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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1913)
VOL. XXVII. TO TAKE SWINE OFF ! STREETS OF CITY Town Council To Enforce Ordinance Against Pesky Pig. Some time ago the council of \ Mt. Vernon passed an ordinance forbidding the running of hogs 1 on the streets. But for some cause the hogs were not removed, whether from indifference on the part of the owners or a deter mined and hoggish persistence | on the part of the rooters to re- j fuse to be driven from the habi tat and happy grazing grounds of a hundred years, we know not. But we are informed that the; decree has gone forth that all hogs found running at large on | the streets will positively and ! peremptorily be caught and im pounded and be sold for charges, or be made into sausage, in the i discretion of Mayor Hicks. Coun cil says the law will be strictly enforced, and they mean whatj they say, but we are not giving: this as an official notice. In the mean time, the cows i will be allowed to roam the streets, rob the buggies and wag- i ons of visitors of fodder, corn, ; lunches, eggs, setting hens, emp ty bottles, or anything else ofj value their mild but appreciative i eyes may chance to discover. But; getting rid of the hogs is one step towards progress and civic ] decency. To Institute Lodge Odd Fellows Tonight As announced already in this paper, a lodge of Odd Fellows' will be instituted here tonight. Grand Master W. S. Coleman of i Atlanta is expected to arrive' early this morning, and will ad-1 dress the public at the court house this afternoon at 3 o’clock- The work of installation will be done in the Masonic Hall. Grand Secretary P. H. Robertson of Gainesville is also expected to as sist in the ceremonies. Mr. and Mrs. Williams Lose Their Baby. After a brief and painful exis tence of a few months, the baby ' girl of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wil liams died Tuesday night. The remains of the little one were laid to rest in the Mt. Vernon cemetery on yesterday. To Organize a Board of Trade. All citizens and business men of Mt. Vernon are urged to at-' tend a meeting at the court house on Friday evening at 7 o’clock for the purpose of organizing a board of trade. If you ever ex-, pect to do anything for your town and community be on hand. This is Your Bank! We want you to feel that we are here to render ser- :!; vice to the public—to you personally. jjj Whether it be in safeguarding your funds or in { advising you on business matters, we shall treat ) you as we treat all our patrons —with the best service and impartiality. There is no middle ground in our « dealings with customers. The small depositor will 5 receive just as careful attention as the large. v We have taken every possible precaution to keep your money safely, for our continuance in business means as much to us as it does to you. | The BANK OF SOPERTON | SOPERTON, GEORGIA. dJUmtgommj iMunttar* » ■ Ailey Paragraphs. | Special Correspondence Mr. and Mrs. E. Legitte spent Sunday in McGregor. Little Miss Mary Ditha Mat j thews of Vidalia spent the week end with her aunt, Mrs. James I ! McNatt. i . Mrs. R. L. Hall is spending; the week in Savannah. Mrs. Ada Peterson of Vidalia spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. J. W. McArthur. Miss Eula Legitte after spend ing several weeks with relatives ! here left Thursday for Atlanta. i- Mrs. M. L. Skipper visited her sister, Mrs. Adam McNatt of Lyons, one day last week. Miss Vela Thompson is visiting relatives here this week. One of the most delightful en- ! tertainments of the season was i the Valentine party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. ; Strickland last Friday evening. : The color scheme of red and i white was carried throughout the house, Many delightful games | were played: the most enjoyable ! was the cobweb hunt. A lover’s examination was held. Mr. Ray Coursey received the prize for having the wittiest answers. At 1 a late hour delicious refresh . ments were served. Those enjoying this affair were: Misses Rita Mae Outler, Bessie j and Ava Lou Godwin, Vickie and I Audry Hall, Pearl and Beulah Wells, Cleo Hall and Marie Pe | ’ iterson; Messrs. Alex and Hugh ; Peterson, Jim and Tom Thomp son, Ray Coursey, Carl Adams, Julian Peterson, Hoke Riddle, and Clement McArthur. I Business Tax Levied By the Town Council. .. As will be seen by schedule pubished in another column, the town council of Mt. Vernon has levied a business or occupation tax on those doing business here. For information of all concerned, we call attention to the list. Conner —Finch. On Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook Conner, their daughter, Miss Mattie C. Conner, , was united in marriage to Mr. James A. Finch. Rev. J. I). Rabun of Mt. Vernon performed the marriage ceremony, and the young folks left for the home of the happy groom in Emanuel, ac companied by the best wishes of ; many friends. Taylor County Man Kills 800-Pound Hog Tazwell, Ga., Feb. 17.—The largest hog in this part of the state was killed here today. His weight was 808 pounds. He was the property of H. T. Dukes, at Tazwell, Ga., Taylor county, and was called Mike. He was widely known on account of his great ! size. