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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1912)
Slip ffflmttruimmj iHnuitnr. VOL. XXVI. LOSS BY FIRE MONDAY LAST. On Monday morning about two o’clock the large barn on Mr. D. S. Williamson’s farm was de stroyed by fire, at a heavy loss. Two horses, two mules, large quantity of corn, hay and farm products, with a fine equipment of farm implements and machi nery, went up in smoke. The loss" figures up about $6,- 000. Few men in Montgomery county have been more success ful than Mr.'S Williamson, much of his success having come from the use of improved farm tools, of which no man had a more useful and complete lav out. Hundreds of friends through out South Georgia will regret to learn of Mr. Williamson’s loss. Thigpen School. Special Correspondence Miss Mary Hutcheson visited Miss Katie Derriso Wednesday last. Mr. Tom Spivey visited at the home of Mr. R. B, Thigpen Sun day week. Our school is progressing very much under the management of Prof J. Rice Godley of Islandton, S. C. We hope to have a Sab bath school organized soon. Mr. Lamar Davis visited at the home of Mr. Ephram McLendon Suhday afternoon. The party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. Hutch eson a few nights past was en joyed by all who attended. Misses Carrie McLendon and Mary Hutcheson are spending part of this with their cousin. Miss Charlotte Sharpe of Vidalia. Miss Katie Derriso visited Miss Mary Hutcheson Tuesday after noon. Messrs. Henry Gillis and La mar Davis visited at the home of Mr. J. E. B. Hutcheson Wednes day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. Hutch eson and two little daughters, Misses Lotty and Nannie Mae, were in Soperton Wednesday, shopping. Mrs. Leona Derriso visited Mrs. Emma Hutcheson Friday afternoon. The Messrs. Wilcher and the Misses Johnson attended church at Rock Hill. It is reported that Mr. Percy Holmes and Miss Corine Brett were happily married Sunday last at the home of the bride’s parents. Messrs. Robert and Jim Walker and Charlie Thigpen visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Derriso Sunday last. Little Miss Ava Hutcheson vis ited her cousin Miss Katie Der riso Saturday night and Sunday. Quite a good crowd attended services at Minnehaha Springs Sunday last. Blue Eyes. THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. Hon. T. A. Peterson, trustee of the Eleventh District State Agricultural School, informs us that the spring term of the big school, located at Douglas, will begin on Tuesday, February 6th. They have room for about ten more boys, and anyone wishing to enter should write to Prof. C. W. Davis, principal, Douglas, Ga., for information. For County Treasurer: I respectfully offer my services to the citi zens of Montgomery county as Treasurer of the county. Knowing that X can fill the office acceptably, and to the entire satisfation of the most exacting tax payer, I ask the office at your hands. Will appreciate highly all assist ance rendered by my friends and fellow citi zens in an honest effort to secure the place. Yours respectfully, J. D. Browning. Shiloh. Special Correspondence. We are very glad to have Un cle Sol to smile on us once more. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Mitchell visited Mrs. P. P. Hearn one day j recently. Miss Gorden of Charlotte spent Sunday last with Misses Victoria and Sadie Vaughan. Miss Pollie Livingston of Tay lor’s Liberty county, spent two weeks very pleasantly with Mrs. D. T. Roland. She return ed to her home Sunday last. We will welcome her back. Mrs. Cullen Lowery spent Sun day afternoon with Mrs. W. A. Hadden. • Misses Bessie Tompkins and Leona Hadden spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Kayte Hearn. Jesse Hearn and John L. Low ery were visitors at the Vaughan home one night recently. Gorden Mimbs of Springhill was in our community on Satur day of last week. Elbert Hadden spent last' Sat urday night with Henry Mont ford. Marcus Moses and Cullen Low ery visited J. W. Hearn Sunday asternoon last. Quite a large crowd of young folks were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hearn Saturday night last to an enter tainment in honor of Miss Liv ingston of Liberty county. Sev eral nice games were played and some delightful music was ren dered by Miss Livingston. At a late hour all departed for home declaring it was the nicest thing of the kind they were ever at. John Hearn of