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Th e Monitor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OIMiAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
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H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. $i a V ear, in Advance.
*»-l,i-K»t ailvortiHi-miTitH nnmt invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa tlir law
dii. ct-; and meat l»e in hand not later than VVedneaday morning of the tirat week of inaertion
Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Nov. 5, 1914.
If Mary’s little lamb were here
now he would not dare to follow
Mary to school and around. Mut
ton chops are entirely too high to
make it safe for anybody’s sheep
to perambulate much.
Do not complain to your neigh
bor, and do not allow him to put
a kick over on you. This is a
broad land, and the acreage on
pessimism must be reduced.
Fence it in, with no slip-gaps.
The visit of Judge W. W. Lar
sen, presiding over superior
court here this week, is a pleas
ure to hosts of friends in Mont
gomery county. His ability and
gentility make him a well-round
ed man. _
Half cotton acreage for 1915,
half guano bills to pay next fall,
whole crops of corn, hay, oats,
wheat and peanuts, is what
must be depended on to set us
straight, regardless of the ad
vice of politicians.
The war in Europe has brought
many things to light that were
scarcely dreamed of before. One
v ry significant thing is the de
mand for reopening the cotton
exchanges. And this without
any protest, so far, by the agri
cultural interests.
With the thousand and one
suggestions for disposing of our
waiting cotton crop advanced by
all classes, it is a wonder that no
one has thought of selling a few
bales to Frenchmen to stuff in
their ears to prevent concussion
by the siege guns of the Ger
mans.
There is one class of people in
this country who are never af
fected by war or pestilence.
The village loafer, that wise guy
w hose knowledge has surpassed
the alchemist of old, who has
solved the problem of living
without work, will be here when
(iabriel blows bis horn, war or
no war.
Montgomery county farmers
are not wasting any time in try
ing to place the blame for the
war in Europe. But they will
not soon forget why war has
been declared against cotton in
this country. The lesson being
learned may put some measure
of cessation to the $60,000,000
going out of Georgia annually for
meat, corn and hay.
Let the public understand that
tin* county paper has no hand in
stirring up strife over politics
and county matters. Montgom
ery county affairs will not bear
too much stirring. Strife will
not adjust matters, neither is it
an avenue to progress. We have
preached a doctrine of enlighten
ment and progress, whether our
sympathizers are few or many.
The Tattnall county fair, just
closed at Reidsville, was a most
creditable occasion. The exhib
its were up to a high standard.
Tattnall county has some pro
gressive spirits, and the county
fair will become an established
institution with that county.
Montgomery county is not awake
to the needs of a county fair, yet
the productiveness of her soil is
equal to that of Tattnall.
The little country of Belgium
is evidently in need of help, hav
ing suffered greatly on account
of war, being literally torn to
pieces. According to the rules
of war, it is not customary for a
neutral nation to extend aid to
another at war, but Belgium’s
appeal, in this case, seems to be
a worthy one, and substantial aid
will be given by the United
States.
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Darien Gazette:—There are
still many thousands of acres of
land in Georgia that are not on
the tax books. All of these
lands will be put on the digests
as soon as the slick tax-dodger
finds out that the equalizers mean
business. The coming year is
going to be a bad one for the tax
dodger.
Laurens Citizen: —Lauren s
county hay is now being sold in
Dublin from $23.00 to $25.00 per
ton. Fortunate is the farmer
who has something to sell be
sides cotton.
Valdosta Times:-Virginia, a
prohibition state, still has a town
named Brandy Station. Chris
tian county in Kentucky voted
for saloons, but Bourbon county
in the same state voted the pro
hibition ticket.
Macon News:—Germany is in
dicating that it also regards the
Monroe doctrine as “a scrap of
paper.” However, it is liable to
develop into a pretty big scrap if
Germany should attempt to take
Canada.
Claxton Enterprise: —Di versi f y
your crops for the next three
years and you will be surprised
at the amount saved on your fer
tilizer bill.
Macon Telegraph:—The Eu
ropean war has played into the
hands of the State Fair and will
give it the best exhibits of live
stock and home-raised produce
ever seen in the State.
Lyons Progress:—An ice fac
tory and cold-storage plant at
Lyons would go a long ways to
wards helping the farmers get
out from under the all-eotton
yoke and would be a fine thing
for the town.
Brunswick Banner: —The chol
era serum is ending the epidemic
in the Austrian army. If science
could only produce an anti-war
serum all might be well with the
world.
Atlanta Journal:—Uncle Sam
will not oppose financial arrange
ments with belligerents if the
said belligerents will spend their
money here.
Liberty Co. Herald:—The first
man who brings us a gallon of
persimmon beer and a good fat
’possum will get his picture in
the paper and a year’s subscrip
tion to the paper.
Savannah Press:- The powder
plants of New Jersey are work
ing overtime. These are not face
or shaving powder plants, but
gun oowder.
