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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1914)
VOL. XXVIII. EUGENE GRACE IS DEAD AT LAST Final Termination Famous Case In His Burial At Newnan. Newnan, Jan. 13.-Eugene Grace died here at 1:45 this morning from the bullet wound he mysteriously received in At lanta nearly two years ago. He had suffered from partial paraly sis since shortly after the shoot ing occurred and had been in a serious condition for several days. Grace was wounded at his At lanta home in March, 1912. Po lice summoned by a telephone call, found him in a semi-con scious condition. At the hos pital he accused his wife, Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace, of the shoot ing. Mrs. Grace was found at -'the home of Grace’s mother here and arrested on his accusation. Later in the same year she was tried on a charge of attempted murder and found not guilty. At the trial Grace, brought in to the court room on a cot, made a statement that he 'had been shot by his wife for the purpose of securing a large amount of life insurance which he held. Mrs. Grace made a statement at the trial that her husband had been wounded in a struggle be tween them for possession of a pistol and that she had left him and gone to Newnan in the be lief that he was not in a serious condition. Soon after the t *ial Grace left his Atlanta home to live with his mother in Newnan. His death, physi is said, was due directly to euremic poisoning, which set in about the wound in his back. Church Conference at The Methodist Church. s, Tonight at the Methodist church in Mt. Vernon a church conference will be held. The meeting will be held promptly at 7:00 o’clock, and every mem ber is urged to be present, and all visitors are welcome. Springhill Literary Society to Entertain. This society again bids welcome to its many friends. A multitude of people is expected in Spring hill on Friday evening, January 23rd. at 8 o’clock to witness the extra program of the Springhill Literary Society, which is prom ised to be a treat to the public. Next, we are glad to let the Eublic know that Prof. C. M. edbetter will deliver one of his leetures in the auditorium of the Springhill Academy, which will take second place in the program. He is well known and this prom ises you something worth your coming to hear, whether you are an admirer of a high class liter ary program or not. Last but not least, we wish to inform the people that we have planned for the young ladies of Springhill and vicinity to carry out a sample of their good cook ing that the boys that we come in contact with, may judge for themselves who is a good cook. This sample cooking will be brought in the style of a “pie” ; and the lady will be allowed to ■ carry her “pie” behind a screen while the gentlemen decide i whether they will take “that-un” or not. Also there will be oys ters served in any and all styles in the dinning room. The oyster suppers at Springhill speak for themselves and everybody is promised a nice time if they only wish to partake of this feast. W. J. Chesnut, Mgr. The finest lot of pecan trees ever seen in Mt. Vernon arrived at The Monitor office yesterday. They are handsome trees, of the large variety, and came from the most reliable nursery in South west Georgia. The season for planting is right now. Mr. Fol som will supply his friends with guaranteed trees at very low prices. See him at once. | Wqt Ulmtttor. Uvalda. , Special Correspondence. In a business way, Uvalda promises to make a new record i for herself that shall exeed her past. The storage room at the G. & F. depot here has been enlarged ’ to acommodate the increasing shipping hither and hence. The Minter-Smith Hardware : Co., of this place is coustructing a new ware house to accommo date their growing business. Mr. J. S. Kennedy has moved into the brick store formerly oc cupied by C. R. Boggott & Co. He intends to carry a line of dry good and merchandise. There were a good number of citizens at both services, night and morning, in the Baptist church here where Rev. Taylor preached very interesting and in structive sermons. The town deeply regrets that Rev. Alison, Uvalda’s Methodist preacher, has been transferred j from this to the Glenville circuit. Though he has been here a short j while, his manners, speech and conduct have ingratiated him in to the good will of this commun ity. Our school has on enrollment of very near a hundred—the "largest ever. Under the direc tion of Prof. J. M. Morris, and his