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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1912)
Tf\e F\or\tgorr\&ry /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the Postofliee in Mt. Vernon, Ua. an Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. Ji a Year, in Advance. M-Lorhl advertisement* must invarisbly be paid is advance, at the leg*! rate, and as the law direct*; and mn*» be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Nov. 21, 1912. The Presbyterians are showing their pluck in trying to hold on to the Presbyterial Institute at Blackshear. Truly this is a great country. Down in Toombs county collards grow so tall they speak of their patches as “groves.” Wm. H. Taft has proven him self every inch a man—larger than his party —and history will give him more than he has re ceived at the hands of that party. A report comes that one can ning club girl put up 1500 cans of tomatoes and sold them for $l5O. What bright young lady in Mont gomery county will take the ini tiative in canning clubs? The consoling information comes down from headquarters that there are plenty of Federal jobs to go round when we Demo crats get the harness on. But, there’s an awful crowd of us, sure. You can't lose Governor Brown in any of your legal puzzles. The state supreme court says he was right in the Western and Atlantic railroad rate case. No use try ing to catch “Little Joe” nap ping. We have on our desk Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Fitzgerald Press, launched by W. G. McNelley, one of Georgia’s most progress ive newspaper men. The Press is as neat as a pin, and we wish the new venture much success. Surprises are always bobbing up in Bryan county. Last spring a man down there made $40,000 worth of Irish potatoes on a strip of marsh land, and now their sweet potatoes are kicking up scale beams at eleven pounds. This is a fast age in which we live. About the next move in Georgia agriculture will be for the girls in the canning clubs to have some of the hoys of the corn clubs disfranchised. They will declare them too old for any thing but matrimonial contes tants. They are getting awful partic ular about the inscriptions on cold storage eggs in Atlanta. According to some of our ex changes, South Georgia hens will put the proper hieroglyphics on j the eggs when laid for the small consideration of a few handfuls of corn. President C. S. Barrett of the Farmers’ Union seems to be a believer in “home missions.” He makes an urgent appeal for one man in every county to do mis sionary work among his fellow farmers, “who will develop the courage to tell you the truth, not once, but all the time.” Who can figure what the re sult would be if the enormous sum of nearly twenty-six million j dollars spent annually by Georgia farmers for fertilizers could be invested in stock that would per manently enrich the soil? The! theory’ of permanent enriching of our farms by raising livestock is the most important in agricul tural research at this time. In this battle of life, how often do we have the truth of the old addage forced upon us. that “experience is a dear school.” The sight of mules being sold be fore the court house door almost 1 every day, and for prices that often fail to pay the balance due on them for the purchase price, must certainly furnish some startling figures in our system of farming. , i mffYTTTTTTTTTTITmTTfT* ► * [ Gleanings From • [ Wisdom’s Field. : ► « • AAAAUAAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAA Darien Gazette:—The name of Congressman William G. Brant ley is being mentioned in connec tion with a cabinet portfolio. You can search the country but a bet ter man for the position would be hard to find. Dawson News:—No Southern er can read President Taft’s speech to the Daughters of the Confederacy without having a high regard for him. The truth is, Mr. Taft is a broad-minded stateßmrn and the best friend the South has had in the White House since the war. Senoia Enterprise-Gazette: The farmers in this section are , breparing to sow more small grain this fall than in many years, which means better times. Less land can be devoted to cotton , and still receive about the same < amount of money for the total crop, thus allowing more land for the raising of home supplies. Madison Madisonian:— Why should men be allowed to vote in a white man’s primary, and then be permitted to bolt the nomina tion every single solitary time it doesn’t suit to abide by the re sult? Eastman Times-Journal:—lt is said that Mr. W. E. Burch, who has been postmaster at Hawkins ville for 25 years, is likely to be displaced as a result of the elec tion of Woodrow Wilson to the presidency. Douglas Enterprise:—Douglas citizens are busy just now with the coming mayor’s race and the probable new iwstmaster. Guess other cities have the same at this particular time. Savannah Press:— Milwaukee shipped more barrels of flour last week than ever before in the history of the [town. The beer figures are not at hand, but this sounds enough like prosperity to suit us. Fitzgerald Press:—We have had