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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.
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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.
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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.,
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\ The BANK OF SOPERTON
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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.
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Clocks. See me before placing
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Work promptly and neatly done
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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
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