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LOCAL news.
PEER*.
Thursday, August 14.
Fair Warning'.
_\11 parsons are hereby warned
under penalty of law, not to em
ploy Sam Hnslnrn, a negro boy
about 13 years old, who is pledged
by legal contract to work for me
nntil December next.
C M. Simmons.
Near Henderson, Ga.
Vehicles Cheap.
If yon want a buggy, wagon or
road cart, OR sure to call on me.
I have a lot of good vehicles which
Twill sell cheap.
C. F. Makshall.
Perry, Ga.
SEINGLES! SHINGLES!
My sawed shingles are sotd Un
der a guarantee. They are equal
the best drawn shingle. Sold
any quantity. Call and see
samples.
C. P. Mahshall, Perry, Ga.
Good House for Sale.
1 will sell at a bargain my dwell
ing house and lot in Perry. Ap
ply at once.
L. S. Touksley.
1 can now furnish undressed
lumber of the best qualtty, in any
quantity desired.
C. P. Marshall, Perry, Ga.
—I can supply sawed shingles of
a very superior quality, in any
quantity desired. Call at my store
and see samples.
0. P. Marshall, Perry, Ga.
■ Ice plentiful, at
C. H. Moore’s, Perry, Ga.
—Corn and Fodder for sale
Apply at farm 2 miles from Perry,
Hayneville road, or address
W. M. Boon, Perry, Gn.
--Go to C. H. Moore for Ice and
Lemons. 3t.
cows i'oi: SM.I-:
1 have for sale half a dozen good
.nilcli cows with young calves.
They can be seen on farm near
Perry. S. L. Norwood.
For Sale Cheap.
An excellent 50-saw Brown Cot
ton Gin Feeder and Condenser, in
first-class running order.
Call at my farm oue mile east of
Perry.
W. D. Pierce.
HERE WE ARE
Al tltc Variety Worlts Again,
We can now furnish Lumber,
Meal, Hoe Handles, Brooms, Cof
fins and Toothpicks. We shall
have two gins this year, and can
gin your cotton on the fly. Don t
wear your hands out shelling corn
when you cau shell it at the
riety Works free of charge.
E. J. Fuller, Lessee.
THE
Ya-
AT
HOUSTONFACTORY
Give the Very Best Returns in
MEAL AND FLOUR.
IT OTT
SAN SAVE MONEY
In Purchasing
For particulars,apply to the
?ditor of
THE HOME JOURNAL.
We have for sale, in any quan-
ti..v, ilia following standard legal
Liatiks:
iron clad -votes.
Mortgages.
Landlord’s Liens.
Bond for Titles.
Warrantee Deeds.
Administrator’s Deeds.
State Warrant and Mittimus,
Summons—rCounty Court.
-Enforcing: Lien.
Forthcoming Bond.
Magistrates’ Summons
Possessory Warrants.
Magistrates’ Subpoenas.
Summons of Garnishment,
plaint on Accounts.
notice we will furnish
lanks called for, at
■ice for wi ich they can
on or Atlanta.
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Sidewalk Gleanings.
Local Ncwk or Xotcji au<’. County
—Tn« harvest is at hand.
The price of labor may be an
issue.
Our farmers are managing their
own affairs.
Cotton picking is the order of
business.
The weather Tuesday morn
ing was decidedly fall like.
The prospect is now good for
excellent late gardens in Perry.
There wiil be a Sunday school
picnic at Providence church to-day.
—Madam Rumor is silent about
the next marriage to take place in
Perry.
—Miss Annie Norwood is m
Macon visiting her sister, Mrs. E.
F. Bronson.
—The fall turnip crop will be
abundant considering the area de
voted thereto.
—Mr. W. C. Giles, of Macon,
has been visiting relatives and
friends in Perry this week.
—The standard of milch cows
in Houston is fifty per cent higher
than it was ten years ago.
-Judge W. D. Nottingham and
family are in Perry this week, vis
iting relatives and friends.
-Several house painters have
been constantly busy in Perry du
ring the last four or five months.
—Miss Theo. Everett, of Fort
Valley, is in Perry visiting her
aunts, Misses Kate and Lucy Fel
der.
-The members of Stonewall
Sub-Alliance will at once order
about 1,200 yards of cottou bag
ging-
Mr. W. G. Riley,of Macon,was
in Perry last Sundaj and Monday,
enjoying himself with relatives and
’friends.
-Many of our farmers have
demonstrated that Houston raised
horses are equal to the best Ken
tucky product.
