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VOL. XXXIII.
GENERAL ELECTION !
TUESDAY, STH
All Loyal Democrats Urged
to Vote—Constitutional
Amendments.
Too much stress cannot be laid
on the importance of Democrats
voting in the general election next
Tuesday. Not that there is the
remotest possibility of any Re
publican in this section getting a
vote worthy to be counted, but
simply to repudiate any effort on
the part of ReDublican candidates
to inject themselves into the suc
cessful Democratic administra
tion, under which this country
has been saved from ruination
during the most critical period'm
its history. All loyal
should go to the polls and vote
Tuesday. It will mean much to
the South to have a strong vote
polled for the Democratic nom
inees, and it is hoped that no Dem
ocrat will be mislead by the tricks
of the Republicans.
The ticket is unusually long,
but aside from the state con
stitutional amendments, it can
consistently be voted straight,
without alteration. In many in
stances voters are prone to over
look constitutional amendments,
but this should not be. Men
should be interested in the affairs
of state to the extent of express
ing their choice by ballot on
certain laws submitted to them
for ratification.
Among fifteen amendments to
the Georgia constitution three re
fer to new counties. To what
extent the people of Montgomery
county are interested in the other
two, we cannot say, but the
Treutlen measure, which has been
pending for several vears, and
which passed the Assemby of
1917, should interest the people
of this county. It would be Dem
ocratic for the people of Mont
gomery county to vote for the
Treutlen measure, since, as a
matter of fact, the majority of
its citizens long since assented
to division, in manners too fa
miliar for further qiscussion.
The Treutlen county bili passed
the Assembly by a larger vote
than that given any other new
county measure, and in this coun
ty there has been less opposition
than to any new county in the
state. The people, as a whole,
made no effort to defeat the meas
ure, thus agreeing to it; and those
who once opposed it, against the
will of the people, as it were,
have withdrawn further opposi
tion, agreeing to the will of the
masses of the people. Therefore,
it would seem consistent that
Montgomery county, as a whole,
■vote for the ratification of Treut
len county, not as an incumbent
duty, but as Democrats assenting
to the will of the majority of the
people of the county.
Georgia Cane Patch
Like a Gold Mine.
Thomasville, Oct. 27.—The man
who makes plenty of Georgia cane
syrup this fall will have a valua
ble asset, as the indications are
that the prices for that? commod
ity will soar above anything that
has been asked for it before.
Very little sugar cane has been
ground yet but the growers are
all getting ready for the grind
ings, which will begin very soon.
The crop is comparatively short,
the cold weather of last winter
having injured much of the seed
cane used for planting. Grady
county is the great syrup ceijter
of this section and the crop there
will be below the average. A few
barrels of the new crop have been
put on the market in Cairo at 91
cents a gallon, the highest price
ever arked for the first barreled
syrup.
IN THE SERVICE OF AMERICA TO THE END: FOR VICTORY, FOR PEACE AND FOR WORLD-WIDE LIBERTY
Longpond Dots.
! Special Correspondence
Mr. Fred McAllister of Dublin
visited his parents, Mr.and Mrs.
E. C. McAllister Sunday last.
Mrs. E. E. Burch visited rela
tives at Hack Branch Sunday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Johnson
of Oak Grove spent last weekend
with their mother, Mrs. J. C.-
Johnson.
Mr. Herbert Corbin spent Sun
day last with Messrs. W. F. and
Earnest Goff of Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson
were the guests of Mrs. J. C.
Johnson Sunday last.
Miss Johnnie Johnson of the
Brew ton Parker spent the week
end with home folks here.
Mr. W. T. McArthur, Sr., and
children, Henry and Sarah, and
Mr. Duncan McArthur of Mc-
Gregor visited at the home of Mr.
C. C. McAllister,Sr., Sunday last.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ergles of South
Carolina and sister, Mrs. A. D.
Combee, of Charlotte spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Corbin.
Mr. B. Hughes of Hack Branch
spent Sunday with Claris Burch.
Miss Mazie Carswelj of Lizella
Georgia came Sunday to begin
her work as assistant teacher of
the Long Pond school.
Two Young Couples
Married Last Week.
