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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1911)
r\or\lgorr\ery /Yorytor. PUBLISHED PVFRY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Bn I<• red at the Postoffice in Mt. Vernon, (la. an Second-Clans Mail Matter. n. H. foi som. Ldiior ami Owner. •• a Vcar, in Advance. S** Legal nlvorUnementH nm»t invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law direct*; and mn*t be in hand not later than Wed n cud ay rnorniriK of thefirat week of irmertion Mount Vernon, Ha., Thursday Morning, SEPT. 28, 1911. We will breathe easier if the mail today brings assurance that Atlanta’s charter election yes terday was carried to its end without bloodshed. Old time farmers in South Georgia used to make their own sugar, and if the price continues to climb the old sugar trough may be mounted again. The public schools in many of our cities are crowded beyond their seating capacity. Here is a problem that several of our statesmen might well turn their attention to. With sugar at ten cents per pound and coffee getting higher every day, it liegins to look like we will have to fall back on sassafras tea and home-made brown sugar. And down on the banks of the Oostanaula the noble Romans feasted and feted the old veter ans last week. We can always count on Rome to do the hand some thing by her guests. With $250,000,000 in coin and bullion, the Rank of England has recently raised its discount rate from 2to \ per cent. Most of us will, therefore, have to decline asking for any of the cash. Ami now comes Macon with a sure cure for pellagra and a four million dollar cotton corporation to cure the low price of cotton — all in one week. Rut Macon can do big things when she tries, and may yet cure Atlanta of the cap ital habit. Three men were killed in a Tennessee town last week in a dispute as to who should accom pany a girl home from a dance. It is very probable that the girl was not worth the ]>owder and shot used. Savannah has decided to aban don her model farm, and the reason is that it does not pay commercially. Science applied to farming is a fine thing; but, after all, it takes a lot of digging to make the thing pay. The Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic road understands the value of the right kind of adver tising, and their show of the products of the wire grass sec tion at the great Appalachian show will Ik' of lasting benefit. It is quite evident that the cry of annexation caused the over whelming defeat of reciprocity in Canada. It will l>e a long time before Great Itriain loses her grip on Canada to such an extent sis to make the annexation of Canada to the United States a popular idea with the Canadians. Dr. .1. P* Wilson proposes to begin soon the publication of a trade paper at Waveross. and pro|>osos to stop southern money from going to other sections for supplies that can bo raised in the South, and to do a few other good things. Thousands of pa-! pers in the South have Invn try ing for years to accomplish that one thing, and have failed. TEN GEORGIA OFFICES GIVEN POSTAL BANKS. Washington. Sept. 20. More than 100 third-class postoffices, ten of which are in Georgia, were designated today as jx>stal sav ings ban k depositories, among them Iteing the following: Georgia Ha/lehurst, Mcßae. Ashburn. Eastman, Jesup. Cuth liert, Warrenton, RosaviHe, Yi dalia. Lafayette. ► < t From the Mouth i t 3 l of Georgia Press 3 •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Laurens County Herald:- “Little Joe” Brown, come blow your horn; Pope’s in the mead ow, Dick’s in the corn. Oh, you mean corn likker, if Plain Dick • gets promoted from the Appeal I bench to the governor’s chair. i Eastman Times-Journal:—Clev • or “Bud Ed” Hinson of Chester • sent a large supply of Georgia collards Monday, with a liberal allowance of green peppers to • mix them. We had already pro ■ curred some home-raised bacon > from Bud Horne at Younker, and i with this combination, we have > been feasting on a dish that would make Tom Arp’s butter milk and peas taste like old-time « “cash” in comparison. 3 Atlanta Georgian: — Dr. Jenk ' ins lioyd Jones, after a recent 4 visit to the South, said: “There ' is a mighty change in appear ance. As 1 walked the streets of Savannah. Ga., for a week, I 1 failed to see any signs of the old 3 time debauchery. I saw but two drunken men during the whole 3 week, and both of them were manifestly gentlemen of the higher order. Valdosta Times: —We are not going to advise the farmers to ( hold cotton for 15 cents because we do not know that it would Ik; good advice. We advise them, I however, to pay their debts as soon as possible and then sell their cotton when they please. Wrightsville Chronicle: Judge ; Russell talks as if the public al ; most forced the seat of the Court . of Appeals on him. Sad, why didn’t he mention it at the time I or if he doesn’t like the job why | don’t he quit. Adel News: From all reports Adel is receiving more Sea Island • j cotton than any of the towns. I I Twice as much has been market |ed here this season as was last 11 year up to this time. Things al ways hum in this town, though. Savannah Press:—There is a man in Ohio who is a hundred years old, has been a widower sixty years and has read the Bi , bio through 1.000 times. There is no tolling what a man can do when there is no one around to interrupt him. i Americus Times-Recorder: Killing and maiming people by automobiles is aptly described by an exchange as “a very aggra vated form of unpremeditated i: manslaughter. ” Every automo j bile driver who injures or kills a I>erson should bo made to stand trial. That would lessen the ac cidents tremendously. Telfair Enterprise: Just what to do with cotton is a problem. If a man was able to hold it. he doubtless would not lose money in doing so. but really we do not feel qualified to advise on this point. We do not know what to do with our own cotton. Savannah News: A Cleveland woman has secured a divorce from a man who never smoked, drank, played cards, swore or stayed out late at nights. She wanted a man for a husband and found she had got an angel. Dallas New Era: Ix?t the idle young men go to work on farms, and quit seeking third and fourth j rate clerkships. In short, go to farming and quit bogging. Atlanta Journal: Those two women who started a riot in Kan sas City when they were denied whisky with their luncheon must | have come from a state which 1 has been perpetually wet. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1911. A MOULTRIE BOY IS CHAMPION COTTON PICKER, Moultrie, Ga., Sept. 22. —Col- quitt county lays claim to the champion cotton picker, age and size considered, in the state of Georgia. H. E. Harrell of the Thigpen district has a son 11 years old, of diminutive stature, who has averaged picking 2<X) pounds of cotton a day since cot ton picking started. This young hoy, with his two brothers, 10 and 8 years old, have picked to date from sixteen acres of cotton eleven hales, and indications point to six or seven bales more. Until some other county demon strates that they can produce a boy, same age and size, that has equaled this record, the distinc tion must remain with this coun ty. THE GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. Henry M. Flagler, the Florida man, advanced the theory that instead of the South being be hind, that it has really been ahead of the rest of the country, which is just catching up. In the past it has produced and has been capable of producing many things that the other parts of the country are now taking and need ing, but in the past has not been far enough advanced to take. There has been no time in which the rest of the country needed the products of the South so much as it needs them now, sim ply because it has not been ready for them. The North is drawing more and more heavily year after year on this section, for instance, for its early vegetables and fruit, and there is coming a revo lution in consumption in that line in the North. It was but recent ly that a paper, published within a few miles of the Canadian line, in one of the Northern states, complained that the people of that section were changing from the methods of their fathers, and instead of consuming potatoes raised last year, which might be had for 30 cents a bushel, were demanding new potatoes from the South at $2 a bushel. This is illustrative of the change, an evidence of the catching up. It took the world a long time to catch up with the South's cotton crop, but now the call is for an increased output; the world has caught up. J,he next twenty five years belong to the South, and this section of the country will grow as it has never grown before, as no section has ever grown. This may appear to be a broad statement, but it should j be remembered that the rest of the country has at last caught up with the West, and that the im petus of the West will add to, that of the North and East in forcing the growth of the South through demand for its products. —Exchange. We have in stock McCormick; mowers, rakes and mounted steel j hay presses which we will sell on easy terms while they last. 1 Call on or phone us your wants, i Day phone 92. night phone 27. Vidalia Buggy Co., Vidalia. Ga. I \ The BANK OF SOPERTON j j Paid in Capital Stock, $25,000.00 Surplus and undivided profits £6,500.00 | Total resources over $100,000.00 | General Bunking Business Conducted. Accounts Solicited. Interest on Time Deposits OFFICERS: X. L. Gillis, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President, i J. K. Hall, Cashier. I. H. Hall, Asst. Cashier j . DIRECTORS: X. L. Gillis, M. B. Gillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, W. I). Martin, W. H. Fowler, J. E Hall. SOPERTON, GEORGIA. A Note to You: September 28, 1911. We bought this space for a year not only to help a worthy enter prise, (the county paper) hut to keep before you continually the fact that we are here. You have heard this before — and may hear it again. While it may not in itself be soothing to the ear, we sell several articles calculated to soothe earache, the best soothing syrups, toothache wax, etc., etc. Come to us for remedial remedies, trivial and important. Yours truly, Mt. Vernon Drug Company. BLACKSMITH - SHOP All kinds Repair Work, Iron and Wood. Fine line of Bicycle Material on hand. High-Grade Repair Work on Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Guns, Revolvers and Clocks. See me before placing your work; I will save you money. Work promptly and neatly done J. SELLERS, : : AILEY, GA. Money! Money! Money! We lend money cheaper on farm lands than any person making loans in Montgomery County. All we ask is to get our rate before making application to some one else for we can save you 1 to 2 per cent, interest. Loans closed without delay. Write us and we will come to see yon. The Lyons Loan end Abstract Company LYONS, GA, ! I R. P.CANON W. G. BARNWELL i CANON & BARNWELL I Cotton Factors and ij Commission Merchants 220 Hay E SAVANNAH, QA. || (Members Savannah Cotton Exchange) Handlers of Upland, Se- ji Island Florodora Cotton '» Special Attention Given to F. 0. B. Cotton j| Handlers of Upland and Sea- ij ; Island Bagging, Ties j! and Twine || ;~ ~-* 1 -~ - - ■■« —.— - - - - i 1 g >5 Here’s to the Wearer Os Good Shoes, Too; 1 5j g Who Knows That no Shoes Do As GOOD SHOES Do. p | Here’s to Sueh People I All the World O’er, ;i; I And Here’s to Those, Who, | FOR GOOD SHOES. 1 Come to Our Store. | I 1 ! McRAE & BROTHER, 1 5« 1 | MT. 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