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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1912)
r\or\tgorr\ery J v Lonitor. ! PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL GROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. K titered at tin l'ostoflice in Mt. Vernon. Ga. aw Second-Class Mail Matter. n. B. FOLSOM, I (iitiir and Owner. *M a ear » ' n Advance. Mr sdvertixi-indtits moat invariably be paid in advance, at the legsl rate, and aa the law direct*; and mini be in hand not later than Wedneaday morn in* of the flrat week of insertion I Mount Vernon, jGa., Thursday Morning, FEB. 29, 1912. Have yoi registered yet? Bet- ! ter see about it before the crop of candidates is thinned down to a stand. Teddy and Taft will divide the Republican vote all right, but Bryan anti the Bullheads will do alwiut the same stunt for the Democrats, Don’t be uneasy about the crop situation. The hand behind these •dark clouds holds great gleams of sunshine, and seed time and harvest shall not fail. It is now proposed to fight the boll weevil with the boys’ corn clubs. That, is better than the hammer and anvil method, for we will have the corn extra. We believe in education with abigE., but the two girls who set fire to a house at Warren, Va.. that they might be arrested and put Jn school, rather overdid the thing. Now that Atlanta and Augusta have gone against the commission form of government, some of the smaller towns that were about to contract the commission itch may not need the remedy of adverse votes. We have worked nine years for the upbuilding of Montgomery county’s moral, financial and ed ucational interest. It has been a labor of love, and we have no re grets for the part we have played. Make the sessions of the legis lature biennial, and the terms of the governor and all county offi cers four years, and you will give a hundred thousand Georgians time to think and plan for agri cultural and business success. Tedd\ Roosevelt threw his hat in the ring last week and now puts both feet in. Will Demo crats throw away the brightest prospect they have ever had for electing a president? if they don’t it will be one of the world’s wonders. It is one of otir strong points to aid struggling genius. If the boys of Montgomery county will come forward and organize acorn club, ami the girls a canning club, we guarantee that hand some premiums will be offered, and will lend them all the assist ance possible. All Georgians, and especially members of the Weekly Press Association, will hear with regret of the loss sustained by Wm. G. McAdoo of New York in the death of his wifd last week at their home at Irvington-on-the Hudson. Mrs. McAdoo was also a native of Georgia. And now comes Mr. E. M. Bailey of Bryan county and claims the Kel log trophy of SI,OOO fori the best ear of corn in the world, the prize now held by Fred C. Palin of Newton, lnd. If Bryan county can make ears of corn eleven and a half inches long, • Montgomery countv ought to make them two feet long. - There is entirely too much courting in Montgomery county. We refer to the legal variety. Four terms a year and a possibil ity of five or six is getting be yond a reasonable limit. The more courts the more litigation is an established fact in this county. Cut out half the litiga tion, much of which is an at tempt to settle all manner of set tlement feuds by legal process, i I TfTTTTTTTTTTVTTYTTTTTTTTT* jj From the Mouth j ► of Georgia Press \ ► 31 • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Perry Home Journal: —Bryan and Roosevelt are in the same jtolitical attitude toward the par ty each professes, respectively, to represent, Each declares he is not a candidate for the presi dency, but each is active in giv ing ‘advice, and the friends of each are striving to create senti ment favoring his nomination. At this distance, it seems that either would prefer to wreck his party rather than fail to rule it. Macon Telegraph:—The New York Evening Post, which usu ally solves problems for itself, is worried because the packers con tend hides are worthless and yet oppose free entry of them. Whether hides are free or taxed, shoes have gone up in price, and the consumer would like to know why. Americus Times-Recorder:— Labor should be the first to ap plaud the activity of the Govern ment, in bringing the dynamite offenders to justice. It is as much to the interest of labor as of capital that the laws should be obeyed and that the govern ment remain supreme over any private combination, either of men or of money. Savannah Press: —Theodore Peters, “the man with a broken neck,” who was arrested in Sa vannah several weeks ago for drunkenness, has pulled off the same stunt in Jacksonville and has been pulled by the police. It seems to bike a lot of irrigation to keep Peters’ dislocated neck lubricated. Dublin Courier-Dispatch: When the fanners of Georgia raise enough corn, meat, hay, small grain, etc., to supply the needs of all the people of the state and make cotton a surplus crop the golden age for Georgia will have arrived and the land will literally flow with milk and honey. We hope to live to see that day. Clinch Co. News: —Kind read ers, don’t fail to register. It may mean much to you in the elections this year. There will be candidates from President on down to bottle-washer, and you may have a particular choice that you wish elected. Get busy and register. Douglas Enterprise:- The peo ple of the Eleventh need not fret about a change in congressmen for the next session. However, when Bill Brantley gets thru with the job, Coffee county will probably furnish his successor. There’s Dickerson, Lankford, Quincey, Dart, Ward, McDonald, O’Steen, Bryan, and many oth ers. who would be eligible and make splendid timber. Savannah News:- A dispatch from Boston says that shoe prices are going up fifty cents on the pair. Oh. well, let the prices go | where they please! It will soon -be spring o’ the year, then the good old summer time; and who needs shoes when the sunshine is warm and the grass soft? Atlanta