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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1917)
(Flj? iJtmmunnmj Mmxiar. VOL. XXXII. LIBERTY LOAN CLOSES SATURDAY ♦ Mt. Vernon Banner Section, With Purchasers Old and Young. The sale of Liberty Loan gov ernment bonds in Montgomery county, while not measuring up to the anticipation of the pro moters, is at least encouraging thus far. The loan of the second series closes Saturday, 27th. Mr. W. A. Peterson, chairman of the county organization, composed of the bankers of the county, has been untiring in his efforts, and to him is due the credit of inter esting as many as have bought to date. It is to be regretted that so few of the farmers, who, strictly speaking, have received unusual benefits from the war, as far as high prices are con cerned, have taken government bonds. Yet, there is time for many of them to respond before the close Saturday. As far as it has been able to learn, The Monitor takes pleasure in presenting the list of Montgom ery county bond holders to date: Mt. Vernon — Mt. Vernon Bank, ($5000.00) Mrs. M. W. Lanier, Dr. J. C. Brewton, J. C. Calhoun, L. M. McLemore, John Benj. Conner, L. C. Underwood, Mrs. M. B. Calhoun, Hick Cockfield, Hicks Bros. W. A. McQueen, D. A. Mcßae, Miss Carol Hutcheson, Dr. E. M. Rackley, M. B. Calhoun, Clarence F. Mcßae, Mrs. H. B. Folsom, Mrs. Flora Higgs, Prof. Bunyan Smith, Mrs. M. E. Mcßae, Miss Urania Mcßae, Chas. A. Abt, W. A. Peterson, Miss Dorcas Mcßae, Wm. Claude Mcßae, Henry Mcßae, H. J. Fountain, Mrs. Atha Hughes (for baby) Gregory Eugene Hughes, Douglas Malcolm Hughes, Atha Pauline Hughes, Everett McLeod, H. B. Folsom, Wm. Hamilton, (col.) Rosa Fields, (col.) W. E. Johnson, (col.) Ailey— W. T. McArthur, Jr. C. D. Peterson, J. B. Brewton, J. A. Stacy, Dr. J. W. Palmer, Jas. Peterson. Soperton — W. W. Wade, W. T. McCrimmon, B. A. Rowe, A. Estroff, Uvalda— H. Groher. The following is a list of those who bought of the first issue: McGregor — Willie T. McArthur. Mt. Vernon — Mt. Vernon Bank, D. A. Mcßae, M. B. Calhoun, Mrs. M. W. Lanier, W. A. Peterson, Mary Lou Peterson, William Peterson, John P. Peterson, Clay Wilt, L. M. McLemore. Chairman Peterson has made every effort to secure names of purchasers, through the county banks, and the above is the list received up to the closing hour yesterday. The Monitor, in common with thousands of other newspapers, has devoted time and effort to ward the sale of the government bonds, feeling that every true American should feel a pride in the ownership of a financial obli gation backed by the United States, the safest investment on earth. Those who have refused to buy have missed an opportu nity: they have tailed to respond to a patriotic call. Every argu ment is in favor of government bonds. Dr. J. W. Palmer Heads Medical Board. The state board of medical ex | aminers at its meeting Thursday j held that it could find no record ’ of the licensing of four doctors— C. J. Malloy, of Helena; S. B. Ellis, of Whitesburg; F. C. Bent , ley, of Crandall, and C. W. Roth ’ rock, of Athens. The four were J declared without authority to * practice medicine in Georgia and ‘ the board pledged itself to co-op ’ erate with the solicitors in the various counties concerned in any legal steps necessary. The license of C. W. Miller, ! convicted in Fulton county of forging a license, was suspended. Evidence was submitted tending to show that the Southern Col lege of Medicine and Surgery, |[headed by Dr. J. A. McLeay, has J I issued medical diplomas without . the sanction of the board, and it was decided to refer the matter to the Fulton county solicitor. Dr. J. W. Palmer, of Ailey, [ Ga., was elected president to suc ceed Dr. R. E. Hinman, of At ! lanta. Dr. A. F. White, of Flo yilla, was named vice president | and Dr. C. T. Nolan, of Mari ! etta, secretary and treasurer. Resolutions were unanimously ' adopted highly commending the work of Dr. R. E. Hinman for his efforts to suppress the autho rized practice of medicihe, and he was pledged support in his future endeavors along this line. —At- lanta Journal. THOROUGH ORGANIZED FOR ACTIVE WORK Chairman in Each District to Present Cause to the Citizens. The food conservation idea is gaining ground in Montgomery county, and her people are more enthused with the idea of thrift and economy than ever before. It is a plan by which each indi vidual is benefited, aside from the great national benefit, in which each individual can take part. Looking to a compact and ac tive county organization for car rying out the idea, Chairman W\ T. McArthur, Jr., has appointed a district chairman in each dis trict