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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1916)
T?\e r\or\tgorr\&ry Monitor PUBLISHKII EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 1 I ;it ■ r<»HU»fflce iii Mt. Vernon. Ga, as Second-Class Mail Matter. H. li. Fol.soM, Editor and Owner. ® Year, in Advance. gjr\. , U ■ n-i ini nt- must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law i liai.'l not later than Wednesday rimming of the first week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, Nov. 16, 1916. The lone lady in congress may congratulate herself that she is a rose among thorns, even if her fragrance is wasted on desert air. With nothing but high living in sight, better read up on home economics. Cut off the frills and dainties. Plain food is better for brawn and brain anyhow. Charles E. was a little back ward in telling Woodrow that he w;: “it”—-but then Woodrow do - not have to play in Charley’s I .a- k yard or look over Ted’s side fence. _ And now they say Mr. Wilson’s election was due to advertising. Nothing like telling the public of th< merits of anything offered thorn through the puplic prints. Incidentally Mr. Hughes is get ting a little free notoriety. No freak election bets to he paid in this section as far as the national conti t is concerned. The half a dozen white slinks from this county were not bold enough to bet on the defeated candidate, hence they owe noth in,d nothing is due them. The fact that some of the boys on the border want to get home ! < >r the holidays is not a reflection on their patriotism—they just want to see the homefolks, after an absence of five months in mobilization camps. Nothing like one of mother’s biscuits. With three-fourths of the area of the United States dry, the average toper may as well apply for the gold cure. Sobriety, backed by intelligence, is build in " a tower of strength that the imps of hades will never be able t shake from its foundation. Since the editor of the Swains -1»1 rei Forest-Blade is telling of tin- candies brought to his office, (whether in fact or jest) the edi t> r of The Monitor is making out » n home-raised turnips and Irish P datoes, while a neighbor has just sent in a sack of late-crop tomatoes. Main of the weeklies were short on editorial squibs last v eek. Those which use the Yankee-made stereotype variety, however, ran a full quota. Notj bes than forty Georgia weeklies resort to this method of filling their editorial column. A little home-made product is better. As an example that prohibition is a blessing, Pierce county has come to the conclusion that its present ail is large enough. It se< t at before the prohibition act became effective this pros perous county contemplated nn addition to its house of detention. This is doubtless true in the case o a number of Georgia counties. A number of the towns in Georgia have put the ban on j shows. In many instances this! is neat; these traveling vans of j iniquity add nothing to the moral \ tone of a town or community, l and they relieve the light-minded j of all available cash. Some of! them carry cess-pools of vice and! corruption not tolerated in the lowest dives of the cities, where none but the underworld see and engage. Scatter them around j the country, and those who move in respectable circles are the chief patrons. We offer no s;ambling block to legitimate! business; a man can spend his; dollar in a carnival of base make- j up if he chooses, but the town j authorities who allow such as' have been in this section during ; the past fall are parties to the up-1 keep of moral-wrecking agencies.' »TYfYYm?YrrYfmYmm» ► Georgia State ◄ t Press Expressions. 3 If you want to help the town do it while you are living. After you are dead and your kids have your money they might move away.—Valdosta Times. It is reported that an enter prising South Georgia farmer will use guineas as bool weevil destroyers next year. It would be good for our farmers if the whole breed of cotton weevils should go to Guinea.—Perry Home Journal. Buildings that were once used for breweries in this state are now to be transformed into pack ing plants and dairies. What great progress! How much bet ter that the capital and the ef fort which was so long prostituted to the work of retarding the growth and development of our state should now be utilized in the very opposite work of ad vancing the commercial interests of our people.- Laurens Citizen. Every weekly newspaper edi tor in Georgia, whether he at tended Editor’s Day at the state fair or failed to do so, is under abundant obligation to Editor R. L. McKinney, of the Macon News, and other members of the enter tainment committee for the occa sion for the many courtesies ex tended to the newspaper men. We sympathize with the brethren who were unable to take advan tage of the occasion.—Butler Herald. Judge Dick Russell, having been a candidate for all the of fices we have, has moved to At lanta and hung out his shingle.— Nashville Herald. “Drink hardens the voice,” says a scientist. Which, if true, accounts for a whole lot of flinty voiced people here-abouts. — Greensboro Herald-Journal. California certainly knows how to get in the political lime light— and stay there. Indiana will have to look to her laurels.