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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1914)
VOL. XXIX. FARMERS TO MEET AGAIN SATURDAY Important To Them That Acreage Reduction Is Secured. Owing to the pressure of other business at court, the farmers’ meeting for further organization on cotton acreage reduction was postponed until Saturday, Nov. 21st. A good start was made and several lists were brought in of pledges signed under the Lee County Plan. It is all important that the farmers enter into a compact to plant no more than ten acres in cotton to the plow. The Lee County Plan is to secure at least three-fourths of the far mers to agree to the reduction and sign the pledge. Remember this is no poltical scheme, but simply a movement to better your condition. The warehouses of the towns, and in many places the streets and va cant lots, are full to overflowing with bales of cotton. Never be fore was there such a state of af fairs. Any man with common sense knows that this cotton car ried over to another season will reduce the price if even a half crop is produced in 1915. Come out Saturday to the meet ing in Mt. Vernon, and put in a few hours in your own interest. Beasts Still Roam St. Simons Island. Brunswick, Nov. 16.—1 t is evi dent that the bear population of St. Simons Island is not extinct, for a quadruped weighing 423 pounds has been killed near Frederica, one of the oldest towns on the Atlantic Coast, by L. Tay lor. The bear had devoured several of Taylor’s fine hogs. Drag River for Man Missing at Waycross. Waycross, Nov. 16.—0 n the supposition that E. 0. Walker, mysteriously missing since Fri day night, was killed and robbed and his body thrown in the Sa tilla river to hide the crime, searchers today are dragging the river east of Waycross. Walker’s wife is in a critical condition. Too Full For Utterance. Mattie was recently employed by a Boston matron, says Lippin cott’s Magazine. As might be expected, she has many admirers —so many, her mistress asserts, that the kitchen is seldom with oit some male aspirant for her hand. On one occasion the mistress of the house, who, though she thoroughly disapproves of her cook’s extensive calling list, hes itates to make too strong objec tions, lest she thereby lose the valuable girl’s services, referred to the advent of a new admirer. “Why is it, Mattie, that your latest caller keeps such a deathly silence with you when he calls?” The girl grinned broadly. “Oh, ma’am,” said she, “as yet the poor fellow is that bash ful he does nothin’ but ate!” Walks Fifteen Miles On His 90th Birthday. Binghamton, N. Y., Nov. 17. — Declaring that his long life and good health were the result of long strolls, W. W. Hemingway, 90, celebrated his birthday by walking 15 miles before break fast. Hemingway said he helped bury two doctors, who, 14 years ago, told him he had but a short time to live. ©jp Ulomtur. Butts County Farmers Pull For Better Times. Jackson, Ga., Nov. 14.—Where there was one acre planted in I wheat and oats a year ago there is now twenty acres in Butts county. The farmers here have entered into the hog and hominy program with vim and determina tion. Such a large acreage has been sown in wheat in this coun ty that there is agitation for a roller mill to be erected in Butts county and it is declared that the enterprise will be in operation in time for next year’s crop. There is no disputing the fact that the farmers of Butts county are pre paring to live “at home” during e'ne coming year. Coincident jv. th the planting of large grain crops is the movement for more and better live stock, a car load of Percheron mares and blooded beef and dairy cattle having re cently been bought by Butts county farmers. Oyster Supper at The Court House Tonight. j The young ladies of the Mount Vernon Epworth League will give an oyster supper at the court house tonight (Thursday). The proceeds of the entertain ment will be used by the League for a worthy cause. The public is invited. At the court house tonight. From San Francisco To Havana, Cuba. Tom B. Turner, who is walking from San Fracisco to Havana, via Savannah, was here over Sunday night on his way from Savannah to Florida. Turner started on his long tramp May 1, and has until Feb. 1 to make the trip. PASTOR EWING GOES TO ANNUAL CONFERENCE Has Had Successful Year and Will Make a Good Report. Rev. H. C. Ewing of the Mt. Vernon Circuit leaves Sunday evening for Dawson, where he will attend the annual session of the South Georgia Conference, which will be in session at that place next week. His report, it is understood, will be very good. Ailey has i paid up its assessments in full, ] and Glenwood has practically paid out. In Mt. Vernon there is a balance due, but this will probably be cancelled this week, in order that the pastor may be able to make a more creditable report. Business in all lines has suffered as a result of the Eu ropean war, but, generally speak ing, this is no reason why the church and its ministers should be made to go unpaid. Minis ters cannot be expected to earn their living by the sweat of their brows, and should be paid for heir services as spiritual leaders. L is not customary for the Mt. Vernon Church to let her minis ters go to Conference unpaid. Hunter’s Gruesome Find. Athens, Ga., Nov. 15.—Henry W. Jarrell, while out hunting near Frederick last Fri day, made a gruesome and ghastly find. Under a boulder which had been casually upturned the mouldering skeleton of a man was discovered. The bones had been placed in an excavation un der the big rock and earth pulled up over it. It had been in its unnatural grave evidently for twenty years or more. About that long ago, John Nash myste riously disappeared from Lexing ton and was never heard of, and the theory has been advanced that this skeleton is the sequel to | that disappearance. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER, 19, 1914. Two Necessary Factors For Better Education. [The following communications, of timely interest to parents and patrons, were sent in by two young ladies, both public school teachers of this county. Let parents read.] THE GOOD PARENTS. Do you bear the name in the highest sense of the word, or do you bear it merely because of physical relation? Are you inter ested in your children? If so, how do you manifest this inter est? The qualities of good parents may be summed up as follows: 1. In personality they show qualities of womanly women or manly men. In dress they are always tasty and tidy and have children kept the same way. They never chew gum in public nor allow children to do so. They are never loud on the streets nor allow children to be. They have a high regard for truth and im part a like quality to their chil dren. In fact, they are clean mentally, morally and physically. 2. In power they are not lim ited, for there is always work to be done. They have the power to decrease the the tardy and absent marks, to lessen the number of cases of discipline, to make the school room as attractive as they would have the child’s home to be, to place in the school room all equipments and apparatus necessyry to the child's learning process, to have and to hold good teachers and good school officers, to withold nothing from the child that is for his betterment. 3. They should regard parent hood in a very high sense. They are always loyal to their home aud to their children. They keep their children interested in their school work, sign report cards with interest and approval, and keep the teacher encouraged so that she may in turn keep the child encouraged. (It is a very saint-like man or woman who feels like helping your child to better living for only 25, 30, or even 100 per month, with no sign of appreciation on your part). Good parents visit the school and have teacher visit the home, so that they may better understand how to work for the child’s in terest. They have a high regard for truth, law and order, and children of such parents seldom ever need any diciplining in school. 4. In scholarship good parents are broad —read widely so as to place best literature in child’s reach. They need not be gradu ates of some college, but broad mindek men and women who are ready to learn when an opportu nity presents itself. 5. Good parents are always good friends to people, and es pecially true to the teacher. Thep tell the teacher what they think of her and her work, and find that she appreciates having her mistakes told her quite as much as she appreciates words of praise. Good parents are al ways good friends of education, and use their efforts to eradicate child servitude. Wake up, kind mothers and fathers, and see how far short you fall of being a good parent. Mr. T. B. Hicks Shoots Negro. News was received here yes terday that Mr. T. B. Hicks had shot a farm hand on his planta tion at Thomas Cross Roads. From what we can gather it seems the negro had struck Mr. Hicks on the head with an ear of corn and was advancing on him with an open pocket knife when, he, in order to protect himself, fired. Dr. W. C. Thompson respond ed to a call and reports the negro in a dangerous condition. — Lau rens Citizen. THE GOOD TEACHER. In personality, she impresses grown-ups and children alike as pleasing and sincere; likewise, her strength of character, leader ship, common sense, and inspira tional force, are felt by all; her breadth of vision and sympathy of views tend to remove barriers and to establish her ideas; an un mistakble interest in the pupils and in the community, is mani fested by her. She has a healthy, well cared for body; she is neat and scrupulously clean, refined if not fashionable. An irre proachable character, founded on Christian principles, is one of her strongest assets for permanently effective work. As a teacher, she knows how to impart; she has an imagina tion which enables her to put herself in the child’s place. With the child, she discovers principles, develops rules, and applies them in drill work. Wherever and whenever possible, teaching is done correctly and made practicable. Truths learn ed are objectified in handwork, and therefore never forgotten. Teaching is a profession to a good teacher; one in which, as in medicine, better and more accu rite and scientific knowledge, is continually being discovered and distributed. With this she keeps in touch by reading professional books and magazines and by at tendance on teachers’ meetings. She has the teacher spirit and stands for better schools in her community. Like other success ful business people, she pushes her cause and accepts the criti cism, using it for her own good. Her so-called “discipline” is not made secondary, but is af fected largely by arousing the children’s interest in school and by appreciating their point of view and sense of justice. Her optimism, love of fun, and sense of humor, win the boys and girls. When, on account of perverted training, these things fail, she considers the ultimate good of the child and of the school, takes a firm stand for right as she sees it, and carries her point, depend ing on her own resources and not on a superintendent, and acting in co-operation with the parents. Other qualifications for good teaching given, discipline is made easy. The scholarship of the good teacher is not bound by the adopted texts, nor by the corric ulum of the school she attended. General reading and continued study on lives related to school work, have given her a working knowledge of many subjects, and an appreciation of culture that her pupils imbibe and emulate. The influence of her genuine scholarship is perpetuated. No price is high enough if money were her only remuneration. Shot To Death While Stopping Dog Fight. Douglasville, Ga., Nov. 14. Herman Huey, a 19-year-old boy, was killed here this morning when his gun was accidentally discharged. Young Huey was out hunting, and when his dogs began fight ing he attempted to separate them, causing his gun to be ex