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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Aug. 14, 1913.
Wilson, to Johnnie Lind
Keep your eye skinned.
It is evident that Mr. McAdt o
is doing his best for the farmers
of the country.
The state fair at Macon this
fall will be a great object lesson
that every Georgia farmer should
see.
Hoys of the corn club, don’t
worry. The canning club girls
art: growing smarter and sweeter
every day they live.
Agricultural education is all
right. Give us more of it, and
incorporate more features of
business instruction.
With forty thousand of our
soldiers patroling the Mexican
border, those marauders are
putting us to some trouble, to
say the least of it.
No more sad or startling news
reached the weekly press last
week than the death by lightning
of John Stanley, son of Hon. and
Mrs. 11. M. Stanley.
If Atlanta loses both the legis
lature and the Phagan case this
.week it will be a lonesome time
in the old town. Hut there is
usually something waiting.
It is a notorious fact that the
most important matters coming
before the Georgia legislature
have to Ik* acted on hurriedly in
the last hours of tin* session.
Hut we expect the same perfor
mance* next year.
Gov. Slaton was very anxious
that the persimmons would be
more plentiful than the poles
with which to thrash them down,
but governors are only mortal af
ter all, and must endure life’s
disappointments.
It may take an overt act by
some hot-headed greaser in Mex
ico, similar in importance to the
sinking of tin* battleship Maine,
to wind up their little ball across
the Rio Grande, but sooner or
later it will come.
President Wilson’s steady
nerve in handling the Mexican
problem may save us a consider
able scrap at this time. But the
row in Mexico will continue as
long as that mixed blood plows
through their veins.
We art* told to count our many
blessings and name them one
by one. Well, one of them is
the prospect that the legislature
and the Phagan case will both
be over in time for theautoim
bile races in Savannah along
about Thanksgiving.
The people made an urgent
plea through the state press to
Ik* relieved of the outrageous tax
system under which Georgia is
staggering, but politics and self
ish interests make a hard propo
sition to buck against. And the
honest tax payer will lose out as
usual.
To those who are simple enough
to imagine that cutting off half
the territory of a county cuts off
half its expenses, we refer the
fact that Montgomery county,
after having given up more than
half its original territory, still
has four terms of superior court,
with several necessary adjourned
terms, to add to its expense ac
count.
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Stillmore News:—From the
number of murders and suicides
throughout the country, it seems
that the legislature would do
well to give some time to devis.
ing away to stop the sale or man
ufacture of pistols in Georgia.
Macon Telegraph:—The man
who advertises regularly during
the dull season is the man who is
not going to have any old goods
left over when the time comes, to
show the new goods.
Savannah Press:—New York
saloon men complain that the
moving pictures are hurting their
; business. This is one of the best
things we have heard about the
movies.
Greensboro Herald-Journal: —
Fatheis of Israel, members of
the choir, and ladies and gentle
men, money matters have been
I extremely tight the past few
months. There is no doubt about
that. No room for argument at
all.
Graymont Hustler:—The dif
ference between sitting under
; your own vine and fig tree or un
der some other fellow’s yine and
fig tree.is that whatever grows
on the vine or lig tree is yours.
Monroe Advertiser:—Men are
now wearing slit trousers,
through necessity, however, not
through choice. They will be
the prevalent style too when the
women are too busy attending
the suffrage meetings to stay at
home.
Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:
“Hobble skirts do not show
good form,” says a fashion note.
But that is not the fault of the
hobble skirts, as they show* the
form just like it is, whether it be
good or bad.
Waycross Herald:—News dis
patches are to the effect that
Porfirio Diaz, former president
(of Mexico is “Still in Paris” and
J Porfirio, being a wise guy, will
doubtless stay where he denied
aie.
Pembroke Enterprise:—lf you
have anv advice to hand out, mix
it with a little common sense and
take it yourself. YVe have more
on hand than we know what to
do with.
Perry Home Journal: Inten
sive farming is now growing in
popularity in Georgia, and the
expense accounts of the farmers
are being decreased by the in
creased diversity of their crops.
The progressive farmers are
J realizing on their good judgment.
Athens Banner: Messrs. Sto
vall of Elbert and Sheppard of
Sumter will be known as the
slaughterers of the tax revision
measure—and they will have to
explain some day what they had
to offer that was better. They
have not offered it as yet.
Nashville Herald: The Geor
gia Legislature’s time is up next
week. Glory be. An extra ses
sion without perdieni, would be
a good dose for that bunch.
Darien Gazette:—Of course we
love each and every member of
the Georgia legislature, but we
would love ’em a heap more if
they would puss all those bills
that are in the interest of all the
' people.
THE MONTGOMERY MONTTOR-TnURSDAY, AUG. 14, 1913
A Large Beef Steer.
The largest steer ever handled
by the Independent Packing
Company, Thirty-ninth street
and Chouteau avenue, St. Louis,
Mo., was slaughtered there by
John Caffarata, proprietor of a
saloon and restaurant at Delmer
and Hamilton avenues.
The, animal weighed 2,900
pounds on foot and dressed out a
little more than 2,000 pounds of
beef.
The steer was raised by Caf
farata on his farm in St. Louis
county. At the market price
Friday it would have brought
$269 on the hoof.
A special hoisting apparati s
had to be erected at the plant
before the carcass could be hand
le]. The average of cattle hand
led there is 1,100 pounds and the
heaviest ever before handled was
1,800 pounds on foot,
Three In Seven Months.,
It rarely occurs that three ad
ditions to a family are recorded
within less than seven months
without triplets figuring in the
: process. That such a thing is
not impossible, is proved, how
ever, by the case of Calvin Over-
I street and his wife, a colored
couple living in the western part
of Dougherty county.
When seen on an Albany
street, Overstreet carried girl
twins in his arms and his wife
had a baby boy in her embrace.
The three pickaninnies seemed to
1»o of about the same size and age,
so the couple were stopped and
; questioned. It developed that
| the twins were 14 months old,
and the boy 7 months, hut the
! latter is large for his age and the
g'rls small, and they would easily
pass for triplets. The case is
considered unique.
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A Few Funnygraphs.
An Irish laborer who fell off a
building and fractured his ribs,
was awarded £25 compensation
by the court. But his solicitor
kept £ls for professional ser
vices. The laborer gazed at the
ten sovereigns that were handed
to him in great surprise. “W'hat
are you looking at?” asked the
solicitor.
“Well, as you asked me, sir, I
was just wondering which of us
it was that fell off the building
and broke his ribs.”
Visitor (to facetious farmer)
l’d like to know why on earth
you call that white pig “Ink”?
Facetious Farmer— Because
he’s always running from the
pen!
The vicar and the curate had
quarreled, and the curate was
requested to find some other con
gregation to minister to. He,
therefore, preached his farewell
sermon, and the parishioners
came in crowds to hear him.
“My text,” he said, “is taken
from the moving story of Abra
ham, ‘Tarry ye here with the ass
while I ... go yonder.’ ”
Foreman (calling to workman)
Phawt are yez doin’ up there,
Casey?
Casey—Oi’m layin, bricks, av
course.
Be jabbers! by the stillness av
ye yet- moight be layin’ eggs!
True to Her Sex.
An old colored woman was sit
ting with knees crossed in the
shoe department of a large store
when a young woman clerk step
ped up to wait upon her. “What
size of shoe do you wear, Aunty?”
she inquired.
“Well, honey, I kin wear
eights; I ginally wear nines; but
dese yer I’se got on am twelves,
an’ de good Lawd knows dey
hu’ts me!”
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