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LOCAL NEWS OF TOWN AND CCuNTY
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—County Commissioners’ Court
next Tuesday. '
— Ralph W( Bingham, a notec
humorist,will lecture at the court
house next Monday night.
—Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Clark have
quit keeping house and are now
. boarding at the Perry Hotel.
-Mr. G. L. Stripling.and family
will move this week into the
Moore residence on Carroll street
—Pupils from near Bonaire anc.
Henderson, besides others nearer
town, are attending Perry Public
School,
—Miss Neltie Marshburn has re?
turned home from an extended
visit to her sister, Mrs. G. L. Slo
cumb, at Bonaire.
—Last Monday two cases of
scarlet fever were reported in the
family of-Mr. J. E. Cheek, about
six miles west of Perry.
—Within the last week we have
heard a number of citizens ex
press regret that the county chain
gang had been abolished.
—Miss Nell Norwood returned
home last Saturday,having enjoy
ed a trip to Tybee, visited rela
tives at Hawkinsville* and Ten-
nille. ^
—Mr. Marcus Moreland, of
Shrevesport, La., was in Houston
two days last week, visiting his
father, Mr. W. A. Moreland, near
Perry.
—Lands belonging to the estate
•of G. M. T. Feagin, deceased, mil
be sold next Tuesday, before the
Court house door in Perry, at Ex
ecutor’s sale.
—Miss May Hodges, who has
been visiting relatives at Macon,
LaGrange, Atlanta and Washing
ton,D. C.,returned home Wednes
day afternoon.
—The officers and committees
of the Houston County Fair As
sociation, will hold an important
meeting at the Court house next
Tuesday morning.
—The Epworth League District
Conference will meet Friday with
Centenary church at Macon, in
stead of at Marshallville, as here
tofore announced.
—Though there is ,no regular
Bride and Groom Not Present.
In Perry last Thursday night
there was a wedding reception
without the bride and groom.
Last week there was published
a notice of the marriage of Mr. J.
Powers Cooper and Missy Martha
Ansley in Americus. The mar
riage was duly v solemnized Wed
nesday noon, as announced.
The bridal party intended to
leave Americus directly afternoon
and reach Perry at 8:45 »p. m.,
but they didn’t.
A wedding reception had been
prepared at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. F. Cooper, parents of the
groom, for Wednesday night, but
the failure of the bridal party to
reach Perry caused a postpon-
ment.
Again it was believed the bridal
party would reach Perry Thursday
afternoon, but they didn’t.
Regardless of this fact, the
guests assembled Thursday night,
and the reception was thoroughly
enjoyed, though the bride and
groom were not present.
Not until Friday afternoon did
the bride and groom and those at
tending the marriage from Perry
reach home, and then they came
Via Cordele over the G. S. & F.
Railroad to Tivola.
Our readers know that the cause
of all these disappointments was
the exceptionally heavy rains that
fell Tuesday night of last week.
Going down, the groom was de-
ayed Tuesday night at Oglethorp,
but he finally reached Americus
at 12 o’clock that night.
The marriage was on time, but
washouts of railroad trestles, cul
verts and track, prevented the
passage of all trains, and until
riday night it was impossible
for a northbound train to come
further than Andersonville.
These troubles are all passed,
nowever, and surrounded by gen
ial friends the young couple are
aappy, and The Home Journal
joins their many friends in hoping
that the disappointments of the
fiijst week of their married life
may be the greatest they will ever
encounter.
Remarkable Wood Growth.
^no
provision for preaching at Perry
on a fifth Sunday,there will prob
ably be preaching at the Metho
dist church next Snnday.
—The new Baptist Church at
Fort Valley will be dedicated next
Sunday, and Dr. R. B. Headen
of Rome, Ga., will preach the
dedicatory sermon at 11 a, m.
—Mrs. J. A. Riley returned
home last Saturday from Macon,
where she visited relatives and en
tered her daughter, Miss Gussie,
as a student of Wesleyan Female
‘College.
