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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1913)
The Montgomery Monitor. VOL. XXVII. MEMORIAL DAY' IS CELEBRATED 8.-P. INSTITUTE HONCRS DEAD Judge J. E. Burch of Dublin Delivers the Address. Dinner Follows. The sleeping heroes of the war between the states were not for gotten here on Saturday. While we have no cemeteries where any number of these sacred dead are buried, our people are not un mindful of the gratitude we owe to those who gave up their lives fifty years ago in defense of the Southland. On Saturday many of our citi zens joined the student body and faculty of the Brewton-Parker Institute on the spacious campus to celebrate the day. Judge J. E. Burch of Dublin, chosen ora tor of the day, pa’d a beautiful tribute to the fallen ones, and stirred anew the fires of patriot ism in the hearts familiar with the scenes of the great conflict, and instilled into the minds of his audience of young people the truths that will keep alive South ern patriotism and chivalry. The day passed in beautiful solemnity, and all who attended were well pleased. The dinner spread by patrons and the school was more than bountiful, and was simply characteristic of our peo ple. ' ; SENATOR SMITH ASKS INCREASE FOR CARRIERS Would Pay Carriers More and Increase Postal Interest Rates. Atlanta, Ga., April 29.—A special to the Atlanta Journal from its Washington correspond dent says: A bill increasing the salaries of rural mail carriers from $l,lOO to $1,400 was introduced today by Senator Hoke Smith. The increase is intended to cover the expenses incurred by the carriers in maintaining their teams. The senator introduced"also a bill increasing the rate of inter est paid by banks and postal sav ings departments from 2 to 3 per cent, per annum. The gov ernment pays depositors two per cent, interest on their deposits, and it is estimated that it will require an additional one per cent, to bear the expense of the government maintaining postal banks. Georgian Loses Life in Hotel Holocaust Tampa, Fla.. April 23.-One life was lost in a fire which early this morning destroyed the Oak Grove Hotel, at Braden town. The man who lost his life was Timothy Young, aged 50, of Au gusta, Ga. After the fire had burned itself out the body was recovered. Young’s body had hardly been touched by fire, he having wrapped himself up in the bedclothing. The heat and smoke had smothered his life out. Others in the hotel did not have time to get any of their be longings, but leaped from the windows into the street. None was injured. The hotel was a two-story frame affair. Mr. Young was well known this section, having resided at Ailey for some time. He was a a brother of Mrs. T. R. Morgan, who, before her marriage to Rev. T. R. Morgan, was the widow of Alex Peterson. While pushing a baby carriage containing her baby sister, on Broad street, Augusta, on Mon day, Miss Ernestine Brady was run down by an automobile and fatally injured. Mr. B. B. Wood Hurt. I Mrs. B. B. Wood, who had just returned here from Savannah, where she was under treatment, ■ received a telegram on Thursday last saying her husband, a con ductor on the Central of Georgia Railway, had been hurt by com ing in contact with a water tank pipe near Toombsboro, and was in the Savannah hospital. She left immediately for Savannah, and found Mr. YVood getting on nicely, the wound in his head not amounting to a fracture. They will probably return here this week, and will finish out their visit to Mrs. Wood’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Folsom. It *■ HANDS ON PLOW FARMER IS STRICKEN George Benton Paralyzed as He Holds His Plow, Death Follows. On Friday evening while plow ing in his field, Mr. George Ben ton suffered a stroke "of paralysis and soon became speechless, and did not rally from the shock, his death occurring at an early hour Sunday morning. He was a hard-working and law-abiding citizen and leaves a wife and five children, the latter being mostly grown. Mr. Benton was a mem i ber of Ailey Lodge, I. O. O. F., j and the order buried him with all I due honors. The interment oc ! curred at the McCrimmon ceme- I tery near McGregor. Alston. Special Correspondence. It is understood that Mr. E. C. McAllister of Longpond has agreed with party to have a big land sale here in a short time. Several parties are anxious to build on a part of his land and we hope he will hurry the sale. Mr. J. B. Brew ton from Ailey was a visitor here last