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PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, OA., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1903.
TBS PLACE TO BUT
Staple Groceries, Stock
Feed, Farm Supplies, etc.,
GROVANIA GLEANINGS.
By Joe Dodge,
The Easter services at the ckuroh
at this plaoe attracted a good audi
ence. The church was nicely deco
rated for the occasion. The. songs
sung by the choir, accompanied by
THE COMING COTTON ACREAGE.
The basis of speculation as to the
probable size of the coming crop,
while not sure, is still such as to
point with reasonable certainty to
the probability of an acreage fully
is where the stock is complete, the
and the prices
best quality
sung by tne uhou| accompanied _by i equal to the present season,and with
the strains of the organ by Miss ft free use of fertilizers that means
Julia Kentz, made one feel some
what melancholy. We prefer not to
MY STORE IS OF TAT KIND.
I invite the farmers of Houston county, and other readers
of the Home Journal, to give me a share
, of thei r patron age.
QOODS GUARANTEED TO BE AS REPRESENTED
T. E. METtRITT,
451, 453 & 455 Third St. ' MACON, GA.
Thos. R. Ayer, Pres.
Edwin S. DaVis, Gen. Mng’r.
Planters’ Supply Co.
Mules and all grades of Standard Fertilizers,
We will
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make it to your interest to consult ns before
making yoiir purchases.
451 Poplar Street. MAOON, GA..
(Near Warehouse of W. A. Davis & Co.)
EDWIN S. ZDJk.'VIS,
(Formerly of W. A. Davis & Co.,
. General manager.
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make any speoifio mention of anyone
in the way of comment, as all did
well and deserve praise, but will say
that the reading of a piece by Miss
May Ho ( dges was impressive, and
read in ah impressive manner. The
services were sweetly and solemnly
rendered and enjoyable. Following
is the programme:
Song, “Boll Back the Stone.”
Prayer.
Responsive Reading.
Song, “Spring is Coming.”
Easter Greeting.
Song, “I’m'so Glad to See You.”
Recitation, “God Wants Us to be
Good,”
Recitation, “When the Lilies
Bloom.”
Song, “O, Day of Light.”
Exercises, “Children of Spring.”
Recitation, “An Easter Bonnet.”
Recitation, “I’m Glad They Saw
the Angel.”
Song, “As It Was Written.”
Exercises, “Spices for Christ.”
Recitation, “Made Over New.”
Recitation, “A Bible Story.”
Song, “JustBevond Heaven’s Open
Door.”
Recitation, “Easter Bells.”
Responsive Reading.
“Song of Triumph.”
“A Legend of Service.”
Recitation, by Joe Riley.
Recitation, “The Prayer Angel.”
Song, “All Hail the Power of Je
sus.”
Song, “Father, Dear Father.”
Benediction.
We had a heavy rain Sunday
evening, accompanied' with wind,
lightning cihd thunder. Farm work
is stagnated for the present.
Misses Lizzie Walker, Ida Tarver
and Emma Fountain of Hawkins-
ville were the guests of Miss Mary
Riley from .Friday until Monday.
Mr. A. C. Pats visited home-folks
Sunday at Unadilla.
While in Perry last week I was
invited to eat a birthday dinner with
our efficient clerk of the superior
court, I. T. Woodard, at the Avant
House. It was a bountiful dinner,
well served and much enjoyed. May
this old veteran live to see fifty-nine
more prosperous yearB, and when fye
is put away to rest be given a, pa'ir
of wings that will land him safely in
that Eternal World, where he may
never hear the roar of cannon nor
sound of musketry nor toot of the
bugle.
I also was cordially invited to dine
one day with our clever school com
missioner, Prof. Geo. W. Smith, in
company with Mr. S. F. Bivins. We
enjoyed a most excellent dinner, and
were treated royally and hospitably.
April 14th, 1003.
full crops with favorable conditions,
says the Cotton Trade Journal, of
Savannah. It is too early to satis
factorily estimate what the acreage
will be, since there is abundant time
yet for present indications to be
completely reversed,
From the reports to this office it
appears that in every section except
the sea island country of South Car
olina, Georgia and Florida, the acre
age will equal or exceed that of last
year. Seeing the more attractive
profits of upland cotton planters,
the sea island planters in many
cases have decided not to plant this
staple for the new orop, but to di
vide their lands between upland and
sea island oottoh on the theory that
the small stocks of upland likely to
be carried over into the new season
will create a sharp demand for up
land and a oonBequent rise in prioes.
Desiring to participate in these ex
pected profits, reports indicate that
planters quite generally in the sea
island belt are to divide their acre
age between the two staples.
Then there is doubt as to the in
tentions regarding the aoreage for
the coming crop in the Mississippi
delta, where the floods have taken
the- lowlands following breaks in the
levees. The trade is not settled as
to what bearing this will have on
the coming crop, and may not until
the planting season progrerses fur
ther. Much interest is expressed
now as to i»he acreage for the reason
that this will have an important
bearing upon the early market, but
it now appears that further develop
rnents are neeessury to an intelligent
opinion. Meantime reports from the
orop country are being watohed and
weighed.
A SIMPLE SMALLPOX REMEDY.
Medical Talk, a publication of
wide oiroulation, and more or less
authority on health matters, startles,
and at the same time thrills with
delight the hearts of a great many
people by the follow ip g declaration:
“We say without the least hesita
tion or reserve that lettuce will pre
vent smallpox. It is a thousand
times better than vaccination. It
has no liabilities, like vaccination, to
produce other diseases.' We are will
ing to stake our ^professional reputa
tion on the broad statement ti^at
anyone who eats lettuce daily will
not catok smallpox, whether he be
vaooinated or not. We hope that
every reader who has confidence in
our statement will pass this along.”
