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VENDORS MIST LABEL
ALL GASOLINE SOLD
Consumers Should Know
Gravity Os the Gas
They Use.
State Commissioner of Aagri
culture, J. D. Price, calls the at
tention of oil inspectors to the
rules given out by State Oil In
spector Bryant, and directs spe
cial attention to labeling gasoline. ’
The order is as follows:
To All Inspectors: A very low
grade fluid — 58 to 59 boaume —is j
being sold as “gasoline,” the i
vendors claiming it to be as good
as the higher gravity product. <
As I understand it, the value of
all these petoleum products, when
used for power purposes, is based
on their gravity, and that this
item, in a very large measure,
governs their commercial value.
This being true, it is manifest
ly a wrong, a violation of the
spirit and letter of the law gov
erning the inspection and sale of
gasoline in this state.
“This law, as you know, fixes
no standard of gravity, but it
does require that the gravity,
whatever it is, be stenciled on
the packages from which it is
sold.
“It is the duty and purpose of
this department to see to the en
forcement of this act, and you,
as a local inspector, should see to
it that every dealer in your ter
ritory displays a placard at all
points of delivery upon which is
plainly labeled the gravity of the
fluid offered for sale.
“Under the law, it is your duty
to make additional tests of oils or
gasoline wherever found, regard
less of the test made from the
tanks on cars, if you think it
necessary.
“The buyer has a right to
know just what gravity gas he
is-paying for, and it is your duty
to see that he is given this infor
mation. As a means to this end,
I would suggest that all retail
dealers buy gasoline only on a
guaranteed gravity basis.
W. C. Bryant,
State Oil Inspector.
J. |). Price, Commissioner.
Co-operation With
The Farmers.
A correspondent of The Indus
trial Index at Milton, Fla., tells
of a plan of business men of that
city to organize an association to
co-operate with the farmers of
that vicinity to encourage the
growing of truck and to assist in
the systematic marketing of such
products.
While the idea has not been
worked out in its details, it is
planned to arrange for a definite
acreage in the various vegetables
that prove most profitable, ship
ping the greater part and can
ning the remainder, thus assur
ing the disjHisition of the entire
crop.
The vegetables will be sold in
car load lots, the business men
co-operating with the growers in
this most important feature the
marketing. In this way the crop
can be sold to best advantage.
This incident is interesting as
illustrating two things: Realiza
tion of the fact that there is
money in truck growing in the
south, and also the growing dis
position of business men to co
operate with fanners on the
broad ground that whatever
benefits the farmer helps all
classes of business.
Medical Opinions On The
Teeth.
l>r. 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.
a d. Soperton, Go.
The Cost of Hog Cholera.
The inauguration of a country
wide campaign to eliminate or |
control hog cholera is urged in a
special report by Marion Dorset
of the bureau of animal industry,
who estimates that during the
past year SGO,fXXJ,OOO worth of
hogs died with the disease.
After experimenting for more
than twenty-five years the de
partment of agriculture finally
discovered a serum that is claim
ed to be a preventive of the dis
ease, and which now is being
destributed in thirty states.
This work, however, Mr. Dorset
says, has not resulted* in a notice
able diminution of the disease in
the country as a whole. Sug
gesting a nationwide anti-cholera
campaign he urges that the
serum be used as a basis.
Southwest Georgia has suffer
ed heavily from hog cholera, and
notwithstanding all the serums
and other concoctions of the
scientists will continue to do so
until the proper care and atten
tion is given hogs. In conversa
tion a few days ago with Mr. A.
F. Holt, an extensive and suc
cessful farmer of Macon county,
he told the editor of The News
that he never loses a hog from
disease, and last year killed fifty
fine porkers and will increase the
number to seventy-five this year.
He pays particular attention to
the food given his hogs, keeps a
quantity of hard domestic coal,
of which they are very fond,
where they can get it at all
times, and has a number of
poles placed about the pasture
against which they rub them
selves and keep free of vermin.
A crocus sack saturated with
crude oil is wrapped around each
pole and when worn out is re
placed with another one. Our
farmers should try Mr. Holt’s
plan, which is simple and inex
pensive and has proven of great
value to him.—Dawson News.
Nine Acres In Peanuts
Means Supply of Meat.
