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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1912)
STir iHmttiunumi Hlmtttur. VOL. XXVII. A SAD DEATH BY LIGHTNING STROKE Daughter of Frank Morris is Stricken on Monday Afternoon. Monday afternoon nearUvalda, the lightning’s deadly flash ended the life of Nella Morris, the 14- year-old daughter of Mr. B. Frank Morris. She was out in the cotton field on the farm about one and a-half miles from Uval da, when the thunder cloud came up and she took refuge under a pine tree standing in the field, when the bolt shattered the tree and upon the bosom of the elec tric flash her girlish spirit sped into eternity. The entire community is in grief today for her death. The remains were interred Tuesday in the Adams cemetery south of Mt. Vernon. Hog Cholera Prevention. The loss from hog cholera is a thing of serious proportions now in Georgia. The following article clipped from the Dawson News has some good suggestions: Hog cholera is not only raging in Terrell county, but we see from our exchanges that its ravages are practically wiping out the hogs in many sections of the state. The loss to the farmers has in all probability been hundreds of thousands of dollars, and no means of successfully combatting the disease has been discoyered. It has been suggested to the News that one of the main causes of tlie spread of, and consequent heavy loss from, hog cholera is the carelessness of many farmers in leaving the carcasses of diseas ed hogs for the buzzards to eat. These scavengers carry the germs of the cholera and distribute them over a large territory. The rem edy is that all hogs which die of cholera be either burned or buri ed, and if any man whose hogs are affected, is too indifferent of the public welfare to make this disposition of his deaii one, as many seem to be, he should be re quired to do so by law. This is a matter that some member of the Legislature who wishes.to do something of real benefit for the state at large could well take up at the coming session of that body. William Mcßee gives the News the following remedy for hog cholera, which he says is worth trying: “A piece of alum the size of a pea twice a day. Pulverize it, put it in the slop the n'ght tie fore, and feed the hog next, day.” I General News Items Told in Short Meter. After the nomination of Taft and Sherman, present incum bents, the Roosevelt crowd left the convention in Chicago and immediately began the organiza tion of the Progressive Party. Alderman Richards of Athens was shot by his son-in-law, .John Potter, Jr., Tuesday, leaving him in a precarious condition. W. N. Coler, a graduate of Harvard and a millionaire, of Newark, N. J., was drowned while in bathing at Tbyee with his fiance Sunday. The so-called ‘‘army worm” is eating up whole fields of corn in many places over the state. C. E. Stewart of Atlanta lost his purse containing SSO on the Tybee train Sunday, and it was found by Miss Eitel of Pooler and returned to him. To Hold Protracted Services. The special services announced to be held by Mt. Vernon Presby terian church will begin on next Sunday and continue through the first. Sunday in July. You are cordially invited to attend these services. Thigpen School. Special Correspondence. We are having some rainy weather in this section. Mr. Charlie Thigpen was a visi tor at. the home of Mr. Lawrence Axton Saturday. Quite a number of people at tended preaching at Mr. R. B. Thigpen’s Sunday afternoon. We are glad to note that Mr. Willie Thigpen wlio has been very sick is improving. Messrs. Felston and Algie Seals were visitors at Mr. Lawrence Axton’s Saturday last. Misses Mary Morrison and Neta Kea were the guests of Miss Maude Rivers Sunday. M iss Mary Hutcheson and brother, Morris, attended services at Bethsada Sunday. Every body is cordially invited to attend the singing at Oriauna next Sunday, conducted by Prof. J. M. Spivey. Bring baskets well tilled. We 1 are sorry to note that Mr. Willie Derriso is on the sick list, this week. Mr. Jim Moore and Miss Trudy McDaniel attended church at Sop erton Sunday. Don’t forget to come to the sing and bring a well filled basket. Mr. Gass Johnson and Misses Mary Morrison and Maude Rivers were the guests of Miss Katie Derriso Sunday. Mr. J. E. B. Hutcheson, son, Jodia, and daughter, Ava, were in Soperton Friday. .Mrs. Mary Canady was the guest of M rs. Ida Thigpen Friday last. Grey Eyes. From the Toombs Co. Local Mr. S. B. Morris of Mt. Vernon was attending to business mat ters here yesterday. Mr. John C. Johnson ot Long pond, who is a candidate for rep resentative of Montgomery coun ty, was a visitor to the city Tues day. Little Miss Lessie Mae Rack ley of Mt. Vernon is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. G. W. Fox. Miss Ina Burch of Mt. Vernon spent a few days this week in the city, guest of Miss Alice McLeod Some Good Farming. Although the adverse season has put almost every farmer far be hind the