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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1917)
TF\e T , \or\tgorr\&ry Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the Powtoftlce in Mr. Vernon, Ga. as Second-Class Mall Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. si.s° ® Year, in Advance. *#- advertisement* must invariably be p»i<l in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law directs; and must be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of insertion Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, June 7, 1917. Most of the boys wonder what next. Nothing for Mexico to do but stand off and clap her blood stained hands in cheer for the success of those of her kind. An authority says it will be necessary to examine a million and a half men in order to get half a million soldiers for the first draft. Pretty substantial ratio—one out of every three. In buying a Liberty bond, you are contributing to the honor and financial dignity of the United States. It is an opportunity not to be overlooked by those who are able to participate, even on a small scale. Savannah is to be congratulat ed on the completion of her big sugar refinery, which is to be put in operation in a few days. It will rank with the big industries of the South, and is in keeping with the spirit of Savannah. Since the recent fire in Atlan ta, the wooden shingle has been placed on the ban. However, with fifty young lawyers just turned out of one of her law in stitutions, the demand for shingles will be on the upgrade. The colored citizens are to be congratulated on the showing made in Tuesday’s registration. It has raised his standard of citizenship. Whatever Mont gomery’s quoto, she will offer a large list to choose from, white and colored. At last it must dawn on the negro that he is not as welcome in the North as he was made to believe a few months ago. Northern slave traders put him in the South centuries ago, and here he must remain for his bet ter interests. When out of bis native element, he is at a disad vantage. With the balance of the states fighting for union and progress, during the critical period through which our nation is passing, Georgia will doubtless soon be in fested with the new county craze. Nothing engenders more unnecessary strife, and the ad vocates do not realize their dilem ma until the tax man comes around. Montgomery county has had nothing else for twelve years. The call of a church bell may be as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal to some, yet this call, which has resounded throughout the ages, will continue until the end of time. Some respond: others turn a deaf ear. The na tion’s call to arms, with a world struggle on, is but as play to tiu call of the One who holds the destinies of nations in His hands. Thousands, through habit, pray, “Thy Kingdom come,’’ but are lined up in battle array against its advancement. A shame on the intelligence and patriotism of the Americar people that the demands for ai army are not more fully under stood. We have taken the posi tion, and still maintain, that the army is necessary, whether 01 not it is called to the battle lint on foreign soil or to the defense of America. Our very honor de mands it, and the draft measure is the proper method to secure results. Aside from actual in vasion of our shores, no othei method could be more effective The selective draft, within itself is not a repre>ach on the Ameri can youth. , VTVTYTYTYYTYTYYYYYYYYYYYY. £ Georgia State J Press Expressions. The man that actually gets out 1 of a lot of trouble these days is 1 the one that does a whole lot of I thinking and very little talking. - 1 - Bryan Enterprise. II Faith is not born for days of sunshine only. Faith does not find her truest and greatest pow ! er when the sunshine appears un clouded along the pathway of ' life. It is the attribute of faith to believe in good in spite of evil; ’ it is the attribute of faith to be -1 lieve in the light, although she is environed by the darkness and is difficult to see. — Nashville Her ald. r The Hon. Potipher Peagreen is now working overtime in an es , fort to get his bills ready to in , troduce in the legislature when that body meets on the 27th of June. No doubt his bills, when . made known, will set the branch ! on fire and land him in some big office.—Darien Gazette. A nation-wide movement is on ■ among physicians to awaken the ' people to the importance of tak ing more exercise. Use of the bicycle is urged as a splendid ‘ health producer. What’s wrong : with the old-fashioned wood axe and garden hoe as exercisers?