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Friday, January 12, 1917, ‘
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Yes, at last, we've learned d: print It]
1917, 1
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Yes, Pearline, 'tis a stingy person
indeed who habitually borrows his
neighbor’'s paper. |
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We are glad to add to our exchanuel
table that dandy paper, The Walton
News, published by Caldwell and Hes
ter, of Monroe. 1
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' Some of these days the sun is going
to shine and then the roads will dry
out and then—the good old nummew
time will be here again. ‘
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While others are concerned about
the Wall street “leak” you can plan tol
stop many leaks this year on the farm,
in the home and almost everywhere. :
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Harry Thaw is still a friend to the
newspapers, He is furnishing lront|
page dope just now in a kidnapping
case recently staged by Thaw himsell.l
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A man in California is getting alongi
fine with part of his train gone. This
is an uneven world—with all of our
brain, we find it'a hard scuffle to get
along. 1
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And the “Tobasco King"” is dend.!
having committed suicide in New}
Iberia, La., Wednesday. Well, he in-|
vented an excellent concoction for the
dining table. |
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We see by the papers that Laurensj
county farmers have more meat nowj
than ever. Yes, and the same thing is
true of Jasper’'s farmers—and when
hog-killing time arrives next wlnter;
they’ll have even more. |
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After all, Mr. Farmer, you must}
make your own decision and “weed
your own row,” so to speak, with re
gard to this year's crops. Keep in
mind, however, that the boll weevil is
already here and on the job. |
The Coast Line railway is going to
cut out grade crossings. The same
thing should be done by all railroads
where possible, then a chicken wire
fence should be run on both sides of
the roadbeds to keep pedestrians off
the tracks. |
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We predict that, after the first slde-!
walk is paved in Monticello, the cm-J
zens will all want paved sidewalks.
The grumblers and kickers will soon
turn to boosters, so well pleased will
they become after walking on good,
solid, dry sidewalks instead of step
ping ankle deep in mud, slush and
water, as they have to do now. |
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MAKE GEORGIA LEADER. 1
According to the hog census of the
United States, taken last year, Geor-i
gia now ranks seventh in the number
of hogs raised annually.
In the short space of seven years
the state has increased her number
of hogs from little more than half a
million to nearly two and a half mil
lion,
This is inspiring news,
It leads to the thought that Georgia
can easily be made the leader in hog
raising. We have just begun to raise
hogs. We are just learning how. We
are just beginning to feel the advan
tages of the packing houses and the
all-year round cash market,
There has been a very striking in
crease in the number of hogs raised
the past year. We shall in all proba
bility see a greater increase this year,
on account of the boll weevil, than we
have ever seen before. But the hog
business will not reach the top this
year, The feed has to be raised be
fore the hogs are raised, and as we
expect this to be a record year in the
production of corn and other animal
food crops, we may expect to see the
year 1918 a year of unprecedented hog
raising in Georgia. By the time the
census of 1920 is taken Georgia will
be out of seventh place and near the
top in the matter of hog raising. We
ought to have five million hogs in the
census of 1920. This will not be one
tenth of what it is possible to raise
in the state by that time, but it will
be a splendid increase.
The hog crop is one of the surest
crops that can be made. Hogs form
the best substitute for cotton. It is
not every man who is in position to
begin raising hogs profitably right
now, but those who have the lands,
water, pastures, fields, etc., should
'.i‘- dingenit - < “M'M' ‘:'s 2 : . ‘
(From the Albany Herald.)
Certain observers have made note
of the fact that there is less drunken
ness in Georgia now than there has
been in years, but that “drunks are
drunker” thén ever.
The explanation of this condition is
not dificult to find. It is due to the
fact that some of the stuff men are
‘drinking nowadays has pretty nufi
the same effect on human stomac
and brains that dynamijte has on a
boulder in which it is exploded.
There are many men who send or
ders for their monthly allowances of
whiskey to reliable dealers, and re
celve honest whiskey, i. e, whlukcyi
that has not been adulterated, and that,
will poison him with nothing woru{
than alcohol. It will make those who
drink it drunk if they drink enough of
it, and the alcohol will put its unes
capable poison into their systems,
even though they drink in something
like moderation. Still, it will be hon
est poison in honest whiskey, and the
effects will be those of an honest
drunk.
But the stuff that the tippler buys
from the bootlegger; the liquid nitro
glycerine that is sold by many of the
blind tigers still operating in the state
in defiance of the prohibition statutes;
the odoriferous concoction of unknown
ingredients which is brewed in the lair
of the tiger and sold to any unfortu
nate who is willing to pour it into his
interior—may a kindly fate guard the
victim of its explosive power against
the horrors he invites when he drinks
it!
