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VOL. XXII
a ' N OPPORTUNITY
ou r Whole Sec
tion Interested
A fide In the Affairs of
Madison County.
Every subscriber of the Moni
tor should read this article
carefully through as a duty to
our county and section. The
writer will not mention anything
hut your interests and so will
not be imposing on your feelings
or citizenship. Read. See to it
that your neighbors read it.
Then let us act all together.
On the seventh day of Septem
ber, less than two weeks fiom
now. the Danielsville School will
open. A chapter in the school
history of this section will he
written, good or bad. That is
your concern and responsibility.
Let us admit for the moment
that Madison county and the
bounding counties need a Cen
tral High School. Let us also
argree for the present that
Danielsville is the best place for
it.
Right now the people of
Danielsville are earnestly in the
mind to develop such an enter
prise. They are enthusiastic
So much so that most of the fam
ilies have agreed to take student
hoarders at a low rate until a
dormitory can he built and the
citizens have promised liberal
contributions for new buildings.
This present interest constitutes
a tide in our affairs, a tide that
will pass if disregarded.
What should be the response
of the section? Simply to begin
using the school —all who need it
now, Write to any acquaintance
in the town or to the school prin
cipal and ask for information,
write at once; the time is just
sufficient, no more.
The fitness of Danielsville and
the needs of the section have
been recognized by an organisa
tion that can help and will in the
near future—if the town and the
section act at once on the en
couragement already offered.
At Cornelia in July the Metho
dist Conference for the Elberton
District endorsed Danielsville as
the site lor a Central High
Hchool for Madison and sur
rounding counties. This' pres
ent readiness to endorse us
means a readiness to help when
wo prove worthy and is a tide in
our affairs that will pass if dis
regarded.
The proper respons'e will be
for those who need a Central
High School to begin using the
Danielsville school as their Cen
tral High School. The institu
tion cap develop only fcy the
prompt patronage of those who
need it in fact for their children.
Tseof a thing helps to prove its
necessity. The necessity of the
school when proven will make it
flourish. This should he rec
ogni;-od soberly, especially by
the Madison county people.
l! your children have finished
the home school or if the home
S ( i,onl is not satisfactory, and if
.VOur childreu are too young for
college and you cannot pay col
ioge costs - send them to Daniels
ville this fall. •
iuen when the people of the
Ui-vp see what you expect of
llicm < they will respond nohly.
rti e.V will improve their school
Piant, they will build dormito
r,es where hoard can be had
dose to bare cost, they will show
■ u that pature meant Daniels-
V!i ' e tor a school town, which is
a Plain fact.
i hen when the interest of the
'' tion and of the town is shown
lQ practical way, our school will
Ufe incorporated in the great um-
TheDanielsMlle Monitor
versity system recently begun
m Atlanta and will become a
stable unit in the system.
The result will be vastly bet
ter education and more of it for
the new generation. What this
amounts to you must imagine
for yourself. Consider how the
imperfection of your own train
ing has hindered you and how
you have seen others advance
because they surpassed you on
ly in school opportunities.
We have fastened our efforts
upon ttiG task of building a
school system in the south that
will abide until its walls receive
the ivies of a century that out
lives cannot reach-and beyond
that. We have a present oppor
tunity to get our school built
into this great system that has
begun with a million dollar gift
from a Georgia man and a five
million dollar heart in the heart
of our state.
Will we do it or will we neglect
the readiness of Danielsville un
til she shall neglect the leadi
ness of the conference?
See how siinplg it is: If you
need the school for your child,
use it this fall for him and there s
by help save it for his children
when you are gone.
Electricity on the Farm
Atlanta, Ga., An exhibition
now in Peachtree street is calu
lated to bring wonder aud envy
to the farmer boy who has to
turn the cornsheller and the
grindstone and to his overworked
mother who breaks her back
over a washboard. It is an elec
trical, appliance show, and its
principal feature is a machine
with one fair sized motor sur
rounded by a corn sheller, a
washing machine, a grindstone,
an ice cream freezer and a wheel
ay be used to drive any
piece of machinery on a farm.