—It is uot improbable that the
Farmers Go-operative Union, of
Fort Valley, will establish a branch
store ut Perry.
—Unless some new houses are
built in Perry, our citizenship will
not be be increased to the. extent
now contemplated.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Holtzclaw
returned home last Friday night
from Tallulah Falls, where they
spent two weeks.
—Mr. J. H. Powers, of Perry, is
one of the engineers engaged to
survey the Ocmulgee canal at
Macou. He is at work there now.
—Where there’s a determined
will, a way can always be found.
Apply energetically this to Perry’s
needs, and we’ll have another rail
road.
—The agreement to close the
stores at six o’clock everery after
noon in Perry expires by limita
tion to-morrow—Friday, August
15th.
—Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brunson
left Perry last Monday afternoon
for Twiggs county, where they
will spend ten days visiting rela
tives.
—Mr. J. P. Callaway, of Macon,
has been in Perry this week, visit-
iting the family of his son-in-law
and daughter,. Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Riley.
—Sheriff Cooper began last week
to summon the grand and traverse
jurors drawn to serve at the next
October term of Houston Superior
Court.
—The business interests of Perry
absolutely demand another rail
road outlet. 0 nr citizens seem de
termined to secure it. They can
if they will.
—We are informed that Dr. J.
B. Edge, of uear Dennard, will be
a citizen of Perry next year. He
and his wife wiil be cordially wel
comed when they come.
—Judge A. L. Miller, of Macou,
was in Perry last Thursday and
Friday, and while here he grant
ed a charter to the Farmers’ Co
operative Union, of Fort Valley.
—Buyers go to the cheapest
market, and sellers where they can
get the best prices for their pro-
ducts.*Perry merchants and cotton
buyers should bear this fact in
mind constantly.
-Negotiations are now pending
for the sale of two dwelling hous
es and lots in Perry, now rented.
If consnmated, these sales will
bnng two additional fanplies to
Perry to live.
—Messrs. J. S. Parham and T.
J. Blewster, of Magnolia, Arkan
sas, are in Houston visiting rela
tives. They were in Perry Mon
day and Tuesday, the guests of Mr.
E. S. Welkins.
—Rev. J. C. Brewton began a
series of protracted meetings at
Houston Factory Baptist church
last Sunday. Daily services,
morning and night, will be held
through this week.
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In auswei to a. call,a majori'yyif
the business men of Perry arse:u-
bled in the Superior court room
last Saturday morning to consid
er ways and means of securing to
Perry the railroad that is being
constructed from Hawkinsville
across the county. The work of
grading is in progress from Hawk-"
iusville to Grovania, and a prelim
inary survey has been madu from
this last named point to Fort Yal-
lay; the line passing Perry about
2i miles on the west side.
The meeting was organized by
Mr. W. H. Norwood being called
to the eh ail - , and Mr. J. B. Clark
requested to act secretary.
The situation was discussed from
a business standpoint, and a de
termination to secure the road to
Perry, if possible, was' soon aseer-
cained to be the unanimous desire
of the meeting.
The direct result of the meeting
was the appointment of Dr. B. .F.
Tharp, Messrs. W. H. Norwood,
R. N. Holtzclaw, C. C. Duncan,
and M. L. Cooper, a special
committee to confer immediately
with the authorities of the Empire
& Dublin road, and witli Pres.
Alexander of the Central, and pre
sent the desires and claims of
Perry business men concerning
the proposed new road.
A proposition to raise a fund to
defray the expenses of this eornit-
teemet a hearty response, and in a
short time about one. hundred dol
lars was subscribed, and the meet
ing pledged to double that amount
if necessary.
This indicates a determination
on thepart of our citizens to do
something for Perry, and we feel
sure success will be gained, if they
continue energetically on that line.
Perry lacks less than a mile of
being on an air line from Grovan
ia to Fort Valley, and we are in
formed that the Empire and Dub
lin people are disposed to come to
Perry.
We are further informed that
overtniesliave been made ferthe
use or purchase of the Perry
brunch. This, though, is not what
we want. It would not improve
the situation much for the branch
to simply change hands and be
come part of another road. We
want another road outright. We
must have another road, or the
people will realize great loss by
another road being built across
the county,a few miles from Perry.
If we cannot secure this road to
Perry we must do something for
ourselves. The feasibility of
building a road from Perry, via
Houston Factory, to Kathleen,-has
been discussed, and that road can
be built, if our people so deter
mine, and go to work in a busi
ness way." Perry must have an
other railroad. Our business men
may as well realize this fact now.
