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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 ~Z'tlti “ •— - ™ l~ 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. PHONE 45 ;/ . .. iffi