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VOL. XXXIII.
HEAVY SUMS FOR
INCOME TAXES
Souther Field Permanent—
Want Names of Men
Killed in War.
Special service to Montgomery Monitor.
Atlanta.—The last day in which to
make income tax returns, closed with
a day’s receipts of more than three
million dollars in the vaults of the in
ternal revenue office to be deposited in
the federal reserve bank. Deposits
have been made by A. 0. Blalock, col
lector, every night during the two j
Weeks when the returns began. Most i
of the money received by Mr. Blalock’s
force was in checks, though a few At
lantians paid in cash. The great bulk
of the money was received by mail,
every train entering Atlanta bringing '
in hundreds of returns. Mr. Blalock
estimated that more than ten thousand
returns were received by mail alone, j
A force of ten clerks was kept busy
opening the mail and extracting the
checks. What ordinarily is spread out
into three months has been accom
plished within two weeks. Mr. Blalock
said that he estimated that fifty thou J
sand returns would be made within
this period, though the correct
amounts from each person have not
been checked, owing to the stupendous
amount of work connected with the
actual handling of the returns.
Government Will Buy Souther Field
Americus. —Formally exercising its
option to purchase Souther field, the
United States government notified the
owners of the tract heretofore held un
der lease that the property would be
purchased by the government immedi
ately. The tract, which includes 400
acres of the finest farming land in
Sumter county, was purchased a year ;
ago by a syndicate of ten Americus |
men, who paid forty thousand dollars
for the property. Executing an option
to the government at that time they
agreed to sell the field for $32,000, at '
which price it will be taken over. In
addition to the tract included within
the option, the government will also
acquire a number of additional acres j
belonging to the Arles Plantation com
pany, which adjoins the aviation field.
This tract will be acquired through
condemnation proceedings which have
already been instituted in the United
States district court at Macon.
Names Wanted Os Georgia Heroes
Atlanta. —Mrs. Sam D. Jones, pres
ident of the war mothers of Atlanta,
and vicinity, has compiled a list of
Georgia boys killed in France and
whose names will appear on the
bronze tablet to be erected as a me
morial to them. While the work of
the committee in charge of compiling
the list has been as thorough and far
reaching as possible, it is believed
that there are still a few names not
yet recorded. Any persons who had
Georgia relatives or friends killed in
France are urged to communicate with
Mrs. Jones, No. 900 Peachtree street,
as final plans for the erection of the
tablet can not be put through until
the list of names is complete.
Nursed Soldiers But
Will Handle Bees.
Miss Alice Carr, recently re
turned from France, where she
served as an army nurse with
the John Hopkins unit, is to
make her home for the pres
ent with her sister, Mrs. Geo.
H. Harris of Mcßae. The Hop
kins unit was the first to go over,
in 91 r, and the hospital in which
M ; s Jarr served had a nominal
capacity of 30,000 patients.
Miss Carr came over with Mr.
Harris Tuesday and spent the
day at the Presbyterian mansp,
where Rev. F. M. Baldwin gave
her demonstrations in bee-keep
ing, a vocation which she will
take up, following her very
strenuous duties as nurse. Miss
Carr will probably come over la
ter and favor our people with an
account of her experiences.
Married Saturday.
Saturday afternoon last, at the
home of Justice M. D. Hughes,
Mt. Vernon, Miss Mary Riggs of
Vidalia and Mr. Joseph Horne of
Route No. 1, Mt. Vernon, were
happily married.
A number of relatives and
friends of the contracting parties
were present to see the knot tied
by Justice Hughes. These are
well-known and popular young
folks and friends wish them the
usual store of haopiness and
prosperity.
Mmtyximn} Mmxtar.
IN THE SERVICE OF AMERICA TO THE END: FOR VICTORY, FOR PEACE AND FOR WORLD-WIDE LIBERTY
Uvalda News.
Special Correspondence.
Mrs. Dan Gordon of Vidalia is
visiting homefolks. Mr. Gordon
came up and spent Sunday.
Miss Juel Cody has returned
to her home at Cochran, after
[ spending a week with her sister,
Mrs. J. R. Gray.
Mr. Leggett spent Sunday with
relatives at Baxley.
Mrs. Saunders and Miss Middle
ton of Hazlehurst are visiting
relatives and friends here.
Miss Alleen Mcßae of Mt. Ver
non visited friends at Uvalda
Friday.
. Uvalda has secured the Rad
cliffe Chautauqua for the 4th, sth
and 7th of April.
Mesdames Fuqua, Peterson,
Kitchens and Miss Conner of
Ailey were in Uvalda shopping
Monday.
Col. L. C. Underwood of Mt.
Vernon was in Uvalda on business
Saturday.
Mr. Charles Peterson of Ailey
visited friends here Monday.
