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PxxDlished Every Thursday Morning.
Jno. H. rtODGBIS, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, July 24.
A disease sailed anthraonose is af
fecting the cotton bolls of Putnam
county.
The man who is “stronger than
his party” is entirely too much for
effective use in a political campaign.
The great strike (of ,coal miners in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia has
caused a material advance in the
price of ooal.
It seems to be a case of constitu
tional antipathy between Bryan and
Cleveland. Their ideas of politics
can’t assimilate.
It is said there is a tenement
house in New York city in which
4,000 people live'—the most popu
lous building in the world.
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The third district Masonic con
vention met in annual conclave at
Americas Wednesday morning, to
be in session two days.
The fifth regiment of Georgia
state troops went to Wrightsvillo,
N. G., last Tuesday for an encamp
ment of ton days.
The street car lines of Macon have
been purchased by a syndicate, and
at ah early dato will bo consolidated
under one management.
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The first bide of new crop Geor
gia cotton was sold at Albany last
Monday for 11 cents a pound. It
was grown by Deal Jackson, a no
gro farmer of Dougherty county.
In the-Butts county primary last
Friday, one of the legislative candi
dates favored the dispensary plan
and the other was for local option.
The local option candidate was nom
inated.
Fifty carloads of Georgia Elberta
. peaches, in two sections of one train,
were shipped from Fort Valley and
■Marshallville last Thursday. The
peach harvest in this section will be
nearly completed this weok.
At Meridian, Miss, last Friday an
agent of Murphy & Co. was convict
ed of dealing in futures aud fined
$500 and sentenced to 30 days in
jail. Others plead guilty to dealing
in futures and were fined $260 each.
The negro Young People’s Christ
ian and Eduoational Congress will
be in session at Atlanta from August
6th to 11th. The Central of Geor
gia Railway will sell excursion tick
ets tor the occasion at one fare for
the round trip.
Gen. Bragg, consul general of the
United States to Cuba, has become
objectionable to the Cuban govern
ment on account of language un
complimentary to the Cuban people,
which it is alleged he used in a let
ter to his wife.
Recently at Oyster Bay, where
President Roosevelt ifc now sojourn
ing, Ex-Senator Hill was given an
enthusiastic ovation, as “our next
president.” This is suggestive of
“riding rough-shod” over the prede-
lictions of the Rough Rider.
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Concerning Cotton Baling.
People outside of New York who
think that living is hard in summer
should read “A Hot Day in a Great
City” in the Woman’s Home Com
panion for August. They will see
how the Other Half suffers in the
hot season, and will be less inclined
to lament their own state.
Oil w;ells at Jennings, La., caught
fire Tuesday of last week, and the
destruction was exceediflgly great.
Everything above ground was con
sumed, and the oil became a volume
of flame as it gushed from the wells.
Until Monday all efforts to stop the
burning were entirely fruitless.
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In Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Ne
braska and Illinois heavy rains pre
vailed last Friday, and along the ,
rivers thousands of acres were inun- ’
dated, including several towns. It
" said much matured corn and
is
smm‘i
SBHral
Ijfib'frp. .-r-y
wheat shocked in the fields will be
practically ruined. The damage, it
is estimated, will reach the enor
mous fota], of four ’million dollars.
The leading cotton buyers of Geor
gia, Alabama and North Carolina
have formed “The Southeastern Cot
ton Buyers’ Association,” and a cir
cular recently issued indicates that
these buyers and the mills have en
tered into an agreement concerning
the quantity of bagging and ties to
be placed on each bale of cotton. It
is said by these buyers that in Geor
gia and Alabama the practice of us
ing an excessive amount of bagging
is prevalent, though the bale's fur
ther west average more than in
these two states.
This association of cotton buyers
is composed of 36 firms and indi
viduals in the states named, and it
is presumed they have the power'to
enforce this Yule they have adopted.
All cotton growers know that they
have no voice whatever in fixing the
price of cotton, nor have they any
influence in grading or in determin
ing any rule concerning the baling
and sale.
