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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1910)
Some Ideas on School Work. [By Prof. J. M. Davis] THAT MATTER OF HOOKS FOR THE CHILDREN ls quite an important matter and should not be neglected, as it so often is. Many parents seem to thiuk that about all a boy needs to take to school with him is a dinner-bucket and a whistle What a mistake! A man might as well send a hand to the field and expect him to work without tools, as to send a ch'ld to school and expect him to accomplish any thing without books. Any man will readily agree that this is so, yet there are many pa rents who will not put themselves to any trouble whatever to supply their children with books. It would be astonishing to know just how many parents there are in Montgomery county who have not yet supplied their children with books during the present term, as long as the schools have been in operation. This is a downright shame and such should be legis lated out of Georgia. This and non-attendance is surely of enough importance to attract and engage the attention of our lawmakers. THE HABITUAL DISTURBERS Are becoming less numerous each year. Occasionally, however, the teacher, no matter how care ful he may be to see that he faith fully discharges every duty, and no matter how successful he may j be in the management of Ins ; school, is met by one of the old - fashioned type —a rule-or-ruin kind of a fellow with a complaint j a yard long. Listen at him at- j tentively, boil his complaint down [ and you’ll generally find that about all there is in his complaint is a determination to lead in a disturbance that will ultimately, and that very quickly, oyerthrow the school. It is not always an easv matter for the experienced teacher to be master of the situation under such circumstances and the young teacher meeting with a few such disturbances in the ranks of his patrons often decides that teach ing has no charms for him and takes up some other line of work less influenced by the baser ele ment. Thus every year many give up teaching and teachers are be coming scarce. It is high time that the better element in every community unite their forces in a holy determination to arouse a wise sentiment to uphold the teacher in the faithful discharge of his duty, even in the face of ad verse circumstances brought about by these habitual disturbers who infest almost every community. IN PASSING YOUR SCHOOL HOUSE, Do you ever stop and offer your teacher any words of encourage ment? Think for a moment and see if you don’t think you could m this way make the usual bur dens of the teacher some consid erably lighter. Perhaps a short note expressing your appreciation of the fact that he had aroused considerable interest in their stud ies among your children, or some other matter of equal importance, would serve the purpose to convey a truth to your careworn teacher that would not only make his bur dens lighter, but would cause him to be even a better teacher. Don’t wait till he has left your commu nity to speak a pleasant word about him; he may never hear of it. Say it now and let it have its encouraging effect. Teachers are human and need all the sympathy and encouragement they can get. THE SLOW PUPIL 18 often the cause of a great deal of dissatisfaction to the pa rents as well as to teachers. The teacher usually is severely censur ed for carelessness or indifference . towards the child’s interest when-1 ever it happens that one does not pass with the class to a higher grade, no matter what difficulties such child labored under. If the cause every time a child fails to pass was carefully located, notwithstanding the fact that there are many pupils who cannot under any sort of lavorable cir cumstances accomplish the same amount of work in a given time that many others can, lack of reg ular and pupctual attendance on the part of the child and indiffer ence on the parents’ part, would, in many cases, appear as the of the child’s backwardness. By coming ir. at once, you can get The Montgomery Monitor and the Atlanta Weekly Georgian at $1.25 per year. Same rate to old subscribers. Get onto this at once. Pay up vour subscription and have the Georgian sent you also. GIRL DRESSED AS BOY FOUND AT KENTCKY SCHOOL. 1 Moreland, Kv., Feb. 25—Miss Goldie Oantrill, a pretty girl of 17. was taken in charge by the school authorities when they found she had been attending school as j “Sam Murphy, - ’ garbed m boy’s i clothes. She stood second in her class at the time of her detection. The young woman is an orphan and makes her home with her aunt at Salt Lick, Kv. Her family is prominent m Eastern Kentucky affairs. This is her third advent in male attire. Some months ago jshe earned her living for several weeks as “news butcher’’ on trams, JOHN SWAIN KILLED BY AN UNKNOWN. Adrian, February 26. —John Swain was killed last night bv an unknown person near the home of W. E. Moore. Swain and his wife! had separat-’ i'd. Swain supposing a man by the name of Hutcherson was m company with her, went to j Moore’s home searching for the couple, and finding Hutcherson, severely beat him, and as Hutch erson ran, fired four shots at him.: Swain then returned to the house in search of his wife and was shot down from out the dark ness by an unknown person. The coroner’s inquest failed to reveal anything definite as to the guilty person. DETERMINED TO BE HAPPY. Now we are told that brooms are going to $1 each. All right: we’ll use vacum cleaners. And | that beefsteak is going to -15 cents a pound. All right; we’ll eat pate defoie gras. And that but ter is going to half a dollar. All ! right; we’ll eat. axle grease. And | that clothes are to cost 20 per cent, i more. All right; we’ll adopt an cient Greek costume, a la Mal colm Duncan, and utilize the stair carpets that we have been wearing out this winter. 