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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1921)
VOL. XXXV. COMMENCEMENT BREWTONPARKER A Three-Day Program Will Begin Saturday, May Twenty-One. Plans are being: perfected for a great occasion at The Brewton- Parker Institute on Tuesday, May 24th, the closing day of the present scholastic year. Committees from Ailey, Mt. Vernon, Glenwood and the Insti tute have been in conference and decided upon a joint meeting of the former students, teachers, and other friends of Brewton- Parker, and are planning enter tainment for all those who will visit the school at the time men tioned. The people of the com munity and county will be hosts and their homes will be opened for the care of those who come. Invitations are to be sent out to the former students and teachers as soon as correct addresses can be secured and the invitations is sued. The committee on arrange ments will appreciate it if all these will communicate with Mr. T. B. Conner, giving their post . offices and full names, and stat ing at the same time if they shall likely attend. While the request is made through the press that this be done, thecommittee states that it is their purpose to mail an invitation to every one whose ad dresses can be secured. The Commencement Exercises of the school will be held at the same season, beginning Saturday evening with the annual debate between the literary societies. The sermon will be preached Sunday, the 22nd at 11 a. m. On Monday the Baccalaureate address and graduating exercises will be given during the forenoon, the senior class exercises during the afternoon, and the music and expression contests Monday night. This will be a re-arrange ment of the program and some what out of usual order; but it is to make possible a convenient date for the gathering of those who have, in former days, been associated with the institution. Annual announcements will be made Tuesday morning. The tentative program for Tuesday calls for addresses by prominent speakers, to be fol lowed by a dinner on the school grounds provided by the people of the community and county. During the afternoon the Alumni- Alumnae Association is to hold the annual business meeting. ■ I ' ' ■■■■—■■ ■■■■'■ I I Fresh Groceries | We handle a line of Staple and || Fancy Groceries which has been sat- E isfactory to the people of Mt. Vernon $ since our doors opened. It is still § kept complete with an assortment of & STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES 1 1 FRUITS, TABLE DELICACIES 1 FRESH VEGETABLES 1 We appreciate your patronage. It $ is our aim to please all, in quality Sj !and in service. White Crest Flour |f is one of our leading specialties. Cormer=Dickson Grocery Co. MT. VERNON, GA. 0 31|p iHomtar. Oak Grove Dots. Special Correspondence. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Walker land his father and brother of . Denton spent Sunday night with relatives in this section on their, way home from the burial Sunday. ! Miss Sudie Graham spent the! latter part of last week with Miss Nola Youngblood at Vidalia. I Mrs. C. W. Peterson was the guest of Mrs. J. A. Reynolds Saturday. Mrs. M. A. Peterson was the guest of Mrs. C. W. Peterson Wednesday last. Little James Peterson happen ed to the misfortune of breaking his arm Tuesday last from a fall. He is getting along fine. We | hope him a speedy recovery. Mr. J. A. Reynolds and daugh ter, Annie, were in Ailey Satur day afternoon. Quite a good many of the rela tives and friends from this sec tion attended the funeral of Mrs. Henry Walker at Tarrytown Sun day. We are in sympathy with the family. Mrs. C. W. and M. A. Peterson attended the funeral of her brother’s wife, Mrs. Charlie Hen ' riott, near Nichols, who died Sat i urday night. We are in sympa thy with those who are left to! mourn her death. Miss Annie Reynolds was the guest of Miss Sudie Graham Mon day afternoon. Mrs. Herbert Sharpe and baby of Vidalia are visiting relatives in this section this week. Miss Gladys Leggett and moth er were in Uvalda shopping Mon day last. Mr. and Mrs. D. O’Brien were in Vidalia Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. C. Smith and children of South Carolina are spending the week with relatives here s Mr. Will Hughes was in Vidalia Saturday afternoon. Will Inoculate Hogs Monday, April 18th. Dr. Murray King of Soperton will be in Mount Vernon Monday the 18th for the purpose of in oculating hogs. People who have hogs for inoculation will please have them enclosed on this date. Services are free, the only charge made being for the serum. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL 14. 