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VOL. XXVIII.
FALL MEETING j
OF PRESBYTERY!
FIRSTJSESSION TUESDAY EVE
Reception Last Evening to
Visitors at Home Mr.
D. A. Mcßae.
The October session of the
Savannah Presbytery convened j
here Tuesday evening at the
Presbyterian church, the opening
sermon being preached by Dr. A. 1
L. Patterson of Blackshear. Rev. j
Robert M. Mann of Tifton was
chosen moderator and Rev. Hen
ry Rankin of Tifton was elected
recording secretary. The visi- 1
tors are being hospitably enter
tained in the various homes of j
the town, and the sessions arej
progressing smoothly. Sessions
are held morning, afternoon and
evening.
Dr. Rockwell S. Brank, pastor
of Independent Presbyterian
church, Savannah, is chairman
of the committee on missions, i
Dr. Gammon delivered a stirring
missionary address last evening.
The following ministers are
present: Revs. R. M. Mann, Tis- ,
ton; L. A. McLaurine, States
boro; Henry Rankin, Keller; R.
S. Brank and W. Moore Scott,
Savannah; W. H. Chapman,
Brunswick; Geo. L. Bitzer, Val-:
dosta; Chas. Montgomery, Mt. :
Vernon; W. W. McMorris, Hazle
hurst; A. L. Patterson, Black- :
shear.
The following elders are at- '
tending: Messrs. J R. Auld, 1
Erick; W. C. Mcßae, Mt. Ver
non; G. L. Peterson, Sadie; J. A.! 1
McDonald, Statesboro; R. H. 11
Clay, Bryan Neck; E. B. Way, 1
Flemington; Maj. Jas. 0. Varne
dore, Valdosta.
Following are among the visi- 1
tors here: Messrs. Daniel Iver- 1
son, Savannah; J. L. Hinson, i 1
Erick; J. T. Langford, Sadie; J. \
T. McCullough, at large; Mr.
Carnes of Vidalia; and Mr. Wal
lace of Tifton. ■
Last evening, at the beautiful |
home of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan j
A. Mcßae on Railroad avenue,
an informal reception was given '
the visiting body — ministers, el- j
ders, out-of-town visitors and *
homefolks. It was a pleasing
event, in which good cheer ruled
supreme, and those present were!
brought into closer bonds of 1
friendship. During the evening
a delidious luncheon was served, j !
Mrs. Mcßae was ably assisted by ; \
a number of lady friends, and it!
is sure the event was one of!
pleasure to the visitors.
Orphan Home Day
Fittingly Celebrated. <
Orphan Home Day was cele- 1
brated at the Methodist church !
here with exercises by the little, 1
folks Sunday evening, and as a 1
result the amount of $ll.BB was! 1
j •
raised toward defraying the ex- j
penses of the orphans home of
the South Georgia Conference at
Macon.
Particular credit should be giv
en the children who took part in j
the exercises, as a more success
ful event of its kind has not been
held here. It is worthy of note;
that the program was not given
the little ones until two weeks
before their public appearance, 1
and every feature of the pro
gram was beautifully carried out, 1
after only a very few rehearsals.
They were heard by a crowded
house.
For Clerk Superior Court:
I **k of my friend* and the citizen* of Mont- !
gomery ceunty the office of Clerk of the .Su
perior Court. Long years of einerienc in the ;
woik warrant me in claiming my fitne** for i
tbe duties of the office, and in the coining
primary, under aneli rule* a* may be adopted,
I ask for your xupport. Your vote* will he
liigbly appreciated,
John C. McAllisteb. i
i Quarterly Meeting Held
Here on Yesterday.
Rev. L. A. Hill, presiding elder
!of the Mcßae District of the
Methodist church was here on
yesterday and held the fourth
'quarterly meeting of the Mt.
; Vernon circuit. On account of
! the meeting of the Savannah
; Presbytery here there was no
preaching, and the routine work
!of the conference occupied the
' morning hour. Reports were re
ceived as to the financial status
, of the three churches, Ailey, Mt.
j Vernon and Glen wood,
i Those present from Wheeler
j county were J. W. Morrison, J.
jD. McDaniel, R. L. Hogan, G.
i M. Anderson and H. A. Morrison.
1 Those representing the Method
| ist church of Ailey were 1
' Messrs. J. M. D. McGregor and
G. R. Mason. Amounts due by
the several churches of the cir
cuit will, according to pledges
made, be paid in full by the close
of the month.
PROMINENT CITIZEN
HAS PASSED AWAY
Judge Lucien B. McLemore
Died Friday Morning
At His Home.
