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VOL. XXXVI.
VETERINARY FOR
MONTGOMERY
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Dr. R. O. Barnes Stationed
in County to Control
Cholera.
I
Dr. R. 0. Barnes, with the Bu
reau of Live Stock Industry, at
tached to the office of the state
veterinarian, will be in Mt. Ver
non after this date, to serve the
farmers and stock-raisers in the
treatment of hogs against chole
ra. and will remain in Montgom
ery county until the disease is un-!
der control.
For some time he has been lo
cated in Hazlehurst, as noted in
the last issue of The Montgomery!
Monitor, and the information
given the paper was to the effect!
that he would be subject to the
call of the farmers of this county, j
Later it has developed that Dr. i
Barnes will be assigned to this
county to take up the work at
once, making an entirely different
status of the matter.
Naturally, with no direct in- ,
formation on the subject, as far
as immediate relief for the farm
ers of Montgomery county is
concerned —a veterinary surgeon j
in another county merely subject.
to the call of our people, and
with hog cholera in different parts
of Montgomery county —The
Monitor took occasion to ask for
relief for the people of Montgom
ery county.
Referring to the matter in last i
issue, it was suggested that a
competent farm demonstrator
could do this work, if the county j
had one, qualified as he should
be. But this statement, while
still true, was made without any
information to the effect that
Montgomery county could get the
services of a veterinary surgeon,
as in the assignment of Dr. j
Barnes.
This information should have
been sent directly to the county
paper, at the proper time, that it,
could have been given the people
of the county. However, through j
the correspondence of a number,
of prominent citizens and county
officers, it is now positively stated j
that Dr. Barnes will take up the
work in this county at once; and
The Moniter is asked to urge the
farmers to call on him for aid.
Some thirty or forty days have
been lost through misunderstand- j
ings, as a result of which several
hundred head of hogs will have
been lost, but it is hoped that ev
ery co-operation and courtesy
will be given Dr. Barnes in the
work.
Poplar Head.
Special Correspondence
Our school is progressing very
nicely.
•
Miss Atlas Braddy returned
Saturday after a week’s visit j
with her aunt, Mrs. Willie Brad- !
dy.
Mr. Lum Collins was called to
Cobbtown Thursday, where his \
father is quite ill.
Miss Mattie Phillips is spend
ing a few days with Mr. J. M.
Phillips and family.
Mrs. H. A. Braddy went shop
ping in Soperton Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Phillips
and family and Miss Atlas Brad
dy attended church at Tarry
town Sunday.
Miss Agnes Phillips was the
guest of Miss Atlas Braddy Sat- j
urday night.
Mrs. C, H. Collins was shop
ping in Soperton Saturday.
Miss Atlas Braddy spent the
night with Miss Mary Esther
Phillips Sunday.
ißnutijmnmj JMmttfoir*
Tarrvtown School
News.
The days are fine, the atten
; dance good, and the work ex
cellent.
The ninth grade will finish
with their examinations this
: week. We regret that the work
cannot be carried further. The
eighth grade will take the re
mainder of their examinations
next week. All are striving to
meet requirements.
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Fifth and Sixth Grades—
We are glad to have Alice Pow
! ell back at school, after several
days'of absence.
Most of us are doing fine in our
(school work, and we are hoping I
, that the last day will find us with i
a promotion card.
Several have the honor' of not
being absent a day since Christ
mas. They are the following:
! Mary Dell Burns. Varnell Cadle, t
: Florence and Mildred Warnock.
We were very glad to recite
our reading lesson to Mr. Warren
Friday.
We like our history stories, es
pecially those about Hiawatha
and the Tree Dwellers.
Those of us who received a
merit card each dav last week
are: Lorna Cadle, Geraldine
Dickens, Charlie Warnock, Ed
ward Braddy, Eugene Radford,
and Rebecca Schiffrin.
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Run Over by
Auto Tuesday .
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Mr. Fred E. Long, residing
near the campus of the Brewton-
Parker Institute, was painfully
injured Tuesday night by being,
knocked down by a Ford car on
the main street near his home.
It appears that Mr. Long had
ridden home from services at the
Baptist church in. Mt. Vernon
(with Prof. Barrett and other
friends, having passed a few feet
beyond the cross street on which
he lives. Shortly after alighting
from the car in which he had
ridden, which was followed by
a number of other cars from Mt.
