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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1918)
© ©•©o 0 ©-0 0 0 0 o'S'© mmmmmmmm% I LOCAL - PERSONAL f ;©: i 1 .© o©©'©©©© ©©■ © © © ©;©'©©!,©'© ©' , Miss Alice Thompson left Sun day for Macon, where she will visit friends before returning to the State Normal at Athens. Mr. Richard Wilson left Sunday for Dahlonega, where he enters the North Georgia Agricultural College. Miss .Janie Mae McQueen has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. F. E. Ray, of Lum-i ber City. “Chalmers—buy a Chalmers the best six cylinder car on the market from E. L. Meadows, j Vidalia, Ga.” Mrs. G. V. Mason has returned i from a visit to friends in Sa-I vannah. Mr. G. G. Stanford of Grove- 1 land visited homefolks Sunday. Miss Inez Mcßae has returned from a visit to the family of Rev. Chas. Montgomery of Ridgeway, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jones and Mrs. G. M. Wilcox of Mcßae spent last Sabbath with the fam ily of Col. M. B. Calhoun. Dr. and Mrs. Henderson of Sandersville spent a part of last week with the family of Dr. J. E. Hunt, Mrs. Hunt being a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hen- j derson. Mr. Ethan Stephens has recent ly accepted a position with Me-, Queen’s store. Rev. A. G. Brewton and family attended Tattnall county camp meeting last week. Mrs. J. M. Wooten and little son have returned to their home in Atlanta, after visiting friends and relatives in this section, j Mrs. Wooten is pleasantly re*| membered by Mt. Vernon friends as Miss Annie Burch. I LOYAL GEORGIA VOTERS! I Be Sure to go to the Polls Wednesday, Sep tember 11, and vote For WM. J. HARRIS FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR Your vote for Harris is a vote for YOUR GO\ ERN MENT. Your vote for Harris puts you squarely back of Presi dent Wilson. Your vote for Harris is a vote for the best interests of GEORGIA’S SOLDIER ANI) SAILOR BOYS. Your vote for Harris is a vote for the more speedy end ing of the war and the establishment of a permanent peace, hecimse— Your vote for Harris is a vote for harmony and co operation between Georgia and the administration. A vote for any other candidate, under our primary law, Is a vote for Hardwick. A vote for Hardwick is a vote against your government and its administration. LOYAL VOTERS: It rests with you to help or hinder vour administration in this crisis. Y’our vote for Harris will help It. Your vote for any other candidate will hinder and ob struct it. Mississippi and South Carolina have given their an swer. They have put themselves squarely hark of the government and President Wilson’s administration. That is just what Georgia is going to do, for GEORGIA IS LOYAL. And she will do it in the ONLY WAY— By ELECTING WILLIAM J. HARRIS Adv«rti»«aMuu j Mr. J. W Cockfield, of Kings tree, S. C.. spent a part of last week with his brother, Mr. J. E. Cockfield. The visitor is a to bacco grower, having during the ( past year made as much as $llOO on two acres of the weed. Miss Julia Murphy, sister of i Miss May Murphy, of Bartow, joined her sister in a visit here ; last week. They were accompa nied home by Misses Charley Will Salter and Marie Cockfield for a short visit. Rev. C. R. Phillips of Uvalda stopped over here a few minutes yesterday en route home from Mcßae, where he attended the opening of the South Georgia College. Mr. Phillips is one of the progressive young ministers of the South Georgia Conference, and is serving his second year at Uvalda. No car is perfect, and from 1 time to time it is necessary to make adjustments and repairs. With the Maxwell this trouble is reduced to a minimum. Get the parts when you need them, and that without delay. Hicks Bros. Garage, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Homer Daniel, who has been in Maryland during the summer, arrived a few days ago * ito visit his mother, Mrs. D. W, Folsom. Miss Susan Daniel, af ter spending the summer with relatives in Evans and Liberty counties, has returned home. Get a reliable car while you can. Carload Maxwells just re ceived. The Maxwell has proven itself the most reliable low-price car sold. Ix>w cost for upkeep and the best of material makes it a most inexpensive car. Hicks | Bros. & Peterson, Agents. THE MONTGOMERY AIONITOR-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. What Our Neighbors Think. A recent entrant into the con test for representative of Mont gomery county is Editor H. B. Folsom, for sixteen years in charge of the Montgomery Moni tor. There is no phase of