After an illness of several
months, in which he was a great
sufferer, Judge Lucien B. McLe
more quietly breathed his last
at 3:00 o’clock on Friday morn
ing at his home here. In his;
death Montgomery county loses
one of her best citizens, and one
who always took great interest
in matters affecting the interests
of its citizens. Few men in the
county were more conversant
with public affairs or rendered
more willing and efficient service
in public matters. He was quiet
and unassuming in manner, re
tiring and gentle in expression:
but always advocated the right
and stood for it.
He had reached the age of G1
years, having spent his entire
life in Montgomery county. He
was preceded to the grave some
fourteen years by his wife, who
was Miss Corinne McGregor,
both sleeping now in the family
cemetery only a few rods away
from the McGregor homestead
where they were mar-ried.
Judge McLemore is survived
by two brothers, Ira T. and Wil
liam McLemore; four sisters,
Mrs. A. A. Peterson, Mrs. Robt.
Sharpe, Mrs. Jos. W. Sharpe and
Mrs. Robt. Coursey.
The surviving children are,
Messrs. Mark L., Howell, Hor
ace, Nesbit and Carr; Misses Isla, !
Viola and Arlia.
The funeral occurred on Sun
day morning, attended by friends
and relatives from the surround
ing sections, forming a large
concourse. The exercises were
conducted at the home by Rev.
Chas. Montgomery, pastor of
the Presbyterian church here, of
which the deceased was a mem
ber, assisted by Rev. C. M. Led
better, pastor of the Methodist
church.
Our sympathies go out to the
stricken ones, their grief is our
grief; for, during eleven years of
residence here he was our friend.
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Musical Program For
The Baptist Church, j
The music at the Mt. Vernon
Baptist church for next Sabbath
has been selected and arranged
by the choir as follows:
Gloria Patria.
Doxology.
“All Hail the Power of Jesus’
Name.”
Anthem, “In the Cross of
Christ I Glory.”
Solo, “I Will Extol Thee.”-
Mrs. M. B. Calhoun.
Sermon.
“Joy To The World.”
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1913.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
The explosion of a bomb in the
i east side, New York, on Monday
,! wrecked an Italian grocery store
| and routed 250 people from their
■ I
homes.
i
Beginning on Jan. 6, the Plant
System will run a steamship from
Jacksonville to Panama, semi
monthly, the trip taking fourteen
i days.
Efforts are being made by a
German inventor to recover
$2,000,000 in gold that went
down in the Bay of San Francis
co when the steamer Rio de
Janeiro sank in 1901.
l
Miss Dorothy Haugh of Val
dosta was found murdered in a
room at the Southern hotel in
Thomasville on Monday morning,
having gone there on a visit.
Ernest Harden of Union Point
had his jaw 7 broken by a kick
from a mule on Satuidayand was
unconscious for several hours.
Steamers sent out by the Rus
sian government to explore the
Arctic regions north of Siberia!
have returned and report finding
a new body of land the size of 1
Greenland.
Paul Meining, a German
painter of Savannah, 34 years of
age, killed himself Saturday
night, hanging himself from the
rafters of a wood shed, after
I slashing his arms and legs with
a razor.
J. H. McKennie, for 33 years
clerk of the United States Su
preme Court, died Monday night.
He began 55 years ago as a
deputy clerk.
Englishmen living in Liverpool
and Toronto are negotiating for
Ossabaw Island. The island con
tains 25,000 acres and is held at
$300,000.
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jf Damon Notes § ;
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Proceedings of Weekly Meeting at
IJrewloii’Parker Institute, Mt. Vernon 1
The Damon Literary Society!
held their regular weekly meet- 1
ing in the freshman room Satur-j
day afternoon last. After the'
society was called to order by
! the president the roll was called
| and the minutes were read and
! adopted. After which the fol
•
| lowing program was very sue
cessfully carried through:
Conversation —Eunice Burk
halter, Eloise Adams, Manilla
Mosley, and Marguerite Mont-,
gomery.
Violin solo —Erin McArthur.
Jokes and wants- Jim McCul
lough.
Prophecy —Tyra Stanley.
Pantomine Hayden McDaniel,
Oglethorpe McLemore, Albert
Sidney Johnson and Cleo Low
-1 rey.
Adjective game—Mamie Mc-
Daniel.
Reading—Howell Mosley.
Debate: Resolved, That Foot-j
ball is Beneficial.
Affirmative—Edgar McLemore
and Ray Coursey.
