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Poem for the New Year.
I will start anew this morning with a
higher, fairer creed;
I will cease to stand complaining at
my ruthless neighbor’s greed;
I will cease to sit repining while my
duty’s call is clear,
I will waste no moment whining and
my heart shall know no fear.
I will look sometimes about me for
the things that merit praise;
I will search for hidden beauties that
elude the grumbler’s gaze,
I will try to find-edritentment in the
paths that I must tread.
I will cease to have resentment when
another moves ahead.
I will not be swayed by envy when my
rival’s strength is shown;
I will not deny his merit, but I'll strive
to prove my own;
I will try to see the. beauty spread
before me, rain or shine—
-1 will cease to preach your duty and
be more concerned with mine.
—_ ’S. E. Kisger.
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Mrs. Jordan Was Hostess
Yo Forty-Two Club,
Mrs. A. H. Jordan entertained the
members of the Forty-Two Club in a
delightful manner on Wednesday after
noon at the regular meeting of the
club.
After enjoying a number of games
a lovely two-course luncheon was
served, the hostess being ably assisted
by Mrs. Ed Wynn and Mrs. Sherrod
Malone.
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Compensation.
There’s ‘g'.‘;law of compensation that
applies to one and all, and deals out
justice firmly as our deeds are great
or small; it does reward for those of
good, punishment for bad, and as you
live life is either happy or it is sad.
When you do a wrong, you'll notice
that you never get quite by, for you
penalize your conscience till the day
you come to die; you may be shrewd
and bold and hide your sin away, but
its burden’s coming to you now or at
some later day., If you're honest, true
and generous this law will richly pay
you in great sums of happiness and
send you on your way respected and
light-hearted with friends on every
side and a conscience clear as crystal
that will ever be your pride. So far
as you live remember there's a law
that's strict and true and it keeps a
just account of every single thing you
do; you never can evade it and never
‘can you doubt this unrelenting law’s
decree: “Your sin’s will find you out.”
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Mrs. Wilson Ndimes
Fashion’s Favorite Shade.
“Shadow Lawn Green” is to be the
latest addition to the list of dress
fabric shades which have been given
to the fashion world with “White
House sanction. “Shadow Lawn
Green” is the new color of a silk put
out a firm in New York. It was sub
mitted to Mrs, Woodrow Wilson and
her sanctionwas given for the use of
the name.
More importamce than usual is at
tached to the bringing out of Ameri
can shadeg at this time, since the gen
eral agitation in favor of American
made productions. The new shade is
one of the grass tints and is expected
to become popular especially for sport
combination dresses, suits, coats and
parasols.—Exchange.
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'I'HIS is the best land in the
- world and a man is utterly
inexcusable for being ill-tem
pered here. Look at Growl,
Spitfire & Brothers,—waspish,
cross-grained, naggy fellows,
whom children avoid, custom
ers flee from and everybody
dislikes. They frown and snap
and snarl through the world
until the last drop of milk of
human kindness is frozen at
the bottom of their hard hearts
and the last spark of human in
terest is quenched in the ashes
of their selfishness. But here
are Metryman & Warmgrasp,
poor boys when they come
from the country, carrying all
they had in one small roll, with
mother’s gingerbread in their
luncheon and mother’s blessing
in their ears, “Be good boys
and mind the boss.” They
were soon favorites in the
store, accommodating and
cheerful everywhere, and
when they set up for them
selves, everyone flocked to the
place where even the shelves
and counters seemed running
over with good cheer. . .. ..
| PERSONAL MENTION. | 1
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Mrs. J. C. Newton left Tuesday for’
a week's visit to Atlanta.
. Mrs. J. V. Davis is visiting in At
lanta, the guest of relatives. |
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Peérsons announce
the birth of a daughter, January tenth.
Messrs Merrie Ezell and Dean Egzell,
of Macon, were visitors here Tuesday.
‘Miss Minnie Penn, of Mijlledgeville,
spent the holidays 'with homefolks
here.
Mr. Willie Clyde Smith, of Shady
Dale, was a Wednesday visitor to Mon
ticello.
Mr. Linton Moore of Atlanta, was
the guest of friends here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. Rodgers Downs is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Downs, of
Tennille.
Mrs. S. P. Lane, of Waller's, is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. J. Greer
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thurman, Jr.
announce the birth of a daughter, Jan
uary tenth.
