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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1912)
IVOL. XXVII. BREWTON-PARKER f INSTITUTE OPENING iFall Term Begins Its Work Under Very Favorable Circumstances. The fall term of the Brewton- I Parker Institute, under manage- I ment of Dr. J, C. Brewton, foun- I der of the school, began on Tues i day morning with every indica f tion of a successful session. I Considering the fact that Prof. Mulloy’s illness caused important changes when he had to abandon the presidency, the opening was far better than anticipated and the attendance good. Pupils are i still coming in, and before long the school will be full. The addition of several new [ teachers to the faculty will add strength to the working force. Rev. J. T. Smith of Dublin, a graduate of Mercer University, and a teacher of long experience, has charge of mathematics; Mr. ; T. B. Conner, graduate of the school, and who recently com f pleted the course at Mercer, is in charge of the department of La tin: Miss Inez Brantley of Syl vania, a gradnate of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, Milledgeville, is in charge of the 6th grade; Miss Ora Lee of Mt. Vernon, graduate of the Presby terial Institute, Blackshear, is teacher of voice, string and wind i instruments, % Prof. Carter of North Georgia is principal of the public school department, assisted by Miss El la Brown of Lavonia, Miss Inez Mcßae, Mt. Vernon. Miss Brew ton, Miss Cone and Miss Upshaw are still filling their important places on the faculty. j All students of Montgomery i county under 18 years of age, j whether in the dormitories or bearding, will get their share of the public school funds of the county. The new light plant is in operation and the lights are beautiful. A CLOSING OUT SALE Uvalda Merchant Will Sell Stock Rather Than Pay Freight. Mr. M. G. Willcox of Uvalda proposes to close out his business at Uvalda and instead of moving his big stock of general merchan dise, he has decided to close it out regardless of prices. The big slaughter sale of this large stock begins on Tuesday, Sept. 10th; and every man wo man and child can save money by calling while the mammoth stock is moving out. Some idea may be formed from the page announcement that will appear in this paper next week, as to prices. Don’t miss the buying opportunity of the season. Tues day next is the date and Uvalda the place. I Change of Meeting. Change of the time for the meeting of the Daniell Associa tion. By order of the Ex. Com., a < call is hereby made for the Dan- I iell Association to meet with J Ohoopee church, Ohoopee, Ga., t on Oct 23 (Wednesday after the third Sunday), instead of Oct. 30 (Wednesday after the fourth Sunday), as printed in the min utes. This call is made because the Tattnall Association meets on Oct. 30, at Cobbtown, only a few miles from Ohoopee; and it is thought best not to have the two associations in session at the same time and in almost the 1 same community. J. D. Rabun | Chairman Ex. Com. Daniell % Association. (sh? ftknutiir* Uvalda. j special CoiTt-Rponcleiice. Misses Cora and Norma Moore of Kissimee, Fla. are visiting Mrs. Herbert Gibbs. Mrs. Bussey and sister, Miss 1 Fannie Thurmond have returned to Jacksonville, Fla. after a visit with relatives here. Miss Lucile McClelland has re turned to her home in Dexter, she' was accompanied by her aunt, Miss Lillie Mae Calhoun. Mrs. M. G. Willcox and little son, Mitchell have returned from \ a visit to Atlanta and Hawkins ' ville. Messrs. Lester O’Neal, Clay ton Gray and Lamar Jones went to Ailey Sunday. Miss Alberta McNatt has gone*! to Mcßae to enter the South j Georgia College. Mrs. Wallace Moses and son, i Wallace, are visiting relatives at Manassas and Hagan Messrs. Dess Gray of Lyons j and John Gray of Claxton were i home Sunday and Monday. Miss Minnie Abt of Mt. Vern on is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. Lynn. * Mrs. Eugene Talmadge and children of Mcßae visited Mrs. H. A. Moses last week. James Preston Moses went to Lumber City last Thursday. A Wonderful Comparison. The following extract from the Southern Cultivator bears out our contention for oats against cotton: The farmer’s universal yard-, stick, by which he measures all things is—experience—the re sults. So we need to give our ; readers a few results along this line that we have picked up in ! our travels. First. As to Yields —Mr. S. J. Wakefield, of Antreville, S. C., thrashed this year 702 bushels of oats from six acres, or 117 bush-. els per acre. We trust to give you his account of his prepara-' tion and fertilization. We