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© ©»©"©'©'©a© ©'© © © ; &.® % ©• ;©: | LOCAL - PERSONAL | £>, ;©>© ©©/©,® &&&'&&/& 100MW0M & Mt. Vernon friends will regret to learn of the illness of Miss Florence Howell at Asbury Col lege, Wilmore, Ky. Miss Cowell spent a part of the past summer with Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Brady. She is preparing for work in the | foreign mission field. Mr. M. A. McQueen of Savan nah was mingling with friends; in Mt. Vernon Monday. Misses Eva Conner and Helen liee, teaching at Milltown, are at home for the holidays. Miss Lollie Bell teaching in North Carolina, has arrived I for the holiday season. Miss, Marion Lee, her sister, teaching at the same point, is also here. I Rev. L. E. Brady, was called ! last week to I’avo on acount of ; the death of a brother-in-law. Later he was called to Davisboro | on account of the death of a nephew. No service having been held at the Mt. Vernon Methodist church on the second Sabbath on account Mr. Brady’s absence, he will preach here, j morning and evening, on the fifth Sunday, December 31. Miss Lillian Conner, student at Bessie Tift, is at home for the holidays. Miss Wi'amina Luf burrow of Oliver, also a student at Bessie Tift, is spending a few days with Miss Conner during her stay at home. Mrs. R. F. Mcßae has returned from a trip to Atlanta. Mr. B. C. Anderson is able to j be out after a brief illness, and i is now on duty with the Mt. Ver non Motor Co. Mrs. E. D. White and little daughter are visiting friends and relatives in Dublin. - ■■ ■ ■- 1 - - —— ■" * - COUPE New Price F. O. B. > ; I vj Detroit vlrSi . Completely Rjj V. fH ST-*I Equipped ft ■.* ' ; v r»- I ■,r;. m !VW ?// , •* -A# / I iwH*k r' ~ - . V /rPCx/jl s n r ' ■ -' •* - g * j Hi The v.or’d bar- never known |lj an enclosed car or t’lis type l»|( at a lower piio-e. No car at |j|| 1 any price ever offered a |i!j ercutti vcuiie. ' • |r Pl ice your crr\- r now to in- ,; i X till sure aidy ecu very, terms idi .r if desired. j i| j; j j Mount Vernon Motor Company Mr. Harry Lee, student of Au burn, is at home for the festive season. Mr. Frank H. Williams, teach ing at Springhill, came in a few days ago for the holidays. Miss Ida Latimer of Abbeville is visiting the family of Mr. F. Lee Mcßae. Mr. William Peterson, student at Emory, arrived yesterday morning for a ten days vacation. He has won signal honors in ath letics, being a very successful devotee of the race track. He ! was among the winners in a re cent intercollegiate race in which Emory took the honors. Messrs. Logan Stanford and I Chester Mcßae of the State Uni versity are among the students here for the holiday period. Misses Goldie Mcßae, Carol Hutcheson and Elizabeth Mcßae, students at Wesleyan, are with the homefolks during Cnristmas. Misses Helen Mcßae of Mt. I Vernon and Sarah McArthur of 1 McGregor, attending Washing ton Seminary in Atlanta, are among the college set spending the week at home. Mr. W. S. Freeman of Claxton, representing the Swift Fertilizer Works, was here on business the first of the week. He announces the appointment of Mr. H. C. Davis as agent for this well known brand of fertilizer for j Montgomery county. Velvet Beans wanted. Best Prices Paid. Mt. Vernon Mer cantile Co. 1123 6(?fi quickly relieves Colds and LaGrippe, Constipation, Bilious- I ness and Headaches. i THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. EXPLAINING GRADES IN ARMY Fanciful and Prstty Tale of the Origin of Ineignia Which Denote Martial Rank. Fanciful Indeed la tlie tale woven j about the selection und origin of the various marks of army insignia. The story begins witli a two-barred fence, near a group of trees. One of these Is a sturdy oak and another a silver poplar, the tree which grows to greatest heights in our forests. Above this tree flies an American eagle. It Is night and the stars look down upon the scene. The first step, or first rank of a com missioned officer Is climbing the first bar of the fence, and Js. denoted by the one bar on a first • lieutenant's