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Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, Dec. 21, 1922.
Women Withhold Support
From Topers.
News dispatches say that one
hundred women of Swainsboro
have taken an obligation to sup
port prohibition candidates fori
offices from municipal to national]
henceforth. Nothing wrong about
this. Singular that this resolu
tion should be predicated on the
death of a stranger in that city
from poisoned liquor; but the
thought of a man dying away
from home, without friends and
kinsmen seems to have had its!
effect on the ladies, knowning as ]
they must have that he sacrificed
life to the greed of some man
willing to sell him a few ounces
of poison for a few dollars, or
possibly less. Millions have fal
len by the wayside as a result of]
drink, and thousands of homes
have been wrecked by i<s use;
every cross-roads harnlet’has had |
its tragedies -yawning graves to
ope n and take in its victims and i
yet the taste for poison is not
lost. The case at Swainsboro
may have been an outstanding
one —at least it was clear enough
to prompt a commendable resolu
tion on the part of the women of
that town, and one which could
well be followed by thousands of
others, both men and women.
Has Built Own Monument
for Futurity.
One week from today, Decem
ber 28, will be celebrated the six
ty-eighth anniverysary of Wood
row Wilson. This celebration is
being put on by friends more or
less in touch with the renowned
son of the South, and with it
there will be made a strong ef
fort to raise the remainder of the
$1,000,000 peace fund bearing
the ex-president’s name and
which will he in the nature of a
foundation fund, from which will
come prizes for the greatest
achievement or most successful
effort on the part of individuals
for the promotion of peace. It
will doubtless be international in
scope, and of right should be, in
keeping with the spirit of the
man whose name the enterprise
will bear. Woodrow Wilson has
been repudiated by a horde of
Republican soreheads, hut the
laurels that crown his memory
will he laden with fragrance and j
bathed in an eternal luster of
world-wide appreciation long af
ter many of his critics and their
brief memories have taken their
places in the silent halls of ob
livion. _
Ever on Trail Unsuspecting
Farmer.
Now here comes another grand j
scheme to swindle the farmer. !
He has been told that calcium
arsenate is the only thing that ,
will kill the 101 l weevil, and]
through its use has accomplished ]
Something toward the control of j
the pest. Watching his success
and guessing at his determina
tion to plant more extensively
this year, certain manufacturers]
of. the bug poison have raised I
the price from nine cents, that
contracted for through the De
partment of Agriculture, 'to fif
teen and a half cents per pound, i
Plant less cotton, kill the bugs
by some other process, however
inferior, and glow something'
that may be eaten on the farm
er’s table, and the weevil and
the speculators will both have to
take a hack seat as far as the
farmer is concerned. Diversi
fied farming w ill go a long way
toward getting the farmer out of
the clutches o the grafter and
put him on the high road to in
dependence.
Os late through these diggings
it is difficult to determine the
most prominent element of the
weather, the cold or the moisture.
Nip and tuck, with tuck in the
lead.
Early shopping is to be com
mended, but after all a gentle
man some times has to accomo
i
date his shopping hours to his
pocket book. The principle is
all right, but putting it into prac
tice without the necessary finan
cial backing is another matter.
Atlanta’s three daily newspa
pers, the Constitution, Journal
and Georgian, have guaranteed
the necessary funds to complete
the sum required to produce the
grand opera there next spring.
Atlanta should be proud of her
three great dailies, they having
saved for her that which for sev
eral years has seemed dearest to
her heart, the grand opera per
formance. It is easy enough to
see what a newspaper can do
for a town, hut it some times
takes a search warrant and lot
of gum-shoeing to see what a
town does toward the success of
a newspaper.
As soon as it assumes charge
January first, Atlanta’s new may
or and council propose to wipe
out the police department and in
stall a new crowd. Atlanta’s po
lice department has been aired
for the past ten years, but sun
light and fresh air are not suffi
ciently germicidal, and nothing
but the knife, according to May
or-elect Sims, will rid the citv of
a department so well laden with
irregularities. In Savannah it is
very different, the time having
come, it appears fit m reliable
s »urces, to turn out the whole
city administi.ition, and this the
antis are working at like bees in
a tar bucket.
