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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1914)
COTTON SEED PRICES ENTIRELY TOO LOW Congressman Hughes Finds Nothing to Warrant Such Prices. Washington, D. C., Sept. 19. — Representative Dudley Hughes who has interested the Depart ment of Justice in the price of cotton seed in his district enough for the Attorney General to or der an investigation, says he can see no economic reason why cot ton seed should be selling at such low prices. He finds that prac tically none of the seed are ex ported and that the exports of the manufactured products of the seed are negligible. “While the European war might be advanced as a reason for some slight fall in the market there is no economic reason for such a severe depression as now exists,” said Mr. Hughes. “Re ports from the cotton belt show that seed prices are ranging from $lO tosls per ton as against prices of last year from S2O to S3O or practically 50 per cent, off from last year’s prices. “On investigation of census re ports I find that there were pro duced last year 6,305,000 tons of seed. Os this amount 4,767,802 tons were crushed. Only 8,171 tons of seed were exported, an almost inconsiderable quantity. As much as 197,160,000 gallons of oil were produced and approx imately 25,725,000 gallons were exported, or approximately one eighth of the amount produced. About 400,000 tons of cake and meal were exported. These fig ures clearly indicate that prac tically the entire crop is either used or manufactured in this country and that the bulk of the manufactured products are con sumed in this country. The comparatively small effect that the foreign trade in oil has on the value of cotton seed is shown by the figures for the amount of oil exported since 1895 and the prices paid for seed last year. The export of oil last year was less than it has been since 1896 and yet the price of cotton seed was unusually high. In 1912 more than 42,000,000 gallons were exported and in 1911 more than 53,000,000. “To offset any natural de pression which may be brought about in the price of the manu factured products of cotton seed is the fact that it now appears that it will be difficult to secure from Germany sufficient potash for the fertilization of next year’s crop, and this will necessitate the removing a large quantity of meal from the market to be used as fertilizer.” Rural Credit Benefits. The Grange News Letter says that the farmers of the East do not need a rural credit system as badly as do farmers of the West. One farmer desired to borrow' $25. He went to a bank and had to give a chattel mortgage on a team worth $250 and also had to secure the signature of a friend as surety. He had the money seven months and had to pay $7 for the use of it. Another young man wanted $250 to secure an education. He offered a mort gage on real estate valued at $2,000, but could not get the money on any terms. A third farmer had an opportunity to buy a farm at a low price and tried to get $16,000 on progerty worth $30,000, but failed. These are illustrative of conditions which rural credit legislation remedies. —Utica N. Y. Observer. Not so Awfully Plain. An Irish girl called at Mrs. Green’s to get the place as cook, relates the Ladies’ Home Journal. “Are you a plain cook?” in quired Mrs. Green. “Well, mum,” replied the girl, “yez may t’ink so but Officer Mulligan war afther tellin’ me that me eyes w'or loike th’ Lakes av Killarney.” 1 Five Acres of Colton to Plow Brooks Wants. ! Quitman, Sept. 19.—The offi cers and members of the Brooks i County Farmers’ Union, in ses sion today, adopted the follow ing resolution: “Resolved, That the govern ment allow five acres of cotton to each plow run on a farm free of tax and that all over five acres planted be taxed at the rate of $lO per acre and fix a penalty for non-compliance with the law. “Second, That we ask our state and national officers to work for such a law to come into effect as soon as possible. (Signed officially by) I. E. Bozeman, President, L. M. Rogers, Secretary. This is probably the most dras tic cotton tax suggestion that has been made. At a meeting of far mers from all parts of the county, held Wednesday, a resolution was passed pledging every man pres ent not to plant next year more than five acres to the plow. The average planting in Brooks has been from ten to fifteen acres to the plow. War's 111 Effects. Some idea of the far-reaching effects of a great European war may be gained from the state ment that it has almost paralyzed the commerce of the west coast of South America. Peru has been so hard hit by it that it has de clared a partial moratorium. Here at home we have seen, the temporary closing of the Eddy stone branch of the Baldwin Lo comotive Works, because the ex port of Engines has been killed for the time being by the trade depression aboard. In Chicago, where several of the railroads, including the Pennsylvania, have planned to erect a new $50,000,- 000 union station, the project has been shelved until the financial skies brighten. Against such in stances, which might be multi plied indefinitely, could be placed others where the war has given impetus to industry, but there would remain a heavy bal ance on the debit side. War is essentially destructive, and where it is waged on a great i scale it affects nearly every coun try in the world. —Philadelphia Record. Why Two Elections? We would like to ask what is the use of having two elections the same year in Georgia? Th£re is no longer any real democratic party, as we all well know. In the year 1906 the progressives struck out the word “Demo cratic” and substituted the words “White Primary, and ever since that time every white person in this state who had his name on the registration list has been al | lowed to vote whether he was a 'socialist, populist, republican or anything else. We are not now raising any | j kick about this, but since it is the ; I rule and there is no real demo jcratic party in this state, we do object to harrassing the people, and incurring the expense of { holding two elections during the | same year. There is no demo- S cratic party and the one election in October should be sufficient.