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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1911)
5Uj? fHmtliumtmi ftUntttnr. VOL. XXVI. W. H. COLEMAN ACCIDENTLY SHOT Soperton was shocked Monday evening by the tragic death of Mr. W. H. Coleman, one of the prominent business men of that town and manager of the Cole man Hardware Co. Mr. Coleman’s death was the result of the accidental discharge of a revolver in the hands of Lawrence Williams, a clerk in the store, and the accident is classed among those which occur by not knowing that, a fatal weapon was loaded. It appears that the firm was accustomed to locking the re volvers in the safe at night, and 1 while performing this work Mon day night about seven o’clock, Mr. Coleman met his death. During the day a pistol had been used by some one, and on return ing it to the show case it was left loaded, unknown to the men in the store. Mr. Coleman, while opening the safe, held a lamp, together with a batch of checks, currency and silver. Mr. Williams approached him with a number of revolvers in his arms, and while in the act of snapping them the loaded weapon was dis charged, the bullet striking Mr. Coleman in the head, producing instant death. As Mr. Coleman fell the lamp was overturned and an explosion resulted from it. In this manner his face and body were saturated with burning oil, his face being badly burned, as was the cloth ing on the upper part of his body. A hurried call brought in a number of citizens, who, with some difficulty, carried the body of the dead man from the build ing and extinguished the fire. Mr. Coleman was a son of Mr. Moses Coleman of Lyons, and had been in Soperton about eight months as manager of the hard ware firm. His father arrived on the north bound train Tuesday morning, and on the southbound train the body of the unfortunate man was carried to Lyons for burial. The untimely death of this young man is regretted by a large number of friends. He was a successful business man. No di rect blame is attached to Mr. Williams, as, beyond a doubt, the affair was accidental. Mr. Wil liams, who is a son of Rev. 0. O. Williams, is almost overpowered with grief as a result of his em ployer’s sudden death. i|l SUMERFORD DRUG CO. § 5 Ailey, Georgia 0 The above firm has pur- || [1 ) 0 chased the Palmer Drug 0 0 > H Store at Ailey, and now g? ) gj offers to the public the 0 0 ' very best service in the || jp ) 0 drug line. We have the 0 gj J services of a licensed p jp ) 0 pharmacist, and particu- w lar attention will be paid p ® 0 0 the prescription feature. ® 0 Our soda fount service P P (|> 0 will be kept up to a high 0 0 standard of excellence. f| p 0 0 The patronage of the pub- I*) 0 lie is cordially solicited. p p (§ 0 Prompt service to all. 0 0 | Sumerford Drug Co. § j|j Prescription Druggists Shiloh. Special Correspondence. We regret to note that Mrs. J. D. McDaniel is very ill with ty phoid fever. , Miss Gladys Wright was in Lumber City last Thursday hav ing some dental work done. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Mimbs spent Sunday with Mrs. Sears, mother of Mrs. Mimbs. Mrs. W. W. Tompkins was shopping in Lumber City on Sat urday last. Rev. Ray filled his regular ap pointment at Bruce school house last Sabbath. Misses Victoria and Sadie Vaughan spent Saturday after noon at the home of Mr. W. T. Wright. Mr. Will Clark of Glenwood is visiting in our community. Mr. and Mrs. J. Thos. Wright spent Saturday and Sunday last in Lumber City. Mr. Cullen Lowery is visiting friends and Relatives in Laurens county this week. Several of the young people attended the icecream supper at Mr. Joe Clark’s on Saturday night. Brown Eyes. MONTGOMERY CONVICT GETS HIS FREEDOM Among a number of convicts pardoned by Gov. Iloke Smith we find the name of Bill Brink ley, sent up for murder in 1908. Brinkley was one of five negroes who murdered another negro near the brick yard here several years ago. .Three were caught and convicted, among them Brinkley, and the other two have never been captured. Brinkley’s pardon was secured by Col. W. B. Kent while in At lanta serving in the legislature, Col. Kent having represented Brinkley in the trial. We under stand from Sheriff Hester that Brinkley was considered a good negro, and a faithful worker, and was probably urged into the row by parties who should have been held responsible. TWIGGS-COOPER, Mr. M. S. Twiggs and Miss Maggie Cooper were married on Thursday night last, Justice G. J. Stanford performing the cere mony in his most impressive style. It is said the happly cou ple did not give the Judge time to don his regulation dress suit, as it was late, and the rain was pouring down; but with the aid of Constable Ed , Armfield’s friendly lantern, who piloted them across the muddy waters, they were soon all happy and may they so continue. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1911. GOVERNOR BROWN AGAIN OFFERS FOR GOVERNOR Former Governor Joseph M. Brown announced on Saturday that he will run for governor to fill the unexpired term of Gov. Smith who will shortly resign to go to the United States Senate. This announcement has been wa.tched for quite awhile, not only by Gov. Brown’s former supporters, but by politicians all over the state, several of whom were prospective candidates. The coming of Gov. Brown in to the race makes the political situation in Georgia one of many complications. But he comes at the pressing call of many thous ands of former supporters; and, in many instances, from a num ber who formerly opposed him. Mr. J. R. Smith will be cam paign manager for Gov. Brown, but it is not probable that they will open up regularly until after Gov. Smith tenders his resigna tion. It is safe to predict that the race will be lively whether there are other entrants or not. General News Items Told in Short Meter. A 5-year-old girl fell into a 30-foot well near Fredonia in Thomas county, and her head in falling struck the terracotta curbing which mUy result in her death. She caught the chain as her brother let it go and was jerked up and dropped into the well. William B. Greenburg, known as the wealthiest newsboy in St. Louis, died on Sunday. From obscure poverty he rose to be a landlord, and at his death owned an apartment building worth $112,000 besides his news stand. E. F. Holmes, a former Geor gian, now residing in Washing ton, D. C., has recently bought fifty acres of land near Dublin for $7,000, on which he will es tablish a model dairy. Frank Miller of Troy, Ohio, was forced to make a flight in his aeroplane on Friday evening by people who jeered him as a coward. The oil tank exploded high in the air and Miller was roasted to death before the plane struck the ground. • The residence of Rev. W. A. Huckabee at Mcßae, occupied by the families of Lewis Flanders and Milton Haines, was destroy ed by fire Sunday night. James B. Nevin of Rome will manage Judge R. B. Russell’s campaign in the gubernatorial race, Volney Williams of Way cross will conduct J. Pope Brown’s and J. R. Smith has been named as Ex-Gov. Brown’s manager. Michael M. Eason of Savan nah, who had an extensive ac-! quaintance aTI over South Geor gia, having been a traveling; salesman for tweuty-five years, died at his home there on Mon day night last, aged 70 years. A big strike is on at Spartan burg, S. C., by the street car motormen and conductors. Gov. Blease has called out three com panies of the militia to protect the street car operators. Gov. Hoke Smith has named Oct. 11 as Governor’s Day at the State Fair in Macon, and willl attend with the state officials and deliver an address on that date, his speech being on agricultural advantages of Georgia. On the Chicago and North western railway near Neenah, Wis,, Sunday afternoon, a fast train dashed into a hay wagon loaded with a party of young folks, and sixteen of them were either killed or fatally injured. FRENCH BATTLESHIP IS BLOWN UP Liberte, the largest and newest of France’s great battle ships, was blown up in the harbor of Toulon on Monday. In the great disaster, sf>B French sailors went to their death, btfing burned to death at their posts by the fire that followed the ex plosions. The big ship was wrecked by explosions of the ammunition hold, and fire im mediately consumed the wreck age. Many jumped from the burning ship and were sent out by other ships. THE WAGON TRADE. The number of wagons sold in Montgomery county would sur prise you. All over the county we see the name of W. J. & T. A. Peterson on one and two horse wagons made by Stude baker. The Studebaker wagon is a standard vehicle all over the wagon-using world. The name is a guarantee‘of light draft and long service. The Messrs. Peter son are selling lots of Stude bakers. G. F. Radford, express mes senger on the Atlantic Coast Line railway, got on a spree Monday on his run out from Sa vannah, and tore up a lot of cur rency and scattered silver pro miscously till arrested at Black shear. He had about SIO,OOO and most of it was recovered from his bosom and trouser legs. William Nettles, a.farmer near Manor, Ga., dropped dead in his field on Monday. He had heart 'rouble, and a fight took place between two cotton pickers, and the excitement caused the death of Nettles. At the international aviation meet, held at Nassau Boulevard, L. 1., on Monday, Dr. J. C. Clarke of New York fell 20(5 feet from his monoplane, and died shortly from his injuries. .1. A. Russell, a telegraph op erator of Athens, walked out of the second story window of his boarding house while asleep on Sunday morning and fell twenty five feet, sustaining several bruises and a terrible shake-up. A street car in Atlanta on Sun day night left the rails while dashing around a curve and twenty-six people were hurt, and four of them perhaps fatally. Macon is raising $40,000 to purchase additional campus grounds for Mercer University, the Baptists of the city co-operat ing with the chamber of com merce. Marshall vifle.Ga., had its heav iest rain in three years on last Saturday. The people have been b Tying drinking water hauled from springs twelve miles away, and the children carry water to school in bottles. In a wreck on the Southern Railway at the Peachtree Creek trestle near Atlanta on Friday night last J. A. Farris, engineer, and N. M. Robinson, fireman, were killed. Mrs. W. H. Felton of Cartersville, one of Georgia’s best known women, was among the injured passengers. Savannah firemen have a pet alligator which frequently es capes from his pen and rambles around in the parks, much to the amusement of the small boys. Little Pearl Westmoreland, daughter of a telegraph operator at Griffin died from lockjaw, caused by sticking a small splin ter in her foot a few days ago. Among the attorneys attending to legal matters here yesterday, we note the presence of Cols. Lankford and Williams of the hustling town of Lyons. Erick Notes. Special CorrcHpoiiilonco, Mrs. C. G. Waters and daugh ter, Miss Louise, are visiting friends and others in Americus this week. Olin Brown returned home last Friday from Atlanta, where he was to begin school. On some conditions, he failed. Wo are glad to learn that W. H. Hinson has greatly improved of typhoid fever since last writ ing. We hope to see him up and on duty in a few days. Barton Hinson spent