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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1911)
Wc\t iflmttijnmrn] iHintttnr. VOL. XXVI. U. B. I. CLOSES SPRING TERM. The commencement exercises of the Union Baptist Institute j came to a close Monday morning ! last, and this brought to a close the most successful term of the school since its foundation. It is well known that the school has been greatly incon venienced by the recent burning of its diniug hall, but this did not detract from the 'success of I the occasion, as all the visitors and friends were cared for in the I usual complete manner, and a full program was carried out. Exercises began Friday eve ning with an entertainment by the pupils of the departments of Expression and Music. This was greatly enjoyed, and the pupils of these departments showed evidences of careful training. Saturday morning was devo ted to a brilliant program by the senior class. Saturday evening witnessed the annual debate between speakers from the Pythian and Damon Literary Societies. This debate has attracted unusual at tention for several terms, and on this occasion the. audi torum was well filled. The ques tion, “Resolved, That the Fif teenth Amendment to the Con stitution of the United States Should be Repealed, ” was ably discussed. Speakers for the Af firmative were Mr. Julian Peter son and Miss Annie Ingraham,of the Damon Society, while Mr, Leroy Cowart and Miss Mary Coleman, of the negative, were chosen from the Pythians. The decision was given in favor of j.he Pythians. This society was i victorious in the debate last year, ! and strong but friendly rivalry I has existed between the two Since their organization. The regular commencement sermon was delivered by Rev. S. J. Parrish, pastor of the East-! man Baptist church, Sunday rnorning. This was a powerful aerrnon, and was heard by a j crowded house. In the evening Mr. Parrish delivered a mission ary sermon in the auditorium. The baccalaureate address Monday morning by Col. David Parker of Baxley was truly one pf the charming features qf the week's exercise. He is a grace ful speaker, and a full House was delighted by him on this occasion. The Man I I earS Good | Yy/ff J Clothes ! (// ■ ALWAYS | p * MAKES A HIT. j I He Makes a Hit With Himself | a Because Os The Satisfaction Derived jo 8 r. G n« & From Being As Well Dressed As His jo Neighbor, And Is Sure To Make A Hit T With Some-One Else—Whereby The > j;-: S 8 Home Run Is Scored. j? | 1 |WE SELL GOOD CLOTHES! | y S I i I McRAE & BROTHER, | I MT. VEUNON, GA. I s is S 2e Mr. Parker is a son of Judge Thos. A. Parker of the Waycross i Judicial Circuit. He is remem bered as one of the judges of the j last debate between the Damons and Pythians. All of the exercises were large ly attended, and may visitors were present from a distance. The trustees, with representa tives from the several counties comprising the Daniel Associa tion, were in session Monday and | Tuesday. They will probably ! I reach some decision regarding j the proposed divisoaof the school j and opening a branch for the I girls. The aspirants for the branch are Vidalia, Lyons, Clax-; ton and Register. No definite j information as to the plans of the trustees has been given out, 1 but it is understood that the mat ter of dividing the school was re- 1 ferred to the Daniel Association, and will be heard in the fall. Each of the above towns made strong bids. It is possible that the idea of division will be abandoned entirely. The school is a success, as it is, and condi tions do not fully warrant a divi sion at this time. Ivcnip School. Special Correspondence, Farmers are still busy in- their crops. i Our school closed last Friday with a large attendance and a plenty of lemonade, All that were present reported an enjoy able time, Mr, John Goff made a business trip to Glenwood last Friday. Mrs. Geo. Coleman has return ed from a visit to her brother at I Meeks, Ga. • Misses Eva Horn and Effie j Goff visted Mrs. Jas. W. Adams last Friday afternon. Miss Lola Coleman give a mus ical entertainment last Friday night. A large crowd from this com munity attended church at Tar rytown Jast Sunday. 1 Mrs, Harmond Fennel is vis iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Horne, this week. Miss Mary Horne left last Sat urday morning for her home in Waycross. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Coleman is sick at this writing. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY. 25, 1911. STRONG INTEREST IN PUBLIC HIGHWAY. i _____ _____ In Montgomery and adjoining ! j counjties interest in the proposed 1 highway from Savannah to At lanta continues to grow, each | i | day bringing some advocate of 1 the plan and some offer of co-op- 1 'eration in the movement. Dur , | ing the past ten days The Mont gomery Monitor has been con-; , ‘ ferring with citizens along the route from Soperton to Claxton, I land has received a number of j i favorable replies. I It has been stated that a scout i car would leave Dublin Monday, 1 I this week, but conditions made! it unwise to do this; and the j scout car will -not leave Dublin! 1 until tomorrow, (Friday) going from Dublin to Savannah byway j ■ of Adrian and Swainsboro, and j i reaching Savannah some time Saturday. Statesboro, will be ! included in this prospective route, and the committee will confer! with the commissioners of Bui- i loch county regarding the con-j struction of certain pieces of! | roadway in. that county. ‘j Leaving Savannah next Mon-! day morning, the cars will return ! . byway of the lower route, tra-; L versing the Ogeechee road and j crossing at King’s Bridge, going via. Way’s Station and Taylor’s Creek, in Liberty county, and thence to Claxton, Hagan and Reidsville in Tattnall county, spending the night at Reidsville. From this point the trip will be made byway of Lyons, Vidalia, Mt. Vernon, Ailey and Soperton, , on to Dublin. After a day in , Dublin, the route on to Macon ; will be surveyed, j The Monitor contends that the| ' I lower route is most practical, and i i this is conceded by the citizens! : of this section, touching so many! -1 towns, and a section of country whose roads are being rapidly improved. With a united effort 1 on the part of citizens of Tat 1- nail, Toombs and Montgomery! counties, this lower route will be; secured. Speaking for Mont-; gomery county, it may be said i 1 ! that the stretch of road over! which this route will run is in! . very good aha pc, and the short; j stretches that are not in perfect: shape will be made so in a few weeks. Work is being pushed , on the road from this place to j Soperton, and in a short while it l will be in good condition, as the; 1 greater part of it will be clayed, ; { Later, the road leading toward \ j Vidalia will receive proper treat- IJ ment at the hands of the County 1 •: i Commissioners, and this, with 1 ! the exception qf a short piece of j \ road beyond Soperton, will put j ! the Montgomery comity division I j of the highway in good shape, } j Towns of Mt, Vernon, Ailey and ■ i Soperton will be kept posted as I to the arrival of the cars on the return trip, and at each place a j body of citizens will extend some \ iform of courtesy to the visitors. jlt is probable that a party from i \j Vidalia will escort the visitors as i 1 far as the. place, and that a f; iparty from Mt. Vernon, if can* jj 'can be secured, vs.ill continue j 1 with them as far as Soperton. j j Do not let the interest lag. It ; j will require effort to secure it, ■' | (The upper route hits large towns, •: : but not any more real advan-1 | tages than the lower route via j Vidalia, Mt. Vernon and Sopcr i pm. etc. Be ready to greet and * j extend to the surveyors all the! | j encouragement possible. All £ towns will be notified as to the I j arrival of the cars. |! The following item from the | Toombs County Local speaks the | interest manifested in Toombs t county. INTEREST IN TOOMBS. ! . | The following strong mention ;in the last issue of the Toombs | County Local expresses the right kind of sentiment: "Efforts are now being made to establish an automobile route be tween Atlanta and Savannah via Dublin, and from that city to Sa- I vannah, two routes are being con sidered. If the proper effort is ! put forth at once by the people of Toombs and adjoining counties | both Vidalia and Lyons stand a l good chance to be on the route. “Editor H. B. Folsom of the Montgomery Monitor, Mt. Ver ! non, is earnestly working for ! this route, and he should'receive the co-operation of the people of Montgomery, Toombs and Tatt nall counties. The most plaus ible route, so far as our territory is considered, is that leading from Dublin byway of Soperton, Mt. Vernon, Alley, Vidalia, Ly