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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Jan. 6, 1916.
Write it 1916 and do your part
in making it the best one of the
century.
Let every man run for office
who wants to, for this is a free
country and the running is as
cheap now as it will ever be.
The last ginners’ report shows
Montgomery’s 1915 cotton crop
short more than .‘{,ooo bales. This
is all right if the hog and hominy
crop is long to the same extent.
After all the growling of the
good old days of old, Montgom
ery county is steadily acquiring a
system of good roads that is be
ginning to make travelers push
up their goggles and take notice.
The man who really intends to
make 1916 more prosperous to
him and his friends than 1916
is not in the class with those
who talk flippantly at this season
of new year resolutions. He is
already at work.
The establishment of one indus
try often leads to the inaugura
tion of several others in the same
community. The locating of a
large sugar refinery in Savannah
has caused the opening of a big
plant for manufacturing sugar
barrels.
Macon is now complaining
that the ciiy of Brunswick is
discriminating against the busi
ness of the Macon-Atlantic Nav
igation Company. If such is the
case why not try St. Marys or
Darien with their cheaper and
less crowded dock facilities?
The sale of building lots in Mt.
Vernon at auction today is no
doubt the beginning of a new
era for its people. No town was
ever built without people, and
people need homes, and the
strength of any city may be
measured by its homes. Let the
good work continue.
Some of our exchanges are ad
vocating the plan of practicing
economy as a sure cure for hard
times in this new year. Advice
may be all right, but it strikes
us as another case where green
persimmons may have to bo em
ployed as they were in the civil
war eaten by the soldiers to
draw up their insides to lit the
rations furnished.
Some of our neighbors are
worried over the earliness of the
date of Montgomery’s county
primary. Lot us alone, we know
what we are doing. May want to
hold several more during the
year and don’t want to be crowded
for time. If there is any one thing
Montgomery county voters like
more than politics it’s a little
more politics.
Savannah is somewhat alarmed
at the slump in Chatham of the
marriage license market, the
number of matrimonial permits
growing smaller with each pass
ing year. The cause may possibly
bo traced to the facilities afforded
by the courts for unmarrying the
people, who have probably come
to the conclusion that the license
fee might as well be saved.
No need to be apprehensive of
clogging the provision market
with a few exra bushels of com
and wheat or a few sides of home
cured bacon. Articles that en
ter into the living of thousands
will never be cheap in this coun
try again, because the increase
in population is far greater than
the increased production of sup
plies, and we have the whole
world for a market
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There won’t be quite enough
offices to go ’round, but every
body is privileged to run for
something. In order to find out
what his neighbors think of him
it would be a good thing for every
man to run for office during the
course of a life-time. -Lyons
Progress.
A head line states the first sug
gestions of peace comes from
comes from Germany. The last
will also come from this source
if the allies do not wake up.—
Dublin Courier-Herald.
The "united we stand” doc
trine as applied to the United
States and Central and South
America, is a good one, and Sec
retary Lansing is to he commend
ed for suggesting it.—Atlanta
Journal.
Pay for your county paper in
advance next year, work harder
and trust more in the Lord, and
if you don’t have better luck call
on us and we shall be glad to
make an investigation and see if
we can find wherein lies the
trouble. - Hawkinsville Dispatch-
News.
Talking about "taking stock:”
You know merchants aren’t the
only ones who ought to do this.
Each individual should take an in
ventory this week and see where
they’re "at” financially, morally
and otherwise. —Hartwell Sun.
This new fashioned way of ob
serving leap year makes it a
cinch for a man. He can just
sit back and wait until some
good-looking rich girl comes
along and asks him to marry her.
—Macon News.
As the great money monopol
ists are bitterly opposed to the
re-election of President Wilson,
the great mass of the people will
enthusiastically give him their
winning suffrage. —Perry Home
Journal.
A good way to insure prosper
ity next fall is for everybody to
practice economy during the
whole year. It is mighty easy
to become extravagant when the
times appear prosperous.—Adel
News.
The devil has made big im
provement in the methods of
taking human life and adding
tortue to "life in the trenches.”
and the Germans have not failed
to avail themselves of anything
which he has produced. Valdosta
Times.
There’s nothing like Christmas
as a voice developer. Many a
person who could not sing before
has been singing this Christmas
with beautiful liquid notes.—
Monroe Advertiser.
Can’t see why Germany would
shut Doc Cook out of the country.
Looks like Germany would grab
at everything funny that came
her way in these days of sorrow
and distress. —Macon Telegraph.
