was enjoying his I fiivt visit to London. He strolled about the streets and gazed with wonder and admiration at tin* shop windows. Soon tie came to a lawyer -office, i where, of course, there was nothing [ for sale. This surprised liiiri, so he opened the door and walked in. In the room sat two clerks hard at work writing. “What do you sol! here?” asked the countryman. One of the clerks, thinking to get ; some fun out of the visitor, replied,' “Fools.” “You roust have had a quick sale, then, to have only two left,” retort j ed the countryman. | | John 11. Hunter, Win. K* Pearce, Frank C. 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Talcum : * . £ ♦ to Fuse the 11 <* 1 1 ill * Caused hy | Heat | We Have ALL the Lending Brands £ % * MENNEN’S VIOLETTE % * COLGATE’S VIOLET % * [COLGATE’S CASHMEAE BOUQUET * -jji All the Cheaper Varieties, together % with the Lest Assortment ol & % TOILET ARTICLES I I MT. VERNON DRUG CO. I i £- JAS. K. CIRRI IC, Mon ft*****************'**'*****'* ft Does it Pay? OF COURSE IT DOES! The* above question is frequently jj ji asked in regard to judieious advertising, jj j The answer is always the same—OF jj [i ('(HUSK IT DOI'.S ! We do not mean hy this to say jj j; all advertising pays, hut we do say that jj jj J r DICIOI'S A I)V DRTISI N<jJ pays and || ij pays handsomely. II yon expect your |j ji “ads” to bring results you must get ji them before the people—place them in ji puhlieat ions w hich are subscribed to and jj jj paid for hy the best class of people* in jj the territory when* they circulate. THE MONITOR Belongs to this class, and besides, it is :j | an All-1 lonic-Print, and we are in po- jj I sit ion to guarantee our patrons results, jj RAI DS reasonable, and will he jj furnished on application, v vjj The Montgomery Monitor and the Savannah j Semi-Weekly News, one year, 81.70 .