of the county, whose duty it will be to appoint at least eight active assistants for making a canvass of the county. The dis trict chairmen are as follows: D. S. Barnhill, Lothair. J. E. Hall, Soperton. C. D. Greenway, Orland. M. L. Adams, Kibbee. J. A. Stacy, Mt. Vernon. Dr. M. L. Currie, Tarrytown. Douglas McGregor, Ailey. J. T. Langford, Higgston. Clifford Mcßride, Longpond. C. J. Phillips, Tiger. Those men will appoint at once such assistants from their dis tricts as will be able to see each family in their respective sections and urge the signing of cards, on which they will agree to exercise certain forms of economy in the use of food, products, etc. This is a great work, and one which should not be overlooked with the slightest degree of lev ity. Most people are consumers, and a large per cent are pro ducers, therefore all will be able to practice economy. Sign the card brought you, and put into practice the idea of conservation advanced by the government. New Shipment of 1918 Maxwell Cars. Messrs. Hicks Bros. & Peter son, county agents for the Max well car, have just received a car load, which are on exhibition to day. The model is superior to anything in its class ever brought to this section, there being a number of late features in the 1918 model just received. With the Maxwell reputation already fixed in the mind of the public, there is nothing more to say. Just see the new cars. Some of them may be left before I the week is out, but the chances i are that they will not last long. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1917. WILL KEEP SUNDAY ! AS DAY OF PRAYER Special Services in Mt. Ver non Throughout Next Sabbath. America expects each one of us to do our duty. Congress au thorized the President to appoint a day of prayer for the country, and acting on that he has desig nated next Sunday, the 28th, as our Day of Prayer. Mt. Vernon paople are always loyal Ameri cans and their response will be extra services next Lord’s Day as well as sermons bearing on i our opportunity to serve our land by doing our bit towards winning the war. The Presbyterians have their regular preaching that day and they want to turn their ser vice into an interdenominational observance of the occasion. At the morning hour, 11 o’clock, the pastor will preach on “How to Win the War,’’ and at night his theme will be the “Unused War Power in Our Country”. A union prayer meeting will be held at 9 o’clock in the morning at the Methodist church, led by Prof. J. C. Moore of the 8.-P. I. After supper there will be a young peoples’ prayer meeting in charge of the B. Y. P. U. This service will be at the Presby terian church at 6:45 p. m., and the preaching will follow it at 7:30. We can all help our coun try by praying for it. Let’s not be slackers. America needs the p.’ayers of every one of us. Shall we do our duty? Toombs County Fair Held in November. The Toombs county fair, at Lyons, will begin Nov. 6, lasting through the 10th. It is calculat ed to be on a higher plane than ever before. Mr. T. Y. Willi ford, county demonstration agent, has given a great deal of time to ward the arrangement of the en terprise, and he has had the co operation of the people of Toombs county. Montgomery county people are invited to attend. Nothing adds more to the interest of a county, and possibly some day this coun ty will catch the inspiration. State Farmers Union Will Meet in Macon. The annual meeting of the Far mers Union of Georgia will be held in Macon, November 13th and 14th. Headquarters have been arranged at the Lanier Hotel. President J. H. Mills and Secretary A. J. Fleming will be there in advance of the meeting date for arrangement of any final details not already provided for. Charles S. Barrett, President of the National Organization, says this meeting will be, by long odds, the most important gathering since the organization of the Farmers’ Union. Never before has the organization in Georgia or in any other State been confronted with as great respon ibility or with as wide possibili ties of an almost unbounded suc cess as now. This nation, in fact practically the whole world, is dependent upon the farmer, and the greater part of that de pendence rest upon the success of the Southern farmer. Every local organization in i Georgia is being urged by the! State Officers to so arrange its | affairs that nothing can or will turn up to prevent its full quota j of delegates attending the annual! meeting in Macon. Not only in the election of officers for an other year, but in the facts and figures on world crops, world de- j mands and world prospects will i be important to them as individ uals