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PBIOE, 31.60A YEAR-, IN ADVANCE.
Published Every Thursday Morning.
&>o.Et. JtOOUES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, May 1.
Farmers are killing grass now;
they’ll be saving grass later.
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The man who flings mud can’t
avoid having dirty hands occasion
ally.
There is no need of any frills or
flounces in the gubernatorial cam
paign.
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Nothing cau better serve Georgia
than increased interest in practical
education.
Emphatic censure may not be pol
itic for a candidate, but it is right,
if not unjust.
The new Atlantic & Birmingham
Railroad is scheduled to enter Mon
tezuma by August 20th next.
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The newspaper that is extremely
partisan does not materially help
the candidaoy of its favorites.
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The target practice of Georgia
atate troops will be at Maoon this
year, probably in July or August.
Sumter county democrats will
nominate candidates for county of
fices and the legislature on May 6th.
Should there be a deadlock in the
state convention, Pope Brown might
be considered au available “dark
horse.”
The annual Episcopal convention
of the diocese of Georgia will be in
session at Augusta on the 14th and
16th of this month.
S Ebtill, Guerry and Terrell have
been introduced as "the next
governor of Georgia.” Surely some
body has made a mistake.
• It is believed the negotiations
now pending for peace in South Af
rica will be successfully concluded
within a very short while.
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In Sumter county there will be
an election on the liquor question
next August. The sale of liquor is
now prohibited in the county,
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Iff it is right to consolidate the
primary vote of a county, a state
senatorial district and a judicial cir
cuit, why should not the vote of the
atate primary be consolidated?
Iff the trusts don’t becorn
heavy and fall by reason of the
own weight, they will sooner or lat-
•®ar fall because of the exceeding
great weight of popular indignation.
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It is not certain that the candi
date for governor who enters the
atate convention with the largest
number of votes will receive the
nomination. He most get at least a
majority!
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President Roosevelt has officially
informed Gen. Fred Funston that
must quit talking for publication
• about Philippine affairs. The talka
tive general is also informed that it
as out of order for au army officer to
publicly criticise a senator.
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It is said that Gen. Miles may be
••sent miles away from Washington,
in order that the President and Sec
retary Root may serenely manage
the war department as they will. The
suggestion is that Gen. Miles will
be sent to Europe to investigate for
eign methods of army equipment and
management.
At the recent primary in Macon
county the following gentlemen were
nominaled: For representative, J. E.
Hays; for clerk superior court, 0. A.
Powell; for sheriff, T. E. Moffitt; for
treasurer, 0. A. Greer; tax receiver,
D. W. Kleckley; ’tax collector, W. C.
Johnson; surveyor, L. C. Cheeves,
coroner, J. T.. Robinson.
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It is fanny, but it seems to be
true, that the bonded debt of a
modern corporation is its cash capi
tal. Reports from New York say
that the bonded indebtedness of the
United States Steel Corporation is
to> he increased to $550,000 { 000.
Perhaps the men who pay now for
these bonds may some day have ex
perience instead of money.
The Next Gotten Crop.
Two Years Hence.
Naturally the paramount interest! A combination of circumstances
of southern farmers is devoted to, r eQ der it advisable, ,
the cotton crop, as from that prod-1 to m “ k8 m announcement that may
net much the largest amount of appear premature to some people.
ready money is derived. This year
the conditions surrounding and con
trolling the preparation of the land
and the planting have been unusual,
and almost throughout the cotton
growing states the planting has
been unavoidably delayed two weeks
or more.
We doubt if even a satisfactory
guess can be made concerning the
relative acreage planted, but the
general opinion prevails that a full
crop per acre cannot be reasonably
expected.
As opinions of interest on this
line, wo reproduce the following
from the Macon Telegraph:
“The general opinion of the sup
ply merchants and warehousemen of
Macon is that the cotton aoreage
this year will be about 5 per cent,
less than last. Some of the farmers
have increased their acreage because
of the present tempting prices that
prevailed since the spring season
opened, but a great many have been
compelled to go out of business be
cause of the failure of last year’s
crop and the decrease in prices at
the time the staple was being
brought into market. It is said that
less than one-half the number of
small mortgages have been written
this year, as compared with last,
and this is taken as an evidence that
many of the negroes who tried to
farm for themselves last year have
closed out and will work for some
body else this year.
“ 'It will be the costliest crop in
my thirty years’ experience as a
warehouseman,’ said Mr. 0. B. Wil
lingham, in discussing the prospects
for the crop now in the ground.
‘Corn is high, meat is highland ev
erything is against the man who
cannot run his own place. Acreage
does not mean yield. Many may
plant and then be compelled to
abandon or neglect the crop. The
man who is obliged to do work for
his neighbor to get provisions to
feed the family is allowing his own
crop to suffer.’
“But it is said that those win.'
have planted wheat and oats and
have raised enough meat to run
their own farms are in clover, so to
speak.
“ 'I know one county in Georgia,’
said a traveling man yesterday,
‘where the merchants are constantly
in debt to the farmers, instead of
the farmers being always in debt to
the merchants, and may be there is
not abundant prosperity in that
county.’ ”
I have been so frequently asked
the question, “Will you be a candi
date for ordinary in the next cam
paign?” that I have decided to give
a general reply through The Home
Journal.
