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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1912)
T?\e F\or\igorr\&ry /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. KnteroH at the Postofflec In Mt. V«rnon. Ga. an Second-Claa* Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. 5* • Year, In Advance. art' i-al ailvcrtiaomcnta must Invariably b« paid in a<lvance, at the le«al rate, and u the law diri i-tr; air l limit be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the flrat week of Insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, FEB. 15, 1912. Watch “birds of a feather flock together.” The old adage is en-1 tirely reliable. So far we haven’t heard a bid [ for the agricultural school due to the new Twelfth district. Hundreds of bushels of “re sistent” cotton seed is to he sent out to farmers this week. Medi cine to cure the temptation to' plant his whole farm in cotton is what the average Georgia farmer needs. With no intention of being too inquisitive, we would like to in quire if you are a reductionist or j an expansionist. Possibly you i are a hog and hominy production- j ist.. or a chickens and eggs econ omist. We stand together on the last propositions. Montgomery county was laid otf and established more than a hundred years ago. Never be fore in its history lias the gath ering of one year’s crop serious ly interfered with the planting of another. There is still plenty of unpicked cotton. A Vermont savings hank has $15,000,000 in mortgages on farms in lowa and Vermont. Georgia farm lands are equally as safe as security and should command cheap money. Hut the all-cotton plan would soon see many of them change hands. In commenting on an editorial from this paper, the Eastman Times Journal insists on biennial sessions of the legislature. Ses sions once in two years and elec tions once in four years for gov ernor and state and county offic ials is what we are contending for. This is indeed a desirable coun try. We are just on the lint' where the sunshine meets the snow, we have no earthquakes nor cyclones, and the oldest in habitant has never known a com plete crop failure. Ignorance and laziness are the most for midable foes with which we have to contend. There’s Room for Us All. Georgia is a great field in many lines of endeavor. There’s lots to be done and lots of people to do the work. To say nothing of the thousands who toil year in and year out to make the broad fields to yield their increase, there is a large crowd engaged in try ing to undo what others are try ing to accomplish. A great system of organized courts, made up of learned jurists and honest jurors, are busy con victing criminals as a means of ridding society of dangerous and disreputable characters; and. on the other side, stand the pardon ing machinery of the state and , an army of solicitors, paidoroth-l erwise, trying to set aside the verdicts of competent judges and sworn jurors. Farmers are told daily that their financial salvation depends upon making less cotton; and yet, extraordinary means are brought; to bear by agricultural experts to! increase the yield by improved seed and other nielli > Is. Cotton . acreage reduction advocates are j abroad in the land to teach re duction in its most potent form, and the state agricultural leaders are busy sending out “resistent” j cotton seed and striving to in crease the yield. No use for any one to sit on the fence. Plenty to do on either side. Get down and wade right in. You w ill find much of the work impelled by mere senti ment. There may be safety in the equilebrium maintained, but much of it n t as full of reason as the naming of mud j pies by children to lie trampled out of shape in a moments time. 1 TTTmTmTTTTTTYTYTVTYfV* E From the Mouth j £ of Georgia Press J Adel News: —Wherever the carpenters, the brickmason and the painters are busy it is an un failing evidence that the town is progressing. And the workmen are hustling in Adel. Perry Home Journal: —The price of kerosene oil and gasoline has been advanced 2 cents a gal lon within 30 days, and it is esti mated that the cost of running automobiles in use will be increas ed more than $200,000 per month. It. seems that dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust was merely a theory, not a fact. Butts County Progress:—One thing makes us believe there will be a small cotton crop this year is the fact that nearly everybody is running for office and there will be such a few left to look after the farm work. Laurens Co. Herald:—The farmers of Laurens are prepar ing to use more home-made fer tilizers this year, we