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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1913)
Slu* iHmutur. VOL. XXVII. SAD ACCIDENT IN SHILOH SECTION j MR.J.J, VAUGHAN LOSES LIFE Gun is Discharged by Wife Falling Over Chair, with Deplorable Result. Lumber City, Ga., March 3. (Special to the Monitor.) —Last Saturday night our community i was thoroughly aroused and quite surprised at the tragic news j of Mr. J. J. Vaughan’s death. Indeed, surprised does not state our feeling when we learn of it. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan were alone, and about 7:30 o’clock a noise was heard in the dining room. Thinking it was a dog that had been coming there, he got the gun and went to see. The dog was gone and he called his wife to bring she lantern. When she carried the lantern to him, they could not see anything of the dog, so he asked her to carry the gun and lantern back. When she reached the dining room door leading to her room, he spoke and as she turned to ask what he had said, she struck a chair, which caused the gun to fire. It shot him just above the hip and lodged in his stomach. She knew that he was dead. She was compelled to go for help, so she left him and ran to her daughter, Mrs. Dukes, but he was beyond any earthly assist ance when she returned. The neighbors immediately came to her rescue, but it was of no avail the shot had proven fatal, and he was dead. Dr. Napier was called to examine him. An in quest was held and the verdict rendered, “Accidentally shot by Mrs. Vaughan.’’ Mr. Vaughan wa§ born and raised in Montgomery county, and proved himself a worthy cit izen. In September, 1801, he enlisted in the Civil war, and i gave four years of his manhood j to his country, enduring the; hardships which the soldiers of that war suffered. He, like all brave soldiers of the Civil war, fought and lost their noble cause, but we feel that he w'as one of the “more brave who battles with the unseen foe’’and con quers. He was a member of the Methodist church, having joined when young, and endeavored to . please God in faithfully perform ing all duties required of him. In his early manhood he mar ried Miss Elizabeth Clark, and this *union was blessed by ten children. He is survived by his wife, one son, N. J. Vaughan of Charlotte, Ga., Misses Lizzie, Victoria and Sadie, Mesdames Ciements and Dukes. In Feb ruary, 1911, two of his grown sons, Joe and John died, and two infant sons, who went before him to the “land that is fairer than day,” to prepare him a dwelling place. May the omnipotent power that took him from this world comfort the sorrowing family in this and all other troubles and be a hus band to the widow and a father to the orphans. A Sympathizer. Statement of the Condition of THE FA It ME US BANK Located at Glemvood, Ga., at the Close of Business Feb. 25, 1912: UESOUItCES. Time loans sol,Bit 22 Overdrafts unsecured 2,137 HI Banking house 2, m00 on * Furniture and fixtures Ml 2 HO Other real estate 207 4(1 Due from banks and hankers in this state 2,930 38 I)ue from banks and hankers in other states . 4,03.7 44 Currency $330 00 Gold 41000 Silver, nickels, etc. 941 02 Cash items 961 7i Total $77,899 07 State of Georgia—Win-oler County. Hefore me came W. .i. Kutra 1 , cashier of I lie I- miners ISaiik. wlio be ing-duty HWurn. says tliat the a bom a nl for- <<*iug statement is a true con dition of said Bank, us shown by tin books of fib- in said Bank. W. J. Futral. i Sworn to and subscribed bcfor nn this Ith day of Mar.. I'.dd. A. A. Galbraith, N. I*, and Kxo, J. P. j Alloy Paragraphs. I Special Correspondence Mr. J. A. Coursey visited home I folks Sunday. Miss Vickie McNatt of Uvalda is spending the week here, the guest of Mrs. James McNatt. Mr. Z. T. Mann and nephew, Douglas McGregor, left Friday for Washington to be present at i the inauguration. Miss Pearl Jones of Uvalda spent Sunday here, guest of Miss Cleo Hall. Mrs. Ada Peterson and Miss Velma McArthur of Vidalia vis- j i ited relatives here Sunday. Mrs. T. Thompson of Vidalia is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. V. Thompson. Mr. Charlie Frizzelle spent] Monday in Savannah. Mr. Hugh Peterson visited in] Vidalia one day last week. Mrs. Cleveland AUcorn spent Monday here, guest of Mrs. Hen ry Stand ford. Mr. Ewell McGahee of Higgs ton is visiting relatives here this week. WHEELER COUNTY HOLDS FIRST COURT MASONIC HALL IS UTILIZED Superior Court Convenes at Alamo and Legal Machin ery Begins It’s Grind. The first superior court for the! new r county of Wheeler opened for business on Monday morning, Judge E. D. Graham presiding, and Solicitor General W. A. Wooten standing at his post. The holding of superior court at Alamo was somewhat of a nov elty, and a large crowd