The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, November 08, 1917, Image 2
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 dir,.ft.; and mum ho In hand not later than Wednesday morning of the flrat week of insertion 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. mTYTTTTTTTmTfntTTTYT • • ► M t ► Georgia State f t * l Press Expressions. < •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA t 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 ; || MEN AND WOMEN ARE BANK III! DEPOSITORS » : ; | BBCfiUSB 11!; : i i 11 !; 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. W ‘'■O r w*w* w w ! 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. | i | 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. I CALHOUN’S 1 | OARAGE• I | All Lines High-Class -1 -; Auto Repairing I j | EXPERT WORKMANSHIP J §j Special Attention to j| Repairs and Adjustments i 8 Jof Self Starters and g Electrical Equipment j| » SUPPLIES, GAS, GILS, GREASES, ETC. 1 Quick Service and Satisfaction jg gj Guaranteed. Yor work solicited. I TARRYTOWN, GA. |