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VOL. XXIX.
SUPERIOR COURT
HAS BUSY WEEK
Has Run of Five Days and
Disposes of Many
Cases.
Montgomery Superior Court
had a run of five busy days last
week under the guiding hand of
Judge W. W. Larsen, presding
for Judge Graham. The court
came to an end about 11 o’clock
Saturday night, when the jury
in the May Dunn murder case
brought in a verdict of not guil
ty. The following cases were
disposed of:
Nellie Kelley vs W. H. Kelley,
divorce and alimony, dismissed at
plaintiff’s cost.
James McNatt vs Nancy Phil
lips Smith, plea of illegality dis
missed.
Swift & Co. vs P. Dixon, ver
dict and judgment for plaintiff.
Vidalia Marble Works vs W. L.
Anderson, verdict and judgment
for plaintiff.
Malsby & Co. vs J. L. and H.
J. Gibbs, verdict and judgment
for plaintiff.
Calvert Mortgage Co. vs Hen
ry A. Johnson, verdict and judg
ment for plaintiff.
Jas. McNatt vs Mrs. E. J. Mc-
Swain, appeal, dismissed.
D. M. Currie, tax collector, vs
J. E. Logan, constable, rule ab
solute.
First National Bank of San
dersville vs John J. McArthur,
verdict and judgment for pltf.
Lois Mabel Mabel Jackson vs
J. Pat Jackson, total divorce.
Haynes Hinson Shoe Co. vs
John J. McArthur, verdict and
judgment for plaintiff.
Baltimore Bargain House vs
Mrs. C. E. Boyd, verdict and
judgment for plaintiff.
A. B. Hutcheson vs T. W.
Roberson, verdict and judgment
for plaintiff.
James Mercantile Co. vs Mrs.
Leona Dernso, verdict and judg
ment for plaintiff.
A. B. Hutcheson vs R. W. Wil
lis, verdict and judgm. for pltf.
T. P. McKay vs G. L. Twiggs,
verdict and judgment for pltf.
Barrett & Co. vs J. L. & H. J.
Gibbs, verdict and judg for pltf.
State vs Cleveland Smith, plea
of guilty, sentence S4O or 4 mos.
Robt. E. Lee and John S. John
son, plea of guilty, $35 or 4 mos.
Reuben Collins, plea of guilty,
SSO or 8 months.
Sam Canty, plea of guilty, $35
or 6 months.
Cuyler Hines, verdict guilty,
S2OO or 12 months.
John Jones, verdict guilty, $125
or 12 months.
Jonas Roberson, plea of guilty
$35 or 5 months.
Chas. Morris, plea of guilty, SSO
or 8 months.
Lamar Holmes, plea of guilty,
SSO or 8 months.
W. A. Odom, plea of guilty,
$45 or 6 months.
Captain Adams, verdict guilty,
$75 or 6 months, paroled upon
payment of costs.
May Dunn, verdict not guilty.
Warden Wanted.
The Commissioners elect for
Montgomery County, will meet
with the present Board on the
First Tuesday in December, at
which time proposals will be re
ceived for the office of County
Warden, from those who can
qualify and fill the place accept
ably to the county and the state.
Parties applying for the place
must furnish prof of their ability
to handle state and county con
victs and build good roads.
Elijah Miller,
Carl C. McAllister,
J. L. Lowrey.
Nov. 9th. 1914.
Kibbee News.
i
Special Correspondence-
A large crowd attended church
services here Sunday last.
Mr. Johnnie Moxley and fami
ly have moved to Lothair.
Several from this vicinity at
tended the Toombs County Sing
ing Convention in Vidalia, and
they think Toombs county de
serves congratulations on its good
, singers.
Misses Pettie and Hattie Whit
field of Tarrytown visited their
sister, Mrs. W. H. Senn, Satur
day evening.
Regardless of the present con
ditions, the people are manifest
ing great interest in the school.
The enrollment is above fifty, and
l everything is working in har
mony. Regina.
FRAIiDLLENT LAND
CASES UP AGAIN
Clerk M. L. O’Brien And
Attorney Underwood
Go West.
j
On Tuesday night Clerk M. L. j
O’Brien and Col. L. C. Under-!
wood received a message from '<
the far West calling for them to
attend a trial at Vinita, Oklaho
ma, as witnesses in another casei
in which fraudulent land titles
figure. Funds were wired for :
their transportation and they left I
last night on the long trip. The
land in question is a part of the
imaginary Shorter Tract, which,
with others supposed to have
been granted in Montgomery
county in 1792, has cut a figure |
second only to the Yazoo Fraud, i
A party named Hamerick is be
ing prosecuted by the state of
Oklahoma for dealing in the old
titles, so well known over this;
section, but which continue as a ;
matter of barter and trade out j
West.
