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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1919)
VOL. XXXIV. MUCH INTEREST | NEW ROAD LAW The Assembly Provided for State-Wide System of Highways. Special service to Montgomery Monitor. A tlan I a.—No legislation passed by the 1919 general assembly is ot' great- i er state wide interest .han that re- i organizing the state highway depart- j ( ment, revising and employing the mo- : tor vehicle license taxes, and laying I the ground work for a system of through-state highways, touching ev- l ery county in Georgia. The legisla tion, already enacted as amended, is 1 a part of the general state highway ; legislative commission created by the egislature in 1918. This complete pro gram carried four bills, two of them statutory and two constitutional. The statutes, which become effective upon the signature of the governor, were passed by the legislature just adjourn ed with amendments. The two con- j stitutional bills were passed by the senate, one of them providing tor a state bond issue not to exceed at any one time the total of $50,000,000, and the other so changing the state consti tution that a levy, within the live-mill limitation, may be made for the con- | struction and maintenance of high ways. Both of these constitutional bills could have passed the house at this year's session, but as they cannot be submitted for ratification before the general election of 1920, it was deem ed advisable to let them go over in j one branch of the assembly until next | summer’s session, and to concentiate full and complete action this year on the motor vehicle and the reyrganiza- | tiou statutory measures. j Atlanta Center Os Church Census Atlanta. —Georgia and the states of , the southeast are to be included in a | world-wide census of social, economic, . moral, sanitary and religious condi- . tions such as has never before been j attempted in the history or the world, j according to an announcement issued the southeastern department of the nter-church World Movement of North America which has opened headquart ers in Atlanta.— This movement origi nated in the south latst fall, when the idea of such an undertaking was set forth by the f oreign missionary board ( of the Presbyterian Church, South; j and since that time the idea has tak- . eu hold upon all evangelical churches of America which have banded ’o gether in the support of the move ment. Georgia Flying Field Closed Americus. Orders received at Souther field here require the imme diate transfer of 121 of the 140 en listed men now stationed there and previous orders already made public require the dismissal of all ofticers enrolled for the period of the war emergency not later than September 1. This means that only Lieutenant Col onel Rader and perhaps one or two other officers and mere handful of men will be left at the post after that date. Escaped Germans In Custody Again Atlanta. —With blistered feet, and utterly disgusted over their vain effort to walk to the Carolina coast for a get-away, Albert Sander and Heinrich Herkuer, two of the four prisoners who escaped from the pri-j son camp at Fort McPherson, arrived ; at the Union station, under the guard- | ianship of C. B. Shelton and G. A. j Partin, who had picked them up at Camak, forty-six miles from Augusta, \ on the Georgia railroad. •I MOUNTED ON PNEUMATICS it is capable of any speed the j ;|; law allows —and with full load. : ELECTRICALLY STARTED it conserves the time, as well i ||| as the energy of both driver and truck. ! ELECTRIC LIGHTS permit speed with safety at night. I I THESE THREE FEATURES first incorporated in 4 motor I truck by Reo, have changed all standards of hauling, have i speeded up business in a thousand lines and made this Reo “Speed Wagon” known as the world’s most efficient, most || economical and most dependable motor truck ever built. Price $1625, Delivered. L. B. Godbee, Dealer VIDALIA, GA. 1 Mmxtw. i Valuable Farm Lands Sold at Auction. One of the largest real estate transactions in this section will be the sale of the A. M. Moses property in the southern part of the county Tuesday, 26th inst. The Moses holdings amount to 2.500 acres, which have been di vided up into some seventeen lots or farms. This is consider ed a choice location for farming or stock raising. The sale will be in charge of the Georgia Realty & Auction Co., J. B. Brewton, manager, Vi-1 dalia. Property will be sold at; auction, and terms can be ar ranged. Sale begins 11:30. Mr. Moses will be on the plantation Friday, Saturday and Monday prior to sale day to show the property to prospective buyers. Another land sale advertised by this firm will Le the Dan L. Mathews farm of 236 acres, near Petros, on the 27th inst. Read the descriptions of the tracts and attend the sales. It is quite probable that this sale will attract many prospective buyers. A Pond in a Town Has Caused Trouble. Alston, Aug. 19.