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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1912)
} »'■■■■ ' . VOL. XXVII. SEES THE GREAT NORTHWEST Colonel Underwood Returns From Interesting Trip to Minnesota. As mentioned in this paper last week, Col. L. C. Underwood was summoned by the superior court of Blue Earth, Minn., and took a long trip as a witness, re turning to Mt. Vernon on Mon day evening. The particular case in which Mr. Underwood was called to testify was the state of Minnesota against one E. F. Foxton of Minneapolis, ; charged with trading a mortgage ! on 250 acres of land in this 1 county. The land purported to be part of the notorious John Hanson grant in Montgomery county, to which reference is made elsewhere in this paper. Foxton was convicted and will be sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, the state law fixing the penalty. This is the second conviction so far for these fraudulent land sales, one Dines of St. Louis, who visited Mt. Vernon January, 1903, being the first one sent up. Dines traded a laige tract here for a big building in Louisville, Ky., and was caught and prose cuted. Many of our Mt. Vernon citizens remember the smooth Mr. Dines and Wheelock who accompanied him. Mr. Underwood talks interest ingly of his trip of 3,000 miles, passing through Atlanta, Cin cinnati, Chicago, Mason City, lowa, and on to Blue Earth, in the central southern part of Min nesota. Two days spent in Chi " cago gave him an opportunity to see the great Union Stock Yards, . and the greatest slaughter houses of the world. A trip through the vast packing house of Ar mour & Co. proved yery interest ing. He saw the processing of passing from the live hog thru the stages that finally found the meat in cans all neatly labeled for the market. This is the place where everything is turned into money but the squeal of the porkers. The great corn region where the corn grows as thick as a canebrake, the fine stock of all • kinds, and the improved methods of farming, all passed under the practical eye of Mr. Underwood, and his trip was a pleasant one all the way around. He was handsomely treated by the peo ple of the great Northwest, where the snow covers the ground all winter. Rare Christmas Bargains. You will profit by reading the big ad of the Soperton Grocery Co. in this issue. This firm is forging to the front, and, like all progressive people, understand the value of printers ink. Your Christmas dollars will do double duty in this big sale. The ad vertisement makes interesting i reading. Get the “Boy” an Air Rifle from Soperton Hardware Co. Statement of the Condition ot THE PEOPLES BANK, Located at Soperton, Ga., at the Close of Business Nov. 20th, 1912. RESOURCES. Demand Loans I 2,671 78 Time Loans 55,690 31 Overdrafts, secc .-d, (cotton) 2,582 89 Overdrafts, nriHecured 159 83 Bonds and stocks earned by the Bui K 2.550 nti Banking House 1.951 65 Furniture and Fixtures 1,698 82 Due from Banks and Bankers in the stare 7,562 75; Due from Banks and B inkers in other States 3,156 27 • Currency 12,836 00 Gold 25 00 Silver, Nickels, etc. 559 83 Cash Items 499 01 3,919 81 Total *81,446 54 STATE OF OEOltOl \ —Montgomery County. Before me came H. E. Ward. Cashier of Peoples Bank, Soperton, Ga., who being duly •worn, says that the alrove and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank as shown by the books of Hie in said Bank. It. E. WAIiD. Sworn to and subscribed before me, ttiir ilth dav of Dec , 1912. G. U. TYLKB, Com. N. P. of M.C. Ga. iltottim*. Musical Recital at Brewton-Parker Institute. According to program an nounced, the voice, violin and trombone classes of Miss Lee held the boards at the Institute Mon day evening. The exercises were highly creditable, and afforded local talent an opportunity to show up to great advan tage. Many of our young people show wonderful improvement along musical lines, and their en i tertainments are always enjoy ! able. A SERIOUS STABBING j NEAR KIBBEE SUNDAY j Hosie Palmer Slashes Grady Blaxton in Row at Fishpond. On Sunday last while on his way to Sunday school, Grady Blaxton of the Kibbee section fell in with Hosie Palmer and other boy’s at the fish pond of Palmer’s faher. A quarrel arose between the boys and young Palmer stabbed the Blaxton boy in the back, making a very dan gerous wound. The boy was tak en to the sanitarium at Vidalia, and on yesterday was reported as improving, but severely woun ded. Hosie is a son of Mr. Ben Pal mer, and Grady a