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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1913)
t iMotttgnutTTy monitor* VOL. XXVIII. WILL DISCONTINUE TELEGRAPH OFFICE TO SUBSTITUTE TELEPHONE Telegrams to be Dispatched Through Vidalia and Savannah. Under a recent ruling of the State Railroad Commission, the Western Union Telegraph Com pany is granted permission to dis continue its telegraph office at this place. As a substitute for this arrangement, there is pend ing an agreement between the Western Union Telegraph Co. and Stanford Bros., owners of the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., by which all telegraphic business to and from the place will be transmitted through Vidalia and Savannah, direct over the local telephone system and that of the Southern Bell Telephone and Tel egraph Co.’s lines. It is very probable that Stanford Bros, will accept the terms submitted by the W. U. Telegraph Co., (which is understood to be owned by the Bell company) and thus shortly put into effect the ruling of the Railroad Commission. This state of affairs is brought on by the contention of the tele graph company that the volume of business furnished by Mt. Vernon is not sufficient to war rant a continuance of the office at this place: however, when the matter came before the Railroad Commission, about sixty days ago, citizens of the place had a representative to offer protest before the Commission, submit ting the fact that the entire vol ume of business for the town, both outgoing and incoming, was sufficient to warrant an office in connection with the railroad and express company, which is a universal custom, accorded even the small towns. As a part of the agreement, telegraph messages to and from this place, from 8 a. m. to Bp. m., will be telephoned to the Vi dalia telegraph office, and from 8 p. m. to 8 a. m. to Savannah, for transmission. It is understood that the Bell company will fur nish the telephone service free, details to be worked out fully. Ir. other words, the Bell company and the Western Union have been granted the privilege of substi tuting telephonic communication with Mt. Vernon for the tele graph, a plan which is doubtless contemplated for other towns of similar caliber and environment. The Bell telephone facilities are the greatest in the United States, while the local system is thor oughly complete and progressive, covering this entire section. Just how satisfactorily the new plan will work remains to be seen. Os course minor compli cations will arise and contingen cies offer for adjustment, but it is to be hoped that an improve ment over the present conditions will result from the change. If the people of this town and sec tion find after trial that the new arrangement is not satisfactory, they may arouse themselves to wards something better; if the new plan proves economical and progressive, it will have been thrust upon them by outside in fluences. Such innovations may be in line with progress and mod ern development—and a substi tute for the Chinese wall and tallow-cadle regime which has heretofore held sway. Tax Notice. I will be in Mt. Vernon June 18 and 19 for receiving taxes, and books will close eight or ten days thereafter. Isaac Brooks, T. R. M. C. Tarrvtown. w Special Correspondence. Miss Mary Calhoun of Soperton attended services at the Baptist church Sunday. Rev. J. I. D. Miller filled Rev. Jesup’s appointments at the Bap tist church Saturday and Sunday. The musical entertainment given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Q. Kirkland Saturday night, was very much enjoyed by those present. Miss Eunice Lightfoot is the charming guest of her sister, Mrs. Beckworth. Miss Omie Kitchens was the guest of Miss Mayme Snow Sun day. Mrs. G. R. Miller visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. War nock, last week. Messrs. Lamar Davis and Lee McLendon of Orland, were visi tors to our little city Sunday, stopping at the home of Mr. J. 0. Snow. Miss Blanche Usry visited Miss Omie Kitchens Monday after | noon. “Violet” PREPARING FOR ; -SCHOOLROOM WORK Many Take the Examination and Others Absent on Vacation. The County Superintendent of Schools Hon. A. B. Hutcheson, assisted by Prof. J. A. Pool, held the regular June examination for teachers here Friday and Satur day last. Many of the regular teachers of the county are away ' for the