The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, June 12, 1913, Image 1
fUtautor. VOL. XXVIII. WARRANT SERVED ON MARSHAL H«D RAIDED A BLIND TIGER Negro Wine Vender Raises Objection to Raid on Business. While trying to find the source of much disorderly conduct around the home of Wallie Mc- Kinnon, Marshal J. R. Butters worth found quite a lot of row making material stored away in a house at McKinnon’s home a few days ago. The find consisted of about 25 gallons of corn beer and 7 gallons of wine. Marshal Buttersworth made a forcible entry to capture the stuff, and McKinnon has undertaken to re taliate by getting out a warrant for the marshal, who has given bond. Os course the marshal was act ing in the direct discharge of his duties, and the fact that he found what he was looking for fully justifies his action in seizing the blind tiger stores of the negro. Section 21 of the town 'ordinances states plainly that “the marshal shall have such power as may be necessary for the purpose of per forming his duties, and to this end may enter houses or enclos ures if necessary.” Section 56 reads: “For selling whiskey, Jamaica ginger, or any other in toxicating liquor or bitters of any kind, a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail or town callaboose, or caused to work upon the streets of the town not less than five nor more than thirty days.” This is perhaps the most brazen faced bluff ever attempted in Mt. Vernon to override the law, and when the county grand jury meets the matter should be thoroughly aired, and the true inwardness of this case put be fore the superior court. Marshal Buttersworth could give a dozen bonds if necessary, but this is not a question of bonds. Mrs. Annis Elliott Dies At Hazlehurst - Mrs. Annis Elliott, 73 years of age, and known here to a host of friends among whom she resided years ago, died at Hazlehurst on Saturday after a brief illness Mrs Elliott was a visitor to her sons here only a few weeks ago and enjoyed the meeting of many friends who knew her while liv ing here. She was a woman of most estimable character and disposition, and though her min istrations for the happiness of loved ones are ended, the sweet influences of a well-spent life continue to live after her. Her children remaining are, W. W. Elliott of Homerville, Abe Elliott and Mrs. J. A. Massie of Florida, Mrs. Wilson of Hazlehurst, J. H. and S. J. Elliott of Mt. Vernon. The funeral service was con ducted by Rev. C. M. Ledbetter of the Methodist church at the residence of Mr. S. J. Elliott on Monday morning in the presence of many friends. The remains were laid to rest in the Mcßae cemetery north of Mt. Vernon beside those of her husband who departed this life in 1878. Appreciate Kindness Shown. Mr. J. E Braswell and wife of Alston have, after their sad af fliction by the loss of their sweet little daughter, expressed a de sire that their many friends in and around Alston, who were so kind and faithful to them in their bereavement, shall be rewarded at the resurrection of the just. Quite a number of friends attend ed the funeral at J. T. Walker’s cemetery. G. J. Thompson. A Legless Funeral. Chicago, June 9.—The burial of Charles E. Moore, one-legged manager of an artificial limb manufacturing concern, was at tended by ten men who had but eight legs between them. The four pallbearers had a leg each. Two men attended who had no legs except of the artificial kind. Four others had four legs. Seven were employed in the factory. Four men had but one arm each and one woman had an artificial log. Giant Carp Tows A Skiff. Lewiston, Pa., June 9. —Work- men in the Narrows were mysti fied at seeing a small boat with a single occupant travel rapidly downstream, without apparent power. When nearing Denholm the craft slowed down and the lone occupant was seen to reach over the side with a net and land a monster carp. A Pennsylvania Railroad sig nalman, was the occupant of the boat, and in speaking of his catch said the first pull at his line al most upset the boat; and, recog nizing he had something big, he quietly lifted anchor and let the carp pull the boat around until it was exhausted. The carp weighed 25 pounds and towed the boat four miles. New M. D. & S. Bridge In Service About July 4. The big new steel and concrete bridge across the Ocmulgee river, below Central City park, to be used by the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad, will be completed and placed in service about July 4. Officials stated yesterday