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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1913)
VOL. XXVII. FERRYBOAT SALE INJUNCTION CASE WiLL BE HEARD MARCH 7.H Citizens File Injunction to Stop the Sale of Ferry Property. A number of Montgomery county citizens have petitioned Judge E. I). Graham for injunc tion to stop the sale of the ferry property at Lammon’s ferry be tween Mt. Vernon and Glenwood. Judge Graham has granted a temporary restraining order, and cited the commissioners of roads and revenues of Montgomery county to appear before him at Alamo on March 7th and show i why the order should not be made permanent. Os course this puts a stop to the sale, as far as Lammons Ferry is concerned, of that part of the property as advertised for sale on the second Tuesday in March next. Citizens of the Charlotte section are naturally interested in the matter of the sale of Bells Ferry, and it is probable that they may ask for the order to ap ply to that ferry also, though no legal steps have so far been taken. Our readers are familiar with the preceding events in this case, j but they may be briefly stated as follows: At the February meeting of j the commissioners the board de-; cided to sell the ferryboats and appliances belonging to the coun ty at both Lammons and Bells ferries, giving as the principal reason therefor that Wheeler county refused to pay any part of the expense of maintaining them as free ferries. The grand jury of the county, in session the same week, made a strong pro test in their presentments against disposing of this part of the county’s property, and declared the action of the commissioners a step backwards, rather than one of progress and economy. A communication in this paper from Mr. W. 11. Moxley, chair man of the board of commission ers, written probably before the notice of the restraining order reached him, gives his reasons for the action taken by the com missioners in the matter. Judge Graham probably named Alamo as the place and March 7th as the day as a matter of convenience to all parties con cerned, and the injunction will be made permanent or dissolved at that time. TO MEET S. A. L. OFFICIALS In Interest of Accommoda tion Train. Rev. C. M. Ledbetter, active member of the board of trade at Glenwood, and others will go to Savannah to confer with Sea board Air Line officials in regard to getting the accommodation train that runs west of Helena to run through to Vidalia. This would mean much to Mt. Vernon and Ailey people also, and we i hope their trip will meet with success. To Attend Missionary Insti tute. A meeting of much interest will be that of the Southeast Di vision of the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia to , be held in Savannah Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Mrs. C. A. Mason and Miss Naomi Brewton left Tues day morning as delegates to the meeting. Miss Brewton will read a report, and Mrs. Mason will deliver an address on “Tith ing, Making Money.” Utatutur* Alston. | .Special Coiji'espoiuience. There will be a meeting of the j Alston Chamber of Commerce at; ; Citizens Bank March 7th at 4 p. j m. All members will be present. 1 All citizens of this community j are invited to attend. The civic beauty committee of the Chamber of Commerce is working for the beautification of the entire town. The details of j their plans will be given to the , meeting March 7th. Scenes of activity are on every hand. The town is opening and extending all streets as rapidly as possible. To show the en thusiasm in our town, several citizens, who are working to: build up the town, have been and I are planning to assist the town Ito improve, paying their own j : money to help. The Ga. & Fla. | Railway has made some perm a-i ! nent and much needed improve- i monts to the grounds around the ! depot. Mr. L. B. Holt, capitalist and executive director of the Citizens Bank of Alston, was here Satur day- in his handsome new auto mobile. He brought with him J. [ L. Lawrence, capitalist from I Milledgeville, Ga. They would j not state positively what their. visit was for but it is understood \ that both are planning to invest j heavily in Alston and take an active part in building up our; rapidly growing town. Mr. G. I). B. Blitch, a well; known railroad man, is visiting j his brother, H. W. S. Blitch. Judge K. M. Johnson and Hon. i !E. S. Martin were visitiors at | Mt. Vernon, Ga., recently. LOIMiE I. 0. 