VOL. XXVIII.
Demonstrator to Help
Montgomery and Toombs.
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Following the recent visit of
Prof. S. A. Cunningham of the
State College of Agriculture, all
indications point to the fact that
Montgomery county will next
year receive the benefits of ex
pert service from a man fur
nished by the State College of
Agriculture, in connection with
aid given by the United States
department of agriculture.
Under the plan contemplated,
the expert will divide his time
between Toombs and Montgom
ery counties, to be employed by
the year at SI,OOO per year, and
will in every way co-operate with
the farmers of these counties in
the matter of selecting seed, pre
paring ground, cultivating the i
ground, harvesting, etc. Thirty
or forty farmers will select cer
tain plots of ground to be culti-1
' vated under the direction of the
expert, the farmer choosing the ■
crop for the special crop. His
neighbors will be expected to
reap the benefits of the expert’s
advice and will be invited to fol
low each step of the work.
For such crops as are marketed
there will be given expert advice
and assistance. The expert will j
probably set apart one day in
each week for office work and
consultation. On such days the
farmers may call and confer with
the expert on matters of interest j
to them. Such meetings will be
public. From this office will be
distributed the latest literature,
bulletins, etc. Every farmer of
the two counties will be benefited
under this progressive plan. He
is not called upon, directly, to
expend money for advice and
assistance; neither is he asked
to engage in a worthless project
from which he can expect no
benefit.
Thus it will be seen that this
work is not for the benefit of
any one man, but for the county
at large; it is not a plaything,
but a movement worthy of the
attention and confidence of every
intelligent farmer and citizen of
Montgomery and Toombs coun-
An Old Copper
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Kisses Young Maid. |
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Atlanta, Sept. 9.—Charged
with hugging and kissing a young
girl while on duty in Grant Park
recently, Captain J. W. Norman,
sixty-three years of age, with a
wife and family, has been sus
pended by Chief of Police Beav
ers and will face trial to-morrow
night before the Police Board on I
charges of conduct unbecoming
an officer.
Every effort has been made to
keep the affair quiet and the
name of the young woman figur
ing in the case has not been giv
en out, nor is it mentioned in the
official charges, but it is under
stood that she will be a witness
at the trial.
The incident is causing consid
erable comment in Atlanta in
view of the recent criticism of
the police for arresting and car
rying to police station for trial,
two couples of lovers- caught
spooning on the steps of the
state capitol. J. O. Cochran,
president of the Park Board then
announced the parks of the city
were open to spooners.
This announcement, however,
was not sufficient it seems, to
protect a member of the police
force.
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To Serve Cream.
On Friday evening next the
Glenwood Epworth League will
serve cream at the usual place.
All invited to attend. Take ad
vantage of the moonlight and be
with the young folks. The Glen
wood Epworth League is a pro
gressive body and deserves the
support of the entire community.
iUmttaomTry iHottitur*
ties. The scope of this enter
prise is such that untold benefits
will arise, and to neglect this op
portunity means a step backward
for the county, since the aid of
the State and Federal govern
ments reduces the cost to almost
nothing.
In order that the cost of the
plan may be more fully under
stood, and thereby appreciated,
it may be said that the expert’s
salary is to be paid as follows:
! SBOO by Toombs county, S3OO by
Montgomery county, S3OO by the
U. S. department of agriculture
and SIOO by the state of Georgia.
Montgomery’s pro rata is to be
raised as follows: SIOO appro
! priated by the Board of Commis
sioners of Roads and and Reve
! nues, SIOO by the Board of Edu
cation, leaving only SIOO to be
I raised by public subscription.
This is a most worthy enter
prise and should call forth im
mediate co-operation on the part
of the farmers and business men
of this and the sister county,
j This county cannot afford to let
this opportunity pass, and it is
hoped that farmers from each
j section of the county will co
operate with the officials. Let
all arrangements be closed up at
once, that a competent man may
be engaged.
j A number of citizens have sig
nified their desire to contribute
to the SIOO. The Mt. Vernon
Bank heads the list with $5, and
other names will follow next
week. The Monitor has been
asked to open a subscription list
for this purpose, and all amounts
sent to this office or to the bank
will be promptly acknowledged.
Details of the plan will be giv
en shortly. In order to insure
i the success of the venture, let
those who desire to advance the
cause of farming respond to the
call. Never in the history of the
county has such interest been
taken in modern farm methods,
and never was the prospect
brighter for continued advance
ment.