Sunday and Monday at home. Miss Lillie Brown and Ben Waters spent Saturday night with Olin Brown and sister Miss Berta. W. H. Brown spent Monday in Mcßae. Sheriff Tom Hester of Mt. Vernon was here Monday after noon, serving a warrant. Mrs. R. M. Paradise and daugh ters returned to their home in Adrian Saturday last. She has been the guest of Mrs. W. A. Brown and family. Miss Carrie Hinson and brother John visited their brother Sun day at Avant’s Siding. Miss Willie Belle Davis and brother Roger spent Sunday with Miss Berta Brown. DEATH OF AN INFANT. After an illness of several weeks little Byron, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Lee Mcßae died last Friday in Macon, while en route to Atlanta. The little one had been declining for some time, and it was decided to take him to Atlanta, but on reaching Macon, he became exceedingly worse, when they stopped over in that city, where death relieved the little sufferer. Remains of the child were taken to Gray, Ga., for inter ment, Mrs. Mcßae having rela tives at that point. Their many friends extend deepest sympathy to the bereaved parents in their sadness. 17,000 BALES REACH DAWSON UP-TO-DATE Dawson, Sept. 23. Dawson’s cotton receipts by wagon reached nerly seventeen thousand bales yesterday, notwithstanding un favorable weather for gathering the crop. Dawson cotton re ceipts by wagon are approxi mately seventeen thousand bales, which is as much as was received by wagon the entire season of last year. The cotton people pre dict 30,000 bales for Dawson this season on account of the heavy movement of cotton. The banks here have about one million dol lars on deposit. A registered package contain ing a bank shipment of about $30,000 in currency was stolen from the postoffice at St. Louis a year ago. The postmaster and officials kept the matter secret till a few days ago, trying to lo cate; the thieves. Land for Snip. lam offering for sale a tract of farming land lying on the west side of the Oconee River, in Montgomery county, Landsburg District, about nine miles north of Glenwood on the Old Dublin River Public Road, containing lffl acres. On this tract of land is a good eight-room dwelling house, a few acres in cultivation, and the remainder of the tract fairly well timbered. Almost the entire tract is susceptible to im provement and cultivation. Also one Lot of swamp land lying near to the farming land described. A bargain for the right man. This land must be sold. Write; or ap ply to J. B. Geigek, Mt. Vernon, Ga. 1 SHOTGUN BRINGS DEATH TO BOY The careless handling of a gun in the hands of Jordan Foskey caused the life of Sammie Smith near Orland Saturday last. It appears that the boys, both about fourteen years of age, were out with a gun about noon, and on returning home, in some unknown manner the gun was discharged, the entire load tak ing effect in the leg of young Smith, The wounded lad bled profusely before medical aid could be summoned, and on the arrival of the physicians it was found impossible to save the life of the young man on account of his weakened condition. The Foskey lad is a son of G. E. (“Em”) Foskey, while the dead boy was a son of Green Smith, and both are well known in their community. The acci dent is regretted by all. The boy, after being shot, lingered several hours, but was unable to withstand the unusual loss of blood. RENEW SERVICES AT OLD MIDWAY CHURCH. Many of our readers will be interested in anything concern ing old Midway church, one of Georgia’s most noted and historic spots. On Oct. Hth, services will be held at the old church in Lib erty county, requests having come from various parts of the United States for the selectmen to arrange for semi-annual ser vices. On this occasion the service will be conducted by Rev. Carl Stacy of Elberton, Ga., who is well known here, his first wife having been a Montgomery coun ty lady, and Mr. James Stacy being his son by this union. Communion will be served at the meeting, and the silver ser vice which has been owned by the society since 1753 will be used on this occasion. The holy sacrament has been received from this service by suedi famous men as Gen. Screven, Gen Stew art, (grandfather of Ex-Presi dent Roosevelt,) U. S. Senator Elliott, (Georgia’s first senator,) Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett and George Walton, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and other noted men, most of whom sleep in the old church yard. The members of the Midway Society are scattered all over the United Stato*s, and a great num ber will gather on Oct. 8 to take part in this first renewal service. Many columns could be filled with facts of historic interest concerning this noted old church, but our space is limited. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY JUNIORS OF EMORY. Emory College, Oxford, Ga., Sept. 2(5. The junior class offi cers for the ensuing year were elected at a meeting Saturday morning. These officers will serve through the junior and senior years. J. E. (“Red”) Matthews, of Vidalia, Ga,, was elected dux or president of the class by a large majority. He has been a leading spirit in his class since his en trance and has already made a name for himself in the literary society of which he is a member. The other officers elected were: Joel Mallett, of Jackson, histori an; T. E. Kimball, of Garfield, secretary and treasurer; S. I). Cherry, of Oxford, poet; Barn hill, of Oxford, chaplain. Mark Few, of Madison, was elected manager of the football team. The Game Law in pamphlet form. Send ten cts. in stamps to The Montgomery Monitor, Mt. Vernon, Ga., fora copy. Supply limited. NO. 21.
