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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1921)
VOL. XXXVI. FARM CENSUS MONTGOMERY >U Figures for 1910 Not Given on Account of Boundary Changes. The Director of the Census an nounces, subject to correction, the following preliminary figures from the Census of Agriculture for Montgomery county. It is not possible to give com parative figures for 1910 for this county by reason of changes in county boundaries since that date. Farms and Farm Acreage. January 1, 1920. Farms, 1,315 Operated by— White farmers 701 ~ Colored farmers 614 Operated by— Owners and Mgrs. 471 Tenants 844 Land in Farms— Total, acres 112,431 Improved, acres 59,949 Value of land and buildings $4,988,257 Domestic Animals January 1, 1920. Farms reporting domestic animals 1,258 Animals reported: Horses 296 Mules 1.654 Cattle 7,325 Sheep 632 Swine 15,930 Goats 924 Principal Acres Quantity Crops, 1919 Harvested Harv’ted Corn 26,097 294,675 bu Oats 1,665 26,915 bu Hay 1,855 1,406 tons Cotton 21,771 4,798 bales Peanuts 1,634 32,722 bu Oak Grove Dots. Special Correspondence. Miss Effie Gordon of Charlotte returned ;home Monday after spending a few days with Miss Gladys Leggett. Mr. Mason Graham and sister, Maggie, spent Sunday with rela tives in this section. Mrs. J. A. Reynolds visited Mrs. C. W. Peterson Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Love, and children, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Leggett a few days last week. Miss Tommie McCoy of Char lotte spent the latter part of last week with.her sister here. The reviyal meeting held here last week was a great success. Large crowds attended every service in spite of the gloomy looking weather. Nine were ad ded to the church, three by letter and six for baptism. These are all welcome to our church. We were very sorry to see Bro. Hum phrey leave, but we hope to have him with us again in the future. Several from here visited Will iamson’s Chapel Sunday. Quite a number went over to visit Sharpe Spur Sunday School last Sunday. Miss Gladys Leggett gave a sing Sunday night, which was at tended and enjoyed by quite a number of people. Everybody remember that the Sunday School hour is 3 o’clock. Be on time. Examination for Teachers To be Held July 29-30 The regular state examination for teachers will be held the 29th and 30th of July, beginning at 9 V o’clock each day. Please let all those who contemplate taking the examination be on hand prompt ly at that time. T. B. Conner, C. S. S. 38 j? ilntiitor. BODY OF H. C. GEIGER SENT FROM FRANCE. The body of Harold C. Geiger, who lost his life at Chateau-Thi erry June 16th, 1918, will arrive in New York on the date of July 15th, according to a telegram re cently received by Mrs. J. B. Geiger, mother of the young man. The exact date of the arrival of j the remains at Mt. Vernon can- i not be determined as yet. Harold C. Geiger was the son of the late Col. J. B. Geiger and was a favorite in the town and community. He enlisted in the U. S. Marines, April 12th, 1917, j and after a few months train- j ing at Paris Island, S. C., was! sent to France, serving continu ously until the date of his death. | He was a member of the sth Ma- ! rines, who with the 6th Marines,! so gallantly withstood the ad vance of the Germans in their last major offensive, covering themselves with undying glory in this achievement. It was at the close of this drive that Harold lost his life, being mortally wounded and dying a few hours later. Funeral arrangements have not yet been definitely completed, but interment will take Vplace in the new cemetery, beside the re mains of his brother, J. Carlton Geiger, who died March 12th, 1918 in the Marine Hospital at Philadelphia. Savannah to Have Mammoth Celebration. Savannah, Ga., July 12.