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VOL. XXXVI.
SPECIAL AGENT
FIVE COUNTIES
. I
Mr. J. F. Hart, Agricultural
Expert, to Speak Here
Next Month.
Mr. J. F. Hart, special agent
of the extension department of
the State College of Agriculture,
who has recently been located in
Dublin, spent yesterday in Mt.
Vernon, in the interest of the
work.
He will have as his territory ;
the counties of Laurens. Treut
len, Montgomery, Wheeler and
Toombs, and his work will be
mainly that of supply, the major- j
ity of these counties having no
county farm demonstrator.
Mr. Hart is a highly trained j
man, and his services will be;
of great value to those counties |
without a resident county agent.
It is to be regretted that Mont
gomery county has not a man of
this type. This, to an extent, is
accounted for by the present fi
nancial condition of the county.
With a wide range of experi
ence, Mr. Hart will bring to this
section very material aid in the
problems that confront the farm
er and the stock raiser. His ex
perience in the live stock indus
try and his knowledge of market
ing will prove valuable to this
territory.
Mr. Hart will attend the mar
keting conference, to be held at
the State College of Agriculture
in Athens January 23 to 27. At
this meeting the subject of mar
keting will be given special at
tention and will be discussed by
some of the most prominent au- j
thorities in the South.
As a result of this meeting new
ideas will be developed, and the
territory served by Mr. Hart will
be given the benefit of the meet
ing through talks to be made by
him later. He will address the
citizens of Montgomery county
in Mt. Vernon on she first Mon
day in February, probably during
the noon hour of court, and the
farmers, stock raisers and busi
ness men of the county are urged
to hear him. He is a fluent talk-
Public is Still Taking
Advantage of Profit
Sharing Sale
December 15 we began a Profit Division
Sale. Hundreds of people have taken ad
vantage of the Greatly Reduced Prices, but
our stock is still large. It will stand fur
ther reduction on the same basis—the cus
tomer taking the Larger Part of the Profits.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES
NOTIONS, HOUSE FURNISHINGS
HARDWARE
These are some of the principal items which
are offered the public on the profit-sharing
plan. No traps or schemes to offer, but
just a Plain, Open, Sweeping Opportunity
to buy the Necessities of Life on a Liberal,
Co-Operative Plan, and in keeping with the
times. Common living demands economy.
WILL CONTINUE SALE THROUGH JANUARY
Nothing Charged. Cash Gives You the Reduction
D. A. Mcßae Store
MT. VERNON
31fr iHmutnr.
Masonic Lectures on
During the Week. ;
Members of Aural Masonic!
Lodge and visitors from sister;
| lodges of the order have' this ;
1 week been receiving special in
[ struction in the uniform ritualis- j
I tic work by Mr. Guy Thurmond ;
of Atlanta, special representative
jof the Grand Lodge of Georgia,
i who has been in Mt. Vernon
I since Monday Morning.
Mr. Thurmond was at Vidalia
| last week and will remain in Mt. J
: Vernon through Saturday night, j
Three sessions are held daily—j
j morning, afternoon and evening. 1
Most of the officers have availed i
themselves of the opportunity of!
1 Mr. Thurmond’s special instruc- i
; tion, and lodges in neighboring
! towns have sent representatives
, during the week. Masonic breth
-1 ren are especially urged to at
tend the classes.
Saturday, 21st, is the date for
the regular communication of j
Aural Lodge and the members
are requested to attend, and vis
; iting brethren invited.
Should Have Program
I
for Georgia Day.
Sunday, Februray 12, is Geor
gia’s birthday. A special pro
gram has been arranged by the
Georgia Sunday School Associa
tion, and a free copy may be se
cured by writing to the headquar
! ters of this association at 917
Hurt Building, Atlanta. This is
1 one of a number of special day
programs for giving variety in
the Sunday School worship peri
od, which have been issued by
the Association during the past
few months. The program deals
with the founding of the State of
’ Georgia with a government based
ion “wisdom, justice and modera
tion,” and the heeds of Georgia
; today in the matter of religiously
j educating the large number who
are being untouched by any Sun
day School.
er, greatly interested in the sub
ject, and takes a delight in aid
ing the farmer in every problem
arising.
