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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1914)
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 # e 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, NO. 38
