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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1914)
®l| it Uliuvfiumtpnj iUmttte* VOL. XXVIII. CASES DISPOSED OF BY SUPERIOR COURT The Docket Cleared of Civil And Criminal Cases Last Week. In the Superior Court held here last week, the following cases were disposed of: M. T. Drake vs Patience Av ery, judgment and verdict for plaintiff. A. B. Conner vs Jas. Morris et al, judgment against plaintiff for costs. I. S. Claxton vs Sallie Claxton, divorce, dismissed. Phillips & Rice vs E. Willis, verdict and judgment for pltff. C. W. Brantley vs Bettie C. Sims and B. R. Benton, dismis’d on demurer, judgment against plaintiff for costs. E. T. Mcßride & Co. vs N. B. Gibbs, levy and claim, property found subject. Mrs. J. A. Crumley vs James Herndon, dismissed at pltf’s cost. Mrs. Nannie Horne vs J. D. McCrimmon, verdict for plaintiff. J. J. Williams vs Jas. McNatt, verdict for defendant. Mrs. M. S. May vs Wallace Moses, verdict for plaintiff. Calvert Mortgage Co. vs Macy A. Hall, judgment for plaintiff. John J. McArthur vs Henry Braddy, eight cases, settled. Early Pollett vs Frank Morris, judgment for plaintiff. F. Lee Mcßae vs Simon Wil ■on et al, settled. Mt. Vernon Bank vs W. T. McCrimmon et al, settled. Mt. Vernon Bank vs W. B. Kent et al, affidavit of illegality dismissed. Marietta Fertilizer Co. vs J. C. Clifton et al, judgmt for pltf. Hunter, Benn & Co. vs L. A. and J. T. Thigpen, administratrs, garnishment, verdict against J. A. Thigpen garnishee. Dollie Ethridge vs George Eth ridge, divorce, total divorce. W. A. Tapley vs Georgia and Florida Railroad, judgm for pltf. Citizens Bank of Alston vs J. T. Conner et al, judgmt for pltf. M. D. &S. R’y vs W. R. Ad ams, judgment for plaintiff. Alice and J. T. James, receiv er, vs A. D. Move, judg for pltf. Lewis Sharpe vs Dodie Cross, judgment for plaintiff. N. L. Gillis vs B. A. Willis et al, judgment for plaintiff. McNatt & Moore vs W. T. Beasley, judgment for plaintiff. Altamaha Fertilizer Co. vs An thony Roberson, judgmt for pltf. Peoples Bank of Soperton vs C. C. and Cora E. Conner, adms., W. H. Fowler claimant, claim dismissed at cost of claimant. James McNatt vs J. M. Hughes et al, judgment for plaintiff. Citizens Bank of Alston vs W. B. Moseley et al, judgm for pltf. Citizens Bank of Vidalia vs Toney Phillips et al, jud for pltf. Savannah Chemical Co. vs Ira L. Anderson et al, judg for pltf. S. F. Royster Guano Co. vs Toney Phillips et al, judg for pltf. Savannah Chemical Co. vs B. A. Wing et al, judgmt for pltf. W. P. Calhoun vs W. D.. Peter son, 2 cases, judgment against defendant for costs. CRIMINAL CASES. State vs Pat Riddle, murder, verdict of guilty with recommen dation, life imprisonment. Gordon Meeks and Vesta Meeks plea of guilty. Douglas Radford, larceny, ver dict not guilty. Douglas Radford, arson, ver dict not guilty. Charley Smith, larceny, verdict guilty. Cornelius Mcßae, plea of guilt. Joe Dallas, verdict guilty. Tom Harris, plea of guilty. Jody Balknight, verdict guilty. Goldsboro Powell, plea of glty. P. T. Jennings, verdict not guilty. Hugh Peterson, nolle prosed. George Mosley, plea of guilty. Ailey Paragraphs. Special Correspondence The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leggett died of pneu monia Saturday evening, and the remains were taken to Glenwood Sunday morning for burial. Miss Mabel Tarver of Stillmore spent last week with her aunt, Mrs. J. H. Hudson.- Dr. Hall and family left Tues day for their new home at Ala mo. Miss Corinne Blount was called Sunday to the bedside of her sick sister in Savannah. Mr. J. H. Hudson is having his home remodeled, and when completed, will be quite a pretty home. Miss Leta Stanford spent Sun day with relatives in Vidalia. Dr. Sumerford has moved to the Blount home, and the house vacated by him is now occupied by Dr. J. W. Palmer. Mrs. J. H. Hudson, Messrs. Walden Downs, Chas. Frizzelle, Collie Thompson and others ac companied the sorrowing rela tives of little Marcelle Leggett to Glenwood Sunday. Mr. Leggett of Baxley was i with his brother here Saturday and Sunday. Dr. J. W. Palmer is having his lots cleaned up preparatory to erecting his new home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Meeks of: Glenwood spent several days last week with their daughter, Mrs. Leggett. Mr. Chas. Frizzelle, Letter Car rier No. 1, who had the misfor tune to get his hand badly cut with