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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1911)
Zht iftmttrunumj ilimtitnr* VOL. XXVI. HE TAKES BRIDE AT 50 MILES AN HOUR Atlantic Beach, Fla., Oct. 1. — “I will,” said Miss Lucile Mar tha Jones. ‘‘l will,” said Mr. Kenneth Victor-Goodson. But the man who was taking a life partner did not take his hands from the steering wheel of his high-powered automobile which he was sending along at fifty miles an hour over the At lantic Beach boulevard. And that is how they were married here today. The bride and groom, a civil officer and witnesses were all in Mr. Good son’s car and the wedding w r as performed as the car shot along the boulevard at almost a mile a minute. This is the most romantic mar riage that has occurred here, and adds more fame to the automo bile drive between Jacksonville and Atlantic Beach. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Jones, of Dublin, Ga., and the groom is a well known automobile man of Jacksonville. The wedding party after pick ing up a notary public to say the marriage service, left Jackson ville about noon in a high-pow ered car and when five miles out of the city, the groom took the wheel. As the machine rushed along a straight stretch of tl e road at fifty miles an hour, R. C. Dowling, the notary public, stood up in the tonneau and read the marriage ceremony. The bride is well known in Mt. Vernon, having scores of rela tives and friends here. The Monitor extends hearty congrat ulations and good wishes. MR. C. W. BROWNING DEAD. Mr. C. W. Browning died at Glenwood on Saturday after a long illness. He was critically ill at the home of his brother, Mr. L. H. Browning at Mt. Vernon depot, for many weeks, but was recently taken to Glenwood. The remains were laid to rest in the Glenwood cemetery on Sunday, in the presence of a large con course of friends and relatives. Mr. Browning was a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, and these two orders united in paying the last t -ibute of respect to the de ceased. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. I. R. Kelley of the Spring Hill circuit, pastor of the'departed one. 00000000000000000000000000 II SUMERFORD DRUG CO. 1 ) Ailey, Georgia 0 > 0 The above firm has pur- 0 ® > chased the Palmer Drug jp 0 > 0 Store at Ailey, and now 0 §! ) jp offers to the public the 0 > Jjj very best service in the 0 g > 0 drug line. We have the Jp 0 0 services of a licensed 0 Jp > jg) pharmacist, and particu- jp @ ISi lar attention will be paid 0 0 0 the prescription feature. 0 0 0 Our soda fount service 0 0 will be kept up to a high 0 0 0 standard of excellence. 0 0 % The patronage of the pub- % ® lie is cordially solicited. Prompt service to all. Jp Sumerford Drug Co. |> Prescription Druggists 00000000000000000000000000 Shiloh. Special Correspondence. We are having pleasant weath er for cotton picking. Little Miss Beatrice Adams left last Monday for Mcßae where she will enter the South Georgia College. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mimbs were among the visitors to Lum ber City one day last week. Mr. Charley Jordan was out riding in his new machine Satur day afternoon. Mrs. D. S. McArthur returned home last week after spending several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Lumber City. * Misses Bertie and Viola Sikes visited at the home of Mr. Vaughan last Sunday. Miss Bessie Tompkins and brother John attended the funeral service at Glenwood Sunday. Mr. John L. Lowery and Miss Victoria Vaughan were visitors in Springhill one day recently. Mrs. Thomas Spivey and little daughter spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mimbs. Misses Olive Nash and Myra Clements enjoyed a pleasant ride Saturday afternoon. Dark Eyes. STRIKE ON THE GA. & FLA. ROAD. On Thursday last all the fire men on the Georgia & Florida road quit work, and all trains have been sidetracked since that time. Several acts of lawlessness have occurred, such as the stop ping of trains by mobs, beating and shooting employes who at tempt to work. As we go to press, the strike is still on, and -.1 traffic is at a standstill. Towns along the road are very seriously handicapped by the strike. The towns of Charlotte, Uvalda, Al ston and Sharpe’s Spur are left without freight and passenger accommodations. In the Hall of Fame at the State Fair in Macon, to open in a few days, many relics and old pictures will be shown. A feature will be two old “mammies” op erating old-fashioned spinning wheels. Milton M'tchum, a prominent citizen of Rutledge, Ga., was killed Sunday afternoon bv a runaway horse, and his daughter, Mrs. Susie Nunn, was severely injured. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1911. J. HERSCHEL KENT FOR GAME WARDEN Hon. Jesse Mercer, state game warden, has appointed Mr. J. Herschel Kent of Glenwood game warden for Montgomery county. Mr. Kent is an aggres sive, energetic farmer, and will no doubt fill all the requirements of the office. No appointment of district wardens has yet been made, so far as we know. FINANCIAL AGENT OF U. B. I. Mr. J. B. Holley, recently con nected with the Bessie Tift col lege at Forsyth, has been en gaged as traveling financial agent of the Union Baptist Institute here, and is now meeting the people of this section in the in terests of thejbig school.