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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1914)
j®Umtoom?rg JMpttttor. VOL. XXIX. BREWTONPARKER INSTITUTE OPENING Attendance Compares Well With Last Year And Pleasing. We are glad to note that the opening of the Brewton-Parker Institute on Tuesday was gratify ing to the faculty and friends of the school. It was feared that the war would operate in cutting down the attendance, but the first day brought a crowd that put all fears to flight. Now is the time of all times for the friends of the big school to lend a helping hand, and see that the patronage shall not fall off. That the facilities offered for the best of training will not be decreased, war or no war, goes without saying. We welcome the bright boys and girls who have returned for this term, as well as many who have come for the first time to drink at this fountain of knowledge. Linton Stephens Now Rests Beside Brother. Crawfordville, Sept. s.—The body of Judge Linton Stephens, buried at Sparta 42 years ago, to day rests in a new-made grave in the lot of Liberty Hall here be side the tomb of his brother, Alex 11. Stephens. Appropriate reinterment cere monies were conducted, with Judge M. Z. Andrew's, Ordinary of Taliaferro County, presiding. The principal address was by Judge Nat E. Harris, nominee for Governor, who read law un der Judge Linton Stephens and taught Judge Stephens’ children at Sparta. President Wilson Buys Bale Georgia Cotton. Washington, Sept. 8. — Presi dent Wilson today joined the “buy-a-bale-of-cotton” club by ordering from the head of the or ganization in Georgia SSO worth of cotton. Senator Hoke Smith told him that people throughout the south w'ere joining the move ment to take up the cotton crop left over by the European war. Senator Smith also told the presi dent that next year the cotton crop would be cut in half and that wheat and other products would be substituted. Would Take Chances. The prisoner had been called to the bar and had informed the judge that owing to lack of funds he was not represented by coun sel, relates the Kansas City Star. “In that case,’’ said the judge, “the state will provide a counsel for you. Sitting over there on the first bench are Mr. Smith, Mr. Tompkins and Mr. White, and there is another lawyer out in the hall. Whom do you want to represent you?’’ The prisoner looked the three lawyers over very carefully and turning to the judge said: “If it is all the same to you, your honor, I think I’ll take a chance on the fellow in the hall. ’’ Smut in Corn. Mr. Oscar Byrd, on the farm of Mr. Neal Hughes, sends us a freak in the way of an ear on a corn stalk, which is entirely turned into smut instead of grain. This fungous grow'th is quite common this year, and may be seen in many fields of corn. This fungus is probably the same as a corresponding growth of smut in wheat or oats. The season this year, changing from a long and parching drouth to normal con ditions, pronably contributed to the increased occurrence of this unnatural growth. ) Mt. Vernon Methodists. The pastor of the Methodist church will fill his regular ap pointment here on next Sunday morning and evening. The mes sages to be delivered on next Sab bath will be of special interest to each and every member of the church, and a full attendance is desired. The regular monthly church conference will be held on Mon day evening of next week instead of Thursday evening, as here tofore. This will be the last church conference before the the Fourth Quarterly Conference for the Charge is held, and a full report from every department of church work will be called for, land expected. Southern Troops To Guard Panama. Washington, Sept. 7.—Three companies of coast artillery—one each from Charleston, Savannah and Fort Dupont—have been orderen to Panama for duty at j the canal fortifications. General Weaver, Chief of the 1 Coast Artillery, says that the War Department will ultimately station twelve companies of ar tillery in the canal zone. Some Farm Facts. The need of the rural commu nities today is intelligent and consecrated leadership. The farm is the power house of all progress and the birthplace of I all that is noble. The farm is the nursery of civilization and the parsonage.of ! all religious denominations. The farmer asks no special | privileges. The business of farm ing only wants the same oppor tunities afforded other lines of industry. It is as much the duty of the country pastor to exhort us to own a home while on earth as it ’is to inspire us to build a mansion ! in the skies. The rural press, the pulpit and the school arc a trinity of power ful influences that the farmer j must utilize to their fullest ca pacity before he can occupy a commanding position in public affairs. — Peter Radford, Lectur er Farmers’ Union. Mr. W. H. Moxley For