his motorcycle is again serving his patrons. Miss Mamie Blue visited rela tives in Glenwood Sunday. Mrs. D. M. Currie spent the week end with her daughter, Mrs. Elkins, at Alamo. PLANS ARRANGED FOR THE PRIMARY j Committee Appoints Elec-' tion Managers and Names Terms. At a meeting of the county executive committee held here last Friday, arrangements for holding the primary on March 18th were made, and A. D. Hughes, F. M. Mcßae and I. C. S, Berner were appointed a com mittee to arrange for printing tickets, election return blanks and getting up the registration lists. The registration books were ordered closed on the night of March 7th, and no voter will be allowed to register for voting in the primary after that date. The following election man agers were appointed: Uvalda. A. D. Hughes, C. A. Rackley and Alex Downey. Alston, K. M. Johnson, Jas. W. Sharpe and J. A. Hughes. Mt. Vernon, G. J. Stanford, F. M. Mcßae and W. J. Peter son, Jr. Higgston, J. T. Langford, G. L. Peterson and J. W. Linder. Kibbee, J. B. O’Conner, W. B. Hilton and G. H. Adams. Tiger, —Phillips. J. E. Phillips and J. D. Taylor. Tarry town, A. L. Wheeler, I. C. S. Berner and D. F. Warnock. Soperton, W. M. Phillips, Benj. Gillis and J. E. Hall. Lothair, Elijah Miller, W. J. Higgs and B. F. Cooper. Orland, W. B. Smith, H. J. Reynolds and Elijah Gillis. The following is the assess ment of candidates to defray the expenses of the primary: Clerk of Court, $15.00 County Treasarer, 10.00 Sheriff, 10.00 Tax Collector, 12.50 Tax Receiver, 10.00 County Surveyor, 5.00 Coroner, 2.50 In order for a candidate to get his name on the official ballot, his assessment must be paid on or before the 7th .of March, the amounts to be paid to M. B. Cal houn. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEB. 12, 1914. General News Items Told in Short Meter. Five men were killed and sev eral injured by a boiler explosion at Urban, Ky., last week. Three men were drowned in the lake off Chicago Thursday night last after they had clung to a cake of ice for four hours. J. O. Jackson is in jail at Dub lin, Ga., charged with attempted assault on a white girl 1G years old. Mrs. C. A. Killingsworth of Pittsburg, Pa., is seeking a di vorce from her husband on ac count of his sharp elbows, alleg ing that she would rather sleep with a buzz saw. Miss Trixie Sing, a vaudeville singer of Chicago, has appealed to the police to find two gold teeth she lost in trying to eat a tough steak. Lieut. H. B. Post, of the U. S. first aero corps, fell 500 feet from a hydro-aeroplane at San Diego, Cal., on Monday and was instant ly killed. E. S. Ingle, who was imperso nating a postoffice inspector and obtaining money from postoffices in Florida, was arrested at Pen sacola on Monday. E. S. Shouse, an engineer of Macon, set a trap for rats at his home in Cutter’s Green Sunday night and caught a large white pole cat. William I. DuPont, the retired powder maker of Delevvare, has purchased 65,000 acres of land near Brunswick, which includes the historic Altama homestead. Tom Futch, a young man of Nashville, Ga., was playing with an old pistol Saturday and shot his ten-year-old sister through the heart, she dying instantly. Honor Roll of Poplar Head School. The school is progressing nice ly at this place under the man agement of Miss Brown. First Grade. Homer West, Felton Warnock, Mattie Beasley, Lela Beasley and George West. Second Grade. Donnie Conaway, Annie War nock, Mary Phillips, Martha Mixen. Fifth Grade, Agnes Memory and Lessie Memory. Seventh Grade. Mettie Ladson. Lucv Memory, Lucy Warnock ancf Jim Memory. Eighth Grade. Annie Mixen and Blancoe Mixen. The school gave an oyster sup per Saturday night. The pur pose was to get an organ. They cleared almost fifteen dollars. Everyone seemed to have a nice time. The boys paying the most to eat with their partners were Mr. Albert Phillips and Mr. Lummie Smith. Church Conference. The regular monthly church conference of the Mt. Vernon Methodist church will be held to night at the church. A full at tendance of members is urged, and encouraging reports on the work are expected. Organized Epworth League. An Epworth League, the young peoples’ society of the Methodist church, was organized on Tues day evening last, and sixteen members were enrolled as char ter members. Mr. H. L. Wilt is president, and the officers will be installed at the church in a meet ing later. The league will meet i on