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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1913)
t fHnnitur. VOL. XXVIII. THREE DAYS TO CIVIL BUSINESS Criminal Docket to Occupy Latter Part of The Present Week. The regular August term of Montgomery superior court com menced here on Monday morn ing. Judge E. D. Graham is presiding with his unual dignity and dispatch, and the court was not long in getting in working order. Judge Graham is not lengthy in his charges to the grand jury, but very precise and full. Solicitor General Wooten came over before court convened is well prepared to look out for the state’s side of cases on the crim inal docket. Mr. W. A. Peter son, cashier of the Mt. Vernon Bank, is foreman of the grand jury. The past three days have been spent on civil matters, and many cases have been disposed of. many of them being put into judgments for want of defense. According to announcement by Solicitor Wooten, the criminal docket will be taken up today, and much interest attaches to some of the cases assigned for trial. It will not be possible for us to give a list of the cases tried before next week. Many of the citizens of adjoining counties have been attendants on the court during the week. Besides the local bar, we note the following attorneys in at tendance on the court: Solicitor General Wooten, Eastman; W. C. McAllister, Eschol Graham, Mcßae; R. J. Travis, Savannah; Warren Grice, M. S. Means, Hawkinsville; Charles Akerman, Richard Curd, Macon; P. W. Williams, C. A. Rogers, G. W. Langford, Lyons; D. C. Patillo, W. M. Lewis, Vidalia; E. A. Smith, Adrian; A. C. Saffold, Cochran; C. P. Thompson, Ala mo; Attorney Evans, Dublin; Attorney Brown, Swainsboro. Altamaha Raft Hands Capture Young Bear. Baxley, Aug. 4.—A party of raft hands, living in this county, returned from a trip down the river to Darien today with a cub bear in captivity. They caught the animal on the river at a point in Wayne county, a few miles above the Seaboard’s bridge. The three men discovered the bear, with its mother and ano ther cub, up a tree overhanging the water. In some manner they induced the mother bear down from her perch, and while one man armed with a cudgel, sta tioned himself to keep the mother away, another went up the tree to shake the young bears down, and the other member of the party stayed in the boat directly under the tree, in order to cap ture one of the young ones when it f ell into the water. The man up the tree shook them both out at the same time, and the man in the boat grabbed one and, by shoving its head under water time after time until it was nearly drowned, subdued it. The other young one swam off and escaped. The mother bear was anxious to aid the young bears in their scrap, and the man with the cud gel had all he could do to keep her away from the front. Six Bales Os Cotton Ginned At Ocilla. Ocilla, Ga., Aug. s.—The first new cotton of the season was re ceived here today, six bales be ing ginned at the local gins. G. G. Paulk received the premium for getting the first bale to the gin. Sea Island Cotton Maturing. Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 5. —Re- ports from all of the sections around Valdosta shows that sea island cotton is opening up rapid ly. A number of open bolls were brought to this city a week or two ago and parties who came in 'yesterday stated that their cotton is maturing very fast, due largely to the hot weather. 1 The crop this year, though not as large as it was last year, is in good condition and the farmers believe they will have a good yield. The crop has been made | cheaper than any crop in recent years, as the farmers and their I families have felt the necessity of doing the work themselves. I NORTHERN SCHOOLS IMITATE THE SOUTH ; Eleventh Dist. Agricultural School Impresses Visitors. Douglas was honored last week |by a distinguished visitor from |Boston, Mass., in the person of Professor Stimson, state super visor of the board of education of the state of Massachusetts. He was sent out on a tour of ; inspection of several agricultu : ral schools of the south and west, 1 and when he called at Atlanta | for information as to a model of j the system for Georgia, he was j directed to come to Douglas and i inspect the Eleventh District School. He called on Professor Davis, who took pleasure in showing the distinguished visitor the system as applied here, and Professor Stimson returned im j mediately to Boston with the in i tention of installing our