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VOL. XXVII.
SEABOARD WRECK
NEAR AMERICVS
Three Men Meet Death At
Dangerous Curve For
Want of Orders.
Amerieus, Sept. 22. The dis
astrous wreck occurring on tin
Seaboard Railway near Americas
last night, resulting in the death
of three members of 'rain c-rev.
No. 19, and injury of several,
others of extra train No. 545, was
cleared away this morning and
schedules resumed. The wreck 1
was one of the worst that has oc
curred near Amerieus recently.
Engineer Robert J. Finch,
Fireman Thomas Stanley and tin
negro brakeman, John Colb rt.
all of No. 19, are dead. Engineer ,
Finch and Colbert were killed in -
stantly, while Fireman Stanley,
who was crushed and badly
scalded, lingered until 5 o’clock
this morning.
Engineer Finch was 31 years
of age a fid was to have been mar
ried in November. Mr. Stanley
leaves a wife and child. Ail of
the dead were residents of
Amerieus.
The funeral of Engineer Finch
will be held at 10 o’clock Monday
morning from Furlow Lawn Bap
tist church, attended with Ma
sonic honors. The funeral of
Fireman Stanley has not yet been
announced. Hundreds of specta
tors again visited the scene of
wreck this morning, more than a
hundred automobiles being park-,
ed there at one time.
The two locomotives were
wrapped in death grip and bad
ly battered. They were pulled
apart this morning and brought
to the Amerieus shops for repairs.!
Several cars of the fast freight,
with their contents, were demol
ished and are a total loss. Train
545, the extra, had almost stop
ped when the impact came, hence
no one aboard it was injured.
Train No. 19 was a fast through
freight from Amerieus to Mont
gomery and was running 25 miles
an hour. The place of wreck is
a bad one, being i on a double
curve and upon the trestle of
Stewart’s Mill creek, one of the
most dangerous spots on \he line, j
Failure to deliver orders to No. I
19, regarding the meeting point
with No. 545 seems to have been
the cause of the disaster.
This will be determined when j
an official investigation is made
tomorrow. No. 545 had orders
to meet No. 19 had no. orders re
garding the meeting. The disa
ter occurred within two mile;- <>i
Newpoint, a flag station seven
miles out of Amerieus.
fil issionary M eet
At Tarrvtown.
The annual meeting of the W.
B. M. U. of the Daniel Associa
tion. will be held at Tarrytown
Baptist Church October 14th to
18th, and it is hoped that every
church in the Association wit! A
represented. The presidents and
leaders are requested to mak- an
effort to have their societies rep
resented, and we urge every
church that has no society to
send from one to three delegates,
and we trust the pastors will do
all they can to encourage the
women to attend the meeting.
God commanded woman to do
her part, and Paul said help
those women that had been
faithful to help him. Those who
expect to attend are requested
to notify Mrs. D. P. Usry, Tar
rytown. Program will be issued
later. We are sorry to state that
our president is sick at this time,
but we trust she will will take
her place in the meeting.
Mrs. Fulton Smith, Supt.
Mrs. C. A. Mason,
Mrs. J. H. Duggan,
Mrs. J. L. Hart,
Ex. Committee.
George M. Edwards
Instantly Killed, j
Claxton, Ga., Sept. 21. George j
M. Edwards, the 7-year-old son
of Mike Edwards of this place,
and a nephew of Congressman
Charles G. Edwards, was killed
here this afternoon when his
clothing was cat ght in n achinery
at a cotton gin operated by Mr.
Edwards.
Tiie boy had slipped away from
the housb and after entering the
gin was walking about, looking;
at the machinery, when he got
too close to a line of shafting and
his clothing became entangled
therein. Before the machinery
could he stopped the boy was 1
terribly mangled.
Although the cotton gin where
the tragedy occurred is not far
from the Edwards residence, and|
medical aid was hurriedly sum-!
moned, the boy was beyond as- 1
sistance, and died immediately i
after the accident. The family is .
stricken with grief.
Attraction at
B.=P. /. Friday .
On next Friday evening will
occur the first of a series of en
tertainment and instructive at-,
tractions to he given “on the
hill” during the j
term. Miss Augusta Center, a j
reader of great personal charm
and dramatic ability will present
a delightful program on this oc
casion. The entertainment will 1
be divided into two parts. The
first division will consist of mis
cellaneous selections, humorous,
inspiring, and dramatic, and the
second part will be a readingj
arranged from Justin Huntly Mc-
Carthy’s strong novel, “If I Were
King.”