; Vernon, the car which struck the
unfortunate man approached
from the opposite direction, with i
very dim lights. This car is said
to have been driving at a normal
speed and driving far to the right,
: but going fast enough to strike
j Mr. Long with force enough to
render him unconsious for a
i time.
On striking Mr. Long and
knocking him down the car pass
ed on without stopping to ascer
tain the result of the dam
age, and parties following
the Barret car some moments la
ter found Mr. Long in the road,
| clothes torn and blood coming
from different parts of his body.
He was taken home and an ex
amination by physicions showed
I a general bruised condition, a
number of cuts and scratches
1 but no bones broken. It is hoped
i that no serious injury will be the
(result of this unfortunate and un
called for accident. The car
striking Mr. Long is said to have
! been a stripped-down Ford, the
driver of which is unknown.
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Week’s Meeting at
Baptist Church.
The revival meeting at the Mt.
‘Vernon Baptist church, being )
conducted by Rev. Rufus Hodges j
of Graymont, will be continued j
! throughout the week. Services
1 began Sunday night and are be-1
ing well attended, Mr. Hodges;
is warmly greeted by many old
friends, and it is hoped that his'
coming will mean an uplift of the!
church and community.
Services at four in the after
noon and eight in the evening,
to which the public is invited.
Mr. J. Bedford Beck of Sa
vannah will fill his regular ap
pointment at the McGregor
Christian church next Sunday. ;
The public is cordially invited to!
; attend. |
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAR. 23, 1922.
STATE BOND ISSUE NOT
MEAN ADDITIONAL TAXES.
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In a statement given to the
(press this week by Hon. J. B.
! Daniel, of LaGrange, President
of the Georgia Good Roads Asso
ciation, assurance is given the
voters of the state who are inter
ested in securing good roads for
Georgia by means of the $75,000,-
000 state road bond issue that
not one penny’s additional prop
erty tax will be put upon the peo
ple by means of those bonds.
Specific provision is made in j
the proposed constitutional
amendment against this, Mr. )
; Daniel said:
! ‘This next legislature simply)
must provide a state fund for
| roadbuilding or forfeit participa
tion in federal aid. There is no
way out of this, and the sensible
thing to do is to provide a fund
(of sufficient size to guarantee
completion of the state highway
system in keeping with the stan
dards required by federal engin
eers on all federal-aid roads,
while we are at it.”
‘‘ln the last four years Geor
gia has dropped from fourth to
seventh place in agricultural rat
ing among the states. She
stands forty-first in education,
and only this week our local pa
pers carried a news item under j
a Washington date line giving j
census figures of the United!
States Government which show \
Georgia losing population to other j
states although we boast a dim-!
ate and soil that is unsurpassed, j
Georgia’s undeveloped agricultur- j
jal resources are a crying shame )
upon the state, and yet we hesi
tate to do the very thing that iS j
going to remedy these conditions)
—build good roads all over the (
, state.” i
NEW POSTMASTER
AT MT. VERNON.
I
Mr. Fred G. Brewton Was
Appointed to Succeed
P. M. Folsom.
Mr. FredG. Brewton, who was
recently appointed postmaster at
Mt. Vernon, has received his
commission, and will take chacge
| tomorrow, or may wait until the
! first of the month, in order to
allow the lapse of the present
t j
quarter.
Some years ago Mr. Brewton
acted as assistant, and with busi- 1
ness training is qualified to ad- j
minister the affairs of the office.:
He, along with a number of oth
er applicants, took the examina
tion last summer, since which
the appointment has been pend
ing.
Postmaster D. W. on
account of age limit, was not
qualified for the examination,
and was not an applicant for re
appointment. He has served
since the summer of 1916, and at
the expiration of his term in
1920 was re-appointed by Presi
dent Wilson, but as a Democrat
his appointment was held up by
the U. S. Senate, yet allowed to
hold over until the present. His j
service has been marked by con- j
:stant attention to the duties of j
his office, and he retires after i
having devoted to it five and
a-half vejry busy years.
Immigration Figures Given.
Washington, March 21. lmm
i(gration restriction resulting from i
the enforcement of the quota law
I passed in 1921 was illustrated
j today in a report prepared for
Immigration Commissioner Hus
j band showing that during Janu
ary, 1922, aliens admitted totaled
j 15,928, and in February, 10,763.
These totals, Mr. Husband said,
could be compared with the num
bers admitted during January,
1921, when 66,596 aliens came in
and with February of the same
year when the total was 58.303.
