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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1913)
VOL. XXVIII. PRESENTMENTS OF NOV. TERM. BUSY WEEK R UT' * 'A"'RK Most of Evils Attributed to Liquor.—lnjunction to Public. We, the Grand Jurors drawn and sworn for the November term, 1913, of the Montgomery Superior Court, make our Gener al Presentments as follows: We have through appropriate committees examined the public buildings, the pauper farm and the court dockets of the Justices of the Peace and Notaries Public, and report as follows: PUBLIC BUILDINGS. We, the Committee, find that that the Jail and Court House are as well kept as could be ex pected under all the circumstan ces. There are some repairs needed, but are being made. C. A. Mason, ) Tom Morris, > Com W. L. D. R.iekley, \ PAUPER FARM. We visited the Pauper Farm and find that it is a good farm, above the average. The author . ities inform us that it will pay expenses this year. It is there fore not an expense but an asset. G. J. Thompson, ) W. B. Greenway, > Com. W. G. McDonald, ) RECORDS OF J. P. AND N. P. We have examined the records of the justices of the peace and find them correctly kept. A. D. Hughes, ) C. F. Gordon, > Com. E. McLeod, 1 We append the report of the County Treasurer, mirk 1 xhib it “A.” We recommend the appoint ment of G. K. Mas-.m Notary: Public for the 1313 d District in the place of Lucien McLemcre, deceased. In view of the increased di voces in this county, following in the wake of the agitation of the i woman's suffrag< qu>~- f : or, view ing with alarm e tend. i.c: to put women dow:. . 1. . i with man in all the w;. ks of life, and believing that placing he ballot in the hands of women to bt fraught with evil to our country, j we urge our representative and j senator in the general assembly , of Georgia to vote against any and every bill looking in this di rection. We note with much pleasure the great improvement in our roads, and we approve the plan of the commissioners to build the great thoroughfares through the county first and the approaches thereto as fast as practicable. We think them wise in turning over the matter of building roads . to the road overseer in a great . measure, as he is a good road builder, and at the same time has no local bias. In our criminal investigation we find that in almost every case where we have had to take cog nizance of crime, whiskey drink ing is in some way connected with it, and without drinking we would hardly have any work to do. So as a mere matter of economy in running our govern ment, and as decidedly, the best way to lower taxes we would urge our people to do all in their power to put down drinking, and especially patronizing blind tig ers. We recommend that the pay of jurors and bailiffs for the year 1914 be $2 per diem except riding bailiffs and that they be paid $3 per diem. We appoint the following com mittee to examine the records of the county officers after the ad journment of court and that they be paid $2 per day for services: C. M. Ledbetter, Willie Mcßae and J. Robert Carr, Higgston. iit isui Imtitar. Sopertou. Apt'ciftl Correspondence. Mr. Herbert Gillis and daugh ter, Lillian, spent the week end with friends and relatives in Vi dalia. Mr. J. H. Pritchett made a fly ing trip to Cary Sunday. ! Mrs. J. T. Daley of Empire is visiting her grand son, Mr. J. T. Pipkin. Mr. Claude Tapley of near Zaidee is spending a few days with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Johnson spent Friday in Dublin. Mr. Tom Crumpler of Cary spent Sunday here. Mrs. G. T. Waller of Empire spent the week end with her j friend, Mrs. Arch Gillis. Mr. George Barwick of Ailey spent Sunday with friends and relatives here. Mrs. Jas. Adams has returned to her home in Mt. Vernon after a pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs. F. C. Wade. Col. Saffold of Cochran spent Saturday here. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Rowe had as their guests last week their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallice j Rowe, and niece, Bertie Rowe, ! from near Dublin. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brantley of Tarrytown spent Monday here shopping. Mrs. C. H. Peterson spent the week end with her mother in Vidalia who is seriously ill. Mr. G. W. Right spent a few days at the fair in Atlanta last week. Miss Stella Morris of Mt. Ver non spent the week end with her friend, Miss Blanche Mishoe. Another Aspirant for 1 Office Tax Collector. The campaign for public office in Montgomery county is fairly well under way and every week finds one or two candidates be fore the voting public. For some time it has been con t-.