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DON'T_ FORGET
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~CTHE HoHl LAW
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When You (o Fishing Re
member That Law Is
In Effect Till July.
To those who are contemplating
a fishing trip either in Jasper or any
other county in the state, we would
remind that there is a law which
protects to a great degree the finny
tribe until the first of July.
The law is a good one and should
be enforced to the letter. If it is
not enforced the supply of fish will
soon be exhausted.
There are laws which prevent the
actual extermination of the various
kinds of game during certain por
tions of the year and these laws are
rigidly enforced. Why not the fish
law?
The following paragraphs were
taken from am article which appear
ed in last week’s issue of the Madi
son Advertiser: |
No one within the confines of the
state can oatch fish except with a
hook and line between the first day
of February and the first day of
July. During these five months,
February, March, April, May and
June the law positively states the
above facts, and if you are caught
using any device except a hook and
Wine, you can be punished as for a
‘misdemeanor, if found guilty.
Traps and baskets as well as every
other device are forbidden,
This law was passed by the Legis
lature from the fact that the fish are
rapidly decreasing in numbers all
over the state, and a law te protect
them from becoming extinct was ab
solutely necessary
During the spring months is the
time the fish lay their eggs and
hatch, Nets and seines destroy
thousands of these eggs when they
come in contact with them during
the spawning season. Therefore,
this law was enated only to protect
these fish eggs, so that the produe
tion of fish would not decrease in
our waters.
Following are the exact words
of the law:
“Section 6. Be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, That it
ghall not be lawful for any person
to catch or take any fish with seine,
net, gig or spear, or like device
from any waters of this state be
tween the first day of February and
the first day of July of each year,
except with hook and line. Approv
ed August 22, 1905.”
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THE MONTICELLO NEWS
bLOVER GUARDS
Interesting Paper Read By
Miss Rebeeca Jordan
On Unveiling Day.
Friexps, NEricunors, SoNs aND
Davenrers or Jasrer:
“‘Lend me your ears and be silent
that you may hear” a story that I
will tell you—a story in which
many of those we are here to honor
bore an active part.
Early in 1861 a military company
was formed in Jasper and named in
honor of Captain Eli Glover, one of
the first settlers of Monticello and
an officer in the Indian War, com
manding the first Company of sol
diers that ever left the county.
On the 26th day of April, 1861,
a 8 the Glover Guards, under com
mand of Captain George T. Bartlett,
was leaving for Augusta to be mus
tered into the army, it was halted
and drawn up in line at the corner
of Green and Warren Streets to re
ceive this banner, a parting gift
from the ladies. I had been ap
pointed to deliver it. When it was
unfurled and its silken folds floated
out it was indeed a thing of beauty
and an emblem of patriotic devotion.
But as I present it before you to
day it is sorely defaced, its beauty
sadly marred, but, like many other
things that may be robbed of beauty,
it can never be robbed of that which
}mal_(ea it sacred; for us ‘‘the scent
of the roses” clings to the shattered
}vase in which they have ““once been
distilled,” so hallowed memories
cluster around it still.
~ 'We handle it reverently, fold it
gently and lay it away, embalmed
in memories more precious than the
perfumed spices of the Orient,
The Glover Guards were the first
to leave of the seven companies that%
went out from the county, making
a total of about 750 men. A mag
nificent body of men; a noble band
of brothers in who veins coursed
pure Anglo-Saxon blood, lineal de
scendants, and fired by the same
wpirits, of men who helped to make
cur America ‘‘the land by the noble
free,” who, when their country call
ed, said good bye to home and
friends and left for the field of bat
tle. Many of them moved further
on and pitched ‘‘their silent tents on
Fame’s eternal eamping ground.”
But a brave and gallant few whom
we reverence and honor are with us
today and we join in doing homage
and paying tribute to their absent
comrades.
