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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1922)
mtrvr ■■ 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. ✓ Legal advertisements must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and as the law directs; and must be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of first week of insertion. ‘ 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. x THEY DO, BRO. BOATRICHT. x- ■ 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. x 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. x Sorter looks like Larsen in the 12th District. x 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 ! :: | * * A «. x > + o + o (The Fourth) * O ... s ♦> 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 * o service. J ! 4 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 S f i * All through the sou rages in the business life J j 1 of the successful man you will find the bank plr.v- J X nig an important part —first in building up tin* ? * “nest egg” in the savings department and later * J in helping to make his business efforts as success- T 1 ful as possible. ♦ x + J* And the man who does not talk frankly with + his banker about his own affairs cannot hope to * 4 get the banker’s most helpful service. I 4 I \ The First National Bank I i ... I | of Vidalia , Georgia ! ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦444444444444444444»44444-l-i»44444» <-++->■+<-+ y-F»»4-i-444-i->-«.-:-->-M-:--H-»> f “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. r 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.” i x 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, f 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. 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