shoulder. Another step up and the officer has ills foot on the second bar of the fence—the two bars surmounted being indicated by the two-bar mark of the captain. The next stage of the climb upward is the branches of the trees, and the rank of major, denoted by the gold oak leaf on the shoulder, has been reached. In order to go higher the candidate for higher rank must now surmount the lull silver poplar, and when he has done so he Is entitled to wear the sil ver leaf of the lieutenant colonel. The eagle soaring over the treetops Indi cates'the rank of colonel —the silver eagle being worn by officers of that rank. The stars are the highest of all und were reserved as insignia for gen erals. —Detroit News. DISPUTE ORIGIN OF CALICHE Scientists Disagree as to How Rock of Which Chile Has a Monopoly, Came About. Chile’s chief source of revenue, of which the country has virtually a world monopoly, Is obtained from the rough rock known locally as caliche. Scientists disagree us to the origin of this valuable mineral, according to a writer in the National Geographic Magazine. Some claim (and Darwin among them) that <t had its origin in seaweed of an undent period. One savant argues that the deposit result ed from nitrogen contained in guano. Others believe in Its atmospheric origin, advancing t lie theory that in a remote age electricity passing through the moist air, by combination, formed nitric add; ibis in turn, impregnating the flood waters o„ Andean streams and coming in contact with tlit* lime stone of t lie rocks, formed nitrate of lime: another step in nature’s labora tory brought tills nitrate of lime in contact with sulphate of sodu, forming the caliche found today. lodine, precipitated from the nitrate solution, is the most Important by-prod uct of the caliche rock. ll.v agree ment among the nitrate establishments, Us production Is limited to every sixth year, thut the market may not be overstocked. Flour Used in Making Watches. Two barrels of flour are used every week in making watches at a well known factory, which turns out from 2,000 to 11,000 watches a week. Since a baker uses about three pounds of flour to five loaves of bread, it follows that for every watch the maker uses the equivalent of a third of a loaf. The flour is made into dough and the dough is used to handle screws, rivets and other small parts. Each man in that part of the busi ness has u lump of dough always at liHiid, and when he wants to examine a screw he Jabs a piece of dough on it. Then, turning it over, he lias a good chance to look at it with his watch maker's microscopic eyeglass. Many of the screws are too minute to pick up easily with the fingers, and many more, though large enough to be picked up, would be so covered by the fingers or the forceps as to be almost hidden from sight. Taxidermy Now a Fine Art. ' Tile rise of American taxidermy to a level with the other fine arts thus far is aV'hupter of uuwrltten history. It Is probable that not more than a score of persons now living know the real story of the Society of American Taxidermists and the revolution that it wrought. It would be utterly inade quate to write of the masterpieces of American taxidermy without setting forth at least an outline of the his tory that they represent. A few mem bers of tlie youngest generation of workers, snugly ensconced in stone palaces of peace and plenty, have talked, learnedly of the “new school" of taxidermy without mentioning the men who tolled in laying the foundn tlons and In erecting half the walls of that "school." 