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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1912)
• * V Stj? fttnutiunni'n; VOL. XXVII. STATE CANNOT SAVE BEAUTIFUL TALLULAH Governor Brown Decides State Gave Away All Legal Rights. The earnest and most en thusiastic fight to save the scenic beauty of Tallulah Falls for com ing generations, waged heroical ly by Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet and others, is about ended. The matter was fixed by the failure of the state to reserve this re markable piece of nature’s handi work. Attorney General Felder, un der date of June 4. wrote Gov. Brown: “I carefully igvestigated the statutes and law r controlling the question, and the several grants, plates and other rec ords in the secretary of state’s office bearing thereon, as well as the report and sui'- vey made by Prof. Kosh, and advised yours excellency in a conference had on June 6 that the state did not reserve to itself any of the lands in controversy.” Gov. Brown said this after noon: ‘‘l have never announced a decision which was more dis tasteful to me than this. I re gard Tallulah Falls as being one of the natural wonders of Ameri ca and consider their destruction a calamity, but the question invol ved in the case brought to the executive office was strictly a legal one, in other words, the sole question for determination of whether the state in making its grants under the survey of 1818 reserved the falls. It is held by the attorney general, whom the constitution makes the legal adviser of the executive office, ‘after a very thorough investiga tion and after mature considera tion,’ that ‘the state did not re serve to itself any of the -lands in controversy.’ ‘‘Therefore, as the state did not reserve any of these lands, there is no basis upon which I could put this matter into the courts of this state. ‘‘lf the state has nothing to sue for she has no grounds for instituting a suit. ‘‘lf Georgia parted w'ith her right of ownership to these lands about the year 1818, she has now no right to attempt to assert ownership over these lands. ‘‘l repeat that I consider that the grant which passed the falls from the control of the state was a calamity, but under, the state’s own laws, she is stopped from recovering the ownership of this unmatched senic wonder.” • TTmTTTmnTT»»TTT»TtTY»mTTUmTTTTTTTTTmTTT* t j l Your Farm Lands \ ► —. — —————————— M r • <4 r 4 4 £ 4 ► Will pay you more turned into cash. * ► This we can do for you. List your < ► property with us for sale—wc will find J ► a buyer for you. Whether you want • ► to buy or sell, we can handle the deal J ► to your advantage 4 and get results, on < t farm or city property in this county J \ IF YOU WANT MONEY j £ 4 ► Get in touch with us. We are in position to supplv it on * £ short notice, and on very agreeable terms. We have good J £ connections with the big firms that want to lend money to ■* ► the farmers of Montgomery county. Drop in and talk the « ► matter over with us, We can do the business to suit you. * a ■* t : i MONTGOMERY COUNTY REAL ESTATE : ► AND LOAN CO. 5 ► 3 ► MOUNT VERNON, GEORGIA : : i • AAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Broken Rail Causes Wreck On M. D. & S. Macon, Ga., June 9.—Three members of the train crew were injured and the locomotive ten der and two coaches damaged, | when passenger train No. 18, of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad left the track near Dan ville, between Macon and Dub lin, Saturday morning at 8:20 o’clock. None of the crew were seriously injured. The wreck is thought to have been caused from a broken rail. The injured are: Walter J. Jones, 224 Clinton street, East Macon, baggagemas ter, slight bruises about the body. J. D. Greene, of Dublin, mhil clerk, head bruised and left arm sprained. E. M. Attaway, of Vidalia, ex press messenger, slight body bruises. The tender of the locomotive was overturned, carrying with it the baggage and express cars. The train which wa!§ wrecked is the regular train leaving Macon at 7 o’clock a. m. The wreck was cleared and traffic resumed after nearly two hours work by a wrecker and crew sent out from Macon. The west bound passenger trafin, due to reach Macon about noon, did not reach here until 2 o’clock. A Congressman Killed. Washington, June 11. —Hon. Robt. C. Wickliffe, a member of the house of representatives from Louisiana, took a day off to go fishing today, and was killed by a train of the Southern road while crossing the tracks in Potomac park. Mrs. Wickliffe reached the capitol just as the house was about to adjourn out of respect to the memory of Mr. Wickliffe, and, on being told of her hus band’s sudden death, fainted from the shock. Because his father, was a drunkard and gave the family lots of trouble, Elmer Watt of j Greensburg, Pa., put poison in the old man’s whiskey and put him out of the way. In a government trial demon stration of flying machines at Washington on Tuesday night, Alfred L. Welch, a Wright ex pert, and L. W. Hazlehurst, of the U. S. Infantry and a former Georgian, were killed by a fall of , the machine. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 13, 1912. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Volcanoes off the coast of Alaska are in violent eruption and the inhabitants of the islands are in great danger. In some, places the country is covered with four feet of ashes. Application has been made to Secretary of State Cook for a ( charter to build a railroad from Claxton through Brooklet to Clio in Effingham county, with Brooklet as principal office. W. H. Reeves of Jackson, Ga., was buried last Thursday. He died from being struck with the handles of his plow while plow ing a few days before. Waynesboro, Ga., had a fire) last week that destroyed a block , of stores at a loss for buildings j and stock of $140,000. Lieutenant Werner of Vienna disappeared in a military balloon \ last December, and his body wasj found last week on the Dead Mountains by a wood cutter who saw a white hand lifted above the snow. A mob of 300 striking waiters attempted to break up a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on Monday evening, j Arrests were made of 120 before quiet was restored. J. W. Fields, of Faith Crossing | in Fulton county, raised a rad-j dish weighing four pounds and measuring 16 inches in length. He used government seed. The famous sea island cotton j case in which the A. P. Brantley Co. of Blackshear sued William , Heaton & Sons of England for J damages, resulted in a verdict I for the Brantley’s, awarding them SIIO,OOO. Captures Unknown Man In Depths Os Swamp. Hagan, Ga., June 10.—H. N. Drigers, deputy sheriff of Tatt nall county, captured a man in Cedar Creek swamp this morn ing who has been lying out in this swamp off and on for a year or more. No one scarcely ever could see him. He was tried be fore Justice Harden for vagrancy and bound over to a higher court. The man refuses to tell his name or where he is from or whether he has any relatives. lie is a white man about 45 years old, about five feet eight or ten inches tall, sandy with hair, Igray eyes, small mustache; | weight about 165 pounds; wears : a brown suit of clothes and white hat. Miss Bright Entertains. On Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Christian Bright jon Institute Heights, Miss Han | nah Bright entertained delight fully a number of her young friends. Hot chocolates and oth er refreshments interspersed the games and joyous music. Those pressent were: Misses Maggie Mae and Marion Ix*e, Iris Simpson, Louise Mackay, Jeddie Cockfield, Hannah Bright. Messrs. Jim A. McAllister, T. M. Mason, Jno. A. Morris, Charlie Beugnot. Drug Store Burned. The drug store of Dr, J. H. Dees at Alston, together with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night of last week. The building and stock were both partly covered by in surance. As the drug store was a real convenience to the entire j section, and almost a necessity i to Dr. Dees in his practice, it is i probable that it will be rebuilt at ! an early date. James B. Moore, his wife, and six others were found murdered in his home at Villisca, lowa, on | Monday. An ax with brains and blood on it showed how they had been killed in bed. The Supreme Court of the j United States has set aside the ! decree of the Georgia Surpreme J Court in which negroes were de nied the right to incorporate; lodges of the Knights of j Pythias. R. C. Berckmans & Bros, of Augusta sold the poaches in their May field Orchards to a Newark, N. J., firm for $75,000. ! Fire destroyed the warehouse jof the Nakomis cotton mills at 1 Lexington, N. C., on Sunday) morning, burning 295 bales of ! cotton and causing a loss of j sloo,ooo. A mad bull took possession of a street in Valdosta last Friday. A woman undertook to pass the animal and was knocked down and her arm broken. R. E. Lockhart, a car builder] !of the Central shops at Macon, shot and killed a negro named i Vaughan Tuesday, and wounded two others. They were throw ing beer Dottles at him in a sa loon. j The schooner Judge Pennewill, bound from New York to Jack sonville, was wrecked off the j coast of Charleston Sunday 1 night. The men were picked up from lifeboats by a Brunswick I steamer. The dry kiln of the Henderson | Lumber Co. at Ocilla was burned Monday with a loss of $3,000, which is covered by insurance. Baseball Last Saturday. The Adamsville team and the Glen wood boys met on the Mt. Vernon ball ground here on Sat urday last. The double header resulted in a victory for both teams. The first game resulted in 14 to 3 in favor of Adafnsville and the second in favor of Glen wood with a score of 6 to 7. Batteries: Adamsville: McAllister and Smith. Glenwood: Rivers and Reynolds. Second game. . Adamsville: Hughes and Sri.i h; Glenwood: Morrison, Reynolds and Geiger. Strikeouts by Glen wood 16; by Adamsville 15. Killed A Monster Rattler. On Monday evening Mr. J. W. Lett and family, living just be low Hack Branch, were out picking berries and came upon a monster rattlesnake. They found the snake near the old Burch place and soon put him out of business. The dangerous reptile was six feet long and sported ten rattles. If the number of rattles indicate the years of a snake’s life, this monster reptile has roamed around the berry patches in that vicinity for ten years. New Advertisements. Iri addition to the regular state ment called for by the state, the Bank of Soporton makes special announcement of their ability to take care of the deposits and business of their friends. Their business shows a healthy growth from good and safe management. The