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RAY M. PERSONS
FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER
Monticello, — Georgia
25 — "PHONES — 64
Flowers:
Idle Hour (Macon) Nutting (Macon)
"MONTICELLO GIN COMPANY
We appreciate the good business we
have had in the past and cordially in
vite you to bring vour cotton to us to be
ginned.
SAISFACTION GUARANTEED
The best price for seed.
' One of the best, ginners in the State,
Mr. John Frank Malone, in charge.
Your cotton ginned at 50 cents per
hundred.
Cotton Seed Meal for Sale or Exchange
for Seed.
The Old Reliable
MONTICELLO GIN COMPANY
MONTICELLO, GEORGIA
CENTRAL RAILWAY
PROMOTES SAFETY
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and of 86 or of 13% in injuries.
Through educational campaigns
among the workers, the use of safety
appliances and the like the manage
ment is trying to effect still further
reductions of fatalities and accidents
among employes. |
“While progress is being made in
reducing accidents among pussen-‘
gers and employes, the number of
persons killed or injured along its
lines in accidents over which the
railroad has no control continues toi
increase. During the first eight
months of this year 17 persons were
killed and 19 injured while tres
passing upon Central of Georgia}
tracks or property. The most dan-l
gerous forms of trespassing are nf]
course going to sleep upon railroad
tracks, crossing bridges or trostlesi
and stealing rides on freight or pas
senger cars. !
|
“The railroad grade crossing is;
too often the scene of tragic but
entirely accidents. In the first vightl
months of this year 17 persons were
killed and 64 injured in grade crnss~‘
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Opens Friday, October 29th
Folks, we realize that cotton has dropped beyond our éxpéctations, so we have decided to take our loss now
by placing our entire stock of merchandise on a base of 10c cotton. You can buy goods in this house as
cheap in this sale as you can in January or February. Why not take ‘advantage of this price-slaughtering
event? No mail orders filled. No ’'phone orders filled. You must be on hand to get the goods. You will
have to see to believe these bargains. , : : | |
' ing accidents along the Central of
Georgia. During the same period
'last year 11 were killed and 37 in
!jured, an increase this year of 55
per cent in fatalities and of 73 per
- cent in injuries.
' “The least excusable and most
easily avoided of all railroad acci
~dents are those at grade crossings
and those to trespassers. And yet
the deaths from these two far out
number all others. Thirty-four per
sons were killed from January 1 to
' August 31, 1926, at grade crossings
| or while trespassing upon the tracks
Im- property of this company. Every
' one of these deaths could have been
avoided if the persons killed had ex-
I(-rcised reasonable care. A train
wreck on the Central of Georgia in
{which 34 persons were killed and 55
|mhvrs seriously injured would at
tract national attention, a rigid in
vestigation would be made and those
‘at fault severely punished. And
);yot. because they are scattered over
a longer period, fatalities among
’trespaasvrs or reckless drivers are
frlismisswl with only passing mention.
~ “The Central of Georgia is proud
of its record for promoting safety
inmong passengers and employes. It
is constantly seeking to make still
‘furthcr reductions in avoidable ac-
THE MONTICELLO NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1926 -
ABOUT THE ELLIS HEALTH
LAW AND THE NEED OF
COUNTY HEALTH WORK.
;l'he actual results of a full - time
Commissioner of Health are just as
certain of returns for your money as
any investment that you can make.
The law is a local option one, and
is effective only in counties where
two successive grand juries recom
mend it. We cannot commend the
work too highly to our citizens, as
the following statement of the work
accomplished will demonstrate:
1, The adoption of the Ellis Health
Law means the employment of a spe
clally trained medical health officer
who devotes his entire time to the
business of looking after health and
sanitation, The law also provides for
the employment of public health nurs
oß and sanitary inspectors as assist
ants to the health officer where de
sired. The nurses assist with the
school medical inspection, help to ar
range for the correction of defects,
and, with the health officer, reach
mothers and infants, especially among
the poorer classes, through' the me
dium of child centers, mothers’ classes
and home visits,
2. About 70,000 school children re
celved medical inspection during 1925
through the operation of this law ;
13,162 children found with handicap
ping defects received corrective treat
ment, and 11,222 children were treated
for hookworm.
3. The commissioners of health, op
erating under the Ellis Health Law,
gave free of charge anti-typhoid vac
cine to 104,210 people in the years
of 1924 and 1925,
4. In the state of Georgia, in coun
ties having a full-time heglth service,
typhoid fever was reduced 18%, while
in other counties without health ser
vice, the rate was reduced only 3%.