'There is no way of puttting the damper on real optimism.—Savannah News. VAST HORDES ATTEND MOVING PICTURE SHOWS. New York, Feb. 25. —More than 4,000,000 persons attend the mov ing picture shows.every day in the lDuted States, according to Prof. Charles Sprague Smith, of Colum bia university. “This total,” he added, “is four times as great as the number who go to all theatres combined ” Speaking before the congrega tion of the Church of the Messiah here last night. Professor Smith declared that the moving picture show is a great educational pow er. Under an adequate censor ship he says that it could be made a force of moral and mental up lift second to none. A white man who will stoop so low as to make his living by <le- j fraudingan ignorant negro, should spend his life on the chain-gang The men who have canvassed the I southern part of the state during ! the past year, selling mining stock l to negroes, are notable examples. No instance is known where they offered any of the stock to white men, but it, is said in some of the South Georgia counties they have obtained mortgages on negroes| home amounting to thousands of dollars. There are few sales j known of in this county, probably ! owniig to the fact that few of our . negroes are farmers. It is a pity but what the United .States au thorities, who have so vigorous! m other directions, could lay their hands on these men and make ex am pies of them. Ex. GREAT SUM TO BE SPENT FOR MORSE’S PARDON. New York, Feb. 28—Personal \ friends of Charles VV. Morse, the ! convicted banker, are prepared to spend more than $1,000,000 in j working for his release from the j Federal prison in Atlanta. John E. Donahue of Rockland, 1 Maine, who has charge of the pe tition for a pardon which will be presented to President Taft, made ! this announcement on his return from Washington today. The pe- j j tition for pardon will, it is expect-' ed, contain more than a million names by the time it is submitted I to the president. TAFT NOT A WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE MAN. Washington,—With the strict injunction that he was not to be represented as favoring votes for women, President Taft today ac cepted an invitation to address the opening session ,of the Nation al Women’s Suffrage association iin this city April 14. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1010. ‘State News Items. 1 Yidalia, Feb. 25 —A deal has ’! been closed whereby a party in * Dublin becomes the owner of an ' option on the Yidalia telephone ' jevchange, good for 60 days. It is * thought that the option which is * for the $15,000 plant and good will was secured m the interest of the Southern Bell company, “! though nothing definite is known ! and the name of the purchaser is I withheld. Should the big com -1 puny get hold of the exchange at this point it is probable that they will build tributary exchanges at 1 all the surrounding to\\*ns. They are reached now by toll lines only, one telephone being in most of them. • Macon, Feb. 2o.—Miss Ruth .Vliddlebrooks, aged 14, died at Waldou, at the home of her par ents yesterday afternoon at 5 o’ clock from blood poisoning, re sulting from picking a fever I»1 is- . ter on her lip with a common pin. The funeral will occur m Wal do n tliits afternoon. — : — Ellaville, Feb. 26. —Franklin j Giles, of this county, was shot : accidentally Friday and died from the wound last night. He and J. | !E. Willis had been shooting (ish j at Usry’s mill, and when they, picked up their guns where they had been laid on the ground, Wil lis’ gu.i went off and shot Giles through the hip. He was a son of L. A. Giles. Columbus, February 25. —Will Green, aged 20, died this morning as the result of being stabbed over the heart last night. Alf Patrick, James Patrick and Ernest Stevens are in jail charged with the crime, all being with Green, it is said, when the cutting occurred as a re sult of an alleged dispute. The commitment trial was held and the case referred to the grand jury. An old farmer who had read in the papers that nine millions of dollars worth of mules bad been I sold in Atlanta this season, said : | “Well, ain’t we farmers the darn- j dest set of fools in the world? We buy mules at $250 a piece and then buy western corn at $1.25 a ( bushel to make cotton. The corn j and the niggers kill the mules and then we buy more. Now, honest, 1 hadn’t we better change our plans, get some gin horse sense and quit acting the darn fool. —Montezuma Record. o