assistant, Mrs. W. C. Lang ford, the school is making fair progress. Oriola. I 1 Damon Dots f§ ©' --© Proceedings of Weekly Meeting at Brewton-Parker Institute, Mt. Vernon I m wiMMttnm © The Damon Literary Society met in the auditorium Saturday afternoon last. After a song by the society and prayer by the chaplain the roll was called and the minutes were read and adopt ed, after which the following program was very successfully rendered: Welcome address—Ray Cour sey. Adjective game—Eunice Burk halter. Piano solo—Eva Williams. Reading—Charles Ricks. Prophecy—Eloise Adams. Conversation—Jim McCul lough, Durham Cobb, Lawrence Karnard, Cecil Lee and Albert Sidney Johnson. Piano solo —Ernestine Black- j well. Conversation—Tyra Stanley, Clara Duggan, Ruby Burch and Bonnie Williamson. Reading—Ray Coursey. Piar.o solo—Tyra Stanley. We were glad to have Alvin Warren, Annie Welch, Charles Nevils, Otis Duggan, Alfred Warren, Essie Bedingfield, * Sue Lynn Stone and Fred Ridley to, join our society. The following officers were I elected to serve: President—Willard Barton. Vice-pres.—Duncan Currie. Sec-treas. Manilla Mosley. Cor-sec—Marie McQueen. Chaplain—Charles Ricks. After a business meeting we adjourned. M 8.-P. I. Senior Class To Play In Vidalia. The senior class of the Brew ton-Parker Institute will render the play, “Valley Farm,” at the auditorium of the Vidalia Colle giate Institute in Vidalia tomor row night. It is probable that a number of our young people will go down to see the seniors again acquit themselves credit ably. The people will be well and hospitably received by j Vidalia. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1914 General News Items Told in Short Meter. j The large barn of Sheriff | Gornto at Valdosta was burned Saturday, including a fine auto mobile and a large lot of farm implements. J. D. Adams, a carpenter of Atlanta, was stricken Saturday while on a scaffold a nail, and fell dead to the ground six feet below. Chas. Wade, a negro of Crisp county, is in jail at Cordele | charged with burning the barn of J. R. Felder, in which 2,000 bushels of corn, $1,700 worth of hay, seven mules and two horses ’ were destroyed. It is estimated that five hun dred thousand men, women and children are starving in the Balkan states, on account of the wars that have ravaged the country. R. Lester Johnson of Bulloch county, who was one of the can didates for retresentatiye in the last race, was tried for insanity Saturday and found sane, and will have to serve out a sentence on the chaingang. Six barrels of whiskey in pint flasks were seized in the A. C. L. depot in Thomasville Saturday by order of the mayor. Each barrel contains one hundred bot tles. Carson Ingram, white boy of Atlanta, and two negroes were killed Friday morning when the 'train on the Georgia Southern road plunged through a trestle over Gum Creek near Cordele. J. C. Brown of Ohio was knocked from the trestle over Morgan’s Lake Monday morning by an Atlantic Coast Line train | and killed. Business Changes in Ailey. Several business changes in volving real estate sales have taken place in Ailey recently. Dr. Palmer again becomes pro prietor of the Ailey drug store, run for some time by the Sumer ford Drug Co. Mr. Mack Mason has bought the Moseley place and moved : nto town from his farm. Dr. J F. Hall has sold his place to Mr. Willie Peterson and will move to Alamo. Mr. John E. King will also move to Alamo. Mr. H. V. Thompson has bought out the houses and j lots and farms of Mr. J. A. J Coursey, and Mr. Coursey will move to his large land holdings near Cedar Crossing. The Ginners’ Report. The census bureau issued the gin report last Friday of cotton ginned up to January 1. The number of bales was 13,333,074 against 12,907,405 bales ginned last year up to same date. Os this total Georgia ginned 2,276,- 477 bales. Unusually Intelligent. “You saw this horse?” asked counsel for the defendant. “Yes, sir, I”- “What did you do?” “I opened his mouth in order to ascertain how old he was, and I said to him, I said, ‘Old fellow, I guess you’re a good horse, yet’ At this juncture opposing coun sel leaped to his feet. “Your honor,” he cried, “I object to any conversation between the witness and the horse when the plaintiff was not present.” —Our Animals. Estray Notice. Took up in our field since Nov. last, north of Mt. Vernon, one Black Sow, mark, crop in right ear, crop and round hole in left. Call, prove property and pay ex penses or same will be disposed of as law' directs. Jan. 7, 1914. Hicks