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WILL CULTIVATE
TOBACCO IN WARE,
Waycross, Ga., Sept. 14.
Having as a backing for his opin
ions the success of several par
ties in and near Waycross with a
variety of plug tobacco, L. J.
Cooper, vice president of the
Board of Trade, is making- ar
rangements to plant twelye acres
near here in tobacco with an ex
perienced tobacco grower of Vir
ginia in charge as superintendent
to see that the experiment gets
proper attention.
The movement is the outcome
principally of the report a Vir
ginia tobacco company made to
Mr. Cooper on samples of Ware
tobacco. The variety grown here
and sampled by Mr. Cooper is
pronounced better than the aver
age in the best tobacco districts
and is quoted as being worth be
tween 14 and 17 cents a pound.
This is 4 and 7 cents higher than
the average.
While in South Carolina recent
ly Mr. Cooper attended a sale at
one of the warehouses and be
came greatly enthused in the to
bacco plan. He investigated
conditions around Mullin and
found land that formerly brought
$lO an acre not selling for less
than SIOO, and even more as an
average. He believes the exper
iment here with the plug tobacco
will revolutionize conditions
through this section. In his
work he has the keen co-opera
tion of many land owners through
this section who are optimistic
over the outlook.
RACE FOR JUDGE OF
THE DUBLIN CIRCUIT.
Dublin, Ga., Sept. 15.—There
is every reason to believe that
the race for judge of the newly
created Dublin circuit next year
will be lively. Judge K. J.
Hawkins, who has been named
by Governor Smith to serve until
the next regular election, will
not be allowed to retain the office
without a fight. Judge J. E.
Burch and Judge Ira S. Chappel,
both of this city, are candidates.
All three of the candidates
have served as <judge of the city
court. Judge Chappel served for
four years and was succeeded by
John S. Adams. Judge Burch
succeeded Judge Adams and was
succeeded by Judge Hawkins,
who is still on the bench, but will
resign in time to assume the office
of judge of the Dublin circuit on
Jan. 1.
It seems that Laurens county
will be allowed to name the judge
but Twiggs and Johnson now have
candidates for solicitor general
in the race.
SAVING IT.
An old Yankee farmer lay on
his deathbed, says the New York
Sun. He was so far gone that
the doctor told his daughter that
she could indulge him in any
thing he might crave in the mat
ter of food, to the end of making
him happy if possible, as nothing
could delay the end or really
hasten it. The daughter asked
her father if there was any par
ticular thing his appetite fancied.
"Yes,” whispered the old man,
‘‘a bit of fine cake with lots of
nuts and currants in it.”
A woman neighbor, who heard
the old fellow express his desire,
had a fine fruit cake made, rich
enough to produce an attack of
acute indigestion in a wooden
Indian.
The doctor was not pleased
with the old man’s choice, but he
inquired the next day how it
suited the patient.
‘‘Well, sir,” the daughter re
plied, ‘‘father hasn’t had a
taste. It was such a perfectly
beautiful cake that we hadn’t the
heart to cut into it; and so we
are just keeping it for the fu
neral.”
sor 6 doses ”066” will cure
any case of Chills and Fever.
Price, 25c.
If you want money quick, write
Lyons Loan & Abstract Co., Ly
ons, Ga., for they are loaning
money cheap.
GEORGIA’S BEST SHOT
IN BIG WAR IS DEAD.
Athens, Ga., Sept. 14. —Yes-j
terday, at Boggs’ chapel, near
this city, was laid to rest the
body of R. K. Pridgeon, who was
declared to be the best gunner in
the best artillery organization
in the Confederate service from j
Georgia. He was brought to j
Athens from Atlanta, where he
died in the Soldier’s Home. The
body was to have laid in state at
the city hall, but a delayed train
upset the plans of the city em
ployes and officials who thus de- j
sired to honor the veteran, who
was, after the service in the war, ;
an employe of the city for many j
years. Breaking a leg in the;
volunteer fire service, he was!
taken care of in an appointment
to a light job. Many veterans
met the remains and went out to
the country church to the burial.
Private Pridgeon was a gunner
under the late Dr. H. H. Carlton
in an artillery troup, famous in
Georgia, in the war.
THE COMING INDEPENDENCE
OF SOUTHERN FARMERS-
Two meetings in session at the
same time in different parts of
the South herald the coming of
the day of independence for the
Southern farmer—not merely in
dependence of mortgage and
debt, but the independence that
will permit him to sell his cotton,
his cattle, and, in fact, all his
products, when and where they
will bring him the most profitable
return.
And the cotton growers, de- j
termined to help themselves, are
finding willing help from others.