The circular referred to is as fol
lows:
“To GinnerS and Cotton Planters:
“The Southeastern Cotton Buy-
gts’ Association adopted the follow
ing resolution at their annual meet
ing held in Atlanta May 8 th:
“Resolved, That it is agreed by
all buyers belonging to this associa
tion to put a penalty of not less
than 60 cents per bale on any bale
that has on abovo 6 yards of bag
ging and 6 bands. This penalty
will be increased according to the
amount of excess bagging there
may be above the 6 yards and 6
bauds so allowed.
“Many other firms have expressed
a desire to become members of the
association, and the association has
been assured by practically all the
buyers and cotton mills in Georgia
and Alabama of their hearty co-op
eration in this mo\ ement. These
steps have become necessary be
cause of the excessive amount of
bagging which has been put on cot
ton at the gins heretofore, and the
fact that the spinners have b||n
billing 1 back to the cotton meroh
the amount of excess bagging rm,i
ties above 6 yards bagging an.i
bands to the bale. The South, i. -t.
ern Cotton Buyers’ Association in
structed the secretary to send cop
ies of the above resolution to gin-
ners throughout this territory in or
der that this evil may be corrected
and avoid having the planter suffer
loss by the penalty being put on his
ootton for excess bagging and ties.
“Yours v'U’y truly,
“C. B. Howard, Jr.,
‘G. A. Nicolson, . “Secretary,
“President, Atlanta, Ga.”
Technical Education.
On the line that the hands and
eyes must be educated as well; as the
mind; that .the man must know how
to see and to do as well as howto
think, there are innumerable argu
ments in favor of technical educa
tion that are unanswerable.
On a special line, the, following
from D. A. Thompkins is convinc
ing:
“Cotton may be increased in val
ue by knowledge and skill from 20
cents a pound to $40 a pound. The
Sea Island cotton in the raw state is
worth 20 cents a pound. The same
cotton when made iu fine French
organdies or Swiss embroideries is
worth $40 a pound. The difference
is almost all compensation for the
persons who do the work,—those
who know how and have the skill to
do it. To do this requires technical
education , and practical training,
For the production of fine goods
It is publicly declared by demo
crats that the great Amerioan steel
trust sells steel railroad rails in Eng- v
land several dollars a ton cheaper
than the same articles are sold at
the faotory. This lower price is
made, it is asserted, after the trust
haB prepaid the freight from this
country to Liverpool. Notwith
standing this charge was made sev
eral months ago,the republican tariff
gives protection to the produots of
the steel trust. Just now the dem
ocratic congressional campaign man
agers are seeking positive informa
tion on this line concerning all trust-
made exports, and oampaign mate
rial thus gained will be used vigor
ously against the republicans.
the design requires the taste and
skill of an artist. In tapestries the
highest taste and skill in art are re
quired. In the production of fine
artistic fabrics there lies great op
portunities for the southern youth,
but these opportunities can only be
brought within the reach of the
coming generation by technical ed
ucation.”
There are in Georgia 433 wheal
flour mills—67 with a capacity of
less than 100 barrels per year; 194
from 100 to 499 barrels; 91 of 600
to 999 barrels; 76 of 1,000 to 4,999;
9 of 6,000 to 19,999; 6 of 20,000 to
99,999, and 1 of 100,000 or more.
In the number of establishments the
state stands nipth; in capital invest
ed, twenty-third; in number of wage
earners, twelfth; in wages paid,
twenty-first, and in quantity of
wheat uBed, twenty-sixth. There is
grquud in the state 7,266,621 bush
els of Indian corn and 4,186,867
bushels of wheat.—Exohange. .
The auditor’s office of the United
States military government of Cuba,
which remained in Havana in order
to check the accounts up to May 19,
bun finished its work. The final bal
ance certified over to the new gov
ern ment, May 10, was $1,613,80§,
of which $636,170 was in the treas
ury, the remoinder being in the
hands of the disbursing officers of
the island. About $100,000 has
been debited, to the military gov
ernraeut on account of estimated or
possible claims'—Press.
It is reported from Valdosta that
melon growers of that section have
heen swindled this season to a con
siderable extent by fraudulent buy
ers. A Valdosto correspondent says
last week a man claiming to be rep
resenting a Pittsburg commission
house bought about .15 carloads of
cantaloupes from farmers of that
section. Payment was made in
checks, bub the banks declined to
cash the checks. The average price
agreed upon was $450 a car, making
an aggregate of $7,000.
