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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1913)
Slip Mmty&mxy iJUrnttor* VOL. XXVII. SUPERIOR COURT AGAIN IN SESSION! ■ JUDGE W. F. GEORGE PRESIDING February Adjourned Term Disposing of Criminal Cases this Week. The February adjourned term of Montgomery Superior Court was opened for business here on Monday morning. Owing to the fact that Judge E. D. Graham is disqualified in many cases from having served as Solicitor Gen eral when most of them were in stituted, it was necessary to get the judge of another circuit to preside. Judge W. F.‘George of the Cordele circuit is presiding for Judge Graham, and matters are being dispatched with satis factory speed. By his ready and correct rulings and by his even tenor and uniform courtesy, Judge George is already a favor ite with the bar and the people. Solicitor General Wooten is in 1 his place and looking out closely for the state’s side of every case. Criminal cases only are set for a hearing this week, and the docket is being rapidly cleared. The grand jury was not called j back for this term, and no new j business is being added to the! docket, Among the visiting attorneys j we note Solicitor-General Wooten j of Eastman, Eschol Graham and j Eugene Talmadge of Mcßae, C. | P, Thompson of Alamo, C. W. Sparks of Vidalia, A. C. Saffold of Cochran and Court Stenogra pher W. C. McAllister of Mcßae. The case of Joe Moring, charged with the murder of an- j other negro, which has been on the docket for a year or more, I occupied the greater part of | Tuesday. The jury rendered a verdict of manslaughter, and Judge George sentenced Moring to four years in the pen. The case against the Seaboard negro porter with several names, ; charged with selling whiskey' from passing trains resulted ini an acquittal, the only witness against him being impeached. A full list of the proceedings will be given next week. Aged Lady Dropped Dead Tuesday Last Mrs. Renie Frances Daniell died suddenly Tuesday afterneon last, falling to the floor and dy ing instantly about 6 o’clock in the afternoon, at her home in this county, near Blue Water church. Heart trouble is sup posed to be the cause of her death. Mrs. Daniel was 64 years of age and was a native of Laurens county, being a Miss Scarboro before her marriage. She is sur vived by seven children, includ ing Mrs. L. B. Currie, Mr. J. M. Daniel, Mr. C. B. Daniel, Mr. W. T. Daniel, Mr. E. P. Daniel, Mr. H. A. Daniel and Mr. Ivey Dan iel, all of Laurens county; also two sisters, Mrs. Annie Turner, of Dublin, and Mrs. Leah Bush, of Valdosta. —Dublin Courier- Dispatch. No More Free Labor. Attorneys representing plain tiffs in executions which are in tended for advertising will do well to arrange for advertising cost in advance of matter being run, otherwise no legal advertis ing will be inserted, according to the rules which have been pub lished in this paper regularly for many years. Unless plaintiffs or their attorneys arrange cost, matter of this class will not be inserted. The days of free labor have passed with us, and those concerned may well take notice and be governed accordingly. Mrs. W. A. McNatt Dies at Home in Lyons After a long illness Mrs. W. A. McNatt died at the family home in Lyons on Saturday last. The remains were laid to rest on Sunday in the Lyons cemetery. Mrs. McNatt was a most estima ble lady, and besides the hus band and children at home will be mourned by a large circle of relatives in this county. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mcßrice, deceased, and spent several years of her life in } Ailey surrounded by sisters and brothers who survive her. Mrs. T. L. Abt Dead In North Carolina A letter from Raleigh, N. C., dated March 14th to Mr. T. Ber nie Abt of Mt. Vernon announces I the death of his grandmother, j Mrs. Temperance L. Abt at her home near Raleigh, on the 12th inst. Mrs. Abt was 83 years of age and was the mother of Mr. T. B. Abt, who died here some six years ago. Governor's Gourd Gone. Colonel Jesse G. Perry, Gov ernor Brown’s private secretary, was greatly perturbed today be cause some miscreant had I “swiped” the long-handed gourd! belonging to Governor Brown ] and which has been an object of interest and admiration around ] the executive office for a year, j Col. Perry has his suspicions as j to the swiper and is now on his trail like a nemesis. —Atlanta Bureau of Macon Telegraph. WILL OBSERVE EASTER juvenile Missionary Society To Render Program Next