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VOL. XXVIII.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
SCHOOL CONTESTS
Something to be Long Re
membered —Credit to All
Taking Part.
Saturday, 18th inst., will long
be remembered as one of import
ance to the educational interests
of Montgomery county, being the
the occasion of the county’s first
school contest and public school
exhibit and field day. The event
was held at the Brewton-Parker
Institute, Mt. Verr.on-Ailey, and
was largely attended.
The literary exercises were held
in the auditorium, the exhibits
were displayed in the class-rooms
and the athletic contest was held
on the campus and the beautiful
avenue immediately in front.
Certain features of the literary
work were given in the class
rooms while the principal exer
cises were being conducted in the
assembly room.
The declamation contest, in
which about a dozen took part,
attracted keen interest, and occu
pied more than an hour. Music
was furnished by the orchestra
of the 8.-P. Institute, and a
chorus from the local school and
its encore were especially pleas
ing.
The morning’s exercises were l
concluded with an address by ;
Supt. J. 0. Martin of the public i
schools of Newton county. Mr.
Martin’s “talk,” as he termed it,
was based on the success of the
public school system over which
he presides, now recognized as
one of the most efficient in the
state. He brought to the atten- 1
tion of his hearers many ideas j
and plans so successfully tried by
his board for the upbuilding of
the public school system, and it
is-probable that some of his plans
will be adopted in this county, i
Supt, Martin’s coming was by '■
special invitation, and his pres
ence and wholesome suggestions
added much to the success of the
occasion. Mr. Martin is recog
nized as one of Georgia’s most
successful educators and a man !
of logical and progressive ideas.
Dinner was spread in a grove
near the campus, and while the 1
crowd was large, it was well
cared for. The athletic exercises
began about two in the afternoon
and lasted until about 4:30.
There being quite a number of
contestants in the various depart
ments, known to the judges by
numbers only, and some of them
having entered at a late hour, it
is thought not to give the list of ;
winners until next week, in order
for perfect accuracy. This delay
is entirely unavoidable.
The following schools were rep- 1
resented: Sadie, Thigpen, Mil
ler’s Mill, Uvalda, Red Bluff, '
Rosemont, Alston, Higgston, ;
Kibbee, Orland, Zaidee, Kemp, !
and the publicschool department'
of Brewton-Parker Instititute.
For the greatest per cent, of at
tendance the Sadie school, Miss
Annie Doolittle, teacher, will un
doubtedly receive the prize—a $5
set of books. This school bears
the remarkable record of having ,
all pupils present, together with
all parents except one father and
mother. Pupils from this school
also won a number of prizes in
the athletic contest.
The Thigpen school, under the ;
able management of Miss Julia j
Phillips, also won a $5 set of
books on the best general school
exhibit.
The plans and arrangements
for the occasion were fostered by
the county teachers’ association,
having the hearty co-operation of
County Superintendent Hutche
son and the county board. The
executive work received the un
tiring efforts of Miss Inez Mcßae,
principal of the public school de
partment, her able corps of teach-
! CLINTON P. THOMPSON
i
DIES BV HIS OWN HAND
Shot Himself Through the
, Temple Early Yesterday
Morning.
Clinton P. Thompson, of Ala
i mo, a well known attorney, com
mitted suicide yesterday morn
ing at 7:30, shooting himself
| through the temples and dying
instantly. Thompson came to
| Mt. Vernon about two years ago,
' being associated with W. B.
Kent in the practice of law, and
aftet . the creation of Wheeler
county removed to Alamo.
! He was a man of more than av
erage ability, a graduate of the
State University and of good
| family connections; but it is un
| derstood that ill health and dissi
pation had reduced his useful
ness. He taught school in this
county, at Longpond, in 1891.
He leaves a wife and one little
son, his wife being in the sani
tarium in Atlanta. He was a
native of Middle Georgia and
about 43 years of age.
I. O. O. F. Will
Celebrate Anniversary.
The Odd Fellows of Mt. Ver
non and Ailey will unite in me
morial exercises at the court
house at this place next Sabbath
afternoon, and members of the
order are requested to assemble
at the hall in Mt. Vernon at 2:30,
preparatory to marching to the
court house, where the exercises
will be held, consisting principal
ly of an address by some speaker (
to be selected. Some difficulty j
has been experienced in securing
a speaker to date.
This occasion celebrates the
ninety-fifth anniversary of the
foundation of the order, and is of
interest to the fraternity. Exer
cises will begin at 3 o’clock, and
the pubiic is invited to attend.
