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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1912)
iJfotfnommj monitor. VOL. XXVII. BOYS’ CORN CLUB TO MAKE EXHIBIT ALL EXHIBITS TO BE ASSEMBLED Result of the Boys’ Labor Will be Carried to Several Fairs. > Prof. J. Walter Hendricks, or ganizer of the Boys Corn Clubs throughout the state, spent Mon day and Tuesday here in an ef fort to assemble the exhibits as prepared by the boys of this county, preparatory to sending them to Dublin, Tifton, Macon, Savannah and other points, ac cording to the fairs at each place. ! Only a few boys continued in the contest after the organization in the spring by Prof. Hendricks, i on account of unfavorable wea- 1 ther conditions; however, there! will be several entrants from j among the enterprising boys of 1 Montgomery county. These will; bring their corn exhibits to the court house by Saturday of this week, when they will be packed ready for shipment to Dublin, for entry into the Twelfth Dis trict Fair, held at that place from the Bth to the 12th inst. The collections, while small in number, will reflect credit on the) boys furnishing them. After the fairs the exhibits will be on display in a corn con test to be held at the court house in Mt. Vernon on the 17th of October, and it is quite sure that prizes will be offered by the local j merchants and bankers for the best exhibits. Let all the con testants have their exhibits here by Saturday of this week, in or der to have them taken to Dub lin. Let the older heads do every thing possible to encourage the boys in this work, that the in terest may grow from year to year. Nothing will help the boys more. Stingless Bee Has Arrived. Philadelphia, Oct. I. The stingless bee at last has arrived, having been produced by an Eng lish apiarist, namey Burrows. A description of the new bee says the hybrids are splendid workers, and are less liable to disease than the ordinary honey producers. Burrows mated Cyprian drones with Italian queens, to produce the new bee. 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The deputy warden of Toombs j county is advertising and offering j a reward of SSO for the arrest of i : Jordan Swain, who escaped' recently from the chain- j gang of that county. It will be remembered that Swain was con victed of the murder of Beasley in this county, and spent a long | time in jail here both before and after the trial. He was sent up for life. Civil Service May be. For all Postmasters. Officials of the civil service commission are of the belief that all postmasters will eventually be 1 grouped as civil service employ-j , es. ! President Taft has ordered! ; that fourth-class postmasters be 1 i classified as civil service employ- I es, but his order has no effect ; upon postmasters of the first, i second and third class, j Their positions will still con ' tinue as political offices supplied iby appointment instead of by: competitive examination. But the! belief is strong that the presi-! dent’s orders is a movement to- 1 ward extending civil service reg ulation to all postmasters. For some time in the past the; government has experimented in a few northern states with the j application of civil service rules ito fourth-class postmasters, and j iias been so well pleased with I the experiment that the presi dent has extented civil service to all postmasters of the fourth ; clas s. T classification of fourth clr .• masters in Georgia will in a V 'irk of the local i i' ce to such an ex • ’ f employment of ano-ht clerk at the office has been necessary. Aged Citizen Comes t To See Court House. i On Wednesday, one of Mont-1 gomer’s old and highly respected , citizens made his first visit here ! in several years. Mr. Clinton, i Clements of the Fork District, 1 had never seen Montgomery’s new court house, being 79 years of age and keeping quite close at home. He talks interestingly of his long life in this his native county, and of the thrilling ex periences of the dark days of the 60s. We hope many years yet will be allottted Mr. Clements in j this life. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCT. . 3, 1912. General News Items I Told in Short Meter. Theodore Roosevelt, candidate 1 for president of the Progressive Party, spoke to a large crowd in Atlanta Saturday night. I # j Zelma Ray of Covington, Ga., had his back broken by slipping as he was boarding a train on Saturday morning. D. B. Pullen of Taylorsville, Ga., was killed by trying to hold a belt on with a stick while man ager of a ginnery at Jacksonville, Ala., last Monday. Rev. M. J, Cofer, manager of ' the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, Atlanta, died of heart failure in | his office Saturday morning. Governor Blease has been de clared the nominee for governor of South Carolina by the state Democratic executive committee. | Two Savannah negroes strung ! up a girl of seven years by the ! j hands in that city on Tuesday for ! stealing