the county’s affairs that this energet ic little man is not acquainted with, and should he he chosen, his opportunity of service to the old county will he doubled. Mr. Folsom is a strong advocate of harmony and progress, and de sires very much to see the dif ferences between the old county and the new county of Treutlen settled forever, and in submitting his candidacy before the people, this is a part of his policy. If elected, Editor Folsom pledges his continued efforts to ward the upbuilding of Mont gomery county and in this he will feel a friendly interest in the new county, which in former years he opposed, and which will still be so closely united to old Montgomery. The people of this section no doubt appreciate the peculiar fitness of Editor Folsom, and for the sake of harmony will no doubt accord him a strong com plimentary vote in the September primary,—Soperton News. Editor Folsom, of the Mont gomery Monitor, is a candidate for the legislature over in Mont gomery county. If he is elected our sister county will have a splendid representative,—Vidalia Advance. Ice! Ice! Ice! I am prepared to serve Ailey and Mt. Vernon and the public generally with ice during the summer. Regular orders solicit ited. Supply unlimited. Sold for cash only. H. W. Cockfield, 530 Mt. Vernon, Ga. A CREDITABLE AGAINST A DISCREDITABLE RECORD Judge Frank Harwell is a candidate for re-election as a member of the Court of Appeals of Georgia and is opposed by Mr. Alex W. Stephens, of Atlanta. No office within the gift of the people is fraught with more consequence to them in the security of their personal and civic rights than the judiciary, and this applies with particular force to the courts of last appeal. We deem it a solemn duty to warn against incompetent and untrustworthy applicants for such places. Investigation of Mr. Stephens’ record, uncontradicted and undenied, and undertaken only for the purpose of ascertaining the merits of contending candidates, discloses the following facts with reference to Mr. Stephens: Ist. He endorsed a negro for admission to the bar. 2nd. He has been twice defeated for Judge of the Court of appeals. 3rd. He ran for the legislature. 4th. He ran for Judge of the Superior Court of Atlanta. 6th. He ran for City Recorder of Atlanta. 6th. He ran for Solicitor of the Criminal Court of Atlanta. 7th. He ran for Justice of the I’eace of Atlanta. Bth. He was appointed auditor to try and decide a case in volving $684.20. He held the case one year, without making any decision. He was ruled, upon the plaintiff's motion, to show cause why he had not decided the case before Judge Geo. F. Bell, Judge of the Superior Court, of Atlanta, and replied that the questions involved were “difficult” for him to determine and asked to be relieved from deciding the case. HE WAS NEVER ELECTED TO ANY OF THE OFFICES NAMED, many of which involving positions wherein his own people, his neighbors who knew him best, had the decision. Can the people of the state afford to risk one who has been so regularly defeated in his own home? Appointed to try one case, he held it until the patience of the plaintiff was exhausted and upon being ruled answered that the matter was too difficult for him to decide. And yet. the office for which he now aspires is a court before which comes hundreds of cases of great and small amount, and questions of liberty of accused violators of law. and in all ot which are in volved difficult and intricate questions of law and fact to be determined. On the other hand. Judge Frank Harwell was Judge of the City Court of LaGrange for 12 years, having been elected by the people of his home county for four successive terms. He had been elected for yet another term of four years hut resigned to accept the appointment, tendered by Gov. Hugh Dorsey, to a place on the Court of Appeals, and for which he seeks re-election for the unexpired term of Judge George of two years. He has made a record for earnest,-painstaking and intelligent service on the bench. I Comparing the records makes the decision easy, and. this paper unreservedly endorses Judge Harwell, who. we are grati fied to learn, is likewise supported by all members of the Carters ville bar. Editorial from 77it» Tribune. August 22, 1918, Cartersville, Co. 1 Auv»rtis«m*nt * '*• • State of Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, August 24th, 1918. A PROCLAMATION. Submitting a proposed amendment to the Constitutionjof Georgia, to be | voted on at the General Election to ; ! be held on Tuesday. November sth, \ 1918. said amendment to