Jacksonville, Ga., spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hearh. He was ac companied by Mr. Fi’ank Powell. Elbe Hadden was in the Bruce section one day last week. Miss Nannie Will Tompkins is spending a few days Rentz, guest of her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Achord. The fruit supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Rowland Friday night was well attended and enjoyed by all. Miss Annie Hadden is spend ing a while with her sister, Mrs. Mae Johnson of Soperton. Miss Lottie McEachern was the guest of Miss Kayte Hearn one day recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gray and little daughter are visiting Mrs. Victoria McArthur. Their home is in Atlanta. Acie Rooks visited the home of W. A. Hadden Sunday p. m. - ■ ...% ELECTION OF TRUSTEES. An election has been ordered held at each school house in Montgomery county, Georgia, from 2 o’clock to 4 o’clock p. m., on Friday, Feb. 2, 1912, for the purpose of electing trustees for the respective schools, to succeed those whose terms of office will expire at that time, or to fill any vacancy that may exist on the board of trustees of any school. This election will be under the management of the trustees of the different schools of the coun ty, or by some one appointed by them for that purpose. The names of the trustees elected should be sent to me immediately after the election. It is hoped that the patrons of every school in the county will take an active interest in this election, and see that good men are elected to look after the school interests in every community in the county. Respectfully, A. B. Hutcheson, Co. Supt. of Schools. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912. MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS. The Ladies’ Foreign Missionary Society of Mt. Vernon Methodist church met at the home of Mrs. A. B. Hutcheson on Monday af ternoon. The meeting was an : interesting and profitable one, _ it being the time for the election of officers. The officers chosen to serve are: President, Mrs. D. W. Folsom; Vice President, Mrs. W. I H. McQueen; 2d Vice President, Mrs. W. B. Kent; Treasurer, Mrs. W. A. Peterson; Rec. Secretary, Mrs. A. B. Hutcheson; Corr. Secretary, Mrs. A. J. Burch; Agent for “Missionary Voice,” i Mrs. G. V. Mason. After adjournment of the bus iness session, Mrs. Hutcheson served dainty refreshments. DOWN WITH OLD, UP WITH NEW. : Many large hogs are being killed this winter and the present high price of meat is not work ing a hardship on the farmer who lives at home. L. M. Brown, who lives in the Second district of Pike county seven miles south of Griffin, killed two Berkshire hogs a few days ago that weigh ed 900 pounds net. The pigs were only fifteen months old and were fat and fine. Mrs. Brown made 30 gallons of lard and 75 pounds of sausage, the kind that smells appetizing all the way from the kitchen to the public road. They will take down old hams so that the new ones can be hung on the pegs, and this is true every year. Cotton is not the only king in Georgia.—Grif fin News. PHILLIPS-SMIT H. Mr. Newman Smith and Miss Nancy Phillips of Soperton came down Monday morning and were married. The ceremony was per- j formed by Judge Alex McArthur of the Court of Ordinary in his usual impressive style. j General News Items Told in Short Meter. 1 ; Dr. Len G. Broughton, the 1 noted Baptist divine of Atlanta, has tendered his resignation to , accept a call to Christ church in 1 [ London, where he has frequently [ preached when visiting England. The Sweetwater Park hotel at Lithia Springs was entirely de stroyed by fire on Monday. The building contained 350 bed rooms with all modern fixtures, and the ; loss is estimated at $250,000. i Miss Georgia O’Ramey, an ac tress in New York, gave up a job paying S3OO per week rather than play a part in a graveyard : scene, saying it was “too grew some and awful unlucky.” : The present judge of the Dub lin judicial circuit, Judge K. J. Hawkins, will be opposed for re- I election by Judge Ira S. Chap pell, who has announced for the office. Rodin Carl Fargason of Atlan > ta, who recently stole an express • ! package containing $7,000, has [ been captured and returned to | Atlanta and jailed. About $4,000 -of the money will be recovered, ; j he having spent $3,000 on chorus girls in Chicago. * John Napier of Eatonton was killed Sunday night by a fall from his horse. The horse had r j plunged into a deep gully where 1 he was tightly wedged and the Oman’s body lay in front