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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1917)
s \\\t iHontgommf iMonttm*. VOL. XXXII. BRITISH AIMS AGREE WITH OURS Great Britain Makes Position no War Question Clear to Russia. Special Service to Monitor. London.—ln reply to the Russian government’s request for a statement of the British war aims, Great Brit ain has forwarded to Petrograd a note in which it expressed hearty accep- I tation and approval of the principles j which President Wilson laid down in his historic message to congress. The , British government believes, broadly speaking, that the agreements made from time to time with Britain’s al lies are conformable to these stand ards. The purpose of Great Britain at the outset, says the note, was to defend the existence of the country and en force respect for international agree ments. Since then there has been added that of ‘‘liberating populations oppressed by alien tyranny.” The note bespeaks not only the liberation of Poland by Russia, but of that section of Poland within the dominations of the Germanic empires. Text Os British Note Following is the text of Great Brit ain’s reply: "In the proclamation to the Russian people nclosed with the note, it is said that free Russia does not purpose to dominate other peoples or take from them their national patrimony or forci bly occupy foreign territory. In this sentiment the British government heartily corcurs. They did not enter the war as a war of conquest; they are not continuing it for such object. Their purpose at the outset was to de fend the existence of their country and enforce respect for international en gagements. To these objects now have been added that of liberating popula tions oppressed by fdien tyranny. They heartily rejoice, therefore, that free Russia has announced her intention of liberating Poland, not only Poland ruled by the old Russian autocracy, but equally that within the dominion of the Germanic empires. In this en terprise the British democracy wishes Russia godspeed. “Beyond everything we must seek such settlement as will secure the hap piness and contentment of peoples and take away all legitimate causes of fu ture war. “The British government heartily join with their Russian allies in their acceptance and aproval of the rinci ples laid down by President Wilson in his historic message to the American congress. These are the aims on which the British people are fighting. These are the principles by which their \»ar policy is and will be guided. “The British government believes that, broadly speaking, the agreements they have from time to time made with their allies, are conformable to these standards, but if the Russian government so desires they are quite safe with their allies to examipe and, if need be, to revise these agreements. 360 Men Strike at Brunswick Shipyard. Brunswick, June 9.—Three hundred and sixty employees of the Brunswick Marine Construc tion Corporation, the largest ship building concern here, walked out yesterday after demanding nine hours a day with ten hours’ pay and the reinstatement of eighteen members of the joiner crew, who, they claim, were dis charged for first demanding shorter time. Rev. Daniel A. McNeil’s Lecture Wednesday Night. Rev. Daniel A. McNeill deliv ered a most interesting and in structive lecture at the city audi torium Wednesday night on the purposes and work of the Ameri can Bible Society. The audience was not as large as it was ex pected to have been, the collec tion amounting to only $3.18. The purpose of this fund is to distribute Bibles among the soldiers at the front and a splen did sum ought to have been real ized. Anyone who wants to con tribute to this fund can do so by seeing either the editor of the Advance, Rev. D. A. McNeill or Rev. M. W. Carmichael. Vidalia Advance. Mr. Harry Adams, member of the Liberty county troop, was here a few days ago on a recruit ing trip His brother, Calvin, recently enlisted in this company. Tarrytown. * Special Correspondence. Editor McWhorter of* The Vi dalia Advance was in town Sat urday Mr. Tom Ivey of Soperton was here a short while Monday. Messrs. W. D. Currie and Lon nie Fields motored over to Adrian Sunday. Messrs. D. F. and J. T. War nock returned from Washington and New York Tuesday. Mr. Van Wiggins, who has been making Mr. Geo. Coleman’s his home, left Monday for Vi dalia. Misses Arlia and Sarah Wil liamson of Ailey were the week end guests of Misses Mabel Burns, Mattie Lou Kemp and Monie Coleman. Mr. Carl Adams of Mt. Vernon was a visitor to our city Satur day. Miss Anna Currie is spending