When “‘the muffled drum’s sad roll
shall beat the soldier’s last tattoo”
on earth and reveille sounds on
resurrection morning ‘‘what a gath
ering there shall be!”
CARD OF THANKS.
We were profoundly impressed by
the many manifestations of sympa
thy and regards as displayed in the
trying ordeal we have been recent
ly subjected to, and as further evi
denced by the profusion of white
roses that were so strongly typical
of that heart that ‘‘went to its God
who gave it,” on the 25th.
Jas. Tuomas Syirn,
(Mgzs.) Curor HurcHINSON,
Jox H, Smiru,
(Mzs.) Jor Cora Smiru,
Monticello and Jasper county
were well represented at the Eighth
Distriet High School Meet held in
Madison last Friday and Saturday.
MONTICELLO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1910,
At Six C’clock On Second
of May So Clerks Can
Have Recreation.
The time has rolled around again
when the stores will begin to close
at six o’clock in the afternoon so the
clerks can enjoy an hour’s recreation.
We know that the clerks will be
glad when six o'clock arrives
next Monday afternoon so they can
go whither so ever they choose to
go.
Following is the agreement which
was signed by the firms:
We, the undersigned merchants
of Monticello, hereby agree to begin
closing our respective places of busi
ness at 6 o’clock p. m. on Monday,
May 2nd, except Saturdays, and
continue closing at that hour until
September Ist, 1910.
Jordan & Co,,
Benton Supply Co.,
D. B. Benton & Son,
Monticello Hardware Co.,
Robinson, Kelly Co.,
Powell Bros.,
Lucian Benton Co.,
Jasper Trading Co.,
Greer & Mclntosh,
W. E. Ballard,
R. Jordan, ;
8. Cohen, ?
Greer Bros.,
Persons, Phill.ips, Oxford Co.,
D, ¥. Pye,.
J. D. Harvey,
J. A. Hutchinson, £
J. H. Kelly Co. ¢
MONDAY WAS UNUSUAL DAY,
The ‘‘oldest inhabitants” of Mon
ticello and Jasper county will have
to go back far into the attic of
their memory to dig up a day like
Monday, April 25, 1910. We
doubt if they can haul out from the
dim past a day which was as freakish
as the one of this week,
It was an unusual day for this
season and section. Yea, verily,
do we believe that it will go down
inhistory as unparallelled, and when
those of us who will have lived into
ripe old ages are called upon to trot
out days of uncommon design, we
can recall with pride and in thelan
guage of some poet exclaim,
Memory tells of the time—
Of Halley’s comet (soon to shine)
Of many things that have been
Startling to this age of men—
When airships soared the skies,
And nothing was a surprise;
Until the month of April, the 25th,
Fruit and crops we.e frozen stiff,
And snow, sleet, hail and rains,
Gave our farmers great big pains,
Everything must be planted over
Even down to the little clover—
All on account of the freakish day
’Nigh onto the month of May;
It was cold some, we ween,
On that day in nineteen ten—
Yes, memory recalls the time,
MEMORIAL DAY ORATORS,
Three old Georgia boys, who were
recently graduated from the Univer
sity, made the Memorial Day ad
dress in Augusta, in Gainesville and
in Monticello yestorday. Mr. John
M. Cozart, Law 'OB, was the orator
of the day in Augusta; Mr. Ham
mond Johnson, Law ’O9, in Gaines
ville, and Mr. Eugene Baynes, of
the same class, delivered the address
at Monticello.—Wednesday’s issue‘
of the Athens Banner,
Highly lnteresting Program
Was Given In Court
House Tuesday.
A large audience was present at
the court house Tuesday afternoon
to pay tribute to the memory of our
departed heroes and to unite in the
impressive memorial exercises which
were held by the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
Hon. W, A. Reid introduced the
orator in & happy manner and paid
a high tribute to the memory of the
men who were our defenders in that
fierce conflict of the sixties.