5. During the past four years,
9,903 sanitary privies were installed by
the commissioners of health, Dysen
tery, hookworm and summer diar
rhoea of infants will not be controlled
by any other method in the rural dis
tricts,
6. There is annually in Georgia a
great sacrifice of human life on the
altar of indifference, During 1925,
667 deaths were caused by typhoid
fever, 220 by diptheria and 428 by
malaria. In 1925, 1,188 infants, under
two years of age, died of dysentery
and diarrhoea. During their hours of
herglc effort to establish new life in
this world, more than 500 would-be
mothers made the supreme sacrifice.
7. These and many other lives
might have been saved it well-organ
ized health departments, well manned
by a well-equipped personnel, had
been established in each county of the
state,
8. COST? This in dolalrs and cents
Is about one-tenth of the actual
amount it saves the people.
9. A low death rate {8 much more
to be desired than a low tax rate, be
cause health work will make growth
more perfect, decline less rapid, death
more distant, and life stronger and
happler,
10. Write to the State Board of
Health, Atlanta, Georgia, for further
fuformation,
cidents. But there is no way that it
can prevent trespassers from wander
ing upon its tracks or reckless driv
ers from racing its trains to the
crossing. If the public would exer
cise only half the care that the rail
roads do in safeguarding lives en
trusted to them, the problem of the
reckless driver and the trespasser
would not exist.”
} STATEMENT OF
Of Monticell}i, Georgia
To Comptroller of Currency at the Close June 30, 1926.
(Condensed)
ASSETS .
FORDE .. iiv ot i e tdi wias RS
DR BN . e R
Other Bonds and Stocks_ .. _.._.. 75,3561.37
Building and Fixtures . _._._...... 12,000.00
Cash and Due from Banks and U.
S, TYORBIISY ... saiwaseniis 2N NNEEL
$517,596.95
| LIABILITIES |
CaDI ...l
gy AR N g o S
Undivided Profite. . ... .cs. ... 5,032.44
CIPCUIRNION ... .it anniiaei. . BENERTE
DIVIOena N 0 B 8 ' ... sy 2,000.00
DEDOBIE .%o iehivavedniutcs BRG]
‘ $517,596.95
We Appreciate Your Business Whether Large or Small and ;vill H;ndlo It
With Accuracy, Promptness and Courtesy, Treating Your Affairs
in the Strictest Confidence and Secrecy.
Ireland’s Middle Age
Place of Pilgrimage
Ireland has a place of pligrimage
which has held its position for 14 cen
turies. It is on an island in Lough
Derg, and Is said to be the only pil
grimage of modern times conducted
like those of the Middle ages. It is
freely noticed in medieval literature,
and still today is very much alive, It
is visited yearly, beginning in the
month of June, by all sorts of people,
and desplte its rigors, it is so popu
lar that a new church has been bulls
aud the railway companies run ex
cursions to it. The pilgrims arrive
fasting and make their rounds of the
stations in their bare feet. Three of
the stations must be made each day
of the three days of the pligrimage.
The first meal is of black tea and
dry bread, and this has to last for
24 hours. A whole night is spent in
prayer In the church. This is a try
ing experience, yet year after year
hundreds return, and they include
notable figures in public life. None
but pilgrims are allowed on the is
land, and once there, all the strict
regulations must be observed by all.
Won Fame After Death
Perhaps Henry D. Thoreau of Con
cord, Mass, whe died in 1862, is the
only American author of renown
whose works were not published until
after his death. He published but
two books while alive, both at his own
expense. One of them had a moder
ate circulation, the other almost none
All his life he kept & journal, and all
of this has subsequently been pub
lished, so that his works now total
about 30 volumes, all of which are in
print and in demand.
LET US WRITE your Fire Insur
ance. We write on country prop
erty as well as in town.
HARVEY & KELLY.
|| Classified Want Ads “
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FOR SALE—My house and ‘lot.
J. F. GREER.
FOR SALE-—March hatched pure
bred Rhode Island Red roosters.
MRS. J. T. THOMASON,
(220ct2wks) Route 1.
FOR RENT OR SALE—Two store
rooms. Apply to
L. O. BENTON,
Monticello, Ga.
WANTED—Highest prices paid for
cow hides.
W. H. IVEY, Jr,,
. Monticello, Ga.
FOR SALE—ReaI ’possum dogs.
See
R. E. ALLEN.
FOR RENT—Mrs. J. W. Minter
home place. Apply to
4 wks. ' B. RICHARDSON.
FOR SALE—By Big Indian Nut
Nursery 50,000 budded paper
shell pecan trees. For varieties and
prices see
JOHNNIE SMITH,
R. F. D., Monticello, Ga.