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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, OCT. 5, 1911.
The startling announcement
comes from Atlanta that the
charter crowd failed in the recent
election because they didn’t get
enough votes.
We respectfully refer Atlanta
to the consoling words of Presi
dent Taft after the failure of Re
ciprocity: “We will continue to
do business at the same old
stand.”
We read last week of a man
who got drunk and made a goat
of himself, trying to eat tin cans
and butting his wife down. As
a rule, these drinkers make an
animal with much larger ears
than a goat.
We are pleased at the appoint
ment of C. C. Buchanan, Jr., of
Wayeross.as Auditor of the State
School Board, a new and respon
sible office created by the last
General Assembly. “Clint” will
fill the place admirably.
If those fellows in Maine who
indulge in red liquor have to wait
for it till the returns are all in
from the recent state election, it
may be somewhat like the gov
ernor of South Carolina said to
the governor of North Carolina.
A ride over the county brings
us occasionally in sight of fields
where hundreds of hay stacks
mark the farm of some inde
pendent farmer. And there’s
no surer indication of a self-sus
taining farm than these same
hay stacks.
This is a splendid time for
Montgomery county to commence
arrangements for a live county
fair in the fall of 1912. Nothing
better could te planned by our
people. The good to be* accom
plished is apparent to every
thinking man.
The intimation that church
membership will cut a figure in
the gubernatorial race, and that
Methodists may rally to Judge
Russell because he attends the
services of that denomination,
seems silly to us. No true Meth
odist. Baptist, Presbyterian or
Christian ever rallied to whiskey.
In a letter on state politics
which Dupont Guerry has made
public through the daily press,
he intimates very strongly that
the candidates in the race for
governor are a poor lot. and that
he wouldn’t mind trying it again
if he had the necessary cash. No
telling what many of us could do
if we only had the money.
Our next door neighbor, the
Telfair Enterprise, reports the
loss of 20,000 acres of land from
the fertile domain of Telfair
county. You may find them over
on this side of Gum Swamp. Bro.
Mcßae; but we need some extra
ground, as some fellow is always
wanting some of Old Montgom
ery’s territory to make new
counties out of.
After all the ingenuity of
Americans had been exhausted
in trying to invent a machine to
pick cotton, it remained for a
Tatnall county man to solve the
great problem of the easy and
inexpensive gathering of the
staple. He hitched his old mule
to a sled, made right to glide be
tween two rows, tacked up his
umbrella and placed his wife on
board, and sailed out into the
ocean of snowy whiteness, and
raked in the stuff without any
backaches. We get this story
from the Tattnall Journal, but
are afraid to tell the man’s name
as he might be overwhelmed
with offers for his invention.
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Savannah Press: —lt is said
Germany is trying to get France
to lend her $80,000,000. We
don’t believe it. If she thought
France had that much money she
would take it away from her.
Laurens County Herald: It is
amusing to see what efforts were
resorted to liy the Savannah pa
pers to discourage Joe Brown and
keep him out of the race for gov
ernor, now that Dick Russell has
come out for whiskey. And yet
we can hardly understand why
the Savannah papers should feel
such a keen interest in the mat
ter, as they are not in Georgia,
when it comes to enforcing the
prohibition law.
Americus Times-Recorder: A
general movement should be be
gun to lynch the first man who
starts a gubernatorial straw bal
lot on a train in Georgia. The
traveling public has some rights
that such idiots ought to be made
to respect.
Valdosta Times- Savannah
lias stood for a great many things
in the past., but Mayor Tideman
is to be congratulated for refus
ing to permit the Beattie mess of
moving pictures to exhibit in
that city.
Glennvillc Herald- A sailor
recently tried to buy a bottle of
beer at the police barracks in
Savannah. While we were aware
of the fact that it was sold al
most openly in the city, did not
know until now that the police
were handling it.
Atlanta Journal: The Indian
apolis mayor who ordered a car
load of potatoes to break the lo
cal corner is a trust buster who
will be heard from in larger cor
porations later.
