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VOL. XXXII.
MONTGOMERY BOYS
TO UMP GORDON
Appropriate Exercises Mark
Departure of Dozen
Recruits.
Another contingent of Mont
gomery county recruits left yes
terday for Camp Gordon. The j
men, a dozen in number, report
ed here early yesterday morning,
for exercises which were held at
the court house from 8:30 t09:15.
Mr. W. A. Peterson acted as
chairman. A strong talk was
made by Rev. F. M. Baldwin of
the Presbyterian church. Rev.
A. G. Brewton of the Methodist
church distributed Testaments,
one to each man, as has been the
custom with the townspeople.
Patriotic songs were sung. A
number of ladies were present.
The student body of The Brew
ton-Parker came over, but on ac
count of a misunderstanding of
the hour, did not arrive in time.
Nor could they have been accom
modated in the justice courtroom
where the exercises w'ere held.
Where the student body is kind
enough to come over, prepara
tions should be made for their ac
commodation. Their presence
adds greatly to an occasion of
this kind.
The men left on the 10:30 train
for Camp Gordon. They were
as follows:
Joseph H. Cooper, Leon R.
Meeks, Lee Andrew Adams, J.
P. Curry, James Wood, Geo. B.
Mclntyre, Geo. Washington Boyd,
Willie D. Waller, Benj. Franklin
Jordan, Henry Hoke Sharpe, La
mar Dayis and Clyde Dickens.
Frank Collins and Cleveland
Bruce Miller failed to report.
Union Christmas
Exercises Called Off.
For reasons beyond the control
of the committees appointed to
arrange for it, the union Christ
mas exercises for Mt. Vernon
have been indefinitely postponed.
The committee had planned a
union affair between the three
churches, to be held on the court
house square. The inclement
weather for the past ten days
has prevented the children from
practice for the exercises and
other causes have led to its post
ponement.
The union exercise as planned,
of course has no relation to the
Christmas exercises to be held at
the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning. This program will be
carried out.
Meets Death After
Killing two Others.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 15. —It
was learned in Savannah tonight
that Metter, Candler county, was
the scene late this afternoon of a
tragedy in w’hich two men were
shot to death and two others per
haDS fatally wounded.
Claxton Dekle, colored, and a
white man stranger, whose name
had not been learned in Metter
up to a late hour tonight, became
engaged in an altercation in a
store. The stranger attempted
to put the negro out of the store,
and when he seemed to be get
ting the worst of it, Demp and
James Riggs, white men, went
to his rescue.
Dekle is alleged to have drawn
a pistol. First he shot the stran-.,
ger to death and then turned on
the Riggs brothers. He riddled
both of them and then fled. A
mob was quickly formed and
Dekle was overtaken. They made
quick work of him, his body be
ing literally shot to pieces.
The better grades of pecan sell
for fifty cents per pound. The
trees bearing this class of nuts
can be bought to an advantage
through H. B. Folsom, at Moni
tor office.
i
Christmas Exercises
for Sunday Morning.
The Christmas program as an
nounced last week will be ren
dered at the Mt. Vernon Presby
terian church next Sabbath, the
exercises beginning at 9:45.
The offering will be given to
the cause of ministerial educa
tion —to worthy but poor boys
seeking an education which will
prepare them for the ministry —
to aged ministers and their wid
ows and orphans. This is a
worthy cause, and the response
should be liberal.
The regular service begins at
eleven o’clock. The pastor will
deliver a sermon in the nature of
a Christmas message. The eve
ning service bee-ins at seven
o’clock. This will be in the na-|
ture of an honor service—a trib- j
ute to the men who have gone
from this church, Sabbath school
or Christian Endeavor. There
will be unveiled an honor roll,
with exercises appropriate to the
occasion. The public is invited
to all services.
Williamson-Humphrey.
On Tuesday, Dec. 4, Miss Arlie
Williamson of Ailey and Mr. M.
D. Humphrey of Soperton were
happily married. The bride is a
daughter of Mr. Lawton William
! son, and the groom is a promi
nent young man of his section of
the county.
They left for a trip to North
Georgia. Success and happiness
.to them.
SAYS PROGRESS MADE
AGAINST SUBMARINE
i
Small, Swift Boats a Match
for German Undersea
Monsters.
