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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1912)
PAGE 6 ENGINEERING BRINGS WEALTH TO WEST But Nature’s Endowment Is Heaped Upon Sunny Southland. The completion ot the greatest engineering feat ever undertaken l>y the reclamation service of tin; ITtiited States government is soon to he celebrated in Arizona. It is what is known an the “Yuma project,” and consists in the pro viding of an impounding reservoir of great extent and the construc tion of a series of canals by means of which about. 100,000 acres of desert land will be irrigated with water from the Colorado river. That it is a great engineering feat is evident to any one who sees it, and that it will constitute a needed improvement when the country has been so thickly settled that all the land possibly avail able has been taken is c< rtain. but it is equally as certain that there are in this section of coun try thousands id' untilled and un occupied acres which are just as fertile, or can lie made equally us fertile as those of the Yuma des ert, while here nature supplies un ample amount of water at all sea sons wit houfc cost and with abso lute certainty an to continuance and as to separate quantities for individual needs. Every commer cial crop that can be grown m t he irrigated desert can be grown fully i grown here. Conditions are cer-l tainly much more attractive here than they will be m t he reclaimed desert. The answer is that homeseekors have been told more about the W est than about the Southwest. Hut. this is being changed.— In dustrial Index. As Sad as It is True. An editor lias very little ex perience if ho has never hud tiis community to “lie down on him” in the matter of promoting pub lic affairs; The Nashville Her ald has been passing some of the experiences common to the boost ing newspaper man. It says: “It is little use for the local editor to waste his lungs and sprain his spine in trying to boom a town when the citizens all stain! around | JOHN M. SLATON for Governor! | | A CLEAN, HONEST AM) l I! A CONSERVATIVE AND I | ABLE MAR | ( I | Slaton has practically jj jj p res jjj n g Q ffi cer G s the P | the unanimous endorse- || || House or Senate, and | jp ment of the public men ;■ jj not one ruling has been j| | and press of the state. || || reversed. I § jj HON. JOHN M. SLATON. K with their hands in their pockets and indifferently wait for some thing to turn up. If the capi talists or business men don’t put their Boulders to the wheel and do a little boosting it is useless for the editor to try and boom things. He can write “boom” articles till he gets baldheaded, hut if the citizens themselves do not take take hold and push, the town will forever stick. —Norman Park ' Press. Georgia’s Oldest Woman Passes Away. Dublin, June 21. —Mrs. Betsy Bilue died at her home in Wilkin son county on June lat the age of 102 years and 7 days. She was one of the oldest inhabitants in this entire section and had rel atives scattered over four coun ties. Her brother, Zenas Ford ham, of Laurens county, is still living at the age of 02. Mrs. Billue was horn in North Carolina, but moved at an early age to Wilkinson county, this state. Every year great family reunions were held at her home near here and at the last meet ing, iust one week before her death, she talked to over one hundr d relatives for the last time. Mrs. Billue was one of the most respected women in this part of the state. Judge Broyles Thinks Too Many Poor Babies. Atlanta, June 20. —The poor people of Atlanta have too many children, according to the view of Recorder Nash R. Broyles, [ who thinks that Roosevelt is wrong on his “race suicide”, theories, and that no couple, ought to have children unless they can decently feed and clothe and educate the little ones. Tr e human race, Judge Broyles thinks, is set back more serious ly by the degeneracy of children born under unsanitary conditions and never given a chance to im prove their condition, than it is by not having enough children. ! It might be advisable, Judge Broyles says, to make a man ! prove that he is able decently! to support a wife and one or two children before allowing him to marry at all. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912. A COUNTY FAIR FOR THOMAS Bad Weather and the Late Crops No Barrier to Enterprise. Thomasville, Ga., June 18.