son of Mr. G. | S. Blaxton, all good citizens, and the affair is regretted by all. Durden —Tapley. On Thursday of last week, Miss Frances Durden and Mr. Hilton Tapley were married in Mt. Vernon at the home of Mr. D. E. Mcßae. Judge G. J. Stan ford performed the ceremony in his usual happy style and in ac cordance with the laws of Geor gia. The bride is the daughter of Mr. L. Durden, proprietor of the Durden House, Uvalda, and Mr. Tapley is a promising young man of Soperton. May the pass ing years only bring joy to the young folks. It Applied to Both. At a mass meeting in a small country town, refreshments were distributed to keep the au dience in good humor, says the Kansas City Star. The first speaker rose after the noise had .ceased to some extent and began his speech by saying:S “The old hall is full to-night” but here his voice was drowned by the confusion. When it had subsided he began again by say ing: “The old hall is full to-night.” He paused for rhetorical effect and a thick voice in the back of the hall said slowly and deliber ately: “So is old Bill Horn.” The meeting then broke up. ‘ Do not wait until the season is at hand, but buy nice quart bottles and stoppers and save your syrup. You cannot do it without good stoppers, and you can find them at the Drug Store in Ailey—plenty of them, at | right prices.—Ad. 1 Special reduced prices on Fur niture, Silverware and guns for Xmas at Soperton Hardware Co. LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid in *15,000 00 Undivided Profits, (ess current ex penses, int. and taxes paid 5,977 74 Dm unpaid dividends 40 00 Indivi lual Depi sits Subject to Ch’k 35,996 47 Savincl Deposits 1,132 89 Time certificates 22,208 98 , Certified checks 930 00 : ; Cashier’s Checks 1(2)46 Total *81,446 54 MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1912. General News Items Told in Short Meter. David L. Burnette, one of the five men who founded the order of Knights of Pythias, died in , Washington Sunday night, aged 75 years. ! A four-year-old daughter of W. J. Johnson at Columbus met a horrible death by burning on Monday. Her clothes caught from an open grate. G. Sand, master of a Standard j oil barge, and 9 other men lost their lives Thursday night when j the barge was blown out into the j gulf from Port Arthur. Texas. A laborer on the dam across the Mississippi river at Keokuk, lowa, was missing some weeks I ago, and a hand protruding from . one of the huge concrete blocks used told the story of his death. A. H. Propper, a lawyer dis barred from practice in Savan nah, failed to get reinstated in i Ware Superior court last week, Judge T. A. Parker presiding. J. R. Wetherbee of Albany got a car load of dynamite last week to be used in blasting out holes for pecan trees. The Merchants and Planters Bank of Culloden was robbed on j Friday night of $1,500. The rob- j bers were supposed to have used I an automobile. Marvin W. Hamby, only 22 years old, robbed the safe of the express car of which he was mes- j senger last week of $20,145, on! the Santa Fe Railroad in Cali-1 fornia. He confessed the crime and all the money but itJOO was recovered. MR. FULLFORD ANNOUNCES YOUNG MAN ASKS OFFICE Desires Honor of Being First Ordinary of Wheeler. To the Voters of Wheeler Co.: I am before you a candidate for Ordinary of the new County of Wheeler, and before the pri mary election December 81 desire to state fully my positions on cer tain questions now before you. I am in favor of and advocate the tow’n of Alamo, the designated county seat, contributing the sum of SIO,OOO toward the erec tion of a court house and other necessary public buildings. Whether this is done or not, I am willing, in the event of election, if the necessary number of peti tioners demand it, to call an election on the question of fixing the county seat. In order that I may fully state my views to the public, I will ad dress the citizens of the county at Glen wood Dec. 28, 2 p. m., and invite my opponents to join me in debating the issues. I desire my position to be fully understood by all. and invite my friends and the public generally to be present on the date named, ad. S. L. FULLFORD. Eggs Drop in Price at Capital Washington, Dec. 17.