—G. A. Sam mons, of Soperton, has obtained !a temporary injunction against : the mayor and aldermen of Als ton. The town of Alston, through its officials, has condemned a 1 pond of water on the property of ' G. A. Sammons and ordered that same be eliminated and the dam cut. Judge E. D. Graham, of Mc- Rae, has granted an injunction and a hearing will be had in So perton on the 20th inst. The town authorities contend that the j pond of water is a menace to the i public health and should be abated. Mr. Sammons contends that the pond of water is es sential and is necessary for the operation of his ginnery. Second Pension Notice. Regarding the pension notice, run last week at the instance of Ordinary J. C. McAllister, let it be again said that only those who are entitled to pensions under the new law, and who have not been enrolled, should call at his office and have their names placed on the roll. Those who are on the list, drawing pensions, do not have to call. Their status is not in any manner changed, as far as en rollment is concerned. Many old i pensioners seem to have misun derstood the notice last week. If i you are on the list, let it be; if you are not on the list, and are entitled to draw a Confederate | pension, call on Judge McAllister. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1919. I Important Laws By Legislature Atlanta* All is quiet again about ! the state capitol. The general as sembly has adjourned and the mem bers have returned to their homes. The fun and fury of the session is , over, x and the serious business of it as well. Statehouse officials come i and go to their offices as usual and ] the atmosphere of almost feverish ex- j S pectation that envelopes the annual fifty-day advent of the solons has al- 1 ready lapsed into the normal routine ] about the the building. ( The following are a number of the | important bills passed: ' To reorganize and reconstitute the j j state highway commission. | ! To levy a tax on motor vehicles. To codify the school laws of the J ! state. 1 To require counties to levy a tax j i for school purposes (constitutional , | amendment). |‘ To create the county of Lanier (con- | | J stitutional amendment). j To require juries to fix maximum j . and minimum sentences in all except 1 1 capital felonies. j I To provide for the consolidation of , country schools and for county high ' | schools. ! j To create a state illiteracy com- | mission. <, j . To establish a state school for the ' feeble-minded. ‘ To revise tbe state banking laws < and create a separate department of < banking. ’ To create a state public welfare j commission. j, To create sfc>.te and community pub- j ‘ lie service boards. | To amend state inheritance tax law. ‘ General appropriation bill of approx- 1 imately $8,500,000. ' j Highway Commission Named 1 Atlanta. —Governor Dorsey took the ]' bull immediately by the horns and i j forestalled the blocking of bis re- 1 1 ception room for days together with |, whole squadrons of candidates and i .heir friends by naming the appointees ! to the five most important new offices j< created by this year’s general assem- 1 bly. The din of the departing legis- i ■ators’ final festivities had scarcely \ died away in the assembly halls and j lobbies of the capitol and tbe meas- , ures creaitng the places, had not reached him for his signature, when J he named the men. Claude M. Meth vin, the well known Kastman editor, was made superintendent of state J printing. This office is a four-year |; term and pays a salary of $3,000. The new highway board, to inaugurate the new era of paved roads, is composed as follows: Dr. Charles M. Strahan, Athens, chairman; Samuel Y. Austin, LaGrange, and Stanley Bennett, Quit man. The appointments are for two, four and six years in the order named. Glynn's Tax Returns Show Increase Brunswick. —Tax returns for the year 1919 have just been completed in Glynn county and they show a net increase of the county of more than ..wo million dollars. The total value of taxable property in the county for .he year was $9,046,291, while the /alue of the same property for the ,-ear 1918 was $6,899,800. in connec ion with this increase it is also jointed