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The ihontgornery .Monitor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OPPICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Entered at the Postofflce in Mt. Vernon, Ga. as Second-Class Mail Matter.
H. B. 101.som. editor and Owner. f 1.5® * Year, In Advance.
SV Legal ailvertiaementa must inrartably b* paid la sdvsnce, at the legal rate, and aa the law
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Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, November 8, 1917.
Make Montgomery tick free.
Tick freedom only adds about
eighty per cent, to the value of
your cattle.
If you have not the blues, put
on a green one and a pink one.
In stampology a pink andagreen
make three, and while the war is
on it will take three licks to shove
off a letter.
Our patriotic and conservation
ideas are correct. Just put them
into practice. Leave off the sur
plus form and vanity and settle
down to facts to determined ac
tion. Nothing else counts.
If you went to Sunday School
last Sabbath, there is no reason
why you cannot go again. No
better training for the mind and
soul, and there are no hardships
attached to the practice. It is
simply a matter of privilege,
duty, benefit open'toall.
Next to paying honest debts,
the purchase of Liberty Loan
Honda is next. If you did not
get in on the first and second is
sue, be ready for the third in
February, lhe man who loans
the government money is a pa
triot doing a valiant part toward
victory.
Hilly Sunday is a man of meth
ods, and his methods surpass any
thing ever attempted by an evan
gelist of world-wide note. Wheth
er you admire his methods,
be consistent enough to let him
continue without censure. He
has led thousands to a better life,
and is yet in the prime of his ac
tivity.
The Lee County Journal com
plains of having mislaid its sub
scription list a few weeks ago, as
a result of which some of its new
subscribers failed to get recent
issues. While wo have never
lost our subscription books, we
art* in fairway to lose about a
hundred subscribers within the
next ten days unless they pay
their subscription dues.
Fellow travelers to the grave
and eternity, it is time to do
away witli frivolities. The things
which count for naught should be
abandoned. We are living too
fast: we are consuming too much.
We are engaging in unnecessary
amusement and pastimes from
which we get nothing. The times
demand,that we sift out the trash
and the worthless. Then we will
have golden grain to divide with
our suffering brethren across the
way.
With the recent capture of
American soldiers by the Ger
mans, the terror of the conflict
comes nearer home. The death
and suffering of our men, fear
ful as it is. is hut a part of the
gigantic struggle for liberty and
right, and thus far is only a fore
taste of what is in store for them;
they are just entering hardships
which have been upon the allies
for over three years. If you are
concerned in their welfare, try to
do something for the cause.
Every ruse known in their
store of deviltry is being pacticed
by the Germans. With their re
sources failing, beyond doubt, of
ficers have recently adopted the
plan of conferring crosses of hon
or on the most undeserving and
commonplace men in their ranks.
Thus, these brutes are encouraged
to continue their heartless war
fare, not only on the innocent
women of Relgium and France,
hut on Red Cross workers, recog
nized as neutrals by all civilized
countries. Mercy is foreign to
the German mind.
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We see where a woman dumb
1 animal enthusiast has secured a
s divorce. Evidently she doesn’t
2 practice what she preaches.—
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
It is human to be blind to our
1 own faults and keen of vision in
1 regard to the weakness of others.
For that reason there are many
! who think that the best method
' of reform is to put the other fel
low in jail. —Monroe Advertiser.
g Don’t abuse a paper if it prints
something you do not like—a pa
} per is printed to please many,
not one.—Rebecca appeal.
There is a disposition on the
part of some people to take ad
vantage of current.high prices to
add a fictitious value to what they
may have'.to sell. Clothing, shoes
and provisions of all kinds are
high enough, to be sure, but
there are articles in the local
market whose prices have been
inflated beyond all reason. The
devil already has a mortgage
partly foreclosed on the’, individ
ual who gouges and cheats his
neighbor.—Metter Advertiser.
It is feared that many of the
farmers are too busy riding
around in their new automobiles
to take the time to plow under
the cotton stalks in order to
starve the boll weevils.—Lyons
Progress.
