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DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GrA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902,
A Middle Counties Fair Association,
Business Outlok Good.
Macou Telegraph.
The success of the Jones county
fair thisyear lias not only been a
big advertisement for that county,
but its influence has been iar-
reaching. It has caused a discus
sion among progressive farmers of
other couuties, and the farmers of
Jones are participants also. The
subject of the caucusing is the
project of holding at Macon next
year at the Central City Park “A
Middle Counties Fair.”"
The plan is to secure the co-op
eration of the farmers of Jones,
Bibb, Twiggs, Laurens, Wilkin
son, Houston, Crawford, Monroe,
Baldwin, Butts, Pike Jasper, and
Putnam in organizing *a fair as
sociation composed . of the pro
gressive representative farmers of
the counties named,, and arrange
to hold a fair in October, 1908.
It is argued that Macon is central
ly located for the people of all
the sections that would be inter
ested, and one of the greatest
fairs ever held in middle Georgia
could be organized for a grand ag«
ricultual display;
Between two hundred and three
hundred'thousand people reside in
the territory that is named for
a representation in the “Middle
Couuties Fair.”
The programme is to call a
meeting at Macon, of farmers
from the different counties at an
early date and effect an organiza
tion ; that the work of preparing
for the fair can be commenced
long enough in advance to assure
its success as an exhibit of the ag-
ricultual products, the stock and
every other item in the menage of
the farm that will show what
middle Genrgia is capable of.
Such an exhibition will not v only
attract home people, but strangers
to Macon, and teach every one
what sort of a country is embrac
ed in the sections repsesented at
the fair.
In their last report, Brad-
street’s say on the business out
look:
“Confidence in the outlook for
our next year’s, business is a nota
ble feature in the trade situation.
The volume of orders booked for
next'spring’s delivery is large for
this season of the year, and is ex
plained partly by the exception
ally good business done' in the
fall and winter account and' the
large crop yields of the year, and
also by the good position of the
winter wheat crop as winter ap
proaches. The absence of kill
ing frosts at the South has allow
ed the maturing of a considerable
crop of cotton. This has helped
the trade situation there, while
acting as a brake upon the ten
dency of the price of the staple to
advance.
“Southern trade advices are
that the fine open fall favors the
making of a good top crop of cot
ton. Ftosts as yet have been
light. At the East retail trade
needs steady cold weather to
stimulate demand, but jobbing
business feels the effect of the
lifting of the coal embargo.
Woolen goods, strengthened more
by the higher cost of raw wool
than by current demand, are
tending up; yarns have already
advanced. Spring trade indica
tions are promising. Lumber is
selling freely, despite the advanc
ed stage of. the season. The
movement of anthracite coal is
increasing, tnd prices have fallen
rather faster than expected.”
This is certainly an interesting
and encouraging statement.
There are pessimists.who can nev
er see anything but the worst
side. Things-are seldom quite as
bad as they seem. . The truth is
stated by Bradstreet when it is
said that businesS'Conditions are
excellent and the outlook for next
-year’s trade very promising.
Following Instructions.
At the Roosevelt Hospital the
other morning a poor woman
came to the clinic, says the New
York Times. She was suffering
greatly, so the doctor administer
ed an emetic at once. Then he
sent her home, with, the .warning
that her stomach was in a bad
condition and Uiat she should di-
patrons in Houston County are
Ship me your Cotton
B. WLLLINGHAM, Co
^Ca-conc.. Q-eorslsi.
Education that Knows, Sees and Does
W. A. DAVIS
BEN. T, BAY
GEO. H. LOWE,
There is every needful reason
to justify such an adjustment of
our school system that every
child may begin with the alpha
bet of his primer to learn some of
the easy and productive uses for
which the Creator gave him his
eyes and ears, his hands and feet.
By instructing him in the use of
these natural implements of pro
duction upon the raw materials
of his immediate enviroment, he
will learn that God made noth
ing for folly or waste. He will
come to feel that work is worthy,
ennobling and profitable. He
will cotne from the work shop of
the school to take an effective po
sition in the workshops of the
world without feeling that he has
decended from the “heights of
Homer” to the coalheaps of Cali
ban.-
The south is to be redeemed by
her own sons and daughters to an
independence of character, econ
omies and power that will make
her ashamed and fearful in the
face of no rival. The way to
CSTTMi FACTOR*
MACON, GEORGIA
BEST SALESMEN IN THE CITY
They are active, accommodating
and courteous.