0. F. FORMED IN CITY GRAND MASTER IS PRESENT Twenty-Six Members on the Roll of Vernon Lodge. Officers afe Elected. The institution of a Lodge of Odd Fellows in Mt. Vernon last | Thursday was the occasion of | much activity on the part of the. members of that fraternity in I this section, and many were | present to hear the public address by Grand Master Walter S. Cole- ' man of Atlanta. Mr. Coleman’s address, at the j court house in the afternoon, was | well received. He is recognized throughout the state as a gifted speaker, and on this occasion his tributes to the merit of Oddfel lowship were both forceful and beautiful, and resulted in a great uplift for the fraternity. The degree work in the even ing was also well attended, mem bers of the order being present : from Alston, Orland, Ailey, iUvaldaand other towns in the j county. At this convocation a i large class of applicants were I taken through the various de jgrees, and these, with a number | who were admitted by card, ! [swelled the membership of the ; new lodge to twenty-six. This ; is a very creditable membership, , ' and it is sure that the new lodge will continue to grow and pros- ’ per. | For the present meetings week ly, Monday night having been I chosen for the regular meeting. ' ; A new set of regaiia has been or- ; dered, and on its arrival the < ; membership will be increased. The new lodge is especially in debted to Grand Master Coleman ; for his presence and assistance, land to those from Ailey and Or land who assisted greatly with the work, as well as District Deputy E. L. Faircloth of Dexter and oth- i ers who were untiring in their es-i forts toward the success of the new lodge. The new officers are as follows: M. L. O’Brien, Noble Grand; S. J. Elliott, Vice Grand: M. E. Foun-; tain, Treas.: J. E. Mcßae, Secre- 1 tary; D. A. Outen, Right Support-! er; R. T. Fountain, Left Support-' er; L. C. Underwood, Conductor; ] Otho Morrison, Warden; R. S. | McLendon, Inside Guardian; E. | M. Rackley, Outer Guardian. Latest reports from Mexico say that Emilio Madero, brother of; the late president, has been shot; iand killed at Monterey. i MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1913. General News Items I Told in Short Meter. I The Bank of Folkstonat Folks- [ [ton in Charlton county has sus-i ■ pended and its affairs will be wound up by Neil McQueen of | Ludowici, who was appointed re ceiver. The liabilities are j SIB,OOO and the assets $13,000. ; The annual report of the dc , partment of mines for Pennsyl vania shows that 1,000 miners lost their lives in the work dur ing the year 1012. A railroad bridge with double track is to be built across the Ohio river between Metopolis, 111., and Paducah, Ky., to accom modate the principal railroads of I the Mississippi valley, and to cost $4,500,000. In damages to railroads and | telegraph lines, the sleet of last week is said to have cost Chicago $1,000,000. Darsey Reliford has been sen tenced to hang in Liberty county for killing Tom Sullivan, both [colored, and this will make the I first, hanging in the county in 25 ; years. j A well-dressed subscription; [ agent worked Brunswick last ; week for the Pictorial Review, i ; and pocketed some money and I departed for other pastures green 1 before it became known that he , i was a swindler. | C. F. Ringwater, a farmer of I Tift county, was run over and j killed by a freight train on the G. S. & F. railroad Saturday, while walking down the track I from Cycloneta to his home a quarter of a mile away. He was (leaf and did not see the train ap proaching behind him. On Saturday night fire de stroyed the plants of the Atlantic Compress Company and the Co-. 1 lumbus Barrel Co. at Columbus. I Thousands of bales of cotton, I sixteen freight cars and several ' houses were burned, the damage being about $1,500,000. George Martin, Jr., a young man of Swainsboro, committed suicide Sunday by firing a load of shot into his breast. His father ; killed himself two years ago, and : 1 the son has always been very de-, j spondent since that occurred. I The mangled body of J. M.. Pope, a prominent farmer of Wil-i I cox county, was found on thel Tracks of the Seaboard Railway [on Monday morning at Calvin, i supposed to have been run oyer [by the passenger train going west Sunday night. STATE WIDE CONTEST FOR ill&H SCHOOLS Whole State to Take Part in Debate on Subject of Woman’s Suffrage. It has been planned by the! high school association of the state to have all the high schools j in Georgia engage in a debating contest this spring. It is ar- j ranged that there shall be at, least 73 triangular debates, in which 219 schools shall take part. There are to be two members in each debating team representing a school, and in the main debate 1 each side is to be allowed nine minutes, and three minutes on each side for rebuttal. No school will be allowed to enter a team that has not already defeated a| school under these rules in a pre- i liminary debate prior to the reg ular district debate. In this contest the subject for ! ! debate will be, “Resolved, That Georgia should grant the same 1 right of suffrage to women as Imen.” The assignment of i schools