MOUNTAINEERS AFFORD
MANY ATTRACTIONS
Tired Visitor Prevailed Upon
to Witness the Star
Performance.
The Appalachian mountaineer
is the soul of cordial hospitality;
sometimes he almost burdens the
stranger with his invitations to
share in the recreations that give
flavor to mountain life. The ed
itor of a Washington newspaper
tells of his experience with the
people of a small hamlet, perch
ed high up in the Blue Ridge.
Last summer I was worn out
with the heat, and the excite
ment of the Presidential cam
paign, so I went up to this little
village for a week’s absolute
quiet. I did not even let my
stenographer know where I was
going.
The morning after my arrival
I was sitting on the porch of the
little cottage where T lodged,
when a gray-haired father of the
hamlet approached.
“Howdy!” he said, as he
meditatively chewed a straw.
“Come ter stay a while?”
“A little while,” I replied.
“Say,” he went on in a confi
dential tone, as he pointed to a
line of men filing across the bridge
of a neighboring stream, “Met
Galloway’s gwine ter shoot er
davvg over there on th’ other
side o’ the creek. Don’t you
wan ter go ’long ’ith me, and see
him do it?”
I declined the invitation with
thanks. The visitor departed for
the scene of the execution in dis
appointment, and 1 resumed my
contemplation of the mountain
tops. Fifteen minutes later, a
long-legged native came timidly
through the gate.
“Howdy!” he said. “Hope
you come up to stay a while 'ith
us folks. ”
“A few days,” I answered.
“I tell you,” he continued, ap
proaching as if to impart a choice
secret, “Ad Hudnell’s gwine to
bleed that there roan hoss o’
his’n down in the meadow a
piece, and all the boys is gwine
down. Don’t you wanter go
’long ’ith me and see it?”
Again I declined with thanks,
and the disappointed native de
parted to join the party bound
for the meadow, in wonder,
doubtless, how any one could de
cline such an invitation.
Half an hour later, a long
haired youth of the village stole
quietly through the gate.
“Howdy, mister!” he said, tak
ing oil' his torn straw hat. “You
gwine ter stay ’ith us a spell?”
“A short spell,” I replied.
“Say, mister,” he half-whis
pered, as he leaned over my
chair and crooked a finger in the
direction of the general store of
“Ola Man” Walters. “Ye see
all them folks gwine in the sto’?
The ole man’s gwine ter pull er
tooth fer Dorse Heflin. Dorse
jes’ tole me it hurts him somethin’
awful. Don’t you want ter go
’long ’ith me and see it pulled?”
And I went!
Patrons Should Co-operate;
Slight Change in Tuitition.
This card is to call your attention to the importance of giving
your children the advantage of'•the full nine-month’s term, and to
ask you to co-operate ith us in serving all the children by sending
yours at the beginning of the session.
The course of study in each grade is planned for nine month’s
work and it cannot be properly done in less time than that. The
children who have before this been attending only seven months
usually make scant promotions and finally weak pupils. The nor
mal child who is well graded has a right to expect to be promoted
after a year’s work, but this is not generally true when he has not
attended a full nine-month’s course.
To expect the pupils who enter at the opening of the public
term to goon with those who have been in school two months, is
requiring too much of them; and to hold those who enter in Sep
tember back until the others catch up is an injustice to them. The
only wa,i to avoid disorganization, poor service and loss of time is
for all to send at the beginning of the private term.
Another matter to which we wish to call your attention is, that
the trustee> of the public school department have been forced to
raise the matriculation fees in the first, second, third and fourth
grades fiom $1.50 per month to $2.00 per month; and in the fifth,
sixth and seventh grades from $2.00 per month to $2.50 per month
for each pupil. Last year the trustees did not collect enough from
th< patrons during the private term to pay the teacher* for the first
two months, falling behind in this something over one hundred
dollars. This-u ar we have employed three teachers at $45.00 peri
month and or. it $75.00 per month and found that in order to meet
t se salaries it is necessary for us to charge the additional 50
cerps per month for each pupil. We trust that we will meet the
h’-art;. co-operation of all the patrons in our efforts to give the
community the very best seryice possible.
Err ranee cards may be had on application to The Mt. Vernon
Bank, Mt. Vernon, and Montgomery County Bank, Ailey, at the
prices stated above. Jas. F. Currie,
Chairman.
JURY LIST.
Drawn To Serve at August
Adj. Term, 1913.
The following jurors were
drawn to serve at the August
adjourned term of Montgomery
Superior Court to convene on
Monday, September 29.