Send them your cotton;-they are honest in tli )ir -dealings--
and wise in their judgement.
“W“; A. c$S CO.,
MACON, GEORGIA. —
The‘Macon Tolegr aph observes
that “Minister Wu Ting Fang
has been rather silent since his
transfer to China was announced,
suggesting the chastened solemni
ty, of a man who has received a
backset after a season of great
prosperity. But we observe that
he has recently made a remark to
the effect that the skirts of Amer
ican women, which are made long
only to be held up,’ are entirely
beyond his. eomprehention. The
Ohiuaman’s state of obfuscation
is in this instance shared by the
American man.” The Telegraph
is correct. The present day skirt
is undeniably'.a'source of wonder
—a puzzle—to all of us. Bub
thoy please the ladies and that
settles it. .■-- Exchange.'
dynamics of such schools as are
advocated by President Branson
and are being exploited by The
Georgia Federation. — Atlanta
Constitution.
The compulsory education law
in Indium is, at a normal cost,
having a very beneficial effect.
In 1902, 24,784 children were
brought into the schools, and the
poor provided with books and
clothing at a total cost of $1.81 a
child. In eighteen counties dur
ing the last year the officers suc
ceeded in bringing the children
into school without resorting to
the prosecution of their, parents.
In the remaining seventy-four
counties there were 825 prosecu
tions. The law has been in force
for five years, and is upheld by
the courts and public sentiment.
In this time the cost of enforcing
it has dropped 24 per cent.—Ex.
Later a little girl appeared at
the nearest drugstore asking for
some dye stuff.
“What color?” said the clerk.
“I don’t know,” answered the
child. _
“But surely you must have
some preference,” said the oblig
ing salesman.
She only shook her head in re
sponse.
“Well, will you take blue?”
“Yes, I guess so.”
The clerk, determined to ferret
out the cause of such unusual in
difference, asked:
“What are you going to use
that dye for, little girl?” .
She answered, “My mamma
had a pain in her stomach, and
the doctor at the big hospital said
she should ‘dye it.’ ”
A Startling- surprise.
A very few could believe m
looking at'A. T. Hoadley, a heal
thy, robust blacksmith of Tib
den, |ml., that for ten years he
suffered such tortures from Rheu
matism as few could endure and
live. But a wonderful change
followed his taking Electric Bit-
When the Texas oil fields were
discovered there was"much talk to
the effect that they were too far
away from the markets and from
t ide water for their products to
over become very valuable. Nev
ertheless,a'mut all the transporta
tion difficulties have been over
come and a considerable fleet of
steamers will shortly be distrih-
uning the oil along the seaboard.
A use has been found for the oil
and it is in demand.
Luck in Thirteen.,
By sending 13 miles Wm. Spi-
re.y, of Walton Furnace, Vt., got
a box of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
that wholly cured a horrible Fe
ver Sore on. his leg. . Positively
cures bruises, felons, ulcers, erup
tions, boils, burns, corns and piles.
Guaranteed. . Only 25c at Holtz-
claw’s Drugstore.
—'
A scheme for the manufacture
of paper buttons is being put for
ward in SanFransisco. These but«
ton?., say the promoters of the
scheme, will be cheaper than the
bone and metal ones, quite as Bern
vicable and of as good an appear
ance;-
tli® •TIT' e *^ ler nml a Stove or fi Range? If 5
vs# U so, 1 can fill your order and guaran
tee to/do it satisfactorily. I carry m complete line of -
. National Steel Ranges (u*Ld a ste^Y
Senator Hoar enumerates trust
evils thus: 1, destruction of com
petition ; 2, the manage merit of
industries by absentee capital ; 3,
destruction of local public spirit;
■1, fraudulent capitalization; 5,
secrecy ; 6, management for the
private benefit of the officers ; 7,
the power to corrupt elections and
in some cases to corrupt the
courts;.8, indifference to public
sentimefit.”
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
Grove’s signature, on each box.25c.
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For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bough
CAUCUS
MACOJNI GEORG
Tb-iangular Block,