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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1909)
r\or\tgorr\&ry Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at tl'ontofflcr in Mt. Vernon. <»«. hh Second-Claes Mall Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Prop. a Vear, in Advance ar I advertUemoiita Riant luvaiiably I.*- m advance, at tin- lr-K»l rate, and a* the law direct*; and iinint be in hand not later than Wedneadav morning of the tirat week ’>( inaertioi Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Jan. 28, 1909. - ■ - ■■■ . __ 1 A VALUABLE MAN IS CALLED TO HIS REWARD- In tho death of George G. Fol- j gom of tho Tat mil I .Journal, ;it Reidsvillc, the Oeorgia Weekly Press Aggocmtion linn lost a vain able member, and tlio people of Tattnall county have lout an un tiring frit'iid. A little over twelve years ho luih labored in their niitlHt, and the result of 1 1 i« labors will lit* felt for many years in the development of tho county and the progress of her pttople. He wuh known throughout the gtatc n« a typical newspaper man, pos sessed of characteristics peculiarly hig own, but charitable and'Xind* ly disposed toward all. To the jwoplo of Tattnall enmity he will bo known ns the firat man to make a success of a newspaper m their county. Tho Tattnall Journal will bo continued, with no change in tho policy of the paper, and its affairs will bo managed by tho de voted companion of the departed editor, Mrs. Lula Folsom, and her aldest ion, Mr. Russell Folsom, together with what assistance they may secure for the operation of the business. ANOTHER “BAIT” TO GET BIG CROP PLANTED, Under tho head, “Ten Cents Cotton in Sight,,’’ the Atlanta Journal of a recent date has a very cheering editorial. Me be lieve Journal sincere in what it says on this line, but we four that this jump up in the price of the fleecy staple is only a thing of short lite, and is a/'bait, set, out to induen tho furmers to plant an other bigjcotton crop this year. The Journal says ; “A ‘feeling of encouragement amounting almost to enthusiasm has begun to assert itself in the South over tho prospect- of ton cents cotton in the immediate fu ture, with eleven cents cotton within the rungo of probabilities by spring. Spot cotton was quoted in At lanta yesterday at, nine and a hull cents and in New V>rk at nine und eighty-five one hundredths. This is the climax of the recent upward tendency and shows an advance [one hundred points, or live dollars a bale, with in tho past four weeks, Tho Journal on yesterday quot ed President Taylor, of the Na tional Ginnors’ association, as saying that he expected to see ten cents cotton by Saturday and that it would reach eleven cents by March. This opinion finds very general acceptance. The special basis for the pre vailing hopefulness is that spot cotton is the center of activity, indicating a demand for the actu al cotton and therefore the pros pect of a general resumption <f business. The exports continue j much heavier than receipts, tin ' spinners' takings are large ami ! added to all this there is u strong feeling that those who have lanight cotton contracts for Janu ary and March will insist upon ! the delivery ot the actual cotton, which has nuturnlly brought the buyers of spots actively into thej market. The future market is, of course, reflecting the strength of spots, but the gratifying feature is that it is the demand for the actual cotton which prevails. This increase of a cent a pound | within the past four weeks, and : the prospect of a further advance, j means millions of dollars in the! pockets of the farmers of tin | South, and their increased pros perity will naturally be shared by the world at large. On the whole, the new year is opening up promisingly for the farmers of the South.” .. ... , ■ „ —1 p % SAID IN GEORGIA SANCTUMS. % V! S - I Macon Telegraph: “Genius.” says one preacher, “is eclipsed by having plenty to eat and to wear.” This is arguing tho cause from! the effect. Poets and literary geniuses have starved, as a rule j not because starvation inspired them to literary production, but because starvation was about the only reward the world reserved for literary workers. Atlanta Constitution: The con solation of the southern darky is that if the faddish east depletes our ‘possum preserves, all Wall st reet, can’t corner the juicy, July watermelon crop. Savannah Press: An Aurora (111.) minister says he sees no harm in flirting “a little” in church. We would like to have had the reverend gentleman’s ideas on the most propitious time for practicing the art. Should 011 c wink during\tlie reading of Scriptures, or peep through bis ('lingers during prayers; or would tins be a happy way of being pre occupied when the, brother with j the plate comes around? Valdosta Times: Roosevelt ad vocates a memorial for Robert E. Lee. The North nsj well as the South has come to recognize the merits of tho great, Southern sol dier and whether a national me morial to him is erected or not his fame is secure. His name will live when stone has crumbled because it is a name that was not born to die. llawkinsville Dispatch an d News: Commissioner of Agricul ture T. U. II nelson lias sold enough fertilizer tags for the season to have SII,OOO not