The admission price is 50 cents'
for adults and 25 cents for chil
dren.
Mrs. Mclntyre Dead.
After a long illness, Mrs. Me-(
Intyre, wife of Mr. Geo. W. Me- j
Intyre, died on Saturday last at
their home near Ailey. Mrs. j
Mclntyre was a most estimable i
lady and will be missed by a large :
circle of relatives and friends.
She belonged to an old line Scotch
family of Montgomery county, :
and was related to many of our
best citizens. Besides her aged ■
husband, she leaves several sons |
and one daughter. Mrs. Me- i
Intyre’s maiden name was Hugh- j
es, sister of Capt. M. D. Hughes, j
Mrs. Sharpe and Mr. Arch j
Hughes, Sr. of Mt. Vernon, and '
of Mrs. A. M. N. Peterson of |
Higgston. The remains were 1
interred at Vidalia on Sunday.
\
A(ter Cotton Shipments.
Mr. Chas. H. Smith of Mcßae ,
was over last week looking over!
' the cotton situation and solicit-;
ing shipments for John Flannery ,
■ Compan* , c- Ton factors of Sa- >
vannah. Os course, the name of j
this old reliable firm is like a
household word with cotton ship-!
pers, and Mr. Smith will proba- j
hly secure many shipments from
this section. The name of John
Flannery has been known in the
cotton business of Savvannah for
many years.
Bound To Close Out.
Mr. E. T. Mcßride is going to
wind up his mercantile business
at Ailey and makes a plain state
ment as to the facts in this issue
of the Monitor. He proposes to
give you all he would lose in
freight and packing if he had to
move the goods. A plain propo
sition for you to save money. If
not sold in a very short time the
stock will be moved. Call by and
see the bargains being offered.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1912.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
A large fox got into the chick
en yards in the city limits of
Valdosta, last week, and feasted
two days on fancy poultry before
being killed.
J. W. Camn, a veteran police
man of Atlanta, who shot and
killed S. A. Folding, a brother
officer with whom he had long
been a room mate. Camp had
been drinking for same days
| while taking a vacation.
R. L. Stephen on of Atlanta,
, who .is repr . sent ing the Otis Ele
vator 1 Co., fell through the ele
' vator shaft of the new Gresham
' Hotel-Saturday and was seriously
; injured,^
l • NIT
Chest t S. Jordan, who mur
dered his wife four years ago,
whose body he cut up and packed
in a trunk, was electrocuted at
the Charlestown sthte prison,
Mass., for his crime Monday.
There was a light frost in the
Panhandle section of Texas last
Friday night, and the tempera
ture went down to 48 degrees.
Dr. Stefansson, explorer for
the Museum of National History,
who has recently returned from
a trip to the far North, found a
tribe of Eskimo, some having
red hair and beard with strong
Caucasian features.
Mrs. Emma Clifton, an aged
lady of Atlanta, was run over
by an automobile Saturday and
instantly killed.
TO THE VOTERS OF
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Mr. Hester Writes a Strong
Card and Pleads For A
Full Ballot.
I wish to urge the voters of
! Montgomery county to attend the
1 election in Montgomery next
I Wednesday and cast their bal
lots for the nominessof the white
primary. In doing so, I am forc
ied to call your attention to the
fact that Mr. J. I. Palmer is run
i ning for the office of sheriff. In
the white Democratic primary
Mr. Palmer was a candidate for
'sheriff and run fifth in the race,
receiving only 126 votes in the
| county. Mr. Palmer and every
man who voted in the primary
! accepted the pledge of the execu
itive committee to vote for the
! nominees of the primary. I ran
I first on the ticket in'the first
I primary, and the action was rati
fied by the second primary, in
i which I received nearly 1600
(votes. The laws of Georgia will
allow Mr. Palmer to violate his
I pledge and run again in the reg
| ular election next Wednesday;
i but no man who has any regard
I for his word of honor can afford
: to do so. The 4 primary election
: was fairly and squarely conducted
without even a hint of crooked
! ness on the part of those con
ducting it, the result was clearly
[ stated by your county executive
[committee, and Mr. Palmer so
| licits your votes without the ex
cuse or even moral right of an
! independent candidate. Simply
as a bolter 1 from the overwhelm
i ing decision of the almost entire
j vote of the county, he is seeking
to overthrow the work of the
white primary which has done so
much to wipe out the old rotten
ness of old-time scrub races.
