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Poplar Head News.
Our school is just fine. Some
of those who have been absent
are in school again.
Mr. C. L. Jones and family
were the guests of Mr. G. L. Lacy
and family Sunday.
Miss Mary Esther Phillips
spent the night with Miss Vic
toria Palmer Saturday.
Mr. H. A. Braddy and daugh
ter, Miss Atlas Braddy, were the
guests of his mother, Mrs. M. A.
Braddy, Sunday.
Mr. C. M. Hamilton and fami
ly spent Friday night with Mrs.
W. A. Conaway near Kibbee.
Quite a large crowd from this
section attended church at Ruth’s
Chapel Sunday.
Mr. C. H. Collins and family
were the guests of Mr. Lummie
Collins and family Sunday.
Misses Atlas and Thelma Brad
dy and Mary Esther Phillips
were the dinner guests of Misses
Otha and Velma Warnock Sun
day.
Miss Mattie Phillips, Mrs. D.
H. Phillips and Mrs. W. N. Mox
ley visited Mrs. H. A. Braddy
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Price and
Mrs. C. C. Warnock motored to
Vidalia Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Russ Conaway and family j
spent Friday night with the fam
ily of Mr. Bob Thigpen.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Conrway
were the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Collins Thursday.
Misses Atlas and To lma Brad
dy spent Saturday night with
Miss Gladys West.
Mrs. H. A. Braddy visited Mrs.
G. E. West Saturday.
Mr. G. E. West made a busi
ness trip to Mt. Vernon Monday.
Ifarm loans!
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A. B. HUTCHDSON 1
MT. VERNON, GA. II
I THE HOUSEHOLD NEEDS |
ARE CONSTANT 1
But no Need of the home is more
important than something to supply
the table. To this call we make
ready response hy referring jjlj
you to our superb line of *;jj
Fresh and Cured Meats 0
I Fresh Fish and Oysters ji
and Table Delicacies
Bread Received Daily. See us for the
things that satisfy the taste
SANITARY HARKET §
S. S. Bush MT. VERNON, GA. |
True Enough.
In the course of a letter pub
lished in last week’s issue of The
Industrial Index, one of our cor
respondents said:
Just stop and think what the
South has been through the past
sixty years: Utter destruction
from the war, the trying days of
reconstruction, panics. Doesn’t
it always come back, and refuses
to stay down? Look what it is
today.
The spirit of the South is in
the fiber ofjthe people who have
lived through these things, and
who realize it is the land of op
portunity.
When a territory that is rich
within itself, in soil, in minerals,
in manufacturing industries, pow
erful banks, with the indomitable
spirit of its people behind it, be
gins to move, all obstacles will
crumble, and the road will be
clear to prosperity.
And all along the way the ever
increasing cry, “It’s great to be
a Southerner and it’s great to be
a Georgian.”—lndustrial Index.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Ruis spent
the day at the home of Mr. C. C.
Warnock Sunday.
Mrs. G. E. West was a visitor
at the home of Mrs. Lummie Col
lins Monday.
Our honor roll at Poplar Head
i School is as follows: Atlas, Thel
! ma, Claudine, Cecil and Stella
i Braddy, Felton and Nellie War
nock, Hattie and.N. L. Beasley.
Mr. Wyley Taylor and family
and Mr. Mack Newsome and
family were Sunday visitors at
the home of Mr. C. C. Warncck.
Mr. D. H. Phillips and family
visited at the home of Mr. J. M.
Phillips at Tarrytown Sunday.
—For best results ship your cotton
to the old reliable Cotton Factors,
THE JOHN FLANNERY C 0.., Sa
vannah, Ga. 9-28
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
OLD FORM OF TELEGRAPHING
Crude Method Employed by Ancient
Peoples, but It Conveyed the De
elred Information.
