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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1913)
WHAT IS THE LIMIT OF CORN PRODUCTION? Can Georgia Beat Alabama Wfth a Record of 232 Bushels? What is the limit to the amount of corn that can be produced up on an acre under ideal conditions? When Jerry Moore of South Car olina grew 228 bushels on one acre the whole world applauded him and there predictions that the record would stand for a long time. And it did stand three years. But this year, generally considered not a very good corn year, an Alabama boy, Walker Lee Dunson, reported a yield of 232 bushels. What a lesson there is in those figures for farmers who have been content to raise 10 or 12 or 20 bushels to the acre! Young Dunson holds the national title of champion corn grower. But it may be unwise to predict that he will continue to hold it many years. Os interest is the fact that he spent but 20 cents a bushel to produce his yield, half as much as Jerry Moore spent. - He and the former champion have shown that the South is the natural corn-growing section. They cap tured championships in competi tion with boys throughout the country, including those in the great corn-growing belt. Boys from thirty states are being en tertained at Washington by the Department of Agriculture. The South sent, to the capital the champion of them all. Only the failure of the South’s farmeis to see the possibilities before this section in growing corn can pre vent the South from being the nation’s chief granary within a few years. —Savannah News. The Making of a Diplomat. They had been mutually at tracted to each other at their first meeting, says Answers. Stealthy meetings at teashops and theaters had enabled them to arrive at that stage called “love.” The wedding day had been fixed, and the South of France chosen for the scene of the honeymoon. “But, George,” she said one day, “had you not better call and tell mamma all about it? She ought to be told, you know.” “Yes; I suppose she ought,” admitted George, somewhat doubtfully. Now, mamma was a chilling and haughty widow, and George felt somewhat nervous as he waited in the drawing room for her to appear. “I understand,” she said, sail ing into the room, “that you have been making love to my daughter in secret. In these cir cumstances, therefore, I feel it to be my duty to forbid you ever to see her or to enter this house again! Good morning!” “Madam,” said George, pulling himself together, “it is true I see you now for the first time.: Had I seen you before meeting your daughter I should never have thought of her for a mo ment —I should have loved you to distraction!” “Ah, well!” said-mamma, op bending. “What I objected to was the secrecy of it all. Come into the next room and I will in troduce you!” Real Spirit Os Christmas. How often have I heard the word: “I wish that I were rich at Christmas-time, for then I could do so much for others, ” writes Margaret Woodword in an article on the problem of Christmas giv ing, in Suburban Life. “How strange it is that we never seem to learn the lesson that it is not the giving of things, but the giving of self, that counts! It is the spirit of Christmas which we must strive after —not the multi pliplication of gifts.” For choice rust-proof seed oats see me before the supply is ex hausted. W. H. McQueen, ad Mt. Vernon. If I Had The Time. Some boys will pick up a good education in the odds and ends of time, which others carelessly throw away, as one man saves a fortune by small economies, which others disdain to practice. What young man is too busy to get an hour a day for self-improvement? You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must take it.*! If a ,’genius like Gladstone car ried|through life a little book in his pocket lest an unexpected mo ment should slip from his grasp, what should we, of common abilities, resort to save the precious moments from oblivion? “Nothing is worse for those who have business than the visits of those who have none,” was the motto of a Scottish editor. Drive the minutes, or they will drive you. Success in life is what Garfield called a question of “margins.” Tell me how a young man uses the little ragged edges of time while waiting for meals or tardy appointments, af ter his day’s work is done, or evenings—what opportunity!— and I will tell you what that man’s success will be. One can usually tell by his manner, the direction of the wrinkles in his forehead, or the expression of his eyes whether he has been in the habit of using his time to good advantage or not. “The most valuable of all pos sessions is time, life itself is measured by it.” The man who loses no time doubles his life. Wasting time is wasting life. Some squander time, some in vest it, some kill it. That pre cious half-hour a day which many of us throw away, rightly used, would save us from]the ignorance which mortifies us, the narrow ness and pettiness which always attend exclusive application to our callings. Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped ar row, the past life, and the neg lected opportunity.