Newspaper Page Text
The Montgomery Monitor
rmblUbrU every liiureuaj. OfUciul Orguu .Uonlgoiuezy County
Subscription Rates: sl.-50 Per Year in Advance.
H7B. bOLSOM, OwnirT N. C. NAPIER, Lessee
Entered at the po*tofiice n Mt. Vernon, Ga., a, second
class mal matter.
L istgai ueivcrUewnenU u. im. invariably be paid in advance,
at the legal rate, and as the law direcla. and must be in hand
not later than Wednesday morning of tlret week of lnaertlon.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1922
CARELESS OF LIFE.
That automobile drivers ai*e growing more and
more careless and reckless is sigmticantly brought
out by a statement recently issued by Fairfax Har
rison, president of tin* Southern Railway, giving
figures as to railroad passengers killed on trains
and automobile passengers killed on road crossings.
Another significant fact by Mr. Harrison is that
railroad travel is becoming steadily safer, due no
doubt to the forethough and care and devotion to
duty of the railroad organizations.
For a period of thirty months, or from the
time the Southern Railway was released from Fed
eral control, to September 1, 1922, this great rail
way carried passengers equivalent to nearly half
the population of the United States, and under va
rying conditions, providential and human, including
stress of weather and stress of strike, without the
loss of a single human life. During this same pe
riod there has been a steadily growing toll of fatal
accidents at road crossings, resulting in loss of life
to passengers in automobiles, 58 lives being lost in
crossing accidents on the Southern lines.
Recklessness of automobile drivers is making
many thoughtful people insist on some law that
will safeguard human life, and there is a growing
demand in this state that a law be passed requiring
automobiles to stop before crossing the main line
of a railroad. Such a law, is in effect in Virginia
and is being agitated for Georgia and other states.
x
SOMETHING NEW IN POLITICS. .
We are glad the election is over, fur only last
week a shrewd Columbus citizen thought out a plan
of embarrassing and discomfiting a political candi
date whom he did not like, which if it ever gets gen
erally in use in Georgia is going to revolutionize
our present-day political campaigns.
This Columbus citizen, opposing a certain can
didate and desiring to shackle his aspirations and.
puncture his political hopes, had the said candidate
arrested on the ground that in making a house to
house canvass in the interest of his campaign lie
was proving a common nuisance. And the candi
date was forthwith locked up in jail until friends
could go to his rescue and bail him out.
W e rather expect to see this Columbus innova
tion spread like wildfire all over Georgia in the
campaign in 1924 and that many a candidate for
office in Georgia will be arrested on a warrant
sworn out by a political enemy alleging that his
methods of campaigning are making him a nui
sance. We may yet come to the point where one
of the chief requirements of an office-seeker will be
not a good_sized bank roll, but friends ready to
stand his ban and get him out of jail and so thwart
the evil plans of his political opponents. For the
great majority of our population still persist in he*
heving that all is fair in love and war and politics.
x
Xo doubt the Toombs county authorities, who
have been wrestling all the spring and summer withj
the problem of making the county’s income meet
•the necessary expenses of the county, wish that an
election would come along every thirty days or so
until the county could get cleaned up with all its
tax delinquents. The tax office had n!
fine week of it last week, there being a big rush of •
taxpayers who wished to pay up and keep their
names on the list of qualified voters.
RESOURCES $650,000.00 j
< > 5
————————— ————————————— ' 1 +
1 ► 4
:: - I
jj We offer to our depositors, strength, 1
ij security and service. |
I! More than 2000 satisfied customers, t
i« ♦
il We invite you to join us. |
|| j
«* v
| First National Bank of Vidalia, Georgia I
y I
•j “Where Your Money Is Safe” f
+ I 4 »«♦♦»»« ♦♦♦»♦»•» 4-4 ♦» >■>»♦
‘THE NEW DAY FOR PEANUT PORK.”
According to Mr. J. Sidney Cates, who under
the head of “The New Day for Peanut Pork,” con
tributes a very interesting article in a recent issue
of the Country Gentleman, a great opportunity lies
ahead of the southern hogman and the peanut-fed
hog can he made to bring a premium to the south
ern farmer instead of a penalty, as is now exacted
by the packing industry.
Mr. Cates reminds his readers tha the most
famous hams the country produces, the Smithfield
hams from the Southern Virginia hog country, and
the Brooks county hams from Brooks county, Ga.,
are from peanut-fed hogs. Yet in spite of this
tribute which people of discriminating taste have
paid the peanut-flavored ham, peanut-fed hogs, or
soft hogs, are discriminated against by the packers
at the rate of two to three cents per pound.