has been made for the | whole state, and we give it for ■ the Twelfth District: Eastman, Mcßae, Mt. Vernon. Dublin, Cochran, Wrightsville. I Lyons, Vidalia, Swainsboro. Ft. Valley, Perry, Hawkins- : ville. Abbeville, Rochelle, Jefferson i ville. A party of twenty-five Indians, [ i now in New York to attend the j laying of a corner stone for an ! Indian monument in the harbor, have been invited to Lake part in j the inaugural parade in Wash ington next week. Senator Bacon of Georgia and Senator Crane of Massachusetts have been chosen to ride in the carriage with President Wilson on inauguration day. C. Eugene Campbell, who was arrested in Atlanta on Friday morning for marrying a young girl in Columbia, S. C., while having a wife and three grown sons, leaped through a window of the train near Greenwood, S. C., on which he was being taken back and escaped. State Game Warden Mercer has made arrangements with the national government to get fifty elks from the Yellowstone Park to be released in the mountains of North Georgia with a view of breeding them there. Attorneys for A. L. Lynn, sen tenced recently in Laurens super ior court to life imprisonment.for killing F. M. Hightower, have filed amotion fora new trial, and Judge Hawkins will hear same on March 22. J The city authorities of Mil ledgeville are planting pecan trees ofi the streets for shade trees. Trees in the town almost a hundred years old bear from 100 to 500 pounds of nuts annu ally, and 100 young budded trees have just been set out. I President-elect Wilson has named April 1 as the date for | convening congress in extra ses sion. Currency reform and tariff legislation will have his first at i tention. On Sunday afternoon near Statesboro, a boy 15 years of age, son of J. L. Deal, a farmer, fired a shot gun at his little brother, seven years old and killed him. At sundown on Sunday even ing, a few miles from Eastman, Joe Rogers, a negro who was shooting at another negro, fired at him just as Green Chatfield, a | negro preacher came along in a 1 buggy and killed the preacher in -1 stead of his intended victim. ; Jessie Simmons, a negro teams ter at Olympia in Lowndes coun ! ty, was called to his door Sunday night and the top of his head [ blown off by two loads of buck ' shot. TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION MEETS HERE MARCH BTH Profitable Program Arranged For Instructors of Montgomery. i I. Devotional exercises, 10:30 a. m. 11. Resolved: That the teach er shows more consideration for j the parent than the parent does ! for the teacher. Affirmative, ! Miss Fannie Lee Ledbetter, Prof, j C. C. Dukes; Negative, Prof. C. A. Johnston, Miss Augustus i Pybus. 111. The teacher’s influence l on a child’s life from six to ; twelve, and the resultant respon sibilities,—Prof. J. L. Gilmore, Miss Lannie Wright. ' < IV. Value and manner of ob-! ; serving special days, Miss Lola Meadows, Miss Inez Mcßae. V. The need and manner of developing the child’s individu- ■ ality,—Dr. J. G. Brew ton, Rev. J. p. Rabun. Rev. C. M. Ledbetter, Supt. A. B. Hutcheson, 1 Miss Inez Mcßae, Committee. I Recital at 8.-P. I. 11 On next Monday evening, i March 3rd, the pupils in expres sion will present two short plays, ! i “The Dream Lady" and ‘The < Garroters." Besides these plays s ! there will be a drill by twelve lit- . t.le girls. The friends and patrons i |of the school are cordially invited, j Ailoy Paragraph's. Spooinl CorrcMiiomlonoe Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Miss Kellev of Helena spent sev eral Hays * ere last week, the gues o of M,s. Wells. Dr. I). B. Sumerford is visiting relatives in Unadilla this week. Mrs. J. P. Sawyer spent Sun day here, guest of Mrs. B. L. J Strickland. Dr. J. F. Hall visited relatives in Lyons last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Groover of Sa vannah are visiting their daugh ter, Mrs. It. L. Hall. Miss Vera Mason left yesterday for Dublin. She will be the guest of her sister, Miss Ruby Mason. Miss Belle Mcßride visited friends and relatives in Lyons last week. » Mrs. J. 11. Hudson left yester day (Monday) for Atlanta where she goes to buy her spring milli nery. Mrs. S. H. Rountree visited ! friends here one day this week. Mr. Wells of Jacksonville vis- j ited home folks last Thursday. Mr. J. A. Coursey spent last week near English Eddy. Mr. B. L. Strickland visited relatives in Collins Sunday. A French aviator flew from Paris to London on Tuesday in three hours and five minutes, I stopping at Calais. The actual j time of the flight showing a speed of 94 miles an hour. CONJURED NEGRO KILLS TEACHER OCCURRED NEAR GLENWOOD Without Warning or Provo cation Shoots Bullet Into Victim and is Caught. A shocking tragedy occurred at Starlight, about six miles south of Glenwoodon Friday night last, in which Carrie Rogers, teacher| of a large colored school was slain by Marshall Moore, a negro man. On Friday night while in her room at the home of Ben Roberson, an uncle with whom j she boarded, she was engaged in j making out her school report, when Moore entered and without warning shot the woman with a pist.