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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1913)
Wiw iHmttiunnrn; UUuutnr. VOL. XXVII. WILL INSTITUTE j LODGE I. 0. 0. F. ADDRESS BY GRAND MASTER Enthusiasm Will Mark The Forming of Lodge in Mt. Vernon. A lodge of Odd Fellows will be organized in Mt. Vernon on the 20th inst., according to plans 'which have been made by local members of the order. Grand Master Walter S. Cole man of Cedartown has been in vited and will address a large audience at the court house at three o’clock in the afternoon. To this address the public is cor dially invited, and expected. Mr. Coleman is a fluent and charming speaker, and those who hear him will be delighted. His theme on this occasion will be especially interesting to members of the fraternity, while the order in this section will receive a great and lasting uplift by reason of Mr. Coleman’s visit and effort. For eleven years Mr. Coleman was president of the Georgia Weekly Press Association, and is one of the best known and most popular newspaper men in ; the state. The speaker will be! introduced by Col. L. C. Under wood of this place. Grand Secretary T. H. Robert son of Gainesville w r ill probably attend the occasion and take part, in the exercises, either with an address or in the institution of j the lodge during the evening, fol lowing the public funcion at the I court house. The Monitor is asked to extend to the public, including the ladies, a cordial and pressing invitation to hear the addresses at the court house, three o’clock on the after noon of Thursday, 20th inst. The j secret work, to which all mem bers of the order in good standing are earnestly invited, will begin in the lodge room about seven o’clock, and will be concluded du ring the evening. Detailed pro- 1 gram for the evening’s work in the lodge room will be arranged by committees later. Conditions are vere bright far the institution of a flourishing lodge of Odd Fellows at Mt. Ver non, and the occasion will doubt less be witnessed by many visit ing members of the order. Bull Makes Charge Into Store Window. I Atlanta, Feb. B.—“ George, ” a young bull from Tennessee in charge of Emory Melton, who was conducting him to a slaugh ter pen, went on a rampage on Peachtree street to-day, smashed a big plate window In Daniel Brothers’ clothing store, and terrified a small section of the population until he was finally recaptured and secured with about twenty yards of strong rope. The bull took a notion that he didn’t want to go to the slaugh ter pen and broke away from Melton, about a mile out from the center of the city. He made a mad dash through the streets, and everybody and everything got out of his way. When he reached the junction of Peachtree and Walton streets, he spied the window full of tan shoes and red neck ties, which only made matters worse. He went into Daniel’s store turned around, went out again and gored the plate glass win dow with the red neck ties, smashing it into several thous and bits of broken glass. Pedestrians, policemen and the entire force of clerks in the store joined in the fight until ‘ George” was bound hard and fast, neck and foot; and w r hen he had tamed dowm a bit, was led off to the slaughter. Election of School Trustees. In accordance with notice given by Hon. A. B. Hutcheson, Coun ty Superintendent of Schools, an election was held at the Brewton- Parker Institute on Friday for the public school department. The election resulted in the se lection of the following gentle men to serve: M. B. Calhoun, J. F. Currie B. F. Conner and Chas. L. Hamilton. BOARD OF TRADE FOR ENTERPRISING TOWN Young in Years But Full of Spirit That Makes a Town. At an enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Alston Tuesday afternoon a board of trade was organized at that place, with the following officers: H. W. S. Blitch, president: Emory S. Mar tin, secretary; Dennis O’Brien, managing director. Other mem bers of this civic body are J. H. Dees, M. T. Mcßride, J. E. Bras well and P. Dixon. Alston is one of the new and progressive towns of Montgomery county, having been established [ upon the building of the Georgia ! & Florida railroad through the lower part of the county four years ago, but has a number of enterprising citizens, and is sur rounded by a splendid farming | sec'ion. It is the object of the no j board to secure for their town the passage of the proposed railroad from Glennville to Mt. Vernon, being on a direct line. ; It is probable that other towns of the county will follow the ex ample of Alston and organize trade bodies to work for the up building of the towns and sur : rounding country. Japanese Entertainment Brewton-Parker Inst. On Monday evening, Feb. 17, a highly interesting Japanese program will be rendered in the auditorium of the 8.