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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1911)
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Erit.-r.-il at (Ik- PoKf.ofl'ntc it: Mt. Vernon, Ga. aw riijcomi-Clasfc Mail Matter. H B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. Si a Year, in Advance. in'll* M 'stl Htlv«r»tin* menu moffi invariably be paid in advance, at the rate, and an the law direct*'; and m«ut be in band not later than Wedneadav rnornin# of the flrat week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, MAY 18, 1911. Dublin did herself proud in the splendid automobile races held thereon the 10th inst. Thisevent was a perfect success, and will reflect credit on Dublin, as a city that succeeds. They had planned fora successful meet. The out come was beyond their expecta tion, and naturally paves the way for other events of this class, even on a grander scale. That the automobile has come to stay cannot he doubted. All the large factories are working overtime, and can scarcely fill the demand for the festive car. It is said that more that 780,000 machines were registered in cap itals of the states on May Ist. New York leading with 70,000 machines in use. Fifteen states have more than 10,000 each of invincible benzine buggies, arid each year sees the number rap idly increase. With many now it is a question of horse or ma chine, hut with the poor man it is a matter 6f doing without either. Get in line for the highway from Atlanta to Savannah, b.\ way of Soperton, Mt. Vernon, Ailey and Vidalia. A little ef fort on the part of those along the line will assure this route. Scout car will leave Dublin on the 22d inst. to survey this route. Whether you own a machine or not, do not be afraid to join a movement which he of untold benefit to the county. Machine owners will not he the only class of citizens benefited by a system of good roods, and one good road means a gradual upbuilding of the system. Get to work, and insist on the highway extending through Montgomery county, one of the best counties between Atlanta and Savannah. BIG COMMENCEMENT FOR SOUTH GEORGIA COLLEGE Mcßae, Ga.. May 15. The commencement exercises of the South Georgia College will be particularly noteworthy because of tin* special preparations to celebrate the twentieth anniver sary of the establishment of the institution. i The executive board has been busily engaged in raising a ' Twentieth Anniversary Fund” which is to he used in the erec tion of a big dormitory for girls. Every subscription of $1 or more is being recorded in a big book known as “The Twentieth Anni versary Celebration Book,” which is to he preserved among the archives of the college. The dormitory for girls is badly need ed. and will largely increase the, attendance when completed. The l>oys are well provided for. The past year has been un usually prosperous in point of at tendance and in the work ac complished. There will be tw enty one graduates in the literary de partment. seven in the music de partment and eight in the busi ness department. There have been good classes in expression, art and business. The program for the commence ment exercises is as follows: Sunday. May 28, 11 a. m.. ser mon by Rev. .1. K. Wray. D. !>., of Macon: 8 p. m., sermon by Rev. \\. G. Allabaen; Monday. May 29. 10 a. in., debate be tween the societies: 2 p. in., meeting of the trustees. 8 p. m., concert by the music and ex pression classes: Tuesday, May 30, 9:30 a. ni., celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the college: 8 p. m.. graduating exercises. FOR GEORGIA EDUCATION. Prof. M. L. Brittain, state school commissioner, summarizes the state's educatienal progress in the following card published in Sunday’s Macon Telegraph: For her common schools Geor gia appropriated a quarter of a million dollars more this year than ever before. For 1911-12 the state gives two million and a half for elementary education. The total sum for common school purposes will amount to more than four and a half millions of dollars, the difference between this and the state funds being secured through local taxation. Eleven public high schools in the state added a fourth grade during the past twelve months and Georgia now has sixty-seven four-year high schools. The state now has 301 high schools with courses of from one to four years. Two hundred and fifty live thousand was spent on high school buildings during 1910. An important feature to he observed is that the state now gives sllO,- i DOII a year for the support of the Eleven District Agricultural High Schools; 160 of the 301 ; secondary institutions offer ten to Sixteen Carnegie units for en trance to college. Seven hun dred and fifty-four pupils finish ed the regularly accredited high schools of Georgia last year. The state legislature amended jthe constitution at the 1910 ses sion, removing the restriction upon common school funds to elementary educaton. In con sequence rural communities, as well as urban, may now have high schools by vote of the peo ple. The regular appropriations were made for the maintenance of the various state institutions by the last legislature, and in addition $70,000 was appropria ted for special purposes to the Georgia Normal and Industrial College and the Georgia School >f Technology. The denomina tional colleges of the state have rrcently shown marked interest in securing educational endow-! ment, especially is this true of Wesleyan, Bessie Tift and Short-1 er. Mention should also be made of the enthusiasm and activity displayed in the Boys’ Corn Club work in charge of Prof. J. Phil | Campbell. Prof. R. 11. Powell, through the kindness of the! Peabody board is an effective addition to the state workers in the field of rural school super vision. THE SPARROW MAN DIES AT EIGHTY-FIVE. Macon. Ga., May 13. News h;is reached the city of the death in Tampa. Fla., of Colonel .1. W. Aderhold. who was for many years a resident of Macon. He died at the age of 85 years, leav ing a son and a daughter, both of Tampa. Colonel Aderhold is recalled by the older citizens as the man who introduced the common street sparrow to Macon and who is primarily responsible for the existence here today of countless thousands of the little birds. In 1878 he returned from Eng land, bringing with him six of the noted English sparrows. They were the first ever seen in Macon. They were turned loose and they made their nests in the ivy of the old First Baptist church, long since torn down, on Second street. In the next five years Macon was the home of hundreds of spa rows and today there are thousands here. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THCRSDAY, MAY 18, 1911. CORDELE TEACHER ASKS TRIAL BY JURY. Cordele, Ga., May 47.