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About The Morgan monitor. (Morgan, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1898)
The Morgan • By W. C. Thomas. Official Organ Calhoun County. Official Organ Board of Education, Entered at the Morgan post- office as second-class mail master. Thursday, September 1. 189,s. A kentucky man one hundred v, ' are old lms found a young fool • twenty years old and married her. Claude Thomas is making a good paperof the Morgan Moni- tdu. And we believe it has proved since he married,—Albany Herald . Camara is . tl..- only Spanish adnura who wont through t!u iniiii. "',‘n’ Albany U '«"*,? Herald. ” He L 1 ’ tailed '! to get within “taking” distance of Schley and Sampson. It is very difficult t< be l ),,(ir and independent, says an ex- change. We don t, find any difli- eulty at all in being poor—its the independent part that comes hard. r< marks the Tifton Gazette. It has been reported by parties who don’t want the Georgia Pine railroad to come to Morgan, that it lms been sold to tin- Central of Georgia mad. That report has been branded as false at headquar- ters of both ro,ads. People wh want the road to come to Morgan must keep a lookout for such false reports and brand them as lies on all sides. The road is coming to Morgan as fast as it can be built, It. will go from here to Daws OH . Every time a farmer carries bale of cotton to market, this fail, he should remember the congress- man from the Second Georgia dis- trict. When the war tax bill came up Indore congress from the committee room it contained a provision taxing each package deposited in a warehouse 25 cents. Mr. Griggs proposed an amend- ment to the bill excepting agri- cultural products, when deposited by the producer, which saves the farmer 25 cents on each halo \ y his cotton. The Albany Herald of last Sat- urday has the following to say about Miss Hortenso Shivers, tin young lady who will assist Prof. Sliort this term at tin* Morgan High school: “We see it stated in the Morgan Monitor that Miss Hortense Shivers, of Albany, will be assistant teacher in the Morgan High School during the coming session, which bigins on the sec- ond Monday in September, The people of Morgai are to be eon- gratulated upon their good for- tune in securing the services ( ) t this accomplished young lady as a teacher in their school. Mb s Shivers graduated at Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, last year with the highest honors of that justly famous school, and that is sufii- eient guarantee of her thorough scholarship. Her amiable dispo¬ sition and generally attractive personality have made her one of the most popular vo,u,g women of Albany, and she will b, great iv misseed while away. ? 5 It is just as natural for Sidney Laseelles, the erstwhile Lord Be- resford, to get into trouble as it is for the sun to.shine. He may have a hard time of it, however, before he gets through with his Bitest escapade in the city of Mex- CO. In the course of his opera- tions there ho managed to get in debt the extent of about -$20,000. They do not imprison people for debt in that country, but have a way of keeping a quiet & uaid vor them which means " '» “> 1 1 ' ‘ 1 1 11 ■'"‘ n ln, « 1l P* 1 }lu> vhe , gay lord is practically a prisoner within the city of Mexico and he is liable to than, son,,, time before he haud over such a sun,. The pension business in this Lountiy _ i» getting to be , alarming . and now the war with Spain will serve as a basis for a new list of pensions. The names on the pension roll ,, are now over the , ]j on mark, the exact number being 1,040,856; and the list will keep on growing irrespective of the war just ended. How many names liltter wiil a(1<l to.the roll can not now be estimated, but number will lie at least fifty per larger than it should be. Spanish bullets have made P^ratively tew pensioners; Span- ish fevers will make more, but American mismanagement most ;l *‘- Coffee county is coming into prominence second to Ware in the way of laige families. Mrs. Ellen Hedge of that county, is seventy- three