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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1913)
BROOKS FARMERS • ARE BUYING GRAIN Bad Crops of Last Year and Mild Winter the Cause — Not Lack of Sense. Quitman, Mareh 22. — For the first time in history the Brooks county farmers are doing some thing that the farmers who do not pride themselves on “living at home” do every year, they are buying grain for food and for seed.' This condition is so unusual as to cause note as the Brooks farmers not only raise enough corn, oats and hay for home use, but sell a large quantity each season. Last year was one of the worst crops the county ha> ever known in some respects, and as a result of bad weather conditions the oat crop which was fairly good, was not gath ered and spoiled in the fields. The winter has been so mild the weevils have ruined the corn in tended for spring planting and for feeding. As a consequence the farmers are buying grain. Normally they sell it, and the average amount of hay marketed in the county and shipped to other points is from 75 to 100 carloads, valued at about S2OO per car. About 100 carloads of oats are usually sold, valued at S6OO per carload. Every indication points at this time to one of the best crop years the county has known and the farmers are hoping to make up for last year’s poor crops. During the winter they have given their fields the best preparation they have ever had and the acreage of oats has been doubled in.some districts and ail over the county the oat crop is reported as being good. Canning Factories in South Georgia. Thomasville, Ga., March 26. Camilla is planning to have a canning factory and the farmers have shown their interest in the enterprise by pledging 300 acres to be planted in crops to be used for canning purposes* Potatoes are said to be the principal crop that will be planted, though a number of acres will be planted in tomatoes, beets and other veg etables also. Canning factories are enter prises that are much needed in South Georgia and there has been talk of one for Thomasville, though it is hardly probable that it will materialize for the coming season. That the day is not far distant when all through Georgia there will be factories for can ning the vegetables and fruits that grow in such abundance in almost every section is the opin ion expressed by a prominent farmer here and South Georgia is already beginning to wake up to the value of such enterprises. State Sunday School Conven tion. The program committee for the Annual State Convention of the Georgia Sunday School Associa tion, which is to be held at El berton, April 22-23-24, has planned a program on which more than twenty-five of the leading Sunday School workers from various parts of the State are to take part. Among the speakers are: Mr. John J. Eagan, of Atlanta: Rev. J. L. White, D. D. of Macon; Mr. John D. Walker, of Sparta; State Supt. of Education, Mr. M. L. Brittain, of Atlanta; Mr. Frank L. Mallary of Macon; Rev. H. M. Dußose, D. D. of Atlanta; Mr. C. A. Rowland, of Athens; Mr. W. D. Upshaw' of Atlanta. In all there are more than twenty-five speakers. The programme provides for the opening session to begin at 7:30 p. m., April 22nd, and runs through the 23rd and 24ih, dos ing at 9:30 on the night of the 24th. The speeches are to be on various methods of Modern Sun day School work. Almost An Accident. The old gentleman who came 1 upon a badly dazed person in a by-street of London inquired—so so the Daily Mail says—the cause | of his agitation: “My good man, what is the matter?” “Matter, sir!” repeated the confused individnal. “Matter, sir! GenTman’s ’oss run away with a brougham, sir—never see hahvthing like it in all my life down ’e comes the ’ill with the sharves a-dragging all about ’is legs—knocks a butcher’s cart in to a linen-draper’s shop —bang against a carriage and pair, and smashes the panel all to hits upsets a phaeton, and if ’e’adn’t a-run agin this ’ere cab and an’ dashed it right over an’ stop ped ’isself, blowed if I don’t think there’d been an haccident!” Must Pay License In Every County Atlanta! Ga., March 19. —Per* I sons engaging in the real estate : business in Georgia are required to pay the ten-dollar occupation tax in every county in which they do business, according to a de cesion handed down Tuesday morning by the state court of ap peals. The case upon which this de cision is based is that of Mathis versus Barrel, appealed from she city court of Cairo. Mathis, who was a real estate agent at Quit man, Brooks county, went into Grady county and negotiated a land sale, Harrell being the pur chaser. After the sale was consum mated Harrell refused to pay Mathis’ commissions, basing his refusal upon the fact that Mathis had not paid the occupation tax in Grady county. His conten tions were sustained