and as delegates. It will be for them to get this information and take it back home to their ! local members. ; IMAJ. LYLE LECTURES TO PHYSICIANS Will Examine Applicants for Medical Reserve Corps. At the instance of the Georgia State Committee of National De fense, Major W. C. Lyle of Au gusta will hold a meeting in Vi dalia Wednesday evening, 31st, for the purpose of examining ap plicants for appointment in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. This meeting will be attended by physicians from Toombs, Montgomery, Wheeler and other counties in this section. The meeting will be held in the office of Dr. T. G. Thompson, begin ning 7:30, and a full attendance is anticipated. Dr. Lyle’s lecture will be well worth hearing, not only from an ethical standpoint, but he will no doubt explain in full the government’s intention regarding the selection and ser vice of medical men, including more specific instruction in re gard to examination of men by the various physicians connected with county exemption boards, etc. Other meetings will be held in this section as follows: Swains boro, Oct. 30; Dublin, Nov. 1; Eastman, Nov. 2; Hazlehurst, Nov. 3. THE AjR ALIVE WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL PLANS Several Occasions Planned for Fourth and First Sabbaths. The Sunday school movement has become popular throughout the United States, but especially would it seem popular in this sec tion right now. On next Sabbath there will be held at The Brewton-Parker In stitute something of a district Sunday school rally, the districts composed of Higgston, Ailey and Mt. Vernon participating. This exercise will begin at 2:30 p. m., and the following program will be observed: Hymn. Scripture reading and prayer— Prof. Bunyan Smith. Talk on the Home Department —Mr. J. M. D. McGregor. How to Have a Cradle Roll- Miss Claude McDonald. Song. County and Division Chart— Mr. J. T. Brack. Open Discussion—“ How to Hold the Sunday School To gether,” led by Rev. F. M. Baldwin. On Nov. 3rd and 4th there will be held at Ailey the county con vention of the Georgia Sunday School Association. The exer cises will be held in the Method ist church, and quite an elabo rate program will be observed each day. The public is invited to attend all sessions. On Sunday, Nov. 4, will be ob served in all of the Sunday schools national ‘ ‘Go-to-Sunda v-School- Day.” Each school will have a special program. Go to all of them if you can. It is impossible to give the program of each. Suffice it to say that the move ment is worthy of your time. ■ Again it may be said that the Sunday school is the cradle of the church, and, in a very large sense, the church is the salvation of the natoin. Get ready to go to Sunday school—and go. Then keep on ! going. Look over the dates again, and accomodate yourself to them. Save money; trade with the Vidalia Installment Co., Vidalia, Ga. Furniture, Stoves and Ran ges—everything for the home. . (We sell for less). ad McAllister-Goff. 11 Some of the Longpond young I people stole a march on their rel ! atives and friends last Thursday ! afternoon, when Miss Christene McAllister and Mr. J. E. Golf drove down to Uvalda, where they, were married by Rev. Cecil R. | Phillips of the Methodist church at that place. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. McAllister, and is a popular member of the i younger set. Mr. Goff is a son of Mr. John Goff. He is an enterprising young farmer. Many friends of the young couple wish them a full share of happiness and pros perity. RICH AND POOR MAY AID THE GOVERNMENT I Secretary McAdoo Explains Difference Between Two Issues. The first issue of Liberty Ix)an Bonds bears 3 1-2 per cent, inter est and are exempt from all taxes of every kind except estate and inheritance taxes. Liberty Loan Bonds of the second issue bear 4 per cent, interest and have the same tax exemptions as the first, except that they are liable to su perincome taxes and excess-pro fits taxes, as well as estate and inheritance taxes. They are not subject to the normal income tax. The reasons for the change of in terest and taxability are stated by Secretary McAdoo in his speech before the American i Bankers’ Association as follows: “We can not sell bonds in bil lions on the basis of what they may be worth to the very rich. They must be offered to all the people alike at one price andi should appeal to all alike and up on equal terms. The result of selling a bond which bears a low rate of interest and carries ex emption from graduated and su perincome taxes will be this: The poor and the people of modest means will buy them for patriotic reasons but will be unable