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JOHN H. HODGES, Proper.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
$1.50 a Year In Advance
VOL. XL1X
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA„ THURSDAY JUNE, 12 19.19
No 21
STATE INDUSTRIES RAISE PREDICTED
ON THE INCREASE! IN RAILWAY RATES
STATE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR D | RECT0R GENERAL HINES ASKS
STANLEY MAKES
| REPORT
FOR OVER BILLION DOLLARS
FOR RAILROADS
state K*SJF INTEREST WASES HAVE BEEN RAISED
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BOMB OUTRAGES
IN MANY CITIES
BOMBS ARE EXPLODED IN NEW.
YORK, BOSTON AND IN
OTHER CITIES
PALMER’S
WRECKED
Of The State
Cc;:i Expenses Of The Govern
ment Be Met
i Atlanta. —* Considerable advance. . . , _ , . . ,
ment in industrial interests in Qeor- Washington. Only by increased
gia during the last year is shown in rates can the government controlled
the seventh annual report of H. M. railroads meet operating expenses, Di-
Stanley, State Commissioner of Com. rector General Hines of the railroad
merce and Labor. Mr. Stanley shows administration, told the house appro-
there are 148 cotton and silk mills, priations committee. He is opposed to
capitalized at $64,718,066.07; 6 woolen any increase at this time, however,
mills, capitalized at $740,261; 18 knit- because it might advance the cost of
ting mills, capitalized at $1,766,782; 6 the necessities of life,
jinills that spin and knit, capitalized Mr. Hines, who appeared to ask for
at $2,499,215;' 74 industries allied to $1,200,000,000 additional for the rail-
.textile mills, capitalized at $2,646,000 road administration’s revolving fund
and 177 cotton oil mills, with a capital for the remainder of this calendar
and investment, not including value of year, declared lhat while wages of
,raw material and amount paid for railroad employees had been increased
wages, $23,000,000. It is shown also 51 to 68 per cent during government
that there are 248 fertilizer factories control they now were only “reason-
and.mixing plants, 42 cotton compress- able and fair.” He added that he
( es, 119 industries manufacturing brick, could see no prospect of reducing
;tile, sewer piping, cement and clay pro-: them.
.ducts; 232 foundries and machine pro- The present wages were based on
ducts, 118 marble and granite quarries corresponding rates, Mr. Hine3 said,
and marble pards, 261 bottlers and while the increases were in part re
manufacturers of soft drinks, 140 elec- sponsible for tho government loss in
trie light and power plants, 19 gas operating the roads, part of the loss
plants, 89 ice factories, 166 flour and was represented in increase of from
grist mills. Assurance that child la- 55 to 70 per cent equipment costs* Re-
bor laws are being observed in Geor* duction of the equipment prices, he
gia is given by figures in the report sald * depended principally upon the
I wages paid in the industry and conse-
; Trucks Worth $700,000 Given State Quently were “problematical.”
Atlanta (i onwlo In explaining the government re-
b f A i! in Quirements Mr. Hines said the gov-
206 automobile trucks, valued at ap- ernment logs in 1918 and the first
ahtnmOTf 6 t aS her , InitIal three months of this year were ap-!
Ihff tITevimentB, proximately $496,000,000. The re- !
jrh ch the federal government is now £ lacement ln this amount , n the ad-
distributing among the various states. g linlstratl( | fund wa3 requested as
Notice to this effect was received by lncreased pricing capital of $426,-
the state highway commission from 000 000> Pro p 0ge d loans to railroads,
the director of the office of publio he said( expect ed to be increased to
roads, which is supervising the dis- $775 000,000, including the sums ad-
tribution of millions of dollars worth vanced last yea r, with $14,000,000 be-
of machinery and materials for high- in UQed for inland waterways devel-
way construction. The commission
will determine what counties shall
share in this allotment when it meets
In June. The federal government will
Immediately ship the material to the
counties that have been awarded this
opments.
