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Mount Vernon, GaThursday Morning. MAY 11, 1911.
Among the recent sensations,
sprung in Atlanta is the sup
posed discovery of £ ( >kl while
excavating for the construction
of a new building. Atlanta is a
hustler, and nothing sprung
there need be read with sur
prise, whether there is room for
doubt or censure.
In this issue appears a news
item from the Eastman Times-
Journal in which is announced
the intention of Hon. W. A. i
Wooten to make the race for
solicitor-general of the* Oconee
circuit. The people of this, his
native county, will receive this
information with no little degree
of satisfaction; and he is already i
assured of strong support from
tin* people of Montgomery coun
ty. He needs no words of intro
duction, as far as this county is
concerned all are familiar with
his life and his splendid ability
to fill the place to which he is an
aspirant. While the next elec
tion is some months in the dis-1
lance, certain conditions have
advanced the campaign, and Mr.
Wooten wishes his intentions put/
fully before the people. Mont
gomery county recognizes Mr.
Wooten as a worthy son.
HELPtO PRISONERS OUT.
Wayeross, Ga., May 5. Fol
lowing the investigation of the
attempted jail delivery from Ware
county jail Tuesday, Sheriff Pitt
man has arrested Guilford Brad
ford, colored, charging him with
assisting the prisoners in their
efforts to get out of the jail.
Bradford, so it is claimed, has
been i l *ntilied by four inmates
of the jail as the man who pass
ed hack saws to Charlie Hall, a
colored prisoner facing trial for
murder.
TO GEORGIA IN BUGGY.
Acworth, Ga., May 0. Mrs.
I. 11. DeEmery, accompanied by
her daughter, passed thru Ac
worth yesterday in a Jiuggv.
They have travelled from their
home, Battle Creek, Mich., to
Savannah and Jacksonville, and
are now returning home. They
left September and expect to ar
rive back at Battle Creek about
June 10.
GEORGIAN GETS PLUM.
Washington, May (>. William
B. Johnson, of Quitman, Brooks
county, was today appointed as
sistant chief clerk of the nation
al House of Representatives at a
salary of $2,5000 a year. Mr.
Johnson is well known through
out Georgia and has scores of
friends who will learn with de
light of his good luck.
Mr. Johnson lias been in the
government service for a number
of years, connected with the gen
eral landotlice. At various times
he has been located at Salt Lake
City and Little Rock. He fre
quently visited Georgia, howev
er. and still maintains his citizen
ship in Brooks county. He has
extensive real estate holdings in
Manchester. Meriwether county.
The oosition to which Mr.
Johnson has been appointed is
one of responsibility and he was
chosen over many other appli
cants. The selection was made
by the patronage committee and
the appointment charged to
Georgia.
‘Phone the news to The Moni
tor. W iien you have a visitor, or
anything eise, tell us about it.
We put in a telephone for that
purpose. Touch the wire when
anything happens: and if nothing
happens to happen, get out and
make it happen. Ring number
forty.
A SUGGESTION RESPECTING THE
STATE ROAD.
Although the lease of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad
v. ill not expire for several years;
the question of what disposition ;
should Ik* made of the road at ;
the termination of the present
contract is a live one and has
been for a long time. It is a
question that promises to occupy
a good deal of the time of the ]
Legislature which meets next]
month. One of the senators-!
elect, Mr. William J. Harris of j
Cedartown, in a letter to the At-j
lanta Constitution, says that he
will introduce a bill providing
for leasing the road again, but
that the bill will not favor leas-;
ing to a railroad the property
which the road owns in Chatta
n . iga, Atlanta and other cities,
but not needed by it for operat
ing purposes.
Mr. Harris’ letter, therefore,
contains two distinct proposi
tions. One is to lease the rail
road again and the other is to
lease independently certain pro-;
perty owned by it not needed in
its operation.
It is a foregone conclusion that
the rogd will he again leased.
Even when there was a very
considerable faction in the Legis
lature advocating its extension to
the sea the Morning News took
the position that it should be
leaded a ,ain. Even if the state
convicts could be utilized in ex
tending it to the sea, and they
■ mill)! b “cause of a law turning
to *, i over to the counties to be
us I in improving the public
ro ids, the road, if extended
CKiltn’t be made to pay. "Tor
mi oils alone would cost a very
large sum of money and when
extended it would be without
connections, and, hence it would
not be able to control a paying
business. We should much pre
i r to have it extended, its sea
board outlet being this city, but
jif we are to consider the best
interests of the state, the road
should be leased again on the
; very best terms that can be ob-
J tained.
