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VOL. XXVIII.
TARRYTOWN DEPOT
GOES UP IN SMOKE
Robbers Supposed to Have
Fired The Building of
M. D. &. S. R’y
On Sunday night about 10:30
o’clock the depot of the Macon,
Dublin & Savannah railroad at
Tarry town was found to be on
fire and was soon entirely con
sumed. The books and papers
and the articles of freight in the
building were a total loss. One
empty box car on the siding was
burned. The safe in the office
showed signs of having been
broken open, and it is supposed
that it was looted and the build
ing then set on fire. A few bales
of cotton on the platform were
rdled off and saved. So far,
there has been no clew as to who
committed the deed.
Filipino Boy Sends Por
trait to President Wilson.
Washington, Jan. 13. —A pen
cil drawing of President Wilson,
the work of a Filipino boy in
Berkely, Cal., was received at
the White House today, accom
panied by the following letter:
“Honorable President Wood
row Wilson—Dear Mr. President:
I have the honor to call your at
tention in sending you my most i
earliest studio; and I always
study and to make a success how
to draw your picture. I often
dreamed that angels oblige me
to make a portrait of yourself
(the great President of the civi
lized country and also keep con
troller of our country the Philip
pines).”
The writer also appends “my
happy and prosperous New Year
to you,” and the picture was
sent “because that was my con
gratulations to your 57 years of
age, according to what I read on
the San Francisco paper.” He
concluded:
“I’m an unknown Filipino stu
dent, which arrived in San Fran
cisco Nov. 17, ’l3, from the is
lands.”
Sale of Real Estate Under Power
of Sale in Deed.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Under and by virtue of a power of sale contain
ed in a deed executed and delivered to the under
signed on the Ist day of May, 1911, by Thomas F.
Williams, recorded in Deed Book Na 14, page 1119,
•n June 22nd, 1911. in the records of the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Montgomery
County, Georgia, the undersigned will sell at pub
lic outcry, before the Court House door in the
County of Montgomery, State of Georgia, to the
highest bidder for cash, between the usual and
legal hours of Sheriff ’s Sales, on the first Tuesday
1n February 1914 (Febrtary 3rd, 1914) the follow
ing described property, to wit:
The northwest one-half of land lot no. 262, and
all of land lot no. 248 lying south of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway in the Tenth District of Wheeler
•ounty (formerly Montgomery county) Georgia,
containing 213 acres, more or less, said property
being now in the Tenth District of Wheeler coun
ty, originally the Tenth District of Wilkinson
•ounty, Georgia.
Said described property to be sold as the proper- .
ty of said Thomas F. WiUiams for the purpose of
paying an indebtedness secured by said deed above !
mentioned and described therein; and the sard ;
Thomas F. Williams having made default in the j
payment of two interest coupons for interest on
the principal sum of said debt, said two interest
coupons being for interest thereon due November
Ist. 1912, and said Thomas F. Williams having j
further made default in the two interest coupons I
for interest due on said principal sum on Novem- j
ber Ist, 1913, each of said four coupons being for j
the sum of $30,00, the power of sale in said deed
has become operative and the whole of said in- I
debtedness has become due, as agreed and stipu- j
L ed in said deed and the notes secured thereby, |
■aid entire debt amounting to $1,274.10, including .
Interest to February 3rd, 1914, and the sum of ten ;
per cent of said principal and interest as attor
neys fees as agreed upon and stipulated in said j
deed and the notes secured thereby. The pro
ceeds of sale will be applied first to the payment
of indebtedness and the expenses of advertising
and sale and the balance, if any, to be paid to said
Thomas F. Williams. Fee Simple title will be j
made to the purchaser under and by virtue of
■aid power of sale. This January 2nd, 1914.