Proclamation Issued
For Thanksgiving Day.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 10.—“ Let
all Georgia give thanks on Thurs
day, November 26, for her ma
terial and spiritual benefits,”
urges Governor John M. Slaton
in his annual Thanksgiving Day
proclamation. “With wise laws
and sacred constitutional guaran
tee to protect them the people of
Georgia pursue their vocations
unhampered by limitations upon
their energies and conscious that
no power can deny ultimate suc
cess to those who put their trust
in everlasting principles.”
In his proclamation the gov
ernor refers to the horrors of the
war in Europe and stresses the
fact that Americans should give !
special thanks that this nation is'
at peace with all the world.
Hawkins Residence
Is Burned In Dublin.
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 10.—A two
story residence known as the
Hawkins residence owned by C. !
O. Sykes, and occupied by Mr. \
and Mrs. M. H. Crocker, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Claxton,
was destroyed by fire last night.
Mr. and Mrs. Crocker were in
Marshallville and Mrs. Claxton
was in Sandersville, Mr. Claxton
being the only occupant. When
he awoke the back of the house
was falling in, and he saved only
one trunk.
Rockledge Man Has
Accident With Car.
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 10.—Mr.
Keen of Rockledge with a party j
of friends returning from Macon I
last night, ran into an open cul
vert and demolished their car.
None of the occupants were seri
ously hurt.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER, 12, 1914.
Grand Jury Presentments
Nov. Superior Court.
State of Georgia— ?
Montgomery County. S We, the
Grand Jurors, chosen and sworn
to serve at the November Term
of Montgomery Superior Court,
beg leave to submit these Gener
al Presentments:
! The committee appointed by
! the last grand jury to examine
! the books of the county officers
have made their report, and we
attach same as a part of these
! presentments, marked “Exhibit
j A.”
Through a committee appointed
j from our body we have examined
the county farm, and attach their
; report, as “Exhibit B. ”
We attach the County Treasur
: er’s report as a part of these
presentments, marked “Exhibit
C.”
Tax Collector has made are
port of special taxes collected,
and same forms a part of these
i presentments, marked “Exhibit
j D. ”
I We examined the dockets of
| the various Justices and Notaries
; of the county, and find them cor
; rectly kept, except that the books
of the Notary and Ex-officio
Justice of the Peace of the 1668th
District, also the Notary of the
1654th District, and the Justice
of the Peace of the 275th Dis
trict, and of the Justice and No
tary of the Tiger District were j
not presented for examination as
required by law.
We recommend that the audit
being made at this time of the
County Commissioners’ office be j
published in full when finished !
for the benefit of oui citizens.
We call the attention of our!
County Commissioners to the;
1 condition of Mrs. Bessie Ander
:son, about one hundred years of
'age, living near Orland, and rec-1
jommend that Frank Smith be!
| paid the sum of $4.00 per month !
for her care.
We recommend that our Rep
resentative in the General As
sembly have a law passed chang
ing the sessions of our Superior
Court, to two terms of two weeks
each, spring and fall, as far more
convenient and less expensive
than the present plan of four
terms.
Under an Act of the last ses
sion of the General Assembly, !
creasing a County Board of
Health, we have elected Dr. J.
W. Palmer to serve with the
Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners and the County
Superintendent of Schools, to
constitute said Board of Health
as the law provides.
We find the roads and bridges
j of the upper portion of the coun
jty in good condition, but in the
! lower end not so good. We rec
ommend that they be put in good
condition as soon as possible.
We have examined the court
house and jail and find them in
good condition, except that the
dome of the court house needs 1
repainting. We recommend that
parties spitting on the floor and
desecrating the county court
house be punished, and that the
janitor be required to get evi
dence of such cases of indecency. I
We recommend that the Clerk
of this body be paid $5.00 for ex
tra services at this session.
We recommend that these pre
sentments be published in the
Montgomery Monitor, and that
the editor be paid SIO.OO for the
same.
