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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
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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. ”
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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
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"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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McRAE, GA
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