It is dangerous to violate even
a seemingly unimportant law. It
leads to disregard of other laws
of prime importance. In this way
the making of an outlaw begins.
Perry Home-Journal.
Just as our snap beans got into
full swing along comes old Jack
Frost and smashes our expecta
tions into' smithereens.—Vidalia
Advance.
If you area farmer and have
more good wheat than you need
to sow and for home use, let your
neighbor have some to sow this
fall. There is a wheat shortage,
more must be planted, and your
neighbor is right here in Walker.
—Walker Co. Messenger.
Get up something for a Christ
mas present for your soldier
friend. If he is in France, it will
have to leave here by Nov. 15th
in order to reach him.—Lee Coun
ty Journal.
All this talk about curing po
tatoes is all bosh. The best way
to cure a sweet potato is to lay it
out on the barn in the sunshine
for three or four days and then
cook it until it is as soft as a
feather pillow—not a feather pil
low like those they ‘Hise in board
ing houses —then you have it
cured to a perfection. If this
won’t make a fellow’s appetite
bow up in the back and get lone
some we’d like to know what
would.—Pembroke Enterprise.
Administrator’s Sale.
Under and by virtue of an or
der granted by the Ordinary of
said county, will be sold before
' the court house door in said coun
ty, between the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday iu De
• oember, 1917, to the highest bid-
I der for cash, the following de
scribed property to-wit: One hun
dred and fifty acres of land more
' or less, situate, lying and being
( iu the 1348 d Q. M. district of said
county and state, and hounded as
[ follows: On the north by lauds
of the estate of T. B. Adams and
Everett McLeod, on the south by
lands of L. C. Mcßae, oh the east
by lands of Everett McLeod and
; on the west by lands of the estate
of T. B. Adams and Everett Mc-
Leod. Sold as the property of
the estate of T. J. Thompson, de
ceased, for the purpose of division,
i W. 0. Mcßae, Adr.,
I Estate of T. J. Thompson.
¥HE MONTGOMERY MONITOR— THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1917.
FIRST PRINCIPLES OF SAVING
Men Must Look to the Future If There 1
Is to Be Any Progress Made
by the World.
Socialists claim that the world would
be better off if every man received and
consumed all that he produced so that
nobody could accumulate wealth or be
come more prosperous than ids neigh
bor. If all men were equally strong,
intelligent, honest and industrious, j
such a state might be possible; but the
superman must come first.
If a small group of men living by
themselves save nothing and do no
work to improve their future, they
will not progress. They would have to
build and otherwise create real wealth
for future use, or they would remuln
barbarians. The aborigines of Amer
ica, Australia and most of Africa lived
from hand to mouth for ages. Ameri
can Indians were practical socialists,
and they made no progress, though
they were physically strong and intel
lectually bright. They remnlned barba
rians because they gave no thought to
the future.
If n few men, beginning with noth
ing more thun means of bare suste
nance, put aside every year tokens of
value, such as gold, acceptable to them
selves, or build houses, make tools,
cloth and other things of value that
can be kept for future use they will
Improve their condition in life and
grow rich In proportion to their indus
dustry and thrift. The accumulation of
gold or other money is a secondary
matter. Real wealth can be accumu
lated In other ways, but money is a
convenience that standardizes values
and has become indispensable to our
form of civilization.
When wealth has been accumulated
the community Is benefited by its exist
ence. As It grows, roads can be built,
pure wuter can be brought Into the
towns, etc. Such progress is impos
sible if there is no store of wealth
from which to draw to pay or sustain
the men who do the work before ft be
comes productive. It muy be said that
other members of the community could
give part of the wealth they produce
while public works are being construct
ed. That is true, but it would be the
exact accumulation of wealth to which
reference is made, and Its outward
and visible sign would be the roads
and the waterworks. By giving part
of their eurulngs or products for such
n purjKise they put uside something of
value for future use, In this cuse roads
and a water system.