Intesesting Recital by
the Graduating Class
Quite an interesting event was
the graduating recital given on 1
Wednesday night of last week by j
the piano pupils of Brewton-
Parker Institute. Those partici- 1
pating in the program in the de
partment of piano were Misses
Eva Williams, Tyra Stanley and 1
Georgia Belle Smiley; and they
were assisted by Miss Emma Ed
wards, who rendered several
very charming solos. These
young ladies are to be congrat
ulated on the giace and skill
with which they rendered their
respective parts, the program
being composed of various num- j
bers from difficult masters-
Change in Date of Sun
day School Convention
The Sunday School convention
of the Daniel Baptist association
will convene with the Soperton 1
Baptist Church on Friday before j
the fifth Sunday in May and con
tinue through Saturday and Sun
day instead of the fifth Sunday i
in September, as announced in i
the minutes of the association, j
This change is made by request
of Soperton church and a number
of pastors. W. E. Burns.
President.
ers, together with President Rob
ertson of the 8.-P. I. and his
faculty.
The idea of holding a county
school contest and fair has gained
full force, and will become an
annual event. The Monitor may i
be depended upon to continue its
hearty efforts in behalf of educa
tion in Montgomery county, and
in this great cause ask the assist-!
ance of the patrons, the pupils, j
and the school officials and every
teacher in the county.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 23, 1914.
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i > Editor Simmons Set Right |
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The record of Hon. Dudley M Hughes in Congress shows that
he has faithfully and energetically represented the Twelfth District
We see no reason whatever in displacing him simply because some
one else wants his job.—Montgomery Monitor.
We believe that if the above argument had been advanced by
J anyone else for an office, other than his own candidate, Editor
’ Folsom would have laughed at the absurdity of the statement In
f other words, we believe that Editor Folsom himself regards the de
f sense he put up for Congressman Hughes in the above paragraph,
) as being very light
In the first place, we humbly beg our good neighbor t<> tell us
ONE THING that Mr. Hughes has done for the Twelfth district that
. will show the “faithfully and energetic” manner in which he h:is
represented the district The only thing we know of his doing is
to send out his allotment of free seed, though we did not get any
jof them We are not mad with Mr Hughes for this as we haven’t
. a garden and he possibly knows that we haven’t
, j But to get back to more serious matters The statement that
. “we see no reason whatever in displacing him simply because some
l|one else wants his job, ” sounds very unlike the usual sensible, safe
• | and sound arguments of Brother Foisom- According to this state
■l inent we had as well establish a monarchy and be done with it Or,
~ in other words, once a man is placed in office let him hold to it the
. balance of his days, even though he live a half hundred years Mr
’ Folsom may believe this but we don’t and it is against democratic
! principles for one man to hold an office continuously just because
! ; he happens to get elected to it. Give us rotation.
We believe in letting others have a chanfce. Mr. Hughes has
l been to Congress three terms and the people regard this as enough
[ “glory and honor” for one man.—Telfair Enterprise, April 16.
We cannot claim that we have been taken by surprise by the
above tirade against Congressman Hughes, knowing the present
editor of the Telfair Enterprise as we do. Editor Simmons is
now simply living up to his reputation. During the Biown-
Smith campaign, and while posing as the editor of the Vidalia
Advance, one of his puerile phillipics, in which hespokeof “pickingi
on a little insignificant thing like Joe Brown,” was reproduced in
the Macon Telegraph and held up to the people of Georgia by its
lamented editor, Charles R. Pendleton, as the silliest piece of rot
; ! ever inflicted on the reading public by a Georgia editor. The above
, ; article shows that Editor Simmons is determined to sustain his
| reputation.
•
In launching the above labored editorial, he assumes that we
! are making statements that we do not believe ourselves, and that a
| plain statement from The Monitor is a “defense of Congressman
Hughes. As to our veracity and the honesty of our purposes in
’J politics, or in anything else, we feel quite content to leave the pub
! lie, and especially the press of the state, to judge. So far as we
I know, no one with any degree of responsibility has attacked the
record of Dudley M. Hughes, in or out of Congress; and the idea
of “defense” seems only to have originated with the editor of the
Enterprise. We are charitable enough, notwithstanding the vein
of absurdity the editor of the Enterprise has recently discovered in
us, to suppose that his insinuations as to Mr. Hughes and the editor
of this paper were intended for argument.
In his editorial of the 9th inst., on the candidacy of Judge W.