crop average for this time of the year, some farms in the county are showing up well. Everyone who has seen the crop of Mr. Glenn Gibbs says it is the best in the Longpond section. Mr. If. E. Gibbs also has some extra fine corn, and his crop is showing up well. Mrs. R. E. Jordan, wife of a prominent planter at Pinehurst, was hacked to death by an infu riated negro woman on Monday who concealed herself by the steps of the house. The negro woman was taken to Cordele for safe keeping; hut was removed by a mob and lynched at the scene of the killing on Monday night. A half million gallons of crude creosote oil was unloaded from the British steamer Rock light into the tanks of the Central of Georgia road this week for the use of the road, Ashley Roberts, a young far mer near Ocilla, walked into a hardware store at Fitzgerald on Tuesday, and selecting a pistol and cartridge, loaded the pistol and fired a ball into his breast, but was not killed. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912. HISTORY OF THE KENT DISBARMENT PROCEEDINGS. Full Report of Interesting Case in .Which Montgomery County Legislator is Re moved From the Practice of Law. The disbarment ease of the State on information of Judge J. B. Geiger and five other members of the bar of this county, filed against W. B. Kent then an attorney at law and now Representative of the county, in Montgomery Superior Court on the 12th day of May 1909 was terminated in the Supreme Court Wednesday 12th by the court dismissing the writ of error of Mr. Kent from the de cision of Judge Conyers dismissing his motion for new trial. The decision of the Supreme Court affirms the verdict of the jury and judgment of the court in the case disbarring the defendant. For the information of our readers, we give below a summary of the proceeding. The case was commenced in the Superior Court of this county at the May Term, 1909 by the presentation of a petition in the name of the State to Hon. J. 11. Martin, Judge of the Supe rior Court of this circuit, praying for the disbarment of W. B. Kent. On considering the petition the Judge passed an order di recting it to be filed and requiring the defendant to answer same at the next November Term of the court. The petition being us fol lows: COPY OF CHARGES PREFERRED. Georgia, Montgomery County. To the Superior Court of said county. The State of Georgia on the information of J. B. Geiger. W. M. Lewis, A. C. Saffold, Eugene Talmadge, L. C. Underwood and W. L. Wilson brings this its peti tion against William B. Kent and respectfully shows: 1. That said William B. Kent is a resident of said county of Montgomery and is an attorney at law practicing in said county and State. 2. That on the 30th day of October, 1903, in said court there came on for trial a cause in which J. A. Riddle was plaintiff and Mrs. M. A. Wheeler defendant, the same being a suit on an ac count and an appeal from the Justice Court of 1380th District, G. M. of said county. When the case was called for trial, said W. B. Kent representing the defendant moved the court to continue said case which said motion for continuance was overruled by the court and the case proceeded to trial before a jury in said court. This was on the evening and the court recessed until next morning. When the case was called next morning the papers in the case were not in court, and could not be found. The matter was suspended to enable Counsel to find the papers or establish copies in lieu of the lost originals. The case was continued from time to time until the second day of May, 1905, when it again came on for trial in said court before his honor, J. H. Martin, presiding. A motion was submitted by W. B. Kent, Counsel for Defendant, for a continuance, but was overruled by the court and the case, ordered to trial. The original papers were not in court and had not been since the case was suspended on October 4, 1903, by his Honor, Judge D. M. Roberts, W. L. Wilson, Counsel for plaintiff, presented to the court copies of the original papers with an order establishing the same in lieu of the lost originals, when an objection was made by W. B. Kent, Counsel for defendant, saying the copies were incorrect and not copies of the lost originals. The court ordered a jury stricken and the question submitted to them whether or not the papers of fered by the plaintiff were in fact copies of the lost originals and the case proceeded to trial on this issue. After the introduction of many witnesses, running the case until the usual time for adjourn ing, the court ordered a recess until next morning. The following day, when the case was again called, said W. L. Wilson discovered the original papers in said case on the table among the papers of said W. B. Kent and picked up the same and announced to the court that the original papers had been found. The issue in reference to establishing the lost copies was then and there withdrawn from the jury and the case proceeded to trial. Petitioner avers that these original papers were taken from the court by said W. B. Kent and kept in his possesion from the 3rd day of October, 1903, until .he 4th day of May, 1905, for the purpose of hindering and delay ing the trial of said case; that said W. B. Kent represented to the court during said time and especially on the 4th day of October, 1903, and on the 3rd day of May, 1905, that he did not have the original papers in said case. Said representations were untrue and were made for the purpose of deceiving the court in order to con tinue said case, and such representations and acts on the part of W. B. Kent was willful misconduct in his profession. 