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VOL. XXVIII.
LIVE EXAMPLE
FOR GEORGIA BOYS
BOY'S STUDIOUS HABITS PAY
How Native of Russia Is
Rapidly Coming to
Front Here.
Six years ago there arrived in i
Mt. Vernon two boys, brothers,
who could not speak a word in
the English language. With
their mother they came from far
off Russia to join their father,
Mr. Aaron Segall, who was a
refugee from the Transvaal,
where his business was wrecked
by the Boer war in South Africa.
Our story will refer briefly to
Ben Segall, the oldest boy. In a >
few weeks after arrival he caught
up enough of the English lan
guage to enter the Union Baptist
Institute here (and in the primer
class) and made most astonishing
progress in his studies. He grad
uated with high rank, capturing
a gold medal, and left the insti
tution with the highest esteem
of the student body and faculty.
Three years ago he entered the
State University, and told his
father to send him sls a month
as expense money. After the
third he asked his father
to discontinue the funds, as he
was working his way through
college, having saved over S2OO
last year, besides rendering as
sistance to his younger brother,
who is likewise making a record
as a University student.
Last week Ben graduated from
this great institution with high
honors—along with the sons of
millionaires—but on his own re
sources and as the result of his
own active brain and untiring
efforts. He took the Walter B.
Hill prize of SSO in gold for the
best essay upon an ethical sub
ject; also the L. H. Charbonier
prize, for the best senior student
in physics, a set of fine drawing
instruments, offered by Mrs. J.
F. McGowan of Augusta.
The avenues of success opened
wide for young Mr. Segall before
he completed his course, and ho
has already accepted the place of
principal of the Marietta High
School at a salary of S2OO per
month. Mr. and Mrs. Segall
have reason to feel proud of their
son, and it is to be hoped that
every Montgomery county boy
will read this brief sketch of Ben
Segall—and reflect.
WHEELER LEGISLATOR
TO TAKE HIS SEAT
Hon. Douglas S. McArthur
Will Be on Hand to
Take Place.
Atlanta, June 2M. —Withheld
since January 7, proper certifica
tion to the fact that Douglas Mc-
Arthur was elected representa
tive of the new county of Wheel
ex at a special election held on
the date named, reached the gov
ernor and secretary of state this
morning.
Therefore, Mr. McArthur’s
name will go on the official list,
he will take his place before the
speaker’s desk and assume the
oath of office on next Wednes
day, when all of the members,
group by group, come forward a
the call of Clerk John Boifeuillet.,
to be sworn in.
If any fight is made on Mr.
McArthur it will be through of
ficial action in the house. This
move, if made, to unseat him
will be referred to a proper com
mittee which will hear the facts,
make a recommendation to the
house, which will then vote to
approve or reject the committee
recommendation, as it sees fit.
However, it is not now anticipat
ed that any strenuous fight will
be made on the young member
from" Wheeler.
With certification of McArthur,
the house membership is now
complete, Leo H. Browning wa
properly certified to as Bleckley’s
member some time ago. This
house will have ISO members,
two more than the last session,
and a quorum will be 94 mem
bers. Within recei t years ele
new counties have been created,
raising the house membership
from 175 to 186.
Alley Paragraphs.
Special Correspondence.
Miss Velma McArthur of Vi
dalia spent Tuesday here with her
[grand-mother, Mrs. McArthur.
XV. T. McArthur of McGregor
and friend of Savannah came up
in the former’s car Tuesday.
Messrs. Bob Roberson and W.
J. Peterson, Sr., have returned
from a trip to Jay Bird Springs.
Dr. I). B. Sumerford has re- j
turned from Columbus, where ht
attended the state association of
pharmacists.
Messrs. Chas. Peterson and
DeWitt Calhoun of Uvalda spent
Sunday in Ailey.
Mr. Earl McArthur of Ocilla
is at home for a few days.
A pleasant little entertainment
was given at the home of Mr. J. j
A. Coursey Monday evening in i
honor of Mr. Elarl McArthur.
Rook and Forty-Two were in
dulged in and addel pleasure to
those present.
