The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, December 12, 1912, Image 1
Wi\t jKottigauttn? iUnttite. VOL. XXVII. CALLED AS WITNESS TO FAR NORTHWEST Mr. Underwood Goes to Min nesota to Testify in Cases of Land Frauds. The state courts of Minnesota wanted a witness in a case against a party who was dealing in Montgomery county fraudulent land grants, and Col. L. C. Un derwood left on Sunday night for Blue Earth, a small town in Minnesota, to give information as to the sale of lands in this county under the old fraudulent grants exposed long years ago. Mr. Underwood went byway of Atlanta, Chicago and Milwaukee, j and the trip will be a highly in- j teresting one. The telegram call- j ing him there warned him to pre- i pare for cold weather. THE SUPERIOR COURT AGAIN TO CONVENE Busy Time Next Week For Litigants, Jurors and Witnesses. a On Monday next the November adjourned term of Montgomery , superior court will begin its ses sion. Hon. E. D. Graham, Soli citor-General, was over on Sat urday evening arranging a calen dar for the criminal business, which we print in this issue. The calendar calls for four days work, but it is quite probable that the court will continue until Friday night, at least. We regret to learn that Judge J. H. Martin is still indisposed, and will not un dertake to hold any more courts this year. Judge Hawkins of Dublin, who presided here so ably in November, will hold this adjourned term. Mrs. W. C. O’Neal Died on Tuesday. Reports reached us Tuesday that Mrs. W. Council O’Neal had been stricken with paralysis on Monday morning. While in her usual health and sitting in her home near McGregor, the stroke came from which she did not rally, and death relieved her suf ferings on Tuesday. Mrs. O’Neal was a splendid woman, and her loss will be sad ly felt by her husband and one daughter, and four sons, who survive her. The remains were laid to rest on yesterday after noon in the McCrimmon burial ground. She was a member of the Pres byterian church at McGregor, and the funeral service was con ducted by Revs. Don F. Sheppard of Daisy and Charles Montgomery of Mount Vernon. A number of friends and relatives from this place attended the burial. SIO,OOO LICENSE ON NI-BEER SALE. • Bainbridge, Ga., Dec. B.—City Council has raised the license on near beer saloons from S2OO to SIO,OOO and placed such restric tions on them that it is probable that no license will be issued. The Council consists of six mem bers and the vottf was practical ly unanimous, there being only one vote against the ordinance. Potatoes a Great Crop. Perhaps the finest crop of sweet potatoes made here in many years has just been gathered. We have some huge samples from the crop of Mr. E. G. Pollett of Longpond. He made 250 bushels from three-quarters of an acre. At 50 cents per bushel, this yield has cotton beaten out of sight. There is more money in potatoes than cotton, and the expense is almost nothing to make them. Home-grown Oranges Sold in Thomasville" j Thomasville, Dec. 10. —With home-grown oranges hauled in by the wagon load for sale it be gins to look as if south Georgia : was trying to go into competition with south Florida in the orange business. More oranges grown in this and the adjacent counties have been on sale here this year than ever before probably, but A. C. Dickey, just across the j line in Grady county, is the first grower who has been bringing j them by the wagon load. Mr. Dickey drove in town yes- 1 terday with seven or eight large j i barrels heaped with the golden ! fruit and he quickly bad a crowd 1 around him buying the oranges | as fast as they could be measured , i out. They were of unusually fine j ' quality and having been allowed ; to remain upon the trees until ripe they were very sweet. Mr. Dickey said he would gather as many more from his trees, which have borne well this year. Would Wonder. Little Girl —“What makes hor ses afraid of motors?” Little Boy—“ Well, you see, horses is used to seeing other ! horses pulling wagons, and when j they see wagons going along by j themselves they don’t know I what to make of them. If you saw a pair of breeches walking down the street without a man inside of them, you’d wonder.” A Dalton Man Kills Son. Dalton, Ga., Dec. 10.