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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1917)
TP\e r\or\lgorr\ery Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the Pnstoflice In Mt. Vernon, Oa. as Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. si-5® * Year, in Advance. advcrtim-ment- must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law direct*; and mint be in hand not later than Wedneaday morning of the Aral week of lnaertton Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, November 1, 1917. As usual, the older ones carried the kids to see the animals yes terday. Montgomery county biscuit, to Montgomery county consumers, should have a better tlavor than the imported variety. Regardless of who started the war, it seems to remain for Uncle Sam to stop it. Your Uncle can and will do it —with your help. Step right up with your offer of assistance. Warmer and warmer waxes American blood. American honor must be protected against German brutality, and everything that savors of Kaiserism must be wiped out. In other words, take the criminal germ out of Germa ny. Some refused to buy bonds be cause they had nothing to buy with; millions bought as a service to their country; millions did not buy because of unpatriotic ten dencies. But be that as it may, the sale was heavy enough to jar the mudsills of Germany. Well, it looks like woman’s suffrage has gained a permanent foothold in America. The per sistency of the ladies is most overwhelming. However, the art of biscuit making should not become lost, or the process of half-soling a pair of trousers. With the count of the second Liberty Loan barely finished, an nouncement comes for the third, beginning February first. Thus is opened another great opportu nity of serving the nation. The Monitor takes occasion to com mend Montgomery county pur chasers of the second issue, and looks forward to a ready res ponse in February: Opportunities for doing good are ever present ing themselves. When you sign a card pledging yourself to conserve food, it means do it. While self-imposed, even if suggested by the govern ment, it is none the less binding on patriotic Americans. This country, while the greatest on earth, is simply reeking with idle form and vanity. Even now it is possible that the blood of our soldiers is being spilled on foreign battle-fields. To make them vie- j torious, can you not save a little? What the average family wastes would feed a soldier. Not since LaFavette, Rocham beau and other valiant Frenchmen offered their swords and lives to Washington in defense of the American colonies, has there been such a unity between France and America. What has been more touching, or more symbolic, than the brotherly reception accorded the American soldiers as they recently entesed French trenches in defense of the allies? What a scene, as the Frenchmen kissed the Americans and wept for joy! What memories it must have awakened throughout the world. Montgomery county is like one of our old friends who, finding himself so badly involved in debt, with no chance to get out, deci ded to go on through. So badly tangled are the county’s finances the authorities cannot make a statement showing the county’s financial condition. If this is not the case the county commissioners simply ignore the law which re quires them to publish quarterly statements showing the county’s exact financial status. That the grand jury has spent the past several years passing fake new county recommendations, now let the county’s financial interest be looked into. If the grand jury knows why these reports are not issued, let it say so. TTTTTTfTTTTVVTYTVYYTTYYYY• ► ► Georgia State J ► Press Expressions. \ Ai The 70 men, who went down on the Antilles will get their re venge the first time that the American troops get the chance of an encounter with the Ger mans.—Wrightsville Headlight. Wm. J. Harris, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will be a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed Mr. Hardwick. Mr. Harris will be about the hardest man to beat in this race, as we see it.—Hartwell Sun. Somebody has discovered that Colonel Teddy has but one eye. Got one knocked out during a sparring match in the White House years ago. Wouldn’t be surprised to hear that he has a cork leg, too. — Nashville Herald. It is unnecessary to ask some people to economize in coal. They can’t get the coal.—Greensboro Herald-Journal. Freedom of the streets for boys, in city or country town, means in most cases the ruin of the boys. There ought to he in every mu nicipality a uniformly enforced law prohibiting unemployed boys or girls from running around loose to pick up knowledge of devilment and dirty tricks. —Met- ier Advertiser. A news dispatch tells us that the sugar shortage is causing concern in the eastern section of the country. The dispatch says that two lumps cost five cents in New York. And yet Mr. Hoover, the food administrator, has nev er thought of stopping the mak ing of the soft drink slops that use so much sugar. —Lyons Pro gress. Have you lately made it a point to go out of the way and speak to a stranger—a new comer in the town to make him feel like his new home is really homelike? Try it once with a smile and a warm handshake. It will help you, and it will make the stran ger forget his loneliness. — Re becca Appeal. The Kaiser will probably sue for peace again just as soon as | his partners in frightfulness re port that there are no more in nocent women and babes to kill. Darien Gazette. English should be the every day language of Americans; any others they may desire to use for purposes of culture or for senti mental reasons will of course not be forbidden, but let every Amer ican learn to speak and to use the official language of the United States.