have giveft you an account of how Mr. Dorsett, of Fayette county, j Georgia, made 86 bushels per acre. Mr. T. L. Blackwell of Houston county, Alabama, made 96 bushels from an acre sown in j February. Mr. J. A. Wolford, of Madden, South Carolina, bought three acres of land, pay ing SIOO for it. He planted it in cotton and cleared SIOO from the three acres, or over paid for it in a single year. Many farmers l will say: “Theres’s nothing like ' cotton if you have to raise any i money.” But Mr. Wofford sow-1 ed this land in oats the next year and followed in peas and from : the same three acres cleared $163 i or $54 more than the cotton paid. The first question now before the farmers is to farm for something to eat; but even as a money pro- 1 position oats beat cotton. Brown Board to Stick. Atlanta, Aug. 31.—1 t looks as if the new state Board of Educa-j tion, appointed by Gov. Brown | following the adjournment of the , Senate, which confirmed the ap- J pointees of former Gov. Hoke i Smith, is going to stick without ; a flutter. Report has it that; neither Prof. J. C. Langston of Sylvania nor Prof. Jere M. Pound of Athens, the two mem bers of the Smith board who were left out, will make a fight. When the board is called togeth er it will be the board appointed by Gov. Brown and the indica tions are there will be no one to say it nay. Seed Oats For Sale. ' Rust-proof Appier Seed Oats, 1 to 25 bushels, 85c per bu.; 25 to 100 bushels, 80c per bu., f. o. b. Uvalda. Peter Johnson, Uvalda, Ga. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1912. General News Items Told in Short Meter. On Sunday last, four daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clark of Ozark, Ark , were married at one time to four farmers in the ! neighborhood, the same preacher performing the ceremonies. A national gathering of toomb stone manufacturers took place |at Detroit last week, to be fol lowed this week by a convention lof the press humorists from all over the United States. i Charles Clothers, fireman of a j steamship in port at Brunswick, was killed by an engine Satur ! day night while walking on the ; tracks of the A. B. &A. road | near the depot. A railroad 'is being built ! through the Okefenokee swamp, and thousands of timber will be | hauled out, and the road proba i bly continued into Florida. The Eleventh district congres i sional convention at Brunswick on Saturday nominated Hon. J. I Randall Walker for congress, , and passed sti’ong resolutions j ! thanking Congressman Brantley j . for his work for sixteen years. j I Cleve Oliver of St. Louis was; i killed Saturday night while riding j ; his motorcycle at the rate of 75 j miles an hour. Nobe Moore, a young white man of Griffin, shot and killed | his father, Ed Moore, Saturday 1 ; night, using a 38 calibre pistol, and claiming that his father was I trying to use a shot gun on him. j A heavy rain storm swept; Pennsylvania, West Virginia and i Ohio Sunday night, and thirty six persons were killed and many wounded. ; While discharging freight at Locust Point near Baltimore, the 1 steamer Nantucket was found to be on fire Monday, and water be ing turned into the hold, the boat went to the bottom. Monday last was the hottest J September day on record since! the recrod was started 42 years j 1 ago. The mercury went to 104 in Savannah. AT ADVANCED AGE MRS. STANFORD DIES.! Mrs. Stanford, relict of the ! ; late George li. Stanford died at 6 o’clock Tuesday morning at her home here after a brief illness from paralysis. Mrs. Stanford reached the age of 78 years on the 12th of March last, and had : spent most of her useful life ! here. Her mission on earth ' seemed to be to bless the lives of all around her, and her many friends and her children rise up and call her name blessed. Her: children left are. Judge Geo. J. j ! Stanford, Mr. W. R. Stanford,Mr. \ Henry Stanford, Mr. J. I. Stan ford and Miss Mary Stanford. ! The remains were laid to rest yesterday morning beside those |of her husband, who departed I this life in 1905, at the McGre-1 i gor cemetery here. In the presence of many friends j and relatives, Rev. J. D. Rabun; performed the funeral rites. Mr. Gecrge Burch Is Reported Dead. A telegram received here late Tuesday night by his relatives brought the information that Mr. George Burch was dead at Jakin, Ga., where he has resided for some time. No particulars were given in the message, and we are unable to get definite infor mation of the sad occurrence. He j was a brother of Ex-Sheriff A. J. Burch, Everett E. Burch, Tom l Burch of Macon, and Mrs. John |G. Morris, and was raised here. I Mr. E. E. Burch