partly, 2 covered in water by a big rain, j . ; A mob of 100 men broke the . jail of Harris county on Monday night and took out four negroes, ; 3 three men and a woman, and 1 hung them to trees near the town of Hamilton. They had been ar-1 1 rested and jailed charged with the murder of a white farmer who was shot down in his house . on Sunday. BERRIES AND BLIZZARDS. While temperatures in Wincon son and adjoining states were ranging last w r eek from 30 to 38 degrees below zero, strawberries were ripening in open fields in the southern part of Alabama, and the first shipments of the berries were being made from Florida to northern sections. Everything else being equal, there is no question as to which is the most desirable—the part of the country that grows straw berries and that which produces blizzards. i But in this case, other things ! are far from being equal. This part of the country is much more desirable in many other respects. In the Southeast, “below zero” is an unknown temperature. There is comfort and pleasure in living in this section at all sea sons of the year. Prices of land considered, it has greater agri cultural possibilities than has the home of the blizzard, and when the lengths of the growing sea sons in the two sections are com pared, the difference in favor of the Southeast is almost immeas urable. There are more undeveloped resources in the Southeast than in any other part of the country. Not only is this section unusually rich in resources, but the devel opment of them has been begun after all other sections have been developed extensively. The homeseeker would do well to consider the berry and the blizzard.—Ga.-Ala. Industrial In dex. 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. A thief in San Francisco last week stole a suit case, and while making off with it a burglar ' alarm inside, patented by the owner owner, sounded, and he was captured and sent to jail for three months. Judge Emory Speer at Macon on Monday confirmed the sale of the Southern Cotton Mills at Hawkinsville, the property hav ing been knocked down at $30,000 though costing at first SIIO,OOO. Ten thousand people gathered at Key West to celebrate the ar rival of the first passenger train over Flagler’s “over the sea” road. Many old men in the great throng had never seen a passen ger train, and the opening of this remarkable road marked an epoch in South Florida. R. L. Lacy of Dunham, near Savannah, died Saturday from blood poison in a wound. While out hunting Friday his gun was accidentally discharged the shot tearing through his left arm and making it necessary to amputate it, resulting in his death. A wholesale murder of families of negroes in Louisiana, 20 hav ing been put away during twelve months, has led to the arrest of Harris, a negro preacher, whose “Sacrifice Church” worked the 1 negroes into a frenzy, causing their murder. f Tom Collins, a boy and his 11- year-old sister in the suburbs of jSavanah, were burned to death i in their home Sunday night. The boy had used a lighted stick in going to bed that caused the fire, I and their mother and an older sister were badly burned trying to rescue the children, whose screams were heard till the house j fell in on them. Erick Notes. Special Correspondence. 1 Cotton picking still in order. Miss Katye Mae Tyson of Dub lin is the charming guest of Miss es Marie and Edna Braswell this week. Mi’s. Anna Irwin and children, Miss Louise and Leon, have re turned to their former home in Macon. Many friends will be , ready to welcome them back. Mr. and Mrs. Pope Brown of Towns were among friends and relatives here Sunday. Rev. Chas. Montgomery filled his regular appointment at the Presbyterian church here on last Sunday. He was heard by a large audience. ! Miss Katye Auld entertained quite a number of young friends I one evening last week. It was an enjoyable occasion. ' Miss Louise Waters entertained 1 Friday evening last. Miss Louise Irwin gave a fare well party Thursday night. A large attendance of charming guests. ■ Miss Berta Brown had as her 1 guests Saturday afternoon Misses Marie Braswell, Katie Mae Tyson and Lillie Brown and Mr. Roy Braswell. They had a delightful time. I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Walker con template moving away, but we , are sure they would not find more friends than they have here. Prof. J. R. Auld spent Sunday at home, leaving Monday to take up his school work. Misses Lucile Browning, Irene Morrison and Berta Brown