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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1922)
■■■ ■ ■ s maXgattUKHM © I I LOCAL-PERSONAL g U ——— ft 0. .©::® ■© ©© © © ©©' ©■ ©;© ■ © r @)SSB&W®M S Mr. Clem P. Davis, a former | citizen of Tattnall county, and ( remembered by many Montgom ery county friends, stopped over in Mt. Vernon a few hours Tues-! day. For some time he has been residing in Moultrie, where he j has a successful business. Mrs Belle Salter, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Jordan and Miss Lizzie Coleman of Bartow spent Sun day with the family of Mr. © X. Salter, north of Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Salter is the mother, Mrs. Jordan the sister and Miss Cole man the aunt of Mrs. S- Z. Sal ter. They returned Monday morning. Mr- Bennett Frost of W-heeler county was a visitor to Mt. Ver non Tuesday morning. Mrs. I). W. Folsom and little daughter, Frances, were visiting relatives at Bellvilie, Claxton and Daisy this week. Mrs. L. C. Underwood, Mrs. H. L. Wilt and Miss Minnie Abt visited Vidalia Monday. Mr. James B. O’Conner of Kib bee was a business visitor to Mt. Vernon yesterday. Dr. 0. 1). Rackley of Millen left for his home this morning after spending the week in Mt. Vernon on account of the illness of Dr. E M. Rackley, his father. While here he took care of his father's practice, thus making of it a business as well as pleasure trip. On returning to Millen he will form a partnership with his uncle, Dr. Floyd L. Rackley, who has been in Millen for several/ years. Mr. W. S. Freeman, formerly postmaster at. Claxton, was a business visitor to Mt. Vernon yesterday and today. Among other interests, he is representing the Swift Fertilizer Co. Local Notes From Public School Grades. First Grade, The first grade pupils on an average, are doing very good work. Last week wo especially enjoyed making a “Peter Rab bit” sand box. The marks in attendance and punctuality are good. Last week we had only three absences and two tardies. Second and Third Grades —The pupils continue to improve in their work, and we hope to ac complish many many things dur ing this month. Three new pupils enrolled, which makes an enrollment of forty-one. We are very sorry that Mal colm Peterson is absent because of malarial fever. We hope to have him with us again real soon. Fourth Grade We, the Fourth grade, are going to work hard so our names will appear on the honor roll. That means our aver age must be 95 per cent. The pupils making highest average in our grade last month were: Anna Conner, Willie Joe Adamson, Juanita Avant, Clay Wilt. Fifth Grade—Genevieve Truett was the only new member to join our class for the coining seven months. We are glad to have her. Our examinations showed up pretty well. The marks that were not creditable last month, we hope to make so this. Each side is still racing to see) who will win in the contest for the next two weeks. The losing side will have to entertain the j winners. ( Sixth Grade—We had six new pupils this morning, making our! enrollment thirty. Parents, please see that your children have their books. We cannot do creditable work with out them. . We have been reading Greek myths and are now taking up Roman myths. The class is en joying them. Misses Kathleen White and Frances Arnau of Dublin have for several days been the guests of Mr and Mrs. Eugene D. . White, the former being a sister of Mr. White. Miss Arnau leaves I today for home. Quite a company of young peo ple from Ailey and Mt. Vernon met at the home of Messrs. E and W. Angus McLeod, a few miles south of Mount Vernon Tuesday evening to enjoy the festivities of the cane grinding now in progress on the McLeod plantation. Mrs. Fred M. Harris and sis ter, Miss Ruth Ranew, returned Monday from a visit to their for mer home at Leslie. Col. Harris went over Sunday to return with them. Mr E. 0. Dickson and family and Master D L. Conner spent the week-end at Wrens and other points in Jefferson county with relatives. Rev. L. E. Brady and family returned yesterday from a visit to their former home in Jackson ville, Telfair