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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.
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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
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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.
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