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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1915)
fltmitiiummj HUmttar. VOL. XXIX. MARKETING A ! WORLD PROBLEM Ample Production But Not Sufficient Methods For Distribution. The economic distribution of arm products is today the world's greatest problem and the war, while it has brought its hardships, has clearly emphasized the im portance of distribution as a fact or in American agriculture and promises to give the farmers the co-operation of the government and the business men the solution of their marketing problem. This result will, in a measure, compensate us for our war losses, for the business interests and government have been in the main assisting almost exclusively on the production side of agricul ture. While the department of agriculture has been dumping tons of literature on the farmer telling him how to produce, the farmer has been dumping tons of products in the nations garbage can for want of a market. The World Will Never Starve. At no time since Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of production, but some people have gone hungry from the day of cre ation to this good hour for the lack of proper distribution. Slight variations in production have forced a change in diet and one locality has felt the pinch of want while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. We now have less than one tenth of the tillable land of the earth’s surface under cultivation, and we not only have this sur plus area to draw on but it is safe to estimate that in case of dire ne cessity one-half the earth's popu lation could knock their living out of the trees of the forests, gather it from wild vines and draw it from streams. No one should be come alarmed; the world will never starve. The consumer has always feared that the producer would not sup ply him and his fright has found expression on the statute books of our states and nations, and the farmer has been urged to produce recklessly and without reference to a market, and regardless of the demands of the consumer. Back to the Soil. The city people have been urg ing each other to move back to the farm, but very few of theru have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil and this earth’s surface contains 16,- 092,160,000 idle acres of tillable land where they can make a liv ing by tickling the earth with a forked stick, but we do not need them so far as increasing produc tion is concerned. The city man has very erroneous ideas of agri cultural conditions. The common ly accepted theory that we are short on production is all wrovg. Our annual increase in produc tion far exceeds that of our in crease in population. The World as a Farm. Taking the world as one big farm, we find two billion acres oi land in cultivation. Os this amount there is approximately 750,0CX),000 acres on the western and 1,260,- 000,000 acres on the eastern hem isphere, in cultivation. This esti mate does not include grazing land<, forests, etc., where large quantities of meat are produced. The world's annual crop ap proximates fifteen billion bushels of cereals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre and sixty-five million tons of meat. The world shows an average increase in cereal production of 13 per cent during the past de cade, compared with the previous five years, while the world’s pop ulation shows an increase of only 3 per cent. • The gain in production far ex ceeds that of our increase in pop ulation, and it is safe to estimate that the farmer can easily in crease production 25 per cent if a remunerative market can be found for the products. Mr. John C. Adams, a promi nent contractor and builder of Vidalia, spent Sunday here with friends and relatives. | Brewton-Parker Wins. i In a very one-sided game on I Saturday last, the Brewton-Par ker Institute team defeated the | basket-ball team representing Hazlehurst High School by the score of 54-12. In spite of the overwhelming score, the game [was fast and interesting. It was 'eyident from the beginning that Hazlehurst had no chance of win ning, and apparently played with the intention of only keeping down the score, while Brewton i Parker, taking advantage of ev ery slip of their opponents piled up points almost at will. The visitors showed more form in their passing than in any other : feature of the game. For the j home team, Coilrsey at forward Cowart at center played full ball, j the former accepting eight of ten i chances at goal in the first half, this was the first game that Ha zlehurst has played. Brewton- Parker has won five of six games payed, the only one being lost with Dublin High, 17-15. In this game winning points were made ;in the last second of play. With one more game each with Dublin j and Hazlehurst, and possibly Sa vannah High, the local season I will close. j In the evening the two teams were entertained by the 8.