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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| 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,
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