week. Mr. A. F. Conner from Ro chelle, Ga., spent two days here last week. He is thinking of lo cating here to handle real estate and insurance. Mr. V. G. A. Tallent went to Douglas, Ga., last week to buy part of material for his residence. Since his return he has decided to build two residences instead of one. Mr. A. McPhail from Douglas, Ga., is spending a few days at I Alston. There is a good deal of talk about the ad valorem tax for Alston this year. This is the; j first year we have collected this I tax and the matter should be handled in a legal manner and settled with all this year so the town will continue to prosper and have no internal strife. The mu nicipal authorities seem to be to gether on the subject and will no doubt handle to the best interest i of the town and citizens. Let Dr. Sunshine In. Chicago’s health department says tuberculosis kills 4,000 per sons in that city every year—; 40,000 every decade. Terrible i figures, aren’t they? The same authority says: “Sunshine and fresh air are the greatest enemies of tuberculosis.” So, sit on the sunny side of the house, the car, I the office or the fishing pool. Get out in the field with the birds and the beasts. Face the breeze and don’t be afraid cf the gale. Roll the window shades ever up and never down. Make ; your sunshade over into a cane. Remember Dr. Sunshine is not ‘only an enemy to tuberculosis, but to more diseases than you can rememberto name—includ ing the ingrowing grouch and many other things—so let him shine in! MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 3. 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Elmer T. Darden, who shot and killed C. M. Goddard in the : Union station, Atlanta, on March ; 13, was found guilty of voluntary j manslaughter on Monday. The Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters, of the Masons of Georgia is in session this week in Macon, about 200 Masons being in attendance. The Court of Ordinary of Chat ham county has had 23 lunacy trials during the past month. Land worth sixty million dol lars was ordered taken from the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. and returned to the federal govern ment by a decree of Judge YY’ol verton of the District Court at Portland, Oregon, this week. Mrs. Nellie Paugh of Logans port, Ind., threw her two boys aged 6 and 12 years into a creek and jumped in after them. She and one boy drowned. Her rea son was because no one loved them. Laurence Riley and Sam Riley, brothers, were seriously and the former perhaps fatally injured Monday afternoon when their au tomobile turned over 12 miles from Macon. E. F. Andrews, in jail at Tam pa and condemned to be hanged, was furnished a hack saw by his wife and sawed out Sunday night and escaped in an automobile. There was a break in the main line Mississippi river levee at Ferriday, La., on Sunday morn ing. About 900 square miles of land will be covered, 20,000 peo ple will be driven from their homes. Mrs. Onezia Carter, a planter’s j wife at Rayne, La., has given; birth to five children in twelve months, girl triplets last week and boy twins one year ago. 810 TIME AT SPRINGHILL DELEGATES TO SOPERTON Literary Society to Render Closing Program. We arc glad to announce to the ■ public the picnic at Springhill on 'Maylhth, given under direction 1 of the Springhill Literary Society and school. We have some of j the best speakers of this part as ! signed to give us lectures on in ! teresting subjects; we have field ! exercises to come off in the af ternoon, and last but not least, the big free dinner which we | shall expect everyone to take a part in. We shall entertain you until 4p. m., th< s h a few hours jof rest and the closing program for this season of the Springhill Literary Society will begin at 8 p. m. We are expecting this j program to be the best yet put | out, and the ice cream supper I will follow. If you wish to enjoy a day and night at one of the dear old spots of South Georgia, where you will ; be treated with courtesy and 1 where everything will be done for your enjoyment, come and be with us. Let this be a day of long remembrance with you, as it will be with a multitude of others. Everything for your en joyment and convenience will be j in your possession. W. J. Chesnutt, Mgr. — Graduating Recital. On Friday night at 8 o’clock, i in the Brewton-Parker Institute Auditorium, Miss Ernestine I Blackwell, of the piano depart ment, will give a recital. Miss Blackwell will be ass' ;ted by Miss Hannah