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r\or\lgorr\&ry /Monitor.
published every Thursday. official okoan momoomehy county.
Kntcred at the Postofflce in Mt. Vernon. Oa. as Second-Class Mail Matter.
M. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. $1.50 * Year, in Advance.
avLetral «ivertinemenU muni invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and a* the liw
direct*; and mii.it lie in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the flmt week of insertion
Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, March 20, 1919.
It is possible that the unfavor
able weather may have taken a
hand in the decrease of cotton
acreage. Pledges and man-made
conditions may affect acreage,
under ordinary circumstances,
but favorable weather is after all
essential to production.
The Johnson County News,
published at Wrightsville, with
J. Frank Jackson and B. H.
Move editors and publishers, put
its initial number before the pub
lic last week. May it be able to
measure up to its declaration of
principles and execute its ex
pressed intentions.
Cook county, one of the three
new counties ratified last fall, is
making a strong effort for local
tax for educational purposes. No
state can afford to furnish free
education for the masses, and
local aid, which is within itself
local effort, self-centered, will
bring results not to be obtained
through state or national aid. In
other words, a man in paving a
local school tax, must feel that he
is contributing something toward
the educational advancement of
his particular section, and educa
tional interests should come first.
Without education there is no
enlightenment, without which
there is no progress.
During the past week practi
cally all of the newspapers have
carried the notice of the govern
ment’s intention of paying a bo
nus of S6O to the honorably dis
charged soldier. We commend
this honorarium for the U. S.
soldiery, draftees or volunteers,
who actually served in the ca
pacity of a full-fledged soldier;
but there is still abroad in the
land a class of pikers who spent
more time in efforts to avoid ser
vice than they did in actual duty,
and to this class we trust the
government will keep a weather
eye. It is correct to put a pre
mium on service, but not on
slackery.
The automobile tax law, like
scores of other Georgia laws, is a
farce, as far as enforcement is
concerned. In proof of this
assertion, look on the highways
and streets of most little one-horse
towns, and you will note that not
a third of the automobiles have
been provided with the 1919
license tag, as should have been
observed prior to March Ist.
Whose fault is this? Generally
speaking, it is the fault of the
owners of machines; with the
fault existing, bare-face, free
and above board, it is manifestly
the duty of the officers charged
with the enforcement of the law
to see that tags are bought, other
wise subject the owners of the
cars to the penalty provided.
Ex-President Taft is a great
man—a great American—and has
so proven himself before the
world. But because of his great
ness -the public favor won by
reason of his activities in the
prosecution of the war and his
efforts for world-wide peace,
along with thousands of others—
advocacy of Taft as a possible
nominee for the presidency on
the Democratic ticket is the veri
est rot; it is silly, childish and
unbecoming in any man who has
the slightest knowledge of nation
al affairs and the policies of the
two American political parties.
Taft himself would not accept
such favor from the Democratic
party if it were foolish enough to
hand it to him on a silver platter.
Such reckless suggestions are re
flections on the Democratic party
and its great leader—
the world has ever known.
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► Press Expressions. ◄
Considerable quantities of gu
ano have been hauled from Met
ter during the past two weeks,
despite the condition of the roads
which these loads have not ten
ded to improve. Unless crop
results this fall are better than
nresent prospects indicate they
will be, the fertilizer burden will
be a heavy one to handle. Met
ter Advertiser.
Some people use the same
judgment about taking care of
the cotton they are holding as
they do their farm implements.
They let it stay out in the rain
where it detoriates in value each
day. —Claxton Enterprise.
The merchant that offers his
goods for sale at an advance in
price and says that a part of this
i advance is for the Government
tax, has violated a United States
law and is subject to a fine of
SIOOO or imprisonment for one
vear or both. The section of law
is No. 1.319 of the Internal Reve
nue law and it wlil be well for
merchants to read up on this sec
tion.—Springfield Herald.
There is a good deal of truth in
a statement we heard one well
known Nashville man make yes
terday. He said when a man is
J rich everybody is trying to do
something for him, and when
he’s poor everybody is trying to
do something to him.—Nashville
Herald.
