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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1911)
"T?\e Mor)tgornery /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORIiAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Enif*r«-il at tin- PuHtoflier in Mt. Vernon. (Lh. an sjecimd-f 'lass Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. $• a Year, in Advance advM tim mentH must invariably be paid in advance, at flu legal rate, and aw the law dir**ets; and mint be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the first week >f insertion Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, MAY 4, 1911. The live town of Kastman con tinues a stub!torn fight for recog nition in the matter of freight rates, claiming unjust discrimo nation. A live town generally gets what it wants, and we trust that Eastman will have its bus iness desire fulfilled. Eastman has hoard of trade, you know, and some enterprising merchants. And now the schoolboy is look ing forward to his summer free dom, when he can hike away to too creek and worry the catfish aid smaller members of the fin ny tribe, llis father, you under si uid. will take care of the grass, a id mother will do her usual line of work around the place. But )> ns will be boys, and girls will be girls a short while. The towns that desire to grow • that is, the people of a town who desire to have it grow make some effort in behalf of the town. One form of organi zation adding more to the wel fare of any place is an active; hoard of trade. Fora town not| large enough to warrant the or- j ganization of such a civic body,a young men’s business league is capable of doing a great deal toward furthering the general development of a place. Mt. Vernon, as we have stated many times, could afford a business league, and by effort on the part of its members renewed growth will he noticed in the place. Any town of nothing hut the village! calibre should have some regular, j orgai/.ed effort toward civic im provement. Let the business j men of this place, and the others towns of the county, as for that, get to work on such lines. 1 WO GEORGIA CONGRESSMEN WOULD DRAW COLOR LINE. W ashington, 1). April 29. The color lint* is to be strictly drawn in Washington hereafter, j if the plans of two Georgia mem bers of tlie House, Messrs. Rod den berry and Hardwick are earied out. Mr. Hardwick thinks it time that there should be an end to marriages between the races here, and will push vigorously a bill he introduced to this effect a short time ago. Mr. Roddenberry also will put another race question up to the House if his present plans are carried out. He is chairman of the subcommittee that will re model the House restaurant, which work is to he done under the direction of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. When the committee comes to make its recommendations as to remodeling the restaurant, Mr. Roddenberry projxwes that it shall include a recommendation that the restaurant is exclusively for the use of white persons. Colored persons have patroniz ed the restaurant occasionally in the |>ast, using that portion sot aside for the public, but nev er trespassing iqx>n the dining rooms of the members them si! res. The Roddenberry plan, 1; rvever, contemplates that no colored person may use any part of the restaurant. If the two propositions advanc es by Southern members finally come before the House it is be lieved that they will engender ci siderable feeling and that the problem may prove an embar rassing one for the Ilou^e. While negroes rarely ever make themselves obnoxious in the res taurants at the Capitol, the very fact that they are given. the same privileges as white persons, if they choose to exercise them, is wrong, in the opinion of Mr. Roddenberry. LAST YEAR'S CROP AND THIS YEAR’S PLANTING, There is every reason for the Southern farmer to take satis faction in the work he accomp lished through the production of last year’s cotton crop. We be lieve that, speaking generally, the prices have been satisfactory to the raiser. Not that he has gotten all of the crop that he is entitled to, hut he has gotten more than he usually secures. He produced a crop that the world wanted at a time when the world wanted it badly. The result is that he has contributed a larger proportion than ever before to lhe foreign commerce of the United States, For the first eight months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 11> 11. the exports of cotton have ; exceeded $500,000,000 have ex-; (•coded half a billion dollars. The j year before the exports were on- : ly 348 millions and two years be fore they 328 millions, but for It he present year they are 501 ; millions. This has brought the foreign (trade hack to a healthy position, and its effect is felt in every branch of American commerce. Credit and praise for the tiller; l in the cotton field, the man who! is now preparing his acres fora : new crop, notwithstanding the I boll weevil and the drouth and i (the floods and the storms and I the tariff and the speculator and : j the middle man. “There is more in a man than lin the land.’’ There is more in | the land than we imagine. The farmer who studies the condi tions under which he works, who ; selects his seed with care, who determines the quality of his soil and what it will produce and ; then labors in season and out of season for the best results, is winning his rewards, especially in the South. He is increasing his resources and strengthening his position in the money markets of the world. The farmer works by faith largely. He takes of bis store and scatters it over the ground where it may rot and then revive and grow under all of the vary ing influences of climate and season and market. He puts money and labor and hope and heart into the ground and buries *it and looks forward to the day when he shall reap where he has sown and gather manyfold of what temporarily he has surren dered. The farmers of America today are half of the population; scat tering the seeds over the land that is beginning to grow warm under the influence of the sun. knowing that through the early and the latter rains, with aid from frost and storm, the laws of nature will not fail them and that months lienee they will reap another crop to feed and clothe the nations of the world. It is well to liK>k at these broad Influences. It is well to consider the part each man of you has in tiu> work of the world, and to know that men elsewhere are strengthened by the work you are doing in your own field, in \ our own place. It knits the hearts of men together and makes them realize their kinship one with another Home & Farm. Meat should have an extra coat of Liquid Smoke, or one coat at ‘ any rate, applied to it at the lie ginning of warm weather, as it will absolutely protect the meat from hugs, skippers or other in sects. You will never regret try ing it once. It is sold by Palmer j Drug Store, at Ailey. Ga., for 55cis. for full quart bottle. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY. MAY L HP L I There will be submitted to the General Assembly at the summer session a bill providing for sup posed insane persons being tried or adjudged by physicions, who will file their report with the ordi naries of the respective counties, doing away with the present plan of trial by jury. It will provide further, that no person adjudged insane shall remain in a county jail for more than ten days without being taken to an asy lum. Now, right here comes the : point. How will insane persons ;be taken to the state sanitarum I unless additional room is provi ded. If this hill is passed by the j General Assembly, let it also ! make provisions for taking care of this class of unfortunates. A measure without provisons will | be worthless. A NEW DEPOT FOR BARNESVILLE, GA. Barnesville, Ga., April 27. Rarnesville is at last about to get the enlarged freight and pas senger depots, for which her citizens have been asking for the past few years. Wednesday Vice i President Winburn, Genera! Man-! ager Moies and other officials of the Central of Georgia Rail-! way company spent several hours! in the city looking over the sit- ■ nation and the property, with the; purpose to reach a decision with j reference to the contemplated new buildings. Mayor Cochran | and a number of citizens held a! conference with them, and the! matter was discussed in a friend-j ly spirit, and it is believed work ! will begin shortly, probably us ing the present location for the improvements. It is believed that about $25,000 will he spent on these improvements by the; company. DUBLIN HAS SECURED SAVANNAH LIVE WIRE. City Editor Robert M. Martin of the Savannah Press has been given a three months leave of (absence from his duties in Sa ; vannah. and has accepted the position of secretary of the Dub lin Chamer of Commerce. He i went to Dublin last Wednesday and is now actively at work in that enterprising city as the head iof their new Chamber of Com • merce. Since the recent organization lof the the chamber, Dublin has sought a man capable of putting it on an active and profitable basis, and in the selection of Mr. j Martin we feel sure the little city has made a wise choice. Mr. Martin is a newspaper man of wide experience, and will make Dublin a most excellent official. By was of calling attention to his activity, we will remark that we saw him busy with his duties in Savannah last Wednesday morning giving a farewell ser vice to the Press—and before finishing the day Wednesday, he was actively at work in Dub lin. We congratulate this city on having secured the ser vices of Mr. Martin, hut are i afraid that they will not let him return to Savannah (except on an occasional visit. I BERMUDA GRASS MARKETABLE. Greenslxmx Ga., April 29. Mr. E. W. Copelan, president of the Copeland National bank of Greenslx>ro. is the promoter of an industry which consists of gathering and shipping Bermuda grass roots. Mr. Copelan in terested several gentlemen who were not long in filling a 15-ton order from Charlotte. N. C. The grass is used in sodding golf links, and it is said it gives splen did satisfaction when used for such purposes. Mr. Copelan has also made a shipment of 15 tons to Richmond, Ya.. and many smaller shipments to other points in the south. The total shipments which Mr. Cope lan has made will amount to 20 tons. U, S. MAY ABANDON FORT M’PHERSON. Atlanta, Ga., May 1. Army circles in this city are agitated over the reported movement to do away with the post at Fort McPherson, near this city, where the Seventeenth United States Infantry was quartered prior to being detailed to San Antonio, Tex., to participate in the war game. According to a statement j today by Adjutant General A. J. Scott, of the Georgia National Guard, the abandonment of the ; small posts and establishment in their places of brigade posts and i maneuver grounds is in line with the present policy of the war de partment and the department now' has two sites in view in the , j South for a brigade post. One j jof these is at Chickamauga, near | | Chattanooga, and the other is j near Tullahoma, Tenn. The j . Chickamauga grounds already j have been examined by a board ] iof army officers, who have re- j ported favorably on the site and j it is a foregone conclusion, says j General Scott, if Chickamauga is j | selected for the brigade site, the j abandonment of Fort McPherson j will follow. The Atlanta Chamber of Com merce and other local bodies are ; urged by the adjutant general to ■ do what they can toward in-: ■ fluencing the war department to ; select Fort McPherson for the • Southern brigade post and mane- ; uver grounds. ; MONTSOMERY UNION ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, our government is l sending troups to the Mexican! ; borders, as we believe to intim j idate the despot-ridden people of Mexico, for the purpose protect | ing the ill-gotten property of certain sindicates of our own government. And we, the work ! ing class of our government, de fraying our part of the expenses of the same. Therefore, be it Resolved, By the Montgomery County Divison of the F. E. & C. U. of A. that we protest against the govern ! ment using the army of the Uni i ted States to protect private property in a foreign country. Also, beliving that such action on the part of our government may residt in bloodshed and the devastation of our property. And in the name of Justice, Equity and the Golden Rule, we hereby petition our Congress to order I the recall of the army from the Mexican border at once. Also, that the Union News and Montgomery Monitor be request ed to publish same and that a copy he sent to our Congressman and Senator. T. B. Winham. Pres. Jas. T. Geiger. Secy. M. 15. CALHOUN, Attv at Law, * Mt Vernon, Georgia. | Money on Hand TO LOAN. LOANS PROMPTLY CLOSED. We have a good sup ply of’cheap money on hand at this time and can close loans verv promptly, either on farm or city property. If in need of cash, come to see or write us at once. Southern Loan & Investment Co. VTDALIA. 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