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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.'
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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.
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SCHEDULE OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
Time Table No. I—Taking Effect Sunday, January 3, 1915.
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STATIONS T T raiDß
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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
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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
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