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I)r. J. M. C. McAllister and
family of Rochelle came over
Tuesday.
Let your ballot read, first,
"For President of the United
States, Woodrow Wilson.”
Miss Dorcas Mcßae has ac
cepted the Smithtown school near
Ha Kan, entering upon her duties
Monday. Last year she served
as assistant in the Hellvilleschool,
and her work was very pleasing
to the patrons and school authori
ties of Evans county.
A large number of Montgom
ery county people attended the
fair in Dublin last week.
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Mr. W. S. Miller of Towns was
a visitor here Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
Mrs. F. M. Mcßae returned
yesterday evening from a trip to
Atlanta, where she went for
treatment.
Miss Mattie Mcßride left a few
days ago for Stuckey, where she
is teaching.
The South For
Beef Production.
Something like2oo million acres j
of cheap grazing land may be
found in the South suitable for
further development of the live
stock industry, according to a
recent address by Professor Soule
of Georgia college. This is what
he told the convention of the
American meat packers’ associa
tion and naturally the figures
gripped their attention, as it
bears so direct ly on the departure
of the western range territory,
now so largely cut into small
tracts. He very properly depic
ted the South as a meat produc
ing paradise, with its fine cli
mate, long seasons, wide variety
of forage crops, and wonderful
feed stock possibilities.—Sou
thern Farming.
Miss Mamie Mobley
on Examining Board.
Atlanta, Oct. 27.—Three ap
pointments were announced by
Gov. Harris to-day. The first
was that of .1. W. Callahan of
Bainbridge, to succeed Judson
Hand of Pelham on the board of
trustees of the State College of
Agriculture from the Second
congressional district, and the
other two were those of Miss
Mamie Mobley of Atlanta and
Miss Louise Hazlehurst of Ma
con, to be members of the board
of examiners of nurses.
Mr. Callahan will serve out the
unexpired term of Mr. Hand,
which ends Aug. 11. 1918. In
announcing his appointment the
Governor said it was found that
members of the General Assem
bly are eligible to this position,
as it has no emolument annexed
thereto. Mr. Callahan is the
state senator from the Eighth
district. The two ladies appoint
ed on the board of examiners of
nurses will serve three-year
terms, beginning Sept. 2d, 1916.
Decatur Farmers
Start Weevil Fight.
Bainbridge, Oct. 2S. Decatur
County farmers are getting an
early start in their tight next
year against the boll weevil. In
dications are that there will be
an unusually heavy grain crop
planted this year. Fall plowing
and planting have already begun,
and much land is being planted
in oats and a good deal in wheat.
Those who do not purpose plant
ing these grains this failure burn
ing their cotton stalks and turn
ing their lands under.
Missionary Meeting.
The members of tne Woman’s
Missionary Society of Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church are requested to
In? present at a meeting to be
held at the church Monday, 3:80
p. m. Officers will be elected
for the ensuing year.
Mr. G. E. West -of Soperton
Route 3 was a business visitor
here Tuesday.
Mrs. E. D. Adams visited Ma
con a few days ago, prior to the
departure of her son, Harry, to
the border. He is a member of
Troop B, Liberty county, and re
ports say the boys arrived safely.
The next meeting of the Civic
League will be held at the court
house next Wednesday afternoon,
Bth inst., three o’clock. All
members urged to attend.
Mrs. Rena Thompson and
little son, Jack, have returned
; from a visit to relatives in Still
-1 more.
Safety First: High Class
Service Too. That’s what you
want. Ship your cotton to A.
Lekfler Company, Savannah,
ad.
Miss Alleen Mcßae is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Thad Huckabee,
in Sylvester.
Mrs. W. H. Carter is visiting
relatives in Claxton this week.
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The attendance banner was
won by the 6th grade. The Ist
grade won the punctuality ban
ner with an average of 100 per
cent.
The names of the new pupils
entering Oct. 31 are as follows:
Augustus Poore. Ist grade;
Louise Poore, Ist; Gussie Garrett,
2nd; Delma Garrett, 3rd; Nina
Garrett, 4th; Rubye Blue, 4th;
Lessie O’Conner, sth; Georgia B.
Garrett, 6th.
The following children in the
Ist grade have neither been ab
sent nor tardy during the month
October:
Ben Conner, Juanita Cooper,
Clifford Hammock, Emmet Mc-
Crimmon, Douglas Hughes, Eu
gie McCrimmon, Herbert Wright,
Schalah Stephens, Lester Smith,
George Hughes.
2nd grade: Rosa Daniel, Greg
ory Hughes, Winnie Gillis, Don
Stanford, Carl Warren.
3rd grade: Elizabeth Calhoun.
Annie Ruth Grey, Edgar Hunt,
J. Wade Johnson, Claude Mcßae,
Ralph Martin, Sarah Morrison,
T. A. Peterson, Priscilla Stan
ford, Bessie Hughes.
