The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, March 16, 1922, Image 1
VOL. XXXVI. PROBABLY HAVE A FARM AGENT County’s Pro Rata Share of Expense Raised by Subscription. . For some time The Monitor has advocated a farm demonstration agent for Montgomery county, and sentiment in favor of the movement is rapidly crystallizing. Under a recent ruling of the supreme court, a county is not allowed to appropriate funds for the joint employment of a farm j demonstrator, but a number of counties, through the aid of pri vate funds subscribed by indi viduals, have kept their agents on the job regardless of the handicap of a legal barrier for, the present. It is understood that Montgom ery county has been offered the benefit of state and federal aid in this respect, and that if the county, through private subscrip tion, raises the sunl of S6OO to supplement the funds allowed by the departments of state and government, the man will be employed for the remainder of the year. The state assembly! will probably enact a law under which any Georgia county can legally appropriate funds for this purpose. County School Superintendent T. B. Conner is securing sub scriptions for the county’s part, and it is hoped that in a few days a sufficient amount will be pledged to warrant the employ ment of the demonstrator. The services of such a man will be valuable chiefly in the matter of county in touch with markets, treatment of hogs against chol era, and in other matters in which the farmer is vitally inter ested. Another very necessay feature in the employment of a farm demonstrator. whose services will be partly paid for by Mont gomery county people, is the re quirment that he reside in the county and remain in close touch with the farmers and stock rais ers. This is necessary, other wise the project will not prove as beneficial as the expenditure of funds would warrant. The county is small, and yet if it needs a man at all, it needs one for all of his time, and there is no reason why a competent man cannot be employed for SIBOO a year, one third of which will be paid by the citizens of the county. It is hoped that the demonstrator may be employed for the remain der of the year. Oak Grove Dots. Special Correspondence. Mr. W. D. Peterson made a business trip to Lyons Saturday. Miss Nettie Brantley of near Charlotte is visiting relatives in this section. Mrs. M. A. Peterson and moth er were visiting Mrs. Herbert Sharpe of Vidalia Saturday and Sunday. Miss Annie Reynolds gave a candy pulling last Tuesday night and it was attended and enjoyed by a large number. Mr. A. J. Graham spent Satur day night and Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. J. A. Reynolds. There was a very large number out to prayer meeting last Wed nesday night. We hope to see more coming. Miss Gladys Leggett was the guest of Miss Annie Reynolds Saturday afternoon. A number of the people went violet hunting after Sunday I school Sunday. They found a good many. We hope to go again soon. Miss Alma Gillis gave a sing Saturday night. It was enjoyed by all who attended. Mr. Jack O'Neal, wife and ba by were visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. A. Brantley, Sunday. Everybody remember the hour of Sunday school and come be with us. Jitfntgnmmj Mmxtnr. Montgomery Cabbage on Dublin Market. Mr. H. A. Johnson, whose farm is located at Longpond, has grown cabbage as a market crop this year, and has had very suc cessful sales for his product. From half an acre he has sold to date about about S3OO worth of spring cabbage. Several days ago he sent a truck load to Dub i lin, where they were sold at good prices. This is but an example of the soundness of growing food crops ■ that can be marketed at a better profit than cotton. This has been demonstrated by Mr. Johnson for j several years. This amount of J land in cotton, under present con-1 ditions, would not produceenough to pay for the expense incurred. In this connection it may be said that farmers of community or section should not undertake to plant too freely in the same crop, but let each man plant some form of special crop; unless the demand was a fixture for any certain crop and no liability of oversupplying the market. Di versification is safer than the one-crop system in whatever planted. As delivery facilities grow better, markets are more easily obtained. The average I farmer no longer has to depend on the railroads as a medium of getting his products to market. A haul of twenty or thirty miles is not a hardship bn the farmer residing in a section supplied with good roads. J. E. CONWELL Manager of the pooling campaign for the co-operative cotton marketing movement in Georgia. Mr. Conwell is a prominent Hart county farmer and pooled his crop of 160 bales with the Georgia associa tion. “This is a farmer’s job,” is Con well’s favorite quotation. Putting Bond Issue Before the People. Atlanta, Ga., Mar. 15th:—The Georgia good roads Association has planned to have the matter of the proposed $75,000,000 road bond issue presented at the spring term of court in every county in the state, and at the district meetings of the state federation of women’s clubs, according to T. G. Farmer, Jr., managing di rector of the good roads associa tion. “We regard the good roads bond issue as the most important piece of legislation coming before the next legislature, and we have no doubt of its passage, if we can get the people informed as to its benfits,” said Mr. Farmer in an