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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Entered at the Postoffice in Mt. Vernon, Oa. as Second-Class Mail Matter.
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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Feb. 5, 1914.
The bichloride of mercury fad
is getting popular again. A Dub
lin man tried it last Saturday.
The speculator is not watching
the prize acres of the corn club
boys. It is the cotton fields he
has his eye on.
Montgomery county extends a
hearty welcome to Judge B. T.
Rawlings, who is presiding over
our superior court this week.
We need education in this
country, great shiploads of it,
and the kind that broadens and
does not focus the growing mind.
It is only a matter of five
months when the U. S. congress
will have the wind taken out of
its sails by the Georgia legisla
ture.
The Democratic Executive
Committee is clearing up the old
county race track and the boys
are getting ready for that sprint
on the 18th of March.
We are counting on this Feb
ruary sunshine to dissolve the
egg trust and get them down to
where poor people don’t have to
cook shells and all.
If South Georgia had one half
the advertising that Southern
California has had there would
be an army of investors marching
this way as thick as the locusts
of Egypt.
That couple who were married
on the dome of the capital in At
lanta last Friday were not adver
tised as aeronauts, hut they were
getting somewhat “upity,” to
say the least of it.
The ground hog and the whip
poorwill will claim their places
for a few weeks in the public
prints, and the peach crop will
be killed and brought to life again
several times as heretofore.
Postmaster General Burleson’s
demand that the government
take over the telegraph and tele
phone lines will doubtless meet
with the approval of all who
favor an increase in the number
of federal offices.
If you have no boy to join the
corn club and plant a prize acre,
help some other boy to do so.
Tue work is a grand one, and
backing up the boy at the right
time might decide his future for
a life of great usefulness.
That philosopher up in Massa
chusetts who discovered how to
live on four cents a day, has "let
the cat out of the bag” by say
ing it can be done on the farm.
There are several side dishes that
can be picked up on the farm.
The matter of lower rates of
interest for farmers who borrow
money is being discussed as nev
er before in the world of finance.
And we hope to see a plan per
fected that will put them on an
equal footing with other classes.
No one in this section is wor
rying over the income tax law,
and few are interested in devel
opments in Mexico. And if the
boll weevil gets here this year
we hope to meet him on the fir
ing line with plenty of potato
blinks and well-filled corn cribs.
If you challenge the statement
that ignorance as dark as that
which held sway in the Middle
Ages still hovers over sections of
this country, watch the crowds
that gather around the street
fakirs in Mt. Vernon this week
and see them eagerly hand over
their cash for nostrums.
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Nashville Herald:—What are
you going to do about your tax
returns this year? Are you go
ing to increase them, or leave
it to the tax assessors? Some
body is going to do it.
Lyons Progress:—The regional
hank for the Southeast should be
located at Savannah. It is the
great shipping point for the
Southeast and should be made
the money center of this section.
Pembroke Enterprise:—Efforts
are being made to bring the
sugar-cane industry of Georgia
into greater prominence. Geor
gia syrup has no equal when
properly made, and it should be
used all over the United States.
Americus Times-Recorder:—
Many defenders of the tango say
that dancing it is all right if
properly done. Quite true, but
the same may be said of drinking
whiskey or eating Italian maca
roni.
Waycross Herald:—A Tampa
paper says: "Detectives are to
stop picking pockets.” This
would seem to indicate that the
wave of reform has at last struck
the detectives.
Dublin Courier-Herald:—With
their usual wonderful consistency
those militant suffragettes prob
ably think that the destruction
of botanical gardens, public
buildings and mail matter will
aid their cause just "because.”
Tattnall Journal:—"Bacon and
bread, and more of it” will be
the cry of Tattnall farmers this
year. They have started upon a
plan which will assure them peace
and plenty for years to come if
they will carry it out.
Perry Home Journal:—Georgia
farms will not yield the full meas
ure of profit that they hold in
store for their owners until the
number of cattle and hogs raised
is very largely increased. The
shortage in cattle and hogs is
largely responsible for the high
price of meat.
Savannah Press:—There is a
movement throughout the coun
try to bring father and son closer
together. We imagine the new
order will be called the Knights
of the Woodshed or something
like that.