-’ Mr. Holley is a polished and intellectual gentleman, and the management has done well in se curing his services. Let the friends of higher education and of the school give Mr. Holley a generous and much needed re sponse to his appeal. Just received a line in neck wear and dress trimmings at J. H. Hudson’s. General News Items Told in Short Meter. A battle occurred between strikers and strike-breakers at McCoomb, Miss., on Tuesday, and several persons are reported killed. Grantland K. Vaughan of Griffin, who ran away with his brother’s wife, was arrested with the woman at Savannah and were taken back to Griffin Tues day and placed in jail, neither being able to give the bond as sessed. An automobile driven by J. Walter Blackman at Columbus killed a negro girl on Tuesday as she stepped from behind a street car. It is said that the Yaqui Indi ans used solid gold bullets in fighting Porfiro Diaz in the re cent Mexican Revolution, but not many of the shot were recovered. Mrs. Charles A. Bushland of Indianapolis stood by the coffin and preached her husband’s fu neral, being dressed in white and singing two of the dead man’s favorite hymns. The big Land and Agricultural Exposition in progress at Tifton has been a decided success, and large crowds are seeing the ex hibits. Davy Crockett, cousin of the old time Texan of that name, died at Columbus, Mo., Tuesday at the age of 75. During the border war in Missouri Crockett was hanged to an elm tree by Union soldiers, but rescued by his comrades. A sharper in Atlanta adver tised for negro representatives “to goon the road,” and after collecting $3 per head from a good number, left a card in his so-called office reading, “No taters. ’ ’ George Rittenburg, a veteran engineer of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, died suddenly at midnight Saturday night at his home in j\mericus, while getting ready to start on his regular run to Montgomery. More than 30,000 bales of cot ton have been ginned in Terrell county, some farmers having picked more than a bale to the acre. The hero of Santiago, Rich mond P. Hobson, will address the W. C. T. U. convention at Savannah on Friday the 13th instant. HUNTING AN OUTLAW CAPTURES A MURDERER. Sheriff Hester received a hasty telephone call Tuesday evening from the Bruce section to capture a negro who had entered the home of Mr. Caraway on Hon. J. T. Jordan’s place with criminal intent. The negro was found by Mrs. Caraway holding the arm of her little child who was cry ing, on the back porch of the house, and was told by the man that he intended to kill her child, evidently supposing she would go to where he was, but instead she ran out in front and screamed for help. Assistance soon came but the fiend made his escape. Sheriff Hester was soon on the scene with dogs, but failed to get the man. While making a house to house search for him, they ran upon S. T. Conoway, another negro W'ho was wanted for the murder of another negro on Mr. Jordan’s place some months ago, and brought Cono oway to jail. For Sale at a Bargain, one Mc- Cormick Mower and Rake, in good condition. See or write D. S. Williamson, Rt. 1, Uvalda, Ga. A great disaster, similar to the great Johnstown horror, occurred at Austin, Pa., on Saturday af ternoon at 2:30 o’clock, by the breaking of the dam of the Hay less Paper Company, the Hood destroying the towns of Austin and Costello, The death list may reach 300, and the property loss $8,000,000. Four hundred hales of cotton were burned and one man killed in a fire at Greenville, Ala., on Saturday, loss between $40,000 j and $50,000. A man and his wife were pros ecuted at Spartanburg, S. C., for picking cotton on Sunday. They undertook to justify their work by quoting from the Bible, being Seventh Day Adventists, but the magistrate fined them $1 each, On Friday last Italy declared war against Turkey, giving as a reason for it barbarity and cruel ty of the Turks against Italian | subjects, and various outrages ] upon land and sea. The indications are that the cotton crop is the earliest on record. The census bureau’s ginning report shows 3,603,050 bales up to the 25th of September, being 1,300,000 bales more than baled up to the same date last year. The warehouse of the Farmer’s Gin and Warehouse Co., at Ash burn, Ga., was burned on Sunday last, and 700 bales of cotton went up in smoke. Savannah received 27,650 bales of cotton on Tuesday, the largest j receipts for any one day in the ! history of the port. Savannah expects to get over 2,000,000 bales this year. In a game of cards at Griffin on Saturday night, Walter lieevs was killed and Milt Redding se-: riously wounded. Andrew Me- j Cullough is in jail charged with the murder. Cromwell Dixon, who Hew across the Rockv Mountains on Saturday, whiie making flight at the interstate fair at Spokane, Wis., fell from his aeroplane, and as he went to his death, shouted to the spectators: “Here I go!” Gov. Blease of South Carolina has refused to allow military companies of his state to attend the Peace Celebration in Atlanta because he was not invited per sonally to attend. i Kemp School. Special Correspondence j J. A. Palmer, student of U. B. 1 1., is visiting in this community ; for a day or so. Mr. Dan Horne attended ser ! vice at Kibbce Sunday. Minnie Canady visited the (’ole man community Sunday last. Mr. Marcus Sheppard is visit ing Mr. Julian McCoy for a few days. Mr. Voll Ilorne and Miss Effie Goff and Eva Horne were out driving Sunday afternoon last. Miss Mollie Kemp gave a sing ing Saturday night last and it was enjoyed