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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1912)
Mor\tgorr|ery Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Enforc'd at th«- Pontofflce in Mt. Vernon. Oa. a« Hecond-Clawi Mail Matter. H. B. foi som, Editor *nd Owner. $• a Vear, in Advance. »#-L<!*?hl nlvortloumcnt* mnst invariably be paid in advance, at the Icr** rate > &H l * ,e ,K * din-ctr; and mni*t l>c in hand not later than Wectneaday inormnK of the Aral week of inaertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Sept. 20, 1912. ~ I What are the boys of the Mont-1 gomery county corn club going to do about the Twelfth District Fair? I Some one in touch with the, next General Assembly ought to* cautiously approach that body j and ask for re-districting Georgia in a senatorial way. The Georgia State Fair at Ma con promises to Ik; the greatest e\ held. The Twelfth District Fair at Dublin will Ik; no small potato itself. By all means make y ur plans to attend lK>th. Stand by the regular nominees with your vote next Wednesday at the State election. If you do not stand squarely by your pledge now you may have to stand near something worse in the future. The old expression, “teeth and toe nails,” will probably come into general use again since Gen eral Nogi lues directed that this much of his body lie buried, hav ing donated the remainder to a medical college. The l>ooster car, (automobile,) is on its rounds advertising the Twelfth District Fair. Get up something for exhibition and con fer with the editor of this paper at once. Montgomery county must be represented. A writer on the value of feed stuffs, who declares through one of our exchanges that cotton seed meal ought to Ik* worth $75 pet ton, may not own any stock in a cotton seed oil mill, hut there is something the matter with him. Mt. Vernon needs a cotton seed oil mill, a wagon factory, a cord age plant for making plow lines, a furniture factory, a fertilizer factory and several Either small enterprises. They could 1k i brought here by a litttle concert of action. The nine judges of South Car olina’s supreme court who re minded Governor Rlease that he did not have the same authority over olliees “asthe Kingof Great Britain,” ought to remember that keeping South Carolina straight is no such picayune play as ruling Great Britain. It is said that the better quality and larger quantity of Egyptian cotton is helping to keep down the price of cotton made in the South. The man who tpakes his supplies at home and makas cot ton as a surplus crop is not af fected by Egypt, nor any other wind that chances, to blow. The silk manufacturers around Lyons, France, complain that' their business fell otf $11,000,0001 las. year by reason of the tight] skirt fashions prevailing. If those Frenchmen would interest! a few Georgia politicians and let! them get out a model with the generous rotundity of the old fashioned hoopskirt and induce one Parisian woman to wear it, ' they would see business begin to pick up. The most ridiculous farce ever j practiced by any people or any party is the so-called “rotation” j system of selecting state sena- j tors. There are not a half dozen men in Montgomery county who i could tell today the name of the! man whose name will appear on the ticket for senator of the Fif- j teenth Senatorial District The ] man may be a good citizen and a f good Democrat, or he might be a Republican and an Anarchist. ! The fact remains that five-sixths of the voters in the district have] no voice in selecting him. i fYmYYYYYYYYYfYYYYYYYm* J Gleaning)) From 3 !: Wisdom’s Field. 3 t AA I •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Nashville Herald: The funds which are being raised to defray the expenses of Wilson and Mar shall are coming from the great, masses of the people, and not from the representatives of the big corporations privileged class es. Pembroke Enterprise: A man was fined $lO for killing a mad dog in Thomasville this week. If the dog had not been mad they would have probably given the i jHKir fellow a life sentence. Clinch Co. News: Some peo ple are agitating the question of dividing the State and making two states North Georgia and South Georgia. Ivet Georgia re main as it is, the Empire State of the South. We don’t want it cut in two. Lyons Progress: We have had a few days fair weather and the cotton pickers have been real busy. The receipts in Lyons so far this week have been heavy, i hut not near so large as they were one year ago. The crop is undoubtedly very short and the farmers should get a good price for what has been raised. Atlanta Journal: News comes of a lH>ar Inung slain in Georgia, but that is nothing to the Bull Moose fatalities that will Ik* re ported later on. Darien Gazette: —The sooner the state of Georgia removes the . election of her judges from the l quagmires of miserable ward politics, the better for the courts and the people, says the Bruns wick News. That is true. The election of judges by the people has proven a great mistake, and the law should be repealed. Commerce News: —With the lights before us, we shall vote against all five of the constitu- j tional amendments. If we are i ». . i wrong we are open to conviction, i h Marietta Herald: This election j ] of officers nearly a year before ! they can be sworn in is a mighty * big piece of foolishness when you come to think about it. Butts County Progress:—That Capitol crowd in Atlanta get * their pay on the minute. Oh 1 yes, to Ik* sure. Only the poor, !' poverty-stricken country teacher H must wait. Again we rise to re- ' mark that it is a shame. 