— Monticello News. Now is a good time to lay in a 1 large supply of winter fuel for home consumption. Coal will command big prices this winter. - Dublin Courier-Herald. While the call comes to the , men to produce the call comes to the women of America to con , serve. The kitchen waste is one I of our greatest leaks. - Walker . Co. Messenger. * Sweet potatoes grown last year are retailing in the stores at $1.50 per bushel. All kinds of farm products are bringing high prices i now and if the farmers don’t , make money this year it will be i because they raise nothing to , sell. Hawkinsville Dispateh - News. There can be no reason for complaint of hard times or ces sation of business activity in this 'i favored county, where nature’s s gift of fertile soil and propitious s seasons are a guarantee to all l> who try for not only competence but abundance. Metter Adver tiser. The fellow who seems to know just how the army and navy [ would be managed is the same t , kind of a man who sits around |. on the street corners and finds L ’ fault with the men who are try ing to build up the town. —Daw- , son News. e Happy must be the farmer who s. has just harvested a crop of wheat sufficient to supply his e home needs. There are many it farmers of Toombs county who have done this. There are hun dreds of others who have not. e which is a misfortune for them, n Lyons Progress. " One of the Confederate vet r' erans suggests that the registra tion age be raised to seventy-odd [t “ in order to take in the men who >r fought in the War between the e States. Don’t do it. Those men e have no reputation to make and the one they have will sustain it self as long as history is written. “® Savannah News. ‘6 Can. pickle and preserve ev '■ erything that you do not need for ‘ r present use. The time is coming ?. when things of this kind will be f, too high for the average family to buy. This is a time when we '* must practice food conservation. I —Telfair Enterprise. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY JUNE ? 1917. 1 BOLL WEEVIL PREPAREDNESS CLUBS By Andrew M. Soule, Pres. Ga. State College Os Agriculture Have you Joined the boll weevil pre paredness club? If not, you should do so at once. Isy so doing you will perform an important, public serv ice, and you will aid materially in the fight which must he waged against this miserable pest which threatens the welfare of the primary industry of the South. Nothing is accomplished with out organization. The European war has given us one illustration after an other of the effectiveness of people combining to accomplish a given end. The day of isolated effort is past. We must cease to he a nation so thorough ly individualistic as we have been in the past if we would meet the exigen cies of situations such as the boll wee vil invasion has thrust upon ns. It is true, of c urse, that many farmers are still in doubt as to the nature and extent of the damage which the weevil will do. In fact, there are still a lot of “doubting Thomases” who think the weevil will not injure them in the least. While a dream may be a pleasant thing, a nightmare is something to abhor, and the farmers who think that the weevil will not reach their com munity or damage them may just at present be enjoying a pleasant dream, but they will presently wake up to the experience of a horrible nightmare which will unfortunately be a stern re ality in the worst sense of the word, and something which they will not be able to escape from except by fol lowing the very definite advice which the College of Agriculture is ready to place at their disposal through the aid of the county agents. In order to arouse the farmers of Georgia to a sense of their peril and to inform them as to the'best means of fighting the weevil and to join them together in a vast co-operative effort, the policy of organizing boll weevsl preparedness clubs was decided on some months ago. This idea was orig inated by Hon. A. P. Brantley, of Black shear, and its value was so instantly self-evident that a large number of cer tificates were immediately prepared, and are now being distributed widely throughout the state for the purpose of securing a representative member ship in Georgia. If you are not at present a member of the boll weeVil preparedness club or have not secured one of the buttons worn by the mem bers, you should got in touch with your county agent at once and join that groat progressive educational force which is destined to aid Georgia in redeeming herself from the losses which the boll weevil will indict. Your active aid and sympathy is needed in Length of the War. Germany will either crack from the inside or there will be a long war. It is for a long war that the United States is preparing. Even though selective conscrip tion goes into effect, it will be a year before this country has an army of one million men. The army may be needed to repel a German attack byway of Mexi co, or it may be used to strength en the forces battling in France. If it is a long war, the United States will have an opportunity to get in up to the hilt, with men, ships and money. The co-opera tion of the United States is large ly restricted to loans to the allies and