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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1912)
VOL. XXVII. SUPERIOR COURT j ADJOURNS TO JULY Judge Martin Calls May Term and Adjourns Over to July. The regular May term of Mont gomery superior court was called by Judge Martin on Monday, and by previous understanding was adjourned over to the fourth Monday in July. The order for adjournment given by Judge Martin follows: Montgomery Superior Court, May Term, 1912. j For good reasons shown and for the public good, it is ordered that the present term of Mont gomery Superior Court be re cessed or adjourned over to the fourth Monday in July, 1912, at which term all the grand and petit jurors drawn for this the regular term will attend to serve as jurors during the ad journed term, and all parties and witnesses to suits will also then attend, and all the work of the court will then go on as if this the regular term were held. In open Court, this May Gth, 1912. J. H. Martin, J. S. C. 0. J. C. A true copy from the minutes | of Montgomery Superior Court. M. L. O’Brien, Clerk. • Card of Thanks. To the Voting Citizens of Mont gomery County: I feel under so many obliga tions to you all that I do not know how to express myself. It lills me with gratitude and love for my fellow men such as I have never had before. I was a stran ger (so to speak) among you but found your support to be worthy of notice. lam still in the race to the end. Thanking you for past favors, and asking your sup port in the second primary, I am Yours truly, Isaac Brooks. Soperton, May 4th. MONTGOMERY FOR UNDERWOOD A Light Vote is Polled, But Sentiment Favors the Alabamian. The vote in the presidential primary on Wednesday last was light in Montgomery county, the total vote being only about 484. There was some delay in get ting in some of the precinct re turns, but the best report obtain able shows a majority of ten for Uunderwood. As Georgia went for Under wood, by a majority of over 14,- 000, delegates from among his supporters will be chosen from all the counties, and they must be named before the 22d. Col. Graham For Judge. The announcement of Col. E. D. Graham of Mcßae as a candi date for Judge of the Superior court of this circuit appears in this issue of The Tirnes-Journal. Col. Graham is universally es teemed as one of the ablest at torneys of the Circuit, and is personally very popular with the people. He has been solicitor general for several years and has filled this position with remarka ble ability. Should he be elevat ed to the judgeship we believe that he would make an official record in that position that would be highly satisfactory to the peo ple and that would reflect credit upon both himself and the court. Eastman Times-journal. Sin' Mmtaomtu Humitar. VETERANS’ TRAIN GOES IN DITCH j Nine Dead, Fifty-five Hurt in Wreck on New Or leans & Northeastern. Hattiesburg, Miss., May G. Nine persons, including three j women and two children were. killed and 55 persons injured ! when the first section of the “Confederate Veterans Special” of 11 cars, enroute from Texas: to the annual reunion at Macon, was wrecked this morning ona trestle a mile south of Easta-: buchie, Miss., on the New Or leans and Northeastern Railroad. The locomotive, baggage car, one day coach and three tourist sleepers were derailed and tum bled down a high embankment, making a conglomerate mass of wood and iron debris. Though several hundred Con federate veterans were aboard the train, not one was numbered among the dead. Several of the veterans were injured, though none fatally. The dead are: Mrs. J. L. Cameron, Hender son, Tex.; Mrs. Charles Holmes, Big Springs, Tex.; J. S. Down ing, Atlanta; Engineer “Billy” Wood, Meridian, Miss., two children, aged 3 and 5, unidenti fied; one woman, aged about 35, weight 150, unidentified; one man, aged 30, smooth face, brown hair, unidentified; C. C. Jones, negro fireman. PUBLIC SPEAKING AND SPREAD AT GLENWOOD Farmers Union Will Have Grand Rally and Dinner On May 22d. A gala day is planned by the Farmers Union at Glen wood on Wednesday, May 22d. Hon. Robt. L. Barnett, secretary treasurer of Kentucky Farmers Union, will deliver an address in the interest of the Montgomery Fanners Union. A basket din ner and barbecue is part of the program and everybody is invit ed. If you take along a well filled basket the local committee will recognize you as a patriot and a well-wisher of a good cause. We Are Much Alike. The queen of a certain East End kitchen craved, or rather sought, permission of her mis tress to entertain a few sister cooks on Friday afternoons, says the Pittsburg Post. Permission was forthcoming and thereafter on Friday afternoon the hum of conversation was heard continu ously below stairs. The mistress of the house takes a kindly inter est in her servants. “YVhat do you and your friends talk about?” she asked of the cook one day recently. “Well, ma’am, I expects we talks much the same as you do when you has your friends here.” “And how is that?” “Well, ma’am, you and your friends mostly discusses the ser vant question.” “Yes, I suppose we do.” “And we discuss the missus question, ” explained the intelli gent cook. CITATION. Georgia—Montgomery County. Notice »s hereby given that the j undersigned has made application | to the Ordinary of said county for | leave to sell all lands belonging to the estate of Uriah Sears, late of said county deceased, and that said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of i Ordinary to be held on the first Monday in June, 1912. This the Gth day of May, 1912. Silas Sears, Adr. Estate Uriah Sears. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912. Presidential Candidate Who Carried Georgia in Primary. 1 ■■■■" HON. OSCAR UNDERWOOD. General News Items Told in Short Meter. General Booth of England, leader of the Salvation Army, though past 83 years old, is plan ning another visit to the United States and Canada. Atkinson Brown, a white brakeman on the Southern road residing in Brunswick, was run over and killed by a Southern freight train at Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon. John R. Cooper, the well known criminal lawyer, has en tered the race for congress in the Sixth district against Con gressman Charles Bartlett. J. W. Turner of Memphis, en route from Midville to Savannah, leaped through a window from a Central train Saturday, hut fell on a soft place in the embank ment and was not killed. Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace was .in dicted by the Fulton grand jury Monday on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Her hus band is still alive at Newnan, but paralyzed from his waist down. Dan Carey, who claimed to have fired the first shot in the civil war, while a member of the Charleston Cadets, died at Dal ton, Ga., on Friday night. J. E. Brazell of Augusta, who killed Carrie Duncan, 17-year-old girl while she was waiting on his sick wife, has been sentenced to hang on May 24th. The remains of John Jacob Astor, recovered from the ocean, were buried at Rhine-cliff on the Hudson, Saturday. The young widow, and a daughter by his di vorced wife and many relatives attended, but the first wife did ! not attend. The sum of SBO,OOO was raised for the expenses of the reunion of the United Confederate Vet erans now in full swing in the ' city of Macon, today being the ; last day. The Atlanta Bar Association will make a strong fight to have a bill passed abolishing justice ; courts in the larger cities, and establishing municipal courts in stead. For the season ending this week, Brunswick has shipped 400,000 bales of cotton. This beats all former seasons by over 100,000 bales. After one of the recent hard rains, a Terrell county farmer re covered seed cane he had just | planted from the tops of small j trees along a stream. George Mobley, a negro who insulted a young white girl in Valdosta a few days ago, was rushed to jail at Thomasville to prevent his being lynched. Congress has passed a bill pro viding for the coinage of a three cent piece and a half-cent piece, the coins to be made of copper and nickel. Miss Annie Mae Smith and Mr. W. O. Cobb of Vidalia were married by Justice McQueen Sunday afternoon as the party drove along the street in a buggy. A Southern train from Wash ington to Jacksonville was wreck ed Tuesday morning by the breaking of an axle near Colum bia, S. C. About 20 people were injured. James B. Smith, president of the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Claxton, was arrested in Sa vannah on Tuesday morning charged with making a loan to himself of $2,400 without the knowledge or consent of the di rectors. Lightning struck the barn of J. F. Taylor in Ware county on Monday night and the building, filled with hay, corn and fodder and twenty mules, was burned. Ten mules were burned to death and several others ruined. Sheriff Sale. Georgia Montgomery County. Will lx; Bold before; the court houne door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in June, 1912, be tween the leftftl hours of sale, to the hitcbttst bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a full and complete description: One tract or parcel of land situate;, lyiriK and being ir> the 12215 t, district G. M. of said county and state;, containing thirty acres more or less, and bounded on the- north and east by lands of Ander Jsarlx;r. Levies! on and will be sold as the property of John J. Miller to satisfy a tax fifa in favor of I). F. Warnock, tax collector, vs John J. Miller, for state; and county taxes for the year 1911. Property in possession of defendant, arid written notice of le;vy given as require*! by law. made anel return eel to me by J. A.Hpivey, constable.*. This the 7th day of May. 1912. James Heater, Sheriff M. C. BOARD EDUCATION IN SESSION MAY lj Main Matter Discussed Was the School House at Orianna. May 1, 1912. The regular meeting of the ; Board of Education was held to- 1 day. The following Board mem bers were present: W. A. Pe-j tei’son, M. Jenkins and E. C.: McAllister. W. A. Peterson was elected chairman for the meeting. The minutes of the hist, meet ing were read and approved. Salaries were fixed for the teachers of Orianna school. A. B. Hutcheson and A. T. Miller were appointed to inspect | the new school house now being built at Orianna. Teachers’ accounts for the month of April were approved and ordered paid. Upon motion the Board ad journed until the regular meeting to be held on the first Wednesday ! in June. W. A. Peterson, Pres. A. B. Hutcheson, Sec’y. HOW DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONVENTION PROCEEDS Delegates to Atlanta Will Select State Delegates to Baltimore. The state Democratic executive 1 committee has been called to meet in the senate chamber in Atlanta at noon of Friday, the 10th of May, consolidate the re turns from each county and de clare as the choice <>! the Demo cratic party of Georgia the per son receiving the largest number of votes cast in the entire state in primary election. The chair man of the state committee shall then transmit to the chairman of each county a letter giving the name of the person who has been made the choice of Georgia, and then the county chaiman shall as soon as practicable call the coun ty Democratic executive commit tee together and such county committee shall from among (he known friends and supporters in the county of the candidate who has been declared the choice of the Democratic party of Georgia I for President of the United I States, select delegates to the j convention to beheld on Wednes day, the 29th of May, iri Atlanta. ! That each county committee shall | have the right to select as many delegates as he sees fit from among the friends of Mr. Under wood, but each county, of course, shall be entitled to only twice the number of votes as it has repre sentatives in the loweer house. These delegates must he selected not later than Wednesday, May 22. On the 29th of May, being Wednesday, at noon, a conven tion will beheld in Atlanta for the purpose of electing delegate s and alternates to the Democratic national convention which has been called to meet on Tuesday, | the 25th of June, at Baltimore. The convention may meet either in the state capitol or in the audi torium in Atlanta, as Chairman | Wright may designate. It will beasolid Underwood convention, I of course; even the counties which I voted for Wilson will, under the ! rule, select Underwood delegates. This convention will select two delegates anel two alternates from each congressional district in Georgia, and four delegates and four alternates from the; state at large—2B delegates anel 28 alternates in all -- to represent the state of Georgia in the na tional Democratic convention! to ,be held on the 25th of June in i the city of Baltimore. STEALS A HORSE EOR MEANNESS Rogue Takes Horse and Buggy for Purpose of Destroying Property. A mysterious and unusual case of horse stealing' occurred here Thursday night. Some vandal, evidently not desiring any profit by the theft, took the horse, bug gy and harness belonging to Mr. J. B. Brewton from his father’s stables at the U. B. 1., and the outfit was found in Vidalia the next day. The name of “Hicks Bros.” on a paper led to tele phone inquiries here, and Mr. Brewton soon recovered the horse. But the harness had [been maliciously cut to pieces, and the buggy placed on the tracks of the; M. I). & S. rail road, where it was demolished by a passing freight. The whole allair points to a dastardly piece of malicious mis chief scarcely equalled in this section before. A white man giving his name as “Bud McAr thur” appeared at the home of Warren Crawley at Mt. Vernon depot .just before the crime was j perpetrated, having a number of pistols and a belt filled with catridges, and departing in the direction of I he Institute grounds, is about the only clew to the iden tity of the vandal. BLACKBERRY CROP TO BE A BUMPER Thomasville, Ga., May 5. —It is said that there will be the fin < I crop of blackberries here this season that has been known in several years. The very dry weather for the last year or two cut off this crop very much and had the effect besides of making what berries there were very hard and dry. The average j South Georgia housewife doesn’t find anything to take the place lof blackberries for preserving, canning and making jelly and is of course; rejoiced at the prospect of a bountiful supply this season, ft is said there are still a few of these good housewives who keep to tic; old time plan of putting up a litLle blackberry wine, hold ing in higher esteem the advice of St. Paul in the matter of tak ing a little wine than they do any laws devised by the Georgia leg islators. Os course no mere man would be brave enough to olTer any expostulation in this regard, as many of the fair sex feel that having no voice in making laws they are privileged to break one when it doesn’t suit them. [freshman class ENTERTAINED Ori Tuesday evening last the members of Freshman class were entertained by their teacher, ; Miss Mattie Cone. The scone of festivities was at ! the U. B. I. dining hall, this be ing most attractively arranged for the occasion with ferns and cut flowers. Numerous interesting games were played, among them being an “author’s contest,” in which Miss Cassie Yeomans, and Mr. Rufus Hodges were the winners. Toward the close of the even ing, a delightful course of ices was served. Those present were: Members of Freshman class, Misses Black well, McQueen, Morris on , Thompson, Smith, Yeomans, Pe terson, Adams, Scarborough, Williams, Edwards, McCullough; Messrs. Autry, McGregor, Em mett, Downs, Deloach, Smith, Russell, Hodges, Williams, Stone, McLernore, I’eddy. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Mason, Miss Nunnally, Miss Folsom, NO. 3
