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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1918)
£lu>, fEotttamen? fUmtitur. VOL. XXXIII. GERMAN RETREAT ON LYS SALIENT I j Strategic Points are Lost by! Invaders, With Many Prisoners. Special Service to Monitor. New York. —The Germans on three! Important sectors of the western battle I front have been compelled to give up positions of great strategic value un der the onslaughts of the British and French troops. In the Lys sector, east of Armen tieres, the enemy has retreated over a front of nearly six miles, leaving the town of Merville in British hands. Between the Matz and Oise rivers the French have fought their way to the western outskirts of the dominating position of Lassigny, and farther south, in this hill and wooded region, have debouched from the Thiescourt; wood and also captured the town of Pimprez, situated in the Oise valley and on the Noyon-Compeigne road. French Capture Men and Villages. Around the curve in the batle line northwest of Soissons, the French, from near Carlepont to Fonteney, on the Aisne, a distance of approximately nine miles, have driven back the en emy an average depth of more than a mile and captured several villages and 2,200 prisoners. Reports record the capture by the British of the railroad station on the western outskirts of the important town of Roye, one of the pivotal points on the battle front between the Somme and the Oise. ADVISORY BOARD OF MARKETING BUREAU Will Hold Convention in Washington City on Aug. 26th. The Cotton States Official Ad visory Marketing Board has been called by President J. J. Brown to meet in Washington, D. C., on Monday, August 26, immediately preceding a big meeting of farm ers from all parts of the country, which will be held in that city on August 27. This meeting of the Cotton Marketing Board will have before it subjects of the most vital im portance to farmers of the South. In the first place the food admin istration had planned to reach some conclusion last week as to the price to be fixed for cotton seed and cotton seed products. Assurance has been given that the producer would be allowed a hearing before final action was taken on this matter. It is the purpose of the Cotton States Mar keting Board to present the pro ducers side of this problem and to urge that a price shall he fixed for cotton seed and its products which will be fair to the produc er. This Board has pesistently held out for a price upon these products, based upon the com parative value of hog lard prior to the war, and still holds that the same parity which then pre vailed should now also be main tained. If this parity should he maintained in the new prices to be fixed, cotton seed would be worth S9O a ton. Other important problems which the cotton Marketing Board will consider in this meeting are the loan value for cotton and opposi tion to the proposed freight rate increased on this product. Ar rangements have been made to take ud the question of the freight rate with the director general of the railroads and to show him why, in the opinion of the board, no increase should be made at this time. Must Register Saturday. In another column will be seen official information of the regis tration Saturday, 24th inst., of all men who have become 21 years old since the registration of June 5, 1918. No further notice on the subject will be given, aside from that in the newspapers, hence this second reference to it. Those concerned may secure further information from the local board if necessary, but the notice sent out bv the govern ment is quite clear. Mt. Vernon will be the only point of registra tion Saturday. IN THE SERVICE OF AMERICA TO THE END: FOR VICTORY, FOR PEACE AND FOR WORLD-WIDE LIBERTY For Representative. With an unchallenged record for service to the people of Mont- j gomery county and their better ! interest, I am a candidate for representative in the General I Assembly, subject to the provis- 1 ; ions of the primary rules. A | statement of my views will fol -1 low. Respectfully, Horace B. Folsom. Must Plan for Fall Garden Right Now. What about our war garden we ' t have been so interested in? You did not allow a row to be vacant | during spring and summer. You i did all that you could, and now perhaps you are planning a nice little rest as fall rushes in. “There is no rest.” Let each of ; us keep the war garden busy. If , you dpn’t the weeds will. We need fresh vegetables in -our diet and by having these we keep hands off of the canned fruits and vegetables until we are forced to use them because there is nothing in the garden. Plant these: Turnips—Aug. to Oct.; Seven Top and Purple Top. Spinach—Aug. to Oct.; New Zealand and Aragon. Rape-July to Oct.; Dwarf Essex. Radish—Aug. toNoy.; Scarlet Globe, White Icicle. Lettuce —July to Nov.; Tennis Ball, Big Boston. Parsley —Aug. to Oct.; Moss I Curled. Mustard—Curled Chinese. Beans —Not later than Aug.; Valentine, Golden Wax and Ken tucky Wonders. Maggie Bailev, Emer. Home Dem. Agt. Ailey. Special Correspondence. Misses Gladys and Eleanor Kelley of Sanford, N. C., have been visitine at the home of Mrs. J. A. Riddle and Dr. J. W. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Leon McLeod and baby spent Sunday with his sis ter, Mrs. Allen Kitchens. Misses Virginia, Maude and Blanch McGregor of Mcßae are spending a few days with their uncle, Mr. J. M. D. McGregor. Mrs. Mattie McLeod of Lyons is spending this week with her daughter, Mrs. Allen Kitchens. Mrs. Arlia Yeomans and chil dren are visiting relatives in Lakeland, Fla., this week. Mrs. J. A. Coursey and son, Paul, are visiting relatives here this week. Dr. J. W. Palmer and family spent Tuesday in Savannah. Sweets for Soldier Boys Over the Seas. Every Southern mother fondles close the remembrance of how | her boy made her life miserable j hunting down her hiding place for the family cookie jar. Looking in retrospect the boys across seas coddle the dream of the cookie jar in the same light, for they are nothing but boys grown-up and the National War | Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. realizing this too has placed an order for more than a billion cookies for distribution to the j American troops in France. This gives an insight into the magnitude of the service render ed by the Red Triangle organiza tion. A small realization ot the , little comforts our fighters crave and the Jamount they can con sume is reflected in the Y. M. C. A’s. orders for 840,000,000 cook ; ies, representing 750 carloads, i 93.750,000 sticks of gum, 112,- , 500,000 bars of chocolate, 1,350,- 000,000 cigarettes and 7,500,000 jars of jam and marmalade. 1 These goods have been contracted ■ for and will be exhausted before Christmas. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1918. WAR STAMP DRIVE AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER Enthusiastic Meeting Com mittees Held Here Saturday. There was held in Mt. Vernon Saturday last a meeting of the committeemen of the War Sav ings Stamp organization of Mont gomery county. More than two thirds of the-committeemen were present, revealing the increased | interest of the people. The in terest was unusually strong. ! It is planned by Chairman W. ; A. Peterson and his assistants to put on another stamp drive along the lines observed in the cam paign of June 28th, when condi tions were not as favorable as ! they are now. During the June campaign crop prospects were uncertain, and many refrained from making pledges commensu rate with their ability. The cotton crop will measure up to a good standard, and it is thought the approaching campaign will find the county’s quota of war stamps sold. The September drive, for one day only, will be held September 2, and the people are again asked to assemble at their school houses, where a program identical with that of June 28 will be carried out, with the exception that speakers who have volunteered their services will not be assigned to points where they appeared in the June drive. To date there has been pledged by Montgomery county, whites, $122,185; colored, *40,555, mak ing a total of $162,740. Number of pledges by white people, 2209; colored, 1451, a total of 3660, re vealing the alarming fact that there are in the countv several thousand people who failed to sign or have pledges signed for them. The Montgomery county quota was $270,860. Os this amount only $162,740 has been pledged, leaving a shortage of *108,120 to be raised before the close of the year. Let the entire amount be pled ged September 2. Details of the plan will be given in next two issues. Pastor Returns. Rev. F. M. Baldwin of the Presbyterian church returned a few days ago from a visit to his old home in Indiana. While away he visited a number of the larger cities of the North. This week he is conducting a series of meetings in Erick, assis ted by Rev. W. S. Harden. Mr. Baldwin returns to the work with renewed vigor, and friends are glad that he has had occasion to enjoy the pleasures of his old home and former pastorate. Dublin Banks are Merged. Dublin, Aug. 16.—Two banks | of-this city merged into one with the close of business Thursday afternoon, the Southern Ex change and the Commercial hank consolidating under the name of the Southern Exchange bank. The building occupied by the Commercial will be used by the new bank, but the officers of the Southern Exchange will have charge. The new Southern Exchange bank now has a capital paid in of $50,000, with assets of more than $350,000. It will have the com bined board of directors of both banks, while its officers' are as follows: Rresident, T. B. Hicks; active vice president, J. M. Finn; second vice president, M. E. Burts; cashier, George L. David, assistant cashier, J. W. Jolly. 