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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1911)
Slip iHntttgimtfry iMomiur. VOL. XXVI. FARMERS INSTITUTE IN MT. VERNON. The State College of Agricul ture will conduct a Farmers In stitute in Mt. Vernon August 31st, and the public is earnestly invited to attend and spend a profitable day listening to the in struction of the experts who will be in charge of the day’s exer cises at this place. This is the first opportunity the citizens of Montgomery coun ty have had to receive instruction of this class. During the past few years the department of ex- 1 tension of the State College of Agriculture has raised the stand ard of farming in the state by such endeavors, and the rapid strides along agricultural lines should to a great extent be cred ited to the instruction and aid given by the State Department of Agriculture. Prof. Hart is in charge of the department of dairying; Prof. Firor conducts the horticultural department at the State College of Agriculture; Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen is the state veterinarian. The first two departments belong to the extension work of the State College of Agriculture. The following is the program of the day’s exercise to be given in Mount Vernon, Thursday, August 31st: Morning session, 10:00 o’clock. Invocation. Introductory Remarks, Hon. Wm. B. Kent. “Live Stock for Georgia,’’ J. Wm. Hart, professor of Dairy Extension, State College of Agriculture. “Producing Home Supplies,” G. W. Firor, professor of Horti cultural Extension, State College of Agriculture. Afternoon session, 1:30 o’clock. ! “Care of Farm Animals, ” Dr. P. F. Bahnsen, State Veterina rian. Every one invited; meeting free to all. Are you a practical farmer? If so you are enriching your soil, using fertilizer wisely, handling your soil properly, using suitable crop rotation, keeping good live stock, living at home. These speakers understand present farming conditions, and may throw some light on your problems. Think about the subjects to be I discussed before coming to the , institute, and be prepared to ask questions, thereby making the; meeting of service to you. Don’t forget the date, and ■ bring a friend with you. Thursday, August 31st, at Mt. Vernon. I Farms Wanted! i If you have farm lands for sale, in ® large or small quantities, you can find 0 I buyers, at right prices. Do not hold 0 your idle land; make it bring money & for your use and needs. $ Parties in Montgomery and ad- ® joining counties having improved or (g unimproved lands or town property for sale can get correct prices by 0 listing it at The Monitor office. No 'Jj Advertising Fees to Pay. Just 0 sell for money—good old dollars. Must have 75,000 acres in large gj ; or small tracts. No trouble to sell. & Get the actual facts at once from The riontgomery flonitor, |j Mt. Vernon, Ga. % Kemp Schoirt. Special Correspondence Mrs. John Q. Palmer visited her mother, Mrs. J. B. O’Conner, last Thursday. Miss Lula Coleman was guest of Miss Reeta Sammons Saturday. Miss Minnie Canany is visiting her brother, Mr. Linter Canadv. Miss Vivian Moye of Soperton is visiting Miss Alvena Phillips. Mrs. Jas. W. Adams and son, Carl, are spending a few days in Dublin this week. Mrs. J. E. Horne visited at the home of Mr. W. H. Horne Mon day afternoon. Mr. Wylie Goff and sister, Miss Pauline, have returned from a visit among relatives and friends at Stuckey. Miss Gertrude Calhoun of Sop erton was the guest of Miss Mon nie Coleman last week. Mr. John Joss made a business trip to Glenwood Friday. Mr. Horace Goff and Miss Lula Coleman attended services at Tarrytown Sunday evening. Mr. Geo. Coleman has been ill but is improving. Mrs. W. H. Horne is quite sick at this writing. Hurrah for the Kemp baseball team, just organized. The boys played Tarrytown in a score of 4 to 1 in favor Tarrytown. TWO YEARS AT LARGE NOW WEARS STRIPES. ✓ Detective E. L. Currie of Adrian arrived here yesterday morning with Alford Phillips, a negro who escaped from the county gang two years ago last March. Phillips has been in North Carolina and Florida, but was captured at Covena, Ga. | Detective Currie receives a re- I ward of tTS offered by the coun jty authorities and warden, and ! the negro has resumed labor on the public roads of the county. Mr. Currie returns a number of them to their posts of duty. VETERANS’ MEETING. In this issue is seen a call from Commander Wright of the county camp of Confederate Veterans for a meeting of this body to be held on the first Tuesday in Sep tember. At the meeting called for this month there were but few in attendance--not enough for a meeting—and it is earnest ly requested that the September meeting have a full attendance. Commander Wright makes an earnest appeal for the Old Guard to turn out and take part in the meeting. His home is a longdis i tance from the court house, and he should receive the co-opera tion of the body in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the I camp. Come. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1911. | PRESIDENT SENATE OUTWITS GOVERNOR. Atlanta, Aug. ID.