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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1916)
XP\e r / ior\tgorr\&ry r\or\itor PUIiLISHED EVEKV THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the I'ost'ifflei In Ml. Vernon. Ga. aa Second-Class Mall Matter. 11. B. FOLSOM, Editor ami Owner. S* a Vear, in Advance. avl.' Knl •'lv< i!i«<n.< rit (!!>!Ht invarinbly be paid i« advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law directa; :.n<t nmat l.< in li:< I tint la'cr than Wettneadaf morning of the flrat week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Apr. 6, 1916. Villa, the boll weevil and the | cattle tick—eradicate them. If the story is true about Villa losing one of his legs it. might be; continued next week by stating who pulled it. After -several weeks of dry weather, the rain is coming again. ; It is scarcely worth while to say 1 that the weeds and grass will come along immediately. The sale of millions of sweet potato slips from South Georgia I hot beds shows that our people are learning something of the vastness of our own resources. Dr. Hardman is a good man and worthy of the office he seeks, but the people have settled down to the conclusion that your Uncle Nat deserves another and he will get it. Farmer Brown may not be able to buy guano with the desired proportion of potash in it, but he is going to keep gasolene in his Ford if Betsy has to go without that new three-cornered hat. That old South Georgia gag about striking a negro lunatic on the head with a stick of wood and causing the # earwig that made him insane to crawl out of his ear was being worked oyer again by a few papers last week. Encourage your boy and your girl to enter the Montgomery county school contest here on the 28th inst. By your interest in the matter, you may instill into them determination that will crown their after lives with suc cess. Montgomery county is in need of more enthusiasm and intelligent etfort. Hon. W. G. Brantley, who represented the Eleventh District sixteen years in Congress, speak ing before the Georgia Society in Washington said: ‘ You cannot have any stronger laws than you have already. It is not your laws or your legislature, it is not your courts, but the fault is in the ad ministration of your laws.” As every village, in this great country pays its tribute to Kala mazoo for celery, so could South Georgia draw from every section a harvest of coin, for its cane syrup, put up in attractive form. A lack of system in production and marketing continues to hold down this great industry, of which our soil and climate would give us a monopoly. The man who succeds in con vincing our people that livestock raising is the one great lever that must lift tin m out of the old ruts and onto the solid ground of prosperity will prove a great benefactor to his race. That soil fertility, the one thing to be de sired, can be reached by this method more surely and cheaply than by any other plan must bo' made to stand out clearly. The Montgomery County Live Stock Breeders Association has a grand opportunity before it along this line. The ending of the European war will not immediately reduce the cost of potash, because the • demand by fertilizer manufactur ers will continue for a long time after a cessation of hostilities. The farmer who plans now to make his own fertilizer by com posting everything available on his farm w ill be the first one to feel the pulsations of prosperity to which the world is looking forward. If Montgomery County farmers would plan to fertilize one crop without spending a dol lar for commercial manure our people would be in thousands of dollars. t Gleanings From | f Wisdom’s Field. \ ► * •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Don’t know how long it will take Uncle Sam to find Villa and effect his capture, but at least, the expedition will serve to show the people of this country the need of preparedness.—Forsyth Advertiser. The cotton speculators are again playing their old but well well worked trick to fool the farmers into planting a big crop by raising the price. The price was 13 cents in Savannah this week. The scheme has always worked beautifully. It remains to be seen whether or not it will fool anybody this year. — Lyons Progress. It is inconceivable that war conditions should be used as the means of playing politics, but that, is exactly what the political enemies of President Wilson are doing, in Congress or out.— Berry Home Journal. This summer when crops are laid by take a school survey of your district and see if there is anything you can suggest or do that will improve your communi ty to make it a more attractive place for people to live in.—Wal ker County Messenger. We are anxious to see some of the idle land in Bryan county un der cultivation. We have several thousand acres which if drained would be fine for growing most anything on and would accomo date hundreds of families more than we now have. Most of this could he done for almost nothing, too. —Pembroke Enterprise. Those dipping vats in Toombs county will do much to stimulate stockraising in this section. Let’s have more of them by all means. Vidalia Advance. Georgia farmers at one time paid $2.50 a pair for English spar rows, we would like to know what price they would pay now for a few pairs of “garden” pig eons. Butler Herald. Thomas Edison says four hours’ sleep is enough for any body. But, then you know Tom never worked in a newspaper office that we knows of. —Hartwell Sun. I Americus is agitating munici pal ownership of her electric lighting plant. them go it. They are near enough neighbors to be easily watched. They might show us something.—Cordele Dispatch. Whenever one of the neigh bors has a new piano moved in the other neighbors sit on the front porches and observe: “We would do it. too. if we were wil ling to owe everybody in town!” Macon News. A guy has invented an elastic band arrangement, to hold wo men's bats in places without us ing pins. If the women will wear that invention there will not be so many blind men. Greensboro Herald Journal. Headline says if Villa and Reyes join forces things will become serious. President Wilson didn’t want to tackle this job. and he had a longer head than a whole passle of us. The Mexican war will be a bigger war than many people predicted. - Nashville Her ald. In the primary election held in Bleckley county last week, the two candidates for ordinary tied, each receiving 462 votes. The race will not be run over, how ever, as the present incumbent withdraws from the race in favor of his opponent who is declared the nominee. - Rochelle New Era. