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The Montgomery Monitor.
VOL. XXVIII.
ATT’Y GEN GRICE
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
Asks Endorsement of People
In the August 19th
Primary.
Atlanta, Ga., April 25. —Attor-
ney General Warren Grice has
issued his formal announcement
as a candidate in the state pri
mary for the office he is now
holdidg by appointment, and for
which he is being opposed by
Clifford Walker, of Monroe. His
statement is as follows:
To the People of Georgia: Up
on the resignation of Hon. T. S
Felder, the governor appointed
me attorney general of the state.
From the many telegrams and
letters that have come to me I
am obliged to feel that the ap
pointment has met the approval
of a very large number of our
citizens. I should be grateful
for the people to endorse me in
our Democratic primary in Aug
ust. For twenty years, save for
slight interruption during a ser
vice of five sessions of the legis
lature as a representative from
the county of Pulaski, I have de
voted myself exclusively to the
study and practice of the law
The judges and lawyers and peo
ple generally, I think, in the
counties into which an active
practice has taken me, believe
me qualified for the place
It will be impossible, of course,
for me to perform the duties of
the office and make a personal
canvass of the state. I shall un
dertake to keep in touch with
the situation and will greatly ap
preciate the aid of my friends.
The office of attorney general
is an important one, and has
been filled in the past by men of
distinction and a high order of
ability I would eonsider it a
signal honor to be authorized by
the people to take my place in
this honorable fine of public ser
vice. Yours truly,
Warren Grice.
CONGRESSMAN HUGHES.
Young Couple Married
Sunday Afternoon.
Sunday afternoon last at the
home of Justice George Stanford
Mr. J. Bruce Fountain and Miss;
Eula Brantley were married, '
Judge Stanford performing the
sacred and official rites. The
happy event was witnessed by a
number of friends of the young
people.
Immediately after the ceremony
the couple repaired to the home
of the groom, where, later in the
evening, a reception was tendered
the bridal party. This affair was
attended by a number of invited
friends.
The bride is a daughter of Mrs.
G. W. Denton of Route No. 1, a
young lady of charm and grace.
Mr. Fountain has many friends
to congratulate him on having
won a fair bride. They are now
at home to their friends.
Thigpen School.
Special Correspondence.
. Messrs. John Allen Page and
Felston were welcome visitors at
the home of Mr. and Mrs J- F.
B. Hutcheson Friday and Satur
| day evening.
Mr. Grover Thigpen, of Pel
ham, has returned home after
spending a few days with par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thigpen.
Our school will close on Satur
day, May 9. Dinner will be
served and free lemonade also
Everybody is invited to come and
bring a well-filled basket.
Mr. Maurice Hutcheson and
Misses Julia Phillips and Mary
! Hutcheson attended church at
Red Bluff Sunday.
I
Messrs. R. B. and Grover Thig
pen made a business trip to Mt.
Vernon last Thursday.
Messrs. John Allen Page and
Marcus Mcßae were among those
who attended the sing given at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Reynolds Thursday night.
Mr. Robert Walker, of Orland,
was a visitor at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. D. McLendon Sunday
evening.
Among those who visited our
school last week were Misses
Clyde Davis, Willie McLendon,
Mr. and .Mrs. Arnold Thigpen
and Mrs. Arch Johnson. We are
always glad to have visitors.
We are sorry to note Mrs. Ira
Thigpen is not any better.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. Hutche
son and little daughter, Nannie j
Mae, attended church at Bethsa-;
dia Sunday.
Messrs. Tom Spivey and Sam
Thigpen were among the crowd
that visited the convict camps
Sunday.
Mr Felston Seals, of Alamo,
who has been visiting friends
and relatives of this place, re
turned to his place of business
Sunday night.
Mrs. Lenton Cowart, of Cobb
town, who has been visiting her
■ sister, Mrs. Ira Thigpen, return
ed home Saturday
Miss Nannie Moore, of Mc-
Leod, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Ira Thigpen.
Mrs Geo. Moore, who has been
visiting relatives near Swains
boro, has returned home.
