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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.
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