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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1913)
I I I ———' " 1 '* '' ' WANT TO DIVIDE | BULLOCH COUNTY THREE SCHEMES ON FOOT Propose to Whack Slices Off Bulloch, Tattnall and Emanuel. Statesboro, Ga., Feb. 27. It the next Legislature should grant every town bordering on or in Bulloch county its request and form new counties there will not be much left of this county. There are three towns in this vicinity asking and making hard fights for the establishment of a new county. For several years Metter, a thriving little town on the Central of Georgia Railway, twenty miles from Statesboro, has made a fight for the creation of Candler county and it is again | organizing even stronger than ever to go before the coming ses sion of the Legislature. A news paper has been established for the purpose of furthering the cause. While Metter is in Bulloch county and is asking for a large slice of her home territory there, Stillmore, in Emanuel county, is, also asking for almost as great a slice of Bulloch. Claxton, south of here in Tatt nall county, is out aft- c unty site to be named Cla ■ u with the town of that name as its capital. Should the Stillmore move be successful the proposed line comes just this side of Metter and would put that town out of Bulloch county, making the fight now between Metter and Still more. If Metter is successful it will take in Stillmore and it is understood that there is muck rivalry between the two placx s as neither wants to be in the new county created with the other the county site, should a new one be granted by the Legislature. The people of Statesboro are watch ing the fight with interest and are wondering how much of the j rich soil of Bulloch soil will be given away. Cotton at a Profit. i The lagging cotton market ad monishes producers to beware of over-production, says the Fort Worth Record. A crop of 16,- 000,000 bales sold for less than 10c a pound, and the current crop of approximately 14,000,000 is going at little better than 12c a pound because of the apprehen sion of another big yield this year. The trade has a fairly intelli gent understanding of present supply and probable consump tion. There is no more cotton in sight than the spinners need be fore another crop can come into hand, and if there were assur- \ ance of only a moderate supply in 1913, present prices would sharply advance and hold fairly well during the next season. Cotton is only moderately prof- j itable at 12c a pound; below 10c a pound it is unprofitable in any; part of the South. There is an j increase in the country’s wealth in an unprofitable crop, but it does not increase the 1 producer’s wealth. Farmers should consider not only what crops they can grow most successfully, but what volume of production will bring them the largest net profit. At this time last year there I was an earnest effort throughout, the South to curtail acreage, and but for that effort the crop of 1912 would have been a half mil- j lion to a million bale: and the price would have : hole cost. Without prom; 1 action this year, the acreage this year may equal or exceed that of 1911, and with a favorable season the yield will send prices down to the point of heavy loss to the producer. I bought of the Blackshear Manufacturing Co. 60 tons o their fertilize, in 1912 and v.a well pleased with the same. J. B. Canady, ad. Air and Water Craft. Construction is to be begun in a few days on Dutch Island near, Thunderbolt, Ga.—all of which practically is Savannah, Ga. —of a plant for the manufacture of cx*aft that will be planned tonav- j igate the air and the water with [ equal facility. These air and water ships will ibe manufactured in accordance with T'atents held by a retired officer of the United States army. It is proposed to manufacture ships that will be ninety feet; long and have a carrying capac- j itv of six thousand pounds. It is proposed to operate them at the. rate of sixty miles an hour on the water or in the air, and to carry j passengers on regular schedules j from one point to another. The plant is to be a rather ex-! tensive one, and will represent a considerable investment. Will the ships do wffiat they, ■ will be constructed to do? Per haps so. Perhaps not. If not, unquestionably they will be fore runners of craft that will ply the air and the water. The first steamship to cross an ocean sailed from Savannah. The performance of that ship—most common-place now—was as won derful then as would be now the feat of an airship that would sail ,across the Atlantic. The first steamship that made a trip across the ocean having sailed from Savannah, what more appropriate than that the first air craft to demonstrate beyond any question that the navigation of the air is practicable should sail from Savannah? Industrial In dex. LIKES TO LIVE AT HOME Sumter Farmer Goes in for Hogs and Grain. Mr. J. P. Wise, one of Sum ter’s successful farmers residing near Plains, was in Americus j Tuesday and told of his success in having saved lxis entire meat supply, largely hy the judicious use of ice if the weather turned ; warm unexpectedly, following the killing of any number of his : fine hogs. Mr. Wise gives particular at tention to raising upon his farm all supplies needed in its opera tion during the year, and recent ly he has packed away meat suf i ficient to last his family three or four years, should he not sell the surplus later in the year. Mr. Wise killed seventy-five large hogs this winter, and still has on his farm several smaller ones which he will sell later to Ah ' local markets. Many of the fine hogs killed weighed as much ; as 3JO