Chickamauga Trust Company,
Under Power of Sale in Deed Given by Thomas
F. Williams.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County
Will be sold before the court house door in
Mt. Vernon ou the first Tuesday in February,
1914, between the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, certain property, ot
which the following is a complete description:
All of that tract or parcel of land situated. ,
lying and being in the 1343 d district <i. M. ot
said county and state and bounded as follows:
Ou the north by landH of Johu Q Palmer, on
the east by lauos of A. B. Hutcheson, on the
south by lands of VV. B. Kent an 1 on the wcs’.
by lands of Mrs. Airlands Adams, containing
twenty-one and one-half acres mere or less,
and being the land conveyed to The Mt. Vt r- ;
non Bank by W. A. Davant by a mortgage da- I
ted Sept. 24, 1912, as shown by the record ot :
said mortgage in Book No. 34 ou pa_;6 201 ot!
the records of Montgomery county, Ga. L< v- i
ied on and will be sold as the property of VV. •
A. Havant to satisfy 8 executions issued from
the Justice’s Court of the 1343 d district in fa- ;
var of The Mt. Vernon Bank vs W. A. Havant, !
principal, J. B. O’Conner, security- Being in j
the possession of said defendant and by plain- j
tiff pointed out for levy. Levy made and re
turned to me bjt E W. Armfield, constable, 1
and written notice of levy given in terms of |
the law, this the 7th day of January, 1914.
James Hester,
Sheriff M. C.
Jd. B Calhoun, Atty. for Bank.
Sljp iffluntgotttFrg iHflttttot:.
Orirnna News.
Special Correspondence.
Mrs. Willie Avery is very ill at
this writing, but we hope for her
a speedy recovery.
The two months old infant of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hester died
Saturday of pneumonia after an
illness of only a few days. The
parents have our fullest sympa
thy in their bereavement.
Our school is progressing nice
ly under the direction of our ef
ficient principal, Prof. J. L. Pos
ton, and his three assistants. We
have an enrollment of 150 and
more are coming.
The three children of Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Hester are very sick
at this writing with pneumonia.
Mr. L. 0. Mosley will return
to Emory College in a few days
to take up his studies.
Bro. Partin conducted services
at the First Methodist Church
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Sunday morning and evening.
The teachers of the Sunday
schools will meet Thursday night
at the home of Rev. Paul Mason,
to discuss plans for the better
ment of the Sunday school and
community.
Miss Thelma Leach left Tues
day for Mt. Vernon, where she
will enter the Brewton-Parker
Institute.
Miss Emma Phillips, who has j
been attending school here, re- 1
turned to her home in Hazlehurst
Monday.
Mr. R. W. Price is recovering
from an attack of pneumonia.
Mr. J. E. Page made a trip to
Adrian Thursday.
Aged Lady Dead.
Last week Mr. N. L. Spooner
of Mt. Vernon received a tele
gram announcing the critical ill
ness of his aged mother at
her home in Stewart county. Mr.
Spooner left immediately for his
former home, but his mother
passed away on Tuesday morning
four hours before he reached her
bedside. Mrs. Spooner was of a
long-lived family, and had reach
ed the advanced age of 87 years.
Alston Real Estate To
Go At Auction Saturday.
On Saturday, 24th inst., those
who wish to purchase property
in a growing town will have the
opportunity to do so at Alston.
Mr. Blitch, the agent of the
Georgia & Florida road, has been
transferred to another field and
will throw his house and store
and a number of central lots up
on the market to the highest bid
der. As the sale will be without
reserve, all bidders will have a
chance to buy at the lowest cash
figures. Alston is a hustling
town and land inside its limits
will hardly ever be any cheaper
than at present. Be on hand
Saturday if you want bargains
in real estate. adv.
Rev. R. D. Gentry
To Preach Sunday.
Rev. R. D. Gentry of Eastman
will preach at the Methodist
church in Mt. Vernon on next
Sabbath at 11:00 o’clock in the
morning and at 7:00 at night.
The public is invited to these
sermons.
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
in 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.