Much of the trouble is attributed by the writer
to the fact that the packers have used the identical
method of curing for the corn-fed and the peanut
fed hog, that is a short period in brine, a twenty
four hour smoking, and then the soft ham is shot
on the market. This method produces a ham that
is anything hut sightly, the packers failing to re
alize that the peanut-fed ham must, he cured by a
special process and smoked over a long period with
a cold smoke.
Mr. Cates also gives the interesting news that
the White Provision Company of Atlanta has prom
ised to put on the market peanut-fed hams and
shoulders cured by a special process and which will
he quality production which will not be discrimi
nated against.
The article also tells of a recent test conducted
bv the Division of Animal Husbandry at at Wash
ington in connecteion with the Home F.conomics
office of that department. A select lot of hard
hams and a select lot of peanut-fed hams were
turned over to the home-economics people for
cooking. The cooked product was passed around
to a large number of people, each sample being la
beled only by number, with a request for opinion
as to relative quality. Os the judges who were
supposed to know hams, it is stated that first, sec
ond and third places went to the peanut-fed hams
Southern people have long known of the swet
rvess.' juiciness and fine flavor contained in the pea
nut-fed ham. when carefully cured, and we are glad
In know that steps are under wav for putting prnp
crlv cured peanut-fed hams and shoulders on the
market in large quantities. Tt should mean that
in future rears the porkers sold from the peanut
fields of the South will bring a higher per
pound than the corn-fed hogs of the Middle West.
x
A MILLION DOLLAR CROP.
According to E. C. Westbrook, farm manage
ment specialist of the Georgia College of Agricult
ure, the tobacco crop in Georgia this year brought
practically a million dollars to the farmers of the
state. The total crop is estimated at .$,525,000
pounds, and the gross receipts amounted to $946,-
000.00, or an average of 24 cents per pound.
Though the total amount of tobacco raised this
year is only slightly more than half of that pro
duced in 1921, the prices which prevailed were so
much better that the total amount of money real
ized was more than that of last year. Some farm
ers realized as much as SSOO per acre.
The successful growers during the past four
or five years that tobacco has become a great crop
in Georgia are the men who have planted a few
acres and have given their crop careful attention.
x
In the primary in Toombs county, voters were
asked to vote for or against the Lyons City Court.
We regret that not knowing this measure was to he
j voted on in the primary election, a detailed expla
| nation of the proposed measure was not carried in
the county papers. For a large number of the
voters ofthe county, it was voting in the dark.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR Thursday, September 14, 1922
111
. jl jli
They are
GOOD! IU |
ADOPT RESOLUTIONS ON
DEATH OF DR. J. I. LANE
The following fcesolutions on the
death of Dr. John 1. Lane were
adopted by the First District Masonic
Convention in session in .Vidalia last '
week:
Whereas, it has pleased Almighty
God to call from his labors here to .
the Celestial Lodge above our beloved 1
brother and friend, John I. Lane, for ;
many years Treasurer of this Conven- •
tion; and
Whereas, his life was an illustra- 1
tion of the noble principles inculcated ;
by our Order, a blessing to his com- ■
inunity and state, an inspiration to the <
youth and young men of his neigh- ’
borhood, blazoned with the purple of ’
service, with the scarlet of sacrifice, •
and lighted with the white light of <
truth and honesty; and ,
Whereas, while we shall miss his *
hearty hand-clasp, his cheerful smile, *
and his helpfpl and comforting pres- <
ence, as well as his earnest thonght, ,
his abiding common sense and his j
faithful service, yet we know that tms •
separation will be but for a little <
*
while;
Therefore, he it resolved: That 1
while we bow with humble submis
sion to the decree of our Father, re- :
moving our brother to a higher and
better life, and while we mourn his
loss, yet we do not mourn as tnose
without hope, for we firmly trust that
by the practice of the tenets cf our
noble Order and a faithful discharge
of our duties here, ar.d a firm faith
and steadfast trust in the Grand Au
thor of the Universe, we may here
after clasp once more his vanished
hand in love and friendship.
Resolved, further, that we extend
our respectful sympathy to the widow
and family of our deceased brother
and hope that our Father will comfort
them in their great loss, according to
the promise. *
Resolved, further, that these resolu
tions be spread on the minutes, and a
copy thereof he sent to his widow.
Respectfully submitted,
P. S. RICHARDSON
m. a. McQueen
J. L. TRAVIS
Committee.