Judge A. D. Hughes has done
considerable business in matri
monial lines of late, but is still
open for additional business.
On Wednesday of last week, at
his home south of Mt. Vernon,
he married Mr. Willis Dowd and
Miss Della Lewis. On Thursday,
at the home of Mr. W. B. Dowd,
he performed a ceremony for Miss
Mattie Dowd and Mr. Chas.
O’Neal. The groom of the first
marriage is a son of Mr. W. B.
Dowd and the bride of the second
marriage a daughter of Mr.
Dowd. Happiness and prosperity
! to the young folks.
Industries Board Sends Out Letter
Atlanta. —The war industries board
lias taken steps looking to the elimina
tion of unnecessary returns of goods
ty merchants, either wholesale or re
tail, in order that the burden on the
transportation facilities of the coun
! try may be lightened ars much as pos-
I sible and free and unhampered move
\ ment permitted to troops and the va
! rious government materials used In
connection with the war.
Troop Train Derailed; No One Hurt
Columbus.—A section of a troop
\ train front Camp Perry was derailed
near Neal, 60 miles from Columbus,
I when two box cars, loaded with troops’
supplies, one sleep(4land four coaches
of troops, and tender of engine left
the rails. Seven cars remained on the
tracks. No one was hurt, and little
damage was sustained other than to
track.
Lawrence J. Blalock Dies Recently
Americus. —Lawrence J. Blalock, the
oldest practitioner at the bar in Sum
ter county and one of the best and
most highly regarded citizens of Amer
icus, died at his home here. Although
he had been seriously ill during seve
ral weeks, Mr. Blalock’s death came
as a shock to hundreds of friends.
Rules Explained On New Registrants
regulations govern
ing the examinations of registrants be
tween the ages of 18 and 46 years,
were explained by Major Lyle, chief
of the medical department of Geor
gia, to the members of the medical
advisory board and local registration
boards. Under the new regulations,
i the local boards are given more au
i thority in the matter of rejecting regis
i trants. The local board may reject a
i man from service even though he has
been passed by the examining physi
cian.
Cotton Ginned.
There was ginned in Montgom
ery county prior to October 18,
12465 bales of cotton, according
to information furnished by
Agent Linder of this county.
To the same date last year there
was ginned in this county 14538
bales, indicating rather a falling
off in the crop of this county, as
most of the cotton has been picked
and ginned in Montgomery county
for the season.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1918.
French Civilians are
Removed by Force.
Paris, Oct. 29.—The French
Government has protested to
Germany concerning the carrying
away by force of civilian residents
of Laon and has informed Ger
many that the repatriation of
German civilians from France
will be stopped unless the Laon
civilians are returned immediately
to the keeping of the French Gov
ernment.
The action of the Germans in
carrying off the civilians of Laon,
including Mayor Ermant, was in
violation of the agreement con
cluded between France and Ger
many last April. The Germans
also carried away 300 French
civilians from Furnet.
WAR WORK DRIVE
NOVEMBER 11 TO 18
Montgomery County Asked
to Contribute S3OOO to
the Fund.
In the United War Work Cam
paign Montgomery county’s quota
is S3OOO. The drive begins No
vember 11th and lasts through
the 18th.
In most counties the organizat
ion has been perfected, but in
Montgomery it is sadly lagging.
Committeemen have been ap
pointed, but only a small per cent,
of them have accepted to date.
Secretary L. E. Hamlet of Fort
Screven, having in charge this
district, wires today that a prom
inent speaker and a wounded
soldier will be in the county Nov.
9th for a series of addresses. If
these addresses cannot be arrang
ed for a number of points, the
speakers will be heard in Mt.
Vernon, at least. Literature for
hours and places will be forward
ed to different sections of the
county.
The United War Work Fund is
being raised at the request of
President Wilson and the funds
will be disbursed under the super
vision of the War Department.
It is to be expended thru channels
with which everyone is already
familiar, though they may not
recognize these agencies under
the name of the United War Work.
The fund of this name is to be
used in the work theY. M. C. A.,
the Y. W. C. A, the National
Catholic War Council, or Knights
of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare
Board, the Camp Community Ser
vied, the American Library Asso
ciation and the Salvation Army.