Bright in the de partment of voice. No charge for admission, and friends and | patrons are cordially invited. The Seaboard Air Line Rail way has let a contract for fifty locomotives of the “Pacific” type, 1,000 box cars, 250 coal hoppers and 250 flat cars. Governor-elect John M. Slaton delivered the memorial address at Fitzgerald on Saturday, a large audience being there to hear him and join in the exercises. The body of a 15-year-old girl was found in a basement of the National Pencil Co.’s plant in Atlanta Sunday morning with the clothing in shreds. Two men have been arrested in the case. The Perkins Manufacturing Co.’s plant at Augusta caught fire at noon on Sunday, and was damaged 25,000 before the flames were under control. There are now 25,000 automo biles registered in Georgia, and at Han average cost of SI,OOO means twenty-five million dollars tied up in the machines. The Citizens Light and Power plant of Cordele has been sold to J. G. White & Co. of New York, the consideration being SIOO,OOO. The U. S. Good Roads Associa tion, in convention at Birming ham, will send a committee to Washington to urge federal aid for good roads before congress. The plant of the News-Ob server at Raleigh, N. C., was burned last week at a loss of $75,000. A new postoffice building is being finished at Milledgeville and when complete will cost SIOO,OOO. Four men who were captured after attempting to rob a bank at Dahlonega were convicted in the superior court of Lumpkin county last week and sentenced to twenty years in the pen. Mt. Vernon Ladies Attend W. B. M. U. Institute. Mt. Vernon will be well repre sented at the institute of the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Un ion at Soperton this week. Bright and early Tuesday morning, an interesting party, headed by Mrs. C. A. Mason, left over the Seaboard for Soperton. Mrs. M. B. Calhoun, Misses Naomi Brewton and Maggie Mae Lee are the delegates from the Woman’s Missionary Society. Mrs. C. A. Mason, Theodosia Geiger, Catharine and Grace | Currie, Etta O’Brien, Birdie Twiggs, Elizabeth Calhoun and ! Mamie Rabun are the represent ■ atives of the Sunbeam Band. Theodosia Geiger will sing a solo, Katherine Currie playing the accompaniment. Little Eliz abeth Calhoun will entertain the audience with a sweet solo. Grace Currie, Etta O’Brien, Ma mie Rabun and Birdie Twiggs have a part in the Telephone Quiz. __ Girl is Badly Bruised And Has Nose Broken. Lola Mae Vinson, daughter of | Mr. Chas. E. Vinson of Savan nah, sustained a painful injury Saturday morning by riding her bicycle into a wagon while look ing back to talk to her brother tori the sidewalk. Her nose was broken and she was badly bruis ed. The little girl is a niece of Mrs. A. B. Hutcheson of Mount Vernon. The water has subsided and the Oconee Brick Co. will soon be turning out carloads of brick J down at the yards. Peacock-Bailey. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Peacock, of Vidalia, announce the engage ment. of their daughter, Elene Louise, and Mr. Ernest Herbert Bailey, the wedding to take place early, in June. We clip above announcement from Sunday’s daily paper. Mr. Bailey is a native of Mt. Vernon, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. D. Rack ley, and will be congrat ulated by a host of friends. The bride to be has often visited in Mt. Vernon and is a niece of Dr. J. E. Hunt of this place. BIBT CA iNING CLUB IS LARGEST IN STATE Has Membership of 159 Girls; Corn Club Shows 151 Boys Busy. Bibb county’s girls’ canning club, with 159 bona tide members, leads the stath, and the corn club with 151 members makes a good showing fimong the rest. Carroll county, with 312 members, leads the state in the corn club work. These reports are made by Prof. J. Phil Campbell and Miss Mary E. Creswell, in charge of the ex tension work of the State College I at Athens. They report that 110 counties have boys’ corn clubs, with an aggregate membership of 11,000 boys and 28 counties have girls’ canning clubs with an aggregate membership of about 2,500 girls. Miss Creswell, who has assisted in the work in Bibb county, has stated that fifteen counties have been asking for assistance from the state college, but funds are not available for carrying on the work to that extent. The success that has come of the movement in Bibb county has been accomplished through the efforts of the officers and members of the Bibb County Ag ricultural Institute, of which George W. Smith is president. The institute secured the