summer vacation, and the number taking the examina : tion was very much reduced on j that account. The white appli | cants for license taking the exam ination were: , Indus Jones, Uvalda j Miss Lucy Gay, Higgston Miss Sallie M. Smith, Higgston : Mrs. A. S. Howell, Higgston ; C. H. Jones, Soperton |M. M. Flanders, Mt. Vernon 1 Miss Annie Lou McAllister, Longpond Miss Pearl Keen, Uvalda ! Miss Cassie McCrimmon, Soperton Miss Dollie Wells, Longpond Miss Tommie Smith, Higgston Miss Mary L. Calhoun, Soperton : Walter Morris, Uvalda Miss Bessie Higgs, Mt. Vernon Charles McAllister, Longpond Mrs. Effie Canady, Mt. Vernon 1 Besides the above there were twelve colored applicants who stood the examination. Sing on Fifth Sunday. The Union Singing Convention will meet with Sardis Church on the sth Sunday. Everybody in vited to attend. Go prepared to stay all day. J. F. McDaniel, Secretary. Former Montgomery Boys are Graduates. The Monitor is always glad to note the success of Montgomery county boys as well as those who were formerly in its confines. We note as the graduates of Emory College the past week J. E. Barnhill, Glenwood, B. of P.; Clifford Mcßride, Ailey, B, of J’.; J. E. Mathews, Vidalia, B. of S. Ben Segal!, son of Mr. A. Segal 1 of this place, graduated from the State University the past week. Having been in this country only a few years, and having mastered English and received college de grees from the University is a record to be proud of by him. These young men and others who may have finished college from this section deserve con gratulations and asurance that the future holds much in store for them. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. i Forty-five thousand veterans North and South have asked for accomodations at the great Get tysburg reunion to lie held next month. Chief Peterson of Oakland, Cal., told the Police Chiefs as sembled in convention in Wash ! ington that one great cause of immorality among men is wo man’s immodest dress. | Judge J. G. McCall of Quit man, Ga., is now chairman of the | board of trustees of Mercer Uni i versity. A mob of 1,000 persons hanged and burned Ben Simmons, a ne gro eighteen years old at Ana darko, Okla., on Saturday. Sim mons had assaulted and then murdered a young white girl. The funeral of Miss Davidson, the militant suffragette who was killed while trying to stop the ; king’s horse in the derby last {week, occured in London on Sat | urday, a great throng attending land twenty brass bands playing. A warrant is out for John Friesmuth of Lacrosse, Wis., for hitching his 12-year-old son to a j cultivator alongside a mule to '• cultivate his crop. A mule kicked a w r ire in the | Jefferson Coal Co’s mine in Ohio lon Monday and the spark from | the shoe on the mule’s foot set i off a keg of powder causing an j explosion that fatally hurt four | men. Dr. Guy O. Brinkley, a promi nent young physician of Savan nah, was shot to death in his of fice Monday afternoon by Mrs. E. H. Whisenant, who turned the pistol and fired a bullet I through her own brain, falling dead across the body of the physi cian. W. W. Martin of Becker, Tenn., fell three stories down an eleva tor shaft in the Third National Bank building in Atlanta on Sat -1 urday and was instantly killed. Fire destroyed the shops of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Va., on Monday! morning. The building was val ued at $150,000 and insured fori only $50,000. A sagging wire cut the throats of two people riding on top of a double deck auto bus at Long Beach, L. 1., on Sunday, and one man’s windpipe was partly sever ed, but all may recover. The Wheeler County Bank, to ! be located at Alamo, applied to s he secretary of state Tuesday lor a charter, the capital stock to be $25,000. | Carl Brown, aged 23, was killed at Stone Mountain Monday while trying to board an early train into Atlanta. Charles Jason, son of a rich rancher near Niobrora, Neb.,’ re fused an offer by his father of SIO,OOO to forsake bis sweet hear, and enlist in the army. A letter written by Henry G. Russell of Pottsville during the war was received by lib widow last week, 52 years after it was written, having been mislaid by a friend to whom he had given it to be mailed. The annual convention of the County Officers’ Association met at Miflen yesterday. L. M. Crawford of Jackson, Ga., is the president. Hon. C. M. Methvin, wh