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ESTABLISHED IN 1881.
SIXTH DIST. RALLY
Big Agricultural Rally Wil Be Held
in City of Barnesvilie Some
Time in April, 1917.
Some time in April, the date to be
announced later, a grand urlcultuul]
rally for the benefit of the people of
the Sixth Distriet will be held in the
Auditorium of Gordon Institute. At
this rally the best speakers, both men
and women, will give the people the
benefit of their study, research undi
knowledge’ on agricultural lines. ‘
Mrs, Nellie Peters Black, President
of the Federation of Women's Clubs
of Georgia, who is a large practical
farmer, managing successfully the ex
tensive farniing interests left her by
het father, will be on hand, together
with other noted men and women
who are leaders in the developmeént
of thé agricultural interests of Geor
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Taere will be a genuine Georgia
Barbecue free to all, and every man,
woman and child in the Sixth District
is specially imvited. The citizens of
‘Barnesville wili give you a warm wel
come and endeavor to make the oc
.eulon ohe of pleasure and profit to
every one present. £
The rally will be held under the
auspices of the Civic League of
Barnesville, and the members of this
League urge every farmer in the
Sixth District to come and bring his
whole family.
Many from Monticello and Jasper
county are planning “to attend this
rally. <
Everybody s Invited to‘Attend the
Box Supper Which will be Given
. There Tonight, Feb, 9th,
Concord has Been like a city for
several days—the streets as hard as
Atlanta's pavement. '
_ Several from here attended Supday
" Mr. Alvan Gordon, of Round Oak,
‘spent the week-end with Mr. Tommie
Braddy. |
Mr. Lovette Mintér spent Sunday
night with homefolks at Waller’s. |
Miss Annie Braddy spent Sunday
night with the Misses Minter, of
Waller’s, .
Miss Alice Speir spent Sunday with
Miss Mattie Faulkner, near here.
Mr. W. P. Persons spent Sunday
with Mr. W. H. Lynch, near Concord.
P. B.—Do not forget the box supper
here Friday night, the 9th. Every
body is invited to attend.
As news is scarce I will ring off.
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B.' - February Bth, 9th and .l:Oih i
We will have a demonstration of IHC , -
- Corn Mills, Feed Grinders and Qil
. Engines. .We will show youa ma- .
. chine that will make good:meal and
feed grinder that will grind shelled
. corn, corn on the ear, corn on the
* stalkand hay. ) |
The Monticello News
MET TRAGIC ‘DEATH
Mr. Plerce Register, Former Resident
~ of Monticello, Was Killed When
o TR ‘Tree Crushed Auto.
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‘ Friends in Monticello and else
where of Mr. E. Piérce Register, who
held a position with the First Nntlonall
Bank of Monticello a few years ago,
will be grived to hear of his untimely
death near Statesboro a few nights
ago. tee
The following account appeared in
the press Tuesday morning of “this
week:
STATESBORO, Feb. s.—~lnman Don
aldson and F. Plerce Register, two
populs(man, met a tragic death while
returning home: some time during last
night in an automobile from Wood
cliff, where they had been visiting.
Mr. Donaldson was a son of R. F. Don
aldson, cashier of the Sea Island bank,
of this city. . :
Finding that his son had failed to
come home during the night and fear
ing that something had happened to
him, the father secured an automobile
' this morning and began a search.
About ten miles from Statesboro he
found the car in which the two young
men had been riding, wrecked, with a
large pine tree across it.
Young Register ‘was driving and was
apparently bending ‘over the wheel.
The tree had fallen across the back of
le neck. Young Donaldson was in an
opposite position, the tree fracturing
his forehead and pinning him down
across the breast. B o
Young Men Prominent. '
Mr. Register had just finished ‘a
course at Poughkeepsie and had ac
cepted a position with the Sea Island
bank. e
It is presumed the accident occurred
about 10 o'clock, as that hour the
‘wind had attained a high velocity. It
is thought the young men were in
stantly killed.' .
~Mr. Donaldson was well known to
the college fraternity of Georgia, hav
‘;tng,_‘lt{n ded Georgia university and
f%%um of the late
F. P. Register, of Register, and is sur
vived by his mother and one sister.