understand, than at any previous time in the county’s history. Good! Savannah Press:- We knew something dreadful would hap pen to the Democrats of Penn sylvania. The chap who spent all his money in one day last month to see how it felt to be a millionaire is a candidate for con gress. Macon Telegraph:—What’s in a name? In a name? In a re cent court trial George Washing ton was convicted of having ma liciously destroyed some fruit trees belonging to one Rex. Hawk ins ville Dispatch-News: Governor Brown is heartily in favor of the proposition to re duce the cotton acreage and was the first man to sign a pledge to that effect. He planted only thirty-nine acres last year and lms agreed to reduce that number twenty-five per cent this year. If all the farmers would reduce their acreage in a like manner they would no doubt get a much better price for this year’s crop. Valdosta Times:—Col. Henry Watterson thinks that the news papers have made progress dur ing the past forty years, though , there are few “great editors” now a day. Probably the editors are like the modern statesmen, so numerous that they no longer excite undue attention. Dublin Courier-Dispatch:—The question of who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter is agitating the minds of a good many peo ple. We notice that the man who fired the first shot has died several times during the past few years, Darien Gazette: —Our friend Jesse Mercer, the game and fish warden, wants to stock the Georgia rivers with fish. This is a splendid idea on the part of our worthy game and fish protector, but right here we want to warn him against the German carp— they are the limit! Milton County News: —It is a very common sight these snowy days to see the ladies of our town out with a gun, rabbit hunting, or wearing pants, ready to snow j ball. Savannah News:—Wall street, according to some of the New York papers, is confidently ex pecting the return of Charles W. Morse to its scenes of activities. And why should not Morse go back ? He is no better and no worse than some of the operat ors in Wall street who have es- i caped prison only through j shrewdness or good luck. I THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1912. “A NO. I” HITS CITY; AN UNIQUE CHARACTER “Tramp With A Mission” Tells of Experiences and Travels. Perhaps one of the most unique j and solitary characters ever pass- : ing through this county blew in to the Monitor office on Wednes | day of last week. “A No. 1,” | the king of hoboes, and who fills ! a whole class by himself, came in ! like a cyclone and departed like the echoes from far-off hillsides. When this peculiar individual, with a mission filled only by him self, reached Mount Vernon Wednesday morning he had trav eled 495,970 miles, most of which had been made “riding the rods;” though “A No. 1” travels in all kinds of ways, except to pay his fare and ride on the red cushions inside. He has seen the world from more view points perhaps than any living individual. From the top of a Pullman as it speeds across the plains towards the sunset, or from the rusty rods of a log train in the forests of the far northwest; or astride the cowcatcher of an alligator special in Florida or the steps of a New ' York and Hudson river lightning express, life is all the same to this wizzard in life’s pilgrimage. Strange to say, while making life one continual cyclonic ride, this king of hoboes is engaged in keeping otf the road every way ward boy he finds running away from home, and has many rec ords to show that he has turned numbers of boys away from the life of vagrants who are now good business men and artisans. He has hundreds of testimonials of rescues made, wrecksjaverted, . and travels in all parts of the United States; in some in . stances capturing the worst of ci iminals and saving trains that would plunge into burning trestles. The most astounding thing about this classy “bird of pas sage” is, that while beating all railroads, he has a wonderful col lection of endorsements and tes timonials from numbers of the great railway systems of the United States, won in the man ner above stated. ; This remarkable character, ' whose nerves are only sensible to the sound of a passing locomo tive, or the clanking of a passing freight, is not only a living en cyclopedia, but a museum and an intellectual cyclone all in one. To see him empty his pockets of tooth brushes, shoe-blacking out fits, medicine chests, and auto graphs of noted men like Thus. A. Edison, and pictures of him self taken with Jack London, the great writer, and a hundred other things, is a revelation. His