Mrs. W. C. Benton, of Mansfield, was
(the guest of her mother, Mrs. J. B.
Persons, Sunday.
l Mrs. J. E. Hecht and Mr. and Mrs.
Parks Harvey spent Tuesday in Mad
lison with friends.
| Mrs. J. D. Harvey and Mrs. Clark
|Bmith spent several days in Atlanta
this week shopping.
‘ Friends of Miss Cleo Bradley learn
with interest that she has a position
the Bowman High School.
Master Shellie Downs, of Tennille,
spent last week with his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Penn.
Mrs. T. S. Malone’s many friends
are glad to ‘hear she is convalescing
from an attack of grippe.
Mrs. Nannie Starr, of Starrsville, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. S.
Belcher, on Eatonton street.
Mrs. R. L. Marsh' left yesterday
morning for a week’s visit to Mrs.
Lavosia Maddox, of Dublin.
Mrs. Dora Wilburn and Miss Ethel
Wilburn are in Atlanta, guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Duffie McElhenney.
| 'Mr. Charlie Thomason and young
son, Harold, of Bethel, were guests of
Mri‘and Mrs.,A. J. Thomason Wednes
day. ’
Mrs. C. R. Malone and daughter,
Ruth, have returned to Leslie after
visiting Conyers and Monticello rela
tives. .
Mr. Harvey Powell, Mr. Edgar Bal
lard and Mr. Robert Henderson have
returned to Atlanta to resume studies
at Tech.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Turk and Master
Will Turk have returned from a pleas
ant visit to Eatonton and Shady Dale
relatives.
Little Miss Sarah Harvey, young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Har
vey, who has been quite ill, continues
to improve,
Miss Carruth Weaver returned to
her home in Eatonton the latter part
lot last week after a visit to Miss
Louise Powell. :
Mrs. James J. Pope and Miss Joycei
Henderson left Wednesday for an ex
tended visit to Fort Myers and other
points in Florida.
Mrs. Din Mercer, of Haddock, Mrs.
Joe Mercer and little daughter, Josepb
ine, of James, spent last week with Mr.
apd Mrs. R. J. Penn, i {
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hutchinson and
Mrs. Monroe Hutchinson attended the
funeral of Mr. Robert Hutchinson in
Eatonton Wednesday.
Mrs. J. Mon Johnson attended the
funeral services of her nephew, Mr.
Robert Hutchinson, which were held
in Eatonton Wednesday.
The numerous friends of Miss,
Blanche Ward, who underwent an op
eration on her throat at Wesley
Memorial Hospital in Atlanta last
week, learn with pleasure that she is
convalescing. She is now with her
cousin, Mrs. Walker Brooks, and ex
pects to return home soon.
THE MONTICELLO NEWS
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Mr. J. R. Bartlett, of Smithhoro,
was in Monticello Monday.
Mr. Lee Malone, of Mechanicsville,
spent Monday In the city on business.
Miss Pernie Davidson, of Shady
Dale, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Davidson, |
Mr. George Jordan left several days
ago for Atlanta where he is taking a
course in a business college.
Mrs. Joe Malone has returned from
a visit to her son, Mr. Eddie Malone,
of Rome, and relatives at Conyers.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Blackwell have
gone to house-keeping in the home
recently vacated by Mr. Oscar Cunard
and family. e
~ Mrs. Clay Dean, who has been the
guest of her mather, Mrs. T. A. Hutch
insoh, returned’{t Ner home in Moul
‘trie Monday,
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~ Mr. Vernon Roberts and family, re
cently of Mansfield, have taken posses
‘[slon of the house vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. Wells, on Madison road.
Miss Louise Powell returned Sun
day to Union Point to resume teaching
after spending the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Powell.
Mrs. Paul Roberts and two daugh
ters, little Misses Martha and Pauline
[Roberts. spent last Sunday with Mr.
‘and Mrs. B. M. Davidson, of Shady
Dale.
Rev. and Mrs. James Bradley and
children, Master James Bradley and
little Miss Elizabeth Bradley, have re
turned from Cross Hill, South Caro
lina.
Mrs. R. O. Jackson and little Miss
Antoinette Jackson have returned to
McDonough after a visit to Mrs. Jack
| son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
'Thomason.
