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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1913)
Th© PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, i T’n<<! at tli<‘ |*<i«tnl!lc« in Mt. Vernon. On. ;»>• Seeoiul-CIiWK Mail Matter. 11. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. $• a Year, in Advance. *»■ I. '.-il il. ci! i-' mu nt- i;. list inviiri 1 1 1 1 v !>• t■ ■4 in ■I•. ■ <•, Ht Hu rate, ami aa the law 1 directs; amt niur' tie in liaml not later than \\ < 'ln* ■ hi mot lOK of tin* tirat. week of inaortioii 1 Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning. Feb. 27, 1913. j It takes people to build a town. If you don’t get the people you don’t build the town. It is appropriate that Georgians should be numerous at the inaug uration in Washington next week. The high cost of living does not. cut much figure r Mexico, simply because life is so cheap over there. The life of a wild hog in the Okefinokec Swamp is no more uncertain than that of a promi nent man in Mexico. The farmers of this section are saving nothing, hut are not saw ing wood. The patient muk* could give s< ■■ • information; to what is going on if he had time. Tin* Bank of Marnegat, of Bar negat, N. -1., advertises to pay one dollar for every baby born in Barncgat t his year. Kvidently the high cost of living is hot wor rying Barnegat. More live stock in this country in< aiis more meat, more home i made fertilizer, richer soil, more money, more contentment on the farm, more prosperity for the whole country. Georgia needs every pound of cotton seed meal produced in the suite, and more stock to feed. That means more fertility and less commercial fertilizers bought at a high price. The death of Gen. G. W. ('. Lee last week at Leavenworth, Kan., oldest, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, removes another of the conspicuous characters of j the great struggle between the I, states. The average man, whether ( farmer, business man or proles j sional man, is simply a filler fig-1, tiring in the census and vital sta > tistics. The man who gets above I, > the average is depended on to keep the world moving. j r Besides the train crew, only * one man will be allowed on the train that will take the suffra gettes of Illinois to Washington next week. lie “will shine shoes," etc. Haven’t the old * girls got the thing down fine? Great anxiety is felt that con- f gross will be completely disor- 1 gani/.ed on Monday next during t the passing of the f procession. Some of ts a boys t swear they will see th< old girts 1 as they go by or die in the at tempt. ; To buy or not to buy, is the problem now with the farmer as he figures on his bill of guano. ! If the good farmer figures right- 1 ly, lu* will increase his stock of home made fertilizers for next • \ear and settle this problem in a * profitable way. I i There are several farms in f Montgomery county that would ' make two dollars to one now 1 made if turned into stock farms. The demand for beef and pork is far greater than the demand for 1 cotton, and the cost of pmluc- j tion is far greater for cotton than j live stock. I i The figures given out by the » state agricultural department 1 show that Georgia sends many l millions out of the state even year for corn alone. One million dollars given in prizes to the l>oys corn clubs would put a stop to . ti.iS suicidal policy. And yet. a | few paltry dollars only art spent | that way. 1 1 w'rr^rrvtrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrf ► 4 t (jiloanings From 3 i Wisdom’s Field. 3 ► ◄ ► 4 • AAUAAAAiAAiIAAAAAiiiAAAA Atlanta Journal:—With the baseball and grand opera seasons' Iwjth close at hand, we are not much worried about the generalj war situation. Dallas New Era: —If every I land owner in the county would > help the county by filling up the i Jes in the public roads passing their lands, it would not be longj before the roads of Paulding j county would compare with any | in the state. Americas Times-Recorder;— l lie Massachusetts judge who , has decreed a cold bath for every t ramp before he is brought into court has surely solved the prob lem of ridding that part of Mas sachusetts of surplus hoboes. Industrial Index: —Two great t racts of timber land in the South east have been sold for an aggre gate of about $1,900,000 in the past three weeks. The South east lias the timber reserve of the nation, and the price of this timber naturally increases con stantly. Macon Telegraph;—After look ing at l he pictures of Gen. Huerta and Diaz we cannot understand whj the Mexicans were dissatis fied with so handsome a Presi dent as Madero. Savannah Press: —Senator Ba con broke the news to congress the other day that Woodrow Wil son had been elected President. The congressmen did not seem at all surprised. Perry Home Journal:—All the seedsmen are ready to tell the farnu r-. how to raise tw*o bales I>• r acre, provided a certain kind of seed is used. Os course there is much in the seed, but there is more in the man who uses the seed -correct fertilization, ener getic and wise cultivation. Atlanta Georgian: President Taft has called the new senate in extraordinary session at noon on March I. He must have chuckled in issuing that proclamation to think that he is to leave for i ioorgia a few