— That the Thomas county farmers’ fair will be held again this fall has been definitely decided by a meeting of a number of the prom inent citizens of the county and town interested in holding it. The unusual lateness in planting many of the crops and the unpro pitious weather, which it has been feared would affect their meeting, and led many to think that it might be better not to attempt to hold a fair this year, but it was found to be the general desire of the people from the country dis tricts that the fuir be held as iihii al, and there seems to be more enthusiasm in regard to it than ever before. R. R. Chastain has been re elected president of the fair asso ciation, and J. CJ. Beverly vice president, and they will select directors from all the districts of the county. Colored Farmer Has Good Crop in Chatham. The Savannah News describes a colored farmer’s crop thus: Four miles out on the Louisville road is a 3 1-2 acre patch of cotton in full bloom. Middelton Meyers is the proud owner of this cotton, and he says that if the weather favors him he will produce a bale to the acre. Meyers’ small farm is a splend id example of what an industrious colored man can do in Chatham county. Meyers works on the Re liance Fertilizer plant, and tills his farm at odd times. Besides his 3 1-2 acre patch of cotton he has four acres in corn, three acres of which he has laid by, and Ins peas ure up and doing line. Mey er’s farm will net him a hand some profit. —Savanuud News. Notice to Patrons. On account of an increase in price of Graphophones I am com pelled to withdraw the Grapho phone Proposition I have been running. M. E. Fountain. CITATION. Georgia —Montgomery County. Mrs. Minnie L. Morrison, ad ministratrix of the estate of Henry T. Stuckey, late of paid couuty, deceased, represents to the court | in her petition, duly filed and en | tered on record, that she has ful ly administered said estate, and prays for letters of dismission, i this is to cite all parties concerned that said application will be heard ' at-my office on the first Monday in July next. This the 8d day of June, 1912 Alex McArthur, Ordinary. CITATION. Georgia—Montgomery County. To whom it may concern: Mrs. Mattie Lee Skipper, executrix of the last will and testament of Pe ter Mcßride, represents to this court that she has fully adminis tered said estate, and this is to cite all and singular the creditors and heirs of said estate to show why she should not be dismissed as executrix of Peter Mcßride’s estate, her application for dis charge to be heard on the first Monday in July, 1912. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. T. Receiver’s Rounds. Last Round. I will be at the following places on the dates named for reciving tax returns for state and county taxes for the year 1912. West Side. Henry Calhoun’s, June 5, 10 to 12 Mr Arthur, June 5, 2 to 5 Springhill Campground, June 7, 8 to 12 Springhill Clubhouse, June 7, 3 to 5 Tom Harbin's At night Ki irk, J une H, 8 to 11 A van i s Siding, June 8, 2 to 4 W Henry Clark’s, At night Walter (’lark's, June 10, 10 to 12 Alamo, June 11, 10 to 2 (llenwood, June 13, 8 to 2 H. It. Menton's, June 13, At night Lamlslm*rtf, June 14, 10 to 12 Cross I toads, June 14, 3 to 5 East Side. Alston, June 17, 8 to 12 Sharpe's Spur, June 17, 3 to 5 Mcdretfur, June 18, 8 to 12 Hii’t’. - Lon, June 18, 3 to 5 Titfer, June 10, 8 to 11 Kibbee, June 19, 3 to 6 Tarrytown, June 20, 8 to 12 Zaidee, J une 20, 3 to 5 Sopcrton. J une 21, 8 to 4 Or land. June 22, 8 to 12 David Miller's At nitfht Lot hair, June 24, 8 to 12 Mt. Vernon, June 25, 8 to 12 Ailey, J une 25, 2 to 4 Lontfpond, June 26, 10 to 12 IJ vnldn. J une 26, 3 to 5 J. G. Morris, Tax Receiver. • TTTTTTTyTTyrmmmTTTf * TTYTYTTTYTTTYTTTTTTVVTTTY* l Your Farm Lands \ t = 3 ► 3 c l l Will pay you more turned into cash. < ► This we can do for you. List your < ► property with us for sale—we will find « ► a buyer for you. Whether you want • t to buy or sell, we can handle the deal 5 t to your advantage and get results, on J J farm or city property in this county 3 [ IF YOU WANT MONEY j t Get in touch with us. We are in position to supply it on ► short notice, and on very agreeable terms. We have good a ► connections with the big firms that want to lend money to 3 £ the farmers of Montgomery county. Drop in and talk the £ matter over with us. We can do the business to suit you. a \ MONTGOMERY COUNTY REAL ESTATE \ l AND LOAN CO. 2 2 MOUNT VERNON. GEORGIA 2 ► ’ < ► M •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA* Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in July, 1912, be tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: Twenty-five acres of lot of land No. 233 in the Tenth land district of Montgomery county, situ ate, lying and being on the south-east side of the S. A. L. Ry., and being the south-east part of said lot, and known as the place where Columbus Mcßae cleared up land. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Columbus Mcßae to satisfy an execution issued from the justice court of the 1450th district G. M. of said county in favor of the Merchants Bank vs W. C. Mcßae et al. Written notice of levy given in terms of the law. This the 4th day of June, 1912. James Hester, Sheriff. For Sale. Buff Orppington eggs for hatching. $1.50 per 15. Mrs. M. G. Wilcox, Uvalda, Ga. CITATION. Georgia—Montgomery County. Chaa. D. Browning, guardian of Callie, Leatha, Wood fin and Em merson Browning, minor children of C. W. Browning, having in due form applied to rue for a twelve month’s support for said wards , out of the estate of C. W. Brown ing, and the appraisers appointed for valuation and setting apart having filed their return, all per sons are hereby notified that said application will be heard at my office on the first Monday in July, 1912. This the 81 day of June, 1912. Alex McArthur, Ordinary.
