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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1913)
THEY SHOULD COME SOUTH— Misguided Emigrants Flock ing to Canada. During the past ten years, says the Chattanooga Farm Jour nal, more than a million Ameri can farmers sought homes and lands in Canada. This emigra tion is thought to be largely due to the increase in farm values in the United States during the same period. The increase of these values amounted to nearly two billion dollars, an increase of nearly double the census valua tion of 1900. The greatest increase was shown in the newer states west and north of lowa. In North Dakota the increase was 281 per cent; in South Dakota 291 ]er cent; and in Nebraska, 178 per cent. The average value per' acre in lowa increased from $36 to I8G: in North Dakota from $11.15 to $34.69, and in Nebraska from $16.27 to $41.80. The prices of land are still going up. Farm lands in lowa at present are as high as $250 per acre; very little good land can be bought for less than $125. These high prices are causing the younger members of families to leave that region and settle in new Canadian country. It is rather remarkable that so few of this class of emigrants come south. Many of the young men go to colleges and universities and the majority adopt callings that fix them in town and cities. It is only a question of time, however, we believe, when the large percentage of these emi grants will seek the Southern states. The influx of such a thrifty population here would have an enormous effect in the development of our country. The middle western lands are un doubtedly too high, while the prices of southern lands are cer tainly very moderate. 500 Cows Milked Every Day in This County Sandersville, Feb. 16.—There are now seven dairies in Wash ington county. Nearly 500 cows are milked daily. Fern Crest dairy, owned by Dr. Wm. Raw lings, one mile north of Sanders ville, boasts of the largest dairy barn and silo in the south. Its capacity is over 300 cows. The silo will hold 1,000 tons of forage. Cream from this dairy is shipped to nearly every city in Florida during the winter season and many cities outside of Georgia during the summer season. This dairy is equipped with its own lighting system, waterworks, sewerage and other modern im provements. Mrs. Wilson’s Paintings For the Berry School Philadelphia, Feb. 20.—Pro ceeds of the sales of the paint ings by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President-elect, on exhibition this week at the Art and Crafts Guild here, will be given to the Martha Berry School at Mount Berry, Ga. The arrangement is made by l special request of Mrs. Wilson, who has been interested for many years in the school, which is located near her former home at Rome, Ga. There are some fifty canvases in the exhibit, nearly all being poetic interpre tations of New r Jersey scenery. She shows nature in repose, sub jects like misty autumn meadow and marsh land. Several sea scapes and snow scenes add a touch of variety to the large group of meadow pictures, A modest “E. Wilson” inscribed in the lower right hand corner of a number of the pictures is the on ly mark which identifies the land-, scapes as the work of the coming ‘‘first lady of the land.” Oyster Supper at Longpond. An oyster supper will be given at Longpond Feb. 28th. The funds will be given to the school library. Big Oat Crop Expected To Be Ready In June Americus, Feb. 19. —If Sumter county farmers do not harvest in June of the greatest oat crops they have ever produced they' will be disappointed, as at this time all indications point to a j bumper yield. In the first place the acreage is larger than last season, while the planting period was much more favorable this ! year, farmers having planted the great bulk of the crop in October j and November. Thu oat crop in Sumter, under favorable conditions, usually ex ceeds 200,000 bushels, estimated, and is a very valuable one for the farmers, filling their barns with i feedstuffs at a time when most needed. Just now the fields are green with the growing crop, and as the acreage is larger this year than last, a yield of a quarter million bushels, under favorable conditions, would not be surpris ing. Inherited Fortune No Lure to Aged Woman Redwood Falls, Minn., Feb. 15. —Mrs. Peter Yantz, who has lived for twenty years wit!) her husband in a little old log cabin near North Redwood, a village a few miles from here, has just been notified that she has inher ited $50,000 from an only sister, who died recently in Germany. But Mrs. Yaritz told the attor ney who carried the notification to her that the legacy made no difference and that she guessed !