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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1914)
iftmttynuu'ni ffcmttnr. VOL. XXVIII. AWFUL TRAGEDY AT SOPERTON FRED MILLER MEETS DEATH Drunken Row on Saturday Night Ends in the Death of Young Man. The county of Montgomery was shocked Sunday morning when it was known that another bloody murder had been commit ted Saturday night in Soperton. At the house of Mrs. M. C. Dunn, run by herself and three daugh ters, where a drunken brawl was being held, with several men in the house and several others con gregated in the yard, Fred Mil ler was killed, his brains being scattered on the walls of the house by a load of shot fired at close range from the door of an adjoining room. Investigation by a coroner’s jury fixed the murder on May Dunn, and charged that her mother and Jim Crawford and Arch Fowler were accessories to the crime. The two women were brought to Mt. Vernon and lodged in jail, but Crawford and Fowler were allowed to give bond to ap pear as witnesses. The shotgun was found soon after the shooting in a sappling thicket near by. No commitment trial has yet been held. Young Miller was well known all over the county, being the son of Hon. j Elijah Miller, former county j commissioner, and one of Mont gomery’s best citizens. It remains to be seen whether the murderer will have justice meted out to him or her, or whether the people will allow the blood of the erring and unfort unate young man to cry from the ground to be avenged. Human life in Montgomery county is getting to be altogether too cheap, and any people who allow the perpetrators of these oft-repeated murders to go un punished will sooner or later pay the penalty of trials that are nothing more than travesties on justice. Small Boy Drinks Kero sene and Meets Death Valdosta, Ga., April 6.—A 4- year-old son of Will Odom, at; Remerton, two miles-north of 1 this city, is dead from drinking j kerosene. He got hold of a quart bottle of oil and drank five ounces. It was some time afterward before his parents discovered his condition, and a physician did not reach him until three hours after the child swallowed the poison. The child was then in a comatose condition and died soon. Underwood Wins Birmingham, Ala., April 7. Oscar W. Underwood won the senatorial nomination over Rich mond P. Hobson in yesterday’s Democratic primary by approxi mately 25,000 majority. Official figures are lacking in all the races, and the count is very slow owing to the lengthy ballot. How ever, enough returns have come in to indicate that Hobson carried only about 3 of the 67 counties of the state. Young Man Falls And is Badly Hurt. On Tuesday morning Mr. Jud McDaniel, visiting his grand-pa rents here, got on McQueen’s dray for a ride along the street, when the horse jumped from a touch of the driver’s whip, and threw him out. Falling between the wheels, several of his teeth were knocked out, and his lips badly lacerated. Thigpen School. Special Correspondence. Mr. Maurice Hutcheson and Misses Julia Phillips and Mary Hutcheson attended church at Harmony Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Thigpen visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Webb, Sunday. Mr. Willie Derriso spent Sun day with Messrs. Omer and Le- Roy Cobb. Mr. J. E. B. Hutcheson made a business trip to Mt. Vernon Saturday. We are glad to note Mrs. Ira Thigpen is still improving. Mrs. R. B. Thigpen and chil dren were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Seals Sun day. Mr. John Allen Page was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. Hutcheson Sunday afternoon. We are glad to know Mrs. Frank Page has returned from Sandersville, where she has been for treatment, and has improved. We hope she will continue to im prove. Every school should take an in terest in the contest to be held in Mt. Vernon April 18. The pat rons of the schools should take more interest in it, and cause the children to be more interested. THE PUPILS’ CONTEST ! TO BE INTERESTING Important Feature School Work Inaugurated in This County. The teachers of Montgomery county are alive to the great op portunities of the hour, and have put jn motion a most important feature of school work in calling a contest for the pupils