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WHAT MAKES A
TOWN PROGRESSIVE?
Must Have Faith In Itself
And Not Be Afraid To
Invest for Future.
The progressive city of Way
cross has shown its true mettle
by endorsing through a generous
popular vote a one hundred thou
sand dollar bond issue for munic
ipal imf rovements.
Each of the five propositions
submitted was approved by a
clear two-thirds majority of the
registration, thus indicating that
the people as a whole are alert
to public needs and opportunities
and are willing to shoulder their
civic responsibilities, As a re
sult of the bond election, Way
cross will extend its street paving
and add two new schools to its
system of education, increase its
fire protection, lay more sewers
and water mains and perfect its
sanitary equipment. In brief,
it will make itself a more desira
ble place for homes and will ac
cordingly press forward with
quickened business prosperity.
This is an example worthy the
notice of every Georgia commu
nity.
The town that would advance
must have faith in itself and
must apply this faith to building
for the decades to come. Its citi
zens must realize that they owe
certain duties not only to them
selves as individuals, but also to
their neighbors as a whole; and
furthermore, that they must
look not solely to the present or
to their own lifetime, but also to
the generations that will follow
them.
The better part of all true
progress is a regard for the wel
fare of others.
The secret of that civic spirit
which draws a community for
ward and upward is a recognition
of the truth that a man cannot
live unto himself alone, but that
he must plan and work mind-to
mind and heart-to-heart with his
fellows.
It is this that stimulates busi
ness, that enlarges opportunity,
that makes a town worth living
and that marks the difference
between growth and stagnation.
—Atlanta Journal.
The Growing South.
Everybody knows that New
York ranks first among the ports
of the United States as measured
by the volume of imports and
exports passing through it; but
not everybody knows that New
Orleans ranks second and Gal
veston third. Os the ten great
ports through which 85 per cent,
of our foreign trade passes four j
are in the South and two on the
Great Lakes.
Thirty years ago 78 per cent
of our exports went out of At
lantic ports and 14 per cent, out
of Gulf ports. Last year Atlan
tic ports handled only 58 per
cent, and Gulf ports 22 per cent.
In the last ten years exports
through the Gulf ports increased
64 per cent, and through Atlantic j
ports only 20 per cent.
No doubt figures are dull
things. More humanly interest
ing—and to many minds more
convincing—is the evidence that
every winter traveler to the
South in late years finds under
his eyes even though sunny wea
ther and the golf links were all
he really expected to find. He
sees a land quick with new en
terprise-reclamation projects;
fruit and vegetable farms con
stantly edging farther into the
swamp and the palmetto; road
building; new structures going
up in towns. Next the golf links
they are laying out an addition.
We don’t know any part of the
country where the casual travel
er is more impressed with a no
tion that the people are “doing
things” than in whole sections of
the south.
School books, tablets, pencils
and lunch baskets. Sumerford
Drug Co., Ailey, Ga.
Invite President to
Monument Unveiling.
Further details of the plans in
connection with the erection of
the Screven-Stewart monument
at Midway cemetery were taken
up at a meeting of the monument
committee, held yesterday after
noon in the office of the chairman,
; Mr. N. J. Norman.
Congressman Charles G. Ed
wards was elected a member of
the committee in recognition of
his services toward securing the
appropration from the govern
ment for the erection of the mon
ument. Capt. S. N. Harris was
also elected a member of the com
j mission. Capt. Harris is a lineal
j descendent cf Gen. Screven.
The correspondence which has
passed between tne secretary,
Congressman Edwards, the war
deppctment andtheMcNeel Mar
ble C mpany, which has the con
; tract was read by Col. Neyle
i Coii aitt, secretary of the com
mittee. The war department,
it. i ;n , ill designate an offi
i r\ ■ examine the contract be
tw an the commission and the
marble company to decide whe
ther SIO,OOO is an excessive price
for the monument.
The date for the unveiling has
not been decided. It is stated
that the monument could be rea
dy by April, the time of the an
nual meeting of the Midway So
ciety, but it is thought it will be
put off until July 4th. The Pre
sident of the United States will
probably be invited to be present.
The meeting was well attended.
The following resolution was
adopted:
“Resolved, by the Midway
Monument commission, charged
with the erection of the monu
ment to Generals Screven and
Stewart in Midway cemetery,
Georgia, that the action of the
secretary of this committee. Col.