‘me and my old man” would continue to live in the old log cabin. Mrs. Yantz is eighty years old and her husband is about the same age. Mr. Yantz took up his claim about twenty years ago and has since maintained it on his pension, for he is an old sol dier, and lives by hunting and fishing. Mrs. Yantz has never traveled on a train. She has never seen a telephone, a street car or a moving picture show, and has never heard a talking machine. But she has an almost state-wide reputation for herskill in cooking fish. __ U. S. Will Dynamite Big Martelle Tower Savannah, Ga., Feb. 19.—Un cle Sam is preparing to destroy one of the most ancient and best known relics in Georgia. It is understood that he is getting ready to tear away with the use of dynamite Martelle Tower, on Tybee Island. This tower, which is built of oyster shells and some other substance of great lasting lasting power, is in the range of fire of some of the guns in Fort , Screven, and the demands of the war department are that it shall fall. The tower was built during the Spanish occupancy of Geor gia, and is constructed of what is known as tabby. It is practically indestructible, j and it is because of its tenacity i that the government has deter mined to use dynamite in getting rid of it. The United States en-j igineer’s office is getting ready! now to lay the charges and touch j off the fuses. The tower has a house built on top of it and has been used as a residence for sev- j eral years past. Those who live in it vyill have; to vacate so that the foundations of the house may be blown up. There is much sentiment and his-; torical interest attached to the j tower, and an effort may be made to save it on the part of histori cal societies. ■ Live Stock ♦ Insurance Insure your horse in an old old and reliable company. Low 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, THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1913. I License and Taxes in City of Mt. Vernon for the V ear of 1913. Bn it, ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Mount Vernon, Georgia, that the following license and taxes shall tie 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 in the City of Mt. Vernon 5.00 Agents for sale of real estate 5 00 Automobiles for livery"or for hire 12 50 Bank or banker 10 00 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 Circus with one or more rings 25 00 Dog and pony show 25.(K' Drug store or dealer in drugs, in medicines and drug sundries, or retail [latent and proprietary medicines, including soda fountain, per year 10.00 Express company 5.00 Fire Insurance agents 5 (X) j Fish and oysters, dealers in 5.00 Flying jenny or merry go round, per day 5 (H) Fruit sold from car or wagon 1.00 Groceries, including tobacco and cigars, eotTeo, and bottled sodas, per year 5 00 Ice Dealer 2 50 lee 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 m or agent for 1 00 Meat Market or Green Grocery, including hides and tnlhuv, and fish and oysters, in building, per year 15.00 Meat Market or Green Grocery, sold from wagon, 15 00 Per day 1.00 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 1.00 Pressing club, per year 5.00 Peddlers of any articles, merchandise, either from vehicle or on font, per day 1 oo Restaurants, per year 5 (X) Sewing machine agents, not connected with other business 5 00 Shows of any kind under tent, not circus, per day 25 00 Stables, livery and feed, (sale and exchange) per your 12 50 Stables, sale and exchange only, not connected with any other business 10 (X) Sign painter • 100 Telephone exchange, local or long distance 10.