Tuesday evening. Harry Margarian, a hotel clerk at Columbus, Ohio, shot a tele phone girl accidently while try ing to shoot his brother, and was later killed in a fight with police men who were trying to arrest him. It is supposed that congress will appropriate $75,000 for im provement of the Altamaha river. W. B. Lingo, who took bichlo ride of mercury in Dublin last week, died Saturday night and was buried Sunday afternoon. Orders for 10,000 steel cars have been placed by the rail roads of the county in the past two weeks, representing an out lay of $12,000,000. Carl Mathes, crazed by drink in Atlanta, stripped entirely nude on the streets and set fire to his clothing,'' dancing around the blaze. G. F. Armstrong, cashier of the Farmers’ Bank at Hazlehuist, closed last week, shot his brains out Monday as the sheriff ap proached his house to arrest him for a shortage“of $12,000. W. O. Armstrong, cashier of the Citizens Bank at Rentz, is in jail for a shortage of $15,000 at Dublin. He is a son of Cashier Armstrong who killed himself at Hazelhurst Monday. A large half-starved grey wolf entered Kansas City on Monday and bit two people and ran fif teen blocks before he was killed. On Friday night in Atlanta. Andrew J. Amerson shot to death a woman with whom he was liv ing and then killed himself. He had deserted his real wife and two daughters in Macon. The Epworth League Conference at Glenwood. The Epworth League Confer ence for the Mcßae District will be held at the Glenwood Metho dist Church on March 6-7-8, be ginning Thursday night of the sth at 8:00 o’clock. A good pro gram has been planned, and the Conference will mean a great deal to the Leaguers of the Dis trict, especially those who have the opportunity to go as dele gates. All pastors have a special invi tation, and we hope to have sev eral with us. Rev. Arthur Moore. Field Sec retary, and several other work ers will be with us during con ference. For further information write Glenwood Epworth League. G. C. Barnhill, District Secretary. Celebrated His Birthday. On Sunday last, Master Folsom McQueen celebrated the seventh anniversary of his birth with an elaborate dinner, and had as his guests, his teacher, Miss Slaton of the Brewton-Parker Institute and Miss Jessie Mae Peterson, also of the 8.-P. I. faculty, and Miss Eva Williarps, a student. The occasion was enjoyed by all, and the dinner especially by Fol som. Capt. James Hicks Dead. Capt. James Hicks, brother of the late Dr. Chas. Hicks of Mt. I Vernon, died at his home in Fitz gerald on the sth inst. He was a frequent visitor here, and many ; friends will regret to hear of his death. He is survived by his wife, four sons and four daugh ters, and leaves many relatives here and in Laurens and Johnson counties. Kemp School. Special Correspondence* Miss Lavernia Tapley of Soper ! ton was the guest of Miss Reeta Sammons Sunday. Miss Oliar Hall of Span, Ga., is the guest of her uncle, Mr. C. M. Morris. Miss Minnie Canady spent Su nday with Miss Elizabeth Under wood. Miss Elizabeth Underwood en tertained a Rook Party at the home of Mr. G. W. Coleman Sat urday evening. Those present were: Misses Reeta Sammons, Lavenia Tapley, Minnie Canady, Belle Canady and Monnie Cole man, Messrs. Fred Miller, Percy Blount, Hardy Warnock, Jeff Goff and Murphey Townsend. The box supper has been post poned until Friday evening, Feb. 22nd. It will be at the home of Mr. G. Coleman. The proceeds proceeds will go for school fur nishings. Miss Lillie Belle Canady spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Mack Coleman. Mr. Wiley Goff of Tarry town spent Sunday afternoon with his brother, Mr. Horace Goff. Court Notes. Among the criminal cases tried last week in Superior court here, that of the state against Douglas Radford, charged with larceny and arson in burning the M. D. & S. depot at Tarrytown, created special interest. According to the testimony of Cross Sharpe, also a prisoner in jail here, Rad ford confessed in detail to burn ing the depot, and there was lit tie doubt as to his guilt. But because of a ruling of the su preme court, which holds that the intentional burning of a build ing by some one must be proven regardless of confessions, Rad ford escaped with a verdict of not guilty. Another case that excited some interest in the lower end of the county was that against Cross Sharpe and Henry Edwards for beating a negro woman at Long pond some time ago. They had