1 All of these officials are bank- I ers of experience, who have made . the Southern Exchange a strong hank in the past. INFORMATION FROM SHORE TO U-BOAT Officials Believe That Subs Have Connection With American Shore. Special service to Montgomery Monitor. Washington. lnformation fur nished by officers of vessels attacked by German submarines along the American coast, has strengthened the belief held by several experienced of ficials here that the enemy raiders have had communication with persons on shore and may even have landed members of their crews in an effort to secure reliable Informations The navy department officials reufsed to indorse this belief, though admitting the possibility. Positive claim that he met In a New York saloon an officer from the sub marine that sunk the steamer O. 11. Jennings Is made by the first officer of that vessel, according to a story reaching the department. The recog nition between the American and Ger man-is said to have been instantane ous, the latter making his escape when the American appealed to a of fleer accompanying him for confirma tion of his belief. Other instances have been heard, not so well substantiated, of the discovery of evidence that German submarines have been in close touch with the shore. One story along this line was that the captain of a coastwise vessel, being ordered to the submarine with his papers, was astounded to see on the desk of the German commander copies of the New York dailies of the same date. One of the three submarines, it is considered certain, was especially equipped for duty as a cable cutter. This is held to explain the sudden paring recently of two Atlantic cables. A naval repair ship, escorted by light ing craft, since has picked up and spliced both cables. In Running Fight, Submarine Sunk Philadelphia.—A German submarine was sunk in a running battle with a British tank steamer about three hun dred miles northeast of Nantucket, ac cording to members of the tanker’s crew. The oil ship arrived here from Mexico. Burleson Approves W. U. Increase New York. —Postmaster General Burleson, in control of telegraph and telephone systems, has approved the 10 per cent increase in wages of em ployees of the Western Union Tele graph company, it is announced at the offices of the company. Federal Loans To Live Stock Raisers Washington.—Secretary McAdoo an nounces that the war finance corpo ration has completed plans for mak ing direct, loans to individuals, firms and corporations engaged in the # rais ing of live stock. Two agenciei will be created by the corporation with headquarters at Kansas City and Dal las. The agencies will be known as the cattle loan agencies of the war finance corporation and their business will be confined entirely to the consid eration of applications for direct loans to live stock raisers. Mobs B urn Millionaires’ Homep'aces , Tokio, Japan.—Advices received from the provinces are lo the effect that the residences of several million aires have been burned. These reports say that the home of Soichiro Asano, president of the Toyo Steamship com pany, has been attacked and damaged. The governor of Tokio in a mani festo urges The residents of the city to remain indoors at night. The thea ters and stores and the leading thor oughfares of the city htwe been or dered closed as a precautionary meas ure. Prolific Corn Grown J. W. Adams and Son. Some of the most prolific corn ever grown in this section is that on the farms of Messrs. J. W. and Carl Adams, north of this place. They recently brought to this office a number of stalks, some of which contain as many as nine ears. This is a variety of corn in which the greatest number of stalks contain from two to five and six ears, and seems to fruit better when planted rather close. The field on which this unusual yield is found contains about ! thirty acres, five foot rows, two feet in the drill, and the yield is estimated at about double that of the ordinary corn. This particu lar field had an application of 150 pounds of guano to the acre, j A number of the stalks have several shoots, on which the ex tra ears grow, but the stalk, as a ! whole, average well in size. Mr. : Adams and his son are good farmers. » j ; Colored Men Leave For Camp Gordon. The Local Board is in receipt of a call for half a dozen white men and half a dozen negroes from Montgomery county. The names of the colored men, who were called to assemble here yesterday afternoon, preparatory to leaving this morning for Camp Gordon, are as follows: Geo. Willie Betha, Marcus Phil lips, Milton Phillips, Willie Bell, , Blanton Stuckey, Joe Wallace, Sylvester Drinks, Thomas Dun can, Lewis Smith and W. J. Fields. It is understood that only six men will he drawn from this list. To date the Board has not re ceived the final list of the white men, but it is quite sure they will be called within the next two days. DISLOYAL SENATOR SADLY DEFEATED Vardaman of Mississippi is Snowed Under Tuesday by Harrison. Senator Jas. K. Vardaman, United States senator from Mis sissippi since 1911, and who has repeatedly opposed the national administration, was severely de feated in a primary election in that state Tuesday last. There were three candidates in the field, and news reports say that a*second primary will be