ons, Reidsville, Hagan, Claxton, j j thence to Savannah. “Should our county be on this ] i route it would not only increase! | the interest in good roads, but i would be the means of advertis ing the advantages of Vidalia, Lyons and Toombs county. This | route should be preferable to the upper route, as many more towns | would be reached. The roads are in fairly good condition now', and the Commissioners of Mont gomery county have already| pledged their co-operation, and \ we are sure that the road officials ; of Toombs and Tattnall will lend their aid in the movement. “Scout car will leave Dublin on | the 22nd inst., over the upper] route (via Swainsboro and States- • boro) and will return by the ! lower route, asstated. We trust j that the automobile owners of j Toombs county will join them l on their return through our | county, and potnt out all the ad vantages offered by this route. If anything is to be accom-; Iplisheditis necessary that you j j commence work at once. Write j Ito your friends in Dublin and I iSavarinah, and endeavor to se-j cure the aid of our road officials, j The advantages to be secured by! ] having our city and county on j ! this route is well worth the best j I efforts of our people, and the co j j operation of the county officials. ” - SOPERTON INTERESTED. The following extracts taken from a letter from a prominent young citizen of Soperton: “I am interested in this high way, and am doing everything lin my power to show the people i along this route that it is to their interest to make this a success. ***As you know, the worst piece lof road on this route is between. Rock ledge and Soperton, and we, have this road [via a new route] ready for the road machine; and if wo can get this piece of road ! worked we will have one of the] best pieces of road in the county,! “This row road runs close to ! the railroad, and would be a straight run to Rockledge, cut ting off three miles front, the old route via Loth?,if. ■ “Hoping to hear from you with something new in regard to the route, arid assuaing you qf my ' co-operation iri the matter, I beg, to remain “Yours very truly, “.Jas. Fowler.” AN AGED CITIZEN i GOES TO REWARD. Mr. Peter O’Conner, one of the oldest citizens of Montgom ery county, died on Tuesday. Mr. O’Connor had lived long past the alloted “three score years and ; ten,” and died at his home in the Bear Creek community. Hej leaves many relatives and friends to keep in memory his earthly; [ pilgrimage. i HURT IN ATLANTA, j The following 1 acount of a street jcar accident, in which two ladies were hurt, will be read with in terest by a number of acquain tances in this county. The ac count, taken from one of the At lanta dailies, is as follows: “Hurrying to cross the street’ in a heavy downpour of rain Mon day night at 7 o’clock, Mrs. ,1. i M. Glenn and Miss Daisy Dekle, ' sisters, of Moultrie, Ga., were I run down by Pine-st.-Ponce l)e-| Leon car No. 255, directly in front of 107 Ivy-st., and serious ly injured. “Doth women were conveyed to the Atlanta hospital, where it I was given out Tuesday morning that Mrs. Glenn had not regain ed consciousness and was sutl'er ' ing from concussion of the brain. I Miss Dekle’s injuries consisted | of bruises and she is not badly hurt. “The accident was a peculiar one. Mrs. Glenn and her sister came to Atlanta Monday to place their father in the Wesley Mem orial hospital. They were hoard ing at 107 Ivy-st., and Monday j night started to cross the thor ! oughfare for their supper. I “Both women were huddled j under a huge umbrella and evi dently did not see the approach ing car, MotormanM. M. Hardy says he could see the women dimly thru the rain and believed! they were going to wait for him to pass. “The force of the impact threw i both women clear of the tracks, land Mrs. Glenn, who was near est. (lie car, was picked up un | conscious. Sin; was taken to the Atlanta hospital in an ambulance : and Miss Dekle, who was severe ly bruised by the fall, was re j moved in an automobile. “Rev. ,J. M. Glenn arrived from ■ Moultrie Tuesday morning and stated that the physicians at the Atlanta hospital ■ regarded his j wife’s condition as critical, j Neither of the women sustained I broken bones. MAKES PLEA FOR ARIZONA STATEHOOD Washington, May 2b. “1 am here today begging Republicans and Democrats alike to let Ari zona