Commissioner. Citizens of the Orl'and, Soper ton and Tarrytown districts an nounce the name of Mr. W. H. Moxley in this paper for county commissioner for that section of i the county as districted by the ; new law scon to become opera tive. Mr. Moxley is chairman of ithe present board, and is thor loughly conversant with the as ! fairs of Montgomery county. We refer to the card in another col umn signed by representative | citizens. Three Fires at Claxton. Claxton, Ga., Sept. 8. —N. A. Thaggard lost several bales of cotton by fire yesterday. A few hours iater fire broke out in B. B. Dorsey’s store, which was damaged several thousand dol lars. This afternoon the cotton gin belonging to It. K. White was completely destroyed. Citation. (Jeorgia— Montgomery County. To all whow it may concern: Notice is hereby given that J F. | Collins has m proper form I applied, to the undersigned foi I :etters of administration on tin j estate of Surah E. Collins, late ot ! -laid county, deceased ; and said | ipplication will lie heard at my j office on liie first Monday in Oct., 1914. This tfie 7th day of Sept., 1914. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER, 10,' 1914. The Chance For American Farmer. For the American farmer there was never such an opportunity. Every available acre of wheat lands should be sown this fall. There is every indication that wheat prices will be higher in the next two years than at any time since the Civil war. We have not. as yet, felt the force of the real demand that must come from Europe. The capture of grain-carrying vessels by the al lies and the stored-up stocks of food have put off the evil days of hunger for the time. The sud den rise of wheat was merely an ticipatory of later conditions, but it will be noted that this rise is holding. Dollar and $1.25 wheat are mere indications of what the prices must be if the war is pro longed for as much as sixty days. To gain an idea of what warfare does to wheat prices we must go back to the sixties. In 1858, three years before the firing on Fort Sumter, the range was be | tween 55 cents and $1.25. In i 18(51 the range was between (58 cents and $1.45. In 1864 the es- I sects were beginning to be felt and the prices shifted from $1.28 to $2.40. No wheat sold for less than $2 in 1866 and the highest was $3.50, while in 1867 it rose to s3.Bs.—St. Louis Republic. Brown of Grovania Kills Negro Who Shot Him. Perry, Ga., Sept? 3. Robert H. Brown, of Grovania, formerly of Macon, is seriously and per haps fatally wounded, having been shot by Herbert Stewart, a negro, whom he afterward shot and killed. Brown had a difficulty with a negro named Tom Green about some cotton, when the Stewat t negro, with a double-barreled shotgun, interfered, shooting Brown in a leg and in the side. Brown, as a he fell, killed the negro. Sacred Singing. Far down in the country where j grand opera methods have not yet been applied to church sing- 1 ing a blessed old minister arose i and announced the number of the | hymn he desired the congrega tion to sing, says the Popular- Magazine. He followed the old custom of “lining out” the hymn, i That is, he would read a line in a loud voice and then the congee- 1 gation would sing it. The first line was as follows: “We praise Thee, O God, for Thy power ten thousand strong.” | The congregation tried the line; and was on such a high key that when “ten thousand strong” was reached everybody was up in a; screech. “I’m afraid that’s too high,” said the benevolent old man, i “too high on the ‘ten thousand strong.’ ” His difficulty was solved by an jold fellow who stood up far back in the church and exclaimed in a nasal voice: “All right, then; bring it down ; to one thousand.” Feelingly Spoken. In these days of the high cost of living the following story is not without a decided point, says the Woman’s Home Companion. The teacher of a primary class was trying to show the children the difference between natural and man-made wonders, arid was finding it hard. “What,” she asked, “do you j think is the most wonderful thing 1 a man ever made?” A little girl whose parents were obviously harassed by the ques tion of ways and means, replied as solemnly as the proverbial judge: “A living for his family.” 