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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1910)
T?\e Nontgonqery /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVF.RV Till KSIUY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY' COUNTY. Entered at the PoMofllce in Mr. Vernon. On. aw Seeond-< Ja*s Mail Matter. H. B FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. $i a Vear, in Advance el a lv<*itini fnenlr* mn»t invariably bp in **lvhih*, a* tin- \*\z+\ rat«*, mnl an the law din t t-; h lit] ni'iMl bp in bain] not lat» r then VV» «ln« *lay morning of the flr-t vv**k if in««rtiori Mt. Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, June 30th, 1910. COMMENDABLE ACTION. We wish to compliment the Commissioners of roads and reve mio for their decision to build an improved highway from the Spivey bridges to the Montgom ery count y I me. It i* the intention of the com missioners to clay tint old river road to the Maaoiiic lodge build iijg in I'metucky district, and from the Maaonic lodge to the Montgomery line, what is known ue the river road will be clayed. This ia the road that runs in the direction of (i lon wood and it. is badly in need of attention. The road runs from three to five inilea trom the river mid be tween it and the river there ia considerable population. On the w.st aide of the road there are many who would bo benefited by the improvement agreed upon by the commissioners. The section on the west side of the river Inis been neglected long enough The roads arc sandy and travel over them is difficult. It is about, twenty-five or six miles from Dublin to the extreme portion of the county on the west Bide and that distance can be materially shortened by improv ing the new and old river roads. At t he present time considerable trade leaves Laurens and goes to Alamo and (ileowood. I hat trade should come to Dublin and other towns in Laurens county. Build ing tins road will not only be of great benefit to the people living in the section through which it. would traverse, but it. would greatly benefit, trade conditions. To improve this road would murk a new era in this county- That would he the first of all tile county loads to be imurnved to the county line. I ntil roads are carried to the county line Laurens will never have a system of muds that will lie anything like perfect. Il for no other reason, the action of t lie commissioners is to be com mended, i«s it shows that they lire desirous of reaching every section of the county with an mi proved road. Kverv citizen <d‘ the county should he gratified at the actum j of the commissioners as it meunsj that ale w era has dawned in this county. —Dublin Courier-Dispatch WHO IS THE OLDESI PRINTER** W>* dip tin* following from a late number of The American 1 Dress; “Who in the oldest printer in active harness today? The Amer ican Press would like to know . JelVeiHon M l lick man of Kent, (),, lias been a printer for titty- , nine years and is still working." Wo have everv reason to believe! that Mr. I\ Alfred /,. Wesley, of The Clonuville Advertiser will rank with the eldest in active hur mss today. 11l IM9 lie went to. leant the husmeae at St. .lohn, i N. If., Canada, and served seven years as an apprentice. In 1973 he came to the Tinted States and for thirteen years ; w i ked in the Now England states. In |sns lie came South and was foreman of the Florida State printing establishment at Till la hass,.,*. Di lv.Hi ho came to South tii.iigiu, where he is well know n At the age of 7'i, as a composi tor. h<* works vigorously at the cos. and can get up three galleys of loaded lU-pt., ID ems wide, in nine hours, and is a tine job prin ter. He is strictly temperate ami is well preserved, hearty and sprightly for a man of his age, aid has never needed nor used spectacles. He is at home as a compositor with O pt. as w t 11 as 10 pt. Mr. Wi-sley is a native of Hali fax, N. Sb. Canada. OUR FLAG OLDER THAN EVEN CHINA’S. The “Star-Spangled Banner” that “waves o’er the land of the ! free and the home of the brave” | has a history unlike that of the emblem of anv other people. It is oliler * ban the present flag of Great Britian, which dates from 1*0J; older than the German Em pire standard 1870 ;older than i that of France—l79l; or that, of Spuin —l7“ Ci; older, in fmt, than! any of the present flags of