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Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning Auk. 21, 1913.
Now that Harry K. Thaw has
escaped, if he will take Evelyn
and join the haby in London this
country will not lose anything.
It really seems like Congress
has gone into winter quarters in
Washington. If Mexico can’t
keep up a little excitement indi
cations are for a dull season.
The glory of bringing in the
first bale of cotton fades away
long before the last bale has to
be sold to finish payment of the
run bill at the store or the guano
account.
Turpentine arid lumber have
about had their day in this im
mediate section, but the sweet
potato industry is assuming great
proportions, with the possibility
of alfalfa still ahead of us.
Any small factory or enter
prise that pays wages weekly to
a dozen men is worth more to a
small town than a court house.
Any town with a live board ol
trade can secure such enterprises.
If there could not be another
election or another session of the
legislature in Georgia in four
years, and the people bad a
chance to get together lor ma
terial advancement, it would be
a fine thing.
A Mississippi man was arrest
ed Sunday on a charge of steal
ing 700,000 gallons of water. It
would be interesting to know
what that man was doing when
the Mississippi river was on its
last rampage.
It would doubtless surprise
Col. Dan Bradley, chief promo
ter of the Savannah and Western
railroad, if lie were to see us
coming along some day clearing
out the right of way from this
end of the line.
Every farmer in Montgomery
county ought to see the State
Eair in Macon, October 21 to 31.
No practical information on
farming can be more thoroughly
or economically acquired than by
a visit to this great agricultural
exhibit.
There is but one thing that
prevents Montgomery county
from becoming the garden spot
of the unniverse—a failure of its
people to unite and pull for thej
common good. A principle that
has not failed since the dawn of
creation would not fail now.
The plea that the banker should
help the farmer is probably cor
rect. But the farmer who uses
his brain and depends on crops j
that are made and Harvested
with less than the expense of
picking the cotton crop after the
expense of making it, will not
have to lean on the bank to any
great extent.
It is gratifying to note that
Georgia leads all the states in
the manufacture of fertilizers.
It will be a happy day for us
when stock raising will be so
combined with agriculture in
Georgia that our fields will be
permanently enriched; for not
until then will our people become
jiermancntly prosperous.
The appointment of Hon. John
C. Hart as Georgia’s first state
tax assessor seems to meet with
universal approbation in the
state. We hope that State As-'
sessor Hart will visit every sec-,
tion and see for himself the
necessity of quick relief for those
who have been carrying more
than their share of the burden so
long. *
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Americus Times-Recorder:—lf
only the dear little flossie, flippy,
dolly girls of today could realize
that housework makes women
beautiful!
Fitzgerald Press:—Shadow
skirts, transparent skirts, slit
skirts, etc., are all the rage now
lin the cities. Why not abolish
j these new fangled skirts alto
gether and go back to the simple
dress of Mother Eve? Wouldn’t
that be shockingly cool?
Graymont Hustler:—One of the
Balkan nations has advertised
for bids for 3,000 wooden legs.
; This is another proof that Sher
man was rignt, when he said that
“war is hell.” This is a silent,
but strong appeal against the
foolishness of war.
Lyons Progress:—One more
week before court convenes and
the civil docket is about as heavy
as we ever have. The four terms
a year don’t seem to help very
much except in spending the
money. The writer favored four
tfflrns a year and no city court,
but we are beginning to see
where we were wrong, as it costs
some money to run a term of Su
perior court, at least four times
as much as a term of city court,
; would cost.
Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:
“Prayers for the Legislature
of Wisconsin cost that state $843
during the session of 1913, ” says
a news item. It would be a
waste of money to spend that
much for prayers on the Georgia
legislature.
Darien Gazette: —If Mr. Bryan
should resign it would be a hun
dred to one bet that President
Wilson would appoint Senator A.
O. Bacon as secretary of state.
There is no statesman in either
party better equipped for the po
sition than our own distinguished
Georgian.
