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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.
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