the | ancient empires of China and Japan. The first legislative action, of which there is any record, con cern mg the design and adoption of a national flag, was taken in a resolution of Congress at Phila delphia on June I I, 177-7, but it was not until October ,r Novem ber nf that year that, a commis sion of three appointed for that purpose, met in the old city of Cambridge, and entered upon their duties. Benjamin Franklin! was one ot this number. After considerable del i bergt ion they) adopted a design consisting of j the king’s colors —the crosses of St . George and St.. Andrew —with j | thirteen parallel horizontal stripes, alternate red and white, A strange and unfortunate se lection, il would seem, and un explainable when such an ardent ! patriot as Franklin was one oft its authors. This Hag was unfurled for the ! first tame over the Continental! 1 camp at Cambridge, on th second i day nf January 177 b. We have no record of what George Washing ton thought, of this Hag with its royal emblems when he took command of the little army un der the log elm on the Cambridge green, but it is reasonable to j conclude t hat he was not pleas ed. We do know that when the ensign was firnt displayed at Cam : bridge, the British regulars as sumed t hat it was intended as an ' j indication of submission by the I thirteen States to the king whose j j speech had just been sent to the I Americans. The comment, of the Brit ish Register of 177 b on the j new standard is interesting. “The rebels burnt the king's speech and changed the llag from j a plain banner to one beuring thirteen stripes, as a symbol of the number and union of the I j colonies.".—'The New Idea Worn-j all's Magazine for July. NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLATION. Notic is hereby given that, at ! the approaching session of the] General Assembly of the State of; Georgia a Bill will be introduced to be entitled \n Act to Create a Bond of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Montgomery; to provide fertile ! elect ion of members thereof; to prescribe the method of selecting a Chairman thereof ami provide for Ins compensation, as well as the compensation of the other members of said board; to pro vide tor their removal from office to define the powers and duties of such chairman as well as the oth er members of said board, ami for other purposes. N >tice is hereby given that at approaching session of the Gener al Assembly of the State of Geor gia, a Bill will be introduced to be entitled An Act to repeal an Ad approved February 22nd. I>- 73 and the amendatory Aids t here of approved December 20th, I>9, ami August 20th, IS*Hi, entitled An Act to create a Board of Com missioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Montgomery, and to define the power* and du ties of the same, and for other j purposes. j THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JTNE 30, 1910. PISTOL TOTERS A OISGRACE TO GEORGIA. The Atlanta Constitution pub lished n list of fifty-seven counties with the number of indictments m each for pistol toting. In the •>7 there are now pending 809 cases of this character, an average iof nearly fifteen indictments of j this nature to the county. Inas much as the average would prob ably be sustained, if not increas ed, wore the figures at hand for the entire state, it is approximate ly correct to say that in the 147 counties comprising Georgia 2,- 200 persons are under indictment for the illegal carrying of con-; j cealed arms. This is a terrific indictment against Georgia, especially when we reflect that this small army, equivalent to two regiments of the regular army, constitutes j but a portion of those who arc persistently violating the law against this infamous prac tice of carrying weapons with which to take life in a moment of passion, For every one indicted there are doubtless several who have not been caught as yet. Of ficers of the law do not search people for weapons unless they are charged with some other of fense, or are picked up for some misdemeanor, or are known to have a weapon on their person, j About the safest way to violate] ] the law in Georgia is to carry a ] revolver in the hip pocket. It is j j done daily by thousands, m cities, land towns and in the imposing of] ] a line, the usual penalty, contin ues, the number who disregard ; the law will