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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1922)
. COLLEGE BOY REAL SALESMAN ■right Idea That Enabled Him to Dispose of the Last Egg Cups in Stock. Two college boys were petidling odds and ends of china in an unfrequented farming district. They stopped their ancient chugging truck before a typ ically unpretentious establishment. A round, solemn woman with her arms rolled up in her gingham apron ap proached the automobile, only mildly Interested. The lad with the keen blue eyes and the quirking mouth asked in a brusque tone, “Is there any thing you would like in coffee cups, aoup bowls or milk pitchers?” “No,” responded the woman disin terestedly, then brightened slightly as ahe added, “but I’d kinda like to look at some egg cups.” “Yes, maddlh,” said the boy as he deftly slid the cover off a box contain* lng five dusty but dainty receptacles. “You’re'lucky to get these, too; there are only five left.” The woman shook her head dubi ously. “Can’t use ’em. Five aren’t enough. There’s eight in our family.” And she started back to the house. “Walt a minute,” called the boy frantically as he saw the possibility of a sale disappearing without a struggle. "Perhaps all of your family don’t eat eggs.” The woman reflected a minute and then back. The merest sugges tion of eagerness was registered on her placid countenance. “That’s right,” she said. “Five is all I do need. I’ll take ’em.”—Chicago Journal. BARON BELIEVED HIS YARNS Munchausen Said to Have Deceived Even Himself by His Tales of Wild Adventures. Baron Munchausen was the imagi nary author and hero of a series of wonderful tales entitled “The Adven tures of Baron Munchausen.” They were first published in Kngland in 1785 by Rudolph Erich Itaspe, an expatri ated German, and were followed by translations and imitations in German and other languages. The name of the hero is said to be derived from Jerome Charles Fred erick von Munchausen, a German offi cer in the service of Russia, who be come notorious for his ridiculous tales of adventure. It is said that by dint * of repetition he came finally to believe impllclty in the truth of his most ex travagant stories. The authorship of these tales is in dispute, although one authority says “the author is Rudolph Erich Itaspe. and the sources from which the adven tures were compiled are Bebel’s ‘Face tiae,’ Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano,’ Bilder mann’s ‘Utopia,’ and some of the baron’s own stories.” Return of the Trencher. The poet’s table was set with very old plates—they were blocks of wood a foot square and two inches thick, wherein the plate proper was hollowed or dug. “These,” the poet said, “are trench ers, real old medieval trenchers. We derive from them the phrase, ‘a good trencher-man,’ you know.” As he spoke he served his guests with the hash of meat and potatoes that composed the frugal luncheon. “The high cost of servants,” he went on, “makes the revival of the trencher a necessity for us poor poets. Now, friends, clean your trenchers like good trenchmen; sop the gravy up with bread; then turn them over for the pie course.” The guests duly turned their trench ers over, and tlftre on the other side was another plate, dug or hollowed out of the wood, just like the first one. “Two plates in one,” said the poet delightedly. “What a saving, eh?” As Night After Day. The scene was a bedroom in a sub urb, and a wearied parent was prom enading the floor at a weird hour of the early morn, with his first-born In his arras. Many vain endeavors to soothe the Infant’s cries had been made, but the little one was laboring under the impression that tilings needed waking up and that he was the person to do it. “It seems to me you knew what you were ajxiut,” groaned Plckelbury to his wife, “when you Insisted on the child being called ‘Hugh.’ ” “What has his name to do with his fretfulness?” asked the unsuspicious wife. “Everything l” refilled the wretched man. “You would call him ‘Hugh,’ you know, and where there is a hue there’s always a cry.” —London Tit-Bits. Our English Language. Misplaced phrases cause many mis understandings. Here are some col lected by Everybody's Magazine from publications all over the country. The owners of apple trees, some of which have not been looked after for years, are undergoing pruning all through this section. “Special* dining-room for „ ladles, ■teaks ana chops.” For Sale —Five-room house, all mod ern. Good chicken-house.” A physician advises parents never to ■punk a child op up empty stomach. ' ■ Just a Gesture. ' “What good did It do you to emp '■ ty your shotgun at thut aviator? You couldn't possibly hit him?” “Well,” replied the Irate farmer , “I’m gettin’ tired of them fellers flyin | low over my property. He couldn’t j hear me cuss. What other way did 1 have to express my sentiments?