Mrs. Charlie Greenway is vis
iting friends and relatives in
Douglas.
Misses Julia Phillips and Mary
Hutcheson visited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thigpen Satur
i day afternoon.
Mr Jim Walker was a visitor
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. N.
E Derriso Saturday night.
Mr. Maurice Hutcheson made
a business trip to Soperton Sat
urday morning.
Let all those who are interest
ed in school work attend the ex
ercises to be given at this school
on Saturday, May 9.
Mexican War Waits
On the Mediators
The situation in Mexico seems
to be one of waiting. The envoys
of Argentina, Brazil and Chile
have undertaken to settle the
quarrel between the United
States and Huerta. In the mean
time this country is moving'
troops and rushing all prepara
tions for real war. Any out
break on the part of the Mexican
forces, federal or constitutional
i ists, would precipitate a fight
No other foreign countries are
taking part in the attempts at
peace, but their representatives
are alert to see that there is no
hitch in the proceedings. An
hour’s time may change the
, whole aspect of affairs.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 30. 1914.
M 3. HUGHES MAKES GOOD
IN THE NATIONAL HOUSE
As stated last week, we propose to review some of the
work done by Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, representative of the
Twelfth District in Congress.
At the time of the formation of this district Mr. Hughes
was ably representing the Third District, composed of fifteen
counties. The creation of the Twelfth put Twiggs county in
the new district, making him a citizen of the Twelfth.
Byway of refreshing the memory of those who do not
follow close!} the changes, vv,e will state that the Twelfth,
covering one of the finest sections of the state, is now com
posed of Pulaski, Houston, Twiggs, Wilcox, Dodge, Johnson,
Laurens, Emanuel, Toombs, Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler
and Bleckley counties. Mr. Hughes is serving his first term
as the regularly elected representative of this district.
While representing the Third, he obtained agricultural
demonstrators for six counties, sent out by the Agricultural
Department at Washington, paid by the government; ob
tained an appropriation of $75,000 for a public building at
Fitzgerald, and got an increase of $25,000 on an appropria
tion for a public building at Condole. Secured the establish
ment of a number of new postoffices and rural routes. He
strongly advocated the increase of pay that was given rural
carriers. He was the first Georgia congressman who de
clared for the parcels post when it was quite unpopular in
the cities but greatly needed by the farmers. He secured a
road engineer for Sumter county upd went in person to
have a demonstration road built, residing in Sumter having
one of the best road systems in Georgia. And also obtained
a soil survey for the county. His fight against gambling in
cotton stirred the house to the passage of the bill that was
lost in the senate, and is still shoulder to shoulder with Sen
ator Hoke Smith and others in trying to wrest from the New
York Cotton Exchange the control of cotton prices.
Since becoming the representative of the Twelfth, he
has obtained an increase of SB,OOO on the apuropriation for
the postoffice at Dublin. At the request of Montgomery
county’s board of commissioners, obtained a road expert who
came t.o assist in building the road from Mt. Vernon to the
line of Toombs, Has secured a government expert to experi
ment in irrigation on a farm in the district, who stands
ready to assist any farmer who wishes to try irrigation. Sent
a tJ. S. expert on tick eradication to Emanuel county on re
quest. During this Congress was instrumental in securing
additional increase in the pay of rural carriers. Was active
in the Democratic caucus and the House in passing the Un
derwood tariff bill, that will save millions to the producers
and consumers, and in which all are interested.
When the new banking and currency law was reported
to the Democratic caucus, Congressman Hughes found that
the bill did not provide that the notes of farmers secured by
cotton and other farm products, could be hypothecated, and
that the farmer could not make a note and borrow money on
it for more than forty-five days,’and that he could only bor
row on land security longer than nine months, he saw how
farmers were being discriminated against, was aroused and
resisted these great wrongs. The fight began in a caucus of
eighteen or 20 members, of which the Farmer Congressman
Hughes was chairman, and a great victory was won. When
the bill passed the farmer’s note, secured by cotton, was
prime commercial paper, a three months’ paper extended
by the Senate to six months, and allowing him to borrow
money for the term of five years.
