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Pabllahod Every Thursday Morning.
Jno.H. ItODCras. Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, March 12.
Spring time is in evidence.
Muon material progress is in store
for Georgia this year.
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A big ootton crop this year will
reduce the price below the profit
point.
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Ex President Cleveland publicly
deolares that ho is “out c f politics
/or good.”
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Mb.' 0. B. Massenburg, county
treasurer of Bibb county, died at his
appartment in Maoon last Saturday
afternoon,
A serious mistake will be made
by the Georgia farmer who fails to
plant enough corn this year to fully
supply his needs.
Ip the oircuit court at Hunting-
ton, W. Va., there is pending a land
suit involving about 500,000 acres of
land, valued at $16,000,000.
At Madison the 30th annual con
vention of the Georgia State Sun
day School Association will be held
Mareh 17th to 10th inclusive.
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At the July sossion the Georgia
legislature will be petitioned to ap
propriate $50,000 for a state exhibit
at the St Louis exposition next year.
At a Robert Emmett celebration
in New York city last Sunday night,
one of the orators expressed himself
in favor of an Irish republic, to bo
established tyy an appeal to arms,
It is already assured that five or
six counties will obutest for the
county premiums at the Georgia
Rtate fair next October. It is be
lieved Houston will ent^r the list.
Miss Martha Johnson, of Mecon,
Ga>, will christen the “City of Ma
oon,” a new steamship of the Ooean
Steamship Company to be launohed
at Chester, Pa., on Saturday, the
19th iuBt.
During January, 1903, the value
of manufacturers 1 materials imported
into the United States amounted to
$42,328,748, an increase of $5,016,-
235 over the importation of Buoh
materials during'January, 1902.
A Fair Meeting Called.
Several members of the executive
committee that managed the Hous
ton county fair in 1901 conferred
together last Saturday, and a call is
published for all stockholders of the
Houston County Fair Association to
meet at Perry next Saturday.
This call is signed by the presi
dent and secretary of the associa
tion. It is proposed, we understand,
to use the old dBsociation as the nu
cleus of a new organization—a stock
company has been suggested—that
will arrange for and manage a Hous
ton county fair next fall, and then a
county exhibit at the state fair.
The meeting next Saturday will
not be confined to those who con
tributed to the 1901 fair, but any
and all who will join heartily in pro
moting a fair this year will be most
welcome.
As the official call states, it is
hoped every district in the county
will be represented at the meeting
next Saturday, so that the work of
preparing for the proposed fair may
be in the hands at once of earnest
and progressive men of every sec
tion of the county.
The proposed fair stock association
would not only advance the general
agricultural interests of the county,
but it oan be made profitable as a
financial enterprise. This fact has
been demonstrated in Jones county,
where the annual county fairs have
earned a greater per cent, on the
money paid in by the stockholders
than could have been secured on the
money loaned at the highest rate of
interest obtainable.
Houston gis undoubtedly one of
best agricultural counties in the
state and county pride ought to in
duce our peouple to make an exhibit
at the state fair. A county fair will
make such an exhibit easier to col
lect anc| better to show. There
should be an early decision, as very
much depends upon proper prepara
tion.
Progressive farmers from every
seotion of the oounty are expected
to attend the meeting at Perry next
Saturday morning.
At the Methodist missionary in
stitute of the South Macon district
at Maoon last week, it was deoided
that the district ought to seoure and
support six additional missionaries
The oity council of Maoon last
week appropriated $7,000 for the
purpose of putting the buildings
and grounds of Central Oity Park in
proper shape for the Georgia state
fair to be held tlnre next Ootober.
From Fort Worth on last Thurs
day it was reported that the recent
snow storm and blizzard in the Pan
handle seotion of' Texas was the
worst ever known, and the loss to
the stookmen would reaoh half a
million dollars.
Bfc persistent obstructive taotios
the democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives defeated the Aldrich
currency bill, which they believed
contained features antagonistic to
the general interests of the country.
The feature considered most objec
tionable was that providing that
banks oonld issue currency upon as
set bonds as security therefore.
Hon. James H. Blount, died at his
home in Maoon last Sunday morn
ing. In the war between the, states
he was a colonel of cavalry. For
twenty consecutive years, from 1872
to 1892, he was the representative
in congress from the sixth congres
sional district of Georgia, declining
in that year to offer for re-eleotion.
In 1893 he was appointed by Presi
dent Cleveland special commissioner
to Hawaii to investigate and report
the conditions of the islands. In all
conditions of life Col, Blount was
true and faithful to duty, a faithful
friend ever, a trustworthy arid able
official. He was much honored by
democrats of his. district, ‘but that
hdhor was weliMrismfect 'Georgia
loses an earnest and faithful demo
cratic statesmans most worthy man,
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Third District Observations.
Again.
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On Wednesday of last week Hon.
E. B. Lewis completed his third
terra of service—six years—as rep
resentative in oongress of the third
district of Georgia. Assiduously
has he devoted himself to duty, and
kid record does him honor. In no
degree has he displayed pyrotechnic
qualities, but with earnest faithful
ness he has devoted himself to the
business of his position, earning the
endorsement of his constituents.
Nevertheless, there will be spir
ited contest for the next nomination
by the democrats in this' congres
sional district.
Even now, more than twelve
months before the active opening of
the next campaign, prospective can
didates are being spoken of. If Mr.