4th grade: Elease Fountain,
Mildred McCrary, Louise Hamil
ton, Adelaide Martin, Evelyn
Walker.
sth grade: Grace Conner, Nell
Wilson, Randall McQueen Be
atrice Hughes, Ruth Wilson,
James Peterson, Johnnie Bald
win.
6th grade: MarieCockfield, Tom
Cock field, Helen Tarver.
7th grade: Chas. Hamilton, L.
C. Mcßae, Frank Williams, Lo
gan Stanford, Herman Hughes,
Eula Gray, Carol Hutcheson,
Irene Martin, Vannie Lick Tyler.
Much interest was shown in
the Field Day exercises on Sat
| urday. Miss Martin is doing
I splendid work among the girls
1 and Mr. Slaughter with the boys.
We are glad to have Miss Ix>uise
Walker, a graduate from G. N.
&I. C. with us this year. Miss
Walker is to act as supply teacher.
Would Invest in New
Railroad Bonds.
Judge J. Ed Page of Orianna
was a pleasant and prominent
busimss caller in the city Friday.
He gave an interview en route
home at Scott to this paper in
| which he stated that he was in*
! deed proud of the outlook for
Wrightsyille to get another rail
way. He proposes to donate a
good sum of money for the bonds
when they are put on the market.
Good; you can tind a lot of just
such men scattered over the coun
try.—Wrightsville Headlight.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1016
A GEORGIA FARM THAT WON
SUCCESS BY DIVERSIFYING
ANDREW M. SOULE, President, Ga. State College Os Agriculture.
Given typical Piedmont farm,
with its characteristic red clay soil,
operating primarily as a cotton plan
tation, what can be done with It? In
other words, can this farm be chang
ed over to a diversified proposition
with profit and success? Many a
land owner is confronted by Just such
a situation, and hence the topic is
of general interest. That an under
taking of this character can he suc
cessfully accomplished has been clear
ly demonstrated at the College farm
at Athens. It has been the policy
to reclaim a new area of land each
year. Unsatisfactory crops are raised
on much of this land the first year
or two after an attempt to reclaim
it because of its eroded condition and
its had physical state. An increase
in the herds of live stock, thereby en
abling larger amounts of yard manure
to be made available each year and
its return to the soil, has resulted In
improving the land and increasing its
crop-yielding powers. Three hundred
and fifty acres of land are now under
the plow.
The farm had been abused for years.
It was without satisfactory buildings
or a suitable equipment of implements
or live stock. It was determined at
once to organize it on the basis of a
stock farm, but without overlooking or
neglecting the possibilities of cultivat
ing cotton and the varied crops adapt
ed to the soil and climatic conditions
of tho Piedmont area. Os necessity the
equipment could only be slowly pur
chased and assembled. The first un
dertaking was to organize a small dairy
herd and offer milk for sale. The re
ceipts from the herd the first year
amounted to $1,124,44, and the sales
of live stock to $72.29. The value of
the cotton and the cotton seed was
$409.72, making a total turnover of the
farm $1,799.37. This happened in the
college year 1907-1908. Nine years la
ter the sales from the dairy herd
amounted to $0,700.41, showing a
steady and uniform increase through
out the period in question. The sales
of live stock increased from $72.29 to
$3,056.02, showing an even greater in
crease. The sales from cotton and
cotton seed have varied somewhat ac
cording to the season and the price
of the staple. The first year the crop
brought $469.62, and in other years
It has sold for as much as $1,831.83.
The total receipts have varied from
Cotton Ginned in
Montgomery County.
From Collector of the Cotton
Census K. M. Johnson it is learn
ed that there were ginned in this
county prior to October 18th
10,812 bales, against 9,545 bales
to the same date last year.
There were ginned in Georgia
to October 18th 1,217,864 bales.
To same date last year, 1,178,-
045 bales. Thus it will be seen
that up to the above date the
yield shows an increase in Mont
gomery county, as well as an in
crease in the state at large; how
ever, in many connties the figures
for this year are less than those
for last.
Cork Leg Proves No
Handicap in Love.
The following item, taken from
the Atlanta Georgian, and re
produced in the Vidalia Advance,
will be of interest in this section,
where the one-legged gentleman
is well known:
"Despite the handicap of hav
ing a cork leg, Teddy Booth, an
insurance agent of Fitzgerald,
won Mrs. Bertha Selby, 24, from
her home in that city, and both
disappeared, the husband, Char
les O. Selby, told Chief Mayo
Wednesday.”
"It was thought the missing
pair had come to Atlanta”.
Administrator’s Bale.
Georgia— Montgomery County.
Under and by virtue of fui order
granted by the Court of Ordinary!
of said county, will be sold, be
fore the court house door in said
county, on the tirst Tuesday m
November, 1916, to the highest
aud best bidder, for cash, the fol
lowing property to w it :
82 1-2 acres of land situate, ly
ing ar.d being in the 16915 t ( l iger)
district of said county and state,
and bounded on all sides except
the southeast by lands of Clayton
McLeod, and on the southeast by
lands of Kate Emanuel, together
with all improvements thereon.
