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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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Reward Offered For Swain.
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.
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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
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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.
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| 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
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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
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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.
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