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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by
night. And, 10, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about
them; and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, “Fear not, for, behold I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heaven
ly host, praising God and saying, “Glory to ng in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men.” And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one
to another, *Let us now go even unto Bethlehem,and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord
hath made known unto ys.” And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the Babe
lving in a manger.--The Gospel of St. Luke 2:8-16. ;
CONGRESSMAN FROM SIXTH
BELIEVES THERE IS NO REM
EDY IN SIGHT FOR PRESENT
‘TERM BUT PROBABLY LATER.
{Sam Small, in The Constitution)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Con
gressman Sam Rutherford, of the
sixth, is not hopeful of any substan
tial farm relief being enacted by the
‘present session. After referring to
the manner in which the democrats
in the first session co-operated with
‘the republicans to pass the present
revenue bill he criticises the determi
nation just taken by the republican
leaders not to co-operate with the
demoecrats in their efforts to supply
the ommissions and correct the in
equalities that have developed since
‘the act became effective.
‘Democrats at Mercy of Republicans.
Now, he says:
“No legislation will be passed at
this session authorizing a reduction
of taxes. It is also evident that
farm relief legislation will not be
«onsidered, as the democrats, being
in the minority, are at the mercy of
the republican majority.
“It now looks as if though we will
‘pass the annual appropriation bills
and possibly make some provision for
«disposition of alien property seized
«during the war. By postponing farm
relief legislation at this session, it
‘will be too late to assist in market
ing and stabilizing of the next crop,
‘as congress will not meet until our
crops are practically all sold.
“While I am not in favor of the
" passage of any radical legislation
iseeking to give relief to the farmers,
at the same time, I will vote for any
‘bill looking to stabilizing of surplus
" farm products, which is so needed
at this time. Legislation that will
stabilize prices will increase not only
the purchasing power of our farmers
. but will materially help our manu
facturers who also are interested in
®limination ‘of such wide fluctua
tions in cotton.
“I do know that if something is
‘ot done to stimulate and encour
age farmers of our country, they will
continue to leave the farms and go
4o the towns and cities to enter in
dustrial pursuits. While I do not
believe that we can make prosperity
*by legislation, 1 do believe that the
government ' can assist in orderly
marketing of farm products, which
.is all that our farmers wish at this
. time.” /
L S
HOLIDAY NEXT WEEK.
Only a small edition of The News
‘will be issued next week, the force
wobserving the holidays. v
A merry Christmas to YOU!
THE MONTICELLO NEWS
POPULAR AND TALENTED MON
TICELLO YOUNG LADIES TO
GIVE CONCERTS IN SEVERAL
TOWNS DURING HOLIDAYS.
Upon the earnest solicitation of
the P.-T. A. at Hillsboro and Shady
Dale, the Malone Sisters, talented
young ladies, daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. John Frank Malone, of Monti
cello, have kindly consented to give
benefit performances in this section
during the Yuletide season, appear
ing at Hillsboro on next Monday
evening, December twenty-seventh,
and in Shady Dale the following
night.
These young ladies have been
scattered, it might be said, for the
past year or two, living in different
parts of the country. Now that
they are at home for the Christmas
season, they were. prevailed upon to
once more to give some of their con
certs. This they have agreed to do,
and a great treat is in store for all
‘who hear them.
Their programme consists of
elassic and popular songs, dances
and music. Beautiful costumes are
used and one of the Malone Sisters’
entertainments is well worth the
price which is asked for a ticket.
Entoru_inon of Note.
They are natural-born musicians,
and in individual as well as ensemble
work, they are unexcelled. .Their
character sketches and dance skits
always are pleasing and entertain
ing.
Assisting the Malone Sisters will
be Mr. Carl Wall, who, also is a
musician and entertainer of merit.
He is the husband of ‘“Miss Grace,”
as she is more familiarly known
to the home-town folks.
The troupe, in all probability, will
fill engagements in other towns of
this immediate territory during the
holidays, as The News learns that
quite a few invitations have been ex
tended the company.
Wherever they appear, The News
bespeaks for the Malone Sisters a
crowded house, knowing their ability
to put on a programme extraordi
nary and worth going miles to see.
A Watch Night Service, to which
the public is invited, will be held at
the Presbyterian church on Friday,
December 31st, commencing at 11:15
p. m. ’
Last year a similar service ‘was
held, being the first church service
of its kind, which has been held, as
MONTICELLO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926.
