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Published Every Thursday Morning.
no.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, December 81.
Happy New Year to all.
A new guano factory was estab
lished at Fort Gaines last week.
It is said the price of guano in
Georgia will be materially higher in
1904 than in 1908.
Fewer than usual Christmas casu
alties have been reported through
the daily newspapers.
Eligible young men should bear
in mind that a leap year will begin
on Friday, January 1st, 1904.
Arrangements will be 1 made for a
complete exhibit of Georgia fruits
at the St. Louis WoHd’s fair next
■ summer.
Mm Ann McDuffie, widow of the
late Hon. J. B. McDuffie, died at
her home in Btawkinsville last Sun
day morning.
The Christmas holidays have not
rendered the situation in Korea and
Manchuria less acute, and Russia
and Japan are'on the verge of war.
During the eleven months up to
December 1st the agricultural ex
ports from the United States show
ah increase of $74,000,000 over last
year.
A British steamer bound for Sa
vannah, Ga, and other points was
sunk near Porto Bioo last Sunday
by the explosion of a cargo of ni
trate of soda.
With the day and date of this is
sue of the Home Journal the year
1903 becomes a period of the past,
and the new year is at hand.
Except as a memory, with the old
year we have ho part.
Though distinct as measures of
time, the one merges into the other
i m per cep tably, there being no. chan ge
that can be directly recognised by
mortal senses. Yet we have made
an unchangeable record.
In many respeots the old year has
been unsatisfactory, yet there has
been for ihost of us more cause for
gratitude than for regret.
Whatever good there was in it
was the gift of Divinity for our
beneficial use. Much that was dis
appointing can be traced directly to
the misuse of privileges and oppor
tunities, or the positive disregard of
duty.
To some there came during the
year much sorrow and calamity, but
such is beyond the comprehension
of man!
Now, as the new year comes, let
us remember that it bears to us, mo
ment by moment, 366 days, or 8,804
hours, or 628,240 minutes.
These particles of time are given
us for our beneficial use. As we use
them so will the measure of life be.
May the new year bring happiness
to All, and may all the moments as
they come be used wisely, in aocord
with the will of Him who affords
the privileges and permits their em
joyment.
With this issue of the Home Jour
nal is completed our 33rd volume.
Our work has been far from perfect,
but the pages of the paper hold a
reoord of what we have done, all of
which we deemed to be right at the
time. Our efforts as thus shown
were in accord with our best judg
ment, and so we will begin a new
year and a new volume.
Let us all co-operate for improve
ment.
It has been said that the liquor
dealers in Macon shipped an excep
tionally large number of jugs to
points south of that oity last Wed
nesday and Thursday.
Bailroad travel last week was ex
ceptionally heavy throughout Geor
gia. It was a good stroke of bus
iness for the railroads to sell round-
trip tiakets at a reduced rate.
The candidacy of Editor Wm. B.
Hearst of New York for- the presi
dency is a business proposition,
judging by the methods being used
by the New York League of Hearst
Olubs in promoting their campaign
of education.
The total tax valuation of proper
ty in Georgia, as recorded on oounty
digests, aggregates $482,888,873 for
1903,an increase of $22,676,693 over
the returns of 1902. The above fig
ures do not include the corporation
returns made direot to the comp
troller general, which aggregate
$73,144,481.
On January 20th, 1904, Commis
sioner Lindsay will begin the pay
ment of state pensions to Confeder
ate veterans and widows. Fulton
oounty veterans will be paid first,
and then those of other counties in
groups as the commissioner has ar
ranged them. The payment will be
completed on March 2nd.
Hon. J. P. Brown’s new notel,
“The Brown House,” at Hawkins-
ville was the scene of a notable ban
quet last Wednesday evening, when
the city oounoilmen and other pro
gressive citizens of that progressive
city were the guests of the owner of
the new hotel. Hawkinsville was
pledged to material progress.
It as reported from Mexico that
General Diaz has decided that he
will not succeed himself as presi
dent of that republic. It is also
said that Jose Ives Limantour, at
present secretary of state, will be
the next president of Mexico. Gei\.
Bernardo Reyes, governor of the
state of Nueva Leon, is also promi
nently mentioned in connection with
the presidency.
It seems likely that there will be
a conflict of arms between United
States and Colombian troops. Boose-
velt in behalf of the United States
has guaranteed the independence of
Panama, and Colombia declares it
shall not be. At this distance it
seems to be a shrewd political
scheme to gain the canal for this
country and the presidency for
Roosevelt.
The Old Year.
