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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thurso
The most popular athletic fea
ture of the holiday season is
high kicking at the high price of
eggs.
After all that has been said
about Huerta, no one recollects
having heard him accused of hav
ing hook worms.
Tattnall county is on the right
line in inaugurating the livestock
movement. Other counties would
do well to-agiate the matter.
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Montgomery county could pro
duce every pound of meat and
every bushel of corn consumed
within its borders. But, do we?
The most cheerful harbinger
of good times next year is the
oat fields that now begin to show
up in living green upon the hill
sides.
With the cotton crop all gath
ered and sold, there will be noth
ing to hinder on January first,
and we can put in for the great
est year in Georgia’s history.
Some of our weekly exchanges
have already bloomed out in
Christmas covers. All right,
gentlemen, but you can’t say so
much about economy in 1914 as
you did this year.
That look of expectancy on the
small boy’s face at this season
may be as large as an automobile.
The state license of $5 his dad
will have to pay on his machine
may produce a different expres
sion.
The corn club boys are taking
the country by storm. And the
canning club girls are doing a
great work. Both should v be giv
en the greatest encouragement
and the chance to revolutionize
living in this country.
The Hetch-Hetchy bill in the
interests of San Francisco has
passed congress all right, but
what the country is anxiously
waiting for is the passing of the
bill in the in
terests of the whole people.
As a rule, the speculators get
the cream of the profits of the
cotton crop, but this season has
been a good one for the farmers.
But to overdo the planting act
next year would put them back
where they were last season.
Leo Frank and Harry Thaw
have not furnished a column of
copy for the newspapers in sev
eral weeks, and Mrs. Pankhurst
will soon be safe on the other
side the Atlantic with her $20,-
000 lecture money.
We have often pleaded for a
sane observance of Christmas,
the sacred day more disgusting
ly desecrated in the South than
in otiler sections; but it is barely
possible that the coming holidays
will Ik* any exception to their
predecessors.
The fact that Georgia is a lit-,
tie short on hogs at this butcher- •
ing season, all on account of hog ■
cholera, should remind the state
department of agriculture that
money might Ik* well spent in
discovering a real preventive for j
this money destroying scourge.
We still have a kindly feeling I
for our old political associates in
the old Eleventh District, from ,
which we were digged; and we!
think it would Ik* unwise for
them to take Randal Walker out
of congress before he has time j
to get acquainted. '
qery Monitor.
OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
non. Ga. as Second-Class Mall Matter.
$i a Year, in Advance.
laid in advance, at the legal rate, and an the law
edneaday morning of the first week of insertion
day Morning, Dec. 11, 1913.
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f Wisdom’s Field. ]
Clinch Co. News:—"Mexicans
are facing defeat on all sides”
says a daily headline. It seems
that we have heard that time and
again.
Dublin Courier-Herald:—Pota
toes, and many other Georgia
products, naturally find the best
and largest cash market. The
real problem is not one of hold
ing for a larger price—it is a
problem of proper local distribu
tion, which merely means a local
’ market.
Lyons Progress:—The weather
Southeast Georgia has been hav
ing the last three or four weeks
is hard on the coal trust but good
on those of us who are trying to
get through the winter with our
last year’s clothes.
Atlanta Constitution:—Huerta
would take the field, but that he
fears some hungry officeseeker
might take the chair.
Thomasville Times-Enterprise:
i —Eugenic courtship is a thing
i which may be perfected in the
distant ages to come. The fel
> lows and the girls of today won’t
i think of letting the doctor, or the
lawyer, or the judge decide
whether they are physically fit
* to wed.
Macon Telegraph:—Those suf
fragettes in Washington say that
* President Wilson will have to
obey them and send a message to
Congress advocating woman suf
frage. Have these women taken
a good look at President Wilson’*
r square jaw? Anyway they will
have to convert Mrs. Wilson first.
Moultrie Observer:—The best
I way to fight the boll weevil is to
, find something than cotton for a
money crop. It has already been
found in Colquitt county.
Nashville Herald:—Of course a
i scramble for Congress in the
Eleventh means lots of printing
for the newspapers, but we think
■ Congressman Walker should not
be opposed this time. He is en
titled to the second term without
opposition.
Waycross Herald: —Every per
son who can possibiy do so should
avail themselves of the oppor
t tunity to try the experiment of
tobacco growing for the coming
season. If this proves success
ful Ware county will have devel
oped a new source of revenue
that will be of great value to it.
Monroe Advertiser:—ln a re
port made to Congress, Post
master Burleson say that rats
caused damage to the amount of
tIS in the postofiice department
last year. It seems to us that at
that rate Uncle Samuel could af
ford a cat.
Amerieus Times-Recorder: —
Opportunity, on every side, is ex
tending a cordial invitation to
thejnan who means business—if
his heart is right!
Atlanta Journal:—A little mat
ter like a flood, however, will not
frighten those Texans who have
lived next door to war so long.
Darien Gazette:—When a com
munity insists upon a vigorous
enforcement of all the laws why
I you will not see the law-breaker
hanging around that place. He
will hike to some other town
; where the officers are careless
and indifferent. Get behind the
violators and make them move
i on.
Savannah Press:—ln Michigan
a telegraph operator has been ar- J
rested for having seven wives.
How we can string ’em when we
i know how to work the wires.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY. DEC. 11, 1913
Woman in the Middle Ages.
Women in England have al
ways shared in the industrial life
of the nation. Curiously enough,
writes Mr. A. Abram, in “Eng
lish Life and Manners in the Lat
er Middle Ages,” a statute of
1363 that ordered men to keep to
one trade, left woman free to
practice as many as she chose.