Someone hus to save if any progress
is to be made, and the more that save
the fuster will be the rate of progress
und the greater the prosperity of the
community. Whut the masses lack Is
correct understanding of their common
interest. —New York Commercial.
Never Knowe What He Wants.
The nuisance for the man who has
acquired greut financial resources usu
ally is that he doesn't know what he
wants. Possessing the resources and
feeling the normul necessity to have
recourse to them, he looks about for
something to wunt, and he selects the
most costly thing. The acquisition of
this most costly thing always Involves,
in practice, the separation of the rich
man from society. Thus, he will ac
quire a large estate, or several large
estates, and cut himself off from the
world by gutes, doors, miles of drive,
lodge keepers, menials, and secreta
ries. Or he will acquire a 2,000-ton
yacht and cross the Atlantic privately,
though less quickly, less comfortubly,
and even less privately thun on a great
liner. Or he will keep a private or
chestra, instead of being seen at con
certs. All which, though magnificent,
is antisocial and silly, and is secretly
felt to be so by the rich man when he
happens to wake up in the middle of
the night and can’t go to sleep again.—
Woman’s Home Companion.
Qeneroua Manl
A Scotch comedlun whose frugality
Is os notorious as he himself Is famous,
hud au engagement lu Glasgow some
years ago, and as he had a friend who
could put him up for the week, no ho
tel was going to get fret' advertising
through his residence within its walls.
His host had Just become the proud
possessor of u son and heir, but his
pride in the kid did not prevent him
from giving the star all the attention
the most exnctiug guest could expect.
The Saturday uight brought a taxi
to the door, and while the host was
carrying down the luggage the come
dian, after bidding his hostess good
by, pulled a handful of silver out of
his pocket and said: *’L>o ye ken,
Mrs. Whltewood, if I hud a copper I
wad leave it for the bairn!”—Saturday
Evening Post.
Prisoners Married by Proxy.
Four French prisoners of war In
Germany, now in the camp at Stendal,
were married recently to their respec
tive fiancees in Frauce. The arrange
ments were completed through the
Rpunlsh embassy lu Berlin. Exactly
at the time at which the wedding cere- j
mony, with the brides absent, was per-
Ing performed in the prisoners' camp
at Stendal. another ceremony, with the
bridegrooms absent, was performed In
France.
Worse Domestic Ones.
"I suppose Bluks is now experi
encing some of the worst horrors of
war.”
“Hardly. He enlisted to get away
from them.”
In the Restaurant.
“That man yonder is from a zoo."
“llow do you know?*’
“I heard him order a pony of
brandy, a pousse-cafe and some hot
doga.”
T. C. Hounds.
Second Round.
I will be at the following places
for the purpose of collecting state
and county taxes for year 1917.
Mt. Vernon during court week.
Uvalda Nov. 19th 9t012 m.
Alston “ “ Ito 4p m
Higgston “ 20 9t012 m
Ailey “ 20 Ito 4 p m
, Tiger “ 21 10 to 12 m
■ Kibbee “ 21 •Ito 4p m
Tarry town “ 22 9 to 3p m
Orland “ 23 10 to 1p m
Soperton “ 24 9t04 p m
Lothair “ 26 9t012 a m
Yours truly,
H. C. Davis, T. C. M. C.
Jury List.
Grand Jury.
W V Thigpen, B F-Palmer,
L Smith, B F Hart,
B F Hamilton, YV J Peterson,
J I Stanford, M F Durden,
Willie Gay J W Sherrod,
JO II Jones, C A Rackley,
B A Conner, S Y Youtnaua,
W L Calhoun, W L Thigpen,
O J Whipple, A E Hooks,
J L Adams, J E Hall,
F M Sharpe, R I) Beatty,
O B Moye, J W Ward law,
11 W Warnock, J K Adams,
E McLendon, M S Conner,
Goo Beckworth, W J Fowler.
Petit Jury, (Ist week.)
