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Mr. Davis, with Rountree &|
Kennedy, the clothing men of;
Vidalia, was a pleasant caller at
our office Monday.
Prof. '/. T. Mann of Telfair i
was among his old friends here
on Monday.
Mr. Luther Outler of Cordele I
was here over Sunday w'ith his
mother on Institute Heights.
Miss Urania Mcßae has re- 1
turned from a pleasant stay of
some days-at Hellville.
Miss Ada Langford of Uvalda
is spending several flays here,
guest of Mrs. L. C. Underwood, i
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Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brogdon j
and two little boys passed through
the city Friday en route to their
home at Uvalda after several
days visit to relatives at Waynes
boro anil other points.
Mule For Sale. See W. H.
Carter, Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Hog Cholera Rages
In Flooded District.
Natchez, Miss., March 10.—
Cholera has broken out among
the hogs which were placed on
rafts and plots of high land in
the flooded section of the Black]
river district and hundreds of an-1
imals are dying, according to re.
ports received here today.
A Late Easter.
Ash Wednesday came this year
on March 8, which throws Easter
on Sunday, April 2d. Eleven
years ago Easter fell on April 23,
and after the approaching event
it will not come again so late un
til 1943. According to the ex
perts, Easter will not come on
April 23 again until the year 2000.
Slogan Corn, Hay, Hogs.
The slogan of the farmers of
Beaufort Co. is corn, hay and
hogs. In this county we have
corn, soy beans, peanuts and
hogs for sale in great quantities,
so much so that the local mar
kets cannot take what we have!
to sell, and we are looking fori
other markets for this surplus, I
Os course we grow cotton and,
tobacco, too much of it, but we
are hustling to get away from
fiat. We grow colts, too. In
Richland township there are now I
218 mule and horse [colts nuder]
18 months of age. In this same 1
township there are about 2000]
acres in Irish potatoes for this!
season’s crop. J. F. Latham In
Southern Farming.
Early Velvet Beans.
I have for sale Early Speckled
Velvet Beans. This kind makes
vines equal to old kind. Good
sound seed $2.00 per bushel.
D. S. Williamson,
Uvalda, Ga.
They Let Him Sleep
‘ 'Since taking Fatty Kidney Pith t
f j •—. believe I am entirely cured and I
' n dl\ J - '-'vy'-'L/l sleep soundly alt night.”
J Ti- H. T. Straynge
I I - Take two of Foley Kidney
ypma rvt I yf PBls with a glass of pure
i' each meal and at
'j ° bedtime. A quick and easy
i ((T-hwa • wa v to p ut a st °p to y° ur
VkUt7jj ' o o getting up time after time
» °°j) o during the night.
'l Q /'Q ° o Foley Kidney Pills also stop
0/ / 1 pain in back and sides, head
(LQ A ache, stomach troubles, dis
-1 q turbed heart action, stiff and
0 w 0 aching joints and rheumatic
L' ... pains due to kidney and
0 y'/y bladder ailments.
Q Sv' GAINESVILLE. CA.. R. R. No. S. Mr.
0/* I—JM"/ H. T. Strayngo Myt: “For ten year* I*v%
V' ' I i been unable to tletp all ni(ht without getting
x /// up. Sometimes only a few minutes after
J /// *r> to bed I'd have to yet up. and I tried
Os /V / // everyth: ny I heard of for the trouble. Last
a, 1 . _. fi year 1 tned Foley Kidney Pille and after
F<At ’ Jl\ Fine f taking one bottle l believe lam entirely
since i took /mrmvirmis? cup " ,n ‘ ll ~ uodlr nifh ‘”
pv_ ’x RA:__ TU'c* Tl> e> ve all a chance to trv Foley A Co.'s family remedies,
L7UII 11 send to Foley & Co.. 2835 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., this
dipping and sc, with your name and address written clearly, and they will mail you
trial package containing samples of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney
Pills and Fol*y Cathajiic Tablet*. _____ _
Buld Everywhere ad
Mr. D. S. Barnhill, merchant
and planter of the Big Bend sec
tion, was among his friends here
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Darley, of
the Ailey section, were among
their friends here Tuesday after
noon.