placed on deposit with Slate Treasurer Park for distribution among the eleyon district schools of Georgia. This means that each one gets SI,OOO with which to begin the school term for the new year. Milieu News: A Boston doctor savs every one should swallow n dozen raw eggs every day. Does th(> doctor mistake us for a nation of billionaires? Sandorsville Herald : When one thinks of Tennessee as a prohibi tion state, his mind turns natur-j ally to the tragic death of the matchless Carmack and his last j splendid service to the state. The Dublin Courier-Dispatch :j Judge Pa ft may tasto ‘possum and ‘taters, artillery punch nt Savannah, beaver tail from Den- ! ver, crab gumbo from Now Or ; leans, frog legs from Oskcsh, •raw lish from Portland but if he should cone to Dublin and eat a tut of Major Smith’s barbecue tnd a little of his Brunswick stew I lie would immediately appoint him purveyor to the president at a j handsome salary. Savannah News: In Pekin, it si ems, mourning for the recently deceased Emperor and Empress Dowager is being enforced with a club. If the citizens do not show t proper degree of sorrow for the death of the celebrities they are whacked over the head or put in jail. Several hundred persons have already been arrested and jailed for failing to mourn as they should, and one of them con demned to imprisonment for life. We can improve upon Tennyson bv saying, better ten minutes of, America than a cycle of Cathay. We don't have to be sorry here unless we want to. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR —THURSDAY, JAN. 2>. 19^9. TO CONSOLIDATE ALL THE UNION WAREHOUSES. The consolidation of all Farm-; | era’ Union warehouses of the state | into one central property, owners lof stock in the present individual i warehouses to exchange that stock for corresponding interest in the I central organization, was etnbod j led in one of the resolutions' adopted, Tuesday, 19th, by com i mittee on amalgamation of ware houses of the Georgia Division, j Farmers’ Union. Committee work following upon the heels of adjournment of the general session of Monday, occu pied those committeemen of the Georgia Division who bad remain- 1 ed in Atlanta Tuesday. All the i committees, except the one on amalgamation of warehouses,con cluded their work, Tuesday. The amalgamation committee, it is expected, will bold other sessions later. All of the committeemen had returned to their homes! Wednesday. One of the most important res olutions signed by the delegates to this meeting of the Georgia di vision, was that each farmer shall this year make his lands self-sus taining and shall raise all the sup plies necessary for man and beast. Each member was constituted a committee of one to urge this idea in his home section. Another res olution was that the farmers shall wear, while at work, a uniform cotton suit, thereby creating a new demand for cotton goods. Four lecturers were decided up on, Tuesday, to visit every section of the state in the interests of the Union, between January 27 and ; March 12. OVER GOV. PATTERSON’S VETO. Despite the veto of Gov. Pat terson, the state-wide prohibition bill lias again passed both houses! of the Tennessee legislature over the executive protest; and on Ju ly 1, 1909, the law excluding both the manufacture and sale of in toxicating liquors from the bord ers of the state will become oper ative. This action on tho part of the law-making power of Tennessee was anticipated by The Georgian several days ago, when the meas ure wus first sanctioned by the two legislative branches. It was quite evident, from the substan tial margin of votes, that enough changes to reverse the result could not be effected even by the most strenuous fight on the part of the antis; and this forecast lias been fully verified by Wednesday’s de velopments. One of the grounds upon which Gov. Patterson based Ins veto of the prohibition bill was that the measure sought to set aside the j will of the people; but Gov. Pat ! teraon has evidently not lelt the ! popular pulse-beats or noticed the j straws in the political wind-cur rents for some time past. —Atlan- : ta Georgian. House For Kent. Good 7-room house in fine re pair, with conveniences. Also 2 acres good land with same. C-m --vemently located. Possession giv en immediately. This property is also offered for sale. Reasonable 1 price. Easy terms. T. E. Rooehs, 1-7-Bt. Mt. Vernon, Ga. | Stray Mule. % Strayed from my lot, one Black Mate Mule, white mouth, weighs | about 1,000 pounds, scar on left j side of neck, and lias a long bushy tail. Lilieral reward will bo paid j for information leading to her re- : coverv. Luthier Stronu, Route 2. Lumber City, Ga. Stray Cow. • Strayed from my lot in Soper ton one Holstein-Jersey cow with ; no marks. Information leading to her recovery will be rewarded. J. E. Ricks, 1124 t Soperton, Ga. I THE CRACKER PACKERS. Nimble Fingered Girls That WorU Lika Automatons. I found girls in numbers on the packing floor, a large, low ceilinged | loft threq stories up in the air. In front of a girl packing “lady fin- j gers” stood a large truck piled high with frames bristling like so many j porcupines with long steel spikes or ! , points. On each point was suspend- ■ ed a lady finger, chocolate iced. The girl’s hands