We state in explanation that,'
figures we find attached to the!
book committee’s report, some
fifteen type-written pages, arej
simply a list of county expendi
tures from January 26th, 1914,
to Octoberßth, 1914, aggregating,
$30,526.09, and cannot show the
financial standing of our county, j
as stated in said report,(Exhibit
. A.) there being no mention of
, the total outstanding indebted
-1 ness of the county.
i To His Honor, Judge W. VV.
Larsen, we wish to express our
thanks for his able charge to our
1 body, and for our people to say
that we highly appreciate his vis
it to our county as presiding
judge, and to express the hope
that future years may only add
to his usefulness in the suppress
! ion of crime and in upholding
! the dignity and majesty of the
law.
; To our worthy Solicitor Gener
al, Hon. VV. A. Wooten, whose
duties at this term of court have
been more than arduous, we
wish to return our thanks for his
courtesy and the assistance ex
tended us.
VVe recommend that the jurors
and court bailiffs be paid $2.00
per day, and riding bailiffs s,‘}.oo
per day for their services in 1915.
J. B. O’Conner, D. W. Folsom,
Clerk. Foreman.
B. F. Conner A. E. Hooks
Grove Sharpe W. B. Connell
H. H. Adams J. B. Canady
R. N. Yeomans M. C. Thompson
W. H. Smith, Sr. R. A. Page
| J. M. McDonald C. W. Hamilton
!G. W. Coleman George Spivey
[J. W. Mclntyre E. G. Smith
jH. J. Wright J. D. Simons, Jr.
; W. L. Thigpen W. B. Smith
D. H. Phillips.
It is ordered by the Court that
! the within presentments be re
ceived and spread upon the min
utes of the Court, and that the
same be published as recommend
ed. In open Court, Nov. 7th,
j 1914. W. W. Larsen,
| JudgeS. C. D. J. C., Presiding.
i Geo. W. Peterson Dead.
On Monday night, at his home
near Higgs ton, Mr. George W.
Peterson passed away. In not
ing the earthly closing of his
life, how truly can we say that
one of nature’s noblemen has
passed to the reward that awaits
the faithful and the good. Surely
few men in this country sur
passed him in good deeds and
works of loving kindness. He
i was a true soldier when his coun
try called him, and every day
fought the battles of the Cross.
He seemed to live every moment
ready to do some act of kindness
to those around him, and has
passed to an “inheritance incor
ruptible and undefiled and that
fadeth not away.”
Os his brothers and sisters, on
ly one, Mr. A. M. N. Peterson,
survives. His death was due to
a general decline from old age,
covering several years. His re
mains were interred in the
Methodist church yard at Vida
lia, where sleep many of his
loved ones. He was a loyal
member of the Methodist church
and served through the war as a
gallant Confederate soldier.
Conductor And Motorman
Kill Each Other
Marietta, Ga., Nov. 10. —Wil 1
liam A. Lindsey, conductor, and
John Reynolds, motorman, both
of Marietta, are dead as a result
of a revolver battle in which they
engaged in the car barns herei
early today. The men, who had ;
been car mates for nine years,
had just ended their last trip
from Atlanta. The cause of the
shooting has not been ascertain- 1
ed, although the police were in
formed it was provoked by an
argument over the European
war. Five shots were fired.
Tango Combs and Pins for the
Hair will be found at J. H.
Hudson’s, Ailey. ad 1
Soperton, Ivl. 2.
Sucoial Correspondence.
Mr. W. H. Smith is very sick
1 at this writing.
Mrs. Lizzie Morris is rocover
' ing from an extended spell of
typhoid fever.
G. C. Davis of Coffee county
is visiting friends and relatives
in this section.
W. J. Higgs of Lothair was in
this neighborhood Monday.
The many friends of Wiley Da
vis will be pleased to learn of his
j recovery from fever.
L. Gillis visited Soperton Mon
i day.
James Branch is grinding cane
this week. New syrup galore.
Z.
FOOTBALL GAME
MONDAY NEXT
Brewton-Parker To Play
Mercer’s Second Team
In Vidalia.
The football team of the Brew
ton-Parker Institute has engaged
in a number of games this sea
son, and has developed some
thing of a reputation, even if it
has been defeated in some of the
engagements. The second game
with the Eleventh District Agri
cultural School at Douglas was
played on the 2d. The Douglas
team is considered very strong,
not having been defeated this
season. In the first game here
last month, and the recent game
in Douglas, our boys showed con
siderable strength as the game
progressed, and their opponents
admit that had the 8.-P. 1. boysi
Sampson ized more freely at the
opening of these games the re
sult may have been chalked up a
little differently. The last game
was a pleasant affair, free ft om
wrangling, and each team was
penalized a number of times for
being off side. The Douglas boys
claim equal weight with the home
boys.
