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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1915)
monitor. VOL. XXIX. FILE CHARGES AGINST FERRELL Montgomery County Conyict Warden to Answer Commission. Atlanta, Jan. 18.—Charges al leging inhumane and cruel treat ment of an unnamed negro con vict were filed today with the state prison commission against C. F. Ferrel, convict warden for Montgomery county. The charges were filed by At torney Saffold & Adams, repre senting ten or fifteen Montgom ery county citizens whose names were signed to them. The com mission is asked to set a date for a hearing on the charges. The petition alleges that on January 10, 1914, B. L. Gillis, a citizen, returned to Warden Fer rel a negro convict who had es caped from the chaingang, and that Ferrel cursed and unmerci fully beat the convict, setting the dogs on him and threatened to kill him. According to the pe tition the negro was badly wounded by the dogs and the beating. He was unable to work for several days. Two Drowned When Mule Backs Into Creek. Clinton, N. C., Jan. 19.—The bodies of Mrs. Emerson Davis and little nephew, Willie Hope, were recovered from Six Runs creek, 2 miles from here. A mule backed a buggy, con taining four people, from a bridge over the creek. A little daughter of Mrs. Davis rescued her sister, Mrs. Mary Hope, by fishing her from the stream with a pole, af ter floating to the bank and climbing out. Card of Appreciation. We take pleasure to thank our friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted during the illness of our son, Isaac Malcom. Also Drs. Palmer of Ailey and M. L. Currie of Vidalia for their faith ful attendance. And Miss Nettie Morris of Savannah for her skill apd management. We pray that God’s richest blessings may rest on each and every one. We as sure them their kindness will ev er be remembered. Respctfully, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morris, Ailey, Ga., Jan. 19, 1915. (Better Able Than § Ever! 1 Our facilities for banking service during the new year cannot be excelled. A close investigation w invited. Ample means, and the ® I best service to the public. j| vwwvvvvv THE CITIZENS BANK f OF ALSTON, GA. D. S. WILLIAMSON E. S. MARTIN JOE W. SHARPE President Cashier Vice-Pres. 6|£ DIRECTORS: T. A. Clifton Dr. J. H. Dees A. T. Johnson >1 John Jay McArthur W. T. Mcßride F. B. Mcßride £i> J. S. Sharpe Joe W. Sharpe D. S. Williamson Prayer Meeting Tonight. The regular weekly prayer ser vice will be held at the Methodist church this evening at the usual hour. You are coedilalv invited to come and bring your friends. Wheat Highest in 50 Years in England. London, Jan. 18. —An increase of 70 per cent, in the price of wheat as compared with a year ago and similar advances in oth er food stuffs are giving rise to a demand for state control of food supplies. The General Federa tion of Trades Unions intends to urge the government to take steps to prevent speculation in food products. Wheat is now higher than at any time in fifty years. Twelve Tons of Beans. One afternoon the past week the editor of the Herald went out to the farm of Mr. P. W. Smith, and while there was shown twelve tons of Chinese beans grown by him the past season. We don’t mean twelve tons of bean hay, but twelve tons of beans in the pod. Five years ago a man from the United States brought five of these beans from China and pre sented to the Secretary of Agri i culture, who sent one bean to i each five southern states for experimental purposes, and Mr. Smith’s beans are descended ! from the original bean sent to | Florida. The beans are as large (as lima beans, are soft and more easily eaten by cattle than the |ordinary velvet bean. —DeFuniak (Fla.) Herald. Uvalda. ! Six f'ial Correspondence. Prof. R. M. Markey was in Vidalia Monday. l Miss Gertrude Mann spent the week end with Miss Pearl Jones. Miss Vic McNatt has returned from a visit to Alamo. Miss Rosa Sykes of Bellville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Russell Phillips. Remember the oyster supper at the parsonage Friday night, Jan. 22, 1915. Everybody is invited to attend. Mr. R. D. Powell of Alamo was in Uvalda on business the first of the week. M. L. M. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 21. 