Favor Return Of Lines To Owners
Favorable report on the bill of Sen
ator Kellogg, Republican, of Minneso
ta, for the immediate return of the
telephone and telegraph wires to pri-
equipment. Judge T. E. Patterson, vate owner ship was ordered by the
chairman of the highway commission,
stated that applications to cover this
first lot of trucks had already been
filed with the commission by the Geor
gia counties.
Many New Settlers Expected
Thomasville.—From the number of
Inquiries coming to Thomasville the
eyes of the would-be settlers in the
North, East and west seem to be turn
ing southward. The price of lands
here, of pecan orchards, of homes and
of everything generally that prospec
tive settlers would like to know about
a country, are being asked and the
letters all state that the writers want
to come South. With the war over
and things getting hack to normal it
Is more than probable that there will
be many Komeseekers coming to this
and other sections of Georgia this sea-
pon.
senate interstate commerce committee
after the measure had been amended
so as to continue existing telephone
rates for sixty days after final action
by congress. The vote of tho com
mittee was unanimous.
MAN DRIVEN OVERBOARD
AND THEN LEFT TO DIE
Many Counties For Good Roads
Atlanta.—Results of the good roads
propaganda in Georgia, and the added
Incentive of obtaining federal funds
to assist in paying the bills, have led
to numerous county bond issues re
cently. Figures show that 24 counties
have voted a total of $8,445,000 in road
bonds this year, while 23. other coun
ties have set definite dates for bond
elections for a total issue of $9,160,000
In bonds.
! M’Alpin Heads Country Officers
Savannah.—The County Officers’
association of Georgia elected the fol
lowing officers at their convention at
Tybee: President, Henry McAlpin,
ordinary Chatham county, Savannah;
Vice president, Oscar Groover, Thom-
BBville; secretary and treasurer, J. C.
Cooper, Milledgeville, relected. Tybee
was chosen as next year’s, meeting
place.
New York.—Seafaring of the sort
that flourished in the early eighteenth
century when a foremost hand was
virtually a slave and his brawny skip
per, armed with a belaying pin, his
undisputed master, was described in
federal court here by John W. Camp
bell, a 22-year-old high school boy of
Maquoketa, Iowa, who answered the
call of the seas and ran away from
home with Skipper Adolph C. Peder
son as cabin boy on the antiquated
barkentine Puako.
Campbell was the first witness for
the government which has charged
Pedersen and his son, Adolph, mate
of the Puako, in an old-fashioned in
dictment, with the murder on the high
seas of Axel Hansen, a seaman. They
are alleged to have driven Hansen
overboard by cruelty and to have left
him to perish in the sea.
An old English style prisoner’s
flock had been constructed in the
court room to match the antiquated
r 0 rm of the indictment which use!
to carry the penalty upon conviction,
$150,000 Is Cost Of Hydrophobia j
Atlanta.—Statistics to show that the;
jtate of Georgia lost $150,000 in 1918 {
(rom hydrophobia among animals andi
Aumans have been submitted to Dr. T.;
p. Abercrombie, secretary of the state;
board of health, by T. F. Sellers, state'
bacteriologist, in his annual report to;
die state. ,
In Nearly All Cases Officials Were Se
lected For Victims By The
Bombing Brigade
Washington. — Radical agitators
have apparently attempted to inaug
urate a reign of terrorism throughout
the country through the plautiug of
infernal machines near the residences
of prominent men.
Within u few minutes after explo
sion of a bomb at the door of Attor
ney General Pulmer’s residence here,
with the killing of one man evidently
the person planting the bomb, reports
were received from Boston, Pittsburg,
Paterson, N. J., and Cleveland of simi
lar attempts.
In all cases except Paterson and
Philadelphia the'bomb attempts were
directed' against the lives of public of-
'licialB. ln Paterson the home of a
jBilk manufacturer was marked, while
tin Philadelphia, where two explosions
occurred, attempts were made to
blow up a Catholic church and a pri
vate residence.