By moving a lever or two the
motor can he coupled on to any
of the machines in an instant.
They are being sold rapidly,
too, and so are the electric irons,
electric stoves, electric sewing
machine motors and all the ap
pliances, and remarkable feature
is that they are going to folks
from the country and the small
towns,
Elver since the Georgia Rail
way and Power opens its great
Tallulah E’alls plant, reduced the
price of electricity,and stretched
its lines through more than a
hundred miles of country, the
people along the line have been
waking up to the fact that elec
tricity is sometimes cheaper than
manual labor, and they are coup
ling their share of Tallulah to
churns and their pumps. Rural
Georgia rapidly one of
the principal users of current.
Atlanta, Ga., The Annuity
Messenger, the official organ ot
the Masons annuity, which is
just off the press, shows tnat the
organization has assets of more
than seven hundred sixty live
thousand dollars, One ieature,
showing the safety of its invest
ments, is the item of registered
bonds of nearly six hundred
ninety thousand dollars. Its
home in Atlanta is valued at fifty
eight thousand dollars, though
worth considerably more.
These figures will he gratifying
to masons throughout the South.
The Masons annuity is £n or
ganization for the protection of
widows and orphans of deceased
Masons.
H. S. f'TUGH
Diamonds, Silverware And
Novelties.
Repairing a Specialty
KOYSTON. —GEORGIA
Danielsville, Georgia, Thursday, August 27th 1914
Cases Set for September Term 1914 Madison
Superior Court.
Monday, September 7th, 1914
Garithers vs Thompson . . Page 144
Wright vs Wright . . . 3
Comer Bank vs Carithers . “34
Jordan vs Jordan ... “40
Adams vs Adams ... “94
Woodruff vs Scoggin , . “
Carlton Bank vsColdwell . . “ 9^
Williams Ad, vs Williams . " 109
Flanigan vs Flanigan . , *•
Hopkins vs Williams , ( jjp
Burroughs vs Burroughs . . “ 120
S. 0. Oil Co', vs Carroll , . “ 122
Beasley Shoe Cos. vs Smith & Adams “ 123
Webb & Crawford Cos vs Williams “ 124
Flem ing Bearing Cos. vs Williams “ 128
vs Williams “ 129
King Hodgson Cos. vs Black . “ 130
Hardman & Phinizy vs Williams “ 132
Citizens B. Trust Cos. vs Smith “ 134
McCullum vs Berryman . “ 136
Callaway Gro. Cos. vs Williams “ 137
Georgia Chemical Cos. vs Williams “ 140
Noell vs Wood .... “ 141
Southern Refin’g Cos. vs Rone , “ 142
Rowe & Cos. vs Patten . , ‘ 143
Georgia Chemical Works vs Williams “ 144
Carmichael vs Drake . . “ J 45
Cook Bros, vs Latimer , . “ 147
Bray vs Cox .... “ 148
Hendricks vs Powers . . •* 149
Porterfield vs Johns . , Page 128
Loony vs Bragg ... No 6
Dean vs Bragg . . . Page 147
I he Criminal Docket will not be called before Wednesd iy--This does not
effect the witnesses who are subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury.
...YOUR HOME SCHOOL...
Has done ail it can for your son and
daughter. Send postal for Catalog
The Danielsvflle School
.1. W. CANTRELL, Prin. Danielsville, Ga.
IF WE COULD
EAT COT I ON
(By VV. T- Anderson)
It is a poor time to say ‘‘l told
you so.” It> was about tifteen
years ago that the lamented Mr.
Pendleton took up the work thr,u
the Telegraph of trying to induce
Georgia farmers to grow their
own feedstuff's. One thousand
dollars in good American gold
was distributed as prizes for
best yield of wheat, and every
one was convinced that Georgia
could grow wheat phditably.
