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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.
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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.
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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.