Jan. 7, 1913. Ailey, Ga.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JAN. 22, 1914.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
W. T. Larsen, law partner and
nephew of Hon. W. W. Larsen
jof Dublin, was killed instantly
on Friday when his automobile
collided with a train near Scott.
The bodies of three men pick
ed up north of Tierra Del Fuego
recently, proves that the Ger
man steamer Acilia was lost
there last October.
On Saturday morning 25 box
cars of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic road were burned
in the shops at Fitzgerald.
J. VV. Powell. Jr., a boy of
1 Statesboro, while feeding a sau
sage grinder being run by a gas
oline engine, had his right hand
ground off.
John Nolan, supposed to be
: the bandit who held up and rob
j bed the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis train at Vinings
station Friday night, is in jail in
Atlanta.
F. M. Jones of Clinton, N. Y.,
has purchased a Holstein Friesian
bull of Colvin Deshane of Rich
land, N. Y., paying $15,000 for
the young animal.
Burglars blew open the safe of
Zim & Lord at Osceola, near Bir
mingham, on Friday morning
and escaped with $250.
George W. Pierce, who died
last week near Stone Mountain
at the age of 109 years, had
good teeth and jet black hair at
the time of his death.
Harry M. Goscheidt of New
York died last week and left;
$150,000 for establishing a bread
line, stipulating that each loaf
given away should he stamped;
with his name.
The Atlantic Coast Line docks ,
were burned at Jacksonville Sat-J
urday afternoon at a loss of
$400,000, and five lightei's loaded
with lumber and ties were also
destroyed.
Martha Harris, a negro woman
who was a nurse in the family of j
Judge Iverson L. Harris who was |
a member of the Georgia supreme
court, died in Milledgeville last
week aged 100 years.
Col. Chas. R. Pendleton
Editor Teleg’raph Dead.
Col. Chas. R. Pendleton, edi
tor and principal owner of the
Macon Telegraph, died in Macon
on Friday morning at 7:00. Mr.
Pendleton was one of the most
forceful editorial writers in the
South, and his death brought
forth many expressions of sorrow
from the press and prominent
men all over the country. He
was about 64 years of age, and
had been in newspaper work all
his life, having taken charge of
the Valdosta Times and conduc
ted it successfully when a mere
hoy. His funeral in Macon on
Sunday, conducted by his broth- j
er Bishop N. D. Pendleton of !
Philadelphia, was attended by j
Governor John M. Slaton, Ex-
Governor Brown, and prominent |
men and friends from all over
the state.
A Full Grown Town.
The town that has no vacant
houses and is building none, may
be said to have leached its full
limit as to size. Mt. Vernon has
no vacant houses, and as the re
cent moving season has demon
strated, has not been enough j
houses to go round. Several
families have had to double up
in houses for want of homes. As
residences pay as good rentals
here as in many larger towns, it
would seem that it would pay to
build more houses. We suggest;
that some of our capitalists take
the matter under advisement.
W. G. Duncan, a lineman of
East Point, fell from a steel tow
er of the Tallulah Falls electric
line last week a distance of 85
feet, but was not killed.
On Monday morning Joseph L.
McWhorter of Macon shot his
wife to death and then killed
himself.
In the suit brought by G. C.
McDonald to recover a million
dollars from the Atlantic Coast
Line road at Waycross on an old
land claim a consent verdict was
taken Monday in favor of the
road.
The Smith-Lever Bill appro
priating $480,000 to state agri-i
cultural schools, increasing to
$3,000,1,1)0 after ten years, pass
ed the house in Washington Mon
day.
Three hundred people were
buried under a falling cliff in
Sakura, Japan on Monday, caus- j
ed by the earthquake shocks that
have caused great loss in that;
country recently.
Armour & Co. and Swift & Co.
were fined SSOO each in New
York on Monday for having in
stock eggs that were unfit for
consumption.
