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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1915)
iErnttgomm* iMomtor. VOL. XXX. FRANK'S SENTENCE IS COMMUTED Governor Slaton Commutes Frank And Spirits Him Away. On Sunday night while report ers were watching the front of the jail in Atlanta, Sheriff Man gum of Fulton county, with sev eral assistants, took Frank from his cell and placed him on a Cen tral train, and before day was in Macon with him, where he se cured an automobile and soon reached the state prison farm at Milledgeville. Governor Slaton had commuted Frank’s sentence to life impris onment, and so complete were his plans to spirit him away that no one in Atlanta knew it but the sheriff and his party. The greatest excitement pre vailed in Atlanta when the fact became known, and mobs began to form and so great was the stir that the police had all they could do to prevent a great riot. Gov ernor Slaton retired to his coun try home four miles out, and riotous demonstrations made it necessary for his home to be guarded, and later he had to call out the military to guard the place. The people of Marietta, the former home of Mary Phagan, made the wildest demonstrations of dissatisfaction at the gover nor’s action, and burned Gov. Slaton and Frank in effigy. Nothing in Georgia has ever called out as much discussion, pro and con, and Governor Sla ton has made a lengthy state ment as to his reasons for com mutation. He reviewed the tes timony and really tried the case over again, and his verdict was that Conley, and not Frank, mur dered the girl. His strongest reason seems to be the letter of Judge Roan, referred to as ‘‘a message from the dead.” Protracted Meeting At Presbyterian Church Here. Protracted services will begin at the Mt. Vernon Presbyterian church on Monday evening next at 8:00 o’clock. Rev. Daniel Iverson, of Tifton, will be here with Rev. Montgomery, the local pastor, and the public is invited and urged to attend. Announce ment will be made later of the hours of service. Glimpses And Glances In New York City. Cranston Williams, son of Edi tor Williams of the Greensboro Herald-Journal, now in New York, contributes some good items to the Herald-Journal, un der the caption of ‘‘Glimpses and Glances of New York City.” He says: ‘‘Well, in his own statement the lamented William Jennings Bryan, thrice a candidate for president and once an imposition on the American people in the capacity of secretary of state, says he is greater than the presi dent of the United States. In other words, as a subordinate of ficial to the president, Bryan be lieved his ideals and wonderful wage of ‘‘cure all” was much more desirable than Wilson’s ac tion—-which has received the ap proval of the nation. This is a general summing up of Bryan’s grand-stand move in quitting the white house official family.” Increases Tax Burdens. The creation of a new county also creates burdensome expenses upon the territyry comprising the new county and the counties yielding the territory making the new county. The benefit all goes to the town becoming the county site, and the immediate environ ment of that town.-Perry Home Journal. Death of Alleene Clark. On Monday, June 14, 1915, the people of the entire community were shocked to learn of the death of Miss Alleene Clark, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Clark. She was 13 years of age, and had been sick about three weeks; but God in his wisdom saw r fit to take our little friend, neighbor and schoolmate. Alleene was a friend to all who knew her, and she will be great ly missed throughout the entire neighborhood, especially among the young people. Particularly sad is the close of this bright young life, and our hearts are saddened at the thought of never more seeing the familiar girlish figure among us; and her gentle kindness and care-free life around the home and community will long be in our memory. This sad death has cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood, but we will not think of her as dead, but gone back to the Heavenly Father, who gave her to us, where she will suffer no moi’e, but ever be ‘‘safe in the arms of Jesus.” At the age of eleven years, Alleene joined the Methodist church at Longpond, where the funeral took place. Rev. E. W. Gray conducting the service in a very impressive manner. The burial took place at 11:00 o’clock, and the floral offerings were ma ny and very beautiful. “A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is stilled; A place made vacant in our home. That never can be filled.” A Friend and Schoolmate. Skeleton Is Washed Up After Thirty-Two Years. Texarkana, Ark.