Mr. F. B. Mcßride of the Hack
Branch section was transacting
business here Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. J. B. Brown, cashier of
the Commercial Bank, of Uvalda,
was here Sunday, guest of Mr.
I D. A. Mcßae.
Professor Durno, the magician
]of the Radcliffe Chautauqua,
the man who goes along to aston
ish the natives, spent some time
in our office yesterday.
Mr. J. B. Spivey, of Route 3,
Soperton, was a visitor to Mt.
1 Vernon on Monday.
Weekly Honor Roll
Os McGregor School.
Edna Conner, Kathleen Con
ner, Sarah McArthur, Ruby
Carpenter, Wade Carpenter,
Martin Morris, George Rowland,
M. C. Carpenter.
Governor Brown’s Mill
Needs More Grain.
Former Governor Brown, who
owns and operates a large and
up to date flour and grist mill in
Cherokee county, says he cannot
secure enough Georgia raised
wheat and corn to meet his re
quirements. A letter The News
prints today from the former
governor is very interesting
reading, and is a strong argu
ment for a larger production of
these cereals. There is a dem
and for other crops than cotton.
-Dawson News,
Velvet Beans.
With the increasing interest in
the raising of live stock in the
i Southeastern States velvet beans
are being more generally and ex
tensively planted throughout this
section than ever before.
Here is a significant velvet
bean story from the Montgomery
Times of Monday:
Mr. D. 1). Metcalf, of Green
ville, is known as the velvet bean
] king of South Alabama. He has
shipped more beans than any
other man in the state. The other
day he shipped fifteen carloads
of velvet beans by one train. He
gets a good price for the beans
and is making good money out of
buying and shipping the beans.
It takes about six hundred bush
els of beans to make a carload,
so by multiplying this by fifteen,
you can soon ascertain how many
bushels that train contained.
| This information reached the
state marketing department this
morning.—Albany Herald.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, MARCH £>3, 1910
VILLA’S OPINION OF US
*
He Aims to Kill All Gringos on
Mexican Soil.
Tell* American Doctor He Will Use
Fire and Dynamite to Wreak
Vengeance on Yankees.
Washington.—Here is Villa’s opin
ion of the United States and Ameri
cans, and a statement of his intentions
as he gave it recently to an American
surgeon, his prisoner, who later es
caped :
"I have always extended guaranties I
to the persons and property of you
Americans. With my own eyes I have i
safeguarded fortunes of precious met
als for Americans. W'ith my own
hands I buried your treasures safely
out of reach of enemies. Yonr fam
ilies have enjoyed my protection.
“For four days not a single bite of
food has passed the lips of my men
and me. We are starving; we are
here, sacrificing our lives. For water
we are drinking the discharge from
your Douglas smelters. This while
you, whose families and treasures I
have protected, 101 l in the lap of lux
ury.
"Your government is playing a high
hand in its attempt at throttling the
peace, prosperity and freedom of Mex
ico. You have recognized Carranza,
eh? Carranza, then, is the man to
protect you now—Carranza and Wil
son.
“If you return, you will be the last
American ever to leave my territory
alive. From this moment on I will
devote my life to the killing of every
gringo I can get my hands on and the
destruction of all gringo property.
"You say you are from Cananea.
Well, when I reach there with oil I
will burn each mine; with dynamite
-1 will destroy each bit of machinery;
I will burn each house and I will anni
hilate all gringos.
"It is well that intervention come,
then we will see who gets the most
hide!
"The negroes are all ready to side
with us. I did not want history to
record our side as the offender, but
the cowardly —— has left us with no
other alternative.
“We will annihilate the , though
we have nothing but our finger nails
with which to do it.”
The full affidavit, comprising twen
ty-eight pages of typewriting, Is in
the possession of Senator Albert B.
