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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1915)
EUROPEAN WAR SHATTERS COTTON South Must Pay Ransom Into Coffers European War. By Peter Radford. Lecturer National FarmnV Union. King Cotton has suffered more from the European war than any other agricultural product on the American continent. The shells of the belligerents have bursted over his throne, frightening his subjects and shattering his mark ets, and, panic-stricken, the na tion cries out “God save the king.” People from every walk of life have contributed their mite to ward rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady has decreed that the family ward robe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the public to “buy a bale"; bank ers have been formulating hold ing plans; congress and legisla tive bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent ex pounding the inalienable rights of “His Majesty” and presenting schemes for preserving the finan cial integrity of the stricken staple, but the sword of Europe has proved mightier than the pe i of America in fixing value upon this product of the sunny south. Prices have been bayoneted, val ues riddled and markets decimat ed by the battling hosts of the eastern hemisphere until the American farmer has suffered a war loss of $400,000,000. and a bale of cotton brave enough to enter an European port must pav a ransom of half its value or go to prison until the war is over. Hope of the Future Lies in Co operation. The Farmers’ Union, through the columns of the press, wants to thank the American people for the friendship, sympathy and as sistance given the cotton farm ers in the hour of distress and to direct attention to co-operative methods necessary to permanent ly assist the marketing of all farm products. The present emergency pre sents as grave a situation as ever confronted the American farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer, would seerii to justify extraordinary relief measures, even to the point of bending the constitution and straining busi ness rules in order to lift a por tion of the burden off the backs of the farmer, for unless some thing is done to check the inva sion of the war forces upon the cotton fields, the pathway of the European pestilence on this con tinent will be strewn with mort gaged homes and famine and poverty will stalk over the south land, filling the highways of in dustry with refugees and the bankruptcy court with prisoners. All calamities teach us lessons and the present crisis serves to illuminate the frailties of our marketing methods and the weak ness of our credit system, and out of the financial anguish and travail of the cotton farmer will come a volume of discussion and a mass of suggestions and finally a solution of this, the biggest problem in the economic life of America, if, indeed, we have not already laid the foundation for at least temporary relief. More Pharoahs Needed in Agriculture. Farm products have no credit and perhaps can never have on a permanent and satisfactory basis unless we build warehouses, cold storage plants, elevators, etc., for without storage and credit facili ties, the south is compelled to dump its crop on the market at harvest time. Ihe Farmers’ Unions in the cotton producing states have for the past ten years persistently advocated the con struction of storage facilities. We have built during this period 2,000 warehouses with a capacity of approximately 4,000,000 bales and looking backward the result? would seem encouraging, but looking forward, we are able to house less than one-third of the crop and warehouses without a credit system lose 90 per cent of their usefulness. The problem is a gigantic one—too great for the farmer to solve unaided. He.must have the assistance of the bank er, the merchant and the govern ment. In production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the world’s history, but our marketing methods are most primitive. In the dawn of his tory we find agriculture plowing with a forked stick but with a system of warehouses under gov ernmental snoervision that made the Egyptians the marvel of civ ilization, for who has not ad mired the vision of Joseph and applauded the wisdom of Pharoah for storing the surplus until de manded by the consumer, but in this age we have too many Jo sephs who dream and not enough Pharoahs who build. HALF YOUR LIVING FROM YOUR GARDEN Big Saving to Farmer and City Man Is Possible Through Home- Grown Vegetables Atlanta, Ga. —(Special.)—The farm er who makes and keeps going this year a real home garden, will save fully one-half the money he has oeen in the habit of paying the supply mer chant for his food supplies. The man with a back yard city lot, turned into a garden, can save on his living ex penses in the same proportion. The man in the city has been hit by the war just as hard as the man in the country, and here in Atlanta the Agricultural Committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, of which H. G. Hastings is chairman, is actively en couraging the back yard city garden ns one of the most effective steps in solving the problem of living. One At. lantan made $l5O worth of vegetables last year on less than one-sixteenth of an acre. Others have been encourag ed to try it, and this spring will see Atlanta full of home gardens. “The farmers of the South, In my opinion,” Mr. Hastings said, “have well learned the lesson of the cotton crisis, and I believe they are going to keep it learned. They realize now as never before that they must make cotton their servant instead of their master, and making food crops is the only way to do it. “The first big step toward the solu tion of this problem is the home gar den—an all-the-year-round garden one that is kept busy growing food for the table every month in the year. A garden like this means a saving of