-P. I. girls in the parlors of the girls’ ! dormitory. The line up was as follows: B-P I. Hazlehurst. Coursey left fow’d 26 Newton 4 Cobb right “ Wilson 5 Stone “ “10 Kennedy “ guard Armstrong McLemoreleft “ Norman Cowart center 18 Finley All Alike Interested. i The man working on a salary is as much interested in the per j manent prosperity of the town as is the man who owns his own business. And it is only through 'co-operation that we can get pros perity. The things that tend to make a man’s business more prosperous at the same time tend to give more stable value to a ; man’s home and guarantee him ! more steady employment. You can’t get away from it; we are all in the same boat, and must sink or swim together. T. B. Bounds. I will be at the following places on the dates named below for the purpose of receiving state and county tax returns for the year 1915: Alston, Feb. 15, 9 to 11 a. m. Sharpe’s Spur, “ 15, 2to 4 pm Higgston, “ 16, Bto 11 a m Pigeon Spring “ 16, 2to 4 pm Kibbee, “ 17, Bto 11 a m Tarrytown, “ 17, 2to 4 pm Soperton, “ 18, Bto 11 a m Orland, “ 18, 2to 4pm Lothair, “ 19, Bto 12 a m Mt. Vernon, “ 20, Bato 2p m Longpond, “ 22, Bto 10 a m Uvalda, “ 22, 2to 4 pm John G. Morris, Tax Receiver, Sheriff Sale. Geonria— Montgomery County. | Will be Wild before* the court house door in Mount Vernon on the first Tuesday in Mar., 1915, be tween the lepra) hours of sale, to the hitfhest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a full and complete description: That tract or parcel of land lyinK and being in the Town of Soperton, Montgomery county, Ga., and bounded as follows: North by lands of W. R. Moseley and Georgia street, on the east by Georgia street and lands of R. E. Ward, on the south by lands of R. E. Ward and Mary Jane Gillis, and on the west by lands of W. ft. Mosley and Mary Jane Gillis, containing 100 feet fronting on Georgia street and running back t/»M J. Gil lis's line, known as the old Mt. Vernon and Black ville road a distance of 274 feet on the south-east ! side, thence the Mt. Vernon and Blackville road to the W. R. Mosley line; thence the Mosley line to Georgia street. levied on and will be sold as the property of W. Mishoe to to satisfy an execu tion issued from the superior court of said county in favor of Taylor-Canady Buggy Co. vs W. Mishoe. Property in the possession of said de fendant, and written notice of levy given as re quired by law. This the 2d day of Feb., 1915. James Hester, Sheriff. J. B. Geiger, Atty. for Plffs. M. B. CALHOUN ,i Atty at Law, ,Mt. Vernon, Georgia MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1915. Prominent Moultrie Men Visitors Here Yesterday. Dr. C. C. Fletcher and Judge J. A. Wilkes of Moultrie were calling on friends here yesterday. These men were so full of en thusiasm about the wonderful re sources and progress of Colquitt county and the city of Moultrie that we could scarcely get a word in edgeways with them. Dr. Fletcher is a prominent citizen of the empire of Colquitt, and Judge Wilkes is a native of this old county of Montgomery who has made good down in the wire grass section. His friends and numerous kinsmen here are proud of the record he has made, and regret that his visits to his old home here are not more frequent. Should Plant Trees. It is good advice that the Charlton County Herald gives when it tells the people of the smaller towns, the villages, the hamlets and the farms to plant shade trees about their homes. The house that has no pretty trees about it seems bare and un adorned, however handsome it may he. It lacks one thing that is needful to make it homelike. The Herald might well have added to its good advice by say ing that while trees should be planted about the front yard of the home, the back yard, or a part of it at least, should he giv en over to a vegetable garden. There have been jokes innu merable about the money that is spent upon the home garden and the comparatively minute returns from it, about the lone onion and the solitary radish that rewards the hard working home gardener, but they are often without foun dation. Many families cut deep ly into their food bill when they cultivate a little patch of ground in the back yard and raise onions, beets, radishes, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and the like there.—Savannah News. FINAL DECREE SIGNED IN NOTED DODGE CASE Judge Emory Speer Puts the Finishing Touch on Old Suit. Macon, Ga., Feb. 2.—The final decree in the celebrated Dodge land case, which for twenty-five years has been before the United States district court in its various phases, was signed here today by Judge Emory Speer, in the Uni ted States district court. There were several hundred defendants in the suits, which was brought by the Dodge estate in the nature of a writ of assist ance, to get possession of about 350,000 acres of land which now comprises Telfair, Dodge, Lau rens and MontgdAnery counties. Probably no case ever before the courts in the South caused so much bitter feeling, hut after years of litigation a compromise was reached with most of the defendants. There were no objections made to the signing of the final decree. Wallace Miller To Be First Assistant. Macon, Ga., Feb. 3. —United States District Attorney Earl M. Donaldson announced today on return from Washington that he had sent the name of Wallace Miller, of this city, to Attorney Genera' Gregory for appointment as first assistant district attorney for the Southern Dirtrict of Georgia. Mr. Miller is a member of the Legislature and candidate for speaker of the House. He is a son of Judge A. L. Miller, whom i President Wilson recently sent !on a special mission to Ecuador. Giant Locomotive for The Georgia Railroad. One of the largest locomotives ever seen in Atlanta has arrived over the Southern Railway via Louisville, Ky., from Lima, Ohio. The giant, together with three others of the same type, was pur chased by the Georgia Railroad and will be operated between here and Augusta in handling freight. These engines are 63 feet in length, have a water capacity of 9,000 gallons and weigh some thing like 22,900 tons when stock ed with coal ready for the road. The engine was two weeks com ing from Lima to Atlanta. Sev eral times a devious route was necessary to find tunnels large enough for the mogul.