Mr. George W. Hawkins, manager of
the Monticello Cocal-Cola Bottling Co.,
will attend the meeting of the Bottlers’
\Ausoclauon which will be held in At
lanta at an early date.
Monticello friends of Miss Luda
Hutchinson, of Eatonton, symmthize
deeply with her in the death of her
brother, Mr. Robert Hutchinson, which
occurred in Eatonton Sunday.
Mr. Jonathan Hayes, who lives near
Hillsboro, was a Saturday visitor to
Monticello. While in the city Mr.
Hayes paid The News a call, advanc
ing his subscription date to 1918,
Mrs. J. L. Benton and Mrs. Doyle
Campbell left yesterday morning for
Jacksonville, Florida, to join Mr. J. L.
Benton and Mr. Hugh Benton on an
automobile trip down the East Coast.
Mr. K. C. Pope, of Calvin, attended
to business here Tuesday. Mr. Pope,
who is one of Jasper's progressive and
prominent young planters, made our
ihenrw glad by paying a year in ad
vance for The News.
' The editors of The News are in re
ceipt of a box or oranges from that
‘splendid fellow, Dr. J. G. Coile, of
Bowling Green, Florida. Dr. Coile is a
former resident of Monticello, and each
‘year remembers us with a crate of
delicious oranges from his extensive
grove. Thanks!
Friends of Col. Hollis T. Pope are in
terested to know he left a few days
ago for Moultrie where he will practice
law in the futire. Col. Pope i§ a
brilliant young man, pleasant and
popular with all, and while Monticel
lonians regret to have him leave,
they wish him well in his new location.
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Mr. W. W. Lewis, who lives oni
Route One, was a Saturday visitor to\‘
Monticello and while here paid the of
fice of The News a pleasant call, pay
ing a year in advance for his county
paper. Mr. Lewis recently killed two
fine porkers, the largest weighing 581
pounds and another tipping the scale .
at 416 pounds.
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When You Thread a Needle,
You may deny that your eyesight is
failing or not so good as it should be,
but when it comes to needle-threading
you are given away. Don't try to fool
yourself and waste precious minutes
thrusting a refractory thread into a
needle-eye which you do not see. Do
it this way:
Thrust the needle through a piece of
cardboard or stiff paper just as far
as the eye. The paper holds the needle
securely and throws the eye into re
lief. ;
Another methed that will help one
out of the difficulty is this: Some day
when the light is good, thread a whole
{mckaxo of needles upon a spool of
hread. Then instead of poking over
one needle at a time, while you are
sewing, all you have to do is to break
ff a needle and thread until the whole
xack has been used. .
" There is a contrivance now on the
market consisting of a small magnify
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The Close of the Year.
The close of the year is always a
time for serious thought and reflection.
The past crowds upon us at such a
time with far more than usual intensi
ty and especially forces upon our at
tention our faults, failures and mis
takes. Let us look them squarely in
the face and profit by them. The wise
man always does this, but the fool
never. The latter goes on committing
the same follies and making the same
mistakes, never profiting by his ex
perience, to, say nothing of the ex-1
perience of others, Every man makes
mistakes. It may not be his fault the
first time,“but: it is if he makes' the.
same mistake a second time. We!
believe that the secret of success with
those who succeed, and the ' cause of
failure with those who fail, will be
found largely in the ability and dispo
sition to study the causes of both suc
cess and failure, not only in one's own
experience, but in that of others. The
farmer now has leisure to review the
operations of the year and he should
do it candidly and critically. Make a
complete analysis of every important
operation, Find the weak places in it
and trace them to their origin.
‘Nothing will prepare one so thorough
ly for the operations of the year to
come as this kind of searching investi
gation,
And while we are about this busi
ness we should look just as carefully
into our record of moral responsibility.
We should be far more anxious to im
prove character and morals than to
improve our farms. Serious study of
our wopk points and of means to
strengthen them is a very profitable
business at any time, and if pursued
‘assiduously will strengthen and devel
op all that is good and admirable in
our natures, and make us better,
stronger, nobler men and women as
the years go by. And the time will
come in the life of every one when
such a record of honest, earnest, per
sistent effort to improve will afford far
greater satisfaction than anything else
| is account with this world. We
L“;’ ?wlsh no better thing for all our
rewders than that they begin the new
year animated by a firm resolve to
turn all its experience into profit for
‘themselves, mentally, morally, socially
and materially, and then to faithfully
carry out the resolution.