— BhmiPghain Age-Herald. YOU CAN WIN gjgyi How Many Objects in This Picture begin With the Letter “S”? The above picture contains a number of objects f> -qin ning w'tli the letter "S.” Ji at mill > geo I» ' t picture All you need to do is to find the Visible Objects Beginnlt g With the Letter "S.” It's easy o find the j —at a glance you see skate, shovel, shoe, etc. The ether objects arc Just as easy to tiled A .0 . n g' iss i r j cemiired to find the oujects, and there is absolutely no tri to the puzzle whatever. You >0 not a, 0.1 .0 turn t upside down or sideways to find the “S-Word” objects. There are fifteen big prizes: surely you s ould br ib j to win one 'of them. * <: , A TRULY WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY ! Truly wonderful opportunity for you. I Wouldn't it be wonderful to win the j■? 125<> 00 or Buick S.x Touring Car? : Think of your surprise and delight, and think what all your friends would say It is so easy to place yourself in line for one of the big pri/.es. l)o not toss a chance lo win sucli a Big Prize away. The Puzzle Game is open i to everyone. We have made it very dear and simple to solve, hut placing yourself in line is up to you. YOU CAN WIN $1250.00 , OR BUICK SIX TOURING CAR The "S-Word" Picture Game is a campaign to increase the popularity of The Macon Daily Telegraph. It costs nothing to take part in this game, and yoq do not have to send in a single subscription to win a prize. If your list of S-Words is awarded First Prize by the judges you will win $25 00, hut if you would like to win more than $25.00, we are mak ing the following offer whereby you an win larger Cash Prizes by send i big in one or two subscriptions to The Macon Daily Telegraph Here’s The Way To Win: Jf your nsver to the "S-Word” Picture wins first prize and you have sent in one six months subscription to The Ma- I con Telegraph at $4.50 you will re ceive $:!50 00 instead of $25.00. Sec ond Prize $200.00, etc. (See second column in Priztf List). Or Should Your Answer Win First • Prize and you have sent in TWO 6 month subscriptions at $4.50 each or ! ONE yearly subscription to The Ma i con Daily Telegraph at SO.OO, you will receive $1250.00 in place of ‘525.00. Second Prize $500.00. etc. (See third column in Prize List). How is that for a liberal offer? Now, further, as a Special Offer "'e will allow the participant having the Best List of "S-Words” If fully qual ified, the choice of $1250.00 Cash or a New Buick Six Touring Car, value $1,150 00. F. O. 8., Macon, Ga. I It takes but TWO 6 month sub ! enptions at $l5O or one yearly *ub j seription at $9.00 (new or old) to I qualify for the Big $1250.00 award ' Absolutely that is the maximum. Your own subscription can count. We will also take subscriptions to start at some future date. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable In Advance. By Mail, .Carrier, or Agent. daily and Sunday Six Months $4.50 One Year $9.00 Upon Request We Will Send Extra Large Puzzle Picture Free. jj 's&tto. THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH j . - i— i nMfuir ..JIM* * sm,-maar*- ■ Business in n| Dist. Improving Business conditions in th« sixth led 3arl reserve district at the present time are better than they have been i .it any time in more than two years,! according to The Monthly Business Review, a journal published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The sixth district Includes all of Georgia, parts of Tennessee, Miasis ippi, and Lousjana, and all of Ala bama, and Florida, and clearly indi cates that business in the southeast ern states is thriving and' fast ap proaching that condition decribed a? normal. Commenting on the Industrial and econmic situation In the territory em braced in the sixth federal reserve dis trict, the journal says: “While the coal and ralroad strkes have been settled, the effects of both are stll being felt, and will be felt for some time to come. Coal prices are high, and this fact U having'the \ effect, of retarding industrial activity | to some extent, while railroad equip | ment, both cars and locomotive, Is in , bad shape ant,’ difficulties of trang-; ! poration are being experienced in all 1 lines of industrial and commercial activity where the shipment of com , modities is an important factor. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. K THE PRIZES —Winning Answers Will Rece ve Prizes ;o FoTows: ; - P ~e if r I Prizes if Pr res i* fn- 6- M nh or 1 Subscription-, 6-Mcnth Sub Yearly S-D r Are Sent is Sent At Srn Ist Prize ... $25.00 $350.00 $1250.0-' 2nd Prize 15.00 201.00 500.0 i 3rd Prize 10.00 100.00 300.0 u 4th Prize 5.00 50 00 ’50.0' sth Prize 6.C0 25( 0 00.00 6th Prize i 5.00 ' 20 00 75 0- 7th Prize 5.00 20.00 50.00 Bth Prize 2.00 10 00 15.00 9tli Prize 2.00 10.00 25.00 10th Prize 2.C0 10.00 ’5 00 11th Prize 2.00 10.00 25 00 12th to 15th Prize 2.00 10.00 J 5 0C AUTOMOBILE FREE —As a spec. t,I p Ize for the Lest eTfOit »hc n,n the game we will allow the particln nt h.iwi g t 1 e best list of "S-WORDS,” If fully qualified, the cb.o ccT $1.2: 000 c hoi a NEV 1923 BUICK SIX TOURING CAR. Vaiu 51,350 CO, f o b M can (This car Is now on display nt the Du-il. p-Huck„bee S. :e. R om, Corner Third and Pine Streets, Macon, Ga.) ' CONTEST RULES 1. —Anyone residing in the t'tate of Georgia, outside the iit es oi Atlanta and Athens, is eligible to compete In th-s content, cx.epi the employes of The Macon Telegraph an 1 me I ei> of the! fain ilies, and previous winners in our recent "B-Word" puzzle. 2. —All word lists and subscriptions must be received an : - nvoiop * postmarked not later than December 2, 1122. 3. —Two or more people may co-operate in answering the puzzle hut only one prize will be given to any one household, or to any one group 4. —Only English words will he counted Obsolete, ' ph urt'd i compounded words will not he counted. Either I lie singular or plural of a word may he used, but both s ng« l.ir u. m r■ ; . i not count. Each article or object <an be given only one n -re However, any visible part of an object may also lie named. Single words made up of two separate words will not c< un Webster's International Diet onaiy will lie tin n-'l author!!.. Where several synonyms are equally apt llcablc to an object shown in the picture, a person submitUng any one of such sen n ra will be given credit for one word c rtiy 5. —The largest list of words rectly name visible objec s be ginning with the letter ‘‘S” in ihe picture will nice vc first piiz . and so on down the list of 15 prizes. The w! ang i's ar|. i,5 j made up from among the words submitted r>> 'lie < onrc.nt nts, and not controlled by any predetermined I 1 >•“ • Is seieite J by the judges as being the "correct" or “n.as list (i.—One point will be allowed for each correct word and one po ti deducted for each incorrect word , 7.—ln case of Mes for any prize offered, the ft 11 amount us j r‘z, tied for will be awar ied each tying contest ti B—The final decision will be made by three e I’lielv In*.* 1 pendent of and having no connection with the fn on D ily T-ie graph. They will judge the answers suhnvt'ej and ward h prizes at the end of Ihe contest. Each pint". 1,,, nt cht rlhp «*•* ! contest agrees to accept the decision of tire judges is ’jia! an conclusive. All answris wll! receive th» mine cored er ti ,n whether a subscription Is sent or net At the el< -e of the o a when ail lists have been gre. id, '):• Ist winning Hist prize the names of the prize winners will he published. 9. —Write word* on one aide of ti. • paper only number them s cessively 1, 2. 3. 4. etc., with ycur name nd d l errs In r right hand corner of each sheet. TypewritL n I• ts are pr-for.-ni however, hand-written lists will not count again t you nr. <* r.ealness affect your scot * 10. —An enlarged picture on gloss paper w.ll b> sent ujs- • re m 11. —ls a contestant sands us more than cne 1- i n er -n k name or pie-married ..nine, then al! lists of such conte- ant wll* )•« disqualified. * t “Retail trade, reported by repre-! sentatjve department stores through out the sixth district, was larger In the aggregate during September than iin the same month last year. This is the first time In many months that! ! alase have shown an increase over the j I corresponding month a year earlier, | anc may be taken as the definite : turning point toward a better volume of business. Wholesale trade In Sep