VOL. XXVIII.
SENATOR A. 0. BACON
DIED LAST SATURDAY
Distinguised Senior Senator
Passes Away after Short
Illness in Washington.
At 2 o’clock on Saturday after
noon the news of the death of
Senator Augustus Octavius Ba
con came as a great shock to the
South, and especially to the
State of Georgia, which he had
ably represented for about 19
years in the U. S. Senate.
His death has brought forth
tributes of respect such as have
been showered upon few men
from this section of the United
States, and the highest honors
that a people can bestow are be
ing shown this week to his
memory.
The funeral of the distinguish
ed statesman was held in the
Senate chamber on Tuesday, at
tended by President Wilson and
other dignitaries. The body was
taken to Atlanta Wednesday, es
corted by the Georgia delegation
in congress and a committee
from the senate, and.allowed to
lie in state at the capitol until
time to leave for Macon, his
home, where the interment took
place.
FINAL GAME OF
BASKETBALL SEASON
Brewton-Parker Boys Have
Many Victories to
Their Credit.
The basketball season at Brew
ton-Parker Institute culminates
Friday afternoon, when the La
nier High School wizards engage
the home bunch on the Mount
Vernon court.
In January the two teams met
in Macon, the scoring in favor of
Lanier, since which both have
played a wonderful game. Lanier
lost one to Columbus High by a
small score, but later she took
revenge. Coach Kingsbury has
been forced to make some changes
in his lineup owing to the absence
of Lowe, who played center;
however, with Capt. Dey at that
position the team should now be
stronger than ever.
On the other hand the 8.-P. I.
team was never in finer fettle.
Since their former engagement
with Lanier, the Montgomery
gladiators have added four
straight victories to their string.
The whole veteran lineup will
probably be in excellent trim to
participate in the fray, while a
number of ambitious reserves
are eager to-show their prowess.
The visiting army will be com
posed of the following: Morgan,
White, forwards; Dey, (captain)
center; Fuss, Brown, guards.
The defenders of the local school
will be selected from the follow
ing; Stone, Elton, forwards;
Cowart, center; Lee, McLemore,
Kennedy, guards; Mosley, Bar
ton, substitutes.
The Brewton-Parker manage
ment will be prepared to accom
modate a large crowd of specta
tors and it is hoped that many will
avail themseves of this opportu
nity of seeing the fastest and
scrappiest exhibition of real bas
ketball ever shown in South
Georgia. Never has a team with
the record of Lanier been seen in
action on the 8.-P. I. court, but
the local boys realize that they
have no mean antagonists to com
bat and they are prepared to
fight the battle of their lives for
the honors of the game.
Bewan of Savannah
Commits Suicide.
Philip Bewan of Savannah blew
the top of his head off in his
home in Savannah on Sunday
night. As a representative of
the Modern Equipment Co. of
Savannah, he often visited Mt.
Vernon. He sold the lighting
equipment of the Brewton-Par
ker Institute and the county
pumping outfit here recently in
stalled by the county commis
sioners. He was 52 years old
and left a family.
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Orirnna News.
1 Special Correspondence.
Mr. W. J. Dent, Jr. attended
court in Mt. Vernon last week.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davis and
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Toler of Or
land attended church here last
Sunday.
Miss Emma Phillips of Hazle
hurst, accompanied by her sis
ter, Mrs. J. B. Chafin, retured
to her home Monday after a
pleasant stay in our burg.
Dr. Bascom Anthony % of
Wrightsville spent a while in
Orianna Tuesday, looking after
his farming interests here.
Prof. J. L. Poston was slightly
indisposed Sunday.
Orianna was the recipient of
three of the strongest sermons
in her history Sunday, and Sat
urday before. Especially the 11
o’clock service Sunday, Bro.
Parton took his text from Mathew
5-33, and being naturally an im
pressive speaker, an inspiring
discourse was rendered. The
county needs more men of the
calibre of Bro. Parton,
Messrs. C. M. Carter and N.
D. Winget attended court in
Dublin part of last week.
We are sorry to learn of the
illness of Miss Leach of the
school faculty here. We hope
that it isn’t of a serious nature.
J. E. Page attended quarterly
conference at Scott Monday.
H. W. Warnock and Mr. Cor
bett of Tarrytown were in Ori
anna on business Tuesday.
Mr. W. L. Cox was in Rock
ledge Monday.
Tom Ivey of Soperton was in
town Tuesday.