system in Massachusetts. That state is just now prepar ing to build a number of these schools and wanted to apply a model system in the beginning. The professor thought this was what he wanted after visiting many schools in the south and i west, which is indeed a high ! compliment to Professor Davis I and the board of directors of the school here. — Douglas Enter prise. MR. ANDERSON IS HEARD BY FARMERS He Explains the Methods of the Southern Cotton Corporation. Mr. W. T. Anderson of Macon, one of the leading officials of the Southern Cotton Corporation, ad dressed the citizens of Montgom ery county at the court house here Monday. Superior court being in session, Mr. Anderson was heard by a large body of citizens, the greater number of whom are farmers. He is a fluent and able speaker and from the very first won the keenest attention and interest of his hearers* He explained in full the plans of the corporation, and during the day conferred with scores of farmers regarding the details of the organization. Mr. J. B. Brewton of Alley is in charge of the Montgomery county division of the Corpora tion and is actively engaged in making contracts with the farm ers of Montgomery county. This institution is backed by ample capital and bids fair to become a strong factor in the cotton indus try of the South. Jim and Bartow Cantrell were sentenced to hang in superior court at Gainesville on Saturday, and Mrs. Hawkins, wife of Ar thur Hawkins they had murder ed, was sentenced to life impris onment as an accomplice. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Out of 67 counties sending in tax returns up to Saturday, there is a decrease shown of $876,725. Thirty-nine counties lost $3,383,- 829, and twenty-eight show a gain of $2,507,194, making the net decrease as stated above. Fifty men are said to have lost their lives in a mine explosion on Saturday afternoon in the East Brookside colliery near Pottsville, Pa. J. B. Clanton of Cedar Bluff, Ark., lost his life on Saturday by being hit in the neck by a piece of hot iron that flaked from a plow that was being repaired. The Blakely ice plant was en tirely destroyed by fire early Friday morning. The fire was of incendiary origin, and the pro perty was partly covered by in surance. Henry L. Wilson, the recently returned ambassador from Mex ico, had his pocket picked in New York on Friday, the thieves securing $l2B and several val uable papers. R. F. Smythe of Waycross shot j and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Moore, on Saturday night. ! Mrs. Moore was young and beau tiful and Smythe was in love! with her. He killed himself when pursued. John McGibony visited his sis ter at Eatonton on Saturday, and byway of playing a joke on the | family, began to kick the door and refused to give his name. His little niece mounted a chair, seized a gun and fired t hrough j the door and killed McGibony. J President Wilson withdrew the nomination of Patterson, the ne gro he had appointed as registrar of the treasury, and named Gabe E. Parker, a Choctaw Indian for I the place. The headquarters of the Geor- 1 gia-Alabama division of the Sea-; board Air Line road has been moved from Savannah to Arneri cus. Residents of Almond, N. Y., have asked for the removal of the Republican postmaster there on the grounds that he had the mumps. WHAT GEORGIA GAN DO TO PREVENT SENDING $1,000,030 FROM STATE EACH MONTH FOR IRK STOCK By Andrew M. Soule, President Georgia State College of Agriculture. Some pertinent facts which the College of Agriculture Is prepared to present to the farmers of Georgia about the value of growing live stock, after-proving them on the farm, are herewith given. A grade Percheron mare weighing 1,550 pounds and costing $235 did the work of a $250 mule, yet foaled a colt that sold for $162.50 at six months of, age. A registered Percheron stallion did regular work on the farm until breeding season opened, value during breeding season estimated at SSOO. A Holstein cow was bought in 190 k. She is breeding regularly at 15 years of age and lias 22 female decendants. The bull calves that have been sold have more than paid for initial cost The fast mail car on the Louis ville ant] Nashville train from New Orleans to IhrminKharri was robbed Tuesday nip-ht before reaching the latter place. The robbers tied and handcuffed the mail clerks. C. W. Cobb of Hazlehurst tfot into a fight with four Crawford brothers at Moniac, and after killing J. M. Crawford, was bad ly cut and his