the week in Vidalia. Mr. Jim Morris of .Soperton was in town Monday. Mr. Ben Calhoun of Glenwood spent the week-end with relatives here. Mrs. D. E. Holloman, who has been visiting relatives in San dersville returned Tuesday. Mr. Geo. Sammons of SoDer ton was transacting business here Monday. Miss Frances Beatty and Mr. Tom Page motored to Mt. Ver non Thursday. Rev. and Mrs. S. P. Walker and daughter, Eveline, were pleasant visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Calhoun Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Williamson and son, Homer, were visitors here Saturday. Miss Mary Sue Futrell of So perton and Mr. Lewis Calhoun, formerly of this place, but now of Hamlet, N. C., were happily married Sunday afternoon near Kibbee. Rev. S. P. Walker of ficiating. We join with their many friends in extending con gratulations. Georgia Registration is Near 275,000 Mark. Atlanta, Ga., June 9. —Reports from three-fourths of the coun ties of Georgia show that more than 95 per cent of the men ex pected by the government placed their names on the military reg istration lists last Tuesday. Quite a number of counties reg istered more men than the gov j ernment expected, while others fell below by very small margins. The total registration for the en tire state is not yet available on account of the fact that all re turns have not come in, but the average in the counties heard from shows that Georgia will be well around the mark of approxi mate 275,000 set for the state by the federal government. State house official believe that 'the government’s estimates of I the number of men who should ibe counted on in Georgia were rather liberal because they did not take account of the exodus of thousands of negroes to the north in recent months There are many counties where the negro population is much larger than the white population. These counties, as well as others hav ing a negro population, have been very much depleted by the negro exodus to the north. . Domestic Blackberries Raised in Mt. Vernon. The Monitor was recently pre sented with several of domestic blackberries, grown by Mr J. I. Fountain. This is the most pro lific specimen of berries ever seen in this section. Each stem contained a cluster of ten berries, and two braches enough for a pie. They are of the seedless variety, large and sweet. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1917. BATTLESHIP PENNSYLVANIA F ACTION GEORGIA IS LIVING BEYOND HER INCOME Comptroller Recommends a Curtailment of State’s Expenditures. Atlanta, June 9.—Georgia is at the present time livipg beyond her means to a greater extent than the general public realizes according to the report just made by Comptroller General VV. A. Wright, for the benefit of the Legislature which meets the last of this month. Regardless of any additional ap propriation to be made at that session, Georgia’s expenses are now $434,240 greater than her in come. In other words she gets in $6,466,411 and will spend in 1917 $6,900,651. The comptroller general recom mends that during the coming year the Legislature made such arrangements that all moneys re ceived by the state will be paid directly into the state treasury and all checks to be paid will be upon Governor’s warrants. In this way the cost in detail of each branch of the state government will be shown. The estimate revenues for 1917 includes $200,000 inheritance tax which is more than double the amount of revenue derived from this source in 1916. In view of this condition of the state finances, the comptroller general recommends that the corning session of the Legisla ture increase none of the appro priations for 1917 and that no special appropriations be made. The comptroller general also suggests that the large number of small local telephone proper ties throughout the state, some of them incorporated, but many unincorporated, be required to be returned for taxation. A further recommendation of the comptroller general is that the act of August 13, 1904, re quiring his department to license domestic and non-resident invest ment companies doing business in Georgia, be amended so as to authorize the department to in quire into their financial condi tion, the management of their af fairs and to exercise a supervis ion over them for the protection of the public. Revival Meeting Closed Sunday Night. The week’s service at the Mt Vernon Methodist church came to a close Sunday evening. The preaching,,with the exception of Friday, was done by Rev. J. P- Dell of Unadilla, one of the able young ministers of the South Georgia Conference Rev. LW. Colson, presiding