-P. Institute. This will consist of the reading of Madame Butterfly by Miss Reta Mae Outler, and the operet ta, A Garden of Japan, by the choral club. The costumes, mu sic and stage-setting will be de cidedly “Japanesey,” and will i ! combine to make the entertain ; ment unique and attractive. An admission of 25c and 15c, | will be charged, the proceeds to |go for stage furnishings. Play under direction of Misses Brew ton and Upshaw. Barn and Contents Near Mcßae are Burned. Scotland, Feb. B.—Leonard Browning, a farmer, living about four miles from here, had his barn and contents burned Thurs i day night. The fire seemed to begin burn ing overhead first, where all of his hay and fodder was, which, of course, made a quick spread of it. It was by valiant w’ork only i that he saved five fine mules. The origin is believed to be of an incendiary nature. There was a party at Mr. Browning’s that night, and pos sibly it is due to this that they were up at the hour of the fire and the mules were saved. The things lost in the fire were a total loss, as he carried no in surance. Oyster Supper and Valentine Party. The ladies of the Methodist Church will serve oysters at the courthouse on Friday (tomorrow) night. A Valentine Party will also be operated. The proceeds will go to buying seats and car pets for the church. i * MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. A revolt by the national troops 1 in Mexico on Sunday, led by Gen. Felix Diaz, precipitated a I great riot, and President Madero had to fortify himself in the I I national palace. Milliken Clark, a 15-year-old boy of Eastman was shot in the J right arm and breast last Satur day as he started out hunting, j his gun being discharged as he put it into his buggy. W. B. Faircloth, a crosstie j dealer of Rochelle, was killed on Friday night by a wreck on the Ocilla Southern Railway that was recently built. Dibrell Tucker, a negro, was burned by a mob at Houston. Miss., on the courthouse square Saturday for the murder of Mrs. J. S. Williams the Thursday be fore. i Dr. T. J. Carswell, a promi nent physician of Waycross, was severely burned on Monday when his automobile was wrecked and ! totally destroyed and died later. The Sandersville Railroad, three and a half miles long and connecting Sandersville and Ten nille, is said to be the best pay ing road in the United States, according to its length. S. Ballard, a traveling sales man of Atlanta, had his leg broken Saturday night when his 1 automobile dashed into a tree near Americus. BREWTONPARKLR WINS FROM DUBLIN Third Game of Series Will be Played Here Saturday. The basketball team of the Brewton-Parker Institute has been playing some basketball of late, winning some games and losing some. On the local grounds Saturday last our team engaged ; the team from Locust Grove, J with a score of 15 to 12 in favor 1 of the latter. A cause assigned for this defeat, as given by the j home boys, is the fact that one of their best players, H. Autry, was ! I not in the game. Features of j this game was the playing of center by Weakly of Locust [Grove and the guarding of Ken nedy of the 8.-P. I. This is the first game with Locust Grove. Monday the 8.-P. I. boys play-! ed the second of a series with Dublin, winning in a score of 15 to 5, at Dublin. The line-up of the Dublin game was the same as that with Locust Grove with the exception of Emmet. Walter Lee and Edgar McLemore went up as substitutes. Prof. T. B. j Conner accompanied the boys to! Dublin and acted as coach. The features of the game were the excellent playing of McAlis ter at center and the throwing of foul goals by Stone, he throwing five out of five. The lineup and and the score was as follows: 8.-P. I. Kennedy, R. G. ;Au trey, L. G., 2; McAlister, C., 2; Carter, L. G., fi., Stone, It. F., 5. Dublin —Daniel, R. G., 2; ' Hodges, L. G., Greer, C., 3: Bush : Hicks, R. F.; Brooks, L. L. The third of the series with . Dublin will be played here Sat urday, 3 p. m., to which the public is invited. Admission, 25c. The 8.-P. I. boys hope to I win this game and establish their ‘ superiority, and it is asked that : a full attendance be given them. ; ! 