skull crushed with a monkey wrench. Hugh Price of High Shoals used an oil lantern to fill his au tomobile tank with gasoline and an explosion followed inwhicn he was severely burned. M. Geise of Milford and Price Tompkins of Americus were drowned in Notchaway creek near Milford in Baker county on Monday while trying to rescue Geise’s daughter who was about to drown. The young lady es caped. A. L. Lynn, convicted of kill ing F. M. Hightower at his home in Laurens county last Decem ber, has been taken to the Toombs county chain gang to begin serv ing out his sentence. A flagman on the Southern road at Mcßae was caught be tween the bumpers while coup ling cars on Monday and was badly mashed. M. C. Dominy of Laurens county had his leg broken Satur day while hauling logs on a bal ance cart. The end of the logs I swung around and caught his j leg against a tree and broke the | bone in two places. Thad W. Holbrook, a wealthy | young farmer of Hart county, was drowned in Tugaloo river, j He was boating a load of lumber across the river when his boat capsized. ! Two women of Pittsford, N. !Y., sucked the wounds of two ! children bitten by a dog, and all since have shown symptons of rabies. * Ed LaConte, a negro, attacked the family of George Bodiford ! with an axe near Cairo, Ga., on Saturday, fatally wounding the man and wife and injuring three others, lie was caught and is in | jail. A boy named Jones, son of Tom Jones of Portal in Bulloch county, was instantly killed by lightning on Wednesday of last week. About fifty persons were strick en with ptomaine poisoning at a picnic at Toonigh in Cherokee county on Sunday, the occasion j being a Sunday school rally. ! of the cow and four of her decendants i which were purchased in the begln •ng. Cows In the College herd made gross income of $l7O per head. One registered Jersey had made a record of $415.68 gross income in 11 months, a net profit of $306.84,0r 8 per cent, on $3,835.50. j Cows in beef herd cost sl7 per head. When bred to registered Here ford bull, the calves when 23 months, old, sold at $44 per head. Os 862 hogs treated with cholera preventive serum during 1912 at cost of manufacturing scrum, where cholera had appeared in the herd. Os this number 780 were saved, nearly SB,OOO worth of hogs. Sheriff Sale. Oeorjrfa Montgomery «>ounty. Will be sold before the court houne door In Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday In Sept., J 913, i**- 1 ween the l« $/aI bourn of sale, to the highest bidder for ca h, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: One undivided intercMt in the Margaret. Mosley '•state, containing twenty-nine and nine one-hun dredths (29 9-100)) aercH. nitaute, lyint? and being jin the Titfer ( i. M. district of said county and state and bounded a- follows: On the north by landh <»f Tom Phillips, on the east by lands of Henry Mos ley and on the south by lands of Mary Hlorker. la-v i«*l on and will be wold as the property of Man nie Mosley to satisfy a rnortpa.e execution issued from the superior caurtof said county in favor of 11. W. Pipj/ei staff vs Mannie Mosley. Wrlfeen notice of levy pdven in term* of the law. This the sth day of Au if., 1912. James Heater, Sheriff M. C. Corn Prices Soar. Chicago, Aug. s.—Excitement I in the corn market whirled prices 1 up more than 2 cents a bushel to | day. This made the advance 1 equal to about 7 cents in the last j week. Reports were at hand indicat ing that the corn crop as a whole had suffered a loss of 200,000,000 1 to 300,000,000 bushels in the last few months, owing to damage from lack of a normal amount of j moisture. The greater part of the injury has been in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebras- I ka, but the outlook for a greatly i enlarged area of damage was re- I garded by many traders as dang- I erously threatening. AUTO BRAKES FAIL AT CRITICAL TIME Mother and Son Ground to Death Under Wheels of Train. McDonough, Ga., Aug. 5. Mrs. Emma Heard, aged 31 years, of Vienna, Ga., and her Json, Linden Heard, were instant i ly killed today one mile north of here when the automobile in which they were riding came to a stop on the Southern Railway tracks and was struck by a train traveling 30 miles an hour. ; Mrs. Heard’s husband, J. P. Hear who was driving the car, saved himself by jumping from I the automobile after shouting to I his wife and son to jump. Mr. I Heard said his car’s emergency brakes failed to work in time. All hough the train’s engineer, J. L. Mable, attempted