No wonder so many “plain drunks”
are ending in long black boxes with
nickel-plated handles. No wonder so
many men who drink the stuff they
buy from blind tigers return to con
sciousness in prison cells to learn that
they have committed murders of which
they have no recollection. No wonderl
30 many men are being converted into
physical wrecks in a few months’ time,
with the prospect of life’s remaining
span shortened from years to weeks.
To violate the prohibition law at all
is bad enough. To sell honest whiskey
under any conditions in Georgia, is
lawlessness, and a deliberate lawless-|
ness in any form is to be unsparingly |
condemned. But those who con(‘ocll
the monstrous stuff that is being sold |
from thousands of tigers' lairs in;
Georgia are particeps criminis in mur
ders and lesser crimes of a number
impossible to discover. Many a
“tiger” sells liquor of the exact quali
ty of which he is ignorant. He simply
passes on to the consumer the stuff
he gets from those who make it, or
act as middlemen,
And to sell such body-blasting,
nerve-wrecking, mind-destroying ‘“hell
fire” as is being sold and drunk in
Georgia is a crime for which no ade
quate punishment has been devised by
the makers of our laws.
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MY AUTO, 'TIS OF THEE.
My auto, 'tis of thee,
Short cut to poverty—
Of thee I chant.
I blew a pile of dough
On you two years ‘ago,
And now you refuse to go,
Or won't or can't,
Through town and countryside,
You were my joy and pride—
A happy day.
I love thy gaudy hue,
Thy nice white tire so new,
But now you're down and through
" In every way.
To thee, old rattle-box,
Came many bumps and knocks—
For thee I grieve,
Badly thy top is torn,
Frayed are thy seats and worn;
A whooping cough affects thy horn,
I do believe.
Thy perfume swells the breeze,
While good folks croak and wheeze,
As we pass by,
I paid for thee a price,
"Twould buy a mansion twice,
Now are all peddling “ice"—
I wonder why?
Thy motor has the grip,
Thy spark plug has the pip, i
And woe is thine.
I, too, have suffered chills,
Ague and kindred ills,
Endeavoring to pay thy bills,
Since thou wert mine,
Gone is my bank roll now,
No more 'twould choke the cow,
As once before,
Yet if I had the mon,
So help me John—amen-—
I'd buy a car again,
And speed some more,
—Square and Compass.
go into the hog business.
We do not know what will be the
future of the packing house business
in Georgia, but it is safe to predict
that we will always have packing
houses with us, and therefore markets
for hogs. It is not the farmer's wor
ry whether the packing houses come
too fast or too slow. It is enough for
him to know that they are here in
sufficient number to furnish him a
market, and there is no likelihood that
we shgll ever be without a hog market
in the future.-—Moultrie Observer.
“EARLY TO BED” OBSOLETE
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Benjamin Franklin’s Motto Does Not
Apply to Modern Life In Busi
ness World, o .
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"" Barly rising hours for students with
classes at 8 a. m. are recommended in
the annual report of the dean of Co
lumbia. "
A sound and time-saving reform,
maybe,”for the academic world. But
it reminds us that bustness of recent
years has mdodht; begin the' day
latér qnd later Without, so far as cah
be seen, any loss of volume or effi
clency, remarks the New York Eve
ning World. Time was when city
stores and offices opened their doors
never later than eight in the morning,
’but today a visitor In this city would
find it hard work to transact much
business before nine pr even ten, We
venture to say the number of New
York Professional men who are at
their desks before ten o'clock in the
morning is not half what it wag a gen
eratiom ago. Yet robody would sssert
that less work is done or that brain
workers are lazier than they used to
be.
The obvious explanation s, of
course, that labor-saving devices, like
dictophones, typewriters, index sys
tems, etc., enable the modern business
or professional man to use the time his
father passed' in pushing a pen or,
studying ledgers in concentrated,. rap
id-fire attacks upon the day's work
which disposes of it in half the time.
Correspondingly, the modern way is
far more tiring. The tendency is to
begin the day's task later and leave
it earlier.
Benjamin Franklin, whom we have
to thank for familiar sayings that hit
us hardest on the score of our late
habits, rose at five, went to bed at ten
and worked from seven to six, Today
there would be little trouble in pre
paring a goodly list of citizens as capa
ble and successful as Franklin, many
of whom rarely show up at their of
fices before eleven and leave for the
golf links soon after three.