minutes after it , goes into effect! Sandersville Georgian:—lf W ashington county makes a cot- ; ton crop worth $1,500,000, spend one-third for mules, more than a third for guano, and the balance ; for clothing and incidentals, then* is nothing left for enter prises. I Yaw son News: Pine stumps are selling at $2.50 and $3 fora! two-horse load and the demand ; n’t be supplied. At that price 1 1 tiie farmers, it seems, should i clear all the fields of stumps. Hartwell Sun: —A town up in Mass.iel isa-tts has ordered every 1 f ran :> cau; tit subjected to a cold ■over bath. A bright idea. 1 Let lots of folks don’t have to lie tie.nips to need a bath and you won’t have to go a thousand inilcs from Hartwell to find them. Laurens Go. Herald: Mexico already has the reputation of having more maimed citizens than any other country, due, j, partly, to the fact that artificial limbs are hardly known. If the re] . rts of the present war are c* erect the manufacturers of cork kas ought to open up a branch office at once. loonibs Co. Local: —Vidalia people are making preparations for the royal entertainment of Toombs and Emanuel during the Institute, which is to he held here for five days, beginning on ; Monday, March 10th. '■ THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FER 27, 1913. Mount Vernon, named for the historic home of George Wash ington on the banks of the Po tomac, did not make any public demonstration on his birthday, last Saturday; hut we remember him as one whose name will go down through the generations to come as one of the greatest in • history. Cut Out Comics. Have comic valentines had their day and passed into the discard? Many of the larger stores in the big cities have put the ban on them and the opinion .is expressed that even the little stores will follow suit. If they do and the lid is forever put on the absurd "comic” the 14th of February will be much more warmly welcomed from year to i year. St. Valentine has stood in need of that reform for a long time. No one wishes to do away with the frilled and lacy valen tines, with their flying birds and dainty sentiments. The good old ; practice of sending them to sweethearts probably needs no encouragement and certainly it should not be discouraged. But let the comic go, Its room is better than its presence. It is sometimes the cause of serious trouble.—Savannah News. Stock Raising and Fertility. The grain crop, says the di rector of the Kansas experiment station, is a liability— tlcattle crop an asset; and he adds: "Grain farming reduces the fertility. Stock raising increases : it. Grain farming reduces the humus in the soil. Stock raising increases it. Grain farming spoils the mechanical condition of the soil. Stock raising improves it. Grain raising fosters weeds, plant diseases and insects. Stock raising decreases them." The value of stock on the farm is undeniable. Every farmer should have as much stock as he can care for properly, can keep in good order; but something more than stock is needed for re demption of many rundown farms. Cultivation counts for a great deal, and as we have said, rotation of crops counts for a great deal. The farmer ought to have in view a certain policy which he follows year after year to build up one field and another field, by cultivation and by the use of fertilizers. He ought to have a schedule running not only through twelve months, but through twelve years. In this schedule he ought to put the Southern cowpea. That is the great fertilizing agent of J the Southern fields. There are! others in some quarters that arej: just as good. Speaking of th<* < South generally, it is as import- ( ant to raise the Southern cowpea ’ as it is to extend stock raising. | ’ Indeed, the two go very well to- ' gether. - Home and Farm. c For Small Farms. The Press wants to see Ben ' Hill county the most highly de -I j, veloped county in South Georgia, ‘ and the way to bring about this < development is to encourage the 1 small farmers to come among us. ■ The small farm is the thing we need. Big land owners should cut their farms up and sell them. Tenants should endeavor to buy t small farms on long time. The i rents they pay will go a long < ways toward paying for a place. And the land is going higher. It ; will be harder to buy ten years i > from “now. The tenant will be * put to it much harder then than ; i now. t If he ever expects to buy a few - acres, now is the tina The ' ideal county is one where the ' farms are small and where the j farmers own their homes. Then they can have good schools and ; churches. The rural mail and ; the telephone put him in touch i with the world and his family ‘ live contentedly in the country. ! Farmers who make their farms self-sustaining, who raise their ( provisions, who make cotton a surplus and stay out of debt, this class of farmers is all right and art' the best folks in the < world.