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T?\e F\or\igorr\&ry /Monitor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
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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'.
Anti-Pain Pills as the best rem
edy we have yet had in our
house for the prevention and
cure of headache. My wife who
has been a constant sufferer for
a number of years with above
complaint joins me ip the hope
that they may fall into the hands
of all sufferers.”
JOHN BUSH,
Watervleit, Me.
Used Them Four Years.
“Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills
are the best I ever tried for the
relief of headache. I have used
them for nearly four years and j
they never fail to give me relief.
I have tried many other rem
edies, but have never found any |
better.”
JOSEPH FRANKOWICK,
854 Trombly Av., Detroit, Mich.
There is no remedy that will
more quickly relieve any form
of headache than
Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills.
The best feature of this re
markable remedy is the fact that
it does not derange the stomach
or leave any disagreeable after
effects.
Druggists everywhere sell them. If
first package fails to benefit, your drug
nist win return your money.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart. Ind.
TYPEWRITERS
GIVEN AWAY
ThJ Emerson Typewriter Com
pany of Woodstock, 111., haye re
cently given away over 400 of the
highest grade, wholly visible Ein
lsoii Typewriters made in the
world. They have gone into every
state and territory in the United
States. There may lie some in
your town. They are giving them
away, every where to men, women,
| boys and girls, over 18 years of
•ige, on surprisingly liberal con- j
! ditions.
If you could make any use of a
SIOO 00 typewriter, providing it
j did not cost you one cent, then in
I a letter or on a postal card ad
dressed to Frank L. Wilder, Pres
ident, Woodstock, 111., simply
say, “Mail me all your Free Of
fers,” and by return mail you
will receive their free offers, the
names of over 400 who have re
cently received typewriters free,
and you will learn on what easy
conditions you can get one of
their typewriters free right away
The Emerson Typewriter is one
ut the highest grade, wholly visi
ble typewriters made in the world.
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