3. Petitioner shows that on the oth day of Nov. 1900, there came on for trial in the Superior Court of said county, before his Honor, J. H. Martin, presiding, a cause in which D. R. and J. A. McMillan were plaintiffs and J. I). McGregor, A. J. Burch, and T. B. Abt were defendants, the same being a petition for a rule to! compel said defendants to make a return of an alleged proceeding against the finding of them as processioners, and the same having been appealed to said Superior Court by consent. When the case was called for trial the original papers were not. in court, and W. j M. liewis and Eschol Graham, Counsel for the defendants and said W. B. Kent, counsel for the plaintiffs, stated to the court that they knew nothing of the original papers, but both sides announced ready for trial. Whereupon Counsel for defense presented to the court copies of said original papers and had the same established by order of the court in lieu of said lost original papers. Said W. B. Kent then appealed to Counsel for defense not to try said case in the absence of Major P. W. Meldrirn, whom he claimed was assisting him in the case and who had gone bird-hunting, but Counsel for the defense insisted that the case proceed, said W. B. Kent not having mad< any request of Counsel to not try the case until after the papers had been established and the court ordered the same to trial. Said Kent then and there withdrew said case. On the following day there came on in said court for trial before I his Honor, J. H. Martin, presiding, another branch of said case, the same being an ejectment cause of said D. It. and J. A. McMil-j lan, against Mrs. Jane Mcßae, J. E. Mcßae,, T J. Mcßae, Mrs. Della Montgomery and Miss Inez Mcßae, in which cause said W. B. Kent and Major Meldrirn appeared for the plaintiff's arid said W, M. Lewis and Eschol Graham for the defendants. The case pro ceeded to trial before a jury and counsel for the defendants suc ceeded in getting in evidence the established record in the fore going alleged appeal or processioning case and the court recessed for dinner. After dinner on the re-convening of the court said ori ginal papers of which copies had been established were discovered on the table used by counsel for defendants. And all parties con nected with the case denied any knowledge of knowing from whence the said original papers came. Subsequently, to-w r it, on the Bth day of Nov. 1906, said W. B. Kent stated to Eschol Graham that Major P. W. Meldrirn had had the original papers all the while and that he, W. B. Kent, returned! Another Rattler Killed. Albert Sheeley, a colored far mer on the plantation of Mr. L. C. Mcßae, killed a very large rattlesnake on Saturday last. The reptile was of the venomous diamond hack rattler species, and was able to sound the challenge to enemies who dared to approach him with fourteen rattles. THE BATTLE AGAINST THE HOOK WORM Crowds Throng the Doctors Seeking Relief From The Plague. In the July American Magazine, Ray Stunnard Buker writes a very intcresting article entitled “Press ing On,” in which lie reports a good many specific cases of the struggle against prejudice and ig norance and fear. On the sub ject of the fight against, the hook worm in the South, he says: “To-day whole families, literal ly whole communities, are being cured and reconstructed. The work can be compared only to a great revival. Listen, for ex ample, to this passage from the last report of the Rockfeller Sani tary Commisston : “ ‘ln communities where the infection is heavy and after the dispensary lias had a few days within which to demonstrate its effectiveness, the people come in throngs; they come by boat, by train, by private conveyance for twenty and thirty miles. Our records contain stories of men, women, and children walking in over country roads ten and twelve miles, the more anaemic at times tailing by the way to bo picked up and brought in by neighbors passing with wagons. As many as 455 people have been treated at one place in one day. A friend who had just visited some of the d i speusuries said to me recently i| “It looks like t he days of Galilee.,’ “‘The people usually begin to arrive early. 