1 Savannah Press: - They are! ( still picking up bottles with mes- j sages from those who lost their i lives on the Titanic. It would i seem that this tragedy was vast j. enough to Ik; exempt from the j 1 | jokers. Monroe Advertiser: We can ’ti understand it, but it has been { nearly a month since we have • I heard anything about Blease. j i What’s the trouble, tonsilitis? I, Waynesboro Banner: Burke 1 County could easily raise enough 1 ' vegetables which, if canned. ' would supply the state, and a profitable sale could be found for t every can. Strange to say. ( i though, Burke county is not rais- . | ing enough vegetables to supply its own tables half the year. * Perry Home Journal: Last . week the Washington Post pub lished an editorial on the “Hook i worm in Politics,” and some im-i 1 pertinent democratic editor said \ the article referred to President , : Taft. 1 Amcricus Times-Recorder: — The Cordele Rambler wants more ! state senators. Some people i think it is the brand that needs j improving. Quality rather than ! quantity is what the state really < i needs. i THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR TfiTTRSDAV, SEPT. 26, 1012. Life is a Funny Proposition. Man comes into this world with out his consent and leaves against his will. During his stay on earth his time is spent in one continuous ! round of contraries and misunder standings by the balance of the species. In his infancy he is an angel: in his boyhood he is a devil; in his manhood he is everything from a lizard up; in his dotage a fool. If he raises a family he is a chums; if he raises a small check he is a thief and the law raises the devil with him. If he is a poor man he is a poor manager: if he is rich he is dishonest. If he is in politics, he is a grafter: if he is out of jK»lit.ics you can’t place him and he is an undesirable citizen. If he is in church he is a hypo crite; if he is out of church he is a sinner and is damned. If he donates to foreign mis sions, he does it for show: if he does not he is stingy. When he first comes into the worbl everybody wants to kiss him; before he leaves they all want to kick him. If he dies young there is a great future before him; if he lives to a ripe old age he is sim ply living to save funeral expen ses. Life is a funny road, hut we all like to travel it just the same. — T. I*. A. Magazine. Blind Leading Blind. Everybody feels at liberty to advise and prescribe for the far mer, and often the advice he gets is wonderful indeed. We have, I for example, a letter from a Florida reader telling how a pa per in that state declared it would not do to turn under green crops there, that they would pro duce humic acid, “which is death to crops.” Yet our friend has turned under green crops for three years and still grows other crops. Similar half-information is responsible for the advice so "often given to cut out cotton en tirely, for the insistence on “di versification” that means only the planting of a variety of crops without any fixed plan of rotation or farm management and for lots of other equally valuable advice. As farmers, we undoubtedly have much to learn yet, and can learn much from men in other lines of work;but we confess that it makes us rather tired to have men who do not know the first | bit of farm practice or agricul tural sciences turn loose a lot of [ unsougnt advice at the farmer. Progressive Farmer. Would Make Rivers of State Navigable. Washington, D. C. Sept. 21. — Congressman Brantley has com pleted arrangements with the board of engineers for rivers and harbors for a hearing to be held here Oct. 21, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a plan which has been unfavorably act ed upon by the district engineers to develop the Altamaha, Gemul gee and Oconee rivers is feasible. All arrangements for this hear ing were completed this after noon. It is proposed to bring on a representative delegation from several towns in South Georgia, and they will, with Mr. Brantley, appear before the board and ask that the report of the district engineers making an unfavorable j report on the plan of developing I the rivers just named be revers-! ed. “It is projtosed to make the | Altamaha and other nearby riv- 1 era in Southeast Georgia naviga- { bleat all times,” Mr. Brantley said t«Klay, “and to do this we want a recommendation from the j board of engineers that the plan is worthy of development to the i extend which we ask—that is, I that the next Congress appropri ate $500,000 for navigation work. “This will be one of the most important hearings which we have ever had. ami a good del egation will come on from sever al of the towns, interested. Now that all arrangements have been completed 1 feel much encourag ed. ;, jYOUR TRADE] Is always appreciated, whether | large or small. See me for i|i j SPRING AND SUMMER I BARGAINS w Honest Goods, Honest Weights and Honest Measures. 