They must also become alive to
the fact that talk will not get it,
from any source. Money and en
ergy must be expended. Perry
will not continue to grow unless
onr business men push it.
The committee has opened com
munication with the authorities
with whom they wish to deal, and
they may have something impor-.
tant to discuss when they meet
for consultation to-morrow.
Mr. Bayne, the engineer iu
charge of the surveying party, was
in Perry yesterday, and the com
mittee held a consultation with
him. The result of that confer
ence we know not, but the impres
sion prevails on the streets that
the Empire & Dublin railroad can
be secured to Perry.
Within a few days the commit
tee will have a report to make to
the citizens.
—Prof. E. H. Ezell, of Byron,
President elect of Butler Male
aud Female College, was among
his friends in Perry Monday. He
will go to Butler on the 22ud inst;
on the 25th the first terns of the
school under his management will
be opeued. Of Prof. Ezell as a man
and and teacher, we ean say noth
ing without repeating compliments
already spoken or written. He in
forms us that a number of Houston
boys will attend the Butler college,
and that a normal department wili
be added to the curriculum of the
college,for the purpose of express
ly fitting the students- for teach
ing.
—Quite a number of our people
went to the depot last Friday
night, expecting that Tom Wool-
folk would be brought down on
the train, but they were disap
pointed. Judge Miller was here
that day, and it was probably infer-
ed that his presence meant an ex
tra term of Houston Superior
court for the purpose of sentenc
ing Woolfolk. While here he didn’t
say anything that would indicate
when the sentence would be deliv
ered, or by whom.
—One of the prettiest teams of
colts we ever saw was driven about
the streets of Perry last week TLe
animals are Houston raised and be
long respectively to Messrs W;
Branson, of Perry, and G. W.
Me Dowel, of Ross Hill.
Probnl-ly the public r. "ds
Houston county aiv kept in
good condition as the roads <>f any
county in Georgia t’ aV are worked
under the general, road laws of the
state. Vet the-rdads are far from
being kept in first-class condition.
At any season of the year the roads
in some parts of the county are
found in very bad condition, and
at all times there are hills np
which full loads cannot be. drawu.
This condition of our roads is pos
itively antagonistic to the business
interests of all who travel, the
farmers and merchants particular
ly. It is a fact known to ail peo
pie acquainted with the provision's
of the law, that the law itself is
good nough, with the exception
that the enforcement clause is not
sufficiently firm.
In Houston, Us probably in oth
er counties, it is well known that
the recommendations of grand ju
ries prove absolutely worthless to
cause any improvement in the
methods of working the roads.
Year after year bad roads are re
ported, and the commissioners are
respectfully requested to put them
in good or’der at once.
On each grand jury there are
probably several toad commission
ers, and as a rule ^inefficient road
work is overlooked under promise
that the roads will ba pni ip .good
condition as soon as possible with
out hindering pressing farm work.
Our readers will re -ember that
several years ago the legislature
gave Houston a good road law,
whereby the public thoroughfares
should be worked by taxation, un
der control of our county com mis-'
sioners. Theenforcemeni of this
law was enjoined, and then posi
tively prohibited by opposition of
the people carried into court. We
favored that law then, and we now
believe its defeat was a blow to the
general interests of the county.
However, we do not propose here
to advocate the re-establishment of
that law.
All men who travel in buggies,
carriages, carts or wagons, suffer
many inconveniences in going ov.t
roads that are cut up by wheels
into dpep ruts, or that have across
them gullies that have been wash
ed out by rains. The steep hills
are worse still, operating as posi
tive prohibition to full loads.
It is onr purpose here to sug
gest. that these hills be graded.
Knowing that the work will not be
properly done under the existing
law, we submit that it would be in
the direct line of public economy
to make provision therefor out of
the county treasury. If there is a
bar to the expenditure of public
money for such a purpose, we sub
mit that onr representatives
would serve their constituents
most admirably by securing legis
lative authority for such work
during the next session of the gen
eral assembly.
Just now we do not propose to
give a detailed plan, but insist that
the public interests of all our citi
zens demand that the steep hills
on the public roads be graded.
