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Mount Vernon, Ga.. ThursrY Morning, Aug. 21, 1913.
Got ready for ’he State Fair,
October 21 to 31.
Fight the boll weevil with the
hay, hog and hominy crop.
The Dublin spirit will insure
the success of the Twelfth Dis
trict Fair to be held again this
year.
1 i« a matter of regret that
we did riot get the Frank case
out of the way before Harry
Thaw got back into the lime
light.
The interests of United States
aeo ns iri Mexico may not be
worth a war with the greasers,
hut they should be protected, all
1 he same.
Mrs. i ongstreet alludes to
Post master General Burleson as
“the hay raiser from Texas.”
According to the sister, Mr.
Burleson is now “raising Cain.”
A subscription of •f 1,500 for a
county lair for 'l’roup county was
taken in two lmuis in LaGrange
last week. None of your lazy,
lousy, don’t-care-a-darn people
in that section.
If those fellows out West want
to see a living example of a
smooth, level-headed governor,
they should meet Governor .John
M. Slaton during his stay of
ten days at Colorado Springs.
The old idea that a farmer in
this country cannot, sell anything
except cotton has had some very
severe jolts t his season. A pound
of meat will bring more than a
pound of cotton, and is equally
as sure of sale.
The Montgomery county farm
er who puts up a thousand hales
of hay need not fear an attack
of hay rev. . lie will come
nearer clearing a thousand dol
lars than he could from any cul
tivated crop.
Thousands of dollars have been
lost in Georgia every year for a
long period hv ravages of the
corn weevil; but we don't care a
continental red cent about what
we loose on coin so long as no
bug destroys a tew of our cotton
boils.
There cannot be a big crop of
cotton in this section of the belt.
A very poor stand and a crop
about one month behind will
scarcely turn out a bumper crop.
But our farmers will probably
get rid of the crop before this
truth is known.
The average man cannot un
it i • md why cm ores-- shout:
spend the entire summer on the
tariff law. But the question of
the tariff is by far the most dis
fieult problem this government
has ever tackled. Our interests
are so vast and so varied that
one conflicts with another, to say
nothing of our trade with other
nations,
A wonderful change has evi
dently been wrought in this part
of Georgia in the past half cen
tury. Old men tell us of that in
teresting and highly exciting
period in Montgomery county’s
his tor.i when the settlers would
congiegate at the court house,
p .11 oil t: e wits and proceed
to bile oil’ each others' noses and
ears in those “list and skull”
ho its 'peculiar to that time. Vu
arc glad that period passed before
we got here, ami there is no doubt
that education and prohibition
have done a great w ork in bring
ing aUmt the change in social
conditions.
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Macon Telegraph:—A currency
bill that will allow us to come
back from a two weeks’ vacation
as good financially as we do
physically should be considered
by Congress.
llawkinsville Dispatch-News:
The Georgia farmer who has
failed to raise enough corn this
year to do him would do well to
put in for a good oat crop and
Fry to rah o all the forage he can,
as the price of corn will he very
high next year on account of the
short crop in the west.
Darien Gazette: The escape
of Marry K. Thaw from Mattea
v an Sunday morning gave the
paper something to print. No
doubt fl.irry escaped on Sunday
Iso that he could occupy all the
(Yonl jmg''s of the big dailies on
I Monday. You know Monday is
a dull day with the daily papers.
Lyons Progress:—Cotton seed
starts off this year at a very
good price if what we hear is
t rue. We are told that S2O will
be offered in Lyons and if this
, price holds up the farmers will
be satisfied. We are not vouch
ing for the truth of this report,
but S2O is not too much and the
farmer should get that much or
k •ep his seed.
I )üblin Courier-Herald:—The
Twelfth District Fair Association
is an assured success. The cor
poration has been reorganized
and some of the most prominent
| men in the entire district are at
its head.
Perry Home Journal: —The
greatest achievement of agricul
ture is being gradually approach
ed by Georgia farmers, by in
reasing the production per acre
, corn and cotton. In doing
tins the acreage of these chief
ernps may be decreased and other
needful crops increased.
Nashv lk Herald:—Several
i towns in North Georgia are bid
ding for the next annual meeting
nf the Weekly Press Association.