tember in this district was not quite up to that of August, especially in those lines highly seasonal, but the decreases reported were all small, and six of the eight lines under Investi gation reported Increase over Septem ber 1921. Transportation difficulties are responsible In part for the lack of activity. Cotton Crop Larger “The financial return from the agri cultural crjyps of the district this year will exceed that of last year by a sub stantial amount, although In some sec tions gome of the crops produced have not equalled those of last year In ac tual volume. The cotton crops Is larger than last year in each state in this district except Tennessee and the higher price prevailing will show Y substantally higher return to this | section than was received for the 1921 crop Reports from different parts of the district indicate that the crop is being nicked, ginned anu marketed more rapidly this year than was the ! case last year, and the statement pub lished by the census bureau showing cotton ginned, shows that 3,833,006 bales of the present crop had been ginned prior to September 35th, 1922. ! while only 2,920,392 bales hah' been ! ginned up to that time In 1921. The hanks are amply provided with funds | for crop moving and harvesting, and report considerably increased depos its at the end of September in com parison with the same period last year. "• 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., Friday At Vidalia, Tues. Thurs., Sat Petty’s Cotton Seed is Given First Prize Product Grown on Dawson Farm is Ranked Highest at Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. Dawson, Ga., Oct 23.—Petty’s improved toole wilt resistant cot ton seed, grown and improved on the H. A. Petty farm, has won another distinction of note, hav ing been awarded first prize at the Southeastern Fair, which was neid in Atlanta during the past week, Petty’s seed have heretofore won the distinction having rank ed first in the 1921 cotton varie ty test held at the Georgia State College of Agriculture, with re gard to yield of lint cotton per acre; also having ranked first in yield acre in the 1921 cotton va riety test held at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station near Tifton. On the farm qf the Georgia State College of Agri culture, some thirty odd varie ties of cotton were used in the test, Petty’s improved toole hav ing ranked first. We have the above seed for sale. See us at once if you want these prize winners for your 1923 cotton crop. D. S. & W. G. WILLIAMSON, UVALDA, GEORGIA vmTmrrmj » 4 | Delays Over .» . 4 * 1 * ► The farmer no longer has to suffer \ : delays in getting advances on improved 3 » < : farm lands for improvements or other « ► demands of the farmer. Finances have < ► * taken a turn to the extent of making 3 Cash Plentiful j . : * and we can get it for t,h<* farmer at low 3 » 4 : rates of interest. Our companies are \ : anxious to lend money to farmers who 3 ► may need it, without delays and with 3 ► satisfaction to borrower. If you want « l action, along with cash, say “money” to ; ► 4 \ L. C. UNDERWOOD j l ' MT. VERNON, GA. 3 ► 4 ► ' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA • AAAAAAAAAAAAA J AAAAAAAAAAA • CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always / Bears the X* llii Signature bit Cheerfulness and RestCoitoto /(\AI/ neither Opium,Morphineof ' / \\ . 1^ Mineral. Not Nahcotic, Ui |L\| if* fj jjty ( /dbU}cUii^' aaa \ 4 Ajl/ ml ' il \ |V\ iIM 11 Sttm* \ I II |s| ■ (\ Jfv In . If lit | U y I B| ; Ahelpfulkemedyfcf /TP -L I] CO m \jr for Over SijS jj facsimile Sijn*s1 of I Jnr. Crtn/jjti C(^^ g ' Thirty Years Ig^CASTOffIA Exact Copy of Wrapper. tm« ccwtaur company. new york cm. i Mr.'Petty began improving his cotton in 1916 or 1917 by the sin gle stalk selection method, being very careful to keep records on the different plots and having his cotton ginned on a private gin on the H. A. Petcy farm, thereby keeping his seed absolutely pure as he did not gin for the public. Mr. Petty has continued the above method until now, his suc cess is quite evident and the de mand for Petty’s improved cot ton seed is much greater than the supply available and he cannot fill the orders received for seed. His cotton has made a very creditable showing in all sections planted. Mr. Petty has made shipments of his seed, not only out of the State of Georgia but out of the United States and in to China and Italy.