Bros. | Dr. W. B. Burroughs of Brunswick, who has the best collection of valuable relics in Georgia, has a commission signed by President Jackson in 1828. The police department of Spartanburg, S. C., found 96 quarts of whiskey, concealed in saw dust in a stable of Marvon Charies, on Monday, A negro in jail at LaGrange sawed the chain from his ankle and removed a window bar with ! a case knife and made his es- I cape on Monday. While driving home from mill, jB. G. W. Kempson, a farmer ; near Senoia, lost his life by his mule backing the buggy off a brid je, the fall breaking his neck. The three negroes who killed Mrs. Seth Irby of Jefferson coun ty were tried in Fulton superior court and found guilty, and were sentenced to hang on Feb. 6. Clayton M. Saxtey, express at Fort Smith, Ark., stole $9,300 in gold from the Wells Fargo Express Co., Sunday night. He was arrested in St. Louis Monday night and $5,714 recovered. The snowfall was the heaviest in years in Central and Northern New York on Monday night. The gasoline launch Nealka, 40 feet in length and valued at $2,000, was burned at St. Simons Island on Monday, two men on board escaping before a tank blew the boat to pieces. Morgan D. Wade of Brunswick was run over by an automobile Saturday night and badly inujred while riding his bicycle. Public Debate at Uvalda. The citizens of Uvalda will en tertain their friends and the pub lic on Friday, Jan. 16th, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening, with a public debate. The subject to be discussed is, Resolved, That the death pen alty ought to be abolished. Debaters on the affirmative side are J. M. Morris and Polie Gibbs On the negative side C. R. Boggott and Hydie Gibbs. A cordial invitation has been ex tended to visitors. Keep It Dark. In the deserted kindergarten room at the settlement a little girl was thumping the piano to her heart’s content, relates the New York Globe. A resident looked in at the door and smiled. “Go right on, Catherine, ” she said, “if you’re sure your hands are quite clean.” “Oh, that’s all right, Miss Emily,” was the answer. “Pm being very coreful; I’m just play ing on the black keys.” A Human Ostrich. From the United States come many cases of unprecedented complaints of the inhabitants, and Chicago, the home of surgi cal operations, always has some case ready to rival any other which may have been recorded as the most remarkable. As a result of a surgical opera tion carried out in one of the hospitals there, the physicians removed nineteen pocket knives, j seventeen nails, five knife blades, a dozen screws, and a silver dol lar from the stomach of a man who was brought into the hos pital complaining of stomach ache. Mr. W. E. Fountain and fami ly and Mr. George Fountain and family have moved to Kirkland, Ga. We wish them prosperity in their new home. Bear Creek Notes. Special Conoapoiulenoo The weather is fine and our farmersfare getting ready for a bumper crop. Bear Creek school is" prosper ing at this time. Mr. J. T. Smolpiece has pre pared three acres of new land I for potatoes, and will plant the | early Florida yams. 0 Pig club boys, now is the time to sow a big patch of turnips for early spring feeding for your pigs. Mr. J. H. r Martin has left over n*om last year a surplus of seven bales of cotton. R. R. S. What the 801 l Weevil Will do for Georgia. Selecting five important cotton producing counties in western Georgia, which are also in the path of the weevil, the loss in the production during four seasons following the invasion of the in sects would range from 200,000 bales, based on the experience of the counties in Texas, to 350,000 and 390,000 bales, based on the production in the selected coun ties in Mississippi and the parish es in Louisiana, respectively. The resulting financial loss in those counties would be, there fore, from $10,000,000 to $19,- 500,000. Why Not a Hedge. A member of Congress has gravely proposed the appropria tion of $350,000 to build a barb ed wire fence along the Mexican border in order that excited pa triots of both countries may be held in leash. But why not a cactus hedge? Mexico and the parts of tl e United States abutting upon the Mexican frontier produce several varieties of cactus. Any one who has inadvertently walked into a full-blown cactus while sauntering about enjoying the ! peace and comport of a summery 1 evening after having suffered through a shimmering day, knows how determined, and 1 deterrent, a cactus plant can be. And the cactus is hardier than 1 even galvanized