—A court case that is being watched with much interest in Cordele is that of a charge of assault and battery against Superintendent Scarboro, of the O’Neal High 'school, of this city. Little more than a month ago he was ar rested on a warrant sw'orn out by B. T. Dumas, charging as sault and battery upon the per son of his 13-year-old son. Stan- I ley 4 lumas, it being alleged that Professor Scarboro had whipped him repeatedly and unmerciful i ly ‘ At a rather sensational hearing of the case before .Justice H. M. Campbell, attened by several of the lady teachers of the school as witnesses and scores of inter ested spectators, Professor Scarboro was bound over to the j city court on a bond of SIOO. He; waived trial by jury and the case; was set for hearing Saturday be-, fore Judge E. F. Strozier, of the city court. Upon the calling of the case an objection was raised by J. T. Jeter, prosecutor’s attorney, to it being tried by the court and | requesting that it he tried by a; jury, the objection being based j on a question involving a point of law and fact relative to the! jurisdictiction of the judge to postpone the hearing. The court ordered that it be set for hearing before a jury at j the regular June term. FOR A GEORGIA STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.! Savannah, Ga., May 13. - The “booster car” for the proposed; State Chamber of Commerce, with William Wakefield and R. , A. Stafford, of Barnesville, | aboard, rolled into Savannah Fri-, day night twelve hours ahead of j schedule. Within a week the party has made a tour from Barnesville, ; stopping at three cities and! boosting their plan for a State j Chamber of Commerce and the j convention to be held at Barnes ville, July 19 and 20. Every- j where the “boosters” have been j met with a spirit of cordiality! and co-operation. This morning the two men! visited the Savannah Chamber of! Commerce and other commercial bodies with a view to interest ing them in the project. The campaign for a state commercial organization has met with sup-; port in all the towns visited, and I has also received the approval of the Georgia delegation in con-1 gress. The name of Joseph F. Gray, vice president and executive of- j fiver of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce, has been suggest- j ed for the presidency of the state organization. Colonel Staf- j ford left the party here and re turned to Barnesville today. Mayor T. W. Cochrane and Colonel J. W. Garland joined, Wakefield, and will continue on to Brunswick. Way cross and > south Georgia with him. PEACH GROWERS LOSE, Washington, May 12. Under a decision handed down by the interstate commerce commission today, railroads engaged in the transportation of the Georgia peach crop to the north and west will not lie required to reduce the number of crates in refrigerator cars below 535. The Georgia Fruit Exchange had urged a maximum of 448 crates on the ground that it was impossible thoroughly to refrig erate cars containing a larger number. The commission sug gests that the fruit should be pre-cooled before shipment. (’otton Seed Tor Sale. Toole’s and Harding’s Prolific Cotter Seed at SI.OO per bushel. See me at once. 1). S. Williamson, ts. Uvalda, Ga. FORT VALLEY TO HAVE GEORGIA EPWORTH LEAGUERS. Fort Valley, Ga., May 17. - The Great South Georgia Epworth League conference, which meets here the first week in June is ex pected to prove one of the great est gatherings of religious work ers that this section has ever known. There will be in atten dance between fourand five hun dred delegates and visitors. The local chapter of the Ep worth League is getting every thing in readiness for their en tertainment. Dr. H. M. Dußose, of Augusta, will preach the open ing sermon; Rev. J. M. Cul breath, of Nashville, will conduct the Bible studies, and Professor E. A. Pound, of Waycross, and ! Hon. Dupont Guerry will deliver addresses. Bishop Warren A. Candler will preach the confer ence sermon. THE LLOYD BILL. Washington, May 13. The second session of the committee on civil service reform (house) met and continued its hearings on the Lloyd bill, which provides specifically that department of ficials shall have no right to de mote, discharge or interfere with employes simply for the reason that they are members of labor organizations. Secretary Morri son of the American Federation of Labor occupied the entire moring hour in presenting a mass j of evidence to show that the rail way mail clerks in various parts of the country had been reduced in rank discharged and otherwise discriminated against. Nearly a full attendance of the commit tee was present. Second Assis tant Postmaster General Stewart was also present, but upon the conclusion of Secretary Morri son’s presentation the house was ready to convene and committee adjourned to meet later in the week when further hearings will be had. Indications point to a thorough investigation into the attitude of the department in reference to the mail clerks, and it may be extended to cover the entire operation of the depart ment. KILLED IN FLORIDA. Tallahassee, Fla., May 13. After testifying against a negro, Jerry Guster, in the Miceosukee justice of peace court, B. B. Smith was shot and instantly killed and J. C. Register was wounded in the legs and arms by a band of ten negroes near Wadesboro Friday afternoon. Both Smith and Register are white mill men and were return ing from the trial which had ac quitted the negro. When pass ing near the house of some ne groes, one came out saying that the road ahead was closed and asked them to drive around another direction. This they did and drove right into the trap which had been set for them. Hardly had the white men real ized their danger before the firing commenced. They jump ed from the buggy. Smith was shot thru the body with a load of lead slugs from a shotgun as soon as he drew his pistol. Register, unarmed, took refuge behind a post and received several severe wounds. After the shooting the negroes guarded the body of the dead man. refus ing to allow his comrade to come near, and did not give up the body nor arms until Deputy Sheriff John Moody and Pickens Lewis, with a possee, arrived. Six negroes were at the house when the officers arrived. They were barricaded and ready to fight, but. after seeing the offi cers and the size of the posse, surrendered and were brought to jail here this morning at 2 o’clock. Jerry Guster, leader of the band: PM Norris. Jake Norris, Mark Norris, Matthew Norris and another negro are in jail, and a search is being made for the other four. 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