—Tharp’s Mill ,we are requested
to say, is now ready to grind corn
and wheat, the broken dam hav
ing been repaired. Vehicles can
cross the dam .without danger.
—If the old August fog theory
proves true, there will be frost in
this vicinity on the 7th of Octo
ber next, the day on which the
fall term of Houston Superior
court will convene.
—Several farmers near Perry
say over ten inches of rain fell
Tuesday night of last week. The
measurement was made of the wa
ter that fell in buckets that were
in the yards, empty the evening
before.
—The September business and
social meeting of the Perry Ep-
worfch League was held last Fri
day night at the home of Mrs. M.
(•x. Dasher. A .very interesting
literary and musical program was
presented.
■—Clerk Edwards will this week
set the civil cases for the October
term of Houston Superior court;
He says there -will be, including
criminal cases, enough business
for two weeks, provided the par
ties at issue are ready for trial.
—The fall term of Perry Public
School opened last Monday with
94 pupilg in attendance, but it is
practically certain this number
will be § increased to more than
100. The presence of scarlet fe-
fer in the county, the postponed,
opening and other untoward ciis
cumstances have preventeda large
attendance on opening day.
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Mr. J. A. Walton, of near By
ron, contractor for repairing the
bridge across Big Indian creek at
Perry, told us one day last week
of the remarkable growth of some
’‘sprouts” from a China tree log.
About 8 or 9 years ago the fence
rows on Mr. Walton’s farm were
cleared. In the course of this
work a large China tree was cut
down, the brush piled abouij. the
trunk of the tree and burned.
Though all the bark of the log
was burned off, the log itself was
not burned, and was hauled about
a hundred yards away, to be out
of the way of farm work. The
next spring sprouts grew out of
tree trunk, and have continued to
grow each year since. Thejy are
now about four feet high and
about 1-| inches in diameter.
The remarkable fact is that
there is no root at all in the
ground, either from the log, or
the sprouts growing out from the
log. The log is about 12 feet in
length and 2 feet in diameter,
and the bark burned off 8 or 9
years ago has not been renewed.
Mr. Walton makes no effort to
explain this remarkable growth,
but simply relates the fact.
—At Small Academy last Sun
day Rev. B. E. Whittington
preached at 4 p; m. Twelve ap
plicants wer6 accepted and re
ceived as members of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, and six
were baptized; Several qf the new
members will go to Providence
church, and the others come to
Perry.
Great Damage by Rains. I
It is not unlikely that the, ex-;
ceptionally heavy rainfall of'
Monday and Tuesday nights last
week embraced the usual distur
bance preceding or following the
autumnal equiiiox.
Certain it is the volume of wa
ter that fell from four o’clock
Tuesday afternoon to about the
same hour Wednesday morning
was greater than has been known
in many years. /At and near Per
ry it was determined by careful
measurement that the rain-fall
was more than ten inches within
the time named.
With the exception of three—
A. J. Houser’s at Eva, Brown’s
near Powersville and Culpepper’s j
near Fort Valley.—every mill
dam in the county was broken,
and all the streams over-flowed
their banks to a greater extent
than has been known in many
years. All the bridges in the
county were damaged, some of
them washed away almost entire
ly. Probably the bridge over
Big Indian Creek, then undergo
ing renewal, was damaged less
than any other in the county. In
many places the public roads
were rendered almost impassible
by the rushing water.
So far there has been no at
tempt at a general estimate, but
it is believed that in repairing the
bridges and roads the cost to the
county will aggregate several
thousand dollars.
The Commissioners are having
the necessary repairs done in
their respective districts, and the
mill owners will repair their dams
as quickly as possible.
At first it was believed that the
damage to the cotton crop was
exceedingly great, but it is no#
believed that comparatively few
farmers lost much by open cotton
being blown or washed out of the
bolls. We understand that a ma
jority of the farmers were‘tip with
their picking, and comparatively
little cotton was open. However,
the damage,to to the crops was
greater than the farmers felt able
to bear.
My Stock of Groceries
is Complete.
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EST PEICES.
Canned Goods.
