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.
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1 Damon Dots f§
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Proceedings of Weekly Meeting at
Brewton-Parker Institute, Mt. Vernon I
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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
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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.
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