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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;
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founded on lofty ideals, both as
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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
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sewerage. The buildings are
lighted by electricity. Two dor
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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.