—The skeleton of Frank Wilson, farmer, drown ed in a flood in the Red River thirty-two years ago, was found on a sand bar in that stream a few days ago, having been wash ed up by the recent flood. The skeleton was inclosed in all the clothes and a pair of boots Wilson wore at the time he met his death. A knife and coin found in the pockets served to identify the victim. His family claimed the body. AGED CITIZEN SHOOTS SELF Brought Death With Small Rifle Bullet Over His Heart. On Monday afternoon about 1:00 o’clock the community of Cedar Grove above here was shocked at the announcement that Mr. Robert A. Berner, an aged citizen of that section, had killed himself. We are not in possession of the facts, but learn that the unfortunate man used a 22-calibre rifle and shot himself just below the heart. Mr. Ber ner was a veteran of the Franco- German war, in which over forty years ago he was wounded, and from which he had never fully recovered. Object to Repeal. Editor Monitor: — We find in the last issue of The Monitor notice of an Act to repeal the Act incorporating the town of Orland. We the undersigned, mayor and council, object to the repeal, and believe the move is instigated through malice. We citizens will fight for our town to the bitter end. P. J. Davis. Mayor. E. L. Gillis, R. L. Foskey, W. H. Smith, G. G. Gillis, L. N. Fos key, Council. Several others object. adv. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JUNE 24, 1915. WISE COUNSEL FROM ONE WHO KNOWS To the Citizens and Voters of Montgomery County: I regret that a number of the representative citizens of Mont gomery county are working to again divide the grand old county of Montgomery, already too much divided. Tattnall county in 1801 was formed from more than one-half of the soil of Montgomery, by running a line from the Oconee river, beginning at the mouth of Limestone creek, and running about east to Wolf creek on the Canoochee river, and from thence down to the line of Liberty county—all this territory was called Tattnall county. From that date even to the present time, the cry has been to cut Montgomery county: and yet the cry is, take more of Montgomery for a ‘‘new county.” How unreasonable and unjust, is this demand! The present effort for a cut (if successful) will be most unfor tunate for Montgomery, and it will put that county in such a feeble condition, it may result in the death of that once noble and prosper ous member of the Georgia family of counties. I hope there are very few of the older residents, or even their sons, who could show such ingratitude for the heritage descended from noble ancestors, which should be cherished and defended, and not allowed to be used even for self aggradizement of those who would advocate the use of the murderous knife of destruction and death. What in the world can be the purpose of this move? What can be gained of public benefit? Nothing, as compared with the loss and destruction for those left in old Montgomery, after the cut proposed. I have always had great respect and love for the good people of Montgomery county, and today my love and respect is as strong as ever I often think of the many happy days of my youth, spent in pleasant associations with the noble Scotch descend ants and their families; they were truthful, honorable and kind. In reminiscence of the past I often think— Happy are the days and happy are the weeks, But happier are the years that memory keeps. I am proud to lend my voice and pen in defense of the interest and rights of those now struggling to prevent another uncalled-for and useless division of what remains of old Montgomery county. I suggest that all, old and young, residing in Montgomery, (as it now stands) get to work and exert every honorable means to fight the new county plans. I have no doubt but what the movers in the new county proposition, after being defeated, will realize the fact that those opposing the new county are their friends, and will for years to come be (if possible) as good or better friends than ever. Sheldon P. Smith. A Strong Protest From Every Section of Georgia Montgomery County Has Contributed its Share. Montgomery county lost almost half of its area when the new county of Wheeler was establish ed, all that section west of the Oconee river being taken from her. Now come the people of So perton and inaugurate a move ment to create the new county of Treutlen, which if created will further deprive our neighbor to the south of us of another large slice of territory. Naturally the good people of Montgomery seri ously object to being cut again, which would leave them with about one-third of the number of square miles it possessed origi nally. We certainly do not blame the people of this county, and we sincerely trust the legislature will turn down the petition which has as its object the further dis memberment of a county which has already been reduced enough in area. Montgomery has con tributed its share to the new county movement and ought to be let alone in the future. —Dub- lin Courier-Herald. A Nemesis Follows. Montgomery County Georgia, which was once one of the best [counties in the state, with 763 i square miles from which to form Toombs county in 1905 were tak ! en 95 square mil »s. This same eyii spirit still per sued the