-rnplated that Mr. H. C. Davis of Orlanrd would be a candidate. In this issue will be seen Henry's card of announcement for the office of tax collector. He is a successful merchant, a man of considerable business training. He is a son of Mr. M. R. Davis, and has many friends. We cannot embody the report of the committee appointed at the Spring term of the court as the appointment of said commit tee was overlooked. We return the thanks of our body to His Honor, Judge E. D. Graham, and Solicitor W. A. Wooten for their courtesy to our body; and we commend them for their dispatch of business and efficiency of service. We recommend that these pre sentments be published in the Montgomery Monitor, and that the paper be paid the sum of $lO , for the same. C. M. Ledbetter, Foreman. I. P. McAllister, Sec'y. C. A. Mason, C. F. Gordon, A. D. Hughes, E. McLeod, G. M. Ladson, W. B. Greenwav, G. J. Thompson, J. J. Frost, H. H. Adams, W. T. McCrimmon, H. H. McAllister, J. C. Knight, J. A. Cauley, W. L. D. Rackley, Tom Morris, G. W. Hamilton, W. G. McDonald, W. B. Smith. It is ordered by the court that the within presentments be re ceived and entered upon the minutes of the court, and that they be published and paid fo* as therein recommended. Thi j the 7th day of November, 1913. E. D. Graham, J udge. W. A. Wooten, Sol.-Gen. MT. VERNON, GEORG I , THURSDAY, NOV. 13. 1913. Genera! News items Toh in Short Meter While rounding a curve at rapid rate, Henry E. Jackson, motorman of the Savannah Ele< - tric Co.; was thrown from h car on Monday morning and hi skull fractured, from which h died a few minutes later. While trying to imitate athleti* stunts he had seen in a movin; picture show, a boy of Oil City Pa., broke his neck last Monday Dreading the thought of bein; taken to a sanitarium, Miss Lib Reed of Atlanta drowned her self in the Howell Mill resorvoi. Saturday morning. While picking up coal on th railroad tracks in Atlanta o; Monday, Virgil Rakestraw, a 14 year-old boy, had both of his leg cut off by a switch engine. Up to and including Monday’; receipts, Savannah had receivei 1,000,259 bales of cotton, beinj 381,426 bales more than for th-. same date last year. Last week 196 carloads of livt poultry were received in New York. The city has paid over $16,000,000 for poultry so fa this year. After hearing a request fron both the state and the defense t< postpone the Frank case unti January, the Supreme Court de cided that the case must be hear, on December 15th. Proceedings of The Board Education Nov. 5. 1913. The County Board of Educatioi met today wieh all member, present. The meeting called t order by W. A. Peterson, presi dent of the board. Minutes o last meeting read and approved. A delegation from Sharpe’; Spur was present, asking for pub lie school at that place. Matte: was passed until the Decembei meeting and the petitioners re quested to present an accurat. map of the school district wanted N. E. Derisso and others of the Thigpen community were pres ent, asking the removal of tlx Thigpen school from the presen site to a site selected on land be longing to Kelley Gillis, near the public road leading from Sopertoi to Adrian. Their petition was deferred until the next meeting and the patrons of the Thigpen school ordered notified and given an opportunity to appear and be heard. E. C. McAllister reported that the new class room recently ad ded to the Longpond schoolhous* had been completed according to contract. The County Superintendent of Schools was appointed to act wit the Commissioners of Roads am Revenues in securing prices, plans, etc., for having a county map made, showing the public roads, school houses, etc. The regular payroll was ap proved. The Board adjourned t< meet on the first Wednesday ir December. W. A. Peterson, Pres. A. B. Hutcheson, Sec’y. For Tax Collector: To tl»o Vo!itii of tlonttfornMy County: I I h«*rel*y off r nriy«elt a coudidati* for shoo! flee of Tax Collector of Montgomery count; unbject such mien an your executive con - mittee may prescribe. If elected, I pronii. to »*erve tin p* ople to the* bent of my abiJit A**uaing yon that I will appreciate nil auppo given