Not for my sake alone, but
for your own interests, I appeal
to you to attend the election and
put your stamp of approval on
j the will of the majority To fail
;to do so encourages a spirit of
utter disregard for the principles
iof right and truth. He on hand
prepared to fight any underhand
ed scheme to defeat the will of
the people already expressed.
Yours Respectfully,
James Hester.
.cceptef
first o
Three men made their escape
from jail at Moultrie Friday night
last, but one of them was cap
tured and returned.
G. T. Patten of Berrien county
killed nineteen alligators, the
largest one measuring nine feet,
in a bay near MiUtown recently.
A colored plowman of Flovilla
unearthed a bar of silver whlie
plowing last week. The piece is
about twelve inches in length,
four inches wide and two inches
thick and weighs nine and a half
pounds.
The package of money con
taining $55,000 sent to the South
ern Express Co. from Pensacola,
and stolen, was returned and
placed at the back door of the
bank Monday morning, and an
unknown voice over the phone
notified the cashier of its being
placed there.
Mrs. J. H. Harris of Rome,
Ga., has sued the city for $3,000
damages, alleging that the stag
nant water of a pond raised mos
quitos that hither, causing fever.
! On Saturday night a negro con
fined in the city jail at Moultrie
got out, went up town and got a
shave and then returned to his
cell. He slipped between the
bars.
William H. Yarbrough of Dan
ville, 111., smoked his first cigar
on his last birthday, being 107
| years of age.
LOST HIS ARM IN
THE GIN AT AILEY
Steve Carroll Gets Terribly
Mangled and His Arm
Was Amputated.
While trying to remove the
moats from under a gin at the
cotton ginnery of Thompson Bros,
at Ailey last Saturday evening,
Steve Carroll, a young white
I man lost his right arm. The ac-
Icidentwas the same in nature
, that has occurred so often before.
His arm came in contact with
j the saws and was terribly lacera
! ted before the machinery could
he stopped. Doctors Hall and
Palmer were called and took off
| arm above the elbow. At this
| writing the unfortunate man is
still in a very serious condition,
i but hopes are still entertained for
his recovery.
For Sale.
Thirty or forty S. C. Rhode
! Island Red cockerels, good stock,
for sale. See me at once.
C. M. Ledhettek,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Still Thinking of Her.
The young undergraduate w;i
! haled before his tutor, says tin
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
|He had exceeded his leave by no
less than two days.
“Well,” said the professor,
“what have you to say for your
self?”
I’m awfully sorry,” replied the
undergrad. “I really couldn’t
get hack before. I was detained
by most importrnt business.”
The professor looked at him
sternly. “So you wanted two
more days of grace, did you?”
he asked.
“No, sir, ” answered the young
man, off his guard for a moment
“of Marjorie.”
Church Pews for Sale.
The pews in the Mt. Vernon
Methodist church are for sale at
a reasonable rate. In good con
dition. Call atMt. Vernon Bank.
i
South Georgia Plans
Orange Industry.
Colquitt, Ga., Sept. 23. —
Orange growing is becoming a
promising industry in south Geor
gia and especially in Miller coun
ty. In this county and in the
town of Colquitt, there are quite |
a number of trees that bear and '
mature a fine grade of this fruit!
each .year.
Mr. B. C. Bird, has at his home
on West Main street a very fine
orange tree that bears regularly
and supplies his family each year
with more of the fruit than they
require.
Fast year the yield was un
usually large. The culture of
this fruit presents a wonderful
p issability for south Georgia and
only needs development.
Give a Dollar
For Wilson .
Last week The Monitor began
a local campaign fund for the
benefit of the national campaign,
the amounts contributed being
for the purpose of helping the
Democratic nominee, Mr. Wilson,
to success. As is understood,
this money is not for Mr. Wilson,
personally, hut is to help pay the
expenses of his campaign; and a
number of patriotic citizens have
given since last week, and oth
ers will give duridg the next tpn
days. Leave a dollar at The
Monitor office, or at the Bank,
for this purpose. Surely every
citizen in town is willing to give
a little toward the success of
Democracy.
The following amounts con
tributed through The Monitor to
date, and will grow from week
to week:
Montgomery Monitor $2.00
Dr. J. E. Hunt 1.00
('ash .00
I J. A. Coursey 1.00
! \V. A. Peterson 1.00
$6.60
Uvalda.
