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VOL. XXVII.
SOUTH GA. CONFERENCE
CLOSES IN SAVANNAH
Appointments Read Monday
And Few Changes
are Made.
The annual session of the South
Georgia-Conference of the Meth
odist Church held this year in
Savannah, ended its labors on
Monday afternoon. The meet
ings were held in Wesley Monu
mental church and the attendance
was large. Bishop A. W. Wil
son, senior bishop of the church,
presided over the conference, as
sisted by Bishop McCoy. Rev.
W. F. Smith, who has served
many times before, was elected
secretary of the conference.
Bishop J. H. McCoy of Birm
ingham preached the Thanks
giving sermon on Thursday.
Few changes were made in the
allotment of preachers for this
section. We give below the ap
pointments for the Mcßae dis
trict:
L. E. Hill, Presiding Elder.
Mcßae, K. Read; Helena and
Milan, W. G. Allaben, Eastman,
W. E. Arnold; Claxton, C. T.
Clark, Abbeville and Rhine, A.
B. Wall, Baxley, S. E. Jenkins;
Lumber City and Scotland, R.
M. Wesley; Towns circuit, J. E.
Sumner; Hazlehurst, G. F. Aus
tin; Jacksonville circuit; W. D.
McGregor, Chauncy circuit, S.
W. Snead, supply; Vidalia, N.
H. Williams; Mt. Vernon circuit,
C. M. Ledbetter; Lyons and Col
lins, C. E. Cook; Reidsville and
Shiloh, W. A. Mallory; Baxley
circuit, I. R. Kelly; Surrency cir
cuit, J. T. Lowe, and S. F. Hil
ton, supply; Alamo circuit, J. T.
Budd; Higgston circuit, G. W.
Pharr, supply, Uvalda circuit, B.
F. West; Altamaha circuit, R. M.
Allison; Glenville circuit, W. T.
Lambert, supply; Hagan and
Bellville, J. A. Sconyers; Cobb
town circuit, C. S. T. Strickland,
supply.
Waycross, Dawson and Macon |
put in bids for the next confer-1
ence, and Macon won by a large
vote.
It Was up to the Bachelor.
An old bachelor, who lives in j
the suburbs of a Southern city, I
hires a colored man to clean up
his room, fill the lamp, and per
form like services. A few days
ago the colored domestic, who
has been using his employer’s
blacking said:
“Boss, our blackin’ am done
out.”
“What do you mean by saying
‘our blackin’? growled the sordid
employer; “everything belongs
to me. I want you to understand
that nothing belongs to you.”
The terrified darkey apologized
and promised to remember. On
the following Sunday the bache
lor happened to meet the colored
menial, accompanied by a choc
olate-colored female pushing a
baby-carriage.
“Was that your baby in that 1
carriage?” he asked next day at
his house where he was enter
taining quite a number of his
friends.
“No, boss, dat’s not our chile;
dat’s your chile. I’se nebber
gwin to say nuffin belongs to me
no moah.”
NEGRO LYNCHED AT MCRAE
Assaulter Strung Up and
Riddled By Mob.
On Thursday night last a negro
known as Chesley Williams as
saulted a young woman at Rhine
and shot her mother. Sheriff
Wilcox of Telfair, to prevent a
lynching, took the negro to Mc-
Rae and placed him in a vault in
the clerk of superior court’s of
fice. A party of Dodge county
citizens followed him to Mcßae,
and finding where the negro was
in hiding, soon had him strung
up to a tree and riddled his body
with bullets.
Shiloh Notes.
Special Correspondence.
Miss Virgie McEachern a stu
dent of the Waycross business
school is visiting home folks.
Mr Grover Sapp of Pinehurst
is a welcome visitor in our com
munity.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Nash are
all smiles over & fine baby boy.
Mrs. Carry Vaughn and little
daughter, Thelma, were the guest
of Mrs. J. T. Roland a few days
of last week.
