The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, August 03, 1916, Image 2

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PUBLISHED EVERY THUBMAY. OIHCIAL OKU AN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
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Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, Aug. 3, 1916.
Montgomery superior court
convenes next Monday, and the
dockets are, as usual, like Pat at
an Irish wedding full.
Fact that many of our candidate
friends must be defeated is sad
indeed, but the inflictions that
come along with the explaining
period are doubly so.
Ah, there, you old Georgia
yam! If Villa is never captured,
if the Georgia legislature never
adopts biennial sessions, still we
purpose to bank on you.
Regardless of who bears off
the gubernatorial plum, Georgia
will have a good governor. That’s
why we common people are not
tearing our shirts about the race.
Biennial sessions of the legisla
ture is a matter on which the
people of the state are becoming
more and more determined. It
will be made an issue in state
politics if not accomplished at
this session of the General As
sembly.
The Montgomery county farm
er who has biscuits every morn
ing for break feast made from his
own wheat will scarcely need any
lecturing about sowing wheat
this fall. “Proof of the pudding
is in the eating.” And the same
truth may be applied to home
made flour.
It is said that thousands of
women in Great Britain have
taken the places of men in fac
tories and workshops since the
war began. That reminds us
that several women in Georgia
have been doing men’s work ever
since a few' days after they were
married.
While wars and politics are!
raging, velvet beans, peas and
potatoes are covering Georgia
with a cloud of green that be
speaks good times when frost
comes. Even the pigs are taking
notice of these things, to say
nothing of the observations of
Georgia editors.
Every county in Georgia ought
to make an appropriation to pro- 1
mote corn club work among its
boys. We must confess that
very little encouragement has ev
er been given Montgomery coun-'
ty boys along this line. In the
same manner in which we neg- j
lect these things will we fall be
hind the progress being made by
other counties.
As the present session of the
legislature grows older, it be
comes more and more apparent
that local matters will block the
enactment of all measures in
which the interests of the whole
people of the state are involved.
If the bulk of such legislation
could be included in a general
law providing for a settlement of
these matters by the people af
fected at home it would put an
end to much of the traflicing and
swapping of votes in the General
Assembly.
If you think old Montgomery
county is not getting its share of
publicity, and lies far out of the
glare of the limelight, you just
ought to read the newspapers.
The efforts of a few men to trade
off its entire area for a few pal
try dollars to be put directly into
their own pockets is attracting
the attention of the whole state.
No such outrage has ever been
tried on any Georgia county be
fore, and with the matter proper
ly understood by the people, no i
such outrage will be tolerated by
another legislature. ,
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Georgia State 3
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I Press Expressions, 2
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“What is all that bunch of edi
tors following Frank Mangum:
around for?” an editor asked us
at Tybee. We told him Frank
was the editor that had been
writing how wide-open Tybee
was. Greensboro Herald-Jour
; nal.
The big property-owners are
tearing their shirt in the effort to
secure the repeal of the tax-equil
ization law. To abolish from our
statute books this law would
prove a great backset to the
state. It is hoped that the Leg
islature will do nothing of the
kind. We do not believe they
will. Laurens Citizen.
Atlanta is calling for a success
ful business man to look after
her affairs. There are other
towns in Georgia that might pro
fit by the example. There are
too few business men at the helm
in towns, counties or states.—
Valdosta Times.
The next annual meeting of
the Georgia press gang will be
held at Thomasville. That beau
tiful old city will get more adver
tising than it has had since Flag-
I ler built the East Coast road with
its string of tourist hotels.—
Nashville Herald.
There are a lot of soldiers at
Camp Harris, but since Jupiter
Pluvius has so effectually laid
the dust around there, the boys
don’t know but what they are in
training for Annapolis.—La-
Grange Reporter.
The Georgia legislature, as
usual, is busy doing nothing.
Most of this session has been tak
en up with an effort to repeal the
tax equilization law, playing pol
ities with the Highw’ay Commis-!
sion, wrangles over local legisla- j
tion, hunting a quorum and
threatening the arrest of ab
sentees. —Dublin-Courier-Herald, i
Why don’t the patriotic legisla
ture now in session give the peo
ple a chance to say by their bal
lots whether they want biennial
sessions of the legislature or not?
- Millen News.
, The legislature has voted
against every measure for the
creation of a new county that has
I come up at the present session.!
Regardless of the merits of some ;
of the propositions now pending
there is a strong and growing be
lief that Georgia has enough
counties.—Dawson News.