The Epworth League will meet
next Monday evening instead of
Sunday, that being the regular
appointment at Methodist church.
Rev. J. M. Hancock will preach
morning and evening.
Big Sylvania Ginnery Burned
i Sylvania.—The big cotton ginnery
1 at Woodcliff, in this county, was burn
ed down about midnight. It is not
known how the fire originated, as j
1 there had been no ginning there in a
| week or two. The loss is partially
covered by insurance.
Swine Breeders’ Meet in Dublin
Alma. —Katherine Carter, 5-year-old
I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cart
er, near Alma, was bitten by a rattle
snake and died.
Commissioners Will Intervene In Case
Atlanta.. —The Georgia railroad com
cission has decided to Intervene in the
Kansas case now before the supreme
1 court of the United States, which
directly attacks Postmaster General
Burleson’s right to fix intra telephone
rates. This announcement was made
by Prince Webster, rate expert of the
commission, who says that the commis
sion will ask permission to file a brief
in the case as soon as the court de
cides whether or not it will hear the
suit brought by Kansas as an original
case.
I
Examination for P. M.
at Sharpe Spur.
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an
examination to be held at Vidalia,
Ga., on April 12, 1919, as a re
sult of which it is expected to
make certification to fill a con
templated vacancy in the posjtion
of fourth-class postmaster at
Sharpe Spur and other vacancies
as they may occur at that office,
unless it shall be decided in the
interests of the service to fill any
vacancy by reinstatment. The
compensation of the postmaster
at this office was $230 for the last
fiscal year.
I Applicants must have reached
their twenty-first birthday on the
!date of the examination, with
the exception that in a State
where women are declared by
statute to be of full age for all
purposes at eighteen years,
women eighteen years of age on
the date of the examination will
be admitted.
Applicants must reside within
the territory supplied by the post
office for which the examination
is announced.
The examination is open to all
citizens of the United States who
can comply with the requirements.
’ Application blanks, Form 1753,
, and full information concerning
the requirements of the exami
nation can be secured from the
, postmaster at the place of vacancy
I or from the United States Civil
> Service Commission, Washington,
' D. C.
Application should be properly
executed and filled with the Com
mission at Washington, D. C.,
at the earliest practicable date.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1919.
DO YOU TAKE
THE COUNTY PAPER?
I heard some women laughing
at their county paper the other
day and say that ‘it used to be
bad enough but that now it was
worse every issue. And it made
me feel badly for I knew the edi
tor and some of the difficulties
under which he had worked to
produce even as good a paper as
he had. I knew too that he had
been offered a good position on a
large city daily but a short time
before and his reason for refusing
was this, “No, I can not go. I
feel that the people here need
me. I am not doing anything
wonderful, and perhaps not as
much as I should, but at least
there is a newspaper here and
there is no prospect of one if I
should give up this little sheet.
The school teacher, the minister,
the farm demonstration agent,
the home demonstration agent
and the court officials are not
always popular but they are great
factors in the upbuilding of the
community and I feel that my
paper ranks with them. When
someone comes to take my place
I shall be free to accept your
offer but not until then.”
Many of us do not realize the
wonderful benefits a county de
rives from its paper—that is, we
do not unless it fails and we have
to do without one for a while.
And this applies to those who
read the paper and those who do
not. Many a woman has given
her reason for a poor Red Cross
chapter that there was no local
paper. We women like the local
news but the greatest benefit is
through the sales and advertising
columns. One day a friend laugh
ingly said, “I begged for a new
roof for two years but my hus
band put me off. The other day
he said, ‘l’m tired of reading this
advertisement that says, “Does
your house leak when it rains?”
Tomorrow I go to town and order
shingles.’ And he did.”
No matter how poor the paper
is, it justifies its existence, for as
the editor of whom we spoke in
sinuated, the county paper is an
institution that ranks with the
best. It is as great a force in the
average community as is the
church, school, farm paper or
demonstration agent and perhaps
as much as all together in some
counties. Just let something of
especial interest happen and see
all the old fellows too stingy to
subscribe for the paper slide up
to the postmaster and ask for the
loan of Smith’s paper, “Jest while
ye’re a puttin’ up the mail.”
This story which I am about to
tell happened about ten years ago
and may have happened in every
county in the South. It shows
Farmer in Coffee
Killed by Convict.
Douglas, March 18. — Robert
Merritt, a member of a chain
gang working on a road near here,
today snatched a shotgun from
a guard and killed Walter Har
per, a farmer, who had killed
Merritt’s father several years
ago.
According to members of the
gang, Harper had driven up in a
wagon and when near the gang
got out, carrying his pistol.
Merritt approached a guard,
asking for a match and as the
latter reached for one, Merritt
snatched his shotgun, stepped
back a pace and shot Harper.
Services Sunday.
Regular services at the Mount
Vernon Presbyterian church on
Sunday, morning and evening,
to which the public is invited.