FORT VALLEY DECIDES TO
SKIP FESTIVAL IN 1927, IT IS
ANNOUNCED. — NEWTON RE
SIGNS JOB AS CHAIRMAN.
FORT VALLEY, Ga.,, Dec. 20.—
(Special to Telegraph.)—At a mass
meeting held here tonight by the peo
ple of Peach County it was voted to
hold the next Peach festival during
the early part of 1928. Owing to
the fact that the Gypsy Smith re
vival services will be held during the
same dates that the pageant would
take place next year, the Holding
Committee which is composed of 32
prominent merchants of the city who
have underwritten the pagednt and
guarantee it each, at a meeting held
Saturgy recommended that the pa
geant Yor 1927 be continued until
the next year. This was accepted by
the people who attended the meet
ing tonight.
Judge Riley Presides.
The meeting was presided over by
Judge A. T. Riley, who is also chair
man of the board of trustees which
holds the leases to the property own
ed by the Pageant Association. The
plans for the 1928 pageant will bg
started in early November next year
according to the plans which were
adopted at the meeting held tonight.
Another mass meeting will be held
in early October at which time a gen
eral chairman of the pageant will be
selected to take the place of Ralph
Newton who tendered his resignation
tonight. ; 8 ;
At the meeting to be held in Octo
ber all other officials for the pageant
will be selected as well as the general
chairman and a meeting will be held
in November at which time the cast
will be selected and practice will be
started. It is the plan of the people
to make the 1928 pageant the great
est of any ever held in the South.
As a result of being rained out, the
first day of the pageant held this
year, there is now a deficit of sll,-
000 in the treasury, but the proper
ty owned by the Association sur
passes this sum by several thousands
of dollars..
far as known, in Monticello. There
was a splendid attendance and the
gervice was one of interest apd in
spiration.
The service will close a few min
utes after the striking of the mid
night hour.
S e T
CHRISTMAS CAROLS f
TO BE SUNG
An announcement of interest is
that Christmas Carols will be sung
‘ (Continued on page 8)
DEAR OLD “IMPORTED SCOTCH”
HAS A TOUCH OF CREOSOTE,
CARBOLIC ACID, PHENOL OR
WINTERGREEN, IT IS SAID.
Poisons were found in all of sev
eral hundred samples of Atlanta and
north Georgia whiskey examined re
cently, but none in sufficient quan
tities to produce death, directly, be
cause ¢f drinking the whiskey, J. D.
Allbright, chemist of the federal pro
hibition unit, recently stated.
Among the poisons found in whis
key, both “bonded” and corn, captur
ed in Georgia, were lysol, creosote,
carbolic acid, lye, sulphuric acid and
copper and zinc metalic salts.
“None were found in sufficient
quantity to kill the man drinking
one bottle of the whiskey” Mr. All
bright said, “but it is easy to see
the condition he would be in after
a short time if he drunk much of
this whiskey.” %
Asked to explain how the poisons
got into the whiskey, he said:
“Moonshine’s poison comes from
the stills and from the hasty dis
tilling methods used while the poi
son in so-called imported liquors is
deliberately mixed to the bootleg
concoction to give it odor and Xick.
Disregard Sanitation.
“The lysol found in several sam
ples of Atlanta corn whiskey got
there through carelessness. The bot
tlers used" stoppers from lysol bot
tles, which had absorbed so mueh of
the disinfectant that it got into the
analysis, but it had turned the corn
whiskey to a dark brown color. Boot
leggers seldom take the trouble to
wash bottles, judging from the ones
examined. 1 found dead flies and
many kinds of filth sticking to the
bottles.
“Creosote, carbolic acid, phenol or
wintergreen are deliberately mixed
with a base of corn whiskey when
the resourteful distiller is preparing
“imported Scotch,” This gives it
the smoked Scotch flavor.
“When the moonshine is weak be
cause. of watering or for ‘another
reason lye is added to give it a bite.
Very often the man whose eyes are
made to water and who has to
grab a chaser to cool his burning
throat, is fooled by this addition of
lye into thinking that he has got
extra strong'and extra pure stuff.