Paris, Dec. 16.—Real progress
is being made against the Ger
man submarine campaign, Geo.
Laygues, minister of marine, de
clares in an interview in The
Petit Journal today. He warns
against, however, too optimistic
conclusions being drawn from
the reassuring developments.
“We are ceaselessly working
to counter effects of the subma
rine war and have made genuine
progress,” said the minister.
“We purchased a number of
high speed, shallow draft ves
sels to hunt submarines and we
are building a certain number
ourselves.
“The German submarine cam
gaign, while a grave, continuing
danger, is partially checked. Last
month our losses were the lowest
on record. We have also ob
served that the German crews
are less efficient and less enter
prising than at the beginning
and that their ammunition is of
an inferior quality.
“Still, however reassuring
these observations may be, too
optimistic conclusions should not
be drawn from them.”
Cuba Enters War
Against Germany.
Havana, Dec. 16.—The senate,
which yesterday afternoon unan
imously adopted a resolution de
claring that a state of war be
tween Cuba and Austria-Hungary
exists, also approved a resolution
appropriating $600,000 annually
to be used by the president of the
. republic in aiding any hospitals,
ambulance corps and similar in
stitutions that may be establish
ed by the National Red Cross;
$2,400,000 annually for use di
rectly or through the American,
French, English, Italian and oth
er allied nations in relieving the
sufferings of the civil populations
of the war-stricken zones and
soldier victims and their families.
The measure now goes to the
house.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1917.
GOVERNMENT BULLETINS
ARE FREE TO ALL
A List of Many Which Are
Valuable to Home
and Farm.
“Corn saved the Pilgrams and
fed our Pioneers. Corn will help
us feed the world.”
This is what the United States
Department of Agriculture is
urging you to do.
Corn meal, hominy grits, samp.
These are the nation’s most abun
dant cereal. Palatable and nu
tritious in itself. The best and
most available substitute for
wheat.
Will you help by eating some
corn today? Serve at least one
jcorn meal dish for breakfast,
supper and dinner, and try one
wheatless meal tomorrow.
The United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D.
C., wants you to write today for
farmers’ bulletin 565—" Corn
meal as a food and ways of using
it.” This booklet gives direc
tions for cooking corn in fifty dif
ferent ways.
While writing for Bulletin 565,
ask for some in the following
list, which will be of special help
in food conservation.
34. Meats, composition and
cooking.
121. Beans, peas, etc., as food.
142. Principles of nutrition and
nutritive value of food.
203. Canned fruits, preserves
iand jellies.
232. Okra. Its culture and uses.
256. Preparation of vegetables
for the table.
270. Conveniences for the farm
home.
I 293. Use 9 of fruit as food.
298. Food value of corn and corn
products.
375. Care of food in the home.
391. Economical use of meat in
the home.
413. Care of milk and its use
in the home.
414 Corn cultivation.
487. Cheese, economical use in
the diet.
535. Sugar and its value as food.
559. Use of corn, kafir and cow
peas in the home.
565. Corn meal as a food and
ways of using it.
607. The farm kitchen as a work
shop.
712. School lunches.
717. Food for young children.
771. Home-made fireless cookers
and their use.
807. Bread and bread cooking.
808. How to select foods.
I. What the body needs.
817. How to select foods.
11. Cereal foods.
837. How to select foods.
111. Proteins.
853. Home canning of fruits and
vegetables.
785. Bread making with wheat
flour substitutes.
These Bulletins will prove a
source of help to the house keep
er and I trust that many will!
write for them.
Yours for service,
(Miss) Maggie Bailey,
Emer. Home Dem. Agent.
No Regular Paper
Christmas Week.
According to custom, The Mon- i
itor will not be issued in full j
form next week, that the me- j
chanical force may enjoy a week
of rest. An abbreviated edition,
containing the legal ads, will
be issued as usual.
Subscribers in arrears for the
year 1917 will not be carried ov
er another year. Let all sub
scribers arrange their dates for
the new year, at once. Our books
will be revised, the cash-in-ad
vance method enforced from this
dateon.
Slack methods have cost the
paper several thousand dollars,
and if you appreciate the county
paper, help take up the slack.
