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1 HE HOM.fi JOURNAL
Price, $1.50 A Year, In Advance
Published Every Thursday Moruing.
Official Organ of Houston County,
JOHN H. & JOHN L HODGES.
USUAL OUTBREAK OF PECAN OF Pttflf
KERNEL SPOT DISEASE SERIOUS.
Perry, Thursday-, April 13.
this paper represented for foreign
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AMD CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
The weather has been good for
planting in Middle Georgia all
through the first week in April.
This writer does believe that a
man beeomos an “old farce when
he passes the meridian of life,”
A severe storm in Jones county
last Friday damaged the fruit crop
considerably and destroyed proper'
ty in some suctions.
O
Extensive storms in Texas and
Oklahoma destroyed muoh proper
ty and killed a number of pooplo
last Saturday.
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So far President Harding has
not made any appointments es-
to democratic
ANNOUNCEMENT
For Judge of the Superior Court.
The people of the Macon • Cir
cuit will elect two Superior Court
Judges at t he Primary to be held
in September, 1922. J am a can
didate for one of (he Judgeships,
Steps have been taken by tho
United States Department of Ag
riculture to aid pecan growers who
have suffered severe losses during
the past season because of live un
usual outbreak of pecan, kernel. . , , ,
spot disease. The very finest varie- 1 ^ Wlli appreciate the votes of
ty of pecans have been attacked, J men ai *AHouston
particularly the Schley, and many i County and other Counties in tho
splond id groves, bearing well, havej Macou C,r S u,fc - p
shown severe losses at harvest be-1 JUUJN 1 V ■ ‘
cause of the disease. This coudilion
has greatly interefered with the
marketing oi the finest pecans jufct
as they were coming into bearing.
Several growers who could not
fill all their ouders for tho best va*
tieties found themselves at the
critical time with kernel-spotted
nuts on hand, which had to be
cracked to be graded. The market
for tho cracked nuts or pecan
meats is less desirable Ilian that
for high grade, large, full paper
shell nuts in their natural size.
The results of the studies made
by department specialists
neotion with this koCuel disease
are shortly to appear in the form
of a bulletin.—Bulletin.
TAKE GUDE’S
PEPO-M ^NGAN.
It is the Safe and Reliable
Tonic Used by Physicians
for 30 Years.
pecially obnoxious
opinion.
Leaders of the coal business in
southeast assembled in Atlanta
Monday in the convention of the
Southeastern Coal Merchants As
sociation
FEEDER HOGS MUST BE RAISED
TO SUPPLY THE CORN BELT.
The possibility of economically
producing feeder hogs in the South
for supplying the corn belt with
the extra hogs needed for consum
ing tho corn crop will bo investi
gated by Hie United States De
partment of Agriculture in cooper
ating with some of tho Southern
State. This spring, work on the
problom wrs boguu at McNeil, Miss
65 miles north of Now Orleans.
Martial law has boon declared, The Mississippi Experiment Sta
in tho state of New Mexico and! Hon will assist in Ihe work. Tho
troops were ordered to the coal idea is to test out tho growing and
fields where riots occurred last marketing of hogs at a weight of
Friday. j about 100 pounds using both tho
j lard and bacon types.
Ford will win in the contest to I The growing of bender hogs is an
gain possession of the Muscle Shoals industry which should bo develoq-
powor plant is indicated by a re- od, as tho Corn Belt is In need of
port sent out from Washington more shouts than are usually pro-
last Saturday. An article in the ducedjtliere. Similar experiments
Atlantia Constitution from the to those being made in the south
Washington, D. C. News bureau* will bo tried lator in the North-
tloclarea that tho House Special west and Southwest.—Bulletin.
'Committee had practically decided
to recommend tho Ford bid. The
general opinion is that it would bo
especially beneficial to the south
and the agricultural interests, for
Mr. Ford to got control of this
magnificent industrial property.
There are "new styles.” even in
medicines. A new “fad 1 ? eom.es, is
in eon- popular for a while, and then fades
out of public view. A remedy that
has stood the test for thirty years
must have remarkable merit and
cannot be called a "fad”! Such is
Gude’s Pepto-Mangam, originated
by Dr- A. (Hide over a quarter
century ago, which has helped
many thousands of people back to
back to good health by improving
the blood. Peplo-Mangan is an
iron tonic. It contains iron in a
special form casilp absorbod by the
system- lb puts color into the lips
and cheeks and improves the en
tire body by improving and ea
rthing the blood, It is sold by
druggists in both liquid and tablet
form, If you want to be well and
strong and look fine and healthy,
take Gude’e Pepto-Mangan,—Ad
vertisement. '
ATTENTION.
We are showing some nice Suit Cases
and Trunks and can give you prices
I that Will be satisfactory.
1 Just received some new Art Squares
1 and Rugs, also nice line of Mattresses
§ and Beds. Will be glad to have you
| call and look over our stock.
| We sell the Mascot Range.