Appropriating . Bixty Million Dollars
Has Been Passed by Congress
During This Week.
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. Washington, D. C,, February 7th.—
The senate is considering Chairman
Stone’s resolution indorsing the break
with Germany. Mr, Stone urged its
passage, declaring “We should let the
world know we support the president.”
Senator Lodge urged that all party
lines be obliterated, and that there be
“The Monticello News Govers Jasper Like the Sun—lts Rays Shine into Every Home.”
MONTICELLO, GEORGIA; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1917.
U, S, SENATE ENDORSES
- SEVERANGE OF RELATIONS
Washington, D. C., Februsry Tth.—
President Wilson’'s severance of dip
lomatic velations with Germany was’
approved formally today by the sen
. . ‘
By a vote of 78 to 5 the senate ex
pressed confidence in the president's
course, adopting a resolution submit
ted by Chairman Stone, of the foreign
relations committee, indorsing the
withdrawal of American Ambassador
Gerard from Berlin and the giving to
German Ambassador ' Bernsdorff his
passports.
Mr. Robert M. Ford, Inmate of the
Soldiers’ Home, Atlanta, Writes
The News a Letter. i
SOLDIERS’ HOME.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 29, 1917.
Editors Monticello News,
Jasper County, Georgia.
My Dear Sirs;—
1 have been thinking about writing
to you about one momth and thirty
one' days, but the old Thief of Time
kept telling me to put it off; you
have got plenty time to write. *
My object for writing or wanting to
do it is to atknowledge the receipt of
one of the best weekly or county
papers there is in the State of Geor
gia. A man who receives such a gift
and ‘is not proud of it and does mot
‘feel thankful and appreciate it, what
ought to be done with him? He ought
ito be disfranchised or disinherited or
‘[“tur,ned out of meeting.” And there is
‘angther thing, any man that sub
scribes for such a good paper and
not pay for it, well, he ought to bel
sued for a divorce and made'pay ali-.
mony. Now, that is just my senti
m m.w s i i .Hk,."‘
If you will allow me to be plain and
say things right out in meeting. Well,
Messrs Editors, we are partially
strangers. On my visits to your
progressive little city, I have been in
your office two or three times and I
fell in love with Monticello the first
time I was ever there and in fact I
fell in love with old Jasper the very
first ‘time I visited .there. I have a
son living at the city of Adgatesville,
a way station on the Central of Geor
'gla. 1 reckon, Messrs Editors, yop
know where it is. If I don’t get so
lazy that it will take me about one
month or thirty days to start again to
write again, it will be a sort of cor
respondence from the Soldiers’ Home,
I will act as sort of news butcher from
this place. I will tell you something
now. It is raining here.- It' looks
pretty much like it is going to rain the
balance of the month., The farmers
have had little chance to do any
ploughing in the way of sowing their
spring oats. I think we have had but
three or four days of sun’ shine since
Christmas.
I hope that you will be able to read
this scribbling and I hope that'l will
not be intrudidg on your time or kind
ness to read it. I am a mighty poor
writer and poor speller. I am not
much any way you take me.
We had a fine singing here yester
day evening. Old fa sol la singing
and it is something I do love. I love
it better than I love ple, I reckon. -1
love fried chicken better. I know
one thing, I love both of them mighty,
good. . ®R
Now, Messrs Editors, if I have done
any hdrm, in' the way I have written
this I ask your pardon and forgive
ness. So pléase let me know. I am
| going to write some time soon and
tell all about the Soldiers’ Home for
the benefit of some old Veteran that
would like to know.. Well, I have M,
our dinner today: Peas and bakon,
backbone and pie—that’s good living,
o EUER R A e
Well, I will close for fear you will
get, tired reading such stuft.: I hope
I bave done no harm. If I have just
let me know and I won’t say any more.
I thank you for sending me your good
paper, I surely do apprecidte it and
In@ I wish you God's blessings and a
prosperous New Year. I hope that
'you and family are enjoying good
A Yours most respectfully,
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~ Senators who voted against the res
olution were: Democrats, Kirby, of Ar
kansas, and Vardaman, of Mississippi.
