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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1917)
"The J v Lontgorr\ery /Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the I’ostofTlce irl Mt. Vernon, Oa, as Second-Class Mail Matter. M. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. si.s« ® Year, in Advance. M-Lcßat advr-rtiHnments must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and an the law dir,, eta; and mint be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the Amt week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, May 10, 1917. If there is anything better than sweet potatoes, it is more of them. It does not take a scien tist to grow them, either. As a contrast in production and overproduction, in 1914 the slo gan was “Buy a bale." In 1917 it should be “Raise a potato.” In other words, would not a little more determined action be , a good substitute for the surplus wind-work? While this escaping air may not be poisonous, it is at least exasperating. If you cannot secure tins, save some of the farm and garden pro ducts in the old stone jars around the place. Your grand-mothers saved it in gourds and jars. A little ingenuity would have de vised a plan of re-using tin cans. It is not a question of what the boll weevil will do when he gets here. It is, what will you do be fore he arrives? The general trend of the times is to prepare for success, otherwise defeat and want are the fruits of indiffer ence. And now it is intimated that Russia may lose the one opportu nity of its national life—demo cratic government. A lack of educational advancement may re inslave her. Ignorance is the curse of any nation, community, or individual. Yes, if Count von Bernstorff is to he sent off in search of a post in a neutral country, he will have to a great extent won the title of “Wandering German.” When he leaves home it will be with limited invitations on the part of other nations. It is said that the velvet bean last, year saved Alabama from bankruptcy. No doubt but what it is a financial boon to any farm, especially to the farm which has never been brought up to its highest state of productiveness. The wise farmer has long since become attached to the bean. Advocates of drink cannot find enough words with which to cen sure the new prohibition law. Prohibition has come to stay, and its opponents are simply wagging their tongues for nothing. So briety and wisdom are too well en trenched in each other’s strength to bo dismembered by criminals and mental cripples. The world has been looking to Thomas Alva Edison for a meth od of defeating the submarine, and it is possible that his massive brain will yet conceive the rem edy. Despite the seventy sum mers through which he lias pass ed, Edison is still active and re tains his old-time resourceful ness. He is the wonder of the age. While high prices prevail, the buyer wishes he were the seller. This is an evidence of human weakness and inconsistency. But the most miserable wretch in view is the newspaper delinquent who agrees that everything else should advance in price except newspapers. Montgomery coun ty has an extra share of these grafters. International strife, whatever the result, will bring to the peo ple of the United States a most forcible realization of the folly of waste and lack of conservation of the resources of this great repub lic. This country is as a giant reposing in his untold strength, and just awakened to the dire necessity of action. In the olden days, however great his prowess, the giant often went down for a lack of method of defense—of preparation for victory. mmnYYYTmmmYYYt • ► ◄ Georgia State « ► 4 ► Press Expressions. < & 4 • AAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Returning one’s property for full value for taxation in the pres ent crisis is as much an act of patriotism as actually joining the army and going to war, is the view taken by Judge John C. Hart, state tax commissioner, in a letter mailed out Monday to county boards of tax equalizers which begin their sittings in their respective counties soon,- Butler Herald. It seems too bad that after fif ty years without a merchant ma rine we have to build one now to furnish food for the submarines. Dublin Courier-Herald. President Wilson succeeds in getting what he wants passed through congress. Most of the representatives seem to think he knows best and are will to trust his judgment.—Walker Co. Mes senger. As the Walton News says, af ter all it is the farmer who must determine his own destiny. All the preaching and urging which is being put forward now will go for naught if the farmer fails to heed the timely and friendly warning.—Monticello News. An exchange remarks that it is against the Federal law to print a picture of the American flag. This only applies to an advertis ing scheme, brother. You can print and wear “Old Glory” when you please, but don’t com mercialize it. — Greensboro Her ald-Journal. There ought to be found in Toombs county enough loafers and fellows living on their pa rents to furnish the 70 men with out calling on those who are wqrkitig and filling places where their services are needed. —Lyons Progress. Today’s papers say that Chili, China, and one or two more countries, have joined the Allies. Our side seems to get every new member and we are not offering any special prizes, either. Veri ly, there’s a reason. Douglas Enterprise. We notice a magazine article 'on “How to Cook Potatoes,” and it occurs to us that advice would be more timely on how to get ’em. The cooking will take care of itself.