to stop the train when he saw the auto- I mobile, the car was splintered. I The bodies of Mrs. Heard and her son were dragged a number of yards by the engine. Swift Creek. Special Correspondence. We are enjoying the protracted meetings. j Among those attending court in Mt. Vernon from this section j are L. C. Graham, 1. M, Morris, T. L. Beckum, Newell Dixon, J. A. Morris and B. L. Smith. i Mr. T. L. Beckum and daugh ter, Miss Mamie, attended ser vices at Oak Ridge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Graham spent Sunday at the home of Mr. T. M. Morris. Miss Lila Willis spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. A. i Dixon. Mrs. Mathalia Graham has re turned from a visit to relatives in Wrightsville. Mr. and Mrs. I). C. Morris and children, Mrs. Geo. Morris and children, Mr. Willie O’Neal arid Miss Josephine Morris, Mrs. Em ma Godowns and children, Lum Newsome and Boss Morris and B. Morris and children visited at. the home of Mr. T. L. Beckum Sunday. Mrs. M. E. Palmer of llazle hurst is visiting relatives here. Messrs. B. L. Smith, Boss Mor ris, Harvey Smith, Archie Morris and Misses Esther Smith and Mollie Mills were callers at the home of Mr. J. A. Morris Sun day afternoon. Our Sunday school is doing nicely. Come join us at 4 o’clock Sural afternoon. Hazel. J. P. Williams, a former weal thy naval stores man of Savan nah, died in At lanta, where he had recently resided, on noon of Tuesday. MAY BE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Judge W. M. Clements of Eastman is Endorsed by Friends. The following item concerning the proposed candidacy of Judge Walter M. Clements for Congress from the Twelfth district, is giv en. It is taken from Tuesday’s Hawkinsville Dispatch, and is as follows: “It is understood that Judge Walter M. Clements of Eastman is seriously considering making the race for congress from the 12th district. In fact his friends who are in a close touch with him state positively that he will make the race and at the proper time his formal announcement will be made to the voters of the district. “Judge Clements was horn and reared in Montgomery county and resided there until 25 years ago when he moved to Eastman, where he has continuously resid ed since. He is a lawyer by pro fession and has been doing a good practice since his admission to the bar. lie has filled the office of mayor of his city, and has served his county as judge of the city court, and it is said that his j administ rations of these offices was such as to elicit much favor able comment from his consti tuents. He has been a factor in the upbuilding of the moral, civic and religious forces in his com munity, always having strong convictions and the courage to do what he believed to be right. “Judge Clements is just now in the prime of his physicul and mental manhood, being about 50 years of age, and having been a student of public affairs of both state and nation for these years, and being a man of strong in tellect., he is well fitted for a seat in our national legislative i halls. Judge (dements has pos sibly the largest personal ac quaintance and relationship of any man in the 12th district. He is a gentleman of very pleasing address, is a splendid mixer, as t he saying goes, and make friends of all with whom he comes in contact. “It is freely predicted that should he enter the race he would have an enthusiastic support throughout the district, and his friends say that it would not be long before the most casual ob server would realize that he was in the running.” A Cousins Party. Last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Adams on Washington street was held a “cousins party,” in which about sixteen of them par ticipated, being Misses Jurelle Little of Cordele and Ruth Lee of Eastman, Misses Lyra Thomp son, Jennie Thompson, Iris Simp son, Mrs. Claude Wright, Messrs. Robt. Smith, Jim Stacy, Harry Adams, Arpad Hicks, Calvin Adams, Claude Wright. Refreshments were served by Misses Bertie Lou and Cadie Belle Adams. Rook, upjinksand logomachy were the games in dulged in. Negro Brakeman Killed At Vidalia Yesterday. About.‘LdO yesterday morning, a colored brakeman of the Sea board Air Line, met his death in Vidalia while attending to the switching of cars. He was standing on a track containing several empty cars, when a car on another track left the rails and knocked an empty car over him. He lived an hour and gave a clear statement of the acci dent that cost him his life. NO. 15.
