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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, June 20, 1012.
Savannah is already boasting
that her new kiosk is turning
out the proper kind of weather,
and that bathers are flopping
around in great glee in the surf
at Tybee.
Montgomery county needs a I
get-together-club, and a little
more advertising like the old
county got last week by the daily I
papers all over the state will
open the eyes of her citizens on
lhat line.
Our Republican friends are
viewing with strained eyes and
bated breath this week the do
ings at the convention in Chica
go; and are somewhat in the at
titude of the old farmer who was
about to be thrown by his mule,
and prayed thus; “Lord, make
us thankful for what we are I
about to receive.”
For nine and a-half years we
have plead with Montgomery:
county people to study co-opera
tion and unite in things that!
make for the upbuilding of the I
whole people. No people ever!
did much in public improvements i
who proceeded on any other line!
than that of harmony and united!
action. Prosperity, such as the
most optimistic have never!
dreamed of, awaits the people
who pull together.
In a few days the Georgia leg-,
islature will be in session. If the j
time of the body could lx; spent
iu passing measures that would
benefit the whole people, for in
stance such measures as abolish
ing the iniquitous tax system of
the state and passing a law that
would compel the burden of tax
ation to be equalized, their meet
ing would not be in vain. But
hundreds of petty schemes will
clog t In* wheels of legislation as
usual.
We can get along somehow
with any kind of a president,
provided we have an honest,
high-toned and intelligent man
at the head of atfairs in our own
state. With all the lights before!
us, we must say that in the per-!
son of Hon. John M. Slaton j
Georgia has the material for such j
a leader. And his can lidacy for |
the exalted place does not depend
for success upon showing that
other illustrious sons of the old
state are unworthy or incapable.
In the death of Dr. J. H. Mc-
Arthur, Montgomer\ county loses
a valuable citizen. The impress
of such men upon their commu
nities in real life is worth more
than a thousand examples in
theory. He accumulated a com
fortable fortune in sight of the
old house that sheltered his boy
hood, and without a suspicion of
resort to any questionable meth
ods. His departure is a distinct
loss to Montgomery county, and
to the Bivwton Parker Institute,
an institution his liberality and
energy helped largely to make
possible.
We are no longer allowed a
voice in the old Eleventh Con
gressional District, but feel proud
of the fact that the place so long
and ably tilled by such Georgians
as Henry G. Turner and William
G. Brantley will be occupied by
a brainy and worthy man, in
view of the nomination and elec
°f either of the two men
spiring to the plaee. Judge
T A T'ifker, a product of the
grand oKi count >’ of
Liberty, or J. Ttttti^ Walkl ' r of
Valdosta, a typo H 'st
and brainiest of South
coming men, will represent the
old Twelfth with credit to the
section, the state and die South.
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Savannah Press: —Georgia con
tinues to lead in the construction
of high-school buildings. In eight
years over two and a half million
have been spent by the people on
new buildings, and Savannah is
building her share of them.
Commerce News:—This is a
funny old world. The farmers
who have corn to sell at #1.15 per
bushel, thinks the price is too
Mow, while the farmer who buys
it, thinks it’s outrageously high.
Waynesboro Banner: There is
no practicable or good excuse for
i lie prevailing high costof living.
The trusts which buy and hoard
up the necessities of life simply j
take advantage of and rob the
public. Fifty or even twenty
live years ago Americans would
not have stood for such a deal.
Perry Journal: —Some of the
democratic editors are attempting
to put the democratic campaign
in the same class with that be
ll ween Taft and Roosevelt. De
| crying Underwood doesn’t make
Wilson any better.
Lyons Progress: The Legisla
ture will meet next week and it
I looks now like we are not to have
| any special legislation for Toombs
county. Several special laws were
recommended by the Grand Jury
but it seems that no one wants to
take up tin* matter. If there are
to he any hills directly affecting
the county they are at present
being kept very quiet.
Americus Times-Recorder: —
We might as well got ready for
j the expansion or business that is
I coming in this city in the next
| few years. Americus is at the
! beginning of the most prosperous
land most progressive era it has
ever had.
Douglas Enterprise: If ever a
man had a cinch on the governor
ship, that man is Jack Slaton.
There is no way to head off what
looks now to be an everlasting
landslide. Well the cinch is good |
I both ways; it is good for Jack i
land it is good for the state.
Laurens County Herald: The
weekly editor is between the
devil and the deep blue sea on
this parcels post business—
whether to listen to his local mer
chants and fight it. or make a try
for the ad. This last appears to
us in the nature of commercial
sophistry.
llawkinsville Dispatch-News:—
The Republican National Conven
tion will meet at Chicago June
isth. and indications point to a
lively session. Taft’s nomination
at this time seems almost certain,
though the Colonel still sticks to
it that he will be the nominee.
Nashville Herald: The Hoke
Smith faction, thru Rube Arnold
and Tom Hudson, tried to slip up
on the blind side of Tom Watson
but it seem that Tom hasn’t
got a blind side.