Hon. Chas. G. Edwards has
presented several bills in Con
gress that will be of vast benefit
to the Frst District if he can
succeed in getting them through.
Congressman Edwards cannot
be accused of being lazy because
he is always working for the
people of the district —Pembroke
Enterprise.
The Kaiser’s malady is still
confined to one word, and if he
tries to pronounce it, it will cer
tainly be a sick spell for him.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Therefore go it and a very
, happy new year to you all! —
1 American Press.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR--THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1916.
Congressman Hughes.
The papers all over the state
wherever Congressman Dudley
M. Hughes passed and was seen
enroute to the national post of
law making in Washington re
cently gave the able representa
tive from the Twelfth District a
full share of honorary mention.
To see what these papers have to
say about him and the space
given one would conclude that he
is foremost among Georgia’s
statesmen.
Congressman Hughes enjoys
possible a wider circle of friends
and admirers than any other one
man in the Twelfth District be
cause of his tremendous friend
making powers, his unswerving
energy and power for an honest
purpose and a constituted power
for right and justice. He is
thorough in accord with Presi
dent Wilson’s national and inter
national policies; including the
popular legislation now awaiting
the national congress on rural
credits and merchant marine.
Endorsement of the President’s
"Preparedness policies” is also
his theme.
As chairman of the committee
on education he is in a position
to give material aid to the coun
try and his ideas on that subject
are familiar to his constituents at
home as when addressing them
he never fails to 'exploit these
ideas. Measuring up with any
of the able Congressman Mr.
Hughes is standing shoulder to
shoulder with them all and with
the administration and his dis
trict at home is proud of him.
—Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
Get on Prohibition
Band Wagon.
Atlanta, Ga.,—lf you don’t get
on the prohibition band wagon
you w'ont be able to ride at all in
the elections next summer, ac
cording to the views of politicians
here who are familiar with the
state wide situation.
Prohibition has not merely won
out in Georgia, but is becoming a
national question and more and
more leaders who have never
taken an active interest in the
question before are openly ad
vocating national laws on the
subject.
A number of prominent pa
pers in Georgia which until now
have been either neutral or
against prohibition have announ
ced a change of heart and are
advocating prohibition either
statewide or national.
Os the two gubernatorial can
didates most talked of up to the
present time, both are staunch
prohibitionists, and a third who
is also being considered as a
possibility, will not oppose pro
hibition. It is not believed that
a gubernatorial candidate will be
found in Georgia this coming
year who will have political short
sightedness enougn to announce
against prohibition. In future
years the pendulum may swing
back —it has done so regularly
for three or four thousand years
ever since Noah was found pickl
ed under the vine—but so far as
the present is concerned, all the
honors are with the prohibition
ists.
The Safe Plan for
Reducing Cotton.
What a packing house will do
for a county is shown by the gin
ners’ report from Colquitt, which
indicates that the cotton crop of
that county is about 6,500 bales
less than it was last year. The
crop is short all through this sec
tion, but the difference is not so
great as it is in Colquitt, which
proves that many of the farmers
of that county are depending no
longer on cotton as a money crop.
Packing plants all through the
South would work a wonderful
revolution in economic conditions
here. —Tifton Gazette.
Farm Loans.
I am in position to close some
good farm loans, from SIOOO up,
at once. If you need money,
see A. B. Hutcheson.
4lstf Mt. Vernon, Ga.
BANKRUPT SALE.
In the District Court' of the
United States for the Western
Division of the Southern District
of Georgia.
In the matter of Empire Realty
Trust Company, Bankrupt, in
Bankruptcy.
Under and by virtue of an order of the Referee
in Bankruptcy, the undersigned as Trustee will
sell before the Court House door of Montgomery
county Georgia, at Mt. Vernon, Georgia, on the
27th day of January. 1916, between the legal hours
of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, 'the follow
ing described real estate:
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being
in the 1343rd District G. M. of Montgomery Coun
ty, Georgia, containing according to previous
deeds 446.70 acres, but according to the plat at
tached to said deed to secure debt containing 432.92
acres, being the tract numbered one on said plat,
and bounded as shown on said plat, on the north
by lands of Braddy and J. B. O'Conner, on the eas'
by lands of William Morris and tract son said
plat, on the south by lands of N. A. Adams and
W. G. Cooper, on the west by lands of Isaac Lad
son, being the same tract conveyed by Mrs. Fan
nie Connell to James McNatt by deed recorded in
Book 15, page 535, in theCleik’s office of Mont
gomery Superior Court, as shown on plat attached
to and recorded with said deed.
