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Mt. Vernon friends will regret
to learn of the illness of Miss
Florence Howell at Asbury Col
lege, Wilmore, Ky. Miss Cowell
spent a part of the past summer
with Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Brady.
She is preparing for work in the |
foreign mission field.
Mr. M. A. McQueen of Savan
nah was mingling with friends;
in Mt. Vernon Monday.
Misses Eva Conner and Helen
liee, teaching at Milltown, are at
home for the holidays.
Miss Lollie Bell teaching
in North Carolina, has arrived I
for the holiday season. Miss,
Marion Lee, her sister, teaching
at the same point, is also here. I
Rev. L. E. Brady, was called !
last week to I’avo on acount of ;
the death of a brother-in-law.
Later he was called to Davisboro |
on account of the death of a
nephew. No service having
been held at the Mt. Vernon
Methodist church on the second
Sabbath on account Mr. Brady’s
absence, he will preach here, j
morning and evening, on the fifth
Sunday, December 31.
Miss Lillian Conner, student at
Bessie Tift, is at home for the
holidays. Miss Wi'amina Luf
burrow of Oliver, also a student
at Bessie Tift, is spending a few
days with Miss Conner during
her stay at home.
Mrs. R. F. Mcßae has returned
from a trip to Atlanta.
Mr. B. C. Anderson is able to j
be out after a brief illness, and i
is now on duty with the Mt. Ver
non Motor Co.
Mrs. E. D. White and little
daughter are visiting friends and
relatives in Dublin.
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Mount Vernon Motor
Company
Mr. Harry Lee, student of Au
burn, is at home for the festive
season.
Mr. Frank H. Williams, teach
ing at Springhill, came in a few
days ago for the holidays.
Miss Ida Latimer of Abbeville
is visiting the family of Mr. F.
Lee Mcßae.
Mr. William Peterson, student
at Emory, arrived yesterday
morning for a ten days vacation.
He has won signal honors in ath
letics, being a very successful
devotee of the race track. He
! was among the winners in a re
cent intercollegiate race in which
Emory took the honors.
Messrs. Logan Stanford and
I Chester Mcßae of the State Uni
versity are among the students
here for the holiday period.
Misses Goldie Mcßae, Carol
Hutcheson and Elizabeth Mcßae,
students at Wesleyan, are with
the homefolks during Cnristmas.
Misses Helen Mcßae of Mt.
I Vernon and Sarah McArthur of
1 McGregor, attending Washing
ton Seminary in Atlanta, are
among the college set spending
the week at home.
Mr. W. S. Freeman of Claxton,
representing the Swift Fertilizer
Works, was here on business the
first of the week. He announces
the appointment of Mr. H. C.
Davis as agent for this well
known brand of fertilizer for
j Montgomery county.
Velvet Beans wanted. Best
Prices Paid. Mt. Vernon Mer
cantile Co. 1123
6(?fi quickly relieves Colds and
LaGrippe, Constipation, Bilious-
I ness and Headaches.
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THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
EXPLAINING GRADES IN ARMY
Fanciful and Prstty Tale of the Origin
of Ineignia Which Denote
Martial Rank.
Fanciful Indeed la tlie tale woven j
about the selection und origin of the
various marks of army insignia.
The story begins witli a two-barred
fence, near a group of trees. One of
these Is a sturdy oak and another a
silver poplar, the tree which grows
to greatest heights in our forests.
Above this tree flies an American
eagle. It Is night and the stars look
down upon the scene.
The first step, or first rank of a com
missioned officer Is climbing the first
bar of the fence, and Js. denoted by
the one bar on a first • lieutenant's
shoulder. Another step up and the
officer has ills foot on the second bar
of the fence—the two bars surmounted
being indicated by the two-bar mark
of the captain. The next stage of the
climb upward is the branches of the
trees, and the rank of major, denoted
by the gold oak leaf on the shoulder,
has been reached.
In order to go higher the candidate
for higher rank must now surmount
the lull silver poplar, and when he has
done so he Is entitled to wear the sil
ver leaf of the lieutenant colonel. The
eagle soaring over the treetops Indi
cates'the rank of colonel —the silver
eagle being worn by officers of that
rank. The stars are the highest of all
und were reserved as insignia for gen
erals. —Detroit News.
DISPUTE ORIGIN OF CALICHE
Scientists Disagree as to How Rock
of Which Chile Has a Monopoly,
Came About.
Chile’s chief source of revenue, of
which the country has virtually a
world monopoly, Is obtained from the
rough rock known locally as caliche.
Scientists disagree us to the origin of
this valuable mineral, according to a
writer in the National Geographic
Magazine. Some claim (and Darwin
among them) that <t had its origin in
seaweed of an undent period. One
savant argues that the deposit result
ed from nitrogen contained in guano.
Others believe in Its atmospheric
origin, advancing t lie theory that in a
remote age electricity passing through
the moist air, by combination, formed
nitric add; ibis in turn, impregnating
the flood waters o„ Andean streams
and coming in contact with tlit* lime
stone of t lie rocks, formed nitrate of
lime: another step in nature’s labora
tory brought tills nitrate of lime in
contact with sulphate of sodu, forming
the caliche found today.
lodine, precipitated from the nitrate
solution, is the most Important by-prod
uct of the caliche rock. ll.v agree
ment among the nitrate establishments,
Us production Is limited to every
sixth year, thut the market may not
be overstocked.
Flour Used in Making Watches.