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. __________ A marriage license has been is i sued for the marriage of a man 1 aged 80 to a woman 105 years old 1 in Los Angeles, Cal. Chas. A. Johnson, aged 50 i years, was found dead in bed Saturday at noon at his home on Waters road near Macon. He died of heart failure. The buildings used last year at the state fair in Macon for the auto show will be given over to the exhibition for the girls can- I ning clubs this year. Irene Moynahan, a boy in Col orado, aged 18, passed all his life up to Christmas as a girl, wear ing girl’s clothing, until arrested as a suspect trying to slip out of the country. The American National Bank of Macon has given the state ag ricultural society $(>00 to be used as cash prizes for corn grown in Georgia, the prizes to be award ed at the state fair this fall. Maj. C. S. Hardee has been treasurer of the city of Savan nah thirty years. In July next bonds that he signed in 1883 will mature. W. F. Holmes, city marshal o's ! Macon, was found $7,300 short in I his accounts with the city, and !on Monday his resignation was j demanded by the mayor. Holmes | was serving his second term and was a popular officer. Miss Marguerite Anderson of Griffin, seeing she would be run into by a passenger engine while crossing the track on Monday, caught hold of the pilot and saver her life, though her arm was broken. COMMISSIONER CONNER LOSES HOME BY FIRE Defective Flue Causes Loss of Handsome $5,000 Residence. His many relatives and friends in Montgomery county will learn with regret of the loss by fire of the fine country home of Hon. ,J. J. Gonner in Bartow county. The state agricultural commis sioner owns a fine farm near Cartersville, and the residence burned was worth $5,000 or $6,000, on which there was no insurance. The fire is said to have caught from a defective flue, and gained sjch rapid head : way that none of the furniture J could be saved. The fire occurred on Monday morning, and Mr. Conner received the news of his great loss by wire in Atlanta. Parent-Teacher Co-operative Club to Meet. The Parent-Teacher Co-oper ative Club will meet at 8.-P. I. Friday, Feb. 28th, at 3 o’clock. The same program will be ren dered as planned for January meeting which was postponed on account of inclement weather. The purpose of this organiza tion is the physical, mental and moral benefit of the children of our school, also to raise the stan dard of parents and teachers. You do not have to be a parent or teacher, however, to be a • member. All who are interested in school-work or child-welfare are invited to come and join us. If you are not interested come, any way and get interested. Very cordially, Mrs. W. L. Wilson, President. I bought of the Blackshear Manufacturing Co. 60 tons of their fertilizer in 1912 and was well pleased with the same. J. < B. Canady, ad. A. W. Ilodnett, a grain dealer of Atlanta, kissed his wdfe and little child Monday morning, and then went out into the hall and killed himself by firing a pistol ball through his head. Officers of the National Cash Register Company have been convicted of violating the Sher man anti-trust law 7 and the presi dent, John H. Patterson, has been fined $5,000 or one year in jail. Robt. S, Knox of Dalton, a veteran of two wars and 90 years of age, is resisting the payment of alimony to his sixth wife, who! has been married four times, and is 80 years old. Waycross has SIOO,OOO to spend on public improvements, the j money being available from the sale of public bonds. The town of Laharpe, Kansas, has more money than it needs for expenses, and proposes to lend it to farmers around the town at a low 7 rate of interest, taking mortgages on their lands. Joaquin Miller, the venerable “Poet of the-Sierras, ” died in his mountain cabin built many years ago in the Piedmont Hills near Oakland, Cal., Monday j night, aged 70 years. A Texas Coyote was found in Clarkston, Ga., on Friday night I and killed. The animal had been feasting on chickens. J. Felder Oatis, a flagman on the Central road, had his skull broken by striking some object while leaning out from a freight car near Columbus, on Monday. DR. PALMER APPOINTED DELEGATE TO CHICAGO Will Probably Attend Con ference on Medical Leg islation This Month. Among several other appoint ments made by Governor Brown on Monday last, Dr. J. W. Palmer of Ailey was named as a delegate to the conference on medical legislation which will convene in Chicago on the 24-25 of this month. Dr. Palmer is al ready a member of the state board of medical examiners, and is well qualified to represent the profession in Chicago. If his practice will permit, it is proba : ble that Dr. Palmer will go to Chicago. Caught Napping. Mr. Brown was rapidly acquir- 1 j ing the habit of staying out later ; at night than his wife thought ' was good for him. In fact, she began to grow quite unreason- j ably suspicious of his actions, says | Answers. One day he would bring for i ward the excuse that he had been detained at the office; on another I that, quite by accident, he had l met with an old business friend. P 4 And then, his little repertoire of excuses at last exhausted, he came home and said that his partner had been taken suddenly ill, and he had been forced to sit up with him. Os course, Mrs. Brown did not believe this story. Still, try though she would, she could not elucidate the mystery. Accord ingly, she commissioned little Tommy to see what he could do j in the matter. “And did you hold your sick friend’s hand?” inquired Mr. Brown’s young hopeful. “ ‘No,” replied the reminiscent parent, in an absent moment; “I | only wish I had. D’you know, j he held four aces twice.” | Alston. Special