The only bar applied at that time
j were those involved in the phy
! sical examination and the liter-
I acy test. |
“Permeate our mountains and
plains with highways and let the
people get a vision of what we
really have, and then watch
Georgia grow'.”
“Any fear that the road bonds
will bring an additional tax bur
den upon the people is simply a
mistake,” said Mr. Daniel.
“Why we are paying far heavier
toll to our bad roads today than
the good roads would cost us even
j if a direct tax levy were made to
build them. And when you take
j into consideration that the State)
i Highway department proposes to:
{ build this great network of roads
within ten years, if given the
funds with which to do it, and)
that these funds can be provided !
by the bond issue w'hich can be
retired in thirty years with the
automobile license fees and gaso-)
line tax, without any additional i
tax levy, it is inconceivable that:
there could be found anyone in 1
the state who would really op
pose the bond issue.”
Mr. Daniel said it had never j
been proposed by the Good Roads )
Association to issue $75,000,0001
in bonds all at once, but their ef
fort is to secure authorization for
j the issuance within ten years of
j that amount or such amount as
i could be retired by the automo
j bile license fees and gasoline tax.
! He said there never would be one
j day when interest would be ac
cumulating on the entire issue,
l as $14,000,000 of the first issiies
! would be retired before the final
(issue is put on the market. Mr.
; Daniel urged that women regis
j and be prepared to vote in this
! most important matter.
WORLD SUNDAY IN
M. E. CHURCH.
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Sunday Will Mark Effort to
Raise Balance on the
Centenary.
Nashville, Tenn.—A simultan
eous effort throughout Southern
Methodist territory, on March 26,
to be known as “World Sunday,"
will, it is said, call attention of
delinquent subscribers to the
Centenary of Missions movement
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, to a shortage in
collections on behalf of that
j movement.
It is expected that on “World
j Sunday” pastors of the 18,000
church congregations in Southern
Methodism will revive the Cen
tenary theme and portray the
disastrous results to the big mis
sionary program launched three
years ago if the deficit is not
made good. Cash payments on
overdue Centenary subscriptions
will be solicited on “World Sun-,
day" and during the following
week a church-wide canvass will
be made to secure the payment
of arrearages.
The original drive for the Cen
tenary fund taken three years
ago was for $35,000,000, to be
ipaid through a period of five
: years. It is announced that only
! forty per cent of the amount due
has been paid to date, whereas
sixty per cent is now due. It is
! to meet this shortage that Meth
| odists throughout the South are
seeking to arouse the mind of j
the church along Centenary lines.
Free Delivery
Fish and Beef.
This is to inform our patrons
that we are making free delivery i
of fresh meats and fish, both in
Ailev and Mt. Vernon, bought
from the City Market. All phone
calls answered promptly and the
public is supplied with the i
very best. Let us serve you.
W. A. Smith,
323tf. Mt. Vernon. ,
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666 is a perscription for Colds,
Fever and Lagrippe. It is the,
| most speedy remedy we know. I
Bethel News
' Special Correspondence.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Mitchell of
Higgston spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Make'Morris.
i I
i j Mrs. Angus Morris, who has
been very ill, is not improving.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Graham
were shopping in Vidalia last
1 week.
Messas. Charles Peace and
Joseph Palmer, who have been
in Lakeland, Fla. for several
months, returned home last
I week.
Mr. and Mrs. Make Morris
were shopping in Vidalia Satur
day.
Brother Griffin’s next appoint
-1 ment is first Saturday and Sun- 1
day in April. Foot-washing and
communion services Saturday,)
April Ist. Come and be with us.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fountairi
gave an entertainment last Tues
! day night. All reported a good
| time.
Mrs. Otis Bacon and litttle son,
) George, spent the week-end with
her mother, Mrs. Katherine Mor
ris.
Miss Mary Malone spent the!
week-end at Mrs. L. C. Graham’s,
visiting Miss Annie Mills.
Press Meet in
ML Vernon.
The Twelfth District Press
; Association met in Eastman on
the 17th inst. The editors were
royally entertained by Editor and
Mrs. C. M. Methvin of the East
, man Times-Journal.
I Those present were C. D.
'Rountree of Wrightsville, Harry
Floyd and Miss Christine Thomas
of Dublin, N. C. Napier of Vi
dalia. (Vidalia Advance and Ly
ons Progress) W. D. Horton of
Mcßae, T. L. Bailey and J. H.
Hamrick of Cochran and J. J.
Harvard of Hawkinsville.