1 visited one dis pensary at eight, o’clock in the morning and found forty-three persons waiting tor attention, they lingorjthoy gather ingroups around the tables of exhibits; they listen to the stories of im provement as told by those who have been treated and return to! their homes to report to their neighbors what they have seen and heard. The rapidity with; which this teaching by demon stration gets its hold upon the people in communities where the infection is heavy is seen in the! early records of the work in new territory. When the work open ed in North Carolina in July, ! Doctor Covington treated in Hal-1 ifax County the lirst week, 191 people; the second week, 138; and the third week 537.” the same at noon ami knew that Major Meldrim had had them, but did not say anything about it, because he did not wish to embarrass Mr. Meldrim. The said statement of said Kent that Mr. Meldrim had said original papers was untrue; and petitioner avers that said W. I>. Kent withdrew said original papers from the court and with held the same from the court, until counsel for defense had suc ceeded in having the copies established and introduced in evidence, on the trial of the last named case, for the purpose of deceiving the court and obtaining and undue advantage of the defendants in said case, and petitioner avers that such acts on the part of said \V. B. Kent was willful misconduct in his profession. 4. That on the lfith day of October, 1905, W. B. Kent filed a suit in said court in the name of F.P. Orifi'eth, transferee, against M. VV. and Maria Swinney and Cyrus Long for $120.00, besides in terest and attorney’s fees, the sarm* purporting to huve been on a note of said defendants to W. B. Kent, and by VV. B. Kent trans ferred to F. P. (Jriffeth. The defendants claimed that this note had been paid to said W. B. Kent. When the said suit was filed, the note bore an alleged transfer indorsed thereon by William B. Kent to said F. P. Criffeth, dated September 29th, 1904. After filing this suit said W. B. Kent abstracted from the Clerk’s office of said court, said papers and changed the date of said transfer from September 29, 1904 to September 29, 1902. And on the trial of said cause in said court on the 9th flay of May, 1907, insisted and contended before the jury, that said defendants were not en title! to prove their plea of payment filed in said case, for the rea son that said note was a negotiable note and had been transferred by him to said Criffeth, who was then the father-in-law of said VV. B. Kent, for a valuable consideration and without notice before the same fell due, to-wit, on the Ist day of October, 1902. Petitioner avers that said W. B. Kent changed the record in said case by altering the dates of said copy note attached to said origi nal petition, as aforesaid, for the purpose of denying defendants the right to make their defense to said cause, and petitioner avers that such act was willful misconduct in the profession of said W. B. Kent. (CONTINUED ON PA(iE TWO; EDUCATIONAL MERIT OF P.=B. INSTITUTE Christian Training Promi nent Feature of the Institute. Brewton-Parker Institute is founded on lofty ideals, both as to moral stamina and Christian character. Throughout seven years of continuous successful history, the school has had one aim in view—to find and devel op the best of manhood and wom anhood in the students attending the Institute. In this work the school has surpassed our own expectations. The student body is made up of the best type of boys and girls to be found anywhere. The as sociations among the students here will be helpful rather than hurtful. Theinfluence ofastrong Christian faculty will be of untold benefit. Christian education leads to Christian living. The faculty is composed of men and women of experience and ability. No good thing for the student is overlooked, and every restraint against evil influences will be thrown about all pupils. All the buildings are modern — built of brick and stone. The plant is supplied with artesian water from our own well, and is equipped with baths, toilets and sewerage. The buildings are lighted by electricity. Two dor mitories one for boys and one for girls. Healthful location. Expenses reasonable. Send for handsome new cata logue at once and compare prices with other schools of like advan tages. William A. Mulloy, President. A Handy Thing. A Yorkshire farmer was paid by check for some cattle he had, Hays Youth’s Companion, It was the first time that it had ever happened. “What’s this?” ho said. “Why, money for the boasts,” said the cattle dealer. The farmer stared and had to be assured that if lie took it to the bank they would give him gold for it. “Well,” said lie, “Aw’ll try, but if it’s a wrong un thou’ll hear about it.” The check was cashed, of course, and the farmer went home happy, but lie could not sleep. He had seen a wonderful thing and it had exc'ted him. As soon as day broke lie made for the cattle deal er’s house and woke the dealer. “It’s me,” lie said. “Where’s the got tliim bits of paper from? Aw cud d<> wi’ half a dozen my self!” NO. 10.