Special Oorrenpondmioe.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Willcox
are visiting in Hawkinsville.
Mi's. Jim Gibbs is visiting her
parents at Lyons this week.
Mr. L. E. Braswell of Dublin
visited friends here this week.
Miss Lucille Mason of Lyons
|and Miss Brannon of Dublin visi
j ted Miss Pearl Jones last week.
Miss Ophelia Partin is visiting
Mrs. P. J. McNatt.
Work on the Baptist church is
in pressing very ra| idly.
Misses Kelly and Gertrude
Mann were here last Thursday.
Miss Lula Belle Partin of Cedar
Crossing is visiting Miss Helen
Gray.
Mr. Emmitt Moses has return
to M<rc< r to resume his stud
ies.
Who Lost on Peaches.
A lady in New York who read
that peach orchards in Georgia
were being destroyed because the
industry was not profitable, was
astonished. In regret at the
prospect of missing the delicious
fruit next year she wrote Mayor
Moore of Macon that she paid 15
cents per quart for Georgia peach
es all the season, and that some
times choice specimens sold for
2 1-2 to 5 cents each. From these
prices she thought the growers
were coining money. Right here
is where one of the reasons for
the high cost of living comes in.
A little light may he had on the
cause of the difference between
what the consumer qays and
what the peach grower gets when
it is remembered that in one day
during the strike on the New
York docks $200,000 worth of
peaches were condemned and
dumped into the river. Somebody
had this loss to hear. It is prob
able that the transportation com
panies did not hear it.—Savannah
News.
I
THE 12TH DISTRICT
FAIR IN DUBLIN
Let Montgomery County Be
Represented With A
Creditable Exhibit.
The 12th District Fair, which
will be held in Dublin Oct. Bth to
12th, inclusive, promises to be
the one conspicious event of its
kind in the state during the year.
There will be no less than five
or six county exhibits. When it
is considered that the State Fair
will probably not have more than
a dozen, this statement stand*
out and brings forcibly to the
minds of the people of this sec
tion that the 12th District to-day
is pre-eminent in agriculture in
Georgia.
We learn that there will be
more than two thousand head of
fine bred chickens; that there will
be at least two hundred and fifty
head of horses, mules, cattle,
sheep and goats show. The
poultry and live stock display pro
mises to be the best ever seen in
Georgia.
They will have daily balloon as
censions; there will be many
vaudeville shows on their Mid
way, and many attractions. The
boy scouts of Eastman, Adrian,
and Scott will march to the city,
and will be provided with suitable
camping grounds.
Farmers’ Union Day, October
9th, will bring together a notable
gathering of the leading farmers,
and those interested in the farm
ers’ movement; among these be
ing Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Law
son E. Brown, State President,
and J. A. Evans, the famous boll
weevil expert of the United Sta
tes Government and others.
On Educational Day, Oct. 11,
Gov. Elect Slaton, Prof. Andrew
M. Soule, of the State College of
Agriculture, and M. L. Brittain,
Stare School Commissioner, will
be present, and will address the
multitudes that will be gathered
upon that occasion.
A feature of the 9th and 10th
will be the horse races; running,
pacing, and trotting, for which
liberal purses have been offered.
A feature of the Fair is that it
will be held in the heart of the
city under canvass, a large num
ber of tents having been procur
ed to house the exhibits.
Every one of the quarter of a
million citizens resident in the
district should do their level best
to boost this Fair, which will for
mally advertise to the world the
splendid soil, and climate, and
advanced farming methods used
: by its people.
| Call at our office and let us
; talk the matter over with you.
We have premium lists, and will
be glad to give you any informa
; tian within our power. We want
our county to make as good a
showing as possible, and, to that
end, ask the aid of all of our pa
triotic citizens.
Fall Millinery.
We cordially invite you to in
spect our Fall Millinery, showing
j the latest styles in Pattern Hats,
Dress Hats and Street Hats.
They have every element of at
! tractiveness, combined with
strictly High-Grade workmanship
and reasonable profit-allowing
prices. J. H. Hudson,
Ailey, Ga.
Singing Convention.
The Montgomery County Sing
ing Convention will be held at
Alamo Methodist Church on the
sth Sunday in September, (next
Sunday.) Everybody invited to
come prepared to spend the day.
Bring your song books. No pub
lic dinner. All singing teachers
are especially invited.
J. F. McDaniel, W. Henry Clark,
Sec. Pres,
NO. 23.
