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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1912)
(Fljr Mmt%snnn% VOL. XXVII. CHAIRMAN GEIGER NAMES NOMINEES Tells Whos Who In Next State Election As Shown By Primary. Editor Monitor: My attention has been called to the fact that you failed to pub lish, after the August Democratic primary election in Montgomery I county, a full list of the nominees for the various county offices. On account of this failure to publish the names of the success ful candidates in both primaries, some confusion has arisen as to who was and who was not nomi nated. In order to set at rest the rumors and inform the public generally who the nominees are, I will thank you to give publicity to the list of nominees set out be low, which is a list of the nomi nees officially so declared by the Democratic Executive Committee of the county: For Representative, John C. Johnson. For Sheriff, James Hester. For Treasurer, A. Gillis. For Tax Collector, D. M. Currie. For Tax Receiver, Isaac Brooks. For Surveyor, Sumner Morris. For Coroner, W. P. Meade. For Ordinary, Alex McArthur, For Clerk S. C., M. L. O’Brien. For County Commissioners, J. M. D. McGregor, J. G. Snellgrove, J. T. Walker, R. D. Beatty, W. H. Moxley. Sept. 17, 1912. J. B. Geiger, Chm. Dem. Ex. Com. M. C. Old Dog Tax Law Holds Good for 1912. Comptroller General William A. Wright, acting upon requests from many confused county tax collectors, Saturday morning rul ed that the new dog tax law, making canines ad valorem pro perty and taxable as such, does not become effective until next year. This ruling means the old law, which taxes dogs at the rate of $1 per head, whether they are common curs or pedigreed pom eranians, will apply this year. About $130,000 per year has been collected in taxes on dogs under the terms of the old law. It is claimed that the new law will practically wipe out this in come, as it is not believed that the average dog owner will place any valuation upon his dogs. Ask for Ordinance Against Auto Speeding. Much complaint is being made about the fast running of auto mobiles inside the corporate limits of Ailey and Mt. Vernon, and it is a well known fact that several accidents have been averted by only hair-breadth escapes. The reckless running of bicycles on the sidewalks of | Mt. Vernon has long been a dan gerous nuisance that the town authorities pass unnoticed. A speed limit for automobiles is be ing demanded by parties who have come near being run over, especially in the vicinity of the Brewton-Parker Institute. We have been asked to call attention , to these matters. A mad dog on East Broad street, Savannah, Tuesday caused great excitement and bit three persons before being killed by a police man. Church Pews for Sale. The pews in the Mt. Vernon Methodist church are for sale at a reasonable rate. In good con dition. Call at Mt. Vernon Bank. Mr. Anderson’s Dwelling Burns at Alston. Bewteen eleven and twelve o’clock on Saturday night the residence of Mr. Ira L. Anderson was found on fire. The house was burned to the ground, but Mr. Anderson with the help of | friends managed to save most of his household goods and furni ture, Adjoining the Anderson house was a small wooden store in which J. W. Sharpe & Son had stored a lot of hardware, plows and other goods, and this was also consumed at a loss to them of about $250. ADVICE ADOPT PECANS FOR BEGINNERS How The Toothsome Nut Can Be Made To Pay Handsome Dividends. Mr. Editor: I see in your issue of two weeks ago an article copied from the Home and Farm in regard to the pecan industry, and I read it with interest. For four years I have been reading up and study ing in every way I could the pe can industry. I have sent for the bulletins published by the United States, I have taken a couple of journals, and have been attending the meetings of the National Nut Growers in their annual conventions. So you will see that the opinions I have form ed have been the result of care ful study and not mere guess work. This is one of the most profit able industries in the south, pro vided it is carried on with proper care and work. A great many people are going to make a fail ure at the business, as a great many do in nearly everything else. But there is big money in it for the man who will go at it in the right way, and who will energetically follow it. It will not pay to buy any sort of trees that an agent may want to sell, just because he calls them paper shells. There are only about 150 varieties of paper shell pecans, and only about 20 varieties any account. Every farmer should plant a few trees of the best va rieties, and should fertilize and cultivate properly. The first thing is to find out what some of the best varieties are, and then find out where some good first class trees can be bought. Never buy pecan trees from an agent and a nursery from whom and about which you can find out nothing. Be exceedingly care ful about the nursery from which you buy. Then when you get your trees be very