in all the schools of the county, to be held at the Brewton-Parker Institute here on the 18th inst. Besides the literary feature, athletics and | domestic science enter largely in to the program. Every school in the county should be represented in the contest. Let every patron and progressive citizen come with a well-filled basket and join in | the dinner, which is to be an im jportant adjunct to the varied ex j ercises. It is probable that you have I never seen anything just like it ; before. Certainly the children have not; and they cannot remain ■ children very long, and demand your deepest interest and help. Tome, bring the children, bring the baskets, spend a profitable , day, give education and old Montgomery county a genuine boost; and, above all, give the boy and girl a chance to attain to j the highest state of physical and mental excellence. Baseball at Mcßae The B. P. I. baseball team went over to play the South Geor gia College team at Macßae on Monday. Our boys were de feated by a score of Bto 3. Don Lauier pitched for the B. P. I. team, striking out 16 men. It was a good game and the boys were royally treated. We can always tell at the home-coming when the score is on the wrong side of the card if Commodore i Charles Abt is along. What he says “is nothin’ to nobody.” Wants $16,700 for Death of Her Husband’s Death Cordele, April 6. Suit for $16,- 700 damage against the Georgia Southern and Florida railway has been filed by Mrs. W. H. Thorn ton for the death of her husband, who was killed March 28 by a j passenger engine. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 1914. ! Governor Slaton Will Run for the U. S. Senate Atlanta, April 4.—Gov. John M. Slaton tonight announced that lie would make the race for the United States senate to fill the place made vacant by the death of Augustus Bacon, after learn ing that Senator West, who fills the place by appointment, had issued a statement to the effect he would not be a candidate. His decision was announced after holding an informal confer ence with a number of his friends for some time at his executive office in the capitol. Entering the reception room, where the reporters were assem bled awaiting his statement, he said: “Well, you can state for me that I have decided to make the race for the unexpired term of the late Senator A. O. Bacon.” Special Term Convenes Waycross, April 6. — A special term of Coffee Superior Court convened at Douglas today for the purpose of trying a number of important criminal cases. The chief interest centers about the trial of Charles Graham, charged with killing Lawrence Newbern, marshal of Broxton, and 1. T. Graham, his own brother, shot by accident at the time the mar shal was killed. Judge J. W. Quincey will pre side. Next week the regular term of Superior Court of Pierce county will convene. W. W. Mackall Head of Historical Society Savannah, April 4. —W. W. Mackal! was elected president of the Georgia Historical Society, succeeding Colonel A. R. Law ton, who declined re-election. The following are the officers se lected; First vice president, T. jj. Charlton; second vice presi dent and corresponding secre | tary, Otis Ashmore. The election of secretary and treasurer was postponed. Wedding Bells At the home of B. F. Hamilton about. 4 p. m., on April 2, while the phonograph sweetly played “Nearer My God to Thee,” Mr. H. W. Warnock and Miss Lyda Gillis were made man and wife. The ceremony was witnessed by Mr. Anthony Phillips and a | young lady that the writer did not learn the name of. The party motored from Soperton, return ing after the marriage. $5,000 F'ire at Sandersville Sandersville, Ga., April 5. — The beautiful home of Mrs. D. L. Cheatham was entirely de stroyed by fire this morning about 10 o’clock. The origin of the fire is unknown. When dis covered the entire attic was in flames. The fire department saved the adjacent houses. The loss is $5,000, partly covered by insurance. Twelfth District School Contest Held at Dublin The annual contest by the high schools of the Twelfth district will occur at Dublin on Friday and Saturday of this week. The Brewton-Parker Institute will be represented in the various events and the team will go up tomor row. South Georgia Corn Show Dublin, April 4.