Col. Eugene Baynes, one of Mon
ticello’s most promising young law
yers, was orator and his address was
well delivered and full of pathos and
eulogium. He was given rapt at
tention by his heavers and was fre
quently spplauded by the large au
dience.
The declamation by Julius Mercer
was very appropriate and nicely de
livered by this young patriot,
The music rendered by Mr. and
Mrs, J. E. Hill and Mr. Wm. D.
Cornwell was very sweet and appro
priate.
The following was the program
for the occasion:
“Lest We Forget.”
- Invocation—Rev. R. M. Dixon,
- Musie.
Declamation—Georgia Weeps for
Hill—Julius Mercer,
Musie.
Introduction of Orator-—by Hon,
Wm. A. Reid. ‘
Address—Mr. Eugene M. Baynes.
Musie.
Delivery of Crosses of Honor,
Song—~God be with you till we
meet again, . 5
Benediction—Rev. Wm. D, Corn
well.
COMET WILL NOT HARM US.
Sleep ean be gained and the sensi
tive nerve of the eye can be spared
by those who have been arising
early the last few days in an effort
to obtain a view of Halley’s comet,
if they follow the suggestion of
Professor Edwin B. Frost, a noted
astronomer,
“There is no use staying up to see
the comet or getting up either for
that matter,” explained Professor
Frost in the Yerkes observatory.
“It cannot be seen with the naked
eye. Tosatisfy any one’s curiosity,
let them get a small piece of ordinary
cheese cloth and a small candle,
Light the candle and look at the
light with the cloth held between it
and the eyes. In that way an exact
repetition of how the comet looks
through the powerful telescope will
have been obtained.”
Some scientific knowledge was
gained by Professor Frost in his ob
servations, The tail is still invisible.
Professor Frost declares the earth
will not suffer any damage when it
passes through the comet’s tail May
18. Through observations, he says,
he has determined that the deadly
gas that is supposed to compose the
comet’s tail is present in such slight
degree as to be of no concern to the
population of this sphere.
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DEATH OF AN
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- ESTINMBLE LADY
Mrs. Thomas Smith Died
Monday Night From
~ Pneumonia.
After a short illness, Mrs. Thomas
Smith died Monday night from pneu
monia at her home on Eatonton
street,
In the passing of this estimable
lady our town and community lose
a most lovable character, one that
shone through the vista of sixty
eight years as a bright and morning
star. _ Though quiet and unassum
ing, she kept her candle of love and
Icharity lighted and the brilliance of
its rays penetrated many lives and
ibomes of dear ones, friends and
}neighbors alike and soothed many
hearts that were wont to ache and
| grieve over impending trouble, o
%thone, her christian devotion was
l sublime and out from her store-room
of benevolence there has gone many
ldeeds to brighten and to bless.
Those who tasted of her gentleness
and knew her best, testify to the
reiteration that she so let her light
shine as that it was a beacon to
wanderers along the pathway of life
and in the long years of her earthly
sojourn she ‘‘did what she could.”
The funeral services were held at
the Methodist church and were con
ducted by Rev. J. H. Farr, assisted
by Rev. R. M. Dixon, in the pres
ence of a large audience of friends.
The interment was made in West
View cemetery.
Mrs. Smith was the daughter of
the late Dr. J. B. Slack, of Coving
ton, and was the last member of
that family, a brother having died
about three weeks ago.
She is survived by her husband
and four children, Mrs. Thomas
Hutchinson, Mrs. E. W. Smith and
Mr. E. B. Smith, Jr., of Monticello,
and Mr. Joe Henry Smith, of Cor
dele.
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AT THE METHODIST CHURCH.
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Next Sunday morning there will
be Holy Communion at the Metho
dist church, and on account of the
arrival of Rev. Mr. Combs, the new
pastor of the Baptist church, there
will be no service at night. The
public is invited to the morning
gervice.
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I also handle
choice meats.
I am located
in the Camp=-
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E. T. LEVERETT.
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