a small piece of meat, j She was rescued by a policeman and the two men arrested. The grand jury of Berrien county recommends that the commutation road tax law be discontinued in that county, and a return to the old system of road | work. BRI)CE=BROWN THE FAMOUS DRIVER KILLED. Fearless Man Who Won So Many Races Killed at Milwaukee. David Bruce-Brown, the famous automobile driver, who has been in the public eye for five years, was killed on the race course at Milwaukee Tuesday, by driving his Fiat car 90 miles an hour. Bursting a tire caused the hi. I racer to swerve into a ditch arid i Bruce-Brown’s skull wasfractur ! ed. His mechanician was fatal !ly injured. His most noted vic tories were won at the grand prize races in Savannah in 1910 and 1911, and runs were made in the same car in which he met death. MEMORIAL. By Oak Grove Baptist Church, Montgomery county, Georgia, September 21, 1912. The Death Angel hath again visited us and wafted home one of our beloved sisters, Mrs. Alice Walker Stewart. She was born Feb. 18, 1871, and united with the church at the age of 17. Was united in marriage to Bro. 1 jI. A. Stewart Dec. 25, 1901, and ; died July 31, 1912. She is sur- : | vived by her husband, five little | sons, a father, eight brothers and < ] one sister, and a host of relatives < | and friends. She was reared by a Christian < I father and has always lived a I j life of rectitude; being a devoted wife, a faithful mother and a ; true, loyal member of the church. 1 The sweetest words in the En- i ! glish language are Heaven, Home ] and Mother. She left the assur ance that her spirit entered the 1 | resting place of the soul. But the I home of Bro. Stewart is bereft • !of its best friend, and the little j boys have no mother now to tell j lof Jesus and his love. Yet! God doeth all things well. Therefore, ( let us say with David of old: “She 1 cannot come back but we can go where she is.’’ We trust that the bereaved j ones will be consoled by God hitn i self, and in the faith we have in | the immortality of the soul and j the resurrection of the just. Respectfully submitted. J. T. Brack, / jW. D. Peterson, ( Committee. I J. B. Robinson. ) The conductors and trainmen of the Georgia Railroad have gone out on a strike and 300 men arc ! affected. j T. K. Gilstrap of Atlanta found his wife in the arms of Will t Seals, after having been notified by his 12-year-old-son that the couple had gone to the woods together, and put five bullets into Seals, killing him instantly. R. J. Nipper of Cordele, while adjusting the trigger of a shot 1 gun, put a load of shot into tho stomach of young Miller Wade with whom he had started on a hunt. Wade is still living. j A rare case of suicide occurred at Cordele Monday. A negro drank a bottle of carbolic acid because he owed a debt of S7O. College boys at Hickory, N. C., prevented Roosevelt from speak ing there on Tuesday as his train stopped by yelling and cheering for Wilson. Hugh Long, mayor of Wagner, | S. G. and representative elect of his county, shot and killed Pick ens Gunter over political matters Saturday evening. Up to Saturday night, the re ceipts of cotton at Americus were j 13,000 bales behind last year. AFTER WILD CAT 1 GOLD MINE SCHEMES Georgia Now a Field For Those Who “Salt” Down Discoveries. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. I.—Anal- j leged wild-catting gold mine scheme in Georgia is brought to light in the lawsuit filed in the superior court here by William E. Arnaud and others to recover $l,lOO paid for stock in the “Su wanee Gold Mining, Company,” of Gwinnett county, Ga. The petitioners claim that the promoters of the mine actual!.* “salted” thegulch, dumpingtom of auriferous soil into it and then washing the dirt away so that what was left made the place look as if it was rich in natural gold deposit. The charge is rather amazing for such tactics have not been re sorted to within the memory of the present generation in the j east. “Salting” a gold mine; used to be one of the favorite di versions of the picturesque ad ventures of the west in the old days. They used a quicker and more direct method, however. They would take an old muzzle-1 loading shotgun and load it with small gold nuggets, maybe $200! worth or more, equal to a large j charge of lead slugs. Then one of them would standoff from the face of a rocky hillside he want ed to “salt” and would simply blaze away with his gun at the rocks. The soft metal scattered j and smashed and stuck against the crevices of the rock looked j almost identical with natural de posits. The salters would wait a \ week or two and then “discover” the rich vein, after which they; would sell it to some prospector for several thousand dollars and I then skip the country. If the alligations in the suit j filed are true, the Gwinnett mine ' was salted, but in a much more* careful and clever way than they ever adopted in the old west. Another Bank for Reidsvillc. The