Albany Herald:—lf all the figs
that could be raised in South
west Georgia were preserved the
world’s supply of glass jars
would be speedily exhausted.
Thomasville Press: One Thom
as county farmer sold a two
horse wagon load of sweet pota
| toes as fast as he could measure
them out here Friday at SO cents
a bushel. He said he had sold
$45 worth from a quarter of an
acre and has some left yet. Such
farmers as he can laugh while
the cotton growers moan.
Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:
-We heard one farmer say the
other day that he intended to
bold his cotton until he died
from old age before he would let
it go at the present prices. But
this farmer is out of debt, has
plenty of everything to live on
which he raised on his farm, and
can afford to hold.his cotton and
snap his finger at Mr. Hard
i Times. What a pity it is that all
1 fanners are not in the same fix.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-TH URSD AY, NOV. 5, 1914.'
Whitfield County
Will Plant Wheat.
Dalton, Ga., Oct. 31.—That
Whitfield county will materially
reduce the cotton acreage in 1915
is evidenced by the large amount
of land being planted in wheat.
From all sections of the county,
especially the northern part,
comes word of the activity of
farmers who have determined to
harvest a bumper wheat crop
next year. Many have sowed
many acres in wheat, using part
of their cotton land for it.
New Road Notice.
State of Georgia, t
Montgomery County. Office of
Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues of Montgomery County,
Georgia, Oct. 6, 1914.
John Jay McArthur, E. C. Mc-
Allister, T. C. McArthur, Marvin
Mcßride, J. A. J. Walker and
others having applied for the op
ening and establishing of a new
road, beginning at Longpond in
the 275th G. M district, leading
to John Jay McArthur’s; thence
to Norwood Clark’s ; thence to the
place of Frank Clark; thence to
,J. A. J. Walker’s; from thence
through the lands of Mrs. Ala
Mcßride to her home place, run
ning straight from that point and
intersecting the public road bad- 1
ing to Alston, Ga., and passing
through the lands of John .lav
McArthur, Norwood Clark, Frank
Clark and .) A. .1. Walker, being
a distance of about three miles in
length, the reviewers appointed
for surveying and laying out said
road having filed their return, no
tice is hereby given that said road
will he granted on the first Tues
day in December, 1914, if no good
cause be shown to the contrary.
This Oct. 0, 1914.
W. II Moxlev,
Clmi Bd C. R &R. M. C
PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proponed amendment to tin
Constitution of to bo voted on at the
Gonenil Election to be held on Tuefnlay, No
vember 3, 19]4, Haiti amendment to amend
Article 3, Section 4, Paragraph 1, of the Oon
stitnlion of Georgia, by extending the term
of members of the General Assembly of the
State until the time fixed by law for the con
vening of tin m xt General Assembly.
By 11 is Exci lleney,
John M. Slaton, Governor.
State ot Georgia,
Executive Depart mint.
August 24, 1914.
Whereas, the General Assmihly at its ses
sion in 1914 proposed an amendment to the
Constitution of this State, as set forth in an
Act approved August 14th, 1914, to-wit:
An Act to amend Article 3. Section 4, Para
graph 1. of the Constitution of Georgia, by ex
tending the term of members of the General
Assembly of the State until the time fixed In
law for the convening the next General As
sembly.
File following amendment iH hereby pro
posed by the Sv ate and House of Beprcsen
tativcs to the people of Georgia to Article 3,
Section 4 Paragraph 1, of the Constitution
of Georgia.
Amend said Paragraph 1, of said Section 4,
of Article 3. as follows:
Bv striking from said Paragraph 1 the
words “until their successors are elected, **
and inset ting in lieu of said words in said Par
agraph 1, the following words, to-wit: “Un
til the time fixed by law tor the convening ot
the m xt General Assembly.”
Amend further by adding to said Paragraph
1 of said section and article the following
wor Is, to-wit.: That the provisions of this
paragraph, section and article shall apply to
the terms ot the members of the Gen ral As
sembly, who are elected at the general elec
tion for members of the General Assembly in
tlie Near 1912. When amend d sail! Para
graph 1 < f said section and article shall lead
as follows: “The members of the General As
sembly shall be elected for two years and shall
serve until the time fixed by law for the con
vening o f the next General Assembly. That
the i rovisioMs ot this paragraph, section and
article shall apply to the term of the members
of the Genera' Assembly who wore elected at
the General Election tor members of the Gen
* ral Assembly in the year 1912 ”
And the Governor of the Mate is hereby re
quired and directed to cause the above and
foregoing amendment to be published in at
least two m wspapers in each congressional
ilishict in this state for a period of two months
I revious to the time of holding the next Gen
(ral Election after the submission of this
amendment to the General 3assembly, and
shall at the next Geneial Election to be held
after the submission of this amendment to the
people for then ratification cause the same
to l»e voted on, and the form in which the
same shall be submitted to the people sh ill be
its fellows: “For ratification ot amendment
Paragraph 1, Section 4, Article 3, of the Con
stitution, which extends the term of office of
members of the Geneial Assembly until the
convening of the succeeding General A assemb
ly,” and “Against the ratification of amend
ment Paragraph 1, Section 4, ArticL 3, ot the
o institution, w hich ixteuds the term of office
of members of the Geneial Assembly until the
convi iting of the succeeding General Assemb
ly.” And shall cause the returns of said elec
tion to he transm tted to the Secretary of
State, whose duty it shall be to consolidate
tin same, and the Governor shall issue his
j toclamation, declaring then suit, if a major
ity vote in favor of said amendment, and by
said proclamation shall declare said amend
ment lias bt come a part of the constitution of
the Mate.
