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Mrs. T. B. Abt and daughter,
Miss Minnie, have returned from
a visit among relatives in North
Carolina.
Mr. H. A. Simpson and daugh
ter, Miss Iris, left yesterday for
Clarkton, N. C., where they will
visit relatives for a few days.
This is Mr. Simpson’s old home
town.
sor 6 doses will cure
any case of Chills and Fever.
I'rice, 25c.
Miss Lyra Thompson returned
Friday from a visit to Vidalia.
Mrs. M. B. Calhoun and little
daughter, Elizabeth, have return
ed from a visit to Athens.
Mr. William Bland is spending
a few days at his old home in
Wallace, North Carolina.
Miss Ruby Mason is visiting;
friends in Albany this week.
Mrs. William Bland is visiting
in Dublin, guest of her sister, i
Mrs. K. New.
Mr. N. L. Spooner returned
Tuesday from an extended visit
among relatives in Whitewater,
Wis. While away he visited a
number of the large cities of the 1
West. lie was benefited by the
trip, snd will doubtless resume
business in a few days.
Advices from Atlanta say that
our representative, lion. Wm. B.
Kent, will return home Friday
afternoon. Ile has attended the
session of the Ceneral Assembly
very ulosely, and is anxious to re- 1
turn and take up his practice and
he among old friends.
Keep in mind the highway
from Americas to Savannah. |
This movement must be put
through. .
Mrs. W. B. Langford of IJval
da has returned home after
spending several days with
friends in Mt. Vernon.
Mr. C. A. Mason spent a part
of last week in Rochelle with rel
atives. Says crops in that sec
tion are very fine.
Miss Ora Let* leaves this week
for Mars Hill, N. (’., where she
goes to resume her work in that
institution, being in charge of
the departments of violin and
voice. Missive is a competent
instructor and a young lady of j
pleasing grace and charm. Many
friends wish for her a pleasant
and profitable term at Mars Hill.
'Phis school is situated among the
mountains of North Carolina and
is a delightful spot.
For prices on Mowers, Rakes, ;
Hay Presses and Stump Pullers, !
write.the Vidalia Machinery and!
Farm Implement Co., Vidalia, (la j
MACON, mini,lN & SAVANNAH UY
Schedule Effective July g, tfll,
Ro 18 No 20 HTi'rinN4 N<>. No. 17
I M P M oTA HONa * m P. M
7|o II 36 Leave liaaou Arrive 11 16 180
7 2_* »H7 Swift. Cri*«<k ll 08 420
7HO 11 to Dry llruncli 10 65 412
7 HI 15 10 Atlantio 10 61 4 09
7 SIS !$ 611 I‘ike’n Peak 10 IS 4 06
7 16 j I (HI Fitzpatrick 10 42 4 IXI
760 IMI Uiplfty 10 117 51 611
8 OO j 4 11 JolT**r»onvill«* 10 27 51 42
S to I 211 liallemore 10 16 11 110
8 20 l I 111! Danville lt> 07 51 22
S 26 I llh Allentown 10 02 It 17
8 114 4 17 Montrose 0 651 1 It OS
814 467 oml ley 042 268
8 60 6 011 Shew make 9 116 2 62
8 66 6 OO Moore 9 29 2 46
9 10 6 26 Ar. Lv. 9 16 2 110
Dublin
9 16 6 110 Lv. Ar. 9 10! 2 26
9 17 6 112 S M 0 A S .1 9 OS 2 211
9 21 6 HU NMDASJ 9 04 2 19
9 111 6 16 Call in 8 64 2 09
9 40 6 64 M inter 8 47 2 01
960 606 Rock ledge 8 110 160
966 6 10 I Orland S 511 1 46
10 08 It 2H Soperton 819 I 5111
10 19 It 84 Tarry tow n 807 121
10 20 641 Kibliee 800 116
10 40 065 1 Vidalia 7 -461 1 (X)
CONNECTIONS:
At Dublin with On Wriglit-Hvillr .v IVtmilh and On Dublin «V South
western lor Kastman and Teimillt 1 ami internuKilate points
At Mi icon with Southern Hallway Irom and toCinciniiHtti. (’haftanooyja.
Home Hiriiiiiighaiu. A t lan la and intermediate points. Also t lie Cent ral of
<leoi>ria Railway, O. S. A K. Railway, Macon and IliriiiiiiKhain Hallway
and Wcorgia Hailload.
At H*H*k ledge wit n the Milieu and Southwestern for NVadley and in
termediate points.
At Yldalia with On Seaboard Air Line for Savannah ami intermediate
point*. and with Hu Milieu and Southwestern for M illeti, Stiliumre ami in
termediate points.
J. A. STREYKR, G. P. A , Macon, Ga.
sor f) doses “Mb” will cure
any case of Chills and Fever.
Price, 25c.
USED PISTOL FREELY.