There are only a few farmers in Congress, and Dudley
M. Hughes, a progressive Georgia farmer, leads the fight
when the farmers’ interests are in peril. He has only repre
sented the Twelfth district since March 4, 1913, and about
thirteen months of this time Congress has been almost con
tinually in session. He has had no time to run around and
button-hole the voters of the district, but he is no experiment;
his work ha: been constant and untiring for his constituents.
There are only three members from Georgia who are
chairmen of committees. Mr. Hughes, as chairman of the
Committee on Education, has led the fight which resulted in
the passage of a resolution authorizing the President to ap
point a vocational education commission. President Wilson
appointed Congressman Hughes as one of the nine men se
lected throughout the United States, and he is now actively
engaged in the work.
The small, but arduous, personal demands of his constit
uents are receiving his daily attention. He cannot possibly
endorse but one individual for postmaster where there is only
one postoffice, and sensible, reasonable people understand the
occasional howl raised by defeated ones.
Dudley M. Hughes lias shown by his untiring labors in
Congress that lie stands not only for the great farming class
he so faithfully represents, but for the best interests of the
South and of the nation; and the people of the Twelfth dis
trict will not cut off his work in its successful beginning.
Expressions of earnest approval of his work come to us al
most every hour, and he will be returned to Congress by a
handsome majority, even though he may not leave his post
in Washington to mingle with his friends in the district.
In his speech on the cotton schedule, August 1, 1911,
Mr. Hughes said: “Being a cotton grower in the state of
Georgia, living on my plantation, operating and directing it,
I feel that I am justified—nay, that is my duty— to speak to
this House in behalf of mv fellow farmers all over this coun
try, but especially those of the South; to plead, not for spe
cial privileges, but for equity and justice in dealing with this
greatest of all industries, the fountain head, the very source
from which flows the material prosperity of the nation. It
is more than a trice saying—it is a monumental fact—that
agriculture is the foundation rock upon which a nation’s
wealth is built. The farmer’s prosperity is the electric mot
or that sends the life-giving current into every nerve and
artery of the business community. When the farmer flour
ishes, all flourish; when his pocketbook is empty, there is a
decided ebb in those of other pursuits. Agriculture in its
highest, in its best estate sets a people as a mark upon a hill.
That has been its history since first the command went forth,
‘Let the earth bring forth fruit!’ From the day when the
first plow was a stick with a nail at the end of it to scratch
the soil it has held this undisputed sway; and in our time and
generation it is the truest exponent, as it is the clearest re
sult of brawn and brain and science—the creator of wealth.’’
And Mr. Hughes is living up to these sentiments. Out
side of a few disappointed ones he could not secure federal
offices for, he is receiving the commendation of business men
and farmers all over this district It would be a reflection
on the intelligence of the farmers of the Twelfth district to
say that they do not endorse the candidacy of Dudley M.
Hughes for return to Congress. A personal interview with
numbers of them in Montgomery county has failed to find a
single one opposed to his re-election.
White Oak School
i | Special Correspondence.
Mr. and Mrs G. W. McCrim
! mon spent Sunday last with
! friends in Soperton.
; There will be an ice cream sup
j per at the White Oak school
house next Friday night.
; i
Misses Lillian Miller and Ma
mie Farmer were the guests of
Miss Donor McCrimmon Sunday.
Mr. Clarence McCrimmon made
| a quick trip to Soperton Satur
! day.
Baseball Next Monday
On Monday afternoon next the
South Georgia College ball team,
of Mcßae, will play the Brewton-
I Parker Institute team on the 8.-
P I. diamond here. There are
I some good players in both teams
and the game is looked forward
to with much interest.. Only 25
cents will be charged for admis
sion to the grounds.
New Pastor Installed
In Church at Adel.
I
Adel, Ga., April 27. —A pretty
service was held at the Presby
terian church here Sunday after
noon, it being the occasion of the
installation of the new pastor,
Rev. Daniel Iverson. The sermon
was preached by Rev. Robert
Mann of Brunswick, and the
charge to the pastor was deliv
ered by Rev. Charles Montgom
ery of Mt. Vernon, while Rev.
