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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1918)
Th© r\or\tgorri&ry r\or\itor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OPPICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Knti ii'il »t tlx- l*OHtoftir. in Mt. Vernon. (<». Hecond-Claai* Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. Si. 5° a Year, in Advance. a.Wi rti*. m. I.t- intuit Invariably !>«• panl la advance, at the Ick»I rate, and aa the law direct*; and nm-t be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the firat week or Inaertlon Mount Vernon. (la.. Thursday Morning, October 31, 1918. Luke T. Outler Writes Letter From France. Mrs. M. O. Outler of Cordele sends The Monitor the following letter from her son, Luke, who is in France, and whose address is attached to the bottom. This family formerly lived in Ailey and later in Mt. Vernon, and friends of the young soldier will be glad to hear from him. Somewhere in France, Sept. 16, 1918. Dearest Mother: Have just received eight let ters and was certainly glad to get them —two from you, one from Lane, one from Joe, and two from uncle J. T. They were all dated along from Aug Ist to 20th. And Lane is expecting to go to the army? Tell him if he does to try for the Q M C. when he first goes to camp is the time for him to try for it. I continue to get along fine but it has been exciting the past six days. This is our eighth day at the front since we had a rest. It has been a steady shooting on both sides all the while hut we soon get used to it and pay but very little attention to it—unless they get too close. We live in holes in the ground like a “wood chuck.’’ We get plenty of water to drink but we dont dare take any to even wash our face and hands, so you can imagine how we look after several days of it. Am glad you get the paper and enjoy it. 1 have sent you one every week and will continue to do so; am mailing you one today. i can’t answer all my letters just now as am out of paper and we don’t have a Y. M. C. A. here; but let me tell you, the Knights of Columbus certainly have pulled one over on the Y. M. C. A. when is comes to looking after us boys. They sure do look out for us. The Y. M. C. A. sells to us at a good price but the K. of C. gives to us and finds out where we are and sends us cigarettes and chocolates. They both help out a lot. You suoke of your trip down home. I know you had lots of good things to eat. How I would liked to have been sticking a round, but such is life and we have to make the best of it. Ido feel like there are better days not far ahead. Mama, just let me tell you how near 1 came to see ing John Lee; I heard that thirty of the Dixie Division had been transfered to our battalion, so I went up to see who they were and found that they were a part of the 121st company; ran right into a fellow that said that there was a Cox in the bunch but when 1 found him it was not John Lee. He said the bunch was split that morning and John Lee was sent some where else, he didn’t know where. I sure w as disappointed, as there is not a man in France that I had rather see. 1 haven’t even heard any more about him. Well Mother, the trenches are right bad some times, but not so bad as 1 had thought. It is a great relief tho’ to get out. go to a cootie machine, have your; clothes steamed and get “scald- i ed. “ You sure do feel fresh and clean, and then get a rest camp j where you have real American bread, bacon, potatoes, good beef, coffee and butter. These French people are real good to us. Once in a while we run up on some old lady who “raises sand” with us but we just let her know that we have “seen ’em” like her before. We certainly do have some funny experience and a lot of fun mixed in with the hardships, hut don’t you worry about old Luke. I be lieve I will come out all right and come back to home and mother. How is the bunch at the office? Tell them hello for me and to hold things down till I get hack. Tell everybody to write to me for I sure do like to get letters from home. Hope you are all real well Write me often. With iota and lots of love from your boy. Luke. [Corp. L. T. Outler, Co. L, 326 Infantry, Am. Ex. Forces.] fTTffVTVVffmTfYVYYYYmj ► Georgia State < ► * ► Press Expressions. < * * •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Metter Advertiser: —One of the constitutional amendments to be voted on in the November election is that providing for the creation of Treutlen county, the bill hav ing been passed by the general assembly of 1917. Practically all the opposition which developed during the effort to create this county has disanpeared, and there is no doubt of this amendment receiving the requisite numberof votes. That new counties make for progress has never been suc cessfully denied. Nashville Herald:—The know ing ones predicted that Tom Wat son would turn against Governor Dorsey sooner or later. Seems that it was sooner. Dublin Courier Herald:—Sa vannah has been considerably stirred over the picture of a statue on the curtain of her auditorium. This picture is said to be migh ty like the statue of General Sher man, whose raid across Georgia is remembered by a good many people now