< Sm was taken to Savan- j nab in tin hope of saving her! | life, but she died in a hospital I there on Saturday night. The j remains were brought out over j the Seaboard road by Sunday evening to Glenwood for burial, j The woman was the daughter of | Smart Roberson, and the family j was prominent among the colored , folk of the Starlight community, whore she taught a very large school, and was well thought of by the entire section. The relatives of the man Moore! seized him after the shooting and !, started for Glenwood, when they were met hy Marshal Bridges of Glenwood, who had been called by telephone and who took him in- : to custody. Ile held the man until Saturday and turned him over to Sheriff Wright of Wheeler conn- , ty, who brought him over and lodged him in jail in Mt. Vernon ‘ on Saturday. Marshall Bridges was ap- 1 proached by the infuriated ne groes of the neighborhood who , wanted to lynch Moore and “save the white people the trouble” of disposing of the case, but Mr. ' Bridges kept his prisoner safely < until turned over to Sheriff i Wright. ! When told by the marshal that i he had killed the woman and i would be hung, and asked wheth- < er he preferred to be strung up : immediately or to await trial, his reply was, "Just whatever you think best.” He gave as his only f reason for killing the woman that l she "had conjured him,” and I complained that he could not f sleep. It is quite probable that Moore will be found insane when the case is thoroughly investi- < gated. I MATTERS GROWING WORSE IN MEXICO ASSASSINATORS VERY BUSY Deposed President and Vice President Are Slain at Midnight. Francis I. Madero, the deposed president of the republic of Mex ico, and Jose Saurez the deposed vice president, were killed at midnight on Saturday night last in Mexico City while being taken from the National Palace to the penitentiary under guard. Official reports claim that they were shot while trying to escape, but it is probable that the public will never know just how their taking off was accomplished. Sonora Madero, wife of the dead president, in company with Ma dero’s sister, demanded admit tance to the building in which the dead bodies lay, but were re fused. Mercedes Madero, the beautiful and accomplished young sister of the slain president, in fiery language denounced the of ficers in charge, accusing them with being directly responsible for the murder. She cried: “Cowards! Assassins! You, the men who fired on a defenseless ‘man! You, and your superior (officers are traitors!” The killing of the men after assurances that they would he protected and allowed a fair trial has added greatly to the gravity of the situation, and brought very strained relations between Mex ico and this country. The news papers of Great Britain are loud in their denunciations of the act, and seem to think it up to the United States to take a hand in the matter. Any commission of acts against the residents of this country in Mexico would easily precipitate war. President Taft has only a few more days in of fice but seems to be using every j means to avert trouble with the Mexican government. \ CARD FROM MR. MOXLEY He Gives Reasons for Action of Commissioaers. Soperton, Ga., It. 3, Feb. 24, 1913. j Editor Monitor: — Please publish through the Monitor why the free ferries : were discontinued. First, because Wheeler county would not bear any expenses at present nor promise to help us bear the expenses at any time hereafter. Second, we find the county of Montgomery very deep in debt. Considering the high taxes we have been paying, Montgomery is not able to pay the back in debtedness and bear all the ex penses of the ferries. It is supposed that the taxes are collected one year to l>ear the expenses of the next year, but we find after all the taxes are collected that there will not be enough to pay last year’s ex penses that Wheeler county helped to bring on. We paid some bridge bills at the last meeting for bridges in Wheeler county. Some other bills came in that were made in October, and we don’t know what may yet come. So we discussed several ideas concerning the fer ries and decided it best to discon tinue them. I and all members of the board were in favor of free ferries if the other county would help bear the expenses. 1 think if the people would con sider all these things, investigate the matter thoroughly, and use a little reason, they would be better satisfied hereafter. Very respectfully, W. H. Moxley, Jr. Chairman of Board of Commis sioners. NO. 43.