—Atlanta Georgian. Hon. Joe Hill Hall Is ill at Albany. Every man in Georgia who knows him—and there are very few who do not —will he sorry to hear of the severe illness of Joe Hill Hall at his brother’s home in Albany. Mr. Hall concluded his legisla tive career with the session of 1912, after having served eight continuous terms. From start to finish he was a leader in the house and during that period there was no more vigorous fighter in the assembly than the gentleman from Bibb. We all admired him for the strenuousness of his service. He accepted his work as a lawmaker with that seriousness and that determination that marks the virile man. We do not know any man in the state that Joe Hill Hall was afraid of in a law-mak ing forum, convention hull, or anywhere else. We trust he is to again be permitted to resume his active participation in Geor gia affairs.—Savannah Press. GLEE CLUB CONCERT BY BREWTON-PARKER Fine Training and Practice Insure Fine Musical Entertainment. The Glee Club of Brewton-Par ker Institute will give its annual concert in the school auditorium Thursday, Feb. 11. The club has been in constant practice since the opening of school last fall, and are in position to give a first class concert. All who attended the concert last year will remem ber with pleasure the excellent, entertainment given. It is the purpose of the club this year to excel even that. It is to he doubted that there is in the state of Georgia any prep school that can boast of a superior glee club and quartet to that of Brewton-Parker. The people of Mt. Vernon and Ailey, who want to know what their own school is doing in a musical way should turn out. The admission will be to all. Concerts will be given by the club in Still more and Graymont Feb. 15 and 16, and later in Claxton, Hazle hurst, Vidalia and Baxley. Twenty-two Men and Truck to Move Woman. The services of 22 men, an ambulance and an ice truck were used to remove Mrs. Anna Frey, 33 years old, who weighs nearly 500 pounds, from her home to a ward in Bellevue Hospital. She was suffering from cardio-neph ritis, Rate Increase Wanted. The recent action of the Inter state Commerce Commission in granting an increase in freight rates in the eastern classification of territory; the application of the roads by state and interstate commissions for an increase in rates, and the utterances of Pres ident \\ ilson on the subject bring the farmers of this nation face to face with the problem of an increase in freight rates. It is the policy of the Farmers’ Union to meet the issues affect ing the welfare of the farmers squarely and we will do so in this instance. The transportation facilities of the l nited States are inadequate to effectively meet the demands of commerce and particularly in the South and West additional railway mileage is needed to ac commodate the movement of farm products. If in the wisdom of our Railroad Commissions an in crease in freight rates is neces sary to bring about an improve ment in our transportation ser vice, and an extension of our mileage, then an increase should he granted and the farmer is will ing to share such proportion of the increase as justly belongs to him, but we have some sugges tions to make as to the manner in which this increase shall be lev ied. Rates Follow Lines of Least Re sistance. The freight rates of the nation have been built up along lines of least resistance. 'Hie merchant, the manufacturer, the miner, the miller, the lumberman and the cattleman have had their traffic bureaus thoroughly organized and in many instances they have pur sued the railroad without mercy and with the power of organized tonnage they have hammered the life out of tiie rates and with un restrained greed they have eaten the vitals out of our transporta tion system and since we have had railroad commissions, these interests, with skill and cunning, arc represented at every hearing in which their business is in volved. The farmer is seldom repre sented at rate hearings as his or ganizations have never had the finances to employ counsel to de velop his side of the case and as a result, the products of the plow bear an unequal burden of the freight expense. What is a Fair Rate? We do not krtow what consti tutes a basis for rate making and have never heard of anyone who did claim to know much about it, but if the prosperity of the farm is a factor to be considered and the railroad commission con cludes that an increase in rates is necessary, we would prefer that it come to us through ar ticles of consumption on their journey from the factory to the farm. We would, for example, prefer that the rale on hogs re main as at present and the rate od meat hear the increase, for any farmer can then avhid the burde n by raising his own meat, and a farmer who will not try to raise his own meat ought to he penal ized. We think the rate on coal and brick can much better bear an increase than the rate on cot ton and flour. We would prefer that the rate on plows remain the same, and machinery, pianos and such articles as the poorer farm er cannot hope to possess bear the burden of increase. The increase in rates should be so arranged that the farmer who lives at home will bear no part of the burden, but let the farm er who boards in other states and countries and who feeds his stock in foreign lands, pay the price of his folly. Mortgage Sale. Georaria Montgomery f bounty. Under and by virtue* of a power of xalc contained in the morigAKi* executed hy Gharlen Alien to The Mt. Vernon Rank on the 19th flay of April 1912, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Su perior Conrt of Montgomery county, in book 24 in foMo 357, the underMipned will Hell at public Mile, on the fir»t Tuewiay in March. 