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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1913)
(Flj? Mmtyatnwg ifflotttte. VOL. XXVIII. SUPERIOR COURT AGAIN CONVENES AUGUST ADJOURNED TERM ON Commences Monday For Trial of Big Murder Cases on Criminal Docket. Superior Court convened promptly on Monday morning, and there being no grand jury called for this special term, soon got down to business. Judge E. D. Graham is presiding and So licitor General Wooten is looking after the state’s side of each! case. The first and most important case on the docket was that of the state vs Lee Keen, Lamar Holmes, T. K. Wade and Wyatt Martin, charged with the mur der of Will Radney. It was de cided to sever the trials, and Lee Keen was put on trial. Almost the entire day was consumed in securing a jury, and all of Tues day in hearing the evidence for and against the accused. The attorneys began their arguments yesterday morning, Col. M. B. Calhoun opening for the state, followed by Judge Eschol Gra ham for the defense. Next came Col. Thompson for the state, with Satfold and Howard to follow for the defense, and the closing argument by Solicitor Wooten. The case had not gone to the jury when we went to press. Among the visiting at torneys we note, W. A. Wooten, Eastman; A. C. Saffold, Will Stallings, Cochran; C. P. Thomp son, Alamo; G. W. Lankford, Ly ons; C. W. Sparks, W. M. Lewis, Vidalia; Eschol Graham, Mcßae; i and Phil Howard, Dublin. Aged Darkies In Reminescent Mood. The Monitor office was visited this week by several aged colored people from the lower part of the county. Alex Ryals, one of The Monitor’s regular readers, came in, accompanied by Uncle Jack son Drinks and his brother, Un cle June Drinks. Both are types of the antebellum darkey, but their memories are well preserved and they spoke very interestingly of events that occurred before' the late war. Uncle Jackson, who was accompanied by his old lady and daughter, did most of the talking. As slaves they were owned by Governor Geo. M. Troup, who at the time of his death, lived in this county west of the Oconee river in what is now Wheeler county. Jackson remembers the days when he played around the homestead as the old Governor reposed on his cot on the front porch in his declining years. Assuming that Jackson was about fifteen years of age when Gov. Troup died, (185 G) he is now be tween seventy and seventy-five years old. Uncle June is the younger, and has not the experience of Uncle Jack. They are successful farm ers, raising several bales of cot ton apiece, besides grain and other crops, and bid fair to live several years. Odd Fellows Convention. The district Odd Fellows con vention met in Bartow yesterday. The Ailey Lodge was represented by M. H. Darley and Jonn M. Hughes and the Lodge at this place was represented by M. E. Fountain and S. Z. Salter. At the regular meeting of the local Lodge Monday evening new interest was manifest, and a flourising condition is in store for the home Lodge. A public festive occasion is be ing planned for the near future. Soper to n. Special Correspondence. Mrs. J. E. Hunt of Mt. Vernon spent the week-end with Mrs. J. H. Duggan. Mr. Hinton Beasley of Baxley was here last week. Miss Mamie .Waller, who is at tending the 8.-P. 1., visited her 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Wal j ler, Saturday and Sunday. The W. M. S. rendered a verv ! interesting program at the Bap tist church Sunday evening, and it was enjoyed by all. Misses Taylor and DeWitt, as j sistants at the school, arrived last week. Messrs. Lamar Holmes, Wyatt Martin, T. K. Wade and others are attending court in Mt. Ver non this week. Mr. Cleveland Pope of Condor was here last week. Her friends are pained to learn of the death of Mrs. Geo. Gillis. Miss Frankie Calhoun of Tar rytown attended services here Sunday evening. Mr. John Thigpen spent a short while in Tarrytown Sunday. Mrs. Benjamin Gillis and daughters, Pearl and Annie, spent the week end with friends and relatives in Adrian. Mrs. Neil Gillis and Mrs. Dan iel Davis of Gillis Springs were in town Monday shopping. i Food Products From South America. Is America ultimately to be come dependent on other coun tries for food? This question l would have been deemed absured a decade ago, but there is good ground for it now. Recently shipments of beef from Argen tina and butter from Siberia were received in New York, and the other day a cargo of 7,300 tons of shelled