gathered to see the legal mill grind in Wheeler for the first time. As the county has not had time to build a court house, the court convened in the Masonic Hall, and secured rooms for the juries in other buildings. The civil docket was taken up, and a number of cases have been I disposed of. The first argument made before a jury in the new J county was by Hon. M. B. Cal houn of Mt. Vernon, who won his case. The criminal docket will prob ably be reached by tomorrow, and violators of the law will have | their inning. Members of the Mt. Vernon bar and a number of i |our citizens attended the sessions of the court. Odd Fellows Regalia Purchased Last Week Sheriif Hester, Clerk O’Brien and Mr. M. E. Fountain went over to Helena on Wednesday night of last week to meet a sales man carrying samples of Odd Fellows outfits. They selected a fine outfit for Vernon Lodge, and the officers here will soon be in all their with the new togs. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our deep est gratitude to friends in Ailey, Mt. Vernon and on Institute Heights for their many acts of : kindness and sympathy during j i the illness and death of our be-j loved niece. The flora] offerings! were surpassingly beautiful, and ! will not be forgotten in this hour of bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rabun. LIABILITIES. I » Capital stock paid in $20,000 00 | Surplus fund . 10,000 00] t ndi vided, profits less cur. ex., ini. and taxes paid 3,321 81 liui'l deposits sb to check 24.188 17! Time certificates 10,083 09 ; ( asliier’s checks 306 60 Bills pa.vanle, incl’ng time cer. rep Imr. money 10,y00 00j Total $77,899 07 j MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. " Jos. E. Tumulty, secretary to 1 President Wilson, wijl get a sal ary of 7,500 a year, the place i paying formerly $6,000. i In a skirmish on the border near Douglas, Arizona, last Sun day, four Mexicans were killed by United States soldiers who I were patrolling the border line. Automobile bandits shot am- 1 monia into the eyes of a Broad-] i way jeweler in New York on] 1 Monday and got away with a ] tray of jewelry worth $7,000. One of the gang was caught. The Webb bill prohibiting the shipment of intoxicating liquors into dry states, vetoed by Presi dent Taft, was passed by both j houses of congress over the veto, and is now a law. Four million new nickels, bear ing an Indian head on the face ] and the figure of a buffalo the j reverse side, were ready to be put into circulation last Saturday. | The first ones sold for 15 cents in New York as souvenirs. The military and civic pageant at the inaugural in Washington on Tuesday was more than five hours passing in review, the last ] of the procession ending long as- j ter dark set in. On Saturday last 200 girls em-l ployed on the second and third J floors of a cigar factory in Cleve- i land, Ohio, and 40 children of a kindergarten next door, were] saved from being burned to death by jumping out of the windows, j SIT. VERNON TELEPHONE COMPANY IS PROSPERING 1913 Directory Issued by Monitor Shows Gratify- j ing Increase. Stanford Brothers, owning the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., are having issued from The Monitor office a complete directory of their entire system of telephones, which is the most complete in the state. This concern has grown steadily from its organi zation several years ago, and its patronage is enormous. They have recently absorbed the Uvalda and Cedar Crossing systems, and in a few clays will put in an exchange at Alston, from which point they contem plate a largely increased busi ness. They have maintained an •exchange at Uvalria for some time. The Cedar Crossing lines lead directly into Lyons and Vi dalia—in fact, this entire section south of the Seaboard is literally covered by their lines. Mr. W. 1 R. Stanford, until recently a j member of. the firm, has control ! jof the Wheeler county divisions. This is a progressive firm, and 'the new directory will show! something of the magnitude of | their business. I-ERKIES TO LET. , State of Georgia Montgomery (lout y. This in to notify the public tan coally that the umlerHitfned will Ifct out to the lowest, bidder, at Mt. Vernon, Ga., on the first. Tuesday in April, 1913, Larnroon'- Ferry at Mt Vernon, Georgia, and Bell's Ferry at Charlotte, Georgia, on the Oconee River, to be operated for and during the y< ar 1913 | and until the first Tuesday in January, 1914 The Board of County Commissioners, of Koud and ; Revenues reserving the right to reject any and all , j bids. The conditions upon which said ferry boats ; J are to he* operated are as follow ! The party or parties who offer the lowest and j j | M *st hid for the operation of Larnroon Furry or j ' Beil’s Ferry are to keep and maintain aid ferries ! for and during the year 1913, free to all citizens of I Montgomery county, hut are to charge » ertain j rates to Im.