onece grand and honored county until 1912, Wheeler coun ty was takenoutof it293.ssquare miles, which leaves to the credit of Montgomery county only 374 square miles, and now her nemises asks that 160 square miles be carved from out of this small county to create Treutlen county thereby leaving only—(God save the mark) 214 square miles. This would leave the old moth er county approximately about $1,500,W0 tax values and only about one thousand tax payers. Would this not be an anomalous condition in Georgia? We are interested in Montgom ery county affairs only to the ex tent that county divisions have run mad, having made Georgia the State of the most counties of any other State save Texas, which is four times as large as ours. This mania for creating new counties to be practically bank rupt as is already the case with some of the new creations and leaving the parent counties badly crippled should be stopped and the sooner the tetter for the state’s interest.-Pike Co. Journal. Should Be Judged On Their Merits. With the approach of the next session of the Legislature a num ber of new county projects are getting under way. The Re porter believes that each case of this kind should be judged stric ly upon its merits. We do not think it makes so much difference as to how many counties we have ! provided that each new sub-di i vision that is made is based upon meritorious conditions. In the case of the effort to cre !ate the new county of Treutlen, |we strongly believe that this should be refused by the iegisla -Iture. It is proposed to take this from Montgomery county, and clearly the population and tax values do not justify it. The di gest shows the tax values in Montgomery county for last year as only $2,637,250, with only 1,956 poll tax payers. The crea tion of Treutlen county would | leave in Montgomery county ■ about a million and a half in tax 1 values and not over one thousand ; poll tax payers. j Clearly this effort to divide a | county, which already is none too 'strong in resources and popula ! tion, should be defeated. La- Grange Reporter. Time to Call a Halt. Sometime ago we called atten tion editorially to the fact that Georgia had enough counties, and that it was time to call a halt, and that it would be better to consolidate some of the Counties. We have in mind a striking illus tration of dissecting a county, and that is the grand old county of Montgomery, one of our sister counties. In ten years she has been carved three times, and there is a movement now on foot to carve a little more from her and create the County of Treut len from a portion of her bor ders. We suspect that when the European war is over that Turkey will be carved and handed out to certain of the Allies as their share of the spoils, and in our opinion another carve or two of I Montgomery County will leave J her in as helpless a condition most as Turkey will be when the war is over.—Hazlehurst Enter prise. Dr. James A. McAllister and brother, Herschel A., returned to their posts in Atlanta last Thursday, after a pleasant vaca tion here with homefolks. 1 Brewton-Rabun. | A marriage of much interest to a large circle of friends and ac quaintances was celebrated here I yesterday afternoon at 4.15 i o’clock, in which Mr. John P, Rabun and Miss Margaret Brew ton were the contracting parties. The wedding was a quiet home affair, and occurred at the home of the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Brewton on Institute Heights. The impressive ceremo ny was performed by Dr. J. C. Brewton, father of the bride, and the couple left on the east baund Seaboard Air Line train for Savannah, Tybee, Augusta and other points. Mr. Rabun is a prominent busi ness man of Spread, Ga., and his bride one of the best known and most popular young ladies in this part of the state. She has been at the head of the music department l of the Brewton-Parker Institute since it was founded, and no one ever went out of this section with any more of the esteem and high regard of our people. Accompanying the party here from Spread, were Rev. C. H. Schwall and Mr. (J. A. Rabun and Misses Mamie Lu and Eliza beth, little daughters of the groom. Mrs. T. J. Pritchett Enjoys Western Trip. In a letter received from Mrs. T. J. Pritchett, dated Portland, Oregon, June 10, she gives glow ing descriptions of her trip. She and Miss Margaret were enjoy ing the ‘‘Rose Festival,” the great gala occasion of the year, at Portland. Mrs. Pritchett wrote: ‘‘The city is a blaze of colored lights, although the smoke had not cleared from a SIOO,OOO fire the day before we arrived. The flowers are the finest I ever saw. There are miles of streets bordered on each side by roses, the kind we only see in hot houses in Georgia. Everything out here is on a big scale; just believe any thing you hear; it can’t be exag-l gerated. There are the dreariest plains, the wettest rains, the highest mountains, the deepest gorges, the tallest men and the biggest trees I have