B F Hamilton, C A Beasley,
J H Maddox, C L Hattie,
| F M Calhoun, II W Warnock,
W L Sessions, J E Hunt,
T G Peterson, J J Frost,
A G Hicks, F E Jones,
Tom O’Brien, George Beasley,
G W Tupley, J ft Kitchens,
M F Davis, Elijah Miller.
.1 W Adams, J N Evans,
C 1 Gillis, Tom Morris,
E B Taylor I W Hamilton,
A Calhoun, H L Page,
O I Hightower, .Jas L Gibbs,
H L Gibbs, M W Calhoun,
G E West, Geo W Smith Jr,
John Gr i 11 is, D F Warnock,
J J Moring, W J Higgs,
A I) Combee, W T Stephens,
Lonnie Mincey, W E Mosley,
Petit Jury, (2nd week )
J J Ricks, 1’ M Mcßride,
I II Hall Sr, A W Whitaker,
John Phillips, Neil Gills,
W H Smith Jr, D O Calhoun,
H B McNatt, Joe W Minton,
W J Dent, R A Dukes,
T H Davis, E C McAllister,
W B Frost, J S Durden,
J P Scott, E G Simmons,
Frank Garrett, Tom Hardee,
J B Brown, J G Fowler
H G Brown, Jim O’Brien,
W F Davis, W T McCrimmon,
J M Daniels, R M Rowland,
C 11 Peterson, Frank Gibbs,
Jas W Sharpe, B 8 Reattv,
W R Thigpen, Geo L Miller,
W R Dowd, 11 T Sharpe,
J A Gillis, Ii E Ward,
F E Wardlaw, W H Denton,
W W Lane, G 0 Horton,
H K Lanier, L*D Morris,
J S Williams, A L Hamilton,
N A Downie, A Ii Wheeler,
J W Walker, 1) II Mitchell,
LI Davis, J W Lett,
T W Walker, A S Dukes,
J J Davis Sr, Oscar Byrd,
R B Thigpen, John Goff,
A C Moxley, O W Graham,
For Sale.
Five-room house and four acres
land in one block of Ailey depot
and three-quarters mile of Brew
ton-Parker Institute. House fin
ished throughout and painted in
side and out. Built of best ma
terial. An excellent opening for
any one desiring school facilities.
Price $2500. Terms can be ar
ranged if desired for part.
Can also sell three-horse farm
one and a half miles of Ailey at a
bargain price.
If interested see or write,
J. B. Brewton.
Ailey, Ga.
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 bis
friends to call. In Currie old
drug store building.
AILEY, GA.
99 per cent.
OF THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
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III! DEPOSITORS
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in a good bank their money is absolutely safe and al
' ways available; checks are returned and become receipts;
! checks and stubs form a convenient record of income and
; I outgo, and best of all, when the bank depositor sees an op
jj portunity of using some money profitably, his acquaintance
at the bank and record as a depositor make it possible for
him to procure a loan.
You can promote YOUR suc
cess by becoming a depositor with
MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA.
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! j CAPITAL, $15,iW(0.0() SURPLUS, $33. 000.00 RESOURCES, $175,000.00
1 Willie T. McAithur. President W. A. Cashier !
I ; ! Alex McArthur. Vice-President H. L. Wilt, Assistant Cashier
ji MT. VERNON, GA. |
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5 1-2 per ct. Money
TO LOAN
I have plentj of money to lend on farm jj
lands in Montgomery and Wheeler j
I: counties. Interest at 5 1-2 per cent., jj
FIVE YEARS TIME- —EASY PAYMENTS
You have the privilege of paying part
ji of the principal at any interest period,
jj and stop interest on amount paid; but j
|j no annual paymentof principal required
Prompt Attention to All Loans
Entrusted to Me
jj Come to see me at once if you want a jj
jj loan. lam well equipped to take care jj
jj of the loan business. See me. jj
| L. C. UNDERWOOD jj
MT. VERNON, GA.
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