Mrs. D. B. Sumerford has just
returned from a visit to her
mother at Valdosta.
An Epworth Legue has been
organized with 26 members.
—B.
[Let this correspondent write
again, but furnish real name.]
Ed. __ i
FINE PROSPECTS AND
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
The Soperton Hardware Co.
Will Aid in Securing
Prosperity.
Prospects for a large corn crop
were never better in this section.
A large oat crop has already been
harvested, and the outlook for
an average cotton crop is fine.
With the efforts being made by
the farmers and bankers, a fair
price is practically assured. It is
now up to the farmers to make
all the hay, peas, cane, potatoes,
etc., they need and then some.
With all these farm products
in plenty, there is no reason why
Georgia, and especially South
Georgia, should not experience
the most prosperous fall and win
ter that she has ever had.
To put in a good pea crop and
prepare for good hay crop, YOU
need a good reversible disc har
row. To cut and harvest this
crop YOU need and owe it to
yourself to obtain a good mower
and rake and a good steel hay
press. To haul and market all
these good things YOU need and
must have a good, strong, light
running wagon. To ride about
and have a good time while these
things are growing in the hot
August days, YOU need and owe
; it to yourself to get a handsome,
; strong, light-running and dura
ble buggy. To cook all the good
things YOU expect or should ex
pect to raise, you owe it to the
ladv of your home A GOOD,
LA R< i E AND BEA UTI FU L
RANGE OR STOVE. To make
j your home look comfortable, hos
pitable and inviting, YOU need
jand owe it to your family, your
! friends and and yourself a well
[selected assortment of tasty n’ew
’ furniture.
Before buying any of these,
| however, you should call and see
the line carried by THE SOPER
, TON HARDWARE GO. They
carry-at all times the largest and
besr assorted stock of hardware,
farm implements, wagons, bug
gies and furniture to be found in
Wire-grass Georgia and are pre
oared to sell as low as the low
est (either for cash or good pa
per) and will always show you
courteous treatment and efficient
’ service. They most cordially in
vite you to call and see them
whether you wish to buy or not.
i [ad.]
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1913.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
W. C. Barrow, 72 years old and
who has been chief of police of
i Americas for twenty-five years,
‘was shot down by Will Redding, j
a negro on Saturday night last.
The negro was taken from jail
after being arrested and lynched.
Auditors find the shortage of!
W. F. Holmes, former city mar- [
shal of Macon, to be $11,517.25,
which amount Holmes declares
he will make good.
W. F. Armor, farm superin -;
tendent at the Georgia Industrial I
Home at Macon, has been dis-:
charged for severely whipping i
Marvin Williford, a ten-year-old
boy in the home.
J. T. Hewell, a merchant at
Long Branch, two miles from
Dublin, and his wife were mur
dered before day on Sunday
morning. Track dogs were put
on the trail shown by tracks and
six negroes have been arrested
as suspects.
John I). Lester, a barber and
prominent as the president of the
barbers’ union in Macon, com
mitted suicide in a shop there
Sunday morning by taking car
bolic acid.
Randall and Andrew Solomon,
bandits who have been robbing
freight trains at Kirkland recent
land, are being pursued by joss
es sent from Waycross and Doug
las, and have been surrounded
in a big swamp near Kirkland.
Edward Jackson, a six-year
old boy who was bitten by a
rattlesnake while picking berries
last Monday near Bethesda." be
low Savannah, died at the Sa
vannah hospital on Tuesday.
Earl Allen of Columbus, Ga.,
ten years old, shot and killed His
playmate, Monte Jones, in Wash
ington, I). €., Saturday afternoon j
while playing with a rifle in the |
Jones home, the Allen family
visiting the Jones family, their
former neighbors.
Fifty persons were injured
when a Pennsylvania Railroad
excursion train rolled down an
embankment near Sterling Sta- [
tion, N. Y., on Sunday morning.
Mrs. Dave Grant of Beach, N. ;
D., went to call her boys, aged
5 and 7 Sunday morning and
found them dead, and a large!
rattlesnake lying between them,
both having been bitten by the
snake.