'This is No Time for Political Charlatans. | think they are going to make political capital for themselves 'by introducing resolutions de signed to embarrass the adminis tration in its conduct of the for jeign relations of this country they are very much mistaken. I Senator Gallinger is the latest ; offender. He would have Con gress adopt resolutions that in I effect would question the good faith of Japan’s assurances to ; the United States with regard to China and the Pacific. I The American people are in no | mood to permit politicians to tri fle with the delicate international ! relations of this country in this | great crisis. What Japan has ! declared her intention of doing is I wholly within her rights. We | may not agree with Japan’s con tention that Germany’s China leasehold is a menace to the peace of the Far East, but she has done nothing and contemplates | nothing, that jeopardizes any | American interest. If there is one thing upon which the people of the United ! States are determined it is that | this country shall not he drawn ! into war or into serious compli cations with any nation. They will make short shrift of politi icians who do anything to embar rass the administration in carry ing out a policy of neutrality and peace.—New York Herald. (In dependent.) Nebraskan May Be Oldest Man Living. Omaha, Sept. 6.—Thomas Mor ris of Waterville, Neb., has lived | through the terms of every Pres ident of the United States arid most of the big historic events of the last 120 years, and is vigor ous today on a Nebraska farm. In six months he will be 121 years old, and is believed to be j the oldest white man in the Uni ted States, and in all probability | the oldest in the world. He has lived in three centuries. He was three years old when i Washington’s term as President closed. This connects him with the administration of every Pres iident of the United States. Common People Must Bear Burdens of War. i Washington, D, C., Sept. 4. — i “When this fearful coflict is ov jer,” Senaror Burton predicted in the senate yesterday referring ;to the European war, “we may j safely anticipate that the com mon people, who must bear the burdens of this strife, will have I the decision as to whether nation: 1 shall go to war. ” In attributing the conflict, to , militarism which would result in “consequences beyond conjee jture,” Mr. Burton placed the re ; sponsibility upon the “overwean ; ing ambition of .certain sovereigns not yet come to realize that they i are not the state. ” The senator was attacking the I river and harbor bill carrying l $53,000,000, which he character ! ized as the climax of waste and injudicious expc nditure. He said he found no encouraging pros pects for the United States in the war. While some forms of i agriculture and manufacturing might temporarily be stimulated, Ihe predicted “general confusion and demoralization in the opera tion of trade.” U'ir County Commihhioiihi*. I hereby announce myself a randidaV for i County Commit loner for the I >inf ri«t composed lof Mt. Vernon and Lothair Militia Districts, un der the fe w law creating a lx*ard of three commis j sinners for Montgomery County. Ve;ii y, of expe rience as a Commission*.!* in this conhty warrant, rne in sayim? that 1 know the need* and condition iff Montgomery County, and I respectfully a-k ; the support of ail good citizens. Yours respectfully, ELIJAH MILLER. Great P'arm Products Os Great California. Alfalfa raising has become a wondsrfully profitable industry within the past few years; yet so large is California and so va ried its crops that it may be class ed merely as a by product. I The gigantic scale on which everything is produced in that state is indicated by the shipment out of Fresno recently of sixty carloads of raisins—the largest shipment ever made anywhere. There were 3,000,000 packages, and distribution will be made of I them all over the East. For sev eral years Fresno has been hold ing an annual raisin day a local celebration, preceded and fol lowed by the mailing of raisins and raisin "literature” all over the United States. California shipped 120,000 car loads of produce of forest and ! soil East last year. It looks as though the record will be consid erably exceeded this year. AiM’i.ieation Foil Tm.ic. Montgomery Court, ol Ordinary, September Term, 1914. The petiiion of Mrs A 15. I)a --j vis showing unto the Court that | Ambrose Simpson, late of said county, in life, signed a bond re ; ferret! to in said petition for a title to two certain tracts or par eels of land described in said limit! (of which bond the said Mrs A 15. I». iv i k is the transferee.) | which land has been fully paid for, and that, she wishes an order I to make tit les under said hontl by |M Ij O’Brien, administrator on i the estate of Ambrose Simpson: It is ordered by the court that- j notice of the application of Mrs A 15. Davis he given to the said M. Ij O’Brien, administrator up on the estate of the said Ambrose Simpson, bv' serving copy of this I order and the petition to w hich lit is attached on him fifteen days j before the next term of this court, and that notice he given to the heirs of the deceased, to wit: Mrs. i A. B Davis, K. B. Simpson, Rob- 1 ert, Simpson. Alberta Simpson, | Mrs (itiv Morns, Mrs 11. A Manning, Walter Wright., Wil hired Wright, Wayne Wright and Ma ndio Wright, by political ion of j Ibis order in the gazette publish ing the legal adverjiseinents of 1 the county, once a