out that some of the largest .mrpovements made in the county dur ug the year are not taxable, such as he big picric acid plant and the several shipbuilding plants. Birthday Party. Miss Elizabeth Mcßae enter tained a number of young friends last Wednesday afternoon in honor of her birthday anniver sary. Games and refreshments were the order, and many were pres ent to do honor to the charming young hostess. Young Folks Entertained in Toombs County. Miss Lillian Clifton was hostess for the past week at a most de lightful house party at her charm ing country home in Toombs county. Among the guests were Misses Ora and Marion Lee and Ethlyne Folsom of Mt. Vernon, Messrs. David and Harold Clifton, recent ly from oversea service, and Mr. Fred H. Walker, U. S. N. A number of young people from Lyons also motored down to par ticipate in the various charming events that were given. Strayed or Stolen. Black mare mule, 5 years old, weight about 900 pounds. Will, pay reward of $25 for informa tion leading to recovery. J. B. Bullard, Route 1, Uvalda, Ga. This Crop Restores Fertilizer to Ground. It is generally supposed that all legumes will gather unlimited supplies of nitrogen from the at mosphere, provided other plant food elements are present. The writer has found that small ap plications of nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda are quite bene ficial to cowpeas. Not only does the vine grow more luxuriantly, j but the nodules are larger and just as abundant. Apparently i' the cowpea needs soluble nitro gen to begin a vigorous growth, ! after which it secures sufficient! nitrogen. This crop usually fol-1 ( lows grain, just after the latter; is harvested. The maturing of the grain crop makes a heavy draft on the soluble nitrogen of the soil, leaving it depleted in this element. Our recommendation is: If the plants have a yellow cast and | are not growing satisfactorily, apply nitrate of soda at the rate of 40 pounds per acre broadcast, : when the plants are dry. If the plants are wet, scalding will re sult. It is claimed by some dealers and promoters selling inoculating materials for cowpeas that the use of their cultures will cause greater fixation of nitrogen than the natural inoculation causes. The writer has made some tests in this connection and has found that the roots of the inoculated legumes are often higher in ni trogen content than are the roots i of plants where the native inocu lation obtains, but that in every such case the tops of the plants that were inoculated were lower in nitrogen content, and the whole plant contained as high a percentage for natural inocula tion as where the so-called highly bred culture was used. If your cowpeas do not form an abundance of nodules on the roots, they need inoculation with the specific organism forcowpeis which may be obtained at low cost through the Commissioner of Agriculture’s Office, Atlanta, Ga. T. E. Keitt, Chemist and Agronomist, Georgia Experiment Station. Crops Decline In State Everything except grass and pas ture crops declined during the month j with the exception of sweet potatoes,; according to the state department of agriculture. Wheat and corn were | below the average. Irish potatoes are \ not promising. Tobacco suffered great ly from rains. Rice and apples are j in very fair shape. The peach crop was slightly above expectations. Pea nuts, watermelons, cantaloupes and sorghum are below normal. Packing House For Savannah Savannah. —Willis Minot, president of the Port Wentworth Terminal com pany and of the mammoth packing concern which is to establish a plant and va«t yards at Port Wentworth, the Allied Packers, Inc., is in Sa vannah, with civil engineers, who will plan for the building. Work, he states, will be begun on the big pack iug plant and yards October 1. 27 Hogs Killed By Lightning Bolt Moultrie. —Twenty-seven hogs, own ed by John Day, who lives about '5 miles out of .Moultrie were killed by lightning during a thunderstorm a day or so ago. This is the largest numbei of hog., ever killed at one time by j lightning in this section, it i« said. The I hogs were valued at S7OO, several fine | porkers being in the lot. Bank Robbers Get 20 Years Carnesvllle. —'The trial of J. E Moore here on charges of robbing the | ; Rank of Franklin County on October | 9, 1918, in which widespread interest has been manifested, came to an end , early when Moore was declared guilty | by the Jury in the case and was sen fenced to a term of 20 years. Bad Auto Wreck At Canton Marietta. —Two were intsantly kill ed, two more may die any time, and j two others, all of the same family, are . seriously injured as the result of an ! auto collision with the Louisville and Nashville train at Canton. Bandits Steal $1,300 Duluth.