—Savannah News. Many are the ? definitions of the old-fashioned gentleman, but, as we recall him, he always wore suspender, winter and summer, with or without a vest.—Atlanta Journal. Pathetic. In a recent issue of the Atlan ta Journal Senator Hardwick was reported as saying that all the editors and others who declared that he has been, and is, disloyal to the government, are common , liars. It’s well that the senator made “wholesale” use of this epithet, else he would have ; been obliged to name singly a large majority of the white men in the South. No man has slan ; dered Senator Hardwick, though ’ he has slandered the government and all the people of the United States. In using the gross : epithet named. Senator Hardwick > has only added blackguardism to ■! his disloyalty. His rage would t! be funny were it not pathetic.— •Perry Home-Journal. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR— THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1917. ! RIGHT TO SOIL OF BRITAIN Initiative of Duke of Sutherland May Be Followed by Other Large Landowners. The titles of the British nobility to their great landed estates rest largely upon military service performed by their ancestors. Such a title always has been good In England, and will be better now that one of the greatest land-owning nobles In the kingdom has attested his belief that British sol diers now fighting for their country are winning an equal claim to a share of the land, the Kunsas City Star ob serves. The duke of Sutherland owns 1,358,- 000 acres of the soli of England. Per sonally he did not win uny of it by the sword, but his ancestors helped j their sovereigns subdue Scotland and his house has not wanted for elbow room since. The duke has now con voyed back to the government the ab solute title of 12,000 acres of this land and has stipulated that it shall be cut up Into small farms and bestowed upon British soldiers and sailors after the war. The duke evidently takes the view that their right to it is Just as good os was that of his ancestors, who won It by the same means. Here Is perhaps a solution of the land problem In England. Back In the days of the Henrys and the Edwards a man who stood near to the king and wus brisk with the sword could easily win for himself a good landed estate. Having won It, he hastened to fence It In and put up signs wurning less fortunate persons off. The result Is thnt England Is pretty well fenced In todny—and Englishmen pretty well fenced out. But after the war, wh< n a couple of million Englishmen come home, having performed exactly the same service thnt the ancestors of the owners of the fenced-in land per formed, why should there not be the same recognition of such service? In deed, when Mr. Tennant, secretary for Scotland, announced the duke’s pur pose In the house of commons a mem ber asked the right honorable gentle man If he could got other landlords to follow the duke’s example. To which Mr. Tannant replied that he then and there extended n hearty Invitation to other landlords to do likewise. (Hear, hear.) Where All Places Meet. The giant log hotel at Glacier Park has Indian tepees, Alaskan totem poles, Japanese lanterns, Turkish bnths, and an Alpine-clad set of wait resses. A solitary Jap with a ram shackle ’rickshaw meets the trains. The hotel Is like the railway, for it is as international as the meat sauce I had In Spokane, which Is called Inter national because, with a spoonful of thnt on the tongue of a man, no one nation can hold him. Without leav ing the train one can go to Inverness or Ayr, Carlisle or Riga. Devil’s Luke Is near Church's Ferry, and from Knrisruhe to Genoa Is only 19 miles. Calais and Glasgow, Madras and Zurich are all possible In a few hours, and a stop at Havre (pro nounced Have’er) Is made on the way to Bombay. Bremen and Hamburg are vls-a-vls, but It seems discordant soon after to slide Into Norfolk. Con centration Is the keynote nil along the line. A single day at Glucler is the experience of a lifetime. —The Christian Herald. What Monarch* Like to Eat. Good old roast beef Is the most fa vorite dish of the queen of Holland. She Is also partial to mutton. The czar of Russia has a great fondness for all kinds of fish, especially codfish, sca nned with oil, pepper and garlic. He once remarked to n late president of France that he could "eat codlings twice a day.” The kings of Italy and Spain both have weaknesses for sweets, such as whipped cream, chocolate and tarts. King Victor Emmanuel Is nlso fond of the Italian national dish, called polen ta. This Is a kind of meal porridge. The late pope considered polentu to be his favorite dish. He was an exceed ingly plain enter. The remarkably aged emperor of Austria has a craving for the peculiar dish of calves’ tongues In ml wine. The German emperor is exceptionally susceptible to the temp tation of well-buttered toast. To Classify Fruits. - The