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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1911)
T*\or\tgorr\&ry /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. RiiO'ivd tit the Postofficc in Mt. Vernon. Ga. bh Hecond-ClasH Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. $> a Vcar, in Advance. •#'lA'Kiil wlvorUnenirntH niilHt invariably be |mi>l in advance, at the le«al rate, and an the law direct*; and mn.it he in hand not later than Wediioaday morning of the lira* week of innertion 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. V TTTTTTTTYYTYTYYYYTTYTYYY• ► From tho Mouth 2 ► of Georgia Press « ► < •AAAAAAAAAiiiiiiAAAAAiAIii 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. ! The BANK OF SOPERTON j I 1 | Paid in Capital Stock, 8*25,000.00 Surplus and undivided | profits $6,500.00 1 Total resources over 8100,000.00 1 i General Banking Business Conducted, Accounts Solicited. « | Interest on Time Deposits | OFFICERS: \ 8 N. L. Giliis, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President, t § J K. Hall, Cashier- 1 11 Hall, Asst. Cashier ; DIRECTORS; I N. L. Gill is, M B. Gillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, | W. D. Martin, W. H. Fowler, J. K 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) but 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 oil 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 l to 2 per cent, interest. Loans closed without delay. Write us and we will come to see you. The Lyons Loan j nd Abstract Com pat y LYONS, GA, N 111. r. CANON W. U. BARNWELL CANON & BARNWELL I Cotton Factorsand jj ( onmiission Merchants i; 220 Bay E SAVANNAH, BA. !; (Members Savannah Cotton exchange) Handlers of Upland, Se- |[ Island Florodora Cotton Special Attention (men to F. 0. B. Colton (Handlers of Upland and Sea- I; Island Bagging, Ties and Twine <| f | | Here’s to the Wearer | | Os Good Shoes, Too; i I , | Who Knows That no Shoes | Do As GOOD SHOES Do. . S I a Here’s to Such People | All the World O’er, | • a | Ami Here’s to Those, Who, 5i FOR GOOD SHOES, I 31 « | Come to Our Store. | w s S « i h ! McRAE & BROTHER, j a | MT. 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