Fall of New Mexico, who intends read
ing It in tho senate The name of the
surgeon is withheld by Senator Fall.
CHASING VILLA IS EXPENSIVE
Immediate Need of Huge Fund Seen,
and Connress Will Take Steps to
Provide Necessity.
Washington. D. C. —An immediate
emergency appropriation for use of
the army is necessary should there be
considerable development of the mili
tary operations in connection with the
chase after Villa and his bandits.
How large this sum must be can
not be approximated tonight by the
army authorities or by the statisti
cians of the house of appropriations
committee.
The war department now is using
to defray the extraordinary expenses
in connection with the movement of
the troops into Mexico and the re
placing of these troops on the border
by troops from military outposts
throughout the country, the funds ap
propriated last July, available for the
entire year, when no such expendi
ture was contemplated. This fund
soon will be exhausted.
It cost the government about $7,-
000,000 to occupy Vera Cruz, most of
this expense falling In the navy. Gen
eral Funston, w’ith his troops, went to
Vera Cruz some time after tile navy
had bottled up the city, and his men
were engaged largely in police work
In and around the city proper.
The net balance in the general treas ]
ury at the present time is about S6O.
000,000. This will not last long In any
general operation by United States
troops in Mexico should such become
necessary. There Is general belief |
here that tfie force of 6.000 men mak
iug up the first troops to enter Mexico
i on the chase is to be enlarged soon ;
because of known difficulties in the
; way of trapping Villa in the mountains
; in which he is expected to take refuge.
There remains unsold $240,500,000 of
, he Panama canal bonds of the auth
, orized issue for construction of that
I waterway which would be available
for immediate sale to supply the needs
jof the army Congress could author
ize immediately a vast loan by the
government on one year or short-time i
notes, anti prepare by speeia! tax leg
tslation to raise funds to meet the loan
at maturity This plan probably will
t be adopted, should It become tieces
sary to bring into the treasury inline
diately a large amount of money to'
be placed at the distxtsal of the pres
tdent to carry out operations in Mex
ico.
Rome Approves Move.
Rome. Italy.—The decision of the
United States to act vigorously in
Mexico has been received with general
satisfaction here, especially in polit
leal circles, where it Is believed it is
the only way to establish law and or
der and to protect foreigners
Although the Vatican is extremely
reticent on the subject, those in touch
with prelates high in the church as
Bert that the holy see must be con
tent with any measure aimed to sup
press the anarchy from which the
church aud clergy hate suffered se
verely.
GEN. PERSHING IS
SKILLFUL FIGHTER
Weil Fitted by Experience to Run
Down Villa and His Band
of Desperadoes.
FINE RECORD IN THE ORIENT
He Subdued Moro Tribes and Later
Received Honors From Them Be
cause They Respected His
Fair Dealing.
There are few officers in the army
who possess so distinguished a record
for bravery and efficient service as
Brig Gen. John J. Pershing, who has
been assigned the task of rounding up
Francisco Villa and exterminating his
band of outlaws, and there is. perhaps,
no man so skillful in guerrilla warfare
and Indian fighting.
With a brilliant record in the Philip
pines behind him —a record that
gained for him a promotion from cap
tain to brigadier general over the
heads of 862 officers of higher rank —
and the memory of a great tragedy
still fresh in his mind —the death of
his wife and three children in a fire
at the Presidio in San Francisco last
August—General Pershing may be ex
pected to give a swift and sure ac
count of his command in the Mexican
expedition.
Honored by Moros.
He has the distinction of being the
only white man honored by a datto —a
judge, counselor and chieftain —by the
Moro tribes in the Philippines, an
honor he gained by being able to gov
ern the tribes through their own laws
and beliefs as translated from the Ko
ran.
He knows every foot of the country
over which he will have to lead his
men. He covered it all years ago in
the memorable pursuit of Geronimo.
Sent to West Point From Missouri.
