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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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