county. Mrs. M. M. Meeks and daugh ter, Miss Viola McDougald, of Savannah, visited relatives in Mt. Vernon today. ' Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mcßae and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mcßae at tended tin* state convention in Macon Saturday. l)r Harry Moses of Macon spent a short while with friends ''in Mt Vernon Monday afternoon. ! Dr. Moses is a native of Mont gomery county, and is one of the i most prominent physicians in the i state- Surgery is his specialty, and in this branch of the profes sion he has had remarkable suc j cess. Last week was spent by the Seventh grade standing tests. The highest marks made are as follows: Spelling—C. B. Cum mings, Willard Burch, Marguer ite Johnson, 96. Arithmetic — Ruth McCrimmon, 1(H). Agricul ture—Ruth McCrimmon, 97. En glish Marguerite Johnson, 99. 1 A report on geography and his i tory will be made next week. Our bulbs are growing rather fast and we hope to have blos soms in early December. We are beginning practice on our Thanksgiving program which we shall present the last Wed nesday night in November. Please examine carefully the reports that are made dnring October. Come to see us. The Four Sduare Club Delightfully Entertained. Misses Lee, Brown, and Mc- Whorter were hostesses to the Four Square Club which met on last Mondays Rook was played during the afternoon, Mrs. Julian Peterson and Miss Catherine Currie mak ing top score. A delicious salad course was served. Those present were Mesdames Gates. Weathers, Peterson, Miss les Geiger, McAllister, Beck, Douglas, Burk halter. Currie, Mann, Marie and Jesse Peterson. , The club will meet next with ; Mrs Julian Peterson at her love | ly home in Ailey. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. Cotton Ginned in County Prior to October 18th. Report on the amount of cot ton ginned in Montgomery coun ty prior to October 18, as sup plied by Collector of Statistics W. C Langford, from thejDe partment of Commerce, shows a total of 6296 bales, as against 3070 bales ginned to the same date of last year. This year’s gatherings and ginning was not interfered with by unfavorable weather, and to date the crop is practically out in this county and section. Makes Plea to Save Old Houston County. In their efforts to prevent the division of Houston county, in which the proposed Peach coun ty would take more of the old county than it leaves, and vastly more of its wealth, the citizens of Perry, joined by the citizens of Macon county and other sym pathizers in the adjoining coun ties, have sent out quite a lot of literature in which they ask their friends to vote against the ratifi cation of the new county. Quite a lot of the literature setting forth the facts in the case, as sent to this county from Perry, bears the name of a former citizen of Montgomery county, Mrs. J. W- Uhels, re membered by many Montgomery county friends as Mrs. W. H. McQueen. She is very pleasant ly located in Houston county, a few miles south of Perry, where they have considerable interests. Her children, two sons and a daughter, have their interests well and profitably invested in rich farm lands near Perry. Mrs. Uhels having seen much of the new county trouble before leaving Montgomery county, asks that her Montgomery county friends will vote against the di vision of Houston county, that their property may not be sub jected to higher taxation as a re sult of having the greater and better part of that county taken away. They will appreciate the efforts of their friends and ac quaintances in this county to aid them in the fight to retain the county and preserve their prop erty values. OFFER MARK TWAIN REFUSED Nothing Sadder, He la Reported to Have Said, Than Editorship of Humoroua Periodical. About that time my wife helped me put another temptation behind me. Tide was an offer of sixteen thousand dollars a year, for five years, to let my name be used aa editor of a hu inoroua periodical. 