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PUBLISHED EVIKY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OkiiAN MOMdOMLKV COUNTY.
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Mount Vernon, Ga.. Thursday Morning, February 13, 1919.
How did you celebrate it yes
terday—Georgia’s one hundred
and eighty sixth anniversary?
One of the Savannah papers
calls attention to the absence of
sheriff sales for the past month.
Could not remark thus concerning
her divorce docket.
Germany is begging for the
privilege of supplying the United
States with potash. This country
has already had enough of German
products of German ideas and
of German activities-and the
more studiously she abstains from
anything German the better for
her.
After all, with a call for bids
on, it is said that Cochran will
meet the requirements for the
new Twelfth District. Agricultural
and Mechanical School. The
merits of these schools has been
called severely into question of
late, but since Cochran was first,
awarded the new school, better
let her have a try-out.
Now there seems to be but
little variation in the quality
most of it is made in lard cans.
A burly negro, testifying against
his father-in-law who had turned
him up for stealing corn, to
which he plead guilty in the
courts here a few days ago, said
that the first swig he had taken
from the old negro’s home-made
still paralyzed him instantly.
But this was seemingly an ex
ception to the rule possiby an
effort to minimize the corn-steal
ing matter.
The cotton pledge period is
again on with many farmers.
But visions of full crops and high
prices soon knock these pie-crust
pledges into bits of memory. The
law of supply and demand is all
right when it works well for the
farmer, but what worries him
most just now is the fact that
the latter section of this time
honored statute has been lost in
the shuffle. But then he hopes
it will be resurrected before he
gets another bumper crop white
unto the harvest.
A news item from Way cross
tells of the wonderful success of
Rev. C. M. Ledbetter of that city
with hog raising. Incidentally
it recalls the fact that Rev. Led
better, a well-known Methodist
minister, has the distinction of
having raised, at different times,
more chickens than he could eat.
With all respect to our esteemed
friend, who was located here
some years ago, when raising
Indian Runner ducks was one of
his pastimes, it is recalled by a
number of his neighbors that he
also raised more ducks than they
could supply pasturage for. It
is needless to remark that these
ducks had the itinerant tenden
cies well developed.
Good roads are imperative, and
no state or countv is progressive
without them. Os late years
there has been expended on the
public roads of Georgia, by slack
handed methods and lack of ex
perience, enough money and la
bor to have given the state a
respectable system of highways.
But few of the counties build
roads with a view of permanency,
and as a result thev have to be
rebuild every few years. Clay
and sand, the natural ingredients
for road building in South Geor
gia. if properly handled, will re
sult in good and permanent roads;
if improperly used, their natural
value, together with the time and
labor expended on them is prac
tically a total loss. The state
system of road building, as a
whole, will have to be put on a
different basis before anything
of permanent value will be ob
tained.
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► Press Expressions.
The French government is al
ready making an effort to reclaim
No Man’s Land. A law was re
cently passed which permits the
cultivator of an abandoned farm
to claim seventy-five dollars an
acre from the government to
assist him in its rehabilitation.—
Dublin Courier-Herald.
You may'have noticed that the
man who never has a word to
say when he is getting the best
I of it does an awful lot of squawk
ing when he happens to be get
ting the worst of it.—Nashville
Herald.
In spite of what at first appear
ed a general relaxation of busi
ness, this country is moving at a
rapid rate and within the next
sixty days,—more than likely
less, we will be wondering at the
great increase in general business
activity. It will be well for local
merchants and business men to
guard against large stocks at
high prices, but the cautious
buyer is going to do much more
business this spring than he
thought would be possible. —Cor
dele Dispatch.
President Wilson will find that
lie has a man’s job on his hands
in trying to get the nations of
Europe, saturated as they are
with the spirit and ideas of by
gone centuries, to see the new
light, the light of peace on earth
and good will among men. —Vi-
dalia Advance.
It is a beautiful thing to pay
tribute to anyone after they have
departed this life, and it is not
the purpose of the Telfair En
t( rprise to attempt to decry the
i (forts of some of the political
friends to honor the memory of
ex President Roosevelt, but when
it comes to creating an annuity
oi $5,000 out of the public funds
to donate to his widow, we be
lieve the matter is being carried
too far. Col. Roosevelt left a
rather tidy fortune, one that is
:e iple to take care of the widow
for the balance of her days. In
these days and times when
economy is the watchword, this
amount could be expended in a
great many more needful ways.
—Telfair Enterprise.
These are happy days for the
wise farmer who did not plant
all his farm in cotton last year
and sold what he did nroduce
when it was selling for a price
far beyond what he expected to
got at planting time. Ho has no
sleepless nights over the present
situation, nor worry over debts
past due.—Claxton Enterprise.