Without having possession of
all the facts and without having
given the matter the considera
tion to which its importance en
titles it our opinion is that Mr.
Harris’ suggestion, that the
part of the property in the vari
ous cities not needed for the
operation of the road should be
leased separately, with the un-
Llerstanding that the improve
ments made on it should revert
to the state at the expiration of
the lease is a good one. This
property is increasing as the
cities grow in wealth and popula
tion, and in the course of years
will yield the state a very large
income. Even now, for building
purposes, it would yield a revenue
! of considerable proportions.
Wnile the people are willing to
trust the Legislature to do the
best that can be done with their
property they nevertheless should
study the question which the pro
perty presents, with the view of
assisting the Legislature in set
> tong them to the best advant
age.
The Legislature that will fol
low the i*ih* that meets in June
will have to decide what is to be
done with the road. Hence, it
is none too soon to consider the
question of the advisability of
leasing the road again and of not
including the part of the property
not needed in operating it in the
lease. No doubt there will be
marked differences of opinion,
waen the question is presented
for a decision, as to what should
>e done witn the road, but the
. common sense view being that
] t.u re sao Id oe another lease, it
is safe to say that that view will
prevail. Savannah News.
If you take a deed, you want
the correct form. It can be had
from this office. New supply
just printed.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MAY 11. lOil.
Running of Agricultural Train
Greatest Wide-Spread Interest.
| From Atlanta Journal.
The following correspondence
between a Georgia farmer and
the State College of Agriculture
is evidence of the good and
growing results accomplished by
the last tour of the educational
train. In a letter to President
Soule, M. P. Maxwell, of Cairo,
points out the need of longer
stops of the educational train in
the various communities it visits.
This letter is typical of hundreds
which Dr. Soule has recently re
ceived.
The correspondence follows:
Cairo, Ga.
State College of Agriculture,
Athen, Ga.
Gentlemen: I am writing to
tell you I visited the college train
while it-was in Cairo, Grady
county. I was more than pleas
ed with the exhibits and the ad
dresses were to the point and
worth much to our people. I
only regret that every boy and
girl, man and woman in Grady
could not have been present,
and that the train could not have
spent a week, or at least a day
in Cairo. The time was so short
that many of us could not learn
much; just got some folks arous
ed and it was time to go. I
would gladly have paid to have
seen and heard what I did and
would have been glad to have
paid for an extended stay. What
do yon think of considering a
thing like this: People pay out
their money and flock to town to
] see a show, and I can not see
| anything, gained except the
j pleasure one gets out of it, when
]I am sure many, many people
[could see more pleasure' in your
! equipment on the train and your
talks than looking and listening
at clowns act the fool (not men
tioning the profitable informa
tion which was gained from the
train.) How about having the
train equipped and sell tickets to
cover expenses and have a day’s
stop in a place at least? In my
opinion a great good could be
accomplished in agricultural dis
tricts. It would result in still
more enthusiasm, more and bet
ter work, better stock and bet
ter crops. Then people would be
better able to educate their chil
dren. and the result would be a
bettes people in a better nation.
If you deem this idle thought
ior foolishness* I hope you will
! consider the source for here is
lone who can not keep silent and
i know conditions as they are.
I when there is no excuse for
things being as they are other
i than ignorance which holds us
| farmers back: hence the need of
education about our business.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) M. P. Maxwell.
State College of Agriculture,
] Athens. Ga. Dear Mr. Maxwell;
It is very encouraging to know
! that the visit of the train to your
section of the state was of ser
i vice to the people of your com
munity and that it sowed seed
there which will bear fruit for
veai*s to come. Those in charge
of the train realized fully that
the stops were too short, but our
financial situation prevented us
from doing more. The train was
furnished and transported free
of cost by the railroads of the
state, and the exhibits prepared
and.installed by the college, but
this did not represent an outlay
of state money as contributions
were received from friends of
the institution who believed that
the operation of a train would
promote the agricultural develop
ment of the suite, aid in the dis
semination of useful information,
and tend to break down the pre
judice which has unfortunately
existed toward what som * char
acterize as scientific farming,
| but which in reality is simply
bringing together the facts about
nature which the farmer must
learn to deal with in an intelli
i gent manner.