corn arrived there from Buenos Ayres. The ship ment of corn was the largest from South America in two years and is said to be but the first of a large importation arranged by American grain dealers. The importers say that with the prevailing high prices of corn in this country they can buy in South America, pay the ex i pense of transportation and still j have a margin left to compen ! sate them for their venture. | Why are we not growing our own corn in sufficient quantities ; to satisfy the market’s demands? Are we, having the richest ag ricultural lands in the world, to | become dependent upon South America for our foodstuffs? When are Americans going to awaken to a realization of their opportunities?—Savannah News. Rounds of T. C. I will be at the following places for the collection of taxes on the dates named: Uvalda Oct. 7 9:30 to 11:30. Alston “ 7 1:30“ 3:30 ! Higgston “ 8 10:00 “ 12:00 i Pigeon Springs" 9 9:00 “ 10:30 j Kibbee “ 9 3:00 “ 4:30 Tarrytown “ 10 9:00 “ 11:00 ISoperton “10 1:00“ 3:00 Orland “ 11 9:00 “ 10:30 Lothair “11 1:00 “ 2:30 Mt. Vernon “13 9:00 “ 1:00 The registration books will be open at all these places. D. M. Currie, Tax Collector. For Communion Service. The ladies of the Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church are taking steps toward purchasing a new communion service for the church and Mrs. W. C. Mcßae will be glad to receive contributions from those who will help. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCT. 2. 1913. General News Items Told in Short Meter. On Saturday last Governor Slaton commented the sentence of Dr. W. J. McNaughton to life imprisonment. McNaughton had been sentenced three times to hang for the murder of Fred Flanders in Emanuel county. Marion Lucas took the oath of office as postmaster of Savannah on Monday, taking the place of Marcus S. Baker removed. The great impeachment trial of Governor Sulzer of New York is in progress this week in Al bany, and many witnesses are being sworn. Herschel V. Bargainer, a pros perous farmer or Jefferson coun ty, took strychine last week and died a few minutes after telling his brother what he had done. Bandits captured a train near Bibbtown, Ala., last Thursday night and got off with $50,000. They were supposed to be mere boys. Mrs. Pearl Yates of Centralia, 111., gave birth to four boys on Friday last, and all are doing well. E. C. Burnsed and son, Cleve, are in jail at Statesboro charged with the murder of Pharis Davis, who was found dead in the lower section of Bulloch county on Fri day afternoon. In a detailed report of 128 green groceries and meat stalls inspected in Savannah, 17 were classed good, 43 fair, and 68 in bad condition. Augustus Jones, a prominent farmer of Crisp county, was seriously hurt Saturday morning when a bale of cotton was thrown from his wagon by runaway mules, crushing him. Americus received 985 bales of cotton on Saturday, the combined receipts of Friday and Saturday being 1,625 bales. After robbing two negroes at Fitzgerald early Tuesday morn ing, a negro bandit held up W. W. Maddbx, engineer at the ice factory, and after robbing him fired four bullets into the man, killing him. CANDIDATESFORCONGRESS BEGIN TO MULTIPLY Judge W. M. Clements and Hon. W. W. Larsen Will Oppose Hughes. Judge Walter M. Clements of Eastman was a visitor here again this week, and met many of his old friends. He assures us that he is in the race for congress to represent the Twelfth District, the place now filled by Hon. Dudley M. Hughes of Twiggs. Judge Clements was formerly a citizen of that section of Mont gomery county now forming Wheeler, and very naturally ex pects a strong following in this part of the district. He is a lawyer of ability and in his for mal announcement to follow will doubtless present a strong plat form. Col. W. W. Larsen of Dublin was a visitor here yesterday, and is quite out spoken in his in tention to be in the race for rep resentative. Mr. Larsen has been in conference with friends over the district, and is quite confident of his strength in sev eral of the counties composing the new Twelfth. He is actively engaged in the practice of law and enjoys the esteem of many acquaintances over the district. He is conversant with state poli tics, having filled the place of executive secretary for awhile under Governor Brown’s first ad ministaation. Col. Larsen is a polished gentleman and a good mixer. He was located in the adjoining county of Emanuel several