Bear Admiral Evans, command
ing the Asiatio fleet, has been or
dered by the navy department to
proceed at once from Honolulu to
Chinese waters. This order has
caused much comment. The com
mercial treaty between this country
and China has yet to be ratified at
Peking by receiving the imperial
seal, and state department officers
believe that Bussia is secretly op
posing such ratification, as the
treaty opens to the United States
the Manchurian ports of An tun g
and Mukden. The Bussihns are said
to fear that if the United States ac
quires suoh an interest in Mancuria,
it will oppose the permanent occu
pation of the country by Bussia and
will perhaps become involved in the
Bussian-Japanese dispute. War be
tween Japan and Bussia is regarded
as almost certain by the state de
partment, and it is thought advisa-
able to have a strong Amerioan fleet
in Chinese waters to proteot Ameri
can interests.—Washington Cor.
It has been decided to name the
first ship launched of the two ships
now building for the Ocean Steam
ship Company at Chester, Pa., the
“Oity of Columbus.” Launching will
take place about the middle of Jan
uary at Chester. This ship is a du
plicate of the steamship “City of
Memphis,” launched in February,
1902, the “City of Macon,” launch
ed in March, 1903, and of another
ship also being built at Chester,
which will probably be launohed
within the next three months.
Length 396 feet, beam 49 feet,
draft 18 febt, displacement 5260
tons, cargo capacity 4,000 tons,
with accommodations for 78 first
cabin passengers.
Last Saturday was exceedingly
oold throughout the north and west,
the thermometer registering below
zero in several states. At St. Paul,
Minnesota, the temperature was 13
degrees below zero. This is said to
be the coldest weather within two
years.
gin
-Mr. L. S. Tounsley will be-
inspecting guano on the first
day of the''new year, if there is
any guano in reach for him to in
spect. He is inspector by ap
pointment of the State Agricult
ural Commissioner, and this will
i make the fourth year he has held
the position. This is conclusive
I evidence that he is a faithful and
efficient officer, though there
is
personal testimonyto that effect.
—Babin Hood Smokeless Shells
at Edwards & Marshall.
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Sessions—Gamble.
On the 23rd inst., in the village
of Pope’s Ferry, Ga., at the home of
the bride’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Eliz
abeth Sessions, occurred a most
beautifully arranged wedding, the
contracting parties being Miss Ibbie
Ellen Sessions and Mr. Albert A.
Gamble of Fort Valley, Ga.
The house had been previously
put in perfect order, with handsome
decorations of palms, ferns, and ev
ergreens.
To the strains of Mendelssohn’s
march, rendered by Miss Vivian
Wood of Atlanta, cousin of the
bride, came the bridal party, little
Ada Davis and Wesley Davis acting
as flower girl and page. Then came
the attendants, Miss Mamie Cole
man with Mr. Benfroe Taylor; Miss
Lillian Haskins with Mr. Clifton
Sessions; Miss Susie Sessions, sister
of the bride, as made of honor, with
Mr. W. A. Gamble, brother of the
groom, as best man.
Next came the bride and groom;
then Bev. Butherford E. Douglas of
Macon, in his usual happy style, pro
nounced them man and wife.
After the marriage and congratu
lations the bridal party was tender
ed a reception by Mr. and Mrs. K.
H. Davis, brother-in-law and sister
of the bride, after which They left
for Macon.
The popularity of this young cou
ple was shown by the many beauti
ful presents.
Mr. and Mrs. Gamble reached
Perry on the; 24th to spend the holi
days with relatives, after which they
will make their home in Fort Valley.
F.
HOUSTON SHERIFF’S SALES•
Will be sold before the court house
loor in the town of Perry, Houston
county, Ga., between the legal hours of
sale, on the first Tuesday in January,
1904, the following property, to-wit:
A certain gin house and the lot on
which it is located, in the 9th district of
Houston oounty, Ga., lying immediately
southwest of Fort Valley, fronting abont
40 yards on Souflietown road, bounded
north by E. O. Partridge, south by Lee
O’Neal, west by the Fort Valley High
and Industrial school, east by the 6aid
Boulfietown road. Levied on and being
sold as the property of William James,
defendant,to satisfy a fi fa from Houston
Oounty court, Jauuary quarterly term,
1904, in favor of Harris Manufacturing
Co., vs. said William James,
Also at the same time and place, a
certain lot of land owned by defendant,
Iverson James, said lot being the one
bought by the said Iverson James from
E. L. Bryan; Situated on the west side
of Scuffitown road, south-west of Fort
Valley, in the 9th district of Houston
oounty. Said laud bounded south by Ike
Whitfield, north by Bill Blackshear,west
by land of the Fort Valley High and In
dustrial School. Said lot frouting one
acre on the Souffletown road and run
ning back two acres deep. Levied on
and being sold as the property of Iverson
James,def,t, to satisfy a fi-fa from Hous
ton County Court, January quarterly
term, 1004. in favor of Harris Manufac
turing Co., vs. said Iverson James.