—Announce ment* has been made that the corn show of the South Georgia Boys’Corn Club will beheld in conjunction with the Twelfth dis trict fair in Dublin next fall. There will be displays at the show from the boys’ corn clubs jof twenty-eigh, counties. Hawkinsville Man is i Slain While Sleeping Hawkinsville, Ga., April (>. — P, O. Bonqell, 22 years old, was killed here early Sunday as he lay in bed sleeping. An ax, ap parently, was used in the mur der. Harry Lee, nephew of the dead man, and who roomed with him, is being held by the police pending an investigation. Lee is IS years old. I The youth denies any connec tion with the ;killing and claims it was done by a negro. He claims he was awakened by the noise made by the negro in time to see him escaping from the room. Bonnell is survived by a wife, now living in Florida. Ex-Slave, 114, Dies Three Days After Her Child, 89 Memphis, April 4.—Maria Ry ley, a 114-year-old negress, for merly a slave in the family of ColonelflJim Ryley, died at Ral eigh, Tenn., where she had lived since 1828. Her oldest child, 89 years of age, was buried Ithree days ago. Her youngest child, a son, is (52 years old. The body was taken to Cordover, Tenn., and buried by descendants of her former master. Records found among the wo man’s effects proved her age and to whom she had belonged and gave the names of her eight chil dren. Ex-Georgian Editor Is Dead in New York City New York, April (!. William G. F. Price, 57, a newspaper writer in this city for 25 years, died Sunday evening at St. Luke’s hospital after an illness of two weeks. Mr. Price was born in Georgia, was for some time editor of The Macon Telegraph and worked for the New York Recorder, The Tri bune and The Herald. He was employed last by the The New' York Commercial. He leaves a wife, two daughters and a son. Mr. William Calhoun Loses His Left Eye. Mr. William Calhoun of Uval da returned from Atlanta Satur day night, where his left eye was taken out. Injury to his eye oc curred on Christmas last, when he was hit in the eye by the tin cap of a soda water bottle he was opening. UvuLda. ■ Special CorrfcHpomJcnce. Rev. J. T. Taylor will fill his I regular appointment here at the I Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. William Jones has return ed to her home at Ailey after a visit to her parents at this place, l Miss Virginia Gray, operator at Hazelhurst, has returned home to spend a few weeks’ vacation. Prof. John M. Morris attended the teachers’ meeting at Mt. Vernon Saturday. Miss Helen Gray is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jones, at Ailey, this week. A fish fry was enjoyed at the river by a large crowd of young people from this place Friday night. Mr. J. E. Jones is on an ex tended trip to Florida and other points. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Faircloth were in town shopping Saturday. Miss Alqie Wolfe is helping Mrs, Laura Abbotte in her millin ery department for a few weeks. A program has been arranged for the Easter exercises, to be at the Baptist church Sunday. Oru ima News. Special OonvHDondonoo. Miss Ruby Cooper, of Wheeler county, is visiting Misses Emma and Monibell Lawrence this week. Miss Pearl Odom, who has been teaching school at Kibbee Ga., is spending her vacation with home folks here. Mrs; W. H. Toler visited Mrs. J. A. Youngblood Friday. Misses Emma Lawrence and Ruby Cooper,made a visit to the home of Mr. J. J. Walker Satur day last. ! Miss Essie Mae Tillman, who is attending school at this place, j spent last Sunday at her home near Adrian. Little Alma Youngblood, the daughter of Mr. J. A. Young blood, is quite ill. Mr. E. A. Avery went to Dub lin Monday on business. Mrs. J. W. Thompson, of Adrian, syent last Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Hardee Thig pen. The Methodist Sunday school is preparing an interesting pro gram for Easter Sunday night. Prof and Mrs. J. L. Poston made a visit to the home of Mr. J. A. Youngblood Friday after noon. Mr. Berner Odom and Miss Leola Knight went to the sing ing convention at Harmony Sun day. Mr. Emmet Scott, of Adrian, and Miss Jessie Odom were out automobiling Sunday afternoon. Miss Thelma Beatty was the guest of Mrs. E. A. Avery Fri day. Mr. C. W. Mills and Mr. W. A. Bussell spent Saturday in Dublin. Miss Albyrtie Farris spent Thursday night, at the home of Mr. J. J. Walker. Miss Lula Walker was the; guest of Miss Annie Avery Sun day. 5 i,\ :>t j,' Localettes. !