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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1916)
T?\e PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. KntiM'cil at th< Pont«»fflce in Mt. Vernon, Ga. as Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. $• a Year, in Advance. **-!.. *1 advert i-ements must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and a« the law direct-; and nm-t be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of insertion 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 £ Gleanings From \ | Wisdom’s Field. 2 ► 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. 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