The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, March 23, 1916, Image 6
®s> sag ©v©;®®'.©;©®'©:®,©’®©® I | | LOCAL - PERSONAL § 0 ©:©■©:•.© ;©; ;©; .0. .0 ;©: ©■©.©. ® 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 | 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. m&mmßm%s®fflßissßßßSK&BSE®w%B@m 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.