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The Monticello News
Monticello, — —~ Georgia
sublcr}ptlan Price, 31.50 a Year,
ayable in Advance,
Published Every Friday by
F. L. and 'l‘.ryß. PENN,
' 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
Be patient, therefore, brethren,
unto the coming of the Lord. Be
hold, the husbandman waiteth for
the precious fruit of the earth, and
hath long patience for it, until he
receive the early and the latter rain,
Be ye also patient, stablish your
hearts, for the coming of the Lord
draweth nigh.—James 5:7-8.
The kids, as well as the grown
ups, are happy—for the circus is
coming!
} Sweet Marie, we have with U. 8.
today—Queen Marie. Welcome!
say we,
Hardman will make Georgia a
splendid governor. Mark our pre
diction.
Now®&hat the election is over let’s
all bury the hatchet, fellow-Geor
gians, and pull and work for our dear
old State.
Anent the recent election The
Jackson Progress-Argus thinks “it
will take a killing frost and snow to
bury all the mud flung in the last
campaign.”
The Butts County Harvest Festi
val will be held on Friday, October
29th. The event promises to be a
gala one in every way as Jackson
and Butts are making elaborate prep
arations for this particular ocesion.
Friend Charlie Benns, editor of
the Butler Herald, says: “We would
rather have a plain coffin without
a flower, and a funeral without
eulogy, than a life without the sweet
ness of love and an unmeasured sym
pathy.” Same here, brother!
Jasper county offers attractive in
ducements to the home-seeker who
is looking for a location. The climate
is ideal all the year; its lands are
fertile as well as highly productive;
the citizens are hospitable and a
cordial “howdy-do” awaits the pro
spective settler. :
A New York capitalist has pur
chased three hundred and fifty acres
of the Middlebrooks tract, near Cov
ington, ufion which a stock farm will
be operated. That sounds good, and
it is to be hoped others from the
North, East and West will come to
Georgia—the land of OPPORTUNI-
T
Senator Wm. J. Harris is anxious
to secure the names and post of
fice addresses of any Georgia boys
whose fathers were killed or died of
wounds or illness in connection with
the World War, as he introduced a
bill which became a law at the last
session providing for education of
eighty such boys by the United
States Government, at West Point
and Annapolis. Only boys made
orphan by the War are eligible, and
under Senator Harris’ bill these are
presented an excellent opportunity
to secure an education of an ad
vanced order whereas otherwise
some of them might be able to ob
tain only a very meager one.
FRIDAY
Friday always has been considered
by many to be an “unlucky’” day.
Along this line a contemporary says,
that “if you are superstitious about
that day, read this:” ¢
Lee surrendered on Friday.
Moscow was burned on Friday.
Washington was born on Friday.
Shakespeare was born on Friday.
The Mayflower was landed on Fri
day.
Queen Victoria was married on
Friday. :
King -Charles 1 was beheaded on
Friday.
Fort Sumter was bombarded on
Friday.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on
Friday.
Julius Caesar was assassinated on
Friday.
The battle of Waterloo was fought
on Friday. :
Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake on Friday.
The Ybattle of New Orleans was
fought on Friday.
The Declaration of Independence
The following clever lines, very
suggestive of the season, are clipped
from the DeKalb New Era, published
at Decatur: ; '
“Ole Mister Possum is sneakin’ froo
de nite— ;
Ole Mister Possum is a hidin’ frum
But ole Mister Houn’ Dawg is puttin’
on his hat—
Putty soon he gwine to locate whar
dat ole possum at.”
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“Hit's autumn time in Georgy, an’
the sorghum’s in the pan,
The bee is huntin’ honey, an’ gettin’
» all he can, :
The folks is in the auto, a goin’
fer to ride,
Big 'tater is in the kitchen a waitin’
to be fried.”
If you do nothing else—smile!
COTTON ACREAGE PROBLEM
A reduction of the cotton acreage
seems to be the surest way to make
certain of a fair price for cotton. The
acreage problem in recent years has
been a knotty one on account of the
fact that the ravages of the boll
weevil have made it practically im
possible to calculate how much cot
ton could be expected from a given
acreage. Even now a considerable
cut in acreage might be followed by
unusual damage from the weevil and
make the crop even smaller than had
been planned. Production~on a par
with the present year, however,
would continue to be disastrous. A
cotton authority states that on an
average, five cents is being lost on
every pound of cotton sold by the
Southern farmer who raises 160
pounds of line to the acre, which is
the average yield throughout the
South, when cotton is sold at the pre
vailingly low price of approximately
13 cents. A farmer who raises 160
pounds of cotton to the acre this
year must receive at least 18 cents
a pound to even equal his cost of
production. Under the prevailing
price of about 18 cents a pound, a
vield of 246 pounds to the acre must
be harvested, and then a farmer un
der these conditions is only swapping
dollars. The Manufacturers Record
points out that the larger the pro
duction of cotton, the poorer the
farmer becomes, and the past as wéll
as the present history of the crop
bears testimony to the truth of the
statement.—Exchange.
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
The South Carolina coroner’s jury
that has been ‘“‘investigating” the
lynching of three negroes who were
taken from the Aiken jail has re
turned the hoary verdict, “Dead at
the hands of unknown parties.” Thus
the coroner’s jury has joined the
conspiracy of silence that surrounds
nine-tenths of the lynchings in the
South,
There never was a mob anywhere
whose members were not known—
not all of them perhaps, but some
members of the mob. Coffee coun
ty knew enough about her re
cent lynching to indict at least one
man. Unless she indicts others, Cof
fee county mob stands out as unique,
since it was the only one-man mob
in history. Aiken, South Carolina,
knows some of thg men who compos
ed the mob that took three negroes
who were seen that day on trial in
the courts and turned them loose,
like rats, to be shot down on the out
skirts of the city.