Clay Mills, a turpentine opera
tor of Atmore, Ala., shot and
killed his wife and two children
and then killed himself on Mon
day.
Americus Police Chief
Shot; May Recover.
Americus, Ga., June 23.- Wil
liam C. Barrow, the aged police
chief who was shot Saturday by
Will Redding a negro, who was
later lynched, has a chance for
recovery. Although he is 72
years of age, his constitution is
strong and attending physicians
are hopeful today. Jim Stallings,
I a negro who was shot by Red
iding while the latter was at
tempting to escape, died today
from the effects of his wounds.
After Redding was lynched his
body was soaked in oil and burn
ed in the presence of five thous
and people. Many young women
took part in the orgies. No effort
has been made to arrest the
members of the mob.
Also Took Exam.
Last week in publishing a list
jof those taking the examination
for teachers’ license here on the
j 14th inst., two names were inad
! vertedly omitted from the list
i furnished The Monitor for publi
cation. These were Messrs. H.
i F. Clark and Obed Cooper.
After a chase lasting several
hours, officers of Anniston, Ala.,
captured Laura Ponder, known
| as “the wild woman of the hills, ”
in the woods near the city on
Friday. Slu* had been living in
[ the woods two weeks and it took
1 five hours to capture her.
Amillo Calisa, an Italian em
ployed by the Savannah Fish Co.,
was found dead in a lane early
Saturday morning, having died
of hemorrhages.
The United States survey boat,
! Beaver, capsized in a wind storm
jon the Mississippi river at New
Madrid, Mo., on Sunday after
noon and nine engineers of the
service were drowned.
Ladies of Manhattan, Kansas,
complained that mulberries drop
ping from the trees on the side
walk spoiled their dreeses, and
the city commissioners are having
the trees dug up and burned.
Two boys playing in a small
boat, were carried over Niagara
Falls on Sunday afternoon while
hundreds unable to rescue them
stood and saw them shake hands
as they went to their death.
i Bertha Key, a farmer’s daugh
ter 14 years old, waved down a
train near Hot Springs on Mon
day, using h< r sun bonnet, and
stopped it in eight feet of a chasm
of a burned bridge, saving many
lives.
Three young men and a young
woman were swept down stream
and drowned in the Missouri
river at Parkville, Mo., Sunday
by the capsizing of a motor boat
in which they were riding.
Suffragettes in London on Sun
day set fire to Jt. John’s Church
and caused damage to the extent
of $30,000 before the firemen gol
j control.
While digging a well on bis
farm near Fresno, Cal., Fred
Williams found a meteor weigh
ing twenty tons from which he
chipped a small piece of metal
that jewelers pronounce crystali
zed gold, arid figure the find to
; be worth $10,000,000.
The bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, have
declined a gift of $1,000,000 from
Andrew Carnegie to the Medical
College of Vanderbilt University,
on account of objectional features
in the gift.
Four men were killed and sixty
others injured when an explosion
occurred in the elevator and stor
age warehouse of the Husted
Milling Go., at Buffalo, N. Y., on
Monday.
The Sunbeams Shine
On Sunday Night.
The Sunbeam Society gave
their entertainment according to
the program published last week,
arid the exercises were highly en
joyed by a large audience. In
I fact, there was not even standing
room in the church, so great was
the attendance. It is needless to
say that the little folks did well,
as the excellent training given
I them by Mrs. C. A. Mason as
surer! that. Where all did t.h< ir
parts so well it would not be fair
to particularize.
Brewlon-Lewis.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. M. Dame yesterday morn
ing at 11:45 o’clock occurred the
; wedding of Mrs. Dame's sister,
Miss Matsie Brewton, of Way
cross, to Mr. A. M. Lewis of
Florida.
The wedding vvas a quiet one
only the family being present.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. H. C. Brewton, of Adrian.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis left ori
train No. 185 in the afternoon
for points in Florida.—Clinch Co-
News.
Longpond.
| Special OolTeapomleneo
We are glad to note that the
crops are looking well in this
section.