Macon is all right but she does
not need the capital. Let it stay
in the biggest commercial center
of the state and it could almost
be said in the south. Atlanta
need not worry. The capitol will
stay where it is.—Wrightsville |
Headlight.
Every college girl and boy
should express some of those
good ideas received at college in
his community during the sum
mer months.—Walker County
Messenger.
It is the easiest thing in the
world to persuade a fellow to run
for an office that he cannot pos- 1
sibly overtake. And some people
ought to be ashamed of them-,
selves for fooling these poor fel
lows into the belief that they are'
fit to hold office. Darien Gazette.i
The German army is getting
licked on all sides now. They de
serve all they are getting,
us hope that the drive will con
tinue until old Kaiser Bill is fi
nally banished to St. Helena.—
, Lyons Progress.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR- THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1916
First “Jitney Baby”
Is Born in Frisco.
San Francisco, July 29.—San
Francisco's first “jitney babj ”
has been born.
It happened just outside of Mt.
Zion Hospital. A nurse looking
out the window saw a jitney dash
madly up to the curb and saw the
driver leap to the sidewalk and
rush toward the door. She called
to Dr. S. Ginsberg, a visiting
physician. With several interns,
he rushed toward the jitney.
And there, before they could
take the woman from the car,
the "jitney baby” was born.
The mother was Mrs. Blurna
Sacrabelsky. The baby was a
six-pound boy.
Wasteful But Improving.
One of the principal factors
that has kept the southern farm
er from accumulating wealth, is
the waste on the farm. The gov
ernment, which within the past
ten years has become a service
government, has made and is
making many investigations of
all conditions existing in the Uni
ted States, and a recent dis
closure of the government rela
tive to the 90uth is that the south
ern farmer is wasteful.
The bureau of estimates shows
an enormous waste in hay, sod- j
der, straw, etc., in the south and
claims that the northern and wes
tern farmer is making money on
the things southern farmers
waste. In most cases, too, it is
argued, that the southern fanner
does not know where the leak is
but month after month works
hard and corfies to the end of the
season with little to show for his
labor,
Farm machinery is teaching
the southern farmer better meth
ods, and new ideas propagated by
the college of agriculture and
state departments of agriculture,
are helping the farmer in the
south to understand that we are
living in a different era from that
of forty years ago.
The coming year a determined
effort is going to be made on the
part of the agricultural leaders to
get the farmers to keeping books.
This will be of the greatest value
to the farmer. He will know j
| where he is losing and where he
' is making money, what per cent,
j etc., and it will teach him what
to plant, how to conserve arid
market and cause him to realize
! more on his farm and take a
deeper interest in his pro!’ - i n.
It will check the waste now go
ing on. —Walker Co. Messenger
New County Dope.
We see where Lon Burton of
the Unadilla Reporter is fighting
for a new county and he proposes
naming it “Simmons.” Well,
| now, Lon, we must say that wej
i admire your taste in selecting a
■ good name and we modestly ac
knowledge the compliment you
pay us.- Mcßae Enterprise.
We are under the impression
that, following the- lead of >jhe
advocates of Peach county, this
is a plan to have a Persimmons
county, and it is just called 'Sim
mons for short. Savannah Press.
! If you want to sweat, cuss and
get hot under the collar move to
Montgomery county during the
sessions of the legislature. They
are trying to make nothing but a
river bottom of that old county.
—Brunswick News.
Georgia may be dry, but if she
is cut up like it is proposed Mont
gomery county will always be
wet. Savannah Press.
Thu White Star
Pressing Club.
j lam fully prepared for (.'lean
ing, Darning, Dying ami IV --n.o
in the latest forms of tie* art.
All work correctly done and
promptly delivered. For regular
patrons, ladies or gentlemen, «e
press four suits [wr month.
W. h WILSON, Proprietor
| Phone 70, Mt. Vernon, Ga. (
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Drv Law Has Good
.
Effect in Decatur.
Bainbridge, Ga., July 29.—The
new prohibition law has about
wiped out blind tiger operations
in Decatur county. Since May 1
the court dockets have been prac
ticaljy free from cases for whisky
selling, such as came up being
for infringements upon the law
m • xistence prior to that time.
It "ms that none can secure
mor than they need for personal
•'msumption. Those who have
been accustomed to consume liq- j
uors in the past, however, seem !
to be able to secure all they need
for indulging in a periodic drunk.
Still, there have been few, if any,
cases docketed in the recorder’s
court for public drunkenness.
High Honor.