It is now my intention to be a
candidate for ordinary in 1904, and
don’t think I will change my mind
Directly after the nomination for
county officers two years ago, Judga
Sam T. Hurst declared to me, and
to others, that he would not again
be a candidate for the office of ordi
nary.
For the friendliness for myself
specifically expressed in that decla
ration, I thanked him then, and
again thank him now. I desire to
say, however, that he need not, so
far as I am concerned, consider that
declaration as a sacred promise, if
he has changed his mind in the
premises.
Two years hence, if mental, phys
ical and financial conditions do not
prohibit, I will be a candidate for
the office of ordinary of Houston
county. Hopefully,
Jno. H. Hodges.
The Confederate veterans’ reunion
in Dallas, Texas, last week was the
most notable affair of the kind ever
held in the south. The visitors out
numbered the citizens of the city
nearly three to one, yet there were
comparatively few just causes of
oomplaint. Over 70,000 visitors
lived in tents during the reunion,
and about 20,009 free meals were
furnished daily. The number of
visitors was estimated at About
150,000. The enthusiasm and hos
pitality were unbounded. Gen, John
B. Gordon was unanimously re
elected cOmmauder-in-chief of tho
United Confederate Veterans, and
the next annual reunion will bo held
at New Orleans.
Low Rates via Central of Georgia
Railway.
Improved Order of Red Men,
Americus, Ga., May 13-14, 1902.
Tickets will be sold at rate of a fare
and a third on the Certificate plan
for the round trip (minimum rate 76
cents) from all ticket stations in
Georgia.
Grand Commandery Knights Tem-
pla of Georgia, Savannah, Ga., May
14-16, 1902. One fare for round
trip (minimum rate 60 cents) from
all ticket stations in Georgia for in
dividuals. One cent per mile trav
eled fur bands in uniform, twenty or
more on one ticket. Tickets on sale
May 12-13, with final return limit
May 18, 1902.
Grand Lodge I. 0. O. F., Atlanta,
| Ga , M ly 27-20, 1902. One fare for
j t!i« round trip (minimum rate 50cts)
| from ail ticket stations in Georgia,
rickets on sale for afternoon trains
May 26, all trains May 27, and for
trains scheduled to arrive at Atlanta
during forenoon of May 28, with fi
nal return limit May 30, 1902.
Georgia State Educational Asso
ciation, Tybee, Ga., June 19-21,
1902. Tickets one fare for round
trip (minimum rate 60 cents) from
all ticket stations in Georgia. Tick
ets on sale J une 17, 18, 19, with fi
nal return limit June 23, j902.
For" further information ask the
ticket agent.
As a friend of Mr. Guerry,we pro
test against the proposition of Rev.
Sam Jones to start a band wagon in
the interest of Mr. Guerry’s candi
dacy for governor. The regulation
band wagon is a vehicle filled with
men who blow and brass horns. A
circus parade always follows a band
wagon. We do not desire victory
“in a horn,” nor do we want any
thing in the campaign that is sug
gestive of “sounding brass and tink
ling cymbals.” Please let the band
wagon stay with the circus.
In the intercollegiate oratorical
contest at Atlanta last week, the
first prize was awarded to Noel W.
Grant of the North Georgia Agri
cultural College at Dahlonega. Sid
ney Hather of Mercer Universiay
received second, and third was ac
corded Sam Johnson of the State
University. There were two other
contestants, Alfred C. Broom of
Emory and Oharles H. Kicklighter
of the State School of Technology.
From across the waters comes the
report that the color question is ag
itating the labor unions and the pol
iticians in Australia.
From the Chenango (N. Y.) Amer
ican we reproduce the following
item showing a remarkable increase
in one family. The residence of this
lady is in the home county of Post
master Bough ton of Perry, Ga.:
“Mrs, James McGowan, aged 24, of
Tucker’s Corners, Ulster county,
April 13th gave birth to five chil
dren, all girls, and report says all
were doing well. Her other children
are a son and a pair of twins.”
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Laxative Chocolates cure chronic
constipation and liver trouble. Pleas
ant to take. Purely vegetable. Guar
anteed, at Cater’s Drugstore.
Senator Money of Mississippi cut
a street car conductor in Washing
ton laBt week while the conductor
was ejecting the senator from the
street car. Arrests and court trials
followed. The altercation grew out
of a misunderstanding about a trans
fer.
$100 Reward, $100.
i paper will be pleased to
;least c
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are hereby notified that
Mr. J. Henry King
is again with the
STRONG SHOR CO,
368 Second Street, MACON, GA.,
where he will he glad to see, and serve his friends.
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In style, quality and price we propose to give satisfaction in
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Everything New.
Send us your orders or
call to see us.
MACON, GEORGIA.
WHEN RIPE FOR THE HARVEST,
YOUft GHAIN NEEDS THIS MACHINE.
The best on the market. I also sell Reapers, Binders,
Mowers, Rakes; in fact all of D. M. Osborne’s Harvesting
Machinery, and Harrows of every description.
I make the best Flour and'Meal on the market. If you
want anything I sell, write me and I’ll come to see you.
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