morning that thp bulk of the work has been completed and the draw is now being finish ed. A preliminary test will be made July 3 and regular trains operated over the bridge on the day following. As soon as the new bridge is putin commission, the old wooden bridge at the foot of Sixth street will probably be abandoned. The wooden bridge has been in continuous service for more than 20 years and is still in fairly good condition. The new bridge will cost com pleted, approximately $30,000 and will be modern in every respect, substantially constructed and capable of many years of service. Nearly two years have been re quired to get it built. Many de lays in the work have, however, given ample time for the laying of tracks for the opproaches on either side of the river. The use of the new bridge will change the course of the road in such a manner that nearly two miles will be saved in distance between Macon and Dublin. A sharp curve is now necessary, be sides grades must be made. The new course will obliterate the grades and give almost a direct line out of Macon in the direction of Dublin. —Macon Telegraph. Worth The Money. Milwaukee, June 9. —“Oh, no I don’t regret it much. It was worth SSOO to be a wife even if it did not last long. I’m no spring chicken any more, and I did want to become some man’s wife.” That is the philosophic manner in which Mrs. Violet Adamson, 30, formerly a school teacher at Stonefort, 111., talked of the dis appearance of her husband of a dav with SSOO which, she says, he persuaded her to let him “take to put in a bank” here. The Imperator, just finished by the Hamburg-American Line, and the largest ship ever built, will be put on the New York run at once. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Near Pulaski, Va., on Saturday last Mrs. Horace O’Brien was caught on a trestle by a west bound Norfolk and Western train and literally cut to pieces. The Georgia Coast and Pied mont Railroad hopes to have its big bridge across the Altamaha river at Barrington completed in time for use on July 4th, at which time they propose to run a train into Brunswick. The Georgia Hotel Men’s Asso ciation will hold their annual con vention at Savannah and Tybee on Friday and Saturday next. Guisppe Pomaro, one of a black hand gang operating at Youngstown, Ohio, wrote Presi dent Wilson a letter demanding $5,000, and was arrested on Sat urday, admitting that he was the guilty party. W. H. Truehart, former cashier of the Georgia and Florida rail road, was convicted of embezzling funds from the road in a trial at Valdosta on Friday. Miss Evelyn Valley of Kings ton, Jamaica, slipped a note un der the skin of a banana on a bunch her father was shipping to Toronto, Canada, and it was found by Mr. Powell, a stock broker, who went to Jamaica and married the young lady. Angres Bruno, a Spaniard at Tampa, shot a woman known as Eleanor Jackson, and after kill ing her shot himself to death. On Sunday a boy near Jesup was fatally wounded by the ex plosion of a lot of dynamite caps he had in his pocket. Another boy slapped him causing the caps to explode, tearing off one thigh and taking oft' two fingers of the boy who struck him. The postoffice at Kernersville, N. C., was robbed on Saturday night, the thieves getting off with $1,263 in stamps and SSO in cash. William Surratt and Ed Mcln ness, both young men, were drowned in the Ochlocknee river near Thomasville on Sunday, but at different places. Two women were scalded to death on Sunday at Cleveland, Va., when a train on the Norfolk and Western road left the track and plunged into their house demolishing it. Minor Jordan, sixteen years old of Atlanta was drowned Sat urday afternoon in a lake at White City park while in bath ing. Richer Than John D. Who is the richest man in the world? A Chilean, who calls himself the nitrate king and who is now traveling in this country, claims the proud distinction. The chances are that if he travels very much in the United States through the “avenue of palms” that greets the moneyed visitor he won’t be quite as well-to-do when he leaves as when he came. It is said that he dosen’t know whether it is $500,000,000 he is worth, or a round billion. Ameri cans are accustomed to think that no foreigner’s wealth could ap proach that of some well known citizens of the United States, yet this Croesus from Chilean is quot ed as saying calmly, “John D. Rockefeller is a poor man when compared with me.” If the ni trate king wants to keep his mon ey he should make his visit to Wall street only a “party call.” Wall street needs money just now and would be perfectly willing to take even Chilean pesos.