Many connoisseurs of corn insist on
their whiskey having a good bead—
that is when they shake it, bubbles
must rise. Watered whiskey won't
do this, so a beading oil, made of
gulphuric acid and olive oil, is ad
ded, giving it the required bead.
This beading oil was prevalent in
the Georgia whiskey. ;
_ “Copper and zine salts—both poi-
DR. CALEB RIDLEY
SUBJECT WILL BE “EVOLU
TION AND ATHEISM.”—PUB
LIC INVITED TO HEAR HIM ON
FRIDAY NIGHT, DEC. 3IST.
His many friends in this section of
the State will be interested in the
announcement that Dr. Caleb A,
Ridley, a former pastor of the Mon
ticello Baptist church, will come to
this city on Friday night, December
31st, to deliver a lecture in the court
house on the subject of Evolution
and Atheism. The speaking will be
gin at 8 o'clock.
Dr. Ridley will appear under the
auspices of the Supreme Kingdom,
an organization recently formed to
fight evolution and atheism in the
United States. Dr. Ridley’s lecture
will be free and the public is cor
dially invited to be present.
The building will be made com
fortable for the occasion. If the
weather should be cold, the steam
heat will be turned on.
. Special Musical Program.
J. Douglas Swagerty, nationally
known baritone, will render a spe
cial program on this occasion.
Read the advertisement appearing
or page 8 of this issue of The News.
ATLANTA, Ga.,, Dedember 17.—
Payment of $500,000 to school
teachers of the state was announced
by Fort E. Land, state superintend
(Continued on page 8)
Announcements for Sunday:
Sunday School: 10:00 A. M.; S.
J. Smith, Superintendent.
Preaching: 11:00 A. M.
Junior B. Y. P. U.: 2:00 P. M.
“Christmas Everywhere,”” 7:30 P.
M., sponsored by the Y. W. A,
Announcements for the week:
Sunbeams—Monday 3:30 P. M.
Senior B. Y. P. U.—Monday, 7:30
P. M.
Prayermeeting—Wednesday, 7:30
P. M
REV. W. B. UNDERWOOD,
: Pastor.
sonous —were found in almost all of
the samples coming from the un
lined copper stills and the improvis
ed fermenters, stills and coils which
are often made from gasoline drums,
lard pails and galvanized garbage
pails.”’—Exchange,
NUMBER 38.
ALL GEORGIA PLANTERS ARE
ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE
IN 1927 COTTON - GROWING
TESTS, IT IS ANNOUNCED.
The following bulletin, entitled
“A Golden Opportunity,” was re
cently issued by E. C. Westbrook,
cotton specialist, Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture, Athens:
Out of every period of adversity
arises new thoughts and ideas which
result in higher standards of ef
ficiency and more economic produc
tion. Necessity is indeed the moth
er of invention.
There has been much talk about
the eighteen million bale cotton crop
and its disastrous effeet upon the
South. There is a feeling among
some classes that if the South could
get away from cotton entirely, pros
perity would reign and everybody
would be happy. Would this be the
case? The pastures farthest away
look the greenest. Despite the low
price of cotton, there are Georgia
farmers who are making as high as
$75.00 net profit per acre for their
cotton this year. They are doing it
at a time when some of their neigh
bors are barely making enough for
their fertilizer.
Large Yields per Acre Profitable,
The cotton farmers who make a
profit every year are those who ob
tain large yields per acre. The
cotton farmers who just break even
or lose money most years are those
who have low yields of cotton per
acre. A very simple problem, isn’t
it?
The average yield of cotton per
acre in 19256 was 153 pounds of
lint. The average cost of produc
tion was about 19 cents per pound,
which was close to the average sell
ing price. The farmers who ob
tained a bale per acre produced it
at a cost of 9 cents per pound and
made a net profit of §45.00 per
acre. The higher the yield per
acre, the lower the cost of produc
tion, and the greater the margin of
profit. The cost of production for
the 1926 crop is only slightly less
than the 1925 ‘crop. The average
yield for Georgia this year will be
approximately 1756 pounds of lint
cotton per acre, Compare the “av
erage man’’ with the bale per acre
or more man and solution for the
problem is evident. :
Seven Specific Points. .
While production of large care
yields involves all of the practices
incident to good farming, there are
certain phases of the problem that
should receive special attention.
. (Continued on page 6) , \,z;;-;?‘