— Dublin Courier-Herald. It may not be amiss to again remind the farmers of Toombs county that they are permitting the destruction of one of their best friends when they allow hunters to kill the quail on their farms. Quail it is said by those who claim to know destroy boll weevils by the thousands. In Texas, where the farmers have felt the effects of the boll weevil, it is against the law to kill quail even on one’s own farm. It should be the same in Georgia. - Lyons Progress. Wonder what satisfaction Tom Watson got out of his circulars, showing the big, black negro sentencing “you white folks”? Yet, the democrats of Georgia continue to let this man continue to vote in the white primaries of Georgia. He goes ahead and participates in the white pri maries, but when it comes to a national election, it is utterly im possible to tell what he will do. — Telfair Enterprise. Slime fellows who haven’t right good eyes read it this way: j “Six days shalt thou rest,” and they practice it to perfection, too. They also rest on the sev enth. Hartwell Sun. It is most thoughtful in Mr. Roosevelt to refrain from mak-! ing “any recommendations to! Mr. Hughes with reference to appointments. ” —Atlanta Consti tution. It is said the present prices on coal are not justified by condi tions at the mines. But few of us can go to the mines to find out. Savannah Press. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1916 Georgia Ranks Third In Giving to Wilson. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 13. —Demo crats in Atlanta and throughout the state are congratulating themselves today that their state ranks third in contributions to the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund. No less than $21,000 was raised in this state, while the other two states which came ahead of Geor gia were Virginia with $36,000 and North Carolina with $32,000. It was in Staunton, Va., that President Wilson was born, and in Atlanta, Ga., that he was ad mitted to the bar as a lawyer. Twelve Great Serials in 1917. Some of these are story-groups like those inmitable stories of the old home down in Maine in which C. A. Stephens shows himself a master. There will be serials for girls, serials for boys, serials that hold the rapt attention of all readers of either sex and all ages. And the fiction is only a corner of The Companion. It is brimful and running over with all manner of good things. There’s not a better $2.00 worth of periodical reading anywhere. Send for the Forecast for 1917, which discloses some of the de lightsul secrets of the new vol ume. New subscribers for 1917 who send $2.00 now will receive all the issues for the remaining weeks of 1916 free; also The Companion Home Calendar for 1917. By special arrangement, new subscribers for The Companion can have also McCall’s Magazine for 1917, both publications for only $2.10. This two-at-once-price includes: 1. The Youth’s Companion -52 issues in 1917. 2. All remaining November and December issues of The Com paion free. 3. The Companion Home Cal endar for 1917. 4. McCall’s Magazine—l 2 fash ion numbers in 1917. 5. One 15-cent Dress Pattern —your choice from your first copy of McCall’s—if you send a 2-cent stamp with your selection. Sharp’s Spur School. Our school is getting on nicely. New students keep coming in. Louril and Hilton Odum and J. W. Cook, Jr., were among the new pupils that came in last week. Sorry that Miss Gladys Jones had to be out of school last week on account of sore eyes. The following pupils were on the honor roll: First grade, Lou Price, Robert Garbutt and J. W. Cook. Second grade, Jaunita Garbutt, Clyde Coleman, Robert Galbreath. Fourth grade, Maud Ward. Sixth and seventh grade, Vela Peterson. Roscoe and Roy Mcßride. Eighth grade, Tom mie Way. We have our repairs made ex cept some steps which are need ed. Until all pupils in the district are in will we think we have our rights, nor will we quit insisting on their coming in. Wilson Determined To Prevent Strike. Washington, Nov. 13.—The possibility of another crisis in the wage dispute between the rail roads of the country and their operating employees confronted President Wilson when he re sumed his official duties here to day. The President learned to day that the conferences of the railway executive advisory com mittee had displayed a strong sentiment among the railway managers to fight in the courts the eight-hour day law passed by the last Congress. If another crisis develops, it is certain that he will intervene to preserve the victory won when he forced Congress to enact the eight-hour day law in September. : Alston. Miss Otis Kirkland was tk honoree at an enjovable birthday entertainment given by Mrs. J. M. Dees on Tuesday evening. The invited guests were Miss? Vera Rawls, Miss Mabel Cannon iMiss Cleo Mathis, Miss Otis, Kirkland, Miss Flossie Dixon,: Miss Pearl Mcßride, Mr. Jack M. j Daniel, Messrs. Clifford. Henry ‘ and M. P. Mcßride, Mr. Hobson Guthrie, Mr. William Ellis, Grimes, Mr. D. Dixon, Mr. La mar Jones of Uvalda, and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Martin. Mrs. E. L. Carpenter has re i turned from Vidalia wht: - spent a week as the guest of hei sister, Mrs. Jim McNutt. The marriage of Mr. W. G. Williamson of this place and Mis Myrt Morgan of Vienna took place Nov. 8, at the home of the bride’s parents. After their honeymoon tour they will make their home at Alston. Mr. ami Mrs. H. G. Martin and Mr. arid Mrs. E. S. Martin had as their guests for the week-end V“ ; Norma Martin and Bessie Smi ley, Mr. Dan Martin and 1 • J. C. Hines and children from Hinesville. Dr. H. C. Sharpe and Miss Lu la Sharpe, Messrs. Clifford arm Henry Mcßride visited the fair in Macon this week. Mrs. J. E. Harrell had as her guest last week her sister, Mi: Venie Todd, from Vidalia. Miss Cleo Mathis is visiting friends and relatives at Span;., Ga.