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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1910)
"i r\e Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROA.N MONTGOMERY COUNTY. „i ||, f . iii Mr. Vernon Or. »* .Second-Class Mail Matter. H. H l-tiLSOM, editor and Owner. a ' ear . * n Advance. .in. - itiMt iitvitrinbly h>«h! in *«.! vatic?, nt tin- Ic#*! rite, m*'l ft* the Uw f |. ~, .* *,,. not | nipt th»r> Wt 'liif-wlfty morning of the flrut week of iuwtiun Mt. Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Nov. 10th, 1010. Ti E MACON TELEGRAPH'S TRIAL BY FIRE. The Macon Telegraph went down in smoke and flame Thurs d i ii jlit, !>ut like the fabled pho . .. it will rise from its ashes in renewed splendor. For a nowspajtor like The Tele graph does not exist merely in its type and presses and fixtures and machines, but it lives in its character, its spirit and its achievement which constitutes its immortal part, of which these material incidents are but the outward form and visible symbol. Tli ! ■; aph is a landmark cif on coeval with its life and ] ! parcel of the city’s his t I i.-. here when the city’s hi i. sat b> its cradle when | it w hut a newlinjj village, tfrtuv ' w in. pTowth, shared in its stru i s and vicissitu<les, its >f<» • ines and its bad, and, w rely trust and believe, it w i-.tiii ante to be a feature of tL c.t ’ life until the trump of t !. • t jiulurment shall sound ai ' lime Itself siiall be no more. i tvei’ac'e life of newspapers w approximately compare w i lie ordinary mortality tables of insurance companies, but \\ In lived through the tr and strenuous ejwichs tin i I’elejiraph has seen and sui . i it becomes immune to tli ; i rial touch and Death hirn sell ' . s it by as the one ethe r. il tity upon which his scythe | can av ik no execution. i .i Telegraph as it is known to* ■ is a monument to the he roii fortitude, the labors, the si, ness of purpose and the co ace of its editor and chief owi Mr. Charles K. Fendle to: . I'odor Ids sleepless eye and Si) r an management il became I so . :c first time in its history, j p • ins, a "paying" property i n> iias reached its present pros-; p and improved condition, i It result of the concentrat-■ t*<l . ,)f more than a dozen oft iyears of his life and tlie M von News extends to hint self a i to lus able coadjutors! and , tiers in the newspaper its 'a ishes for a prompt and su ■ ml rehabilitation of The Tel ipb, with a new and let ter plant and assured prosperity hot , i i\\ and for the future.- Macon News. NEC 13 PREACHER WILL GJ TO PEN FOR LARCENY. Greensboro. Ga., Nov, 1. H. 11. Hogan, a negro preacher, plead guilty in the superior court here yesterday to the charge of larceny after trust. The negro made a statement to the court in wh h a asked for clemency. H owed an overcoat ft ' r negro and forgot to He also purchased gt >m several Greensboro me vi' stating that he was ex; ci ■ cheek by the next nv. . .11... ran departed and was an i m Greenwood. S. C., sew. al month ago. i ‘ negro is one of the smart- C' i*i‘ his race ever seen it the section. He would go from ta\ i . town and hold what he t( "Booker Washington nv i ioei tigs,” He would have It . : v. ate citizens and min is; »ke addresses at his ni. \. ..eh wiHild run about a He was very free in to . v. .flections and would m. . ad taiks at each meet ing. .* Lewis in court to ds. wed him to ten months’ co lent or pay a tine of $l5O. It is t» > < /tieved Hogan will be able to pay the fine. GOOD ROADS IN TROUP. In Trup county the gospel of good roads has fallen in fertile ground. There will be held next Tuesday, November the eight, an election to decide upon the pro posed issue of two hundred thou sand dollars of bonds for the im provement of public highways. This is the sort of enterprise that counts and that will strengthen and upbuild every interest of the community for all years to come. There seems to l»e no doubt that the bonds will carry. Be hind the movement is a wide awake public sentiment which in the past has proved wonderfully potent in keeping Troup in the forefront of Georgia counties. Surely, at this critical moment no citizen will fail to do his duty by himself and his neighbors, a duty which in this instance means a vote for t he bonds. In Troup county, as in most other counties, there are two im portant reasons for the bond is -11- plan of road improvement - Public economy and public profit. This county is now sending about twenty thousand dollars a year in road repair. Such work s good so far as it goes, but in : point of method it is unbusiness ike. Every year that same sum must Ih* paid out for repairs. If, however, a complete, up-to-date and unified system of road build ing is inaugurated, the results w" i>«* permanent. A road once i in thoroughly good condition w M give double the service and as louble the time of a road thr.