Sunday. The Juvenile Missionary Socie ty of the Methodist church will hold a special Easter service at 3:30 o’clock next Sunday after noon in the Methodist church, Mt. Vernon, to which all are cor dially invited. The following program will be rendered: Opening song Sunday school. Scripture reading—Superinten dent. Prayer—Superintendent. Song—The school. Reading—Elizabeth Mcßae. Easter Praise—Nine children. Reading—Carol Hutcheson. Song—Nine children, Reading—Eula Mcßae. Reading—Esther Mason and i Gladys McAllister. Planting-time—Eight girls. Song—Eight girls. Reading Bertrand Wood. Reading - Corine Mason. Song—Eight girls. Reading—Janie Mae McQueen. Reading—Willie Elliott. Song—The Society. Offering—Collected by little girls. Lord’s prayer. ; Express Men Use Parcel Post. The postal authorities have a specific case against express companies, involving the taking of profits from shipments which the express companies have de livered to the postal authorities, thus saving the expense of 1 transmission. The specific instance is. the shipment of a box of cigars from I Detroit to Milwaukee. A Detroit man paid 40 cents for express shipment of the cigars, and then went to Milwaukee where he re jeeived the same package which ; had been sent by parcel post by the express company for 22 cents, a profit of 18 cents to the express company. R. L. McCranie of Adel, Ga., i was knocked down by a train of the G. S. & F. train on a cros sing there on Monday and was j badly bruised but was not killed. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. King George of Greece was as sassinated in Salonica on Mon day. He had ruled over his peo ple fifty years. Hon. Wm. J. Harris, chairman of the state Democratic Com mittee of Georgia, has been nom inated for director of the census, and his name will be sent to the senate for confirmation when congi’ess convenes on April 7th. By a cave-in in a mine near Baskett, Ky., 130 miners were imprisoned and are supposed to be still alive. Ernest Fleming, a 13-year-old hoy of Jesup, became fastened in the wreck of a buggy on Monday afternoon when a horse ran away with him, and had to be liberated by sawing out the wood work of the buggy. Fred Piepher, a 15-year-old boy of Strassburg, 111., died of rabies ; on Monday. He was bitten by a rabid dog he was taking out the! school building to prevent its bit ing a little girl. In a wreck on the Georgia Southern and Florida road at Bo nair, Ga., on Tuesday morning, three sleepers und one day coach were ditched and six persons were slightly injured. A negro swinging on the side of a box car at Powder Springs on Tuesday butted the steel mail crane with his head, demolishing the mail catcher with only slight damage to his head. In the flood caused by the breaking of the levee in Macon on Sunday morning, William Wii- 1 son, a night watchman, was drowned after bidding his sister goodbye over the telephone. The state reunion of Confeder ate Veterans will be held in Brunswick on Julv 16-17, and great preparations are being made for their entertainment. Edward J. Dyer of Macon, a former conductor on the Central road, but recently engaged as a motorman, killed himself on ! Monday morning after putting on his uniform to go to work. Wm. L. Miller of Joplin, Mo., is 99 years old and makes a good living by digging sassafrass, peddling the roots six days in the week. REUNION DATES NOT CHANGED Veterans of State will Meet in Brunswick on July 16-17. Brunswick, March 17.—The dates originally decided upon for the state reunion of the Confed lerate veterans will not be j changed, but, as at first an nounced, the old soldiers will gather here on July 16 and 17. When these dates were an nounced some weeks ago a re quest immediately came in from the state commander as well as from the camp at Americus re questing a change, pointing out that tne dates of the state reun ion were too close to those select,- led for the reunion of the blue and the Gray to lie held in Vir ginia. The state commander ar : gued that many Georgia veterans i desired to attend both reunions, ! but with only ten days between this would be impossible, there | fore the local veterans were re i quested to postpone the state re union until October. ! After carefully looking into the matter, however, the local com mittee which has the reunion in charge decided that to make a : change at this time would not ! meet with the approval of a ma jority of the Georgia veterans, that a more opportune and pleas ant season could not be secured