by all who attended. Mr. and Mrs. (). B. Braddy visited the latter’s parents Sun day afternoon. Mrs. Tola Bradley’s little infant is quiet ill at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Fen nolle of the thriving little town of Ailey spent Sunday afternoon with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Joiner and Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Calhoun of Tarrytown visited Mrs. John Goff Sunday last. Miss Bonnie Belle McCoy visit ed Miss Annie Mae Horn Sunday last. Mrs. Josie Wilkes is visiting Mrs. J. W. Adams. Rev. Mr. Webb of Statesboro is visiting the family of Mr. J. E. Horne en route to Uvalda. Blue Eyed Girl. A DANGEROUS RUNAWAY. Two fine mules belonging to Mr. Frank M. Mcßae, driven by Albert Linton, a colored tenant on Mr. Mcßae’s place, came dashing down Railroad avenue here late Saturday evening and threw the driver out just as they turned on to the sidewalk in front of Mr. N. L. Spooner’s store. Linton was badly hurt by the fall, and Dr. Palmer was called to dress his wounds, and took him to the farm in his auto mobile. The mules left the side walk before reaching McQueen’s corner and dashed headlong into the two telephone poles near the drinking fountain, breaking the wagon tongue and knocking one mule down. Several children on the sidewalk j is! escaped into the stores iri time to lie safe. To the Millinery trade: We open the new season showing j greater variety and better values than ever. We find greatest sat-; isfaction in offering to the trade! the newest and best production of the market and cordially in vite careful inspection and com parison. J. H. Hudson. /vv-AV /V'/ A/'A/ / FOLSOM & FOLSOM, j Dealers in High-Class Farm Lands. W(‘ are putting on sale some of Urn bust farm lands in Montgomery ij county at low figures, and invite an in- ij : sped ion of our list. If you have farms ij |i for sale, lot us find a buyer for you. | Following tracts offered for quick sale: f j; One lot, of pint* land containing 202,$ acres, aliout five i\ miles north ot Gienwood, Ga. Timber enough to not, 5000 or ;j j; 0000 boxes. Good, all-around land and well located- could ho |; made to produce hale of cotton to acre and practically all can he cultivated. New four-room house and well. Kuough l| i; for several good f arms, and can he had at a price to suit a man ;j i| in medium circumstances Look into it at once. Some man li i; will take it soon. Do you want it,? Speak quick. * ;j j; A splendid farm, with Jot of 202$ acres, with 100 in cul- i ;< tavation, wire fenced and cross-fenced. Three dwellings and > handsome new ham. Just the place for a man who wants to J; < make plenty of stuff and live easy. School and church in the jj j; neighborhood one of the best, in the county. Located north of Glenwood. Public road being clayed. If you wait a few j months this place will have another bumper crop on it and Ij will not he for sale. The price is right, if sold now. Or, If you need money | to buy a place or improve a place, we will he glad to get it for ; you very quickly and at, a low rate of interest. We represent ;j i one of tin* strongest and most liberal firms in the South. You ji i get the money without delay. Investigate this. | Folsom & Folsom , Real Estate, MT. VERNON, GA. NOTED SEA FIGHTER ADMIRAL SCHLEY DEAD Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley dropped dead on Monday while walking along the steet in New York. Our readers are fa miliar with the story of Admi ral Schley’s victory at Santiago on July 2d, IS9B when the “Hy ing squadron” destroyed the Spanish fleet as it attempted to escape from the harbor. Ad miral Schley was in command, Admiral Sampson having been temporarily absent. On Oct. 9th, 1901, Schley was placed upon the retired list at the age of sixty-two years. SOCIAL HOUR CLUB ENTERTAINS. The most enjoyable affair Ala mo people have had this season, was a supper given by the Social Hour club, at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. McClellan on the evening of Sept. 25, Mr. and Mrs. Anders being host and hostess. The home was a scene of loveliness, decorated with bright lights in the halls and large verandas. | Supper was called at seven thirty, the spacious dining room was decorated with ferns and roses, and table overflowing wit h the best of everything to eat. After everyone had finished they were invited on veranda and short lalks given by each one con cerning park. Mr. McClennan has donated a lovely piece of . land to town, by our untiring ef forts to secure place, and now with the town to help us, Mc- Clennan Park, will soon be some thing for not only Alamo to be proud of, but the county. Those enjoying this occasion were: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sears, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. 11. T. Rogers, Dr. and Mrs. T. 11. Nelson, Mrs. John Bullard, and Miss Matt.ye Lee Sears, Messrs. Charlie Jordan, Sam Coleman, Lamar Currie, Leon Elkins, Eli Clements, Luther Smith, Make McDaniel, and Charlie Moore. (Miss) Mattyio Lee Sears, Secretary. DEATH OF AN INFANT. On Sunday evening the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Mason was taken ill and died on Monday morning. The little one was abont six months old, their second one, the first one having died about a year ago. The re mains were laid to rest in the Ferguson cemetery on Monday. The sorrowing parents have the sympathy of many relatives and friends. NO. 22.