Young Folks Picnic
At The Brickyard.
On Tuesday a party of young
folks enjoyed an outing at the
Oconee Brick yard, where there
is an abundance of fresh air, sun
shine and fine artesian water.
The day was one of real pleas
ure and filled with all the joys
that come to young hearts when
| they get close to nature.
The young people were, Miss
Birdie Hughes, Miss Rosa
Hughes, Miss Mattie Hughes,
Miss Mamie Hughes, Miss Bea
trice Hughes and Miss Bessie
Hughes. Messrs. Carson Tay
lor, Dennis Price, Frank Taylor
and Lloyd Bird.
Interesting Comrades.
Two interesting citizens of
Montgomery county were visitors
here last Friday. They went
through the war together, and
are still neighbors and close
friends. Side by side they stood
upon the fields of battle, and up
on the tented grounds of the
great struggle they shared to
gether the hardships of war. We
refer to Mr. D. L. Warnock, aged
88, and Mr. O. P. Blount, aged
78, both residing at Tarrytown.
The experience of these two old
soldiers would easily fill a book
of many chapters, but we have
; only space here to tip our hats to
these survivors of the great
struggle and wish them many
days yet of health and prosperi
ty.
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During a rainstorm on Sunday
the wind blew the glass out of a
door at Macon, painfully wound
ing Sames Ramey. A piece of
the glass was driven through his
arm.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1913.
Tariff Measure
Passses Senate.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 10. —
The democratic tariff revision
bill passed the senate at 5:43 j
o’clock this afternoon amid a
burst of applause that swept j
down from crowded galleries and |
found its echo on the crowded
floor of the senate. Its passage!
w r as attended with surprises in j
the final moments of the voting,
when Senator LaFollettee cast
his vote with the democrats and
was joined a few moments later
by Senator Poindexter, progres
sive.
Until the names of Senator La-
Follette and Senator Poindexter
were called no one knew definite
ly the stand they would take and
their votes were greeted with ap
plause.
President Wilson tonight ex
pressed great gratification over
the end of the long struggle in
the senate. Senator Simmons,
who piloted the bill through the
finance committee, the demo
cratic caucus and the senate,
predicted its passage Wednesday.
The measure passed by a vote
of 44 to 37. The bill has been
changed in many important re
spects from the original, and a
conference committee will begin
at once to adjust the differences.
Missionary Meet.
The social meeting of the La
dies’ Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian Church will be held
at the home of Mrs. W. C. Mc-
Rae Monday, 15th, 3:30 o’clock.
All the members are invited to
attend. Inez Mcßae,
Secretary.
A cat and four kittens were
found in a mail bag at Rochester,
N. Y., having come through from
New York City, and were all
alive and well when released.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
Several hogs died of hydropho
bia on the farm of J. S. Ham
near Jackson, Ga., from having
been bitten by a rabid dog some
three weeks ago.
The U. S. census bureau re
ports 794,000 bales of cotton
ginned to Sept. 1, which com
pares with 730,935 bales ginned
for same period of last year.
Robert Harrell and Richard
Litherland, boys of 13 and 19
years, were drowned in the Satil
la river near Waycross on Mon
day, making about a dozen to
i drown in that small stream in
, ten years past.
Sam Brown, a merchant of
! Memphis, Tenn., took out an at
: tachment on a zebra belonging to
a circus to get pay for a horse
the elephants had frightened to
! death, and got his pay.
. Ex-President Roosevelt is go
ing to South America on a hunt
ing trip, and is to sail about Oct.
3d.
Geo. C. Redell, a lawyer of
Jacksonville, is sueing the Jack-!
; sonville Traction Co. for $5,000
I for ejecting his boy from a car
: after he had paid his fare.
Wm. Travers Jerome, who was
! arrested in Coaticook, Canada,
for gambling while there to have
I Thaw deported, was acquitted of
| the charge, and the court apolo
gized for his being detained.
! A. B. Muir of Chicago was ar
j rested f r disorderly conduct a
> few days ago, arid is now being
-! held for murder, his wife claim- (
ing that he confessed to her to
the murder of his first wife in
Louisville a year ago.
r The grand jury of Jenkins
, county returned separate indict-j
• ments Tuesday afternoon against
: Mrs. God tree, one for killing
> Judge Godbee and one for killing
’ his wife.