1921. COUNTY SCHOOL CONTEST TOMORROW. Public School Pupils of County to Meet I and Engage in Literary and Athletic Contests —Address at Noon—Ball Game in the Afternoon. Announcement is made that the Montgomery County School Contest will be held in Mount Vernon on Friday the 15th of April. This is now an annual affair, and when held last year, proved a great success. The address of the occasion will be delivered by Mr. W. G. Sutlive, editor of the Savannah Press. Mr. Sutlive is a brilliant talker, and wiil please our people. Not having had his consent to come until the last moment, his subject cannot be announced, but suffice it to say that his presence will be a prominent part of the program. Contests in the following events will be held: Literary, which includes Read ing, Spelling, Ready Writing, Arithmetic, Expression and Dec lamation and in which the follow ing rules will govern: Reading contest to be for the first four grades. One contest ant and alternate allowed for each grade. Spelling to be for fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grades, all spelling to be written and outlined from state adopted books, according to grade. Ready writing to be for fifth, sixth and seventh grades, each grade separate. Arithmetic to be for fifth, sixth and seventh grades. Five examples to be given, a different set for each grade. Successful Ten Days Meeting . The ten days meeting at the Mt. Vernon Presbyterian church closed last evening. Rev. M. F. Daniels, pastor of the Tattnall Square Presbyterian church, Ma con, did the preaching. Services were held at four in the afternoon and at eight in the evening. Mr. Daniels preached with pronounced vigor and ear nestness, and his exposition of the gospel was well received. The special meeting did not re sult in many additions to the church, but it was a season of spiritual refreshing for the entire community. The meetings were well attended by all denomina tions, and there was nothing done or said calculated to arouse denominational differences. The song service was tinder the direction of Mr. I. M. Ellis of Chicago, and his efforts proved a very vital and interesting part of the service. Mr. Daniels left this morning for his home in Ma con. While in Mt. Vernon he and Mr. Ellis were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D, A. Mcßae. Mr. Ellis remained over, and will take up the work at Mc j Gregor Sunday. Services will be held at the | Presbyterian church Sunday ! morning, 11 o’clock, followed by communion service. At this hour applicants for membership will ! be received. j i Mr. J. W. Mitchell, one of the best known citizens of Treutlen county, was with friends in Mt. Vernon a few hours yesterday. He came down to receive a lot of pork which he had placed in cold storage at the plant iri Mt. Vernon. Expression and Declamation, i one boy and one girl allowed ; from each school. 1 Athletics to include the fol- j 1 1 lowing: ! 100 yard dash for boys be- ( tween fourteen and eighteen. 50 yard dash for boys under: fourteen. 50 yard dash for girls under j fourteen. ; Running broad jump for boys i between fourteen and eighteen. | Running broad jump for boys under fourteen. I Running high jump for boys between ages of fourteen and eighteen. Standing broad jump for boys between fourteen and eighteen. Sack race for boys under eigh teen. Three legged race for boys any age under eighteen. Potato race for boys and girls under the age of fourteen. Club work to include Domestic Science and Arts and Manual training. All of this is to be un der the direction and supervision of the various teachers of the county. Prizes will be given to the win ner in each contest, and the Board of Education will likely I give a prize to the school main taining the best average attend ance for the year. Exercises! : to be held at Brewton-Parker In stitute. B.~P. Institue Will Participate. The preliminary contest in piano for the purpose of deciding who is to represent Brewton- Parker Institute in the district contest to be held at Hawkins i ville, was held at the school au j ditorium on Tuesday evening last. The contestant winning first i place was Miss Margaret Currie, i and while she is to be congratu lated for winning this distinction, jit is only fair and just to extend ,to the others who entered in the | contest congratulations for the . talent they showed as pianists, ! and for the earnest effort which they put into their work. Those ' taking part in the contest were: Misses Katherine Boynton, Van . nie Leek Tvler, Elizabeth Barrett, . Margaret Currie and Mr. King Evans. k . - — Wealthy Farmer is Killed in Telfair. ! Jacksonville, Ga., April 12. ; Thomas D. Wilcox, a wealthy ; farmer of this section, was shot and instantly killed by Clark i Wilcox his first cousin, today, I following a quarrel, it is said, over some family affair. Clark Wilcox, surrendered to the sheriff I! at Mcßae at an earlyjhour tonight. Both men are prominently con nected and well-to-do citizens of ; Telfair county and merchants at r | this place. Thomas Wilcox was ' well known throughout this sec •; tion of the State. His father was 1 the late B. E. Wilcox who, before I his death, represented both Irwin >and Ben Hill counties in the i Georgia Legislature. i 1 Jacksonville is a small town . located about twenty miles from . Abbevilleon the Ocmulgee River, t j Mr. F. S. Holmes and Mr. A | . L. Vann of Vidalia were visitors here Monday. Longpond Dots. Special Correspondence I Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Moses and children of Lumber City spent I last week-end with relatives here, j Mrs. Ed Montford and Miss i Lillian Bush of Dublin are visit ing relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bendimire and baby of Odum spent last week with relatives here. Messrs. Monroe Bush and Ed Montford of Dublin were among relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McAllister of Statesboro spent last week-end ; with relatives here. Mrs. S. M. Bush and baby of | Dublin spent last week with I homefolks here. j Mrs. H. H. HcAllister and lit j tie son, Wilbert, are visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bendimire of Odum. Mr. W\ E. Adams of Mt. Ver non was among friends here Sunday. Mr. I. P. McAllister spent Sun ' day at McGregor. Our school is quite busy this week practicing for the contest. We hope to win some prizes. Brewton-Parker Wins From Vidalia High. On Monday afternoon, April 11th, the baseball team of Brew town-Parker Institute went to Vidalia and tried its bat on the High school’s ball. It was a very fine fit, but /vhen the bat and ball were reversed the fit Was also. The score was tit for tat undl each side had seven noints. Here 8.-P. I. left Vidalia to hold the bag while they went on 'ahead. At the close of the ninth I inning Vidalia still had the seven but 8.-P. I. had eleven. Ye lovers of this sport will have an opportunity to enjov the first game of the season on 8.-P. Ps. diamond next Friday after noon, April 15th at 4 o’clock. That is to be the day of days in the way of contests but this base ball game between Alamo and your High School will be a fitting climax for it. Come and root for your home team and help them win. Community Sing Saturday tzve. Mt. Vernon will engage in a community sing Saturday eve ning at the Presbyterian church, and all are invited to attend and participate. This will be purely a song ser vice, and should be pleasurable and profitable to all who enjoy song. It will be under the leader ship of Mr. I. M Ellis, who will i remain over for a few days, fol- 1 lowing the close of the meeting j at this church last evening. The program will contain a number of instrumental numbers, ! together with a few' special se- : lections, but in the main will be of such a nature that all can take part.. This special exercise will begin at 8 o'clock. As a result of the visit of Mr. Ellis, more in terest is being manifested in the song service, and the community sing will serve to keep up the interest. The anglers complain that the “fish ain't biting fer nothin.” Perhaps they got used to high priced bait while times were | good to even look at reduced priced bait now necessarily used. Fish are awful particular critters anyway, at times, except one variety we all know about. MASSMEETING FIRST MONDAY Will Discuss Plans for Hold ing a County Fair in the Fall. A news item of interest to the people of Montgomery county is I the call for a mass meeting of its ; citizens, to be held at the court house in Mount Vernon on the first Monday in May at nine o’clock in the morning. The meeting is called for the purpose of discussing the advisability of inaugurating a county fair for the year 1921. As this is the date set for the opening of the May term of court, there should be on 1 hand for the purpose of discus sion, a large body of the repre sentative citizens of the county. Tarrytown. Special Correspondence. Miss Mable Burns, one of the faculty of the Harrison High School, spent the week-end with her parents here. Mr. R. 1). Beatty and son, Otis, were in Macon last week. Mr. R. J. Boyd, Jr., was a business visitor to Macon last week-end. Private J. Whit Crawford of Atlanta is home on a furlough. Miss Mixon of Oak Park is visiting her grand-mother, Mrs. Crawford, this week. I The funeral services of Mrs. H. A. Walker, who died at her home near Kibbee last Saturday, w.*re conducted at the Baptist church here by her former pastor, i Rev. J. H. Oliver. Interment was in the city cemetery. A large concourse of relatives and friends were present to pay a last tribute of respect to this good lady. The family has our deep est sympathy. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Branch a son, Chas. Jr. Mr. D. E. Holloman of Soper ton was in town Tuesday. M. E. Burns attended the Geor gia Baptist S. S. Convention in Atlanta last week. He reports a great convention. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mixon, a boy. Mr. S. Z. Simons of Vidalia was mingling with friends here Monday. Mr. G. G. Stanford of Abbe ville spent Sunday with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Stan ford. Dr. Lays Blame on The “Higher-Ups.” Atlanta, April 13.--‘‘Higher ups” are more to blame for the dynamiting of dipping vats in certain South Georgia counties than the men who do the actual blowing, it was asserted today by ’ Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen, state J veterenarian, in commenting on the most recent destruction of ! vats in Berrien county. Dr. Bahnsen recently had a fist fight at Nashville, the county seat of Berrien county, with John P. Knight, lawyer legislator, in re gard to a law suit involving dip ing vats. “The men higher up are en couraging these lawless outrages” said Dr. Bahnsen. If they were not, there wouldn’t "be any blow ing up of dipping vats.” Dr. Bahnsen yesterday issued a statement replying to the $16,000 suit filed against him by the Alexander Clear Serum Company i of Kansas City, claiming he had defrauded on a hog serum con tract. i He said he refused to accept ! the company’s serum because it was found to be impure. NO. 52.