me, I am Yours to nerve, 11. C. fc>AVW. George Morse, a Greek mei - chant of Atlanta who owns number of stores, has gone t New York to meet his fianc* who has been engaged to hii twenty years, since she was 1 years old. ! At Raines, Ga., eight mil**, south of- Cordele on Monday, j Harvey Smith, Troy King and R. E. Holliday were killed and ! Quinn Smith was fatally wound ed and died later. The shooting occurred over a dispute about hogs. ! Mrs. Mary Johnson, weighing: 500 pounds, the largest woman; in Misssuri, died Monday at her home in Springfield, and no hearse was found large enough to take her remains. Judge Frank Park of Sylvester , was elected last week to fill the unexpired term of Congressman S. A. Roddenbery deceased, oj 1 the Second District. The Atlantic Coast Line Pa;, train, known as “the golden chariot,’’ pays out each month in Waycross $130,000. Taking of testimony in th case against Judge Speer wii commence on Jan. 19, next, bi fore the sub-committee of th> House. A snow fall of ten to sixteen inches occurred in Ohio, Wes; Virginia Pennsylvania on Moi day, retarding all transportation George A. Longle, proprieto: of the Kimball House, Atlanta’ most noted hotel, has filed a pc tition in bankruptly and askeu for a receiver. Senator Hoke Smith Would Help Farmers Atlanta, Nov. 10.—Senatoi Hoke Smith has come forwar with another offer of special at distance to the Georgia farmer who are interested in the pend ing fight against the boll weevil He has secured an action of tin senate authorizing the publics tion of 4,800 new copies of thr government’s 1912 book on tli M xican Cotton 801 l Weevil. The book has been recogniz: an the most valuable publicatio on the subject, and the first is sue has been entirely exhausted. Senator Smith, however, has st cured for Georgia a large number of the additional publications, and has expressed a desire to place them in the hands of tho; o farmers really interested in the study of the question. He will send a copy to anyone who drops him a postal asking for it. The book contains two hun dred pages, illustrated, with a history and description of the weevil, with the best methods of lesisting its injury to crops. , i . I Corn Cake and Sorghum. That old and familiar food friend of ours—cornmeal —gets a high recommendation from th< chief of nutrition investigation of the Federal Department of Agri culture, who says that it shoul be the common practice to ea cornmeal mush with milk; to ad cheese to cornmeal mush whicl is to be fried, and to serve corn meal preparations with meat Just what we’ve been doing i the South for three or four hur. dred years. Never a waffle y< was half so delicious as that ide; of democratic simplicity in foo( the crisp corn cake, baptized ii old-fashioned sorghum.—Rid. mond Times-Dispatch. Cotton Ginned in County to Nov. 1 The figures on cotton ginned i Montgomery county, as furnishc by Special Agent Kelley Johnsor to November Ist, show 11,04 bales. For the same date la; year only 6,916 bales was th output in Montgomery. Spring Hill. Special Correspondence. Mr. O. 11. Burnette spent Sun day at Scotland. Mr. Omor Graham of Hindu 1 i hurst was up spending the day! Sunday last with old friends all Spring Hill and Towns. Prof, and Mrs. W. J. Chesnut spent Saturday last at the home of Mr. F. C. McGahee. Mr. Tom Hughes of Mt. Ver - non visited his sister at Spring Hill Sunday. Mrs. F. C. McGahee is called to the bedside of her mother, j Mrs.,E. A. Holmes who is very: sick.' There will be preaching at the Baptist church every third Sun day morning at 11 o’clock and at 7 o’clock in the evening. Sunday school at the Method ist church every Sunday after- { noon at 3 o’clock and the B. Y. P. U. just after Sunday school. Mrs. F. C. Clark and little daughter, of Laurens county, who have been spending some time with her mother, Mrs. M. | J. Anderson, left Monday so their home. The young folks of this com-, inunity are looking forward to the cane grindings. The Spring Hill Literary So-! ciety will meet next Friday eve ning. Everybody come and bring somebody with you. Prayer meeting at the Method ist church every Wednesday night. Everybody come and join in the good work. Snowbird. V. 0. Shannon, a butcher of Savannah, who was accidently j shot Friday by his partner, John Menaces, at a butcher pen near the city, died of the wound Mon day morning. Ailcy Paragraphs. pi cinl Cnm‘Ht>oiaicnoe* Mrs. Blount