ever seen.” Mrs. Pritchett further writes: ‘‘We are having a delightful trip, but will be very glad though when we get hack to Georgia, the garden spot of the world.” — Laurens Citizen. Mt. Vernon readers will read the above with interest, Mrs. Pritchett being a native of this section, and often visiting her brothers, Angus and Everett McLeod. MOTOR VEHICLE RURAL MAIL New Mail Service From Mt. Vernon Effective on Agust 2. The postoffice department is establishing many motor vehicle rural mail routes in Georgia, and this section is coming in for its share of the improvement. On Tuesday several such routes were authorized by the depart ment, among them one from Mt. Vernon. The length of this route is to be 52 09 miles, and the salary will be $1,500. There are 385 families on this route, as outlined. The mail is to leave at 7:te and return at 2:00. Under the above plan the two routes from Mt. Vernon will probably be merged into one, and the carrier will doubtless use an automobile. The new plan will become effective August 2, and full details will be given later. Makes Noise Like Home-made Biscuits. Farmers in this section who have produced wheat this year have been unable to get it made into flour because the capacity of the nearby mills has been over taxed. This shows clearly that Vienna should have a mill of her own to take care of the product of her farmers. —Vienna News. SLICK PROMOTER COMES TO GRIEF Traveling Canning Factory Expert Now in Jail Here. On Saturday last a man calling himself J. C. Whitcome, who had spent a week here pretending to be organizing a canning and creamery business, the plant to be located here, was arrested for forgery. He put up during the week at the home of Mr. G. V. Mason, and when Mrs. Mason demanded a week’s board, he began to at tempt to raise money through a draft drawn on “Land Title and Trust C 0.,” of Philadelphia. To pave the way for this he had asked Mr. W. C. Ryals, father of Mrs. Mason, to place in his safety deposit box in The Mt. Vernon Hank a note he carried in his pocket for $137.80, signed by Albert Hinson and B. J. Guest, well known citizens of Alamo. When he attempted to get Mr. Mason’s endorsement on the draft, which he made out in the hank for $35.00, Mr. Mason re fused to endorse for him. Whit come assured him that the note on deposit was amply sufficient to secure him against loss should the draft be returned unpaid. Mr. H. L. Wilt, assistant crshier in charge of the bank, became suspicious and called up Mr. Hinson, who assured him that no such note had been signed, and asked lor the arrest of the man. No warrant being sworn out, the matter went over until the evening train brought over the marshal of Alamo, who arrested Whitcome at the Mt. Vernon depot. As soon as Whitcome saw the marshal he attempted to run, but was taken in charge and car ried to Alamo, where other charg es were pending, but was brought back Monday and lodged in jail. When arrested as he attempted to escape from Mr. Browning’s store, he tore up the draft and throw it in the fireplace, but it was recovered and pasted to gether. It appears that the man had been hanging around Alamo and Glen wood for some time be fore coming here. No More Cotton for Him. I have always tried to raise some cotton, but found there was nothing in it where the boll wee vil is. I have decided to try some thing else. I am going to try hogs, corn, sorghum, peas and peanuts this year and see how I come out. I have about twenty seven head of hogs to fatten, which I want to make average 200 pounds each. I have five acres planted to sorghum for my hogs, and will turn them on it as soon as it gets large enough to graze on. By the time they eat that out I will have six acres of peanuts ready for them. I have nine acres of peas, a part of which I will gather, for there is a good sale for peas here. Will make hay of the rest. I have twenty acres in corn, from which I am expecting about 25 bushels to the acre, and if it stays seasonable will plant that that to peas at laying by time for my hogs, and then will finish on corn to get them ready for the market. I believe that will beat a bale of cotton on about four or five acres of ground, besides a big fertilizer bill to pay. I also have a small patch of cane to make into syup. If we all would raise plenty to eat at home the war would not hurt so badly. We have plenty of fruit. We will put up plenty for our own use, sell what we can. and let the hogs have the rest. We have a good garden and a nice bunch of Brown Leghorn chickens, which all helps out in hard times. I have been a reader of the Ru ralist for several years and am always anxious to get it, especial ly the 15th issue. —J. A. Meador in Southern Ruralist. Should be Agreed To. No new county in Georgia should be created without the ex pressed consent of a majority of all the voters of all the counties from which territory is proposed to be taken to make the new county.—Perry Home Journal. NO. 8.