Republicans, Gfonna, North Dakota;
Works, California, and La Follette,
‘Whiconsin, &
~ Five hours of debate preceded the
vote, but the. only active opposition
‘came from the five senators who stood
out against the resolution when the
roll was called The ranking republi
can leaders joined the democrats in
declaring their whole-hearted support
of the president.
Food, Feed and Fertility Are Founda
tion of Safe Farming, According to
Department of Agriculture. \
Washington, D. C.—Food, feed and
fertility are foundation of safe farming
according to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. A circular sent
to farmers, bankers, and business men
in cotton territory by the Chief of the
Office of Extension Work in the
‘South says: “Let us feed the people,
feed the live stock, and feed the soil.
When we have done these three
things, then raise such acreage in
money crops as we have the labor to
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The circular points out that the true
value ‘of cotton to the farmer is to
& great extent the amount of food and
feed that it will purchase. The price
of cotton has risenm, it is true, but so
‘has the retail price of all other farm
products. “By growing 'all cotton,”
says the author, “and exchanging it
l#}a living you are simply swapping
& highpriced product produced by
Wr labor Yor & high-priced product
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telloW. _you follow safe farm
ing, however, you produce your own
food and feed at cost and sell your
cotton for Yhe other fellow’s dollars.”
Safe farming is defined in the circu
lar as including these items:
1) A home garden for every fami
ly on the farm, from one-tenth to one
fourth acre, well located, well tilled,
crop on the farm, planted in rotation
to tinve.the vegetable crops so far as to
have & continual supply for the fawily
table as many days in the year as pos
sible. To this should be ‘added one
fourth of an acre of pobtatoes, either
Irish or sweet, or both, to be used as
food for tae family. .
(2) Enough corn on each farm to
last the, family and the live atock
for one year, with a little excess for
safety. g
~ (3) Sufficient oats and other small
grain to supplement the corn as food
for one year with certainty. These
small grains conserve the soil in
winter and provide summer grazing
for live stocgk.
(4) Hay and forage crops to sup
ply the live stock on the farm for
one year, with a little excess for safe
ty. The legumes, which add fertility
to the soil and produce the best hay,
should not be, forgotten, .
+ (b) The necessary meat, eggs, and
milk for the family. The meat should
be procured by increased attention to
poultry and hogs because of the.rapld
ity with which these can be produced.
Every family should have at least two
cows, 80 that one can be in milk all
the time. A sufficient number of
brood sows should be kept to produce
the pork for the family, with some
excess for sale. The average number
of poultry per farm should b€ grad
ually increased to at least 50. There
should be eggs and poultry for the
home table, with & sufficient excess
for sale. The live stock on the farm
should be, gradually increased so as
to. consume the otherwise wasted
‘products and maké productive,the un
productive and untillable lands.
» (6) Cotton for the imain money
crop after the living has been amply
provided for. :
(7)) The sale of the surplus prod
ucts of the garden, the orchard, the
poultry, jthe Tive stock, and the feed
crops to cover the mecessary running
expenses of the farm, leaving the cot
ton as.the real cash crop. v
The 'present prices of cotton, says
the circular, should not be permitted
to tempt any farmer to depart from
this pfogram. It 18 the only safe plag
to follow, no matter What the price of
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A Former Monticello Pastor Sends
“Greetings” to Friends Through
Columns of this Paper.
Cameron, Texas, Feb. 5, 1917,
Monticello News:—
Today 1 saw a reference to “Monti
cello, Ga.,” whieh reminded me of old
times,” and I said in my heart I will
write my friends over there a love
letter and send it thru The News.
I have been in the West ever since
August. Have led campaigns in
Navasota, Lampasas, Cooper, and
Dallas, Texas, and was at Collinsville,
Okla., for a month. During this time
up into the thousands have made pub
lic professions of religion and most of
them have united with some church.
For the most part my meetings ‘have
‘been union efforts of all the churches
in a town. I go from here on 24th
of this month to Albuquerque, New
Mexico, for a great union campaign
in which nine churches are joining.
They have a combined membership
of almost four thousand. I am ex
pecting two thousand additions. I
have two very able men—a singer and
personal worker—associated with me
in the work. .
My family is living at Sylva, N. C,,
during my long absence from home.