Lewis concludes to ask for another
term, |he will have one opponent.
Should he decide not to seek anoth
er term, there will be at least three
candidates, probably five, one each
from as many counties. The three
regarded as oertain in oase Mr. Lew
is does not enter, are citizens re
spectively of Houston, Twiggs and
Sumter counties.
In oase Mr. Lewis is again a can
didate, there will most likely be on
ly one other candidate, because of
the generally aocepted belief that
the opposition divided between two
or more could be easier defeated
than if concentrated on one strong
and popular man.
We are convinced that Mr. Lewis
has not lost any strength since his
first nomination, and this writer has
no desire to see him displaced.
However, if an able citizen of Hous
ton eounty should be a candidate,
we would undoubtedly espouse his
cause and work earnestly to secure
his nomination and ele3tion. We
make this declaration thus early in
order that there may be no doubt in
the minds of any in placing the
Home Journal.
Mr. Lewis has been and is the
political and personal friend of the
editor of the Journal, and we will
not oppose him for another term in
a partisan spirit even in favor of a
home man.
A word of explanation. When
Charles Dickens was in Boston the
cultured people of that city were
disappointed in him as the reader
and interpreter of his own works.
To them, his presentation of Pick
wick was no better than a carica
ture. A man may impress others as
he is not himself impressed. I am
writing about prosperity, not so
much to prove that it isSfictional, as
to expose the fiction. There is al
together too much of this stuff in
the world already. If it was valua
ble we would be rich indeed, but
very much of it is even worse than
worthless. The fmaterial of which
boomB are made is of this kind. Ev
ery boom will either explode or col
lapse at the last. If it does not,
then it isn’t .a boom at all, but an
enterprise. The boomer must be an
enthusiast, and the difference be
tween enthusiasm and fanaticism is
what scientific men call an unknown
quantity. They are twins and dress
alike.
In this locality the leading boom
ers se6m to be confused, so that
they cannot distinguish between the
growth of urban population and ac
tual prosperity. A garbled census
stimulates their enthusiasm. They
sing triumphant songs and, like
Blind Tom, applaud themselves.
Now I want to ask seriously and
plainly, are there not too many peo
ple in the towns already? If one
large town could atiract people from
another, perhapB no harm would re
sult. But the boomers convince the
country people that the cities are
fairly reveling in prosperity, and
these people are attracted. In my
heart I am sorry for the young peo
ple who come from everywhere to
fit themselves for commercial pur
suits. Certainly Jay Gould and oth
er “Captains of Industry” came from
the country, but I believe the tide
has flowed in that, direction ever
since their coming, and must now
recede. In absolute soberness and
sincerity, I believe that if the ohief
cities of Georgia could induce one-
fifth of their population to go to the
country, and carry with them the
industry that is necessary to success
anywhere, they would greatly bene
fit themselves. If they shall increase
their pipulations as much as twenty
per cent, by accessions from the
country, disaster will result. Who
will undertake to controvert the
proposition? Velvet.
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NAPIER, BROS.
The feature of the 67th congress,
adjourned sine die Wednesday of
last week, most worthy of attention
and condemnation is the great in
crease in appropriations. The ag
gregate appropriations crossed the
billion and a half mark, amounting
to $1,664,108,514—nearly double
the appropriations of the fifty-third
congress, when the democrats con
trolled the House of Representatives.
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State op Ohio, Oity or Toledo
Luoas County.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the Arm oL’ F. J. Cheney & Co,,
doing businoss in the city of Tolodo, county and
state aforesaid, and that said llrm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DODLARS for each
ami every oa,so of Catarrh that cannot he cured
of Hall’s Cat a huh Cube.
by the use
Frank J. Cheney
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 0th day of Docombor, A. D. 1880
a. W. Gleason,
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STATEMENT
Of the condition of The Perry Loan &
Savings Bank, located tit Perry, Ga.
at the close of Business Feb. 23th',
1903.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts, §4*2,008.39
Demand Loans, 4,28!L55
Overdrafts, l,79G.5l
Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures, 2,100.00
Due from Banks and Bankers in this
State,
Due from Banks and Bankers in other
States, 1
Currency,
Gold.
Silver, Nickles and Pennies,
Chocks and Cash Items,
Total,
3,279.60
2,Of .67
1.239.00
1.665.00
893.28
2,262.65
61.583.55
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, Paid in,
Surplus Fund,
"naivided Profits, less Current
21,750.00
3,158.41
Undivided Profits, '
Expenses and Taxes Paid, > 1.847.45
Due to Banks and Bankers in this State, 133.51
Individual Deposits, Subject to Check, 23,287.68
Demand Certificates, • 5,206.50
Time Certificates, 6,200.00
Total,
§61,583.55
A resolution introduced in the
Wisconsin legislature requests the
governor of that state to call upon
ajl governors to appoint ten dele
gates from each state to attend a
convention ai Atlanta* Ga., on July
4th next, to consider the raoe ques
tion.
STATE OF GEORGIA,—Houston County.
Before me came L. F. Cater, cashier of Perry
Loan and Savings Bank, who, being duly sworn
says that the above and foregoing statement is
ikaa shown by the
a true condition of said Ban!
hooks of. file in said Bank.
■ Jj. F. CATER, Cashier.
Sworn and subscrlbed.to before me* this 6th
day of March, 1003.
I. T. Woodard, Clerk S. C.
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