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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.
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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
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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. This the 7th day of Nov., 1916.
James Hester, Sheriff.
T. N. Brown, Atty. for Plff.
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