| vt •3 s Mr. I). O. Calhoun, of Tarry town, was a visitor here on Mon day. Mr. Arnold Thigpen, of the Adrian section, was here on Tuesday. Mr. C. R.j Conaway, who has moved to the Uvalda section, was here Tuesday. Many cit izens from various sec tions of the county, attended the county commissioners meeting here Tuesday. Mr. Wilder Thigpen, of the Soperton section, was attending to business in Ordinary’s court here this week. Dr. J. W. Palmer, member the State Democratic executive committee, attended the meeting in Atlanta Saturday. Piano Recital, 8.-P. I. Miss Brewton’s class, in the Department of Music, Brewton- Parker Institute, will give a pi ano recital on Wednesday even ing, 15th inst. Numbers will be rendered by Misses Eva Williams, Tyra Stanley and Georgia Belle Smiley, assisted by Miss Emma Edwards. The public invited. Helena Bank’s Good Year Helena, Ga., April 4.—At the annual stockholders’ meeting of the Citizens Bank a dividend of 8 per cent, was paid and a sum passed surplus account. Dr. O. W. Turner and W. W. Nor man were re-elected president land cashier. TEN YEARS IN PENITENTIARY GIVEN TO MELTON WIGGINS Outlaws are Beginning to Receive Justice —Phil- lips Still in Jail. The outlaws who held such a high hand in this section are be ginning to receive justice at last. ; Our readers are familiar with the wholesale raids made here, at Ailey, Soperton and Lyons by Melton Wiggins and his young accomplice, A. C. Phillips, fol lowed by the arrest of the two l burglars and the incarceration of Wiggins in jail at Lyons and of Phillips in the jail here. It will be remembered that Phillips confessed the whole mat ! tor here to Dr. J. W. Palmer, whose place at Ailey they burg larized twice. Phillips was tak en to Lyons last week to testify against Wiggins, who was con victed and sentenced ten years in (he pen by Judge Graham on Friday. Sheriff 1). R. Partin of Toombs, returned Phillips to jail here. Wiggins was taken to jail in Savannah for safe keeping, pending a motion for a new trial. Ho was the pal who escaped with Widdincamp and Old Bill Minor, and the young man Phillips in ! jail here learned his trade from Wiggins while they served a for- I mer sentence together on the j chain gang. He is closely con nected and a direct descendant |of two of the best families in Liberty county. j . Revival Services Continue. The revival meeting, running at the Methodist church here since the Fifth Sunday in March, continues with increasing inter est. The singing in in charge of Mr. G. C. Dixon, of Savannah, a consecrated man who under stands the power of the gospel in song. The preaching is being 'done with great liberty and pow ler by the pastor, Rev. H. C. Ewing. Prayer meetings are he wing held at the residences, and every morning at the Masonic Hall. There is increasing inter est in the meeting, and the ser vices will continue through next Sabbath. There have been sev eral additions to the membership of the church, and the other de nominations of the town have aided materially in the work. t ■ New Steamboat for Oconee River Launched Dublin, April (5. A new steam er for the Oconee river is under construction at this place, and was launched a few days ago. ■ As the boat slid into the rivar it ; was christened the “Nan Allen” by Mrs. J. A. Kelley, wife of the owner of the new steamer. The ; craft is 22x112 feet over all, . draws less than three feet of water, will have double engine land will be used principally to j haul timber for the stave mill of Mr. Kelley. It will, however, be ! fitted to handle freight for the public, as well as for the stave mill. It will cost $7,000 and will ’| be put in commission just as ’ s early as possible. 5 Mrs. Mattie L. Skipper t Very 111 in Savannah. The many friends and acquaint ances of Mrs. Mattie L. Skipper of Ailey will regret to learn that • she is seriously ill at the Park View Sanitarium in Savannah. I She was taken there for treat i ment several .days ago. Mrs. Skipper is an accomplished and most estimable lady, and many . here wait anxiously for her re- |covery. NO. 49