—Success. To Rub Them Out. A funny story is being told in medical circles, says Pearson’s Weekly. A man went to a quack doctor for treatment. He had a sharp pain internally, and remarked that it might be caused by his habit of sucking the point of a lead pencil. The quack said he was suffering from lead poison ing and gave him some pills which he said would cure him. Next day the man came back very angry. “A friend of mine has examin ed the pills you gave me,” he said, “and they are only bread.” “Os course they are,” was the bland reply. “Don’t you know that bread is the finest thing to remove pencil marks with? You didn’t want me to give you india rubber pills, did you?” Christmas Here In 1492. The first Christmas ever spent by white men on this hemisphere was devoted to saving what could be preserved of a shipwreck. On Christman eve, 1492, the caravel Santa Maria with her consort, the Nina, was coasting down the shore off the island which the ad miral christened Hispaniola, now known as Haiti. At 11 o’clock on Christmas eve Columbus, feeling that the ships were safe in the calm, left the deck and went to sleep. A steersman at the helm violated orders and left a boy in charge. The boy at the helm did not hear the breakers as the current sucked the ship inshore and was not alarmed until the vessel struck. Columbus answered his cry for help, but the ship could not be saved, and all on board were safely transferred to the Nina. Christmas was spent try ing to save the Santa Maria. M. E. CALHOUN A tty at Law, Mt Vernon', Georgia THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, DEG. 18, 1913. Farm for Kent. Good three-horse farm on pub lic road from Lumber City to Dublin, six miles south of Glen wood, (P. H. Clark home place). High state cultivation, good wa ter, school, church. See W. C. Riner, ad Glenwood, Ga. Stray Notice. Came to my place about three years ago, a dark red Steer now about 4or 5 years old. Mark staple fork in right ear and smooth crop in left ear. Owner can get same by paying feed bill‘and"advertising fees. J. C. Clifton. Uvalda,fGa.,:Nov. 25, 1913. The Li rgest Magazine in the World Today’s Magazine is the largest and best edited magazine pub lished at 50c per year. Five cents per copy at all newspapers. Ev ery lady who appreciates a good magazine should send for a free sample copy and premium cata log. Address, Today’s Maga izne, Canton, Ohio. [adj For Long Term Farm Loans, SEE A. B. HUTCHESON, I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, with lowest rates of interest and the most liberal terms of payments I have several years experience in the loan business, am located at the county site and believe that I am in position to give you the best, terms and as prompt services as any one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. CLINTON P. THOMPSON, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON AND ALAMO. Mt. Vernon office Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday. Telephone. PIANO . TUNING. If your Piano is worth anything, it is worth EXPERT TUNING. Any other kind will ruin it. 1 have a diploma, and guarantee all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, MT. VERNON, GA. W. B. GRIMES, Blacksmith & Repair Works, ALSTON, GEORGIA, All Classes of Repair Work Work Quickly and Correctly Done. Bring Me Your Work. Ham i* Burcii Attorney at Law McRAE, GA Practices in all the Courts. Wire Fencing. We have just re ceived large lot of the Famous “American” Wire Fence, every of which is guaranteed. All sizes. Display at blacksmith shop. MASON & HUTCHESON, MT. VERNON, GA. BUIC K | # 1 if These five letters spell the name of the best all-around automobile (for the money) in the United States today. ® h It is a household word throughout the nation, and has been U since machines were invented. No purchaser of a Buiek $j I was ever disappointed—and never will be. See 11s at once for the new models. If you want a machine at all, you 0 want a Buiek. Place your order at onee. Wisdom says so. @ | M’ALLISTER & O’NEAL I H Selling Buicks in Montgomery and Toombs Counties I UVALDA, OA. I A Note to You: Jan. 23, 1913. We have no regular delivery wagon as yet. Within a few years air ships will come into general use, and many of our patrons will have deliveries made from our place in this novel and rapid manner. In the mean time, should you not live directly in touch with our drug store, many of your purchases can be forwarded by Uncle Sam’s new mail service— the Parcels Post —delivered right at your door. That class of goods commonly known as merchandise will be forwarded at our expense, free to your door, and we should be glad to have our patrons take advantage of this new and eco nomical method of shopping. P. S. School books cannot be forwarded at the Parcels Post rates. Mt. Vernon Drug Cmpany. FARM HACHINERY If you want Best Prices on Mowers, Rakes, Disc Harrows, Grain Drills, Buggies and Wagons, see D. S. Williamson, Alston, Ga. MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! Plenty of Money to Lend On Improved Farms at Six per Cent. Interest —Any Amount T From SBOO Up. 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