At the evening service will be
given an illustrated sermon.
how great and indirect mav be
be the influences of a paper on
the destinies of families. A
woman ran away from home and
children with a man who had
been her respected neighbor. The
local paper published the story.
Distant relatives and friends
learned of it and blamed every
body concerned; neighbors all
over the county raised their hands
in horror. The children of each
family became so conspicuous
that they left school. Growing
up ignorant and sensitive, they
soon began to associate with the
rougher elements of the neighbor
hood and two of them have been
in jail many times; one of the
girls is in a reform school.
Shortly after this the very
same thing happened in another
part of the county and the editor
said, “I feel that I injured those
people by publishing that story
last June. lam not going to let
this item get into the paper.”
And he did not. In a few days
both man and woman saw the
error of their act and came back,
were forgiven and today they are
both living wiser lives in their
own families. And only the edi
tor and a few friends ever knew
that there was anything but a
“vicious rumor started by some
untruthful person.”
Considering the fact that the
country editor touches every
phase of farm life —the educa
tional, social, religious, com
mercial, political, personal, fam
ily and community—and that
his influence can be for the up
building of it all, does it not be
hoove us to support the county
paper by subscribing for it and
by doing that which is even
greater, upholding the hands of
the editor when he stands out
for that which is good? The pa
per may be crude, the news scant,
but remit your little dollar or
two, send in your little item of
news when your husband goes
for a visit in the next county or
buys a pure-bred breeding animal
—do your part—and see your in
fluence spread and the paper
grow better.
Yes, watch the paper grow
better, but also watch for better
homes, healthier babies, lower
death rates, better farming, bet
ter schools, better churches, bet
ter roads, better government,
more telephones, more recreation,
more care of the down-and-out,
more contempt for the bad, more
appreciation of the good—all this
when you and I and others like
us do our part toward the county
paper.- Mrs. W. N. Hutt in Pro
gressive Farmer.
U. S. To Buy Machine Gun Camp
Augusta.—lt has been announced
:hat the federal government has de
cided to purchase for $65,000 the site
used by the machine gun training cen
ter at Camp Hancock. Owners of the
leased land on which Camp Hancock
was first located, including adjacent
developments, and embracing the sites
of the base hospital, remount station
and artillery range, have been request
ed to file their claims for damages
against the government.
Seven Planes Buzz Over Atlanta
Atlanta. —Seven planes buzzing over
the city kept Atlantans craning their
necks most of the day recently. There
were fourteen aviators who came from
Souther Field, Americus to greet Col.
W. A. Bishop, world-renowned aviator,
and to hear the story of his adven
tures. They made the trip from Amer
icus In exactly an hour and ten min
utes, a distance of 317 miles.
Crops In Georgia 30 Days Behind
Atlanta. —Due to the excessive rains
since last November, J. J. Brown, com
missioner of agriculture, said that
Georgia crops are about 30 days be
hind. The farmers have not been able
to make any preparations up to the
present, and even if clear weather
should continue In many places the
ground could not he plowed for ten
days longer, Mr. Brown stated, because
Ue soil ia absolutely saturated.
Army Tanks Will
Tour the County.
Plans for the tour in this dis
trict of eighteen army tanks are
being worked out in detail.
Advices have been received
from Washington that these
tanks will be manned by two
trained men—a driver and me
chanic —and it is planned to use,
wherever possible, men who have
seen overseas service. The use
of these men however, will de
pend entirely upon when they
arrive in this country. There is
no definite information on this
subject.
The Tanks Corps Director has
suggested that the Motor Trans
port Service can be used to take
these tanks from point to point.
Where the Motor Transport Ser
vice is not organized, arrange
ments must be made locally for
transportation.
The tanks will be the new
model manufactured by the Uni
ted States Government. They
are standard size, weighing five
tons, and have a maximum speed
of five miles an hour. They ar.
equipped to travel for forty miles
without replimshment of fuel.
Brunswick Launches Steamer
Brunswick. —The handsome steam
ship, Hilda Rachael, built at the plant
of the Foundation Carpenter-Watkins
company, was launched at (he plant
of the company, when an unusually
large number of people turned out to
witness the event. Mrs. Janies P.
Davenport, wife of the general mana
ger of the company, was sponsor,
christening the vessel as she graceful
ly glided from her ways into the wa- t
ters of Oglethorpe bay. *
Sylvania Marshal Kills Man
Sylvania.—Gordon Mills, a young
white man, was shot and killed here
by the city marshal, R. H. Bazemore.
The city marshal had been sent for
to arrest Mills for disorderly conduct,
and when he entered the house Mills
threw a pistol in the officer’s face,
whereupon the latter shot him three
times, killing him instantly.