* is mended every month or vea Indeed, the difference in actual money thus saved the ;county would go a long way toward paying the interest and reducing the principal of the bonds. In short, it is economy to make one sweep of the matter anti be done with it. just as re shingling is cheaper than contin ual patching for a leaky roof. The profits that come from a system of good roads are so plain is scarcely to require even a mention. The important thing about a good road is’that it helps everybody in the whole commun ity. Especially does it promote the farmer’s interests. By link ing him directly to the town it facilitates and cheapens the marketing of his crops. It brings ; his children closer to the school house and himself closer to his neighbors and church. It in creases the value of his land and in a hundred other ways enriches ! his life and opportunities. Troup county is to be congrat ulated on this forward stride in progress. It is to be hoped that the vote for the lannis next Tues- j will represent every citizen. At lanta Journal. TERRELL COUNTY LAND BRINGS TOP PRICES. Am- riens, Gs.. Oct.. 81.—Thirty Imusnud del Ims whs the g >»d oiiitd figure ;>Hut in Americas for i Terrell emntv plantation of 1 IKhJ acres, or $:25 per acre net . ! fi. purchaser was J. M. Woodley,! >f S uitli Carolina, who bought me of the farms of .M. M. and L. ; \ Ivwrv u> Terrell county. I'h- sale s one of the largest single deals effected here quite recently, though tin re have been quit' a number of smaller ones .a ih< SS.OtH) and slo,uoo class. The farm purchased by Mr. W p >d!ey is situated in the-smith tii jrortion ! Terrell county. ■ Itioh ndjtntw Sumpter, and while is very g ■> ,1 land, it docs n>>t • ■qu*l other farm lands iu Slat countrv. One realty agency of several in \merietis reports tonight the. qgregale sales of fanning lands r the mouth of October exceed- ■ Gujj $150,000. •’ ■■ ... .• THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 10, 1910 GOV, BROWN FAVORS PERMANENT FAIR PLAN, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 2. —“ The greatest state fair 1 ever atteud |ed.” was the reply of Gov. Jossph M. Brown today, when asked his | opinion of the visit yesterday to Macon, which was made by a large [ delegation of Atlantans and sev eral prominent state house of ficials. “J was particularly impre with the corn and poultry exhibits and the Tamworth hogs exhibit, ’’ he said, “and I felt proud of tins state when I saw what a variety jof products Georgia can rais". The quality was superb and tin corn was the best that I have ever seen. I was particularly im pressed with distances from which these corn exhibits came, Bulloch and Gwinnett counties ibade mag nificent showings and they are both extreme counties as far as location is concerned. 'l'his shows we have one of the best corn states t in the south. “The rice exhibits from Cam dim and the wheat from the north Georgia counties, the one a hot climate product and the other a cold, all goes to show what a va riety of cultivation the farmers of our state are cupable of with the best lands to raise their crops on und the climates to suit. J was also impressed with the apple dis play from Gwinnett county. “Macon is undoubtedly the place for the holding ot a state fair,” continued Governor Brown. “It lias every advantage as to lo cation, being practically in the center of the state and well con nected by railroads, and the en thusiain of the her people would readily assure success to almost anything which they undertook. I am strongly in favor of making this the location of all future fairs. It would assure the best accommodation and equipment and with the assurance that the fair would be held there every fall the business men and citizens would feel absolutely safe in in vesting in the erection of com modious buildings and making absolutely perfect accommoda tions for the exhibits, which would increase, and which are increasing every year as the farmers and counties more fully realize the value of making dis plays. This decision on a per manent. location would further the interest in the fair and give impetus to the different county fairs. When we get the state fairs to this stage we will derive the most benefit, as all counties will then he aroused to the point of sending exhibits. I hope some day in the near future to see these fairs reach such a degree of success and interest that every county will come forward with big dis plays. 1 believe we will have such a fair not many years hence, if a permanent location is decided upon, as each of the counties come forward ami send exhibits it will present an object lesson to tlni others and stimulate them to better results in farming. It would encourage the farmer to more careful cultivation of his crops and bring about a greater variety of cultivat ion. “Everyman has more or less ambition ami if we succeed iu arousing this in every farmer in the state alike we will stimulate the whole state to better results in agriculture.” Damon Dots. The Damon Literary Society met in Freshman room last Sat urday afternoon. After all business matter were attended to a very interesting; program was rendered as follows: Wants Thomas Mobley. Prophecy S. W. Burch. Declemation Julian Peterson. Debate—Resolve, That the Spartans Were Greater Than the Athenians. Affirmative. A. L. Miller and Whitney McLemore. Negative. Robert Smith and Terry Parker. Jokes Leta Simpson. Pantomine, Ethleen Folsom. Sota McLemore. Oscar Jones. The decision of the debate was decided in favor of the negative. . ?£*, ■ .