services of Mr. Campbell and Miss Cres well, and with County Agricul tural Expert W. G. Middlebrooks daily at work on the campaign much interest has been shown by the boys and girls. The teachers in the country schools have like wise given their hearty co-opera tion and kept the matter before the pupils. Mr. Middlebrooks is daily giv ing instructions to the boys and girls and many of the girls have already planted their hot-beds and have their tenth of an acre plats in good condition. At the state fair nexl fall the boys and girls of Bibb county and other counties expect to make the best showing of corn and canned fruits and vegetables ever exhil id i the state. Hand some ' ci. awards and many cash pi i/,es will be offered by the fair association to the prize-win ners and the automobile building has already been set aside for them to display their products.— Macon Telegraph. Presbyterian Missionary Meeting Programme! to be held at. church Monday 1 evening, May 5, at. 3:30. Song Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us. Scripture Reading—John 10. Prayer. Ministerial Relief and Christian Education Mrs. YV. C. Mcßae. Our Ministry in Preparation— Mrs. E. W. Armfield. Report on Union held in Way cross by Delegate, Mrs. Cock field. Transaction of business. Hymn. Benediction. A full attendance is earnestly j desired. Mrs. Alice Hicks, Pres. WESTERNERS STILL BEING DEFRAUDED CLERK O’BRIEN TO TAKE TRIP Fictitious Titles to Montgom ery Lands Bob Up in Nebraska. Telegraph Bureau, Atlanta, April 28. —Within recent months and more particularly within the last few weeks Secretary of State I Cook’s ollice has been receiving a j steady stream of letters from all i over the country concerning that j eternal and constantly re-occur | ring question of fraudulent land grants. Many of these letters come from Nebraska and other far northwestern states, indicating that somebody is operating rath er extensively in that, section with these old fraudulent grants. One correspondent stated he held ! grants to some 250,000 acres in Montgomery county, all of them 1 being the famous old James Shorter series. In discussing this matter, Col. Cook said: JJI have written a great deal about this matter, called attention • to it in my annual report, and | asked newspapers to print a I great deal in trying to put an end to these old frauds. But it ap i parent l> goes on endlessly no matter what is done. “One trouble about it is that there has practically been no leg islation on the subject since 1795, and these old acts are scarce now and few have access to them. Nearly all of these old fraudulent grants were put on the books in the counties concerned, Mont gomery, Laurens and others, and are still of record there. A pur chaser of a fraudulent grant writes the local county official for an abstract of title. For a fee the records from the old books are ma le out and sent on, but ; never a word to the effect that such papers are not worth a pen ny because no such land grants are to be found oi exist. “Now, it is wrong for the offi cial to thus deceive innocent pur chasers. Investigation always reveals the fact that the titles don’t amount to anything at all, and then correspondence is open ed up with this office. “1 believe a law should be passed making it a misdemeanor for county officials to make and forward these worthless old titles just for the sake of the fee. When such requests come the party should be informed that it is a fraudulent claim. One cor respondent recently stated that it seemed too bad that a county or state would countenance such frauds on the face of things, and with this view I agree. But without some sort of legislation it cannot be stopped. “This sort of thing does seri ous damage to the county con cerned and, in fact, the entire state. Every safeguard possible should be throwrn around the public to prevent a continuance of these old fraudulent grants.’’ Secretary Cook has received a letter from the federal district attorney at Lake Charles, La., stating that Col. Cook’s presence would probably be necessary there at the trial of James M. Fletcher, the man caught in the act of disposing of these fraudu lent grants. Col. Cook went down to this trial last fall, but the death of Fletcher’s child stopped the case. Superior Court Clerk M. L. O’Brien of Mt. Vernon has been summoned as a witness by the courts of Louisiana in connection with these fraudulent grants, and will leave for that state about the middle of the month. NO. 52