1 Courteous treatment for long years has marked my business. | ;!1 vvh at you need in g | DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES 1 I AND FARM TOOLS | zg w ill he Sold at Live and Let-Live Prices. U | WARRANTED NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, M’CORMICK § | MOWERS, REAPERS AND BINDERS, HARROWS § g AND CULTIVATORS ARE SPECIALTIES WITH ME. | jW. H. McQueen, } fej (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) | | Mt, Vernon, Qa. J A PROCLAMATION. Submitting a proposed amend-1 ment to the Constitution of the j State of Georgia, to be voted on ! at the general State election to be held on Wednesday, October 2, 1912, said amendment relating to the making of tax returns to the Comptroller-General. By His Excellency, Joseph M. Brown, Governor. State of Georgia, Executive Department. Atlanta, July 29, 1912. Whereas, the General Assembly at its session in 1911 proposed an amendment to the Constitution of this State as set fourth in an Act approved Aug ust 19. 1911, to-wit: An Act proposing to amend the Constitution of Georgia by adding Lo second Section of the seventh Article of said Constitution a new Paragraph for requiring certain tax returns to be made to the Comptroller-General on or before the first day of * March of each year, and for requiring the taxes arising on such returns to Ik* paid on or before the Ist day of September, and to authorize the Gener al Assembly to pass such laws as may Ik* necessary ami proper for carrying out said provisions. Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General As sembly. That it shall l»e and is hereby proposed to amend the Constitution of Ceorgia, by adding W> the second section of the seventh Article a new Paragraph to be known as Paragraph six. as fol lows; “All persons or classes of persons who were, by laws of force January Ist, 1911, required to make returns.for taxation to the Comptroller- General. and all who may hereafter be so required, shall, on or before the first day of March of each year , make such returns as of date of January Ist of that year, anti shall pay the taxes arising on t such returns in favor of the State on or before the first of September of the same year, anything heretofore contained in the Constitution or laws of Georgia to the contrary notwithstanding. The laws of force-on said date governing such returns and payments, ami the colh*ction ami enforcement thereof shall remain of force as applicable to the returns and payments herein required until the same shall In* changed by law. The General As sembly shall have power to make or alter all laws that may Ik* necessary or proper for enforcing the . provisions of this Paragraph. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That whenever the above proposed amendment to the Constitution I shall Ik* agreed to hy two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General 1 Assembly, and the same has been entered upon j their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken thereon, the Governor shall cause said amend ment to Ik* published in at least two newspapers in each Congressional District in this State for the period of two month* next proceeding the time of ] holding the next general election. Sec. J. Be it further enacted. That the pro , iM»si*d amendment shall he submitted for ratifien ' tjon or rejection to the electors of this State at the 1 next general election to Ik* held after the publiea | tion as provided in the second Section of this Act ; in the several election districts of this State, at which election every |K*rson shall be qualified to vote who is entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. All i»ersons voting at such election in favor of adopting the proposed amend ment to the Constitution shall have written or printed on their ballots the words "For amend- j ment to the Constitution requiring tax returns to , the Comptroller-General to lie jgud on or before September Ut of each year," and all persons op i (Miscd to the adoption of said amendment shall ' have written or printed on their ballot* the words ' “Against amendment to the Constitution requir ing tax returns to the Comtroiler-General to hi* i pa it) on or liefore September Ist of each year." Sk<\ 4. Beit further enacted. That all laws and * parts of laws in conflict with this Act be. and the j same are. hereby re|>ealed. Now. therefore, I. Joseph M Brown, Governor 5 of said State, do issue this my proclamation here by declaring that the foregoing proposed amend' I ment to the Constitution is submitted for rntifiea- | tion or rejection to the voters of the State quail- I ! tied to vote for members of the General Assembly j al the general election to bo held on Wednesday, i I bViheGovernor: Jix«Kt*H M. Brown, j I run ur Cook. Secretary of State. • M. 15. CALHOUN, At t v at ..aw, ML. Vernon, Georgia. Yy eposits Insured Against Loss ©:©;©•:©: j ©o|oA© No Matter from What Source it May Come ©©©©l 5 iI I We arc constantly adding new i: accounts, and our business is increasing I I 'll at a very satisfactory rate. ;; Possibly you also might be glad to ; i I join us. I THE PEOPLES BANK SOPERTON, GA. ' SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS* *' j The BANK OF SOPERTON Paid in Capital Stock, $25,000.00 I Surplus and undivided profits $0,500.00 | Total resources over $100,000.00 I General Ranking Business Conducted. Accounts Solicited, a Interest on Time Deposits OFFICERS: jj| N. L. Gillis, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President. S || J. E. Hall, Cashier. I. H. Hall, Asst. Cashier | 11 DIRECTORS: 1: N. L. Gillis, M. B. Gillis, J. J. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, | W. D. Martin, W. H. Fowler, J. E. Halk | SOPERTON, GEORGIA. I DROP IN A DOLLAR AND GET THE NEWS.
