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VOL. XXXVI. VETERINARY FOR MONTGOMERY i 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. l 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. I Run Over by Auto Tuesday . i 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. 1 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. 0 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. ; 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. , ■ " 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. 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