The publisher of The Millen
News is spending a lot of money ]
in preparation of a plant to pro
duce the paper and other printed
matter. We believe these out
lays are well advised, however, j
and that the business institutions
here will meet us with liberal
support. The equipment of The
News’ plant within a few days, j
will he equal in efficiency to that
of any city between Atlanta and
Savannah.—Millen News.
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT, VERNON, GEORGIA.
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£ Press Expressions.
How many of the children who
receive their toys on Christmas
day will understand why these
toys are given them at that par
ticular time? How many of them
understand that had it not been
for the birth of Christ there
would be no Christmas and per
haps no occasian for toys? It j
might be profitable to tell them a
story of the child who came into
the world in a manger and went
out of it on a cross, that their
thoughts on Christmas morn
may instinctive turn back to the
day when the virgin became a
mother. —Eastman Times-Jour
nal.
No man is doing more for the
cause of prohibition than the man
who is putting poison in the
liquor he sells. He kills those
who happen to the misfortune of
drinking his liauor, and scares
the balance of them so badly till
a good many of them will refrain
; from drinking for a while. These
people, while unconsciously so,
are doing much for the cause.—
Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
A New York newspaper says
lawyers and motion picture ac
tors top the list in paying pro
fessions with preachers at the
bottom. Editors get so little
they aren’t even considered.—
Telfair Enterprise.
Suppose Gompers does succeed
in getting Congress to pass a
law, provided it can, by a two
thirds vote, overrididg a decision
of the supreme court, and then
declares such a law unconstitu
tional. Had you ever thought of
the deadlock that would result in
a case like that? —Butler Herald.
We see in one of our exchanges
that Georgia lacks 300,000,000
1 pounds of making all the meat
that is consumed in the State.
These figures look big and are
surprising yet they must be oor
rect. Three hundred million
pounds of meat would make a
big pile and just to think we
could make it in Georgia just as
easy as it can be made in any
other section of the country and
a whole lot easier than it can be
made in some sections. Right
through this section the most of
the farmers make their own meat
and some for market but there
are sections of the State where
the farmers are too busy making
cotton.—Springfield Herald.
Medical science‘has added, it
is now stated, fifteen years tothe
average life. Presumably, that
; the fellows the doctors pulled
through may have time eventual
ly to pay their hills to the doc-
I tors.—Savannah News.
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City Tax Notice.
A tax levy of four mills has
been levied by the Town Council
of the town of Mt. Vernon, Ga.,
for work on the streets of the i
town and for other improvements!
of the town. The tax books are j
now open and all parties owning;
property in the town .of Mt. Ver- i
non, Ga., are hereby notified to
call on J. C. McAllister in his of-1
fice at the Court House, make
your returns and pay the taxes.
The Tax books will close on the
20th day of December, 1922.
This December 4th.
C. A. Mason, Mayor,
A. B. Hutcheson, Clerk.
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Sheriff Sale.
Georgia—Montgomery County.
Will be sold before the court house '
door in Mt. Vernon on the first Tues- !
day in Jan.. 1028, between the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder
for cash, certain property, of which
the follow ing is a complete descrip
tion :
Thirty acres of land carved
from a tract of land situate, ly
ing and being iu the 1781st G. M. !
district of said county, and bound
ed us follows: North by lands of
Grady Phillips, east by lands of j
.Mathew Phillips, south by lands 1
of Tonev Phillips and west by i
lands of the Margaret Mosley es
tate and west by lands of Boston
Durden. Levied on and will be
sold as the property of Mathew
Phillips to sut’sfy a tax fi fa is-
I sued by H. C. Davis tax collector,
! vs Mathew Phillips for state and
county taxes for the year 1920.
! Levy made and returned to me
by H. H. Adams, L. C., and writ
ten notice of levy given in terms
of the law. This the sth day of
December, 1922. E. E. Burch,
Sheriff.
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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. j
The Montgomery Monitor and
The Progressive Farmer one
year for $1.50.
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