•» ' . A,.,-,.. '« STATE CONTROL OF ROADS. Why a Kansas County’s Surveyor Fa vors a Uniform System. The state control ol roads in order to bring about uniformity and elimi nate ihe offices lliat have to do with road build - tig is advocated by J. M. Lindsay, county surveyor of Wyan dotte county. Kan. Mr. Lindsay would abolish the office of county engineer and have a resident stale engineer a[r pointed either by the state highway engineer or a good roads eoinmission. ,\s a continuation of the plan the township road overseer would be un der the control of the resident engi neer, and the result. Mr. Lindsay • says, would be a uniformity of roads ami bridges. ■■. Suppose,” Mr. Lindsay said, "that the county commissioners of one coun ty should erect a concrete bridge and on the same.road in the next county a cheap ’tin" affair Is erected. In a few years the cheap bridge may wear out. and a heavily loaded wagou or a thrashing machine would be compel led to go around it. Under state con trol this condition would not arLse. as the pin ns for bridges would be more or less uniform. Not that all bridges would necessarily be concrete, but the capacity and condition of every bridge in the state would be known by every resident engineer. If the survey of every county road were made iu con formity with roads in adjoining coun ties t lie ultimate result would he a road straight across the state at no unusual cost “This would be the case if surveys for all generally traveled roads were filed in the office of the state highway engineer or with a good roads com mission Then. too. the ‘road boss who insists upon his own ideas of road building, whether they are right or wrong would he eliminated. He would he under the direction of a competent eugiueer, and his bit of road would receive the same attention as any other road in the state.” Mr. Lindsay is one of the three members of n committee appointed by the Kansas Engineering society to procure the passage of good roads laws in the Kansas legislature next winter, lie is endeavoring to get the support of the society for state con trol of highways. DRAGGING ROADS WITH AUTOS How Six Machines Helped to Make Two Miles Smooth and Hard. The Muskogee (Okln.) Motor club is improving the roads in. .Muskogee county. This club is composed of fifty motorists. The members have bought fifty split log drags and are using them on the roads leading out of Mus kogee. The first trial Was made a short time ago and proved a great suc cess. A stretch of road two miles long leading out of one of the city's prin cipal thoroughfares was selected. When the ground was in the right con dition the six split lug drags were at tached to the rear axles of six ma chines. and the two miles of road were thoroughly dragged. The result is that they are as smooth and hard as could be desired, it took the motorists about a quarter of it day to do the work. This work is to be extended. The fifty members of the club are to be di vlded into squads of six each. Each squad is to bo given a division of road to improve. More drags will be made The material in a drag of this kind fosls $4.30 if bought at a lumber yard and hardware store, but any farmer can make one with ordinary fools for practically nothing by using split logs, as the uame of the drag suggests. Women For Good Roads. In one of those cities where the women have actively taken up the work of civic improvement the wo man’s club has created a department of good roads and has appointed a committee to have charge. This is the first action of the kind that we have noticed. The local newspaper says that "tills committee lias not been asked to work the roads, but it surely will bo able to work tbe meu who con trol them, to judge by the success of the efforts of the women iu the past for improvements of advantage to the city.” And therein Is stated tbe secret of the value of such an undertaking on the part of these women. If tbe meu won't build good roads the women can make them. Southern Good Itondf bogs leave to acknowledge itself a firm and unwavering constituent of this club of progressive ladies who not ouiy enjoy books and original articles on current topics, refreshments aud so cial pleasures connected with tbe usu al feminine club, but also incorporate into their realm of activity sucb a laudable work as furthering tbe good roads movement. Oil Versus Water as a Dust Preventive. Tbe superintendent of parks iu Kan sas City found that iu oue year a sav ing <>f 34 |ht cent was effected by u<ing oil instead of water as a pre ventive of dust. Sprinkling would have cost for that year $1,1.20T.3_’ Oiling cost $10,671.44. The su|>eriti teudeut >uid that occasional light ap plications of oil during the seasou im proved the weariug surface of the driveways. The damage to the wear ing surface conies largely from attrl tlon of tlie grit or dust ou the road way, and-oil. he pointed out. compacts the grit or dust, thus checking dete rioratlou at once aud preventing the damage that comes from automobile travel. How to Get Good Roads. Oet together, agree on a policy, se lect representatives to put that policy Into effect, aud you will have good roads. •TTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼• ► i ► w [ When Selecting a Bank 5 | ► The points to consider are these: ► First. Is it a safe and souud institution. When I intrust ► my money to it can I always couut on getting it back when I l need it. ► Second. Is it of sufficient strength to be able to stand by ► me in case of ueed. * Both these are important points aud not to be overlooked. £ We believe we offer as great a degree of safety as can be found ► iu any bank in this section. We make it a point to look to £ the iuterest of our customers. 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