whole traveling baggage is stored in a leg of the overalls he dons on the “rods,’’and stripped of these he is a well-dressed and handsome man. He has written a number of books, among them the “Life and Adventures of A No. 1” and “Hobo Camp Fire Tales” These books are on sale at many book stores, and on the trains of most lines of railroad. He passed this way when the Seaboard Air Line road was first constructed. The sign of “A No. 1” with the inevitable arrow pointing towards the east, is em blazoned on the walls of the Mon itor office, and the hour he spent i with us was greatly enjoyed. The Game Law in pamphlet form. Send ten cts. in stamps to The Montgomery Monitor, Ml Vernon. Ga., fora copy. Supply limited. For Sale—Stove. Wood burning heater. Will heat large room: in fair condition. ML Vernon Bank. Full line of Butteriek patterns and publications at Mrs. J. L. : Adams’. Call and get free fashion sheet ot* send in your name on a 1 postal. Mail orders solicited. r I Prevent and Relieve Headache “It gives me great pleasure to be able to refer to Dr. Miles'. 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Many who have used the “EM— EPSON” and other makes pro nounce the “EMERSON” superi or to any $1(X).00 typewriter on the market. It is a wholly visi ble machine, has every new, up to-date feature, looks like other high grade SIOO 00 typewriters, though it scdls regularly for less ] and on terms of SI.OO down and 10 cents a day until paid for, The I “EMERSON” has every new im provement, universal keyboard, ; back spacer, tabulator, two-color ribbon; everything the best; is the ideal machine for beginners as well as for the most expert typists and stenographers; just the typewriter for the smallest or largest otlice. If you could possibly make any use of a h'gh grade - typewriter, even though it didn’t cost you one cent of money, then be sure, on a postal card or in a letter ad dressed to “Frank L. Wilder, President, Woodstock, 111.,” say ; “Mail me your Free Off. rs.” E. M. RACKLEY ! Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. V ERNON. (LA. A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. A. C. McLennan A Co. ALAMO, GA. Ford Car Dealers. Also Depository at Alamo. MONEY TO LOAN On Improved Farms in Montgomery County at a Small Rate of Interest. J. E. Hail, Soperton.j The n r. VERNON BANK | MT. VERNON, GA. j I 111 am 11 CAPITAL, $15,000.00 | | SURPLUS, $15,000.00 i 1 -..yx. y 4l-y->x j j I I Dr. J. H. McArthur, President ' | Alex McArthur, Vice-President ! Reflect! Specialty. j; ( Resolve! Collections Made Speedily j ’ | A NEST EGG atl “ ,e !, Induces Other Eggs Every Accom- ji to the .Nest modation | Consistent !; The First Dollar With Safe j | .1 Tr Banking Deposited to Your Bank Methods 11 Account Extended to Will INDUCE OTHERS our Patrons. We Pay 4 and 5 per Cent, on Time Deposits. . _____ , | SEWING MACHINES, ORGANS j AND FURNITURE sold on ;! Both Serviceable and Ornamental Easy Terms I jl. Organs and Sewing Machines Delivered ;| in Your Home—Easy Pay Plan I j! Second-Hand Sewing Machines at Your Own Price jC. A. SUMNER, Soperton MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! i I • Plenty of Money to Lend On Improved Farms at Six per Cent. Interest—Any Amount :j: From sßoo Up. Re-payment Allowed Any Time. Prompt ||| Service and Courteous Treatment. T j HAMP BURCH, | McRAE, GEORGIA. | AUTO FOR SALE. One Model F Five Passenger Buiek. In la first-class condition and fully equipped | with liemy magneto, top, windshield, etc. See at once W. F. McAllister, Uvalda, Ga. Land for Sale. lam offering for sale a tract of farming land lying on the west side of the Oconee River, in Montgomery county, Landsburg District, about nine miles north of Glenwood on the Old Dublin River Public Road, containing 191 acres. On this tract of land is a good eight-room dwelling house, a few acres in cultivation, i and the remainder of the tract fairly well timbered. Almost the , entire tract is susceptible to im provement and cultivation. Also one Lot of swamp land lying near to the farming land described. A bargain for the right man. This land must be sold. Write or ap ply to J. B, Geiger, Mt. Vernon, Ga. Money on Hand TO LOAN. LOANS PROMPTLY CLOSED. ! We have a good sup ply of cheap money on hand at this time and can close loans very promptly, either on farm or city property. If in need of cash, i I come to see or write us at once. Southern Loan & Investment Co. VIDALIA, GA. DR. J. E. MASROW Refractionist Glasses Corrrectly Ground and Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation Free. lUO Whitaker Street. SAVANNAH, GA