—Savan nah News. John T. Evans of Birmingham went to Beuna Vista on Saturday to call on a young lady with whom he had been in corres pondence and fell dead on the sidewalk when the house was 1 pointed out to him. Walter S. Shrouds of Philadel phia, who had been indicted for making off with $1,500,000 of the Merchants Union Trust Co., re turned the amount and the case against him was dropped. This is said to be the coldest June on record. There was frost in Vermont. New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. The steamship Olinda of the Munson line was reported on fire Monday off the Georgia coast, her condition being reuorted by wireless. Calvin Seage, a twelve-year old boy of Augusta, fell from his bicycle Sunday afternoon and was run over by a carriage in a funeral procession sustaining severe injuries. Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw slipped over to London and appeared on the stage Saturday night and danced the tango and turkey trot. Resenting attentions paid to his daughter, Sam Bruce of Richland quarreled with a young man named Alston and was shot down by Holliman, a friend of Alston. A real horn snake having a horn on its tail was captured near Marietta and is now on ex hibition at the state capitol museum in Atlanta. J. H. Kelley of Fort Worth was fined $33 for kissing a mule on the streets which he mistook for a young woman. He was intox icated. Miss Florence S. Markham, aged, 41, who has traveled 70,- 000 miles in carrying the mail between Interlaken and Stock bridge, Mass., was married a few days ago after having refused i over 100 offers of marriage. ! A deer that was being pursued by men at Haverstraw, N. Y., ran into a house and smashed a lot of chinaware. The animal was captured alive after escaping from the house. ! A passenger train on the Mis souri, Kansas and Texas railroad ran into a horse on Sunday and one woman was killed and 48 others were injured in the wreck that followed. Mt. Vernon Team Is Defeated By Alamo. The Alamo base ball team de feated Mt. Vernon in the first game played between them this season Friday afternoon by the score of 9to 1. The feature of the game was Patterson’s one hand stab of a line drive. The batteries were: Alamo; Morrison and Reynolds. Mt. Vernon; Hicks and Abt. Political Cosmetics. “Great Scott, Jonesy,” said Wilkins, according to Judge, “that’s a hefty bundle of papers you’ve got there! All campaign literature, I see.” “Yes,” said Jonesy. “It’s a bundle of politic** l cosmetics for my wife.’ “Political cosmetics?” cried Wilkins. “Yep,” said Jonesy. “She’s in doubt as to her political com plexion, and this stuff will help her to make up her mind.” Cannon of Solid Rock. Whep the island of Malta was | under the rule of the Knights of >! St. John they defended their for- I tifications with cannon bored in I the living rock. Each one of j these strange weapons contained an entire barrel of • powder, and as it was not possible to vary the . aim of these cannon 50 were made ready, facing various direc tions from which the enemy might approach. When the fame of these arms of defense became known to the world the idea was taken up of transporting rocks to summits to serve the same purpose, but it was soon recognized to be im practicable, and the cannon of Malta, bored in solid rock, have passed into history as the sole weapons of the kuul ever known. Hi’ er’s Weekly. Acid Chamber Cleaned; Many Fish Killed. Waycross, June 6. According to a report received here the | cleaning of an acid chamber of a ! Blackshear fertilizer plant was responsible for the death of thousands of fish in the Alabama river, which is only a short dis tance east of Blackshear. The fish were of all sizes and kinds, many fine trout being among those killed. Boys out fishing when the acid began to have its effect were frightened by the way the fish jumped out of the water and on sandbars and rushed into town with the news. The investiga tion disclosed the cause of the unusual performance of the fish. It is said people in the vicinitv of the river had no idea there were so many fish in the Alabaha, al though the river is noted for its fishing. Doing Nothing But Buying Automobiles. Atlanta, June 7. Secretary of | State Phil Cook says, after a ; study of his current records, that it looks to him as if the people of Georgia have about stopped do ing everything