is president of the Georgia Weekly Press Association, and also a member of the legislat or from Dodge county, has been appoint ed district deputy grand chancel lor, K. of P., for the Twelfth district. I More than 2,500 people attend jed the annual foot-washing of i the followers of the Church of God near \ndcrson, Ind., on Monday, followed by the sacra ment. Principal W. A. Dunn of the Polytechnic High School of Los Angelges, Cal., sent home two girls from school because they wore “slit” skirts showing their ankles. The Infante Don Jaime, the second son of the king and queen of Spain, was born deaf and dumb, and is now five years old. In the election held in Chatham county Monday for a member of the legislature to fill the place of Hon, P. A. Stovall, who goes as minister to Switzerland, Herman C. Shuptrine was elected, his ma jority over J. J. Bonham be mg mi': A. L. Christian, a Waycross man, gave himself up to the po lice of Richmond, Va., on Satur day night, saying he had robbed his partner in the fruit business in Waycross of SIOO. Extensive preparations are be ing made in Brunswick for the state reunion of Confederate Vet erans to he held there in July, i The city council has appropriated j SSOO towards the entertainment fund. D. S. Yancey, a deputy sheriff of the city court in Atlanta, was stabbed to death on Monday about j noon by Eugene Watson, a negro! whom he was trying to arrest for snatching a purse from another j negro. ■ - S. S. CONVENTION OF IIANIELL ASSOCIATION Programme for Meeting at Higgston June 27th, 28th and 29th. The Sunday School Convention of the Daniell Association will be j held with the Higgston Bap tist Church on June 27, 28, 29. FRIDAY MORNING. 11 o’clock, Introductory Sermon —J. A. J. Dumas. Organize. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 2:00 o’clock, Importance of teaching the fundamental doc trines of the Bible in the Sunday School J. D. Rabun. 3:00 o’clock, Elements of con secration in a teacher that are necessary for soul winning J. A. J. Dumas. FRIDAY NIGHT. 8:00 o’clock, Sermon—S. N. Mamie. SATURDAY MORNING. 9 o’clock, Song service. 9:30 o’clock, The Sunday School as an agency for training for service L. M. Jessup and T. P>. Conner. 10:30 o’clock. The social fea ture of a Sunday School and the best methods of securing regular attendance Dr. L. 11. Darby and Dr. J. W. Palmer. 11:15 o’clock, Sermon—O. O. V, illiams. jSA'I URDAY AFTERNOON. 2:00 o’clock, Literature It. E. Robertson and S. N. Mamie. 3:00 o’clock, The* home and the Sunday School as factors in training a good citizenry J. C. Brew ton. SATURDAY NIGHT. 8:00 o’clock, How to make a Sunday School “go” in the coun try church —M. E. Burns. SUNDAY MORNING. 9:00 o’clock, Programme of 20 minutes each by different Sun day Schools. 11 o’clock, Missionary Sermon by Let each Sunday School that will render a 20-minutes pro gramme on Sunday morning of the convention write Dr. L. H. Darby, Vidalia, so that the con vention rnay know just what to expect. J. D. ItAHUN, Chairman Prog. Corn. Kemp School. Special Correspondence. The crops of this section are looking fine, and the farmers have had ample opportunity for working them. Mr - . Leighton Williamson and famil.\ visited the family of Mr. John Goff Saturday night. Mr. J. H. Martin made a trip to Tarry town Saturday. Miss Mary Calhoun of Soperton is visiting the family of Mr. L. Canady this week. An ice-cream supper at the home of Mr. John Goff Saturday night was enjoyed by those pres present:. Mr. John Calmer visited his mother Sunday. Mrs. 11. C. Goff is recovering from an attack of appendicitis. Mr. Harmon Fennel and family j visised in our section Sunday. Mrs. Lester Canady and Miss Mary Calhoun attended the ex amination in Mt. Vernon Satur day. School begins in two weeks. Eyes of Blue. SUNBEAMS WILL SC TIER SUNSHINE i " Young Folks Will Entertain at Baptist Church Sunday Eve. The Sunbeam Society will give lan entertainment Sunday eve ning, 8 p m. June 22, at the I Baptist Churc i, Mt. Vernon. {The public- is gokdiauuy invited to attend. The young people are in fine training, and a treat is in store for t hose who attend. The following program will be ren dered: Song, On This Glad Night The Lord’s Prayer The Band 1 Memory Work: The Pentateuch, 23d Chapter <d' P: alms, Beati tudes, Twelve Apes'les. Mother Goose and Her Family as I Mission