At this writing Mrs. W. 0.
Avery, who has been sick quite
a while, is very much improved.
J. E. Page was called to Dub
lin on business Wednesday.
J. D. Wilson was in Adrian
Thursday.
Mr. “Bud” Kea of Adrian was
in Orianna Wednesday.
Hon. Jack G. Jones a promi
nent candidate for city court
sheriff of Dublin was in Orianna
Tuesday.
C. Homer Moore of Wrights
ville stopped over awhile Wednes
day.
Mrs. Worrel of Abbeville is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ar
nold Thigpen.
Otis Thigpen of Glen wood is
visiting relatives here.
Program For Foreign
Missionary Service.
The W. H. S. of Mt. Vernon
Presbyterian church will render
the following program March 2:
Song. Prayer.
Responsive reading, Romans 10.
Roll call, to be answered with
verse from Bible.
Song, by the Junior League.
Recitation, “IfltWerel” —Miss
Marguerite Montgomery.
Question box—Conducted by
Mrs. Hicks.
The Cost of a Missionary—Mrs.
D. A. Mcßae.
A Unique Experience—Mrs.
Armfield.
Ours a Foreign Missionary God-
Miss Mcßae.
Eight Reasons Why You Ought
to Believe in Foreign Missions
—Mrs. Montgomery.
Statement of Situation—Mrs.
Cockfield. .I
Our Part—F. M. Secretary.
Prayer Chain.
As God Has Prospered Us.
Self-denial Offering or Pledge.
Song.
Mizpah Benediction.
The service will begin prompt
ly at 2:00. All members urged
to be prompt. Visitors cordially
invited.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEB. 19, 1914.
General News Items
Told in Short Meter.
Mrs. Roxyan Walker, an aged
widow near Tifton, was burned
to death Monday while assisting
her sons to burn off a patch of
grass.
| The number of Irish immi
grants landing at New York in
1913 was 27,073, and they brought
$1,985,703 in cash.
Monroe Purdom, aged 50, was
killed by the Atlantic Coast Line
Passenger train at Patterson on
Thursday night last.
The Colquitt County Live
Stock Club has pledged 20,000
hogs to be furnished the packing
house to be established at Moul
trie.
The x body of Margaret Fox, a
boarding house keeper of Harri
son, N. Y., was found head
down in a well on Saturday.
Captain C. A. Talmage, a well
known conductor of the Southern
Railway, dropped dead in Macon
last Thursday.
Seven men were rescued Fri
day evening who had been
wrecked in a fish boat on the
outer end of the breakwater at
Charleston.
The Atlantic Coast Line road
has built a new steel and con
crete bridge over the Altamaha
river at Doctortown. This-and
other bridges through the swamp
cost nearly a million dollars. j
At an early hour Monday
morning, the safe of C. H. Bon
ner of Milledgeville was blown-'
open, and the robbers got away '
with $25,000. He would not de
posit his money in a bank.
Lieutenant Murray of the U. I
S. aviation corps fell 800 feet to;
his death at Pensacola on Mon
day afternoon.
Harriett Slavin, a 6-year-old
girl in Savannah, was burned to
death on Monday when her dress
caught fire from an open grate. I
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Proceedings of Weekly Meeting at :
Brewton-Parker Institute, Mt. Vernon
The Damon Literary Society
met in the freshman room Satur
day afternoon last, after the
society was called to order by the
president the following program
was successfully rendered:
Reading—Lessie Mae Rackley.
Conversation —Willard Barton,
Jim McCullough, Alvin Warren
and Otis Duggan.
Jokes and wants —Ray Cour
sey.
Prophecy —Eloise Adams.
Adjective game —Essie Bed
ingfield.
I wonder why—Tyra Stanley.
Answer—Josie Williamson.
Pantomime—Manilla Mosley,
Erin McArthur, Ernestine Black
well and Cadie Belle Adams.
Pin picture—Marguerite Mont
gomery.
Debate: Resolved, That In
surance Companies are Bene
ficial.
Affirmative—Cecil Brewton and
Edgar McLemore.
Negative—C. H. Renfroe and
Max McGregor.
The judges rendered their de
cision in favor of the affirmative.
We enrolled as new members
Misses Maggie Mae Denton and
Thelma Leach.
We were glad to have with us
as a visitor a former member,!
Miss Minnie Wells.
There being no further busi
ness matter on hand we adjourn
ed in order. —L. M. R. —
! Six cars of the Atlantic Coast
Line were derailed at Gaines
| ville, Fla., early Friday morning
and four passengers hurt.
