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B. H. ANDREW & SON We are prepared to supplv your needs in Plows, Plow Gear, Plow Repairs and Plow Gear t I I If you have some land that is hard to turn see us about the Chattanooga Slat Wing Plow We guarantee it to give absolute satisfaction in any kind of lands. B. H. Andrew & Son Perry, Georgia. "AT YOUR SERVICE" Ideal Christmas Gift A v Subscription To Houston Home Journal Weekly Reminder of You Bargains In Used Ford Cars and Trucks It will pay you to see our line of Ford Cars and Trucks before you buy. Cash Terms Trades ADAMS-BUCHANAN MOTOR CO AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER MACON, GEORGIA. BUDDIED PECAN TREES FOR SALE WRITE FOR PRICES W. B. LAMAR PARK FRONT Thomasville, Georgia. Money to Loan <wi Farm Lands in Houston County at Low Rate of Interes. If you want money quick, write or call HATCHER.TURPIN CO., 335 Mulberry St. Macon, Georgia. ?** To Our Customers and Friends We have had a very satisfactory business this year?1924, and want you to know that we deeply appreciate your patronage which has been the means of making the year a success for us. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Pros perous New Year. Fort Valley Lumber Company Fort Valley, Georgia. Junior Farmers Need Club Leaders GROWTH OF BOYS AND GIRLS AGRICULTURAL CLUBS I l i i i ? 1.200,000 U050.0OO 000,000 750,000 600,000 450000 900,000 150,000 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 That club leadership must be. increased properly to train the boys and fclrls of the nation who decide to remain on farms and become the bulwark of American agriculture 1? ahown In a survey of the club work of the Junior farmers Just completed by Benjamin H. Darrow, director of the boys' and girls' Hub work of the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. According to the report of the Foundation, based on a count by the De partment of Agriculture, 722,408 projects were begnn In 1023 by 459,074 boys and girls, a number which Is less than C per cent of the farm youth of the na tion of club age. Of these projects 420,746 were completed by 249,416 club member?. Girls completing their work outnumber the boys three to two, there being 150,104 girls and 00 222 boys. The report also Indicates that 55.6 per cent of the enrolled girls finished their projects, while only 52.0 per cent of the boys completed theirs. The high point reached In 1018. as shown by the accompanying chart, was dne to the expansion of club work In connection with the slogan of the ??y: "Food will win the war." After the crisis wag over there was retrenchment and club work suffered. "Many of the 8,000,000 boys and girls engaged In club work hope to leave the farm," said Darrow, "bat 80 per cent of them will remain In the conntry, experience ha* shown. All who stay on the farm xhould have the benefit of the Inspiration and training club work affords. If we are to provide thlw for the Junior farmers of the nation, we sauat rapidly Increase the somber of cons' ty dab leader?." When a Worm Turna If the worm would always turn when It ought, a flshworm wouldn't cross throe feet of com on t sidewalk when the turf Is three Inches away. o - Source of Diamonda Of the world's estimated stock of 42 tons of diamonds, more than three fourths, or 75,000 pounds, have been taken from African mines In the lust 40 years. The Swamp Angel The "Swamp Angel," was an eight* Inch Parro't cannon, so-called by the federal sol?'4ers, that was used in the siege of Charloston, S. C. It burst August 22, 1803, and was sent to Tren ton, N. J., where It now occupies a granite base on the corner of Perry and Clinton streets. His Motive Wife?"I cannot understand, John, why you always sit on the piano stool when we have company. Everyone knows you cnnnot play a note." Hus band?"I'm well aware of It, dear. Neither cnn anybody else when I am sitting here." Era of Good Feeling In American political history the two administrations of President Mon roe, up to the time of the campaign for Ills successor, 1817-1824, wis known as the era of good feeling. There were practically no Issues and but one party. Monroe being unani mously re-elected In 1820 except for the personal whim of one elector. KiijwjS pail"fl ?'II jo uoj?njn?uof) ?i|i u| quo; j?m u" gajnj nn.^jyuiv ujoq-v?A|jnu ? eq pun ')a?p]ii?Jd eq o) ja?i.n no.{ jf ?p|o sjV't.i aAU-.fup|) oq pun \iojtiom wjeis p^?i?a ?q o? ?wm? y> am ujmj" isnm no/ enq.* *P(o sjwf >A0-/}U?M| ?) wqg jo eq m ?tin ?3Apv)aMajd?j ;o esnoq aqi jo jaq -03?UI 9 ?q USJ UBUJOM JO U?OJ |IIM|7 ?9y ?pj uoijnjf&uoj A Money-Saver Engineers at th* office, of the Delta Barrage In Egypt did not want to pay a man to stay at the reservoir miles away just to read the gang?. They decided to make the water report Its own level by telephone. Now they Just take down fhs receiver and the number of the gauge reading is auto matically spoken to them. A float connected with the telephone does tha trick. Pay Your SUBSCRIPTION Now