Newspaper Page Text
The Monticello News
Monticello, — — * Georgia
——”'———-——-——-?_“—
Suburil?tlon Price, 31.50 a Year.
'ayable in Advance.
Published Every Friday by
F. L. and 'l‘.ry R. PEI&N.
Editors and Proprietors,
Entered in the Postoffice in Mon
ticello, Ga., as second-class matter,
in accordance with an act of Con
gress, |
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A man's wisdom maketh his face
to shine. If the iron be blunt and
be do not whet the edge, then must
he put to more strength; but wisdom
is profitable to direct. The words of
a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but
the lips of a fool will swallow up
himself. A fool alsc is full of words.
—Ecclesiastes.
One of the needs of Monticello
is a public library.
Another main topic is that of
the low price of cotton.
It is said that the best way to get
in the limelight is to find out what
is popular and then oppose it.
There are two kinds of hogs which
will not give you much ground—the
" “road-hog” and the ground-hog.
Another hurricane or two and the
verdict will be, “Yes, We have No
Bahamas.”—The Detroit News.
The most serious mistake the aver
age married man makes is showing
his worst side to his better half.—
Dayton Daily News.
Have you a permanent pasture on
your farm, Mr. Planter? If not,
you should have one by all means
for it will pay, no doubt.
Ye editors are grateful for the
many kind words concerning The
News which have recently appeared
in the weekly papers of the State.
With a five-year tax exemption
period it does seem that Monticello
could induce new manufacturing
industries to locate here. Payrolls
certainly are the life of a town.
AT ~
You may bank on this one thing,
The News ever and anon will pull
for Jasper county—the garden spot
of the world, Monticello—the best
town of its size to be found any
where, and its citizens—the finest
people on the globe!
The spicy paragraphs of Johnnie
Spencer, “short squib” writer for The
Macon Telegraph, have been miss
ing from the editorial page of that
excellent paper for several days
due to Mr. Spencer’s illness. Friends
eagerly await his return to the
sanctum sanctorium,
Dairying and poultry-raising are
slowly, but surely, coming into their
own in Jasper county. If more
hogs were raised in this section then
this county would stage a come-back
sure enough. The cow-hog-hen pro
gram is a good one and Jasper coun
ty farmers should embrace it.
The old home-town should be
shown first consideration when shop
ping is to be done. There is no need
of any one going out of Monticello
for a single item. If the local mer
chant hasn’t it in stock, he can easi
ly get it for you. The city merchant
does not contribute one penny to
wards the upkeep of your schools,
churches and the like. :
r OCTOBER
As the foliage turns the chill
breezes whisper to us that winter
is not far behind.
October is the first mile-stone in
the journey down the business year.
Adults have settled at their jobs aft
er a summer's play; children have
gotten down to their reading, writ
ing and arithmetic after many weeks
of carefreedom. The world again
has adjusted itself to the serious
problems of life; and that strange
feeling that one possesses when one
returns to work after a vacation has
disappeared. We are moulded to
the season, and at full pace are
plunging into the new quarter.
Ruskin’s words bring to mind the
fact that for the older ones among
us memories, in October, have a
way of yellowing with the cold. In
the smell of wood fires, in the hint
of Winter breezes, in the sight of
wild things that scamper about in
the autumn fields and woods, there
come dreams of boyhood times. The
turning leaves themselves are re
minders of a melancholy past for
boys who have grown up—of old
years when as children they were
The appeal of the Alabama farm
bureau to Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine for information and sugges
tions relative to the present crisis
in the cotton markét can be of little
or no avail. The government can
not finance any ‘holding” organi
zation except by act of congress—
the very thing proposed in recent
farm relief bills before congress to
be applied to grain. Congress did
not pass any one of those measures,
but it did pass a measure strength
ening cooperative marketing, and
adding a federal bureau to aid the
various cooperative organizations.