Atlanta, Aug. 15. As an illus
tration of the difficulty with
which the pistol-carrying law is
enforced in Georgia, the police
are calling attention to the case:
of Herbert W. Talley, now in
jail here, charged with entering j
the saloon of Freeman Savage on
Saturday night and opening fire
on the proprietor. After two
shots had been fired, and just as
Savage had reached his own
weapon and was preparing to re
turn the shots, Chief of Police
Beaver appeared on the scene.
But the feature of the case is
that Talley, it is charged, has
| been involved in no less than
1 nine shooting scrapes within the
: past six months, and that though
he has been in jail a number of
j times, and is now under indict-
J merit for more than one offense,
he has never served a single day
or actual sentence.
MRS. WALKER DIES.
Lyons, tin., Aug 15. —Mrs. C.
N. Walker, wife of one of tho
county’s best, known citizens and
n daughter of Col. C. Howell
Mann, was found dead in tied nt.
1 lior home yesterday morning down
on the Altnmuha river. She was
seemingly in good health when
she retired the night before. Be
sides her husband, who is a prom
inent, merchant, and farmer, she
leaves a family of small children,
one of them a young bubo. Her
j remains were buried today at tile
family cemetery.
I
TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL.
Washington, Aug. 14. Repre
sentative Heflin of Alabama is
attempting to have passed dur
ing this session of Congress, as
an emergency measure, a bill ap
propriating SS(MHK) to be imme
diately available for operations
against the Ikill weevil and cotton
worm which are doing damage
in tlu‘ cotton fields throughout
the Southern state's.
. The measure is being well sup
ported.
SINGING SCHOOL.
Prof. A. M. Pace will conduct
lan all-day sing at (lienwood on
the fourth Sunday in August,
land lioginning the day following
will conduct, a normal school of
music at that place for a period
of twenty days, lz't those inter
ested in music be present and
take part, from the beginners to
those well advanced all will re
ceive attention.
.1, K. Pope, Secy.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1011.
ACTION NEEDED
FOR HIGHWAY.
The Savannah-Americus high- \
way is again assuming shape,
and it is probable that those in
! terested in the movement will
meet at Vidalia within a short
while to put the movement more
substantially on foot.
This plan gained strength im
mediately following the estab
lishment of that section of route
from Dublin to Savannah over
( the Atlanta-Savannah highway,
when this section made a pull
! I for the route but failed. Citi
-11 zens residing on the Seaboard
i ' immediately took the matter up,
;' with a view of establishing a
j 1 route running east and west, be
ginning at or beyond Americus
1 and extending east to Savannah,
' running almost parallel to the
i Seaboard road.
, Everything seems to tie favor
able toward establishing this
route, hut action is needed to
make it a success. It is probable
that a meeting will be held in
Vidalia in a few days, to which
; will be invited the moving spirits
along the line. The Vidalia Cham
ber of Commerce has taken the
1 matter in hand, and through that
body much will be done; however,
they need the cooperation of the
entire people along the route pro
posed. The argument in favor
of such a route is too plain to be
made repeatedly action is now
in order. Let us have concerted J
action from now on. Let the
route be surveyed by scout cars,
and work on the road proper com-!
menced at once. Some of the
larger towns will have to take
the lead. Mt. Vernon will do
her part, but cannot run the en- j
tire matter any further.
Mr. Mortis of the firm of C. S.
Morris Co., Macon, was a busi
ness visitor here yesterday. He
is selling and installing an im
proved system of waterworks,
gasoline engines and other ma
chinery, and will doubtless place
a number of orders in this coun-'
t.v.
Gives Good Pointers
on Public Road Question, i
Editor Monitor: If you will al
low me sufficient space in your
valuable paper, I will try to say
a word in behalf of good roads
for the good old county of my
birth; feeling the need of better
roads the more since some of our
neighboring counties have left us
far in the rear as regards this
very important matter. There
are reasons why we have not a
chieved more along this line.
Some of which so far as 1 have
been able to ascertain, are as
follows:
The agregate of Montgomery
county’s tax returns are much
smaller than some of her sister
counties who have an average of
half the number of niilys of road
to work. Montgomery’s public
road mileage being about twelve
hundred miles, while several of
nearby counties have less than
half that mileage and more money
to the credit of their road fund,
• which means two dollars to every
mile of their road where we have
one to spend on ours. Saying
that the road tax assessment he
the same in the two counties
compared and the amount of
property returned for taxation
were the same; but when we
take into consideration the fact
that our county returns less prop
erty for taxation than the county
to which we are comparing her,
then we will have to add to her
treasury fund an amount pro
portionally greater. For exam
ple. say a county with six hun
dred miles of public roads returns
for taxation double the amount
of property returned by Mont
gomery county (the tax rate for
roads being the same) they would
have twice as much money to
spend on their six hundred miles
of road as we would have to
spend on our twelve hundred
miles, or four dollars per mile to
each mile of their road, where
we would have one dollar to
spend on each mile of our road,
and 1 fully believe that the last
comparison conies near being a
correct status of things. I don’t
mean to sav that this is all the
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BRICK YARD
CHANGES HANDS.