We’ l like to see one meeting
| held in the city of Atlanta.
| Given short Derald-Journal:-
A fr wsy haired long-necked
'girl, re iding near Siloam, sends
us her picture and says she has
fallen in love with a young man
whese pocket receipts won’t
let them get married. Says site
can’t give him up and asks us to
advise her. If you look anything
j like your photo., Susan, we ad
vise you to take “Rough on
Rats.”
Pembroke Eenteprisc:—A 1-
rea .v i he [.armor is troubled with
insurance agents and machine
agents the year ’round, and now
experts declare that the boll
weevil, the worst pest yet, is
coming.
Graymont Hustler; The ne
gro driver of the Tifton sprink
ling cart was recently arrested
for having in Ins posession liquor
to sell. He peddled it around
while driving the cart. Maybe
that wars the reason that so many
of Tifton’s citizens got on the
water wagon.
Adel News: The fifty million
dollars which the government
will send South to move the cot
ton crop w ill be felt in almost
every nook and corner. And a
Democratic administration is en
titled to the credit of devising
the plan.
Way cross Herald:- A mighty
good idea “Keep Way cross
money in Way cross. ”
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1913
Hundred Years Old;
Takes Walk Daily.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 26.
Asa Goodwin is 106 years old and
has been a resident of Alabama
for more than 70 years. Not
withstanding his advanced age
Mr. Goodwin is hale and hearty
and takes a five-mile walk every
day. He was born in Henry
county, Georgia, only a few years
before the outbreak of the war
of 1812.
Mr. Goodwin removed to Ala
bama about 1839 or 1840 and re
mained in this state about two
yars, after which he removed to
Mississippi, and was a resident
of that state four years. He
then came back to Alabama and
has been living in Shelby county
ever since.
Mr. Goodwin has upwards of
390 known descendants. He has
70 great-grandchildren who are
married and is the great-great
grandfather of many children.
His descendants have planned a
reunion at Sterrett, Shelby coun
ty, on September 1. There will
he probably about 100 Birming
ham people, descendants of the
old gentleman, present. About
1,100 pounds of meat and more
than 200 pounds of chicken will
he provided for the assemblage.
Mr. Goodwin's descendants
cover Shelby county “like the
dew.” It is said that he could
iddress most any man in that
county with “Good morning, Mr.
Goodwin,” and be talking to the
right man.
STOMACH TROUBLE
FOR FIVE YEARS
Majority of Friends Thought Mr.
Hughes Would Die, But
One Helped Him to
Recovery.
Pomeroyton, Ky.—ln interesting ad
vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes
writes as follows: ‘‘l was down with
stomach trouble for five (5) years, and
would have sick headache so bad, at
times, that 1 thought surely I would die.
I tried different treatments, but they
did not seem to do me any good.
I got so bad, 1 could not eat or sleep,
and all my friends, except one, thought 1
would die. He advised me to try
Thedford’s Black-Draught, and quit
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Save All The Feed You Can.
I have just returned here from
a visit to Northwestern lowa,
from the Ohio river at Evans
ville, Irid., through Indiana and
from Chicago to Sioux City,
lowa, says A. M. Worden, in the
Progressive Farmer. The crops
are late and badly shortened by
the long dry spell, and the late
spring opening.
Grass and oats very short;corn
only a fair stand, generally very
late. It looks like high-priced
feed next winter.
I strongly advise ail Southern
farmers to redouble efforts to
save forage. The cornstalks can
be all saved making millions of
tons of good forage usually lost
j entirely.
The silo is the salvation of
stock raisers. Sedgegrass cut
green makes a fine hay. Meli
lotus Alba, or sweet clover can
be cut and makes a good hay,
nearly equal to the best clover
for roughness or next to alfalfa.
In cases where good shelter for
1 roughness is not possible it can
be stacked and keep well. If
care is taken to keep the stack
full in the middle and well trod
den or packed down and pitch on
from all sides, as where a stack
is all built from one side it is
liable to be made firmer at that
point and settle unevenly cannot
shed water well. I have the sur
face of my stacks well raked
down also to make them shed
i water. Then wire two pairs of
poles together and hang on
| stack to hold tops on.
taking other medicines. I decided to
take his advice, although 1 did not have
any confidence in it.
I have now been taking Black-Draught
tor three months, and it has cured me—
haven’t had those awful sick headaches
since I began using it.
1 am so thankful for what Black-
Draught has done for me.”
Thedford’s Black-Draught has been
found a very valuable medicine for de
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