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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1914)
F\or\tgorr\&ry Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the I‘ostoffloe in Mt. Vernon, Oa. as Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. a Year, in Advance. SS-Ugni advertisements must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law directs ami must be in band not later than Wedncaday morning of the flrat week of inaertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Feb. 12, 1914. Keep an eye on the main chance. The year 1914 has much in store as a reward for intelli gent, honest effort. Times ought to be more lively in Mexico in a few days when shipments of U. S. guns and am unition begin to cross the line. Owners of automobiles will not object to federal aid for public roads-neither will the farmer who has produce to haul to mar ket. The farmer who saves home fertilizer enough to save the ex pense of even one ton of guano will be in $25 next fall—possibly enough to pay his taxes. Every patriotic and loyal Geor gian will regret to learn of the serious illness in Washington of Hon. A. 0. Bacon, Georgia’s distinguished senior senator. Some counties will be intelli gently represented in the Geor gia legislature next year and others will be sadly misrepresent ed. But the people are responsi ble. What has become of the farm demonstrator who was to serve jointly Montgomery and Toombs counties? We are about ready to pull the bell line over our mule. Improvements in agricultural implements have been many, hut are scarcely keeping pace with inventions for locomotion. What has become of that gasoline plow promised some time ago? The ground that postal roads are necessary to the government service as well as postoffices is well taken. Congress is on the line in passing measures for improving public highways. Cheap and disreputable carni vals ought to be banished from Georgia. They are always ac companied by thieves and thugs, and, robberies are always more frequent when they are in a community. The Georgia Historical Society, one of the most select and im portant institutions of the state, is celebrating “Georgia Day,” as well as its 75th anniversary to day in Savannah. Many of Georgia’s most intellectual men have boon on the roll of the so ciety during this three-quarters of a century. Every large tract of land in this country ought to be subdi vided and sold off for small farms. Ten small farmers own ing their homes are a much more valuable asset to the state than one large land-owner, to say nothing of the great social up lift to deserving people and their increased value as responsible citizens. In their general presentments published this week, the grand jury in session last week deplores the prevalence of crime in our county and urges diligence in the county officers to suppress the depredations of burglars. It is quite probable that recent bur glaries here were the work of sneak thieves following the dis reputable carnival companies that have infested the small towns in shis section. The rem edy lies in getting rid of these abominable troujies, whose per formances appeal only to the very basest impulses, while their attaches plunder and swindle the unsuspecting, right and left. t Gleanings From ■ t Wisdom’s Field. : £ 4 • AAAAUAimUAAtAtamAA Hawkinsville Dispatch-News: The office boy of the Ford Au tomobile Company draws a salary of S3O per week. If he sticks close to business and takes care of his money he may some day become president of the company Macon Telegraph:—Marriage bonds of twenty-eight couples in Bibb county have been severed and now they are all free to try it all over again. Let us hope they may do better next time — in cases where there is a next time. Way cross Herald:—The House of Representatives has voted down the proposition to establish a permanent committee on wom an’s suffrage. Many congress men will have something to an swer for when they get home. Perry Home Journal: —The pig clubs being formed by boys throughout the state must neces sarily be closely associated with the corn clubs, one is practically as important as the other. Dublin Courier-Herald:—Sixty thousand dollars for the Altama ha!—comprising three of the largest and most navigable rivers in Georgia. The federal govern ment spends this much on Dub lin’s postoffice. Fitzgerald Press: —A circus man states that his show can’t do any business in sections which have been stricken by the boll weevil. There is something more deadly to circuses than boll weevils in Fitzgerald; it is a thousand-dollar license. Savannah Press:—That the war is over is proven by the fact that a union veteran has been drawing an Alabama state pen sion. Os course the statement that he got it through mistake dosen’t make any difference. Greensboro Herald-Journal: — We notice that our old friend A- No. I is getting tired of being killed periodically and decided to get married. He gave up his career as a tramp several months ago and has settled down. We trust he will be able to settle up, as it will be a hard job when once he’s married. Monroe Advertiser: —Get the smile habit. It makes the world so much brighter. We should imagine that the most miserable creature in the world is the per son who mistrusts everybody. Tattnall Journal: —If the Geor gia Chamber of Commerce suc ceeds in having built good high ways from one county seat to the other all over the state it will have done one thing for which the whole state has long been in need. Lyons Progress:—lt’s only a few months now until the Geor gia legislature meets for its an nual gab-fest and law-tinkering. So get your new county bill ready and avoid the rush. Valdosta Times:—The leader of the rebel army in Hayti who was defeated on yesterday is named Theodore. He probably knows how another Theodore felt after the first Tuesday in last November a year ago. Darien Gazette:—There is more attention now being paid to cat tle raising in Georgia than ever before, and it is a mighty good sign. It will not be long, we hope, before Georgia will lead her neighbors in the cattle raising i business. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1914. Is Grandmother at 29; Daughter is Ma at 15. Sharon, Okla., Feb. 9.—Okla homa claims to possessthe young est grandmother. Mrs. John Shryock, was married at the age of 14, giving birth to a girl be fore she reached the age of 15. The daughter was married be fore she was 14, and the day she was 15 years of age, gave birth to a boy, making the grandmoth er just 29 years old. The baby’s great-grandmother is 45 years old, and his father is 41. being many years older than his wife. Negro In Laurens Sentenced To Hang. Dublin, Feb. 9. —Shed Hill, a negro, wa3 sentenced to hang in Laurens Superior Court by Judge K. J. Hawkins after the iury which heard his case tried had brought in a verdict of guilty. Saturday, March 17, was set for the execution. Hill killed Flanders White, an other negro, at Montrose, this county, a few weeks ago in a quarrel over a pair of shoes. Arguments That Failed. We have recently had the privilege of glancing over a copy of the Year Book of the United States Brewers’ Association. Over 300 pages are devoted to a vain effort at bolstering this wan ing cause, but no amount of ar gument can overcome the ded rock fact that liquor is harmful to anyone, physically, morally, mentally. Os course, its effects are bad or worse in proportion to the amount consumed.—La- Grange Reporter. L . W. BUSH, Dental Surgeon, Offices 2d Floor Bank of Soperton Building. Soperton, Ga. T—aaescEßMß •«< nnn mni i»i——hwsbm——M— - - —Li Tri-Weekly Constitution ATLANTA, GEORGIA Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Almost a Daily, Three Times a Week, Only SI.OO a Year Has 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 yearly Tri-Weekly subscriptions, at SI.OO each, under the general rules of the contest, cash f 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 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 the interest and work of the 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 the 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. The Rules In Brief Are _ . , I*, OFFICIAL COMMUNITY NOMINATION BLANK Each yearly subscription to The Trl-Weekly Oonstitu- 7i™. r . sd “ y , * w J Atlanta Constitution. 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When subscriptions Pnc»r,ffire are credited to one such name r-ostoT j or person they are not trans- .on fernble and may not be con- (Date) laid. state--... solldated. Community con- . . , „ . testants must notify us at This blank, properly filled out and sent In prior to September 30, once of their entry and to 1913 w j|| b e worth 500 credits in this section of the contest. whom the 11,000 in checks must be made payable. ' l——— -— —l GET BUSY NOW—Make nominations for the community section of contest and start your list at once; face-to-face canvassers are the successful men. You can take the best money if you will make a business of the work and use your spare time and some regular days of active soliciting. Sand a club every week. 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