visited Miss Kayte Auld Thursday after ! noon. J. A. Martin and family spent : Sunday at J. A. Braswell’s. Let all attend Sunday School more regularly. Keep up the in terest and the great work. For Sheriff: To (ho Citizen Voters of Montgomery Co.: ; Impressed with a laudable ih Hire to nerve , the people of Montgomery county us sheriff, I hereby make public my candidacy foi «aid office, HUhJoct to whatever action in determined * by the rules of the I c-mocratle primary. I , car neatly and moat reaped fully ask the cor dial support of the voters of my county, and it elected to this office, my only promise ia to discharge the duties devolving upon mu to the best of my ability, without favor to any I man. Most respectfully, ? I tan A. Morrison. J For County Commissioner: I hog to announce mv candidacy for a place J i n the Board of Commissioners of Hoads and Knvenuos of Montgomery County, tubject to such requirement!! lia may he proscribed by [ the county executive committee, if honored with tlie place, it will he my pleasure to serve tho better interests of the county and people. I Asking the kind considerali »n of the voters, ' lam Very truly, .Soperton. W. I’. Stephens. For Tax Collector: I take tills method of informing the citizens I of Montgomery comity that I am offering for tho office of Tax Collector of Montgomery county, subject to primary rides. Assuring • all my friends and all interested citizens that it is my honest intention to faithfully perform ' the duties of the office if favored with it. and ; soliciting your votes in the corning primary, j lam Yours respectfully, Andrew J Grimes. I Good two-horse farm for rent. : A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. JW«S4II!m«'W^W{S{WW4SJ*!S®WWW*S**®9® MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! Plenty of Money to Lend | On Improved Farms at Six per Cent. Interest —Any Amount From SBOO Up. Re-payment Allowed Any Time. Prompt : :j: Service and Courteous Treatment. h\\ f HAMP BURCH, McRAE, GEORGIA. ENTERTAINMENT BY DR. AND MRS. DEES. The home of Dr. and Mrs. J. Hilton Dees of Alston was the scene of a pretty entertainment given in honor of Miss Leona Williamson and guest, Miss Mar tha Gibson of Agricola. The beautiful home was tastily arranged to the color scheme of pink and blue, and the costumes of the charming ladies was a blend with the color effect. Quite a number were present to enjoy the occasion. Glenwood, lloute 1. Special Correspondence. We have been having some rainy weather. Miss Jewel Geiger spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. John L. Geiger. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lowery of Florida brought their little in fant here to bury it at Shiloh last Thursday morning at ten o’clock. The visitors at Mr. C. A. Pope’s Sunday afternoon were Misses Marie Roach, Edna Pitt man, Fannie McAllum, Clara Whalen, Rosa and Pearl Sandi fer, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brown ing, Messrs. Thurman McAllum and W. W. Browning. Mr. Millege Keen and Miss Mamie Adams were happily mar ried Sunday last. Misses Annie and Odessa Ben ton spent Sunday at Mr. H. L. Pope’s. Messrs. B. R. Benton, C. A. Pope, J. T. Browning, J. A. Low ery and W. W. Browning made a business trip to Mt. Vernon Mon day last. Mr. Everett Adams, who has been in Savannah at the hospital for some time, will soon return home. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Benton and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Clements Sunday afternoon. Mrs. D. G. McAllum is on the sick list at present. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Miss Annie Courson of Spring hill has been very sick but hope she will soon be up again. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Browning near Glenwood are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. McAllum. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Brown ing’s little infant is very sick at this writing. Hope it will soon recover. * Messr. Bruce Elam and Russell Baker came down bird hunting at Mr. B. R, Benton’s one day recently. They happened to very good luck, killing thirty-seven. While asleep in their private car and the train running fifty miles an hour, J. T. Harrahan, former president of Illinois Cen tral, F. 0. Melcher, second vice president of the Rock Island, and Ik E. Wright, vice president of a Rock Island Bridge company, were killed on Monday, a train crashing into their car at Kin rnuridy, Illinois. 0 NO. 40
