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The Montgomery Monitor
fublifchrd Kicrj- Iliorkdaj. Official Orttan Montgomery County
Subscription Rates: $1..50 Per Year in Advance.
h! B. FOLSOM, Owner. N. C. NAPIER, Lessee
Entered at the postoffice n Mt. Vernon, Ga., as second
class mal matter. ✓
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‘ THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922.
EARLY CLOSING AND HALF-HOLIDAYS
FOR THE SUMMER TIME.
In nearly every town through this section the
merchants have adopted 6:do as the uniform time
for closing during ghe summer months, and in
many places Thursday afternoon is set aside as a
half-holiday, stores closing at 1 o'clock to give
their employees a little recreation during the sum
mer months. Such a plan ought to commend it
self to the local business men, because if such a
plan is gone into by all the merchants and lived
up to faithfully, not a single penny will he lost by
any one, the people will not he inconvenienced
after they once learn of the Thursday half-holi
days and many a hard-working clerk, who often
puts in thirteen or fourteen hours a day, will he
given a chance for a few hours of recreation and
rest.
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THEY DO, BRO. BOATRICHT.
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It has been decided by a debate held by the
Kiwanis Club of Vidalia a few nights ago that
Emanuel county makes better whiskey than the
imported brands.
If this is the case, being that Toombs county
is a neighbor to us, we shall contend that she
should patronize us instead of the red 1 licker wag
ons, which we understand are extensively operated
and patronized in that section.
We shall contend that we are not being ex
actly treated on the square by a sister county and
a sister town near us, unless they use our product
instead of that of other that have been adjudged
inferior to ours. —Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
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A BRICKBAT AND A BOUQUET.
We notice that Editor Napier of the Vidalia
Advance and Lyons Progress, not knowing when
he is loaded, has taken on the Montgomery Moni
tor, just to have something to do during the sum
mer months. Editor Napier might install a wire
less in his Packard, and while traveling from Mt.
Vernon to Lyons he able to give his readers the
latest. When we get ready to rest awhile, we
will call on Napier to help its out, as he lias noth
ing to do. —Telfair Enterprise.
Editor Napier over at Vidalia is getting to be
a real newspaper publisher. Besides the Advance
he is the owner of the Lyons Progress, and this 1
week he lias leased the Mt. Vernon Monitor,;
ujiich gives him the control of three leading eoun-j
ty papers. Mr. Napier, however, is equal to thej
occasion as he is making all three of the papers 1
quite readable. —Springfield Herald.
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Sorter looks like Larsen in the 12th District.
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With the rainy spell coming to an end last;
Friday, farmers in this section lost no time in rout-1
ing the grass that had sprung up in their crops.)
Early Saturday morning plows were moving on
every farm. ,
FOUR AGES IN BUSINESS !
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Last of the four ages in business comes when 4 i
* * the business man retires. Ilia problem now is to X
<» keep hia money invested in such a manner that it J
!! will be perfectly -afe as well .is profitable. He *
talks with his banker about his investments and 4
*' depends more than ever upon his banker's helpful *
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o \t this time in life the successful man has +
I his {dans for the future all arranged and he has 4 ;
J little to worry him as the end draws near. i
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* All through the sou rages in the business life J j
1 of the successful man you will find the bank plr.v- J
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* “nest egg” in the savings department and later *
J in helping to make his business efforts as success- T
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his banker about his own affairs cannot hope to *
4 get the banker’s most helpful service. I
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“NEVER SAW BETTER PROSPECTS.”
Writing in his paper, the Winder News, of a
. recent trip from his home town to this section,
» Bro. McWhorter was greatly impressed with the
I fact that the people in this section had pulled off
their coats and gone to work. But we will let
him tell the story in his own words:
1 From Winder to Madison we saw evidences of work
and a determination on the part of the farmers to win
' out over the boll weevil. All the arable land had been
planted and the young crops were clean and in a thrifty
condition. After we left Madison and on through Put
nam and Baldwin counties farming operations were in
a deplorable state. Large areas were lying ou, and the
entire section presented a condition of inactivity and des
. pondency. The people seem to have lost all hope of
. ever doing anything. If the fields along the road are an
indication of the two counties of Putnam and Baldwin,
t they are indeed to be pitied. We are inclined to think
. that the conditions in those counties are as much the re
sult of the despondency of the people as the boll weevil.