pounds dressed, Mr. Wise kded. A great deal of this ..i it-was sold in Americus and at Plains at good prices. Besides raising corn and grain and some cotton, as well as a surplus crop, Mr. Wise finds that i the raising of pork and poultry brings excellent results, and he is in a position to know. Amer : icus Times-Recorder. Was Still 30. A lady appeared as witness in 'Judge Ben Lindsey’s Juvenile Court in Denver, says the Chi cago Il< cord-Herald. As one of Lhe preliminary questions the judge asked, “What is your age, i madam?” “Thirty, your honor.” “Were you not a witness in this court about five years ago?” “I was, your honor.” “Rid you not tell the court! ! then that you were 30?” ! “J did, your honor, and I want you to understand that I am not ; one of these women that say one j thing at ‘one time and another' thing at another time.” The judge passed on to the . next question. St ray Cow. Strayed from my place Febru ary Bth, one red and white pied I cow; yo ng, with both horns ■awn off; bob-tailed. Any infor mation leading to her recovery .vill be cheerfully received. Vol Horne, J Route 1. Mt. Vernon, Ga. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR— THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1913. HOW TO SAFEGUARD AGAINST PNEUMONIA Only Sure Protection Against This Dangerous Disease Is to Keep in Good Physical Condition, Says Georgia Board of Health. Atlanta, Ga. —The only effective safeguard against pneumonia, says ; the Georgia State Board of Health, is; | to keep the health and physical con ; dltion of the body up to such a stand- I urd as will resist its attacks. Among the mysteries of medicine pneumonia Is pre-eminent. It was ! known to Hippocrates and the old Greek physicians by whom it was cmv ' founded with pleurisy. Modern know ledge of It dates from 1819. Pneumonia which, better than tu | berculosis, fits John Runyan's “Cap i tain of the men of death,” is one ol’; the most widespread and fatal of all i the acute infectious diseases. In Eng- j ! land and Wales in 1903, there were 1 40,726 deaths from ll - United States j census reports show that In 1900 lOtl-1 deaths out of every 1,000 were due to , pneumonia. In the larger cities pneu monia is more prevalent and fatal; ; In 1904. out of 42,700 deaths in New York city, 8,360 were due to pneuino- Ifia. Children up to the sixth year, aro predisposed to pneumonia; ‘ the dang er then diminishes up to fifteen, thou with each decade Increases. It is more frequent again In old age. Pneumonia is due to a specific and well recognized germ, which Is wide ly present and many he found in the jnounths and nasal passages of heat thy persons, but lives only a short time outside the body. A person may acquire these germs through ussocia- j j tton with a case of pneumonia, or ev-; en from a healthy person who harbors them. The germ may he found present j In other diseases, such as peritonitis, and it may attack other organs as the spleen and the kidneys. Causes Inducing Pneumonia. Pneumonia is most frequent in per sons exposed to hardships and cold. Alcholism or habitual excessive dunk ing of stimulants, Is perhaps the most potent of the predisposing factors; though it is true that robust and heal thy men are frequently attacked. The germ seems to be ready and waiting for a weak point of attack; when the body Is weakened by other diseases, or by physical Injury or by dissipa tion, the bars are let down, usually by exposure to cold or wet, the germ gets busy and pneumonia follows. A cold has nothing to do with It except that It may be u factor in lowering the resistance. In lobar pneumonia the disease may affect one lobe of one lung. It may attack the entire lung or It may at tack both lungs. This latter is double pneumonia. The germs lodge in the walla of the lung, and form a flbrinous or semi-solid mass. It occurs more often In the right lung. The danger of death is not so much from the congestion of the lungs, as from toxa emia, or poisoning, from substances thrown off by the germs and distri buted over the system. Broncho pneumonia is an inflammation of the bronchial tubes, and its symptoms and effects are similar to those of la bar pneumonia. It occurs more fre quently in children, especially children under two years; and then, in older persons. Isobar pneumonia is always accompanied by pleurisy, and frequ ently occurs with other diseases such as typhoid, meningitis and others. Mortality is Large. Pneumonia kills more than diph theria and even outranks tuberculosis as a cause of death. The mortality varies from twenty to forty per cent, of those attacked. Twenty-live per cent, of those who have it once, have a second attack. The disease will usually begin abruptly with a severe chill lasting fifteen to thirty minutes; a fever develops at the same time and grows acute, rising to 104 or 105. Other symptoms are headache and general pains; severe pain in the side; a painful cough, flushed face, "fever blisters” on the lips or nose; rapid respiration and a pulse that is full and bounding. Within seven to ten days the crisis comes, and this is the most peculiar and mysterious feature of the disease. The fever drops suddenly within twelve hours to normal or below, and the patient passes from a condition of extreme distress to one of compara tive comfort. Notwithstanding this fact, there has been no change what ever in the interior of the lung or in the bronchial tube where the conges tion and Inflammation remain unabat ed. Ueath may supervene before the [ crisis comes; It may follow the crisis when the patient seems on the road to recovery, because of some indis cretion. it may come when the crisis |ls delayed. The disease is usually | accompanied by a delirium in which | the patients unless watched, are lia i file to do themselves bodily harm. There is no specific treatment for pneumonia; It must run its course.