Griffin has a Friday Lunch Club.
Here is whore they tell of the
achievements of the town in a
way that sounds fishy to out
siders. Savannah Press.
It is a matter of the gravest
importance to keep the filth and
trash from the streets and from
around your premises. The city
is endeavoring to have a cleaning
up on the streets but is an im
possibility to do it without the
co-operation of the citizens. If
the people persist in throwing!
refuse and trash on the sidewalks
and sweeping it out their back
doors, the authorities cannot!
possibly keep it cleaned up. But
if the people will assist in every
way possible by placing all trash
in garbage cans, the city would
L>e kept in a cleanly and a much j
more decent looking condition. — j
Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
THE MONTGOMERY MONTTOR-THURSDAT, FEBRUARY 13, 1919
Honor for the South —Then
Honor for the Nation.
A movement, supposed to have
originated in Atlanta, is on foot
to utilize Stone Mountain, near
that city, as a memorial to the
men who died in the late war.
We do not censure this movement,
or the noble sentiments which
may inspire it, but Atlanta knows,
and the world knows, that this
gift of nature, the only thing of
its kind on earth, has already
been set aside for a memorial to
the Southern soldier, whose valor
has never been equaled. This
idea is very dear to the Daughters
of the Confederacy, and they
have already spent time and
money in furthering the plan,
which was stopped temporarily
on account of the war. The great
sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, has
spent the past few years working
out the plans and much material
work has already been done look
ing to the realization of the origi
nal idea, The glory of the South
will never fade; the glory of
America will not pass with ages,
but why on earth should the glory
of one be sacrificed for the other?
Let this stone of the South speak
the valor of the South, and after
telling the story if there is suf
ficient area, make it too. a me
morial to the American soldier,
whose life was offered on the
altar of freedom. Stone Mountain
is distinctly Southern, so let it
first speak for the South. If
every foot- of its massive sides
bore a tribute, the story would
not be told.
Citation.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
To all whom it may concern:
Savannah Carswell of said
county and state, having applied
to me for letters ot administra
tion de bonis non on the estate of
Linton Carswell of said county,
this is to cite all and singular the
heirs and creditors of Linton
Carswell to be and appear at the
March term, 1919, of said court,
and show cause, if any they can,
why letfcers’of administration de
bonis non should not he granted
on the estate of said Linton Cars
well.
Witness my official signature,
this the 3rd day of February, 1919.
J. C. McAllister,
Ordinary.
Seed Oats.
Fulghum Seed Oats. Best va
riety. $1.25 per bushel.
I). S. & W. G. Williamson,
1114tf Alston, Ga.
Y.W.C.A.ASKS SIOO.OO FROM
EACH COUNTY IN GEORGIA
During the war the Young
Woman's Christian Association
devoted practically all of its time
and money to war work. The
funds raised by or for the Y. W.
C. A. were to be used for war
work exclusively, and a strict ob
servance of the conditions under
which that money was given puts
the Association in a position
where it is absolutely necessary
that it have funds with which
to continue its regular work.
In erder to relieve that situ
ation, and make possible a con
tinuance of the extension work
that has done so much to in
crease the usefulness of the As
sociation in the past, the Nation
al Board has decided to ask the
people of the entire country to
contribute. The amount asked
for in each county of Georgia is
•mall, just SIOO.OO. The quota
for the entire state is $20,000.
but Atlanta, Savannah, Macon,
Augusta, and Columbus, the cit
ies where there are local associa
tions, will take care of all ex
cept the SIOO.OO that each coun
ty is asked to give.
The campaign to raise this
small sum will be put on from
February' 6th to 17th. The same
machinery that did such effective
work during the United War
Werk drive will be used, with but
few exceptions. Mrs. E. H.
Goodhart, of Atlanta, will be
state chairman; Miss Myrtice
McCaskill will be state director,
while Miss Leo ;e Westbrook will
act aa advisory director. The
same county and district chair
men will be used wherever pos
sible.
It is not going to be necessary
to put on any elaborate campaign
to raise this small amount, al
Administrator’sJSale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
By virtue of an order granted
by the court of ordinary of said
county on the 3rd day of Feb.,
1919, same being the Feb. term,
1919 of said court, I will sell at
the late residence of W. H. H.