According to the announcement j
made before the convention by
Charles S. Barrett, president of
the Farmers union, Eastern and
foreign sources are ready to lend i
the farmers of the South $135,-i
000,000 at a reasonable rate of;
interest to finance the wait
necessary.
The money and the co-opera-.
tion, both of which have been 1
lacking in the past, seem now
about to be supplied in plentiful
measure. A wonderful plan it
is, and if it can be put into suc
cessful operation, the South and
the South’s farmers will be
placed in unquestioned control
not only of the raising of the
cotton crop, but also of its sell
ing.
The other meeting is a produ
cers’ and consumer’s conference
at Fort Worth, Texas, which is
planning a central selling agency
for farm products, and particu
larly farm-raised meats, and also
the establishment of independent
packing plants.
The farmer is getting the rais
ing of crops and animals down to
a science. For his own good he
must likewise make a science of
the marketing of his products.
The two meetings we have cited
are indications that he is doing
so. Atlanta Georgian.
A HUMOROUS CALAMITY.
To speak of a humorous ca
lamity is paradoxical, yet the
term is not inaccurate as applied
to the deluge of molasses that af
flicted a part of New Orleans the
other day. The loss to the Sugar
Planters Storage Company and
to the city, and the inconvenience
suffered by citizens, are regret
table, yet there is something ir
resistibly comic in the story of
the bursting of the reservoir and
the confusion and small woes
caused by the sweet and sticky
fluid as it spread in varying
depths for half a mile around.
Think of near-by bartenders and
small merchants driven to the
tops of their counters, and of the
street pedestrians, with no such
islands at hand, struggling for
ward like flies on a piece of dead
ly fly-paper! As there was no
loss of life or even serious in
jury, and as the poor harvested
enough molasses to suffice them
for many moons, we can afford
to indulge in a smile.—Macon
Telegraph.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 31, 1911.
THE FARMER AND
THE CITY CONSUMER.
There is a movement in the
East, spreading to the West,
which is of interest to the farm
ers of all sections. In August
sixty Pennsylvania farmers went
to New York to perfect arrange
ments to sell their products di
rect to retailers and thus cut out
the commission men and abolish
what they describe as the mid
dlemen.
They called upon Mayor Gay
nor, who made them an address
denouncing favoritism in freight
rates, making it clear that it was
not a question so much of low
rates as of uniform charges to
all shippers. Speaking directly
upon the plan of the farmers, the
Mayor said:
‘‘The figures read here this
morning show that although we
do pay for farm produce uncon
scionably high prices in the city,
those prices do not go to you.
Apparently only one-third of it
ever reaches you. The rest goes
to the carrier and the middle
man.”
Patrick Eagan, formerly Min
ister to Chili, who acted as
spokesman for the delegation,
gave out some startling figures.
He cited the potatoes for which
.consumers paid GO million dollars
last year, but which, he said,
netted the farmers $8,500,000.
Cabbages which were sold in the
city to consumers for $9,625,000
brought the farmers, said Mr.
Eagan, but $1,890,000. Eggs
that cost the consumers 29 mil.
lion brought the farmers but 17
million.
The situation is complicated.
The difficulties are not as easily
removed as one may imagine, but
intelligent co-operation between
the farmers themselves first, and
then co-operation between the
farmers’ organizations and or
ganizations of the consumers will
go far to reduce the cost of
transportation and delivery.
In England the railroads gath-'
er up the supplies in the rural
districts and deliver them to the
households of London. There is
no reason why every city should
not develop a system of that
kind, in connection with their
railroads and their trolley lines.
That is for near-by transporta
tion and for perishable freight,
and here is the greatest loss.
When these difficulties are reme
died the remedies for the others
will certainly be found. Home
and Farm.
NO SUCH LAW,
‘‘ln Georgia a man 65 years of
age is disqualified for jury duty
in accordance with a law just
passed. This seems to be an en
actment of Oslerism, but there
are more reasons why a man
who is 65 years old should per
form jury duty than there are
why he should not.” Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Our contemporary is all ‘‘balled
up” on information as to Georgia
affairs. There is no such law.
But from time immemorial in
this State men of 60 have been
exempt from paying a poll tax
and from jury duty. The uni
versal custom has been for the
judge to “excuse” a jurorjwhois
60 or over, when he is drawn arid
asks to be excused, because the
law' says he shall be excused, but
the law does not say he is dis
qualified. However, recently, a
superior court judge in Georgia
held that this exemption meant
disqualification. That judge has
since said he simply wanted to
test the question as to whether
or not the law was intended to
disqualify.
No one in this State has re
garded the point raised by that
judge as having any merit. The
Legislature has in no way passed
on it.
