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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1911)
Slip ilimthjnntprg iHmtttnr. VOL. XXVI. “LITTLE JOE” i SWEEPS GEORGIA. As perhaps all our readers have heard, Hon. Joseph M. Brown was nominated for gov ernor in last Thursday’s election by a sweeping majority, carry ing more counties than both of his opponents put together. Hon. H. M. Stanley was nominated for Labor Commissioner by a huge majority, carrying all the counties in the state except ten or twelve. The vote in this county was as follows: Lothair: Pope Brown 1 J. M. Brown 14 Russell 2 Tarry town: Pope Brown . 8 J. M. Brown 18 Russell 8 Kibbee: Pope Brown 8 J. M. Brown 3 Russell 6 Alston: Pope Brown 10 J. M. Brown 29 Russell 10 Mt. Vernon: Pope Brown 56 J. M. Brown 51 Russell 32 Glen wood: Pope Brown 31 J. M. Brown 45 Russell 4 Alamo: Pope Brown 8 J. M. Brown 21 Russell 5 McArthur: Pope Brown 9 J. M. Brown 21 Russell 0 ALL DAY SINGING. There will be an all-day sing ing at Red Bluff Church on next Sunday, December 17th. The singing will be led by Prof. J. M. Spivey of Adrian, Ga. Professor Spivey is a normal graduate and one among the best in the state. He has just returned from Coffee county, where he has been teach ing, for a brief stay at home. Everybody invited to come and ljring a well filled basket. Berkshire Pigs. Pure bred Berkshire pigs for sale; male or female. Apply to J. B. Geiger, Mt. Vernon, Ga., or to C. J. Geiger, Riverside Farm, Glenwood, Ga. Farm Machinery. The Vidalia Machinery & Farm Implement Co. are offering com plete Gasoline Engine Pumping Outfits for $75.00 and upward. Write them for prices on En gines, Boilers, Woodworking Ma chinery, Farm Implements, Hay Presses and Stump Pullers. Yjv. Farm for Kent. Five-horse farm for rent and eight head of mules for sale. Ap ply to .. W. B. Cadle, Tarrytown, Ga. For County Treasurer. I lioi f.byannounce as a candidate to succeed rnyaelf as Treasurer of Mot tgoraery county, subject to the primary election. Thanking my fellow citizen* for past support, and solic iting a continuance, I am yours truly, J. VV. MORRISON. For Sheriff. Wishing to again serve the people of Mont gomery county in the capacity of Sheriff, I hereby announce myaelf a candidate for the office, subject to the rules of the county pri mary. My record as former sheriff is before yon and I respectfully ask the office again at your hands, again assuring you that if I am favored with the office I will discharge its duties to the best of my ability, knowing its varied responsibilities. Yours respectfully, A. J. BURCH. For County Treasurer. I offer my services to the voters of Mont gomery county in the capacity of County Treasurer. Years of clerical training render me quite competent to discharge the duties of the office, aud my work as a county official in former yeaiH warrants me in saying that I have a right to claim the -upport of my fellow c tiz*-ns I respectfully ask for election a’ your hands to the office of Treasurer, arid guarantee to discharge faithfully all its dutie s if favored with the office. Yonrs respectfully. E. M, RACK LEY. MORE CANDIDATES ANNOUNCE. As will be seen by reference to j i our announcement column, sev- j j eral of our worthy citizens are j ' asking for election to the county ! I offices. For treasurer, we have j this week the card of Dr. E. M. J Rackley. Dr. Rackley needs no | introduction from us, having fill ed a county office twice before in : the capacity of tax receiver. He ! 1 has all the qualifications, such as : fine clerical ability, and a thor-; ough knowledge of the work re-1 quired by the office, backed by a! good record as a public official, i Another aspirant for the office 1 of sheriff comes in this"week in; the person of Mr. E. C. Thomas 1 of the west side of Montgomery. | His card states his position in the ; rafee, and he has not heretofore j asked any office of his friends i and the voters of the county. Mr. j Thomas is a good citizen, and his ' long experience as bailiff entitles! him to the consideration of thej people. Read Mr. Thomas’ card. 1 Mr. John W. Morrison comes \ out for re-election in this issue. I He is referred to by his friends as “Red John” and* very fre quently as “Honest John” and thinks he is justly entitled to an other term as custodian of the county funds. Mr. Morrison is well and favorably known