But how well that advice was
heeded is demonstrated by the
statistics showing that Georgia
$172,000,000 worth of feedstuffs
in 1911, and sold her entire cot
ton crop for $140,000,000. That’s
what you call making progress
backward.
Suppose Georgia corn barns
were full, and her smokehouses
strung with old fashioned Geor
gia cured hams and shoulders?
What would Georgia care how
long they fought in Europe?
But now we must sell cotton to
pay for our $172,000,000 worth of
feed we used in making it.
We are going to get out of the
present difficulties. . But how
many farmers have made the
resolution that they will never
again be caught with nothing to
eat? It is said that farmers are
compelled to grow cotton, be
cause the supply man will not
lend them any money except on
a contract to grow so many hales
of cotton. Tuis is a lame excuse
|in anybody’s mouth, it is the
I excuse of the man who is not
j satisfied to “get along.” It is
■the refuge of the mao who is
proud to say at the end of his
crop year, "I think I will pay
out.” It .is the apology of the man
who is willing to take his child
ren out of school and put them in
the cotton field without a dollar
for t4ieir labor, to have his wife
do the drudgery from daylight
until long after he is snoring.
The farmer who wants to over
come this condition can do it.
The city man who succeeds
counts no hours. On rainy days
he works harder than when the
sun shines, lie yields to no ob
stacles. lie w t ins by the rule of
“I will.” The farmer who now
linds himself loaded with all cot
ton and nothing to eat is hoping
prayerfully that something will
lie done by somebody, to pull
him out of the hole.
The farmer who has for sever
al years made it a practice to
produce a surplus'of feed has
$.1.25 corn and 25c bacon to sell
to his neighbors, and this farmer
isn’t very much worried about
selling his cotton the day he gets
it ginned. He can hold his cot
ton without help from the goyer
rnent or any one else. He is the
master of his affairs, and no
body’s slave.
It would be great if we had a
law putting farmers on the
chaingang if caught buying feed,
and it would also be great jf we
had another law putting the city
man on the chaingang if
caught buying feed not grown in
Georgia.
The war’s a good thing if we
learn our lesson. —Macon Tele
graph.
fOLEYS IfONEY^TAK
W Htitei. fuili. Mm mmlatm*
Willbauks vs Nelms . . “ 151
Lumpkin vs Lumpkin . . No. 11l
Lumpkin vs Lumpkin . “ 113
Moon vs McKinzie ... “ 121
Shields vs Risner et al . . “ 133
Chandler vs Bone . . “ 135
Lord vs McGee et al “ 150
Brown vs Dean ... “ 125
Tuesday, September Bth, 1914
Davis vs Scots .... Page 121
Peoples Supply Cos. vs Scott . No. 101
Langford & McWhorter vs Scott “ 20
Royston & Nelms vs Scott . “ 139
Royston Bank vs Berryman et al “ 02
Dickerson vs Pa-ham etal . . “84
Rice vs Rice . . . . “88
David & Cos. vs Latimer . . “ 90
Peoples Bank vs Gholston et al . “ 75
Murry Adinr. vs Gunnells etal “ 93
S. A. L. Railway vs Dt vid Page 150
Barnette vs S. A. L. Railway No. 44
Patton vs Stodghill ... “ 105
Gordon vs Seymour ... “ 110
McKenzie vs Patten ... “ 148
Slaton # Gov. for Glenn vs Chandler “ 138
Carithers vs Scott ... “ 140
Wednesday, September 9th, 1914
Glenn vs Wood .... Page 144
MeWhirter vs Alewine . No. 153
Broach & Cos. vs Moon etal . Page 155
Carter vs Gully . . . No. 71
Gholston vs Carrington et al . “ 80
King Hodgson C 6. vs Cunnells “ 131
Ballot Corrupted
By Money.
Comparatively few people have
any idea as to the quantity of
money that was spent in the
election held in this state yester
day. It is true that under the
law, candidates must submit
sworn statements as to the
amount of money spent, but it
is equally true that the expense
accounts they submit, in many
instances, do not cover any thing
like the amount of money ex
pended. Money, and quite a
deal of it can be used legitimately
in prosecuting a state campaign.