amend Para graph 2, Section 1, Article 11, of the j Constitution of Georgia, so as to lay | out and create a new county from portions of Montgomery and Eman uel Counties, to he known as Trcut ! Ie» County, with the town of Soper ton as the County seat. By His Excellency, HUGH M. DORSEY, Governor, j WHEREAS, the General Assembly at its se-sion in 1917, proposed an ! amendment to the Constitution of j this State as set forth in an Act ap- J 'proved August 21st, 1917, to-wit : An act to propose to the qualified j j electors of this State an amendment : 1 to paragraph two (2) section one (1), j article eleven. (11), of the Constitu-j I tion of this State. The following j ! amendment is proposed by the House of Representatives and Senate of j j Georgia to paragraph two (2), sec- i I tion one (1), article (11), of the Con- i -.titution of this State; the same be-, ing an Act to ay out and create a ' new county from portions of Mont- | gomery and Emanuel counties to be ! named and to be known as Treutlen i County with the town of Soperton as the county seat. Section 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia hereby pro poses to the people of Georgia an amendment to paragraph two (2). section one fl), article eleven (11), of ! the Constitution of this State as fol ! lows: That in addition to the coun -1 lies heretofore existing in this State, 1 created by the General Assembly, and those created by amendments to i the above and foregoing paragraph, | section and article of the Constitu | tion of this State, there is hereby I created an additional county, which county, when created, shall be known jus Treutlen County. The territory for 1 the formation of the said County of j Treutlen shall he taken from the I counties of Montgomery and Etnan- I uel, and the said territory so taken for the foimation of said County of Treutlen shall he included within the following described boundaries, to i wit: Starting at a point on the east j ,ide of the Oconee River where Red Bluff Creek empties into the Oconee | River and running up said Red Bluff I Creek to a point where the river road crosses Red Blutf Creek, thence I on a straight line in a northeasterly ! direction to Wixtrum’s Bridge on Pendleton Creek, said Pendleton ! Creek being the present line between Montgomery and Emanuel Counties, i thence in a northerly direction from j Wixtrum’s Bridge on Pendleton Creek to Moore's Bridge on the Ohoopee j River; the public road from Wix- I ! rum’s Bridge leading to Swainsboro j being the line to said Moore’s Bridge on the Ohoopee River; thence up the I run of the Ohoopee River from Moore’s bridge to McLemore’s Bridle j where the Savannah and Dublin pub l.c road crosses the county line be tween I.aurens and Emanuel Counties Laurens thence in a southwesterly direction along the county line be tween the present Counties of Eman tel and Laurens to Pendleton Creek; thence along the county line between Laurens and Montgomery Counties to Mercer’s Creek; thence down Mercer’s creek in a'outhweterly dir ection to where Mercer’s Creek emp ties into the Oconee River; thence down the Oconee River to the amount | of Red Bluff Creek; at the starting i point. That if the said county is j created the county seat shall be the 1 Town of Soperton now in the County l of Montgomery. That if this amend ment shall be ratified by the people when the same is submitted to them i for their ratification, then, on the first Wednesday in December, 1918 i an election shall be held for the elec- I tion -of county officers herein named to serve in and for said new county; that said election shall be at the said election precincts existing within the limits of said proposed new county at tlie time this amendment shall take 1 effect, and he held during the hours | now fixed by law for holding elec tions. and all legally qualified voters residing in the territory included in the limit.