by all our citizens, and asks for re-elec- j tion at the hands of his fellow: 1 citizens. In this paper will be found the i card of Mr. A. J. Burch an nouncing for election as sheriff, to be settled by the comipg coun ty primary. Mr. Burch Has been sheriff of Montgomery county be fore, having filled two terms in the office. It would be super fluous for us to undertake to in troduce Jack Burch to a Mont gomery county audience, for they all know him, and he numbers his friends in every part of the county. See his card. Mr. M. L. O’Brien, the worthy clerk of Montgomery superior court, will ask for a second term at the hands of his friends, and fellow citizens. Mr. O’Brien’s record has been very good in deed, and the popular vote by which he was placed in the office of clerk at the last primary shows him to be a very popular man. Mr. O’Brien expects his friends to support him, and his strict at tention to business will secure him many new votes. For Clerk Superior Court. Having faithfully served Montgomery coun ty as Clerk of the Superior Court for one term I shall ask again for the office. In the coming county primary I ask for re-nomination at the hands ot the voters of the county, and promise continued faithfulness in the dis charge of the duties of the office. I appre ciate highly your favors in the past* and feel entitled to another term- Hoping to have the vote of inv former supporters and other frion Is with whom I have neen pleasantly associated while serving in the office, I remain Yours Respectfully, M. L.O’Brien. For Leave to Sell. Georgia—Montgomery County. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has applied to the Ordinary of said county for leave to sell 24 acres ot land more or less situated in or near the Town of Soperton and bounded on the east by lands of VV. C* Futrell, O. O. Williams and Tiger Creek, be ing on the east side of said town. Also about four acres of land lo : cated in said town of Soperton, together with improvements, be ing bounded on the westbv Oak street, adjacent to lands of 0. 11. ■ Peterson. Sold for the purpose of payment of debts and distribu tion. Said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county to be held on the first Monday in Jan., 1912. This Dec. 4, 1911. J C. Williams, Ex. Margarete B. Williams, late i of said county, deceased. Cow & Calf for Sale. ' Cow has five-weeks-old heifer calf. Call on Chas. Beugnot or j at Mt. Vernon postoffice. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911. j LIVED LONG TOGETHER, I BURIED IN ONE GRAVE. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sumner of McGregor have returned from i Swainsboro where they attended ! the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. John Peeples, Sr., father and mother of Mrs. Sumner. The aged cou- I pie were taken sick at the same i time, and died nearly at the j same time, on Friday, and were ; buried in the same grave on Sat i urday. They raised ten child ren, eight boys and two girls, ! Mrs. Sumner being the youngest one, all the children still living, i The services were conducted by j the Masons, Mr. Peeples being the oldest Mason in Emanuel ' county. MOVED TO DUBLIN. j On yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bland left for Dublin to j make that city their home. Their i going away was a distinct loss to Mt. Vernon, and universal regret here will mark their departure. No smoother or more genial man than William Bland ever resided ;in Mt. Vernon, and Mrs. Bland has always filled an important place in society and the works of charity and of the church. As a member and secretary of the board of county commissioners, : Mr. Bland has long filled an im : portant place in the affairs of Montgomery county, always act ing from the purest and best of motives. With them goes Miss Ruby Mason, a niece, who makes her home with them, and is one of the finest of Mt. Vernon’s interesting young ladies. Little i Shula Bland, the adopted son, is 1 a bright and manly little fellow, i and will be missed here by a score |of playmates, Dublin, with its I happy homes and clever folks, ■ will knowhow to appreciate these I good people. ' . General News Items Told in Short Meter. I The naval board which made an exhaustive examination of the battleship Maine, which was de stroyed in Havana harbor in 1898, has made its report declar ing that the explosion was from