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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1919)
The PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the Po*tofflce in Mt. Vernon. Or. as Second-Class Mail Matter. K. h. FOLSOM, Editor snd Owner. s<-5° * Year, in Advance. advorUsoment* must invariably be paid in advance, at the leKal rate, and aa the law direct*; and rnuat be in hand not later than Wodnenday morning of the drat week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, June 19, 1919. With some the vacation period may be on, but with us there is always a colon sticking up—some thing else to do besides vacating. During the several weeks past we notice a number of Georgia weekly papers minus editorial columns. We cannot draw con clusions as to the others, but with us it has been a matter of strug gling for bread and meat, an en gagement so pressing that editori al effusion has been entirely out of the question. This effort, how ever, does not signify a bountiful supply of meat on hand or in sight. Montgomery and Treutlen counties are to be congratulated on their joint Fourth of July celebration, which will take the form of a welcome to the re turned soldier boys of this entire section. Conditions have ma terially changed since 1776, but the American spirit should still be as strong as the blood and hearts of the American people. Let this section be no exception to the rule. Editor Boatright of theSwains boro Forest-Blade is after the divorce laws in general, citing Emanuel county as a notable ex ample of the travesty of such. The Georgia law on the subject has for many years been a blot on civilization. Separation of husband and wife is but a formal court proceeding under the Geor gia law, with little or no regard for the sanctity of the union as advocated by the Divine law. And woman’s suffrage will add nothing to the present deplorable state of affairs. The Tattnall Journal deals at length with the fakir in a U. S. uniform who robbed the women of Keidsville several weeks ago with a bogus flow'er, the “Rose of Sharon.” This was doubtless the same scoundrel who extracted twenty-five or thirty dollars from the ladies of this place, and other points in South Georgia. It is to be hoped that the government will overtake this thief. While here this saintly looking scoun drel attended services at one of the churches, and if the amen pews had not been occupied, doubtless he would have accepted a seat there. But old Barnum hit the nail on the head several years ago. Metter and Dublin speak of selling their water plants because no improvements can be made. Mt. Vernon speaks of putting in a plant because she has never had anv improvements on this line. A stranger may get a glass of water here by buying it or entering some private home. Most towns have water troubles and inconsistencies. For instance, Mt. Vernon has no public water ing place, despite the constant demand for it on the part of the traveling public. Yet, the county well is supplying quite a number of citizens with water, doubtless at a severe loss to the county. The public watering place near the court house square has been closed for over a year for what cause we know not and yet some of these spigots in private homes, leading from the county well, have been running night and day for weeks and weeks at a time. This is a rotten inconsis tency, and the county authori ties should look into it at once. Leaving the town out of the argu ment, the people of Montgomery county pay enough taxes to af ford at least one public watering place on or near the court house square. ► Georgia State \ Press Expressions, j We can’t help wondering if the Kaiser ever stopped to think how it would look to have captured German cannon scattered around in every little town in Georgia, when he started this late un pleasantness with Uncle Sam’s country. If he had we don’t believe he would have gone as far as he did in the matter. Marietta Journal. Determined efforts are being made to protect the cotton crop from the ravages of the boll weevils. As a last resort the farmers may devise to bombard him with “mustard gas,” and if that method fails, we suggest a moderate use of “shine” as from all reports we are convinced that it would kill the weevils, but a heavy application would de stroy the growing plant.—Claxton Enterprise. The Thomasville Times-Enter prise says that the people are all the time fussing. We fussed about the rain when it was cooler and now we fuss about the dry weather when it is hotter. It is evident that the people are hard to nlease on the weather. This reminds us that As a rule, man's a fool; when it’s hot he wants it cool; always wanting what he’s not got; when it’s cool he wants it hot. —Swainsboro Forest-Blade. When an editor waxes fluent in regard to approaching candidacies aid oolitical activities it may be from disinterested motives, but usually his mind strays into the green fields of political adver tisements and beside the still waters of increased job work. — Monroe Advertiser. Liquor, as everybody knows, has long been “the poor man’s curse.”