It is not possible for a thing of
that sort to occur and the identity of
members of the mob not to become
known. The sheriff of the South Car
olina county in which Aiken is loca
ted was not a stranger to his people,
or he would not have been sheriff.
He campaigned for election. It is
the business of sheriffs to know the
people of a county. They know per
haps more”men in a given county
than any other individuals in the
community. The South Carolina
sheriff knew who was in the party;
the coroner’s jury no doubt also knew
who was in the mob. When we re
turn a verdict “Dead at the hands of
unknown parties,” we know we are
lying about it and we know that is
the effective way of hushing up fur
ther agitation about it. It is a con
spiracy of silence into which many
communities enter—one into which
Macon entered in the past. We made
a show some years ago of indicting
members of a mob that lynched a ne
gro near Macon, but by general con
sent, or general apathy the cases
went by default. ;
If we are going to continue lynch
ing, we should be at least honest
enough with ourselves and with the
law not to. make a mockery of it by
returning any such verdict as “Dead
at the hands of unknown parties.”—
Macon Telegraph. :
A fire-extinguishing paste contain
ing carbon dioxide is on sale in Eng
land. ... e R L
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926.
e SWINDLEWY. U U
A few years ago when farmers
were prosperous the country was
overxun with slick-topgued swindlers
offering stock in all kinds of oil
companies, mining companies, fish
ery companies, etc. -
Nowadays real estate is the bait
with which the gold brick gentry are
fleecing the public: Last summer
a friend said to us, “I know two
men who have gone to Florida to
sell real estate, one of whom has
been convicted in the courts for
dishonesty, and the other lost his
job for the same cause.”
Farmers éverywhere should be on
guard against swindlers of this sort.
What Mr. L. A. Rose ‘said in a re
cent article deserves repeating:
“The train on which the
writer was traveling in Cali
fornia stopped for the engine to
take water. On a sigh over the
main entrance to a tract of land
was the name of a city. Cov
ering a large territory, street
signs and lot stakes could be
seen, but a small passenger shed
was the only thins in the way
of a building. A little later, in
speaking of the city to a busiy
man in a nearby village, he went
to the file and withdrew an old -
booklet showing city buildings,
. schools, erks,‘ etc., which it was
&ropose to build and construct.
Kon my return, I met a lady
who said that she had paid SBOO
cash for a corner lot in that
Pcrticular ‘city,’ and exhibited a
etter from ,a farmer which in
substance was that she held title
to a lot in the center of his farm,
and the land was worth $8 per
acre, but he would give her $8
for the lot in order to clear
the title to his farm—and what
he wrote was true.”—The Pro
gressive Farmer.
The perplexing problem of identi
fying 135 stolen chickens from a
flock of 5,000 was solved by Mrs.
Alfred Garand, at Williamstown, N.
J. When the police asked her to
prove ownership, Mrs. Garand stood
in an adjacent field and began to
whistle “There’s No Place Like
Home.” One by one the chickens hop
ped out of the gate and came over
to her until 135 chickens, looking
very much like brothers and sisters,
stood peeping and crowing at her
feet. The woman explained that
every morning before feeding her
flock she whistled that tune in the
poultry house, a signal for straying
chicks to crowd around the cracked
corn hopper.
The English immigration law is
rigid and formidable and the men
who enforce it make no exceptions
When a cross-channel airplane crash
ed into a haystack near Dymchurch
not long ago, killing three of its
passengers and injuring twelve, im
migration officials from Folkstone
were quickly on the spot and the
passports and baggage of all the un
fortunate passengers were carefully
examined. None of the injured was
allowed to leave until these for
malities had been completed.
Government tests of 10 brands of
hotel chinaware showed that the
most durable china was 50 per cent
harder than the softest ware.
A photograph of Alexander Gra
ham Bell was recently telephoned
from San Francisco to New York in
seven and one-half minutes.
Exceptional weather sweeping
South Africa recently brought snow
to many parts where it had never
been ‘seen before.
Women in Ainu, Northern Japan,
admire bearded faces so much that
they tattoo their own to make them
appear whiskered.
Some aircraft engineers predict
that fuel for flying boats will grad
ually change from gasoline to heavy
oil.
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EXTRA SPECIAL!
ANY CHATTANOOGA OR OLIVER
CHILLED TWO-HORSE TURNING
PLOW IN THE HOUSE FOR "
SIO.OO
ANY CHATTANOOGA OR OLIVER
CHILLED ONE-HORSE TURNING
PLOW IN THE HOUSE FOR
$7.50
WE WILL ALSO HAVE ON DIS
PLAY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23,
1926, MANY MORE BARGAINS IN
SUCH AS BUCKETS, BATTERIES,
CLOCKS, COFFEE POTS, PAD
LOCKS, SCISSORS, MOPS, PANS,
SCUTTLES, AND MANY OTHER
ITEMS. : ' :
SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY A{lb
COME IN AND BUY WHERE' A
DOLLAR GOES FARTHEST.
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tinuous customers of this bank during all these years.
Our growth has been in keeping with the prbgress
of the community. . |
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