Also that tract or parcel of land situated in
said State, Montgomery county, containing ac
cording to previous deeds 85 acres, more or
less, but according to the plat attached to said
deed to secure debt containing 77 acres, !>eing the
tract numbered two on said plat, and bounded on
the north by the Savannah Hoad, on tic east by
lands belonging to McNatt, on the south by lands
of S. D. Morris, on the west by i/ouisvillle Road,
and being the same property conveyed by Cather
ine Morris to James McNatt by deed recorded in
the Clerk's office of Montgomery Superior Court
in Book 15, page 84.
Also that tract or parcel of land situated in said
State, Montgomery county, containing 50 acres,
and shown on the plat attached to said deed to
secure debt as tract number Three, being bounded
on the north by tract number Four on said plat,
on the east by lands of L. L. Hamilton, on the
south by A. B. Hutcheson, on the west by James
McNatt, being the same property sold by A. M.
Stewart, as guardian to James McNatt, by deed
recorded in said Clerk’s office in Book 12, page 103.
Also that tract or parcel of land situated in said
State and county, containing 47.19 acres, more or
less, and numbered as tract number four on the
plat attached to said deed to secure debt, bounded
on the north by lands of Lad son, on the east by
McNatt, on the south by tract number 3 on said
plat, on the west by lands of Lad son, and being
the same property conveyed by M. L. Currie to
James McNatt by deed recorded in said Clerk’s
office in Book 20, page 1.
Also that tract or parcel of land situated in said
State, Montgomery county, containing according
to previous deeds 701 acres, but containing accord
ing to the plat attached to said deed to secure debt
600.44 acres, being tract number five on the said
plat, bounded on the north by lands of Wm. Morris
and Jas. Palmer, on the east by lands of Palmer
and the Kibbee road, on the south by lands of Mc-
Natt, on the west by N. A. Adams and tract No. 1
on the plat attached to said deed to secure debt,
being the same property conveyed by B. E. Higgs
to E. T. Mcßride & Company by deed recorded in
said Clerk’s office in Book 9, page 370.
Also that tract or parcel of land situated in said
state, Montgomery county, containining 25 acres,
more or less, being tract number 9ix on the plat
attached to said deed to secure debt; bounded on
the north by tract number five on said plat, on the
east by the Louisville Road, on the south by
the Louisville Road and S. D. Morris, on the west
by tract number five on said plat , and being
the same property conveyed by Margaret Bacon to
James McNatt by deed recorded in said Clerk's
office in Book 15, page 534.
All of the six tracts above referred to being
shown on the plat attached to said deed to secure
debt, the numbers of the separate tracts hereinbe
fore referred to being the numbers written in red
ink. and the tracts so numbered 1,2, 5 and 6 lie
in one body, and tracts numbered 3 and 4 lie in
another body; all of the said describe*! propertd
being the same as that conveyed to the Associated
Realty Sales Company by James McNatt by deed re
corded in said Clerk’soffice in Book 16, page 153, and
said in that deed tocontain 1354.89 acres in the ag
gregate, but shown by the plat attached to said deed
to secure debt to contain 1232.55 acres in the ag
gregate; the lines between the said different tracts
are shown in red ink on the plat attached to said
deed to secure debt, and said plat is referred to for
the purpose of description.
Also all that tract or parcel of land situate, ly
ing and being in the 1343rd District G. M. of
Montgomery county, Georgia, containing 200 acres,
more or less, and bounded on the north by lands
of M. A. Braddy, east by M. A. Braddy; west by
lands of H. B. Braddy; and south by lands of John
B. Council, and being the property conveyed by J.
B. O’Conner to the Associated Realty Sales Com
pany. now the Empire Realty Trust Company.
Said property will be sold freed from all liens,
and the liens shall attach to the proceeds of the
same, and will be sold subject to confirmation by
the Court.
The successful bidder will be required to deposit
ten per cent, of his said bid when made, and if
said sale is not confirmed said deposit will be re
turned without deduction.
Said property will be sold in parcels and differ
ent tracts and sold as the property of the Empire
Realty Trust Company.
This 18th day of December 1915.
Robert H. Jones, Trustee.
PIANO . TUNING.
If your Piano is worth anything,
it is worth EXPERT TUNING.
Any other kind will ruin it. 1
have a diploma, and guarantee
all work. Write, and I will call.
ORGANS REPAIRED.
Charles L. Hamilton,
ML VERNON. GA.
Seed Oats for Sale.
Feagan and Fulghum Seed Oats
for sale. The two leading varie
ties. Best prices.
D. S. Williamson.
107tf Uvalda, Ga.
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