—Sam uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and Frank Walsh, former chair man of the war labor board, have been invited to come to Savan nah on Labor Day to attend a mammoth celebration. The great est Labor Day celebration in years is planned. A big parade in the morning will be followed by a gala day at the fair grounds. The fair officials are co-operating with the labor union men to make the occasion a huge suc cess. Invitations will be extend ed nearby towns to come and take part in the festivities and it is hoped to make Savannah the mecca for labor men on Septem ber sth. A band contest between union bands in South Georgia, auto races and other big attrac tions are on the program. County-wide Campaign To Eradicate 801 l Weevil Dublin, Ga., July 12. A coun ty-wide campaign to eradicate the boll weevil was started in earnest yesterday morning when five automobiles, filled with in terested citizens left to visit ev ery nook and corner of the coun ty to advertise special meeting dates, to distribute circulars and otherwise to interest the farmers in using the arsenate of lead and molasses solution which has prov ed so effective on a small scale. Tonight prominent Dubiinites are speaking to farmers in practical ly every school house in the county. Tne chamber of commerce is behind the move, which promises to result in the heaviest yiefii of cotton in Laurens county since 1917. The plan is to create the interest and to urge the farmers to buy and use the boll weevil solution. Local banks have fur nished the money with which the chamber of commerce has gone into the market and purchased a large amount of the various in gredients used in the solution and the organization will sell the pre paration to the farmers at actual cost. Where farmers are unable to pay cash for the arsenate of lead, arrangements have been made whereby a note will be ac cepted and he will be furnished with a sufficient amount to treat his crop of cotton. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 14, 1921. Longpond Dots. Special Correspondence Miss Ruth Mobley is visiting relatives in Vidalia this week. Mr. Will Hughes of Oak Grove spent Saturday and Sunday with friends here. Miss Johnnie Johnson is spend ing this week with relatives in Ailey. Miss Madge Corbin is visiting relatives in Soperton. Miss Isabelle Sanders and bro ther, Cympia, of Charlotte were among friends here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fletcher of Vidalia spent Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Mobley. Miss Carolyn Fleming of Haw kinsville spent Friday night at the home of Mr. B. A. McArthur. Misses Edna Avant and Fran ces Rackley of Uvalda spent the week end with friends and rela tives here. Mr. Willie Clark happened to the misfortune of getting his leg broken last Monday while play ing ball. It is hoped that he will soon be out among friends again. Mr. Geo. C. McAllister spent part of last week with friends at Glenwood. Jury List. The following is the list of ju rors drawn to serve at the Au gust term of Montgomery Superi or court, 1921: Grand Jury M H Darley B F Palmer J M Moxley H D Lee H L Wilt S L Morris W E Mosley W M God own J F Daniel J R Adam 9 J H Martin J M O’Neal J N Hightower J D Langford I) A Mcßae D N Hughes T O Gibbs T P McKay J J Moses J B Brogden W A Peterson W I. D Rackley H B McNatt W J Peterson C H Gofi Petit Jury. J A Mcßride T A Peterson J A Joiner John Odom J B O’Conner F F McArthur G D Mitchell J H McArthur I P McAllister J H Hudson S W Hamilton CO McAllister W N Clarke I A McDonald J W Downs A E Winn W G Priest J H Sanders A C Gordon O A Gray E G Smith I A Moye E J Simons R E Downie W M Morris J A Hughes Lester Canady Geo W Beckworth E G Wilkes A C Mosely A K Sammons W T McArthur Jr H G Mcßride M B Peterson B C Anderson Homer Johnson W E Grimes A Calhoun E J Wells Sr Marriage in Mt. Vernon Last Sunday Afternoon. A marriage of interest to their many friends was that ot Miss Ida Taylor and Mr. Lawton Wil liamson, both of Ailey, Sunday afternoon in Mt. Vernon. Ordinary J. C. McAllister per formed the ceremony, which was witnessed by only a few intimate friends of the contracting parties. The bride is the attractive daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Taylor ofi Ailey. Mr. Williamson has for a number of years resided in Ailey. He is Justice of the Peace of that district and a successful business man. The happy couple left for a vis it in Wheeler county, after which they will be at home to their friends in Ailey. Mr. Frank Williams is visiting relatives in Reidsville this week. Tarrytown. Special Correspondence. protracted services be gin at the Baptist church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. T. J. Barnett, pastor at Dublin, will do the preaching. The public is invited. Mr. R. W. Anderson and daugh ter, Mrs. Elbe Calhoun were call ed toMillen Sunday on