and daughter of South Carolina arrived last wet k, and will make their future home with Mr. E. A. Blount, the for mer’s son. Mr. Clifford Dukes of .Milan spent Sunday with home folks here. Miss Cleo Hull, who holds u position us telephone operator, in Cordele, came over and spent Saturday and Sunday with folks at home. Mr. Will Waller of Soperton was here Sunday. Little Miss Helen McNatt of Lyons spent Saturday with rela tives here. Mrs. H. P. Wilbanks and daughter of Vidalia were guests at the home of Mrs. J. W. Mc- Arthur Saturday. Mr. G. H. Mcßride of Lyons spent Sunday with his sister at the hotel. Mr. E. Leggette is able to hob ble around on crutches after a two week “stay in” with a crushed foot. Little Miss Jessie Lee Hall has been quite sick for several days Mr. E. A. Blount left Satur day for Ala., to join his wife who has been visiting relatives there for a few weeks. His place as; depot agent is being filled by Mr I. J. Stanford. Mrs. T. A. Peterson was called to Scott by phone Saturday, her mother, Mrs. Carter, being critically ill. Last reports are that she had rallied, but we hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. A. P. Mclntyre, Rural Letter Carrier No. 2 from this office, with his brother, Bruce, left Tuesday morning on thei • motorcycles for Atlanta on a pleasure trip. CIVIL CASES DISPOSED OF _ - FEW CRIMINAL CASES TBIED A Week’s Session Greatly Reduces Volume of Litigation. At the November term of Montgomery Superior Court, held here last week, the folk>w i ing civil cases were disposed of: Peruvian Guano Co. vs. J. C. Clifton and E. S. Gibhs. judg ment for plaintiff. C. H. Peterson v Mrs. Cora E. Conner, et al, judgm. for pltf. L. Mohr & Son v Mrs. A. B. Conner, judgmt for plntf. Pierce, Maddox & Pierce vs Cora E. and C. C. Conner, adms. judgmt for plaintiffs. Blackshear Mfg. Co. v VV. A. Odom, judgmt for pltf. VV. V. Herrin v B. B. & C. C. Gillis, judgmt for pltf. D. F. Warnock v Keel and Walden, judgmt for costs. Washburn Drug Co. v Wallace Moses and A. M. Moses, judgmt ; for plaintiff. Alice and T. J. James v M. D. Davis, settled. D. G. Williamson, et al, v A. M. Moses, judgmt for plaintiff. 1 The F. A. Ames Co. v C. H. Peterson, judgmt for plntf. Louranie McKay v J. H. Mc- Kay, total divorce. J. M. Davis v John McNeai, R. K. Moseley claimant, property found subject. Blount Buggy and Carriage Co. vs C. H. Peterson, judg for pltf. M. Morrison, bearer, v R. F. Mcßae, executor, settled. Sarah Britton vs S. A. L Rail way. judgment for plaintiff. W. 0. Jordan v J. H. William son, settled. Lige Mosley vs Wm. Hamilton, ; judgmt for costs. H. C. Davis v J. M. Moore, et al, appeal dismissed. > L. W. Yeomans v Georgia & Florida Railway, dismissed on demurer. B. F. Eckles vJ. W. & C. G. j Thompson, settled. Taylor, Canady Buggy Co. vs W. Mishoe, judgmt for pltf. | Bank of Tarry town v W. G. Fountain, et al, judgmt for pltf Farmers Bank vs N. E. Barlow, et al, affidavit of illegality dis missed. Elsie Mosley v C. B. McLeod, I judgment for plaintiff. Urias Anderson v Freeman Hilburn, judgmt for pltf. W. A. Reaves v J. A. Adams, . settled. Liipfert Scales Co. v Cora E. ! and C. C. Conner, adrrxrs. judgt ; for pltf. Blackshear Mfg. Co. v Arnold Thigpen and A. P. Odom, judgt 1 for pltf. K. Walden, v Julia Strickland, judgment for plaintiff. Savannah Chemical ('jo. vT. W. Morris, jdgmt for defendant. McNatt & Moore v W. R. & C. H. Beckum, judgmt for plntf. W. Mishoe v F. B. Calhoun, defendant, Mary J. Calhoun, claimant; claim sustained. Marietta Fertilizer Co v A. M. Moses, judgt forpllf A E Waxelbaum & Bro v C C .6 Cora E Conner, administrators judgt for plff G W Smith v C C & Cora E Conner admr, judt for plff J W. Gordon v Julia A Gowlan total divorce Ellis Carriage Works v W Mis hoe judt for plff A J Burch & J C Calhoun v Cora E & C C Conner, judt for pills R N Phillips v VV B Greenway cetiorari dismissed The Bank of Vidalia v W M I Coleman et al judt for pltf j Fisher Lowery & Fisher v Walter Phillips judt for plffs A M Moses plff v C H Simpson deft P B Gibson elmt levy dis missed at cost of plff M D Hughes v Nira Horne judt for plff Citizens Bank of Alston v J T Conner et al judt far plff C B McLeod v H D Mosely judt for plff i C D Browning v A W Harris judt for cost. WL Wilson v W C McCrim mon judt for plff Besides the above civil cases a few criminal cases of minor importance were disposed of. NO. 29