— Cordele Dispatch. Fanil for Sale. I am now offering at private sale 100 Acres of Land lying in the southern portion of Laurens county, nine miles north of Glen wood, Wheeler county. This property has open upon it a one horse farm, a nine-room two-sto ry building in first class condition, barn and tenant house, and an artesian well supplies an abund ance of fine, pure water. This farm lies within one mile of the Oconee river, In addition to the. 100 acres of farm land I am also offering 169 acres of Swamp Land near by which will afford excellent pasturage for livestock. ; : Prices reasonable and terms easy, j ! Write or call on the undersigned | for particulars. J. B. Geigf.r, i Mt. Vernon, Ga. I THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 24. 1914 I I 11 • Commercial § I Printing 1 I QUALiTY KINO J 1 l This printing business is an every-day thing with us. For nearly twenty-five years wo have made a specialty of xj ij that department of the art known as “job printing” — * I 1 $ Letter Heads, Envelopes | TV? | Note Heads, Circulars | Cards,! Fay Checks | Programs, Ets. i 'F v *C" A.’ V* V'V V v ■V V "V* -V T." V-V V TA -V V-VVV VV V V (V/ I The Montgomery 1 1 Monitor 1 i * n | MT. VERNON, GA. Telephone No. 4<> § j === T H E I Tri-Weekly Constitution I ATLANTA, GEORGIA Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Almost a Daily, Three £ Times a Week, Only &1.00 a Year lias offered in connection with its Fad Subscription Contest an I . EXTRA SPECIAL $1,000.00 CASH I i to communities at work for any Church, School, Lo Inc or Library, or Other Public Improvement. To the community outside the city of Atlanta that will raise and send in the largest number of fj ; yearly Tri-Weekly subscriptions, at SI.OO each, under the general rules of the contest, cash $ 750.00 L S For the next largest list, as above 250.00 | Total fj This fund can be used to build or repair a church, or parsonage, or manse, or schoolhouse, or a L k bridge for special uses, town hall, lodge hall, or a library, public spring, roadway, park, picnic jjj ground, street lights or any other improvement or project that will be of any public or communal interest. IS Tnese prizes are wide open to all localities, and are put up for general competition throughout our K H territory. The fund is of sufficient size to make it worth while, and to elicit the interest and work of the J*, ’■l best people of each contesting community. Some leading spirits will take an active part, committee# yj kj 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 V/hat does your community, your town, your rural section need most that the money will cover, or |j will begin in such away as to insure its completion hv the public? Q That is what you want to determine, and then everybody get busy on it and get It. I The Hu.es in Brief *re “ comiml v miMATm BLANK l | Each yearly subscription Pj to The Tri-Weekly. Constitu- jjJ tion, Tnr.-i.lay, Thursday and Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Ga.: B Saturday, three times a week, ■ ttth any' other'*itaper tTnot Nomination Is made hereby for counts o\’K. Agent's rogu- ■ Jar eoinrn ifisiori allowed on Vhoh. 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When subscriptions Pnntnffire are credited to one such name , 0 or person tl .-y are not trans- , _ . . .on State % fernblr and may not be con- (Date) ,191.5. otate tesla'nts* 1 ' mm" notify us at This blank, properly filled out and sent in prior to September 30, once of their entry and to 1913, will be worth 500 credits in this section of the contest. ■ whom the SI,OOO In cheeks ■ must be made payable. —————— CET 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 0 a business of the work and use your spare time and some regular days of active soliciting. Send a club every week. yl II " Address All Orders arid Kegtiesis, and Make All Remittances Payable lo | TRI-WEEKLY CONSTITUTION Atlanta, Georgia j[ A Cool Head. “It is the duty of every one to keep a cool head, and to remem ber that the United States is lo cated fortunately three thousand miles away from the scene of the European disturbance. “Emergency currency will be issued on warehouse receipts cov ering storage of cotton. The to tal demand may call for the ad vancing of one hundred million dollars to enable the cotton belt to hold the crop until such time as it will be possible to secure a proper market.” “The outlook is favorable for improving business after the European situation clears up suf ficiently to permit of reopening the security markets and resum ing business settlements in the way.” These paragraphs containing good, timely advice and encour aging statements regarding busi ness conditions are from the j trade review, of September 1, issued monthly by the Third Na tional Bank, Columbus, Ga. This review, of much interest to In dustrial Index readers, is repro duced for the most part elsewhere in this issue.— Industrial Index. Getting Even. The teacher was telling the children a long, embellished story about Santa Claus, and Willie Jones began giggling with mirth, which finally got beyond his control, says Everybody’s Magazine. “Willie! What did I whip you for yesterday?” asked the teach i er severely. “Fer lyin’!” promptly an swered Willie. ■i ■ ■ A Note to You: June 1, 1914. Stop your automobiles and other vehicles in front of our place. Why go further? We are head quarters for the up-to-the-minute people and for everything up-to ! the-minute in the Drug line. We have had no kicks register led up to the present moment, land do not believe you will have occasion to register the first one. Mt. Vernon Drug Company. M. B. CALHOUN Att y at Law, M t Vernn, G e rgia A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VKKNON, GA. Will I’ructice in all the Courts of the State. PIANO . TUNING. If your Piano is worth anything, it is worth EXPERT TUNING. Any other kind will ruin it. I have a diploma, and guarantee all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, MT. VERNON. GA. W. B. GRIM KS, Blacksmith & Repair Works, ALSTON, GEORGIA. All C1 of Repair Work Work Quickly and Correctly Done. Bring Me Your Work.