Worth County Seeks Experiment Plant
Sylvester. Worth county mass
meeting endorses league of peace. At
a mass meeting of the people of the
county for devising ways and means
for securing the coastal plains exper
iment station, a motion was made and
unanimously carried endorsing the
league of peace.
Deputy Sheriff Shot And Killed
Atlanta. —Deputy Sheriff J. W. Webb
of DeKalb county was shot and in
stantly killed, and Deputy Sheriff It. T.
House was slightly wounded by an
unknown man, while the officers were
engaged In searching his automobile.
The shooting occurred at night.
Commission Must Fix Rates
Atlanta. —The supreme court of
Georgia held that jurisdiction over the
street car fares In the city of Atlanta
is vested In the railroad commission
of Georgia, and not in the city coun
cil of Atlanta, for the reason that the
city’s contract with the Georgia Rail
way and Power company cannot be
construed to mean that, a transfer
shall be issued upon the payment of
"one full fare.” hTe effect of this de
cision is to pul back before the rail
road commission the power company’s
application for increased fares.
Senator Harris Goes
on Trip to France.
Atlanta, (ia., March 17.—Sena
tor William J. Harris, who will
be Georgia’s representative in the
next congress, will sail tomorrow
for F rance, to he pone until April
25. This decision was made sud
denly just as he had about com
pleted arrangements for a long
stay in Georgia; but he decided
instead to visit London, Paris and
points in Switzerland and in
Germany where the army of oc
cupation is stationed in order to
get in personal touch with Ceor- 1
gia boys who are still in France.
Senator Harris will inspect j
their camps and billets and make ;
investigation of complaints as to
unsatisfactory quarters assigned
to American troops.
He will visit the battlefields
of the western front also in order
to get a clearer idea of the situa
tion over there and as an aid to
a better grasp on army and re
! lated legislation, j
MEET IN AILEY
ON MARCH 26
Ninth Division of Odd Fel
lows to Hold Spring
Convention.
The spring convention of the
Ninth Division of Odd Fellows
will be held with the Lodge at
Ailey March 26, and a large at
tendance is anticipated by the
local membership.
Members of the order and their
friends are cordially invited to
attend. The meeting will be
confined mainlv to business ses
sions.
Grand Master W. A. Slaton of
Washington, Ga., is expected to
attend andi make an address,
which will be public. At the
noon hour dinner will be spread.
As a result of this convention
the order in this section of the
state will have been given new
strength and activity. It is one
of the most interesting of the
several secret orders, based on
lofty principles, and has fraternal
and beneficial features which are
strongly appealing.
Ailey Lodge is preparing for a
big time on the 26th.
Bond Organization
Met Macon Today.
Mr. W. A. Peterson, county
chairman of the Liberty Loan
Committee attended a meeting of
the state organization in Macon
yesterday. The meeting was
held in Macon at the invitation of
the Macon Chamber of Com
merce, presided over by W. C.
Wardlaw, chairman of the Sixth
Federal Reserve District, and
was attended by a number of
zone chairman and county chair
men.
The Fifth Liberty loan will
doubtless begin April 21 and
continue through May 10. The
state organization is being per
fected for the drive, and Chair
man Peterson will doubtless an
nounce his committee at an early
date.
Elected Justice Peace
of the Ailey District.
At an election held in Ailey last
Saturday to fill the vacancy made
by the death of Mr. John Sellers,
Mr. Lawton Williamson was
chosen justice of the peace of the
Ailev district.
Mr. Williamson is a good citi
zen and will make a good officer.
Official Bankruptcy Sale.
'Sale of stocks of goods of Als
ton Mercantile Co., and Alston
Supply Co., at Alston, Ga., March
25th, 1919, consisting of Dry
Goods, Shoes, Notions, Groceries,
Hardware, etc.
Under an order of the Honor
able A. H. MacDonell, Referee
in Bankruptcy, in the matter of
1). W. Martin, Bankrupt, entered
March 15, 1919, I will sell at pub
lic sale on March 25th, 1919, on
rhe premises, the stock of goods,
wares and merchandise of the
Alston Mercantile Co., and of
the Alston Supply Co., including
all fixtures, furniture, and ac
cessories, of said business, be
tween the legal hours of sale.
The sale to be for cash, subject
to confirmation by the Court.
The said stocks to be sold sepa
rately and then as a whole the
best result to be adopted. The
sale to be free of a ( l liens, valid
liens to attach to the proceeds.
Bidders will be required to de
posit ten per cent of their bids,
i balance on confirmation; deposit
to be returned if sale not con
confirmed. The sale will stand
for confirmation before the Ref
eree at Savannah, the day after
i the sale, at noon.
The stocks of goods may be ex
amined on application to the
undersigned.
D. C. Patillo,
TriiMtee of D. W. Martin,
Bankrupt.
| March 15, 1919. Vidalia, Ga.
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