1 ntn told that to day there are taxidermists who do not like being called anything less than “sculptors.” Fragrancs of Flowers. The fragrance of flowers regulates their temperature, says a professor o! chemistry at the University of Nevada at Reno. lie bases his belief on recent experiments with the essential oils o:. certain desert plants. These oils up parently serve as a protection against; the extreme heat of noonday and tin chill of night. The vapor of the oils absorbs mor» beat titan ordinary air. he says. Host oil absorbs tliirty-slx times as mud heat and anisol 3f12 times as much. Bj surrounding itself with a layer of sue! odor-tilled air. the 'plant reduces tht j amount of heat which reaches it in tht j daytime and also obtains a sort of ait | blanket to protect it against the chil of night. Some Appealing Notes To Old Santa Claus. Kibbee, Ga., Dec. 20, 1922. Dear Santa Claus:— I am a little boy eight years old. I go to school, and am in the third grade and try hard to, be a good boy. I want you to bring me some fruit of all kinds, and candy and some nuts. And l would be pleased vofy much if you will bring me a bicycle, col or red if you can find one. I will be patiently waiting for you Sunday night. Your little boy, Lowell Montford. Kibbee, Ga., Dec. 20, 1922. Dear Santa Claus:— I am five years old and I try to be a good little girl and help mother with our baby brother. I W'ant you to bring me a Cupid doll and a big, real doll to play with. Also a tea set and a din ing room suit of furniture, also fruit of all kinds and nuts and candy. Your little girl, Clemit Montford, P. S. Please bring little broth er, Wallace, something. Dear Santa Claus:— I am a little girl three years old. Bring me some fruit, choco late candy, doll and some raisins. Lucinda Allmond. i Dear Santa Claus:— lam writing you to tell you what I want for Christmas. I want a doll, some fruit and some candy or anything you can spare. Muriel Allmond. Dear Santa Claus:— Bring me some apples and oranges and some pop corn and a doll. Baby. . i Liquid Wax Dressing for Floors. For sale by Dixie Fill ing Station, Mt. Vernon. MULES FOR SALE. I have just unloaded at my barn in Ailey a ear of nice young Tennessee mules, and I am offering for sale or exchange. Prices $135 upward. W. J. PETEItSON. In CHRISTMAS I Os all the days of she year, Christmas is the most celebrated XX —and justly so. It is the anniversary of the greatest personage XX the world has ever known, our blessed Savior. XX It is a day of good cheer that touches the hearts of every one, from the youngest ltttle tot who can have any conception of J® Santa Claus, to the one, ripe in years, who is waiting the summons § to*meet the one whose birth we celebrate. !g! In the Christ spirit, “Peace on earth and good will to man,” 0 the peace that passeth all understanding, the unselfish desire that S every one should be happy, this bank wishes you, one and all, a P merry, merry Christmas. | | The Mount jj | Vernon Bank j Officer of Bank Officer of Bank Officer of Bank § w. t. mcarthur d. a. mcrae w. a. peterson S President Vice-President (Cashier S H. L. WILT, Assistant Cashier | The Kiwanis Club a Constructive Organization. The Kiwanians have a fine motto, “We Build.’’ And that motto is being carried out in a constructive manner wherever a Kiwanis Club is found. They stand for those things that tend to the advancement of the com munities and sections where they live, educationally, morally and materially. That w r as a repre sentative body of men which came from Valdosta to visit us last Friday night. Their talks were uplifting and inspiring and their brief stay among us was of benefit to all who were there to enjoy the occasion. We will be glad to have them come again. j Adel News. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Signature of /vWw'if S * THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT I 4 f 4 Perfected in the Purchase w # of Articles that bring Cheer ! J and Comfort * ! CHRISTMAS SUPPLIES % I HOLIDAY GOODS i 5 CANDIES t ! SEASONABLE GIFTS % | FANCY ARTICLES i ! TOYS, Etc. % 4 * 4 *• * The D. A. Mcßae Store t # •£ 4 MOUNT VERNON, GA. * 4 £ J Window Glass f * j Window Glass 4 j Window Glass 5 4 4 \ ALL SIZES AT J REASONABLE > 4 PRICES \ 4 [ JMOUNT VERNON 1 | DRUG CO. < High-Grade Fertilizers for Sale. Stock oh hand in Mt. Ver ! non at all times. Henry A. Johnson. Texas Home Lubricant Oil, i free from acid and will not gum or cor|ode. Prevents rust on guns, tools and machinery and « metal surfaces. For sale by Dix ie Filling station. 1130