elder, preached Friday, and the quarterly con ference was held that day. The attendance was good dur ing the week, and while mani festations of conviction were not marked, the meeting will no doubt be as seed sown in good ground The preacher delivered a series of strong gospel sermons, and the machinery of the church is moving on despite a seeming indifference on the part of the world Uvaldii News. Special Correspondence 1 Mr. David Hollis was a visitor to Broxton Sunday. Master Edwin Leggett has re turned from a visit to his grand parents at Glenwood. Mrs. R. M Gason has returned from a visit to Davisboro and Warthen. Mrs. L. L Wolfe and daughter, Doris, are visiting relatives in Glennville. Dr. Alexander of Reidsville was a visitor here Monday- Misses Mattie Waller and Lu ci!e Pritchett and Col- Jack Dur den of Soperton were here last Wednesday. Mr and Mrs. R C- Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McClelland and Misses Lucile and Clarice Mc- Clelland of Dexter motored down and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Calhoun. Miss Maggie Langford is at home after an absence of three .weeks at Mcßae and other points. Miss Anna Currie of Tarrytown is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Calhoun. Mrs Bush and daughter, Grace, and Messrs. Wright and Muse of Dublin spent. Sunday with Mrs. Hiram Johnson. Misses Velma and Sarah Mc- Arthur and Carrie Mae and Eula Lee Peterson of Vidalia were the week-end guests of Mrs. VV. M. ; Moses. i Mr Alvin Sykes of Dublin was I here Thursday. Mr and Mrs. Wallace Moses and children visited relatives at Manassas Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs W. D- McDaniel visited at Denton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Lester O’Neal had as their guests Sunday, Mr and Mrs. Dan Odum, Mrs. J. W. O’Neal and Mrs. Mary McGowan of Lyons- Mr. and Mrs. Quince Coleman entertained in honor of their guest, Miss Edna Mincey, of Statesboro, with a fish fry at ! Wistaria Springs near their beau tiful country home. Among those invited were: Dr and Mrs O- J. Whipple, Mr. and Mrs. R L O’Neal, Misses Edna Mincey, ; Odessa and Annie Lou Gray, ! Mazie Carpenter, Alma -leans, Annie Lou Coleman, Georgia j Daniels, Bernice .lones, Minnie and Dollie Wells and Velma Mc- Arthur and Messrs .Jim Wells, Jim McNatt, David Hollis, J. B. Brown, Will Whitlock, Carl Jeans and Will Daniels. Dr. and Mrs. It. H. Mobley were visitors to Savannah la&t week. Misses Atha Mason and Lois Jones of near Lyons were visiting friends here Monday. , To Hunt Oil. Fitzgerald, June 9. C. Wythe Cook, in charge of a corps of sur veyors from the United States Department of the Geological Survey, is to be here today to be gin investigating the oil pros pects, i Longpoiul Dots. Special Coneapoiulenee. Mr. W. F. McAllister has ac cepted a position in Atlanta. Mrs. Virgil Bush and daugh ter, Grace, and Messrs. Muse and Wright of Dublin were visitors here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie O’Quinn and niece of English Eddy were visitors here last week. Mr. Cecil Linder of Dublin is visiting his friend, Mr. Monroe Bush, this week. Quite an interesting event, was the marriage of Mr. Cleve Byrd of this place and Miss Naomi Wood of Hack Branch last Sunday afternoon. Mr. Burke of Cedar Crossing is visiting his daughter, Mrs. F. D. Carpenter. Mr. Monroe Hughes of Pic ayune, Miss., visited relatives here this week. Miss Mae Carpenter delight fully entertained the young peo ple at her home last Monday night. After games and music a dainty course of cream and cake was served. Those present were; Misses Belle, Sarah L., Agnes and Christene McAllister, Mary L. McArthur, Lizzie and Mae Carpenter, and Messrs. Mack McAllister, Frank Mobley, Monroe Bush, Jesse Goff, Omer and Claris Burch, Chas. Arrnfield, Willie Hughes, Austin Bendi mere, John Johnson, Henry Car penter, Cecil Linder of Dublin, Monroe Hughes of Picayune, Miss., Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Byrd, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Morrison, Mr. ane Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. •J. M. Hughes. SECRETS 11. S. NAVY FROM A TRAITOR Secretary Daniels Recently Orders Strengthening Safeguards. Special Service to Monitor. Washington.