—Three masked bandlti j walked Into the Farmers and Mer chants' bank here about 8:30 o’clock in j the morning, forced Cashier George A j Jordan to open the vault, picked up ' $1,300 In gold, silver and currency j locked the cashier inside the vault and i j sped away in a big Cadillac Eight i I automobile. Fifteen minutes later Mr. I Jordan was rescued by Assistant Cash ier F». E. Flowers. In the meantime j i.ee Payne and E. H. McGhee, well I known citizens of Duluth, had given ' chase to the bandits. I High Prices for Tobacco. Abbeville, Aug. 19.—Today’s tobacco sale, while not as large as Friday's proved to be the most satisfactory of the whole season. Prices shot up to fifty, sixty and seventy cents. Woolvin & Mc- Kinney sold a lot for an average of 52 cents. S. G. Carswell sold a nice lot for fifty and Vickery & Evitt sold several thousand pounds for 42 cents. Bright sunshine weather makes all tobacco show to a better ad vantage. Two of the buyers got wires from their home office to buy tobacco, that they would have to get their good grades in Georgia and they bought regard less of cost Nashville, Aug. 19.—The to bacco market was at high tide here again today. The ware houses were overrun at noon and several thousand pounds had to be turned back. The bright leaf lobacco brought from 18 cents to 89 cents, with the lower grades bringing satisfactory prices. The buyers are urging the tobacco growers to bring their tobacco as fast as possible. They all have orders to leave September 1 and the market will close August 31 unless the buyers get orders to the contrary. Junior C. E. Picnic. The Junior Christian Endeavor of this place will hold their pic nic at the McAllister mill pond tomorrow. They are a pretty faithful set of young folks and will enter into tomorrow’s sport with great anticipation. Small Farms! The Dan. L. Mathews Farm, 236 acres, has been Subdivided into Five Small Farms and to be sold Auction to the Highest Bidder Wednesday, Aug. 27 11:30 a . m. Eastern Time , Premises I EASY TERMS. FREE PRIZES. BRASS BAND This property is located six miles south of Vidalia, two miles north of Sharpe Spur, eight miles south-east of Mt. Vernon. About halt a mile from the Vidalia-Uvalda high way and is traversed by a publie settlement road. Petros station, on the Ga. & Fla. Ry., is only a half mile distant from this farm. Os the 236 acres 100 are in cultiva tion, 40 stumped, there are 1 dwellings, to bacco barn, outbuildings, etc., the soil is uniform and of best grade stiff pebbly char acter, with clay foundation, lies gently roll ing. It is well watered J>y three branches. Good cotton and tobacco land. Tliree | fourths of a mile from good church and school. This is good, well-improved farm land and is very desirably located. Huy now land take the profit which is sure to come. Mr. Dan Mathews will he on the prop erty Saturday and Monday before the sale to show it to those interested. Look it over and be on time for the sale. Terms: Half Cash , balance one and two years at 8 per cent interest. THOMAS BROS., Auctioneers GEORGIA REALTY & AUCTION CO. I Selling Agents VIDALIA, GA. RIVER STEAMER CARRIED LIQUOR jThe Nan Allen is Searched in Dublin Federal Officers. After getting six or seven gal lons of whiskey off the steamer Nan Allen Wednesday morning early, revenue officers have be gun proceedings to confiscate the boat and sell it just as automo biles and other vehicles are con fiscated when whiskey is found in them. Notice that proceedings are un der way were put up during the day YVednesday on the boat, signed by Deputy Collectors Pierce and Newberry, and these two officers left Wednesday for Macon with the intention of starting condemnation proceed ings to have the boat sold. A five-gallon bottle of whiskey without a revenue stamp, was found on the boat, also some whiskey in a two-gallon jug. The boat had been at the wharf a day or two, and Capt, Walter Grace, who has charge of the steamer, went to Macon Monday, where he was reported to be this morning. The steamer belongs to the Southern Cotton Oil Com pany’s cooperage division, which includes the mills here, and has been operating on this river for several years. Officials of the cooperage di vision of the Southern Cotton Oil Company here could not be seen this morning, and no statement was made by them on the matter. Dublin Courier-Herald. NO. 16.