-, of said proposed new coun ! ty shall be qualified to vote at said election for said officers, and the or dinaries of tiie several counties in which tin election precincts are lo ! rated within the limits of the said i proposed new county at the time this : amendment is to take effect shall ; appoint the election managers for the precincts in the county in which lie exercises jurisdiction as or i dinary, and said managers shall take and subscribe the oath now prescribed [by law; and the election managers ; diall on the day succeeding the elec tion meet at the Town of Soperton, the place herein designated as the county seat of said proposed new county, and consolidate the votes cast at said election at such place within the limits of said Town of Soperton as shall be designated by the Judge of the Superior Courts of the Oconee Circuit whose duty it is hereby made to designate a meeting place for said election managers ' within the corporate limits of said i Town of Soperton; and the general laws of the State now in force as to the consolidation of votes, the re turn of the election, and the commis sion of tin officers shall be applic able to such special election herein ! rovided for. The officers to be elec ted at said election shall be an ordi nary, clerk of the superior court, sheriff, tax-collector, tax-receiver, coroner, county surveyor, county treasurer, county superintendent of education and member of the General Assembly ; that the persons who shall be eected to fill said offices at said election shall be commissioned as now required by lawn and the laws i now in force in this State in regard to commissions for officers and the bonds required of them shall be ap plicable to the officers so elected, and they shall hold their offices until next general election for county officers mil until their successors are elected an dqualihed. The General Assem bly is hereby given power to create and statutory offices or statutory courts and provide for filling the same. Vacancies that may occur be fore the next general election in any of said offices shal be filled as now provided by law. That said new county when created, shall become a part of the twelfth Congressional District and sixteenth Senatorial Dis trict, and shall be included in the Oconee Judicial Circuit, and a Super ior Court for said county is hereby created, which court shall have the same jurisdiction as now provided by law for the Superior Courts of this State; that the said court until other wise changed by law shall be held on the third Mondays of February and August of each year, but the General Assembly is hereby expressly given the power to change the terms of said court and to increase the.nurp ber thereof; that the justices of the peace and constables residing within the territory' included within the new county of Treutlen shall exercise the duties and powers of their offices un til new militia districts are laid out for said County of Treutlen as now provided by law. That the provisions of Chapter 13 of the Code of 1910 are hereby made applicable to said proposed County of Treutlen, and that all the general laws of this State : ti reference to holding elections for • the purperse of creating debt, and that the said proposed County of Treutlen shall, when created, become in all respects a statutory county, and shall be governed by all laws now in torce in this State relating to coun ties and county affairs, and shall be •übject to the legislative control of this State, and the Legislature of this Mate is hereby given power to enact laws in reference to said county in the same manner and the same extent that they have the power to legislate •is o the other counties now existing in this State; tat the property of all | taxpayers included within the limits | as herein defined of the said propos ■ d County of Treutlen is hereby mad e i chargable w ith any debt that may ! have been incurred by any of the | counties from which the territory | included in the new county is taken v the legally constituted authoriti > ! “• the county for the purpose of , raising revenues for the benefit of ' either of said counties, whether the | said debt is a bonded debt or one I REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE I I! | If you want to buy or sell farm or city property see us STEPHFNS & DURDEN I SOPERTON, GA. f i which has been incurred for the ben ■ efit in any way of either of the counties. The value of the taxable property included in the said county cf Treutlen at the time of the adop tion of this amendment to the Con stitution, in proportion to the value ; of the property left in the counties from which the said County of Treut ien is taken, shall determine the pro portionate amount of the debt which shall be put upon the property of the taxpayers located in said proposed new county. Authority is hereby ; given the ordinary of the said Coun ' iy of Treutlen and to the officers of the counties said terri tory is taken who are charged with management of the business of the said counties to settle and agree up on an amoun of the said indebted i ness that shall be assumed, and paid by the aid County of Treutlen; and I it is hereby made the duty of the ordinary of said