W H H Stephens W I. Snow
C H Junes J C Flanders
H B McNatt D O Calhoun
Willie Allmond W C O'Neal
W T McCrimmon J I) Simons
J I Fountain J R Conner
J E King F M Sharpe
A W McSwain J D McDaniel
N N Barwiek J P Fulghum
Lucieu Graham J F Holton
J M Underwood J H Hutcheson
J F Elton Grover Manning
Neal B Gillis J G Warnock
B F l’almer G R Barwiek
J J Moses T B Hughes
H J Gibbs F B Mcßride
W P Coleman Wyley J Adams
1 P McAllister E C McAllister
Geo. Johnson J E Fowler
D C Martin W C Ricks
J T Martin B F Hamilton
W E Evans C Williams
J J Calhoun J M McDonald
S Collins John M Hughes
Duncan Morris J L Lowery
L C Durden W G McDonald
J C Johnson J A Adkins
John Sellers W B Smith
G W Beckworth F E Wardlaw
W A Odom C C Adams
A “Watermelon Cutting.”
Watermelon growers of Bryan
and Bulloch counties in Georgia,
and friends to the total number
of about three thousand, gathered
a few days ago at what was
termed a “watermelon cutting,”
and what eventually became an
interchange of experience as to
the desirability of a diversifica
tion of crops.
In this respect it was an unique
assembly, and one which indica
ted the changing ideas and prac
tice in farming operations in the
Southeast. The testimony given
was to the effect that departure
from the all-cotton system and
diversification of crops is highly
profitable.
One grower stated that he
made ten cars of melons on six
acres and received not less than
SIOO a car for them. From the
land on which the melons were
grown he expects to harvest
enough hay to pay the cost of
growing the melons.
The grower stated that he in
tends to plant fifty acres in mel
ons next year, and to plant cu
cumbers, cantaloupes, squash and
other vegetable crops as well.
The opportunities in the South
east for farming of this kind are
most attractive.—lndustrial In
dex.
Hides Wanted.
Best prices for dry and green
hides. Delivered at Morris &
Hart’s store. W. B. Hart,
ad Uvalda, Ga.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1918
Bill Nye’s Cow.
Bill Nye, the humorist, once
had a oow to sell and advertised
her as follows:
“Owing to my ill health, I will
sell at my residence, in town
ship nineteen, range eighteen,
according to the government’s
survey, one plush raspberry cow,
aged eight years. She is of un
doubted courage, and gives milk
frequently. To a man who does
not fear death in any form she
would be a great boon. She is
very much attached to her pres
ent home with a stay chain, but
she will be sold to anyone who
will agree to treat her right. She
is one-fourth shorthorn and three
quarters hyena. I will also
throw in a double-barrel shotgun,
which goes with her. In May
she usually goes away for a week
or two and returns with a tall
red calf with wobbly legs. Her
name is Rose. I would rather
sell to a non-resident.”
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia Montgomery County.
Will be Bold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in Sept, 191.1, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, certain property, of which the -following
is a complete description:
A certain one-fourth undivided interest in one
hundred acres more or less and bound ah 1 as fol
lows: On the north by lands of Mrs. John Gordon,
on the east by lands of A. C. Mosley, on the south
by lands of J. W. Moseley and on the west by lands
of 1. Q. Coleman and known as the Lovetly Car
roll place. Levied on ami will he sold as the prop
erty of John Carroll to satisfy two justice court
executions issued from the justice’s court of the
275th G. M. district of said county in favor of Dr.
Robert H. Mobley vs John Carroll. Written no
tice of levy given in terms of the law. This the
sth day of Aug., 1913.
James Hester, Sheriff M. C.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia- Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in Sept., 1913, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, certain property, of which the following
is a complete description:
Three bales of seed cotton or thercalKiuts, one
bale of cotton being on the porch of the house K.
G. Gray lived in at the time of levy, in said county
and state, one bale on wagon in field and one bale
on the ground in the field then tended by said R.
G. Gray and in his possession. Levied on to be
sold as thh property of R. G. Gray to satisfy an
execution issued from the City Court of Dublin in
favor of H. N. Thigpen vs U. G. Gray. Pointed
out for levy by plaintiff in fi fa. Original levy on
Oct. 21, 1911. Plea of illegality dismissed in the
City Court of Dublin Sept. 11, 1912, and levy or
dered to proceed. Written notice of levy given in
terms of the law. This the sth day of Aug. 1913.
James Hester, Sheriff M. C.
W. L. Wilson, Atty.ifor Pllf.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia- Montgomery County.
Will be sold beforo the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in Sept,, 1913, between
the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder fur
cash, certain property, of which the following is a
complete description:
Lots of Land Nos. Two and Three situate, lying
and being in- the Town of Alston, and in said
county, located in Hlock No. 9 as shown by the
plan of said town, ami hounded as follows: On the
north by lands of J. W. Sharpe, on the east, by Lot
No. 4, on the South by Broad street ami on the
west by Lot. No. 1 in said block. Levicxl on and
will be sold as the property of Ira L. Anderson to
satisfy a fi fa issued from the superior court ol
said county in favor of Ella Kicks v» Ira L. An
derson. Property in possession of said defendant
and by plaintiff pointed out for levy and written
notice given as required by law. This the sth
day of Aug., 1913. Levy by A. B. Hester, deputy
sheriff. Jas. Hester, Sheriff M. C.