Dr. P. A. Bahnsen, state vet
erinarian, condemned 60 cows
from the dairies around Atlanta
and Greensboro, infected with
tuberculosis, and had them kill
ed.
A pig that had been used in
initiation ceremonies of a Greek
i letter society at Middletown,
I Conn., disappeared, and was
found in a cellar where it had
devoured 55 jars of preserves.
Charles F. Brown, eight years
old, was accidently shot at Syl
\pnia on Monday afternoon, and
i died in thirty minutes. He was
| alone in a home with a playmate.
Dora Clay Hunt, who wasmar
! ried to General Clay fifteen
years ago when she was 16 and
he 90 years old, and who left
i him and married four times af
' terwards, died at Lexington,
Ky., on Monday.
I Sam Green, a negro in Atlan
ta, was arrested Monday for
j stealing SISOO worth of diamonds
■ from a home in the city. The
detective found $450 worth in
| his pocket.
I
A Central train killed a horse
driven by Dr. J. L. Wells, who ;
was crossing the track in Hape
> ville, a suburb of Atlanta, .on i
Monday, but the driver was not
i hurt.
j
I The case of Pat Ursery, who is
charged with poisoning his
j wife’s people by putting strych
; nine in flour, will be tried in su
perior court at Hazlehurst next
week.
On account of the snow storm
in New York city Saturday, 30,-
000 men have been put to work
I clearing the streets, the work to
I cost the city $750,000.
ODD FELLOWS TO
| MEET AT TARRYTOWN
Ninth District To Assemble
With Tarry town Lodge
March Fourth.
There will be held on Wednes
day, March 4, with the Tarry
town Lodge, the Semi-Annual
Meeting of the Ninth Division,
I. O. O. F. To this meeting the
public is cordially invited. Please
bring a basket.
There will be a public address
delivered by Rev. J. R. Kelley of
Scott, Ga., at the noon hour.
I Come one, come all, and hear
something worth while.
The Lodge,
Per C. A. Holmes.
Still Found In Swamp.
Sandersville, Feb. 15. — Deputy
S. M. Moye and posse returned
this afternoon from Deepstep af
ter raiding a big still that had
been in operation recently. They
destroyed about five hundred
gallons brewed mash and whisky.
The owner has been located, and
the marshal will make an arrest '
this week. They also raided a
negro cabin, finding a “worm”
which gave evidence of having
been recently used, but nothing
more. The still was down a
branch in the swamp, and it was
necessary to wade a mile in the
mire. This makes the second
still raided in the last two years.
The scene is fifteen miles from
here.
William Marconi, inventor of
wireless telegraphy, last week
succeeded in lighting an electric
bulb at a distance of six miles by
a wireless current.
Thigpen School.
Special Correspondence.
Messrs. R. B. Thigpen and
: Tom Spivey have returned from
an extended visit to friends and
relatives at Mcßae and Lumber
j City.
Mrs. Ira Thigpen and sister,
' Mrs. J. E. B. Hutcheson have
just returned from McLeod,
where they went to visit Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Moore.
Misses Bertha, Oaky Lee and
Lizzie Hall and Mr. Sam Thig
pen were the pleasant guests of
Miss Kate Derriso Sunday.
Mr. Lucien Thigpen, Mrs.
Worrel and Mrs. Arnold Thigpen
and children were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Thigpen Sun
day.
Mr. Maurice Hutcheson, Miss
es Julia Phillips and Mary
Hutcheson made a quick trip to
Mt. Vernon Saturday.
j Mrs. Tom Spivey was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B.
Hutcheson Sunday.
Our school is still increasing.
More still to come.
Messrs. John Page and Robert
Walker were visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. Hutche
son Sunday.
Prof. J. M. Spivey is home for
a few days.
i
Mr. C. D. Green way of Dub
lin visited home folks Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Spivey and
children visited Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Hatcher Sunday.
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Why the South Ought
to Raise Live Stock.
The South ought to be a live
stock country, because:
(1) A crop of cow peas, soy
beans, peanuts or lespedeza (all
legumes) may be grown the
same season after an oat crop is
harvested. There is no better
feed than oats, and cowpeas and
lespedeza are -the equal or red
clover as hay producers; while
peanuts and soy beans will pro
duce as much feed (concentrates)
as any crop grown here or else
where.