Gainesville News: —Here’s hop
ing that Taft will boat the stuf
fin' out of Teddy at Chicago next
week. We believe the Demo
crats are going to beat whoever
the Republicans nominate, but if
by any possibility a Republican
should be elected, wo infinitely
prefer Taft to Teddy.
Moultrie Observer: Mr. Bryan
predicts that there will be two
Republican parties after the
Chicago convention. The more
the merrier. Why not make it
three and give one to Taft, one
to Teddy and one to LaFollette?
Atlanta Journal: No doubt
there are wives who drive their
.jtii.fjSJUslnmds who would like
to have l uch wives.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
A wise Providence has placed
a limit on all things. The politi
cal reprobate may lie and fatten
! upon his deceit and underhanded
schemes for a season, but at last
he stands forth in all his naked
ness; and moral decency, won
ders how, like Satan, he managed
to keep up the game so long.
Georgia Peach Crop.
Just now all the forces of
Georgia workers in the fields are
concentrated in one mighty effort
to cope with the studendous prob
lem of handling Georgia’s peach
crop. Hardly a nook or corner of
the State can be found hut where
a peach tree, loaded with splen
did fruit, gleams from every
side. Never before have laborers
in the field ever received such
wonderful pay as is being dealt
out to them by the peach and
melon growers this year. Truly
there can be no cause for com
plaint by those who work in the
peach orchards, for whether they
come late or early, work by day
or by week, or down to hours and
i minutes, they receive a stipend
i that should prove most satisfac
j tory. Negroes who ten years
ago worked thirteen months in
the year, making a cotton crop,
for the enormous sum of some
$75 per year, are now reveling in
the delights of two or three
months’ work at S(SO per month,
something to eat and a place to
sleep provided free of charge.
They are in this way enabled
to work a short time and lord it
all over their less fortunate
brothers in black who yet follow
the old, worn-out path that leads
to the cotton fields.
But things are looking up in
Georgia. In spite of the fact
that work was started late, and
much of the cotton is yet to be
chopped, and some of the late
corn to be planted, the cowpeas
to lie put in, the first of the hay
is ripening and the grain fields
are beckoning to the farmers ear
ly and late, and a thousand and
one tasks are keeping us too busy
to worry about what tomorrow
| may bring forth. Summarizing
j the situation in detail, it seems
to us like Georgia will forge
ahead again this fall and, with
good prices for cotton and fairly
good seasons from now on, we
should be enabled to roll up a rec
ord-breaking figure in the way of
wealth production from the soil.
Along with all these other bless
ings in State, from mountain to
| the seaboard, seems to be enjoy
ing prosperity and health togeth
er, and the outlook is bright all
along the way. Rhea Hayne.
In Home & Farm
Like Poodle Dogs Better.
Mrs. Sarah L. Roberts, a
prominent Sunday school worker
| of Atlanta, speaking of the work
jof the Georgia Home Society,
| said to its manager:
“Baby talk, ” said Mrs. Rob
erts, “I am grieved to say, is a
foreign language to some women
I—l should say creatures, who
wear petticoats. God didn’t
make that kind. They are like
I the bugs and snakes and creep
ing things that make life dis
agreeable. I don’t know where
they come from and, like the
snakes and bugs and other creep
ing things, I believe their influ
ence Is prenicious, if not really
dangerous. ”
Mrs. Roberts, acting for the
Georgia Home society, returned
from Crawford ville Saturday,
where she had taken an orphan
child and given it to a new
mother and father. In describ
ing her trip to Mr. McCord, she
scored roundly the modern Wo
man who had become a stranger
to the baby’s cry.
"Those kind of women—and
they exist in Atlanta, ” continued
the letter, “want poodle dogs
they can kiss and bathe. They
want poodle dogs, want to play
whist for prizes all day, drink
wine and dance all night; but the
idea of loving a baby to sleep
sends them into nervous prostra
tion.
"What! Ijose their fine figures
and peach bloom complexions; sit
up at nights perhaps with a sick
baby? No, indeed.
“By the most abominable
machinations of the devil these
creatures who call themselves
women shirk responsibility of
motherhood.
“In my work for this associa
tion 1 have found it almost im
possible even to gain an audience
with one of these pampered
darlings to try at least to enlist
the aid of her squandered wealth
to help find homes for the poor
ilittle orphans.”
GRAND AND PETIT JURORS
Who Will Serve July Term
Superior Court.
