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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1916)
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the I’oetofflce In Mt. Vernon, Oa. as Second-Class Mall Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. Si a Year, in Advance. afirLei;al ailvertiHementH mnut invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law direct*; and nuirft be in hand not later than Wedneaday morning of the drat week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, Nov. 30, 1916. Mighty good grade of news used by the Nashville Herald. Must have bought some time previous, or the hard times have not hit Berrien. A Northwestern senator wants the president elected by the popu lar vote. Seems to have turned out that way on the 7th inst., according to reports. Co-operate with the civic lea gue of your town, if it has orre. If there is no such organization in your city, help the ladies or ganize one at once. The ladies are great on doing things. While the contrast is rather crude, there is nothing that ap proaches perpetual motion so nearly as Georgia politics. The agony is at least endless. The four-year term, however, will at least serve as a brake. Very fitting that Governor Har ris should visit the Georgia boys on the border, and it was a rous ing welcome accorded him there Tuesday and Wednesday. He is a warrior of the sixties, still fill ed with the military spirit. The Georgia weeklies are fast going to the $1.50 rate. A coun tv paper is well worth it, and the slight advance should meet the approval of the intelligent? read er. Blank newspaper has risen about 400 per cent, in the past year. Georgia should have one or two good paper mills. When Georgians get to that degree of independence afford ing a Georgia products dinner three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, our glorious old state will not only be the Empire State of the South, but it will be recognized as the Empire State of the Nation. Not far from it now. Living at home will hasten this day. The colored man is naturally wise on some lines, luit prone to fall to almost anything that sa vors of the North. Rather sad to see some of them shipped home in baggage cars, after spending only a few weeks in the land of promise where they were enticed by otfers of high wages and easy work hours. The South is the home of the negro, and above all the Southern man is his friend: yet it is dillicult for him to realize it. The compulsory attendance bill passed by the recent session of the General Assembly of Geor gia is none too drastic. Chief among its provisions is that every child between the ages of eight and fourteen shall be forced to attend school continuously for four months of each year. This will work little or no hardship, and will result in raising the edu cational standard of Georgia, which is none too high at present. Let this bill be enforced. The world’s inner conscience cries out for peace. Nations of the conllict breathe it in under tones; those from under the rod of conflict shout it from the housetop. Yet, universal greed whets the sword and false nation al pride adds to its destructive powers, and the dawn of peace lies beyond the clouds which the human eye cannot penetrate. Blood for blood is the rule of war between enraged nations. Amer ica is kind enough to hold out the olive branch, but she is also mivhty to create destructive forces. She gets praise for one and dollars for the other. mYYTYmmmfYYYYYmi £ Georgia State 3 ► 4 £ Press Expressions. < •aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa If they would do away with the electoral college and elect the president by direct vote of the people, the Solid South would show some of her sister states how to pile up a really great Democratic vote, and the Demo cratic party could elect its presi dent for the next fifty years.— Claxton Enterprise. Albany is seriously alarmed at the negro emigration. There is an effort now to make the claim that the negro is leaving because he is afraid of bodily harm. Lawlessness has made the negro a victim of frenzy in many cases where there was no guilt, but the negro is not migrating to save liis life. If he is, he should study the character of the mob in the north and east.—Cordele Dispatch. Thanksgiving comes this year on the 30th of November. Well, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for down here in the South, but if flour continues to soar upward in price we’ll have to make our pumpkin pie with corn cake crust. —Pembroke Enterprise. The Wilson administration en acted measures to gain the vote of the masses of working people, it was claimed by the Republican leaders. True, and the Wilson administration will still get meas ures passed for the good of the common people. We have been evolved from a class administra tion to an administration for the good of all the people. —Walker Co. Messenger. Editor Jim Williams says he is cutting all the paDers from his exchange list that do not carry an original editorial page. Fine business. We never could see why such papers wanted to ex change with each other.