account of the death of Mr. Tom Anderson. Miss Lessie Mae Crawford is visiting Miss Clara Mae Hobbs of Lothair. Mr. R. L. Wood, who has been agent for the M. D. &S. R. R. here for several months, has been transferred to Macon. His bro ther from Pulaski will take his place here. Mr. J. T. Warnock made a bus iness trip to Vidalia Monday morning. Mrs. J. D. Palmer shop ping in Vidalia a few days ago. A mattress factory is being in stalled in the Cadle Building, by Mr. B. G. Wilson, Mr. James E. Boyd is confined to his room this week on account of malarial fever. Tarrytown and Soperton ball teams crossed bats on Soperton’s diamond Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cadle vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Spell, near Lyons, Sunday. Miss Elma Spell of Denton is the guest of Miss Varnell Cadle this week. Rev. S. A. Monday of Dublin has been conducting services at the'Adventist church since Sun day. Mr. W. B. Cadle and son are spending the week at Middleton’s Lake. Mr. James E. Boyd has been appointed postmaster at Tarry town, to take charge as soon as his commission arrives. Mr. M. E. Burns has been acting as post master since January 17, 1921. Two Montgomery County Men Admitted to Bar. Under Bar Examination held before Judge Eschol Graham on June 29th, Mr. J. Wade Johnson of Mt. Vernon and Mr. H. T Sharpe of Alston were admitted to the practice of law in this state. These gentlemen both stand high in this section and no doubt will enjoy from the start a lucra tive practice in their chosen pro fession. It is understood that Mr. John son will maintain his office in Mt. Vernon, while the Monitor is not advised as to where Mr. Sharpe will locate. First Open Cotton Bolls. The first open cotton bolls re ceived at the Monitor office this season were sent in Tuesday by Mr. A. W. Branch, a farmer on the J. W. Lett place of the Oak Grove section. A stalk with two full size open bolls was sent in from the farm of Mr. W. T. Mc- Arthur, Jr., and raised by Gibb Cook, a tenant. This cotton is an early variety and it is under stood that it produces more than the later varieties. Future of Fort Screven Garrison Uncertain. Savannah, Ga., July 12. — The future of the Fort Screven Gar rison at Tybee is very uncertain. Fort Screven has long been con sidered one of the important in the coast defense chain on the Atlantic. It has been visited by thousands of people from the in*' terior of Georgia and is a post 1 familiar to this section. Under j the army reorganization plans j the fort may be abandoned or the garrison greatly reduced, proba bly the latter. Senator Harris has entered a protest against the abandonment of the post. CONSOLIDATION OF RURAL SCHOOLS. Having been requested to write an article on the Consolidation of Rural Schools, I take pleasure in making the endeavor. Practical ly everyone knows what is meant by the term "consolidation”. It is simply the bringing together of a number of small schools and forming a larger school at a cen tral or convenient location. The Georgia School code under sec tion 117 states that it is the duty of the Board of Education to lay out school districts which shall contain an area not less than six teen square miles, except where natural causes or local causes which make it necessary to do otherwise. The natural causes are mountains and impassable streams and dangerous roads. , Montgomery county fortunately is not handicapped by natural cau i ses to any extent. According to the United States census report for 1920 Montgomery county contains 190 square miles. During the past year we operated 22 public schools for white children. This makes an average of one school for every eight and eleven fourteenths square miles which simply means that we are undertaking to oper ate double tile minimum require ment of the state. If we had one school to every sixteen square miles in the county, we would have approximately 12 schools, or ten less than what we have I undertaken the past year. It would be possible to re-arrange the schools in such away as to operate the minimum require ment, and not have to furnish any conveyances. Ido not mean to say that under the circum stances that that would be fea sible. I do, however, think it is not only feasible, but also ne cessary, to meet the demands of the times and give the children what they ne&d, to