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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1912)
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. |! | MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA. | MT. VEItNON, GA. jj • I amu - mmM I i "0 v,.^— V J-., SURPLUS, $30,000.00 j resources, tuymM jj | Al,, M,A V | iAONEY TO LEND ■i\ Doans of any amount from S3OO to $50,000 on farms in Mnnt -5» gomery and adjoining countins. No delays for inspection. Have lands examined by a man living near you. j! LOANS ON FIVE YEARS TIME, payable ill easy installments to 5* suit borrower. | GEO. 11. HARRIS :J f Merchants Hank Building Gil, UWfOWWftlWfaWtMn* * OPPORTUNITY FOR FARMERS! !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.