WHEN IGNORANCE WAS BLISS
How Elderly German Came to Pick the
Winning Number in a
Lottery.
When the old Louisiana lottery was
still running full blast, the barber
shops and cigar stores in most parts of
the country dealt in the tickets for the
monthly drawings, and men, women
and children played. «
One morning early an elderly Ger
man with a strong accent apfVsced in
the central part of New Or week
ing ticket No. 43, He put ii¥ several
hours hunting through the numerous
agencies of the lottery before M final
ly found “43” and bought it, When
the drawing was held, a couple of
weeks later, the old German’s number
drew the capital prize. The next morn
ing he appeared in the barber shop
where he had bought the number to
claim his reward.
The owner of the shop, asked the old
wan how he had happened to select
1Q43."
“Vell,” said the old man, *I vas
dreaming von sefen und six the night
before. Und seven times six s for
ty-tree. So I get det number.”
“It's forty-two; you made a mis
take!” exclaimed a bystander.
“Yes,” sald the boss barber ruefully,
“any time you beat that gamé it's a
mistake.”
Money in Coeonuts,
The discovery has been made at Co
lombo that coconut water, better
known, perhaps, as coconut *“milk,”
which has always been considered a
useless waste product, is an excellent
rubber coagulant. Milllons of gallons
of coconut water allowed to run to
waste on estates can now be made use
of at a good profit,
The coconut water is allowed to fer
ment for four or five days, after which
it can be used without further delay
as coagulating latex. This is said to
produce a fine rubber, superior to that
procured with the use of crude acetic
acid. The color of the rubber with
acetic acld fermentation is decidely in
ferior to the coconut water fermenta
tion. Coconut water is now made up
in bulk and shipped in large quantities
from cocount plantations to rubber es
tates.
Right Spirit Counts.
Let us keep a right spirit for it is
the spirit that counts. Let us er
tend to nothing that we do not feel,
but feel everything that we ought to
feel, Let us dedicate a few moments
now and then to sceking wisdom for
our trying moments, and then when
the moments come let us apply it as
successfully as we can, If we fail
many times we shall succeed at last,
‘and then part of the unpleasantness
iwm be conquered. In time we will
‘conquer it all. The self-training we
i thus give our hearts and minds is the
purchase price of love, appreciation
and success,—Unity.
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A friend who will recognize me
when compelled to wear patched
pants; who will take my hand
when I am sliding down hill, in
stead of giving me a kick to hasten
my descent, who will lend me a
dollar without two dollars securi
ty; who will come to me when I
am sick; who will pull off his coat
- when odds are two to one; who
will talk of me behind my back as
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GEORGIA—Jasper County. |
Will be sold before the Court House
door in the city of Monticello, Georgia,
said county, during the legal hours of
sale, to the highest and best bidder for
cash on the first Tuesday in February,
1917, the following real estate, to wit:
That house and lot in the city of
Monticello, Ga., containing two and
one-twelfth (2 1-12) acres, and gsitu
ated on the Madison Road commonly
known as the Blackwell lot, now oc
cupied by tenant and belonging to the
estate of C. A. Jacobson, dec’d, and
being a sub-division of the Jordan es
tate. Levied as property of C. A.
Jacobson’s estate by virtue of a com
mon law fi fa in favor of Mrs. Belle
Jacobson Maddox vs. C. A. Jacobson,
Admr., issued from Jasper Superior
Court August Term, 1916. Tenant in
possession given written notice as re
quired by law. This Jan. 10th 1917.
J. R. EZELL, Sheriff.
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Monticello. Georgia
Haas Tailoring Co’s representa
tive will be at our store
FRIDAY and SATURDAY.
Come in and look over this line
of high class goods.
J. H. KELLY CO. :
' WANTED. 5
TO BUY GOOD MILK COW GIVING
at least 3 or 4 gallons milk per day.
Prefer cow with young calf. Will pay
cash if suited. -
MRS. FRANKIE WILBURN.
LOST. a
RED LEATHER FOLDER, WITH
NOTE CASE; name W. H. Marshall,
on folder; contains security deed,
blanks of the Cherokee Fertilizer Co.
Return to Stinson Hotel and receive
reward. MRS. G. W. STINSON.
READY MONEY TO LOAN
.~ on Improved Farm Lands
‘and City Lots.
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GIN NOTICE!
Weawill gin on Fridays and
Saturdays during the month of
lJanuary. :
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shipment last week.__ Also a
nice lot of WALL BOARD.
All made by ‘the world’s
Largest Manufacturers of Roof
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and price you.
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