Nashville Herald: No weekly
newspaper enrolled in the mem-1
bership of the Georgia Press As- ;
sociation carries whiskey adver
tisements is an interesting fact
brought out at the recent annual
meeting held at LaGrange.
| Tattnall Journal:- The tradi
tion about its raining during dog J
days if it rained on the first of :
those days, might have proven
false, but it would not take many
such rains as fell Sunday night
to make up for the days it fails!
to rains, in point of water.
Adel News:—Georgia took a
great step forward Tuesday in
the tax matter when the Ander-1
son-Miller tax revision measure
was passed by the Legislature.
The vote was a tie, but speaker i
Rurwell voted in favor of the
passage of the bill.
Valdosta Times: A half a day
was spent by the legislators yes
terday in discussing whether or
not the average Georgia parent
thinks more of his calf than he
does of his child. The calf prop
osition is hardly fair. The solons
ought to substitute pointer dogs.
(Jreenshore 11erald-Jonrnal:
If President Wilson dosen’t shake
that plum tree a little faster 1
there are a lot of us Democrats
who cannot survive.
Perry Home Journal:—With
more than fifty county tax di
gests showing decreases in tax
valuation, and others showing
large decreases, the need of tax
equalization is very much empha
sized.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1913
A Queer Lake
A short time ago The Compan
ion told of a Swiss lake, Lake
Marjelen, which at regular in
tervals completely disappears,
and does not begin to refill until
ihe following winter or spring.
On these occasions it empties it
self so rapidly that the Rhone
rises several meters in a few
hours? and overflows its banks.
A Companion reader writes
that it is not necessary to go so
far as Switzerland in order to
find a freakish lake. There is a
pond in the center of Long Is
land, at the present end of the
Motor Parkway, called Lake
Ronkonkoma. It has neither in
let nor outlet, and lies at the
foot of the hills that form the
backbone of Long Island. Round
its shore are many pretty sum
mer homes. The trees about it
are much larger and more beau
tiful than elsewhere on Long Is
land. The waters of the lake
are very clear and cold. In some
jilaces it seems bottomless.
The strange thing about Lake
Ronkankoma is that it has a tide.
Not a tide like the ocean, that
tises and falls every twelve
hours, but one that takes seven
years to rise and seven more to
fall. The difference between
high water and low water mark
is between thirty and forty feet.
Many scientific men have studied
the curious phenomenon, but no
one has found out what causes
this mysterious tide. Neither
long-continued rains nor severe
droughts affect the quantity of
water in the lake.
The Indians used to hold the
lake in great awe, and few dared
to cross it in a canoe. There is a
legend of one brave who, while
fishing, was drowned in the lake;
his body was found six months
afteiward nearly ten miles away,
in Long Island Sound. —Youth’s
Companion.
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And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin
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Any of Her Housework.
Pleasant Hill, N. C-—“I suffered for
three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, ‘‘and the third and
last time, was my worst.
1 had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could not do any of my
housework.
I also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when one of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, 1
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
I was certainly in a dreadful state of
health, when 1 finally decided to try
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FIRST BALE LAST WEEK
Sold To Southern States
Cotton Corporation
For Good Price.
The first bale of new cotton
ginned in Montgomery County
was grown on the farm of W. J.
Peterson, Jr., near Ailey, and
was ginned and marketed on last
Wednesday. The bale weighed
450 pounds and was purchased
by the Southern States Cotton
Corporation and was graded good
middling, the price paid being
15 1-2 cents per pound.
The plan of marketing cotton
as being put into operation by
the Southern States Cotton Cor
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South, and its success seems
fully assured. The co-operation
of all cotton raisers is desired so
that the effect of withdrawing
the cotton from the market will
be more quickly felt. Contracts
can be secured from Mr. Willie
Gay, Soperton, Ga., Rev. C. M.
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completed for the annual Tattnall
countv camp meeting which will
be held at the camp ground be
ginning August 28. It is under
stood that several noted speakers
and preachers have been invited
to assist in the services during
the week it will run. Among the
more widely known are Bishop
W. A. Candler.
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