The young people of our com
munity enjoyed an entertainment
given by Mr. and Mrs. Enoch
Spivey Saturday night.
We are sorry to state the ill
ness of Mr. Abel Wright. Hope he
will soon recover.
Mr. J. L. Lowery yf Charlotte
visited in this section Sunday and
Monday. r
Misses Vick and Sadie Vaughn,
Alberta and Viola Sikes, Elbert
and Leona Hadden attended the
l cane-grinding at Mr. Roland’s
| Monday night.
Mr. Joe Browning and daugh
ter, Maranda, were among the
visitors in Lumber City Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Mitchell and
children visited at Mr. Josey’s;
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Leona Hadden is the
guest of her brother, Zade, of
Glenwood this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Davis of
Hazlehurst is visiting friends and
relatives in this community.
Dark Eyes.
Spring Hill.
Special CorrcHpumleuce.
Mr. Abe Bright of Sardis is j
very low.
Mr. W. S. Miller superintended
our Sunday school Sunday last.
Bruce and Sardis were well
, represented at the Spring Hill
Literary Society last Saturday
| night.
Mr. Roscoe Smith from Brox
ton was a welcome hearer Satur
day night.
Rev. Hinson is pastor of the !
! Baptist church at Springhill.
Rev. Kelly is attending the
con to’ ce which convened in
, Savannah last Monday,
There will be a box supper at
Ilil! on the 14th., inst.
We are expecting an extra big
lime. We want everybody to
come and enjoy the supper for
there will. be more than we all
can take care of. Spring Hill is
i now one of the livelist places
around. Its society is one of
the best we ever heard of. Come
out and be with us. Stranger.
Why She Sent for Him.
A clergyman was once sent for
in the middle of the night by one'
of his woman parishioners.
“Well, my good woman,” said
he, “so you are ill and require
the consolations of religion ? What !
can I do for you?”
“No,” replied the old lady, “I
am only nervous and can’t sleep!”
“But how can I help that?”
said the parson.
“Oh, sir, you always put me to
sleep so nicely when I go to
church that I thought if you
would only preach a little for
me!”
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
WiU be sold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in Jan., 1913, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for sash, certain property, of which the following
is a c«**njplete description;
One Hackney lumber wagon, 2 in axle, 4 in.
steel tires. One Taylor saw mill complete, con
sisting of 30-horse power boiler, 20-horse power
engine; boiler Mallory make, engine Waltertown
make. Levied on as the property of C. B. Branch
to satisfy a mortgage fi fa issuer! by the superior
court of said county in favor of W. R. Harrell,
agent for W. L. Jessup, against said C. B. Branch.
Levy marie and returned tome by F. E. Forrester,
deputy sheriff. Property being too bulky to
transport, will be sold as it stands at mill site in
the Alamo district. This the 3rd day of Decem
ber, 1912. JAMES HESTER, Sheriff.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1912.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
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The Southern Educational As
sociation, in session last week at
Louisville, Ky., elected as presi
dent, Hon. M. L. Brittain, State
School Supt. of Georgia.
The corner stone of the -new
Tift county courthouse will bo >
laid at Tifton on Tuesday, Dec.
10. The ceremonies will be in
charge of the Masonic Lodge of
Tifton.
K. E. McAllister of Atlanta, 43
years old and separated from his
wife, wrote two notes, one in the
form of a prayer, and then in-1
haled gas and killed himself in
Chicago last Saturday.
Richard Frayne, a young aero
naut of Boston, made a flight at
Jacksonville, Fla., and dropped
to his death in a cemetery in the !
presence of 3,000 people.
The concluding and third ses- 1
sion of U. S. Congress convened
on Monday. Speaker Champ
Clark called the house to order,
and Senator Bacon of Georgia
presided over the senate.
Now that the right of suffrage
has been granted women in Kan
; sas, they are scooping all the of
fices. Over 200 of them were
elected to county offices this year.