The Oconee Brick Yard, own
ed by Mason & Bland, and oper-;
ated by them for many years, i
but which has not been in oper- 1
ation for the past two years, has
just been sold to Messrs. J. B.
Adamson and J. A. Mcßride of
i this place.
It is understood that Messrs. j
Mcßride and Adamson will over-:
j haul the machinery and put the \
j plant in operation this fall. The I
I demand for brick is constantly
increasing, and it is sure that
the new owners will make a suc
cess of the enterprise. This fac
tory always bore the reputation
of making a good brick, and the
new firm will keep its output up
to a high standard.
GEORGIA WANTS MARINE BAND-
Washington, Aug. 14.—Mem- <
hers of the Georgia delegation in j
congress will make an effort toil
have Marine band visit several i
Georgia cities on its approaching |
Southern tour. I
Representative Edwards of the |
First district has already put in a j
request with the President to I
permit the band include Savannah |
in its itinerary. Representative j
j Trible of the Eighth has put in a I
bid for Athens and Represents- I
Itive Howard of the Fifth certain- j
ly will not allow Atlanta to be |
j overlooked. I
Since it was announced that !
the Marine band will make a j
j tour of the South the White House |
has been besieged with requests |
from almost every state. It is |
j probable that the famous band I
j will be heard in a half dozen \
; Georgia cities. j
•
‘Phone the news to The Moni- I
tor. When you have a visitor or I
anything else, tell us about it. j
We put in a telephone for that ;
purpose. Touch the wire when I
anything happens; and if nothing I
| happens to happen, get out and j
: make it happen. Ring number ;
j forty.
! trouble or disadvantage under j
which we labor, but this is quite *
|an item and one, in my judg- ~
ment, that it will take time to *
' overcome but while this time is |
passing for the betterment of our x
system it is also passing for you c
and for me, and what I wanted |
ito talk about is some way by |
j which we can keep from drudg- \
ing the remainder of our lives |
out in the old sandy ruts of our |
now (as a whole) poorly kept |
! thoroughfares. >
I have an idea and here it is: |
Why not get sufficient money \
at a cheap rate of interest to
I build and clay the most used roads $
lof our county from one side of |
1 the county to the other and from ; >:
one edge to the other and let our ; |
chaingang work the intermediate v
roads and keep up the roads when |
built? My idea of building these |
main roads is to let the work out |
by contract to specification and |
accept bond for the perfomance l
of this contract, and when the v
work is finished pay the contrac- ?
; tor anil we have the road. |
t Now as to raising of the neces- |
sary money. We can float an is- «
sue of 30-year bonds at 4 or 5 per ■
cent, and raise the money and ~
by the time they are to be paid
we, no doubt, will have mastered,
the situation mentioned in the i
first part of this note so perfect
: ly that no one will be burdened
on account of the payment. There
are several details that would be
to work out in connection with a
: project of this magnitude, but 1
feel sure that all would be well
pleased after we had had the use
jof our roads a short time. There
is much that might l>e said on
this topic and 1 would be pleased
to hear it discussed. I know any
idea for advancement always
meets with more or less opposi
tion. but I hope we can get some
good roads and get them now.
If this idea is objectionable to
a majority of our citizens, why
let’s hear from some one else with
a better and more economical
way, but by all means let’s get
busy and not be hopelessly lost
in the rear of our neighboring
counties in this all-important mat
ter of good roads which is an in
dex to civilization. The higher
the state of civilization the let
ter yop will find the roads and
the happier the populace.
Yours for good roads to the:
betterment of all the people.
J. B. O’Conner.
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% llev. John A. Poole, ®
0 Teacher in Charge, Mt. Vernon, Ga. 0
The n r. VERNON BANK j
IMT. VERNON, GA. jj
1 I SURPLUS, 515,000.00
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1 NEW STORE NEW GOODS
O. A. IRWIN
| Dry Goods, Groceries, Supplies, etc. |
NEW GRIST MILL j
3 Modern Grist Mill, Operated Saturdays |
| Standard Grade Guanos at Retail
1 The patronage of the public respectfully solicted. I
|O. A. IRWIN Avant’s Siding |
W no
£5 Always Something Doing. |
i 1
gg During what they call their “busy season” some g 2
merchants can say there is “something going on.” K§
I In Selling High-Class Goods |j
§2 at correct prices, there is always something in «
motion. The advantage of this motion settles on §§
gj those who visit my busy place in Glenwood. |§
gj Dry Goods, Groceries and Supplies jp
j| Shoes, Hardware, Notions j|
Os the Better Class—the grade of goods that please the
public, both in price and quality. I sell that kind of stuff. eg
|H. D. ARMSTRONG, GLENWOOD, GA. |