Comptroller Gen. Wright, 1
whose birthday is same as Gen. j
Lee’s, celebrated his 70th anni- j
versary on Monday,
William Monagham, a farmer
near Springfield fell ill on Mon- j
day while crossing a small river!
and fell in nine inches of water
and was drowned.
For want of hotel accommoda
tions, George Evans and his j
bride spent Monday night in the '
town jail at West Salem, Wis.
A few days ago Miss Francis
Evans, near Forsyth, set a steel
trap for a hawk which was
caught and killed after carrying
the trap into a swamp, the kawk
measuring over four feet from
tip to tip.
I
Seven persons were killed at,
the penitentiary in McAlester, j
Oklahoma, on Monday while the:
prisoners were trying to escape, j
Missionary Society
Elected Officers.;
The Ladies Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist church
elected officers'at their meeting
last week. Those chosen to serve
were, Mrs. D. W. Folsom, presi
dent; Mrs. W. H. McQueen, vice
president; Mrs. A. B. Hutcheson,
recording secretary; Miss Jennie j
Thompson, corresponding secre- 1
tary; Mrs. W. A. Peterson, |
treasurer; Mrs. G. V. Mason, 1
agent for missionary magazine;,
Mrs. Wilt and Mrs. Ewing, lady
managers of juvenile society.
Uvalda Literary Society
Entertains Friday Night.
The Uvalda Literary Society
meets on Friday night of each
week, and all are cordially invited
to attend the meetings.
The program arranged for
Friday night, Jan. 30, is as fol
lows:
1. Called to order by president
at 7:00 o’clock.
2. Song by the audience
“Coronation.”
3. Bible lesson, 12 verses of
the first chapter of James.
4. Recitation—Kate Braddock.
5. Deoate. Resolved, That the
hope of reward has a greater
hearing upon the mind of man
than fear of future punishment.
Affirmative: G. W. Boggott, J.
D. Yeomans, W. L. Kitchens.
Negative: J. M. Morris, Dr. R.
H. Mobley, W. 0. Wolf.
6. Decision of judges.
Uvalda.
Special Correspondence
| The Methodists of this place
and vicinity were delighted by a
! very fine sermon Sunday by the
! new minister, Rev. Turner, who
I succeeds Rev. Allison, recently
transferred to Glennville.
I
i The weather is getting warm
! er, the people are livening up —
all betokening good will andpros
prosperity for our section.
Sharpe & Rountree is the name
lof the grocery company now oc
cupying the stand formerly run
by the Meadows-Cochran Drug
Co. We welcome this addition
ito our town and wish them suc
cess.
I
| The theatrically inclined of
! this community have been well
j entertained by the Burns Concert
| Co. entertaining each night du
ring the week near the depot.
Miss Edna Edenfield, a charm
ing visitor of Mrs. C. R. Baggott
here, to the regret of friends, re
, turned to her home in Swains
boro on Friday.
Mr. Dozier Powell, a splendid
young citizen of Vidalia, was a
visitor in our town recently.
The Misses Weatherby, two
“winsome wee things,” of near
Waxhill, gave our town a shop
ping call Saturday.
Mr. William Partin is making
some innovations and additions
to his residence, which adds
much to its appearance and use
fulness.
A good many from Uvalda at
tended the choral concert at
Charlotte last week, reporting a
very good time.
Miss Lula Bell from Waxhill is
attending school here, boarding
boarding with Mr. P. G. McNatt.
Oriola.
Basketball Tomorrow.
Friday afternoon, 3 o’clock,
the 8.-P. I. basket hall team and
a team from the Dublin High
School will engage in a game of
basketball on the local grounds.
The home hoys won from Dublin
recently. Go out and see the
game—3 p. m.
The Real Issue
Is Good Farming.