but buying auto mobiles. There was only one bank chartered by Secretary Cook dur ing the month of May, while the average is u ually about six a month. There were six banks chartered in May, 1912. But as a matter of fact, there have been only three banks chartered since the first of January this year, as against twenty-six for the same period last year. It may be that the banking business is not so good as it used to be, of that Georgia has enough banks, any how, but there is no question but that Georgians do not seem anxious to go into the banking business. There was no railroad charter ed during the month of May, 1913, and there has scarcely been a railroad charter granted this year. In fact, the business of chartering corporations is exceed ing! .low. “ jC” laid Secretary Cook, “We find no trouble in issuing automobile licenses. We issued 742 licenses for motor vehicles during May, 1913, and these ma chines will average in value at least SI,OOO each. We are al ready 300 automobiles ahead of last year’s record. There were 6,000 licenses issued in 1912, and the indications are that the num ber this year will go considerably beyond that. “If the people of Georgia have temporarily let up on business, there is at least every indication that they propose to enjoy them !selves while they can.” Fire destroyed the elevator in the Bewley mill at Ft. Worth, Texas, on Saturday, burning 5 (f,- 000 bushels of grain and causing a total damage of $125,000. MONTH OF ROSES IS LIKE WINTER BIG DROP IN TEMPERATURE Recalls Memorable Summer of 1816.—Overcoats Now in Use. While Atlanta folks are shiver ing in the icy blasts which this month of rare and beautiful June has brought forth, they would do well to hark back to another day and remember the summer of the year eighteen-hundred-and starve-to-deat’n, ” the summer when June was a month of “ice and desolation” instead of roses and snow covered the earth where flowers should have bloomed. This freakish year is told of in a clipping from the Boston Globe of some far distant date. The paper is yellowed with age but it I records strange meterological happenings that came to pass in the United States in the year 1816. It was furnished to The Journal by John ltasberry, of ! Atlanta. In that summer, says the clip ping, “the sun’s rays seemed to be destitute of heat, and all na ture was clad in a sable hue. Men and women became fright- I ened, an imagined that the fire in the sun was being rapidly ex tinguished, and that the world I would soon come to an end.” As for June, it continues, it was “a month of ice and desola \ lion. Tne oldest inhabitant was surprised, for never before had the thermometer sunk so low in the tube in these lattitudes in the last month of spring. Frost, ice ! and snow were common. One day the beautiful snow fell to a depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven inches in Maine and cen tral New York. Papers received from Kngland stated that the year 1816 would be remembered by the generation then living as a year in which there was no summer. —Atlanta Journal. Farmer Slack’s Troubles Farmer Slack is two weeks or more behind with his seeding this spring because his plows and harrows which he left out in the fence corner over winter were rusted and out of repair. He broke his plow the first time he hitched onto it, his disc harrow which he bought new last year wouldn’t work, and one of the cogs in his seeder snapped the first time around the field, so he i had to send to the company to get a new one, delaying his seed ing several days. As a result his oats will be late coming up and will hardly get a start before the June dry spell. The yield will be small. His mowing ma chine and binder are under an open shed where he left them last fall unrepaired and in no condition for use. It will not re quire an extraordinarily strongly developed prophetic vision to see that haying will be late on neigh bor Slack’s place. The clover and timothy hay will lie over ripe, and worth about as much as wheat straw for stock feeding. And Neighbor Slack will lay all his troubles to the poor season and general bad luck. Mrs. Slack will wear her last sum mer’s hat another year.-Rural Life. Soonor the Hotter. The minute a tooth begins to decay it is the beginning of later inconvenience and expense. The time to treat a tooth is the min ute the decay begins. The way to keep posted on the condition of your teeth is to see a dentist at least twice a year. Dr. L. W. Bush, [ad] Soperton, Ga, NO. 6.