The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, November 09, 1922, Image 7
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! Easy Terms @ I Prompt Service § wvvvao/iiv 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 E A STITCH IN TIME l ► * t Sounds like sewing, but it is not. 1 t It is to remind you to have your 2 J Blacksmith and Repair Work < X done by the man who does it right and 2 l Living Prices. H. H. JOHNSON j t MOUNT VERNON, GA. 2 MILLER TIRES I Nationally Known for Their Superb Quality FULL FORD EQUIPMENT FOUR TIRES | J4(h GAS . GREASES . OILS ■ SERVICE g See the New' Miller Wedge Tread and I Get Prices on Our Entire Line DIXIE FILLING STATION | Located at Corner Railroad Avenue and Aighway MT, VERNON 1 simmb—i.i