In a few instances, at least,
women in the later middle ages
discharged duties and held offices
that do not fall to their lot now
adays. There are allusions to
women burgesses in the records i
of London and other towns, and
if women married aliens, they 1
could naturlize them. They
sometimes acted as church-war
dens, a post that often entailed
such duties as farming and trad
ing, as well as keeping the par
ish accounts, managing parish
entertainments, and representing
the parish at the archdeacon’s
court.
They were occasionally entrust
ed with the charge of state pris
oners, and once or twice they
helped to collect loans for the
king. Cicely, Duchess or War
wick, hereditary sheriff of Wor
cestershire, and the widow of
Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Nor
folk, was Countess Marshal, and
as such wore the robes of the
Garter on St. George’s day, 1386.
Women did not shrink from en
gaging in foreign commerce.
They exported goods to France,
Spain, and other countries. A
widow, Margery Russell of Cov
entry, is mentioned in no less
than three different existing doc
uments. Her business must have
. been on a fairly large scale, for
she was robbed of merchandise
worth eight hundred pounds by
some men of Santander, in Spain.
In order to recoup herself for her
losses, she obtained letters of
marque that empowered her to
seize the goods belonging to coun
trymen of the offenders. She
| apparently took more than was
| due her, for two Spanish mer
chants lodged complaints against
her, She was ordered to restore
both ships, but one of the Span
-1 iards declared that she had re
fused to do so, although he had
a commission' directed to the ex
chequer. If Dame Margery Rus
’ sell was a type, women traders
• of the middle ages were well able
to look after themselves.
For Holiday Cooking.
Full line of Fruits for cooking!
hoiday cakes. Also a full line of
Staple and Fancy Groceries and
Christmas Goods, Shoes, Notions. 1
Think of us when you get ready
to bake that cake.
H. V. Thompson & Bro.,
ad Ailey, Ga.
It matters not who the present
is for, W. E. Walker, Vidalia,
can fix it up reasonably. ad
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| WAGONS |
The Weber Wagon Leads lj|
|| All Others Follow
2 For sixty-five years the highest grade material, the finest
a workmanship and the light running qualities of the Weber
S wagon have endeared it to the hearts of Weber users. Wo
1 havo the exclusive agency for the Weber wagon, and if you
9 will call, we will explain exactly why the Weber is the King
1 of all farm wagons. Step in. If wo cannot interest you in
| tho wagon proposition, wo will not figure the time lost.
I McQUEEN, Mt. Vernon, Ga. 1
Beef From Argentina.
Argentina is beginning to sup
ply England and the United
States with meat. That is a fact
full of encouragement to South
ern farmers. If meat can be
raised in Argentina and brought
to the United States and sold at
a profit, it ought to be possible
!to develop the livestock industry
in the South to large proportions.
It is stated that these Argen
tine cattle are raised and fattened
entirely on alfalfa pastures.
These pastures support the cattle
; the year round without any sup
plementary feeding, except at
occasional times of drouth or in
vasions of locusts.
This calls attention anew of
Southern farmers to alfalfa and
like crops. The Argentine cat le
are said to be of a better quality
| than those of any of the other
South American countries. The
belief is that the business of beef
production in Argentina is capa
ble of large increase; at least as
long as high prices prevail in the
markets. A commission was ap
pointed, with Dr. Melvin at the
head, to nrTake a special inquiry
concerning the Argentine situa
tion, and he reports that as alfal
fa has been substituted for old
range pastures in the greatest
cattle raising country in South
America, and that as the slaugh
tering of the stock is carried on
under rigid inspection, it will be
necessary for the cattle breeders
and feeders of this country to
follow up-to-date and improved
methods in the production of
beef, in order to maintain their
supremacy in the home market.
Home and Farm.
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Under and by yirtue of an order
granted by the ordinary of said
comity, will be sold before the
court house door in said county,
on the first Tuesday m January,
1914, to the highest bidder for
cash, during the legal hours of
sale, the following property to
wit:
100 and 6-10 acres of land more
or less situate, lying and being in
the 12215 t G. M. district of said
county and state, carved out of
the land of estate of David Miller,
and bounded as follows: On the
north by lands of VV. D. Martin
and Geo. M. Barwick, on the east
by lands of the estate of David
Miller, south-west by lands of
Arch Johnson and lands of estate
of David Miller and on the west
by lands of W. 1). Martin. Sold
( for the purpose of paying debts ol
' said estate and being a part of the
j estate of David Miller, deceased.
This the 2d day of Dec , 1913.
A. C. McLennan,
Ad. Estate of David Miller.
W. E. Walker is always on
time; never late when it comes
to having the goods and fixing
them up for proper presentation.
Try us and be pleased. Walker,
the jeweler, Vidalia. ad
A Free Lecture
EMMETT R. SHAW
Mr. Shaw is the man who turned the
light on the old convict lease system, which
caused its abolishment. He will appear at
E4.-R. INSTITUTE
FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 12
He will give one of his characteristic
lectures, to which the public is invited. He
Will discuss “THE DANGERS OF THE AGE.”
He is as unpopular with the special
interests as he is popular w ith the masses.
Come and sit steady in your seat.
WAS DEFIANT, BUT RIGHT
Mr. Shaw stood flat-footed and defied
every daily paper and the politicians in his
race for Congress from the Third district,
carrying sixty precincts against the winner
with less than forty-five. He is now T on the
platform with a much-needed message of
truth to those who will listen. Come.
All Are Invited, Especially The Ladies.
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