There is one thing certain about
the stock raising proposition in
Toombs county. No great prog
ress can be made until the farm
! ers of the county determine to
observe the law- in reference to
scrub sires running at large. A
local law prohibits these scrubs
running at large. The law is a
dead letter as far as being en
forced is concerned. There seems
to be no sentiment in favor of its
enforcement. But before there
can be much progress made in
the improvement of hogs and
cattle in the county the scrubs
will have to go. Lyons Progress.
When we vote for local school
tax we do an unselfish act, in that
we provide for the education of
the children, and we further vote
I for the progress of the county in
which we live. And the more
progressive a county is the more
people of culture will be attracted
to it. We gain in every way by
local tax. There is no good argu
ment against it.—Adel News.
It seems that the recalcitrant
Republican Senators who are
making such bitter attacks on the
present draft of the League of
Nations are not so much opposed
to a League of Nations but are
simply out after President Wil
son's scalp. They cannot forgive
him for not appointing delegates
from this august body to the
Peace Conference. In their bit
ter resentment against Wilson
they lose sight of their duty to
America and the world at large.
' —Cochran Journal.
There are certainly great possi
bilities ahead for the committee
which is to undertake the task of
bringing prices back to a normal |
level. If the efforts of the com
mittee are successful, its mem- j
bers should have their share of
memorial buildings. Monroe Ad- j
vertiser.
Building in this section is prac
tically at a standstill, caused
mainly by high cost of material
and exorbitant wages. And there
will be no marked activity until
conditions assume a normal basis
'—at least a safe basis.
THE MONTGOMERY MONTTOR-THURSDAY, MARCH 20. 1919
If ever the editor of The
Advertiser needs a champion
with the pen, he would feel
safe in choosing the eloquent
quill of Editor Folsom of The
Montgomery Monitor. Met
ter Advertiser.
Coming from so able a critic as
the editor of the Metter Adver
tiser, the roseate remarks are
appreciated. The editor of The
Monitor is impressed, too, with
the novelty of compliments, the
frequency of which compares
favorably with the proverbial
angels’ visits. The average edi
tor’s constituency never sees any
good in him, and he lives out his
days shuffling the whet-rock on
which the public axe is ground.
Sheriff Sale.
G<*or*rim-Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in April, 1919, between
the lejcal hours of sale to the highest bidder for
rash, certain property, of which the following is
a complete description:
Twenty-six and one-half acres of land, more or
less, situate, lying and being in the 275’ h district
G. M. of said county and state and bounded as
follows; North by lands of J. C. Dixon and E. S.
Gibbs, east by lands of P. J. McNatt, south by
lands of J. T. Pridgen and on the west by lands of
Hardy Hall. Levied on and will be sold as the
property of James McMillan to satisfy a fi fa is
sued by H. C. Davis, tax collector, vs James Mc-
Millan, for state and county taxes for the year
1918. Levy made and returned to me by I. C. S.
Berner, special bailiff, and written notice of levy
given in terms of the law. This the 4t,h day of
March, 1919. E. E. Burch, Sheriff.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia— Montgomery County.
Will he sold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in April, 1919, between
the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for
cash, certain property, of which the following is a
complete description:
Twenty acres of land situate, lying and being in
the 16915 t district G. M. of Montgomery county,
as said district was constituted before the forma
tion of Treutlen county, and bounded as follows:
On the west by lands of Wallace Harvey, on the
south by lands of E. M. Smith, and on the north
and east by lands of Mrs. Hattie Phillips, the
same being 20 acres of land cut from the south
west corner of the Hattie Phillips tract. levied
on and will he sold an the property of Mrs. Hattie
Phillips to satisfy a tax fi fa issued by H. C. Davis,
tax collector of Montgomery county, vs Mrs.
Hattie Phillips, for state and county taxes for the
year 1918. Levy made and returned to me by C.
H. Goff, constable, and written notice of levy
given in terms of the law. This the 4th day of
March, 1919. E. E. Burch, Sheriff.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house door in Mt.