interview today. “Inquiries con cerning the plan have come in from every section of the state at such a rate that we have had to increase our office force to han dle the correspondence. We are sending to each inquirer a little good roads primer and chart showing how the bonds will be floated and retired, and answer ing every question a voter could ask regarding the bond plan.” “Sentiment is rapidly crystal izing in favor of the bonds and by the time the legislature meets we expect to see the issue so pop ular that no one can be found who would dare lift his voice to ! longer keep Georgia in the mud.” MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAR. 16, 1922. I THE SPIRIT OF 1922 j I •geowM HIGH WATER BREAKSFILL ON NEW PUBLIC HIGHWAY. Exceedingly high water in the Oconee river resulted in the de struction of a concrete culvert on the highway two miles west! of Mt. Vernon Saturday noon, and following the wreck of the culvert there is an opening in the fill over a hundred feet in width, j through which water has been pouring in a great volume for nearly a week. The broken culvert is the first on the highway fill after entering the swamp from the east, located about a quarter of a mile from ! the bridge. Ordinarily little or I no water passes throngh this cul-1 j vert, and as long as the river is i ! in its banks no river water what-! I ever can reach it. j This culvert was intended to j take care of back water coming through the swamp from the! north side of the fill, in connec-| tion with another of similiar type nearer the bridge, and under or dinary conditions would have served this purpose, as there j would have been no particular function for it to perform; and in this case it was more of an or nament than a utility. But its present condition re veals a different story. This culvert was not capable of carry ing away the vast volume of water coming down through the swamp during such freshets as have been on during the past week, and as such it was a rank \ failure. Due to defective work- j manship on the culvert, though; built of concrete, it was under-j mined, probably through seep- ; age, and in a few hours after the; ; water began passing on the sides of the culvert it was a mass of; broken and crumbled ruins, sub- ! merged in a torrent of rushing water, tinged by the red clay of I North Georgia. ■ ! This culvert, it is quite clear, was built without the proper I I foundation, otherwise it would be in place today, water or no water, and the county is to be, congratulated on its destruction, that it may be replaced by a per manent structure. ' As late as Sunday afternoon, after billions and billions of gal , lons of water had passed through the break in the fill, then about, a hundred feet in width, the i water level on the north side of [ the fill was at least two feet i higher than on the south side, taking a calculation some dis tance back from the break, i which, to a casual observer, re- i vealed the vast amount of water i impounded by the fill, itself at no great elevation above the high water mark. The Monitor is not disposed to criticise the construction or en gineering on this particular pant of the project, but it is a self evident fact that the water pass ing under the Seaboard trestle iust above this section of the fill j comes down through the swamp with considerable force; and as a result it must be provided with a passage under the fill or it must bank up against the fill during flood stages, as evidenced by J present conditions. Therefore, it is either to pro vide an ample passageway for j the water during flood stages or : build a fill of sufficient elevation and stability to withstand the ! pressure against it from the ! north side. At no time during | the p*esent stage of water has it gone over the fill, but the older citizens remember former fresh ets to have given a much higher water mark than the present freshet, in which case the high way fill would be overrun by wa ter. Naturally all traffic at this point is stopped. But as soon as the water drops away it will be an easy matter to drive in on the old road and approach the fill near the bridge. The damage to da'elwill amount to several I thousand dollars, and traffic will jbe inconvenienced lor several j weeks. It is thought the high ; stage of water has passed, with i no damage to the new bridge and no material damage to other por tions of the fill leading to it on | either side. The damage is to be regretted, from several stand points—as a matter of public ' pride and public expense. (The hobgoblin element, ten anting the old flat for the last 1 (five months, is said to have been holding high carnival for the past few days, wondering if they would be put out of house and home in case the dilapidated fer ry should be again conscripted for temporary service.) Receivership Goes [ to George M. Brinson. Savannah, Ga., March lf>. — j George M. Brinson was today appointed receiver of the Midland railway, a short line out of Sa vannah. He built the road and has been its (president since its construction. The line is 89 miles long The State superintendent of banks was largely instrumen tal in having the receiver named, because of claims of the Ogle thorpe Savings Bank and Trust Company, now in his hands. Revival Meeting Ailey; Mt. Vernon Next Week, j I The revival meeting in prog- j ress at the Baptist church in Ailey during the week, under the leadership of Rev. Rufus i Hodges, has been pronounced a