Savannah News: In Phila
delphia a woman is asking the
court for a divorce on the ground
that her husband fed her on raw
cabbage leaves. The brute. He
might at least have cooked the
cabbage for her.
Marietta News: One of the
prettiest girls about Marietta was
out in the country the other day.
She took her basket at about sun
rise and \\Vnt to the field and
when she returned at eleven
o’clock she had picked 14(1 pounds
of cotton. Yet some bachelors
say wives are an expensive
luxury.
Nashville Herald: The Inter
national Harvester trust will j
come in for the next investiga
tion. We want to see the trust
busters tackle the express com
panies. They are the bad boys.
Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:-
Hon. Duiiont Guerry says that
he can’t run for governor, and
from the way he talks we are
inclined to agree with him. That
is, we don’t think he could run
very far.
Rome Tribune-Herald: —The
fear of annexation killed reci
procity in Canada. Oh. the Uni
ted States is not such a bogey
after all. If we wanted Canada,
wo would just take it. so what’s
the use talking like that.
Cuthbert Loader: There are
farmers not a few in Randolph
county who are not yet convinced
that the boll weevil will ever
reach Georgia. And then* arc*
others who insist that if the wee
vil should come it will not do
much damage. It may be iyen
tioned in this connection that
Noah’s neighbor's gave him the
merry ha ha when he predicted
1 the liood.
THE MON TO OMKRY MONITOR—THURSDAY, OCT. 5, 1911.
Atlanta Georgian :—The last
few days have been days of great
fatalities at home and abroad.
We are tending strenuous efforts
to abolish war, but in modern
times war kills its thousands
while preventable accident kills
its tens of thousands.
Those heavy weight philan
thropists who are organizing
| great, corporations to aid the
j farmer in holding his cotton per
haps do not realize that a Geor
gia farmer is no weakling as
long as he can pay three hundred
dollars for a mule to raise nine
cents cotton.
We understand that H. M.
Stanley, editor of the Dublin
Courier-Dispatch, may become a
candidate for Commissioner of
the Department of Commerce
and Labor, created by the Gener
al Assembly at last summer’s
session. No tetter man could be
found for the place, and Mr.
Stanley would get the full sup
port as this part of the state, and
the endorsement of the entire
weekly press of the state.
HIGH FINANCE OF OLD.
Frenzied finance is not exclus
ively a habit of recent years. At
the Riggs National Bank, Wash
ington, says the Popular Maga
zine, there is carefully guarded a
proof of the foregoing assertion.
Regarding the proof, there is
told this story:
One winter morning, Henry
Clay, finding himself in need of
money, went to the Riggs Bank,
and asked for the loan of two
hundred and fifty dollars on his
personal note. He was told that,
while his credit was perfectly
good, it was the inflexible rule of
the bank to require an indorser.
The great statesman hunted up
Daniel Webster and asked him
to indorse tho note.
“With pleasure,” said Webster
“But I need some money myself.
Why not make your note for five
hundred, and you and I will split
it?”
This they did. And today the
note is in the Riggs Bank un
paid.
ALLIGATOR STEALS TURKEYS.
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 28.—A
huge alligator, which has made
its home in a lake near the home
of I)r. Beckton, in the Naylor
district, is doing a new stunt for
’gators. It has been a common
thing for them to slap pigs and
sheep into the water with their
tails and to capture pigs and
other animals while they were
asleep, but this ’gator is the first
one to inaugurate the habit of
charging upon the turkey roosts
and stealing fowls.
Dr. Beckton has missed tur
keys from his roost for some time
—the fowls using his garden
fence as a roost. A close watch
has been kept and it developed
that a big ’gator was the thief.
The ’gator was tracked to the
water, teth by the feather of the
turkey and the ’gators tracks
through the mud. Dr. Beckton
is now devising plans for getting
rid of the ’gator.
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A Note to You:
September 28, 1911.
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not only to help a worthy enter
prise, (the county paper) but to
keep before you continually the
fact that we are here.
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