Mr. Robert R. Stewart is on eof
Sumter county’s prosperous and
progressive planters who believes
in a smokehouse upon the farm,
for the laborers who work upon
the farm, rather than buying by
piecemeal from the grocer.
Mr. Stewart’s smokehouse is
as much an institution upon his
farm as his ginhouse, and he
keeps both filled up, one u’ith
1 cotton and the other with hams,
shoulders and bacon.
He has in preparation for kill
ing next winter a large herd of
line hogs, which he will make
seal fat upon peanuts. One large
field of nine acres bears a luxu
riant crop of peanuts, insuring a
yield of a thousand bushels, at
the least estimate, for the hogs.
Not a peanut will be sold, al
though they are worth $1.50 per
bushel in Americus.
Mr. Stewart planted the nine
acres of peanuts for his pigs, and
they will get every one of them.
The nine acres will be divided by
portable wire fences into one acre
tracts and the pigs turned upon
these feeding grounds success
ively when the peanuts are ripe.
Mr. Stewart lias tine crops of
cotton, hay and corn, but his pea
j nuts and pigs are his special pride
j just now and rich returns in sa
vory bacon are fully assured al
ready. Americus Times-Record
er.
Statement of the Condition of
TilK HANK OF TARRYTOWN,
(branch of bank of Soperton, Soperton, Ga )
Located at Tnrrytown, Ga., at the Close of business Sept. 12th, 1918:
Resources:
I'ime loans f 21,534 00
Overdrafts unsecured 005 03
Hanking House, 1.202 00
Furniture and Fixtures 001 15
Due from banks and bankers
in the state 3,022 20
Due from hanks and bankers
in other stair's 1,305 00
Currency 01
Hold 5
Silver, niekles, etc. 138 50
Cash items 527 10
Advances on cotton 2,it54 55 2 816 30
Total $31.087 48
sTATE OK GEORGIA MontKomery County.
H* sere me ,«me D. E. Holliman, Caaliioi >4 The Bank of Tarry town, who, twine July sworn
ij - that Oie abort ami foregoing statement la ~ true eouditi in of iuuj Bank ad surCin by the
S- Ot tie 111 «*M Bank. D. E. HOLLIMAN
Sworn to ami nubaeriboJ before me, this On £1 Jay of Sept. 19IS
J. E HALL. S. I*. M. C., Ga.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, OCT 2, 191 ?,
The Farmer’s Boy
And Cost of Living.
The high cost of living is at
: tracting the attention of eco
nomists and is the subject of ex
pert discussion which leads no
where so far as effecting a re
duction of the aforesaid cost is
concerned. ' The solution of the
problem, however, appears to
have been reached by Governor
i Cox of Ohio, in one crisp sen
tence: “Keep the boy on the
farm and restore community life
I in the country.”
When country life is made at
tractive; when the farmer boy
finds the pleasures of the city at
his door; when he is given at
home that social intercourse he
seeks in the city, he will have no
incentive to leave home and we
shall have prosperous, contented
farmers instead of poverty strick
en, dissatisfied clerks.
There is no real reason why a
hoy should desire to leave the
farm for the city. But it is
natural for a boy to like a good
time and he is going to have it.
If he can’t have it at home he
will seek it elsewhere. Make
the farm attractive and he will
stay there. When our farmer
boys remain at home and learn
that their best chance for a suc
cessful and happy life is there
the problem of the high cost of
’ living will pretty nearly solve it
self.—Savannah News.
I Might Watch Them.
Contrary to popular opinion,
s says the Philadelphia Telegraph,
- pennies do not exclusively figure
in the contribution box. At least
II this conclusion might be gather
-1 ed from a story recently told by
Merritt G. Chance, chief clerk in
■ the Postoffice Department at
1 Washington.
Some time ago, according to
Mr. Chance, a woman stopped at
the parsonage to see the minis
ter’s wife on her way down
town to do some shopping.
“I have only a minute to stay, ”
said the caller, as she was usher
ed into the parlor. “I am on my
l, way down town to match some
i 1 buttons.”
“Why go all the way down
i town?” queried the minister’s
wife, sweetly. “I may be able
to match them for you.”
“Do you really think you can?”
5 responded the caller. “I didn’t
‘ know you kept such a supply on
1 hand.”
