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VOL. XXVI.
MOVEMENT ON
BIGHT LINE.
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To the members of the Farm
ers Union, and all others inter
ested in the growing of cotton:
The time has come when all
good Georgians should unite in a
fight to free the state from such
business shocks as we are now
suffering.
Two good reasons are: First,
patriotical, of the same type that
caused our fore-fathers to walk
over the frozen ground with
bloody feet to free our country
from English oppression. Second
a selfish one, it will improve the
soil and give permanent financial
benefits to every one who owns
or tills it, and increase the price
of cotton.
The balance of the world smiles
at the South’s dilema, and it is
often said: “The South is too
stupid and lazy to do anything
much.”
We believe the good people of
Georgia will repudiate this.. not
by word only, but by their ac
tions. Georgia has taken the
lead many tim 3 and we believe
she will take il again.
So believing, we respectfully
ask that you meet at the school
I house, or at such place £& may
* De the custom of your community
to hold their meetings, Saturday
January 13th, 1912, at 7:30 p. m.
For the purpose of selecting a
committee who will see every
Apotton grower, and every land
■owner on whose land cotton is
grown, ami secure a pledge from
him to so reduce his cotton acre
age as to make cotton a surplus.
It will be necessary for each plow
to have a few extra bushels or
pounds of supplies to sell to those
not engaged in farming, and to
the “Tories” that refuse to join
the army that is fighting to free
Georgia from the clutches of the
cotton speculator.
The man that has contracted
with his tenants for another year
without stipulating that such
should grow his, the tenant’s,
supplies, go with a member of
the committee and get such ten
ants to agree to the proposition.
I There is no excuse that is wor
thy of serious consideration.
A man who does not want to
do a thing can find an excuse. A
man who does want to do a thing
can find away. Respectfully,
R. F. Duckworth,
President.
KILL A BIG WILDCAT.
On Tuesday morning Messrs.
Henry Joyce and John Q. Palmer
killed an immense wildcat. Mr.
S. Z. Salter’s famous pack of
hounds did the running, and
some of them were badly lacerat
ed in the grand life and death
fight that followed when the
huge cat was dislodged from a
*-«je. It took several shots from
pistol and a gun to dispatch
ihe animal, which was said to be
the largest ever seen in these
parts.
A MONSTER POTATO.
Quitman, Ga., Dec. —The
prize potato made its appearance
in town last week and it weighed
24 pounds. It is the biggest po
tato on record, even here where
people are accustomed to big po
tatoes. * It was grown by Caro
line Malloy, a negro woman on
the Avera farm.
C. A. Davis, a prominent far
mer, has raised 600 bushels of
potatoes to the acre this year, j
and had tv/o vines which pro-
Iluced an actual weight of 39
ounds, two-thirds of a bushel,
hese very large potatoes are
considered valuable as food for
- hogs, but have not the delitate
r flavor of the small varieties and j
not in favor for table use.
The Montgomery Monitor.
Shiloh.
Special Correspondence
The Christmas holidays are be
ing well enj< yed by the people
of this community, visiting and
going to different amusements.
Mrs. Dave Tompkins and
children, from Matthews, Ga.,
are spending a few days during
Christmas with her brother, Mr.
W. W. Tompkins and family.
Mis;3 Lizzie Vaughan of Char
lotte is spending Christmas with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Vaughan.
Misses Pearline and Talmadge
Spivey spent Christmas day with
Misses Alberta and Viola Sikes.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tompkins
and family and Mrs. Dave Tomp
kins and children spent a very
pleasant day with Mr. and Mrs.
C. I. Josey last Tuesday.
Mr. Elbert Hadden visited Mr.
John Tompkins one day during
the holidays.
Miss Bessie Tompkins and
father were shopping at Lumber
City shopping last Wednesday.
The Christmas tree at Shiloh
school house Wednesday night
was well attended. A nice pro
gram was rendered by the school
children, assisted by some of the
young ladies of the community.
An immense crowd from our ad
joining neighborhood attended.
Mr. Louis Wilcox and Mrs.
Henry Livingston and family, of
Lumber City, attended the
Christmas, tree at Shiloh.
Miss Kayte Hearn is spending
the holidays with her sister at
Cochran, Ga.
Misses Alberta and Viola Sikes
visited Misses Annie and Leona
Hadden last Thursday afternoon.
Miss Nannie Will Tompkins
and brother John spent from Fri
day until Sunday with their un
cle, Mr. Hutts Achord of Hazle
hurst. Ga.
