The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, August 03, 1916, Image 2
X?\e r\or\tgorr\&ry r\or\itor PUBLISHED EVERY THUBMAY. OIHCIAL OKU AN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the Foatofflce in Mt. Vernon, (in. an Hecond-Cians Mail Matter.: H. H. foi.som, Editor and Owner. 5' a Vear, in Advance. 04r Li-i/nl advertin« m<*ntii mnjt invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aw the law Orta*; ud mn«t b« In bind #ot later than fidawdif Mrefaf of thilint wook >f towftioo 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. , TVVVVVVVWVVVVVVVVVTVrVTV • Georgia State 3 t ◄ I Press Expressions, 2 •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A “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. ( I 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 | . . 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.