I have built a beautiful summer place
there, and my two oldest daughters
are attending college. One of our
best schools is there. My baby is
nine years old and is in school. The
boy is nineteen and will soon be a
PREACHER on his own hook. I ex
pect to get home in May, and if so
shall d¢ my best to yisit old, friends
in Monticello and Jasper. Have just
written Mrs. Ridley to meet me in
New Mexico for a month but she
thinks it is cold enough in N. C.
without going to the Rocky Mountains,
My old church in Atlanta has re
called nie to its pastorate and I am
seriously thinking of accepting it.
This eternal grind away from home is
‘wearing me out. e
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¥ " CALEB A. RIDLEY.
Will Be Held in Jasper County For
'Mutual Protection, Beginning
. Early in March.
Under the auspices of the extension
division of the Georgia State College
of Agriculture and in co-operatidn
with the federal government and local
agencies, meetings are being held
throughout the southern part of Geor
gia by four campaigning parties.
One of these parties will be heard
in this county at Hillsboro Friday,
March 2, 10 a. m.; Gladesville Friday,
March 2, 2:30 p. m.; Shady Dale Sat
urday, March 3, 10 a. m.; Monticello
Saturday, March 3, 2:30 p. m.
The purpose of these meetings is to
reach as many farmers as possible
with the necessary information apout
how to prepare for the weevil. 801 l
Weevil Preparedness Clubs will be
formed. The membe_ra of such clubs
will agrée to folleaw well advised plans
for- growing cotton under boll weevil
conditions and to make such clubs the
GOOD HEALTH AND
| A BANK ACCOUNT
~'ls a Combination to Be Desired
e Money produces comfort and com
fort safeguards health. Both are
. .necessary to succesg. Let us help -
you by opening a bank account with
us now. Don’t delay any longer. /
Jasper County Bank
L c i betieeptaatent |}
- kL BENTON, Viee-Prgident. . G. W. CORNWELL, Casbier.
NUMBER 1.
Will be Given at Hillsboro School
House Next Wednesday Night,
February Fourteenth,
On Wednesday night, February the
fourteenth, in the school house at
Hillsboro there will be given a Valen
tine Supper. The young ladies_of the
school and community will prepare
nice boxes to be sold to the highest
bidder. The young lady, whose box
brings the largest amount of money,
will be given a prize of one dollar.
A Valentine Post Office will be con
conveniently located in the building
where you may mail a nice “Remind
er” to your sweetheart, provided you
pay the postage rate of five cents, If
this rate is too high the lady in
charge of the office will furnish in
structions for reduced rates.
Come without fail. You can’t afford
to miss all the fun, the nice things to
eat, hot chocolate, etc. b
+Boys, we will look for you and
right along by your side that best girl
friend. You must haVve in your pock
et a mnice 'Valentine for her to be
mailed in our post office. And, of
course, we would like for you to bring
along a little surplus change to buy
‘that delicious box of eatables which
your friend has fixed especially for
YOU.
. The proceeds will be used for buy
'lng window shades and other equip
'ments for the school building.
| W. M. TWIGGS.
Government Thermometer Showed
That Six Degrees Above Zero
Was Lowest Record Here.
Not since “Anne” was a tot has the
weather been as cold in Monticello
and vicinity as it was Friday night of
last week. The mercury went down
to six degrees above zero, according
to-the government thermometer sta
gtlon'ed here. y
| aulte a number of citizens failed to
cut off water pipes and the amount of
damage done was considerable.
. Asis tl‘n case with dissatisfied man
kind, expressions were freely voiced
in wishes for “ye good old summer
time.”
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basis of such co-operative effort as
may seem wise in meeting various
problems. :
The principal message of the meet
ing, it is announced, is how to grow
cotton in spite of the boll weevil.
Among the speakers will be promi
nent farmers from states west of
Georgia who ' have grown cotton on
their own farms successfully in spite
of the weevil. Other speakers will be
be experts from the College of Agri
culture at Athens wh ill speak on
live stock, crop diversihjation, etc.
These meetings should be well at
tended. 801 l Weevil Clubs should be
formed, concerted action must be tak
en, and everybody should pull togeth
er if this trying time in the history of
agriculture i nGeorgia is to be sucess
fully passed. !