M. Clements, Editor Simmons labors industriously to show that
Judge Clements it> a real farmer, and that Mr. Hughes is “a mere
pretender to the name of farmer,” and by negative insinuations
attempts to show that the present Congressman has committed
something akin to crime by “taking heir to several thousand acres
of farm land,” and makes the ridiculous and uncalled-for statement
| that “everyone realizes that Congressman Hughes’interests and
j associations are foreign to the Twelfth district. ” He adds the mar
| velous declaration to political history that Mr. Hughes is in this
district “by a ‘hair’s breadth,’ ” and ought to be put of Congress
i peremptorily because he has had three terms. We are reciting
only a few of these statements for no purposes of “defense,” but
simply to show their extreme imbecility and far-fetched attempt
\ at sensible argument.
Editor Simmons, in racking his brain for something to fill up
his editorial of April 9th, bewails the fact that Congressman Hughes
does not live in the exact center of his district, and that his and
Congressman Bartlett’s “principal interests and associations are
strong for Macon.” To show how little the editor of the Enter
prise knows of the “democratic principles” of the people of South
Georgia, we only have to call attention to the fact that the gifted
Henry G. Turner resided within ten miles of the extreme south
west corner of the old Eleventh District, and the brainy William
G. Brantley made his home where the waves made music for the
! “Marshes o’ Glynn,” both many long miles from the center of the
hub at Eastman. To show further how little they regarded Sim
mons idea of “rotation,” these able Georgians were kept in Con
gress for many years—until they retired on their own free will.
There are more assumptions in Editor Simmons' feeble edito-!
rials than that we are not siricerenn speaking well of Reresentative
Hughes’ work in Congress, The one flagrant assumption is that
that the farmers of the Twelfth District, and especially of Telfair
county, are such fools as to be caught any such chaff as Simmons is
1 scattering to the winds. Puny flings at Congressman Hughes be-!
cause he is a farmer, and an attempt with the same breath to prove |
'that Judge Clements, who has spent the best years of his life in
j practicing law, is a real, simon-pure farmer, will get no votes for
'Judge Clements.
Judge Clements is a highly respected citizen, a lawyer of fair
ability, and a man of too much good sense to suppose that he will
get to Congress by any of the childish claims and silly innuendoes
offered by his mistaken champion. His real friends expect him to
pitch his campaign on a higher plane than that reached by Editor
; Simmons. It is all right for Editor-Simmons to practice “rotation”
form one printing office to another, but the farmers of the Twelfth
District know when an appeal is made to prejudice them purely to
get votes; and. as a class, are far better posted than Mr. Simmons
imagines.
The old joke that Joseph E. Brown, Georgia's war governor,
| employed an influential daily paper to abuse him by the column,
I expecting the reaction to keep him in office, is scarely applicable in
this case. Congressman Hughes does not need the services of Ed
itor Simmons, as his “arguments” are entirely too thin to excite
interest.
Real Democrats, who know how important it is at this critical
period for President Wilson to be backed up by a Congress of men
of brains and experience, are not clamoring for “rotation.” There
is very little doubt that Congressman Hughes is far better qualified
jto represent this district than he was three years ago. The people
understand what experience, acquaintance and influence with other
members count for in congress. No man, no matter how well
| equipped intellectually, can accomplish anything for his district
j without that association that gains the good will of other members.
BOGS OF WAR LET
LOOSE IN MEXICO
Blood Has Been Shed and
Tumult and Excitement
Reign.
The long-expected rumpus be
, tween the United States and
Mexico has arrived. To resent
insults to the American flag or
ders were issued for the U. S.
forces to occupy the port of Vera
Cruz. Blue Jackets and marines
were landed from the warships
on Tuesday, and a formal request
made for the place to surrender
was followed by a street fight, in
which four U. S. marines and a
number of Mexicans were killed.
The city of Vera Cruz was cap
tured and the Mexicans retreated
westward. Momentous events
are expected to quickly follow.
i
Governor Slaton Formally
Announces for the Senate
Atlanta, April 18 Formal an
| nouncement of his candidacy to
fill the unexpired term of the:
United States Senator Augustus
0. Bacon was made here tonight
Iby Gov. John M Slaton, of Geor
jgia
Gov Slaton’s announcement
supplemented his informal state
ment, made sometime ago, that
he would enter the race for the
senate. His formal announce
ment says, among other things,
that he will not relinquish his
present office until he has assisted
the legislature in providing for
the refunding of maturing state'
bonds When that is done, his
announcement declares, he will
feel authorized to place his can- j
didacy in the hands of the vot- j
ers of Georgia
Missionary Rally To Be
Held at Lyons, May Ist
The Woman’s Missionary Un
ion of the Danniell association 1
will hold a missionary rally at
Lyons May 1. The meeting will
begin at 9:30 a. m. and will con
tinue through the day, ending
with a Y. W. A. and Sunbeam
program in the evening.