j for such a meeting on the sea coast, therefore the original dates will stand. Mrs. Nellie Clifton was ac quitted in the trial at Millen last week in which she was charged with killing her husband in De cember last. Her plea was self defense. Hollow Bear, chief of the Sioux Indians who attended the inaug uration in Washington, died there i of pneumonia on Saturday, and, his body was taken west for bur ial among his ancestors. The Odd Fellows of Georgia will hold their state convention in Savannah on May 28th and 29th, and there will probably be 2000 delegates in attendance. Reports of great damage to farms, roads and bridges con tinue to come in from all over the country since the great rain storms of last week. The store house of A. G. Hobbs on his farm in Laurens county was struck by lightning last Fri day and burned. His two sons, Robert and Drew, were in the j building when struck and were very badly shocked. The engine pulling the passen ger train No. 23 on the Southern 1 road was derailed in the yards at Eastman on Friday night, tear j ing up the track for 300 yards and causing a delay of II hours. While out riding in a launch with his bride at Jacksonville on Sunday afternoon, 11. H. Wal lace, age 25, slipped and fell into the river and was drowned. President Wilson has issued a proclamation calling congress to gether on April 7th, chiefly to consider taritf revision. Sonora Sara P. Madero, widow of the recently murdered presi dent of Mexico, has gone to New York, and is accompanied by a party of twenty-five relatives. John Varner, a white man i charged with murdering his wife land taken from Fitzgerald to jail jat Ocilla, to prevent his being | lynched, hanged himself Friday night with a strip of cloth torn ! from his cot. J. J. Gordy and Johnnie Mc- Lendon were drowned in the roaring waters of Elkin creek near Molena, Ga., on Monday while attempting to get a doctor to McLendon’s mother. MONITOR OFFICE FAME SPREADING Atlanta Paper House Recog nizes the Quality Shop, and Cites Others. The Monitor stationery depart ment and we pay worlds of at tention to this feature of the work—is running on full time. A few days ago we shipped a lot of high-class stationery to one of the county officials of one of the | extreme lower counties. This ! order was sent to a large whole sale house of Atlanta, the official not knowing that this firm did not operate a printing plant. The Atlanta firm promptly for ; warded the order to The Mont gomery Monitor, and as a result, ; the county official secured as good, if not better, piece of work than he would have gotten in Atlanta or some of the other large cities, and got it at once. Those who send to the cities, or elsewhere out of the county, lose money on their stationery, besides, getting, as a rule, an in ferior grade of work. The Mon itor buys in wholesale lots and carries more stationery than all the printing establishments in the several counties around com bined, supplying a greater de mand for high-class work. 1 6,000 Timber Acres Sold Near Seville Seville, Ga., March 18.—A big timber deal has just been pulled off here, involving something over 6,000 acres of timber on the Ocmulgee river bottom land. The price paid was $65,000. George C. Benedict, of Nash ville, Tenn., was the seller and the Louis Werner Stave com pany, of Shreveport, La., were the buyers. The company contemplate the erection of a large plant here that will employ several hundred hands. Escape from Toombs Gang R ;aplt red in Pierce. Lester Altman, serving out a four years sentence on the Toombs county gang for killing William Robertson in Pierce county, and who escaped recent ly, has been caught. Supposing he would return to his old haunts, the sheriff of Pierce county lay for him, and though he had threatened to kill the sheriff, was captured and taken back to Toombs. Dr. Young Lectures Here. Dr. Young of Atlanta, repre senting the state Anti-saloon League, lectured here on Thurs day of last week at the Metho dist church. Dr. Young is armed and equipped with facts and fig ures on the liquor traffic, and handles the subject in an able manner. His lecture here was well received, but the audience was small. OCONEE RIVER IS RAGING High Water Mark Reached. People Using Boats to Get to Court. The Oconee river at this point is getting out into the woods and fields, and the highest stage has not yet been reached as the rise will continue two or three days longer. On yesterday passen geers came over by boats, start ing at the