1 praise her for furnishing her help In resisting that temptation, for It la her due. There waa no temptation about It, hi fact, but she would huve offered her help Juat the auine If there had been one. 1 can conceive of many wild and extravagant things when my Imagination la tu good repair, but I can coucelve of nothing quite ao wild and extravagant aa the Idea of my ac cepting the editorship of a humoroua periodical. I should regard that aa the saddest of all occupations. If I should under take It 1 should have to add to It the occupation of undertaker, to relieve It lu some degree of Its cheerlessness. —From "Unpublished Uhapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain" In Harper's Magazine. Where Long' Necke Are Stylish. In Burma, among the Karens, a long neck Is the ambition of every woman Her mother starts thinking about this when her daughter is h baby, aud starts to accomplish this awau-ltke effect when the tots are scarcely able to walk. , The method employed la a aeries of heavy brass rings, which are as thick as your little finger. These are put around the child’s neck, aud as she grows, more rings are added, thus forcing her neck to lengthen out. More rings are added year after year as the girl grows Into womanhood. Twenty-one of these colla la the aver age worn, although SB have been achieved. The 21-rlng-collared woman is thought beautiful, hut the '.IS-rlnged lady la considered a raving beauty under the Karens of Burma. —For best results ship your cotton to the old reliable Cotton Factors, THE JOHN FLANNERY C 0.., Sa vannah, Ga. 9-28 > A < Cabbage Plants * 115 c 100 £ < >\ J Onion Sets £ ] 15c Qt. > j C •j FOR THAT COLD J 14 Jp 4 VSE ► 4 CURRIE’S COLD TABLETS £ 4 > MOUNT VERNON * < DRUG CO. I Irwwwvvvw^ _ Ladies of Auxiliary Shower Recent Bride. Complimentary to Mrs. Hobson) Wells the ladies of the Mt. Ver- j non Auxiliary, of the Presby-i terian church, gave a miscella- j neous shower at the home of Mrs. W. C. Mcßae Saturday as- ’ ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wells are residing there. Sixteen or more ladies were present, and the occasion re solved itself into a very pleasant social gathering, attended by a number of friends not members of the Aqxiliary. The bride re ceived many articles of service and ornament, including hand work, glass and chinaware, bed linen, 'kitchen utensils, etc. The gifts were presented in a clothes basket borne by Mrs. Mc- Rae, following the introduction of the clothes line carried in by ; little Misses Esther and Naomi Wells, sisters of Mr. Hobson ! Wells. During the charming im promptu ceremony Mrs. Mcßae reniered a poem appropriate to the occasion. At a seasonable hour saltines and hot chocolate were served by Mesdames E. I). Adams and N. Durham Cobb. The affair was in the nature of a surprise to Mrs. Wells, byway of formally i welcoming her to Mt. Vernon, following their marriage several weeks ago. MULES FOR SALE. Four gocxl draft mules, ages 7 to 10, weight 1200 to 1240, for sale at right prices. J. T. BRACK, It' Rt. 2, Mt. Vernon, Ga. DR. V. M. BARCO Chiropractic Specialist Chronic and Nervous Diseases Offices over Bank of Soperton, Soperton, Ga. Mrs. J. E Thompson’s, Vidalia At Soperton, Mon. Wed., Frida) At Vidalia, Tues. Thurs., Sat. THE UNIVERSAL CAR I SSO REDUCTION II Effective Oct. 17, the Ford Motor Co- authorizes I the following reduction in prices f. o- b. Detroit: I Chassis ... $235 Runabout, regular - 269 j Touring, regular - 298 I - Truck Chassis - - 380 I Coupe ■ 530 Sedan, two door - - 595 Sedan, four door - 725 II Starter - - - 70 J Demountable llims - 25 I These are the Lowest Prices in the history [• || of the Ford Motor Co. | MT. VERNON MOTOR COMPANY I Eugene D. White, Manager Mt. Vernon, Ga. I SPECIAL | 1 TO MONITOR READERS I ! Friday and | Saturday Only I Men’s Good Grade QQ _ || OveraHs ' ZJOC | |j Men’s $2.50 V/ork J 75 jP (Full Line of Men’s and Boys’ Fall \\ and Winter Suits at Reduced Prices gj Stylish and Seasonable Goods at Economical £ Figures. Dry Goods, Shoes, Furnishings, Etc. £ THE FAIR STORE 1 Pj MOUNT VERNON, GA. 0 I Charley Abt Says 1 “Advertising in the home s» | paper pays” | - WE BELIEVE HIM I We say trading with home || merchants pays S Let g ICONNER-DICKSON CO. | be your grocers j| Phone 69 Mt. Vernon ||