(X) General merchandise, not including wagons, buggies, wire fencing and farming machinery, 10.00 General merchandise, including wagons, buggies, wire fencing and farming machinery 26.00 Wire fencing, not connected with other business 5 00 Job printing 5.00 Gold drink stand 5 00 Laundry 5.00 All business or trades not herein specifically provided for shall be fixed by the mayor and council. Pead, adopted and approved February 3rd, 1913. S. V. HICKS, Mayor. A. B. HUTCHESON, Clerk. Gets Georgia Wife By Advertisement Athens, Ga., Feb. 20. Having, never seen the young woman he selected to be his wife until he went to her home this evening with the preacher to have the marriage ceremony performed, C'has. Rhodes, a young decorator of Ambier, Ohio, to-night mar-1 ried Miss Minnie Fortune at her' home on Mitchell street, Rev. ! William Saye performing thecer-l emony in the presence of the, young lady’s parents and a few J other friends. Mr. Rhodes advertised for a 1 wife, and Miss Fortune answer ed. Correspondence extended over several weeks, with the re sult that the wedding occurred tonight. Even the Convicts Laughed. Here is a story the Kansas City Journal says is being told on Gov. Hodges: “The first time i saw the Gov-i ernor he was only state senator. I He was called to Leavenworth to, inspect the penitentiary, and I had to go down to write it up — met the Governor for the first time. The warden, byway of giving a special treat to the pris- j oners, had collected TOO or 800 of j them in the assembly hall, and i in an off-hand way requested the] Senator to address them. Mr. I 1 j Hodges wasn’t as proficient in j politics as he is now. He was I ! plainly somewhat embarassed j | and hesitated a minute. ‘My! fellow citizens ’he began, j That didn’t sound right, and he] commenced again. ‘My fellow convicts .’ By that time the prisoners were smiling. Mr. Hodges dropped his formal man ner and smiled, too. ‘Whell, J don’t know exactly how to ad dress you, boys,’ he amended, Gut I’m mighty glad to see so many of you here.’ ” Division Notice. The Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., Stanford Brothers, managers, 5 has this day Been divided by mu itual consent, W. It. Stanford as summing entire ownership of that portion of lines and equipment in Wheeler county, west of the Oconee river, which business will ,in the future he known as the J Glenwood Telephone, Co., W. It. : Stanford, manager. The Mt. Ver j Vernon Telephone Co , Stanford Brothers, managers including lines and equipment east of the Oconee river, Montgomery and i Toombs counties, will continue j under same name and manago | rnent, (with the exception of W. It. Stanford as above stated.) This the 12th day of February, 1913, G. J. Stanford, J. I, Stanford, W. It. Stanford. !farm HACHINERY If you want Best 1 Brices on Mowers, i Rakes, Disc II arrows, Grain Drills, Buggies and Wagons, see D. S. Williamson, j Alston, (jm. W. B. GRIMES, | Blacksmith & Repair Works, i ALSTON, GEORGIA. All Classes of Repair Work Work Quickly and Correctly Done. Bring Me Your Work. M. B. CALHOUN A tty at .raw, Ml.' Vernon, Georgia.! y UMMtMmUMtVMvnmWMAWWtMMMMMMMMMMWMMIMMfI I Are You Acquainted With j the Officers of this Bank? ij Arc they acquainted with I your financial resources? il * i> I I An acquaintance gained through dealings as a depositor ! here will be a strong aid in building your resources. This bank is now the depository of many growing busi- !| ness institutions: it wants to be a factor in the progress of 1 many more, and invites an interview with conservative busi- j j ness men who desire liberal banking facilities. W'VWAJ'WV'W'VWAJ'VWWV v v v MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, 6A. CAPITAL, $15,000.00 SURPLUS, $30,00000 RESOURCES, $140,000.00 || Willie T. McArthur, President W. A. Peterson, Cashier j i Alex McArthur, Vice-President 11. 1,. Wilt, AssiatanVCashier j 1; MT. VERNON, GA. j |W% ETTER BE SAFE ' | THAN SORRY! | o ©©.©: What docs il profit a man if* || 0 ,J, y U P riches tor himself, || ;©:' only to lose them through g? 3 thievery, lire or the numerous §| © risks that beset the “home g || hank” Our strong vault, our S 0: burglar and (ire protection and g> the constant safeguards at- g| || © forded our depositors give you g; g? absolute safety for yur money « £3 0 And you can always got it when you @j( & 0 want, it.. Why not be safe with no chances £3; of lining sorry? Open an account with us gj> I® TODAY! I Ihe Llvakla Bank I UVALDA, <JA. - g ,i M< i , President W. K. McALLIRTEK, Cashier re 1 J It. JONKS, Jr.. V President H. <i McALIJSTKR. Ass t Cashier jH j mimmmmmmmmzmmmmmmm J ; (Brick! Brick! Plenty on Hand for Prompt iji Shipment. Standard Grades and Low ij; III; Prices Prevail. Write for Prices. j! j OCONEE BRICK YARD 1 j(|; J. A. McBRIDE, Proprietor ij; I Mt. 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