Neyle Colquitt, in informing the
secretary of war as to the status
of the work connected with the
erection of the monument and as
to other matters connected there
with, as appears from their cor
respondence, be in all respects
approved, and the secretary is
instructed to advise the war de
partment of the unanimous con
currence of the Midway Monu
ment committee;
“Resolved, further, that this
committee is perfectly willing
that the War Department be sub
stituted in its stead in the con
tract with the McNeel Marble
Company for the erection of the
said monument, and be it finally,
“Resolved, that this committee
is a unit in the belief that the
monument contracted for is the
best possible memorial that could
be secured for the amount avail
able, viz: SIOOOO.
How It Originated.
“I spent my vacation in beau
tiful Wiscasset, ” said Jerome S.
McWade, the Duluth capitalist,
according to the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat. “Wiscasset, you know
is f.-i nous for having originated
the immortal phrase, ‘The woods
is full of ’em.’
“This is the story:
' A ery deaf old man was
g - ; ; lirrels out Wiscasset
way. A ranger happened along
and said:
“ ‘Mr. Man, which is the road i
to Wiscasset?’
“The deaf old man answered:
“ ‘Thar’s one—that’s a squir
rel —settin’ up thar on that tree!
See him?’
“‘I didn’t ask you about the
squirrels,’ said the sranger, im
patiently, I asked you, durn it
all, which was the road to Wis
casset. ’
“ ‘Yep,’ said the deaf old hun
ter, excitedly. ‘Yep, thar’s an
other, too, just a qeekin out that
knot hole.’
“Then the stranger, losing his
patience, roared:
“ ‘Your’e a fool!’
“ ‘Yep, the woods is full of
’em,’ said the old man, compla
cently.”
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1912.
Value of Confederate Money.
Gen. St. Clair Mulholland, vet
eran and historian of the Civil
War tells an incident showing
the utter worthlessness of Con
federate paper money at the close
of the war, says Everybody’s
Magazine.
“Shortly after Lee’s surrend
er, says the general, “I was a
short distance from Richmond.
Two Confederate soldiers were
going home to become men of
peace again. One had ajlame brok
en-down horse, which he viewed
with pride.
“ ‘Wish I had him, Jim,’ said
the other. “What will you take
for him?’
“ ‘ No,’ said Jim.
“ ‘Give you $100,000,’ his
friend urged.
“ ‘Not much,’ replied Jim. ‘I
just gave $120,000 to have him
shod.’ ”
Farms at Home,
Lives at Same Place.
The Telegraph is so interested
in diversified farming that any
effort on that line is a source of
pleasure. Mr. R. A. Nash, of
Macon, R. F. D. No. 6, speaking
of a visit to the farm of W. T.
Roberts, of Jones county, said:
"It is a pleasure to visit a farm
like that of Mr. Roberts. He
lives in a beautiful country home.
Mr. Roberts has a fine herd of
Jersey milch cows. He runs a
dairy farm. I was interested in
the churning. A four-horse-pow
er gasoline engine is used for that
purpose, and it does the work
nicely. He has a cream separa
tor which separates the cream
from the milk, at the same time
cleanses the cream more perfect
ly than the old method of skim
ming it He sells his surplus
butter in Macon, over fifty pounds
a week, at 30 cents per pound.
The surplus milk is fed to the
pigs, und they are the finest in
Jones county and should be ex
hibited at the State Fair. Mr.
Roberts has many fine porkers
which he is raising at a small
cost. He planted only eight
acres in cotton this year, as he is
turning attention to dairy pro
ducts and to corn, peas, potatoes,
grain and hay, hogs and poultry.
He will never, he says, return to
the all-cotton plan. He is intense
ly interested in his new work and
is making it profitable. Os course
he pays attention to gardening,
raising vegetables every month
of the year. The high cost of
living, such a problem to the ‘all
cotton’ fanner, and to dwellers
in the cities, does not keep him
awake o’ nights. Mr. Roberts
is doing what The Telegraph has
been advising for years—to quit
all all-cotton and raise something
to eat.”—Macon Telegraph.