by the lower court, whose judgment is now affirmed by the appellate court. The Loftiest Tower. Herr Czech, an engineer of Dusseldorf, Gerrhany, has de signed a tower for the central structure of an exhibition that is to be held in that city. The ha e will be a bridge across the Rhine. There will be two central spans, each about 320 feet long; the piers that support them, and two other piers about 300 feet away, one upstream, the other down stream, will form the foundation of the tower, which will rise to a i height sf 1,640 feet—more than j (350 feet higher than the Eiffel Tower in Paris. At a height of 1,476 feet there will be a plat form eighty-two feet square; J above it the structure will taper j to a point. Like the Eiffel Tow- j er, the structure will probably be j used as a wireless telegraph sta tion and for scientific purposes. Youth’s Companion. Had Hair to Spare. New York, March 21.—Credi tors of Antonio Musica and his : son Philipp, the hair importers j'who are under arrest in New Or i leans charged here with obtain- J ing over $1,000,000 from twenty two banks through fraudulent invoices, learned today that hu ; man hair valued at SIOO,OOO had | been found in a secret sub-cellar I of a stable owned by the Musicas iin the Bay Ridge section of | Brooklyn. Deputy sheriffs made the dis covery while conducting a search on a-writ of attachment yester day. They found 217 bags of fine quality hair stored in the cellar. An expert appraised it as worth as much as SIOO,OOO. A j search was also made of the Mu sica residence cThd the house was found to have keen shorn of many of its more valuable fur -1 nishings. Spring Millinery. J. H. Hudson, Ailey, Ga., begs leave to inform you that on and after Wednesday, March 19, he ; will be prepared to show you a ; full line of millinery, and cor dially invite your inspection of isame. J. H. Hudson. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 191 R. EARLIEST EASTER OF A CENTURY But It will not “Slip Up" on Us Again Until the Year 2000. Not since 1818 has Easter ar rived sooner than this year. In that year it came on March 22. | Not until after the year 2,000 will it come so early again. Six ty-seven years ago and fifty-six i years ago, respectively Easter : came on the same date it does in j 1913. The next year, when j Easter will pay an early visit i will be in 1940, when it will ar , rive March 24. The latest Easter of the Nine | teenth and Twentieth centuries | was in 1859, when it fell on April 24. In 1848 and 1905 it came April 23. Last Easter was April 7. As Easter is the most important of all the movable i feasts of the Christian Church, jit determines all the rest. Hence next year Ash Wednesday' comes February 5, Ascension Thursday, May i, and Pentecost, May 11. Caster never can come earlier than March 22, and the only time it did or could do this from the year 1801 to 2000 was in 1818. That was made possible by hav ing a full moon March 21, and the following day being Sunday. That coincidence does not occur more than once in a century, and it is only tl a 1 the- feast of the Ascension can occur in April, and then April 30. The rule provides that Easter shall be the Sunday which fol lows the fourteenth day of the calendar moon, which falls upon or next after March 21. siii.ee I took^V POUT KMEY HLLSTV CONIAIH NO HABIT FORMING DRUGSt t - 1 "— 1 «——— p or Fry, Ga. W. T. Mason writes: —>, -t-v i •• “My kidneys were bad for some ,) llflf.kßChffi time. J was treated by doctors v-V W J ami took medicine but got no re- KiiePmaHSm , lief until I took Foley Kidney * 2r! %■ Tf* J Pills After taking them a short iSj) Ijtl' KldnftVS time 1 was entirely cured. They aru4. do all that is claimed tor them,” m ® Ilgßladder. kok same hy fst-pQcj.: 1 C&t. "Demon Drug do. I Arriving | 2i; Fresh and Pure from tflfS If 12 &the growers and manu- ray a*) 4LIU ! jjjJj v*. jtSm) ffifttirers. All the skill (5/ 11 £ I ib of the doctor and drug % JC3 L‘o* Kist will avail you 00 nothing if the prescriptions are filled with a poor grade or gp W with drugs that have lost their strength by reason of age. (5) • Health a Valuable Asset. When ii ne- ds attention, you can not afford to trifle. Let us serve you. 00 9B 00 A Full Fine of seasonable garden ® seeds always in stock. | Sumerford Drug Co. | tg, Prescription Druggists ijjj % Ailey, Georgia J) % l m&/'i t/u Always Merry and Bright. Stan. V. Henkels, an auction eer, was talking about the won derful Hale autographs which he sold .last month, relates the Washington Star. “Benjamin Franklin’s auto graphs.” said Mr. Henkels, “showed him, as always, shrewd and witty. It was Franklin, you know, who, replying to a revolutionary letter which said, “The cream of the English army is now in the field, answered: “ ‘I suppose you mean the whipped cream.’ ” Forty-fifst Child Father Os Twenty-seven. London. —A toombstone found in a Conway churchyard bears an inscription that tells an unusual story of large families and the vitality of a forty-first child. The epitaph follows: “Here lyeth ye body of Nichs Hookes of Conway, Gent., who was ye 41st child of his father, Wh. Hookes, Esq., by Alice, his wife, and ye father of 27 child ren, who dyed ye 20th day of March, 1637.” The stone was discovered re cently by Robert Evans, who reported the case to a local socie ty, making a study of longevity. Why Does She Holler? As the celebrated soprano lie gap to sing little Johnny became greatly exercised over the gestic ulations of the orchestra conduc tor, says the Chicago Record- Herald. “What’s that man shaking his stick at her for?” he demanded indignantly. “Sh-h! He’s not shaking his stick at her.” But Johnny was not convinced. “Then what in thunder’s she hollerin’ for?” | SEABOARD AiR LINE R»Y, || !T\e Progressive RaiPy of the South, j; Pullman’s New Drawing Room Buffet !| Sleeping Cars Equipped With Electric L-igP\ts aryd Pans •! On night trains between Savannah and Montgomery, making |; connections for all principal points EAST and \VEST._ ]! ; 1 700 \M I! (Ml I’M Lv Savannah Ar J) 00 AM 885 FM ' ! 712 AM 018 PM Cuyler 818 AM 745 PM j; !’ 852 AM 758 PM Hagan 707 AM (5 84 PM 1 ! 1) 20 AM 825 PM Collins (5 47 AM (3 10 PM ! 10 05 AM '.) 12 PM Vidalla (3 02 AM 525 PM ; 11 25 AM 10 25 PM Helena 440 AM 408 PM || 12 55 PM 12 08 AM Pitts 207 AM 286 PM ;! 1 25 PM 12 40 AM Cordele 280 AM 1 40 PM ; '; 218 PM 200 AM Americus 115AM12 82 PM H :1 405 PM 255 AM Richland 12 20 AM 11 82 AM j 1; (5 46 PM 517 AM Ft Davis !» 62 PM 848 AM 1 ] 815 I’M l - ' 80 AM Ar Montgomery Lv 880 PM 720 AM ]| 1 THESE TRAINS ALSO CARRY FIRST-CLASS COACHES j Hast or West the Vt ay that’s Hest. C. W. SMALL, I). P. A., 1 Savannah, .... ... Georgia • C. B. Ryan, G. P. A., 1 j Portsmouth, ....... Vibgina. Jl License and Taxes in City of Mt. Vernon for the Year of 1913. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Mount Vernon, Georgia, that, the following license and taxes shall he levied anil collected in the City of Mount Vernon for the year 1918. Said taxes are due and colleotihle 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 $ 6 00 Lawyers or agents who advert ise to lend or otherwise engage in the business of money lending in the City of Mt. Vernon 5.0 T) 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 (X) Carnival or street show, per day 5 00 , Circus with one or more rings 26.00 I Dog and pony show 25.(X* i Drug store or denier in drugs, in medicines and drug sundries, or retail patent and proprietary medicines, including soda fountain, per year 10.00 Express company 5.00 Fire Insurance agents 5 00 Fish and oysters, dealers in * 5.60 Flying jenny or merry go round, per day 5.00 Fruit sold from car or wagon 1.00 Groceries, including tobacco anil cigurs, colTco, and bottled sodas, per year " 5 OO Ice Dealer 2.50 | Ice Cream, sold front push cart, or otherwise, per day, on streets .50 ' Insurance, accident or sick beindit or casualty, per year 5.00 .Jewelry, street stand, including wile work, per day, 5 00 i Lightning rods, dealer in or agent for l.(X) Meat Market or tlroen Grocery, including hides and tallow, and fish and oysters, m building, per year 15.00 Meui ’arkei or Green Grocery, Hold from wagon, 15.00 Per i ay 1.00 Meat.- b\ 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 6.00 Per day 1.00 Pressing club, per year 5.60 Peddlers of any articles, merchandise, either from vehicle or on foot, per day 1.00 Restaurants, per year 5 (X) Sewing machine agents, not connected with other business 5.60 Shows of any kind under tout, not circus, per day 25,(X1 Stables, livery and feed, (sale and exchange) per year 12.60 Stables, sale and exchange only, not connected with any other business 10.(X) Sign painter l.(X) Telephone exchange, local or long distance lO.(X) General merchandise, not including wagons, buggies, wire « fencing and farming machinery, lO.(X) General merchandise, including wagons, buggies, wire fencing and farming machinery 25.00 Wire fencing, not connected with other business 6.00 Job printing 5.00 Cold drink stand 5.(X) Lu undry 5.00 All business or trades not herein .specifically provided for shall be fixed by the mayor and council. J’cad, adopted and approved February Brd, 1018. S. V. HICKS, Mayor. A. B. HUTCHESON, Clerk. | MONEY TO LEND f i}, Loans of any amount from SBOO to $50,000 on farms in Mont- i !*• 4 h gomery and adjoining <>■ unties. No delays for inspection. Have lands examined by a man living near you. I LOANS ON FIVE YEARS TIME, payable ill easy installments to !H ' gt suit borrower. | GEO. H. HARRIS | pj Merchants Hunk Building IVl(iKilC, (x<l. Take the County Paper and Patronize Our Home Advertisers. They have “the goods.”