“Mr. President, you have sign
ed the Magna Charta of Ameri
can farm finance.” So said Pres
ident Herbert Myrick in accept
ing from President Wilson at the
White House, on Monday of last
week, the pen with which the
President signed the rural credits
bill, now known as the federal
farm loan act. The gift of this
historic pen by the President of
the United States to thedirecting
head of the company which pub
lishes Orange Judd Southern Far
ming, is the highest recognition
of the efforts in behalf of this
great statute which have been
persisted in for several years by
the farm press generally as well
as by Southern Farming. The
measure is rich in possibilities of
good to every farmer who will
join a national farm loan associa
tion. The learning to work to
gether, through these locals, may
he worth even more to farmers
than the financial benefits. Other
tremendous benefits may follow
the inducements to thrift offered
by federal farm loan bonds.—
Southern Farming.
Guineas on the Farm.
According to The Dawson
News, a Terrell county farmer in
tends putting in a large flock of
guineas to help him keep down
the boll weevil. The means
should be effective. The guinea
has a wide feed range and the
fowl was found very useful on
the small farms in Texas when
the boll weevil was at its worst
in that state. It is passing
strange that there are not more
guineas on South Georgia farms
now; once they were compara
tively numerous. They are hardy,
fe< i themselves, are prolific lay
t - and require little attention.
At m present price a guinea hen
v! ad easily produce a dollar’s
worth of eggs a year, and if she
also assisted in making a cotton
crop by keeping down the weevil
this neglected fowl should be one
of the most valuable of the
farm’s by-products.—Tifton Ga
zette.
12-P'oot Alligator
Is Killed in Florida.
Tampa, Fla., July 31.—Albert
Blackburn, foreman of the cattle
ranch owned by Mrs. Potter Pal
mer, on the Myakka River, near
Sarasota, yesterday killed an alli
gator measuring twelve feet sev
en inches from tip to tip. The
saurian had bitten the leg off of
a heifer a few days ago and
when Mr. Blackburn shot it, it
had just made away with a good
size hog.
Mrs. Palmer has ordered the al
ligator stuffed and will have it as
a trophy in her Sarasota .winter
home. •"
Adopt Cotton Standards.
Washington, D. C.. July 27.
The department of agriculture
announces that the official cotton
standards have been adopted by
theClarksdale, Greenville, Green
wood and Yazoo City cotton ex-1
changes in Mississippi. Thirty
one cotton exchanges and associ
ations have now adopted the of
ficial standards.
| 6 per cent. Money
TO LAN
|| I have plenty of money to lend on farm
II lands in Montgomery and Wheeler j
I counties. Interest 6 and 7 per cent.,
FIVE YEARS TIME—EASY PAYMENTS
|| You have the privilege of paying part ■
I of the principal at any interest period, jj
and stop interest on amount paid; but
no annual payment of principal required
I Prompt Attention to All Loans
Entrusted to Me
Come to see me at once if you want a j;
loan. lam well equipped to take care jj
of the loan business. See me.
I_. C. UNDERWOOD j
MT. VERNON, GA.
I FARM LOANS)
WANTED I
I have a strong connection with
large amounts of money to loan on
well improved farms in Montgomery §
county for 5,7 and 10 years, at the &
usual rates of interest, repayable as
you may desire—so much each year
or entire amount at maturity of loan
NO DELAYS
There will be absolutely no dely if H
iyour titles are in good shape, as we ||
have the money and want to place it ||
immediately. Bring Your Papers
Jgj CALL ON OR WRITE gg
J. E. HALL
I SOPERTON, G.A |
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ilacon, Dublin & Savannah R. R.
SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
Time Table No. I—Taking Effect Sunday, January 3, 1915.
Eastbouud Westbound
Trainß STATIONS Trnillß
No. 18 No. 20 No. 19 No. 17
A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M,
7 IK) 8 25 Leave Macon Arrive 11 20 4 40
7 55 4 17 Jeffersonville 10 26 3 45
8 15 4 38 Danville 10 04 3 25
880 446 Montrose 949 310
841 456 Dudley 988 258
910 520 Ar. . Dublin Lv. 910 230
915 525 Lv. Dublin Ar. 905
950 600 Rockledge 830 150
10 06 617 Sopertou 818 184
10 45 655 Vidalia * 740 100
A- M. P. M. Arrive Leave A. M. P. M.
The time cards of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad are
printed for the general information of the public, and every effort is
made to keep them accurate and up to date, but they are uot guaran
teed, and the Macou, Dublin A Savannah Railroad reserves the right
to deviate from them without assuming any liability therefor.
J. A. Streyer, Taffic Manager,
Macon, Ga.
BUY AT HOME.