continue to run into! the thousands. Much of the crime in Georgia is due to tins carrying of conceal-, [ed weapons. A drink or two to] inflame the brain, a slight diffi culty, and then the ever ready] pistol gets in its work. Without ! | the pistol there would, at the; j worst, liuye been only a bruised j face. As a general proposition tlie pistol toter would be very slow j m picking a .quarrel but for Ins pistol. lie is not generally of the type that are noted for their physical courage. Ruin and the revolver give them, as a rule, whatever measure of pugnacity they possess. There is one way in which this { habit can be effectually broken up, and that is by the removal of the Hue. At present the great ; majority of pistol toting cases are j ! settled by the puvment of fines, which go to the court officials and i do the public no good. This alter- ] native should be removed by the I legislature. The offense should j be lifted into the felony class ami ] ]a year on the gang should be the I minimum imposed for its infrac tion. To be sure this would re sult, it enforced, in the addition jof a number of white convicts to i the number now helping to build the good roads system of the i state. But the w hite murderer is ] no lietter than t he negro murderer, and the white pistol toter is not a ] bit more worthy of consideration than the negro pistol toter. There may be times when men, working a part icularly bad class of negroes, as on a turpentine farm, may feel compelled to carry a weapon, but in such event it. can be carried where it is visible and the law n>t offended. The man who car ries a gun because his business put him in a position where he may be in dauger constitutes so small a proportion of the army of pistol toters as to bp an almost negligible factor in the considera tion of the matter. But for the thousands who carry pistols in a spirit of bravado, that they may , swagger and feel themselves at an advantage over their law abiding neighbors, there is but one proper place, and that is working on the roads under the surveillance of a 1 guard armed with a shot gun. I They deserve no mercy, just as they show none with their ever ready pistol when they are crossed in their w is lies or whims.—Aiuor [icus Times-R-cord.r. J | i Kj BEARING I T I gj In the sewing machine business in Montgomery county, I || &j am leader—have been for many years. 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BARNWELI, j] \ CANON & BARNWELL Cotton Faetorsand j| Commission Merchants ; 220 Hay £ SAVANNAH, UA. 1; ; (Membt'in Savannah Cotton Exchange) i| Handlers of Upland, Se- ;! Island Florodora Cotton Special Attention (iiten to F. O. U. Cotton e Handlers of Upland and Sea- j; Island Bugging, Ties i | 11 and Twine I)U. .). E. MAS now Kcfi'act inn ist Glasses Corrrectly Ground and Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation Free. 2<5 West. Broughton Street SAVANN AH, g a. Kujjene Talmadge, Attorney at Law, MT. VbRNON, QA. E. M. RACK LEV Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co.: MT. VbRNON, QA. M. 15. CALHOUN, Atty at Law, Ui. Vernon, Georgia. - k - /-./n/ / /v Ar/s/ / / /wv ir /v/v. « ay-/A/wvW'ry-A-/' y-/\r>yst® The BANK OF SOPERTON jj | Capital Stock, 515,000.00 1 Surplus and undivided | profits $6,500.00 | Total resources over $100,000.00 « General Banking Business Conducted. Accounts Solicited. « Interest on Time Deposits I\ OFFICERS: ;£ v N. L. Gillis, President. ,J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President. <:<: £ J. E. Hall, Cashier. L. A. McCrary, Asst. Cashier « ? DIRECTORS: J N. L. Gillis, M. B. Gillis, J. B. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, || W. 1). Martin, W. 11. Fowler, J. E. Hall. j| j SOPERTON, GEORGIA. I I The Heyward^ Williams Co. I ~~ .««,) —j Ml STOCK $50,000 1 Cotton Factors A Commission Merchants 1-0 Bay Street, East, SAVANNAH, GA. ;j Bagging and Ties at Attractive Prices—Ready for Shipment. The officers of this company are veterans in the cotton i business. Its facilities for handling and selling cotton cannot he matched. Fertilizers of All Kinds Moat Progressive Commission Merchants in the South in the E| Handling of UPLAND, SEA-ISLAND, FLORODORA 1 and EGA PTIAN COTTONS | QUICK RETURNS ON CONSIGNMENTS I Correspondence Solicited, and Given Prompt Attention 8 Monitor and Atlanta Weekly Georgian Si.*2s