Correspondence. An important meeting of Als- I ton Chamber of Commerce was | held yesterday. The main ob ject of the meeting was to decide! j what was best to do about get- ! . ting a certain proposed railroad to build by Alston and on to Mt. | Vernon. It was decided not to jgiveout for publication just what 1 we did at this meeting until we con hear from the officials of the railroad. Mr. E. C. McAllister of Long Pond, Ga., came into town yes terday to attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting. He is very enthusiastic about the growth of Alston and is planning to survey and cut his land into town lots 'and have a big land sale soon. This is what our town needs. Mr. Grove Sharpe, former Mayor and one of our most prom inent and active citizens is build ing a handsome new residence and expects to erect three more houses as soon as possible. Dr. J. 11. Dees, the leading physician as our town is prepar-1 ing to rebuild his store to be oc-| cupied by himself as a drug | store. Signatures Bring Big Prices at Sale Friday | Philadelphia, Feb. 15. A tiny scrap of paper containing only the name “Lynch” was sold for $175 at a sale of autographs here last night. The signature had been written in the fly leaf of a book by r i homas Lynch, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of in dependence, from South Carolina. Other sales included a letter I from Benedict Arnold advising against an intended Canadian ex pedition in 1778, $260; a letter from Sir John Burgoyne, British general in the Revolution, $l5O, letter from General Henry Dear bord recounting the battles of Concord and Bunker Hill, $170;! letter from Thaddeus Kosiusko, | the Polish patriot who served as! a brigadier general in the Revo lution, and captain in the French , and Indian war, $172; letter written by General Richard Montgomery a short time before ' his death at Quebec, $280; letter!, written by General Israel Put nam, of the New England Min-i ute-men, $100; and a letter from Paul Revere, $95. To Give Readings. On Friday evening, March 7th, Mr. Walter Bradley Tripp, one of the leading instructors iri the Emerson College of Oratory, will give readings from “Martin Chuzzlewit” in the auditorium of the 8.-P. I. Mr. Tripp is an ar tist of rare ability and it is hoped that the people of Mt. Vernon and Ailey will avail themselves j of this splendid opportunity. In order that he may meet his next engagement at Jacksonville 1 promptly, Mr. Tripp will begin 1 ins reading at 7:30 o’clock. ; YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYVYYYY• t SHOES - SHOES - SHOES = » < ’► WHEELER COUNTY SHOE STORE \ P 4 t IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS * ► ■* ► A NEW STORE AND A NEW UP-TO-DATE LINE OF GOOD SHOES « l 3 ► « Z Edwin D. Clapp Shoes for Men, 4 p 4 ► Zeigler Shoes for Ladies, * ► Good strong line of Dittman Shoes. 4 f I ► Come and Give Me A Trial * p 4 ► and I will Convince You * I ► 11. S. Hurwitz, Proprietor, Alamo, Ga. \ t • •A. t *.A< .AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAApaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MEXICAN WAR ABOUT ENDED President Madero is Arrested and Forced to Resign Office. Madero did not resign the | presidency of Mexico, as pub lished in the daily dispatches a few days ago. Fighting contin ued between the rebels and fed eral in the city until Tuesday, when Madero was arrested in the National Palace and forced to resign. General Huerta, com mander of the federal troops which have been fighting Diaz, has been named as provisional governor. It is probable that the v\ar will cease. Scales of Justice Should Hang Evenly For All The decision of Governor Jo seph M. Brown, rendered in the lease of Henry Taylor, a negro of ! Baldwin county whose sentence jhe commuted to life imprison ment, gives some solid truths. In giving his reasons for the change in sentence, he states some strong points that seem to have been overlooked heretofore, I one of which says: “I cannot escape the conviction that an indigent defendant, when on trial for his life, should be i furnished by the State with an advocate whose long practice would enable him to give the full extent and weight of the evi dence in such manner as will ex haust the fountains of justice for the poor man as thoroughly as paid counsel will exhaust them for the rich. In other words, the State must not penalize poverty or ignorance: she must not in her self-directed process even di scriminate against either; nay, I go further and say, she must ! protect the poor and ignorant in their right to secure impartial 'justice. Elsewise she will violate the spirit of her own law by over straining it into a blind enforce ment which may substitute rigor for justice. The glory of her in stitutions will be found in her proof to the poorest and weakest of either race that she will see to it that the scales of justice hang as evenly for them as for the rich and strong, that she wants not the blood of the innocent; but that, if proven guilty, the same kind and degree of punishment will l>e meted to one as to the other. In the realization that this is true rests the hope of hu manity. In this realization is found the encouragement which makes a co-operative patriot of the poorest in the land and abol ishes the cause and the fear of anarchy. In it is found the spirit of mutual trust, welding the rich and poor into one poten tial unit whose every element adds power to every other.” NO. 42.