Wiley Busbee, a well known
white man, was was found dead
in Bluff Creek near Hawkins
ville Monday, with a bed quilt
wrapped around his body which
had been perforated with bullet
holes.
SOUTH ATTAINING NOTICE
Eyes of the Nation Being
Turned This Way.
A magazine published in Chi
cago had much to say recently of
opportunities in the South. We
quote the following:
“We little realize what is go
ing on in the South. The South
ern States are experiencing an
awaking which pales into insig
nificance the activities of the West
back in those days when Horace
Greeley said, ‘Young man, go
West.’
“In your business ventures,
don’t overlook the South. The
cotton crop of the South will!
some day be the ‘backbone’ of
this nation. Already the big
powers of Europe depend almost
entirely on America for cotton,
and cotton will some day rule the
financial world, if it does not now.
“Opportunities for young men
are thick in the Southern
cities. Land values are growing
by leaps and bounds, factories
are springing up on every side,
thousands of Northern families
are ‘going South,’ every wee!:
mail order houses are training
their guns Southward, and-a
word to the wise is sufficient.”
TWO DORMITORIES BURN
South Ga. College at Mcßae
Suffers 53,000 Loss.
Two of the boys dormitories of
the South Georgia College at Mc-
Rae were burned Saturday last,
the fire probably originating from
defective flues. The two build
ings lost were worth about $6,000
and there was only $3,000 insur
-1 ance on them. Some of the boys
lost almost all of their effects in
the fire. They will be provided
with homes until the buildings
can be replaced.
The Reason.
“Pa, why do they call it ‘Dame’
Fortune?”
“Because Dame is feminine.
Fortune is symbolized as a wo
man.”
“Why do they symbolize For
tune as a woman?,’
“Because she’s nearly always
! late when you have an engage
ment with her.”
Ben Clarida, a young man out
hunting near Greensboro, N. C., !
Saturday, stooped to pick up a
rabbit he had shot, when his dog
jumped at him and with his foot
fired the boy’s gun and killed
J him instantly.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lang, a bride
of Logansport, Ind., shot and
killed another woman on Tues
■ day. The woman had callled her j
ugly, and said the groom had se
: lected a worthless woman for a
! wife.
Oscar Strasser, a boy 11 years
of age, was burned to death in
Colorado by using gasoline to
kindle a fire that was labeled ker
osene. He was brought to Sa
vannah for burial because he
| plead with his parents not to be
j buried in the snow.
In a wreck on the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Dresden, Ohio, |
Tuesday night, eight persons !
were killed and several others
wounded.
| Capt. Joe Mansfield, a well
known citizen of Darien, died at
his home there on Monday night,
A skating party on Heart |
Lake, Pa., broke through the ice
on Sunday and three people weiv
drowned, several others having
narrow escapes.
Over 100 persons were killed in I
a cyclone that swept Madagascar
on Nov. 26. Damage estimated
at $2,000,000.
DIES ON SEABOARD TRAIN
I
Young Austrian Enroute to
Savannah for Treatment.
Valantine Liker, a young man,
native of Austria, assisted in
butchering a beef at Abbeville
! about fifteen days ago and cut
off the tip of one finger. Blood
poison set in, and -he was put on
the Seaboard train for Savanna!,
on Saturday to he taken to a hos- j
pital for treatment. He died on
the train about the time it ar
rived at Groveland. Young
j Liker was engaged in a barrel
factory at Abbeville.
Old Negress Dies at
Home in Brunswick
Brunswick, Nov. 30.—Probab-j
ly the oldest negress in the stal
if not the entire country, passed
away in this city yesterday when
“Aunt” Lucile du Bignon breath
ed her last. The old negress al
ways claimed she was born around
the year 17fM), hut it is a known
fact she was 110 years old when
she died.