half the living expense of any family; it is worth more as a money saver than any live acres of cotton ever grown. "City families pay fancy prices for vegetables and oilier food products which the farmer can have on his ta ble without the expenditure of a dol lar, and this would mean to the farm ers of the South an aggregate saving of millions of dollars they are now paying out annually for food supplies, that might be turned into back ac counts.” Unique Christmas Present Received by President. President Wilson has received a unique Christmas paper in the form of a newspaper, printed with a lead pencil. This inter esting production —sworn circula tion one copy —is of regulation size and has ten pages, profusely illustrated. From a distance of a few feet it has the appearance of a standard news sheet. The headlines are marvels of imita tion. and the arrangement of the contents would excite the envy of a “makeup” editor. In a letter to the president, Robert Richard Fitzgerald of Lawrenceburg, Ind., says his lead pencil newspaper, as he calls it, is “the only one of its kind in the world.” Two Convicts Escape. Dublin, Ga., January 7.—Two convicts from Laurens county es caped in one day, and are now at large. Dock Walker left the gang at sunup, although double shackeled, and outran the dogs put on his trail. The same day John Rickerson, a negro, escaped from the gang, and is still at large. Understand Each Other. One of our farmer friends made the statement to us recently that “the best farmers of the country are in the editorial chairs of the newsoapers. ” Os course he was speaking ironically, though good-naturedly. It is through the columns of the newspapers of this country that every move ment that has resulted in good for the farmer has been launched and promulgated. We believe our good friends, the farmers, know that the newspapers are their true friends, and that the “chunks of advice” being offered them is done so in the effort to co-operate with them in the bet tering of conditions and springs from an honest and sincere desire to disseminate what are more in the nature of helpful suggestions really than from any desire to advise them. The farmers and the newspaper men thoroughly understand each other, we are quite sure. Their interests are identically the same. —Dublin 'Courier-Herald. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—'TH V RSD AY, JAN 14 1015 First Election Held By County of Evans. Claxton, Ga., Jan. 7.—Evans county held its first election for county officers yesterday. The successful candidates were: Or dinary, W. H. Rrewton; county surveyor, A. D. East; county cor oner, J. D. Shuman; treasurer, James S. Hagan; tax collector, Daniel Sikes; clerk, R. R. Tip pins; sheriff, Thomas W. Rogers; tax receiver, Aldwin Smith; county commissioners, B. B. Dan iels, W. B. DeLoach and J. H. Brewton. It was decided to build the court house in the business section of Claxton instead of on a strip of land between Claxton and Hagan. The new officers will be sworn in as soon as their commissions are received from the governor. No representative was elected as the county will not be entitled to legislative representation until the matter is again submitted to the people. Horseback Rider Shot By Own Pistol is Dead. Selma, Ala., Jan. 4.—C. J. Lovelady, 21 years old, of Stan ton, Ala., died today at a local hospital after lingering several days between life and death from a pistol shot wound, ac cidentally received while riding horseback. The weapon was in a coat pocl.it when the hammer struck the s«.udle horn, causing it to discharge and sending the bullet through his right side. Lost Cow. On Dec. 30th estrayed from my lot at Uvalda, one Red Cow with white breast, ends of both horns sawn off. Supposed to he going back byway of Mt. Ver non to Stuckey, from which place she was driven. Reward for her recovery. Jan. 5, 1915. B. F. Hart, Uvalda, Ga. Ferry Notice. State of Georgia —Montgomery County. Notice is hereby given that we will consider applications for keeping Troupe’s Ferry, Lam mon’s Ferry and Bell’s Ferry for the remainder of the year 1915, on the first Tuesday in Feb. 1915. We will accept and con sider sealed bids and reserve the right to reject any bid made if in our opinion the interest of the county demands it. Elijah Miller, C. C. McAlllister, J. L. Lowrey Commissioners. Citation. Georgia— Montgomery County. To all vvhow it. may concern: Notice in hereby given that J. J. Moses has in proper form up plied to the undersigned for letters of administration on the estate of Martin T. Moses, late of said county, deceased; and said application will he heard at. my office on the first Monday in Feb., 1915. This the 4th day of Jan , 1915. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Rt Always Helps M s. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., In Egtgl if her experience with Cardui, the woman’s ihe says further: “Before 1 began to use wgXS my back and head would hurt so bad, I the pain would kill me. I was hardly able ftOa lof my housework. After taking three bottles b<33 li, I began to feel like a new woman. 1 soon 5 pounds, and now, I do all my housework, as run a big water mill. ish every suffering woman would give ttQfi The Woman’s Tonic u a trial. I still use Cardui when I feel a little bad, and it always does me good.” KfSj backache, side ache, nervousness, tired, worn-out feelings, etc., are sure signs of woman- bos ly trouble. Signs that you need Cardui, the woman’s KSS9 tonic. You cannot make a mistake in trying Cardui for your trouble. It has been helping weak, ailing women for more than fifty years. iK tang tit raaninß ay \ %ra Sheriff Sale. Gwnrii-Montgomery County*. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in Feb., 1915, be tween the legal hours of sab*, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: That undivided one-third (1-3) interest in all that parce’ of land described ns follows: Begin ning at u ». ike where the lands owned on April 10, 1896, by Davis and Thigpen intersected thv* lands of the estate of Thomas M. Miller on the north and running from said stake south 77 west 46 chains to a stake, thence south 14 cast 41 chains atul 90 links to a stake, thence south 05 1-2 east. 21 chains to a stake, thence south 53 east 40 chains to stake, thence north 12 1-2 west 20 chains to stake, thence north 70 west 4 chains to stake, thence north 3 1-2 west 18 chains and 60 links to stake, thence north 83 west lOchains and 50 links to stake, thence north 11 west 47 chains and 50 links to starting point containing 306 acres, more or less, saiil land being bounded north by Thigpen east by Davis. Walter Dukes; south by lands of Hardy Miller and Joe Miller and west by lands of Hardy Miller as shown by a survey mail** by B. E. Higgs, county Surveyor, on April 11, 1895. a plat of which said survey is on record in the court of ordinary of said county. Said described land being the dis tributive share of F.lla B. Dukes, under the will of Thomas M. Miller, and assigned to her by pnr titioners appointed by the court of ordinary of said county as shown by the return of said partition era made April 10, 1895. ami fully deserilied in the survey above referred to. All of which proceed ings are recorded in office of the court of ordinary of said county. Said undivided one third interest in said described lands levied on as the interest in and property of R. A. Dukes as his distributive share in said tract of land as an heir at law of his wife. Ella B. Dukes, and being in his possession. Saiil property aituate. lying and ticing in the 12215 t district (!. M. of saiil county and state and levied on and will be sold as the property of It. A. Dukes tt» satisfy the following executions issued from saiil county t«» wit: One execution issu<*d from the Justice's Court of the 12215 t District (I. M. of said county in favor of The Mt. Vernon Bank vs It A. Dukes ami J. D. Miller, makers, and J. M Brooksher endorser; one execution is sued from the City Court of Mount Vernon in favor of The Mt. Vernon Bank vs It. A. Dukes, principal, J. D. Miller. J. N. Tapley and William Herndon endorsers; ami one execution issued from the Superior Court of saiil county in favor of Hunter-Bonn A Co. vs It. A. Dukes. Property pointed out bv plaintiff's attorney and written notice of levy given in terms of the law. This the sth day of January, 1915. James Hester, Sheriff. M. B. Calhoun, Atty. for PlITs. Sheriff Sale. Georgia Montgomery County. Will bo sold before the court house door in Mount Vernon on the first Tuesday in Feb., 1915, be tween tin* legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a full ami complete description: That certain lot of land situate, lying ami being in the City of Mt. Vernon. Ga., and bounded as follows: North by lands of Claude Wright, east by Railroad avenue, south by a street separating said lot from S. V. Hicks and west by street sepa rating the saiil lot from property of R. F. Mcßae. Levied on and will be Hold as the property of Win. B. Kent to satisfy an execution issued from the superior court of Wheeler county in favor of Bank of Spread vs Win. B. Kent, principal, Thos. Kent and J. H. Kent, endorsers. Said lot containing one acre more or less and known an the Kent law office lot. In possession of said Kent and written notice of levy given in terms of the law, this the 6th day of January, 1916. Jas. Hester, Sheriff. W. L. Wilson, Atty. for PUT. Sheriff Sale. Georgia Montgomery County. Will bo sold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first. Tuesday in Feb., 1916. be tween the legal hours of sale, to tier highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following Is a complete description: Eight thousand pounds of seed cotton in the field, together with three thousand six Jumdred pounds of seed cotton in the house. Also"oiie bale of ginned cot ton now stored in the Victor Union Cotton Warehouse, in the town of Soperton. Ga., the same being numbered 625, and weighs 404 pounds. Also about three thousand pounds of cotton seed. Levied on and will lie sold as the property of Isaac Brooks to satisfy a distress warrant in fuvor of M A. Wheeler vs Isaac Brooks. Said property levied on and return made to me by I. J. Joyner, constable. Written notice of levy given in terms of the law, this the oth day of January, 1915. James Hester, Sheriff. Libel For Divorce. Nancy Claxton vh Z«rnie Olnxton Libel for Divorce in the Superior Court of Montgomery County, Nov Term, 1914 It. appearing to the Court by the return of the Sheriff in lie above-stated ease, thut the defen dnnt dm s not reside in this conn tv, and it. further appearin'; tlni' Zernie Claxton lines not reside in this state. Ordered by the court that, service be perfected on tin defendant by the publication <1 this order twice a month for twn months before the next term ol this court, in the public gazetted said county in which theslierill sales are ordinarily published. This the 7th day of Nov., 1914 W. L. Wilson, I’lff’s Atty. And it is so ordered : W. W. Larsen. J. S. C. D. C , Presiding. M. 15. CALHOUN A tty at Law, Mt Vernon, Georgia —......... | A Check Book is easier to carry than it wallet filled with currency, silver or gold. It adds jj I dignity to your transaction and always jj gi\es you satisfaction. Checks are of jj no value except to the person in whose i I favor they are drawn. Can you afford jj to keep your money at home or in your pocket, when you can have, without * opense, a cheek hook on this hank? 'Wfft xy xy ! MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, 6A. j 11 CAPITAL, $15,000.00 SURPLUS, $.10,0110 00 RESOURCES, $145,000.00 jj I ' Willie T. McArthur, President W. A. Peterson, Cashier j i J ! 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