Negative—Rufus Hodges and
Cecil Lee.
After discussing this subject
thoroughly the judges rendered
their decision a tie.
After a short busines meeting
we adjourned.
-M. A. M.- |
* Charles Bonkenhegen, a farm
er of Crisp county had a bucket
loaded with dirt to fall on him
while cleaning out a well on
Tuesday and was killed.
Hon. W. G. Brantley, former
representative of the Eleventh
district in congress, was given a
handsome silver service Satur
day in Brunswick as a testimon
ial for his work in behalf of
Brunswick and the district.
Huerta, provisional president
of Mexico, issued an order on
Saturday dissolving the Mexican
congress, and threw 110 members
of the chamber of deputies into
prison.
On Thursday last the steamer
Volturno, on a voyage from Rot
terdam to New York, was burned
in mid-Atlantic ocean during a
raging storm. Eleven vessels
were summoned to her aid by
wireless, but after rescueing ov
er 500, the loss was 136 lives.
Dr. Carey S. Barron, a promi- j
nent young physician of Henry
county, is in jail at McDonough
charged with the murder of his
wife. She turned blind on Sat
urday and died suddenly. He
was out riding with a Miss
| Wheeler while his wife was on
; her deathbed, and married the
young woman on Tuesday.
Suffragettes attempted to burn
the costly Heaton Railway sta
tion in Newcastle, Eng., on Sat
urday. Another band caught a
doctor and gave him a flogging
with dog whips.
| A severe wind storm in Wis
consin on Friday blew a freight
train from the track near New
Lisbon and destroyed miles of
tobacco sheds and killed much
livestock.
A. A. Wellborn of Columbus
committed suicide by shooting a
bullet through his head in a
room in a sanitarium where he
was being treated in Atlanta on
Monday.
The Corn Club Contest
Here Next Wednesday.
| Notice is given in another col
umn by Prof. G. V. Cunningham
of the corn club meet here next
Wednesday. We presume that
the boys have been given notice
individually, and hope that every
member will attend. It would
be a day well spent for the fa-
I thers and friends of the boys to
come along with them byway of
! encouragement in this most
laudable work. Montgomery
county lies in the territory that
has suffered greatly from drouth
again this year, and we do not
.expect record yields; but the
! boys should not be discouraged,
for grand results have already
crowned their efforts. Don’t
forget the time—Wednesday.
For Tax Collector:
To the Voter* of Montgomery County:
In a* much hk I <le*ir<j to bo Tax Collector
of Montgomery County, I hereby announce
myiolf a candidate for that office, Hiibjnct to
| the rule* and regulation* promulgated by the
Democratic Executive Committee governing
the next primary. I will appreciate any and
: all auppoi t given me, and if I *bould be elected
■ I will do all in my power to do the d'ltie* of
! the office in the proper manner and accepta
ble to the people at largo. There i*one tiling
I I will Huy in the beginning and let it be m.v
motto until the flection i* over, that I will
not ri *orl to any unfair mean*, or dirty polit
ical Hcbcmes or trick*, to *eeure my election.
U. V. Mahon.
A small child of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. Green of Summerville was
burned to death on Saturday, its
clothing having caught from an
open grate.
In a coal mine near Cardiff,
Wales, on Tuesday 400 miners
met their death from an explo
sion, about 500 being saved be
; fore fire blocked the way.
II orse for Sale.
Good all-around horse; 7 years
old; weighs 1000 pounds. See at
once 0. H. Morrison,
ad Mt. Vernon, Ga. I
Announcement Column
Begins to Grow.
The first regular announcement
card of a candidate for county
office appears in this issue.
Mr. John C. McAllister asks
1 the support of voters for the of
' j fice of Clerk of Superior Court.
Mr. McAllister has had more ex
!! perience in this capacity than
any man in this county, having
served as clerk before, and as
sisted at almost every court that
has been held for long years.
No question at all as to his capa
bility, and his record as a good
citizen would be hard to beat.
For tax collector, Mr. G. V.
Mason’s card appears this week.
Mr. Mason is well and favorably
known to our people as an honest
and hard-working citizen, and
his friends will see to it that the
votes are forthcoming for him in
the primary to be held. In his
announcement Mr. Mason states
the plan of his campaign, and
! our readers are asked to consider
it.
ODD FELLOWS BANQUET
FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 31
Prominent Speakers Invited
and a Royal Time
In Store.