These organizations have been
officially recognized by the War
Department and they are now to
be financed by the United War
Work Fund. Their work with
this fund is to go forward with
out any relation to any creed or
religion or propaganda of any
sort. The sole object of these
organizations will be to serve the
soldiers and sailors.
The fund, when raised, will be
apportioned as follows:
Y. M. C. A., $100,000,000; Y.
W. C. A., $15,000,000; National
Catholic War Council, $30,000000;
Jewish Welfare Board, $3,500,000;
American Library Association,
$3,500,000; War Camp Communi
ty Service, $15,000,000; Salvation
Army, $3,500,000.
Union Prayer Service
at Presbyterian Church.
A union prayer service will be
held at the Mt. Vernon Presbyte
rian church Sunday evening, 7:15,
and the public is invited toattend.
This is a joint service between
the Baptist and Presbyterian
churches, and will be in the na
ture of a patriotic service. Both
churches have services on the
first Sabbath, and this is a happy
union of the two for the above
occasion.
PLANTS TO RUN
ON FULL TIME
HEAVY RAINFALLS ENABLED THE
COMPANY TO ISSUE THE
ANNOUNCEMENT
STATE NEWSJJF INTEREST
Brief Newt Items Os Importance Gath
ered From All Parte
Os The State
Atlanta. —All restrictions on the use
of electricity for manufacturing and
commercial purposes have been re
moved by the Georgia Railway and
Bower company. This means that more
than three hundred plants in Atlanta
district and forty other towns in the
district whicli have been running
on short time since August 12 and ab
solutely shut down since September
4 may resume operation at once.
II also means that theaters and mov
ing picture shows are allowed to run
on their regular schedule, and that
stores may burn as much light as
needed for the conduct of a normal
business. The removal of restrictions
on the use of electric current was an
nounced by Rawsou Collier, sales man
ager of the Georgia Railway and Bow
er company, after a conference with
federal authorities, and the action is
made possible by the increased water
behind the dams of the company at
Gainesville, Tallulah Falls, Cliestatee
and Bull Sluice. Within the past week
there has been a seven-inch rainfall
on these watersheds, and the level of
the stream is gradually rising, and will
be normal within a few hours, it is
expected.
Plans Completed For Camp Benning
Columbus. —Colonel Eames, com
mandant of Camp Benning, announces
that the reservation will include 120,-
000 acres. Selden Breck company of
St. kouis has been awarded the con
tract, and work will begin at once.
One big camp designated atr "Fort Ben
ning” and two smaller ones will bo
constructed. Colonel Eames stated
that 31,000 men will comprise person
nel of the cantonment. Twelve thou
sand these will be student officers
and 19,000 officers and enlisted men.
The school of small arms at Camp
Perry has been absorbed by the in
fanttry school of arms here. The first
contingent of Camp Perry troops has
reached here. Colonel Muma and his
staff made the trip through the coun
try in-un automobile. The Columbus
infantry school of arms will be by far
the cream of cantonments established
in America. Officers here state that
the contract calls for an initial expen
diture of over fifteen million dollars.
The cantonment is well named "the
West Point of the South.”
Cane Syrup To Bring High Price
Thomasville. —The man who makes
plenty of Georgia cane syrup this fall
will have a valuable asset, as the in
dications are that the prices for that
commodity will soar above anything
that has been asked for it before. Very
littlp sugar cane has been ground as
yet, but the growers are all getting
ready for the grindings. The crop
is comparatively short, the cold weath
er '/ last winter having injured much
of the seed cane used for planting.
Grady county is the great syrup center
of this section and the crop there will
be below the average. A few bar
rels of the new Crop have been put
on the market in Cairo at 91 cents a
gallon, the highest price asked for the
first barreled syrup.
Heroes of the Otranto.
It is particularly sad that more
than two score Georgia boys, four
of them from Savannah, should
have met death in the sea as the
result of a collision of their ship
with a friendly vessel, on the very
eve of landing in Europe on their
way to do their part of the beat
ing of the Hun. The men who
went to their deaths when the
Otranto went to pieces on the
rocks off the Scottish coast were
heroes as much as men who die
in charges along the wooded banks
of the Meuse, and they will be
remembered and honored for the
supreme sacrifice they made.