“BETTER THAN GOLD”
AT BREWTON=PARKER
Interesting Play by Faculty
of the Public School
Department.
"Better Than Gold” is the ti
i tie of a charming play to be pre
sented at The Brewtow-Parker
i Institute this evening (Thursday)
by the faculty of the public school
department of The Brewton-
Parker Institute.
This is a licensed play, the
plot of which is laid in the moun
tains of North Georgia, dealing
i with life around the gold mines
of that once famous section.
About eighteen characters are
enployed, carefully chosen for
the parts assigned. It is in the
nature of a love, affair, with
Prince Bavari "of the Haps
burgs” aspiring to the hand of
Alice, daughter of a wealthy
gold miner. After tragedy and
disappointment the scene shifts
to a Chattanooga hospital.
It is full of human interest,
pathos, tragedy, etc. The pro
ceeds of the play, to which the
public is invited, go to the bene
fit of the public school depart
ment. "Better Than Gold” is
said to be one of the best plays
ever given in this section, and a
full house is anticipated.
No Business Meeting
Red Cross Monday.
There will be no business meet
ing nf the Red Cross at the court
house Monday afternoon, as is
the custom. The ladies are en
gaged in sewing and making
hospital supplies.
The sewing room, at the Pres
byterian manse, will be open all
day Thursday, with Mrs. W. C.
Mcßae in charge. Those having
gifts, supplies, etc., will please
deliver at once. For any infor
mation concerning the work, the
ladies will call Mrs. Mcßae. The
Mt. Vernon organization, while
small in numbers, is doing a good
work. With the exercise of a
little pride and effort the organi
zation could be built up to a rep
resentative degree. Let the men
assist the ladies. In all progres
sive towns the membership in
cludes everybody, from the
cradle to the grave.
German Cruelties as
Told in Soldier’s Diary.
The 94-page booklet “German
War Practices” published by the
Committee on Public Informa
tion, devotes one section to ex
tracts from German war diaries,
among them being the following:
"A shell burst near the Elev
enth Company, and wounded sev
en men, three very severely. At
5 o’clock we were ordered by the
officer in command of the regi
ment to shoot all the male inhab
itants of Nomeny, because the
! population was foolishly attempt
ing to stay the advance of the
German troops bv force of arms.
We broke into the houses, and
seized all who resisted, in order
to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which
had not been already destroyed
by the French artillery and our!
; own were set on fire by os, so
j that nearly the whole town was
reduced to ashes. It is a terrible
sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are
are herded together and driven
into France.” (From the diary
of Pvt. Fischer, Eighth Bavarian
Regiment of Infantry, Thirty
third Reserve Division.)
Copies of this booklet may be
secured free of charge by appli
cation to the Committee on Pub
lic Information, 10 Jackson Place,
Washington, D. C.
Nothing will add more to your
farm than a pecan grove. Leave
orders for high-class trees at The
Monitor office.
Col. W. V. Tyler
• Dies in Millen.
Millen, Ga., Dec. 15. — Col. W.
V. Tyler died here Thursday
night. He suffered a severe
pain in his head while in his of
fice at 5 o’clock. He immediate
ly went down stairs to a drug
9tore and got some medicine, but
becoming worse was taken to
Mulky's Sanatarium where he
lived only two hours. Col. Tyler
was 49 years old and was born
in Bamberg, S. C., having come
to Millen when a small boy. He
was admitted to the bar when
quite a young man and has prac
ticed his profession here ever
since. He was president of the
Millen Bar Association, a brilliant
and widely known man and one
of the best lawyers in this sec
tion of the state. The deceased
was a brother of the late Mrs.
Electra Tyler DeLoach, who fig
ured so largely in the public af
fairs of the county. Besides his
widow and two daughters, Col.
Tvler is survived by one brother,
Mr. Jackson Tyler of Waynes
boro, and one sister, Mrs. James i
Ott of Columbia, S. C. The re- j
mains were taken to East Point
for burial. From this place the '
body was accompanied by his 1
family, Judge F. G. Rabb and i
Mr. James 11. Daniel.
Montgomery county friends of j
Mrs. Tyler and daughters extend j
sympathy in the death of husband
and father. Mrs. Tyler is head
of the department of instrumen
tal music at The Brewton-Parker
Institute.