—Despite the efforts of his daughter to se cure the shot gun, A. R. Davis, aged 75, shot and killed his son, Hewlett Davis. Since separating from his wife Davis is said to have told- his son to stay away from his residence. Davis is a Confederate veteran. He is now r under arrest charged with mur der. HE GOT HIS BILL, SURE But will Probably Hold to the Small Stuff in Future. / Savannah, Dec. 10—The desire to have a SSO bill for his very own cost Alex Terrill, a country lad from Bulloch county, two S2O bills and a $lO bill a week ago. Terrill came to Savannah a week ago to hunt work. Not be ing able to find anything to do he proceeded to make firiends with a barber named D. Martin on West Broad street. Martin and Terrill became quite chummy and were together at different times. A few days after becoming ac quainted with Martin, Terrill saw a SSO bill in his possession. Terrill had never seen a SSO bill before • and had always greatly desired , to own one, according to his statement yesterday. Martin ' agreed to part with the bill for the correct amount of change and the S2O bills and the $lO bill handed over to him. Terrill carried the SSO bill with 1 him until yesterday. Having a * bill to pay which amounted to something over S4O he tendered : the note in payment. It was im mediately stamped as worthless - and an investigation started. Sergt. Clancy and Patrolman , Swift, directed by Terrill, went to the West Broad street barber shop and placed Martin under arrest. He made no denial of having given the bill to Terrill, but declared he had thought it a good one when he did. He will 1 be given a hearing in Police i Court. House for Sale. 1 Good five-room cottage with barn, etc. Located on campus of i 8.-P. Institute. See me for > price. M. D. Hughes, Mt. Vernon, Ga. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1912. General News Items ! Told in Short Meter. Train wreckers threw the switch on the Atlantic Coast Line road at Wades Crossing near Thomasville, derailing the pas senger train and doing consider able damage. j The corn show at the capitol in Atlanta last we.ek was a wonder ful exhibition, and was partici pated in by ninety counties. The | boys now number 10,000 in corn clubs. I While searching for whiskey as a deputy collector; S. S. Whit mire, postmaster of Rabun Gap, was shot and killed on Friday by a man named Osborne, who es- | caped. A Greek in Savannah named Pappadeas took a shot at a bird Sunday morning across the street and hit a negro boy in the leg. The man was arrested, but the wound is not serious. HIS HOME COUNTY ENDORSES SUMNER. Give Testimony To High Character of a Former Fellow Citizen. The following high endorse ment has been given Mr. J. L. Sumner of Wheeler county by his former neighbors in the good county of Emanuel. The state ment is to the point and speaks for itself: Georgia—Emanuel County. To whom it may concern: We, the County Officials and citizens of Emanuel County, Ga., herewith beg to express our es teem and high regard for Mr, J. L. Sumner, for the past number of years a citizen of the County of Montgomery, being a resident of that portion of said county re cently formed into the County of Wheeler. Mr. Sumner was born and reared in our county, (Emanuel,) and we have known him from his boyhood. His life has been an exemplary one. He is a man of strong character and honest convictions and of un questioned integrity, upholding the right and laboring for the upbuilding of his community and the betterment of his fellow citi zens. In token of our regard for him, we cheerfully subscribe our names herewith: T. A. Fields, Sheriff E. C. Ga. John R. Flanders, Ordinary. H. G. Johnson, Clk Sup. Court. R. W. Coursey, Sheriff-elect E.C. W. D. Stephens, T. R„ E. C. Ga. J. S. Woods, Representative. T. J. Woods. L. W. Canady. J. D. Fields. S. J. Williams, Mayor Swainsboro. J. Alex Smith, Attorney-at-law. Geo. Kirkland, Jr., Att’y-at-law. ad She Guessed It. Two ladies, previously unac quainted, were conversing at a reception. After a few conven tional remarks the the younger woman exclaimed: “He was so attentive a little while ago, but he won’t look at me now.” “Perhaps,” said the other, “he saw me.come in. He’s my hus band.” | Statement of the Condition of BANK- OP ALAMO, Located at Alamo, Ga., at the Close of Business Nov. 26th, 1912: , resources: Time Loans $27,808 2d Hanking; house 3,712.>0 Furniture and fixtures 1,941 00 Due from banks and hankers in this state 6,438 63 Due from banks and bankers in other slates 22 07 Currency 2,087 00 Silver, nickels etc. 271 44' Total, $41,270 40 STATE OF OKOltGlA—itontgoinery County. Before m<- came ■/. B. Ford ham, ('adder of Bank of Alamo, Alamo, Oa„ who, being duly sworn, aaya that the above and foregoing utatnmeut is a true condition of xaid Bank, ax abown by the hooka of file in said bank. J. B. FOUDHAM. ( Sworn to and subxci ibed before me, thix 10th day of liec., 1012. S. A LEE, N. P., M C.,na. , * A two-year-old boy of John Haskins in Clinch county fell in- j to a pit of boiling potatoes last week and was scalded to death. : George Childers, a young liv-" eryman of Dublin, attempted to take his life Sunday morning by shooting himself with a pistol,; the ball entering his breast. He had been drinking. Mrs. Benj. Lee, wife of a Hamblen county, Kentucky, farmer, to whom she had been married two months, was found j dead in a cistern Sunday. She 1 was the second young woman drowned in the same cistern. George