Heaven is Located
On These Old Maps
New York, Sept. 26. A series
of old maps representing the de
velopment of the art of map
making from the first to the sev
enteenth centuries’ are to be used
as window decorations in the big
granite museum of the American
Geographical society here. In
some of the early maps, drawn
by monks, Palestine and the east
are shown at the top and the
Garden of Eden and heaven are
given geographical positions.
Old Farmer Still Cropping. 1
Albion, lowa, Sept. 25.— What
is believed to be the largest fam
ily of children in the state was
yesterday augmented by the birth i
of a girl, the eighteenth child of:
Capt. D. K. Ewalt, aged seven
ty-three, a farmer living near
Albion. Mrs. Ewalt is thirty
nine years of age. She is Ewalt’s
fourth wife and has borne him
seven children. She also had
seven by herfirst husband.
For Sale.
Thirty or forty S. C. Rhode
Island Red cockerels, good stock,
for sale. See me at once.
C. M. Ledbetter,
Mt. Vernon, Ga. j
I Twelfth District Fair |
1 DUBLIN, GA. Oct. Bto 12 Inclusive i
1 Five Days of 1
I FAIR, m MID J
1 FROLIC! §
j|j Agricultural* Live Stock, Poultry, and Farm Machinery jjjg
s| Displays. g
I® TROTTING, PACING Ort 3=lol
Dig Midway, Aeroplane Flights, and Scores of Other
Attractions.
For Further Information and Premium List Address jS;
R. M. MARTIN. Sec’y. DUBLIN, GA. t
A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a proposed amendment to the Consti
tution of the State of Georgia, to Imj voted on
the General election to be held on Tuesday, N.
vember sth. 1912. said amendment providing f< ;
the crertion of the County of Wheeler.
By His Excellency, Joseph M. Brown, Governor
State of Georgia, Executive Department,
August 24th, 1912.
Whereas, the General Assembly at its session
1912 proposed an amendment to the Constitutioi
of this State as set forth in an Act approved Aid
ust 14th, 1912, to wit:
An Act to propose to the qualified electors <
this State an amendment to Paragraph 2of So
tion 1 of Article 11 of the Constitution of th
State an amended by the ratification by the qu. .
fled voters of this State of the Act approved J u
19th, 1904, and as further amended by the ralilir i
tion of the qualified voters of this State of the A- •
approved July 31st, 1906, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Asset
bly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby ena
ted by authority of the .same that the followir
amendment is hereby proposed to Paragraph
Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitution of thi
State as amended by the ratification by the qua
lied voters of this State of the Act approved Ju.
19, 1904, and as further amended by the rntificati* <n
by the qualified voters of this State of tli
Act approved July 31st, 1906, to wit: L
adding to said Paragraph the follow i.
language: “Provided, h...i v , lhat in ai
dition to the counties now provid'd for
this Constitution ther«- shall !>*■ .* n v. Minty I ;
out from the county of Mont «»n y and l>oui»*i>
as follows: “Commencing at a point on the w*-
tern bank of the Oconee river where ulu- Laur*
county line intersects with said iive.i, them••
down the western bank of the said iver I<>
mouth of the said river, thence up to the north
bank of the Ocmulgee river to the /, .uth of
! little Ocmulgee river, thence th* nd iittl
| Ocinulgee river to the line of 1> *> • • nty, then <
east along said line of Dodge count ami Laun
| county to the western bank of the Oconee rivn
, to the starting point.
That said new county, the bourn.■arm: <*l whi
are described herein, shall be called end known -
the name of Wheeler, and shall he attach***} to a I
become a part of the Twelfth ( m 1 ion.d ir
trict, the Fifteenth Suit* : J l>. i .... i : •
Oconee Judicial Circuit, and the •m , oi th*
said new county shall b«* tb> p»wu «>i Alarm.. Im
all legal voters residing in the limits i. ) • .< m *i<
described of said proposed new county of Whet Id
entitled to vote for members of the Gdid'al /. .
