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T?\e i v lorutor. Pi RLISIiED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OROAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered at the I’oHtortlcr in Mt. Vernon. Oil. an Second-Clan# Mail Matter. H. B FOLSOM. Uwn.r and Associate l!lUS A v M Alfr ß ‘ D,: ! and Publishers. *'-5° a Vear, in Advance. •#“L**nal rm-ritH nnint invariably b«- paid in advance, at the Ifctfal rate, and aw the law direct*; and muat l»e in hand not later than Wednesday morning of ttiefirnt week of inaertioo 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. . nrmTf f »Ts TTTTTTTTTTTf TTT ttf Ts f TTT*"»TTTf TTTTT»TT» • t 3 \ Delays Over \ The farmer no longer has to suffer < ► “ ► delays in getting advances on improved % E farm lands for improvements or other 4 l demands of the farmer. Finances have « * 3 ► taken a turn to the extent of making j Cash Plentiful \ i i £ and we can get it for the farmer at low 3 t rates of interest. Our companies are « ► anxious to lend money to farmers who < l mav need it. without delays and with 5 ► satisfaction to borrower. If you want J ► action, along with cash, say “money” to 3 [ L. C. UNDERWOOD \ t MT. VERNON, GA. 3 ► ◄ ► 4 ItiAtAAAAiiAAtiAttAAtiltAt.ittAiAiiiAiAAliiiiAiliAAAl THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT, VERNON, GEORGIA. '\l Georgia State 3 £ 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. { DIAMOND RING and ( DIAMOND LAVALLIER f Will be Given Away Jan. 1, 1923 l| I 1 j I YOUR NAME MAY BE THE LUCKY ONE i With every SI.OO Purchase or on Account will put your name in the box. Your Christmas shopping will be made easy at our place. A good Assortment to Select from. You want your Christmas Present to be of Quality, and we have it at a Reasonable Price. It will Pay you to Come | | and make your Selections Early.* j WE WILL BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU LOOK j j OVER OUR LINE BEFORE YOU BUY j | Remember Our Place is Headquarters 1 | for Christmas 1 I i » § W. E. WALKER, JR. | | Jeweler VIDALIA, GA. | 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. V 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. _■ 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. \l A STITCH IN TIME \ l l t Sounds like sewing, but it is not. < ► It is to remind you to have your « l Blacksmith and Repair Work « > * t done by the man who does it right and J \ Living Prices. H. H. JOHNSON : : MOUNT VERNON, GA. - < ► M ►aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa MILLER TIRES Nationally Know n for Their Superb Quality FULL FORD EQUIPMENT FOUR TIRES S4O GAS . GREASES . OILS • SERVICE See the New Miller Wedge Tread and Get Prices on Our Entire Line DIXIE FILLING STATION Located at Comer Railroad Avenue and Aighway MT. VERNON