1 , , Three yeggmen who had blown I the safe in the postoffice at Bent ; leyville, Pa., were trapped in the ’ building, but shot their way to - liberty, firing about fifty shots into the crowd that gathered. j E. J. Collins, known as the “Tim Sullivan” of Augusta, was shot and killed by M. J. Shedd on Saturday night last. Two car ferry boats are frozen i fast in the ice in Mackinaw straits, Mich., and a hundred people are suffering with cold and hunger. A horse in Savannah, bitten on , the nose by a mad dog over eight I months ago developed a case of rabies Sunday night and had to be shot. In a battle between the au thorities and mine strikers at Mucklow, W. Va., on Monday ten persons were killed and several wounded. Foster Franklin, a prominent young man of Pulaski, Ga., fell beneath the wheels of a passen | ger train there on Sunday and died from his injuries. Minor Page of Buford, Ga., I making his first trip over a rail road, is sueing the Southern Road for $2,000 damages because he was carried to Atlanta instead of being put off at Chamblee. News has just reached the civilized world that Capt. Robt. F. Scott and four companies perished on the return trip after i reaching the South Pole only to find that Capt. Amundsen had been there twelve months before them. GOVERNOR BROWN APPOINTS TRUSTEES. Eleventh District Trustees For Five Years Are Named. After thoroughly going over the field, and giving the matter i due consideration, Governor Brown has named the following gentlemen as trustees of the Eleventh District Agricultural j school. The school is located at I Douglas, but trustees represent ing counties in the Twelfth Dis trict will serve until a school is established here: Johnson, T. T. Houser; Lau rens, Jas. S. Simmons; Dodge, ' Dr. J. D. Hermann; Montgomery, H. B. Folsom; Telfair, Eschol Graham; Irwin, H. J. Quincey; Jeff Davis, James A. Cromartie; I Appling, D. 1). Gilmore; Wayne, i Oscar Hall; Glynn, W. S. Symons; Camden, J. S. H. Davis; Pierce, John A. Strickland; Ware, V. L. i Stanton; Clinch, C. M. McLamb; Charlton, W. 11. Oliff; Coffee, H. C. Metchel; Echols, T. C. Hoe;; Lowndes, L. L. Webb; Brooks, i F. M. Austin; Wheeler, Douglas' McArthur. I Teachers’ Association In Meeting Saturday. The Montgomery County Teach ers’ Association convened at the [Brewton-Parker Institute at 11 o'clock on Saturday last, with a ! fair representation from the coun ty, and a full attendance of the Institute force. In the absence of President C. M. Ledbetter, Mr. J. T. Smith presided very j ably and entertainingly. The; program was brightened by a ■ reading from Miss Upshaw and two numbers from Miss Lee’s stringed-instrument class. Din ner was served to the teachers at the Institute dining hall, for which thanks are due to Dr. Brewton. Those present from the county were, Misses Clapp, Bexley, Tar-j ver, Adams, Achorn, McAllister and Mcßride. Mesdames Morris and Roach, and Messrs. Dukes, | and Brewton. i Farmer Raises Mules. Quitman, Ga., Feb. 10. -Sol Morse, a Brooks county farmer, has exploded the idea that mules cann be r; ised in Brooks coun ty. Ho has eight mule colts, some of them two and one-half years old, and all of them as fine as the $250 Imported Kentucky mule, which has been one of the biggest costs of farming. Mr. Morse has decided that mules are not so delicate after all and his have thrived nicely in this cli mate. _ Mrs. O. P. Wilcox Dies at Lumber City. After a continued illness with a complication of diseases, death came as a relief to Mrs. O. P. Wilcox, of Lumber City, on last Monday morning. Mrs. Wilcox was the widow of the late lamen ted 0. P. Wilcox, and a sister of Mr. Claud Deas. A peculiarly sad feature of this death is that five small children are left or phans, w'ith whom every one sympathizes most deeply.—Tel fair Enterprise. Dudley Hughes Makes Up His Slate Early. Atlanta, Feb. 11.—A special dispatch to the Atlanta Journal from Washington states that Congressman Dudley M. Hughes of the new Twelfth district has i ] taken time by the forelock and settled upon a number of the postmasters whose, appointments he will recommend. Among those already decided upon by Con gressman Hughes are the follow ing: Abbeville, P. G. Wooten; Fort Valley, F. S. Murray; llaw kinsville, Robert L. I). Bacon; Perry, John 11. Hodges. Rochelle, J. N. King. Mcßae & Bro. vs L. I). Morris principal, I). C. Morris security, judgment for plaintiff. Blackshear Manufacturing Co. vs S. M, Hutcheson, judgment for plaintiff. I Dunlap Hardware Co. vs Farmers Supply Co., verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Geo. W. Tiedeman vs J. K. Hall et al, judgment for pltff. J. K. ()rr Shoe Co. vs S. W. Harrell Son, dismissed at plain tiff’s cost. Blackshear Mfg. Co. vs An drew Blount, judgment for pltff. Bank of Soperton vs J. C. Council, judgment for plaintiff. Soperton Fertilizer Co. vs George Beasley, judgment for