* The patient should he kept In a well-lighted and well ventilated room; ; the hygiene of the sick room should be about the same oh in the case of typhoid The treatment which must often vary, should he given under the , careful and watchful attention of a competent physician. Efforts to develop a pneumonia anti- ‘ toxin have so far been unsuccessful; but experiments indicate It may be among the early achievements of med leal research. 1 MEASLES A SERIOUS ILL FOR CHILDREN Death Rato Is High—Georgia Board of Health Warns Parents Not to Underestimate Its Danger. Atlanta, Ga. —Measles, a disease j looked upon by many as one of the comparatively harmless ailments in cident to childhood, causes annually nearly three times as many deaths as smallpox, says the Georgia State Board of Health. These figures will cause many people to take an entirely new view ol' this highly epidemic dis ease with which practically all com munities at one time or another have ( had experience. Pew mothers realize that for child ren under live years of age the per centage of deaths from measles is sometimes nearly ten out of every | hundred. The disease, however, is one | which powerfully illustrates the truth of the old proverb that, “an ounce of ! prevention is worth a pound of cure,' , for if the child escapes measles until after It Is live years of age, the chanc j es ot' death are rapidly decreased, so that among children from live to ten years of age the death rate is only one out of every hundred, anil from ten years on up Is oven less than one per cent. Measles commonly occurs in epidein | ics, attacking children for (lie most | part, and its prevalence til one time ! or another In every section of the I country, has led the public to think of it as a trival and slight disorder, which must occur once in a life time, and that the sooner a child In's it and gets over It, the bettor tt ts for the child- Hut persons who take this view for | get not only the danger of death among younger children, but the fact that measles often leaves the path nt with some serious and permanent troubles of the eyes, ears, heart or . kidneys. Highly Contageous. Measles is a highly contagious dis . ease, accompanied by inflammation of . ttio air passages, and a peculiar, mot . tied, dusky-red eruption of the skip ; Urte attack usually protects a person against the disease for the remainder of life. Measles is an exceedingly old i disease, and has been afflicting man ; j kind for hundreds of years, (faroful i j studies have shown that measles, like , whooping cough, is spread directly from case to case, and is rarely if ev er conveyed indirectly by infected i objects or by a third person. Hut it ! can be acquired by a very slight ex ; posure of contact with one of who al i ready has it. Practically everybody is susceptible to It, and it spreads rapidly wherever it appears in local ities containing those who have not • previously had it. i One of the things that makes mcas i ies most difficult, to control, is the i fact, that a patient, with measles may s convey it to others very early in the • course of tho disease, before the erup i lion appears at all, and before a diag - nosls can bo properly made. Tho pa i tient Is highly infectious for three or - 4 days before the rash has appeared. When a child is exposed to mean i les, from ten to fourteen days elapse i before any symptoms of tho disease appear. Usually at the end of about ten days the patient begins to muni test symptoms of illness. The development of the disease Is usually gradual and insidious, though more rarely it will come on suddenly with vomiting and high fever. Normally the first, symptoms are those of an ordinary cold, the eyes are redd l tied and watery, the nose runs freely, and i there Is a dry, high pitched cough. The throat may tie sore, the tonsils swollen; headache, fever and lens of appetite follow. The disease is ae t coinpanied by fever, which disappears | at. certain stages 1 and then recurs, i The eruption shows first, on the lin ; ing of the mouth. Then comes the ■'eruption of the skin, beginning usual i ly around the face and neck, composed 'j of small, slightly elevated spots, of j a dusky red color. The eruption lasts . ustialy four or five days and disap pears as the other symptoms improve. Get a Physician. | Every case of measles should be j attended by a compete nt physician. | Neglect of an apparently trilling case may mean life-long Injury to the eyes, '• ears, heart or other organs. The contagion of measles Is hard to control, but with the active co-opera , tion of mothers and fathers it spread can always tie checked This cannot, | be done by any public officials or any health department alone If parents will use their efforts to prevent wei) j | children from becoming infected hy j keeping them away from children who have recently had the measles or who have been exposed to it, and if parents will promptly Isolate any older children who may contract It, the dangers of spreading the disease will be materially lessened. Health authorities should notify the public of the existence of measles In a house hy placing a card over the door, and children from houses Infect ed with measles should tie excluded from school while, there is any danger of their hiing infected. During the prevalence of the dls< use In a community every school child should be examined for early symp toms. 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