The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, November 02, 1916, Image 6
11 LOCAL - PERSONAL | u W '©' 0 G 0,0 0:00 0 0 ©:©'© ©o'o'o'.oTo WOMMOIOJ % 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. I 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. f 8.-P. I. ITEMS.! »-—-r ———■—— 1 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. || STATE SUPERVISION * T'tTTTTTTTTVVTTTTTfTVTVTTTI ?TY»miV'f7TTT’fmTmm» > < t Vidalia Monumental Co. 3 i \ w \ ► * t WE HAVE IN STOCK A 5 ► FULL LINE OF \ l MONUMENTAL MATERIAL : t . ► All Practical Dimensions and Make it « £ « ► up in Appropriate Designs : ► i £ The public is invited to visit our yards and make personal < £ selections. 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