We are sorry to lose our neigh
bors and friends, Mr. Lowery
and family who have moved near
Charlotte. But we have in their
place Mr. Hadden and family.
Mr. Douglas McArthur spent a
few days in Savannah during the
holidays.
Mr. Elbert Hadden visited Mr.
Walter Mitchell last Friday.
Mr. Peter and Sikes Sears and
Mr. H. F. Kinder spent the day
with Mr. L. C. Sikes last Sunday.
Mrs. Victoria McArthur attend
ed preaching at Lumber City
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Josey and
children visited their sister Mrs.
W. W. Tompkins Sunday.
Miss Sadie Cox and Mr. Tom
Shepherd visited Miss Bessie
Tompkins Sunday.
Miss Olive Mitchell who has
been spending Christmas here at
home has returned to her work
in Florida.
Mr. Elle Hadden is spending
Christmas with friends and rela
tives in Johnson county.
Messrs. P. W. and W. E.
Mitchell, John L. Lowery, Jesse
Hearn, Elbert Hadden and John
Tompkins visited the home of
Mr. J. J. Vaughan one day re
cently.
Miss Sadie Vaughan spent the
day with Miss Alberta Sikes
Tuesday.
' GREENWAY-TQLER.
On Sunday, December 24th, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
. Greenway at Orland, their
daughter, Miss Florence Green
way was married to Mr. James
Arthur Toler of Orianna, The
interesting ceremony was per
formed by Rev, C. W. Embryos
Empire, and a sumptuous wed
ding feast was given the yomg
, couple by Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
( Toler, parents of the groom.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 191 'V
TEACHERS RETURN TO
RESUME THEIR WORK.
Misses Fannie Lee and Madge
' j Ledbetter came on here to spend
1 j the holidays with their father,
j Rev. C. M. Ledbetter. Miss
[ | Fannie Lee is in charge of a
school at Donaldsonville, Decatur
r county, and Miss Madge is teach
ing at Ziegler, among the Salz
burgers in Screven county. These
young ladies remained here
t scarcely long enough to form ac
quaintances, returning to their
schools on Monday, after prom
ising to return for their summer
! vacation.
i
MOVE TO FLORIDA.
i On Friday of last week, Mr.
■ and Mrs. Homer V. Rogers left
r j for St. Augustine, Fla., where
they will reside in future. We
regret to lose from our commun
ity these good people, but hope
. their sojourn in the “Land of
Flowers” will be both pleasant
and profitable. The sun will
I continue to shine brightly in old
Georgia for any who wish to re
turn to her borders.
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OCONEE RIVER FULL.
Following the bad example of
many holiday revelers, the Oconee
! has been on a large sized jag for
some days. Notwithstanding
that the big rise was expected,
there has been some loss of stock
in the swamps adjacent. Mr.
1 John Q. Palmer, who is largely
; engaged in stock-raising, had a
strenuous week trying to save
. his herds, but lost six cows after
! all. There are probably other
losses not reported.
UNION CHRISTMAS TREE
HELD IN MT. VERNON.
The three Sunday schools, Bap
tist, Methodist and Presbyterian,
were united in celebrating Christ
mas with a tree and the usual
holiday exercises, at the Meth
odist church Dec. 23, It was a
brilliant success, and all of the
pupils of the three schools were
made glad by gifts of the usual
■ nature. Exercises of a very ap
. propriate nature rendered at the
church, being well attended. The
training of the young folks was
, under the direction of Mrs. John
, E. Mcßae, and the splendid man
ner in which they acquitted
themselves speaks of the diligent
and painstaking work on the part
of Mrs. Mcßae and her assistants.
Fountain Pen Lost.
Lost on Sunday last in Mt.
Vernon one Waterman’s Ideal
. Fountain Pen. Had a gold band
with the initials “C. C.” inscri
bed. Reward if returned to the
Monitor office.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
' Annie Manley, a colored ser- J
vant who had been a maid in the!
governor’s mansion in Atlanta
during several administrations,
■ j dropped dead last Friday after
i returning from the cemetery
| where she went regularly to dec
-11 orate the grave of Mrs. Draper,
• her last employer.
Thieves stole two fat hogs from
the pen of Ed Tomlinson, a far
mer of Thomas county, last week
and killed them and skinned
them on the spot, leaving their
hides hanging on a nearby tree.
The records show that 28 able
j bodied white men of Atlanta
i were caught beating their wives
1 during 1911, and in over half of
, 300 divorce suits filed wife-beat
; ing or drunkenness were alleged
as the grounds.