barbed wire. Special Notice. „ The business of the Sumerford Drug Co., Ailey, Ga., has been sold. All parties owing the com pany are hereby notified to pay up all accounts at once, as change iri business requires it. Settle ment of all outstanding accounts must be made at once, or they will be turned over for collection. Sumerford Drug Co. i Jan. 7, 1913. Ailey, Ga. i i Mules vs. Steers. « A 1,200-pound steer, selling for SIOO, brings 8 1-3 cents a 1 pound. A 1,200 pound mule, , selling for $250, brings 20 5 6 ’ cents per pound. The steer, if well fed, will reach the 1,200 j pounds in weight in two years, j while the mule will need to be j kept until it is three years old, | but after a mule is two years old, | it will earn its keep, if properly [< handled. It looks as if there h ought to be good money in rais- ! ing mules if proper attention is < given to their breeding, care and i feeding.—-Progressive Farmer, ji ... I , While playing Indian ar d i dancing around a bonfire, Ber nard Mock, age 4 years, was painfully burned in Savannah on i Monday. ; Patrick Horan, keeper of a ' deer preserve for the Edward Hawley estate on Long Island, I was killed by a large buck on- 1 Monday night, every bone in his body being broken by the ani- i mal’s horns. ,i ! BASKET-BALL SEASON HAS OPENED Brewton - Parker Institute Has Played Macon And Dublin. Mhe Brewton-Parker Institute Basket-ball season opened last Friday evening in Macon, where the team played the boys of La nier High School of that city. The game was staged in the Mer cer gymnasium and was enjoyed by quite a number of enthusias tic supporters. The Mt. Vernon warriors fought valiantly and re ceived not a little praise for their great defensive, but were not a match for their antagonists, who are making a strong bid for championship honors. Although the scores for the first half were close, the final tally was 47 to 16 in favor of Lanier. The visiting team returned by way of Dublin and played the High School of that city Satur day afternoon. Victory in this second baatle was with the B. P. I. quintet who won by the score of 15 to 12. Both sides put up a plucky fight for the laurels • of the fray and as these two schools are old rivals for basket ball honors the next meeting be tween them should be worth go ing far to see. The lineup for the two games was as follows: Stone and Elton forwards; Cowart, center; Ken nedy (captain), McLemore, Lee, guards; Barton, substitute. The Manager of the Brewton l Parker athletics has arranged to play several reputable schools this season, including Dublin High, Lanier, Eastman High, and probrbly Tennille and Sanders ville. Since at least half the con tests will be on the Mt. Vernon court, local friends and fans will have the opportunity of witness ing a number of real exhibitions of the sanest, but livest, fastest, and most peppery of all athletic sports. ' The Reason For it. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Congress, smiled the other even ing when the conversation turn ed to henpecked husbands, re lates the Washington Star. He said that the reference to poor old father reminded him of a cer tain incident. Some time ago a man from the city spent a few days in a coun try town, and while there a real estate dealer tried to interest him in subu ban scenery. Re turning to his hotel that night the city man saw the agent in the lobby. “Look here, old fellow,” re marked the city man, “I thought you told me that you didn’t have any malaria down in this sec tion?” “That’s just what l told you,” was the prompt declaration of the agent, “and I told you right.” “Maybe you did,” doubtfully r‘turned the city man, “but just the same I saw a man down the road a few minutes ago with chills and fever.” “Oh, I see now,” smiled the real estate man, with a look of enlightenment. “That was Smith. He was shuddering and shaking to think what his wife would say to him when he got home.” Farmers, Please Notice. T. F. Wesley, a farmer living on route 1 from Lilburn, stated last Saturday that he would make 200 bushels of corn on three acres of land. The usual amount of cultivated by him in corn was twelve acres, and he thought he was doing pretty well if he gathered 200 bushels from these 12 acres. He decided to change the pro gram a little, so he put the same amount of fertilizer on three acres that he had been using on twelve and the result is that he has as many bushels of corn as before. Mr. Wesley is farming on the right plan now and he is making a success of it, too. NO. 37