years old, has e jght living children and twelve dead, thirty- < dght. grand children' and ten j great-grand children. Mrs. Cyn- j Grifii a, of Waycross, who died some months ago was about ninety years old; was the mother ( >f twentv-five children, one at a !,irth > a >- d n posterity down to the third and fourth generation. -b’Uina!. On Saturday, September'"24, the enterprising Albany Herald will issue a Hay Day and Trade Edi¬ tion. The purpose of this special ,Hlition ' vi]J h " to advertise Hay Day and at the same time t< pre¬ sent a trade review of Albany and ' South¬ la ^ <d west, Georgia such trade indue e- ments as the bush.es men of Ai- bany may havi' to olfer.—Atlanta Journal. Lucky Friday! Fridav eireum- has been a day of fortunate stances for America. It was on Friday that Columbus discovered this com try, and many of the most important events of its dis¬ torv occurred on that day; and now to cap it all the protocol was approved by ’the Both countries on Friday and war with Spain virtually ended, Who says Fri- 4av is a un lucky day? A Denver tot closed her prayer with “God bless papa and mama, and Dewy ai.d Shatter and Schley and Sam.-on, and Teddy’s Terrors al,d 1 >>e very hard on l )<>or Admiral Cervera if I were '' you. A certain girl was named Mary at her birth, says the Carrollton Times. When she grew up she dropped the letter “r” and it was May. When she began to shine socially she banged the “y” to “e 5 5 and her name was Mae. About a year ago she married, and now she has dropped the final letter and spells it plain t L Ma.” A Narrow Escape. Tharikfll | written bv Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton S. D. “ was taken with a bad cold which settled , tt Doctors gave me up, saying I could fj ve but a shorjt time. I gave my- self up to mv Savior, determined if I could not stay with my friends on ‘ get^Dr. Kinds' Now KsJ.orv for Consumption- Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight f] es> ft has cured me me, and thank God I am saved and now a well and healthy woman.” Trial bottles free at any drugstore. Regular size 50c. and $1.00 guaranteed or price refnn ( j e , A cruel editor says that a woman at church will see every hat in the congregation except the one passed for collection. Of course she does not see the collection hat, as it is not trimme d liiflowers a mi plumes. The region about the dead sea is one of the hottest places on the globe, and the sea is said to lose 1,000,000 tons of water a day by evaporation, Will Speak In Arlington. The Hon. J. B. Hogan, the Populist candidate for Governor of Georgia, will speak at Arliug- ton, Ga., on Saturday, the 8d da y of September, 1898, at 10 a. 1 Everybody cordially 'invited. •J. A. Coleman, County Chairman. S. T. Ola*3rto:n., /T|or^a9, Qeor^ia. We keep on hand a nice line of shoes, hats, dry- goods, notions, fancy and family groceries at the very lowest possible price. La- dies and gents shoes, the latest styles and most pop¬ ular makes. All 1 ask is a liberal share of the public patronage, and I will try and make it to the interest of all who come to see me. G. T. Cla-37-ton, (TYor^ai), Qeorbia. Insure vour life in the New York Life Insurance Comptiy. It is the most liberal Company to its policy and holders as well as the 'largest strongest in the world. M. A. Bland. You can get H ib „ gieen . coffee. . ft ,,. . $i oo 9 “ Lion roasted coffee. . 1 00 j C7 u Best white sugar. . . 1 00 1 Of “ whole "rain rice 1 00 Cotton Yd hulls 45 100“ Cotton seed meal 1 Oi | “ Double-thick tobacco o 1 •• Schnapps tobacco 40 1 “ Nails........... •) id*- 1 “ Meat........ ids- 1 4 < Lard......... 8 I “ Macaboy snuff. 55 780 Matches........... ■) Calico and sheeting per yd o Loaded shells, 864 Cal mage per pound 24 1 Cheese . . r-( Salt fish “ t . 'JO 2 box ])otash 15c—8 for 20c—4 for 25e, and 17 for $1. Corn and meal per bu 65 Best flour per bbl 4 75 Cotton baskets from 20c to 50c Home made syrup 85c per gallon. Let- me thank you tor your pat¬ ronage in the past, and 1 hope to share it in the future. I am, " A'ours to serve. S. 1 u X J Hi