Conley Is Indicted by
Fulton Grand Jury.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10.—Two
1 true bills, one charging Jim Con-
I ley with a misdemeanor in con*
; cealing knowledge of the murder
jof Mary Phagan, and the other
; charging him with felony in be
ing accessory to the murder as-
I ter the deed, were turned Tues-
Jday morning by the grand jury.
The bills were returned after a
brief deliberation only, the Con
ley case being the last taken up
by the jury .prior to adjourn
ment.
The felony bill says that Con
ley, “Knowing that Leo M.
Frank unlawfully and malicious
ly, with malice aforethought,
killed and murdered one Mary
Phagan, did conceal the body of
Mary Phagan and did receive,
harbor and conceal the said Leo
M. Frank, and concealed the
knowledge of the crime from the
officers of the law.”
The misdemeanor bill, drawn
under another section of the code,
charges that Conley. “Knowing
that Leo M. Frank had unlaw
fully and with malice afore
thought killed and murdered one
Mary Phagan, did conceal said ;
knowledge from the magistrate j
and did harbor and assist and
protect Leo M. Frank.”
Macon’s Booster Train
Is On The Run.
On Tuesday Macon started out
its booster train to advertise
Macon, the state fair, and pull
for the state capital to Macon.
In its swing around the state
several hundred miles are to be
traveled, and stops are to be
made at many Georpia towns.
The train met with ovations at
Eatonton, Milledgeville, Gordon,
Mclntyre, Toombsboro and San
dersville on the first day out.
An unknown woman drove to
the Hepzibath orphanage at Ma
con Sunday afternoon and sent
in a covered basket to the matron ■
which was found to contain
baby girl. The woman escaped, j
Leonard L. McMillan at New
port, It. 1., chopped off his thumb
with an ax to get out of the ‘na
vy.
The body of a negro was placed
upon the rails of the Central road
between Cuthbert and Americusj
Saturday night to conceal mur
der. The train was stopped and
a bullet hole was found in his
head.
In May of last year Mrs Bash
inski of Macon lost five diamond
and one plain gold ring, the lot!
worth about SI,OOO. A negro
woman at Boston, Ga., was
found in possession of them last 1
week and told how she found
them in a lady’s glove before
moving away from Macon.
| One hundred and fifty native
women and children weredrown
,ed in Hostia river, in Indiana on
Saturday while fording the
stream.
William Travers Jerome, the
chief attorney in the first great
trial of Thaw for killing White,
followed Thaw to Canada to have
him sent back to Mattewan, was ;
arrested there himself for petty
gambling and had to give bond.
The Middle Georgia Telephone
Co., with a capital of $25,000, has
been chartered to operate in
counties adjacent to Macon.
The big plant of the Tallahas
see Sawmill Co. at Fanlen, Fla.,
j was burned last week at a loss of j
1 $200,000 with $58,000 insurance.
Patrick Kenney, probably the
oldest man in Georgia, residing
at Willacoochee, died while on a
visit to his son in Savannah Sun
day, aged 107 years.
Montgomery County Is
Growing Tobacco Now.
Tobacco wagons passing through
the streets of Mt. Vernon was
a novel and interesting sight to
the citizens this week. These;
wagons were from the plantation
of Mr. E. G. Smith, a few miles
south of this place, and were
hauling for shipment the first
successful crop of tobacco ever
raised in Montgomery county.
Mr. Smith is a native of South
Carolina, where he was an enter
prising and successful farmer.
Mr Smith moved here two years
ago and at once began the rapid
and permanent improvement of ,
his farm property. Besides im
proving his farm lands, he has
taken in much new new land, j
thus making his farm one of the i
largest in the county.
Mr. Smith is conversant with
the tobacco industry, and this
year planted several acres for
the market, and, despite the un
favorable seasons, has placed on
the market something over 2000
pounds of tobacco of a very fair
j sample. Thus it is practically
1 sure that the plant can be suc
cessfully grown in this section.
Before the curing season came
on, Mr. Smith erected a tobacco
barn which will probably serve
his needs for several years. His
is the artificial drying process,
the barn being fitted with fur
naces, air pipes, etc., for main -
taining the proper temperature, j
This is a quick and accurate
drying process, while the color
is to a large extent controlled by
manipulations which form a part 1
Bank Building Wall
Falls at Alamo Tuesday
The new bank building for the
Bank of Wheeler, in course of
construction at Alamo, collapsed
on Tuesday and several workmen
narrowly escaped death as they
went down in the ruins. The
brick work had reached the sec
ond st.oiy, and in putting on the
joistr tr ,v e second floor, one
entir lc v ill was pushed down,
i carrying several men along with
i the bricks and timbers and cov
ering some of them under the
debris. A broken jaw and a
| broken collar bone with many
bruises were sustained, but fort
unately no one was killed.