spring at the foot of the hill on the west side and landing at the old field south of the Brick yard, a distance of one and a half miles. As ample no tice was given of the corning high water, it is not probable that there will be any great loss of stock in the swamps. But the water will reach a higher stage than any freshet since the re markable August freshet during Cleveland’s administration. Recovers Her Reason After Nineteen Years Atlanta, Ga., March 18. Nine teen years ago Mrs. Carrie Belk Jordan, of 23 Oliver street, lost her reason just two weeks after her baby daughter was born. Monday, afl.or an operation, she sudd lv r< covered her reason, and found her baby daughter [grown, married, and the mother ; of two children. Mrs. Jordan can hardly believe that her baby girl is now the 1 mother of children and that she ! herself is a grandmother. Mrs. Jordan’s recovery is con sidered a remarkable feat of sur gery. For nineteen years she j had been without reason. The latter part of February she was operated on, but the operation was without immediate effect. On Monday she recovered her reason without warning, and her cries of joy notified the atten dants of the Red Cross hospital, on Cooper street., of her sudden recovery. Dr. W. B. Lingo per formed the operation. Freeman Shed, a millionaire of Lowell, Mass., who died recently in Miami, Fla., left SIOO,OOO to the Berry School at Rome for the education of poor white | children. OLD OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY AGAIN EFFORTS TOWARD BUILDING Institution of Ante-Bellum Days may be Revived in Capital City. Dr. H. J. Gaertner, professor of history in the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, is deeply interested in building the Ogle thorpe University in Atlanta. The old institution, located near Milledgeville, famous in ante-bel lum days, never survived the war. It was here that Sidney Lanier graduated and he left beautiful reminiscences of his college life there. Prof. Gaert ner is very enthusiastic over the rebuilding of the college in At lanta. He says the money is coming in generously. So far, they have been collecting from other States. The new site, he says, is a splendid one, and they count on $250,000 from Atlanta, and will canvas the entire State. A special feature will be the en dowment of a Sidney Lanier chair of English literature. And once every year there will be a me morial of Lanier. The idea was borrowed from John Hopkins, where Lanier taught the school of English literature. He sug gests that all the public schools lof Georgia have a Sidney Lanier | day—and that day dedicated to ! the study of Lanier’s writings. Charles Scribner, who holds the copyright of Lanier’s poems, will soon publish a school edition of Lanier’s poems, and the book will contain a picture of the Ogle- I thorpe University and also of the building to be erected. Dr. Gaertner is a trustee of the new Oglethorpe and says the univer sity will be of the highest order of literary schools. The doctor was full of praise for the Girls' Normal and Industrial College, and says it is doing a wonderful work. It is a monument to the lamented W. Y. Atkinson, who is really its founder, as was the late Gov. Joe Terrell the founder of the district agricultural schools of the State. James Callaway in Macon Telegraph. New Paper at Glenwood. We are in receipt of the first number of the Glenwood Senti nel, printed and edited by Rev. A. B. Cargile of Vidalia, editor and proprietor of the Vidalia Ad vance. The new paper is the organ of the county seat fight waging between Glenwood and Alamo, as viewed from the Glen wood side of the contest. The paper carries eight pages, four of which are printed in Atlanta and the remainder devoted to the county seat matter. They hope to put in a plant later. Wimberly-Simpson. An approaching marriage of interest to many in this section is that of Miss Annie Lee Wim berly of Lumpkin to Mr. William Bryant Simpson, which will be celebrated Wednesday, April 9th at the home of the home of the bride-elect. I Miss Wimberly is a daughter of Dr. John S. Wimberly of Sun light and a niece of Mr. N. L. Spooner of this place. She has 'visited here a number of times and is pleasantly remembered by many young friends. Singing Convention. The Monitor is requested to an nounce that a singing convention will be held in Rockledge on the sth Sunday (30th inst.) It is understood that cheap rates will be given by the M. D. & S. rail- I road. The public invited. NO. 46.