enough of politics for a while now. Let’s all get down to bus iness and put our shoulder to the wheel for the upbuilding of Fitzgerald and Ben Hill county. j Laurens Co. Herald: —England :is suffering from a "plague of empty cradles.” The hand that should rock the cradle and does rock members of parliament evi dently considers the latter all that is necessary to rule the world. Monroe Advertiser :Anyway Hiram Johnsons puerile appeal to the people to vote against Wilson because he was a southerner, fail ed to have the desired effect. The country’s reunited and its time all of the bloody-shirters j realized it Hawkinsville Dispatch-News: ■lt is now stated that Senator Hoke Smith will take no hand in dishing out the Wilson pie in Georgia, this course having been decided upon in order to preserve party harmony and keep down the much talked of opposition to him for the senate in 1915. Graymont Hustler: —The larg est corn crop ever harvested is the way the government esti mates this year’s crop. With plenty of bread and democracy let us be thankful. Savannah News:—The chief article of the Bulgarian soldier’s diet is said to be red peppers. The Turk has found him a hot proposition and a pepper diet has j something to commend it when fighting and marching through i snow and sleet. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, KOV. 21, 1912 Lay Six Times Their Own Weight in Eggs. Columbus, Ga., Nov. 13. Five Georgia hens laid 963 eggs during the fiscal year ending Oc- j tober 31, and in a contest in which 231 pens of fowls from all over the United States and Can ada were entered, won fifth place. And the five highest pens were right in a bunch, too. Under the auspices of the poul try department of the state of Missouri a national egg-laying 'contest was conducted for the fiscal year ending October 31, at Mountain Grove, Mo. There were ; entered 131 pens each containing five hens. Tho Bealwood Poultry Farm of Columbus entered five pullets, Leghorns, which were picked up in the yard, and whose potential ities as egg layers nothing was known. During the year these hens laid 963 eggs, an average of 192.3 eggs each. The hens weigh ed less than 3 3-4 pounds each. They laid 119 pounds and 10 ounces of eggs, or more than six times their own weight. One of the hens laid 223 eggs. The aver age for the whole country is 80 eggs per annum, according to the United States government figur es. In the Mountan Grove contest the winners, a group of Missouri hens, laid an average of 208 eggs each. In the month of June the Columbus hens won the Golden Egg silver cup by laying more eggs than any other pen. Beallwood Poultry Farm hens also won a notable number of prizes at the recent Georgia-Caro lina Fair, held at Augusta. Georgia Farmers Spend Big Money for Fertilizers. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14.—Some idea of the magnitude of the fer tilizer business in Georgia is con tained in the annual bulletin just issued from the department of agriculture. This shows that for the year ending October 1, 1912, farmers of this state used 1,103,864 tons of commercial fertilizers and 121,- 236 tons of cotton seed meal as fertilizer, representing a total expenditure of approximately $25,471,888. This falls 8 per cent below the season previous. A Missouri Deer Farm. In a half developed hill country a few agricultural side lines may mean the difference between farming at a loss or at a profit. Chalmer Roseberry of Stella, Mo., has half a dozen of these side lines, and the most unusual of them, deer farming, has in re cent years proved the most re munerative. There was no demand at all for deer in the Ozark hills when a little over twenty years ago as a boy of 16 Roseberry penned off one and a half acres for a fawn which a neighbor gave him for a pet The first fawns that the young deer farmer sold a few years later brought S2O a pair, and grown deer S3O a pair. The demand for the animals for parks and circuses and coun try places recently has got far ahead of the supply, and Rose- I berry’s common or Virginia | whitetails are fetching SSO to S6O for a pair of fawns and $75 to SBS for a pair of adults.—Farm and Fireside. His Gain. Mrs. Terhune was grieved and disappointed at the conduct of her son Robert says Ted Robin-1 son. She called him into her presence and questioned him gravely as to his latest enormity.' “Mrs. Hayes tells me that you tied a tin can to her dog’s tail,” j she said. "Yes ma’am.” “What a shameful thing to do!” j "Do you know that the poor • | dog ran away so far that he has never come back—that he prob i ably ran himself to death?” ’ ies. ma’am.” “O. Robert! What do you gain by such cruelty?” “I gained a dollar from Mr. Hayes.” Georgia Woman May . Inherit a Large Fortune. Cordele, Ga., Nov. 15. —Mrs. j Mary Harden, a prominent wo- j rnan of this city has discovered that she is about to fall heir to more than SIOO,OOO, if informa tion she has received is correct. Recently, as reported in the newspapers, a wealthy man by the name of Axson had died in j Denver, leaving an estate worth SBOO,OOO. He left no