consolidate quite a number of the schools. Having made a careful study of j the school situation in this county relative to the location of various schools, I feel that I am safe in saying that a number of the one teacher schools could easily be combined with other schools nearby, and could be arranged in such away that it would not greatly inconvenience any of the patrons in sending their children, and practically all could get to and from the school without en tailing extra expense to convey them. Where this could be done it seems to me that it would work greatly to the advantage of those directly concerned. I am not in favor of abolishing every one teacher school in the county, or changing the entire system, but I am heartily in favor of making improvements where it can be done to an advantage. Some may ask the question, What good is there in consolida tion? Let me briefly analyze the ! work of the teacher in the one teacher school. She is supposed to begin her work at 8 o’clock in the morning and adjourn at four in the afternoon with about one hour and a half given to noon and recesses, making six and one half hours given to actual work'in the school room. She has eight gra des to teach, including the prim er, and oft times undertakes some high school work. Accord ing to the schedule of the average one teacher school, she is sup posed to have about seventy re citations per day making less than six minutes average to each re citation. The average number 'of recitations per child per day is about eight, making in all | about forty-five to fifty minutes I each child gets in supervision and teaching during the day, while he has over five hours left for seat work, much of which is of necessity spent in idleness, for no teacher, however capable, can NO. 14. DENTISTS TO NEET_ IN NT. VERNON. An Interesting Program to be Carried out at Court House July 21. The Twelth District Dental So ciety will hold its annual meeting in Mt. Vernon, Thursday, July 21. The entire membership, of which there are about forty, is expected to be present and ample provision for the entertainment of the guests has been made by Dr. E. M. Rackley. The last meeting of the Society was held at Vidalia and the invi tation extended by Dr. Rackley to come to Mt. Vernon in 1921 was accepted. Mt. Vernon is glad to have this body of men in her midst. The officers of the association are, Dr. J. R. Franklin, Presi dent, Hawkinsville; Dr. W. J. Wilkins, Vice-President, East man: Dr. J. B. Donaldson, Sec retary and Treasurer, Dublin. The following is the program that will be carried out next Thursday at the Court House: 10:00 O’clock a. m. Meeting called to order by the President—Dr. J. R. Franklin, Hawkinsville. Invocation —Dr. J. C. Brewton, Mt. Vernon. Welcome Address in Behalf of the City of Mt. Vernon —Hon. Chas. Mason, Mayor. Welcome Address in Behalf of Montgomery County Response to Welcome Address es—Dr. J. L. Mingledorff, Dub lin. Paper—The Value of a Coun try Dentist to a Community— Dr. L. H. Darby, Vidalia. Discussion. Paper—Dr. J." W. Palmer, Ailey. Discussion. Business, Miscellaneous, Etc. 1:00 O’clock p. m. Luncheon—Given by Dr. E. M. Rackley, Mt. Vernon. 2:30 O’clock p. m. Meeting Reassembled. Voluntary offerings of Practi cal Hints. Every member attending will be expected to offer something of his own idea. 3:30 O’clock p. m. Auto ride to Mt. Vernon bridge and other points of interest. Entertainment in general. see to it that all the children are at work and do satisfactory teaching at the same time. Is it any wonder that many teachers become nervous under such con ditions? i Now what are some of the ad vantages of the consolidated school? Briefly stated they are as follows: 1. More teachers. 2. Better teachers. (It has be come difficult to get first class teachers in the one teacher school. I do not mean to say that many of them are not first class). 3. Better teaching conditions. 4. Fewer recitations per teach er. 5. Longer recitations. 6. Closer supervision on part of teacher. Other advantages could be mentioned. Consolidation of rural.schools may mean some additional cost, but the extra cost, to my mind, will not be in proportion to the advantages offered. The state is offering a bonus to encourage this work and many couniies have already taken advantage of it. Why not Montgomery?. B. Conner, C. S. S.