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, APRIL 6 1910 WE’RE SHY ON TROOPS Government Fac2s Big Problem in Entering Mexico. Can Muster Only About 32.0C0 Men in Fighting Shape, but May Call for Larger Force. Washington, D. C. —The first ques i tlon which comes up In sending an ex- I pedltion after Villa is that of the troops available. The only troops irn j ' mediately available are those of the regular army. Os the 15 regiments of cavalry, about three and a third are out of the country and therefore not available. Seven are already on i the border, leaving four and two- J thirds which can be sent. Os the field artillery, one regiment of light and one and a half regiments of mountain are on foreign service and therefore not available One regiment of light, one of horse, and half a regi ment of mountain are on the border. In the rest of the country there is only one regiment and that is a siege one, the guns of which are too heavy to be used with such an expedition as the one after Villa. Nineteen Infantry Regiments. Os the 30 regiments of infantry ten and two-thirds are on foreign serv ice, 15 are already on the border, leav ing only four and a third available as a re enforcement. The first time the troops were mobilized on the Mexican border companies of coast artillery were organized into battalions and regiments and used for infantry. At the present time, however, due to our strained diplomatic relations with oth er powers, the coast artillery cannot be spared from the coast defenses. This means we have available to guard our Mexican border and chase Villa eleven and two-thirds regiments of cavalry, nineteen and a third regi ments of Infantry, 48 field guns, and 16 mountain guns. As the regiments are at peace strength, this gives a force of about 32,000 to guard 1,200 miles of frontier through a country easily crossed by troops In any di rection and to catch Villa in a terri tory with which he is thoroughly fa miliar. Mexicans Will Aid Villa. A great advantage possessed by Villa is that every Mexican will aid him in every possible way. He nev er will lack information as to where our forces are and as to what they are doing. On the other hand, when ques tioned by our men they will always lie and give as much misinformation as possible. Villa can cause our troops serious embarrassment by retreating practi cally straight south. It is true that , there are Carranzista forces occupy ing most of the principal points north of and including Mexico City. South of Mexico City is the territory held by Zapata, who has never come in since the original Madero revolu tion. While little has been heard about him in this country, he general ly has more followers than had Villa in his palmiest days He excites even more terror among the natives than does Villa. He has threatened Mexi co City itself on more than one occa sion. For these reasons there prob ably would be little difficulty in Villa getting through the Carranza forces to Zapata, should he wish to do so. Must Guard Communications. As our troops advance into Mexico their line of communications, becom ing longer and longer, will need more and more troops to guard it. Also, the natives will come more and more to believe that a genuine invasion is being made. At the present time so much hatred of the American ex ists Just south of the line and so much hatred of the Mexican just north of it that a clash between Carranzistas and the American troops is possible at any time. CAVALRY BEING MADE READY All the Troops Available in the Coun try Are Being Mobilized for Serv ice in Mexico. Every available troop of cavalry in the United States army Is mobilizing on the border for the expedition into Mexico after Francisco Villa. The j Seventh, Eighth, Tenth and Thlr- ' teenth regiments of cavalry are now i directly on the border. Orders issued by the war depart- i meat at the solicitation of General Funstou at San Antonio, will 'bring the Eleventh from Fort Oglethorpe, j Ga.; the First from Monterey, Cal.; the Twelfth from Fort D. A. Russell, j Wyoming, and from Fort Robinson, j Kan.; and the Fifth from present | posts in Fort Sheridan, III.; from Fort Meyer, Va , and Fort Sill, Okla. The Ninth cavalry and the Fifteenth cavalry, relieved from border duty two months ago after a tour here since 1913, will be ordered back again I if General Funstou s recommend*- tions are carried out completely. All motor trucks in El Paso have i been listed subject to military service ; moving supplies. The Sixteenth, Sixth and Twentieth 1 infantry regiments are included in the tentative lists of infantry troops to j go for garrison work, and to hold open the railroads and telegraph lines be tween the cavalry advance and the supply base on the border. The Sixth field horse artillery and two batteries of the Fourth artillery, now at Fort Bliss, will a’so go in Sam Houston, a signal corps battalion from Fort Bliss and a battalion of engineers from Fort Bliss have gone from their respective stations to mobilization points at Co luuibus and El Paso. Archie’s Neck. Little Willie—in small boy sto ries the central figure is nearly always named Little Willie—came running into the house, stutter ing in his excitement, says the Washington Post. "Mommer,” he panted, ‘‘do you know Archie Sloan’s neck?” “Do I know what?” asked his mother. “I know Archie Sloan,” an swered the puzzled parent: “so I suppose I must know his neck.” Why do you ask?” “Well,” said Willie, “he just 1 now fell into the water up to it.” i For Long Term Farm Loans, SEE A, B. HUTCHESON, I am negotiating some very attractive Long Term Farm Loans for the best companies doing bus iness in Georgia, wittiiowest rates of interest and the most liberal terms of payments I have several years experience in the loan business, am located at the county site and believe that I am in position to give you the best terms and as prompt services as any one. If vou need a loan see me before application. A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon, Ga. 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