into the union, and to do it now,” said Delegate Ralph Gan non, of Arizona, in today’s de bate in the Hoiise on the state -1 hood resolution. j Mr. Cameron said he had warn !ed the people of Arizona against | the incorporation in their con stitution of features that would 'meet the disapproval of the! President, such as the recall of | judges. He recommended the i : plan propped by the Republican i members of the committee on territories, which provides for I the immediate approval of New : Mexico’s constitution and the j submission to the people ofAri ■ zona of the question of striking out the recall feature. Representative Olmstead, of Pensyl vania. Republican, who took a similar position, today! gave new impetus to the Clark presidential boom. Mr. Olmstead referred to a newspaper report that three-fourths of the Demo tcratic members of the House! | favored Governor Woodrow Wil son for the presidency. “Ido not agree with that,” said Mr. Olmstead. “I believe j ! that four-fifths of you on that| side favor the; nomination of the I Speaker of this House, Champ! Clark, but I believe that if we are to have a Democratic Presi- i dent next time, which God for-j bid! four-filths of the members' lof this side of the House would j rather Champ Clark occupy that j 1 high position.” : Mrs. W. A. Peterson and chil dren left yesterday for a visit j among relatives at Cairo. I GRAND LODGE K. P. OFFICERS. Atlanta, May 2<>. The Forty second annual meeting of the Grand Lodge, Georgia Knights of Pythias, closed tonight with a ; grand ball in the auditorium | armory and a special session of the Knights of Khorassan at i which several new members were | taken in. The next convention will he held at Augusta. The full roster of new officers follow:. Grand Chancellor George T. Cann, Savannah. Grand Vice Chancellor James W. Austin, Atlanta. Grand Prolate- Miller S. Bell, Milledgeville. Grand Keeper of Records and Seal W. H. Leopold, S avannah. Grand Master of exchequer R. C. Norman, Washington. Grand Master at Arms H. M. Stanley,, Dublin. Grand Inner Guard John P. Cheney, Marietta. Grand Outer Guard Rev. Troy Beatty, Athens. Supreme Representative W. 11. Brannon, Talbotton; F. H. Summerkamp, Columbus. William 11. Brannon of Talbot ton and Frank M. Summerkamp of Columbus were elected su preme representatives, the latter succeeding T. J. Carlin, resigned. The new officers were installed just before adjournment. A resolution indorsing Presi dent Taft’s arbitration treaty plan was passed unanimously. A resolution also was passed providing for the appointment of a committee of three to look in to and report on the matter or erecting a Pythian Hall sofne where in t he state. Grand Chancellor Cann will name the committees within the next few days. . The competitive prize drill was held at Piedmont Park this afternoon, eight uni formed rank lodges taking part. The first prize was won by Colonial No. I<S of Atlanta, $350; second, Teutonia No. 3, of Sa vannah, $250; third, Dixie No. 21, Atlanta, $l5O. There was much good-natured rivalry among the contesting companies. The drill was in command of Brigadier General Charles A. Cox of Savannah and Col. E. E. Pomeroy, Capt. Hawes and Capt. Stokes of the Fifth Infantry acted as judges. The parade of the Knights of Khorassan on the streets to-night was one of the most picturesque features of the lodge. FIRE AT FT. GAINES. Fort. Gaines, Ga., May 23. Whatley Brothers’ dry goods store, one of the largest in south Georgia; the Speight drug store and the Miles grocery store were destroyed by fire early today. The damage amounts to $50,000, partially covered by insurance. The cause is unknown. Quick work by the lire department saved the entire business block from being burned. TU RESINK MAINE. Washington, May 23. Unless otherwise directed by Congress, all that remains of the ill-fated battleship Maine, after it has been raised from Havana harbor and stripped of parts of value, will be towed out to sea and sunk j in deep water. The board of engineers, en gaged in raising the vessel, so recommended in their report, ! which the war department today i submitted to Congress. Secre jtary Dickinson has approved the recommendation and says: “Ac jtion will bo taken accordingly (unless Congress directs other wise.” The matter will be con sidered by the House military I affairs committee. NO 3
