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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1913)
WOULD PROTECT OUR CITIZENS IN MEXICO Thinks Taft Overdoes The Amenities Towards Mr. Wilson. There is revolution in Mexico more central and more menacing than before. A coup d’etat in the capital, as sudden and as sweeping as that of Napoleon 111. in France, spreads anarchy and chaos once more for a time through the provinces. There will follow the usual havoc with the lives and property of foreign citizens—in- j eluding our own, because Ameri cans, of all nations, through a laggard and chicken-hearted president, have made American threats of intervention a mock ery and the power of the great Republic the laughingstock of the insurgents and regulars alike. We who live upon the outside and read the censored news scarcely comprehend the savage ry of the recurring wars in Mex ico. The other day, on one of the ranches, twenty-two of the rebels were slain by the regulars, and in that Christian (?) chaos these men, left unburied, were literally eaten by the prowling coyotes of the region. A few days after, in another battle, fifty regulars and rebels were slain, and the unburied bodies of these men, in turn, left in the streets, were eaten by the hogs and coy otes and the birds of prey. One hundred or more of American citizens have already been slain. Does any man think that Ger many would have endured this outrage for a day? Does any man believe that English warships would not be already bombarding Vera Cruz for a similar outrage upon English citizens? The man of straw in the white . house, spineless and helpless, holds his hands and does n.othing. Taft whimpers that he is un willing to do anything until Wil son comes in. Taft is president yet for three weeks—charged with the responsibilities of the Republic—for the protection of the lives and properties of its people. Are American citizens to be slain and American property to be pillaged unchallenged for yet three weeks, in order that the outgoing president may be polite to the incoming president? Is a state of revolution to leave our citizens and our investments to loot and outrage in order that William Howard Taft may pre serve the amenities with Wood row Wilson? While power abides, responsi bility abides. While Taft is presi dent Taft is answerable to the American people. And Taft should dispatch now, with all possible speed, his or ders to the armed forces of the American government to protect the American people, and to say in reality and deadly earnest that, whether Madero wins, or Diaz, the Mexican government must and shall protect the lives and property of American citizens. Mr. Taft’s term extends, not to the middle of February, but to the 4th of March. If he is going to abrogate his duties, he ought to abdicate his office. —At- lanta Georgian. Potatoes in Lowndes. Valdosta, Ga., Feb. 15.—Thom as Smith, a farmei of this sec tion, has just finished planting fifty barrels of Iris pota toes. They were planted as an experiment and Mr. Smith is con fident that the crop is going to prove to be a very profitable one for this section of the state. He has planted Irish potatoes on a small scale heretofore. The fifty barrels gives him a potato patch of fifteen acres. Mr. Smith also expects to plant fifty acres in cantaloupes and watermelons about the first of March. He is the largest canta loupe grower in this section and he believes that the cotton farm ers will have to plant cantaloupes, potatoes or some other crop in future. # Ware County Organizes Tree Planting Society. Waycross, Ga., Feb. 13.—With the co-operation of the city and a very enthusiastic membership as a starter, the proposed Ware County Tree Planting association, which has been inaugurated here following a general agitation for tree planting on a larger scale, has started life under very flat tering circumstances. The association is probably one of the most unique in Georgia in some respects. Membership is open to all interested in civic im provement. Dues are payable in trees—not money—and those 1 who join are signing a pledge to plant at least one tree a year. The officers of the association have not yet been named, but at a meeting to be held next week permanent organizations will be effected. An Advertising Story. An advertising manager at a Sphinx Club dinner in New York told an advertising story says i the Washington Star. “A man,” he said, ‘‘entered a shop one bitter cold day and bought a woolen muffler. When he opened the muffler he found inside it the photograph of a beautiful girl, together with a note saying: “ ‘lf you are single, please write to me.’ ‘‘A name and address followed, and the man smiled. He was single, and he put the photograph on his sitting-room mantel. There, every evening, looking up from his book he beheld it. It was very beautiful, and in a week he had fallen head over heels in love. ‘‘So he wrote to the girl. An other week passed, a week of anxious, nerve-racking suspense. Then the lovesick man received this crushing letter: ** ‘Sir —The Mary Smith to whom you wrote was my grand mother. She died nine years ago, aged 86. Yours truly.’ ‘‘Our heartbroken bachelor, on. looking into this strange matter, found that he had foolishly bought the muffler from a dealer who didn’t advertise.” Willie Chavous Hurt Last Week in Dublin. Willie Chavous was badly hurt while riding a bicycle with his cousin, Ernest Brown, in Dublin last week the boys being run over by a horse and dray. The bits 1 broke and the horse dashed down ; the street, meeting the boys, | both on one bicycle. Young Brown | was knocked unconscious and j young Chavous was severely in- ' jured. The latter is the son of Mr. Lionel Chavous of theLands burg district near here. , ,TT»TyTTTUTTTTWTmm»»mmmTffTTTTYTTTTTTffJ I \ Your Farm Lands 1 > < ■ ► —■ -4 t : \t 5 t \ \ Will pay you more turned into cash. \ ► This we can do for you. 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Cars well, whose tragic death was caused by the burning of his auto after it plunged into a ditch early yesterday, had only last Wednes day taken out a $15,000 accident insurance policy with a special physician’s clause allowing dou ble indemnity in a case of death by private vehicle. This make $30,000 in one com pany, besides $5,000 more acci dent and SB,OOO life in others. This $30,000 policy cost him $l6O and from this one payment his estate gets $30,000. Accompanied by relatives and members of the Ware county Medical society, the remains of the physican w r ere tonight taken to Hephzibah for interment to morrow. Needn’t Pay Alimony To Another Man’s Wife. Dublin, Ga. Feb. 17.—When Mrs. Emma Tharpe, who secured a divorce from A. C. Tharpe, of Twiggs county, sev eral years ago, became the wife of a Mr. Weems, of Macon, a few months ago she thought her for mer husband should still continue to pay her alimony of $25 a month that the court had award ed her. Mr. Tharpe thought dif ferent.” Although the case, when argu ed here this week, developed the strange fact that the Georgia divorce law does not cover the point, Judge K. J. Hawkins took a ‘‘common sense” view of the matter and agreed with the ex husband that he could not'be ex pected to support another man’s wife. Good Roads in Laurens. The county commissioners and road superintendent of Laurens are receiving many compliments on the improved roads. In Mr. . Ard the commissioners have a superintendent who not only un derstands road building, but who knows how to handle his labor. The system inaugurated by the new commissioners is already showing results. All that this county needs is sufficient money to build the roads once, not mere ly put them in condition and re pair them. Once the roads have have been graded properly and scientifically surfaced the cost of I up-keep will prove eventually an . economy and not until then. This J is where a bond issue comes in.— j Laurens County Herald. 1 Atlanta Jonrnal: —Wilson seems determined to give the amateur cabinet makers all the time they i need. Farm For Rent. I have for rent a good two horse farm, fifty-five acres, all stumped and in high state of cul tivation. See or write me at once. D. S. Williamson, 2-13tf. U valda, Ga. Get Your Corn Ground. For the Very Best Meal—made quick—call at our mills in Ailey, where we operate two of the celebrated Meadows Grist Mills. Your patronage is solicited and 8 itisfaction guaranteed. H. V. Thompson & Bros. Ailey, Ga. Live Stock Insurance Insure your horse in an old old and reliable company. IjOW rates —less than two cents a day —will guarantee prompt payment of claim. Mo assessments to pay and no risks to run. I represent the Atlantic Horse Insurance Co. of Providence, R. I. Call and look into the plan. H. L. WILT, MT. VERNON, GA. W. B. GRIMES, Blacksmith & Repair ' Works, ALSTON, GEORGIA. 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