A six-year-old boy named Jas.
| White fell off a foot-log into a
I branch near Columbus on Sunday
j last and was drowned. An older
brother came near losing his life
j trying to save the younger boy.
EASON ALONE HELD
FOR MURDER OF GIRL.
As previously published, five
men were arrested and lodged in
jail at Lyons charged with the
murder of Miss Maggie New
, some, on Christmas night near
English Eddy. They were Bus
ter Eason, John Poole, Elijah
Poole, Lonnie Salter and Frank
Mason. At the preliminary trial
on Tuesday at Lyons all the men
were released except Buster Ea
son. It was shown that all the
men were in the surry when the
18-year old girl was shot down in
the road, but it developed that
Eason did the shooting, and he
was held without bail. She was
shot because she refused to go to
a neighbor’s nearby to play the
piano for the drunken revelers.
MORE BUILDINGS NEEDED.
The the demand 1
—for more office and hotel build
ings and for more apartment
houses is unprecedented in Ala
bama and Georgia. Macon, Ga.,
has begun the construction of a
$500,000 hotel building; so has
Savannah, Ga., and Augusta, Ga.
is preparing to build one at a very j
large cost. Atlanta, Ga., is to!
have a 17-story office building,
and more and more are being
erected there. Construction of a
22-story office building has been i
begun at Birmingham, Ala.
These are but illustrations of
what is being done in the build
ing line, as the readers of the
Industrial Index know, and yet
the demand is as insistent as
though many buildings of the
kind indicated had not been erec
ted’recently in cities and towns
of Alabama and Georgia, and as
though more were not being
erected.
This demand for more build-.
ing3 indicates not only a larger
volume of business, but a widen
ed scope of business as well. The
well-appointed office building at
tracts from other sections as ■
surely as does the first-class
hotel.
The coming year will see more
large and costly buidings erected j
in Georgia and Alabama than 1
have been built in them before 1
in a twelve-month period, and
these buildings will help to at
tract new citizens as surely as
will the great undeveloped re
sources of the two states.-In
dustrial Index.
Watch Lost.
Medium-size double case Elgin
watch; lost between home of J.
I. Fountain and the court house
i square in Mt. Vernon Dec. 12;
j minute hand missing. Return to
: Monitor office. B. Ruzic.
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
W. R. Burnett was sentenced
j Tuesday in the city court of Sa
vannah to serve on the chaingang
for stealing clothes and shoes!
from a room-mate. He sold the |
articles to raise a fund to deposit
with the street car company to
secure a job as conductor.
On Monday last in New York
a boy of six years lost his life in
a fire while attempting to rescue
his little sister from the flames.
He wrapped his jacket around
her and she was still alive when
found by the firemen.
The descendants of John Ton,
the largest organized family in
America, numbering 610 living
members, celebrated New Years
with great festivities in Chicago. ,
The committee sent by con- ;
gress to inspect the Panama Ca
nal and get information as to
the progress of the work report
that the canal may be open for i
commercial ships by next June, .
and for naval ships by 1915. i
Erick Notes.
Huocial Oorreapondomje.
We are all enjoying the new
year 1912 at the present and hope
to continue so. . Christmas has
passed: and everybody enjoyed
the good things. All got too
much booze that could get it but
the writer, and we had to stay
sober to keep the rest straight.
J. Auld and family of Vidalia
spent Christmas with the for
mer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Auld.
Mrs. Anna Irwin and daughter
Miss Louise and Mrs. O. A. Ir
win are spending quite a time in
Macon.
We have had a number of par
ties during the holidays. Misses
Lillie and Berta Brown enter
tained on Monday night at the
[home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Brown. Quite a number of
young folks were present.
Among the visitors were Miss
Agnes Hinson of Arlington,
Messrs. George Melton and Neal
Vickers of Douglas. At an early
i hour the violin came, good music
| was furnished, and the play
started.
Miss Carrie Hinson entertained
a crowd Saturday night. As the
writer wasn’t present we didn’t
! learn the particulars.
C. H. Rogers entertained on
Thursday night.
O. A. Irwin entertained Tues
day night, and it was one of the
most delightful all’airs of the
season.
A New Year party is to be
given by Miss Ora Hinson on
Monday. A grand time is ex
pected.
Mrs. Lucy Peabody and little
daughter and Miss Agnes Hinson
of Arlington are spending Christ
mas with Mr. and Mrs, John
, Hinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Pope N. Brown
spent part of Christmas with Mr.
land Mrs. J. R. Auld.