fairly flew between the : frames and the box she was paek ! ing. Back and forth as tirelessly I and as automatically as a machine j her fingers traveled, plucking the ! cakes, half a dozen at a time, and packing them precisely in the box. Working steadily at this rate- she could pack six five-pound boxes in , an hour. If she kept up her speed, never stopping a single second, she earned 15 cents an hour. If her speed decreased she soon ceased to earn anything, because she lost her job. Fifteen cents an hour would mean $1.42 in the nine and a half hour day. But no girl in the fac tory earned that much, because time had to be sacrificed going after i the cake laden trucks and hustling the frames off and on the trucks. Work of this kind was not paid for. The cracker packers were not losing any time. The endless chain of flat pans loaded with hot crack ers descending from above moved at a smart pace, and the line of girls standing on either side had to work at top speed to keep the trays clear. They grabbed both hands full of crackers and flashed them into the big wooden boxes beside them. They seldom broke a crack er or made a mistake in their me ; thodical progress. The packers moved their arms, shoulders and spines continually. It must be splen ; did exercise, I reflected, only they get a good deal of it between 7 in the morning and 5 at night. The cracker packing girl attains n higher speed than the cake pack ing girl, because she has a pace maker—the machine. As fast as j ! the machine moves she must move. | She earns a cent a dozen, and she can pack a hundred dozen in a day. Here is another significant fact. The cracker packing girl is younger ; than the cake packing girl, because 1 no girl can keep up with a machine indefinitely. At the end of a cer tain period she loses speed and goes stale. Then she drifts out of crack er packing into some other unskill ed trade. Usually she has to ac cept a lower wage, since her effi ciency has declined. By efficiency one always means speed. - Rheta Childe Dorr in Hampton's Maga zine. Couldn’t Fool Tim. A priest announced that a collec tion would be taken up to defray the cost of coal for heating the church. Everybody contributed but Tim plate was presented to him. The priest, after service, took his parish- , ioner to task. “Now, Tim,” he said, “why didn’t you give something, if it was but little?” “Faith, I’m on to yez!” said Tim. “What do you mean ?” “Oh, nothing. Just that I’m on to yez, that’s all.” “Tim, your words are disrespect ful. What do you mean ?” “Oh, faith, father, a-thrying to pull the wool over me eyes, a-thry- ; ing to make us believe yez wants the money to buy coal to heat the 1 church, an’ yer riverenee knows it’s heated by steam!” —Exchange. Art’s Elder Days. All the works of art buried in an t Egyptian tomb were intended to ; j last 10,000 years. That intention j governed the artists and reacted , upon the style of the art of Egypt. 1 L is a most important sact —per- ; haps the most important and fun- | damental fact that the student of Egyptian art has to remember. There was no place for passion in such an art, none for grace, none even for charm. Each figure had merely to be made lucid—plainly occupied about its business or visi bly shaped in the form required, and that was all. The art of the Egyptian tomb was to serve a use ful purpose, not to please. Sir Martin Conway in North American Review. Modern Vaudeville. Doolev—l seen your girl on State street yesterday. (Slaps Hooley with folded newspaper.) Hooley -5- What! You seen mv girl ? Why, I’m a married man ; (Slaps Dooley with folded newspa « per.) Dooley—Well. I seen your hired girl. (Slaps Hooley with folded newspaper.) In Chorus —With the kind per mission of the audience we will now ; sing that pathetic ballad entitled “When Peroxide Turns the Marcel ; Wave to Gold.” Professor, tear off a little music, please. Chicago Journal. Making More Money Out of Cotton Crops is merely a question of using enough of the right kind of fertilizers. Virg'inia-Carolina F ertilizers are the right kind. The cotton plant cannot feed on barren land. Study your soil. Find out what it lacks. Then apply the necessary fertilization and the results will surprise you. See what Mr. W. C. Hays of Smith Station, Ala., did. He says: “I planted about 30 acres of some ‘gray sandy land' that had been in cultivation for over 20 years, and used 300 pounds of Virginia-Caro lina Fertilizers per acre, and / expect to gather 30 bales from the 30 acres.” This is why we say it is the right kind. We have hundreds of letters like this, and even stronger, in praise of Virginia- Carolina Fertilizer for cotton. Get a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers’ Year Book from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office and a copy will be sent you free. It contains pictures of the capitols of all the Southern States. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Sale* Offices S * l ** °® ce * Richmond, Va. Durham, N.C. Norfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C. Columbia, S. C. ■ MfCjlllH-fillllllim ■ Baltimore, Md. Atlanta, Ga. Columbus, Qa. Savannah, Ga. Cp. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. 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