week for four weeks, before the next, term of this court, so that they, or either of them, may show cause, if miv they can, whv this court should not order said adupuistrator to iliake t itle to tlie lands described in the petition to which the order is attached under the said bond. Ai.KX Me A KTII UK. .Ordinary of Montgt mery Co., Ga For County Commissioner. We the undersigned voter« and tax payers of I,he Milifia District* of Orland, Koperton and Tar rytown announce W. 11. MOXLEY a candidate for this Dialrict, and heartily recommend hirn to tin- voters of Maid diHtrict to be elected County 'ommissioncr. W M. I’hillips, A. I*. Mixon.fi. W. Smith, A. E. Hook: , Willie Gay, < ’. A. B»*a:dey, G. A. Sammons, It. A. Dukes, H. J Reynolds, D. E. Warnock, M. K Davis, ('. T. Thigpen, J. I*. Davis, M. H. Davis, K A Davis, E. G. Gillis, A. T. Moxley. W. E. Ev i Jins, (YohL Williams, A. R. Evans, W. T. Mef'rirn ! mon, A D IMillen, ./. N. Evans. W. L. Calhoun. | Worth Advertising. It. is a good sign of a town’s prosperity when there are no “For Rent” signs to be seen, provided new buildings are going up. The demand for dwellings in Quitman is so great that no houses are vacant, and a plan is •on foot to build a number of new ones. Quitman, being the cap ital of Brooks county, is naturally .growing very rapidly. It is get i ting some of the benefit of the ! excellent advertising that county has been getting all over the | •country in the last few years. It; pays to advertise, especially when there is something worth adver tising. Brooks county has some thing that is worth telling the ! world about. Savannah News. «_ Leverett’sStudio, Vidalia, sup-' plies the best in photographs, por traits and view work. ad Tango Combs and Bins for the Hair will be found at J. H. Hudson’s, Ailey. ad | CALL CAMPAIGN FOR “HOG AND HOMINY” State Agricultural Society Urges Raising Meat and Bread. Albany, Ga., Sept. 4. — At the recent.convention of the Georgia State Agricultural Society held in this city, the following resolu tions were offered by Judge John A. Cobb, general vice president, | and were unanimously adopted: “Resolved, That the length of the war in Europe and its result ing influences upon conditions in this country have proved so de- I pressing in so many respects, therefore we call upon the farm -1 ers of Georgia to exercise the strictest economy possible in their expenses of every charac ter, and to proceed at once for a self-supporting condition by planting fall crops of every kind both garden and field—raising hogs, cattle and sheep and run a successful campaign of ‘hog and ' hominy.’ “Resolved, That in pitching I their crops for 1914 they should let food supplies be their main crop and make cotton what it properly should be, a surplus crop. “We have seen darker and more depressing days that we are now passing through, but what prevented serious suffering was that our smoke houses and cribs were full. A determination on the part of our people to act in concert for what is the benefit of all —be cheerful and encourage each other, and we will find that things are not as discouraging as they might be. Be cheerful and you will be happy.’’ No Impeachment Os Judge Speer. Washington, D. C., Sept. 4. — The House Judiciary Committee today without a record vote adopted the recommendation of a subcommittee that impeach ment proceedings against Judge Emory Speer be dropped. Two or three members of the committee, however, protested against dropping the case, main taining that the judge ought to be impeached. Representative Webb, chair man of the committee and chair man of the subcommittee, point led out that the evidence probably is not sufficient to sustain im peachment proceeeings. The committee was in session only a short time, the meeting be ing executive. Chairman Webb will report the committee's action to the House as soon as he gets an opportunitp. No fight on the floor for impeachment is expect ed. j The bill creating an additional judge in the Southern Georgia district remains on the unani mous consent calendar of the House to be called up as soon as it can be reached. It will prob ably be reached at this session. Mr. Webb is making every effort to smooth the way for its pas sage. No member of the Judici ary Committee will object to its consideration and it is believed that Representative Mann will be induced by the time the bill comes up to keep hands off. White Man Beheaded In Fight With Negro. Macon, Ga., Sept. 6.—Thomas Morrissey, 52 years old, was be headed by Frank Johnson, a ne gro, on J. T. Long’s plantation at Tamworth, near here today. The negro says that Morrissey fired at him, that he disarmed Morrissey, knocked him uncon scious with the gun and then sev ered Morrissey’s head from the body with an ax. The negro gave himself up to Long and was placed in the coun ty jail. NO. 22