General Pershing was born in Linn
county, Missouri, on October 13. 1860,
and w-as appointed to West Point from
that state. His career there was an
honor both to himself and to that fa
mous institution, and he rose to the
rank of senior cadet captain He left
the academy to become second lieu
tenant of the Sixth cavalry, then pur
suing Geronimo across the arid plains
and hills of northern Mexico. Once
his troop established a record of 130
miles in 47 hours.
In April, 1889, when in command of
Troop A, at Fort Wingate, Pershing
set out with ten men to rescue some
horse thieves and cowboys from 100
armed and maddened Zuni Indians.
Through a strategic maneuver he ob
tained the release of the prisoners,
rounded up the Indians, and marched
every last one of them captive into
Fort Wingate. It was years before
army men ceased to talk of this ex
ploit.
Takes Part in Sioux War.
Later Pershing was transferred to
the northwest, where he took part in
the Sioux campaigns of 1890-1891.
Later he commanded the Sioux scouts
until detailed as military instructor at
the University of Nebraska.
The declaration of war with Spain
found him an instructor in tactics at
West Point. He immediately asked
to be sent to the front, and was as
signed to the Tentli cavalry, which did
distinguished service at Santiago.
After the war with Spain he was made
a major and assistant adjutant gen
eral in the volunteer service, and was
sent to the Philippines, where he com
manded an expeditionary force into
tile island of Mindanao, to restore or
der and subdue the Moros
One of his most stubborn fights was
in the capture of Bacolod, after his
force had been surprised by a large
band of Moros. Onb hundred Moros
! were killed and many wounded. Per
shing’s toss was three wounded.
Tells of Bacolod Battle.
At another place in the island sev
j eral thousand Moros manned a chain
of six forts, upon which several brass
j cannon had been mounted. Pershing
reduced them all.
After that the Moros had respect for
] Pershing. They found he was a very
different type of man to deal with
than the vacillating Spaniards they
had been used to. He was appointed
military governor of the district
around Uigan and soon won the confi
dence of the natives through a knowl
edge of the Koran which he had stud
ied.
The sultan of Sulu appointed him a
j datto. an office almost as supreme in
power as that of the sultan himself,
and he .came to be hailed as a proph
et" and a "priest ” The natives
brought their troubles to him and he
acted as judge.
Moros Respect Him.
An early evidence of the faith re
posed in him was when three children
made orphans by the war wwe brought
to him for disposition, although it had
• been the rule to sell such children into
slavery. Pershing adopted the three
children, a girl and two boys l.ater
the girl married at the age of twelve
one of the boys died, and the other
proved an incorrigible.
Mrs. Pershing and three of their
four children were suffocated last Au
gust in a fire at tho Presidio. At that
time it was said they might have been ]
rescued had not the red tape of the j
army prevented the earlier arrival of \
fire apparatus from the Panama Pacific
exposition, a short distance away At
that time General Pershing was de
tailed at Li Paao.
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STATEMENT OF H
| THE BANK OF SOPERTONI
| SOPERTON, GA. |
At the Close Business March 10, 1916 fcj
S (Condensed from report to State Bank Examiner) KS
Resources: §j
Loans and Investments $139,179.62 §
Buildings and Fixtures 23,872.47 §
|| Prepaid Insurance 363.33 ||
If Cash in Vault, due from S?
other Banks and ad- ||
vances on cotton 38,433.92 |g
i $201,849.34 1
jjl Liabilities: @
fej Capital Stock $25,000.00
f| Surplus and Profits 10,297.46
& Bills Payable 10,000.00 S
Total Deposits 156,551.88 g
$201,849734 |
| Deposits Mar. 10th 1916 $156,551.88 |
i Deposits Mar. 10th 1915 "97,856.49 I
I INCREASE $ 58,695.39 1
& H
Statement of the Condition of
BANK OF UVALDA,
Located at Uvalda, Ga., at the Close of Business Mar. 10, 101 G:
RESOURCES : LIABILITIES :
Time loans $ 7,003 62 Individual deposits subject
Overdrafts unsecured 53 83 to check 12,529 51
Banking house 1,327 55 Time Certificates 412 50
Furniture and fixtures 457 3L Cashier's checks 220 50
Due from banks and bankers Due Bank of Vidftlia 1,373 75
in this state 4,225 23
Currency S7BO 00
Gold 55 00
Silver, nickels, etc. 193 95 1,028 95
Profit and loss 439 77
Total $14,536 26 Total $14,536 26
STATE OF GEORGlA—Montgomery County.