been in jail since the occurance, and entered a plea of guilty. Pat Riddle, charged with the murder of another negro on the farm of Mr. S. ’/. Salter during the holiday season, was found guilty with recommendation to mercy by the jury, and sent up for life. Great Missionary Meeting This week at Dublin. The Woman’s Foreign Missio nary Society of the Methodist church, South Georgia Confer ence, met at Dublin on the 6th inst., continueing through Tues day of this week. Many dele gates from over South Georgia have been in attendance, and many interesting addresses have been made. The visitors were handsomely entertained by the people of Dublin. The following officers were J elected: President, Mrs. G. W. Math jews, Fitzgerald; vivee presi dents, Mrs. Luther McKinnon, Halcyondale; Mrs. John Sim mons, Marshalville; Miss Lula Mobley. Hamilton; Mrs. Rena Harley, Brunswick. Correspond- I ing secretary of home depart ment, Mrs. E. J. Peacock, Ma ;cor>; corresponding secretary of foreign department, Mrs. E. P. Peabody, Waycross. Treasurer of home department, Mrs. H. E. Wilson, Savannah; treasurer of | foreign department, Mrs. H. W. Pittman, Macon. Recording sec -1 retary, Mrs. J. A. Thomas, Ma con. Cordele was selecte as the j next meeting place. ROBBERS CONTINUE THEIR DEPREDATIONS Make Wholesale Business Os Stealing and Enter Many Places. This section has scarcely ever known as much burglary and house burning as the epidemic of lawless plundering now on in this county. An account given in these columns on Jan. 29, of the robbing of Dr. Palmer's drug store and office at Ailey on the Saturday night before, was but the beginning of the work of the marauders. On Wednesday night of last week the burglars secured tools from the blacksmith shop of Mason & Hughes here, and raided so many places that it is even difficult to follow their trail of theivery. They again visited Dr. Palmer’s place, boiing thru the door with a brace and bit se cured at the shop here, and car ried off most of his instruments not taken on their first raid. They enteied the Clerk’s office and the Sheriff’s office in the courthouse, and took a hand satchel belonging to Sheriff Hes ter, in which were a pistol and a pair of handcuffs. Nothing was missed from the Clerk’s office. They stole a horse belonging to Mr. K. M. Johnson of Alston that had been put up at the sta ble of Hicks Bros, here, took a set of harness from the stable and hitched the horse to a buggy belonging to Mr. Claude Wright taken from his lot about 75 yards away, and drove to the S. A. L. depot where they got all the whisky in the express office, leav ing part of the tools there, taking the ticket punch, which they dropped on the street leading up from Mt. Vernon. They next went to Ailey and robbed the drug store, turning loose John son’s horse which went home with the strange buggy and har ness. On Friday following this wholesale raid, a man was seen walking the Georgia and Florida road near Alston, and after he was seen to stop at a vacant house, one of the satchels he was carrying was found there, and proved to be the one containing the instruments stolen from Dr. Palmer on the last raid. The lot was recovered by the town mar shal of Alston and restored to Dr. Palmer. On Friday night the satchel of Sheriff Hester was found hanging to the rods under a car at Vidalia, minus the pistol and handcuffs. On Friday night the store of Chas. H. Peterson in Soperton and perhaps also one other place were entered and Peterson's store set on fire. The blaze was extinguished, but on Sunday night the buildingand its contents were burned. There may not be any connection be tween this and the robberies here: but taking into considera tion the big hauls following at Lyons, in which they secured several hundred dollars worth of goods, would indicate that a well-organized gang is operating all around. It is quite evident also that parties are in the game who are thoroughly acquainted with the situation locally. Valentine Social. On the evening of Feb. 13th there will be a Valentine social at the school house in Alston, 7:30 to 11. Benefit of school li brary. All cordially invited. Card of Thanks. We desire to extend to the good people of Ailey our sincere thanks and appreciation for the splendid assistance and kindness shown us during the illness and death of our little son, Marselle. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Leggett. NO. 41
