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Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, Oct. 9, 1913.
Huerta announces that he has
about crushed the Mexican rebels.
Perhaps, till day after tomorrow.
Our local merchants are selling
many grain drills. That is a
sure sign of prosperity for 1914.
! It is hardly worth while for
the weekly papers to rise up and
say “it never touched me, ’’ the
income tax.
We are under obligations to
Hon. Hoke Smith for a copy of
his speech in the Senate on tariff
reform, delivered Sept. 6th.
Education has done wonders
for Georgia in general, and
Montgomery county in particular.
But we need great shiploads of
it yet.
Progressive farmers and stock
men will find a helpful object
lesson in the Twelfth District
Fair at Dublin the first week in
November.
The South furnishes the world
with cotton, and now they are
calling on us to furnish the meat
supply of the nations. We can
do that, also, if you will give us
a little time.
We have no idea how it will af
fect the egg market, hut it is
quite probable that in local poli
tics in the coming campaign a
large brood of chickens will be
counted that will never be hatch
ed.
You cannot realize what capers
prosperity is cutting in Georgia
just now, but you can grasp the
significance of the miniature
copy at the big State fair in Ma
con, which will be in full running
order in two weeks.
"Fall openings” are all the
rage down this way opening
the peanut and chufa fields to
the pigs. And these same guys
will be opening sausage casings
a little later, and putting pork
right up close to potato pone.
The beneficial effects of taritf
revision may not be felt at once,
but we expect great good to re
sult to the whole country. Pres
ident Wilson’s signature has
made the new bill a law, and we
now have an opportunity to try
it out.
Oscar W. Underwood wants to
go to the U. S. Senate. All loy
al Democrats must admit that
Mr. Underwood has won his
claim by his work in the house,
and is justly entitled to anything
he may ask of the Democratic
party.
It has taken line upon line to
instill into the farmers’ minds
the groat and urgent need of a
gradual marketing, of the cotton
crop. The same process may
have to secure to them the real
value of the cotton seed crop,
now parted with so recklessly.
We have preached co-operation
in season and out of season, but
are satisfied that the boys of
Montgomery county ought to be
organized into a corn club under
local direction. Business men of
the county ought to take hold of
the matter and see that the boys
have a square deal.
The United States is setting
the pace of prosj>erity among the
nations. If Georgia will proper
ly diversify her crops and mix
in stock raising good and strong,
manufacture's will take care of
themselves and the Empire State
of the South will set the pace for
the sisterhood of states. i
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Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:
—Georgia farmers are receiving
a good price for their cotton this
year, due principally to the short
crop in the west, but they may
not he so fortunate another year.
So the wise thing for them to do
is to prepare for a good crop of
hog and hominy and let cotton
be an after consideration.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot:—Mex
ico needs more leaders, suggests
a magazine writer, but to the on
looker it would appear that the
chief trouble down there is that
everylnxly wants to lead.
Macon Telegraph:—Other
States in the neighborhood of
Georgia are holding State fairs.
Only curtain-raisers to the great
event to be staged here Oct. 21
to 31.
Savannah Press: —There are
i fourteen candidates for congress
i in the second district. Georgians
are anxious to serve under the
great white dome.
Atlanta Constitution:—Mere
1 man threatens to use the recall
against California women office
holders, but right there is where
the women refuse to honor and
obey.
LaGrange Reporter:—That was
sound advice given by Dr. Ran
dolph Churchill of England, who,
when speaking recently to an
audience of negroes in Atlanta,
told them that the best place for
the negro is the Southern states.
Monroe Advertiser: —The mer
chant who enjoys a good trade is
the merchant who advertises and
hustles for business. And there’s
i no better time than now. Cot
i ton’s coming in, the people have
money and are looking about for
places to trade. Let ’em know
what you have.
Graymont Hustler: —How
many people in our town realize
that the town’s appearance is a
very vital point in its commercial
life? Everybody is ready to ad
mit that a man is more likely to
be successful if he is well groom
ed. What is true of a man is al
so true of a town.
Lyons Progress:—Lyons and
Toombs county should be well
represented m the recently or
ganized State Chamber of Com
merce, the main object of which
is to place before the outside
world Georgia’s undeveloped re
sources.
Pembroke Enterprise: There
are plenty of people who are
ready to tell you how to run a
newspaper, but none aie anxious
to furnish the “spondulix” to
keep the press humming.
Clinch Co. News: There are
plenty of cotton-pickers in Hom
crville, if the farmers could only
get the lazy rascals to work.
There are numbers of white boys
hanging around town, that are
actually too darned sorry to
work enough to show it. They
know "too much” to go to school
and are above work. ’Tis true,
"What fools these mortals be.”
Darien Gazette:—lt goes with
out saying that the building of
the Panama Canal is going to be
a great thing for the South, and
especially the coast towns and
cities. That long tiresome jour
ney around the horn will now bo
cut out.
Commerce News:—Let us
form an alfalfa club in every
i community.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, OCT 9, 1913
Alfalfa Valuable Crop.
According to the 1910 census
of the hay crop, the state of
Wisconsin grew 18,000 acres of
alfalfa, which averaged 2.8 tons
per acre for the entire state, and
the average acre value of the
crop was $31.00. During the
same year the combined acreage
of timothy and clover averaged
1.6 tons per acre, valued at $14.-
00. It costs no more to grow' an i
acre of alfalfa than it does to
grow an acre of timothy or clov
er. The average cost of growing
an acre of clover or timothy is
approximately SIO.OO. Thus the
farmer would clear $4.00 per
acre in growing these crops,
whereas if he grew alfalfa he
would make a profit of $12.00
per acre.
Her Brother’s Voice.
Little Faith was possessd of a
most friendly disposition, but
had not yet reached the age
where she could understand the
silence that may wrap itself
around a wordless intimacy. In
fact, she demanded speech, fre
quent and loving.
One night her brother was
studying most assidulously his
arithmetic lesson, and after call
ing to him several times without
receiving an answer, she appeal
ed to her father.
“George is busy,” said father.
“I know,” replied Faith, “but
he might at least have said,
“Shut up.”
Constructively “She.”
In a well-known college for
women, where the faculty con
sists chiefly of the gentler sex, a
meeting of the academic council
was in progress. Here and there
a lone man sat islanded in the
concourse of learned ladies. An
amendment had just been pro
l>osed.
“Where is the person who of
fers this amendment?” inquired
the president. “Who is she?”
Whereupon Mr. Flower, the
popular young professor of a
favorite subject, and replied, de
preciatingly, “I am she.”
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.
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