Two barrels of flour are used every
week in making watches at a well
known factory, which turns out from
2,000 to 11,000 watches a week. Since
a baker uses about three pounds of
flour to five loaves of bread, it follows
that for every watch the maker uses
the equivalent of a third of a loaf. The
flour is made into dough and the
dough is used to handle screws, rivets
and other small parts.
Each man in that part of the busi
ness has u lump of dough always at
liHiid, and when he wants to examine a
screw he Jabs a piece of dough on it.
Then, turning it over, he lias a good
chance to look at it with his watch
maker's microscopic eyeglass. Many
of the screws are too minute to pick up
easily with the fingers, and many
more, though large enough to be
picked up, would be so covered by the
fingers or the forceps as to be almost
hidden from sight.
Taxidermy Now a Fine Art.
' Tile rise of American taxidermy to
a level with the other fine arts thus
far is aV'hupter of uuwrltten history.
It Is probable that not more than a
score of persons now living know the
real story of the Society of American
Taxidermists and the revolution that
it wrought. It would be utterly inade
quate to write of the masterpieces of
American taxidermy without setting
forth at least an outline of the his
tory that they represent. A few mem
bers of tlie youngest generation of
workers, snugly ensconced in stone
palaces of peace and plenty, have
talked, learnedly of the “new school"
of taxidermy without mentioning the
men who tolled in laying the foundn
tlons and In erecting half the walls
of that "school." 1 ntn told that to
day there are taxidermists who do not
like being called anything less than
“sculptors.”
Fragrancs of Flowers.
The fragrance of flowers regulates
their temperature, says a professor o!
chemistry at the University of Nevada
at Reno. lie bases his belief on recent
experiments with the essential oils o:.
certain desert plants. These oils up
parently serve as a protection against;
the extreme heat of noonday and tin
chill of night.
The vapor of the oils absorbs mor»
beat titan ordinary air. he says. Host
oil absorbs tliirty-slx times as mud
heat and anisol 3f12 times as much. Bj
surrounding itself with a layer of sue!
odor-tilled air. the 'plant reduces tht
j amount of heat which reaches it in tht
j daytime and also obtains a sort of ait
| blanket to protect it against the chil
of night.
Some Appealing Notes
To Old Santa Claus.
Kibbee, Ga.,
Dec. 20, 1922.
Dear Santa Claus:—
I am a little boy eight years
old. I go to school, and am in
the third grade and try hard to,
be a good boy. I want you to
bring me some fruit of all kinds,
and candy and some nuts. And
l would be pleased vofy much if
you will bring me a bicycle, col
or red if you can find one. I
will be patiently waiting for you
Sunday night. Your little boy,
Lowell Montford.
Kibbee, Ga.,
Dec. 20, 1922.
Dear Santa Claus:—
I am five years old and I try to
be a good little girl and help
mother with our baby brother. I
W'ant you to bring me a Cupid
doll and a big, real doll to play
with. Also a tea set and a din
ing room suit of furniture, also
fruit of all kinds and nuts and
candy. Your little girl,
Clemit Montford,
P. S. Please bring little broth
er, Wallace, something.
Dear Santa Claus:—
I am a little girl three years
old. Bring me some fruit, choco
late candy, doll and some raisins.
Lucinda Allmond.
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Dear Santa Claus:—
lam writing you to tell you
what I want for Christmas. I
want a doll, some fruit and some
candy or anything you can spare.
Muriel Allmond.
Dear Santa Claus:—
Bring me some apples and
oranges and some pop corn and a
doll. Baby.
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Liquid Wax Dressing for
Floors. For sale by Dixie Fill
ing Station, Mt. Vernon.
MULES FOR SALE.
I have just unloaded
at my barn in Ailey
a ear of nice young
Tennessee mules, and
I am offering for sale
or exchange. Prices
$135 upward.
W. J. PETEItSON.
In
CHRISTMAS I
Os all the days of she year, Christmas is the most celebrated XX
—and justly so. It is the anniversary of the greatest personage XX
the world has ever known, our blessed Savior. XX
It is a day of good cheer that touches the hearts of every
one, from the youngest ltttle tot who can have any conception of J®
Santa Claus, to the one, ripe in years, who is waiting the summons §
to*meet the one whose birth we celebrate. !g!
In the Christ spirit, “Peace on earth and good will to man,” 0
the peace that passeth all understanding, the unselfish desire that S
every one should be happy, this bank wishes you, one and all, a P
merry, merry Christmas. |
| The Mount jj
| Vernon Bank j
Officer of Bank Officer of Bank Officer of Bank §
w. t. mcarthur d. a. mcrae w. a. peterson S
President Vice-President (Cashier S
H. L. WILT, Assistant Cashier |
The Kiwanis Club a
Constructive Organization.
The Kiwanians have a fine
motto, “We Build.’’ And that
motto is being carried out in a
constructive manner wherever a
Kiwanis Club is found. They
stand for those things that tend
to the advancement of the com
munities and sections where they
live, educationally, morally and
materially. That w r as a repre
sentative body of men which
came from Valdosta to visit us
last Friday night. Their talks
were uplifting and inspiring and
their brief stay among us was of
benefit to all who were there to
enjoy the occasion. We will be
glad to have them come again. j
Adel News.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
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JMOUNT VERNON 1
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High-Grade Fertilizers for
Sale. Stock oh hand in Mt. Ver
! non at all times.
Henry A. Johnson.
Texas Home Lubricant Oil,
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free from acid and will not gum
or cor|ode. Prevents rust on
guns, tools and machinery and
« metal surfaces. For sale by Dix
ie Filling station. 1130