Misses Beatrice Sharpe, Lota
Gibbs and Lula Sharpe attended
services at Oak Grove Saturday
and Sunday.
The party at the home of Mr.
W. A. Johnson Friday evening
was enjoyed by all present,
Miss Louise McArthur visited
relatives at McGregor Friday and
Saturday last.
Little Miss Sarah McArthur
had a pleasant trip to Uvalda
last week. B. E.
RUFFIANISM SHOWN
AT KOMFRVILLE
Attack On Bridal Party Gets
Into Newspapers For
An Airing.
On the occasion of the marriage
of Miss Matsie Brewton, daugh
ter of Rev. H. (’. Brewton, pas
tor here two years ago, and Mr.
A. M Lewi, of Florida, the wed
ding ui. Ting at the home of the
bride’s sister in Homerville on
Wednesday of last week, an ex
hibition of rowdyism that seldom
is shown in Georgia occurred.
The bridal party was leaving on
an Atlantic Coast Line train
when set upon by a crowd of
toughs who attempted to spoil
the clothes of the bride and groom
by using flour, and other things,
and one or two of the ruffians
were knocked down by the groom
before .they desisted. A highly
sensational and distorted report
of the affair was published in the
Savannah News, whichcalled for
a lengthy correction published in
the same paper on Sunday from
Rev. 11. C. Brewton, father of
the bride, who was present, hav
ing performed the ceremony, and
who received a blow on bis ear
by one of the disgusting fools
who made the assault at the
train. There are plenty of good
people in Homerville who are not
responsible for the conduct of a
few low characters hanging
around the depots of small towns;
but, as pointed out in Mr. Brew
ton’s article, railroads ought to
have power to protect their pa
trons at such places. No Georgia
girl even went out as a bride
with a more refined and delicate
ly beautiful character than Miss
Matsie Brewton, and the minnis
terial ranks of the state hold no
higher example of the consider
ate Christian gentleman than
presented in the person of Henry
C. Brewton.
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MEDICAL PRACTICE
TO BE IMPROVED
FAKES STAND FROM UNDER
To Insist On Stricter Laws
To Regulate Conduct
Os Healers.
At, a meeting of the Twelfth
District Medical Society, held in
Vidalia last Wednesday, the fol
lowing resolution offered by Dr.
J. W. Palmer of Ailey, will be
read with interest by the public:
Whereas, There being no
changes made in the laws regu
lating the practice of medicine
in Georgia, the Empire State of
the south, for nearly twenty
years, none made to keep pace
with the progress, stride and ad
vancements made in medicine
and surgery, has placed Georgia
so far behind all the other states
in the Union, until Ga. has be
come the dumping ground of the
U. S. for quacks, impostors,
charlatans and incompetent prac
tioners, so much until most all
the states in the union refuse to
recognize a medical license from
■ a., that is, they will not recip
rocate with us.
Therefore, At the next meet
ing of the General Assembly of
Ga., there will be introduced a
bill to regulate the laws govern
ing the practice of medicine in
order that the purses, health and
lives of the citizens of Ga., will
be better protected, and place
around the profession such re
strictions, protections and re
quirements that the medical laws
of Ga., will be recognized by
other states to the extent that
they will be glad to reciprocate
with us therefore, be it
Resolved, By the 12t,h. Con
gressional District Medical So
ciety that each and every physi
cian see and urge their respec
tive Senator and Representative
to use their influence in securing
the passage of the bill be it further
Resolved, That we most sin
cerely and earnestly call upon
each and every citizen in the
12th. Congressional District to
join us in our efforts to g this
bill passed, which weassu.-e vou
is for your protection and bene
fit. more than ours, so we ask
that you see that your respective
Senator and Representative use
their efforts to secure the pas
sage of the bill, be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary
of this Society furnish each Sen
ator and Representative in this
I )istrict a copy of these resolu
tions, be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary
furnish a copy of these resolu
tions to each paper in the 12th.
Congressional District for publi
cation. Dr. .1. L. Weddington,
Pres. 12t.h Dist. Med. Society.
Dr. C. It. Riner, Sec’y.
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