success, and will continue through I the week—possibly through Sun- i day. The meeting in Mt. Vernon will doubtless begin Sunday, or immediately after the close of j the continued services in Ailey. j There will be services at the Mt. Vernon Baptist church Sunday, morning and evening, and if the meeting in Ailev has closed by j this time, the services in Mt. j Vernon next Sabbath will be con- j sidered the beginning period of I the meeting at this place. The public is invited to attend and participate in the services. Mr. Hodges is a former pupil of The Brewton-Parker, and is one of the most, capable young preachers in the Baptist ministry. Friends in this county are proud of his record, and he will be heard in Mt. Vernon with de light on the part of many friends who remember him as a pupil in school here severaljyears ago. Mr. H. C. Davis attended a convocation of Olivet Command ery in Dublin Monday night. The commandry was inspected by State inspector Jeffries of At lanta, after which a banquet was served at the New Dublin Hotel. Several hundred Knights were present, Mr. Davis being the on ly member present from Mont gomery county. C. O. MOSER, Secretary of the American Cotton Growera’ Exchange, which ie the fed eration of state cooperative cotton marketing associations. He is now actively engaged in the Georgia campaign. He is a dirt farmer and operates several hundred acres devoted to both crops and livestock, about fifteen miles from Dallas, Texas. Ladies Make Appeal For Russian Relief. The Woman’s Missionary So ciety of the Mt. Vernon Baptist church is actively engaged in a campaign for funds and clothing for Russian relief, and that the week may be as effective as pos sible, they urge the other socie ties of the county to co-operate with them. Send donations or clothing to Mrs. Fred M. Harris, Mt. Vernon, not later than March 27. As a substitute for cash, cloth ing may be sent in —not soiled, flimsy garments, but something i calculated to give warmth and service. This may include knit ted garments, simple cotton dresses, shoes, wool, hats, yarns for knitting, baby clothes-al most any kind of warm garment or cloth, leather, any thing that will bring relief to suffering peo | pie. Naturally, they need food, and this can be bought only with ( money. This appeal is being made es j pecially to Baptists, but no doubt I they will appreciate aid from I whatever source. i VETERINARIAN j INOCULATE HOGS Local Treatment Should be Substituted for Direct State Aid. i In response to inquiries fi m the famers of this county rela tive to anti-cholera treatment for the hogs, the state veterina rian’s office has written Col. A. B. Hutcheson, clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, as follows: February 22, 1922. ! Mr. A. B. Hutcheson, ! Clerk of Commissioners, j Mt. Vernon, Georgia. Dear Sir: This acknowleges receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, regarding a veterinarian to do hog cholera work in Montgomery and adjoining counties. Dr. R. 0. Barnes, of this De partment, will be located at Ha zlehurst about March 1, and we want the farmers of your section of the state to feel at liberty to call upon him whenever they have trouble among their hogs, or have hogs to be vaccinated against hog cholera. Yours truly, J. H. Cofferman, Asst. State Veterinarian. I)r. Barnes is probably still lo cated at Hazlehurst, and no doubt can be of service to the farmers and stock raisers of Montgomery county; but under present condi tions, with travel interfered with by high water, he may as well be in Atlanta. What this county needs, and has needed for some time, is a competent farm demonstrator, who, along with his other duties, could inoculate hogs and make them immune from cholera. The department of agriculture, and the department of veterinary surgery and treatment, itself a branch of the former, are well for the state at large; and through these departments filters a cer tain degree of benefit to the in dividual farmer, but the contact between the farmer and the state departments through which he is expected to get material aid is too remote. The proper treatment of hogs against cholera is to be called a science, acquired through proper training, and yet, as stated, there is no reason why a farm demonstrator—one residing in each agricultural county in Geor gia-should not do this work with out expense to the farmer except the cost of the material, which, if removed from speculation, would be reduced to a minimum. Charlotte. Special CorrcHpondcnce. The farmers of this section are very busy getting ready for planting. The Tax Receiver was here last Monday. Miss Mattie Hugh Mclntyre had as her week end guest her cousin. Miss Peterson. Mr. Robert Adams of Hazle hurst was a Sunday visitor here. Misses Martha Mollis and John nie Lou Craft of Uvalda were the guests of Misses Tommie and Clara McCoy Monday afternoon. Misses Nettie Brantley and Stella Gillis were in town Mon day afternoon. Mrs. T. W. Walden spent Mon day afternoon with Mrs. W. A. McCoy. Misses Clyde and Mattie Adams had as their gues-t Sunday their cousin, Miss Alvie Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Chap Johnson and children of Rockledge are visiting her mother, Mrs. Rachel Moseley, of this place. Mrs. J. M. Sammons was the i guest of Mrs. T. W. Walden Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Gordon visited Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Reed , Sunday afternoon. NO. 49.