Practical telegraphy to not so en
tirely a product of modem science us
many may suppose. It is tradition that
Agamemnon telegraphed the fall of
Troy to Greece by means of bonfires ou
the mountain tops. Although there may
be nruch doubt as to whether this is
uot a mere legend, there can be no
question that In the second century
before Ciirist there was a system of
telegraphing in Europe by which mes
sages were sent from one place to
another by means of lire, the words
being spelled out letter by letter.
The letters of the alphabet were ar
ranged in five columns, so that any
letter could be designated by stating
in what column it wus contained aud
its number in that column. To convey
this information to a distance two
men, each having five torches, were
stationed behind two barricades; the
first, hy holding up the necessary num
ber of torches, indicated the number
of the column that contained the let
ter lie was sending, and the second in
dicated similarly the actual numerical
place of the letter in that column. It
is evident that by a series of stations
messages of any length could have
been sent —say from Koine to Athens.
HOLD VARIOUS BIRDS SACRED
People of Many Lands Strongly Super
stitious Concerning Some of the
Feathered Tribe.
Some Indian tribes will never hurt
or even toueli certain birds, regarding
them as the abode of the animated
souls of their dead chiefs. In Eng
land and Scotland, especially, the
robin Is regarded as sacred. Its red
breast is supposed to be of that color
because a drop of Christ's blood fell
on a robin, and thenceforward all rob
ins were so marked.
It is deemed unlucky to kill a swal
low or to destroy its nest. That is
because swallows were said to have
flown round the Cross of Calvary cry
ing “Svala Svula !” which means com
fort. It will be noticed that the swal
low gets its name from this peculiar
cry of “Svala.”
The wren is another sacred bird, be
cause, according to an old belief, it
brought Are form heaven to the earth
when the human race had no knowl
edge of how to create fire.
The thrush is a bird of luck, and
to have one build in the garden of
one’s home is said to be a sign of
coming good fortune.
Peacocks are unlucky.
Woo in Flower Language.
The language of flowers in the Near
East is no simple form of speech that
anyone may understand. Long and
elaborate communications may be sent
by bouquet if the lady is not too lazy
to learn a complicated code. There
is, say those Turks who claim to un
derstand it, a direct and an indirect
form of flower message.
The indirect message goes by words
that rhyme either with the name of
the flower or with the meaning of the
name of the flower. They go to
lengths in selecting and collecting
posies for bouquets to be sent singly
and in series that would be quite too
much trouble to the average Ameri
can. To the average American girl
It sounds too complicated to interest
anybody but a lady shut up in a court
yard without a telephone.
Sources of Folk Songs.
Because of the harmony of Its lan
guage and the beauty of its natural
associations, Italy is pre-eminently
the land of poetical and musical com
positions, says Raoul S. Bonanno in
Christian Science Monitor. To write
and sing sonnets appropriate to every
event is among the instincts of the
masses.
Two forms of folk songs are to he
distinguished : One spontaneous and
plebeian in origin, the other more lit
erary and less spontaneous. The
first can be traced in Italy to the very
source of the language, the second Is
not older than three or four centuries.
Sicily Is considered the source from
which all poetry, natural or cultivated,
sprang and passed into the rest of
Italy. Its songs, through assimilation,
became essentially and commonly Ital
ian, although to become such they had
to lose their original dialectical form.
Denatured Alcohol.
r>ttnatured alcohol is grain alcohol
made unfit for use as a beverage.
Completely denatured alcohol is made
by adding ten gallons of wood alcohol
and a half gallon of benzine to 100
gallons of ethyl alcohol. This is free
from government tax and may be
bought by any one for use as fuel or
light.
The denaturing must be done when
the alcohol is produced and In bonded
warehouses used exclusively for the
purpose and for storing denatured al
cohol, and is done under the supervi
sion of the government, according to |
the law. The grain alcohol may be
made from grain, corn, potatoes or
similarly starchy products, but the j
conditions under which it must he pro
| make it impracticable except j
j for well-equipped factories.
Dally News.
"I look at the paper every morn
ing,’' said Mrs. Housefly, “to see what
casualties have happened to my
friends.”
"What paper?”