The next meeting of the Asso
ciation will be held in Mt. Vernon
on the third Friday in August,
and an interesting program will
be rendered. The Monitor staff
in advance extends a cordial in
vitation to every member and
associate on each paper of the
Twelfth district to attend the
August meeting in Mt. Vernon.
The Twelfth District Associa
tion is becoming one of the
strongest district associations in
the state. The programs are be
ing enlarged from time to time
and subjects of extreme interest
to the members and the newspa
per fraternity are discussed at
i each meeting. These gatherings
are both pleasurable and profit
able.
Prof. Hart Makes Talk
Hack Branch, Higgston
Prof. J. F. Hart of Dublin
made a talk at the McGregor
Presbyterian church Sunday
Morning, and in the afternoon
appeared at Hack Branch. Mr.
Hart, while not a minister, is a
veay strong lay worker, and is
heard with interest and profit.
Rev. F. M. Baldwin of the Mt.
: Vernon Baptist church filled the
I pulpit at the Baptist church here
Sunday morning.
Missionary Society
To Meet Tuesday.
The Woman’s Auxiliary of Mt.
Vernon Presbyterian church will
meet at the home of Mrs. T. J.
Mcßae on Tuesday afternoon,
4:M o’clock, March 28, 1922. All
members are urged to be present, j
For Sale.
Desirable dwelling in Mt. Ver
; non, for sale or rent. Also farm
.near Mt. Vernon depot. Write
T. H. Cockfield,
13922 « Vidalia.
THREE JAILED
FOR BURGLARY
Series of Thefts Charged to
Willis and Padgett of
' Toombs.
Surrounded by a variety of
merchandise, farm tools, etc.,
as the result of.a midnight raid
|on farm houses between Ailey
and Cedar Crossing, Buck Willis,
Jake Willis and Richard Padgett
were arrested Tuesday at the
Jim Brantley place in Toombs
| county three miles south of Ce
dar Crossing.
The arrest was made by Sheriff
E. E. Burch and Deputy Omer
Burch of this county on the com
plaint of half a dozen citizens
who had missed enough articles
to furnish a common department
store, and ranging from plow
stocks to live turkeys. When
Sheriff Burch and his son ap
peared on the scene Tuesday it
j was soon discovered that ar-
I rangements had been made for a
! turkey dinner at the expense of
a handsome gobbler appropriated
from the barn yard of F. Dees,
living about eight miles south of
Mt. Vernon.
On the approach of the officers,
the turkey was removed from
the baker, and before the depar
ture of the men the bird was eat
en. On the Brantley place, occu
pied by the Willises and Padgett
was found evidence of illicit dis
tilling, three quarts of liquor and
a barrel and a-half of beer were
found. Harness, plow stocks,
etc., were found in abundance.
Owners of some of the items
were: Charlie Peterson, horse
collar; J. W. Sharpe, a Chatta
nooga plow stock; Marvin Sharpe,
a Lynchburg plow; Leonard
Sharpe, single stock plow. These
articles were identified by the
owners. Half a dozen or more
citizens lost articles along the
route mentioned, but these were
not found at the time of the ar
rest.
Jake and Buck Willis and Pad
gett were placed in jail in Mt.
Vernon, on a burglary charge.
This morning J. Mullis Fields of
Vidalia and Eason Collins of Ly
ons came up for the men, and
they will doubtless be tried in
Toombs county at the present
term of superior court on the
charge of violating the prohibi
tion law. The Willis boys are
married and about thirty-five
years old. Depredations of this
character are very unusual, as it
must have consumed considerable
time and care to appropriate
something from practically every
farm house along a route extend
ing seventeen or eighteen miles.
Real Estate Men
Endorse Bond Issue.
Savannah, Ga., March 22.
Following a strong presentation
of the proposition by W. T. An
derson, president and editor of
the Macon Telegraph, the Geor
gia Real Estate Association at its
first annual convention here to
day unanimously endorsed the
proposed State bond issue of $75,«
000 for good roads. In the open
forum session held today realtors
from Atlanta, Macon, Augusta,
Columbus, Savannah were pres
ent.
Taxation of Mortgages came in
for extended discussion and
Charles Rowland, Savannah, and
i Ward Wright, Atlanta, lead the
I movement for a change of the
! Georgia law regarding taxing
mortgages. A committee will
press the matter before the
Legislature. The convention ad
journed at noon to Tybee, where
the afternoon sessions were held.
NO. 50.