living, and which was almost as bad in some respects as the Hun invasion of France. The artist who made the picture, how ever, is endeavoring to explain thoroughly that he had no partic ular person in mind when he paint ed it, and did not know he was repoducing the Sherman statue of New York. He certainly was not the man to trust with a job of that kind for the City of Savannah not exactly. Cordele Dispatch: —Hindenburg suffered most when he had it all settled in his mind that the French were begten. He may be trying to play that same thing back at the French. It was no little em barrassment to the crown prince to have to turn back from his journey to Paris so very suddenly. It might be well for the Allies to remember that the German fight ing machine is one capable of im provement. Vidalia Advance: —The farmers are complaining loudly about the cotton seed situation and we think they are justified in their com plaints. They are not able to sell their seed because the buyers are not permitted to carry more than a imited amount of seed at any one time. The seed regulations are wrong somewhere as this great industry has been com pletely demoralized, and there is no market at all for the seed in this section. Lyons Progress:—The old the ory that the kings and emperors rule by divine right is receiving a severe jolt j ust now The people of Europe, long oppressed by kings, are declaring their disbe lief in the divine right of these scoundrels to rule them. Ger many is about to wake to the fact as well as all the other oppressed peoples of Euroue that the Kaiser is a humbug; that he does not rule by divine right but by military rule and brute force. Savannah Press : Germany doesn’t want to be followed by her enemies when she evacuates Belgium. Germany evidently thinks she is fighting fools. Seed Rape. 36 cents per quart or three quarts for SI.OO, at H. G. Martin’s Drug Store, U valda. Ford for Sale. One used Ford in excellent shape; good top: crown fenders; new radiator. A bargain. See Hicks Bros. & Peterson, 103tf Mt. Vernon, Ga. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81 1918. Notice to Patrons. As formerly announced, The Monitor is entirely without help, and until sufficient force is se cured every phase of the work will be handicapped. With one man attempting to do the work ot three, the consideration of the patrons of the paper is asked until conditions improve. Notice Tax Levy. State of Georgia—Montgomery County. Office of Board of Commission ers of Roads and Revenues for said County, iu session on Sept. 3, 1918. After considering the proposi tion of levying and assessing a tax rate for said county for the year 1918, it is ordered and ad judged that the following tax rate be and the same is hereby levied to wit: Item 1. —25 cents on the hun dred dollars, the same being fifty per ceut. of the State tax levy for the year 1918, to pay the legul indebtedness ot the county, due or to become due du ring the year 1918. Item 2.—60 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 120 per cent, of the state levy, to build or repair court houses, build bridges or ferries or other public improvements according to contract. Item 8.—20 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 40 per cent, of the state levy, to pay sheriffs, jailers or other offi cers’ fees that they may b? legally entitled to out of the county. Item 4. —2 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 4 per ceut. of the state levy, to pay coroners all fees that may be due them for holding inquests. Item 5—16 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 82 per ceut. of the state levy, to pay the expenses of the county for bailiffs at court, non-resident witnesses, fuel, servant hire, sta tionery and the like. Item 6. 12 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 24 per cent of the state levy, to pay juries a per diem compensa tion. Item 7.-5 cents on the one hundred dollars, the same being 10 per cent of the state levy, to pay expenses incurred in support the poor of the county and as is otherwise prescribed by the Code Item 8.—46 cents on the*one hundred dollars, the same being 90 per cent, of the strte levy, to pay charges for educational pur poses. to be levied only in strict compliance with tho law Item 9—40 cents on the one hundred dol’ars, the same being 80 per cent of the state levy, for road purposes Item 10 —Making in the aggre gate the sum of $22.50 on the thousand of taxable property of said county for county and school purposes for the year 1918. This Sept. Bd, 1918 J L. Lowrey, C. D. Greenway, G. H. Calhoun, J. H. Dees, A. B. Hutcheson, Clerk. Citation. Georgia —Montgomery County. Ordinary’s Office, Oct. 7, 1918. James Herndon has in proper form appplied for letters of ad ministration on the estate of W. M. Herndon, deceased. This is therefore to notify all concerned that said application will be heard on the first Monday in November, 1918. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues day in Nov., 1918, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest, bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete descrip tion : That certain tract or parcel of lend situate, ly ing and being in tile 16#lat district G. X. of aaid conn y and atate and bounded aa follows: On the north by landa of Son Phillips, on the east by landa of Wiley l’bi lip* and on the west by landa of Son Phillip* Said property levied on and will be • old as the property of S. M Hutcheeon to satisfy a tax fl fa issued by H. C. Its via, tax callector, vs S. M- Hutcheson, for state and county ta*e» for the year IU7. Levy made by LC. S. Berner, -pecial bailiff, and written notice riven in term* of the law. This tha lit day of Oct.. 1918. 1. J. Davis, ShariS. Citation. Georgia—Montgomery County. Odinary’a Office, Oct, 7, 1918. W. A. Conner and E. L. Car penter, as administrators of the estate of J. R. Conner, deceased, have applied for leave to sell all of the lands of said deceased in the 275th district of said county. This is therefore to uotifyall con cerned to file their objcctious, if any they have, on or before the first Monday in November, next, else leave will tbeu be granted said applicants as applied for. Alex McArthur, Ordiuary. Stale of Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, August 24th, 1918. A PROCLAMATION. Submitting a proposed amendment to the Constitution of 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 Constitution of Georgia, so as to lay out and create a new county from portions of Montgomery and Eman uel Counties, to be known as Treut len County, with the town of Soper ton as the County seat. By His Excellency, HUGH M. DORSEY, Governor. WHEREAS, the General Assembly at its session in 1917, proposed an amendment to the Constitution of this State as set forth in an Act ap proved August 21st, 1917, to-wit : An act to propose to the qualified electors of this State an amendment to paragraph two (2) section one (1), article eleven. (11), of the Constitu tion of this State. The following amendment is proposed by the House cf Representatives and Senate of Georgia to paragraph two (2), sec tion one (1), article (11), of the Con stitution 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 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 (1), article eleven (11), of the Constitution of this State as fol lows: That in addition to the coun ties heretofore existing in this State, created by the General Assembly, and those created by amendments to the above and foregoing paragraph, section and article of the Constitu tion of this State, there is hereby created an additional county, which county, when created, shall be known as Treutlen County. The territory for the formation of the said County of Treutlen shall be taken from the counties of Montgomery and Eman uel, and the said territory so taken for the formation of said County of Treutlen shall be included within the following described boundaries, to wit: Starting at a point on the east side of the Oconee River where Red Bluff Creek empties into the Oconee River and running up said Red Bluff Creek to a point where the river road crosses Red Bluff Creek, thence en 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, :hence in a northerly direction from Wixtrum’s Bridge on Pendleton Creek to Moore’s Bridge on the Ohoopee River; the public road from Wix trum’s Bridge leading to Swainsboro being the line to said Moore’s Bridge on the Ohoopee River; thence up the run of the Ohoopee River from Moore’s Bridge to McLemore’s Bridge where the Savannah and Dublin pub l.c road crosses the county line De tween Laurens 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 outhvveterly 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 point. That if the said county is created the county seat shall be the Town of Soperton now in the County of Montgomery. That if this amend ment shall be ratified by the people when the same is submitted to them for their ratification, then, on the first Wednesday in December, 1918 an election shall be held for the elec 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 the time this amendment shall take effect, and be held during the hours now fixed by law for holding elec tions, and all legally qualified voters residing in the territory included in the limits of said proposed new coun ty shall be qualified to vote at said election for said officers, and the or dinaries of the several counties in which the election precincts are In-" cated within the limits of the said proposed new county at tile time this amendment is .to take effect shall appoint the election managers for the precincts in the county in which he exercises jurisdiction as or dinary, and said managers shall take and subscribe the oath now prescribed by law; and the election managers shall 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 he 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 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 the officers shall be applic able to such special election herein provided for. The officers to be elec ted at said election shall he 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 he eected to fill said offices at said election shall he commissioned as now required by law, and the laws now in force in this State in regard to commissions for officers and the bonds required of them shall he ap plicable to the officers so elected, and they shail hold their offices until next general election for county officers and until their successors are elected an dqualitied. The General As<em-' bly is hereby given power to create and statutory offices or statutory | courts ana provide for filling the anie. 