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Never open the door to a little vice
lest a great one enter with it.
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The Farmers National Bank
| of Monticello, Georgia
Written by a Motherless Girl.
Many times a girl could be saved
untold suffering, sometimes life itself
it some good Christian woman, with
her best interest at heart, would but
give her the advice she so much needs.
We do not accuse you mothers of not
feeling a warm sympathy for us, or of
intentional neglect, but if you keep it
hid away in your hearts, how can it
benefit us? We want your sympathy
and love. We know you have your
own troubles, your own life to live,
but could you not sometimes spare a
few of your precious moments to the
motherless girls at your own door, who
crave your sympathy and Jove? It
will surely be “bread cast upon the
waters,” and an added star to your
diadem. You may think from her
surroundings and outward appearance
she would not appreciate your inter
est. Try anyway. Learn something
of her inner life. Outward appear
ances do not always bespeak inward
happiness.
~ The heart yearning for mother love
Is never satisfied. Do not think there
are any more deserving of pity, for
try as we will the world is hard on us.
Much s expected of us, often more
than we can give., We are more close
ly watched, more severely criticised
than anyone else. The world is ever
ready to pull us down. Many for some
slight impropriety, which was thought
lessly committed, must endure the
fiery darts of slander, which is by far
the most unendurable anguish a
human heart ever had to bear, and so
our character, dearer than life itself to
pure-hearted girls, mercilessly sh\tter
ed, often by mothers of daughters, who
themselves are not equals in moral
‘worth, by the ones whose God given
privilege is to help shield and protect
girls.
~ Mothers, will you not hold out a
‘hand to those who are struggling on
'discouraged, in some cases unappre
iclated. who sometimes feel they have
no friend save Him who “tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb.” A kind
‘word, rightly spoken, will go a long
‘way and be immortalized in the mem
ory of the one for whom it was in
tended.
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Home is where the heart is, a place
our feet may leave but not our hearts.
Home is where peace, joy, comfort
and happiness reign. Where father
whistles merrily, where mother sings
cherrily, where children are happy,
Jjoyous and gay; where the family
gathers around the evening lamp, busy
with books, the needle, the papers and
the playthings and bask in the sun
shine of each others love,
“Home is not merely four square walls
Of wood and brick and spacious halls.”
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If there is one thing above another
a young man should be ashamed of
doing, it is loafing without aim, pur
pose or profit, on the streets or in
stores, day after day all week. If you
have nothing to do, stay at home—a
part of the time at any rate. No
young man with any self respect will
content himself with aspiring to no
higher reputation than that of a
chronic loafer and a store box mag
nate. Nothing will so blunt the high
er faculties of the mind as inactivity;
and no inactivity is so baneful and
malevolent in its effect as that volun
tary idleness termed “loafing.”
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BOND ISSUE FAVORED
© BY PRESIDENT WILSON
To Meet Part Of The Deficit Faced
By The United States
Treasury
Washington.—Tentative approval
having been given by President Wilson
to plans for a bond issue to meet a
part of the prospective deficit at the
end of the next fiscal year, administra
tion leaders in congress are preparing
to bring in their revenue bills as soon
as possible .after the holiday recess.
It has become known that they have
urged that the president deliver a spe
cial message or adopt some other
means to spur both houses to prompt
action so that the necessary legisla
tion may be passed before the end of
the present session,
It has been agreed that any bond is
sue shall be charged to the account of
extraordinary army and navy expendi
tures. Representative Hill of Tennes
see, author of the income tax law, out
lines a plan he has drafted for con
sideration of the ways and means com
mittee for separating the preparedness
account from the ordinary expenses
and receipts of the government. He
figures that ordinary expenses this
year and next will be less than the
estimated ordinary receipts and that
special taxation and bond issues. will
be needed only to cover excess dis
bursements for various purposes, in
cluding .army, navy and fortification
extensions.
Mr. Hull's plan contemplates the is
suance of $125,000,000 of Panama ca
nal bonds for army and navy expenses,
$70,000,000 under the shipping act and
for the proposed nitrate plant and
$25,000,000 to pay for the Danish West
Indies, or a total of $220,000,000.
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Put a little notice in The News and
sell that cow, hog, horse, mule, grain,
:;- whatever it is you wish to dispose
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