—Stirring housewives rubbed their ayes in surprise today when, on entering Center Market, they disesvered that the price of eggs had drop ped to 22 cents a dozen. The sharp cut in price, followed a meeting lost night of fourteen of the most important butter, cheese and egg dealers in the market, at which it was decided the price now could be reduced. The dealers frankly confessed to purchasers that the eggs at this price were of the cold storage variety. He's going to have a shave get “him” a Safety Razor and let him start right. Soperton Hard ware Co. Whitelaw Reid, for years am i bassador to Great Britian from the United States, and a promi nent character, died in London* on Sunday. Six hundred tales of cotton, were damaged in a fire at Rome, Ga., on Sunday. Several hun dred bales were entirely con | sumed. | In the annual court hunt at Letzlinger, Germany, Kaiser William and his party killed 473 deer and 312 wild swine. A beautiful young woman com mitted suicide in a hotel in Jack sonville, Fla., on Friday night, i leaviug no clue as to who she was. Supposed to have been a ' trained nurse. Prince Vaisemsky of Russia lost his life last week by swal lowing several false teeth broken from a plate. They entered the j windpipe and got into his lungs. Ocie Davis, a Tifton girl only j ten years old, ran off with a boy j of 16 on Monday, taking the train I for Thomasville. On Tuesday Ike Deal, near I Donaldsonvilie, went to the home iof Ross Murkeson, his wife’s father, and shot his wife, from i whom he had separated, her (mother and then her father. It is said that the makers of j “moonshine” liquor in Georgia are more active now than ever before. Several men have been killed in making arrests and in forming against them. A sausage factory was wrecked ! by an explosion near Mobile, Ala. Tuesday. It is not stated whether they used much pepper in the product or not. I Mr. W. C. Riner Among List ' of Wheeler Candidates. Among the first candidates to offer for the office of Tax Re ceiver of the new county of Wheeler is Mr. W. C. Riner of the Bruce section. Mr. Riner is too well known to need an in troduction to the people of Wheel er county. lie is connected with one of the oldest families in this section, and is a man of firm, ; straightforward character, and of unquestioned ability. He fa- < vored the division of the county, and as one of the leading young citizens of the new county asks I recognition at the hands of her people. As a citizen of Mont-! gomery county he was well ! thought of, having served as a member of the county executive committee. A large number of Mr. Riner’s friends have in- j sisted on his race, promising i I strong support in the primary to ] he held December 31, before j ( which time he hopes to meet every voter in the county. ad. 1 To Put an Elk Herd } in North Georgia. • ( Atlanta, Dec. 14. —State Game; Warden Jesse Mercer says prac-! tically all of the Elk lodges of j the state have received with fa vor his proposal that they con- i tribute to a fund to place a herd of elk in the Appalachian reserva- i tion in North Georgia, recently • purchased by the United States I government. He expects they J will carry out the plan, but about twenty elk and in five years the herd will number 500. They) will be protected by government employes, he states. ] Nothing better than “Commun- ( ity Table cutlery for a Christmas present. See Soperton Hardware ‘ Co. i Choice selections in art novel ties for Christmas. See us. Sum- ; erford Drug Co., Ailey. i Mr. Friedman Again Comes to the Front. Mr. S. Friedman, the old es tablished and reliable dry goods man of Glenwood, is right in the push with a big Christmas bar gain sale. Mr. Friedman puts! prices in bold type, and is j i ready always for the rush when ihe advertises a sale. We call , special attention to this notice in this issue. MR. MILLER A CANDIDATE Would Serve as First Sur veyor of New County. The days of headright lands are about gone by in this section, but every county must have a ; surveyor. Judge Ehenezer Mil i ler is a candidate for surveyor of Wheeler county. We take pleas ure in presenting the name of Judge Miller to the voters of Wheeler county. In the primary on the 31st inst. Mr. Miller ex pects your vote. We confidently make the assertion that Wheeler county would not have a morel conscientious and efficient officer than Mr. Miller would make. The best asset that the new county could have would be a full set of officers of the highest integrity and intelligence. Sev eral years’ pleasant acquaintance! with Mr. Miller, and the high es teem in which he is held by the citizens of old Montgomery coun ty warrants us in highly recom mending him to the kind consid eration of our friends in Wheeler county,—ad. Mr. Archie McDougald