1916, at the court houKe in Maid county, during the legal bourn of Male, to the hittheHt bidder for earth, the following property to:wit: All that pertain tract or parcel of land situate, lyin v. and l**iritf in the 1667th. Ihrtt. G M , Ha id Mtate arid county, and bounded an follow*: On the north by land* of Walden; on the eant by land* of J. W. Li ruler; on the Mouth by laridM of J. W. Linder and on the went by iandn of T. O. Karrietray, arid containing two <2) acren. more or lorn; for the pur pore* of paying two cer tain promiMMory note-* bearing date the Ist. day of February, 1912 and payable on the l«t. day of Nov. 1913, and made and cxe< uted by the »aid Charier* Allen; naid note* hein*r for $53 it, principal, each. Ktipulatintf for intercut from maturity at the rate of per cent per annum, the total amount due on Maid note* heirsl<#l.*2, principal, and $11.42. in tercut., together with the coat of this proceeding ar, provided in auch mortgage. A conveyance will be executed to the purchaaer by the under ftiffned, an authorize*! in the Maid mortgage. Thin the 3rd. day of Feb. 1915. The Mt. Vernon Rank. By W, A. Peterson, Caahier. SUPERIOR COURT AGAIN IN SESSION February Term Convened Here Monday for a Week’s Run. The regular February term of Montgomery Superior Court con vened on Monday morning, Judge E. D. Graham presiding. The organization of the court was quickly made, notwithstanding the downpour of rain through which the people had to come to court. Judge Graham’s charge to the grand jury covered all the important matters to come before that body, and special attention was given to the laws required to be given in charge by the court. Solicitor W. A. Wooten had all the matters of the criminal side side of the court in good shape, and has had three days to devote to the grand jury this term be fore the criminal docket is taken up this morning. Mr. J. E. Hall of Soperton was elected foreman of the grand ju ry and Mr. J. C. Calhoun is act ing as clerk of the body, which is crowded with business as usual. The first day and a half of the court was taken up with a knotty old land case of the kind so often found monopolizing the dockets in this county. Besides the local bar, the fol lowing attorneys have been in attendance on the court: S. W. Sturgis, Dublin; B. F. Jackson, C. W. Sparks, W. M. Lewis, Vi dalia; R. S. Wimberly, Macon; (J. W. Lankford, C. A. Rogers, Lyons; W. C. McAllister, Eschol Graham, G. H. Harris, W. S. Mann. Mcßae; T. M. Brown, F. H. Saffold, Swainsboro; A. C. Saffold, Cochran; J. P. Tomlin son, Attorney Dukes, Alamo. A list of the cases disposed of at this term of the court will be given next week. Mrs. Curl of Scotland Died Last Saturday. Scotland, Ga., Feb. I. Mrs. Ora Hinson Curl, living near here, died Saturday afternoon. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hinson, and was 18 years old at the time of her death, which followed an illness of only a few days. The illness was not considered serious, but blood poison set in suddenly. Although she was a member of the Methodist church, the funeral was held at the Pres byterian church at Erick, Rev. Montgomery, the pastor, and Rev. Summers, a Methodist min ister, officiating. Interment fol lowed in the cemetery at Erick. Spring Hill Young People to Entertain. People stop one minute and think. The young people of Spring Hill are going to give a play, “The winning of Latanne,” on Friday evening, Feb. sth, for the benefit of Spring Hill school. It laughs the subborn into sym pathetic tears, then turns them loose to laugh again. Oh, it is a i regular “heart puller.” Come! drown folks 25c, children 15c. Sheriff Sale. Georgia Montgomery County. Will he Mold before the court house door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in Mar., 1915, be tween the legal hours of vale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: The entire uudivhled interests in that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in ' the lf/;7th G. M. District of said county and state, j containing 21)0 acres more or less, and bounded aa follows. On the north by lands of Marion Phil lips, on the east by lands of H. D. Mosley and Toney Mosley, south by lands of A. J. Williamson and on the west by lands of A. J. Williamson, said land being in the Tiger District. Levied on and will be sold as the property of J. H. Mosley, Law son Mosley, G. W. Mosley and Rosier Mosley to satisfy an execution issued from the superior court of said county in favor of C. B. McLeod, against said defendants. Written notice of levy given as required by law, except to J. A. Mosley, , who is dead. This the 3rd day of Feb. 1916. James Hester, Sheriff. W. L. Wilson, A tty. for Plff. NO. 43