After some deliberation on the
part of the membership, Mt. Ver
non Lodge No. 530 I. O. O. F.
has fixed the date of its coming
banquet for October 31st. A
number of prominent speakers
have been invited, and a pleasant
and profitable time is in store for
those who attend. The regular
ritualistic exercises will be held
in the lodge room, but the public
exercises, including the address
es and the banquet, will doubt
less he held in the court house,
to which the members of the
order and their friends are cor
dially invited.
The ladies of. Mt. Vernon,
especially those families which
include membership in the order,
are expected to co-operate with
the fraternity in the matter of j
preparing the supper, that the.
affair may be a success from this
very important standpoint. Cer- ;
tain refreshments will doubtless
he bought by the lodge, hut the I
ladies are especially asked to aid t
in the matter of arranging for ,
the banquet for the benefit of
the public.
At Monday night’s session ,
committees were appointed, and
the work of arranging for a suc
cessful event is going forward.
The program will be announced
in full next week. Ailey lodge
as a body has been invited, and !.
members of the order from far j (
and near are cordially and fra- ,
ternally invited to attend. Ex- 1
ercises will begin about 6 o’clock ,
in the evening, and will last
about two hours. ;
—* j]
Card of Thanks. i
We wish to express our high ;
appreciation and thanks for the ‘
kindness and attention shown us
during the late illness and death
of our dear departed father, L. j *
B. McLemore, by the people of r
Mt. Vernon and vicinity. We '
will ever pray Heaven’s richest '
blessings upon you.
His Children.
Mt. Vernon, Oct. 15, 1913.
Now Feed Store
i
I have just opened up in the f
Hughes old store a full line of ,
Feed, Crain, Flour, Cotton Seed
Meal and Hulls, Hay, etc. Give
me a trial and satisfaction will '
j be given you. 1
N. L. SPOONER, i
ad Mt. Vernon, Ga. (
'j
The safe of the postoffice at ;
1 Luella, Ga., was blown open by ‘
robbers on Thursday morning
i last who secured a hundred dollars 1
I in stamps. I
WILL ALTER CO.
TAX SYSTEM
RESORT TO LAW AND ORDER
Commissioners Order Tax
Books to be Closed
Dec. 20th.
One Georgia law which has
been disregarded more than any
other, throughout the state—and
Montgomery county in particular
—is that which would close the
tax collector’s books on the 20th
of December. The county com
missioners of this county have
decided to inject a little law en
forcement into the proposition,
and to this end have ordered the
tax books closed December 20th.
This is a new idea in Montgom
ery county, at least, but if the
law is obeyed it will result in
placing several hundred dollars
in the treasury, which, under the
common and rankly illegal plan,
the county is robbed of every
year. All during the spring the
county commissioners, the tax
collector and delinquent tax pay
ers wrangle over the payment of
taxes, and in nine cases out of
ten carry on the row until the
middle of the summer, and as a
consequence the county is the
perpetual loser.
Thus, the commissioners—and
be it to their credit— have plan
ned to rid the county of the an
tedated methods which have pre
vailed for lo these many years.
They purpose to have law execu
ted, and the tax books will close
December 20th, after which fifas
will be issued and collection en
forced as the law directs. For
many years it has been observed
that numbers, especially tenants,
move the first of the year, and
are difficult to trace, while the
old-line tax dodge* is always
present.
During this year the county
commissioners have done much
toward the collection of delin
quent taxes, and under their plan,
| which will harmonize with the
new tax equalization law, the
countj tax system will be put on
a business basis before another •
year. The above statement con
cerning the new ruling of the
commissioners is given at their
request, and in enforcing it they
will have put in effect a state law
which, as far as Montgomery
county is concerned, has been
reduced to a farce and a disgrace
to its upright citizenry.
May Run for Sheriff.
So far no one has made formal
announcement for Sheriff in the
coming county primary, but sev
eral gentlemen have been men
tioned by their friends in this
connection.
It is quite certain that Mr. S.
Z. Salter will be a candidate, and
his announcement will soon be
made. In the mean time, keep
your eye on our announcement
column.
The announcement of Mr. E.
E. Burch as a candidate for the
office of sheriff will show up in
our columns next week. We
make this assertion on the very
best of authority.
Shipping Oak Staves.
Perhaps the largest lot of oak
staves ever shipped from this
point has just been loaded for
shipment to Savannah. A Ger
man company has been getting
them out in the Oconee swamp
below here and several wagons
have been busy hauling them to
the Seaboard depot. The lot
consisted of six car loads running
from 7,000 to 8,000 per car. The
staves go to Germany for the
manufacture of casks, probably
to hold the national beverage,
beer.
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