—Nash ville Herald. The prospects are that Laurens will harvest the largest grain crop next year in its history. This, too, in spite of the fact that cotton is selling at the highest price it has sold since the Civil War. An enormous quanity of wheat is being planted.—Laurens Citizen. Nothing helps a community more than good straight talks from men whose honesty is ap parent and whose courage is un questionable. These kind of men attack things that need the knife. —Valdosta Times. After an election the country quickly settles down to ordinary business. Even the defeated can didates go to work for a living.— Atlanta Constitution. Twenty cents cotton is ex ceptionally good for farmers, but it will be decidedly bad should they plant a bigger cotton crop next year. — Perry Home-Journal. A good many farmers of Toombs county, realizing the value of birds on their farms, have placed a ban on hunting on their premises. It has been demonstrated that quail destroy boll weevils in large numbers. In a critical time like this when we are face to face with a seri ous problem everything that tends to stay the work of the pest should be conserved. —Ly- ons Progress. Boost your town and county. The best way on earth to im prove them. If you are a booster and not simply a rooster it means something.—Wrightsville Head light. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1016. Want Protection Against Hog Thefts. Bainbridge, Ga., Nov. 28. — Decatur county farmers and stockmen are urging the author ities in Bainbridge and other towns of the county to enact or dinances making it unlawful for meat markets and other dealers to buy hogs without heads or in any other way mutilated. It is claimed that there has been an epidemic of hog stealing in some parts of the county and those guilty of such thefts make it a practice to cut off the heads and thus remove any marks about the ears or other means of identifi-j cation. It is probable that such action will be taken here and in the half dozen other towns of Decatur county. Safety First: High Class Service Too. That’s what you want. Ship your cotton to A. Leffler Company, Savannah, ad. U CONDENSED STATEMENT OF §> I THE BANK OF SOPERTOKI | SOPERTON, GA. eg September 30th, 1916 S Resources: fe 1 § jg Loans and Investments $143,533.43 jg H Buildings and Fixtures 23,872.47 j| g? Cash on hand due from S other Banks and ad- & H vances on cotton 160,199.08 j| 1 $327,604.98 g H Liabilities: ! I Capital Stock 8 25,000.00 | H Surplus and Profits 13,434.37 p H Hills Payable 36,500.00 « I Deposits 252,670.61 § 1 $327,604981 I Deposits Sept. 30th 1916 $252,670.61 I Deposits Sept. 30th 1915 138,764.55 | INCREASE 8113,906.06 | “Safety First; then Service, Promptness and Effi- fe* diency”. Courtesy Always. STATE SUPERVISION GRIST MILL AND GINNERY I NOW READY To Grind Your Corn and Gin Your jj Corn in the Best Manner Possible, j Soliciting Your Patronage and Promis- jj | ing the Best Service, I am Yours truly H. V. THOMPSON, | AIL-EV, SA. i| When in Vidalia 1 See me for \ GAS, OILS AND ACCESSORIES j “FREE AIR” E. O. MEADOWS Church Street VIOALIA, GA. | Subscription price of The Montgomery Monitor after Nov. 15, $1.50 Sheriff Sale. Georgia—Montgomery County. Will be sold before the court house door in Mt. | Vernon on the first Tuesday in Dec . 1916, 140- tween the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and i being in the 275th G. M. distrief of said county | and state, in the Town of Uvalda, and known and distinguished in the plat of said town as Lot No. 7 i in Block No. 17, fronting 66 feet on Myrtle street and extending back 155 feet to an alley, as shown by record of the map of said town of Uvalda in Book No. 12, folio No. 228 of the records of deeds l of Montgomery county. Ga. Said property levied on and will be sold as the property of Mrs. O. A. Gray to satisfy an execution issued from the su perior court of Toombs county in favor of The Uvalda Bank vs T. H. Faircloth, W. A. McNatt and Mrs. O. A. Gray. In possession of Mrs. O. A. Gray and written notice of levy given as required by law. Pointed out for levy by attorney for plaintiff. This the 7th day of Nov., 1916. James Hester, Sheriff. M. B. Calhoun, Atty. for Plff. Sheriff Sale. Georgia— Montgomery County. Will be sold before the courthouse door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tuesday in Dec., 1916, between the legal hours of sale to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following i* a complete description: That tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 1386th G. M. district of said countv and state and bounded as follows: On the nort h by lands of C. C. Tapley, on the south by lands of Wallace Harvey, west by lands of Harmon Will and on the east by lands of Mrs. Sallie Young blood, containing eighty-one and thm -fourth (81 3-4) acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the property of Andrew Blount to satisfy a fi fa issued from the superior court of said county In favor of Mrs. C. B. Thompson vs Andrew Blount. Written notice of levy given defendant as required by law. 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