Citizens Bank of Alston, the youngest in the county, makes . a good showing, and in a neat . ad calls attention to their facili ' ties for doing business. The Montgomery County Real ' estate and L»an Co. want to sell J your lands and lend you moncj* t on terms that will interest you. See their new announcement. Entertain In Honor Os Visiting Girls. Mrs. C. A. Mason, who has had as her guests Misses Mary and Ruth Cochran of Flint, Ga,, entertained in honor of the little girls on Wednesday of last week. Delightful refreshments were served and the time passed joy ously for the happy party. Those attending were: Misses Bessie and Mamie Higgs; Margueritte Montgomery; Lucile and Eula Mcßae; Hortense and Flossie McCullough; Marie and Janie McQueen; Trudie, Corinne, Es ther and Alma Mason; Cadie Bell j and Birdie Lu Adams; Alma Mor- j rison; Mattele and Urma Lewis; Winnie Smith; Inez Mcßride; Mary and Ruth Cochran. C. M. Sheffield, Dead. Camden M. Sheffield, one of Camden county’s most prominent citizens, died at his residence, near Kingsland, Thursday, in his 74 year. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon from the resi dence, the services being con ducted by the Itev. T. B. Kemp of St. Mary’s. The interment was in the family cemetery near Kingsland. Besides bis wife Mr. Sheffield is survived by five daugh ters, Misses Lillian and Lucile Sheffield, and Mrs. John Clark of Kingsland, Mrs. N. L. Staf ford and Mrs. L. G. Westbrook of Jacksonville, and five sons; Herbert F., J. Dowmie and Sher ord C. Sheffield of Kingsland, John W. Sheffield of Jacksonville, and R. L. Sheffield of Savannah. Georgia. The use of side appli cations will help the yield in our judgment this season. The advisability of using ni trate of soda as a. top dressing cannot be foretold at. this writ ing, but we will inform the boys relatives to this matter later on. We want them to remember that the College stands ready to give them individual advice and sug gestions relative to the cultiva tion fertilization and manage ment of their crop. They have a month yet in which to plant and still have an opportunity to make as fine a record as the boy who seeded his corn in March or April. Tell your club members | not to be disheartened. Advise ] with the county school superin tendents and the teachers and urge t hem to encourage the boys. Ask the local papers to print any information which will be help ful. If we all pull together and do our duty in this matter, we need not worry about the out come next fall. Very Respectfully, Andrew. M. Soule, President. ! I). 8. WIU-IAM.-iON, IV.'Hidonr JOKAV. SIIAItf'K, Vi<;« I*rc»idont ;|; ; 1,. K. CLAXTON, C#»hier !|| BANKING FACILITIES | ; # |! - It, is our constant study to give tho peo- | | pie of* this community t lie Host Hanking || | Facilities obtainable. Our experience i | and equipment, make this possible. We j I will not retted on your intelligence by v \ publishing the same advertisement too i; | many .times. You will constant ly find $ | something new and crisp in our space j> | The Citizens Bank of Alston \ ALSTON, GEORGIA ENCOURAGES BOYS TO KEEP PLANTING Gives Specific Directions As To Methods of Planting And Fertilizing. Athens, Ga., May 29th, 1912. Mr. J. Walter Hendricks. Savannah, Ga. My Dear Sir:— Now that you have succeeded in securing a large en rollment of club members, it is of the utmost importance that you leave no stone unturned to encourage the boys in their work. The unfavorable seasonal condi tions may cause many fathers to lose interest in the boy and deny him the facilities needed to plant his acre of corn to the best ad vantage. The boys should be advised to plant their corn even up to the 15th of June, for the season is lorjg enough in Georgia to permit late planting and still obtain a fine crop: in fact, corn should either be planted late or early in this climate and accord ing to my observation, the late planted corn often out-yields that planted early. Tell the boys not to plant the corn until they have the land ready, to plow it thoroughly, but not when it is wet and to prepare a fine seed bed as this is very im portant. They should fertilize liberally, using a rather large amount of nitrogen, at least half of which should bo quickly avail able. If they can secure vegeta ble matter to place in the drill row so much the better. On heavy clay lands, we think a 9-3-3 formula used at the rate of pounds per acre would be about right. On loamy soils which show the presence of some sand, about a 10-1-4. On light sandy land from 10 to 12 per cent of phos phoric acid, 4 to 5 per cent of nitrogen, and 5 to (I per cent of potash should Ik; used. On heavy clay land and loamy soils, a side application of two to three hundred pounds should be made. On sandy lands probably j two side application of two to I throe hundred pounds each can jbe used to advantage. The side iapplications should ho put on rel atively early. Get the last one !on at least two weeks before the ! corn bunches to tassel. Tell the I boys that shallow persistent cul tivation is of the utmost impor tance and advise them to keep it up as late in the season as possi ble. The boys must not get dis couraged for there is no place in the United States where corn may be planted so late and still prod Jce as high a yield as in NO. .8