GRAND JURORS
L B MeLemore D S McArthur
W II Dukes Grove Sharpe
C G Holmes W G McDonald
J L Hightower W B Greenway
J M Cook A R Davis
JC Calhoun T J Irwin
David Miller A T Johnson
W II Brown T A Peterson
W T McCrimmon
Willie B Connell F Lee Mcßae
R F Jordan A A Galbraith
W II McArthur
W T McArthur Siepen Pittman
B F Hamilton P H Clarke
E Y Baldwin Wallace Moses
W J Futrill Willie Gay
PETIT JURORS
G W McCrimmon A D Wright j
T C McArthur H H Grimes
N J N Vaughan W H Bright
Ira Coney A G Hicks
Sewell (Joarson Eli W Clements
.lot) W Clements John A W’atson
.1 B Burkhalter J A Clegg
Hugh Morrison A J Grimes
J F Cromartie M A Peterson
I suae Brooks M Hutcheson
.1 E Fowler G N Martin
F E Ward law* C F Gordon
.1 C Carpenter W L Anderson
W P Calhoun A Calhoun
W T McQuaig Everett Miller
J W Calhoun J D McDaniel
C I> Williams J M Phillips
.J W Hearn, Jr Monroe Clements
J M Meeks Crosby Williams
A P Stone W C Mcßae
TAI.IS JURORS
Lester Canady H B Brady
I’ 1, New J W Sumner
I, S Adams J M Whited
J T Jordan Lucien Joyce
A E McDonald W O Harrelson
J M Ford ham K F Mcßae
Geo J McEnehern Elijah Miller
(t A Summons Jesse 1 Fountain
John J McArthur G R Barwick
I .1 Calhoun S I) Pittman
Joel Dayis S B Morris
C W Cauley E J Nobles
If you want money quick, write
Lyons Loan & Abstract Co., Ly
ons, Ga., for they are loaning
m >ney cheap.
A Note to You:
June 13, 1912.
We figure that we will never
lose any trade or make any ene
mies, foes or antagonists, by
selling the best of PURE DRUGS
and RELIABLE REMEDIES at
right prices.
Do you think we figure correct
ly?
Yours truly,
Mt. Vernon Drug
Company.
Dwelling for Rent or
For Sale.
A comfortable six-room house,
with garden spot, in choice resi
dence section of Mt. Vernon, with
conveniences. For terms of rent
or sale apply at
MONITOR OFFICE.
E. M. RACK LEY
Dentist
I Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co.
MT. VERNON. (lA.
J. R. WATSON
Dentist
Soperton, Georgia
DR. J. K. MASROW
Hefractionist
Glasses Corrrectly Ground and
Fitted to thn Eyes. Consultation
Free. 109 Whitaker Street.
j SAVANNAH, GA
Th BANK OF SOPERTON 1
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Paid in Capital Stock, 825,000.00 1
Surplus and undivided
profits 86,500.00 j
Total resources over 8100,000.00
General Banking Business Conducted. Accounts Solicited f
Interest on Time Deposits
OFFICERS: f
N. L. Gill is, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President
J. E. Hall, Cashier. 1. 11. Hall, Asst. Cashier j
DIRECTORS; ij:
N. L. Gillis, M. B. Gillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill I
W. D. Martin, \V. H. Fowler, J, E. Ilall.
SOPERTON, GEORGIA. I
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j Loans qf any amount from SBOO to $50,000 on farms in Mont- «■£
| gomery and adjoining counties. No delays for inspection, g
Have lands examined by a man living near you.
| LOANS ON FIVE YEARS TIME, payable in easy installments to ||
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i New Trough Service via \
SEABOARD AIR LIME B’Y.
PULLMAN SLEEPERS
1 On night trains between Savannah and Montgomery, making
| connections for all principal points EAST and WEST. 11
1 SERVICE WILL BE ESTABLISHED SUNDAY, NOV. 2(sth j;
ON FOLLOWING SCHEDULE: jj
700 AM 600 PM Lv Savannah Ar 900 AM 885 PM ji
\ 742 AM 048 PM Cuvier 813 AM 715 PM ll
1 852 AM 758 PM Hagan 707 AM 0 111 PM o
1 920 AM 825 PM Collins 047 AM GlO PM 1;
1 10 05 AM 912 PM Vidaiia GO2 AM 525 PM |1
; 11 25 AM 10 35 PM Helena 440 AM 103 PM U
1 12 55 PM 12 08 AM Pitts 807 AM 2 3(5 PM u
1 135 I’M 12 40 AM Cordele 230 AM 140 I'M 1;
I 818 I’M 200 AM Americas 115AM12 82 PM |l
| 405 PM 255 AM Richland 12 20 AM 11 82 AM ll
; G4O PM 517 AM Ft Davis 952 PM 848 AM 1»
1 815 PM 680 AM Ar Montgomery Lv 8 PM 720 AM j;
1 These trains will carry first class coaches and the night trains j;
| Pullman high class twelve section drawing room sleeping cars. ]!
East or West the Way that’s Best.
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» Savannah, Georgia j;
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Money to Loan.
I represent some of the host, loan
companies doing business in
Montgomery county, and can se
cure loans for a term of five years
at a very small rate of interest.
Commissions charged are small,
and parties desiring to negotiate
loans in Montgomery or Toombs
counties will snve money by seeing
me before making application
elsewhere. M. B. Calhocn,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Hami' Burcii
Attorney at Law
M.-RAE, GA.
Practices in all the Courts.
MONEY TO LOAN
On Improved Farms in
Montgomery County at a Small
Kate of Interest.
J. E. Hall, Sopcrton.