left yesterday for Jakin. ' Four persons were killed Mon day when a passenger train plunged into the Lemonweir ri-J ver near Camp Douglas, Wis., i and many others were injured. The Georgia Normal and In dustrial College at Milledgeville had received over 1000 applica tions for admittance before Au gust Ist, nearly half of these be ing turned away for lack of room. Mrs. Florence B. Jackson, wid ow of the late Gen. H. R. Jack son, was buried at Bonaventure, Savannah, last Friday. A violent earthquake shook the town of Guadalajara, Mox., Sunday night, wrecking many small residences. One man was killed and three others injured when a passenger train on the Southern road ran into a hand car at McCarty’s Station, Tenn., Monday morning. The general offices and freight warehouses of the Georgia North ern road at Moultrie were burned i Monday morning, the total loss | amounting to $50,000. Three people of New York City were killed by a freight train Monday night while walk-1 ing a trestle over Esopus creek I near Kingston, N. Y. Sherrick Bobb of Cincinnati, a boy six years old swallowed a screw one inch long three years ago and it got into his windpipe. It was removed with a magnet J this week in less than five min : utes. | Michael Kelly of New York died in a miserable hovel, but it I was discovered that he had left a j fortune of $200,000 to be divided 1 among people who had been kind to him. The Tybee railroad carried 4,-! 200 people to the island from l Savannah on Labor Day, last j Monday. j Solomon, Luna, known as the j greatest sheep ranchman in the ! world, was found dead in a sheep 1 dipping vat on his ranch in New i Mexico this week. „ ' State Committee List Completed. Atlanta, Aug. 31.—Chairman J W. J. Harris of the state Execu- j tive Committee to-day issued the) formal call for the meeting of; the committee at the state capi- ! tol on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at j noon, simultaneously announced the appointment of the addition- 1 l al fifteen members of the com- j mittee from the state-at-large, \ as authorized by resolution of the state convention. In addition to the contests be ; fore the committee, it will take |up any other business that may be suggested by its members, including arrangements for the state and national campaigns. Plans will be made looking to bringing out a full Democratic 1 ; vote for Gov. Wilson. The fifteen members of the! committee from the state at-large i are as follows: G. R. Hutchens of Floyd, J. H. Tipton of Worth, Dr. H. A. Crumbley of Quitman, Charles R. Pendleton, of Bibb, Dr. E. B. Terrell of Merriwether, J. W. Mayson of DeKalb, Albert Howell, Jr., of Fulton, L. A. Brannen of Bulloch, E. H. Grif fith of Haralson, Hugh Roe of Clark, A. S. Hardy of Hall, J. C. Jarnigan of Warren, I). G. Foggarty of Richmond, W. li. Frier of Coffee, Eschol Graham : of Telfair. 1 ‘ tut; :. „ Mr. P. M.- Moseley of the Sew ard section was up Tuesday to ■ enter his daughter at the Brew ■ ton-Parker Institute. i Jim Price Thanks His Friend For Well Wishing Athens, Aug. 31.—Hon James I D. Price, of Farmington, Oconee | county, has sent out the follow ing brief card expressing his ap preciation of the many messages !of congratulation which he has received since receiving the nom nation for commissioner of agri culture. He says: ‘‘Having received numerous letters and telegrams from my friends in every section of the state congratulating me upon my nomination for commissioner of agriculture at the recent state democratic convention at Maeon, I and not being able to reply per sonally to all these letters and telegrams, 1 take this method and opportunity of thanking my! friends over the state,individual ly and collectively, for their earnest support and untiring ef forts in my behalf. Respect fully, ‘‘J. I). Price.” Former Montgomery County Cousins Meet. Waycross, Ga., Aug 31.—Af ter a separatian of 52 years the Rev. G. C. Buchanan of this city and a cousin, Henry Coney at Fort White, Fla., met in Way cross this w’eek. The Rev. Mr. | Buchanan knew nothing of his I cousin’s visit until Mr. Coney called at the minister’s home. The reunion was very happy and both enjoyed talking over old times. i A short while ago Mr. Coney learned that his Waycross cousin was alive and he resolved then to come up here and visit him. Rev. Mr. Buchanan, failing to hear from his cousin in so many years,! had given him up for dead. Mr. Coney is now 74 years old, about I the same age as the Rev. Mr. ; Buchanan. ! Picks up Wrong Box Takes Poison Tablet. Swainsboro, Sept. 2. —Mrs. Henry R. Daniel has been sick ! here for the last few