Workers. J Song Thy Will be Done Ilelen Lee, Mamie Rabun Telephone Quiz Seven Sections I The Penny Song Esther Geiger, Grace Currie I Telephone Quiz -Seven Sections Solo — Shall 1 be Forgotten? Theodosia < leiger Song Carol His Praises Telephone Quiz—Nine Sections Duet Eva Conner, Sue Lee Solo— Ever Nearer Theodosia ( leiger 1 iishcloth I )ia!ogue Birdie Twiggs, Clara Bright Winnie Smith, Frankie Stan ford Song— Merry Missionaries i Georgia Has 100,000 Acres ol Coal Land. The total area of the coal fields in Georgia is estimated at IG7 j square miles, the smallest coal area in the Appalachian States. Not all of the field is workable. | . . . , I Extensive operations are carried j on iri both counties, however, but all of the production iri 1912 was by two companies operating in Walker County. On account of its high percentage (80) of fixed carbon and its low sulphur eon-1 tent, the Lookout Mountain coal of Walker County gives a large product of excellent coke which is sold to the furnaces of Chatta nooga and other points in Ten-: nessee n d it (leorgia. $1 HO I ire at Mcßae. Mcßae, Ga., June 10. Fire in the heart of the business section today destroyed the millinery store of Mrs. Cal lit? McLean arid the adjoining building, occupied by J. 11. Redmond’s grocery! store and M. L. McGee’s photo- { graph studio. The loss is esti- 1 mated at about ten thousand dollars, partly covered by insu rance. TEACHERS ASK ! CONSIDERATION PAY BEFORE APPROPRIATION Unpaid Salaries the Cause of Complaint From Teachers. At a meeting of the Georgia County School Officials Associa tion in Atlanta April 29-May 1, there was adopted a resolution which would seek a limitation to appropriation for school purposes without provision for the pay ment of funds AiiREADY appropri ; ted by the state for the mainte nance of the public schools. This is the only consistent at titude for the present general assembly to assume: it is folly to legislate measures a with out means, as is often the case. The very life and purpose of the measure is defeated, where the vital provision—funds, sys tematically spent —is not car ried out. Debts incurred by the state should first be cancelled by provisions already prescribed; a greater and more far-reaching appropriation will then be incum bent upon the legislative body of the state. The schools of the state—and in many instances those which j are recognized as state institu 11ions—are sadly in need of funds I for greater work, but likewise hundreds of teachers throughout I the state are kept in waiting for I their well-earned salaries. Let the state endeavor to meet its I present obligations; then go for ward with the work of brain building, until her sons and daughters gain intellectual at tainment second to no state in the union. The Monitor has al ways stood for educational de velopment, and while Montgom ery county has made remarkable strides, still greater good may lie expected in her bounds. Hon. A. I>. Hutcheson, super intendent of county schools, is a member of the committee ap pointed to appear before the leg islative committee in support of | the resolution referred to, which j is as follows: “Resolved by the Georgia t.chool Officials Convention now in session that a Legislature Com mittee of seven be appointed from this body to appear before the appropriations and Education al Committees of the Legislature and oppose vigorously any in crease in appropriations to the Common Schools or to any Edu cational Institution until some means shall have been provided ! for the prompt payment of ap propriations already made. “We recommend that the Coun ty Superintendent of Schools in each county have the above res olution printed in his local paper in order that the matter be brought to the attention of all the people." YOUNIi MAN DIES 01 TYPHOID FEVER. Rod Carpenter Passes away As He Attains To Man’s Estate. After an illness of three weeks of typhoid fever, Mr. Rod Car penter, 22 years of age, passed away at the family home on Sun day evening last. Mr. Carpen ter was a popular young man of exemplary character, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Car penter near McGregor. In the prime of young manhood his ca reer came to an end, leaving many sorrowing hearts. The re mains were buried at Vidalia on Monday, Rev. N. H. Williams of the Methodist church performing the funeral rites. NO. 8.
