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Published Every Thursday Morning.
,Tno.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, March 5.
Wednesday, March 4th, the 57th
congress expired by Btatute of limit
ation.
It is declared by authority that
the poaoh crop of north Georgia waB
killed by the late February freeze.
Though the Cox College property
at College Park, Ga., will bo sold in
May, the school will be continued.
It is reported from Atlanta that
there will be on encamptment of
Georgia state troops at Griffin this
year.
Cobh planting will be in order
throughout Routh Georgia within
the next few days, the woother per
mitting.
Indications now warrant the dec
laration that Houston county will be
in positive evidence at the state fair
next October,
Gov. Terrell suffered from a
troublesome attaek of lagrippe last
week, and was confined to his bed
all day Saturday.
An extra session of the seuate is
expected to ratify the Cuban and
canal treaties, which were retarded
' by party politics.
Judge Henky B. Thompkinb, one
of the moBt prominent jurists of
Georgia, died at his home in Atlan
ta last Thursday.
If tho price of cotton futures in
creases in sympathy with the price
of spot cotton, the temptation to
southorn speculators will be to sell.
If there must be republican legis
lation to defeat, or prevent, the in
iquities Of trust monopoly aud ex
tortion, such duty will never be per
formed.
Four new battleships for the Uni
ted States navy wilh bs constructed
by authority of a bill passed last
Thursday, the ships to cost about
$3,000,000 each.
Fire in Cincinnati lust Thursday
destroyed property to the value of
over two million ' dollars, including
four largo office buildings and other
structures and contents.
Mb. J. J. Amabon, for fifteen years
a member of the Bibb oounty board
of commissioners of roads and reve
nue, died at his home near Macon
laBt Sunday. Ho was about 72 years
old.
Db. J. W. RcIdebts has resigned
the presidency of* Wesleyan Female
College, to take effeot at the oloso of
the present college term. Ill health
is given as the cause of the resigna
tion.
Last week a firm of New York
grain brokersjflooded the south with
letters advising the people to “buy
May corn." Last Saturday the price
of May oorn declined materially in
Chicago.
Nine acres of land belonging to a
negro was sold for $2,280 to Geo.
W. Vanderbilt last week. The land
adjoined Biltmore, the magnificent
farm of Mr. Vanderbilt near Ashe
ville, N. O.
An easy victory ts not in store for
the winner of the first prize for
county displays at the next Georgia
state fair, but that will only make
the contest more determined and
the prize more valuable.
Count Boni Castelane, the Frenoh
husband of an American heiress, has
publicly de'olared in favor of a polit
ical alliance between the United
States and France—“the two great
est democracies defying the com
bined monarchies of Europe.”
A protest has been filed against
permitting Senator-elect Reed Smoot
from taking his seat in the U. S.
senate as a senator from Utah, It to
alleged in this protest that Smoot is
a polygamist in belief and in prac
tice, and that, he now has more than
ore wife, contrary to law.
Fair Sentiment Strong.
Prosperity.
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It is safe to say a majority of the
progressive farmers of Houston
oounty are in favor of having a
county fair next fall, to be followed
by a county exhibit at the state fair.
The suggested meeting at Perry
last Monday was not largely attend
ed, but it was made evident that the
proposed fair can bo arranged*.
It has been suggested that a
stock company fair association bo
organized, the stock shares to bo
fixed at a figure low .enough for all
to become members.
Just now, the proposition is that
every person in the county who fa
vors the proposition will talk about
it, consider the subject thoroughly,
aud be prepared to take positive ac
tion when the organization meeting
is held at Perry on the first Monday
in April next—the first day of the
Superior court term.
Whenever two or more farmers
are together, let them talk about
the proposed fair, discuss ways and
means, and what they can preduoe
for exhibition.
In each of tho fourteen districts
of the county there could be an in
formal canvass by one or more of
the progressive farmers, a canvass
not only to ascertain who will join
heartily in the movement, aB to be
coming stockholders and exhibitors,
but as to what and how much oan
be counted on in the line of exhib
its. There should be not only liber
al exhibits of all farm orops usually
cultivated, but there should be arti
cles that oan be produoed, but have
not been regular crops. There should
also bo all manufactured products,
and natural growths, woods, etc.
It had been our opinion that the
organization meeting should be held
earlier than April, but between now
and then the farmers will bo espe
cially busy preparing and planting,
and it would be difficult to induce
any considerable number to attend a
meeting. During court many from
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each district .will necessarily oome
to Perry, and the meeting can bo
conveniently held before the open
ing of court on the first Monday,, or
at tho noon rocoss.
With the proposition thoroughly
discussed, and a considerable num
ber with their minds fully made
up, but a short while will be suffi
cient to perfect the organization and
arrange the outline of the necessary
work.
It is our opinion that the place of
holding the county fair need not be
considered until the association has
been organized and the plans ar
ranged, then the question of con
venience and the measure of co-op
erative spirit displayed may be al
lowed to influence the decision.
