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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r,
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1.50 a Year In Advance
PEKRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY MAY, 15 1919
KM TREES A^D FALL GRAIN*
We are prepared to furnish acid Phosphate Raw
Bone Meal. Ground Cattle Tankage,' Machine Dried
Fish Scrap, merkan Murate of Potas, Cotton Seed
Me( ] and ah g.ades of ready mixed fertilers.
rite us for prices.
Heard Brothers,
MACON, GEORGIA.
democratic EXECUTIVE C0M- f TREATY of peace handed to
MITTEE TAKES STEP BY 1| GERMANS AT 3:15 P. M. ,
I 24 TO 1 | ! WEDNESDAY.
DEFICIT OF $192,000,000 FOR THREE
MONTHS OF THE PRES
ENT YEAR
The Belgian Crcwn Council Decides
To Sign Treaty, EHit Aro Dis
satisfied With Text
Brief News Items Of Important Gath
ered From All Parts
Of The State
Despite Big Deficit Hines Says No
General Rate Increase Is Now
Contemplated
New York.—The peace treaty for-
Washington. — Director General
Hines in a discussion of recent rail
road earnings disclosed that:
The government’s deficit in operat
ing the railroads for the first three
months this year, or the difference be
tween net earnings and one-fourth of
the guaranteed annual^compeusntion,
without $192,000,000 for all roads un
der federal management.
The government’s loss for 1918 was
$226,000,000.
The entire government loss irfeur-
red in fifteen months of federal oper
ation was $418,000,000.
Marked reduction in freight traffic
under records of similar periods of
the last two years wg»« responsible
for the bad financial showing and the
conditions in April, though not yet
reported fuly, show no promise of any
improvement.
Despite the big government deficits,
the director general does not contem
plate any general increase in the
level of rates, blit prefers to await
restoration of normal business condi
tions.
The government also incurred a
deficit of about $14,540,000 in eight
months’ operation of the American
Hallway Express company, iho con
solidated express corporation, up to
W. O. Kinney.
L. J. Hohtoi*.
g; ® gm r raVOrlns ! perialistic Germany must pay for
the enfranchisement of women. '. . ... .. . ' ,,
The action was made possible by the ; ^ aving instigated the world war at
fact that the local primary committee has been made,
controls the white primary of the city, With peace measureably near by
which is not affected by state laws, reason of this fact, there now also
It is within the discretion of the com- seems to be good basis for the belief
mittee, which acts under a sort of that the differences between Great
"gentlemen’s agreement’’ to grant the 1 Britain, France and the United States
and Italy over Italy’s claims regard
ing Flume and the Dalmatian coast
may yet be settled with full accord.
: Signor Orlando, Italian premier, and
his foreign minister, Baron Sonnino,
returned to Paris from Rome, where
they have been since they, quitted the
peace conference, more than a week
ago, owing to inability to obtain what
Italy considered concessions which
would satisfy Italian ambitions.
With the Italian question settled,
almost complete unanimity of senti
ment would prevail in the peace con
ference. The obstacle represented by
the protests of the Belgians has been
surmounted by the - Bel g*«a ;; cr o wn
council having decided unanimously
to sign the treaty, it . having been
pointed out by the head of the Belgi
an delegation that the document gave
honorable and satisfactory terms to
Belgium.
W. 0. KINNEY & CO.
S U OCESiORS'TO B. T. ADAMS & CO.
- Cotton Factors. -
614 Thirdt Street, Macon, Ga.
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Farmers Supplies. Mules, High-grade Fer
> A ILIZERS AND WEBER WAGONS.
lOTTON FACTORS
Macon, Ga.
Mill 8ends Shipment To China
Augusta.—The Enterprise Manufac-
"The present unfavorable results
naturally lead to agitation of the
question whether there ought to be
an increase of rates,’’ said Mr. Hines
in his statement. "My own judgment
is that the present conditions are loo
abnormal to serve as a basis for any
general change in the level of rutes
and that it is preferable to defer ac
tion on that subject until there shall
have been a full opportunity to get a
more normal measure of the condi
tions, meanwhile resorting to every
practical economy, studying the situ
ation with the greatest care, and keep
ing the public fully informed as to de
velopments.”
Cotton, Mules, Fertilizers
Wagons, Bagging, Ties
MEN .AND WOMEN TRAPPED
BY FIRE IN COLUMBU3, O.,
AND MANY LIVES ARE LOST
Flames Raged In Seven-Story Apart-
; ment Building—And Many
Women Leaped Out
Money to Loan
Farm Lands in Houston County a’ Low Rite of j latere?
liiyou wtui money quick write orca'l
Columbus, Ohio.—Fire in a down
town business and apartment build
ing at midnight trapped many per
sons, the police say. Men, . women
and children jumped from upper
floors into life nets. One baby was
thrown from the third floor and
was caught in the arms of a youth
aiding the firemen.