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 aid 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 lhat all the general laws of this State in reference to holding elections for the purpose of creating debt, and lhat the said proposed County of Treutlen shall, when created, become in all respects a statutory county, and •hall be governed by all laws now in lorce in this State relating to coun ties and county affairs, and shall be übject to the legislative control of this State, and the Legislature oT~this State 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 as 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 ed County of Treutlen is hereby mad e chargable with any debt that may have been incurred by any of the counties from which the territory included in the new county is taken by the legally constituted authorit?' s of the county for the purpose of raising revenues) for the benefit of either cf said counties, whether the’ said debt is a bonded debt or one 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 of Treutlen tit 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 ’ ty of Treutlen and to the officers of the counties from which 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 ness that shall be assumed, and paid by the aid County of Treutlen; and it is hereby made the duty of the ordinary of said County of Treutlen when the amount of said debt is so ascertained to cause a tax to be levif ed upon all the property within the limits of tile 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 failure 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 :ree upon he amount of said debt, then either of said counties may bring" a suit against the said County of Treutlen in the Superior Court of >aid county for the purpose of hav- ] tng the proportion of said debt so as umed by the said County of Treut len to be ascertained, and the said court is hereby given power to en force whatever judpnent 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. Section 2. That Section 846 of the Code of 1910. in reference to the legistration of voters, is hereby ex 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 • iicluded 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 to the laws of this State. Section 3. The Governor is here by directed and required to submit j this proposed amendment to the peo-j 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 j ;.t 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-1 : REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE | | If you want to buy or sell farm or I city property see us I STEPHFNS & DURDEN I SOPERTON, GA. ysssssysasssssssssagscssssssssoecsyreei g lion shall ratify this proposed amends ir.ent, 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 issde 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 be as follows: Those voting for this amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words “In favor of the 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 have written or printed on their bal lots the words: “Aganst the ratifica tion of the amendment to paragraph 2, -section 1, article 11, of the Con stitution, creating the County of 1 reutlen.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of said Sate, do is sue this my proclamation hereby de claring that the foregoing proposed amendment to the Constitution is sub mitted for ratification or rejection 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. Highest Prices Paid for Live Stock. We are constantly in the mar ket for cattle and hogs. Many years experience qualifies us to offer superior advantages to the producers of this section. We are in position to handle your business in a most satisfactory manner. Get our prices. W. D. & C. W. Peterson, 9192 m Ailey, Ga. Lost Cow. Two and a-half year old heifer; black sides; back and under par.t white; buttheaded; unmarked; strayed from my place north of Sharpe Spur some time in April. A suitable reward will be given for information leading to re covery. J. W. Mclntyre, 8-22tf Mt. Vernon, Ga. Storage Batteries Storage Batteries recharged and rebuilt. Rebuilding a specialty. Batteries exchanged. Agents for Willard Storage Batteries. Tarrytown Storage Battery Company, Tarrytown, Ga. For Long Term Farm Loans, SEE A. B. HUTCHESON. I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, withiowest rates of interest and the most liberal* terms of payments. I have several years experience in the loan business, am located at the county site and believe that lam in position to give you the best terms and as prompt services as any one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. HutchesoD, Mt. Vernon, Ga. M. B. CALHOUN Atty at Law, Mt Vernon, Georgia E. M. RACKLEY Dentist Office over Mt. Verpon Postoffice. MT. VERNON. OA. A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in ali the Courts of the State.