Internal structure of fruits Is likely to give a useful means of classi fying the various kinds, and may prove of value la showing the relationship of varieties. In his novel experiments. Prof. E. J. Kraus of the Oregon Agri cultural college, has cut thin sections from the center of mature specimens of various apples and pears. The sec tions were first dehydrated with alco hol, and were then soaked In a mixture of xylol and cedar oil. They became beautifully transparent. The vascular system stood out distinctly, and In many fine photographs has seemed to be always the same for any one kind of fruit, regardless of the place of growth, but his differed much In the different varieties. The structural dif ferences are very striking lu both the flesh and the core of the fruits that were brought under observation. Gigantic Coalship. The lnrgest coalship In the world — the Mtlaxso —recently docked in New York. She was designed by an Italian. Capt. Emilio Menada. who has earned a reputation for himself as an inven tor of transporting machinery. The Mllauo can hold 14.000 long tons of coal and 4,500 tons of oil. She is a veritable storehouse of Intricate ma chinery. Coal cars run on tracks in her vast Interior. —Popular Science Monthly. AIDS UNCLE’S CAMPAIGN ' Mrs. Jack Mathews, niece of Herbert G'. Hoover, is an efficient worker for | food conservation in Los Angeles and j has been especially active in promot-1 lng the home growing of vegetables. Citation. State of Georgia—Montgomery County. To all Whom it May Concern: Mrs. Alice Wilson, of said State, having applied to me lor letters of administ ration, with the will annexed, on the estate of W. L. Wilson, late of said county, which said administration is to continue in force and effect until such time as Richard C. Wilson, one of the executors named in the said last will and testament of W. L. Wilson, shall arrive at the age of 21 years. This is, therefore, to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of the said W. L. Wilson to be and appear at the Nov. term, 1917, of the court of Ordinary of said county, to be held on the first Monday in November next, 1917, then and there to show cause, if any they can, why letters of ad ministration, with the will an nexed, should not be granted to the said Mrs. Alice Wilson on the estate of the said W. L. Wilson. Witness my hand and official signature, this the 9th day of Oc tober, 1917. Alex McArthur, Ordinary of Montgomery County, Georgia. New Road Notice. Georgia—Montgomery County. Office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, Montgomery Coun ty, Oct. 2, 1917. J. T. Moxiey, N. T. Henry, J. I). Simons, Jr., W. M. Phillips and others having made applica tion for the opening and eatab | lishing of a new public road, com mencing at a point near the resi dence of N. T. Henry, and run ■ mng m a southerly direction over the lands of said Henry, to the lands of Mrs. Maggie E. Simons and passing her residence on the south side, thence’ over the lands i of C. J. Adams, thence running i the land lines of D. H. Phillips and S. A Bellflower, thence' fol , lowing the laud lines of J. D. Si i inons, Jr., and W. M. Phillips, Sr., thence along the land lines of J. T. Moxiey and Albert Phillips, thence over the lauds of the Rob erts estate, intersecting the old Swainsboro road near the Willis school building, the length of said , proposed road to be about two and a-half miles. The reviewers appointed to lay out and survey said proposed road having tiled their return': notice is hereby given said new road will be granted on the first Tuesday in 1 November, 1917, if no good cause be shown to the contrary. J. L Lowrey, Ch’m, A. B. Hutcheson, Clerk. 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 3ESI 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. AI LEY, OA. % 99 per cent. jj OF THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS | || MEN AND WOMEN ARE BANK jj | DEPOSITORS jj jj B B C A U S B |j in a good bank their money is absolutely safe and al- j| ]! ways available; checks are returned and become receipts; '! checks and stubs form a convenient record of income and || jj outgo, and best of all, win, ti e bank depositor sees an op- jj jj portunity of using some m y ;* r< iitably, his acquaintance |1 |j at the bank and record as a depositor make it possible for j; j| him to procure a loan. j j You cun promote YOUR suc j cess by becoming a depositor with i! I MT. VkiSNON l IT. VERNON, GA. j V r 'V r 'W s B r '% V =V V'P VWVWW !j il CAPITAL, $15,000.00 SURPL! , SAU'-O-OO RESOURCES, $175,000.00 jj I Willie T. McArthur, Vr* -k* it VC. A. Pt icreon, Caßhier J i Alex McArthur, Vice-President 11. L. W'ilt, Assistant Cashier j! MT. VERNON, GA. jj 1i i 5 1-2 per ict. Money I TO LOAN jj | I have plenty of money to lend on farm jj \l lands in Montgomery and Wheeler ; if counties. Interest at 5 1-2 per cent., jj | FIVE YE&SS TIKE—EASY PAYMENTS ! I You have the privilege of paying part jj I of the principal at any interest period, jj and stop interest on amount paid; but ij no annual paymentof principal required jj 1 Prompt Attention to AH Loans ij Entrusted to Me jj I Come to see me at once if you want a jj jf loan. lam well equipped to take care jj ! of the loan business. See me. jj j L. C. UNDERWOOD jj MT. VERNON, GA. 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