Vernon on the first Tuesday in April, 1919, between
the legal hours of Bale, to the highest bidder for
cash certain property, of which the following is a
complete description:
All that certain tract of land contain'ng thirty
acres mo eor less, lying and being in the 1567th
district G. M. of said county and bounded as fol
lows: On the north by Frank Brewer; east by
Ellen Outlaw; west by Sarah Gillis; south by Wil
lie Allmand, the same being the weatem half of
that tract of land upon which El en Outlaw now
lives, with improvements thereon, said land levied
on as the property of Ellen Outlaw to satisfy an
execution issued on the 11th day of August, 1918,
from the Superior Court of Montgomery county,
in favor of Josephine Cook against Freeman Out
law, Ellen Outlaw, principals, W. J. Higgs and
L. C. Mills, securities, said fi fa being now the
property of W. J. Higgs, security, by transfer un
tier date of May 2nd, 1916. This the 6th day of
March, 1919. E. E. Burch, Sheriff.
Underwood & Harris, A ttys, for Transferee.
Men With Rig.
Wanted to sell Rawleigh Prod
ucts. Established demand. Large
profits, healthy, pleasant, perma
nent. Give age, occupation, ref
erences. W. T. Rawleigh Co.,
3G3 Memphis, Tenn.
Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house
door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues
day in April, 1919, between the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, certain property, of which
the following is a complete descrip
tion :
Ten acres of land situate, lying and
being in the 12215 t district U. M. of
Montgomery comity as it. existed
prior to the formation of Treutlen
county, and now within the bounds
of Treutlen county, and bounded as
follows: On the north by lands of
Dave Branch, on the east by lands of
J. S. Higgs, the same being ten acres
carved from the northeast corner of
the W. M. Herndon home place.
Levied on and will he sold as tiie
property of the estate of W. M. Hern
don to satisfy a tax fi fa issued by H.
C. Davis, tax collector Montgomery
county, vs Estate of W. M. Herndon,
for state and county taxes for the
year 191 k. Levy made and returned
to me by J. T. Beugnot, constable,
and written notice of levy given as
required by law This the 4th day
of March, 1919.
K. E. Burch, Sheriff.
Pax Receiver’s
Second Round.
The Tax Receiver will be at
the following places on the fol
lowing dates for the purpose of
receiving taxes for the year 1919.
Uvalda, March 17. 9 to 12 m.
Alston, March 17, 1 to 4 p. m.
Higgston, March 18, 9 to 12 m.
Ailey, March 18, 1 to 4 p. m.
Tiger, March 19, 10 to 12 m.
Kibbee, March 19. 1 to 4 p. m.
Tarrytown, March 20, 9 to 12 m.
Mt. Vernon, March 20, 1 to 4 p. m.
The County Commissioners
have ruled that all property must
be returned to the Tax Receiver.
The Tax Equalizers will not have
time to receive taxes, as has been
the custom in the past.
W. L. Snow,
Tax Receiver.
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At the roots of
crop success—
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FOR SALE BY G. V. MASON, MT. VERNON, GA.
New Law Firm.
L. C. Underwood, attorney, of
Mt. Vernon, and Fred M. Harris,
attorney, late of the U. S. Army,
announce the formation of a
partnership for the practice of
law, with offices in Mt. Vernon.
The former will give special at
tention to the loan business and
to general practice other'than
commercial law. Mr. Harris will
have charge of the commercial
department and give special at
tention to collections. Prompt
and efficient service are assured
in all matters entrusted to the
firm. Respectfully,
Underwood & Harris,
19tf Mt. Vernon, Ga.
Trespass Notice.
Georgia—Montgomery Couuty.
This is to forewarn the public
against hunting, with gun or dog,
fishing, removing wood or timber
of any kind, or in any manner
trespassing on the lands of the
undersigned; and all parties vio
lating this order will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
This the 21st day of November,
1918.
Mbs. Florence McArthur,
L. C. Mcßae.
Post Your Lands.
Open your woodland to the pub
lic and soon there will not be a
stick of wood or timber on it.
Put the public on notice by post
ing up printed notices. Get the
printed notices at The Monitor
office, 10 cents each.
\V agons and Wi re
Fencing.
Have just received a carload of
Florence One- and Two-Horse
Wagons. Also a Carload of Wire
Fencing. Come and see me be
fore buying.
E. L. Meadows,
11213 Vidalia, Ga.
M. B. CALHOUN
Atty at Law,
Mt Vernon, Georgia
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