I W. B. SIMS, |
g GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING. 5
§ Night Phone No. 22. Day Phone No. 8. ?
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8 Perry Ga- <
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INTO THE LIGHT
ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE WRONG.
Though tho strike of I he coal
miners unions threatened to be
general, and started out rather
rough, there are indications that
tho Federal government will inter
vene.
The concentration of schools of
Georgia seems to be growing in
Full line of bulk and package
Garden Seed at h> ard & Evans.
-FOR RENT—House on
able terms. Apply Mrs.
King, Perry, Ga.
reason-
F. M.
ROAD BONDS BEST INVESTMENT STATE
CANJAVE.
The idea of the $75,000,000 state „ . . , , ,
road bond issue for completing the favor, but it is not absolutely cer-
stato highway system is growing tam that the cause of education
every day, according to T. G Far- j has beeu materially advanced.
mer, Jr., who has been out in the! —
slate working for the road bonds' Years ago In the south, espe-
almost continuously tor tho past 0 i a iiy j u Geprgia, radical was used
two weeks. , . „ 1 as a party sinonym of republican.
People are begmmug to realize That W as not correct, as members
that completing the highway ays- of othor political parties have beeu
tern is tho best investment tho an( j n0V y aro ra dical in both speech
state cap make at tli s time- It and action.
will put thousands of uuemploj-ed, 0
men to work. It will reduce taxes 1 PimiIER Lloyd George of Great
in those counties that have already Britain has received from Parli-
floated bonds and will put good mient a decisivo vote of thanks and
roads in every county without tax- fch e head of the delegation rep*
ation on the people. But the best resenting that nation at the Genoa
part of the plan is that it will give conference
us tho benefits of as fine a system I 1 .«
of highways as any state and notj Prop . Frank M Greene, of Per
add one penny to the present au- r y ( ] ias |» en elected Superin- (} 0 t rid of that indigestion, stom
tomobile license fees and gasoline teudent of ' tho Twelfih District , 0 ch trouble and nervousness, build
.$C ,, ' .. . , Agricultural and Industrial School! up your system and regain that
°wm ill assume | 0 V weight. Talf Tan lac.-Sold
$00,000,000 in load bonds, and last charge next June, though the next by Dr. R. L. Cater, Perry, Ga.
year North Carolina passed Gcor- term of the school will not bngin-
gia in agricultural wealth, although nex t September. As County School,
JV® 01 smaller state. Much Superintendent of Houston county
of this is attributed to the fact that x> ro f ( GH. 00 ne proved himself t ffic.-
good roads enable North Carolina 0 i t ami pv0 g r „ssive.
citizens to market their crops to „
I once knew a man who succeed
ed to the ownership of an estab
lished and prosperous business,
He had peculiar ideas about al
most everything. For instance,
when sales were brisk lie said there
was no need of spending money for
advestising as he had plenty of
business, and when sales were slow
he wouldn't spend a cent because,
lie reasoned, people wea^en’t buying
and there was no business to be
had, anyway. He is not in business
nHw-—Just|kiud of petered out.—
Tho business Philosopher.
LOANS ON FARM LANDS.
We aro prepared to doit loans
prowptly on Farm Lands. 6 per ct.
Interest,
DUNCAN & NUNN,
Perry, Ga.
Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antisep
tic; it kills the poison called from In
fected cuts, cures old sores, tetter.etc.
—pure Spotted Poland China
Boars, 8 months old, $20,00.
W. J. polts, Wellston, Ga.
better advantage.
“Georgia cannot afford not to
vote the road bond issue, and every
citizen who wants to seo the state
WANTED—Man with car to sdl
the BEST Ford Oil Gauge m",de
$100.00 per week and extra com-
5 missions. Benton Harbor Acces*
GUnder the law enacted j as t 1 s0|, ies Co , Ben t< n Harbor, Mich,
week increasingtho number of Fed i "*"“33 aSnSSgffijSS
erij,l Courts, there will be another
Federal Judge in Georgia. The
•BQ ‘Aaaaj 'spiouig -y -y
Ajddy
•s.iap
forge ahead and take her rightful headquarters of this court will be -pious pun sa'pig *pawq ‘uujh
plncedn the sisterhood of states
will work from now until the legis
lature meets in June* to see that
the bond issue is put before the
people in a why that they will un
derstand it.
“I find sentiment unanimously
in favor of the bonds wherever th®
issue is understood,” said Mr.
Farmer. X.
at Macon and it is indicated by
semi-oflioial statements that Mr.
Charles Akerman of Macon will be
the new judge. Of course it was a
foregone conclusion that the ap
pointed judge would be a republi
can. Politics aside, Mr. Akerman
is as well qualified for the position
as any other man in the state.
ArpmoQ 'Abjj ‘ujoq aqVS SOii
Thousands of people -who had
lost hope of ever being well again :
have been restored to health and
happiness by Tanlac.—Sold by
Dr. R. L. Cater, Perry, Ga- (
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