—Fitzgerald Press. * About Hal Stanley. Hal Stanley says that employ ers must provide seats for the' girls that work for them. Stand- ! ing up to insist that the girls he given a place to sit down is a very courteous thing for the labor commissioner to do. Thomasville! Times-Enterprise. When Herbert Clay becomes Congressman and secures female suffrage for Georgia, Stanley will get the solid woman vote when ever he needs it. —Macon Tele graph. Our “noodle" is too dense to grasp the meaning. We cannot see what Mr. Clay getting to Congress would have to do with securing female suffrage for : Georgia. Probably the Tele graph intended to predict that Mr. Clay would never get to ! Congress, that woman’s suffrage ; would never be secured for Geor-; gia, and that Mr. Stanley’s cour-j tesy to the ladies would never be! ; politically rewarded. All of which, if true, would not in the least deter Stanley from contin-; uing his courtesies to the ladies! and doing everything in his pow er to relieve their hardships. He is just built that way, politics or no politics. At the same time there is nothing to prohibit the men of the Twelfth district from j sending Stanley to Congress be- j fore either of the events men tioned by the Telegraph trans pire, in the event such a notion should strike their fancy.— i Eastman Times-Journal. Administrator’s Hale. Georgia- Montgomery County. Under and Gy virtue of an order |of the Court of Ordinary of Lau rens County, Georgia granting | special leave to the administrator to sell the land hereinafter de scribed in Montgomery County, Georgia will be sold at. public out cry on the first Tuesday in March i 1913, before the court bouse door j in said county between the legal I hours of sale t he following describ ed t ract of land : AU that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 12215 t, district G. M. of Mont gomery County, Georgia, and b‘■- mg a tract, of one hundred, eight and one-quarter (108 11) acres of J land bounded as follows: On the | north by G. L. Miller; east by! G. L- Miller; south by Frank I Cooper, and west by Messers ! Creek. Also Ninety-eight and lone-fourth (08 11) acres of land j bounded on the north by G. L. ; Miller; east, by Miller lands ;south |by Frank Conner, and on tie west by Jim Ricks. Terms of! sale cash. This Ist day of Feb ruary, 1013. C. L. Beacham,j! Admr. of the Estate of C. W.l; Beacham. ; EKKE FERRIES DISCONTINUED. Stats of Gwrgl.T Montgomery County. In tin* Court of Hoads and Kt-vt-mies of said \ * County, at lioyular meeting; assembled this the I < Ist Tuesday in February, Hitß. Wherefore, it has heen made apparent to this J body since the ty of' Wheeler out of that part of Montgomery County J west of the Oconee river, and, i Wherefore, the ferrie - heretofore operated across t the Oconee liver at Ferry near Mt. t J Vernon. (5a.. and at Bell's Ferry, near Charlotte, < (5a.. by the County of Montgomery, are now pub- < lie highways to be operated by the two adjoining J counties, and, ( Wherefore, the adjoining- count\ of Wheeler re- i fuses to pay her pro rata share of the expense of J operating said ferries, it i*. therefore, < Ordered and adjudged by this court that, said < ferries l>e and they are hereby discontinued. ' li is further c n - li red otdered and adjudged , by this body that said iei*ry boats, cables, ropes < and all apparatus con net-ted therewith for the op- J oration t»f said ferry boats, heretofore operated < and being the property of this. Montgomery i County, be offered for -ale to the highest bidder 1 J ft .)■ easl bel county [ • on the Ist Tuesday in March, 11*18, and that the t • proceeds* arising from »i<l sale lx* appropriated j to the I ridjre fund of said couth > . This the 4th | < day of February, 1918 J W. H. Moxi.ky. J Chairman. < SALK OF FERRY BOATS. State of Georgia Montgomery County. T1 J i Ferry, near Mt. Vernon. (5a.. and Bell's Ferry, | J near Charlotte, < ha., will be discontinued hi 'h< J County of Monte mu • y. h<ieio!'ore operated by , < them an fret' ferrie-. < And In pursuance ol a resolution passed at ail meeting of the Boiu 10l Roads ai I Revel u -of i Moa < lar sessioi «>n the uh <ta> of February, 1913, or- I dering said ferries u bi discontinued after the}] l*t Tuesday in .March, 1913. And in pursuance of j saui order the underdtjnod. ch • . .an of said j Board, will put up and >ei! at public utcr> *r. the j Ist Tile N I for cash, before the court house door iti said coun- | ty. the following described property to wit: One certain ferry boat and about 35u yards of ! aleel cable, all the pulleys, levers, ropes, etc., con nected wuh the said fi > boat, now on exi - at Lemmon's Ferry. near Mt. Vernon. Ga . said { ferry l»oat ln'ing of the dimensions of sixty feet j in length and twelve fc.-t in breadth. :ind practi- • catty u< w. bavins rao tiy beet i : all the modern appliances for operating the same, j Also at the same time and place and unde: ihi « same conditions ami circimv.-ana - the under- ; signed will offer for sal* a < . on {err. U* tt and j about *:trdsof cal j portation at Bdl'i Ferrj • n thi Ocd* < * rivi r neai l Charlotte. (sa. , { Ail parties wishing to hu\ -si id I* its will find ; j ties be- | ? • of said discontinued ferry U*at- j W. H Moxi.by. i Chairman Board «*f R*m*U ami Revenues Mont- j gomery County, (tecugia. j Boys. I have got the Edwin I Clapp Shoes for you. 11. S. Hur- \ wit/., Alamo, Ga. ad. 'j fxIEPOSITS INSURED | Against Loss | l o©.©!© I; | ©© 0 .©. No Matter from What Source it May Come | ©oo© I I We are constantly adding new § accounts, and our business is increasing | at a very satisfactory rate. 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