The secretary has pointed out the
availability of the intermediate
banks, which, of course, were au
thorized for direct loans on agri
cultural products, There is noth
ing new therefore in that suggestion,
The answer to the present prob
lem is the cotton cooperative. There
can be no argument about that. In
Georgia for instance the Cotton Co
operative association is strongly or
ganized and amply financed. It
can pool the Georgia cotton produc
tion and hold it, in its warehouses,
for distribution to consumption as
the demands may develop. There
will probably be a heavy carry-over
but this can be managed system
atically through the cooperative or
ganizations, It cannot be managed
successfully by unorganized holding.
Nothing can be more disastrous for
the cotton farmers, as a whole, in
the present market depression, than
for individual growers to attempt to
control the situation by holding
their own cotton. It must be done
by organization, and by proper
financing, and by machinery set up
for that specific purpose. That is
the purpose of the cotton coopera
tive movement. It is the purpose
of all cooperatives, as they handle
and specialize in different com
modities. |
It must be understood that the
properly organized cooperative mar
keting association is not an organi
zation of growers but of a com
modity. Therefore it takes at least
a reasonable percentage of that
commodity in the organization to
assure success. The Georgia Cot--
to Cooperative association is not
merely an organization of cotton
growers. It is an organization of
cotton. And the more of the cotton
grown in the state that is contracted
in the organization the stronger and
more successful it can be in hand
ling the surplus until the market can
absorb it at satisfactory prices.
There is no occasion to become
panicky in the present situation. The
professional bears are hammering
the market as they always do at the
beginning of ginning season. This
year they were given the advantage
of federal help through the useless
and inexcusable crop estimate—a
mere production guess—a few: days
ago. There is no actual indication
that the crop will be as large as
estimated in the guess, and even if
it should be, with increased world
consumption each year the entire
production can be successfully and
satisfactorily marketed provided the
growers will keep their heads, not
listen to every Tom, Dick and Harry
who professes to be a cotton expert,
and fall back upon the organized
pool that has been established for
the purpose of orderly distribution.
It is well enough to organize for
acreage reduction at the proper
time. But at the present time that
is not the ox in the ditch. It is to
market the maturing crop. That is
the one concern of the hour, and
should not be confused with a lot
of reform propaganda, and promo
tion schemes. The standard, recog
nized Cooperative associations are
the safest ports in the present storm.
—Atlanta Cohstitution.
a-schooling and when a mother
watched over their little destinies.
Those were the times when tHe very
air of October was burdened with
the fragrance of love and hope and
of dreams that men carry to their
graves.
October brings to us in Georgia
bountiful food and feed crops. It
brings bountiful cotton production,
satisfactory—due to the hammering
of the bear speculators—it is more
largely surplus crop than ever be
fore.
On the whole the South is pros
perous. The state of Georgia ig
prosperous. The welfare of the
people is assured. It is a good Oc
tober for the South as a whole.—At
lanta Constitution.
Dust explosions caused $3,000,000
property damage in this country last
year,
The first permanent photographic
negative ever made is in the Science
Museum in London.
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926,
In looking over %«mu y :
that come to The i a
news, editorial and gnonl ap
pearance of same it is always a
pleasure to pick up The Monti
cello News. Few tqu'l in the
state compare wi this Jas
gr county paper when you look
em over every week in the
year, Monticello should be proud
of the Monticello News.—Cov
ington News.
Remindful of “good old cotton
days” is the cotton stalk, full of
opened bolls, which is on exhibition
at the store of Benton Supply Com
pany in Monticello.
There are nearly one hundred
bolls of the fleecy staple on this
particular variety, known as the
“College Number One.” The stalk
is from Mr. Eugene Benton’s “Pou”
place and is attracting much atten
tion.
FOURTH QUARTERLY
CONFERENCE OCTOBER 18
The Shady Dale charge will hold
the fourth Quarterly Conference at
Midway church October the 15th. All
the churches of the charge will be
represented. !
J. B. GRESHAM, Pastor.
There are nearly 18,000 radio re
ceiving sets in Mexico.
India is now taking more than half
the gold production in the world.
A London cabaret revue has just
closed after a run of three years.
A floating bridge is to be built
across the Hooghy river at Howrah
Bengal. ;
The total value of automobiles and
trucks exported from the United
States in 1925 was $222,699,132, a
gain of 66.4 per cent over 1924.
