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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.
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