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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1913)
mnntgnntrnj Mmxtar. VOL. XXVIII. GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGAIN IN SESSION Body Flooded With Bills— More Work Ahead Than Time. The regular annual session of the Georgia Legislature is in full swing, and the usual organization and the inauguration of the gov ernor and appointment of com mittees is over. New bills and bulls on old matters are poured in at each roll call. Many very im p ortant measures will be up for c onsideration, but may be choked out by local matters. The first official act of Mont gomery’s representative was to incroduce a bill to create Truet len county out of the remnant left of old Montgomery. It is claimed by Mr. Johnson’s friends that the introduction of this bill was a part of his campaign pled ges, though he made no such public statement at the time. Governor Slaton stressed the importance of tax equalization, and urged that the finances of the state be put upon the same basis, no appropriations to be made that are not provided for with the wherewithal for pay ment. Matters of grave impor tance confront the present law makers, and it remains to be seen whether a huge mass of trivial matters will block the en actment of laws that would give relief. Congressman Hughes Would Aid Carriers. Washington, D. C., June 27. Representative Hughes of Geor gia today introduced a bill in the house providing for S3O a month to be allowed every rural carrier in addition to his salaiy. This is to be paid in order to provide for the upkeep of rural carriers’ con veyances. Mr. Hughes had made a study of the expenses of rural carriers in keeping horses and buggies for their work, and has found that the expense will easily aver age S3O a month. He thinks the pay of rural carriers should thus be made equal to that of city carriers who have no teams to keep. Another provision in the bill is the allowance of thirty days’ va cation, with pay, for each carrier annually. The bill was referred to the Committee on Postoffiees and Postroads. | | ' ' « A Check Book! a i : \ JTCL !| wjpr j I i is easier to carry than a wallet filled I with currency, silver or i»old. It adds : * • dignity to your transaction and always j i| gives you satisfaction. Checks are of | : no value except to the person in whose* j I favor they are drawn. Can you afford | to keep your money at home or in your | pocket, when you can have, without i expense, a cheek hook on this bank? i > < vvvvvvwvwvvvvvvvvvwvy j ii MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA. I CAPITAL, $15,000.00 SURPLUS, $30.000 00 RESOURCES, $145,000.00 j Willie T. McArthur, President W A. Peterson, ( ashler j Alex McArthur, Vice-President H. L. Wilt, Assiatant’Caxhier MT. VERNON, GA. | I >W***M*wwwwwwvw»w\wwvwv>\vwwvwwwvv*vwwv\w I Longpond. Special Correspondence Miss Annie Lou McAllister has I returned from a visit to Macon. Misses Louise and Erin McAr thur, W. T. McArthur and other j friends spent Friday at the home of Mr. W. A. Johnson. Miss Nellie Johnson attended the Sunday School Convention at ! Higgston Saturday and Sunday. The little spend-the-day enter | tainment at the home of Mr. P. ; Johnson, in honor of Miss Louise McArthur and guests, was greatly enjoyed by those present. ! Miss Lola Gibbs and mother 1 are visiting relatives in Vidalia | this week. Mr. Herman McArthur made a ! trip to Uvalda Wednesday p. m. I > Recommendations Made By Governor Slaton. In his inaugural address last week, Gov. Slaton made these recommendations: A constitu tional amendment providing an additional tax of 1 1-2 mills over , two years to pay off school teach ers. Such tax, he asserted, would net the state approximate ly $1,200,000, and unless provid ed for a much heavier tax would prove necessary in the future. Constitutional amendments limiting the annual appropria tions to the school fund (outside of constitutional appropriations now provided) to 2 1-2 mills. Constitutional amendments limiting the pension appropria tion to one and one-half mills an nually. In the matter of raising reve nue he declared in favor of An inheritance tax. A corporation occupation tax |of S2OO annually on corporations of $1,000,000 capital or over and ' graduated as to capitalization. An equalization of tax assess ments. General recommendations were made as follows: i A permanent registration law. I The providing of a highway I commission. ! Speedy action on the re-leasing ;of the Western & Atlantic rail road. I A change in criminal proceed j ure doing away with the right of ; a defendant in a criminal case to | make a statement to the jury not ■ under oath. ‘ Rigid enforcement of the pis i tol-toting law. ! The creation of the office of state auditor. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Dr. Cho Choy, a Chinese prac ticing physician traveling from Cuba to Canada, died at Ellis Island. N. Y., on Monday. He claimed to be 150 years old. Billy Newburn, a steel worker on the new Healy building in At lanta, fell from the seventh, to the second story and was instant ly killed while at work Monday. Mrs. Sarah Bulfington of Chat tanooga was run over by an au tomobile and instantly killed Sun day night. The driver was ex onerated of all blame for the ac cident. Evelyn George, aged 17, and Anna Selepsky, aged 10, were drowned Sunday while in bathing with a party of five near Loomis, Illinois. The body of a 12-year-old girl was found in a trunk at Odgen Utah, on Thursday, and Mrs. Ekman, mother of the girl has confessed to her murder. A lot of seventeen old freight cars and flats, belonging to the Macon, Dublin & Savannah road, were burned near Macon on Sun day evening. Seven women who were nurses at the battle of Gettysburg fifty years ago are attending the great reunion there this week. The engineer and fireman of a passenger train were killed at Keswick, Ky., on Sunday when the engine struck a cow. Dan G. Hughes of Twiggs county, a prominent farmer and son of Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, has been appointed assistant to Agricultural Commissioner Price. Joe Sewell, a boy 1(5 years old, was drowned in Piedmont lake, Atlanta, on Sunday afternoon during a thunder storm while hundreds were in the water, no one hearing any cry for help. E. J. Berry, clerk of the su perior court at Waycross, visiting at Hot Springs, N. C., fell 40 feet down a mountain and was severely cut and bruised. Alamo Couple Are Married At Glenwood. Alarno, June 20. —A runaway l marriage of much interest to the many friends of the young cou ple, Miss Iris Martin and Grover C. Crosby, both of this place, was solemnized at Glenwood, in this county, yesterday evening. The marriage license had been issued in Telfair county and on Miss Martin’s return from East man yesterday afternoon, where she went as a delegate to the Ep worth league convention, a con veyance was procured and the flight to Glenwood was made. • Officials here refused to perform the ceremony, owing to objec tions of the bride’s parents, who thought her too young, she being only sixteen. They returned to' Alamo the same evening and are! boarding with Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Hurwitz, on Railroad avenue, i Mrs. Crosby is the danghter of; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Martin, ofj this place, and is very popular. I Mr. Crosby is employed in the Wheeler County Shoe store and is one of the best known and highly respected young men in this section. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our thanks to friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our son and brother, J. Jt. Carpenter. Espe cially we wish to thank Dr. W. Palmer of Ailey and Drs. Mead ows and Moye, and also Miss Georgia Thomas of Vidalia, who 30 faithfully stood by him until the end came. May the Lord bless them all. J. C. Carpenter and Family. It was estimated on Tuesday that 55,000 veterans were in at tendance at the great Gettysburg reunion. After declining to attend the Gettysburg reunion, President Wilson changed his mind and will address the great throng | there tomorrow. Thomas Jefferson’s portrait will appear on a new issue of post al cards soon to be printed, in stead of that of William McKin ley. I C. A. Dixon, a young fireman of Augusta, was killed at Doug las, Ga., on Saturday morning while trying to swing on to a freight car, falling to his death under the wheels. Four men out of six were drowned when their canoe was upset on the Merrimac river Sat urday near Manchester, N. H. One of the first official acts of Governor Slaton after being in augurated was to swear in Hon. J. 1). Price as Commissioner of Agriculture. Col. P. A. Stovall, appointed minister to Switzerland, will sail ] for his post of duty on July 29th, and will reside in Berne, the cap ital. John 1). Jacobs, his wife and four children, were murdered at Columbia, S. C., on Friday night and their bodies were found in i the ashes of their home Saturday ! morning. Tybee will have fifteen trains I from Savannah and returning on tomorrow. The grand jury of Fulton coun | ty returned true bills against At torney T. 15. Felder and Chief of Detectives Lanford in connection | with the scandals growing out of ' the Phagan case. A negro shot and killed J. D. Wilson and Bon Swords, white men, at Cor days Mills near Shell man, Ga., Saturday. The slayer has been taken to jail at Morgan j in Calhoun county. Pleasant Birthday Gathering On Saturday Last. A number of relatives and friends gathered at the fine old country home of Mr. Mathew Sharpe, near Sharpe’s Spur, the occasion being the birthday of that well known citizen. Mr. Sharpe was 89 years old on Sun day, and the celebration was held on Saturday. A happy : crowd was in attendance, and the day passed all too quickly for those who came to wish “Uncle Math’’ many more years of pros perity and happiness. To Hold Special Election For United States Senator. On account of a law recently ' enacted by Congress, providing that United States senators shall be elected by the direct vote of the people, it has been necessary for the Georgia legislature to call a special election to fill the place now held by Hon. A. O. Bacon. Although selected by primary vote of the people, and would have been regularly elected by the legislature, it becomes neces sary to elect Mr. Bacon by this method to conform to the nation al law, that no question can arise as to holding his seat. The present legislature lost no time in arranging the matter, and has passed a bill which was signed by Governor Slaton ori Tuesday. The election is to be held on Tuesday, July 15th. Mrs. Willie Coleman of Albany is here visiting relatives. Ailey Paragraphs. i | Special Correspondence. A ong * hose who attended the i Sunday School Convention at ! Higgston Sunday were Mr, Will Waller of Soperton and Miss Cleo ; Hall of Ailey, Prof. Thos. Con ner, Mr. Tom Thompson and Miss ! Vickie Hall. Mrs. Maggie Mann of Cedar Crossing is the guest of Mrs. J. A. Coursey this week. Mr. James Thompson motored ! a nice party down to Higgston j Sunday. I * I Old Jupiter Pluvius showed us j that his heart was in the right I place by sending us a good