Savannah’s young heroes were
denied an opportunity to show
what they could do in battle, but
the story of how the men of the
Otranto faced their doom proves
that if they had reached the shore
safely and found their wav to the
firing line the city of their homes
would have been proud of them
in the field, as she is proud of
their memory now.—Savannah
News.
Had Moonshine Still
Under Canvas Tent.
Albany, Oct. 28. —“Little Jack
sonville” is no more. Federal
revenue agents have wiped it off
the map. “Little Jacksonville”
was the pet name for one of the
biggest moonshine plants in South
Georgia, according to information
secured from the revenue agents
who raided ti. On the place of
Ben Sanders, in Baker county,
they found one 75-gallon copper
still and five 10-gallon stills, all
were within one hundred yards
of Ben Sanders’ home, the re
venue officers state. Thirteen
hundred gallons of mash made
from syrup and corn was found
near the biggest still.
Those participating in the raid
were Deputy Collectors E. C.
Pierce, of Dublin; E. G. English,
of Reynouds; S. J. Causey, of
Columbus, and S. M. Moye, of
Sandersville, and Deputy U. S.
Marshal R. N. Westbrook, of
Albany. At a store operated by
the father of Ben Sanders the
officers found in a nearby shed
numerous empty syrup cans, wa
ter barrels and other parapher
nalia for the manufacturing of
whisky.
In a barn near the store they
found, besides empty syruu cans,
over 2.500 in number, one 10-
gallon keg containing about six
gallons of whisky, and four one
gallon jugs filled with whisky.
The revenue officers have re
commended that warrants be
taken for both Ben Sanders and
A. T. Sanders, who rented from
Sanders, the place where the
still was found. Neither was on
the premises at the time the raid
was made, nor could they be
located afterward. The still was
operated under a big canvas tent.
Mr. I. T. Hutcheson of Soper
ton Route 1 was a business caller
at this office Monday afternoon.
Seed Oats lor Sale.
Fulghum variety; free from
grass and weed seed; $1.40 per
bushel at Longpond or f. o. b.
Uvalda, Ga.
Pbter Johnson, Sr.,
10102 m Mt. Vernon, Ga.
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NOVEMBER COURT
ADJOURNED OVER
The Grand Jury Will Meet
Monday to Provide
Treasurer.
The Montgomery Monitor is
requested by Judge E. D. Gra
ham to announce that the regular
term of court for November will
be adjurned over on account of
the prevalence of Spanish influ
enza in this section.
However, he will be in Mt.
Vernon Monday morning for the
purpose of disposing of such
business as may come before him
in a kind of chambers session.
Witnesses, litigants, petit jury
men or parties at interest are
not require*! to appear at court,
as far as the regular session is
concerned, as all cases requiring
trial by jury will be disposed of
at the adjourned term.
The grand jury, however, is
called to meet for the day only,
(Monday) for the purpose of
electing a county treasurer to
fill the existing, vacancy.
In order to make this explicit,
the names of the grand jurymen
drawn for the November term
are as follows:
T. L, New, J. E. B. Hutcheson,
G. W. Sammons. J. A. Curry,
W. T. Warnock, H. W. Warnock,
I). O. Calhoun, G. W. Hamilton,
M. E. Burns, E. McLendon, H.
A. Braddy, M. Hutcheson, H. J.
Wright, J. H. Williamson, E. E.
Burch, John O’Brien, Jas. M.
Davis, It. B. Thigpen, J. D. Cal
houn, M. H. Darley, C. H. Goff,
W. M. Denton, W. H. Moxley,
Jr., J. W. Hightower, F. M. Cal
houn, A. P. Mclntyre, J. J. Mor
ing, C. W. Graham, Jas. L. Gillis,
F. F. McArthur.
The Pig Club and the Canning
Club contest, also scheduled for
Monday, is necessarily called off.
It may be held at the adjourned
term of the court.
Plant Rape for the stock. We
have the seed, 35 cents a quart
three for a dollar. H. G.
Martin’s Drug Store, Uvalcia.
NO. 26.