-———_——fi
( Legal Notices J
i
GEORGIA—Jasper County.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinarz of Ju{)er County,
October Term, 1926, will be sold at
public outery on the first Tuesday
in November, 1926, at the court
house door in said County, between
the legal hours of sale, the follow
ing described J)rolperty. to-wit:
One Hundred (100) acres of land
in Henderson and Cook Militia Dis
trict, Jasper County, Georgia, com
monly known as part of the Emory
D. Banks estate, bounded on the
North by lands of O. O. Banks Broth
ers and C. E. Hardeman, South by
lands of Will Arnold, East by lands
of 0. 0. Banks Brothers, and West
by public road leading from New
man to Monticello, Georgia.
Also, a certain house and lot, with
all improvements thereon, in the
town of Shady Dale, Georgia, bound
ed as follows: Northeast by Banks
Street, Southeast by Mrs. R. L. Bai
ley and O. O. Banks Bros., Southwest
by O. O. Banks Bros., and Northwest
by Davidson Street, being lands con
veyed to Mrs. Ammie C. Smith by
J. L. Tucker, B. M. Davidson, 0. O.
Banks and T. C. Connoway, contain
ing in all 7% acres, more or less,
same being the estate of Mrs. Ammie
C. Smith, deceased, Terms of sale
cash.
W. R. SMITH,
Administrator of Mrs.
Ammie C. Smith.
GEORGIA—Jasper Conty.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Jasper County,
will be sold, at public outery, on the
first Tuesday in November, 1926, at
the courthouse door in said county,
between the legal hours of sale, the
tract of land in said County contain
ing thirty (30) acres, situate, lying
and being in Thompson and Barnes
Militia District, said State and Coun
ty, and particular described as fol
lows: Bounded on the East by lands
of T. J. Kitchens and lands formerly
owned by B. F. McCollough; South
by lands of H. V. Johnson; West by ‘
lands of W. H. Prickett; and North
by lands of Claude Moore. Same
being the lands of the estate of B.
H. Moore, late deceased. Terms of
sale cash.
D. ROY PERSONS,
Administrator of Estate of
B. H. Moore.
GEORGIA—Jasper County.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Jasper County,
will be sold at public outery om the
first Tuesday in November, 1926, at
the court house door in said county,
between the legal hours of sale, the
tract of land in said county, de
scribed as follows:
“That tract or parcel of land com
monly known as the ‘Pou Place,’
containing one thousand (1,000)
acres, more or less, ?ing and being
in Horeb District, Jasper County
Georgia, and bounded as follows:
North by lands of J. H. Bullard, L.
S. Bullard and Eugene Benton and
L. O. Benton, East by lands of Eu
gene Benton and L. O. Benton,
South by Murder Creek, lands of E.
M. Baynes, Eugene Benton and L,
0. Benton, West lfi lands of W. W,
Martin and W. C. Martin.
Said sale to be made the first
Tuesday in November, 1926, for
cash, free of all liens and the liens
to attach to the funds of said sale,
MRS. W. E. BAYNES,
Administratrix of Estate W. E.
" Biynu. Deceased.
October 1, 1926. 4
TWENTY YEARS AGO
WE OPENED FOR BUSINESS
We are gratefi;l to the many. who have been con- |
tinuous customers of this bank during all these years.
Our growth has been in“l;eeping with the progress
of the community. :
We solicit your business and promise that same
will be handled on sound banking methods.
The Farmers National
Monticello, Georgia
Twenty Years’ Satisfactory Service '
HOUSEWIVES!!!
Don’t age yourself’ by worrying over something
to cook each day.
_ - :
F -
\S G ;
A V% k.,- A\ (¥
(0 ’a, %= \l’l (N
PT SR P O | (1
b JUST CALL FOR: N
Canadian Rutabagas Onions
Cabbage Celery
Beans Lettuce
Sweet Potatoes Chickens
Irish Potatoes Eggs
-All kinds ecanned meats, fruits and honey.
Don’t forget our Market and keep your grocery
bill all together.
J. H. Kelly Co.
“The Place to Trade"”
'PHONE————————————ONE FOUR