* fixed by the said Board of County Com missioners and are to keep a record of all parties ! who are non-residents of Montgomery county arid . their vehicles that cro - said ierries. .'■“id terry J ; lx rats are to he operated by a cable lying on the : bottom of the river, or in orne practical way ; j whereby the channel of aid river will riot be at | anv time obstructor] so as to hinder th pn -ng** of boats running up and flown aid river, and tic | party obtaining the contract for the year to run j • said boats shall lx expected to give a g'xxl and ] sufficient bond for th*: faithful performance of 1 . their duty, and to account to the Boat’d of Itoad • and Revenues of Montgomery County for all rnori- { !ey collected by them out of non-r< -ident travel, in I the sum of One Thousand (slf/00) D «Jai | For more specific rules governing the operation , ' of said ferry boats can be had by applying at the 1 office of the County Commissioners of thi i C /unt.y . j at Mt. Vernon, Ga., between now .and the day ’ j that ferries arr to be its t out. I Order passed in open court, this the Ith day of , March, 1913. W. li. Moxi.ky, Chairman Board of Roads an i Revenue Mont gomery County, Ceorgir 1 Three cars of a passenger train jon the Wrightsville & Tennillej i road were overturned on an em- 1 i bankment at Cadwell on Friday afternoon and nine persons were j injured. The Dewey hotel in Omaha, Neb., was burned on Friday last and fifteen people lost their lives. i The property loss was about 15250,000. Prigden Beasley, 101 years old and living on the same place in Bulloch county where he was j born, was too feeble for his friends and descendants to cele brate his lOLst birthday last Fri- I day. Miss Pearl Darsey, a white woman 24 years of age, residing near Chester in Laurens county, has been arrested and lodged in jail charged with the murder of her new born babe, whose body ] was dug up by a dog from a ] ! shallow grave in the corner of , the fence near by. Two negroes who had shot and killed John Gibby, a Southern Railway detective, were caught and strung up to a post in Cor-: nelia, Ga., on Friday night last, land their bodies riddled with a ] thousand bullets. Frauds have been discovered in New York in the raising of 1 cent parcels post stamps to 1 dol lar. All the stamps being print ed in red, the word “cent” is cut out and the word “dollar” is : pasted in its place. WILSON STEERING SHIP OF STATE Vast Multitudes Cheer While Democracy Sees Wilson and Marshall Step In. In the presence of his chosen cabinet, the retiring president and a great concourse of people, Woodrow Wilson took the oath on Tuesday that made him the head of this great nation. The inauguration of Vice President Marshall occurred in the senate chamber with the swearing in of the Senators-elect, and the pro cession of congressmen, ambas isadorsand ministers of foreign countries, the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, the vice president and President Taft, with President-elect Wilson at his side, made up a scene hard to be described. The cheers from thousands as the party reached the grand stand, and the music from the hands, made a din almost incom prehensible. Mr. Taft, with a smile, grasped President Wilson’s hand and said: “Mr. President, I wish you a successful adminis i tration and the carrying out of ! your aims. We will all be behind you.” The inaugtiral address was not lengthy, and closed with the fol : lowing paragraph: “This is not a day. of triumph,” | he declared, it is a day of dedica tion. Here muster rot th ] forces of party, hut the forces ol’ i humanity. Men’s hearts wait upon us; men’s lives hang in the balance; men’s hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Shall we live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side. God helping me, 1 will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me.” Gone to Washington. Prof. Z. T. Mann and his nephews, Douglas and Mack McGregor, left Friday for Wash- 1 ington City to attend the inaug-- oration of Woodrow Wilson and take in the fights at the nation’s : capital. Prof. Mann has a son and daughter residing in Wash ington, and their stay will prob ably be pleasant and full of in teres t. i Alston. J Special ColTGßpoluU'lK’t.