On Monday afternoon, 3:30,
the 8.-P. I. boys meet Mercer’s
second team at Vidalia, and an
interesting game is looked for
ward to. It will doubtless be
largely attended from this sec
tion, and the Vidalia lovers of
this sport will contribute largely
to the attendance and enthusi
asm. Vidalia’s cheer’s are ex
pected for the Brewton-Parkers.
Admission, 50 cents; school chil
dren, 35 cents.
Comes Again That
Belled Buzzard.
Forsyth, Nov. 10. The mys
terious and far-famed belled buz
zard has passed this way again.
This fact is vouched for by W. j
C. Brown, of Culloden. He was
in his field, picking cotton, when
he saw a large buzzard flying
low, and he says that not only
was the tinkling unmistakable,
but he could also see the silver
bell around the buzzard’s neck.
Rich Johnson Dead.
The community of Higgston is
saddened by the death of one of
its most estimable colored citi
zens, Richard Johnson, who died
on the sth inst. of an illness of
several weeks duration, being;
about seventy years old.
Having made his home in
Montgomery county in the early
seventies, he was quite well
known by all of the older inhabi
tants. By his honesty, kindness',
and other noble traits of charac
ter, he has made many friends, ,
among the whites as well as his
own race, who regret very much
his passing. He is survived ly >
his wife and nine children. ji
PRIZES AWARDED
; CORN CLUB BOYS
Contributions by Citizens and
Banks Enliven the
Contest.
The winners in the Boys’ Corn
! Contest have been an
nounced, but on account of not
, 1 securing the final list of prizes at
j the time, they are given this
! week.
First prize is a short course
scholarship in the Georgia Col
! lege of Agriculture, January
term.
Second prize, 22-calibre rifle,
given by Soperton Hardware Co.
Third prize, $4.00 pair of shoes,
offered by Soperton Dry Goods
Store.
Fourth prize, $3.50 steel beam
plow, given by W. H. McQueen,
< Mt. Vernon.
Fifth prize, $3.50 pair of shoes,
given by A. Estrotf, Soperton.
Winners sixth to tenth will re
ceive each a copy of an agricul
tural work, offered by the Mt.
Vernon Drug Co.
Winners of thefirst, second and
third urizes will receive The
Montgomery Monitor one year,
six months and three months, as
additional prizes.
The cash prize of SIO.OO, by
the Bank of Soperton, and
$5.00, by the Mt. Vernon Bank,
1 appear to go in connection with
; the scholarship, to be determined
by those in authority. It is pos
sible that the Board of Educa
tion will contribute about $12.50
toward the scholarship, the price
of which is understood to be
$25.00. Should this be done,
there will be a balance of $2.50,
I which will doubtless be used to
buy membership or souvenir but
tons for the members of the club
whose yields warrant it.
As already announced, the win
ners of the first, second and
third prizes are Elton Moxley,
Soperton, Route 3; Rabun It.
Stewart, Mt. Vernon, Route 1;
Leon Canady, Soperton, Route 1.
Eighteen boys made exhibits
this fall, and their yields, con
sidering the unfavorable seasons,
were exceptionally good. Let
them make special effort next
next year. Possibly the prizes
will be of a more substantial
nature.
Cotton Session Plan
Dead in Alabama.
Montgomery, Nov. 10. All
j prospects for an extra session of
the Legislature to relieve the
cotton situation in Alabama were
dissipated by Governor O’Neal in
a statement in which he outlined
the views of 108 members-elect
]of the next Legislature relative
I to the enactment of laws dealing
! with the situation.
Only 27 advocated the calling
of a special session ty consider
the cotton problem.
Five Stores Burned
At Scott Saturday.
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 9.—Five
stores were burned at Scott Sat
urday night, incurring a loss of
$25,000 with SII,OOO insurance.
It. is thought the origin of the
i fire was incinderary, as one of
the stores, that of Mr. Purvis,
was found open and that the
; safe battered, apparently where
some one tried to force it open.
Texas Now Using
Cotton Currency.
Dallas, Texas, Nov.—7. —Use
of the new so-called cotton cur
rency, namely, warehouse re
ceipts for cotton, was demon
strated here yesterday.
Local banks loaned $21,000 on
such receipts for 700 bales,, the
rate being S3O per bale.
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