secretary of state has an application for charter for a m w hank. This will be two banl ; for Reidsville, and the new one is to be formed by several capi talists and prominent men of Tattnall. Champion Cane Grower. So far Mr. W. C. Ryals of Mt. Vernon is ahead on fine sugar! cane. A sample brought us from ! i his brag patch on Monday meas-1 ured 8 feet 6 inches, and was 1 about matured within three joints of the top. Mr. Ryals under ! stands the culture of the cane crop, being a native of the land of rice and molasses old Liberty 1 county. Sheriff Chases Negro Four Miles in Water. McDonough, Ga., Oct. 1. — Jesse Barnes shot and killed Da vid Self ridge in the upper part of Henry county in a quarrel over fifteen cents. Both werej negroes. Sheriff Sowell chased I ! Barnes for four miles down the center of a creek, but he succeed- 1 ed in reaching South river and is j still at large. Dogs were put on j trail of the negro but failed to j follow him when he took to the water. The sheriff has offered a re ward for the capture of Barnes, 1 a black negro about 22 years old, j 5 feet 7 inches high, large pop eyes, weight about 150. The State Election. The state election yesterday, was a very quiet affair in Mont gomery county. About 170 votes ! were polled in Mt. Vernon. No other precincts heard from be-; fore we go to press. The vote will be light. Blind Student Has Remarkable Gifts. Athens, Ga., Oct. 1. —W. R. : McDonald of Augusta is regis- ! j tered at the University of Geor-1 !gia as a merhber of the junior l | law class. Mr. McDonald is al- 1 ready being recognized as one of the brightest members of the class, though he is totally blind. He gets up the work for his reci tations by proxy, hearing the text read and retaining it better I than many men who have good eyesight. He is proficient in the; use of the typewriter and does 1 his examinations in this way. Mr. ; McDonald is just turned 21, and though he has been blind since he finished the grammar school and has been at the university here only a few weeks, he has become familiar with the campus and gets about over the grounds with remarkable self-confidence, j Mr. Carroll Improving. We are glad to note that Mr. j Stephen Carroll, who lost his > arm in a gin at Ailey recently, i is doing nicely at this time, and is on the way to a complete re covery. Mr. Carroll’s loss was; a t serious one, and we are glad to! hear of his improvement. 11 | I | I Money Makes Money If Planted in Our Bank. : Keck in iiiiiul thnl we arc a hank that | | does things. Every man can’t get rich, * but every man can save something. The only sure way of saving money is by I depositing it. When it jingles in your ||| I pocket you want to spend it. Your ; I name would look well on our books. 1 | Call and let us put it there today. I The Citizens Bank of Alston ALSTON, GEORGIA 1 D. S. WILLIAMSON, President JOE W. SHARPE, Vice Pre.kJent | :|; L. H. LEDFORD, CaafaiCT | DEMOCRACY NEEDS ! YOUR HELP NOW FEW DOLLARS WILL MEAN MUCH Each Contributor Will Be Awarded Handsome Souvenir. Funds for the support of the Wilson-Marshal campaign are not coming in as rapidly as would be for the better advancement of the cause. During the past few days a number of friends of Dem ocracy have dropped in a few dollars, but more is needed for ; the success of the party. Mont gomery county can boast of no millionaires, but every liberty j loving citizen should contribute at least one dollar to the fund ;as started in this section by The ; Montgomery Monitor. | It may interest our friends to know that they will receive in 1 return for their generosity a S handsomely engraved receipt, which is well worth preserving, for their funds, and all money I will be accounted for. A contribution to this cause is | not throwing away money—the handsome souvenir receipt is well worth the money. Wilson and Marshall must win, but they need your help. Send in a dol lar or two at once. Do not wait until after the election is over; it will not be wanted then—and you may regret it. Be patriotic and enterprising, and heli> the cause of freedom 1 now. The following amounts con | tributed through The Monitor to date, and will grow from week to week: Montgomery Monitor $2.00 Dr. .I. E. Hunt 1.00 ('anh .60 J. A. Courtey 1.00 W. A. Petcroon 1.00 sf>.so Towns —Palmer. Many friends will be surprised to learn of the marriage of Miss Maud Towns of Fitzgerald to Mr. J. Addison Palmer, of Mt. Vernon, Route 1, the wedding having taken place Sept. Bth. Mr. Palmer met Miss Towns in May while she was here visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. W. Coleman, 'and did not see her again until I he went to claim her as his bride, i A case of love at first sight. Af ter the ceremony they visited Mr. Palmer’s brother at Unadilla. re turning to Mt. Vernon, Route 1, ! where they will make their home. Mr. Palmer is the son of Mr. J. Q. Palmer, and we all wish them much happiness through life. -G. i NO. 24.