Kendall, a farmer of West Lebanon, N. H., shot and killed Ive Osgood Friday night. Kendall’s wife had gone to keep house for Osgood. JUDGE STANDFORD WINS Re-elected Justice by Good Majority Here Saturday. The election for Justice of the Peace of the Mt. Vernon District took place last Saturday. These elections do not usually create much excitement, but more than the usual activity was shown in this one. The present incum-< bent, Judge G. J. Stanford, was opposed in the race by Mr. W. C. Ryals. Judge Stanford has held the place for several years. The vote stood: Stanford, 105; Ryals, 16. Messrs. E. W. Arm field and Otho Morrison were elected constables. Guardian’s Sale. Georgia— Montgomery County. Under and by virtue of an order granted by the Court of Ordinary of said county, will be Bold on the first Tuesday in January, 1913, before the court house door in said county, to the higest and best bidder for cash, the following described prop erty to wit: All of that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 1343rd district G. M. of Montgom ery county, Georgia, and described as follows to wit: Beginning at a stake corner where the land nerein described intersects the lands of Hugh Peterson and Rowland Baker on the south (of the tract herein described) and running thence north 66 1-2 degrees, east 36 chains and 67 links to a stake; thence south 23 1-2 eaßt 7 chains and 16 links to a stake; thence north 66 degrees east 27 chains and 65 links to a pine corner; thence north 23 degrees west 20 chains and 13 links to a stake; thence north 66 1-2 west 23 chains and 40 links to a stake; thence south 88 3-4 west 15 chains ami HO links to a stake; thence south 28 1-4 west 24 chains to a stake; thence south 22 3-4 west 10 chains and 10 links to a stake; thence south 671-2 west 8 chains, 63 links to a stake; and thence south 24 1-2 east 12 chains and 60 links to the beginning point, and containing one hundred and seventy eight and one half (17H 1-2) acres, according to a survey and plat thereof made l>y S. B. Morris, county sur veyor on the 6th day of October, 1912, and being bounded on the north by the tract hereinafter de scribed; on the east by lands belonging to W. J. Peterson, Jr., and lands belonging to the estate of J. A. Peterson; on the south by lands belonging to Major Summersett, Rowland Baker and Hugh Pe terson; and on the west by other lands belonging to the said J. A. Riddle. Also all of that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 1343rd District G. M. of Montgomery county, Georgia, and fully descrilsfl as follows, towit: Beginning at a stake corner on the eastern line of the tract herein described where the same intersects the lands of W. J. Pe terson, Jr., ami lands of T. A. Peterson and run ning thence north 23 degrees west 46 chains and 35 links to a stake; thence south 68 1-4 degrees west 11 chains and 18 links to a stake; thence north 21 3-4 west 8 chains and 16 links to a stake; thence south 32 1-4 west 32 chains and 37 links to a stake; thence south 44 1-4 west 16 chains and 8 links to a stake; thence south 9 1-2 east 14 chains and 20 links to a stake; thence south 66 1-2 east 23 chains and 40 links to a stake; and thence north 66 1-4 east 40 chains and 30 links to the beginning point and ■ containing two hundred and eighteen and twenty one-hundredths (2JH 20-100) acres, according in a survey and plat thereof made by S. B. Morris, county surveyor, on the 6th day of October, 1912, and being bounded on the north by Turner and lands belonging to T. A. Peterson; on the east by lands belonging to T. A. Peterson and W. J. Peterson, Jr., on the south by the tract first above described on the west by lands belonging to P. 11. Hardeman and the Ailey and Kibbee Public Road. * Said property will be sold as the property of J. A. Riddle, ward of the undersigned, for the pur pose of maintenance of said ward ami family. This the 2d day of December, 1912. j J. W. PALMER. Guardian for J. A. Riddle. LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in $16,000 no > Surplus fund 1,200 OO j Undivided profits, less cur rent ex int. and taxes pd. 1,682 31 1 Individual deposits subject to check 21.710 42 Time certificates 092 00 j 1 Cashier's cheeks 74164 Total, $41,276 4o Negro Boy Smothered In Loose Cotton Bale. Columbus, Dec. 10—Ben Ham mond, a negro boy, sixteen years i old, was smothered to death in a loose bale of cotton mill of the Swift Manufacturing company, where he was employed. He was alone in a small room, feeding] i cotton into a hopper that con -1 i veyed it to the dye house. Cotton , ceased coming through the suc tion pipe and persons were sent to the cotton room to investigate. They saw the negro’s fees stick ing up from a bale of loose cot ton. He was already dead. Just how he came to be cover jOd by the cotton is not known. THREATENS TO LEAVE ; WORTH IN DARKNESS Man Invents Sure “Reck Preventer” but Wants Some Cash for It. Atlanta, Dec. 10.