sernbly under the laws <» ■' ■*■ >*i:i, nail on if*<-
first Tuesday in January. 1913, • ■!* * *. an ■idinaiv,
a clerk of superior court, hcrifl.a '..rom ~ a
tax collector, a tax re* *i. *, a county -ui v*yoi
county treasurer and th»•••*■ *•**' .mi .on* . > ;
and revenues for Mid* ( l Ui
held at town of Alamo, the county si e< ml m
county. That the superior court **! - • '-> » * <umy
shall beheld on the first Mondays in A; . < ii and • »
the first Mondays in Hepternb* i-d *.-.*• b yea * I
limits of th*: said county, the. eongi* i rial and
senatorial districts, and the judicial
which it is attached, and th* time of holding i
terms of the superior court*, shall L- u o
ted aliove until changed by law, provided di.it * 1
laws applicable to the organization of new < *. mi •
as found in Section 829 m -,U in*. !u. . /*-. I >h*:< -od*
of 1911, are hereby made applicable »o said /
of Wheeler whenever th*- same may bom a.*-*. :
the proposed amendment to the Cousin u..ion ■
that the said county whim cron*. 1 half b< <oo
statutory county and shall be >t all times no
to all laws applicable to all other counties in to
2. Be it further enacted that when :
proposed amendment shall b* agreed to by tv o
thirds of the members electcd to each of the :
houses composing the L« m la u • >1 ’he State
Georgia, such proposal am< ndn « u -.nail l<e < /
tered on the journal of each >< <u e w.th th* .
and nays thereon: and the governor m ner*-b •!.
reeled to cause the said rroposed am* ndrruvit t ■
published in one or more newspapers in each *
gressional district, at least two months b- fore t .
time of holding the next g« rieial cl* - i ion to lie h*
on Tuesday after the first Monday in No’ emb*-<
the year 1912, arid he shall also pro ,de so. » s
mission of the proposed arnondmer at aid ; m
al election. And, if the people ,haii lanf.v
amendment by a majority of th- < .*,i; ). .
to vote for mem lie rs of the Gen*-* al A mbl>
ting thereon, such amendment shall l**corn* a p
of the consitution of Georgia.
Section 3. Be it further enacted that it sh .1
become the duty of the governor to submit . »
amendment to the people at said election in t
following form:
That those voting in favor of said propo
amendment shall have written or printed on th
tickets, “In favor of the ratification of the am*
ment to the Constitution creating the county
Wheeler, with the town of Alamo as the tour
site.” And those opposed to the ratification
said amendment shall have written or printed -
their tickets, “Opposed to the ratification of th
amendment to the Constituting creating > !
County of Wheeler, with the town of Alarm
the county site,” which votes cast at said el*:* i
shall lie consolidated as now required bylaw
elections for members of th*: General Asserr
and returns thereof made to the Governor, a.
if a majority of the electors qualified to vot*
members of the General Assembly shall vot* .
favor of the ratification of the amendment to
Constitution creating the County of Wheeler, w
the town of Alamo as the county site, the Go
nor shall declare said amendment adopted ;
make proclamation of the result of said elect
in the manner provided by law.
flection 4. Be it further enacted by the autri
ity aforesaid, that all laws and parts of law
conflict with this Act be, and the same are hei
repealed.
Now, therefore, 1 Jw;ph M Brown, fl'ivt
of sai'l State, 'lo iwiue thi« my proclama
hereby declaring that the foreKoin* propo
amendment to the Conetitution m submitted
ratification or rejection to the voters of the Si
qualified to vote for member* of the General /
terribly at the iteneral election to 1* held on '1 u
day. November sth. 1912.
JOSEPH M BKOWN,
Governor
By the Governor:
PHILIP COOK. Secretary of State.
j A Safety Deposit
Box
1 Every one has documents of value, such as policies, ;
deeds, wills, contracts, etc., the loss of wnich would be se- i
riously felt. |
The hank depositor has, in his canceled checks, re- ;
£ ceipts for money paid, which if destroyed by fire or otherwise, j!
* might cause great inconvenience.
(Every household has ils jewelry, heirlooms and other ;
precious articles which can be kept about the house only at a ; I
a great risk. !;
A safety deposit box in the fire and burglar proof j>
S vault of this hank will insur.- perfect safety for things of j;
value. Rental nominal, and renter only has access to his box. |!
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!k*st Farm Lands in Georgia along line of
Macon, Dublin & Savannah Ry.
If you are thinking of changing your loca
tion, why not investigate these farms? Both
large and small farms available. If inter
ested write J. A. STEYER,
G. F. and P. A. Macon, Ga.
