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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, May fi, 1915.
The number of prophets who
have been busy foretelling the
end of the European war is not
growing rapidly this week, and
the close of the conflict seems
afar off.
If you think that war times
have totally busted Montgomery
county you are simply mistaken.
We stood in our office door last
week and saw eight automobiles
pass, loaded with prosperous far
mers and their happy families,
on route to the Oconee river
banks for a picnic.
We heard a gentleman remark
last week that the serious spring
drouth prevailing would tend to
discourage the planting of w-heat
another season. There are other
crops dependent on moisture
rpiite as much as wheat. Why
shoud we abandon the plan of
growing our own bread because
a single season proves disastrous?
Lyons has an excellent paper
in the Progress, reflecting the
business enterprise of a good
town. Put Pro. McGill has not
been among us long enough to
catch onto some practices in the
field of Southeast Georgia journ
alism that Pret Harte would al
lude to as “ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain.” In
reproducing editorial squibs from
this paper it would be just as well
to get them fresh out of The
Monitor as to wait until they
have been swiped by the Millen
News or other papers without
credit.
The tax equalization law is the
I»'sl measure for the relief of
bom si tax payers ever enacted
into law 1 any legislature in
Georgia. Ami came at a time
when the burden was grievous to
conscientious citizens, shifting
the load from their necks to those
who had always enjoyed the ben
efits of government without shar
ing in the expense. The same
spirit of dishonest greed thut op
posed fair adjustment of taxation
will manifest itself in the coming
session of the legislature in efforts
to destroy the beneficial workings
of the law.
A great howl is being raised
about finding a market for Geor
gia farm products, with millions
of dollars pouring in a steady
stream out of the state for the
most commonly used articles
grown on our farms. Atlanta
alone handled 3, 117,(HK1 bushels
of eorn last year of which less
than 2 per cent was raised in
Georgia; while of the 2,888 car
loads of oats handled less than 1
per cent was grown in the state.
Tin* entire lot of 2,700,000 bushels
of wheat marketed in Atlanta
came from without the state,
with hay and all other produce
showing up about as bad. What’s
the matter witlbus?
Our superior court is again in
session, and the usual dockets of
civil contentions and criminal
proceedings are before it. We
see little change in this respect
from conditions as we found
them twelve years ago when we
began to write this column for
Montgomery county readers.
That a large per centage of the
litigation in our courts springs
from ignorance aiid its developed
products, suspicion, jealousy,
malice and greed, must be appa
rent to every thinking man. That
the terrors of the law have little
power as a restraint is proven by
the noticeable fact that murders
are frequently committed in this
county just before the terms of
court, sometimes while court is
in session.
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Dublin Courier-Herald: —One
Laurens county farmer stated
yesterday that he would gladly
give SSO dollars for a rain on his
farm. While there was scarcely
any prospect when he was talk
ing his farm had received a splen
did rain before he arrived home
—and it did not cost him a penny.
Pem broke E n terpri se: —W hen
Governor Slaton steps down and
out with the convening of the
legislature he will leave a record
behind him that will be long re
membered by the people of the
state. He has been a broad mind
ed executive and had he received
his just recognition he would
now be in the United States Sen
ate.
Adel News:—That was a pret
ty sight Monday when dozens of
children and some older folks dec
orated the graves of the departed
heroes. In addition to the Con
federate soldiers graves there
are also three or four Federal
soldiers graves here and they
were remembered along with
those of our own Southland.
Savannah Press: —Champ Clark
says the idea that any American
boy can be President is wrong.
Champ cannot drive the recollec
tions of that Baltimore conven
tion from his mind.
Valdosta Times: The Belgians
have not failed to keep the world
posted as to their suffering since
the war began. Reports say
that the Galacian Jews and the
people of Poland are in a worse
plight than the Belgians.
Brunswick Banner: —The dis
patches say Colonel Roosevelt
had a happy day on the witness
stand. It was the front pages of
the newspaper, however, that
brought the most smiles to him.
Macon Telegraph: A Chatta
nooga woman shot her husband
because he failed to keep an en
gagement to go to church with
her. When a lady friend ties into
this new-fangled style of salva
tion you better watch your step.
Perry Home Journal:—There is
profitable room for a meat pack
ing plant in each congressional
district in Georgia, provided, the
farmers and merchants will co
operate with the management of
the plants.
Macon News:- A chicken with
four legs and two necks has been
found in Arkansas. Just like the
chickens they used to serve us
for Sunday dinner when we
were children and the pastor sat
at the head of the table.
Haw kins ville Dispatch-News:—
Why is it that the average fisher
man will spend two or three hours
digging bait when his wife can
not under any consideration, in
duce him to chop an armful of
wood or do a little work in the
garden?
Atlanta Constitution:—Hope
that the war will end in June has
been abandoned, so they’ll have
an opportunity to rub it in with
"Is it hot enough for you?”
Laurens Citizen:—Some of the
economists are predicting an era
of inflation in the United States
as soon as the war ends. We are
willing to try a few weeks of it.
just to see how it feels.
Dawson News:—Emperor Bill’s
native announcement that he
didn’t want this war anyhow
leads one to suspect him of a
realization that for once he has
bitten off too big a chew for suc
cessful mastication.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MAY 0 1915
Name on an Orange
Wins Her a Husband.
Redlands, Cal. May I.—The
writing of her name on the wrap
per of an orange, won a husband
for Miss Laura White, of this
city. He is John Planning, a
prosperous farmer, residing near
Walla Walla, Wash.
F’anning was on his way from
Walla Walla to Portland, when he
purchased on orange from a
newsbutcher. On one of the
wrappers he found the name of
the young woman, and immedi
ately upon his arrival in Port
land wrote to her. The letter
was received and a reply came, i
Then a proposal by telegram and
an acceptance.
Four Mules Cremated.
The barn of Mr. W. L. Pace’s
Grier place, 5 miles east of Daw
son, was destroyed by fire at
about 8 o’clock Sunday night.
P’our mules were burned to
death and 350 bushels of corn and
a quantity of hay and fodder
were destroyed.
The fire spread rapidly and the
entire barn was enveloped in
flames before it was discovered,
and it was impossible to save the
males or anything on account
of the intense heat.
The fire is thought to be of in
cendiary origin. Mr. George
Mathis, the overseer of the place,
had just ten minutes before the
fire was discovered visited the
barn and locked it up for the
night. If the fire was of incen- :
diary origin there is no clue as
to who was the guilty person.
Mr. Pace had S2OO insurance on
his barn, but had no insurance on
his stock and feedstuff. The loss
is estimated at $2,000. —Dawson
News.
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