The 801 l Weevil is a collateral
issue. After all, the cherished
prize is a higher and wiser st and
ing of farming, because, there is
no permanent prosperity without
a sound agriculture. The 801 l
Weevil, coming as a friend in
disguise, warns us into the right
course, if we will he so prudent
as to prepare. Or, it will scourge
us if we turn a deaf ear to its
warning. After years, Texas
has emerged from the 801 l Wee
vil scourge, producing more cot
ton at less cost, with larger pro
fits than ever in its history. All
this, notwithstanding the 801 l
Weevil is present there and may
forever remain present. Yet the
price of learning to deal with the
801 l Weevil in Texas meant an
actual loss of many, many mil
lions of dollars of the slate’s
wealth. And the story will nev
er be known of how men lost
their farms, which went as bar
gains to strangers; of how inde
pendent land owners became com
mon laborers; of how homes were
dissolved—all because Texas
could not have the warning and
lacked the experience, both of
which are available to Georgia
today.—Americus Times Re
corder.
Lost Ox.
Strayed from my place about
December 25, one Light, colored, I
Butt-headed Ox, 4 years old.
Any information leading to his
recovery will be thankfully re
ceived and appreciated. Address
W. S. Holmes, ;
Ailey, Ga.!
SAVANNAH CLAIMS
THE REGIONAL BANK
Bankers Entertained Friends
in Interest of Move
With Roast.
Savannah, Ga.,. Jan. 20
Bankers from throughout Geor
gia, Florida and South Carolina
gathered here today to attend an
i oyster roast as the guests of the
Associated Banks of Savannah.
General P. W. Meldrim, T. M.
Cunningham and R. M. Hitch
pressed Savannah’s claims to the
regional bank that will serve
southeastern territory.
Congressman Claude Weaver,
of Oklahoma, and Congressman
Charles A. Korbley, of Indiana,
discussed the federal reserve
system from the stanpoint of its
advantages to the individual
banks. Congressman Weaver
said he was strongly in favor of
having one of the regional banks
| located here in preference to At
; lanta.
Specialize Cattle Raising.
The small farmer the man of
200 or 800 acres—went out of the
business of raising beef cattle
more than a quarter of a century
ago. He was driven out by the
cattle ranches of Texas and the
West, and this ranch system
which developed the raising of
beef cattle in immense herds of
10,000, and even 20,000, also con
centrated the butchery business
in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City
and a few other Western cities.
The big cattle ranches in turn
are disappearing, but the Wes
tern butchers still monopolize the
beef trade and make the price
about what they please, for the
Eastern cities are now reduced to
helpless dependence upon the
West for their beef supplies.
There are many farmers yet
doing business in Maryland who
can remember the time when
small herds of beef cattle—short
horns, Herefordsand other stalky
breeds were common in all the
Maryland counties. These cattle
were fattened and marketed
when three or four years old,
and they supplied a quality of
beef rarely now to be obtained in
the Baltimore market. Dairying
in the East has taken the place
of raising beef cattle. The half
starved male calves of the dairy
business, Alderneys and Guern
seys, are sent to the butchers
when eight weeks old, and fur
nish the inferior veal, and the
aged and worn-out milch cows
are finally marketed for beef,
and a very low grade of beef it
is.
There is surely a profit now in
raising beef cattle in the East,
and Eastern farmers should again
go into cattle breeding as a
specialty. So-called worn-out
land can, by a little scientific
treatment, be turned into clover
and hay fields. Raising beef cat
tle, doubtless, would be profitable
in every Southern State.—The
Baltimore American.
Mr. Currie Announces.
Mr. D. M. Currie is offering
for re-election to the office of tax
collector of Montgomery county.
Mr. Currie needs no introduction
from us, having served the peo
ple before. His work has been
quite satisfactory heretofore, and
it is quite reasonable to suppose
that he will continue to satisfy
his supporters if again elected.
Mr. Currie's card appears in this
issue, to which we call the atten
tion of voters.
The birthday of Robt. E. Lee
was celebrated last Monday in
hundreds of towns and cities
throughout the South,
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