Railroad fare, hotel bills, adver
Using, stationery and stamps and
in many other ways, money can
be used legitimately. There is
nothing whatever, not the sem
blance of wrong in such expen
ditures. The evil exists in buy
ing votes. A purchased vote de
feats the will of the people and
corrupts the man that sells and
the the man that buys. Both
are equally guilty. The law
prohibits such uses of money
in elections, but some people
have but* little regard for law.
It was alleged when the disfran
chisement hill was under con
sideration, that if the negro was
disfranchised, we would gel rid
of the purchaseahle voter. Not
by any means. On the contrary.
there is much more money used
in elections now, than when the
participated in the elec
tions. Some white men are as
ready to sell now, as some ne
irroes were then. The only per
ceptible differeifce is that it take
more, money to buy the white
man than it did the And
instead of getting better, the evil
is tfrowini' worse. It is alleged
that in a certain county a certain
candidate sent two thousand dol
lars to insure his -election in
that county. In another one
thousand is said to have been ex
pended by another candidate.
It is equally probable that other
candidates for other olfices sent
equal amounts in these same
counties. It is alleged that one
candidate sent the sum of four
hundred dollars into one nualitia.
i
We do not intend to leave the
impression that such conditions
are cbargable to any faction in
this state. It is fearful to con
template, but we fear the prac
tice is general. It has already
been practiced to the extent, tnat
no poor man can run for office
and hope to be elected, provided
he has opposition. And al! this
in the face of a prohibitory
statute. It would appear that
the law intended to prohibit the
unlawful use of money in election
actually legalized the practice,
for it is a well known fact, that
the practice was almost un
known, prior to the passage of
the law. Wo have no sympathy
for statement sometimes made
that every man has his price.
The great majority of voters are
unpurchasable. The suggest
ion would bo an insult to any
honest man, and there aro more
honest men today, than anv time
in the worlds history. But it is
nevertheless a fact, a lamentable
fact, that there are some pur
chasable voters, even among
white men. Wo try to live on
the sunny side of life. We try
to he an optimist. We want to
believe that the people of this
world are getting better all the
time. But sometimes we come
in contact witli conditions that
tend to shatter our faith in that
theory. If the use of money in
elections increases in the future,
as it has in the last decade, we
entertain grave fears for the
sacredness of the ballot and the
stability of out- jroyernment,
state and national.
EMPIRE LIFE SAFE
AND SOUND.
Atlanta, Ga The victory of
the Km pi re Life Insurance Cos.
of Atlanta in the noted case just
concluded in the E’ulton Supe
rior court wiii be of especial in
terest to the thousands of policy
holders in that and ether South
ern life insurance companies.
It places the home companies on
a firmer footing gives the public
a renewal of confidence, in their
integrity and security and pred
ages a most successful year for
the Km pi re Life and other home
companies.
Judge W.l). Ellis handed down
the decision in the suit brought
by James R. Brown, a small
stockholder, who asked a re
ceivership for the company be
cause of certain financial trans
actions winch failed to meet his
approval. The court denied the
petition for receivership after a
three weeks hearing in which
the affairs of the company were
gone into thoroughly, and ex
pressed the opinion that it
was entirely solvent and should
he permitted to go on and carry
out its business as before.
Insuraifce companies have in
the past several years boon fre
quently harassed by groundless
suits brought by disgruntled
minority stockholders or other
persons and have been caused
considerable loss of prestige
while the suits were iwmding,
even though the companies won
out at last. The new bill passed
by the legislature is designed to
prevent such practices in future.
It provides that a person desir
ing to throw a life insurance
company into the hands of a re
ceiver must first lay his case be
fore a commission formed of
the governor, the attorney gen
eral and the insurance commis
sioner.
Oucklen’!> Arnica halve
The fWt Salve in The Woild.
Dr. Miles* AnU-Pata PUls stop pain n
lost a few minutes. Bold by dnmtsta
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