- Warning the Georgia railroad commission that “if there is nothing in it at once to me 1 will go down to the | grave and leave the world in darkness as to what probably never will be thought of by any one but us,” a Dublin man has written to request the commis sion to pass a blanket order re quiring railroads to adopt their “reck preventer.” Chairman Candler is somewhat staggered by the threat, but will i await a formal gathering of all of his associates before plunging into so weighty a matter. But let the Dublin man tell about,his great invention, as yet existing only in the brains of himself and ! brother. “Me and my brother at Rock ledge are about to patent an at tachment to keep locomotive en gines and cars from recking or running off but are poor men and not able to resk money on patent unless we nos pretty soon of its being at once put to use.” He requests the commission to take action at once, and then of j fers the threat of “going down to his grave and leaving the world in darkness.” He says it will prevent ninety-nine out of one hundred wrecks and work anywhere except on switches. Later on he lets it leak out that they have “annother ida” which will even “prevent recks at switches if the fireman will only keep his nerve and open the throttle wide.” Then he says: ' “Advise us what to do as it means lives upon lives saved also recks upon recks avoided, to say I nothing of thousands of dollars saved to the railroads. If we | can’t get the benefit of it we will .leave the world without it.” He cautiously states that the j !commission can see his brother! at Rockledge any “weeky day” and get full particulars. Then, in order to choke off skepticism, he concludes: “This whole letter may sound foolish, but it is true. Just re - member Columbus.” HOTEL FOR SOPERTON Handsome 13-Room Build ing will Soon Go Up. Soperton will soon have fine hotel facilities. Dr. 0. B. Moye is to build at once a 13-room ho-1 ,tel that will fill a decided demand j in Soperton. Mrs. C. M. Pritch-■ ’ c*tt will have charge of the new | house and the public will be! I served in a satisfactory way. Put a new stopper in the syrup l jug. Jug corks, 75c per 100. at Drug Store, Mt. Vernon.—ad. Souvenirs that please after Christmas is over can be had of Sumerford Drug Co., Ailey. | COURT CALENDAR FOR COMING WEEK Only Criminal Cases will be Tried. Four Days’ Ses sion Planned. Monday, Dec. 16. State vs Fred Hudson, assault to murder. Dock Harvey, misdemeanor. Lee Higtower, 3 cases. John Hudson, 2 cases. Lester Calhoun, misdemeanor. Bert Powell, 2 cases. Ned Wiggs, 2 cases. Neal Harvey, misdemeanor. Ed Bradey, 2 cases. John Linder, felony. Lester O’Conner, 2 cases. Jim Moseley, assault to rape. Tuesday, December 17 State vs. Grover Gillis, misde | meanor. W. D. Lord, misdemeanor. Andrew Mooring, misde meanor. Ben Green, 2 cases. Frank Faircloth, 3 cases. Jim O’Connor, misdemeanor. Will Barefield, larceny. Ben Edmund, misdemeanor. Oscar Shepherd and Tom Shep herd, misdemeanor. Calvin Willis, misdemeanor. Jack Morris, 2 cases. Will Daniels, misdemeanor. Joe Miller, Tom Cooper, Jerry Phillips, “ Josh Collins, “ Richard Fuller, Ralph Morris, Oscar Graham, “ Wednesday, Dec. 18. State vs. W. L, Rodney, 2 cases. Lee Price, misdemeanor. J. A. Wiggins, 2 cases. J. R. Pollett, misdemeanor. Jim Davis, Jesse Simmons, J. H. Todd, forgery. J. H. Gannon, Harris Adams, misdemeanor. Dave Flowers, misdemeanor. J. B. Neundorfer, Lester Faircloth, George Bean, “ E. M. Bean, George Moseley, 2 cases. W. W. Inman, misdemeanor. Sinclair Sharpe, Linton Bridges, 2 cases. Zona Lord, misdemeanor. Jim Lord, B. F. Stokes, Thursday, Dec. 19 State vs. Bartow Keen, misde meanor. Tom Calhoun, misdemeanor. J. I. Wilkes, Butch Roberson, G. B. Graham, Grant Flowers, R. G. Flowers, Dennis White, Jess Phillips, Jr., Walhe McKinnon, Ernest Roberson and Josephine Roberson, Tom Shepherd, Luther Lloyd, Dennis McCormick, Jake Rogers, Waver Cooper, 2 cases. Indictments found at this term i will be in order for trial on Tues ! day, December 17th, and the ; days following that date. J. 11. Martin, Judge Sup’r Courts O. C. E. D. Graham, Sol. Gen. Delight the little ones by bring ing them to see our shining dis play of Christmas toys and souve nirs. Sumerford Drug Co., Ai ley, Ga. PROMISE PLEASANT PLAY “Santa Claus, Jr.,” at Brew ton-Parker Institute. On the night of December 18th, at the 8.-P. Institute auditorium, : the pupils cf the public school deijprtment will render a musical play. “Santa Claus, Jr.,” will j have full sway, and a rousing time is expected. An admittance fee of 10 cents will be charged to defray expenses. Get ready for the fun. Time: 7:30. % Be sure and see our elegant and sensible Christmas goods. Sumerford Drug Co., i Ailey. 4#' NO. 34.