The columns of the Hohe
Journal are open for a full and
free discussion of this subject.
egiu
Tues-
—It would be most commenda
ble for the ladies oE Perry ' to or
ganize a Woman’s Educational
Aid Society, for the purpose 'of
raising funds to sustain one or
more worthy girls at the Girls’ In
dustrial School to bo established
at Milledgevilie next year. The
last' legislature appropriated funds
only sufficient to establish the
school, aud pay the teachers, but
the pupils mast pay for books and
board. Many young girls . who
would bo glad to get a practical,
working education, to fit them to
earn their own living, are unable to
pav boaid aud incidental fees.
Let Perry send at least one. Can’t
our pastors start the movement.
The lauies will then carry it to
success.
—A comprehensive exhibit of
Houston pi'ednets at the nest state
fair, or at the Piedmont Exposition,
would serve our agricultural and
industrial interests most excellent
ly. While we do not expect our
people to make any such exhibit,
we hope many of our farmers and
manufacturers . will make individ
ual exhibits. Every such exhibit
will illustrate the capacity of out
sail, and the advantages of the
county. Such advertising always
paj^ indirectly, if not immediately
in dollars and cents.
—It has be.en several times dem
onstrated that hay made from na
tive Georgia grasses is equal to
any placed on the market. It has
also been shown that the product
of an acre in Houston will yield a
greater value in bay-than in cotton,
considering the time an J expense.
Tliis hay can be made a merchant
able product, if p t np in neat and
convenient*bales. There is a great
opportunity in this line, this year, :
for Houston farmers, and we hope •
a number of them wili use it :;>
■ their pi
'airattcdntinue through
day. . It is under the auspice-, ex
the Macon tlisii iet of the 51. E,
church,and the teats will bs occu
pied by Houston and Bibb county
people. A large attendance and
good time is anticipated. ;
Thisis-the third annual meeting,
audit is expected to be largest and
most successful ever held. The
presiding elder, Dr. J. O. A. Clark,
will have charge of the meeting,
and a number of other ministers
of the district will be uresent to
assist him".
There are nice tents, one for
the entertainment of the pub
lic.
The utmost effort will be made
to accommodate all who attend,
but we advise all who go there
Sunday to carry something to eat,
as it will be impossible for the
tent holders to feed the large crowd
that will be there.
It is the desireof many here that
an excursion train be run from
Perry on Sunday, but as no formal
application has been made, it is
uot likely that it will be done.
Thu camp-ground is incorpora
ted, and a force of policemen will
be on duty to maintain order.
As most of oar readers know,
the camp-ground is near tiia Ecbe-
connee.crossing on the Southwest-
n rial road, in Houston county,
about two miles from the line of
Bibb.
Other Local Mention.
—Mr. D. B. Wimberly, of Macon,
was circulating among his friends
in Perry Tuesday.
[Rev .’?«§& Hyman, pastor of
the South MaCoii Baptist church,
is assisting Rev. J. C. Brewton in
the protracted meeting at Houston
Factory Baptist church.
We have good- authority for
the assertion that the Central
railroad company will extend the
Perry Branch road southward,
whenever ' another road is built
across the county, to connect with
the A..& F. road at Fort Valley.
— We are told that Mr. G. M. T.
Feagin and Pres. J. B. James will
represent the Houston county Al
liance at the state- Alliance meet-
in Atlanta next Tuesday.
-We have heard of several
farmers within a few miles of Per
ry, who have four or five -bales of
cottou, c-ach, open in their
fields.
Three bales of new cotton
were received in Macon last Mon
day, at W. Ft Price’s; warehouse.
They were grown and shipped by
Mr. John FL. Grace, of Houston
counfy.
—Mr. John P. Eos’s, a native of
Fort Valley, and son of Dr. B. L.
Ross; now a rising young lawyer
of Macon, has been endorsed by
the bar of-Mncon for the judge-
ship of the city court of that city.
—Mr. L. A. Houser and family
will move to Peri-y this fall, and
our people are prepared to wel
come them cordially. We under
stand Mr. Houser has already
made his arrangememeuts, aud
and will engage in mercantile bus
iness.
—Mr. J. E. Andrews carried sev
eral wagon loads of cotton to
public gin Tuesdey, and yesterday
two bales were ready for the mar
ket. These make three for Perry
this, season. Mr. Andrews is one
of onr best farmers.
—Rev. Robert Adams, of Amer
icas, will preach at the Presbyte
rian church here next Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock, and again
in the evening at 8 o’clock. Our
people remember with pleasure a
former visit of Mr. Adams to our
town, and no doubt he wili be
greeted with large congregations.