precluded by the fact that Con gressman Harrison, opponent of Vardaman, carried practically every precinct in the state. In Vardaman’s home town, Jackson, complete returns show Harrison, 964: Vardaman, 182; Noel, the third candidate, 89. In Warren county, with Vicksburg the county seat, Harrison received 1238; Vardaman, 104; Noel, 69. In the counties heard from Harri son had a majority of 10,000 votes over Vardaman. Thus it will be seen that the people of Mississippi were de termined to administer defeat to an anti-administration candidate. This may be accepted as an indi cation of what the people of Georgia will do for Senator Hard wick September 11. Mississippi s a loyal Southern state, and cannot afford to antagonize Presi j dent Wilson and the national ad ministration. I Georgia, too, is loyal to the Union, to the administration, and to President Wilson —true to her self—and cannot afford to be further embarrassed by Ilard wickism. Record Year For Canning Indicated. Reports from manufacturers of canning supplies who have con formed to recommendations of the United States Department of Agriculture in the making of equipment indicate that the in , terest in home canning is increas ing rapidly. There is a wide spread demand for more eauip ment that will save labor and time in canning. It is estimated , that there has been during the year a 50 per cent increase in the number of firms manufacturing home canning supplies, an t aver age increase of 25 per cent in the ’ quantity of equipment sold, and ' an increase of 300 per cent in the demand for rubbers of standard quality. Some of the depart -1 ment’s canning instructions have been published by outside parties : in 10 different languages and ’ more than 100 business concerns 1 have reprinted the directions for j free distribution to their em- I ployees and customers. j REGISTER AGAIN ON AUGUST U Men Becoming of Age Since June 5, 1918, Register Saturday. , Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.—Many of the young men who register next Saturday, August 24th, will have opportunity to enter mili tary service even ahead of those who registered last June 5. This developed today when the Selec tive Service Law Ollieer announ ced the method of assigning or der number to the new regis trants. There will be no lottery in Washington to decide the liability of these registrants. Instead, Provost Marshal General Growder has directed that the last lottery holds good for this registration, this giving each man an oppor tunity to learn at an early date just where he stands. The regis ! tion number to be given each man who registers next Saturday will take its place in the list of order numbers just as if it had been drawn in the last lottery. In other words if a man draws registration number 200, his order number will be determined by the place number 200 holds in the master key fixed through the Washington drawing. If regis tration number 200 calls for or der number 537, such will be the new registrant’s order number. If one of the registrants of June 5 should have the order number 537, the new registrant would be given order number 537-A, and so on. Thus, by reference to the master key each man can im mediatelyjbe given a definite place in the order number list. Every man who has become twenty one years of age since June sth, 1918, or who reaches that age by August 24, will be required to register next Satur day. Through this registration authorities expect to prevent inroads into deferred classifica-* tions, since this will provide, throughout the United States, approximately 150,000 additional men for class one. Major Joel I>. Mallet, selective service law officer, anticipates that the regis tration in Georgia will reach approximately 2,000. All local boards will be open for registration on August 24th from seven a. rn. until nine p. m. 'This is in no way connected with the much larger registra tion which will follow, probably in September, after the passage of the bill to register men from 18 to 21 and from 3i to 45. Publication in the newspapers, of the announcement of next Saturday’s registration will be considered sufficient notice for all young men who come under this call. Those who are to be absent from their place of resi dence on Saturday may register bv mail, but should provide them selves immediately with the necessary infprmation as to pro cedure. This may he obtained from local boards. Registration cards sent by mail must reach the local boards by Saturday. Those who are unable, because of sickness, to register in person, may register by agent. Informa tion as to procedure in such cases as this also should be obtained from local boards without delay. Those who have no permanent residence will register with the local board in whose jurisdiction they happen to be on August 24th. Production of honey will be greatly increased during 1918 in many localities, according to the Department of Agriculture. The increase in Colorado, it is said, i will probably be 100 per cent. NO. 16.