—President John M. Slaton of the Senate, replying to the charge that he j opened without authority Gov. Smith’s message addressed to the j Senate, intimates that the gov ernor was miffed because he could not get back one of the messages in order to revoke an ] appointment. President Slaton does not deny that he opened the message, but says that such action has been the custom in Georgia for years and that any senator has the right to open communications. For authority he points out that during Hoke Smith’s first term as governor, when John Aiken was president of the senate every! communication from the gover nor was read in open session and spread upon the calender. But President Slaton goes further and intimates that the reason behind the governor’s action jn making public the fact that his commun ications were returned opened was more than that fact alone. “Thursday morning,” Senator Slaton says, “the governor’s sec retary, Calvin Hitch, came to the desk of the secretary of the Sen ate and asked that he be given one of the communications so that he might correct a clerical error. Then when he attempted to take the communication from the hall, even over the protest of the secretary of the senate, he saw that it was opened and was forced to let it remain. The laws of the Senate state that no communication sent to the Sen ate can be returned to the send er without the consent of the body.” _ THIRD DISTRICT HAS CANDIDATES GALORF. Cordele, Ga., Aug. 21.—J. T. Hill of Cordele, a prominent at torney of Southwest Georgia, will make the race for Congress from the new Third district. While no formal announcement has been made by Col. Hill, it is expected that it will be forth coming within a few days, as he has practically decided on this course. Under the apportionment the Third distbict is without a con gressman and Col. Hill feels as sured that he can win easily. There are four counties on this side of FTint river, Crisp, Dooly, Turner and Ben Hill, which are practically assured for Col. Hill in the event that he makes the race, his friends claim, besides j he is well known in all the coun ! ties beyond Flint river and has staunch supporters all over the district. Col. Hill has twice represented Crisp county in the Legislature and is well known over the state as a lawyer of ability and with a large practice. It is understood also that Judge Whipple will enter the race, though no formal or authoritative statement has been received from him. It is currently rumored that Judge Whipple will resign j the judgeship of the Cordele cir icuit, though nothing definitely has been announced. Should he enter the race he will have hun dreds of staunch friends who will rally to his support. Judge Whipple is also well known I throughout the state and has been twice elected to the judge ; ship of the Cordele circuit and has a strong following. It is expected that Hon. Tom Hudson will also be a candidate and that Senator Sheppard, Judge Crisp and Judge Littlejohn of Americus may also make the race. At any rate there promises to be a lively campaign in the new district. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Calhoun leave this morning for a trip to Tallulah Falls and other points in North Georgia. GOV. SMITH SIGNS SOME NEW BILLS.! Atlanta, Aug. 23. Gov. Smith already has signed many of the i most important hills passed at S the last meeting, of the General i Assembly. He has been forced !to work day and night to get through with the many meas ures. ' Among those bills which he has signed is one amending the j registration law, providing that j anyone who has registered for I the last general election, if other | wise qualified, can vote at the special elections. It provides al so that the voters’ book shall close five days after the special election is called. This supple mental registration bill was pre pared by Representatives White of Screven and Hardeman of Jefferson, in co-operation with Gov. Smith. i Among the other bills signed were the following: A constitutional amendment requiring corporations that make \ returns to the controller general to pay taxes before Sept. 1. A resolution naming a commit tee to revise insurance laws. A constitutional amendment in creasing borrowing powers of governor. Fish and game bill. Reapportionment bill. Bill reducing hours of labor in woolen and cotton factories to ten hours a day or sixty hours aj week. Act forbidding newspaper pub- 1 lication of name of female raped or upon whom assault has been attempted. Act preventing deduction from weight of bale of cotton when bagging and ties’ weight does not exceed (i per cent of gross weight of bale. Act changing names of district agricultural schools to the “dis trict agricultural school.” Act to drain swamp lands in the state. Act naming board of commis sioners to San Francisco exposi l tion. Act changing practice in Geor gia so that question of venue can not be raised unless specifically raised in certiorari or on motion for new trial. Bill making United States li cense to sell spirituous liquors prima facie evidence in blind tiger cases. Resolution urging Congress to! terminate treaty with Russia be cause of ill treatment of Jews. MOUNT VERNON HAS MODERN GINNERY. Mcßae & Thompson of Mount Vernon are now operating in full blast a ginnery which is recog nized as the best and most com plete in JVlontgomery county. During the summer they have been installing a splendid new system, including a new building with new features in every way. The new ginnery, which is lo cated near the site of their for mer place in the northwestern part of the town, is fitted with six new gins, three on each side, with an improved press for each battery of gins. This outfit is | arranged for action as a whole or | it can be run independently onei of the other. One of the new features is the automatic trom per, which does the work of a man, and its action is almost per fect. Modern conveyor systems 1 make it possible to gin for sever al parties at once, arid patrons of this gin will get prompt service— ! no man will have to wait for his finished bale or his seed, i All fixtures are new and com plete, while the power is supplied by a magnificent new 70-80 H. P. engine, which is perfectly mount |ed on a brick