Anyhow, the remedy is worth a
trial and can do no harm, says the
Outhbert Leader.
Hog Cholera Treatment.
By request we print the following
U. S. government recipe for hog
oholera and swine plague, wkioh was
given by Hon. Harvie Jordan at the
recent Farmers’ Institute at Ash-
burn:
1 pound wood charcoal,
1 pound sulphur,
2 pounds salt,
2 pounds baking soda,
2 pounds sodium hyposulphite,
2 pounds Glauber salts,
1 pound antimony sulphide. Mix.
Dose: One large tabesppoonful
daily to each 200fi)a. live weight of
hogs. As a preventive, give occa
sional doses of above, and have a
mixture of oharaoal, salt and ashes
in a box to which hogs always have
aooeBS,—Ashburn Farmer.
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Bales Ton an Hour.
Florida State Fair.
In the southern states there have
been 1,096 business failures during
the first three months of this year,
against 1,063 for the same period of
1902, an increase of 33. The total
liabilities of the 1902 failures were
$6,448,167, against $6,326,479 for
|jhe same period of 1903, a decrease
of $123,688. In Georgia this year
there have been 79 failures, against
66 in 1902, an increase of 13. Geor
gia ranks fifth in the percentage of
failures in 1902, that percentage be
ing 1.67 of a total of 18,639 busi
ness concerns.
Ihb success of Garter Harrison of
Chicago, 111., and Tom Johnson of
Cleveland. O., in the mayoralty elec
tions of their respective citieB is a
source of great gratification to all
good democrats in Washington. In
the former instance the result is par
ticularly pleasing, as it shows that
the republicans of Illinois stand
ready to repudiate the rule of the
notorious “Billy” Lorimer, The pres
ident’s action in insisting on having
Mayor Harrison take part in his re
ception was in itself a repudiation of
Lorimer, and the election was a sec
ond and more decisive one. Illinois
democrats are now led to hope that
the Lorimer domination will throw
Illinois into the democratic column
at the next election.—Our Washing
ton correspondent.
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The big half and quarter-pags ads
in the local papers are the wors t
shots any town can give the mail
order houses. They tell of first-class
goods at prices which no mail 6rder
house can beat. They tell of goods
the customer can see before he lets
go of his money. The merchant who
has good, fresh goods, sells them at
a small margin of. profit, and adver
tises in a straight-forward, honest
way, takes the most vital way of
heading off the mail order houses.—
Sparks Enterprise.
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Vehicles, Harness and Harvesting Machinery.
Makes a Clean Sweep.
There’s nothing like doing
thing thoroughly. Of all the salves
you ever heard of, Bucklen*s Ar
nica Salve is the best. It sweeps
away and cures burns, sores, cuts,
bruises, boils, ulcers, skin erup
tions and piles. It’s only- 26c, and
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
A Great Sensation.
There was a big sensation in
Leesville, Ind., when W. H. Brown
of that place, who was expected to
die,had his life saved by Dr. King’s
New Discovery fpr Consumption.
He writes: “I endured insufferable
agonies from Asthma, but your
New Discovery gave me immediate
relief and soon thereafter effected
a complete cure.” Similar cures
of consumption, pneumonia, bron
chitis and grip are numerous. It’s
the peerless remedy for all throat
and lung troubles. Price 50o and
$1. Guaranteed. Trial bottles free
at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
At the University of Georgia the
students have established a v printing
office where a college magazine is
published during the terras qf the
college. In order that the expenses
of the office may be met, or reduced,
job work has been solicited and se-,
cured from business men pf Athens.
Of this last, the union printers of
Athens have complained to the trus
tees, saying it is, not right for the.
students to ask "for the job work of
the city, as they do work at prices
with which the regular printers can- <
not compete. At Athens the trus
tees considered this complaint sever
al days ago.
The thirteenth child of William
and Mary Safreed, born a few days
ago at Parkersburg, W. Va,, was
christened "God’s Plenty.” This
fact became known upon the filing
of the birth certificate, in which the
number of children born to the cou
ple and the name of the latest one
were given. It is said the parants
gave the name to the child in des*
peration, having exhausted most of
the common names of both boys and
girls, and that it was the (unanimous -
sentiment of the parents that thir
teen wtSs “God’s Plenty.”
A lazy liver may 'be only a tired
liver or a starved liver. A. stick is
all right for the back of a lazy man.
But it would be a savage as well as
a stupid thing to beat a weary man
or a starving man because he lagged
in his work. So in treating the lag
ging liver it is a great mistake to
lash it with drastric drugs. . In nine
ty-nine cases out of a hundred a tor
pid or sluggish liver is but a symp
tom of an ill-nourished body, whose
organs are weak with overwork. Let
your liver alone. Start with the
stomach and its allied organs of di
gestion and nutrition. Put them in
proper working order, and see how
quickly your liver will become active
and energetic. Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery has made many
marvelous cures of “liver trouble” by
its wonderful control of the organs
of digestion and nutrition^ It re
stores the normal activity of the
stomach, increases the secretions of
the blood-making glands, cleanses
the system from poisonous accumu
lations, and so relieves the liver of
the burdens imposed upon it by the
defection of qther organs.
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