—Swainsboro Forest- Blade. If the President only had the power to compel a lot of those congressmen to go to plowing, an avocation in which they could better serve their constituents, why the whole country would be better off. Darien Gazette. They say that we people are soon to have the ten cent loaf bread. No, that certainly can’t happen in the great state of Georgia. We’ll just use the old time hoecake to prevent it, thats all.—Bryan Enterprise. When a lawyer goes into the newspaper to argue a point, he generally winds up by showing how much of a lawyer he isn’t.— Metter Advertiser. Volunteers are all right but what the nation needs is univer sal military service in times of peace as well as in times of war. - Laurens Citizen. National prohibition would pre vent the possibility of a good | famine as it would save millions of grain now being used for the manufacture of liquor.—Hawk insville News-Dispatch. Even the man who amounts to no more than “a hill of beans.” is a force to count on in this food i crop year.—Atlanta Constitution. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY MAY 10, 1917. TRENCH BECAME A CANAL Trench ut Pontavert which the rains turned Into a canal. A touch of the picturesque in the war ruins of north ern France. New Road Notice. Georgia—Montgomery County. Office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, Montgomery county, May 1, 1917. M. A. Braddy, W. R. Johnson, W. B. Connell, J. H. Martin and others having m proper form ap plied for the opening and estab lishing of a now public road, com mencing at the north end of M A. Braddy’s lane on the Louisville road and running in a westerly di rection and passing H. B. Brad dy’s old home place, and the John D. Phillips old place, thence north of W. B. Connell’s new home, thence by the J. 11. Mar tin place, the H. ,J. Kight place and intersecting the Mt. Vernon and Soperton road at the home of Mr Taylor, just north of where John Q. Palmer resides, the same being u distance of about three and a half miles. The reviewers appointed for laying out and sur veying said proposed new road having tiled their return, this is to notify all parties concerned that said new road will be granted on the first Tuesday in June, 1917, if no good cause be shown to the contrury. J. L. I.owrky, Chm. A. B. Jli Tt iiKsox, Clerk Thorough selection of high class stock for the fresh meats on sale at our place. Delivery at the correct time. Place your or ders for the best service. Morrison & Hughes, Mt. Vernon. STATEMENT OF || I THE BANK OF SOPERTON | | SOPERTON, GA. w (Condensed From the Report to the State Bank Examiner & Kg March 20th, 1917) 5s | RESOURCES :| Loans and investments §182,812.29 H Overdrafts unsecured 1,164.30 || Overdrafts secured 1,533.44 ;§ i| Other resources 1,326.50 g I Buildings and fixtures 23,872.47 ;|j 1 Cash on hand, due from banks and advances on cotton 60,167.99 ® § 8270,876.99 | | LIABILITIES I I Capital stock 825,(MX).00 § I Surplus and profits 16,563.23 § I Bills payable 10,(K)0.()0 |jj I Other liabilities 19,256.84 ® I DEPOSITS 200,056.92 | I §270,876.99 ;| J OFFICERS ;| |N. L. GILLIS, President W. D. MARTIN. Vice-Pres. g S J. E. HALL, Pice-Pres. and Cashier £ I. H. HALL, Jr., Assistant Cashier g Killed by Swiss Avalanche. Berne, Switzerland. —Scores of per sons have perished and a large num ber of cattle and many buildings have been buried under unprecedented ava lanches throughout southern Switzer land. The St. Gotthard and the Simp lon railway lines to Italy have been repeatedly blocked and the repair work has been frequently stopped by fresh avalanches due to the recent bad weather and heavy snows. Anxiety is felt by the citizens that the ava lanches may be followed by devastat ing floods when the thaw sets in. First Loan Proceeds To Great Britain Washington.—The first American loan to the allied nations will go to Great Britain. The amount and other details probably will be made public by Secretary McAdoo within a few days. Whatever the sum, the amount will be available out of the proceeds of the five billion bond issue soon to he offered to the public, of which three billion dollars will be lent to the allies. Announcement to this effect was made at the treasury de partment by the secretary and federal reserve board officials. Give Summer White House to Government. New York, May 7. —Shadow Lawn, the estate near Long Branch, N. J., used as a “sum mer White House” by President Wilson last year, has been sold to a syndicate of prominent New York and New Jersey men who propose to present the property to the government for use as a permanent summer residence for the President, it was announced here today. MASON GROCERY STORE Offers to the Public a New and Complete Line Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fruits, Soft Drinks, etc. WE HELP FEED THE PUBLIC WITH THE BEST and the public is invited to let us do it, with fair prices and cour teous treatment. In charge of Mr. Jim Truett, (formerly with Thompson Bros.) who invites his friends to call. In Currie old drug store building. AILEY, GA. M. B. CALHOUN Atty tit Law, Mt Vernon, Georgia A. L. Lanier, Attorney at Law, MT. VERNON, GA. Will Practice in all the Courts of the State. 99 per cent. | !i OF THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS | MEN AND ' OMEN ARE BANK j D' OSITOIIS \ BBCA. 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