W. A. Nesbit, D. D., of Savan
nah, delivered the charge to the
i congregation. Elder J. T. Wright
i of Brunswick offered the prayer.
The services were very impress
ive.
A Narrow Escape From
Disastrous Fire Tuesday
Late Tuesday evening Mr. Hil
liard Cockfield, employed in the
garage of the Hicks Brothers
here, was using a bucket of gas
oline in polishing parts of a car
in the new building just being
completed when a wrong step
threw the gasoline against the
lantern lie was carrying and a
quick blaze resulted- The young
man’s clothing was ignited and
he rushed out the back door in a
blaze, quickly followed by sever
al young men, who succeeded in
tearing off his clothing before he
was dangerously burned. “Hick”
is short some skin, and is hop
ping around and being congratu
lated that it was no worse.
Messrs Seward Hicks and Albert
Simpson had their hands burned
in putting out the fire that seri
ously threatened the young
man’s life.
Killed Woman and Put
Body on Railroad Track
Two negroes at Helena, Ga ,
John Franklin and a woman
called Annie, were on their way
to the “still” across Sugar creek
Saturday morning. John shot
Annie and placed her body on i
the .Seaboard Air Line track. The
“Sho Fly” train mangled the
body badly. The sheriff arrested
Franklin, who told how he com
mitted the crime.
Hotly Contested Case
in the Justice Court
On Tuesday Justices Stanford
and Mason, sitting en banc, had
a case before them that attracted
some interest. Mrs. Mina Mor
ris had taken out a peace
warrant for her husband, Char
lie Morris, charging him with
cruel treatment. Mrs. Morris
was represented by Col. L. C
Underwood and Mr. Morris by
Col. W. L. W ilson. Morris was
hound over for wife beating, and
the custody of their two children
will come before Judge Graham,
of the Superior Court, next week.
EXAMINATION FOR
POSTMASTER AT AILEY
Civil Service Commission
Names Saturday,
May 23d.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an
examination will be held at Ailey
on Saturday, May 23, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
postmaster. The office is classed
as fourth class, and the compen
sation of the postmaster was $6lB
for the last fiscal year. Age lim
it, 21 years and over on date of
examination, except that women
18 years of age may be admited '
Ito examination in states where
statute makes that full age for
women. The examination is op
en to all citizens of the United
States who can comply with the
requirements, but they must re
side within the territory supplied
by the Ailey post office. Appli
cation forms and full information
can be secured from postmaster
at Ailey or Civ. Serv. Commiss
ion, Washington. Applications
I should be properly executed and
i filed with the Commission at
! Washington at least 7 days before
j date of the examination.
The Lecture Here
Monday Night Next
As announced last week Rev.
A. W. Dealer, of Eastman, will
deliver his famous lecture, “The
Georgia Darky,” at theßrewton-
Parker Institute on Monday
night, May 4th.
Mr. Dealer’s reputation as a
lecturer is well known and a
crowded house will probably
greet him. You do not want to
miss this rare opportunity for
real entertainment. Admission
will be 25 cents for children and
35 cents for grown-ups. Just
keep the date in mind.
REV. A. W. BEALER.
Brand Huerta Drinks
Unless Huerta is the ultimate
consumer of large quantities of
liquor he has been very much
maligned and should be able to
collect damages that would make
the six cents Col. Roosevelt col
lected look very small indeed.
W. N. Dickinson, of New York,
who returned from Mexico City
a day or two ago, h«s this to say:
“Huerta does drink a great deal,
but nothing but the best of
brandy. No cocktails, no mixed
drinks, nothing but a special
cognac that today costs about S4O
gold a bottle.” Huerta seems
to have a very expensive thirst,
not one that can be satisfied with
a few foaming schooners of beer
or a long, choking drink of pro
hibition whisky. If it is his
brandy that makes him so spunky
there is reason for its makers to
charge S4O a bottle for it.—Sa
vannah News.
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