I While here only a few hours
j yesterday, Mr. Hart renewed
I his acquaintance with many of
the citizens of Montgomery, and
he is assured of a warm welcome
ion his return on the first Mon
i day.
MT. -VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JAN. 19, 192i^
Notes Public School Grades.
First Grade Honor Roll
Sarah Frances Calhoun, Walter
! Dickson, Malcolm Peterson, Ver
non Hicks, Charles Burch, J. W.
! Grimsley, May Jones, Corinne
Hardmon, Juanita McGahee, Oris
i Yeoman, Lucile Connell, Mary
Maude Garrett, Mary Lizzie
Thompson, Edwin McNatt, Jose-
I phine Anderson, Helen Martin,
i We, the First Grade, are glad to
! begin in our new book, “the Riv
j erside Primer,” this week. This
! book is very highly recommended
! by the educators at Milledgeville.
Wo are all trying to come to
school every day and be there on
time, so we cap be on the honor
roll. This week all who are on
the honor roll will get a gold star
and at the end of the month all
j who have a gold star for each
week will get an honor button.
We are all working for honor
buttons.
Second Grade Honor Roll—
David Mcßae, Helen Snooks,
Maria Anderson, John Ben Con
ner.
Third Grade Honor Roll
Juanita Avant, Harlow John
son, Clay Wilt. Tardy pupils:'
B. F. Gray, Louise Pierce, Eve- !
lyn Mason, Hamilton Mason, j
Eugene Rackley, Kemple Jones, j
John C. Truett, Manelle Brady, !
Jimela Martin.
Fourth Grade News —
The following pupils made
highest marks in examinations j
last week: Arithmetic: Claudia
Smith, 90: Edna Earl Smith, 90:
Thomas Calhoun, 90. English: i
Edna Earle Smith, Katherine j
Snooks and Thomas Calhoun.
Geography: Thomas Calhoun, 90:
Johnie Peterson, 85; Katherine
Snooks, 85. Spelling: Elizabeth
Frizzelle, 99; Thomas Calhoun,
99; Annie Morrison, 98; Frank
Tarver, 97.
All of the children who desire
to become members of the Sun- 1
beam Band will meet at the Bap- j
tist church next Sunday after- J
noon at three o’clock. We are j
trying to reorganize and want all j
the children to help us. I
Strong Interest
Wilson Fund.
Atlanta, Ga. —The Woodrow
Wilson Foundation campaign in
Georgia, of which Hon. Pleasant
A. Stovall of Savannah is chair
man, and which is being conduct-:
ed simultaneously in every state
in the Union, is proving one of
the most popular movements of a
national character that has been
inaugurated in many years, ac
cording to reports received here.
Perhaps the most encouraging
feature of the campaign, it is
stated, is the widely diversified
types of people who are making
contributions, or have planned to
make them. They represent
nearly every walk of life ranging
from college presidents to school
boys and including lawyers, mer
chants, housewives, washerwo-1
men, pugilists, students, editors, '
auctioneers and many others.
Such a large and varied list com- j
ing entirely unsolicited is the
highest tribute to the man the
foundation will honor, according
to business men here. William
Murphey, at the Citizens and
Southern Bank in Savannah, is
the Georgia treasurer, who will
receive contributions, however
l small.
February Program for
Parent-Teacher Club.
The following program will be
observed by the Parent-Teachers
Club for the month of "February:
Prevention —Mrs. C. B. Cum
mings, Director.
Physical and Mental Influence
of Right and Wrong Food—Mrs.
M. B. Calhoun.
; Six menus, two each, for break
| fast, dinner and supper, one
proper and one improper —Miss
! Pinkerton.
Modern Health Crusades in
! Schools—Miss McWhorter.
Music Director—Mrs. J, E.
j Hunt,
Fifth Grade Notes—
Jessie and Evelyn Martin and
Louise Sandifer have joined the
ranks of the Fifth Grade since
the holidays. We are glad to
have them with us. This raises
our enrollment to 29. We had
only four absent marks last week,
and not a great number of tardy
marks. Help us eliminate these
by sending your children on time,
please. Honor roll: Louise Cur
rie, Nina Salter, Lucile Conn,
Joe Underwood. Dillon Leggett.
