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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1913)
PRESENTMENTS OF THE GRAND JURY Montgomery Superior Court, For February Term, 1913. We, the undersigned, grand jurors, chosen and sworn to serve at the February term, 1913, of Montgomery Superior Court, beg leave to submit these our general presentments: We have examined the public buildings of the county, and find the court house in good condi tion. We find the jail in good sanitary condition, excepting some defects in sewer pipes, and recommend that our Commission ers have the necessary repairs made on same at once. We find that some of the pub lic roads in parts of our county have not been worked in several years, and recommend that the work on the roads be so distribu ted as to be fair and just to every section. Through a committee from our body we have inspected the coun ty farm; and find buildings, ma chinery, cribs, smoke-house, wire fencing, etc., in bad condi tion. Found on farm about 400 bushels of corn, four stacks of fodder, about 1400 pounds of meat in good condition, about 10 head of fattening hogs and two mules. The superintendent says he does not know the number of hogs on the farm. We found farm machinery scattered about over farm, and recommend that suitable buildings be erected to shelter all farm implements, and the moving out of sufficient build ings on the farm to accomodate all the paupers, and putting them near enough together to lessen expense of attending them. We recommend that George L. Peterson and Willie Gay be ap pointed on the Board of Educa tion of this county to succeed B. R. Benton and Martin Jenkins, now citizens of Wheeler county, Mr. Peterson to succeed Mr. Ben ton and Mr. Gay to succeed Mr. Jenkins. We recommend that Josephine Denison be sent to the pauper home and maintained there. By a unanimous vote, we wish to enter our emphatic disapproval of the action of our Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in deciding to dispose of the ferries owned and opera ed by the county at Damon’s Ferry and Bell’s Ferry. We con sider their action hasty and dis courteous to Wheeler county, scarcely organized, and a step backwards, as far as our coun ty and the general public are concerned. We respectfully but earnestly recommend that they continue these ferries as free ferries at this county’s expense at least until the year 1914, al lowing Wheeler county a chance to get its public affairs in good shape, and not sacrificing the property of this county under a false conception of economy. We suggest that these ferries be le gally advertised and let out be fore the court house door to the lowest bidder until January Ist, 1914, this county paying the run ning expense of same as hereto fore. In taking leave of His Honor, Judge E. D. Graham, we wish to express our thanks for his courte sy to us, and express the hope that his administration of the affairs of justice in this county, and the Oconee Judicial Circuit, may prove highly satisfactory to himself and the people generally. To Solicitor-General W. A. Wooten we wish to extend our thanks for his uniform courtesy and aid in our work at this term. We recommend that these gene ral presentments be published in the Montgomery Monitor, and that $lO be paid for same. J. E. Horn A. L. Wheeler C. A. Holmes Geo. W. Colftman W. H. New Jas. O’Brien M. M. Flanders H. J. Eight J. W. Linder M. J. Brantley Jas. R. Adams D. A. Mcßae A McCrimmon B. F. Hart R. F. Mcßae Jas. W. Sharpe iW. H. McQueen M. B Peterson I G. W. McCrimmon H. Lee C. A. Rackley J. B. O’Conner, Secretary , W. C. Mcßae, Foreman. Montgomery Superior Court. February Term, 1913. ! It is hereby ordered by the 1 court that the within and fore -1 going general presentments of 1’ the Grand Jury be received and r filed and that the same be pub- I fished as recommended. Granted the 6th day of Febru ■ ary, 1913. E. D. Graham, J. S. C. O. C. Everglades Suited to Growing Sugar-cane. That there are at least 2,000,- 000 acres in the Florida Ever glades and adjacent thereto which is adapted especially to the growing of sugar-cane and most of which is now non-productive and is stated by J. O. Wright, former chief drainage engineer for Florida, in a booklet concern ing the Everglades that he has just prepared. “This land can be cleared,” writes Mr. Wright, “and pre pared for planting at a cost of $8 to S2O per acre. If this were done, and the land planted in sugar-cane and properly cultiva ted, the average yield would not likely be less than thirty tons per acre. Many persons who have studied the subject place the yield much higher—forty to fifty tons per acre. “With an average of thirty tons per acre, the yield from this area would be 60,000,000 tons of cane per annum, which, at $3 per ton, a low price, would amount to the enormous sum of $180,000,000 per year. This is almost as much as the assessed value of all the property in the state at the present time. It is more than twenty times the value of the largest citrus crop ever grown in Florida.’ —Industrial Index. The South a Land of All the Year Crops. Isaac A. Fulwood, president of the Georgia-Florida Land and Investment company,Tifton, Ga., writes to the Manufacturers Rec ord as follows: You are doing more for the upbuilding of our southern coun try than any other publication in the country, and every man in terested in the south, business man, farmer, investor or land owner, ought to read your paper. There is no better section of America today for investment, for homes, or for people with small means to locate in all branches of business, manufac turing, farming raising and all kinds of fruit, pecans, trucking etc. We have the best climate and lands suited to all crops, health is perfect, and our lands are cheap, compared to other sections, and can be bought on easy terms. The land is easy to work and can be put into cultiva tion at little expense; our climate is such that we can grow crops and ship to our northern cities and get good prices. Then we j grow our general farm crops to I supply our needs at home and home markets. We can grow all j i the crops that can be grown in the west or any other section, j ■ and a good many that they can not grow owing to climate. We have plenty of rainfall, do not have to irrigate, and do not have i to build expensive barns or houses. Our.stock can have open pasture the year round, and some crop is grown every month in the year to feed man and beast. The day is coming when the lands of the south will be en couragement of investment in [ their development. Periodically it issues a bulletin embodying • the results of investigations i which have a decidedly practical i value; but the survey is handi : capped in not having the services • of a chemist. The additional ap ; propriation will be a good invest : ment for the state. THE MONTGOMERY MONITQR-THURSPAY, FEB. 18, 1913 Hon. W. G. Brantley Will Move to Atlanta. The announcement is made! that Hon. W. G. Brantley of the ; Eleventh Congressional District will become a citizen of Atlanta when his term in Congresss ex pires on March 4th. He will re sume the practice of law, and will have associated with him his 1 son, W. G. Brantley, Jr., who has been in Atlanta about two years. South Georgia will al ways have claims upon Mr. Brantley, no matter what his place of residence, and Atlanta will lose nothing by his residence there. When the Peanuts Ran Out. For two hours an old black countryman, who had never be fore seen an elephant, had been standing before a row of them in enrapt silence, dealing out pea nuts one at a time. When the last was gone and no more forth coming, Jumbo, the largest ele phant, reached over and removed the entertainer’s hat from his head to the top of a lion’s cage nearby. For the first time in two hours the old man expressed his emo tions in words: “You old two tailed Indian-rubber nuisance you!” he exclaimed, indignantly. “If I knowed which end your head was on I’d slap your face.” • Plant Paper-Shell Pecans. The cotton belt of the South is the natural home of the paper shell pecan, says L. E. Bass in the Southern Cultivator. Be cause these high grade nuts can be produced nowhere else the world must forever look to the South for her pecans. As yet we do not supply the local demand, to say nothing of producing any for export. With our great natu ral advantages for developing an industry, the profits of which stagger the imagination, our peo ple go on from year to year tem porizing with cotton and oth er uncertain crops which add no increased value to their lands. Why not at the same time you are growing these staples, put out a pecan grove? You can go right on cultivating and building up your land at the same time be increasing the value of your land with your pecan orchard as no other one thing will do. The better you cultivate your land the faster your trees will grow and the earlier they will bear. No other tree responds to good care and cultivation more rapidly than papershell pecan trees. A pecan grove is a safe invest ment when you get the best va rieties and give the trees good care, and it is a very profitable one, too. You can hand down this investment to your children and grandchildren and it gets better and more profitable for them every single year. What other crop will get more and more valuable as it gets older and j older instead of less and less | valuable? The heaviest yield I known is from a tree known to be over 75 years. Did you , ever know of a tree dying of old ( age or failing to bear for this ireason ? Pecans yield a crop for which i there is an unlimited demand, . with great profits, with no pros ! pects of overproduction. On a • small outlay of money and pa i tience you get great returns, i You get a product of large value i in small bulk. Pecan nuts do not require expensive harvesting, i fancy packages or cold storage. •! They are not a perishable com j modity; you have the whole year to market your crop in and the world for your market. Os what other fruit we are able to grow I in the South is this true? To-day - the finest papershell pecan nuts i j are selling at 90 cents per pound • in New Orleans. Why not put out a small grove or a few shade ' trees this year? *vvwvvvvwvv^ | ANNOUNCEMENT! 1 J====== j l We wish to announce i y that we have been appointed B* dealers for the <5! ►i 11 ► Ford i ► Automobile <\ ► 4 h for Montgomery county, and 4 are in position to make *• £ prompt delivery of all types |j J £ made by this company. | ► PRICES: i j| Touring Car $(100.00 and freight i Runabout $525. 00 and freight L i £ If interested in buying a car for service in this sec- I |» tion, droD us a line or call. <| ► * < r N. L. (iII.LIS & J. E. HALL, j! Soperton, Ga. > < PijfW aIV Jtki jdflk. Jm jfia.jAa.jdfW. ifia tfia A flfii Jt W. B. GRIMES, Blacksmith A Repair Works, ALSTON, GEORGIA. All Classes of Repair Work Work Quickly and Correctly Done. Bring Me Your Work. FARM HACHINERY If you want Rest Prices on Mowers, Hakes, Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, Buggies and Wagons, see D. S. Williamson, Alston, Ga. 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 all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, MT. VERNON. GA. MONEY TO LOAN On Improved Farms in Montgomery County at a Small Rate of Interest. J. E. Hall, Soperton. 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 j jelse for we can save you J to 2 | per cent, interest. Loans closed without delay. Write us and we ; will come to see you. The Lyons Loan r.nd Abstract Company LYONS, GA, A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. M. R. CALHOUN A tty at Kaw, Mt Vernon, Georgia. ; L. W. 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