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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1913)
• - V 0 0000 <5 % I LOCAL - PERSONAL g ■0 ■ ■ iwiii Mr. H. J. Knight of Soperton j was attending to business here ; on Tuesday. Rev. T. B. Win ham of Wheeler j' county came over to Mt. Vernon on Tuesday. Mr. A. T. Miller of the Lothair! community was here on Tuesday. A number of our friends will j be in Mt. Vernon today to hear the address of Grandmaster Coleman, head of the Odd Fel lows in Georgia. A board of trade in Mt. Vernon would he instrumental in getting things in good shape by the time the Savannah & Western reaches here. Rev. F. I!. Wargock of the Towns community was a visitor here this week. Mr. Autrey of Rockledge and Mr. A. S. Dukes of the Orland section were visitors here on Tuesday. Mr. 11. 11. Williams of Soper ton is spending a week here with friends. Mr. .1. .1. McAllister of the Longpond section was transact ing business here on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. .1. E. Ilorne of the Ep| ing community were shopping in Mt. Vernon on Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. James Fowler with a party of friends from Soperton were down by automo bile on Tuesday. Mrs. I). W. Folsom and daugh ter, Miss Ktlileen, returned Mon day from a month’s visit to rela tives in Augusta, Milieu and •Belleville. Mr. Warnock of' Warnoek Bros, at Lyons was attending to business here on Tuesday. ('apt. James Hicks of Fitzger ald, formerly of this section, was with relatives and friends here on Friday night of last week. St. Valentine’s Day passed here with scarcely a rii <>nfhe social surface. liar U ~i time custom with its bean « d darts gone out of style? Where are the sweet hearts, anyhow ? Ladies! Ladies! Ladies! If you want to look neat, buy the /ang ler Shoes, at \\ County Shoe Store, Alamo. m\. BIRTHDAY IS CELEBRATED Governor 1 >wn Joins in Celebration for Aunt. Atlanta, reh. 17. Gov. Joseph M, Brown went up to Cherokee county, near Ball Ground, Sun day to join iu ti e celebration in • honor of the eighty-ninth birth day of his aunt, Mrs. Mary F. Watkins. Mrs. Watkins is the only sur viving sister of tin; govt rnoy’s father, Judge James R. Brovyi, the only surviving brother, of Canton also being present. Gov. Brown was accompanied froth Atlanta b\ his brother, and cohstin, Joseph Boston, Mrs. Watkins is a remarkable voman. She has three living children, fifty-one grandchildren, lufi great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren. There are three children dead, seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. All told, she has 171 direct do scondants living, and with the twenty-two dead she had 193 di rect descendants, truly a remark able showing, and one perhaps that would ho hard to equal in Georgia. There were originally thirteen of the children, of which the late Joseph E. Brown was one. Sev eral survived some years after -the war, but now Mrs. Watkins and Judge James Brown are the onlv survivors. Mrs. Watkins is still bright and cheerful and no one enjoyed the day any more thah she did. ; From all sections of old Mont gomery comes the cheering re port that farm work is far ahead of what it was at this time last year. A good start almost in sures a good crop. Boys and Girls, buy your slip porn now, in time for Faster. Wheeler County Shoe Store, at Alamo, Ga. ad. It is said that a fellow will scarcely know by midnight in | Mt. Vernon whether he is an Odd j Fellow or a nod fellow. Mrs. A. B. Hutcheson and daughter, Carroll, left Tuesday to visit relatives in Savannah and Milledgeville, Miss Fliza McAllister of Cor d<-lc is visiting relatives at Long pond. Boys, 1 have got the Edwin Clapp Shoes for you. H. S. Hur vvitz, Alamo, Ga. ad. Miss Julia Achorn came home on Saturday, returning to her school near Towns Sunday. Mr. Z. F. Reynolds, who left here Christmas, is again sticking type in the Monitor office, after a tour through Alabama, Missis sippi and North Georgia. John and Herman Hughes, of Mt. Vernon, visited Tom and l’.ro >ks McSwain last Saturday and Sunday.—Misses Cleo Hall, of Ailey, Nina Jackson, of J)ub lin, Pearl Jones, of Uvalda, and Lucille Mason, of Lyons, visited Frankie Partin and wife last week. Cedar Grossing items in Lyons Progress, Mr. Dennis O’Brien, managing director in Alston’s chamber of commerce, was a visitor here Monday. Mr. A If. Rowland of Wheeler county was transacting business here on Monday. Mr. J. B. Darsey of Glen wood was over Monday, returning by the 10:30 train. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. of the Oak Grove community, ac companied by little Miss Alice Douglass Lett, were attending to business here on Monday. Dr. J. W. Palmer of Ailey is trying the paper shell pecan in dustry on lands purchased near \ idalia, and has put out about 200 trees. Contests Planned for 12th District Schools Cochran, Feb. 17. —The first athletic and oratorical contest to he held in the new Twelfth dis trict will he held In the new county of Bleckley at Cochran, the schools composing the dis trict ha ve organized and elected Supt. Loo. H. Browning, of Cochran, secretary. The same contests will be held in this district as are held in the | state contests during the sum- j tiler, except there will be two in | spelling, one boy and one girl, j Any speech, essay or music which runs over eight minutes will be ruled out. The contests will be held April] 11 and 12. All of the schools are interested in this meet and much good is done by the friendly rivalry. Big Lumber Company to Operate its Own Boats. . Savannah, Ga.. Feb. 13.—The 1 Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company j I >; s completed arrangements for; t o os.anlishment of a transpor- j tatior system of its own. 1 ight commodious steel barges and one ocean-going tug are now m process of building, and "'hen competed will comprise the lU'ei to take care of the com pany's business. It will cost the company ap proximately $500,000 to establish the service. The tug itself will! represent an expenditure of SIOO,OOO. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1913 License and Taxes in City of Mt. Vernon for the Tear of 1913. Be it ordaiued by the Mayor and Council of the City of Mount Vernon, Georgia, that the following license and taxes shall be levied and collected in the City of Mount Vernon for the year 1913. Said taxes are due and collectible at once. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with this ordi-; nance shall be punished as prescribed in Section 54 of the new ordi nances of the city of Mount Vernon. Advertising schemes and bill posting, per year $ 5 00 Lawyers or agents who advertise to lend or otherwise engage in the business of money lending iu the City of Mt. Vernon 500 Agents for sale of real estate 5.00 Automobiles for livery' or for hire 12 50 Bank or banker 10.001 I Barber shop, each chair 2.50 Bicycle repair shop and guns and pistols 2.50 Blacksmith shop 5 00 Carnival or street show, per day 5.00 i Circus with one or more rings 25 00 Dog and pony show 25.(X 1 Drug store or dealer in drugs, in medicines and drug sundries, retail patent and ) oprielai'y medicines, including soda fountain, per year 10.00 Express company 5.00 Fire Insurance agents 5 00 Fish and oysters, dealers in 5.00 Flying jenny or merry go round, per day 5 00 Fruit sold from car or wagon 1.00 Groceries, including tobacco and cigars, coffee, and bottled sodas, per year 5 (X) Ice Dealer 2 50 Ice Cream, sold from pushcart or otherwise, per day, on streets .50 Insurance, accident or sick benefit or casualty, per year 5.00 Jewelry, street stand, including wire work, per day, 5 00 Lightning rods, dealer in or agent for 1 00 Meat Market or Green Grocery, including hides and tallow, and fish and oysters, in building, per year 15.00 Meat Market or Green Grocery, sold from wagon, 15 (X) Per day 100 Meats by the quarter or round hog, no license. Moving pictures, subject to inspection by committee of coun cil, per day . 2 50 Optical goods or eye glass fittings 2 50 Photographer 1.00 Piano or organ tuning or repairing, per year 5.00 Per day 100 Pressing club, per year 5.00 Peddlers of any articles, merchandise, either from vehicle or on foot, per day 1 00 Restaurants, per year 5 00 . Sewing machine agents, not connected with other business 500 I Shows of any kind under tent, not circus, per day 25 00 , Stables, livery and feed, (sale and exchange) per year 12 50 Stables, sale and exchange only, not connected with any other business 10 00 i Sign painter 1 00 Telephone exchange, local or long distance 10.00 General merchandise, not including wagons, buggies, wire fencing and farming machinery, 10.00 General merchandise, including wagons, buggies, wire fencing , and farming machinery 25.00 Wire fencing, not connected with other business 5 00 Job printing 5.00 ■ Cojd drink stand 500 Laundry 5.00 All business or trades not herein specifically provided for shall be fixed by the mayor and council. Bead, adopted and approved February 3rd, 1913. S. V. HICKS, Mayor. A. B. HUTCHESON, Clerk. Com and Canning Club fi» Rally Held at Eastman Jl^^*** Eastman, Feb. 16.