. So the rich men who are filling their cellars with it against the time of drouth are happy in the consciousness that they are acting for the best in terests of the poor, who can’t afford such an investment. Dub lin Courier-Herald. Now that the county commis sioners are to build the dipping vats, let us all, as citizens of the county, prepare ourselves to com ply with the compulsory cattle dipping law, which goes into ef fect January 1, next. Under the law all cattle in the county must be dipped every fourteen days for two years. After the two years is up, the county will be tick free, and our cattle placed on a par with those of the north and west, which command at all times the highest price in the markets.—Lyons Progress. You can’t teach a man to re spect the rights of others until you teach him to respect his own body enough to wash it at inter vals—Hawkinsville News-Dis patch. The many automobile accidents that happen every day ought to be lesson enough to drivers of automobiles that recklessness will bring them to a bitter realization of their folly sooner or later. One can hardly go out on any high way without meeting an insane speed fiend. It doesn’t matter how slow you drive or how much road you give, sometimes the green-eyed monsters will pile up on you. If you happen to be killed you are just as dead as if you had died of your own free will and accord. The courts of the state should take a stand in this sad state of affairs. Soper ton News. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1010 After all, the solution of the liquor problem seems to be with the people. For until the people, as a whole, develop a sufficient disregard for the use of intoxi cants and its production and sale, men will continue to use it, with its manifold attendant evils—not common evils, but deep-seated criminality. Almost every little town has its den where some form of intoxicant can be had. Let the people rise up and wipe out such traps of iniquity. Somehow or other we can’t re gard the shooting of a bird in a Sandersville church by the pastor of the church on a Sunday morn ing at that, as an act worthy a disciple of the Lord. It appears to us that the bird could have been removed with less spectacu lar proceedings. However, we admit that as an advertising fea ture this was a world-beater. — Telfair Enterprise. Many men who cannot sub scribe to the monstrosities of woman suffrage and national pro hibition, for which there is nei ther foundation or provision in the constitution or common sense, believe that the world is moving backward instead of advancing. The women of Pompeii were get ting ready to vote when that vicious and degenerate city was buried beneath the lava of an erupting volcano. Metter Adver tiser. Notice of Local Legislation. Notice is hereby given that there will be introduced in the 1919 session of the Georgia Gen eral Assembly a bill of which the following is the text of the enacting caption: An Act to create a board of commissioners of roads and reve nues for the county of Montgom ery, consisting of three members; to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; to prescribe their qualifications; to divide the said county of Montgomery into three road districts and provide for the election of one commis sioner; from each of said districts to provide for the selection of a clerk of said board of commis sioners and fix his compensation: to provide for an attorney for said board and fix his compensation; to provide for the publication of quarterly reports of the actings and doings of said board of com missioners, and for other pur poses. / 2j|JlS WHITE CHEST * c I Here is a picture ! of the new straight i flour I am selling. \ It is getting to be the talk of Mount I Vernon and the ; entire community, jj H. C. DAVIS j MT. VERNON GA I I MONEY IN THE I BANK ] The public is hereby advised that I have per fee ted arrangements to make a few short term p loans, running until the fall. If you need || money to hold your cotton, for investment, or || for other immediate use, see me at once. || You can get the money the same day you make the application. Supply limited. ® SEE ME AT ONCE 1 IJ. Wade Johnson | MT. VERNON, GA. | LOANS ON FARM LANDS. Loans on improved farm lands of Montgomery County can be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in terest in amounts of SI,OOO and above, with the privilege of re paying part of the principal at any interest bearing periods in amounts of SIOO 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, Soperton, Ga. Notice—Stray Cow. One certain cow, taken up at my place, near Allmond Station, about the first of December, 1918. Animal has been properly cared if f for. Owner can describe cow, prove ownership, pay expenses of keeping, etc., and get same, otherwise the cow will be sold by legal process. J. T. Davis, Rt. 1, Vidalia, Ga. Monumental Work. We carry a complete line of monuments. Please call at yards and inspect designs, get esti mates, etc. Vidalia Monument Co., ts Vidalia, Ga. 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. M. E. 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