“I have tons of them,” replied
the minister’s wife. “My hus
band gets them out of the eon
. | tribution box. I can match most
! any button in the congregation.
*
News to the Congregation.
. There is a story, says Tit Bits,
told of an old Evangelical clergy
man who had a son in orders.
■ The young man became a full
blown Ritualist. On one oecas
„ ion the father paid a visit to his
1 son, who asked him to preach in
his church. For some time the
old man refused, but, pressed to
do so, he at length consented,
and chose the text, “Lord, have
mercy upon my son, for he is a
lunatic.”
Two children of the public
schools of Morrisville, Pa., pick
ed the wounds on their arms
caused by vaccination, and died
i of lockjaw.
Liabilities:
luuiivided profits less cur
ex. iut. ami taxes pd. $ 387 36
Due to banks ami hankers
in this state 10,270 18
Individual deposits subject
to check 10,065 03
Time certificates 700 00
Cashier’s Checks 553 63
Hills payable including time
cer. rep. borrowed money 10, non (X)
Total $31,1167 48
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§ MT. VERNON, GA. |
Administrator’s Sale.
Georg i a —M on tgome r y Coil nt y.
Under and l>y virtue of an or
der granted by the court of ordi
nary of said county, will be sold
before the court house door in said
county on the first Tuesday in
October, next, between the legal
hours of sale to the highest bid
j der, the following property:
| One certain t ract or parcel of
j land situate, lying and being in
said county and bounded as fol
lows: On the north by lands of
| .1. D. Calhoun and John Blount,
nil the east by lands of J. A.
Thigpen and Nancy P. Phillips,
on the smith by lands of Nancy
P. Phillips and \V. L Thigpen and
on the west hy lands of H. J
Right and W. H. McCauther,
containing 220 acres more or less.
Sold as the property ot the estate
of Teresa Thigpen, deceased.
Terms, half cash, balance secured
by good notes. This the Ist day
of Sept., 1918.
J. A. Thigpen,
Adr. Estate of Teresa 'Thigpen.
One 5c Tablet and a 5c Pencil
all for 5c at Mt. Vernon Drug
Co.’s. ad
Fresh Fall Garden Seed of all
kinds at Sumerford Drug Co.’s,
Ailey, Ga. ad
Dwelliiig for Sale.
I offer my dwelling house and
lot situated on Railroad avenue
in Mt. Vernon for sale. Four
room house and large lot on the
principal street and close to the
business part of the city. For
terms and particulars address me
at Vidalia, Ga.
Mrs. J. W. McCullough,
Vidalia, Ga.
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Colored People Appeal
For Aid to School.
The Colored Industrial School
of Montgomery County is being
established on a beautiful hill
just north of Mt. Vernon depot,
and the building is in course of
erection. The site was donated
to the colored people by Messrs.
R. F. and Duncan A. Mcßae.
We hope to have the house fin
ished in time for use this winter.
Many of our friends have sub
scribed $5.00, and one, Mr. A. C.
Hamilton will give the weather
boarding. At Cedar Grove we
got a collection of SI.OO, and
many others promised to give
and patronize the school. We
ask our white friends to help us
in this struggle for the uplift of
our children.
F. D. Robinson,-
A. R. Easters,
W. E. Johnson,
Chairman, Trustees,
Prof. A. L. Murph,
Principal.
Changed His Order.
In a little restaurant where the
waiter insists upon slamming
down your plate or saucer, a man
had ordered a sandwich and a
cup of coffee. Then he decided
to add something else to his
order.
“Gimme a plate o’ that coun
try sausage, too,” he told the
waiter.
Just then the accident happen
ed.
Somebody stepped on the tail
of a small anaemic-looking dog
that had followed another custo
mer into the restaurant. The
dog gave three staccato yelps.
“Just countermand that order
for sausage,” growled the man,
with a wry race. “I didn’t know
you had to go and make it.”
Montgomery Ward, head of the
mail order house of Montgomery
Ward & Co., is seriously ill at
his home in Chicago, having
broken his hip by a fall in his
bathroom.
On account of an increase in
cost, we will have to sell our dry
batteries at 30 cents each in
stead of 25 cents as heretofore,
ad Stanford Bros.
A. L. Lanier,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON, GA.
Will Practice in all the Courts of
the State.
Hamp Burgh
Attorney at Law
McRAE, GA
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