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(“The Home Paper.”) MONTICELLO, - - -~ GEORGIA e A Subscription Price, $1.60 Per Year. ' Payable In Advance. - O ———————— e eet et Published Every m" | F. L.and T. R. ’ Editors and Proprietors, Entered In the Postoffice iln Monti oello, Ga., as second-class w accordance with an act of Obituaries—Will be cm' for at the rate of SI.OO for each ‘article. Cash must accompany same. Sit i sot ol Cards of Thanks—Charged at the rate of 5 cents per line of six words to the line. Cash must accompany each card. | e ———————————— Friday, January 12, 1917, ‘ ] Yes, at last, we've learned d: print It] 1917, 1 e e . Yes, Pearline, 'tis a stingy person indeed who habitually borrows his neighbor’'s paper. | e e et We are glad to add to our exchanuel table that dandy paper, The Walton News, published by Caldwell and Hes ter, of Monroe. 1 el e ' 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. ‘ Qe 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. : ee s et 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 et e (e 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 e et 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. | — e e | 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. | — e 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. | ee e e e 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. | - | 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. -—-———-——o—_——_.. 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 ' =" pi Y A—— ; Benjamin Franklin’s Motto Does Not Apply to Modern Life In Busi ness World, o . —— " = "" 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. A e it % WANTED 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 THE MONTICELLO NEWS he does to my face. Such a being is wanted by ten thousand human beings throughout the world.—Ex change. —_— Watch label on your paper—it will notify you about your subscription. S | 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. CAPITAL , —~AND— ’‘ f \ ~OVER— *1 | $65,000.00 i \ ' 1 4** A ' ”\ . & ) 6F E o THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES : .‘\ - ’ Suggest the Saving of Dollars N YOU CAN'T | > | " " COMMENCE TQO SOON T H(n) gGAEf; EDK The Morning of Life 18 3 ; : UNDER AND Is Quickly Passed CEXV'SRO LLED Sx F llAnd mtd A‘: S ( ollows After Noon E Ef‘f‘}CT(\ ED START A THE L 8 ™ SAVINGS ACCOUNT! m%'[ ’(, = P i AT =l Ny g - UL S T R o V . ’»fl-fl" I | |'. ||' @’Jlm “’i‘ QUL f - St T e ‘ i SNO 90 B U S W 7T LB R s NATIONAL CAPITOL wasningTON cc. Jhe & @® _Jirst National Bank 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. l W. H. KEY. GIN NOTICE! Weawill gin on Fridays and Saturdays during the month of lJanuary. : EMPIRE COTTON OIL CO. ™/ Me T L B lAl: 2 |_-_-“.“::-_-__ SR | oo ! e e R bl iRt B BERE ] O © ; ; 6 Different Grades of ROOF ING received in that car load shipment last week.__ Also a nice lot of WALL BOARD. All made by ‘the world’s Largest Manufacturers of Roof ing. "Give us a chance to show and price you. JORDAN MFG. GO, the Firing Line A 0 . - _v.y., ‘ BCTQ\ Sy RN /\ =~ \ \\ ¥ { \‘“ \ pr ‘l :-} i. &, eL S XIN g T Al [ s e [ O '"\"*:.j"-:- \ . TR IF you Want to succeed ——— X in life you must know 4 what is pew in business and indos try, in invention and science, Get out of the rut; get on the firing line. 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