“Aunt” Lucile, as she was,
known by everybody in this city,
according to her story of her his
tory, came to the United States
from Africa when she was a
young girl, on the slave ship
“Wanderer.” The vessel landed
atMekyl, which at that time wa
owned by the du Bignons, and
as the slaves often took the name
of their master it is by this man
ner she acquired the name of
du Bignon. The old negress had |
a good memory and remembered
events that transpired in thi
state during the early part of tin
nineteenth century.
“Aunt” Lucile was the last of
the old du Bignon slaves and
was respected by all who knew
her.
For Tax Collector.
At the approa/hing primary on the .Tint, fn-t
I will auk for the office of Tax Collector of Win • i
er county. Respectfully calling attention to rny
‘ reconl ana man anrl a citizen in this territory, a rnl
feeling assured that I can satisfy all voters by a
J just and faithful discharge of the duties of thi?
office, I ask it at your hands. Your confldti - *
and esteem will lie highly appreciated if you «
fit to honor me as one of your new county's ofl.
| cers. Yours to please,
J. A. LOWERY, j
Swift Creek.
Special Correspondence.
Our school at Swift Creek is
, progressing very nicely under
the careful management of Mrs.
Kate E. Harris of Tennessee.
Miss Ella Tyson of Hazlehurst
is visiting at the home of her
brother, Mr. G. A. Tyson.
Mr. Curtis Hamilton who is a
student at the 8.-P. Institute
spent the week end with his
grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. A,
| Morris.
Mr. Iron Palmer and sister,
! Miss Vena, spent Sunday with
their brother, Mr. Geo. Palmer
at Kibbee.
Miss Mollie Mills is spending
a few weeks with her brother,
Mr. L. C. Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moore spent
last Sunday at the home of Mrs.
M. E. Palmer.
Miss Bandies Moore spent Sun
day|last withjMiss Mamie Beckum®
Mr. Curtis Hamilton was a
caller at the home of Mrs. M. E.
Palmer Sunday afternoon.
Miss Ella Tyson was the guest
of Miss Mazie Palmer Sunday
last.
Mr. L. C. Graham was a pleas
ant visitor at the home of Mr.
| and Mrs. T. L. Beckum Sunda.v
afternoon.
Mrs. G. W. Morris was shop
ping in Vidalia last Monday.
Messrs. J. 11. and Iron Palmer
i were in Mt. Vernon last Friday.
Mr. L. C. Graham made a bus
iness trip to Vidalia one day last
week.
Miss Mollie Mills s)>ent Sunday
j very pleasantly with Miss Ida
Morris.
Mrs. G. W. Morris called at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Beckum Sunday last.
Miss Vena Palmer spent Mon
day afternoon very pleasantly
with Miss Ida Morris.
Mr. Archie Morris and Mis;
Mills were outdriving last Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. I. M. Morris and Mrs.
Kate Harris attended Sabbath
school last Sunday at Kibbee.
Mrs. Clara Tyson and sister,
Miss Mazie Palmer, have return
ed from Hazlehurst, where they
have been visiting Mrs. J. P.
; Tyson.
The young folks of this section
have been enjoying the cane
grindings very much.
M.rThos. L. Beckum was at
tending to business matters in
Mt. Vernon last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hilton and
Mrs. G. W. Morris were attend
ing to business in Mt. Vernon
| Tuesday. S. C. S.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that tin
firm of J. E. Braswell <fc Go., do
iug busiuesss iii Abe town of AI
ton, Uti., has this day been din
solved by mutual consent, A E.
Smith, a member of said firm, re
tiring, J. E. Braswell aHsnminz
all indebtedness and collecting ah
I accounts due said firm. Thistle.;
i 27tli day of November. 1912.
J. E. BRASWELL & CO.,
J. E Braswell,
A E. Smith.
CITATION.
I Georgia Montgomery County.