They have lost all “pep” and the boll weevil will destrov
any people that do not propose to fight.
After we left Milledgeville conditions began to im
prove, and the further south we went the better the crops
appeared. From Dublin to Vidalia we never saw better
prospects at this time of the yedr. Cotton was half knee
high, with many squares, and we saw no signs of weevils
in the fields that we examined. Corn was from knee to
waist high and looked good. The people down in that
section have pulled off their coats and gone to work.
And they will win, too. A lazy man cannot combat the
boll weevil. The pest will eat him up. The farmer who
goes in to win will do so. The grouchy, complaining one
will lose out. It’s up to us to bring prosperity into our
midst.
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ORIGIN OF “GEORGIA CRACKER.”
There have been many discussions about the
origin of the term “Georgia Cracker.” There
seems to be more than one \vay # of explaining it.
Not more than eighty years ago railroads in
Georgia were unknown. The farmers had to
carry their products to distant places for sale. The
leading market towns were Augusta, Charleston
and Savannah. Some planters had to travel over
a hundred miles to reach these places. They trav
eled in great canvas-covered wagons. In these
they carried their cooking utensils and provisions.
They also carried blankets to sleep on at night.
Neighbors living near each other made these
journeys together, therefore long trains of wagons
i were continually passing along the highways.
When night came on they would stop near a
stream or spring of water and prepare to spend
the night. Each driver carried a whip, which he
popped and cracked as he went along. From this
the expression of “Georgia Cracker” originated,
the cracker being a man from the country who
drove the wagon and cracked his whip,
Richard Malcolm Johnson says that among the
followers of Gen. Francis Marion in his guerilla
warefare was a number of Georgians who were
expert riflemen. The crack of these rifles was
| much dreaded by the British. They gave them
I the name of “Georgia Crackers.” After the war
jit became a social term, therefore the Georgians
| are 'llll called “Georgia Crackers.”
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Friends in this section of R. Lee Moore of
Statesboro will be interested in learning that he
has announced his candidacy for congress from the
l’irst District. His home paper, in endorsing his
i candidacy, ays of him: “He is a fair tighter, a
I graceful winner and an easy loser.” Editor Tltr
did motto for every man who goes into politics.
• did motto for every man who goes into politics.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR
IT FARMERS, TP!
BE LAND OWNERS
As Tenant Farmer, Yon Are In Los
’ Intr Games—New Gospel To Em
- brace Now Being Preached,
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t ATLANTA, Ga., —If you are a farm
er, you have a great work to do , a
magnlficient reform to achieve, a new
< gospel to embrace, according to Hon.
i J. J. Brown, Georgia’s Commissioner
i of Agriculture and proably one of
y the best informed men on agricultu
ral matters in the southern states.
i The job ahead of the farmer is the
c business of making the Georgia farm
- keep pace with Georgia progress,
f says Mr. Brown, and the farmer can
i do it! He can do it, as Mr. Brown
, shows, because he is worthy of the
c soil on which he works.
That soil, declares Mr. Brown, has
to its credit a new and peculiar cata
■ logue of wonders. The crops that
have come out of it have put the Em
. pi re State of the South in the fore
-5 front of the Union.
“In quality and quantity, in the
. ease with which they are produced
i and the prices for which they are
, produced and the prices for which
they are sold, they are the stuff to
gladden any farmer’s heart,” pro
, claims Mr. Brown.” In the matter of
agricultural wealth, Georgia has mark
ed up records that give the South a
new meaning in the minds of outsid
ers.”