As a matter of fact, the oper
ation of the train cost the state ;
about $1,700, or about one- (
twelfth of what it would have
cost if it had been necessary to
pay out state money for the rent
al of the train arid its transpor
tation. Surely, therefore, it was ;
a good investment to the farmers J
of Georgia, for your letter is typ- j |
ical of hundreds received and in- j
dicates that a new point of view j
has been given many of our citi- J
zens. What this new point of j
view with reference to agricul- jj
tural practice and its possibilities ]
and the need of education along i ]
agricultural lines will mean no j
man can estimate, but the leaven j
iis at work and will undoubtedly;!
result this year in adding several ]
millions of dollars to the reve-j|
1 nues of our Georgia farmers.
I'rom our point of view it is j
not desirable that the train j!
| should be operated and a charge j |
made to obtain entrance thereto, j
It would be infinitely better to
! have the state make the small
appropriation necessary to equip
j and maintain the train in the in
terest and for the benefit of all
the people. This would certain-1
iy be a just charge against the;
state revenues, and would be
money expended in as effective a j
manner as any which could be j
j appropriated, and if the farmers j
; of Georgia are as thoroughly and j
as widely interested in this mat- i
! ter as they seem to be, judging j
from the large number of letters
similar to yours which have been
received in this office, no doubt
! such action will be taken by the
; legislature as will equip, main
tain and operate a train in the
future in co-operation with the
railroads of the state along lines
which will enable it to serve the
! communities visited in the most
efficient manner possible. The
board of trustees and those
charged with the management of
the college are intensely interes
j ted in the dissemination of agri
cultural knowledge. They are
' anxious to do everything calcu
; lated to assist in building up our
farms and farmer, but, of course,
the institution is young, its finan
cial support limited, and its abil
ity to serve the public on that ac
count restricted. It is for the
j farmers and the taxpayers of the j
, state to say what this institution !
shall do in the way of extension!
teaching which has been amply j
; demonstrated to be the most es
; fieient way devised to make the
! college serve its constituency.
Andrew M. Soule,
President.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will bo sold before the court house door in Mt. !
Vernon, on the first Tuesday in June., 1911. be- j
tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bid- !
dor for rash, certain property, of which the follow- |
ingr is a full and complete description:
One certain sewing machine, the same being: of ;
the Koval make. Levied on and will be sold as ■
the property of Z&ck Jackson to satisfy an execu- !
t ion orig-ina? in? in the City Court of Mt. Vernon
in favor of M. D. Burch Vs Zack Jackson, with
claim passed on by the superior court of said coun
ty. Original levy made by I). A. Morrison, depu
ty sheriff. Property pointed out for levy by at
attorney for plaintilT. and written notice of levy
given as required'by law. this the 2d day of May,
1911. James Hester. Sheritf.
, M. B. Calhoun. A tty. for PlfT.
Sheriff Sale.
I Georgia—Montgomery Cmuttv.
Will l»t *<dd bnf,»re the court louse door in i
Mt. Vernon on the tint Tuesday in June, ,
lull, between the legal hours of sale, to the *
highest bi.LL-r for ca.-h, certain property, of ;
whvh the i<»lk>uring is n complete description:
One certain lot of land situated and being in 1
the Town of Soperton., containing tifty by one'
hundred and thirt)>Mvdi and a-haif feet, and
U undedas follows: On the east by lands of Ed
; morai Troup, on the south and west by lands of .
J e Durden and on the north by lands of Frank j
rroup. Levied on and will be sold as the property
of Jim and Alice Troup to satisfy an execution is
sued from the superior court of said county in :
• :avor of M B. GiUis vs Jim and Alice Troup. Prop- •
. -*v pointed out fer levy by plaintiffs attorney,
and w ritten notice of levy given as required by
j law . this the 2d day of May. 1911.
James Hester, Sheriff,
i A.C. Saffold. Atty. for Plff.
Meat should have an extra coat
of Liquid Smoke, or one coat at
any rate, applied to it at the tie
ginning of warm weather, as it
will absolutely protect the meat
from bugs, skippers or other in
sects. You will never regret try
ing it once. It is sold by Palmer
Drug Store, at Ailey. Ga., for
, 55cts. for full quart bottle. I
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