The rally is for the purpose of
stimulating the missionary spirit'
in the societies and creating a
missionary spirit among the wo
men and children who do not be
long to the societies. All trains
will be met by committee. This
committee will assign delegates,
and visitors to their homes, where
they will be entertained. All
.churches in the association not
having societies are invited to
send two or more ladies to rep- j
resent missions in their respec- !
tive churches,
Notice of Change in the
School Board Meeting
The regular meeting of the!
Montgomery County Board of
Education for next month will
be held on May 1, instead of the 1
first Wednesday. This change
has been made because the
county superintendent will be
away at the regular time. Teach
ers and all interested will please
note the change, which is for the
month of May only.
Mr. S. V. Hicks was a visitor
to Soperton on Monday.
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes has always stood ready to deal
promptly with any request from his constituents, and his work on
some of the important committees of the House have gained for
him the highest respect from his colleagues. We have sought no
controversy, and have not one word of disparagement for Judge
Clements, but expect the people of the Twelfth district to return
Dud Hughes to Congress, regardless of all spasmodic fiareups by
country newspapers.
We have no space for further comment in this issue, but next
week will mention some of the service rendered by Congressman
Hughes to his constituents and to his country. For the benefit of
the “defense” we close by stating positively that ONE THING
Mr. Hughes did not do was to endorse J. K. Simmons for post
master at Vidalia, though Mr. Simmons was an applicant for the
place.
; IMPORTANT TRIAL WAS
I HELD HERE ON FRIDAY
Commitment Hearing in the
Case of Mrs. Dunn and
Her Daughter.
The commitment trial of Mrs.
M. C. Dunn and daughter, Miss
May Dunn, in jail here charged
with the murder of Fred Miller
at their house in Soperton on the
night of April 4, came off here
last Friday. The importance of
the case drew many people here,
and the trial was held in the su
j perior court room to accommo
date the large crowd.
Judge G. J. Stanford had sit
ting with him on the case Judge
A. L. Wheeler, of Tarrytown,
and Judge G.R Mason, of Ailey.
: Solicitor-General Wooten came
over to conduct the trial for the
state, and the defendants were
I represented by C. D. Loud and
A. C. Saffold. Judge Eschol
Graham, of Mcßae, and W. L.
Wilson, of Mt. Vernon, assisted
, the solicitor in the prosecution.
Ten young men were sworn as
witnesses, but only three were
| put on the stand to testify, the
state resting its case at the con
| elusion of their examination. No
witnesses were put up by the de
fense and no statement made.
The solicitor dropped the charges
against Mrs. Dunn, the testi
mony not connecting her immed
iately with the killing.
The testimony of John Evans,
Emmett H. Durden and Archie
Fowler showed that Fred Miller
| was at the house for the second
time during the evening, and was
in the room playing a guitar,
when May Dunn, standing in ja
door of an opposite room with a
shotgun, ordered Miller to leave
the premises. Her mother was
remonstrating with her and in
sisting that she put up the gun.
Durden and Evans had stepped
out to their automobile standing
at the gate, Fowler was in a
back room next the kitchen with
Annie Dunn and the door fasten
ed by a button on the inside. The
gun was fired and May Dunn ran
through the room occupied by
! Fowler and Annie Dunn, burst-
I ing off the button on the door,
with gun in hand. The old lady
ran out into the yard, exclaim
ing, “Fred cussed May, and she
shot him.”
After arguments by Solicitor
Wooten, Eschol Graham and W.
L. Wilson for the state, and by
Loud and Saffold for the defense,
May Dunn was held for murder,
and was remanded to jail for
trial by Superior Court, which
meets here on the first Monday
in May.
New Irish Potatoes.
Mr J. A. Odom, a progressive
farmer on the W. P. Calhoun
place at Charlotte, sends us a
sample of his Irish potatoes. He
has one acre planted, and will
soon have them in abundance.
The two bunches sent, one grown
from a cut potato £*nd the other
from seed planted whole, show
that the cut seed has put on very
many more tubers, while the
bunch from the potato planted
whole has more top.
Messrs Tom Mason and Robt.
Cockfield went to Savannah on
Tuesday.
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