to hold them because the return is too small. The tendency will be all the time for these bonds to be purchased from them and accum ulated by the very rich without any adequate consideration mov ing from them either to the United States or to the original subscriber. In these circum stances the value of the tax ex emption depends not upon the bonds themselves but upon a wholly extraneous fact—the ex tent of the wealth of the holder. “The principle is now firmly grounded in our national policy that graduated taxes shall be laid upon wealth in order that the burden of taxation may be equit ably distributed and made to bear more heavily UDon the rich than the poor. Government bonds, therefore, should be issued upon a basis which will be equally just to the poor man and the rich man, so that each may purchase these bonds upon prantically the same interest basis after allow ing for. the different scales of taxation. “The second issue of Liberty i Loan Bonds are offered upon terms fair and equitable to all alike and will make the widest possible appeal to all the people : without regard to the extraneous ' fact that the purchaser be poor or rich. The Government can | not finance this war by making ; an appeal alone to the rich, nor < to the man of moderate means, J nor to the poor. Its appeal must j be to all of the people, and all of the people must respond and by united efforts sustain the Gov ernment in its great credit ope rations.” If you own a car, you need a ' reliable vulcanizing and tire re- I air outfit, such as is sold by the Mason Grocery Co., Ailey. ad j ■ ■ m COUNTY TEACHERS IN SESSION HERE Addresses by Supt. Brittain and Other Prominent Visitors. Montgomery county teachers, under the supervision of Prof. J. 'O. Martin, one of the state su pervisors, are in session here this week in what is considered one of the most profitable sessions held in many years. Two-thirds of the county teach ers, numbering about 45, are present. The school at Soperton and Mt. Vernon being in session, while the public schools are to open in a few days. Varying from the rule, too, is the fact that practically all of the county teachers are natives of this coun ty. A majority of them are first grade teachers. Superintendent Conner is exerting every effort toward the upbuilding of the county school system, and has the sympathy and co-operation of the teaching force. Mr. Martin, after having con ducted a number of teachers’ in stitutes here, is well known to our people, and thoroughly ap preciated for his peculiar ability as a normal instructor. His com ing always means an uplift to the cause of education in Montgom ery county. Mrs. Sheppard, a canning ex pert, made an interesting talk i before the teachers yesterday af ternoon. Dr. J. P. Faulkner of Atlanta, c mnected with the Raoul Foun dation, addressed the public at the court house last evening. I This morning, 8 o’clock, he ap pears at the chapel exercises of The 8.-P. 1., and at 11 o’clock to day will deliver a public address at the court house, to which the entire public is invited. This evening, 8 o’clock, State School Superintendent M. L. Brittain will deliver an address at The Brewton-Parker. This will be a literary and educational treat. Mr. Brittain is one of the foremost educators of the South. The public is urged to attend. Next week will be given a roll of the teachers present, together with an outline of the work ac complished this week. Christmas With the Soldiers. Washington, Oct. 22.—Every American soldier and sailor wil have the best Christmas the Red Cross can give him. Each one in this country, or abroad, will receive a Chtistmas package ap proximating a value of $1.50 and containing chewing gum, tobacco, writing material, games, dried fruit, candies, puzzles, knives, mouth organs, or other articles. Each package is to be wrap ped in a khaki-colored handker chief and tied with red ribbons. To expedite preparation of these million Christmas packages, Harvey I). Gibson, general man ager of the American Red Cross, today apportioned the making of the packets to the thirteen Red Cross divisions into which the country has been divided. The work will be divided among the 2,800 Red Cross chapters, and one-third of the allotment will have to be in the division ware houses by November 1. Money for the purchase of the packages is being raised through contributions by individuals for this specific purpose. No part of the Red Cross war fund will be used. Farm Wanted. I want to lease a 2 or 3-horse farm near school and church. Must be good land. For three or five years. Address at once, E. J. Right, Tarrytown, Ga. No. 1. NO. 26.