—Probably the best and most successful VI Jdr rally in the history of the boys’ and girls’ corn and canning clubs of Dodge county was held here vl yesterday in the county court house. A large crowd of inter ested farmers and their families were present at the meeting and 2sa ~ *, v d| seemed to take great interest in the rally. Many addresses were to Yoiil made by prominent men of the county which were of great ben- j an 23 1913. fit to the boys and girls, and We have no regular delivery which will, no doubt, encourage wa gon as yet. Within a few the boys and girls to make a^ years air ships will come into' great success out of their clubs 1 general use, and many of our this year. ; patrons will have deliveries made G. V. * Cunningham, district ’ fro ™. our place in this novel and agent of department of • mail- In the mean tinie phou]d you ture, of Tifton. was present at not live directly in touch with the rally and addressed the boys our drug store, many of your and girls, in which he showed purchases can be forwarded by I them exactly what to do and how J, ® n - e " , n service— ito do it. If the weather had a t your door. That class of goods been favorable, probably every j commonly known as merchandise j boy and girl in the county would i will n?> forwarded at our expense, have been present. free to your door, and we should ■ be glad to have our patrons take ' „ , n , u- I advantage of this new and eco- Put Fine Berkshires i nomical method of shopping. Into 5,037 Pounds Pork . P- S.-School books cannot be, forwarded at the Parcels Post Americus, Feb. 16.— At his su- 1 rates. burban home, two miles east of ; \ ours truly, ; Americus, Neil A. Ray killed yes- Mt. Vernon Drug 1 terday a pen of thirteen fattened Berkshire hogs that were win- Company. , ners in the amount of meat net- -——r— | ; ted. The hogs were eighteen jam negotiating some very months old and the thirteen, when attractive Long Term Farm Loans butchered and dressed, weighed for the best companies doing bus -5,037 pounds, an average weight '“ess m Georgia, with lowest rates of 387 1-2 pounds each. of interest and the most liberal The larger of the thirteen j have several years experience dressed pigs tipped the scales at jin the loan business, am located 535 pounds, while others of the at the comity site and believe that larger ones weighed 450 and 460 1 1 am iu postlion to give you the) pounds. Mr. Ray will pack this heHt termß Hlui P ro,,, P t Bervices - , . - . k . f . as anv one. fine ot of meat m ice to protect if vou need a loan see me before it from possible danger that may application, follow any sudden change of A. B. Hutcheson, weather. Mt. Yeruuu, Ga. Weigh the ear—not its price, i Both are light. But the Ford is the-one car whose low price does not indicate its high worth—the reason you must “get busy” today—if you want a Ford this season. “Everybody is driving a Ford”—more than 200,000 in service. New prices—runabout $525 —touring car $t j- town car SBOO- with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Get particulars from N. L. Gillis & J. E. Hall, Soperton, Ga. —or direct from Detroit factory. | ©©:©©.©©©©©©©■© ©©©©q® © © © 0 o.©© © © I■m m m mgg _ © | HAVE A | I BUSINESS HOME | ?0 : vvwvvwwvvw 0 C*) today and let us start J you on the road to to prosper- § ! © ity. We not only accept your ©J deposits, keep your money || safely and render you every p S possibe accommodation that ® J the best banks in the country ;©' 8 i render, but we will take care 3 | % |of your valuable papers and jsf | 0 ♦ assist you in any business transaction Free of Charge. 0 ©' j! 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SMALL, | Division Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga. j; I have used the Blackshear fer tilizer about six years and have always been pleased wdth them. Jesse I. Fountain, ad. I have used the Blackshear fertilizer nine years and have al ways been pleased with same. I. C. S. Berner, ad. CLINTON P. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON AND ALAMO. Mt. Vernon office Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday. Telephone. VIA •j A. L. Lanier, Mt. Vernon, Ga., sells the Blackshear fertilizers. I E. M. HACKLEY Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Drug Co. MT. VERNON, GA. Hamp Burcii Attorney at Law •/ McRAE, GA. Practices iu all the Courts.