—Either a spy or trai tor ban been divulging confidential in formation of the bureau of ordnance, Secretary Daniels told the senate na val affairs committee. When the committee resumed inves tigation of the Mongolia shell inci dent, Senator FrClinghuysen produced some letters which Secretary Daniels said contained information which only could have been obtained from the confidential file of the ordnance bu reau. He asked to have them turned over to tiie secret service. Senator Fre linghuysen said he had no desire to shield any one, that he had attempted to'flnd out something about the author and could not. Secretary Daniels said it was abso lutely necessary to run down traitors or spies in the navy department Irish Parties Agree To Home Rule London. —All Irish parties have at last agreed to the government’s plan for a convention all factions which shall map out future home rule for Ireland, Premier Lloyd George an nounced in the house of commons. Lloyd George’s plan for settlement, of the Irish home rule question was ad vanced more than a month ago along al'ernallve lines, one for a parliament, headed by a British appointive officer, and another for a conference of all parties to settle the form of adminis tration. Big Ship Plant Near Savannah, Ga. New York. —The Terry arid French company, shipbuilders, who have been awarded contracts for twenty steel ships by the United States shipping hoard emergency fleet corporation, iitis purchased the river front and about a hundred acres of land at Port Went worth, near Savannah, Ga., and will build a shipbuilding plant there, it has been learned. The ships are to, cost $10,000,000 each, and each will have a capacity of 3,500 tons. The first mu.rt be delivered within eight months and the others eighteen months. Fishing Trip. y A fishing party composed of Messrs J. A. Mcßride, A. G. Hicks, H J Fountain, W. A Mc- Queen, H L Wilt and M. E Fountain, left yesterday for a S day or so on the Ogeechee river. This is a famous fishing resort, and it is probable that the Mt Vernon party will have good luck. REGISTRATION IN GEORGIA 275,000 South Georgia Counties Are Above Government’s Estimate. The greater part of this week’s space is given to the publication of a list of those registered un der the selective draft bill on the sth inst. It completes a record which the public is interested in, and which may be preserved for future reference. The county registrars since last week have rechecked the list, and the exact number as registered in each district in Montgomery county is as follows: White Colored Alston 57 43 Uvalda 82 72 Soperton 153 80 Lothair 74 27 Mt. Vernon 51 78 Orland 50 2G Tarry town 03 23 Kibbee 47 14 lliggs ton 29 33 Ailey 42 52 Tiger 29 13 Federal estimates placed the Georgia registration at 275,000, and this figure is about the sum total. Singularly, in South Geor gia the actual registration ex ceeded the government estimate, and in many North Georgia coun ties registration ran short of the government estimate. The above figures for this coun ty total 1144, but on the6th inst., as allowed by the government, three others registered, making the total for Montgomery county about 1147. There were a few evasions of the law in Georgia, and most of these have been apprehended by the government, and the penalty will be enforced. Cotton Blooms. Montgomery county is now alive with cotton blooms, as evi denced by the many sent to The Monitor during the past few days The first received was from Mr W. A. Conner of the Uvalda section. Mr. Conner has about 100 acres in fine cotton. The Longpond section was rep resented by.J. 1). Jasper, an in dustrious colored farmer on the plantation of Mr Carl McAllister Jasper writes that the bloom came out of a 40-acre field. Next came a bloom from the field of Mr. I). W. Brown of Route No 1, followed by a boun tiful supply from the farm of Mr. E. D Adams, of Route No 2. These patrons are very kind to furnish the blooms, but since the present weather conditions are very conducive to an over-supply before another issue. The Moni tor trusts that it will be excused from a further mention of the production for this season. A watermelon next, and then more talk. McDougald—Sharpe. On Sunday afternoon, five o’clock, Miss Linnie McDougald and Mr. Herbert Sharpe were married. The event was cele brated at. the home of Mrs. Min nie Armfield, where the bride had resided during her stay in Mt Vernon The ceremony, wit nessed by only a few relatives and intimate friends, was read by Rev J D Rabun. The bride wore gray crepe de chine and carried white daisies. Mr Sharpe is a well known young citizen of Toombs county, and they will reside in Vidalia. Miss McDougald spent last year in Mt Vernon as lady attendant, in the office of Dr Rackley, and while here made many friends and admirers. Miss Mary Doolittle of Sanders ! ville is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jas. A. Stacy, of Route No. 2. NO. 7.