PROPER PLAN OF
SAVING SEED CORN
Should be Shelled by Hand
and all Inferior Grains
Removed.
Seed corn should always be
shelled by hand, says the United
States Department of Agricul
ture, which advises care in every
step connected with seed selec
tion.
After seed corn has been se
lected from the most productive
stalks as they stand in the field
in competion with other surround
ing stalks, and stored in a dry
place free from insects and ro
dents, the job is only half done.
Shelling is one of the most im
portant of the tasks.
Seed ears should first be nub
bed and the kernels from tip and
butt should be discarded from
the seed supply. The Bmall ker
nels from the tips are less pro
ductive than the other kernels on
the ear; the blunt, thick, rounded
kernels from the butts are just
as productive as any of the rest,
but because of their shape and
size they do not plant uniformly
when used in a corn planter with
other kernels.
Shelling by hand takes more
time'and labor but is prfitable.
The mechanical corn sheller is
likely to injure the germ tips of
the individual grains, and to thus
destroy or impair their power to
germinate. No matter how large
the required supply, says the de
partment, it will still pay to shell
it painstakingly by manuel labor,
; because the greater the acreage
to be planted, the greater the ul
timate profit.
Each ear should be shelled sep
arately into a shallow pan or box,
j and every blemished, misshapen,
or worm-eaten kernel should be
rejected. A9 the seed from each
ear is found satisfactory and
sound, and free from poor ker
nels, it is poured into the general
supply, and another ear is shelled
in the same way. It is much !
easier to pick out defective grains
from a single layer in a small re
ceptacle than from a large ming- 1
led quantity in a bushel measure,
j or a bag. j
REGISTRANTS BEING
CLASSIFIED FOR SERVICE
Have Seven Days in Which
to Answer and Return
Questions.
The Local Board is this week
sending out the questionnaire
form as authorized by the gov
ernment, for the classification of
all registered men who are not
already in the service or those
who have enlisted just prior to
the 15th, when the work began.
About five per cent, of the
county’s quota of men will have
the questions mailed to them
each day for about twenty days,
making about sixty a day. The
questionnaire must be properly
filled in and returned to the local
board within seven days from
the date on which it is mailed
out—not when a man receives it.
The county attorneys have
been organized for the purpose
of aiding the men in answering
the questions, of which there are
many. Any attorney in the
I county will gladly assist any man
• in answering the questions, with
| out charge, it being urged on the
men to go to them immediately
|on receiving the blanks. Those
lln the lower part of the county
i may come to Mt. Vernon; those
'in the upper section may secure
'aid from lawyers in Soperton.
Between the Local Board and
its assistants and the attorneys
and their assistants, there is no
reason why a man should not be
able to answer the questions cor
rectly.
This order went into effect Sat
urday, 15th inst., and the lists
have been mailed out up to date
regularly. If a man fails to get
his blank, this does not excuse
him; it is his business to secure
one at once, returning it within
seven days from the date on
which it was mailed. Thus, a
blank mailed out the first day is
returnable by the 22d—seven
days later, and so on, until the
entire list of something over
eleven hundred have been sent
out.
Failure to comply with the rules
constitutes a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by imprisonment, etc.
Therefore, it is very important
that a man, white and black,
keep in touch with the Local
Board and its assistants. If a
man receives a blank, it means
that he must have it filled out
and returned, except in cases
strictly provided for, and with
which he must be familiar.
Men who have changed the
postoffice addresses since regis
tration, should notify the Board
immediately.
Answers of registrants on the
selective draft questionnaires re
lating to health and answers un
der the head “dependency,”
with the exception of the names
and addresses of persons claimed
to be dependent, will not be open
to inspection by the public with
out the consent of the registrants.
Imprisonment for not to ex
ceed one year will be the penalty
imposed on anyone connected
with the administration of the
selective draft law who shall
make this information public.
Public Schools Will
Take Holidays.
Superintendant Conner wishes
The Monitor to announce that the
public schools of the county will
close for the Christmas holidays
Saturday, 22d, for a week's va
cation.
The schools will open for the
spring term Monday, December
.‘{lst. A most successful fall
term has been passed in Mont
gomery county, and the teachers
and authorities are looking for
ward to continued success during
| the year 1918.
NO. 34.