careful about setting them out. If you do this you should not lose over two or three per cent. Do not put out seedlings. Five acres of land carefully set in first class varieties from a re liable nursery and then properly cared for, planted out for a child three or four years old will edu cate that child, paying his entire schooling, books, board, clothes, tuition, traveling expenses, &c., and settle him down at 21 years of age with a piece of property worth SIO,OOO In some future issue of your paper I will give full directions about setting out trees. C. M. Ledbetter. Bam Burned. A report reaches us that the j barn of Mr. G. L. Peterson whose farm is near Sadie school on the | east side of the county, was burned Tuesday evening, and was probably set on fire by light ning. Mr. Peterson lost too good ; mules and it is quite probable that most of his farm implements , were burned. l 1 MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1912. The Stardard Bearer of National Democracy. Will You Help to Elect Him President? Many of the leading papers of the state, both daily and weekly, j are raising funds toward the sup port of the Democratic campaign. ; The Democratic party, with vic tory almost within its grasp, is j not begging; neither does it want money to buy votes, for such is not the case. But it does need legitimate money to defray the expenses of the campaign, and thousands are responding to its call through its leaders. The party leaders do not de mand funds from the nublic, but simply allow all patriotic citizens to make a free-will offering to the cause of success. In order that the public may understand the request, we publish in full a letter from the chairman of the Georgia Press Contribution Bu reau, Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, Savannah, and take up the work along the lines suggested there in. While we may not expect no large amounts, it is to be hoped that many will contribute some thing—not less than a dollar, nor more than a thousand, which amounts will be duly published and receipted for, and will be: forwarded through the Mt. Ver non Bank. Leave a dollar at this office—every patriotic citizen who is interested in the success of the Democratic party with Mr. Wilson as the standard bearer. Savannah, Ga., August 30, 1912. Dear Sir: Hon. Robert Ewing, chairman of the National Democratic Press Contributions bureau, has ap ; pointed me as chairman of the 'Georgia Press Contributions Bu reau, and as such lam writing 1 you to ask you to open a sub scription list in your paper in or der to secure funds with which to advance the interests of the Democratic nominee in the com ing presidential campaign, i I take the liberty of directing your attention to two striking facts in this connection: (Ist) that the funds with which the ; Democrats will make their fighl ; are being given by the great | masses of the people and not by j the representatives of the big e rporations and privileged class es, and (2nd) that, while Georgia I was the boyhood home of Gov. Wilson and the birthplace of Mrs. Wilson, this state is not a battle ground and the only real service that we can render is by raising funds to assist in the great work to be done in more doubtful terri tory. It looks as if this will certain ly be a Democratic year, provid ed the enemy does not, by the use of vast sums of money, offset the advantage which our candi date has by reasons of his splen did popularity and which the party has by reason of its mag nificient record. As every one knows, it takes a very large 'amount of money to conduct a presidential campaign, even when every cent is put to legitimate uses. It, therefore, behooves : every good Democrat to do his ■ share toward assuring the vic tory. If we do not win now, we will not again have such a splen did opportunity in many years to come. I am writing to enlist your support in this matter feeling that, by exertion and enterprise, you can secure a considerable sum in your locality. In asking you to undertake this matter, I assure you that my associates and I will be glad to co-operate with you at all times and will en deavor to aid you with sugges tions and entertaining literature on this subject for your readers, what is being done elsewhere I and how the Democrats are I amassing a big campaign fund by voluntary contributions from the people. Will you not start a subscrip tion fund in your paper right away? I am enclosing a few Brantley’s Going Regretted.! “No man will go out of Con-1 gress with more regret, I dare say, than representative W. G. Brantley of Georgia,” said Dan iel C. Roper, clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. “During Judge Brantley's six- I teen years in Congress he never !so much as made formal an -1 nouncement of his candidacy, I ! doubt if any man ever elected to the House has a record to com pare with that of Mr. Brant ley. He was first nominated in June, 1896, while he was solicitor general of his district, otherwise prosecuting attorney, and the nomination