and cement foun dation, seven or eight thousand brick and nearly thirty sacks of cement being used in the prepa ration of this foundation alone in fact, this ginnery is built on modern lines, and is well suited to the needs of the town and section, and is a credit to the town. | These gentlemen are now bor ing an artesian well at the gin site for an additional and sure supply of water, and hope to have it finished in a week or two. Mcßae & Thompson deserve credit for the enterprise which they have displayed, and deserve ,the patronage of this section. I Shiloh. J Special OoiTeapoiuleno. Mrs. A. J. Clements and little daughters spent last Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Vaughan, Misses Bessie and Willie Tomp kins and brother, John, spent a few days of last week at Rentz, ! guest of their uncle, Mr. Harris Achord. Mrs. J. I. Mitchell visited Mrs. C. I. Josey last Thursday after noon. Mr. Jim Wright and wife of Laurens county are visiting in our \ community. Mrs. Thomas Spivey and little daughter, Etta, are spending a few days with her parents, Mr. j and Mrs. J. E. Mimbs. Miss Nannie Lizzie Lowery spent last Friday night with Miss Katye Hearn. Mr. John Wess Clements and i sister, Miss Myra, visited friends and relatives in Telfair county last Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. Carl Ryals was transacting business in Mcßae last Friday. Mrs. It. L. Story was recently in Lumber City. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Phillips of Uvalda are visiting at the home of Mr. Thias Lowery. Mrs. ,1. R. Turner of Waycross is visiting her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. .1. Clark. Messrs. N. ,J. Vaughan and Bud Denton of Charlotte visited at Mr. J. J. Vaughan’s Sunday. Misses Vick and Sadie Vaughan visited Miss Gladys Wright last Friday afternoon. Brown Eyes. Mr. It. L. Storey is at Pine hurst this week attending to bus iness. Mr. Elton Roland was visiting in Telfair last week. Mrs. Perry from Telfair is the guest of her sister, Mrs. 1). T. Roland. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Adams j are the happy recipients of a baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Vaughan anti their daughter, Thelma, of Lumber City spent last Sunday in our community. Messrs. I). 'l'. Roland and J. A. I Clark were in Lumber City Fri day. Mr. Grover Sapp was in Lum ber City Thursday of last week. Messrs. Harlow and Henry Montford of Glenwood spent Sun day with friends here. Several people of this commu-; nity visited St. Simons last Sun- j day. Old Style. HAWKINS GETS JUDGESHIP- Atlanta, Aug. l!t. Gov. Smith j has appointed Judge K. .J. Haw-j kins, formerly of the Dublin City Court, as judge of the new Dub lin circuit, composed of Laurens, Johnson, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties. I ■ p v V'WWWVVVVVVVVVWVWWVI ► * 1 1 Vidalia Warehouse Comp’y \ J Stmidard lirirk Warehouse — Bonded j ► VIDALIA," GEORGIA *> ► 00 90 00 '©; ,, © v 0 ; 0;.0,{0 0' ge; o'« 0:0.0 0 0:0, It ©'©’ J : J 00 firing or ship us your cotton. 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There is on foot a move to ward having Montgomery county send an exhibit to the South I Georgia Land and Agricultural | Exposition, which will be held jin Tifton September 27th to i October 7th, and if the county does not accept the invitation as extended in person by officers of I the fair association, it will be a 1 neglected opportunity. ! Mr. John W. Greer, one of the i moving spirits of Tifton, and one jof the organizers of the fair, spent a few hours hero last | Thursday in an effort to interest j the citizens of this county in the I plan of sending an exhibit toTif j ton. The chairman of the com mittee appointed to arrange for , the exhibits will appoint one or • two men in each district in the county, whose duty it shall be to see that their respective districts prepare a part of the county ex hibit and forward same to Mt. Vernon, from which place it will be shipped to Tifton. The rail road has consented to carry the exhibit and return it free of charge. Since the time is near at, hand, and while it possible for the county to send a creditable ex hibit, it is not probable that a full exhibit can be gotten up this fall; however, it is expected that the county will at leastsend some form of exhibit. It is suggested that the col lection of farm products or stock be brought to tin* county seat and allowed to remain for about two days, and the best can be selected for shipment to Tifton. Splendid prizes have been offered for farm products and live stock. In fact, the Tifton fair will be a close second to the State Fair in Macon. As a part of the propo sition, it is suggested that after the county exhibit has been sent to Tifton that it be carried to Macon. Let the citizens of the county take some interest in the matter, and put it throngh, and be ready Ito attend the fair, by all means. It will mean much to South Georgia. Send some form of ex hibit, at leest. Montgomery county is one of the best farm ing sections in South Georgia, and can certainly afford to send ! out a few samples of her pro duct?, and possibly some live stock. THE WHITE AND BLUE. Mr. William T. Edwards, a student of the Union Baptist ■ Institute,' has returned for the I fall term, and before the open ing of school in September, isen | gaged in securing business for | the “White and Blue,” the magazine published by the l)a --| mon and Pythian Literary So cieties. Mr. Edwards is business j manager of the little magazine. The first issue will doubtless ap pear in October, and will be a creditable enterprise. I)r. R. L. Fox of Brunswick is visiting relatives in Mt. Vernon. NO lfi