years, but is a native of that part of Tattnall now com posing Toombs county. John Washington, a negro of Helena, was shot and seriously wounded by his son, William, early Sunday morning. Two mulatto boys of Harriston, Miss., started a riot on Sunday morning and were killed, also three white men and two other negroes were killed. Paul Donehoo, the blind coro ner of Atlanta, who is also a suc cessful lawyer, was married a few days ago. Two fine mules owned by the city of Valdosta were killed by a live wire on Tuesday. Miss Alice Palmer of Moore land Avenue, Atlanta, who dis appeared last Thursday, was found naked and half starved roaming the woods near Carroll Friday afternoon. F. C. Reis, farming near Ma con, raised a sunllower that measured 14 inches across, weighed four pounds and pro duced a quart of seed. A new railroad is proposed to be built from Sparta to Waynes boro, passing through Sanders ville and other towns. The mutilated body of Mildred Allison, a fashionably dressed dancing teacher, was found on the tracks of Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad near Wayne, 111., on Friday night. By the bursting of a millstone at Hazzlehurst, Miss., on Satur d iy, two men were killed. Loos ing control of the engine caused the stone to go to pieces. E. M. Silberger, assistant post master at Pocahontas, Va., dis appeared Tuesday morning, tak ing with him registered packages containing SII,OOO. Statistics show that over $67,- 000,000 worth of linens, hats, silk dress goods wool, champagne and such goods are held in bond waiting to be turned loose when the new tariff goes into effect. The semi-annual dividends of five cotton mills and one ware house at LaGrange were paid out last week, and it amounted to $95,000. VALUABLE IDEA IN CURING FEAVINE HAY Montgomery County Farmer Gives Practical Plan That’s Easy. Mr. W. L. Calhoun of the Tur rytown section gives us a plan for curing peavine hay that ; seems not only cheap but quite \ practical. The device is a cheap j rack for the curing process and consists of three small poles fastened at two feet from the J top ends by driving a 12d nail through them and wrapping with a bit of hay wire. This is easily spread, setting out the feet like a tripod, and affords the finest means of giving air to the inside of the stack. The projections above the nail and wire fastening hold a bundle of hay that fur nishes a cap which sheds the water in case of rain. This method gives the very best means, by circulating air, and the hay never molds. The light tripods are easily put up by one man as fast as the hay can be mowed, and when not in use can Ibe quickly folded and stored for the next crop. The plan seems like a big improvement over the old one of putting up large polls with cross arms, as usually prac | ticed. Mr. Calhoun is one of our thinking farmers and his idea will undoubtedly save a lot of ■ work and better hay. Ailey Paragraphs. Special Gomsixmikmce. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Blount left Saturday to visit their fotm er home in Alabama. Mr. Blount returned Monday, but Mrs. Blount remained over for some time. Dr. J. W. Palmer was in At lanta Wednesday attending r business meeting of the Georgia Medical Board, of which has beer, re-appointed a member. M s. L’u .es of Claxton is as sisting Mrs. Hudson in her milli nery department. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. I). Mc- Gregor attended the family re union of Mrs. Martha Conner at Longpond Saturday. Mrs. J. W. Palmer made a short visit to Collins this week. Mrs. G. H. Mcßride of Lyons spent Sunday with relatives here. Mr. W. J. Peterson left Mon day for Atlanta where he will be under medical treatment for some time. He was accompanied by his son, Mr. T. A. Peterson, who will remain with him for several days. Mr. E. T. Mcßride of Vidalia was a business visitor here sev eral days this week. Miss Florence Conner is in At lanta for a few weeks. Mr. J. A. Kitchen has recently sold his farming interests here, and after Jan. Ist., will make his home in Toombs county, hav ing bought a large farm down on the Altamaha river. Miss Vickie Hall will entertain the Epworth League at her home Friday evening. Mr. H. W. Evans of Jackson ville, Fla., was mingling with old friends here this week. Picking Sea Island Cotton From Stubble. Adel, Sept. 30. —J. L. Wilkcr sori brought a bale of Sea Island cotton to Adel a few days ago that was {licked from stubble and which proved to be of a very fine grade. When Mr. Wilkerson had cut his cotton stalks he noticed that the cotton was sprouting in a patch of four of five acres. The ground was a little wet for him to work in and he decided to care for the stubble and not re plant on that spot. He has already sold one bale from the patch and expects to get another. The bale he sold here brought 21.55 per pound. Uvalda Masons Celebrates. U’ ’a l, idge of Free arid Ac cepted Masons had a festive oc casion on Wednesday night of last week, and with their friends made merry and partook of an oyster supper. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Mr. West of the Methodist church and Mr. S. A. Scott of Adrian. The occasion was one of real en joyment, and those who were so fortunate as to he present pro nounced the evening and the time a large one. Springhill Campmeeting. The annual campmeeting of Methodists at Springhill wi'l be held this year from the 10th to 15th of this month. These meet ings always bring together many people who only meet once a year, and are a source of great religious uplift to many who gather on “theold campground.’’ Nero Adams, an aged negro of Ocilla, being about to die from injuries received in a wreck, told /here he Oad hid his savings, and S3OO was found in a glass jar near his home. WANT THE DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL Citizens Os Orianna Section Will xMake Effort To Secure It. Although the new Twelfth Con | gressional District is entitled to a state agricultural school, no definite action has been taken as yet by any town or community to secure its establishment. The counties of the old eleventh dist rict, cutoff into the new Twelfth, are entitled to scholarships in the Eleventh district school at Doug las; and likewise, other counties retain educational privileges in the district of which they former ly formed a part. Montgomery, being of the old Eleventh, now is entitled to scholarship privi leges in the agricultural school at Douglas. It seems to be only a question of demanding our rights, and the right kind of push and enter prise on the part of some town or community as to when the college will be put in opera tion. (Citizens of the Orianna com munity, which embraces the sec i tion where the counties of Lau rens. Montgomery, Emanuel and Johnson come nearly together, are becoming interested in the matter of securing the school. Under th< leadership of Hon. J. E. Page and other progressive spirits the matter is being agita ted, and may soon take definite shape, and a strong pull be made for the establishment of the school there. This is one of the many Geor gia communities where the spirit of progress is beginning to stir up the people, and possesses the finest agricultural possibilities, and a section where the uplift of such a school would be appreci ated. It is pointed out by our Orianna friends that this is the ideal place for the school, not only from its fine lands and farms, hut because of its location at the corners of four of the best counties of the district, and the further fact that it is really in the center of the territory form ing the Twelfth district. A little pluck and push may land the school for these pro gressive people, and the develop ments in the matter will be watched with interest. F'or Glerk of Court. Mr. .J. G. McAllister of this olace will he a candidate for Clerk of the Superior Court, and his f iinai announcement will be forthcoming next week. He is a lifelong citizen of the county, and is thorougly conversant with the county government. About twelve years ago he served as (Jerk, and during his incumbency the office is said to have been very capably managed. Made Good Report. Tax Receiver Isaac Brooks of Soperton was mingling with friends here this week. He has just received from the Comp troller General a communication announcing a satisfactory condi tion of the tax digest of this county. Montgomery county made gains in tax values of $65,- 000 for the present year. It is not known whether Mr. Brooks will be a candidate to succeed himself in the coming election. M orrison-Hinson. On Sunday, September 21st, Mr. John Hinson and Miss Irene Morrison were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by Rev. ('has. Montgomery of Mt. Vernon, at Alamo, and was wit nessed by a number of friends. The contracting parties are well known and enjoy the friendship of a large acquaintance in Wheel er county. Success to them. NO. 23.