ploded and the whole load going into his body, causing instant death. He was the son of J. E. Huey, a rural mail carrier out of this office, and the family is well known in this section of the state. Supreme Court Denies Frank A New Hearing. Atlanta, Nov. 14. -The state supreme court today refused a new trial to Leo M. Frank, con victed here Aug. 25, 1913, for the murder of Mary Phagan. Frank’s motion for a rehearing was based on the ground that his constitutional rights had been violated by reason of his absence from the court room when the jury returned its verdict. By sustaining the state’s de murrer to the Frank motion to set aside the verdict of the lower court, the supreme court’s ruling means that Frank’s only appeal now is to the supreme court of the United States. In their arguments counsel for the accused alleged that while the jury was deliberating “the air about the court room was sur charged with mob violence,” and that the trial judge had suggest ed Frank be absent when the ver dict was rendered. The state ar gued that the prisoner’s attor neys assented to his absence. Frank’s attorneys announced today that they would immedi ately appeal to the United States supreme court. Another Brunswick Greek Slain bv Negro. Brunswick, Nov. 16. For the; second time within three months a Greek merchant here has been killed. Sunday morning Nick Papadimos met his death at the hands of a negro, who was try ing to rob him. One night in August James I tonkas was stab bed to death and robbed. Two weeks ago Pete Calases, another Greek merchant, was shot at by a negro, whose mo tives evidently were robbery. FIRE AT ALSTON BURNS THREE STORES General Merchandise, Stocks of Hardware and Im plements Lost. On Wednesday night of last week, Alston had a destructive blaze in which three buildings were burned with their contents, and other buildings were dam aged. The store and general stock of merchandise of J. E. Braswell were consumed, and the store and stock of hardware of M. W. Bland. Mr. Bland had his resi dence above the store and lost all his furniture and household goods. A building adjoining, in which Mr. I). S. Williamson had a stock of farm implements, also went up in smoke. Part of the loss was covered by insurance, but amount is not known. It is probablethatthe.se wooden structures will be re placed with brick buildings, as Alston is a growing and progres sive town. Fire Destroys Barn And Entire Contents. Fort Valley, Nov. 14. The barn of Dave Avera, near Fort Valley, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, fiye horses and mules being destroyed as well as the feedstuff harvested this year. Mr. Avera had only #SOO in surance and the loss amounts to about #1,500. The origin of the fire is unknown. “Coon” Was a Wildcat. Knoxville, Nov. 17. Leftalone to guard what was thought to be a coon up a tree, but which prov ed-to be a wildcat, whiie two companions went for an ax, Luke Smith, of White Oak Mountain, near Jellico, was attacked and seriously wounded about the face and arms. ICOMMISSIONRES UNDER NEW LAW Members Draw for Terms and Arranf e for their Work. ' Considerable interest attached to the election of county commis sioners for this county. One day last week Clerk of Court M. L. lO’Brienheld the “drawing,” as ; provided for in the bill enacted | this smmer. Mr. C. C. McAllister, Jr., was elected from the First District, and drew the six-year term, ex piring January 1. 1921. I Mr. E. Miller of the Second District drew the two-year term, { expiring January 1, 1917. j Mr. J. L. Lowrey of the Third District drew the four-year term, , expiring January 1, 1919. ; The new commissioners assume their duties January Ist, 1915, and will give bond in the sum of j SI,OOO each. Their salary will be SIOO per year, and under the new act will not be paid for more than two days extra time at $3 per day. The clerk of the body will re ] ceive $25.00 per month. He may ; be a member of the body or not, as the commissioners may deter mine. The county attorney will be paid $l5O a year. 1 Another provision of the new act requires the publication of quarterly statements, in which will be shown the receipts and disbursements of county funds passing through the commision ers’ office. No detailed state ! ment has ever been given the public from this office, and the public, through the grand jury, has demanded it for years. If the people are allowed to know the real status of the county’s finances a more general satisfac tion with the administration will be the result. ; The new bill makes it incum bent on the new officials to ro tate the road working so that all ! sections of the county will be I benefited, as far as possible. i Congestion of Cotton In Jackson Warehouses Jackson, Ga., Nov. 14. Never j before at one time was there such a vast quantity of cotton stored in Jackson. All the warehouses having been filled to overflowing, cotton is being piled in the streets , arid put on vacant lots. It is stated that less than 1,500 bales cotton have been shipped away from here this season, as com pared with several thousand last year up to the same time. So great has become the congestion of cotton that the warehouse men are at a loss to know what to do with the cotton now being brought in. Boy Buries Himself Under Cotton Seed. | | Eastman, Ga., Nov. ls». —Sam- my Lee Wilcox, son of Clark Wii cox, a prosperous farmer living twelve miles from Eastman, was smothered to death Sunday after noon while playing in some cot ton seed. The little fellow buried himself in the cotton seed and couldn’t get out. He was found dead later. He was six years 'old. 2 Hunters Shoot at Same Covey; 1 Dead. Spartanburg, S. C., Nov. 17. The first fatality of the hunting season, which opened yesterday, | was reported from this county today. William Mos 3 and Mon roe Gillard shot at the same covey of birds at Pacolet. I Moss was only a few feet from Gillard and in range of the lat ter’s gun. His head was almost blown off, NO. 3 2