N w\ ilu rt tore, I, John M. Slaton, o »ver
noi of said S’ate do issue this my proclama
tion hereby declaring that the foregoing pi*n
p< s< d amendment to ihe constitution is sub
mitted for ratification or rejection to the
voters of the State qualified to vote f»r nn ot
hers of flic General Assembly at the General
Election to be In Id on Tuesday, November 3d,
1914.
John >l. Sl ton.
Governor.
By tlu* Governor:
Phillip cook,
Secretary of State.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Georgia- Montgomery County:
All parties having demands
against the estate of Ella B.
Dukes, late of said county, are
hereby required to present them,
properly attested: and all parties
indebted to said estate are here
by requested to make immediate
settlement of same. This the
sth day of October, 1914.
A. S. Dukes, adr.
Jury List.
The following is the list of
jurors drawn to serve at the Nov.
j Term of Superior Court, 1914.
GRAND JURY
M C Thompson B F Conner
J M McDonald I) H Phillips
\V r Jj Thigpen I P McAllister
Geo Spivey J VV Mclntyre
G VV Coleman J B Canady
R A Page J VV Green way
J A J Walker \V A Johnson
Grove Sharpe H J Wright
W B Heath J D Simons, Jr.
W A Sumner R N Yeoumans
D W Folsom W B Connell
J B O’Conner C VV Hamilton
EG Smith A E Hooks
W F McAllister II H Adams
VV' II Smith. Sr. VV B Smith
PETIT JURY
VV B McArthur T L Now
Willie T McArthur VV H Mason
J M C Truett, Sr. J A Curry
VV’ V Thigpen A N Price
VV E Evans VV' N Clark
G VV Galbraith S D Morris
I) C Martin VV M Coleman
D N Hughes Charlton Thigpen
C H Jones J W Braddy
John Gillis L C Mcßae
S B Morris 0 A Sumner
W E Beasley C Q Hightower
R L Hall D H Mitchell
VV P Calhoun VV S Bass
C L Allmoixl .1 A Gillis
E Leggett J A Sharne
J D Johnson Archie Taylor
VV G McDonald J W Waller
New Road Notice.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Office Commissioners Roads and
Revenues, Montgomery County,
Georgia. D. T. Ricks, J. VV.
Greenway, VV. V. Thigpen, J. A.
Curry having applied for opening
and establishing a new road be
ginning at the Orianna school
house and running through the
lands of said I>. T. Ricks, J. VV’.
Greenway, VV. V’. Thigpin and .J.
A Curry, and leading thence to
the Curry Ford on Pendleton
Creek, being a distance of about—
miles in length. The review
ers appointed lor laying out and
reviewing the same having filed
their return, notice is hereby
given that the said application
will be granted on the first Tues
day in December next if no good
cause is shown to the contrary.
This October 6th, 1914.
W. H. Moxley,
Chain Board Comrs.
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 libera!
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,
Mfc. Vernon, Ga.
SEED OATS
FOR SALE.
I have for sale 800 bushels of
Choice Rust-Proof Seed Oats.
Will be ofFered at market prices.
Shipping point, Uvalda. Write.
Peter Johnson,
Rt 2. Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Land for Sale.
For sale for cash, 265 1-4 acres
good farming land, practically
all under fence. 135 acres in
cultivation, with three good sets
of houses. One mile from Ori
anna, Ga., in desirable locality.
Terms to right party. Write
Grover Thigpen,
Pelham, Ga.
l()c For Cotton.
1 will pay 10 cents per pound
for iint cotton and 3 1-2 cents per
pound for seed cotton and will
take hogs or cows on account.
There is no excuse for not set
tling. Respectfully,
J. W. Palmer, M. D.,
Sept. 28. Ailey, Ga.
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I Foodstuff next year. We must have it. ||
We Have for Sale 400 Bushels of the ij
Genuine Fagan. Oats at 80c per bushel. !i
Place Your Order with us at once for ij
SEED WHEAT. ||
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from us. Just unloaded a new lot. See j
them before buying.
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j AILEY, GA. j
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