The similar of the reports re
ceived front the various cities recall
ed to authorities the May Day bomb
plot of a month ago.
The comb piauvgd under the steps
of the attorney general at 2132 it
street, in the fashionable norm west
section of Washington, wibcou tae
dwelling, smashed in the >. uiauws of
adjoining houses for a; bibb*, but in
jured no one within the Palmer reel-
dence*
, An empty suitcase found near the
entrance and a hand bill signed ‘The
Anarchists Fighters" printed on red
Ipaper, worded in inflammatory fash
ion and serving notice of intent of
its authors to begin general war on
leaders of society, was the only clue
available.
The remains of the man killed were
literally Mredded over the block, and
1 riven into the asphalt pavement.
“The only way i can reconstruct
(the incident," said Major Pullman,
superintnedent of the capital police,
Sat the end of his preliminary investiga
tion, “is on the theory that the ex
plosive blew up just as it was being
id posited in the doorway. It is pos
sible but unlikely that it was a pass
erby involved."
The explosions in the other cities
were followed at midnight by others
in New York City where a bomb ex
ploded in the house of Charles C.
Nott, Jr., and in Newtonville, Mass.,
where the house of State Represent*-
live Leland W. Powers was wrecked.
First reports stated that no one was
injured in the Newtonville explo
sion.
State Producers Of Milk Organize
Atlanta.—Organization of tho Geor-;
jia Milk Producers association, form-;
*d safeguarding pecuniary interests of;
its members in milk production and'
listribution, and to foster the general ;
idvancement and welfare of the dairy 1 ;
Industry throughout the state of Geor-i
pa, was perfected at a meeting of
nilk men here.
Fertilizers
FOR
PEACH TREES AND FALL GRAIN'
We are prepared to furnish acid Phosphate Raw
Bone Meal, Ground Cattle Tankage Machine Dried
Fish Scrap, merican Murate of Potas, Cotton Seed
Met 1 and ah grades of ready mixed fertilers.
rite us for prices.
Heard Brothers,
MACON, GEORGIA.
W. O. Kinney.
L. J. Horton-
Bank Robber Confessed Robbery
Athens—A confession has been ob
tained from J. C. Hulsey, one of the
nen implicated in the Franklin Coun
ty Bank robbery at Carnesville last
October. In his confession, it is stat
ed, Hulsey names three other men. i
Road Bonds Carry *n Lowndes j
Valdosta.—The official count of
|he votes cast in the good roads bonds
(lection . showed 1,686 for and 146
igainst bonds. Every district in the
sounty gave substantial majority for
jonds. Steps to validate the bonds
prill be taken as soon as possible, the
pork of printing and selling them will
ke pushed. It is hoped to begin actual
joad work before the end of the year,
G ie official plurality of J. E. Gornto,.
r sheriff over his leading opponent,
1 Burner P.asemore. Is &L
Hatcher-Turpin Co.
523 Mulberry St.
W. 0. KINNEY & CO.
SUCCESJORS'TO B. T. ADAMS & CO.
- Cotton Factors. -
614 Thirdt Street, Macon, Ga,
Farmers Supplies, Mules, High-grade Fer
flLIZERS AND WEBER WAGONS.
WILLING AMS WAREHOUSE
, COTTON FACTORS
Macon, Ga.
Cotton, Mules, Fertilizers
Wagons, Bagging, Ties
Money to Loan
on Farm Lands in Houston County a' Low Rita of| latere*
If I you wei money quick write orca’l
Macon, Georgia
COAL; CO AL; COAL;
Dont forget this important
matter, we will begin to deliver
Blue Gem Lump and Montev-
allo Lump Coal in June, and the
orders will be filled in the order
in which they are taken. Get
your order in early and be as
sured of getting the best coal and
getting it before the price
advances.
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