plair i iff. Si , ■ ton Fertilizer Co. vs S. J. and J. A. Wiggins, judgment for plaintiff. Soperton Fertilizer Co. vs Geo. Cook, judgment for plaintiff. Soperton Fertilizer Co. vs C. C. Phillips, judgment for pltff. J. A. McMillan vs D. A. Foun tain, motion to sot aside judg ment overruled. O’Conner, Hall and Courson vs Vic, Fed and John Hudson, ! judgment for plaintiffs. Southern Fertilizer & Chemical Co. vs Leaston Hall, deft., Lewis Moore and Sallie Hall claimants, claim dismissed. A. T. Johnson vs N. B. Gibbs, E. S. Gibbs garnishee, judgment for plaintiff. M. L. Adams and J. B. O’Con ner vs E. S. Adams, judgment and decree for plaintiffs. Blackshear Mfg. Co. vs Ma linda Barwick, judgment for plaintiff. Mcßae & Bro. vs J. J. Edge, principal, Amanda Adams, se curity judgment for plaintiff. Mcßae & Bro. vs. J. J. Ricks, [etal, judgment for plaintiff. J Mcßae & Bro. vs Mrs. W. E. ! Fountain and George Fountain, ( judgment for plaintiff. Mcßae & Bro. vs Wrn. Herndon and James Herndon, judgment for plaintiff. Mrs. Eliza Pitts vs Elijah and J. D. Phillips, order appointing partitioners. N, Wilkes vs John Wilks et al, judgment for plaintiff. W. Mishoe vs F. B. Calhoun, Mary J. Calhoun claimant, judg | ment for plaintiff. , Wolfe Bros. Shoe Co. vs J. A. Wade, Jr. verdict and judgment [ for plaintiff. I Wiley Taylor vs Vol Horne peti- I tion for certiorari dismissed. PROCEEDINGS OF SUPERIOR COURT CALL FOR ADJOURNED TERM Full List of Civil Business Disposed of During Past Week. After a busy week, Montgom ery Superior Court adjourned on Saturday evening until the third Monday in March, at which time the criminal docket will be dis posed of. The following cases were handled last Vveek, making a good showing for dispatch: Mrs. Aria Courson vs J. D. Wilson and J. C. Flanders, dis. .1. M. 1). McGregor vs S. H. Parrish, dismissed. J. E. Hinson vs Sandy Ryals, et al, dismissed. Lucinda Phillips vs Lum Phil lips, divorce, dismissed. A. C. Bell vs S. A. L. Ry., judgment for costs. Levis Zukoski Mercantile Co. vs Mrs. R. Morrison, verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Montgomery* County vs R. B. Conner, judgment for defendant, Con ner. James Robinson vs Geo. Smith, verdict and judgment for pltff. M. M. Meeks vs D.L. Williams, settled. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. vs John N. Connell, settled, i N. C. Parley vs W. Mishoe, verdict and judgment for pltff. Fisher, Lowery & Fisher vs W. C. McCrimmon and Otis Thig pen, judgment for plaintiff. Mt. Vernon Bank vs N. B. Gibbs, Sr,, Toombs County Bank, garnishee, judgment against plaintiff for costs. James McNatt vs John B. Gil lis, colored, judgment for pltff. James McNatt vs Ira L. Ander son, judgment for plaintiff. Globe Home Furniture Co. vs C. H. Peterson, judgment for plaintiff. G. W. Rogers vs M. D. &S. Ry., settled. Elk Furniture Co. vsC. H. Pe terson, dismissed T. J. James vs J. C. Collins, judgment for costs. Vidalia Grocery Co. vs C. H. Johnson, R. K. Moseley, gar nishee, judgment against plain tiffs for costs. W. B. Kent vs W. K. Cooper, et al, judgment for plaintiff. M. T. McGahee, et al, vs Geo. W. Carraway, et al, petition for certirari overruled. W. B. Kent vs Lena Cooper, et al, judgment for plaintiff. National Saddlery Co. vs W. Mishoe, verdict and judgment plaintiff. Bank of Tarrytown vs W. G. Fountain, J. J. Fountain, claim ant, verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Margy Ann Sheppard, et al, vs W. B. and Thomas Kent, settled. I. M. Gray vs S. H. Parrish S. Parrish, dismissed at plain tiff’s cost. Peruvian Guano Co. vs Henry A. Johnson, settled. Aug. Wright Co. vs C. H. Pe terson, verdict and judgment for plaintiff. E. W. Armfield vs Neil Morris, Duncan Morris garnishee, dis. Fisher, I/jwery & Fisher vs W. C. McCrimmon, judgment for I plaintiff. First National Bank of Dublin vs Herman and John Branch, judgment for plaintiff. W. B. Kent vs Wm. Troup, judgment for plaintiff. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. vs John E. Mcßae, judgment for plaintiff. Home Fertilizer Chemical Co. vs F. Lee Mcßae, judgment for : plaintiff. Dannenberg Co. vs H. W. Biggerstaff, dismissed at cost of ' plaintiff. Henry Joyce and J. Q. Palmer vs Montgomery county, dismiss | ed at cost of plaintiff. Mrs. Sarah Parrish vs I. M. Gray, compromised. Mrs. M. J. Thompson vs S. A. L. Railway, petition for certi orari overruled. W. T. McArthur vs Joseph Horne, judgment for plaintiff. Mcßae & Bro. vs Jas. F. Bird, principal, R. H. Mobley security, judgment for plaintiff. A B. Hutcheson for use of Mt. Vernon Bank vs James L. Adams, judgment for plaintiff. NO. 41.