—Sunday’s Savannah N'e .. Keep Negro Farmers. In the Southern States. | Hundreds of negro farmer:- have left the boll weevil sec: ■ of the cotton belt during the j few months. It is invariably the case that when the boll weevil invades new territory many white and negro farmers move on ahead of the pest. This year, however, the moying has been different from what it usually is. as thousands of the negroes have gone to the north and east, where common labor is very scarce and where a high price is paid them. The chances are 10 to one tha; the majority of these will return within a short while, many of! them in a worse fix than when they left. Mississippi, in order to try to j calm the unrest of many of these j negro farmers, is holding farm ers’ institutes for the purpose of | teaching them better farming methods, and showing them how I to avoid crop failure. This is a step in the right direction, be cause the South needs the negro and the negro needs the South. We believe it would be a wise thing for our white farmers to help these negroes in every way possible, at least to the extent of giving them regular work. We also believe it would be well for the other states to follow Mississippi in holding these insti tutes.—Southern Farming. Grady County is Now Busy With Cane Crop. Thomasville, Ga., Nov. 12. ! Grady county, which is the great syrup-making center of this sec tion, reports that the syrup crop from that county for this mas > will be from fifteen to twenty j cents below normal, which is better than the outlook in other sections, where it is estimated to be about one-half off. Cane! grinding is in full swing there now and the shipments run int thousands of barrels, with many thousands being marketed in Cairo. Most of the syrup made is; classed as A No. 1, the crop b< j ing unusually fine as to quality. By wholesale it is bringing from 37 to 38 cents per gallon. By re tail on the Thomasville mark:: syrup is commanding from 75 to 80 cents per gallon, though price may go lower v. h n u . full crop is made. 199 per cent. h ;: f OF THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS j I A *:x AND WOMEN AllE BANK jj | DEPOSITORS jj |3BCA U S E- ; in a g jod bank their money is absolutely safe and al- !' | vvmv:; av.tilai uy checks are returned and become receipts; , 7 •' • : si. its form a convenient record of income and j | 5 1 • and bt ;t of all, when the bank depositor sees an op- || of using some money profitably, his acquaintance !j i .k a, I record as a depositor make it possible for ;! him to procure a loan. j ■ You can promote YOUR sue- jj (-■■■■ -• by becoming a depositor with | MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA. j ip V V ’I? W wyvWVV WW | I I '-'W. a■'U O SURPLUS, $33,000.00 RESOURCES, $175,000.00 |! \t . I * -ddcfit W. A. Peterson, Cashier ]! A ’ . . .r. Vice Pr.. ident H. L. Wilt, Assistant Cashier j| MT. VERNON, GA. jj .v?YVVVVY YV'fVVA -; v -YVYVV?VVVVVVVVVVYTVVVYVVYVYYYV# [Just % Word] [ to You? j 1 j There tomes a me when you need j t something in Har ware and Furniture, i > *■ t I t may be a Pocketknife or a Window J > Shade, or it may be a Hundred Dollar 5 r* 7 v Z v* “ i purchase. Keep his in mind when J $ t hat time comes. We are here to serve 3 l you with the right goods, with prices 1 end quality guaranteed. When it is * KAPJWARE AND FURNITURE \ t ■* come to see us. 4 ! AILEY HDW. CO. I A! LEY, GA. \ 4 • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA • iacon, Dublin & Savannah R. R. SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAINS. Time Table No. I—Taking Effect Sunday, January 3, 1915. .-Vim uini Westbound STATIONS T T raiDß , | - No. 19 No. 17 A. M. P. M. Arrive 11 20 4 40 7 4 If Jeffersonville 10 2(5 3 45 15 4 U 4 Danville 10 04 325 s 30 T> Montrose 9 49 15 10 ij j : Dudley 9 38 2 58 i) jo 5 * •• Dublin Lv. 910 230 915 523 Lv. Dublin Ar. 905 950 <5 0 Rock-edge 830 150 pit!-; 1 Scij-crton 8 13 1 34 10 45 655 Vidaiia 740 100 yt p Arrive Leave A. M. P. M. ii, • Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad are at >u of the public, and every effort is t ; i: m :i< -unit- and up to date, but they are not gnaran- Dll' Ln .• Savannah Railroad reserves the right , ii i w: l.out assuming any liability therefor. J. A. Streyeh, Tafhc Manager, Macon, (Ja L. W. BUS Dental Surgeo.-, Offices 2d Floor Bank nl Sopeiioa ding Sopert*«i, Ca. M. li. CALHO \ Attv at Law, W Mt Vernon, Georp:s E. M. KAt’KLE' Dentist Office over Mt. Vernon Pustoiii. . HT. VERSON. CA. j PIANO . TUNING. If your Piano is worth anything, it is worth EXPERT tuning, Any other kind will ruin it. I have a diploma, and guarantee all work. Write, and I will call. ORGANS REPAIRED. Charles L. Hamilton, Ms. VERNON. GA.