1915. AS IN THE FORMER DAYS. (Editorial in Wesleyan Christian Advocate.) The displays of the divine power in religious meetings are not mere memories of the Methodists of the former days. Such scenes as the fathers have written of and told us about of the former days come now and then to the Methodists of this day. Would to God they might come oftener and be the rule and not the rare exception. One of our pastors, Rev. H. C. Ewing, of the Mt. Vernon charge of the South Georgia Conference, in a private letter to us the other day told of one of these scenes of marvelous manifestations of the divine power on his people. He was in the second week of a revi val meeting at Glenwood, one of his churches. He said: “The tabernacle was packed last night before dark. One hundred men came into the preaching service from the grove meeting where they had had a great baptism of the Holy Spirit. The power fell on the congregation and in groups all about under the tabernacle the peo ple were kneeling and praying. There were many conversions and the converts testified to the saving experience into which they had entered. That the community is religiously stirred as never before in its history is the testimony of those who have known it longest. We are still praying and God is still blessing.” That sounds like the bugle blasts of victory familiar to the ears of the fathers of Methodism in this country. Once it is heard there is no mistaking its meaning, and even those who seem remotest from the rewards of victory have an interest in hearing it again. The shouts of the new born into the kingdom of Jesus Christ draws as nothing else in a revival meeting can. Men wonder at what they see and at what they hear and at the human methods by which such results are wrought and they cannot help wondering. The triumphant note stirs not only the believer but it causes the unbe liever to ask himself a good many questions even if he does at last refuse to yield to the operations of the Holy Spirit. What preacher who has ever witnessed a congregation on their knees in groups praying for mourners and rejoicing in the deliverance of penitents from the bondage of sin but hungers that he may again see such a sight? And how comes it all? Just like it came at Glenwood plain, simple, earnest gospel preaching and the praying and working for the salvation of the lost. And what grief is there to a pastor’s heart that is keener and more wasting than that which comes over what is either in fact or in ap pearance a barren ministry —a service in which no sinner falls out with sin and seeks pardon through Jesus Christ and in which no be liever is stimulated to a more daring faith and a more devoted ser vice for his Lord. We can stand the reputation of being a poor preacher; we can endure without serious harm various criticisms of our flocks or of our brethren; we can stand a good many things that some people think are right hard to rest under and not be to tally disheartened, but the real shepherd, the one whom God sends to nurture the flock, can not be content unless ho has some part in keeping the wolves from the fold and guards the feeding of the flock. The truth is, Methodism cannot live without an intensely evan gelistic pastorate. If we cannot bring the people to Christ our mission to them is not worth thecostof going on it. And the times never needed more of this evangelism in our pastorate than it needs it today. We have lived long enough—too long—at a poor dying rate when God’s grace has been so abundant and His love for sin ners so great. The record of such a scene as we have noted above is worth all the space and more than we have given to it. And if it shall stir the evangelistic spirit and desire in others who may read of it, if it shall make any one of all the readers of the Wesleyan sigh for the sound of the note of triumph, if a passion for souls like unto that which the Master had shall be kindled in any soul, then the meeting at Glenwood will have reached far beyond the corpor ate limits of that little municipality. In this connection we remind the brethren that the time is near by when the pastors of the North Georgia Conference are expected, and not a few of them are pledged, to a campaign of personal evan gelism in their charges. May each one of them have the tokens of divine favor and the manifestations of divine power like unto that which Brother Ewing declares have recently visited him and his people. Girl Charges Rich Man Drugged Her. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 18. —Miss Mary J. Moore, a Savannah girl, filed a $30,000 damage suit against J. P. Taggart, a millionaire coal operator, today, containing sen sational charges. She claimed he induced her to go automobiling and take a drink of drugged liq uor, and that while under its in fluence she was mistreated. Baxley Boys Indicted For Killing Wynn. Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 19. —Af ter an investigation lasting a week, the Glynn county grand I jury this afternoon returned true bills against Pete Pagett and Brice Edmunds, two prominent i young men of Baxley, charged with the murder of young Frank Wynn of Jesup. Young Wynn was killed last July, and it is alleged that he was pushed from a passenger train leaving Brunswick by Pagett and Edmunds. Mr. John E. Mcßae has Operation for Appedicitis. On Thursday morning last Mr. John E. Mcßae was taken to Savannah by his family physi cian, Dr. J. E. Hunt, and on reaching the Oglethorpe Sanitari um it was decided that an opera tion was necessary. Appendici tis in advanced stage was found and an operation proved quite successful. Up to yesterday Mr. Mcßae was reported as doing | nicely. Cotton Ginned in Montgomery to Jan. 1. The Director of the Census, Hon. Win. J. Harris, sends out the report of cotton ginned prior to Jan. 1. Montgomery county ginneries have turned out 17,334 hales. Up to this date last year l. r >,7t!3 had been ginned. DR. A. D. SUHLER GEORGIA’S EYE-SIGHT SPECIALIST * I I Ur /J He comes well recommended and personally guarantees all glasses he may adjust or fit. All suffering with headaches, eye strain, inflamed or weak eyes, or those in need of glasses should avail themselves of this opportu nity. Consult him about the one piece lense giving both far and near vision no matter what the age may be. Be sure and call at Ml . V< rnon Drug (Jo. Friday, Jan. 29th. Sings and Saws. Dublin, Ga., Jan. 18.—While a fellow prisoner named Booth sang lustily to drown the noise of the saw, a white prisoner named Robinson, in jail here, attempted to saw out last night. The Sheriff heard the noise, however, in time to fiustrate the escape. Mrs. Matilda Hughes Died on Monday last. Mrs. Matilda Hughes, widow of Daniel Hughes, departed this life on Monday at the home of her son, Judge A. 1). Hughes, with whom she had made her home for several years. Her children surviving are, three sons, J. M. Hughes, Neal Hughes, A. D. Hughes; and two daughters, Mrs. L. J. Cowart of Lyons and Mrs. Frank Wood of this county. She will be missed by a large cir cle of relatives and friends. Mrs. Hughes had long been a sufferer from ill health, but had lived a useful life of 08 years. The re mains were laid to rest on Tues day in the family cemetery near the home of Mr. Neal Hughes. Card Os Thanks. We desire through your paper to thank our friends and neigh bors for their kind assistance during the sickness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Matilda Hughes, and pray God’s richest blessings upon them. John M. Hughes, N. A. Hughes, A. I). Hughes, Mrs. L. J. Cow art and Mrs. J. A. Wood. Jan. 20th, 1915. Negro Woman Dead Aged 109 Years. Rome, Ga.. Jan. 19.—Mary Griffin, colored, over 109 years of age, was buried here Saturday, oiie was born in Jasper county, Georgia, on August 15, 1805. She is survived by two daughters, one of them being 82 and the other one 90 years old. Eight of tier great-grandsons were the pall bearers. High Water Expected. The U. S. Weather Bureau of fice at Macon, under date of the 18th, sends out the following ad visory river warning: A consid erable rise will occur in the Oco nee and Ocmulgee rivers, exact stages depending on funner rain fall today. Preparations are ad vised for rather high water. W. A. Mitchell, L. F. if| Roadster Touring j| $ $765 1915 Model $790 I Delivered Delivered I Maxwell 25-4 Fully ;j Equipped | Electric Horn, Ventilated Windshield g 2-1 nit Gray & Silk Mohair Top « £§ I )avis S(*lffitartor Adjustable Front Seat || Electric Lights Crown Moulded g §2 with Dimmer Fenders g j|f Attachments Tire Holder g M• A Car Built for Business and Pleasure. Power, Com- g ® fort, Durability. For demonstration see w | flcßae & hicks 1 ijj Distributors MT. VERNON) GA. NO COMMISSIONERS FOR EVANS CO. Defect in Bill Also Prevents Representation in Legislature. The board of county commis sioners recently elected by the new county of Evans are com missioners in name only. Fail ure of the last legislature to in corporate in the act providing for the election of county officials of Evans a clause prescribing and defining the duties of the county commissioners leaves these offi cers without any functions or duties. A ruling to this effect has been given to Governor Slaton by At torney General Grice. Due to a similar oversight on the part of the legislature, Evans county will be without a representative in the next general assembly. R. E. Lee Literary Society Entertains. The Robert E. Lee Literary Society of Longpond held its regular meeting on Friday after noon at 3:30, and the following program was successfully ren dered: Song “America”—by the school Recitation Anide Reynolds. Play I). Johnson, Ernest Goff, Leroy Cato, Willie G. Johnson, Agnes McAllister. Recitation Beatrice McAllis ter. Play—Lamar Wells, Leon Stewart, Johnnie Johnson, Thel ma A. McAllister. Recitation Naomi Wells. Recitation—Thelma McAllister. Jokes and riddles —Christine McAllister. Conversation—Annie Johnson, Clare Wells. Recitation Hubert Corbin. Program Committee: Hubert Corbin, Annie Johnson, Christine McAllister. There being no further busi ness, the society adjourned. Sunday School Institute Has Been Called Off. We are requested to announce to the public that the Sunday School Institute proposed to be held at the Brewton-Parker In stitute next week has been called off. NO. 41