(2) A soil made rich by the
growing of legumes and live
stock farming will make as much
corn or silage per acre as in the
corn belt, and the same season
produce a crop of crimson clover
equal in feeding value to a crop
of red clover.
(3) Our climate conditions
make us a cotton-producing coun
try. One of the by-products of
the cotton crop is cottonseed
meal, the cheapest protein fe< d !
known. The South produces
450,000,000 bushels of cottonseed j
annually, which pound for pound j
is superior to corn in feeding
value. If the South could not.
have produced cotton, she would
have grown live stock just as
other sections have turned to
live stock, where one-crop sys
tem depleted their soils -and
forced them to do so.
The South must grow live
stock, because, while it is pos
sible to build up soil fertility
without feeding live stock, it is
not generally done and cannot be
done as economically as by feed
ing the legumes, which must be
irrown to build up the fertility of
good live stock.
The need of the South is for
men who will study live stock;
raising as a part of their general
farming system, for there is no
reason why the South cannot or
does not grow live stock more
profitably than any other section, j
except that we have not the men
with either the inclination or in
formation to do so.—Progressive
Farmer.
Mules and horses bitten by
a mad dog around Baxley have
shown symptoms of rallies and
had to be killed.
I STATE SUPREME COURT
j DECIDES AGAINST FRANK
!
Verdict Os Lower Court Is
Sustained, Two Justices
Dissenting.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court
of Georgia affirmed the verdict
of Fulton Superior Court in the
case of Leo M. Frank, convicted
| after a long trial on August 25
of the murder of Mary Phagan.
The body of Mary Phagan was
found in the basement of the
National Pencil Company’s fac
tory on Sunday morning, April
27th, last, and Frank was ar
rested on Thursday following on
! suspicion. The trial that follow
ed was one of the most spectacu
lar in the state’s bisto'ry, lasting
29 days.
The opinion of the supreme
court was concurred in by all of
the six justices except two—
Justices Fish and Beck, who dis
sented on the grounds that evi
dence as to Frank’s lascivious
ness “did not tend to prove a
preexisting design, system,
plan or scheme, directed forward
i to the making of an assault upon
! the deceased or killing her to *
prevent its disclosure.”
The case may be taken to the
United States Supreme Court by
Frank’s attorneys, and in case of
failure in that highest tribunal,
Flank’s only recourse to escape
the death penalty will lie in the
governor and state prison com
mission.
PLEASANT RECEPTION
TO RECENT BRIDE
Many Charming Ladies are
Present to Enjoy
Event.
Mrs. Arpad G. Hicks, former
ly Miss Lucy McAllister, was
the lovely honoree of a most de
lightful reception given by Mrs.
Seward V. Hicks on Thursday
afternoon, February 12. The
home was most effective in its
artistic decorations, quanities of
daffodils and pot plants being
used throughout the living and
reception hall. In the reception
hall the punch bowl was most
gracefully presided over by
Misses Urania Mcßae and Camille
Adams. A delightful iced course,
carrying out the color scheme
was served by Misses Gladys Mc-
A)lißter and Eula and Lucile Mc-
Rae.
The guests were met and
ushered to the punch bowl by
: Mesdames D. A. and F. M. Me
diae then were received at the
‘living room door by Mrs. M. B.
| Calhoun and escorted to the re
ceiving line, consisting of Mes
dames Seward V. Hicks, Arpad
G. Hicks, W. C. McAllister Lee
Mcßae, J. O. McAllister and
Chas. Hicks and Miss Bessie
Stuckey.
Mrs. Seward Hicks was most
attractive in red crepe de chine
with black lace over-dress. Mrs.
Arpad Hicks wore a dainty crea
tion of pink broeraded crepe with
trimmings of lace and garnitures.
Mrs. W. C. McAllister wore a
handsome gown of black crepe
meteor with jet trimmings. Mrs.
Lee Mcßae was lovely in Laven
der foulard with lace. Miss Bes
sie Stuckey was daintily dressed
;in yellow charmeuse with over
dress of white marquisette. Mrs.
Chas. Hicks and Mrs. J. C. Mc-
Allister were gowned in black
voille. Mrs. M. B. Calhoun was
elegantly gowned in a french
style of green moire with Persian
trimmings. Misses Adams and
Mcßae were prettily dressed in
blue crepes. Mrs. Frank Mcßae
and Mrs. Duncan Mcßae wore
handsome afternoon gowns.
Many guests called during the
afternoon.
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