For Year’s Support.
Georgia Montgomery County.
August Term, I9l!3.
The appraisers appointed upon
the application of Jezzie V. Hy
man, widow C. D. Hyman, for
twelve months support for herself
out of the said estate, having
filed their return, all persons con
cerned are hereby cited to show
cause, if any they have, at the
next regular Sept, term of thin
Court, why said application should
not be granted.
Alex McArthur,
Ordinary.
NEW ROAD NOTICE.
Georgia—M ontgomery County.
C. A. Walker, Jus. 11. Walker,
IA. II Mclntyre, M. 11. Mclntyre,
j W. E. Mathias, Mrs. F. E.JMom,
|F. M. Sharpe and others hav- 1
iiig applied for the opening and j
establishing of a new buhlic road
leading from the 275th G. M. dis
trict, line near the home of G. W. i
! Mclntyre and running in a south-j
easterly direction to Sharpe’s |
! Spur in said county, said proposed
I road, in passing through lands of j
jA. H. and M. 11. Mclntyre, will
j run the original road, passing
on the northeast side of W. E.
Mathias's horse lot and at Mrs
Odom’s place passing within 00
feet of old road bed. Notice is
hereby given that said application
will be granted on the first Tues
day in Sept, next if no good cause
be shown to the contrary. This
the sth day of Sept., 1918.
W. H. Mox ley,
Chin. Co. Com’rs.
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Not left t" Debtors and Creditors jj|
All (*r«xlitorH of tile estate ol
David Miller, deceased, Into of
Montgomery County, Georgia, are ji
hereby notified t ! > render in their
demands to the undersigned no- j |
cording to law, and all persons
indebted to said estate are re- £
quired to make immediate pay- <;
mont. This August 7th, 191 b.
A G. McLennan, ft
Adr. Kst. of David Miller, dec. 1 1
For Leave to Sell.
Georgia Montgomery County.
J. A. Thigpen, administrator of y
the estate of Teresa Thigpen, husj;;;
in proper form applied to the no 1
dersigned for leave to eel I all; |
lands belonging to said estate ,b;
this is therefore to cite all and :j
singular that said application will | I
he heard at ray office on the first, 1 :;
Monday in Sept.. 101 b. This the ,
4ih day of Awg., 191 b.
Alex McArthur, Ordinary. 1 1: :
■ Sheriff Sale. j|
Georgia Montvnrrwry «-<»umy.
Will he bo!»1 Iwfore thf < Oliit. houHr* door in Mt.l
Vernon on On first Tnnwlny in S< pt., 1013, bo- I jj
tween the legral bourn of ;tl»*, to the hij'hcoit hiddor ) <
for <-a .fi, t < rutin pr>r»' ty. of which the following >2
in a complete dcu’.ription: i g|
One undivided intef** t in the Murs'nn t Monley , ;
CHtate, containing twenty-nine and nine one-bun
dredfhii (20 0-1OO)) acre;- , Hitaute, iyi f»k and heinjr 0
m the Tlaer (i. M. (fiwi iirt of said < oorityand Htale c
and bounded an follows. On tie north by lands of <;
Tom i'hillipH, on th« east. by landH of Henry M<< c
ley and on the Louth by lands of Mary Bloekei G
Levied on and will l>e sold an the property of Man- C
j nle Musk/ to (satisfy a mortgage execution inHue/i L
; from the aupurior court of na|d county in favor of g
If. W. Bigßerntaff vm Mannie Mosley. Writen
I notice of levy given in termm of the law. Thin the
| Uh day of Ang., 1012. ;'
JarncH Hcm ter, Sheriff M. C.
CITATION 1
| Georgia, Montgomery Comity. |
Notice is hereby given that the »
undersigned have applied to the S
Ordinary of said County for leave |[
to sell lands helonging to the Ks- *
fate of A. H. Connor, deceased, <
for the purpose of paying debts. T
Said application will be heard at V
the ri gnlur September term of the j
Court of Ordinary <d said County,
to ta held on the first Monday in '
Septem her, 191 b. This August :
4th, 191 b. |
Cora E. and G. C. Conner,
Administers Estate A. L. Conner,
deceased.
Clinton P. Thompson,
Administrators’ Atty.
SKA HOARD AIR LINK
Annual August Excursion to flu*
| Mountains and Eastern Cities
AUGUST 13
Rato from Mt. Vernon
To Washington, $15.80
To Richmond, $12.30
\ To Norfolk, $12.20
Correspondingly low rates to var ,us other mountain and
seashore resorts. Tickets limited to reach original starting
point riot later than midnight Aug. Ml, 1913.
SPECIAL STEEL COACHES AMD SLEEPERS
ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND FANS
For full information relative to rates, reservations, etc.,
see nearnest Seaboard agent or write
C. VV. SMALL,
Division Passenger Agent Savannah, (la.
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