County oT Treutlen when the amount of said debt is so I ascertained to cause a tax to be levif ed upon all the property within the limits of the said County of Treut len of such per cent as wll be suffi ; cient to discharge said debt; and in the event of the failure or refusal of the ordinary of Treutlen County to levy such tax it shall be the duty ! of the Judge of the Superior Court of the circuit of which the said County , | of Treutlen forms a part, to compel the ordinary of the County of Treut len to perform the duty herein re quired of him. In the event of the lailure of the authorities of the said Couny of Treutlen to ascertain the proportionate part of .said debt the said Couny of Treutlen is hereby re quired to pay, or in the event the authorities of the counties fail to a gree upon he amount of said debt, 1 then either of said counties may bring a suit against the said County of Treutlen in the Superior Court of , said county for the purpose of hav ing the proportion of said debt so as sumed by the said County of Treut , len to he ascertained, and the said court is hereby given power to en force whatever judgment may be had as the result of said trial by compel ing the ordinary of said county to levy a tax for the payment of said : debt. ■ I Section 2. That Section 846 of [j the Code of 1910, in reference to the [ registration of voters, is hereby ex i pressly made applicable to said coun ty, and in addition to the provisions contained in said section, t is hereby made the duty of the ordinaries of the several counties in the territory included in said county to furnish to the electon managers the names of , all persons legally registered and , who reside in the territory included in the said County of Treutlen and who are qualified to vote according 1 to the laws of this State. I Section 3. The Governor is here [ by directed and required to submit this proposed amendment to the peo i pie of this State for their ratification I or rejection at the next general elec ■ tion to be held on Tuesday, after the first Monday in November, 1918, and [ it shall be his duty to cause this pro posed amendment to be advertied in i at least one paper in each Congres [ sional District in the State at least two months before said general elec tion, If a majority of the legally qualified voters voting at said elec tion shall ratify this proposed amend’ ment, then it shall become a part of the Constitution of this State when the voe is cerified by he Secreary of Sate to the Governor that a majority of the legally qualified voters voing at said election have voted in favor of its adoption and the Governor ■ shall issue his proclamation to that effect. Section 4. The form in which th 1 * proposed amendment shall be sub mitted to the people for their ratifi ; cation or rejection sail he as follows: . Those voting for this amendment shall have written or printed on their [ ballots the words "In favor of the II latification of the amendment to par agraph 2, section 1, article 11, of the Constitution, creating the County of . Treutlen,” and those opposed to the , ratification of this amendment shall 11 have written or printed on their bal . I lots the words: "Aganst the ratifica . i tion of the amendment to paragraph 12, section 1, article 11, of the Con stitution, creating the County of . Treutlen.” , NOW, THEREFORE, I, Hugh M. I Dorsey, Governor of said Sate, do is- I sue this my proclamation hereby de- I daring that the foregoing proposed , amendment to the Constitution is sub mitted for ratification or rejection i to the voters of the State, qualified ; to vote for members of the General Assembly at the general election to be held on Tuesday, November sth, 1918. HUGH M. DORSEY, Governor. : By the Governor: H. B. STRANGE, Secretary of State. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door In Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in Oct.. 1918, be tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: Five acres of land s'ituate. lying and being in the 1687th G. M. district of said state and countv. and bounded on all four sides by lands of J. C. Flan ders. together with dwelling of said Flanders located in the center of said tract. Levied on and will be sold as the property of J. C. Flanders to satisfy a fi fa issued by H. C. Davis, tax collec tor, vs J. C. Flanders, for state and county taxes for the year 1917. Levy made and returned to me by I. C. S. Berner, special bailiff, and written notice given in terms of the law. This the 3rd day of September, 1918. I. J. Davis, Sheriff.