Passed Away Yesterday Mr. Archie McDougald, aged JO, died at 2 o’clock yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. T. B. Abt in Mt. Vernon. He had i been ill some time with Bright’s disease. He is survived by Dun can McDougald of Arkansas, Alex i McDougald of North Carolina, j Elisha McDougald of South Caro-1 lina, and John McDougald of this county, brothers; and Mrs. Chris tine Crowley of North Carolina and Mrs. Abt of Mt. Vernon, sis ters. The interment took place in the Mt. Vernon cemetery yesterday afternoon, Rev. J. D. Rabun, pastor of Mt. Vernon Baptist church, conducting the service. Prepare to Walk. I “If the high cost of living! . keeps on, the rich themselves I will feel the pinch of it.” The speaker was Brand Whit-i lock, mayor of Toledo, says the New Orleans Picayune. He con tinued: “I know a Toledo banker who has already begun to retrench. His daughter said to him the oth er day: “ ‘Father, .dear, I need a new fall riding habit. “ ‘Can’t afford it,’ the banker growled. “ ‘But, father, what am 1 to do without a riding habit?’ “ ‘Get the walking habit.’ ” Damons Hold Meeting. The members of the Damon Literary Society held their last meeting of the fall term in the auditorium Saturday afternoon last, and a most interesting pro gram was rendered as follows: Vocal Solo—Minnie Wells. Prophecy Claud Mosely. Piano Solo—Eva Williams. Jokes and Wants—Frank Oliff. Reading—“ The Message”— ] Miss Eunice Upshaw, with piano obligato by Ernestine Blackwell. Conversation -Rufus Hodges and Cecil Brevvton. Reading—Marguerite Mont gomery. The farewell address was most ably delivered by Charles.McAl ister. SUPERIOR COURT CONVENED MONDAY J Adjourned Term to Wind Up the Heavy Crimi nal Docket. The November adjourned term of Montgomery Superior Court convened promptly on Monday morning last, with Judge K. J. Hawkins presiding. The court, as announced, proceeded with the criminal docket, and has disposed of quite a number of cases. No case of any great importance has been tried, those coming up be ing misdemeanor cases. Several have entered pleas of guilty, and some cases have been noil pressed. Only one or two visit ing attorneys have been in at tendance. TERRIBLE TRA6EDY IN LAURENS COUNTY F. W. Hightower of Dublin Killed by Mrs. Lynn at Her Home. About noon on Tuesday, F. W. Hightower of Dublin, a man of 75 years, and of good reputation, was shot to death by Mrs. A. L. Lynn in her home seven miles from Dublin. Mystery still sur rounds the case, but Mrs. Lynn admitted the killing to neighbors she called in, and who found Hightower lying in a pool of blood. She claimed that High tower assaulted her, but the sur roundings showed that he was sitting in a rocking chair when shot. Her husband and children were near by in a field picking cotton. SEND A CHRISTMAS CARD How it Gave one Man $30,- 000 and Another $5,000 1 When boys and girls send Christmas cards they don’t ex pect to get anything in return, except other Christmas cards, but here is a true story of one man that got $30,000 and anoth er man that received $5,000 by sending one Christmas card. The way the thing came about was very odd, as is often the case* with true stories. The card was received at Christmas time by an iaged and miserly merchant at Melbourne, in Australia. He was a bachelor and apparently quite unaccustomed to the luxury of ! having any one remember him at Christmas time, and when he re ceived a card—and a very cheap one—with “From your old friend John Henry, who hopes you ar« flourishing.” he was evidently considerably pleased with it. The card was in an envelope bearing I the London postmark, and on the card itself was an address, the number of a house in Russell square. The old gentlemen died before the next Christmas, and it was found by his will that he had left $35,000 for “my oldjfriend, John Henry Miles of No.—, Russel square, liOndon, in appreciation of his remembering me last Christmas.” But the person nam ed by him in the will had never lodged at the address, while the sender of the card John Henry Smith—had, it turned out, never known the old Melbourne gentle -1 man, but had confounded him 1 with a friend of a similar name! Under these circumstances, the question arose as to which John Henry was really entitled to the legacy. The case was compro mised: the John Henry actually named in the will took $30,000 ! and the sender of the card re ceived $5,000. Durham Duplex Safety Razors at Soperton Hardware Co’s. 35 j cents to $2.50. NO. 35.