Journal:—A lot of these northern editors makes flings about this time of the year about the southerner and his mint julip. whereas there are a lot of southerners who don’t like the taste of mint. Darien Gazette: The Gazette is gratified to state that a hard fight will be waged in the legis lature the coming summer for bi ennial sessions. Let the people of Georgia rally to the support of the men who are pushing this movement. Talk to your legis i lator. I TI7E MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 29, 1912. I OLD PUFFS AND SWITCHES Ladle* of Twenty-Five Centuries Age Made* Liberal Use of Bor rowed Hair. Caesar’B wife may have V s -h above suspicion so far as her morals were j concerned, but the same could not ! have been said about her hair, any / more than It could about the hair ol the fashionable matron of today. The Greek, Egyptian, Carthaginian ! and Roman ladies of twenty-live cen ! turles ago made use of the most as tonishing quantities of borrowed hair, and the Roman women of the time of 1 Augustus were especially pleased ; when they could outdo their social rivals by piling upon their heads a greater tower of additional tresses. | They also arranged curls . formally around the head. An extensive commerce in human hair was carried on, and after the con quest of Gaul, blond hair, such as grew originally on the heads of Ger man girls along the Rhine, became very fashionable in Rome. Caesar did not disdain to mix a little commercial ism with his military enterprises and collected a vast amount of hair from the vanquished Gauls, which he sent to market at Rome, and In the Roman provinces a cropped head was regard ed as a badge of slavery or at least of subjection. The hairdressers of Rome were per sons of real importance and charged exorbitant prices for forming the hair Into fanciful devices, such as harps, wreaths and diadems. WHY THEY LOVE THE LIBRARY Such a Nice Place to Sit, Especially If One Has Agreeablo Company. While pleasant weather lingered the stone benches in front of the New York public library were occupied by couples whose presence could not be attributed wholly to their Interest in the architectural scheme. They re mained too long and their eyes spoke of other things. Since rnin and chill wliFls have made marble benches out of doors un comfortable, even for ardent sweet hearts, they are to be found on simi lar seats which are placed for decora tive purposes in the long corridors in side the building. "Don't you love the new library?” one girl said to another. "No; It takes too long to got the books.” "Well, I don’t knew about that. I aaven't drawn any bonks yet.” "What do you go there for, then?” "Oh, It is so lovely Just to sit there.” "Alone?” "No, not alone.” Had His Eye On the Boat. Alexander Carr has a reputation as | a wit and story toller only equaled by 1 his reputation as an actor. His latest j story was told the other night and runs as follows: Two Hebraic gentlemen, friends of long standing, went to the lake and j each hired a rowboat for a trial of I skill and strength. In the middle of I the lake one tipped over his boat and ! sank from sight. Coming to the stir j face close to the bow of the other j boat he shouted: "Ikoy, Ikey, save me, T can’t swim!” Carefully holding the boat a few feet away from his drowning friend, the other looked on unmoved. Again the unfortunate one sank be low thg surface, and as he came up for the second time repeated his cries i Tor help. A third time he came up, and then, as he started to disappear from sight for the third and last time, his friend shouted: “Able, if you don’t come up again ran I have your boat?” Wanted to See It Bloom. Mabel Parr, Just turned six, lives In Lauderdale avenue. In Lakewood, says the Cleveland Leader. Tier mother, a Scientist, has been trou bled for some days with a cold-sore, much to her little daughter’s concern. When she could not longer restrain her sympathy she turned interroga tion point. "Mother,” she asked, pointing to 1 the slight disfigurement, "what is • ’.hat you’ve got?” "That's a rosebud, dear,” said Mrs. Parr. Mabel was silent and thoughtful all the rest of the day. When she yield ed to pressure she confessed she’d been worrying about her mother. "I’ve besn thinking about that rose bud.” she said, “and wondering why that flower never blooms.” Not a Monotheist. What might have been Oliver Her ford’a last witticism was delivered ot the poet artist in a recent attack of typhoid, when the malady was near ing Its crisis. A frequent visitor was a clergyman of his acquaintance, who, leaving the sick room on this occa sion, remarked cheerfully: "Good by for the present, and God be with you.” Mr. Hereford was unable to lift his head from his pillow, but ho respond ed feebly: "The same to you—and many ol ’em.” Primitive Reasoning. "Did you sell your vote?” "No, slree! 1 voted fur that fellet 'cause I liked him.” "But 1 understand he gave you $10?" “Well, when a man gives you $lO 'taint r-> more'n natural to like him. i L it?" —v. ashington Star. I A Note to You: Feb. 8, 1012. j We carry a large assortment of j Post cards. All styles, of all j descriptions and prices. Some I i-of them are works of art. Some | very sentimental and some very, j very funny. I Some of them are sure to ex-; I press just the idea you would:; want to convey to him or to her j I by post. You know you can con- j vey ideas by post card that would ! be difficult to express by word of;! mouth. Stick your stamps on i! our post cards. ! j Yours truly, Mt. -Vernon Drug i Company. u Money on Hand j TO LOAN. j LOANS PROMPTLY j CLOSED. jj We have a good sup-! ply of cheap money on I hand at this time and can close loans very promptly, either on j farm or city property. j If in need of cash, j come to see or w rite j us at once. Southern Loan Investment Co. | VIDALIA, GA. | AUTO FOB SAIL One Model F Five Passenger Buick. In a lirst-class condition and full} 7 equipped | with Romy magneto, j top, w indshield, etc. I See at once W. F. 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