Industrial and commercial trusts
are exerting hnrtful influence else
where than in the United States. It
has just transpired that Russia has
proposed to England that there be
an international conference to con
sider the trust evil. Thp proposition
has been made to others powers, but
it is hot yet known what the out
come will be. As the government
of the United States, under republir
can control, is the promoter of trusts,
it is not likely that President Roose
velt will appoint delegates to an an
ti-trust conference.
Revenue officials at Raleigh, N.
C., say there have, been fewer seiz
ures of illicit distilleries within, the
last three or four months than ever
before. It is sfdd the moonshiners
are not, as a rule, making any liq
uor, because of the prevailing high
price of corn. It is Said the new
“crop of corn will be the largest ever
grown in North Carolina, and tlion
the making of illicit whiskey will be
resumed.
At Baltimore last Sunday, a tor
nado uhrodfed many houses and
killed eleven people.
In Georgia the total amount of
capital invested in the lumber in
dustry aggregates $11,802,716, and
the annual lumber product amounts
to 1,354,000,000 feet. Of the south
ern states, Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas ai’6
ahead of Georgia in the amount of
capital invested in this industry, but
only Alabama, Arkansas and North
Carolina lead Georgia in annual
production.
□The Davidson, N. O., Dispatch has
this to say for school consolidation
and for better public school houses:
It is better to have a good school
two miles off than to have a poof
one in sight of your door; and still
we see people contending for the
maintenance of schools away back
in the old fields where there is ab
solutely nothing to inspire children
to greater efforts.
Crude oil from the Texas wells
has been tested as fuel for railroad
locomotives, and one road in Flori
da is preparing to use it in place of
coal Entirely.
Beware af Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it through the mucous sur-
uc | if' ■■ Hi ' I
faces. Such articles should never'be used ex
cept on prescriptiofi from reputable phystcians,
as the damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you catr-possibly derive from them. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, 0., contains no meroury, und is ta
ken internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, In buying
Hall’s Catarrh Cure he sure you get tlie genuine'.
T Jw ” d-niade in Toledo, O.,'
It is taken internally, an
-by F. j. Cheney & Go., Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Hall’s Family Fills are the best.
When Yon Think of Belt
..think of*..
Bibb
Co.,
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The greatest variety of Belting under one roof in Middle Georgia.
RUBBER BELT,
LEATHER BELT,
CANVAS BELT,
ROUND BELT and LACE LEATHER.
Pulleys, Shafting, Hangers, Pipe and Fittings,
Engines and Farm Implements,
CRBAM...
SIGNIFIES THE BEST.
Jersey Cream Flour
is the best product of a New Roller
Process Mill. ‘
It is made of the best wheat, for in
dividual customers of the mill and
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for the trade. 1
Ask your merchant for JERSEY CREAM FLOUR,
or bring your wheat to
HOUSER’S ZMIXLIl,.
A. J~HOUSER, Prop’r., EVA, GA.
25 PER CENT
OFF
FOR CASH. ,
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1 P er
cent
25 PER CENT
OFF
FOR CASH.
DISCOTJNTT
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SALE.
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| In order to remodel the interior of our store, we offer
our entire stock of SHOES (until August 4th) for 25
per cent discount. Nothing reserved,
while the stock is complete.
Call NOW,
Srrong Shoe
Store,
25 PER CENT
J. R, HOLMES, PROP.
25 PER CENT
OFF
MACON, GEORGIA.
OFF
FOR CASH.
FOR CASH.
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The entire stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, N<
dons, etc., held by the Trustee in Bankruptcy for the cre(
itors of Marx Zarks was sold to rhe undersinged on Jtu
14th, at about 55 cents on the dollar.
This new stock will; now be offered to the public ■<
which will surprise the buying public of Macon and adja
cent territory. The entire stock must be disposed of re
gardless of Cost, and will be offered at the, old stand of
Marx Zarks, 454 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga.
I cordially invite the public to inspect this stock.
.Respectfully,
(Read our }
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(Circulars.