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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1913)
'Th\e f\or\itor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Knt«-r<*d hi the Poatoflicc in Mt. Vernon. Oa. as Second-Class Mail Matter. U, B, i OLSOM. Editor and Owner. 5' a Vear, in Advance mm -1 ~1 advertiHi-mcnts must invuriatily in' | oil is advance, at tin- l*K»l rate, ami aa the lav dn ami ninal be in hand not later than Wednesday rnorninK of the Hrst week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Sept. 11, 1913. The feeling that there are bet ter times for us just ahead is growing in this section. Put in a large oat crop next month, for the independence of this country depends upon it. The prophet who has been sit ting down waiting for Wilson’s administration to bring on a panic is getting somewhat ‘ ‘uneasy.” Seriously, young rnan ; there is no bank in all this round world any safer than a bank of good rich farming soil in Old Mont gomery county. With the tariff bill, the cur rency bill and Mexico Kill all settled, and cotton 15 cents a pound, we can afford to wait for Christmas and hog killing time. The Twelfth District Fair at Dublin promises to be a fine ex hibit of our agricultural products. We earnestly hope Montgomery county will be represented by several exhibits. Macon will have a splendid op portunity to give that capital re moval idea a boost during the State Fair; and Macon is not in the habit of wasting her public ity resources. Atlanta papers are complaining that the price of gas in that city is entirely too high. Now let the jokesmith rise up and declare that he always thought gas was entirely free in Atlanta. If, after reading for months of slit skirts and transparent gowns, you still think that fashions cut little figure in Georgia’s affairs, please note that the dress even of the convicts is to be changed. It was a high compliment to a distinguished Georgian when Gen. P. W. Meldrim tied on the first ballot with Ex-President Taft for president of the Ameri can Par Association at Montreal last week. Os couise vve want everv farm er in Georgia to get the highest price possible for his cotton. Put this same good price of cot ton will spoil some farmers who might otherwise grow indepen dent by a proper diversification of crops. Every town in Montgomery county ought to have a board of trade, or commercial club with the same aims and objects, and all ought to bo represented at the meeting in Macon on the 16th to discuss the organization of a state board of trade. Every acre of farm land in Montgomery county that will produce a crop worth fifty dol lars is worth fifty dollars. And the only reason that it will not sell for that sum is because no one has told the outside world about it. That’s advertising. Two good suggestions have come to us this week. The move ment to organize a state board of trade, and the joint employ ment bv Toombs and Montgomery counties of a farm demonstrator. Let every shoulder be put to the wheel. Black and lawless as the life of Old Bill Miner was, it will have its influence over minds al ready warped by that rotten sen timent which makes a hero out of the reckless disregard for life and true honor that characterizes such criminals. If the people of South Caro lina are intending to make (’lease’s occupancy of the gover nor’s chair permanent they ought to be compelled to build a wall .around the Palmetto State to ! prevent its becoming further a refuge for Georgia crooks and murderers. Satan has often had strong al lies on the baseball field, but th< nine “ministers,” dressed in skirts, and nine pretty girls, rig ged out in bloomers, who played ;tt Lansdone near Philadelphia last week for a so-called Bible ('lass, were about the limit of the l Old Boy’s representatives. It was charged at the National Association of Retail Milliners at Chicago last week that the wo men of America are beating the milliners out of $2,000,000 a year. There are no statistics showing what their dear Hubbies are do ; ing for the tailors, but it is doubtless something fierce. Sports who had decided that if the Frank trial ended before Septem!)er, and Thaw was de ported before frost and war did ! not actually begin with Mexico, that they would attend the grand prize automobile races in Savan nah, will be surprised to learn that the races are about to be , called off. Cotton and cotton seed are on lop just now; but the Montgom ery county farmer who fails to put in a good oat crop next month will find an aching void in his pocket book where that money now fills the space when lie gets to paying it all out for feed next summer at the high prices that are bound to prevail. The annual trade issue of the Savannah News last w r eek, with its sixty-eight pages of interest ing matter, was a splendid paper. But it was no surprise to the readers of the News, as that great daily has a habit of doing just that way annually; and Sa vannah’s growing commerce and the rapid strides of progress in South Georgia furnish abundant material for such a publication. j Some old time illustrations have been worn threadbare, but they apply so vividly to present conditions that it is quite per missible to use them again oc eassionally. For instance, the story of the fellow who was be ing carried otf to jail for vagran cy who would not accept a gift of a peck of potatoes because they were not peeled, and the farmer who would not milk the cow because she would not back up to the stump where he sat Baying opportunities and jobs stand out before the young men of this country as plainly and plentifully as the jambs of a rail fence, but some of them would not cut kindling wood to i build a fire to keep their own mothers from freezing to death. Not Afraid to Let The People Know The County Commissioners have arranged with the Progress to publish their full report and the matter will be inserted in our next issue. This report is splend idly gotten up, comprehensive to everybody and it should be in the hands of every tax payer: Read it in our paper next week and you can see just how much good work our commissioners are doing for the county. Lyons Progress. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-TH URSDA Y, SEPT. 11, 1913 YTTYYTYYYYYYmYYmYmf • ► A £ Gleanings From ◄ \ Wisdom’s Field. \ > A • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Savannah Press:-With Jack Juhnson in England and Harry Thaw in Canada, Great Britain will get a highly colored idea of our population. Darien Gazette:- The president is managing that Mexican affair all right and ali are satisfied ex cept the jingoes and the yellow journals. If this class endorsed anything that Mr. Wiison did why the people would become suspicious of Mr. Wilson. Greensboro Herald Journal: — There are a great many people in this country yelling for re l form who have no higher ambi tion than feathering their own nest—too many people are howl ing for reform who would cheat a blind beggar out of a sandwich, and be thankful for the oppor tunity. Fitzgerald Press:—A back tax j collector of the right kind can run the nigger out of the wood pile and can find these missing 9.449 acres of Ben Hill lands. He can uncover this big slump of $403,422 in tax values. He can make the tax dodgers toe the mark and come across with their honest proportion of taxes. Adel News:—No need to make a hero out of old Bill Minor now that he is dead. Let him rest in peace. He wrought no deeds to nspire the youth of the country, but he was an outlaw all of his life practically. Waycross Herald: They will have to settle that Mexican muss, the curency bill and the tariff very shortly in Washington. First thing we know the world’s series will be upon us. Macon Telegraph:—Now would n’t it be had luck to be pardoned by one of New York’s governors and then to be told by the other that he must hang? Keowee (S. C.) Courier: —Edi- tor William Banks of the Ander son Daily Mail, is a mighty fine fellow’, but gee whiz! we wouldn’t : be as big and fat as he is for sl,ooo,ooo.l3—and we need the change, too. He is only partially responsible for his avoirdupois, however. He was born in the j Sandwich Islands, and couldn’t help that: but he shouldn’t have eaten all the sandwiches at one time. Moultrie Observer:—The Life Insurance companies look upon women in high society as being bad risks. Discreet business men looking for wives look upon them much the same way. Thomasville Times-Enterprise: - The progressive party h; s taken a new start on life, but won’t celebrate its birthday until another election comes around. It will probably be more in the nature of a funeral march than anything else Pembroke Enterprise:- The in crease of Bryan county’s tax re ceipts over