Just here we will say that the
Jones County Fair Association has
earned handsome dividends for its
stockholders by holding three suc
cessive oounty fairs in three years.
Houston county can do as well.
Former Houston fairs received great
praise from all visitors, and we oan
do better than ever before.
If our farmers and o ther business
men do the best they can, Houston’s
fair next fall will be the best county
fair evor seen in Georgia, and tyill
win the first premium at the state
fair.
Commissioner Stevens warns the
farmers- of Georgia that the ad\ ance
in the price of cotton to 10 cents is
only a speculators’ soheme to induce
the planting of an extra large crop
this spring. With a considerable in r
crease in the acreage devoted to cot
ton, the prise would surely decline
below the profit point about the
time the farmers will be obliged to
sell next fall.
Gen. John B. Gordon has recover
ed from his attaok of illness on the
train near Jackson, Miss., one day
last week. It is said he will perma
nently retire from the lecture plat
form when he completes hiB- Texas
tour, whioh includes about half a
dozen engagements, and that from
Texas he will go to Miami, Fla.,
near whioh place he has a farm.
Some things are hard to know
and easy to disremember. Nowa
days when you read in the city
newspapers an item on the subject
of prosperity you can’t tell whether
it’s a tergiversation or an ambigui
ty. What you read and what you
observe do not coincide. It is some
what this wise. A young man was
tipsy. He held in his hand a silver
coin, which be scrutinized intently
for a time, and proposed to bet the
same that no one of the party could
make a correct drawing of it on pa
per. He said again and again,“mind
you now, it has two shapes.” He
meant that the two sides of the coin
should appear iu the drawing, or he
would olaim the stakes.
The two Bhapes of our great pros
perity have not been accurately
sketched by any of the artists. Per
haps acouracy isn’t art. What is
prosperity anyhow? It interests a
man whether he knows or not.
What others Bay about it is interest
ing also. Those who say most—the
leading newspapers for instance—
seem to be generators of the gas
whereby booms are inflated. What
they Bay somehow sounds like an
advertisement. They seem also to
entertain the superstitious belief
that if a thing is deolared, it will
come to pass. Sometimes this is
not true. A certain river has been
navigable on paper for seventeen
years, and to-day its largest craft
carries two men and the entoh of a
trotline.
Again as to what is said and the
animus of it. It will be noticed that
in support of the proposition that
prosperity prevails, the newspapers
cite the great and growing olearing
house exchanges. On the other
hand, they do not in anywise refer
to the volume of loans. And where
fore? Almost no one at all, outside
of the bauks, knows the details of
clearing house operations. No one
therefore is prepared to criticise or
controvert the specious argument.
Without any useless explanation, it
may be declared in positive terms
that clearing house exchanges do
not indicate the volume of actual
business. Everybody knows some
thing about loans and what they in
dicate. They indicate that a few
have money and multitudes need it.
Perhaps need is about as poor a sign
of prosperity as can be named. It
seems to seme of us that nothing
Hok. John T. Boiffeuillett has
resigned the position of ohief of po
lice at Macon, and has re-entered
journalism as chief editor of the
Macon Evening News. He is good
wherever he undertakas business,
and is especially good in editorial
work. We most cordially welcome
his return to active journalism.
War between Russia and Turkay
is quite probable in the very near
future, say reports from Europe.
short of ultra optimism can believe
a genuine prosperity operates
that
all departments of its business with
borrowed capital. If this optimism
should be incarnated there would be
one more strenuous fool on the
teeming earth. He would be rec
ognized at once as a promoter.
However much the foolB may annoy
themselves and their fellows, they
must be tolerated. If they should
be removed, what wide expanses of
solitude there would be in the world.
Velvet,
Edward Farmer of Grunderville,
Texas, writes to the World’s Fair
management: “I have a bottle 127
years old. It was made by Adams
& Jefferson in Pennsylvania, A. D.
1776. It has the picture of General
Washington on one side and the
American eagle on the other. It is a
large whiskey flask. It was bought
by one of my great-grandfathers and
has been handed down to me.” He
offers it for exhibition.
Ready to Accommodate
All Who Need
A rumor from New York last week
declared that the Central of Georgia
Railway system would soon be un
der control of the Rock Island Rail
way Go,. Coupled with this came
the rumor that the Southern, Rock
Island, ’Frisco and Santa Fe sys
tems would be merged under one
general management.
Georgia’s production of leading
farm products in 1902 is estimated
as follows: Cotton, 1,400,000 bales;
in bushels, corn, 36,093,979; wheat,
1,707,186; oats, 2,930,644; rye, 119,-
789; potatoes, 605,470; hay, 605,470
tons.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo
Lucas County.
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senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
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Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in ir
presence, this 6th day of Dece'mber, A. D. 188
(j .) A. W. Gleason,
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