Also at the same time and place, 40
acres of land more or less, situated and
lying in the sixth district of Houston
oounty, Ga., and known as a part of the
Dreer Lisenby place, and bounded on
the north by the land of Harman LiBen-
oy, on the east by Dave Walker, on the
sounth by the Gus Hill land, and on the
west by Dawson Lamar. Levied on and
to be sold as the property of Louisa Hill
to satify a fi-fa from Houston Superior
court in favor of Mayer & Watts vs.
Louisa Hill, and returnable to the April
term, 1900, of said oourt.
Also at the same time and place, the
one-third undivided interest of Jack
Andrews in that town lot in Fort Valley
Ga., fronting on Maoon street 50 feet,
running back 113 feet; bounded north by
lands of R. A. Hiley, east by Hiley, south
by Mrs John Houser and west by Macon
street. Levied on and to be sold af the
property of defendant, Jack Andrews,
to satisfy a Justice oourt fi-fa from the
528th district G. M. of Houston county,
returnable to the December term, 1908,
thereof, in favor of Joe Miller vs. Jack
Adrews. Fi-fa fand levy turned over
to me for sale by Constable B. Smisson.
Also at same time and place, one va r
cant lot in the town of Fort Valley, Ga.,
containing % acre more or less. Bound
ed north by lot owned by Nick Hollin-
shead, south by lot of Emma Hollin-
shead, west by Perry Railroad and east
by lot of Alice Bird. Levied on and to
be sold as the property of Willie Hollin-
shead to satisfy a Justice court fi. fa
from the 528fch / Distriot, G. M. of Hous
ton oounty, Ga., returnable to June term
1962, thereof, in favor of 'Abe Glass vs
Willie Hollinshead. Levy made by Con
stable B. Smisson and turned over to me
for sale.
M. L. COOPER, Sheriff.
Deo. 8th, 1903.
RICHTER’S POPULAlTcAFi:
WALTER F. WRIGHT, Manager.
-4*13 Third Street, Macon, Georgia.
Meals to order at any time.
% Bes t service. Popular prices.
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Oysters, Fish and Game. Best of everything the ~ ,
Best appointed place for ladies in the city. kef affords.
REGULAR DINNER, 25c.
Quick Lunch Counter a special feature.
Come once, and you'll Come againi
$10,000 STOCK
Dry Goods, Shoes k Hats, Clothing,
Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Trunks, Valises, Etc., Etc. .
will be sold entire, with store fixtures, at
New York Cost!
You’ll never see a Better Bargain.
Come and see! Customers can buy any amount they desire
. Don’t fail to come!
454 MULBERRY STREET. MACON, GEORGIA
Next Door,to Billingsly’s Pharmacy.
Free stable for animals of customers who drive into the city
GEORGIA—Houston Oounty.
Mrs. O. A. King has applied for the
guardianship of W. A. King, lunatic;
This is therefore to cite aU persons con.
oerned to appear at the January term,
1904, of the court of Ordinary of said
oounty and show oause, if any they have,
why said application should not be
granted.
Witness mv official signature this
December 7,1908.
t SAM-T. HURST, Ordinary.
As The Holidays Draw Nigh
you naturally begin to ask yourself. “What shall I buy for
Xmas?” In making your selections is it not well to purchase
something useful as well as ornameutal, something that will
remain with you to show for your investment for months to.
come?
This year our store is brimful of elegant and useful articles
suitable for Xmas Gifts, such as Decorated Lamps in endless
variety, Portiers, Champagne Curtains the latest designs in
Lace effects, Table Covers, Rugs of all descriptions, Fancy Ta
bles, Ladies’ Writing Desks, Combination C^ses, Book Cases,
Fancy Rockers, China Closets, Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets, Coal
Vases, Pictures, Screens, Easels aud worlds of other things too
numerous to mention.
WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTON THE LITTLE FOLKS.
For them we have Reed Rockers, Cane and Wood Seat Rock
ers, Toy Steel Go-Carts, Velocipedes, Iron Wagons, Rocking
'Horses, Wheelbarrows, &c.
If we can't suit you no one else can. Remember the
name and the place:
C. Hi GARDEN,
469 Third St. Opposite Daunenberg’s. Macon, Ga.
The Reason. ■■
we sold more vehiclesdast year than dealers who
have been in the business for the last quarter of a
century speaks volumes.
People are becoming more exacting every day.
The first thing they seek now is quality. They
next consider the price. That is sensible.
That explains the whole matter.
Quality and Price is Our Hobby.
We do not consider cheap vehicles at all. We decide on
the BEST wagons and buggies and then buy them so we
can undersell our competitors.
We get all the discounts off by paying spot cash.
We can prove fl- 1 we say to be true.
Gall and let us ul it.
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350 & 352 Poplar Street, MACON, GA.