patrol work by the fleet. British and French admirals at a recent conference with Secretary Daniels arranged for American warships to relieve the British and French along the Atlantic coast and especially at the ports of Mexico. The allied warships are now permitted to use Ameri can ports as coaling and supply stations. The shipping board has announced plans for the immedi ate construction of 1,000 wooden boats of 8,000 tons capacity, the entire number to be completed by the end of the year. They; will carry supplies to the allies, j They are expected to break the blockade of the submarines. All will he armed. So far, the American government has been [dilatory in arming merchantmen. More contracts should be issued | for for the manufacture of a suf jficient number of guns for eoast ! wise ships, as well as for mer chantmen in the trans-Atlantic trade, but these plans have not yet materialized.—F. Logan in Leslie’s. M. B. CALHOUN Atty at Law, W Mt Vernon, Georgia E. M. RACK LEY Dentist 1 Office over Mt. Vernon Postoffic*. j MT. VERNON, UA. this fight. Do not hold back, therefore, or look upon this movement with dis dain or indifference. It is intended tc i help you and your neighbors and the amount of benefit derived from ’he undertaking will depend upon the uni fied, co-operative activity of all the ; farmers and land owners of the state. I Silage the Universal Winter Feed By M. P. Jarnagin, Prof. Os Animal Husbandry, Georgie State Col lege Os Agriculture Experiments and feeding tests con ducted by the Georgia State College of Agriculture and other institutions throughout the United States have demonstrated conclusively the value of silage in economizing the cost of carrying all classes of cattle. On ac count of the long growing season it lifts been c intended by many stockmen that the silo is not a necessity in Georgia. It is true that many winter crops can be grown successfully and have played a most important part in providing green succulent feed for all kinds of live stock throughout the win ter months. On farms where less than ten cattle are carried this is the best substitute for the silo, but even in the most southern section of Georgia there should be a silo on every farm where as many as ten cattle are kept. This necessity will constantly become great er as the value of lands enhance. An acre grown in sorghum and kaffir corn wiil produce fully three times as many tons of feed as (he same acre of land grown in a soiling crop and cut and fed green direct to the cattle. Yields of 15 tons of silage per acre on the best lands may be expected. Forty pounds of ensilage per day will make a full feed for a 1,000 pound animal. Where cattle are fed 120 days this will require a little less than two and a half tons per animal for a feeding period of four months. A small amount of cotton seed meal, peanut meal, vel vet bean meal, or a mixture of these should be fed in addition to the silage and some dry roughage in the form of shredded corn stalks or oat stray? should also be given. Thus it is seen that from four to seven animals can be carried during the winter feeding period on the silage grown on one acre of land. The College is in a position to supply plans and specifications for silos and also render expert supervi sion in the construction of these provided application is received in am ple time. At this season of the year farmers should turn their attenti n to the planting of silage crops. Circulars have been prepared at the College giv ing detailed information on this sub ject. Divorce Notice. Divorce Montgomery Superior Court, Aug term, 1917. Mrs. Della Bass vs Luther Bass, complaint. To Lutfipr Bass, defendant in the case: You are hereby command ed personally or by attorney to be and appear at the Superior Court of Montgomery County, on the first Monday in Aug., next, then and there to answer the plaintiff’s libel for divorce, or in default thereof the court will proceed as to justice shall appertain. Witness the Hon. E. D. Gra ham Judge, this the Ist day of May, 1917. M. L. O’Brien, Clerk. L. C. Underwood, Atty. for Plff, SAVE THE GRAIN. This can be done by using correct contain ers. We can supply unlimited number of large, stout sacks, for wheat, etc., 25c each. Less than cost of ma terial. Order now. H. V. THOMPSON & BROTHER, AILEY, GEORGIA LOANS ON FARM LANDS. Loans on improved farm lands of Montgomery County can !be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in- : j terest in amounts of SI,OOO and 'above, with the privilege of re paying part of the principal at any interest bearing periods in j amounts of SIOO or multiples thereof, thereby stopping the in | terest on amount paid. Loans , can lie made for periods of 5, 7 , jor 10 years to suit the borrower. Commissions charged are reason able. M. B. Calhoun, Mt. Vernon, Ga. R. F. Ward, Soperton, Ga. 99 per cent. 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