Before me came G. L. Griffin, Cashier of Bank of Uvalda, who, being duly sworn
says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank as shown by the
books of hie in said Bank. G. L. GItIFFIN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. this the 21et dav of Mar., 1916.
I*. J. McNatt, Com. N. F. M. C., Ga.
Statement of the Condition of
T?\e Citizens Bank,
Located at Alston, Ga., at the Close of Business March 10, 19JG:
resources: j liabilities:
Demand loans $ 92 48 Capital stock paid in $15,000 00
Time Loans 23,168 66 ! Undit ided profits, lesß current
Overdrafts, unsecured 91 58 ex. int. and taxes pai l 1)6 80
Banking house 5.400 00 Individual deposits subject to check 5,662 85
Furniture and fixtures 2,277 23 Time Certificates 1,093 63
Due from banks and bankers in Bills payable, including time certif-
Ihis slate 1,249 07 icates representing bor. money 11,500 00
Due from banks and bankers in
other states 71:2 34
Currency $213 00
Cold 62 50
Silver, nickels, etc. 48 44 353 94
Kevenve Stamps 18 00 ,
Tbtal $33,373 30 Total $33,373 30
State oT Georgia—County of Montgomery.
Before me came E S.’Martin, cashier of The Citizens Bank of Alston, who, being duly
sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank as shown
by the books of file in said Bank. E. 8. MARTIN.
.Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15th day of Mar.. 1916.
Clifford Mcßride, N. P. M. C. Ga.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE COMMERCIAL BANK,
(Branch of The Mount Vernon Bank)
Located at. Uvalda, Ga., at the Close of Business Mar. 10th, 1916.
Resources: Liabilities:
Time loans $15,506 56 Due to banks and bankers
Overdrafts, unsecured 617 in this state 15,000 00
Due from banks and hankers Undivided profits, less cur. ex.
in ibis state 6,561 06 in. and taxes paid 803 96
Due from banks and bankers Individual deposits subject
in other slates 1,466 53 to check 10,083 41
Banking House and Fix. 3,500 00 Time certificates 1,170 00
('urrene.v $1,471 00 Cashier's Checks 1,017 88
Silver, nickles, etc. 558 93
Gold 500 2,034 93
Total $28,075.25 Total $28,075.25
ST A F, OF GEORGIA— Montgomery County.
R, fore ne came J. P. Brown, Cashier or The Commercial Bank, »ho being duly sworn,
,;ivs Ilia* I In- above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said Bank, as shown by Ilia
IsK.ks of file in said Bank. J- 0. BROWN.
.Sworn to and subscriber! before me this 18th day of March. 1916.
J. W. Calhoun, Com. N P. M. C., Ga.
i
Thousands are Killed Election Notice.
On Railroad Tracks. J Q n Saturday. April loth, 1916,
In the April American Maga- in the Ordinary’s office in the
zine Fredrick Upham says: court house, an election will be
“In the United States last year held to decide the question of
5,471 persons were killed while removing the cows from the
walking on railroad tracks. After streets of Mt. Vernon and for
a century of experience, after bidding their running at large
the expenditure of tens of mill- within the corporate limits of the
: ions of dollars, in educating and town. Only those qualified to
warning the the public against vote in the regular elections of
this deadly peril, fifteen met \ the town will be allowed to vote,
death each day, or one for every Mar. 22, 1916. M. B. Calhoun,
ninety-six minutes.” j Ma>or.