Mrs. W. A. Brown and grand
j children, Miss Berta and Olin,
1 spent a few days with J. D.
1 Brown last week.
George Melton and Neal Vick
ers of Douglas called to see
Misses Berta and Lillie Brown
Christmas eve.
Mr. L. G. Irvin spent Sunday
of last week at Towns.
Miss Berta Brown spent Satur
day night with Miss Annie
Bussey. Pa’s Boy.
HOLIDAY WEDDING.
Mrs. Belle Gray and Mr. Jasper
W. Dixon were happily married
at the home of Rev. J. D. Rabun
on Saturday, Dec. 23d, Rev, Ra
bun officiating.
The bride is a grand-daughter
of Mr. Hiram Sharpe of Mont
igornery county, but for some
time has made her home in Sav
annah. Mr. Dixon is a popular
conductor on the Columbus div
ision of the Seaboard railway.
Miss Reynolds, a sister of Mrs.
j Dixon, being also a visitor at the
home of her grandfather, accom
panied the party to Mt. Vernon.
SPRING TERM BEGINS AT
UNION BAPTIST INSTITUTE.
On Tuesday morning the
spring term of the Union Baptist
Institute began here. Many of
the pupils had gone home to en
joy the Christmas season with
parents and friends, and returned
with energies and intellects re
newed to take up the work of
the term. The faculty as now
constituted is a strong one, and
no pains will be spared to give
every student all aid needed to
acquire the best training for the
arduous duties that must come
with maturer years.
New shipment of jewelry just
received by Mrs. J. L. Adams. 1
All new styles and right prices
and quality guaranteed.
COMMISSIONERS
HOLD MEETING.
The county Board of Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenue
• held their regular monthly meet
ing on Tuesday, and a press of
business continued the session
through yesterday. Many im
portant matters received atten
tion at the meeting. The election
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge Wm. Bland,
who recently moved to Dublin,
was held by the board, and Judge
W. M. Lewis of Mt. Vernon was
chosen to fill the place.
Judge Lewis is a good man,
and is known to almost every
man in the county, having filled
several times before places of
honor and trust. And we pre
dict that his work on the board
will be wisely and conscientiously
performed.
The commissioners have a hard
task before them in the matter
of roads and finances, and it
should be the aim of every loyal
citizen to aid them in every way
possible.
MISSES LEE ENTERTAIN
DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
One of the charming events of
the festive season was the enter
tainment given at the home of
Mr. H. D. Lee Thursday evening
last. The parlor and reception
hall were attractively arranged
with small tables, and progres
i sive Forty-Two was the game of
the evening, Misses Lollie Belle
and Marion Lee presiding, Miss
Elizabeth Lee keeping score.
Other games followed this, and
then came a musical feast and
dainty refreshments.
Those present were: Misses
Maggie Brewton, Mamie Conner,
Lila Riddle, Jessie Peterson, Na
omi Brewton, Ala Peterson, Mary
Brewton and Ethleen Folsom;
and Messrs. Grady McAllister,
J. B. Brewton, Jim A. McAllis
ter, Will Peterson, Tom Conner,
James Peterson, Mr. Evans and
Mr. Dixon.
MARRIED IN ATLANTA.
On Thursday, Dec. 21st, Miss
Myrtie Burch and Mr. Paul
Fleming were married in At
lanta where the bride was stop
ping with relatives. We have
no acquaintance with the fortu
nate young groom, but his bride
was one of Mt. Vernon’s nicest
and most highly esteemed young
ladies, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Burch. May the sunshine
of perpetual happiness rest ever
on their pathway, casting no
shadows except those that must
fall upon the pilgrimage of all.
DEATH OF AN INFANT.
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex. Conner of Charlotte was
saddened last Thursday by the
death of their infant son. The
little boy was about six months
old, and his death was caused by
cholera infantum. We sympa
thize with the sorrowing ones.
BUY COTTON CHEAPER
THAN TO MAKE IT.
Those of our farmers who have
it in their minds to plant plenty
of cotton next year should go to
the platform now and buy just
what cotton they will want. It
can be bought cheaper now than
they can raise it and they will
save all the hard work and worry.
We would advise them to put all
their land in corn, peas, potatoes
and other grain, not forgetting a
large hay crop. It costs little to
make hay and it will pay a great
deal better than cotton. —Lyons
Progress.
Farm for Rent.
Five-horse farm for rent and
eight head of mules for sale. Ap
ply to W. B. Cadle,
Tarrytown, Ga.
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