—There are several mineral
springs of high grade near Peny,
and is among the probabilities that
arrangements will be made to util
ize one or more of them for pub
lic benefit. We were told here
yesterday that there is one on the
Ross Hill farm that was anylized
several years ago and that the wa
ter proved to possess medicinal
properties of a high.order. This
spring has been lost sight of, but
an effort will be made to re-discov-
er it, and the public may soon hear
something more about it
—From the Fort Valley Leader
we learn that Pres. C. G; Gray, of
tue-Houston County Sunday School
Association, has gone to work in
earnest to increase the Sunday-
school interests throughout the
county. He has furnished the: su
perintendents with
merit.of Prof. W r ..‘B.
able’ corps cf.assistants.
During the last scholastic year
Prof. Dew has given general-satis
faction. It is true that some com-
plaiuts have been made; and a few
patrons withdrew their children,
but this does not argue agaiust the
competency of the principal. No
man can please everybody, in any
avocation, or avenue of life.
The system under which the
school is now operated has been
tried only one term, and that trial
has to a great extent demonstrated
the wisdom of our people in adopt-
the plan. The incidental fee
is small, and the tax on the town
property to supply the balance
needed will be very light. The
tax has not yet been assessed, and
of course we cannot tell what it
will be.
The chances are good for a very
large increase, in the attendance,
especially 7 from the country. The
incidental fee,—amounting ro S1.00
a month—covers all that must be
paid by pupils who do not reside
in Perry.
The school bids fnir to be a
great and special benefit to the
town, and it behooves our people
to givejit their cordial support in
word and deed.
A Pleasant Visit.
Rev. D. D. Bateman, who re-
eutiy spent ten day's visiting
Habersham church, in Burke
county, assisting Rev. Wn. J
Robertson iu a protracted meet
ing there, returned to Perry last
Friday night. He reports the
meeting a most pleasant aud prof
itable oue, large congregations at
tending every day. Iu fact, he
says, the congregations were the
largest he has ever secu at a coun
try church anywhere.
Mr. Bateman has always loved
Perry and Houston county people
intensely, but he is now satisfied
there are .. other sections whose
people fire equally kind and un
selfish, and Habersham will ever
thus liye in his memory'.
The people of that section of
Georgia are generally prosperous,
contented and happy.
Rev. Twm. J. Robertson, the pas
tor at Habersham, aud who so ac
ceptably served Perx-y during .the
two last conference years, desires
to be remembered in love to all the
people.
MACON, GAJ
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AMPLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR HANDLING COTTON.
LIBERAL ADVANCER AT LOWEST RATES.
PROMPTNESS. AND POLITENESS ARE MY, MOTTO.
X solicit your patronage and guarantee full satisfaction.
—A negro Alliance for Houston
county was organized at Perry
last Saturday 7 afternoou. The ne
gro Baptist church at New Hope
was the place of meeting, and sev
eral hundred negro men attended.
An organizer from Crawford coun
ty managed the affair, and we learn
a temperary organization was per
fected by the election of thefollow-
; officers: Lee Bright-bawk,
superviosr. Bob Freeman, treasu-
rer, John Nobles,s ecretary. "We
havn’t been able to get inside
facts yet, but we learn that' the
chief object of the organization is
to regulate the sale of cotton and
the pui-chase of farm supplies.
—The Fort Valley Leader says:
“A letter in the hands of the
Leader shows that Gen. C. D. An
derson has made his returns to the
Comptroller General, and that
they were received and found to be
correct, and that the General was
very highly complimented as to
his efficiency and fitness as au offi
cer.”
—Mr. R. J. Smith is spending
some time visiting relatives in and
around Jacksonville, Telfair conn
ty. He left Perry last week.
—Any one desiring to' purchase
Syrup kettles or a first class cane
mill, can secure a bargaiu by call
ing at this office.
Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Cyr yaj our not ot cot C. B. Willing
ham’s Whose aroujMonae, Grogeia.
The above hieroglyphics o
Cleopatra's Needle, the Egyptian
monolith in Central Park, New
York, has long puzzled antiquari
ans and philologists to deeiphei-.
But a Mercer graduate in the em
ploy of the house, after painful and
hard research, has found that
sorted out and correctly arranged
it simply reads, “Carry your cot
ton ; to C. B. Willtogbam’s Ware
house, Macon, Ga.
Perry Public School.
The Bali Session of the Public School
of Perry will begin on the first Monday
(1st (lay) in September next
A full corps of the very best teache-3
have been employed, the building has
been repaired and made comfortable, and
the school will be conducted in a man
ner that will be pleasing to all who de-
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