; J C. Outlaw has in proper form
applied to the Ordinary of said
county for letters of adininistra
tration on t he estate of M is. Cliri
tian Peterson, late of said conn
tv; this is therefore to cite all
persons concerned to show cause
if any they can at the next term
of the court of Ordinary of sail
county, to he held on the first
Monday in January, 1913, why
said application should not L
granted. Given under my hand
and official signature this the 2d
day of Dec., 1912.
Alex. McArthur, Ordinary.
BOARD COMMISSIONERS
HOLD LAST MEETING
Not a Member Serving Will
Take Oath of Office
Next Month.
With their monthly meeting
held on Tuesday the present
board of County Commissioners
began to get to the end of their
work, as their term of office ex
pires with the year. An entirely
new set of commissioners has
been elected, and at the next
meeting in January the roads
and revenues of the county will
i probably be turned over to them
by the retiring board.
The members elect are J. M.
I). McGregor, John T. Walker,
!t. I). Beaty, W. H. Moxley and
J, G. Snellgroye. By the organ
ization of Wheeler county at the
county election on Jan. 7th, next,
Mr. Snellgrove will not be in
Montgomery county, and it is
probable that the board will
choose another man to take his
place.
The new board has the oppor
tunity of its life to cover itself
with glory by straightening up
the financial affairs of the county
and putting its roads in good or
der. It is hoped by every good
i citizen that the gentlemen who
I will guide the old county’s affairs
will measure up to all the duties
that devolve upon them. No
thing would more certainly in
sure their complete success in all
undertakings than earnest co-op
eration ny every citizen.
Moultrie Harvests
Fine Crop Syrup.
Moultrie, Ga., Nov. 29.—New
crop of syrup of an excellent
quality bottled and sealed, is sell
ing in Moultrie at 7 cents a pint.
This is cheaper than it has sold
here in a number of years, and
i the reason therefor is that these
has been an exceptionally fine
I cane crop made. Not only was
there a larger crop of cane made
than usual, hut the quality is
good. The seasons were rigid,
and the cane matured up to the
very top. Some of the stalks of
j cane that have been exhibited in
Moultrie were eleven and twelve
feet in length—sweet to the top.
Cane that yields four and five
hundred gallons per acre has been
i very common this season. A
large quantity of seed cane is be
ing saved, and next year the crop
will probably be even larger. One
farmer, T. H. Parker, is planning
to put twenty-five acres in cane.
He has dealt iri syrup a number
of years and has grown cane
• profitably for several years.
SherifF Sale.
Georgia Montgomery County.
Will 1m- Hold before the court hounedoor In Mount
V urrifm on tin- find Tuesday in Jan., 1918, be
tween the legal houm of Halo, to the highent bidder
so; r;iMh. rot-iain property, of which the follow in#
is a full and complete description:
lyot of land No. 201 in the Sixth district of
Montgomery county containing 202 1-2 acres,
more or lens. Levied on as the property of G. I).
Daniels to satisfy an execution Ihmuotl by the Jus
tiee Court of the 394th District, G. M., in favor of
It. 1,. Kersey against said (J. D. Daniels. Said
property in po ession of D. G. Daniels and point
< d out by plaintiff in execution, and notice given
•i required by law. This 29th day of November,
1912. JAMES HESTER, Sheriff.
SOLD 500 BUSHELS OF OATS
Terrell County Farmer Gets
Money Off the Crop.
Mr. J. I). Weaver is one of the
farmers of Terrell county who
have *paid attention to the oat
crop the past few years, and has
found it profitable to do so.
He has just sold to Lowrey
Bros. 500 bushels of rust proof
seed oats of his own raising, the
price paid being 75 cents a
bushel. Lowrey Bros, will sow
.",00 acres of their farm in oats.
The farmers of Terrell are
planting more oats than usual
this year, and are thoroughly pre
paring the land and fertilizing on
scientific principles.
With anything like favorable
seasons next year’s oat crop will
be a bumper one.—Dawson
News.
NO. 33.