Sixth Grade News —
Those making the highest
marks in the Sixth Grade in last
month’s tests are as follows: Hy
giene, Willard Burch. English:
C. B. Cummings, Marguerite
Johnson, Ruth McCrimmon, John i
McGregor, Cleo Minton. Geog-1
raphy: John McGregor, C. B.
Cummings. Arithmetic: Emmet
McCrimmon, Ruth McCrimmon.
Spelling: C. B. Cummings, Wil
lard Burch, Marguerite Johnson,
Ruth McCrimmon.
Seventh Grade News
We will start our honor roll
next week. Those who gain this
| honor must make an average of
i 95 and must be neither trrdy nor I
1 absent. The boys had seven tar*
: dies last week and the girls ten.
'.The boys of the 6th and 7th
grades have started up a manual
training class. Last week we
mended the blackboard in the 7th
grade room. We expect to make
! some coat hangers for the up
stairs grades this week. Miss
j McWhorter expects us to study
:at least two hours at home and
if we do not she wishes our par
ents to let her know it. Our
drawing books have come and
we shall begin them soon. Our
writing books have been ordered
and we will start in them soon.
We will have examination in ag
-1 riculture on Tnursday. Schalah
j Stephens and Gregory Hughes.
! Miss Effie Beddingfield spent
! the week-end in Vidalia, guest of
! Mrs. Onis Carter.
Grain Elevator
For Cordele.
Cordele, Ga., Jan. 18. — Ac
cording to those who have the
matter in hand the plans for a
grain elevator in Cordele have
! reached the point where sub
scriptions for stock in the pro
posed enterprise are in order.
A large number of the best
business men of the community
have been working on the plans
for several weeks and they now
seem to have sufficient backing
in business circles to make the
project a certainty. Several
ideas as to just what Cordele
needs in the wav of a grain ele
vator seem to have developed
during the working out of the
plans but these promise to be
thinned down to one considered
| the most practical at a meeting
, today and when this is done every
i man in the community will be
1 urged to get behind the move
and stay there until the enter
prise is constructed and in ope
ration.
It is believed bv a number of
successful business men of Cor
dele that a grain elevaror will be
profitable for those who own it
as well as affording a market for
about the only farm products
that can be successfully grown
in this section infested with the
boll weevil. This enterprise, it
is believed, will mean much to
the merchants as well as the
farmers of this section.
Ginn Report.
From the reports sent out by
the Bureau of the Census, it is
seen that cotton ginned in Mont
gomery prior to January last
amounted to 3331 bales, as com
pared to 3761 bales ginned to the
same date in 1920.
A Sure Method for
801 l Weevil Starvation.
The most visible evidence of
the productivity of Montgomery
county soil and the energy of
some of the men who till it was
presented to The Monitor office
yesterday when Mr. Henry A.
Johnson drove in with a Ford
load of turnips, cabbage, ruta
bagas and beets. The display of
turnips included every variety
;from Yellow Aberdeens to Pur
ple Tops, and they are unusually
large and prolific. The cabbage
are just beginning to head up,
and are very fine.
Mr. Johnson, farming on quite
a large scale, has long since
abandoned cotton and in the past
i few years has planted very large
|ly in grain and feed crops, hay I
jand vegetables. He is one of
i the most progressive young farm
ers in this section and believes in
growing something to eat and
something from which a farmer
can realize ready money when it
is made.
Laurens County Man
is Shot by Cousins.
Dublin, Ga., January 1(».-~T. :
jM. Horton, prominent young
I hardware dealer, of Scott, sever- j
lal miles east of Dublin, is in a
local hospital here and not ex
pected to live, as a result of a
shooting melee in which he en
gaged with Wade Thigpen, about
9 o’clock last night at Scott.
Horton alleges that the Thig
pen boys, his cousins, had threat
ened to kill him several times
during the past few months be
cause of trouble arising over a
bad check one of the Thigpens
gave him. Last night, while
Horten was at church, members
of his family stated the Thigpen
boys came to Horton’s home and
inquired for him, and were told
that he was at church.
