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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.
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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.
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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.
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ceed t. mark the t:p layer for a given size suit or overcoat.
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