“The fly paper.”—Louisville Courier
Journal.
I LOOK FORWARD-YESTERDAY IS DEAD! |
If all the sobs and sighs and tears S;
Os all the dead and vanished years ffi
Were brought together in one single spot,
Their energy combined could not
Restore one single shattered dream, S'
Rejuvenate a fruitless scheme, S'
Repair one broken pledge or heart, S;
Or render straight a crooked start. ig
So why waste time in vainjregret? 8a
Today is here and must be met; !S;
Start out anew, forget the pas', ;g ;
Great fortunes can still be amassed, S
Great reputations still be attained, *5
And posts of honor yet be gained.
Look forward, yesterday is dead, - Sj
The land of promise lies ahead. — Herbert Kaufman. 3
The above words, written by Kaufman, are true—every word of them — £
and should be an inspiration to every one. The sentiment expressed is so S
beautiful and inspiring that we want to pass them on to our friends that *
they may take courage from them. g
If we have made blunders in the past, if we have failed to get ahead so igj
far as tdis word’s goods are concerned, do not brood over the past, or lost |S
opportunities, but rather profit by them. Let us help you in your finances. £
You will always find us courteous, giving close attention to the minutest de- 8
E§ tail, whether your account be large or small.
I The Mount |
I Vernon Bank |
Officer of Bank Officer of Bank Officer of Bank |
H W. T. McARTHUR D. A. McRAE W. A. PETERSON
President Vice-President Cashier §
g; H. L. WILT, Assistant Cashier
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
By virtue of an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Montgom
ery County, granted upon the up
plication of John E. Mcßae, ad
ministrator of the estate of
James Morris, deceased, late of
said county, to sell the lands of
the said james Morris, deceased,
for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution, there will be;
so'd before the court house door!
of Montgomery county, Georgia,
at public outcry, to the highest
bidder for cash, in the city of
Mount Vernon, between the le
gal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in December, 1922, as
the property of said deceased,
the following described lands,
to wit: All that certain tract or
parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the 1348 rd Dist. G. M.
Montgomery County, Georgia,
and bounded as follows, to-wit:
On the north by lands of Melvin
Graham, Ladson lands arid Miss
Rosa Connell, on the east by
lands of Miss Rosa Connell and
John N. Connell; on the south by !
lands of W. O’Conner and Mrs.
Frances Gai'ner, and on the west
by lands of Mrs. Frances Garner,
N. L. Spooner and Mel
vin Graham, and contain
ing three hundred eighty and
three tenths (380.3) acres, more
or less, except fifty (50) acres
carved from said tract and set
aside for year's support of Mrs.
Mary Morris. Also all that tract
or parcel of land situated, lying
and being in the 1843rd Dist. G.
M. of said county and state and
bounded on the north by lands
of Mrs. E. T. McLeod, on the
east by lands of E. T.
on the south by M. C. Adams
and on the west by Oconee river,
and known as a portion of the
Sam Moore survey and containing
seventy-five acres, more >or less,
as shown by the record of deed
from E. T. McLeod to James
Morris, Jr., as recorded in Deed
Book No. 1, page 304 of tht
Clerk’s office of Montgomery
county, Georgia.
This the Bth day of November,
1922. J. E. Mcßae,
Administrator of the Estate of
James Morris, deceased.
Fine Hogs for Sale.
I will offer for sale on the Fair
Grounds in Mt. Vernon, Ga., at
9 o’clock a. m., on Monday, Nov.
13th, Big Bone Poland China
Gilts and Boars, and Registered
Sows. A. L. Lanier,
SEED OATS AND WHEAT.
Fulghum oats and Blue Stem seed
wheat for sale. Price right.
J. W. THOMPSON,
Ailey, Ga.
YOU iU'tE INVITED
. put my Store
tO the when in Need of
TESI
Dependable Herchandise
<SSSSS«««S»KSSiSI
at Satisfactory Prices
J. M. DAVIS UVALDA, GA. 1
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t MOUNT VERNON, GA. 2
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