Scoi’ee of women who jumped from
upper apartments of the seven story
building have been rushed to hospi
tals as seriously injured. Thirty
minutes after the fire started the po
lice reported one known dead and
estimated those trapped may run up
to 20 to 30. A dozen small children
and babies in arms were tossed out
of windows. The entire upper half
of the building was a mass of flames
and there is now i\o way of knowing
how many were cut off.
Mrs. Charles Speakman, wife of a
policeman, was killed jumping from
an upper floor, her husband was se
riously injured and is in a hospital
and her father is missing, police re
ports say. Mrs. Robert Knight, 35,
and son, 4, may die from injuries from
jumping from their apartment Gil-
lah Larson, aged 5, was reported to
have been killed. Eight seriously
hurt reached one hospital.
Between seventy-five and one hun
dred persons lived in the building.
T. H. Garrett Heads Educators
Macon.—With the election of offi
cers, the annual convention of the
Georgia Educational Association clos
ed here. The new president is T. H:
Garrett of Augusta. Other officers fol
low: Miss Katherine Dozier, Gaines
ville, vice president; Kyle T. Alfriend,
Milledgeville, secretary; Harold D-
Meyer, Athens, - treasurer; H. D.
Richie, Athens; Miss Rosa Taylor, Ma
con, and Ralph Newton, Fort Valley,
directors; R. H. Powell, of McRae,
trustee.
AVIATORS IN FLOCKS
DO GREAT STUNTS
x|N SKY AT MACON, GA,
Hatcher-Tu rpin Co
Southeastern Aeronautical Congress
In Full Sway, And Much
Interest Manifested
523.Mulberry St.
Macon, Georgia
Macon, Ga.—Macon was given a
sample ot what may be expected in
the future when travel in the air be
comes as common as the present day
use of automobiles. All day long the
air was filled with machines of differ
ent types, some carrying mail, others
bombing the city with Victory Loan
literature and others doing acrobutic
Btuiits that thrilled the erwods of
people at Central City Park and in
the business district of the city. Sev
eral Macon people were permitted to
go up with the aviators, among the
number being Mayor Glen Toole, who,
while flying two thousand foot in the
air dictated messages to 4tl* stenog
rapher on the ground.
The big Wright-Martin bombing
mane which flew from Bolting Field,
V^ashington, D. C-.- to Macon, flew
over the city for more than an hour
piloted by Captain Francis.
Tifton 6ets Experiment Station
Tifton.—After inspecting the four
sites offered in eoutheast Georgia, the
board of trustees of the coastal plain
agricultural experiment station award
ed the location of that institution to
the town of Tifton, which submitted
a bid of 204 acres of land and $25,-
000 in cash. Announcement of the
award was made by Governor Dor
sey, who accompanied the board on
its inspection.
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Planes Carry Mail On Dixie Air Route
Macon.—Establishment of the first
aerial mail route in the South be
tween Macon and Montgomery, the as
cension of the big Caquot observation
balloon and the flying demonstration
by a fleet of aeroplanes were the fea
tures of the opening of the Southeast
ern Aeronautical Congress, which will
be in session for ten days.
After your cotton has come
up. We will be glad to buy all
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the Seed y||§ have left. Bring
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them to us as soon as possible.
We have 90 day Velvet
Foreign-Born Slackers Should “Get”
Tallahassee, Fla.-—The lower house
of the state legislature passed a me
morial which will be submitted to
congress calling upon that body to
pass an act requiring deportation of
all foreign-born persons who claim
ed exemption and were exempted
from military service in the recent
war against German autocracy on the
ground that they were subjects of and
gave allegience to a foreign country.”
The resolution further states that
such persons are "so much worthless
scum and baggage,” and the act would
( be a “means of showing America's
; contempt for such‘ingrates.” . ;
Recruits Wanted For Siberian Service
Washington.—Orders were issued
by the war department for the re
cruiting of eight thousand men to
serve as replacement troops for the
American soldiers now in Siberia. A
Replacement detachment will be or
ganized at San Francisco and the
units of 50 Oeach as they become
troops will be sent forward in short.
Only men with previous military ex
perience will be accepted. The en
listments for service both in Siberia
ind Europe has been extended to the
Hawaiian islands and Panama.
Editors Meet Secretary Glass
Atlanta.—About three hundred and
fifty, editors from all parts of the Sixth
Federal Reserve District were invited
to Atlanta to meet Secretary of the
Treasury Glass. The editors were the
guests of the Victory Liberty Loan
Committee and were enthusiastic as
to the prospects for "going over the
top.”