the outside. Hon. J. Hill Hall of Bibb has announced that he will be a can , didate for governor at the expi-1 ration of the time for which Jos. M. Brown was nominated last week. On Friday last the stables of .J. H. Wade at Thomasville were i burned and nine horses, eight 1 carriages, fifty tons of hay and other feed stuff were destroyed. Frank Appleby, a real estate man of Douglas, lost his automo bile on the road near there last week, the machine taking fire and was totally destroyed. Dr. Len G. Broughton of At lanta has returned from an ex j tended visit to Europe. He says | Judge Russell ought to resign from the Court of Appeals and not “sit in judgment on the law which he has ridiculed.” Miss Bradenburger of San An tonio, Tex., is making the fruit cake for the Taft Christmas din ner at the white house, being an expert in that line. Clyde Penley, 9-year-old boy of Athens, ran after a ball in front of a street car Sunday, and ; had his left arm crushed so badly as to make it necessary >o ampu tate it. The government estimate of the cotton crop for 1911-2 puts the number of standard bales at 14,885,000 bales. The record crop heretofore was that of 1904, when 1 13,438,012 bales were made. CASES DISPOSED OF LAST WEEK. In addition to cases given last week, the following were dis posed of by Superior Court, which adjourned on Saturday evening. State vs. Lindsey Beckum, nol pros. Gus Calhoun, plea of guilty. John Sellars, discharged. S. E. Hill, guilty. Ben Brewton, not guilty. 2d case, guilty. E. A. Morrison, guilty. R. K. Moseley, not guilty. it it <i t * a Florence Sellers, guilty. Harris Adams, settled. Lucien Baker, guilty. Cince Bradley, “ Henry Toles Lamar Sears, Ben Footman. Ella Clements vs. E. A. Cle ments, divorce; first verdict. Alice Connell vs. Charlie Con nell, divorce; Ist verdict. Thomas Shepard vs. Mattie Shepard, divorce; total divorce. Susanna Phillips vs. Jerry Phillips, total divorce. Bank of Soperton vs. S. A. and B. S. Calhoun, judgment for plaintiff. E. T. Mcßride vs. E. and J. B. Phillips, judgment for plaintiff. J. M. Finn vs. Thos. Foskey, judgment for plaintiff. Pope & Fleming vs. J. F. Brantley and J. A. Hall, judg ment for plaintiff, Mallory Mill Supply Co. vs. N. B. Gibbs, judgment for plain tiffs. Macon Fertilizer Works vs. N. B. Gibbs, Sr., judgment for , plaintiffs. INTERESTING RECITAL BY PUPILS OF THE U. B. I. i j On Monday evening next a Re cital will be given by the stu dents in the Music and Oratory Departments of the Union Bap ! tist Institute. An interesting i program has been arranged and an evening of rare entertainment ; is assured. The public is cordially | invited to attend. A negro porter of Brunswick, out in the country collecting, ran upon a large bear making a meal of a hog. The bear attacked the man when approached and was turned back into the swamp by two loads of bird shot. The hunt was renewed and the bear was followed and killed. On Saturday morning an ex plosion occurred in the Cross Mountain coal mine at Briceville, Tenn., and a hundred or more men were entombed, and the mine took fire. A car load of i coffins was ordered for the dead, still being taken from the mine. Sam C. Drew, of Dover, N. H., weighing 457 pounds, was mar ried recently to Miss Rose La vigne whose weight is 278 pounds. No carriage in town could haul the couple, and they were car ried from the train to their home on a hay truck. Clare Bentry, a colored woman lof Savannah, died there on Mon day at the remarkable age of 117 years. Her age was well authen ticated, and she retained her mental faculties until only a short time before her death. Sam Alexander, a negro chick en thief devoured SSO worth of chickens on Sunday in Atlanta. There were two prize birds be longing to a fancier and he had been offered $25 each for them. The leg bands with the numbers on them gave Sam away. Dock Giles of Clark county, over eighty years old, made two bales of cotton this year on one acre of land, doing the work with a hoe after having a single fur row run down the middles one | time. Pythian Notes. The Pythian Literary Society held its weekly meeting in the Freshman room on Saturday af ternoon December 9th. The following very interesting program was very creditably ren dered:— Reading—Rita Mae Outler. Jokes and Wants Guy Stone. Declamation—Guy Stone. I Wonder Wh> —Kelley Mann. Conversation —Marie Peterson, Turner Wilcox and Sue Burnett. The Most Interesting News paper Topic Lake Peddy. Pantomime—George Rabun, Au bry Hendricks, and Leon Barn hill. Debate: —Resolved, that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is doing more for human ity than any other union. Ass. Blanche Bradley and Emma Ed wards. Neg.