came to him unsought and unexpected. “Mr. Brantley, as everybody j around the House knows, ha»j been one of the most active and j influential members of the Ways! and Moans Committee, and for a long time was a member of the Judiciary Committee. “After 28 years of public ser vice Judge Brantley feels, as some other members of the House feel, that he should give' some time to his family. There are many members of the Con gresss who have found it impos sible to live on the salary of a| congressman, lu this connec-l tion it is remarkable that so! many members of the House are leaving public life at the end of this Congress, and in nearly every case they are moved by the same impulse to make mon ey to live on.” —Washington i Post. South Georgia Show To Break Reeords. Tifton, Ga., Sept. 15. —One entire booth devoted to a colossal exhibit by ehd champion boy corn raiser from Terrell county, an 800-foot midway, with twen ty-five amusements, three free j acts and other attretions, two aeroplane flights daily, football j games and a great agricultural j display will be among the chief attractions at the South Georgia Land and Agricultural Exposi tion which opens at Tifton Octo ber 31. Bishop Flipper Visits Churches in this Section. Bishop J. S. Flipper, in charge of five conferences of the A. M. E. Church in Georgia, with headquarters in Atlanta, was here on Sunday and preached to a large congregation at the church of Rev. A. It. Easters Sunday night. He visited Longpond, Vi dalia, Soperton and other points. Bishop Flipper is the first and only colored bishop ever visiting here, and his people were natur ally proud of his coming. printed suggestions which Mr. Ewing has sent me which they i aid in this work. The success of I this enterprise is dependent en tirely upon the co-operation of j the editors who open these lists. } Will you not do your part and help us out instituting an active can vass ? Please let me hear from you right away, and bear in mind that I shall be very happy to as sist you in this matter in any way that may occur to you. Kind ly start the list in your next edi tion, as the time is short. With success beckoning to us, let every Democrat put his shoul der to the wheel and do his part toward the consummation of a devout desire to again place a Democrat in the White House. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, P. A. Stovall. The following amounts con tributed through The Monitor to : date, and will, grow from week 1 I to week: ! Montgomery Monitor $2.00 j Dr J. E. Hunt 100 j ' Cash GO | j $3.501 TWELFTH DISTRICT NOMINATES CANDIDATE Hon. Dudley M. Hughes First Nominee Os the New District. Dublin, Ga., Sept. IG. - The congressional convention of the Twelfth district met here to-day and formally nominated Hon. Dudley M. Hughes of Twiggs to represent the district in Con gress. The conventoin was called to order by the retiring Chairman V. L. Stanley of Dublin, who called for nominations for tem porary chairman. J. H. Roberts |of Dodge county was nominated j for both temporary and perma nent chairman, and was elected. ! Mr. Stanley was nominated per manent secretary. Every county was represented except two, Wilcox and Johnson. A resolution was passed en dorsing the work of Mr. Hughes in Congress and after the ap -1 pointment of a platform com ' mitte and a committee to select the executive committee of the district, nominations for con gressman were called for. i L. Q. Stubbs of Dublin an old ! friend of Mr. Hughes, made the j nominating speech, which was seconded by every county that was ref resented at the meeting. All the speakers paid tribute to the character and ability of Mr. Hughes, who was notified of —— » HON. DUDLEY M. HUGHES. the action of the convention and made a speech of acceptance in which he thanked the body for the honor conferred upon him and pledged his best efTorts to see that the districts citizen's were represented well in the next Congress. Resolutions were introduced in dorsing the Twelfth district fair, Ito appoint the executive com i mitteemen from each county a I committee of one to aid in the | work of raising a campaign fund for the Democratic campaign, and to get each county thorough ly organized and canvassed for funds. This will give the en tire district a strong organization whose work it shall be to collect as large a fund as possible for the national campaign. The district executive com mitte elected is as follows: Pu laski, Warren Grice; Houston, J. P. Duncan; Twiggs, L. D. Shan non; Wilcox, J. H. Bankston; Dodge, J. H. Roliertson, John son, C. T. Bray; Laurens, V. L. Stanley; Emanuel, W. H. Proc tor; Toombs, F. M. Smith; Mont gomery, D. W. Folsom; Telfair, Max L. Mcßae. The platform recommended that the convention endorse the platform of the national conven tion. Resolutions were also pass ed endorsing the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson and the Demo | cratic ticket. Mr. W. F. McAllister, cashier ;oftheUvalda Bsnk, was up to | see us yesterday afternoon. NO. 22.
