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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.
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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
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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.
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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