Stephens, near Kibbee, Ga., said
(county on the 14th day of Feb.,
1919, the same being the second
Friday in Feb., 1919 between the
hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4
o’clock p. m. of said day all of
the personal property of the es
tate of the said W. H. H. Steph
ens, deceased, to-wit:
One dark bay mare, one sorrel
mare, 2 brood sows and 9 pigs,
four large pork hogs, lot of farm
ing tools and implements, one
cow and calf, one steer, about 20
bushels cotton seed, about 15
bushels of corn, 10 bales of hay,
one buggy and harness, one
1-horse wagon, one cane mill, one
syrup boiler, one compost spread
er, one five-passenger Overland
touring car, about 18 gallons of
auto oil, one lot of wagon and
plow harness, one farm bell, one
stalk ciltter, one grain cradle,
one hay rake. * Terms cash. This
Feb. 3rd, 1919.
J. W. Stephens,
Tern. Administrator.
Citation.
| Georgia—Montgomery County.
Ordinary’s Office, Feb. 3, 1919.
Whereas, Mrs. M. L. Davis, ad
ministratrix of the estate of J.
H. Davis, late of said county,
deceased, represents to the court
in her petition, duly filed and en
tered on record that she has fully
administered said estate; this is
therefore to notify all parties con
cerned to show cause, if any they
cun, why said applicant should
not receive letters of dismission
and be discharged on the first
Monday in March, 1919.
J. C. McAllister,
Ordinary.
Highest Prices Paid
for Live Stock.
We are constantly in the mar
j ket for cattle and hogs. Many
| years experience qualifies us to
offer superior advantages to the
! producers of this section. We
are in position to handle your
business in a most satisfactory
manner. Get our prices.
W. D. & C. W. Peterson,
9192 m Ailey, Ga.
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♦ If every person who vis- +
+ ited the Hostess Houses +
■»' erected and maintained by ♦
+ the Young Women’s Chris- +
+ tian Association during the +
♦ war, would contribute one +
+ dollar each the campaign to +
■+ raise SIOO.OO in each Geor- +
+ gia county would be largely +
+ oversubscribed. The fact +
+ that the “Y. W.” spent a ♦
+ great deal of their regular +
+ revenue in this and similar ♦
+ work in the early days of ♦
♦ the war before tne various ♦
♦ war funds were created is *
+ one reason why it is now +
+ necessary te ask for funds +
+ with which to carry on the +
♦ regular work. It is also true ♦
+ that there have been no +
+ campaigns to replace this *
+ money, as all funds raised ♦
♦ were for strictly war work. +
+ The people of Georgia will +
+ certainly not allow the ♦
+ splendid work this organi- +
+ zation has been doing for +
+ years to suffer. ♦
♦ +
+ + ♦*♦♦ + ♦♦♦♦ + ♦ +
though it is vital to the contin
ued development of the Associa
tion that the amount be raised.
It is hoped that no county will
fail to subscribe at least SIOO.OO,
and that many of them will dou
ble that amount, as the total ask
ed for in Georgia is just large
enough to take care of the work
that is now in sight, and does not
leave very much for new work
or emergencies. Neither is the
amount large enough to permit
of any expensive campaign be
ing made.
For Long Term Farm
Loans,
SEE A. B. HUTCHESON, -
I am negotiating some very
attractive Long Term Farm Loans
for the best companies doing bus
iness in Ueonria. with lowest rates
of interest and the most liberal
terms of payments
I have several years experience
in the loan business, anj located
at the county site and believe that
lam in position to give you the
best terms and as prompt services
as any one.
If vou need a loan see me before
application.
A. B. Hutcheson,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
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| General Agent for Montgomery County |
I TARRYTOWN |
|| 5 1-2 per ct. Money
TO LOAN !
jj I have plenty of money to lend on farm j
jj lands in Montgomery and Wheeler j
jj counties. Interest at 5 1-2 per cent.,
jj FIVE YEARS TIME —EASY PAYMENTS j
jj You have the privilege of paying part j
I of the principal at any interest period, ;
and stop interest on amount paid; but j
no annual payment of principal required j!
(Prompt Attention to All Loans
Entrusted to Me
jj Come to see me at once if you want a jj
I loan. lam well equipped to take care j
of the loan business. See me. j :
L. C. UNDERWOOD
MT. VERNON, GA.
REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE |
It you want to buy or sell farm or
a city property see us
| STEPHENS & DURDEN jj
SOPERTON, GA.
LOANS ON FARM
LANDS.
Loans on improved farm
lands of Montgomery County can
be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in
t terest in amounts of SI,OOO and
i above, with the privilege of re
paying part of the principal at.
any interest bearing- periods in
amounts of *IOO or multiples
thereof, thereby stopping the in
terest on amount paid. Loans
can be made for periods of 57,
or 10 years to suit the borrower.
Commissions charged are reason
able. M. B. Calhoun,
Mt. Vernon, Ga,
R. E. Ward,
Soper ton, Ga.