When services were over Hor
ton returned home, and shortly
after arriving was called out of
the house by the Thigpens, who
asked for a bucket of water to
go in their automobile radia
tor. Horton returned to the
house for the bucket, and, sus
pecting, he said, there was a
scheme to kill him placed his pis
tol in his pocket and returned
with the water to the car.
When Webster Thigpen sought
to draw his revolver, Horton
stated he reached for his own
pistol, but that Wade Thig
pen shot him down before either
could shoot. Severl shots were
fired, one taking effect in the
thigh of Horton and another in
the stomach. * •
Th'* latter shot punctured Hor
ton’s intestines in ten places. It
is not known whether either of
the thigpen boys was hurt, as
both fled after the shooting,
leaving their car in the road in
front of Horton’s home, it was
asserted.
Later, one of the hoys returned
and attempted to drive the car
off, but Horton shot at him with
a shotgun and he abandoned the i
car again. Both parties arei
among the prominent families of
lower Laurens county.
Married in Reidsville.
Andrew J. Grimes and Miss
Eleanor M. Pound of Glen wood
were married at the Alexander!
Hotel in this city last Sunday
afternoon at 4:00 o’clock. Rev.
J. D. Radun performed the cere
mony.—Reidsville Journal,
Tennessee Mules.
A Carload of Young
Tennessee Mules for
Sale or Trade. 5125
up. See them at my
new barn in Ailey.
YV. J. PETERSON
Ailey, Ga.
BONDS FOR A
NETWORK ROADS
, * -— L •
Report on Highway Mileage
by This Department of
' State.
Atlanta, Ga.—What is consid
ered as one of the most far
reaching achievements of the
year so far in Georgia is the in
ception of a campaign to issue
$75,000,000 in bonds to finance
the construction of a net-work of
county and county seat highways
throughout the stste, according
to the industrial information ser
vice of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, the plan being
conceived and definitely formu
lated by state officials, bankers
and leading business and indus
trial men of the state.
Pointing to the fact that the
organization campaign is now
underway, the power company’s
information service says that ac
cording to the program, the $75,-
000,000 bonds are to be retired
in thirty years and are to be paid
for entirely by the automobile
license tax. It is planed not to
divert the gasoline tax fund from
the states general treasury until
1 1925.
The plan also includes a pro
vision which will reimburse the
counties of the state.for the mon
ey they have expended from
their treasuries to obstruct the
roads which will become a part
of this intricate and far-reaching
system.
During the year 1921, the pow
er company's item shows, the
Georgia state highway depart
ment broke all previous records
I in the amount of money expend
i ed, in the milage of improved
I highways constructed and in the
number and sizes of bridges com
pleted. This was brought out in
the report issued R. Neal,
state highway engineer.
A total of $15,000,000 was ex
pended during the last year on
highway construction; a total of
1,170 miles of highway finished
of which 184 miles was paved,
500 miles sand clayed and 35
miles graded. Bridge projects
aggregating $5,000,000 were
completed-this representing
one-seventh of all the bridge
work done in the United States
witlrfederal funds.
The expenditure of $15,000,000
was from $18,000,000 available
and $5,975,511 of the expendi
ture was represented by federal
funds. The sum of $2,000,000
is already available from federal
funds for 1922, and confidence is
expressed in the passage of the
emeVgency federal highway bill
now pending which will give
Georgia $2,700,00 annually for
five years.
Vessel Load of
/
Whiskey Captured.
Savannah, Ga., January 18.—
While the captain was ashore en
deavoring to dispose of his cargo,
it is alleged, and the crew of five
men were all asleep early today,
the auxiliary schooner, Polly,
laden with nearly five hundred
[cases of fine liquors of various
brands, valued at a sum between
forty and forty-five thousand
dollars, was captured by the
coast guard yacht, Tybee, accom
panied by a lannch, the Champ.
The Yawl, her crew and the
valuable cargo were brought to
Savannah from Skidway, where,
the vessel lay waiting the return
to her commander who is said to
be Captain Rob Carlson.
The vessel had been loaded at
Nassau. The Tybee was in com
mand of Captain H. Buchannan;
the Champ had O. H. Nestle as
captain, who was accompanied
by his son.
NO. 41.