Sold as the property of the estate
of Mrs. Lucy Wilkes, deceased,
for the purpose of division. This
the 2d day of October, 1916.
* F. M. Wilkes, Adr.
Estate Mrs. Lucy Wilkes.
$1,799.37 the first year to $11,002.69
in 1915-1916. The total receipts from
the dairy herd in nine years have
amounted to $43,768.21, from the sales
of live stock to $13,377.95, and from the
sales of cotton and cotton seed $lO,-
819.68, making a total of $09,572.99 for
the nine-year period.
No profit was made from the farm
for the first three years because of the
lack of equipment and the impover
ished condition of the soil, but since
1910-1911 the receipts from the farm
show a net return of nearly $18,000.00
over the actual outlay. This must be
regarded as a satisfactory demonstra
tion of the possibilities of building up
worn-out plantation lands through the
institution of a diversified farm prac
tice in which live stock husbandry is
strongly emphasized. Remember, that
it was necessary to start in and re
claim practically all the land now un
der the plow, a considerable part of
which had been thrown out for a
number of years and it was, therefore,
badly washed and eroded.
A great variety of crops have been
raised successfully. Cereals are grown
each year and a crop of 2,000 to 3,000
bushels of oats obtained. Corn is rais*
ed in considerable quantity, the stover
being used for roughage. Cowpeas
and sorghum, oats and vetch, oats,
rye and crimson clover, Sudan grass
and other forage crops have been
grown on considerable areas and cut
and cured as hay. JCafiir corn and
sorghum have been grown together
and used primarily for the produc
tion of silage, several hundred tons
of which is made each year. Cow
peas have been used as soil builders
and turned under whenever practica
ble. A considerable area of land has
been devoted to alfalfa which has
been cut from four to five times a
year.
A rotation of crops has been estab
lished. Oats have been planted after
cotton and corn and followed, as a
rule, by cowpeas sow-n alone or in
combination with some forage crop to
be made into hay or turned under for
soil improvement. Cotton and corn
have been grown after cowpeas. A
three-year rotation, including the four
crops, has been the object kept in
view. It is conservatively stated that
the lands now under cultivation are
worth S2O an acre more for agricultu
ral purposes than when the work of
improvement was first undertaken.
(Advertisement)
Colored Republicans
Hold Massmeeting.
Ailey, Ga., Oct. 28, 1916.
A massmeeting wasTeld at Mt.
Vernon, Ga., Oct. 28, 1916.
Chairman S. S. Mincey called the
meeting to order at 11:13 a. m.
Rev. H. R. Capers offered a fer
vent prayer, after which Chair
man Mincey in a brief manner
outlined the object of the meet
ing, and in his usual impressive
manner delivered a short but
timely address, urging every
Republican voter in the county
to turn out on the first Tuesday
in November and cast a ballot
for Hughes and Fairbanks.
The chairman then introduced
Rev. A. M. Macon, who made a
very pointed address, for which
he was cheered from every part
of the large auditorium in which
the meeting held. Rev.
Hamilton followed in a very
strong and encouraging address,
lending an air of cheer to our al
ready strong hopes of success.
The following resolution was
read and unanimously adopted
amid cheers.
To the voters of the Republi
can party of Montgomery county:
Whereas, There has arisen con
siderable controversy as to the
regularly chosen officers of the
Republican party in this county.
Resolved, Ist, That S. S. Min
cey be fully recognized as chair
man: W. E. Johnson, vice-chair
man: J. H. Carmichael, secretary
of the Republican party in Mont
g mory county.
Chairman E. B. Cooper of
Toombs county was a distinguish
ed visitor in our midst. The
meeting then adjourned to meet
at the call of the chairman.
S. S. Mincey, Chm,
W. E. Johnson, Vice-Chm,
ad. J. H. Carmichael, Secy.
Note of Thanks.
To the friends who so kindly
assisted us during the time and
since our home was destroyed by
fire we render our most heart
felt thanks, praying the richest
of blessings on every one.
D. O. Calhoun and Family. „
p CONDENSED STATEMENT OF ||
1 THE BANK BF SOPERTBNI
£3 SOPERTON, GA,
September 30th, 1916 jj|j
0 Resources:. §
Loans and Investments $143,533.43 j|j
£§ Buildings and Fixtures 23,872.47
fe Cash on hand due from j|S
other Ban he and ad-
vanees on cotton 160,199.08
P $327,604.98 1
p L. tbilities: p
jjl Capital Stock $ 25,000.00 §
0 Surplus and Piv ts 13,434.37 ||
d Bills Payable 36,500.00 0
g Deposits 252,670.61 |J
I ' 1327,604,98 ||
J Deposits Sept. 30t.i 1916 $252,670.61 ||
fe Deposits Sept. 30th 191.5 138,764.55 |
1 INCREASE SI 13,906.06 @
“Safety First; then Service, Promptness and Effi
jjSjf diency”. Courtesy Always. ||
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