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.
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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
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