A “NEW” BATTERY MADE
FROM THE JUNK PILE
‘•lt’s human nature to try and get
the utmot out of your battery be
fore you scrap it,” says Mr. Silas
Davis of the local Exide Battery Ser
vice Station. “ But when a legiti
mate service station finally tells you
that furhter repairs can no longer be
economically made, rest assured that
there isn’t much left of that battery
that is fit for any further use.
"Nevertheless there are a number of
irresponsible dealers who are buying
up these junked batteries and from
the least worn parts, supplemented by
a very few new parts, are assembling
other batteries whirh they sell to the
unsuspecting, bargain hunting auto
ists as “rebulit” batteries.
"I understand that only about five
per cent of the total number of parts
used in these rebuilt batteries are new.
These parts are usually l niued to a
few new plates, an occasional sepa
arator and the electrolyte. Os couise
shiny, well-painted cases are used to
make the whole look attractive, but
no matter what is paid for such bat
teries they are erpensive, and it won’t
be very long before the motorist real-
I izes that another battery is necessary
again.
"If motorists could only be made to
understand what they are getting in
buying batteries of this kind, they
; would realize the economy of purchas-
I ing standard batteries from reputable
I service stations, where effort is made
; to give the customer maximum ser
| vice.
“The best advice that I can offer a
motorist is this—dodge the rebuilt bat
i terv shops if you don’t want to buy a
battery that may contain parts of the
j very one you junked at some previous
time: it isa’t beyond the realms of
possibility.”
. w
i Spotted Poland China
j Bred Sow i
Sale
* ::
% ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1922, WE WILL
| SELL FIFTY BRED SOWS AND GILTS AT •;
% AUCTION IN OUR SALES PAVILION ON
THE FARM EIGHT MILES NORTH-WEST
| OF DUBLIN, GEORGIA. H
t_ < ►
:: x ::
* A barbecue dinner will be seived at 12, and the »►
11 sale will begin promptly at 2. You are invited to *>
;; attend. We know it will be to your interest be- 11
cause the boll weevil will get a large part of your 1 ’
11 cotton this year and hogs are the best and surest <►
11 money crop that can be substituted for cotton, < ►
;; They.will make two crops a year and always sell 11
• » for cash. In many of the best counties of South 1}
11 Georgia this year they will tell you, “We don’t know ••
what would have become of us if it was not for the .»
11 hogs sold in our county.” They will say that in 11
your county also if you give the hog a chance. H
11 " Remember the date, Sept. 14th. Make your
11 arrangements to attend this sale —the only sale of .1
11 Spotted Poland China Bred Sows that will be held 11
in the South this fall. You will be able to buy in H
11 this sale and save cost of shipping from other states.
11 Catalogs will be mailed on request. In case <*-
11 you cannot attend the sale, mail your bids to M. E. 11
•> Crowe, care Elmwood Stock Farm, Dublin, Ga., 11
11 and, he will look after them on the day of sale at ] 1
$ the sales ring.
♦ ”
? x 11
i Elmwood Stock Farm 1
❖
f Breeder’s Storehouse For 11
SPOTTED POLAND CHINA HOGS
% M. C. &N. B. DOM I NY, Props., DUBLIN, GA. £
t**.;.» ,|. ,|. .{■ .|. 1.. •!■»•;< ** * » ■!< * »l< ** * * >t< **» »* * ♦»* » »!■ *>V * >♦♦♦
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.
THE BANK OF SOPERTON
CAPITAL $25,000.00 SURPLUS $25,000.00
N. L. GILLIS, President. J. E. HALL, V.-Pres & Cash.
J. B. O’CONNOR, V.-Pres. I. H. HALL, JR., Ass’t Cash.
SOPERTON, GEORGIA
1 Farm Loans City Loans ;•
T t f
5 I have a special fund of $75,080 to loan on improved farm lands ~
X and city property in Vidalia, on the best terms that it is possible ,
T to obtain anywhere. This money must be placed within the next J!
4 thirty days. Let me have your application at once, and I will get
4. the money for you quickly. '•
| B. P. Jackson, ;;
t FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
% VIDALIA, GEORGIA « <►
f 11
* 7
I ENGRAVED CARDS «
* ::
♦ The Advance is local representative for one of the best ~
♦ engraving houses in the South. If you are in need of en- ~
* graved visiting cards, we would be glad to have you inspect 1,
| samples and get quotation on prices. *■
| THE VIDALIA ADVANCE il
! * i