‘. j It is understood from a confi dential source that Mr. John S. I Sharpe, one of our most substan tial and beloved nearby citizens, i has definitely decided to move into town and improve some of his large holdings on Sharpe | Hill. Mr. Sharpe is richly bless ed with several manly sons and charming daughters and it is earnestly hoped that he will hur ry into Alston and bring his en tire family; all of the citizens will rejoice and meet them with outstretched hands and warm hearts. The town forces tiro now open i ing Grove street, which runs along the west border of Mr. John S. Sharpe’s land and it would be a great thing for the town and community if he would cut up all of Sharpe Ilill he is not going to use for his residence into lots and have a big land sale. He could get a fancy price and when the history of the town jis written his name would go down as a beloved builder. The Chamber of Commerce has information that the railroad will positively be built and will run through Alston. This will jgive us two railroads. The Chamber of Commerce re ceived information yesterday that a party who. has plenty of money was selling out to come to Aisle to I did a large cotton warehouse. This, together with the n. w railroad and three land sales, will make our motto of 3000 population in 1915 a reality. It is bound to come because wo have the natural resources to make a large town. Young Life Goes Out. A death of unusual sadness oc curred here on Monday night when Miss Annie Laurie Cook, an estimable young lady, came tp the end of a brief earthly pil grimage. Miss Cook had made her home for some years with Rev. and Mrs. J. I). Rabun on Institute Heights, Mrs. Rabun being her aunt. A large cirlce of friends and young associates saw her pure young girl life flicker out as she passed from an illness that for many months held her in its relentless grip. The inter ment took place at the Peterson cemetery in Ailey on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. .J. C. Brewton of 8.-P. Institute performed the sad rites, and impressive and sweetly sad music, furnished by a number of her former associ ates of the 8.-P. Institute, added to the solemnity of the occasion. 1 She was a native of Warren ‘ county, Georgia, and a consistent member of the Methodist church. | She was 25 years of age, and is survived by her grandfather, Mr. G. A. Parham, and aunt, Mrs. J. 1). Rabun, of Mt. Ver non, and sister, Miss Mary Cook of Atlanta. rlt’s not/the mechanical per fVrct ioji of any oik* part of the Ford—it’s the perfection of ||i all its parts working in per- Ifcet harmony-—that makes it the ear of universal and un precented demand. Better l>uy yours today—the rush will soon he on. “Everybody is driving a Ford” more than 200,000 in .service. New prices—runabout $525 —touring car SOOO town car SBOO with all ij quipmerit, f. o. b. Detroit. Get particulars . rorn N. L. Gillis & J. E. Hall, Soperton, Ga. —or direct from Detroit factory. | L—— in ■ SEABOARD TIGER GOES TO JAIL ARRESTED SATURDAY NIGHT Selling Booze by Rail Gets Harris in Jail, Despite Conductor’s Wail. Will Harris, alias Son Peggy, with several other names to spare was arrested as the Sea board Air Line train rolled up to the depot here on Saturday night by Marshal Buttersworth and I )eputy Sheriff Archie Hester. Some time ago Marshal Butters vvorth suspected that whiskey was being sold from passing trains here, and arranged for the purchase of some of the stuff by Jim Davis, a colored customer, which led to a true bill being found against Harris, who oper ated under several different names. Strenuous efforts were made by the conductor in charge of the train to prevent the deten tion of his colored porter, sug gesting to the officers that they were interfering with the distri bution of the United States mail, but they held their grip on the traveling tiger, and in the ab sence of any bond, brought the porter up town and gave him a room in the county jail. BOYS CORN CLUB TO BE ORGANIZED PROF. CUNNINGHAM COMING All Teachers are Expected to Come and Bring Along the Boys. Prof. G. V. Cunningham, Dis trict Agent of Boys’ Corn Clubs, will meet the teachers of Mont gomery county on Saturday, March Bth, at 10 o’clock a. m. for the purpose of organizing a corn club. All the teachers of the county are expected to be present and bring all the boys interested in better corn culture. Respectfully, K. B. Hutcheson, C. S. S. ROGERS-BLACKWELL. A marriage of much interest to a large circle of friends was that of Miss Lithonia Rogers, of Norcross, Ga., and Rev. .1. B. Blackwell of Mt. Vernon. The marriage took place on Wednes day of last week at 3:30 -o’clock in Norcross, where the bride is known as a lady of lovely charac ter and fine accomplishments, the couple reaching here over the Seaboard on Friday afternoon. Mr. Blackwell is the beloved pas | tor of Harmony Baptist church in Telfair, the Baptist church at Groveland and one other church near Savannah. Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell are at home to their friends at their residence on In stitute Heights. NO. 44