days as a l result of taking a poison tablet by mistake when she thought she was taking a headache tablet. Mrs. Daniel went into her room just before supper and instead of turning on the light and examin ! ing what she thought was an j aspirin tablet for headache, she ; took a tablet out of a box of ex j actly the same size which was .close to the aspirin box on the; jmantlepiece. She then went out; on the back porch and took the ! tablet, and immediately was tak-; Jen desperately ill. Judge Daniel,! who was at supper, was called, I and just as soon as she informed I him she was sick and had taken a certain tablet, he knew that she had taken one of a box of bichloride tablets, which he had taken home only that night for antiseptic purposes. Medical assistance was prompt ly summoned, and with the aid of those who were in tie house ;at the time she was taken ill, she : was soon cared for. Hr. Chand ler came almost immediately, and as soon -as he learned the cause !of the illness he set, promptly to work, and soon had Mrs. Daniel iout of danger. She is improving nicely arid it is believed that she will soon be entirely well of its effects. South Carolina is Not Hopeless Yet. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 2. While in Augusta to-day Senator Till man said he had no comment to make on the latest letter from Gov. Blease and the only com ment he cared to make on the South Carolina situation now is: ‘‘l have nothing to say now ex cept to say that the state hasn’t gone to bell yet; and we are not going to let it. Further than that I am merely awaiting develop ments.” RURAL ROUTE MEN TO GET MORE PAY Increased Revenue From Parcels Post Makes It Possible. Washington, D. C., Sept. 1. — Under authority conferred by the postoffice appropriation bill, Postmaster Gen. Hithcock has increased the salaries of rural letter carriers on standard routes from SI,OOO to $l,lOO a year, thus affectig 30,00n0 men, with apportionate increase to carriers on shorter routes The order will become effective Sept. 110. This will mean an increased disbursement of $4,000,000 a (year. It is the second salary advance for rural carriers made in the last four years. At the close of the last fiscal year on June 30, there were 42,051 rural mail carriers, the aggregate pay being $40,055,740. When the rural delivery system was insti tuted 10 years ago, 83 carriers were employed at an annual cost of $14,840, the maximum individ ual pay being S2OO a year. The increase provides rural carriers adequate compensation for additional burdens to be im posed by the parcels post system, effective Jan. 1. “The parcels post system on rural mail routes can be conduct ed practically with no extra ex penses to the government except the increased salary allowance to !carriers,” said Mr. Hitchcock. “In my judgment this additional cost will be more than offset by an increased revenue, thus in suring the maintenance, and, from time to time, the extension of the rural delivery system as a ! self-supporting branch of the postal service.” Mr. Hitchcock also has direct ed that rural mail carriers, on the completion of twelve months service be granted 15 days leave with pay. This will require the additional expenditure of SBO,- 000 a year in the payment of substitute carriers. i The Solid Truth. The legislators-elect would do Georgia a real service if they would spend their time between now and next June studying out the best possible plan for revising the tax laws of the State and then when the Legislature meets putting that plan into execution. It is a question that Georgia must I settle and the sooner the better, j As long as the State is willing to igo along as she has gone for the past twenty-five years and remain in debt to her common school teachers, just so long will she be disgraced. Athens banner. COMMISSIONERS FIX THE TAX RATE. State Rate When Added To Make Tax About $16.50 On Thousand. At the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners here on Tuesday much routine work was done. The tax levy was made and the itemized b ldget foots up $11.50 on the thousand. This added to the state levy of about $5, will make the rate $10.50 on the thousand dollars. Revival at Glenwood. The revival meeting at Glen wood Methodist church, which closed on the fourth Sunday night last, was a remarkable meeting in several respects. The pastor, Rev. C. M. Ledbetter, did the preaching and though no special advertising had been given the meeting, the results were far-reaching. There wer6 thirty-seven accessions to the ' church on profession of faith, and the church was greatly re -Ivived. NO. 20.