Macon Telegraph:—Macon is
one of the best convention cities
in the South and the reason of
this is that we have both the
room and the glad right hand of
welcome.
Valdosta Times:—Macon is
standing loyally by Atlanta in
the latter’s fight for the regional
bank. The Central City probably
expects Atlanta to stand by her
in her fight for the removal of
the state capital.
Monroe Advertiser: —A British
scientist claims that it is vulgar
to wear clothes, and some of the
women seem to take him at his
word.
Greensboro Herald-Journal:—
President Wilson has told con
gress that he intends to follow a
policy that will keep business on
a basis of confidence. That’s all
right, Mr. President.
Darien Gazette: —The legisla
ture meets in less than five
months and there is no way to
stop it.
Thomasville Times-Enterprise:
—The hunters are bringing in
nice bags of quail every day and
you rarely ever see one with so
little sense as to brag about kill
ing over forty.
THE MONTGOMERY^MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. S, 1914
The Profits Os
Whiskey Sale.
Very few people have an idea
of the cost of manufacture of
whiskey or the immense profit
there is in its sale, until they get
figures and facts relative to its
manufacture and sale. In this
day of blind tigers there is the
much asked querry: What profit
does the seller make, to enable
him to take the risk of selling
the stuff in the face of the laws
against it and the tendency of
courts to inflict heavy fines?
Culled from an old newspaper
a gentleman interested in the
topping of the illegal sale of
whiskey in Thomasville has hand
ed us a statement of the prices
obtained from the time the corn
is gathered until it has consumed.
It is as follows:
From one bushel of grain there
is distilled about four gallons of
wiskey which retails for $17.00.
The Farmer gets $ .50
The U. S. government gets 4.20
The Railroad gets 1.00
The Manufacturer gets 4.00
The Drayman gets .30
The Retailer get 7.00
The Consumer gets drunk
The Wife gets
The Children get neglected.—
Waycross Herald.
Coming to
Mt. Vernon.
Dr. F. B. Hughes,
the eyesight specialist,
will return to our city
and can be consulted
at the store of the Mt.
Vernon Drug Co. on
Feb. (i. You are in
vited to consult him
if you have eye troub
les and want expert
service. ad
I- THE ■ -
Tri-Weekly Constitution
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Almost a Daily, Three
Times a Week, Only SI.OO a Year
lias offered in connection with its Fall Subscription Contest an
EXTRA SPECIAL $1,000.00 CASH
to communities at work for any Church, School, Lodge or Library, or Other Public Improvement.
To the community outside the city of Atlanta that will raise and send In the largest number of I
yearly Tri-Weekly subscriptions, at SI.OO each, under the general rules of the contest, cash $ 750.00
For the next largest list, as above .. .. .. .. 250.00
Total ..$1,000.00
This fund can be used to build or repair a church, or parsonage, or manse, or schoolhouse, or a j
bridge for special uses, town hall, lodge hall, or a library, public spring, roadway, park, picnic
ground, street lights or any other improvement or project that will be of any public or communal Interest.
These prizes are wide open to all localities, and are put up for general competition throughout our
territory. The fund is of sufficient size to make It worth while, and to elicit ths interest and work of tha
best people of each contesting community. Some leading spirits will take an active part, committees
of canvassers, circles of ladies, young people's clubs and enthusiastic individuals will rake tha land for
subscribers to The Tri-Weekly Constitution. The $1,000.00 will be paid for the largest lists furnished.
What does your community, your town, your rural section need most that the money will cover, or
will begin In such away as to insure Its completion by the public?
That Is what you want to determine, and then everybody get busy on It and get it.
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those credited on community (Mention any church, lodge, school, library, club, ladles' society, young
prizes. only if received from people's society, or any civic organisation.)
regularly authorized agents.
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once of their entry and to 1913, will be worth 500 credits in this section of the contest.
whom the SI,OOO in checks
must be made payable. •———— ■ ■ - ■ ■ —1
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Petition For Divorce.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Wiilie Davis vs Susan Davis. In Montgomery
Superior Court. To Susan Davis, Greeting: You
are hereby notified that Willie Davis has filed in
this court his petition for total divorce against
you, and that the same is made returnable to the
February Term of this court. Take due notice
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ness the Honorable E. D. Graham, Judge of said
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