—Kelley Mann and Queen Collins. The negative side won the de bate. This closed the program. Af ter a short business meeting, sev eral songs were sung and a num ber of yells wore given. The Society is in a very pros perous condition. There being no further busi ness the Society adjourned. Blanche Bradley, Cor. Secretary, j : —■ —j : II ;| Status of Property of Montgomery Co. : | i (Attached to and forming a part of the General Presentments ' |; of the Grand Jury, November Term, Montgomery 11 Superior Court.) 355 acres land and improvements $ 8,000.00 |; 11 18 head mules 4,000.00 !l Tents and camping outfit 1,000.00 l !> 2 stump pullers and fixtures 500.00 j j 3 road machines 500.00 ; j| 8 wagons 300.00 j ;! Furnishings for pauper’s home 274.00 ! 6 wheelers 250.00 j j; Wagon harness 200.00 j; | 1 McCormick reaper and binder 132.00 ; ;! Tools including picks, shovels, mattox and grub hoes 75.00 :j j! 1 McCormick mower and rake 75.00 j i Blacksmith shop and tools 75.00 ; 2 disc plows 65.00 I 1 Hoosier grain drill 70.00 j 11 Sikes hay press, including freight 67.25 j Corrugated culvert 300.00 ; 4 Oliver steel beam plows 20.00 i 1 corn planter 12.75 :1 16 drags 15.00 J j Plows and plow stocks 10.00 j j 1 steel beam 2 horse plow 0.00 j; $15,950.00 ; Respectfully submitted, Dec. 6th, 1911. 1 Wm. Bland, 1j Clerk Com. Roads and Revenues, Montgomery Co. j j STATEMENT CORN, OATS AND HAY PRODUCED ON jj MONTGOMERY COUNTY FARM, 1911. j| 1800 bushels thrashed oats at 65c $1170.00 ;! j! 1700 bushels corn at SI.OO 1700.00 E ! j 462 bales peavine hay at SI.OO 462.00 j| !! $3,332.00 ij I j 40 head fattening hogs on hand. jj !; 15 head out hogs on hand. ;! Respectfully submitted, Dec. 6th, 1911. Wm. Bland, Clerk Corns. Roads and Revenues Montgomery Co. ! j Statement of Special Taxes. j: IF. C. Wade, cigarettes $25.00 ! j Soperton Hardware Co., pistols and cartridges 30.00 j S. 11. Gowan, taking pictures 10.00 j A. P. Stone, pistols and cartridges 25.00 jl J. W. Palmer, slot machine 2.60 j M. .J. Campbell, soda fount 5.00 j | The Farmers Bank, corporation 10.00 j; -J. A. Clements, slot machine 2.50 ]1 W. .1. Futral, insurance 10.(X) !j Uvalda Bank, corporation 10.00 Ij W. F. McAllister, insurance 10.00 J; Farmers Union Gin Co., corporation tax 5.00 j! Mt. Vernon Drug Co., corporation and fount 10.00 ;! W. J. Oliver, insurance 10.00 j IMt. Vernon Bank, corporation tax 10.00 ; Bank of Uvalda, corporation 10.00 ! A. B. Hutcheson, loan agent 10.(X) ij J. B. Brew ton, insurance 10.00 jj Bank of Soperton, corporation 15.(X) j Hall Insurance Agency 10.00 ; jj Knight Insurance Agency 50.00 ; I Soperton Fertilizer Company 10.00 j j J. J. Mooring, cigarettes 25.00 j j R. E. Ward, insurance 10.00 j Peoples Bank 10.00 ; j A. Nelson, soda fount 5.00 j j J. M. Fordharn & Co., cigarettes and pistols 50.00 j j Lawson E. Brown, insurance 10.00 j! $399.00 | Truly submitted, I). F. Warnock, T. C. Montgomery County. ! ORATORY CLASS ENTERTAINS. On Monday evening last, the oratory class of the U. B. L, in charge of Miss Nunnally, pre sented the play, “The Elope ment of Ellen,’’ to an appre ciative audience. The evening was very pleasantly spent, and the end of the play left the departing visitors well pleased, and wishing for a repetition of the entertainment. The dramatis personae was: Richard Ford, Dan Street. Molley, Miss Adel Perkin's Robert Shepard, Gesmon Nevil. Max Ten Eyck, Rufus Hodges. Dorothy March, Rita Mae Outlaw. June Haverill, Miss Kelly Mann. John Hume, Hugh Peterson. MAKES GOOD SHOWING. The stockholders of Peoples Bank, Soperton, Ga., held their annual meeting Dec. sth. The following directors were elected for the ensuing year: W. T. Mc- Crimmon, B. A. Rowe, F. C. Wade, J. R. Watson and W. Mishoe. The old officers as fol lows were reelected: W. T. MeCrimmon, president; W. Mis hoe, vice nresident, and R. E. Ward, cashier. The statement of the condition of the bank show that the earnings for the year are twenty per cent. An eight per cent dividend will be paid and the balance of the prof j its passed up to undivided profits. NO. 34
