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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.
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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.
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