Ceylon Island Pineapple, Grated, 25c
* 1 “ =*• in Chunks, 20c
This is the findst packed.
Mayflower Sugar Corn, 15c
Early June Peas, 10c
Oitra and Tomatoes, 10c
OKra, Corn and Tomatoes, 10c
Based Beans, with Tomato Sauce, , 10c
Grape Nuts.
Town Property For Sale.
We Want To See You!
We can tell what makes your
eyes blur and your head swim
You are.bilious and Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin will cure you or the
manufactures will refund you the
purchase price. Sold *by druggists
-Cotton Baskets at
Fred M. Houser’s.
SCHOOL BOOKS,
New and Second-Hand, also other
School Supplies, cheap a? the
cheapest, if not cheaper, at
Perry P. O.'
Pathfinder Cigar, sold under a
Bona Fide Guarantee, for 5/.
J. D. Martin, Jr.
—New Table Damask, fine lin
en half Bleached,64 inches for 50c
yard., L. M. Paul’s.
—If you'want a nice Buggy or
Wagon call on W. D. Day.
I desire to sell my property in
Perry, including dwelling house
and lot, vacant lots on Carroll
street, a negro house and 15 acres
of land just east of town. Will
sell cheap. For particulars ap
ply to C. H. Moore,
Bostick, Ga.
Tharp’s Mill
Is again ready to grind the grain
of all comers promptly.
Also, will gin and pack Cotton
at_$l pqr Bale. Yours to serve,,
A. H. Tharp.
Parafine wax Candles, 2-for 5/.
- J. D. Martin, Jr.
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A. To Z. Havana Cigars, 5 for
5/. J. D. Martin, Jr.
farms For Rent
IN HOUSTON COUNTY.
Cooper-Bryant Farm, of 911^ acres,
in the 13th District. Now rented to
James Houser and others.
R. Felder Farm, of 115 acres in the
11th Distiict: Now rented to Henry
McGee. •
Cooper-Hall Farm, of 280 acres, in the
13fch District. Now rented to Laura
Everett.
J. A. Coffee Farm, of 720 acres, in the
13th District.
Cooper-Burnett Farm, of 401^ acres,
near Perry. Now rented to G. W. Winn.
Apgly to
J. T. HOLLEMAN,
8 West Alabama St.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Package Goods.
Shredded Cocoanut.
Maccaroiii.
Knox’s Gelatine.
Peter Cooper’s Gelatine.
Cox’s Gelatine.
Baker’s Chocolate.
Baker’s German Sweet Chocolate.
Baker’s Breakfast Cocoa.
Crackers.
Uneeda Biscuit.
Uneeda Ginger Wayfers.
Jersey Toast.
Coffee.
SPECIAL:—Large Grain Green Coffee, 5 pounds $1.00
✓ 1
Anchor Rio Roasted Coffee in bulk, 20c. pound
Fresh
Goods
} J, D. Martin, Jr.
(Lowest
X Prices.
My STORE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS,
No Old Goods.
Everything New.
All the Staple Dry Goods,
Groceries and Shoes.
L. F. CATER, «■. PERRY,
GA.
Isaacs’ Cafe,.
413 Third Street,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Regular Meals 25c.
Bill of Fare to Order
POPULAR PRICES,
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Prompt and Efficient Service
' E. ISAACS,
Proprietor.
REMODELXHQ SALE.
Our entire stock of Clothing,
Hats and Furnishings on sale
at GREATLY REDUCED prices.
Our building is to be overhauled and remodeled be
fore the fall business commences. We have decided
to throw the entire stocK upon the market. Our stocK
is all fresh, new goods. The following prices will pre
vail as long as the stocK lasts:
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§@ pw-Mirt-off BCitio
m ©Ml 'WtismteMng
§@m©d 8 © Patent m©stl© ®p©w©p§ (0©t 80)
©i§@ $>©«* gSi 6 .
BURNETT & GOODMAN,
CLOTHIERS,
Fo goods charged at these prices. 454 Third St., Macon,
Ga.