Are You o v v IS 9 Honest? Ej 0 With your land when for the U U sake of saving a few dollars U B you use a fertilizer whose R U only recommendation is its U H analysis. It requires no spe- R U cial knowledge to mix mate- U R rials to analyses. The value R of a fertilizer lies in the ma- U ft terials used, so as not to R over feed the plant at one U time and starve at another. U U This is why Royster brands U are so popular. Every in- y gredient has its particular U y work to do. Twenty-five y years experience in making U 1 goods for Southern crops has Q U enabled us to know what is U U See that trade mark is on every bag U Li TRACE MARK LJ a 8 Lj I • wtlV# y M REGISTERED Q H F. S. Royster Guano Co. y □ NORFOLK, VA. U 'GEM found in i STOMACH OF FOX. Edward McGowan, a poultry i brooder near Montville, N. .1., re , | eently captured two foxes which , had been robbing his coops for a long time and also recovered from the stomach of one of them an un cut diamond valued at sol>o, lost , by his daughter two weeks ago. j Mr. McGowan had tried for , months to catch the thieves who had been stealing his chickens, but was unsuccessful until he set a trap of his own invention in one of the coops. It is supposed one of the fowls picked the diamond up when Miss McGowan lost it and I was devoured by Sir Reynard. For Sale—Brick Yard Entire plant for sale, including | I Engine, Boiler, Brick Machines I and trackage, complete for opera- ! ition. Near Mt. Vernon on the S. A. L. llv. Applv at/once to MASON A- BEAM), I 13-ts) Mt. Vernon, Ga. Citation. I Georgia— Montgomery ( ’minty. The appraisers appointed upon the | applies! ion of M rs. Susan Gillis.wid- I ow of David 1). Gillis.for al2 months support out of said estate, having tiled their return, all persons are hereby cited to show cause if any % they have ni the next regular term ? of the Court of Ordinary, to be held $ on the tirst Monday in March. « why said application should not lie « granted. This Beb, 7. 1010. Alex McArthur. Ordinary, s; Citation. y Georgia Montgomery ('minty. The appraisers appointed upon the i (application of Carrie Brazier, widow i of .loshua \V. Brazier, fur a twelve t months support out of said estate, i; ha ving filed i heir return, all persons l are hereby cited to show cause if any v lin y have at the next regular term ■ of Ihe Court, of Ordinary, to ho held on the firs! Monday in March, next why said application should not, he granted. This Bell. 7. lulu. C Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Citation. Georgia—Montgomery County. £ To all whom it may concern. J. 1! >■ I Geiger having made applieat ion in i \ due lorni ni law to ho appointed per- £ j nianeiit adintnlstra.ror upon the rs- j: 1 fate of K. It. iviorrison, notice is here V j by given that stiid application will >! J lie heat'd til tic regular term of the >: j court of Ordinary for said county, to $ ! lie held on the (list Monday in Mar., >! HHti. Witness my hand and ollieial i signature, this Bob. 7th, 11*10. V Alex McArthur, >: <trdinary M. (<la. S M. B. (JA LHOUN, | Atty at taw, Mt. Vernon, Georgia. | Armour’s F ertilizer s Have four sources of ammonia. They feed your crop through the entire grow ing season. I hey will be sold at every shipping point in this county. , Next week we will tell you in this paper why they are the best goods to be had. t v * Armour Fertilizer Works ATLANTA, GEORGIA | Monuments, Tombstones ! f IRON FENCING j We desire to inform the people of | | this seel ion that wo have opened a 1 first-class marble business in Vida- | I in. Wo are prepared to furnish | | on short notiee anvthing in tlu* line | i \ of Monuments, Tombstones, Orna- *j mental Iron Fencing, ete. Designs tho lntesl and most correct | and tasty. Prices arc* right, and $ work will give* satisfaction. I YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED j ] VIDALIA MARBLE WORKS ( | Vidalia, Ga. I /IMWWWWMMWVMMWWWMWVI/WIWIVWWttWWMWMWWWWM , l « «! j| John 11. Hunter, Win. K, Paurco, Frank C. liattey. | HUNTER, PEARCE & BATTEY, j l Cotton Factors Naval Stores ;; «* ■■■ ■■■■■! ■ ■■■■■ ■■■- ■ \ EXPERIENCED P'lx'trxrc ii l HANDLERS OF £5 !j i j l Upland Cotton, Florodora, Allen Silk A Other Extra Staples, Sea-Island Cotton & Naval Stores, ii j ] ; OVER THIRTY YEARS IN BUSINESS ij $ ()ne of Gu- Largest Factorage Concerns in she South. Each !j | Commodity handled inn Separate Department. !| | Strictest Attention to Each. I Nitrate of Soda and Other Fertilizers, ii Upland and Sea-Island Bagging*, ii Ties and Twine. Liberal Advances made on Consignments. Money Loaned !j to Cotton and Naval Stores Shippers on Approved Security. SHIPMENTS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. jj lj 120 Bay Street, East. SAVANNAH GA. ! | 3 MONEY TO LEND § »»J _ >7 '5 Loans of any amount from s‘>oo to $.">0,000 on farms in Mont- « \\ gomery and adjoining counties. No delays for inspection, ft S ft Have lands examined by u man living near you. ft I LOANS ON FIVE YEARS TIME, payable in easy installments to | ® suit borrower. ft 1 CKO. 11. HARRIS *2 Merchants Bank Building AI ( lv«l( . f x<l. « » T he Montgomery Monitor and the Savannah Semi-Weekly News, one year, $1.75.