immediate family nor did he leave a will, and so the handsome fortune is to be divided among the nearest of kin. Mrs. Harden learned of this through newspaper clippings sent her by relatives in Tennessee who knew that she was a cousin of the dead man. Through her son, Rev. W. S. Harden, pastor of the Presbyte rian church of this city, Mrs. Harden has begun investigations to learn more definite particulars of the supposed fortune, and to this end she is also communica ting with relatives who reside in Colorado. Farm For Sale. I am offering my farm for sale. Well improved with 55 acres in cultivation and 30 in woods, 8 miles southeast of Mt. Vernon and 2 1-2 miles from Alston. If you want to buy a good 2 horse farm you can’t beat this place, j Will sell stock implements, cattle i and hogs. ! If interested go and look at j place and write me at Dothan, j Ala. F. D. Williamson. Nothing better for the pigs j than Rape. Get the seed at Mt. 1 Vernon Drug Co.—ad. II ouse for Sale. Good five-room cottage with j barn, etc. Located on campus of 1 8.-P. Institute. See me for j price. M. D. Hughes, Mt. Vernon, Ga. For Long Term Farm ; Loans. I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, with lowest rates of interest and the most liberal terms of payments I have several years experience in the loan busiuess, am located at the comity site and believe that 1 lam in position to give you the best terms and as prompt services : as any one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. FARM MACHINERY If you want Best Prices on Mowers, Rakes, Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, Buggies and Wagons, see D. S. Williamson, Alston, Ga. 18. P. CANON W. G. BAIINWKXI. ]| I CANON & J! BARNWELL |! I Cotton Factors and jj Commission Merchants 220 Bay E SAVANNAH. OA. j; 1 I (Member# S»v»nn»h Cotton Exchange) i | ; Handlers of Upland, Se- ||j Island Florodora Cotton j|| Special Attention (iivea to F. 0. B. Cotton Ijj Handlers of Upland and Sea- !j Island Bagging, Ties and Twine j | B fe ETTER BE SAFE | THAN SORRY! | What does it profit a man if § 11 If lay up riches for himself, § g? ft only to lose them through j| H j thievery, fire or the numerous § risks that beset the “home H H hank” Our strong vault, our j| P burglar and fire protection and i fg P the constant safeguards as- § H @ forded our depositors give you § H p absolute safety for yur money § EB And you can always get it when you W! & want it. Why not be safe with no chances gj; 3a of being sorry? Open an account with us I | TODAY! 1 I The Uvalda Bank I H UVALDA, GA. g; CM J. J. MOSES, President W. F. McALLISTER, Cashier M J. B. JONES. Jr., V.-President H. G. McALLISTER, Ass t Cashier S * II SEABOARD AIR LINE RY.» 11 The Progressive Rail’y of the South, j jj Pullman’s New Drawing Room Buffet j Sleeping Cars Equipped With ij E-lectric Lights sor\d P-arys jj 1! On night trains between Savannah and Montgomery, making !j !j connections for all principal joints EAST and WEST, jj j | 7 (X) AM 600 PM Lv Savannah Ar 900 AM 835 PM ;! :! 742 AM 643 PM Cuyler 813 AM 745 PM |1 852 AM 758 PM Hagan 707 AM 634 PM I; !j 920 AM 825 PM Collins 647 AM 610 PM j; ii 10 05 AM 912 PM Vidalia 602 AM 525 PM || 1! 11 25 AM 10 35 PM Helena 440 AM 403 PM !j l! 12 55 PM 12 08 AM Pitts 307 AM 236 PM j; 1; 135 PM 12 40 AM Cordele 280 AM 140 PM 11 818 PM 200 AM Americus 115AM12 32 PM ;! 405 PM 255 AM Richland 12 20 AM 11 32 AM |j !l 646 PM 517 AM Ft Davis 952 PM 848 AM jj jj 815 PM 630 AM Ar Montgomery Lv 830 PM 720 AM ; I THESE TRAINS ALSO CARRY FIRST-CLASS COACHES jj East or West the Way that’s Best. C. W. SMALL, D. P. A., jj Savannah, Georgia j> C. B. Ryan, G. P. A., ij Portsmouth, \ irgina. j [ miWlVWVW************I*** 1 *** - <—- *— , A Note to You: August 29, 1912. As you come panting down the street almost overcome by the scorching heat, come in and have a seat at our Soda Fountain. Then when refreshed, pursue your way, but drop in again some other day. No adulterated ingredients en ter into our refreshing drinks, only pure fruit flavors are used, and our ice cream is par excel j lence. Yours truly, Mt. Vernon Drug Company. PIANO . TUNING. If your Piano is worth anything, it is worth EXPERT tuning. Any other kind will ruin it. I have a diploma, and guarantee j all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, MT. VERNON. GA. Money! Money! Money! We lend money cheaper on farm lands than any person making loans in Montgomery County. All we ask is to get our rate before making application to some one else for we can save you 1 to 2 per cent, interest. Loans closed without delay. Write us and we ! will come to see you. The Lyons Loan rnd Abstract Company LYONS. GA, MONEY TO LOAN On Improved Farms in Montgomery County at a Small Rate of Interest. J. E. Hall, Soperton. Hamp Burch Attorney at Law McRAE, GA. Practices in all the Courts. B. M. RACKLEY Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. VERNON, OA. DR. J. E. MASROW Refraetionist Glasses Corrrectly Ground and Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation Free. 109 Whitaker Street. SAVANNAH, GA