those of last year is $76,685. The decrease in tax returns of the colored population of this county is $2,847. This gives the whites a gain of $79,- 532. These figures speak well for Brvan countv. Southwest Georgian: Con-: serve your corn supply, farmers. Owing to a short crop in some of the Western States, corn is sell ing there now for 80 cents a bushel. What will the price be here next syring? Madison Madisonian:—Madison j market men are serving their pa trons some choice bits of beef, raised on Morgan county soil. It beats the “Western cuts” all hollow. The pity of it is that the supply is not greater. Bob Jones' Neck. The following sentences, ac cording to Everybody’s Maga zine, appeared in a small boy's leter to his chum: "You know Bob Jones’s neck. Well, he fell in the river up to it. ” | Save Time and Money g . The Hay Season is Here |jj %%%%%%%V\lVtVI WW» • m%Wv«Vv The I. H. C. Press Nothing pays Better. Bale it up f * X. j? || is Strong, Safe and f or g a f e Storage. Pays for its cost & % Sure of Action. It | should be bought. in a 'b? The Hoosier Grain Drill will put your Oats in the ground fe H in such manner that the cold will not kill them. You save W, gs seed and time and always get an even stand. || r m eat im «su» w; -sat cm mi ass aw? as? am tm em am m {§ Pj 0. g || | 1 lr I i I * is m I SEE m ÜBOR SAVING IMPLEMENT. I |W. H. McQueen | | MT. VERNON, GA. | mzmmm msmmmm Meldrim Tied Taft On First Ballot. Montreal, Quo,, Sept. 4. — Ex- President William H. Taft was elected president of’the Ameri can Bar Association this after | noon at the close of the annual session, defeating Gen. P. W. Meldrim, of Savannah, by one vote on the second ballot. It had been generally under stood that Gen. Meldrim would be chosen president, but the nom ination of former President Taft i complicated matters. On the first ballot, which was j by states, Taft and Meldrim tied. On the second ballot one vote ■ changed to Mr. Taft and Gen. Meldrim was defeated. The general feeling among members of the bar association is that Gen. Meldrim will be unanimously chosen to head the association next year. Gen. Meldrim is very popular with I members of. the association and they are determined to elect him as Mr. Taft’s successor. Gen. Meldrim has done much for the association and there is a general desire to see him elected president. The Gentle Art of Spelling v "I can spell,” announced Hoy, aged five, at the breakfast table, as he took another biscuit. “These are made out of d-o, do.” “But that doesn’t spell dough, ” his mother answered, smilingly. "Aunt Manda says that’s the way to spell 'do,’ ” insisted Roy. “Dere's two kinds o’ do. chile,” said the old colored cook, who came in just then with another plate of biscuits. ‘''Do.’ you shets, and ‘do’ what you eats.” Hunter’s License. Hunter’s license for the season can be obtained from the under signed. game warden Montgom ery county. T. M. Mason, ad Mt. Vernon, Ga. i Medical Opinions On The Teeth. Dr. Osier, the eminent medi cal authority, says: “There is not a single thing more important to the public in the whole range of hygiene than the hygiene and care of the mouth. If I were asked to say whether more phy sical deterioration was produced by alcohol or by defective teeth, I should unhesitatingly say de fective teeth.” Dr. L. W. Bush, ad. Soperton, Go. JURY LIST. Drawn To Serve at August Adj. Term, 1913. The following jurors were drawn to serve at the August adjourned term of Montgomery Superior Court to convene on Monday, September 29. VV H H Stephens W I, Snow 0 H Junes J C Flanders II B McNatt D 0 Calhoun Willie Allmond W C O’Neal W T McCmniuon J D Simons J I Fountain J R Conner .1 E King F M Sharpe A W MoSwain J D McDaniel X N Barwick J P Fulghum Lucien Graham J F Holton J M Underwood J H Hutcheson J F Elton Grover Manning Neal B Gillis J G Warnock B F Palmer G R Barwick J J Moses T B Hughes H J Gibbs F B Mcßride W P Coleman Wyley J Adams 1 P McAllister E C McAllister Geo. Johnson J E Fowler D C Martin W C Ricks J T Martin B F Hamilton j W E Evans C Williams J J Calhoun J M McDonald S Collins John M Hughes Duncan Morris J L Lowery I, C Durden W G McDonald J C Johnson J A Adkins t John Sellers W B Smith G W Beckworth F E Wardlaw W A Odom C C Adams j A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. 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