Mastodon’s Bones 20,000
Years Old Being Excavated.
Farmington, Conn., Sept., 8.
Bones of a mastodon are being
excavated from the estate of the
late Colonel Alfred A. Pope here
by experts from the Peabody
museum Yale university. The
museum men say that the bones
| have been lying where found for
20,000 years.
As found, the bones are not as
they would be if the monster had
j died in his tracks. The pelvis is
j upside down, the shoulder blades
I nine feet apart, the ribs and ver
tebra scattered about. The bones
| are not petrified. Instead they
are fragile and crumble under
pressure. Many of the large
; pieces are being supported by
1 plaster of paris before being lift
-1 ed out (if the trench.
The mastodon was eleven feet
high at the shoulder.
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Some Fine Velvet Beans.
We have on exhibition at the
Monitor office a sample of velvet
beans from the farm of Mr. D.
S. Williamson that attracts much
attention. This is a new variety
being introduced by Mr. William
son that comes to maturing from
| one to two months earlier than
the old variety, and they are very
prolific.
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O. P. Grant of Spartanburg,
aged 88, introduced his son, L.
M. Grant, aged 61, to nis infant
i brother, just born, and which the
i elder Grant was holding on his
| knee.
of the curing process, and which
are best known to those acquaint
ed with the industry.
It is not the purpose of this
article to give a detailed account
of the tobacco industry, for, in
deed, the writer has seen no
tobacco growing other than that
raised by Mr. Smith; for, this
plant has peculiarities known
only to the tobacco raiser, and
j for more enlightened views o*'
the subject we must refer to ' .
’Smith. He is a very agrees l
gentleman, fully acquainted witn
this industry, and will gladly
explain the culture of tobacco to
any one interested.
The recent shipment of tobac
co from this place was forwarded
to Mullens. S. C., one of the
largest tobacco markets in the
South, and a fair price will doubt
less be received for the Montgom
ery county crop; in fact, if Mr.
Smith’s crop will defray the cost
of the barn and the labor he will
doubtless be satisfied with his
first crop on Georgia soil. It is
possible that other smay plant to
bacco for the market if Mont
gomery county soil is found to be
' i adapted to it, and the result of
j Mr. Smith’s tobacco farm will
{be watched with interest. Mr.
; Smith, during his stay of two
1 years here, has proven himself a
successful farmer and worthy
I citizen, and this county could
well afford to extend the glad
had to a few score such as he.
Such farmers add to the material
1 prosperity of any community.
Dublin Woman Killed
By Flat Car Monday.
In returning to her home Mon
day morning after taking her
small daughter to school, Mrs.
G. N. Bowers of Dublin was kill
ed by being struck by a flat car
at a railroad crossing. A switch
engine was pushing a flat car out
to the cotton mills, and the place
was open on both sides, and the
bell on the engine was linging,
and it seems like a mystery why
she got in the way.
Negro’s Hands And
Arm Found on Train.
Americus, Sept. 9.—When an
eastbound Seaboard freight train
arrived here this morning the
dismembered hands and arms of
a negro were found beneath a
car, the bloody hand clutching a
steel rod. An investigation re
vealed the fact that the negro
had been murdered near Plains
and ths corps placed upon the
rods of a box car.
Dismembered portions of the
body were scattered along 1
track for ten miles. Two r
groes were jailed tonight, charg
ed with the homicide.
Died at Age of 127.
Albany, Ga., Sept. 9.—One of
the oldest residents in this coun
ty, and probably the oldest in
Georgia died last night on the
.Johnson place, seven miles east
of Albany, when Callie Trowel!,
a negro woman who had reached
the alloted three score years and
ten when the Civil War closed,
succumbed to the infirmities of
old age.
According to records which are
regarded as authentic, she was
127 years old. She had not been
outside the house in which she
lived for nearly twenty years.
Her funeral was largely attended
iby the colored jx>puiation of the
i county.
Mr. F. B. Mcßride, a promi
nent farmer of the Hack Branch
community, was transacting bus
iness here yesterday.
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