The notion that men over 60
are “too old” to be fit for jury
duty is ridiculous, for in the
qualifications of experience and
sober judgment they are more fit
than younger men, and in mental
alertness they would often be
equally fit, though perhaps they
could not as readily stand pro
tracted phvgical strain, and this
latter is the reason of the exemp
tion.- Macon Telegraph.
1 Close Cash Prices |
I ARE NOW ON. |
During the summer nil goods in stock will he put down on
& a moving basis, and for cash extra low prices prevail in
I Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods |
I Notions, etc. |
j|j Economize during the dull times. l>uy high-grade goods
|| at prices far below what you have been accustomed to.
| MAKE YOUR DOLLARS DO DOURLE DUTY, |
I and get ready for the fall rush. We have the goods, ||
and they are offered the buying public at pleasing prices. g§
Yours to serve, p
W. H. McQueen,|
MT. VERNON, GA. |
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Guardian’s Sain.
Georjfia- Montgomery County.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, will Ik: sold at public* out cry for
cash, on the first Tuesday in October, 1911, at
the court house door in said county, within the;
usual hours of sale;, the following real estate: to
wit; All the* undivided int.e*re»Ht of Troy J. Cal
houn in and to one certain tractor parcel of land
lying and being in the* HifiHth. («. M. District <»f
Montgomc'ry County, Georgia, hounded on the;
north by lands of J. K. Adams, on the* east by S.
S. Calhoun, on the south by Mrs. E. I*’ Almond
and on the* we*st by S I) Morris, containing
(74 JM) acre;s more e»r less; also one certain tract
of land situated in lflOKth. (*. M. Dist. of said
county, IsHindcd on the* North by land of Ne wton
McDonald, on east by E. G. Aldmond, on sout h by
Mrs. E. K. Almond and on the west by estate of
Mrs. Lucinda Calhoun containing (40) ae-res more
or less The interest of said Troy .1 Calhoun in
said lands being one eighth undivided interest.
This the 7th. day of August, 1911.
Chas. S. Calhoun,
Guardian for Troy.l. Calhoun,
Money To Loan.
I am in position now to secure
loans on farm lands and town
property in Montgomery County.
The lender that will handle my
business is especially desireable
for parties that want big loans
on farm lands, and for those who
want to build homes in towns.
Their interest is 6 per cent.
Terms five years, the borrow pay
ing 1-10 each year thereby re
ducing the interest, and princi
pal so the final settlement will be
easy. The money for building
or improving homes in towns is
also 6 per cent, money, and the
loans are arranged so the bor
rower repays monthly for 60
months. You only have to add
a little to the amount you are
paying as rent to own you a
home in a short time. I think
this a good way for a person to
get a home.
L. C. Uni)er\Vood,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Cotton Ginning
We desire to inform the
public that we have just
completed a first-class ginnery at
Alston, which is now running in
full blast. We are prepared to
handle all the cotton entrusted
to our charge. Bring it in.
We Solicit Your Patronage and
Will Please You.
We pay highest market prices for
cotton and cotton seed, and keep
on hand for sale cotton seed meal
and hulls.
A. T. & K.M. Johnson
ALSTON, CiA.
Money on Hand
TO LOAN.
LOANS PROMPTLY
CLOSED.
Wo havo a good sup
ply ofcheap money on
hand at this time and
can close loans very
promptly, either on
farm or city property.
If in need of cash,
come to see or write
us at once.
Southern Loan &
Investment Co.
VIDALIA, (JA.
rv eposits Insured I
Against Loss f
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| '0 00 0 No Matter from What. Source it May Come
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I We are constantly adding new i|;
accounts, and our business is increasing J
at a very satisfactory rate.
Possibly you also might he glad to |
join us.
THE PEOPLES BANK
SO TEUTON, (ji A.
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Mouse For Sale.
House mid lot in Ml. ■ Vunion.
Splendidly I oca tod,' with out
houses, garden, etc. Son mo at
oiico l'or pi'ioo and terms.
Mil's. S. Is. Morria,
Ml. Vernon, CJa.
Farm Machinery.
The Vidalia Machinery & Farm
Implement Co. are offering com
plete Gasoline Engine Pumping
Outfits for $75.00 and upward.
Write them for prices on En
gines, Boilers, Woodworking Ma
chinery, Farm Implements, May
Presses and Stump Pullers.
Brown Leghorn Fggs.
Full-blooded brown leghorn
eggs, 75 cents for setting of fif
teen eggs. See or write
W. 1). McAllister,
lit. 2. Mt. Vernon, Ga.
MONEY TO LOAN
On improved Farms in
Montgomery County ut a Small
Rate of Interest.
,1. F. Hall, Soporton.
