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Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, Oct. 10, 1912,
Next the big State Fair in
Macon, Oct. 15-25th. Going ?
The main thing is to get to the
polls. Next, vote for Wilson and
Marshall.
Savannah will make a showing
in the census reports after one
of these days. There are 10,(XX)
children enrolled in the public
schools of the city.
The old red yum is not (toast
ing, hut is doing more “in our
midst” to reduce the high cost of
living than all the economic
scribblers combined.
To do any good, you should
chip in at once on the Democratic
campaign fund. The common
people and not the trusts art
making up this expense fund.
When Woodrow Wilson comes
down South on his triumphal
hand-shaking tour as president
of this great nation,^the hoys
who chipped in for his campaign
fund will feel mighty line.
The Twelfth District Fair is in
full blast now in Dublin. If you
have not seen the exhibit try to
attend tomorrow. It. will pay ev
ery farmer to see what his next
door neigbors are doing in farm
ing and stock raising. ,
They have begun to mark the
(tills of large denominations that
they may be identified in cases
of train or bank roberies. It may
be well for country weekly edi
tors to see that none of these
SIO,OOO bills are shoved off on
t hem.
If you don’t got some profita
ble pointers from the agricultur
al fairs this fall it will be because
you did not open your eyes. En
thusiasm in agricultural and
business circles in Montgomery
county is not exactly dead, but is
somewhat drowsy.
We would fain bestow our
sympathy upon South Carolina,
with her people about to undergo
another rule of Blouse; but our
thoughts revert in sadness to our
own capital city dangerously near
the jHissibility of added disgrace
by another term for Jim Wood- \
:m\.
Way cross is infested with a
band of Cherokee Indians. They
are quite near good hunting
grounds, the Okefenoko Swamp.
And Cnele Obediah Barber, thej
“King of the Okefenoko,” has I
long since laid aside his rifle and
gone to the happy hunting
grounds of the whitefolks.
Two famous auto racers were
killed in the recent race meet in
Milwaukee. They will be missed
in their own particular field. But
the example of a farmer or a
businessman, who could go about
his calling with the same energy
that made these men world-wide
celebrities, would l*e worth a
whole cowpon full of such people
to Montgomery county.
We do not need the breath of
Chinook that causes the roses to
run riot over the valleys of Ore
gon. and we haven’t got the
fruits that hang in the sunshine
of California’s happy vales, nor
have we the music of roaring
cataracts and great falls; but we
have the best all-around country
on the globe, right here in South
Georgia. Our people, as far as
Montgomery county is concerned,
are asleep to its golden possibili
ties, and it may take importer!
hands to show it, but the truth
remains. i
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Monroe Advertiser: —We feel
like going back to our childhood
) days and saving “rain, rain, go
away!” Didst ever see anything
like the rain that has fallen this
year and in a supposedly dry
state, too?
Dallas New-Era: - From the
way a number of the business
■ houses are making improvements
in their places of business it
would seem that they are pros
pering notwithstanding the faet
that the cotton crop is to some
extent short in this county.
Savannah Press:—
A doctor, an undertaker and a
tombstone dealer are running
1 forcoronerin Clay county, Ken
tucky. It seems to us their real
interests lie in a combination.
Lyons Progress:—We have it
from good authority that we will
have in this immediate section
over a hundred acres in onions
for next year and if the proper
1 kind is planted and the proper
cultivation given, those who plant
onions will make some money,
Nashville Herald:- Moultrie is
threatened with another news
paper. The Observer is entitled
. to live there without opposition,
and it matters not how much
i money is put into the new paper
it cannot hope to survive. The
. Observer will suffer, but finally
. win out. Watch and see.
1 Dublin Courier-Dispatch: Next
month Georgia will break all re
cords in the vote she will cast for
Wilson and Marshall. Every
loyal Georgian should help swell
1 the Democratic vote.
Telfair Enterprise: No daily
in the State is as considerate of
the weeklies as the Macon Tele
graph. You will always find
something from them on the Tel
egraph’s editorial page.
Pembroke Enterprise: We sup
pose the railroads can manage, in
some way to haul the crops, but
the problem of gathering them
is the one the farmer is trying to
J solve.
1 Oglethorpe Echo: No attack
for ten days upon some official
act of Gov. Brown leads us to j
surmise that a cure for grouch
has been discovered.
Valdosta Times: The State
Fair at Macon this month prom-
I ises to be one of the greatest
I events of the year in Georgia.
The outlook is that a great many
people will attend the State Fair
from this section.
Kansas City Journal:—The
Hutchinson State Fair is a regu
lar promoter of matrimony. Ele
ven couples which came to the
fair last week were married be
fore they left for home.
Savannah News:—lf the Greeks ,
all go to the war in the Balkans
the fruit stand and restaurant
business will languish until Tur
key is hashed or gorged.
Americus Times-Recordor:—
The right to strike and the right
to destroy property are not one
and the same thing. That is the
fact that the Augusta strikers
and their sympathizers appear to
have overlooked.
Blackshear Times:—ln Port
land, Oregon, they strewed roses
in front of Colonel Roosevelt.
It will be sadly recalled that Den
mark gave a somewhat similar
performance in honor of Dr.
Cook.
Atlanta Journal: Our creditors
may as well know that we are
only waiting on the propserity
which the opening of the Panama
1 canal will'bring.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1012.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Holds Regular Monthly Ses
sion In the Interests of
County Schools.
At the regular monthly meet
ing of the County Board of Edu
cation held today, W. A. Peter
son, M. Jenkins and A. T. Miller
were present.