Own Four Own Farm
To succeed as a farmer in this
state, where the average man is thfe
tiller of a limited number of acres,
Mr. Brown says the farmer has got
to get out of the tenant class and in
to the land owning fraternity; the
farmer has got to back up all his in
dustries skill with what agricultural
science, books, experiments and dem
onstrations can teach him; he and
his neighbors have got to buy and use
labor-saving machinery in common,
taking turns in using what the indi
vidual can not afford alone to pur
chase; he has got to buy his supplies,
sell his produce and finance his work
cooperatively and he has got to look
for and fine markets, cash markets
in nearby or convenient towns. The
State Bureau of Markets, as Mr.
Brown points out, will render valu
able assistance in finding markets
and in aiding the farmer to dispose of
his products. This bureau, it is fur
ther stated, was create'd for the sole
purpose of aiding and co-operating
with Georgia farmer in all market act
ivities. Expert, always on the job,
give the farmer their services with
out cost.
New Gospel For Farmer
That, in brief, is the new gospel of
the farmer, according to Commiss
ioner Brown.
Buy land. asw»the commissioner
prints out, and he at once sets his
face toward success. Land owner
ship breeds abilities and virtues to
which tenantry is poison. Own land,
the commissioner says, and a man, as
a farmer, will hold the pace of Geor
gia spectacular onward rush.
Above all, the farmer will pocket
his share c.f the gold that grows out
of the ground, the commissioner de
clares. In a state already famed for
its production of agriculture wealth
the farmer will be famous for his ag
ricultural prosperity. The farmer
will win ease and independence for
hlmelf and his Inn.i y.
You Do More Work,
You are more ambitious and you get more
enjoyment out of everything when your
Wood is in good condition. Impurities in
the blood have a very depressing effect on
the system, causing v/eakuess, laziness,
nervousness and sickness.
GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying
and Enriching the Blood. When yob feel
its strengthening, invigorating effect, see
how it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC
lis not a patent medicine, it is simply
IRON and QUININE suspended in Syrup.
So pleasant even children like it. The
blood needs Quinine to Purify it and IRON ’
to Enrich it. These reliable tonic prop
erties never fail to drive out impurities in
the biood.
The Strength-Creating Power cf GROVE’S
TASTELESS Chill TONIC has made it
the favorite tonic in thousands of homes.
More than thirty-five years ago. folks
would ridt a long distance to get GROVE'S
TASTELESS Chill TONIC when a
member of their family had Malaria or
needed a body-buihiing, strength-giving
tonic. 9 The formula is just the same to
day. and you can get it fiom any drug
store. 60c per bottle.
LOOK—REDUCED FARES.
Greatly reduced week-end round
trip fares via Georgia & Florida Ry.
good from Friday morning until the
following Tuesday night.
Consult nearest ticket agent.
D. F. KIRKPATRICK,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
The Quirlne Tbit Doe* Not Affect the Heod
Becanve of its tonic and laxative -fleet. LAXA
TIVE UKOMO QI'ININE than ordinary
rtm ’int and does not cause nervousness cor
l -.e T head Ber.ietaber the full nsrac and
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That Boy of Yours
You want that boy of yours to become a mon
of true worth, want him to make a success of life.
Os course you do.
You are probably giving him a good educa
tion in everything except one important matter.
Have you induced him to open an account at our
bank, so that he may thus early in life become fa
miliar with modern banking methods? If not, we
invite you to do so, and assure you we will assist .
in this important branch of his education.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF VIDALIA
I Vidalia, Georgia
Enough to Weather
Any Storm !•
IT is in time of business readjustment that the
real value of a bank foundation is shown.
Our Resources have been conserved in prosperous
days for just such a readjustment period as this
and with the added advantage of our Membership
in the Federal Reserve System we are better
equipped to serve you now than ever. * j
' THE BANK OF SOPERTON
CAPITAL $25,000.00 SURPLUS $25,000.00
X. L. GILLIS, President. J. E. HALL, \ .-Pres & C?sh.
j 3 O’CONNOR. V.-Pres. I. H. HALL, JR., Ass t Cash.
SOPERTON, GEORGIA
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: Right and Quality the Best. Patronage :
j of the public respectfully asked. «
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