rain Monday. Mi's. Marv McArthur was called to the bedside of her ' little grand-daughter, Eula Lee McArthur, of Vidalia, who acci dently drank some gasoline Mon day. A lawn party by the Epworth League Friday evening promises to be an enjoyable occasion. I Dr. J. W. Palmer has returned I from Atlanta, where he went in | the interest of the medical prac ! tice bill, now pending. Mr. T. A. Peterson is in Atlan ta with his father, Mr. W. .J. Peterson, whom he accompaned there for treatment. Messrs. L. O. Outler, J. 11. i Peterson and H. S. Riddle were at Higgston and Vidalia Sunday. OBITUARY. George Washington Adams was | horn near Mt. Vernon, Ga., j Montgomery county, October 5, 1830, and departed this life at his home near the place of his birth, May 30, 1913. He married Miss E. L Wilcox, of Jacksonville, Ga., August 8, 1858. To them were born ten children, five sons and five daugh ters. All of these children lived to be grown and married. All survive their parents, except one 1 daughter, who died several years | ago. Mrs. Adams died ten years ago. During the decade of his widowerhood Bro. Adams lived with his children, mainly his eld est d'ughte \ Mrs. Agnes Wright, wh< c'-upi d the old homestead. Wash Adams, as he was favor | ably known, was a very success- I ful business man during all his life, except when old age forbade his activity. He followed farm ing as his main occupation. He was successful because he was very energetic and gave close and constant attention to his I business. He was noted not only for his energy, hut along with it he was neighborly arid generous towards his fellowmen, and every needed benevolence. He was a public spirited, a patriotic citizen, served several years in the Con-; federate army during the war l between the states, lie was al j ways a friend of the Church, hut ! did not unite with it until sever al years ago. His own wife and family being ardent Methodists, and he inclined to another Church, was the reason assigned why lie i did not join the Church earlier in life. But several years ago he united with the Methodist Church South, and was ever very devot ed afterwards, spending much of his time in reading his Bible. He served his family and generation to a good purpose until the frail ties of old age confined him large ly to his home. These latter years he spent mostl.v in study of God’s Word. He suffered much afllic -1 tion and infirmity during the last I year of his life, but he did not murmur, and finally, like a tired and worn child of God, he fell on sleep. W. I). McGregor. Card of Thanks. j Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Blount de sire to express their heart-felt thanks to the kind friends for ; their ministrations during the illness and death of their little daughter. A PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN’S DAY Occasion to be Celebrated at Ailey Next Sabbath Evening. The following program will be | rendered in the Children’s Day exorcises at the Methodist church 1 in Ailey Sunday evening: 1- Song “Our Own Glad day.” 2 Introductory Recitation, “Bi ble Boys and Girls.” 3 Recitation, “The Baby Mos es.” 4—Song, “Rock-a-Bye.” s—Recitation,5 —Recitation, “Our Baby.” (> Recitation, “Greetings to the Cradle Rollers.” 7 Song, Quartet. B—Recitation,8 —Recitation, “The Lad With the Loaves.” 9 Recitation, “Bob and the Bible.” 10 Song, “Collection Song. ” 11 — Rec., “Young Timothy.” 12 — Rec., “Young Bible Heroes. ” 13 — Song. 14 — Rec., “A Puzzling Ques tion. ” 15 Rec., “Children in the Tem ple.” 10 Rec., “The Captive Maid.” Miss Louise McArthur Entertains Friends. Last week was one of rare pleasure for the guests of Miss Louise McArthur at her Longpond home. It was a week of social festivity, and each day brought forth new pleasure to the young folks assembled at this hospita ble home. As a diversion, one day each was spent at the home of Mr. Peter Johnson and Mr. W. A. Johnson, kinsmen and neigh bors of the hostess, where the delights of country life were en joyed only as young people can. Sunday the young folks were en tertained at Vidalia. Miss McArthur had as guests during the week Misses Mamie Clover of Vidalia and Minnie Wells of Longpond and Messrs, •las. Blitch of Blitchton, W. T. Me Arthur of McGregor and T. M. Mason of Mt. Vernon. Miss McArthur is a recent graduate of Shorter College, and her home coming and the hospitality of her beautiful country home bring lasting pleasure to many young friends. Freeze Ice Cream With Hail Stones in Grady. Thomasville, Ga., June 29. Wonderful tales come from over in Grady county of hail which fell in certain sections and lasted without melting for five days, and that with the mercury play ing around the hundred mark, too. Some of the hail was gath ered up and carried to the homes where ice cream was frozen with it. Crops in the immediate sec tion where this hail fell are re ported as badly damaged, chick ens were killed arid window glass broken. The bail is said to have fallen in a section about three miles wide and ten in length. There are traditions of similar bail storms in Thomas but they are rather beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant, so the palm must perforce be yielded to Gra dy for the hail story of the sea son up to date. Mr. Lett Brings The F'irst Melon. Mr. J. W. Lett of the Oak Grove community got to the Monitor office with the first mel on this season, and gets the prize of The Monitor, a six month’s subscription. Mr. Lett is a good farmer, and The Monitor wishes that he may live long and raise many more melons as good as the one he was kind enough to bring us. NO. 10.