The meeting was called to or
der by W. A. Peterson, president
of the board, and the following
matters disposed of:
A school was granted the peo
ple of the Hebron Church vicini
ty on condition that the school
make an average of 15 pupils for
the term.
The school in the Sears commu
nity, near Lumber City, was al
lowed to continue with not less
than an average of 15 pupils for
the term.
The Board gave $25.00 to be
used in making up prizes in the
Boys’ Corn Club contest.
M. Jenkins and Daniel Pope
were granted permission to send
their advanced pupils, those in
and above the Bth grade, to the
school at Glen wood.
Accounts were approved and
ordered paid. Upon motion, the
Board adjourned until the regu
lar meeting to be held on the
first Monday in November.
Mt. Vernon Oct. 2, 1912.
W. A. Peterson,
A. B. Hutcheson, Pres.
c. s. s.
Ready for Emergencies.
According to a Cleveland joke
smith, a peddler got as far as
the inner office door of a busy
professional man of Cleveland
and coughed gently to attract
attention.
“Well?” demanded the occu
pant of the office.
“I am introducing,” began the
peddler, “a patent electric hair
brush—”
“Don’t you see that I’m as
bald as a hard boiled egg?” snap
ped the busy man.
“Your wife might perhaps—”
“She’s bald, too, except when
|she’s dressed up.”
“But you may have a little
child of your own who—”
“I have. She’s two months
! old and still bald.”
“Maybe you keep a dog?” This
brush is useful for both man and
beast.”
“Ours is a Mexican hairless
dog.”
The peddler put the brush back
in his valise and reached toward
another compartment. “Permit
me,” he said “to show you the
latest tiling in fly killers. ’’ Sat
urday Evening Post.
6or 6 'doses “(i(>(>” will cure
any case of Chills and Fever
Price, 25c.
Dwelling* for Kent or
For Sale.
A comfortable six-room house,
with garden spot, in choice resi
dence section of Mt. Vernon, with
conveniences. For terms of rent
or sale apply at
MONITOR OFFICE.
Seed Oats For Sale.
Rust-proof Appier Seed Oats,
1 to 25 bushels, 85c per bu.: 25
to UX) bushels. 80c per bu., f. o. b.
Uvalda. Peter Johnson,
Uvalda, Ga.
SEED PEAS.
We have a limited number of
bushels of first class Peas. Clays.
Unknowns, Straight Running
Speckles. Running Speckles mix
ed with Clays, Straight Un
knowns. which we will deliver
for the next 20 days at the fol
lowing prices:
Choice Clays, $2.85
Unknowns, 2.85
Straight Running Speckles. 2.75
Rnn’gSpkls mixd wth C1ay5,2.75
A few damaged Running Speck
les at $2.50
If you want good stock send
us your orders, think that prices
will he higher. Peas on hand un
til August.
H. H. Franklin,
i TENNHLE, GA.
| YOUR TRADE
Is always appreciated, whether
| large or small. See me for , /|
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I BARGAINS I
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yi C ourteous treatment for long years has marked my business.
| What you need in |g
I DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES f
| AND FARM TOOLS j§
| will he Sold at Live and Let-Live Prices. ||
| WARRANTED NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES, M’CORMICK |
| MOWERS, REAPERS AND BINDERS, HARROWS |
| AND CULTIVATORS ARE SPECIALTIES WITH ME. |
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| (The Old-Line Merchant, With “the Goods”) jp
| Mt. Vernon, Qa. |
A PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the
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 to 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 be paid on or before the
Ist day of September, and to authorize the Gener
al Assembly to pass such laws as may be necessary
ami proper for carrying out said provisions.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As- |
seinbly. That it shall be and is hereby proposed to ,
amend the Constitution of Georgia, by adding to
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, ami shall pay the taxes arising on
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, anti the collection and 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 bo necessary or proper for enforcing the
provisions of this Paragraph.
Sf.c. 2. Be it further enacted. That whenever
the above proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, ami the same has been entered upon
their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken
thereon, the Governor shall cause said amend
ment to be published in at least two newspapers
in each Congressional District in this State for the
period of two months next proceeding the time of
holding the next general election.
Skc. 8. Be it further enacted. That the pro
posed amendment shall be submitted for ratilica
tion or rejection to the electors of this State at the
next general election to Ik* held after the publica
tion as provided in the second Section of this Act
in the several election districts of this State, at
which election every persor shall be qualified to
vote who is entitled to vote for members of the
General Assembly. All persons voting at such
election in favor of adopting the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution shall have written or
printed on their ballots the wools “For amend
ment to the Constitution requiring tax returns to
the Comptroller-General to be paid on or before
September Ist of each year,” and all persons op
posed to the adoption of said amendment shall
have written or printed on their ballots the words
“Against amendment to the Constitution requir
ing tax returns to the Comtroller-General to be
paid on or before September Ist of each year.”
Sbc. 4. Be it further enacted. That all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the
same are. hereby repealed.
Now. therefore. 1, Joseph M Brown. Governor
of said State, do issue this my proclamation here
bv declaring that the foregoing proposed amend
ment to the Constitution is submitted for ratifica
tion or rejection to the voters of the State quali
fied to vote for members of the General Assembly
at the general election to be held on Wednesday.
October 2. 1912.
By the Governor: Joseph M. Brown,
VmLi iP Cook, Secretary of State.
M. B. CALHOUN,
Att \ at -»iiHA,
Mt Vernon, Georgia.
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profits $0,500.00
Total resources over $100,000.00
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