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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 vfi.‘ = ; 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. | ‘ o ll: l "m D> : K N 7 2N\ == ) -(%J E = .V"% Aay R U [ (R ; I " TN\ ; ‘ NPT o e—— aiih ~ ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND . SATURDAY . 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. » e + ‘ 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. S / . 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, . g a 1 v e o AT TLTR il ~ 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 mmn = 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 e 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 .”fl?fl"e’b‘- : £ {‘ Ty g ?\E&' ‘fl &‘ Sl v v - .',n;y, PR o S s TR TR ' ‘7'. TR LN SRARNB DI 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 bt el A ¥ " 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.” A sB N T o 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. !