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F. C. BENSON 00.
Announcing New
Arrivals Every Day
In SPRING SUITS
To Retail at
$25.00 &!$3O.G0
You will have to see these Spring Beauties
,
! to appreciate them..
F. C. BENSON CO.
.THE SQUARE DEAL STORE.
566 Cherry St. Macon, Ga.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
If there’s Anything Interestlnu
about This Bird, nobody’s Discovered
it ns Yet. He’s the Vllluge Loafer
and all lie Does Is lJat and Sleep and
Breathe, Nothing More, and when hi*
DceVles to Quit walking Around to
save Funeral Expenses, the Town will
never Miss Him.
TELEPHONE NOTICE.
Beginning with May, all telephone bills will be
mailed and must be paid on or before ;the 10th o
the month. No waiting after the 10th as the Long
Distance Companies now require us to £ pay them
several days earlier than heretofore.
Please be prompt or service will be discontinued
and a charge of $1.00 will be made for
connecting up your line.
JAS. D. MARTIN, Jr., Mgr.
Houston Telephone Company.
Perry, - Georgia.
Chattanooga Wagons
We have two of these wagons in good
Heavy wide tires and wide track.
CAPACITY 3,000 POUNDS.
These are the very Ihingv forjanl one
who has a lot of hauling, jsuch as lum
ber, etc., to do.
LET US SHOW THEM TO YOU
B. H. ANDREW & SON,
Money to Loan
Hastings’ Seeds
1922 Catalog Free
It’s ready now. 100 handsomely il
lustrated pages of worth-while seed
and garden news for Southern gardon*
era and farmers. This new catttjog,
wo believe, Is the most valuable seed
book over published. It contains 100
full pages of the most popular vege
tables, flowers and farm crop plants,
the finest work of Its kind ever at
tempted.
With our photographic Illustrations
and color pictures also from photo
graphs, we show you Just what you cun
grow with Hastings’ Seeds even be
fore you order the seeds. Our catr
log make.? gardon and flower bei
planning easy and it should be in
every single Southern home. Write us
a post-card for it, giving your name
and address. It will come to you
by return mall and you will be mighty
glad you’ve got It.
Has lings’ Seeds are the Standard
of the South, and the largest mail
ordor seed house in the world Is back
of them. They’ve go‘. to be the best.
Write now for the 1922 catalog. It
Is absolutely free.
H. G. HASTINGS CO., SEEDSMEN,
ATLANTA, GA.
Is Your Blood Pure?
9
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will destroy the
germs In your
blood and do It
right now. This
is the only remedy
i that gets results
quick In new or
old cases. You will
be surprised" how
quickly It will
clean up those old
sores, stiff Joints,
copper colored
spots, sores in
mouth and throat,
leg ulcers and
many other symp
toms caused from bad blood
A 606 $l<L-t
FREE Blood Test. €
;ge6rgia bail boai\d tells
i OF FIGHT TO CUT RATES
4>n * Farm Lands in Houston County a' Low Rate of* In*.ere»
Ii you wyui money quick write orca'l
Hatcher-Turpin Co.
235 Mulberry St. Maeon, Georgia.
FOR SALE:- Corn, Hay, Country
Meat, Ham, Lard, Sides and Shoul
ders. Apply /
A. A. Smoak, Perry, Ga.
666 has more imitations than any
other Chill and Fever tonic on the
market, but no one wants imitations.
They are dangerous things in the
medicine iine. adv.
Rub-My-Ti*m relieves Rheumatism
F. M. GREENEi
A.TJPOKJ' EJ v-.v -LAW
NEGOTIATE LOANS ON BEAL ESTATE
PBRRY G HORGIA;
Powers Curtailed, It Reports Blocking
I Hlger Express Charges, Sleeper
i Surcharges I
STATE NEWS_0F INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here Ani,
There From All Sections Qt
The State I
| Atlanta. — The Georgia Railroad
[Commission is fighting for its right
666 quickly relieves Constipation,
Biliousness, Loss of Appetite and
Headaches, due to Torpid Liver, adv.
Washington.—Government expend!
tures for 1922 will be approximately
to prescribe intrastate freight rates ;$!»600,000,000 less than the actual out*
■. . . . lay for the preceding year, congress
n Georgia; has successfully stood of! wlll be lnformed by p re8 ident Harding
.increases in express rates and knock- ; ln tranamltt , nB tbe report of Direc tof
Dawes of the budget on economics
and savings in governmental bush
ness .
The report of Director DaweB, mads
public by the white houBe, is for sub*
mission to the house appropriations
committee in connection with a pend*
ing resolution with Representative
Byrons, Tom., asking the president to
inform the house in what ways direct
savings of $32,000,000 and indirect
savings of $104,000,000, as previously
rT7 u \ ““’.r'rrr:, JKlEaflHtftM the president to have been
gard to rates, the report shows that • BopnTnn11nhof1 K, J§, 1trof Wo011
the lessees of the Western and At
Jed out the surcharge on sleeping and
ichair car rates in this State, in ad
dition to its supervision over public
futilities, the annual report of the com
mission to the Legislature sets forth,
'This report has bean submitted to
Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick by Chair-
•man C. M. Candler, of the Railroad
■Commission, under the law requiring
Jthat the governor pass upon such re
ports before they are printed.
In addition to setting forth the
activity of the commission with re
lantic Railroad have spent $253,041 In
Improvement of the property; the
commission has supervised 222 pub
lic utilities which have paid taxes ol
$5,504.68, and that injuries in railroad
accidents have been educed by $907,500,000, of which sums $260,-
2,7i7 in 1920 to 1,6c- In 1921, and in- qqq qqj, inny bo nocred ited to more ef-
accomplished by the budget bureau
during its first six months of opera
tion, liad been made.
Actual cost of the routine business
of tlia govern:., mt, the president de<
dared In his letter of transmission to
Chairman Madden, has been reduced
juries In street car accidents from
2,119 to 1,727.
ficient and economic administration
of the government’s business.,
„ .. ... . , j, ,, Presenting figures that "will fully
Souther Field As Landing Station convey to the congress the helpful
Amerlcus.—Lewis A. Camp, who was results attending the inauguration ol
stationed during the war period at j a mo ro efficient business system,’’ thd
the general aviation supply depot, has 1 president’s letter said:
been appointed superintendent ol, «jt will be noted that in the ex-
Souther field. The resent military
authorities have been ordered to vn-
pendltures of the government for the
current fiscal year, ending June 30,
cate the field Juno 30, on which date 5922, after eliminating the estimates
Kemp will assume charge. While here f 0r t be public debt, operations in cap*
during the war Kemp married Miss i ta i funds and similar accounts, all
Belle Ansley, a member of a prominent
Amerlcus family. It is understood
that the flyingfleld will be maintain
ed under Kemp’s direction as a land
ing field, with only a nominal force
of cartakera in charge.
Atlanta Ready For Engineers
Atlanta.—Impetus is expected to
be given industry in the South by the
annual convention of .the American
[Society of Mechanical Engineers in
Atlanta, for a four day session. The
meeting 1b expected to bring 500 lead
ers of the profession, and while nol
of which tend to confuse our under
standing of the actual cost of thd
routine business of the government,
there has been a reduction in the ex
penditures of administration over the
outlay for 1921 of $907,500,000. These
highly gratifying ifgures relate to re*
duced expenditures which come undet
the influence of executive pressure,
and do not include $700,000,000 0!
other reductions which are not re*
lated to the routine business of gov*
ernment. Compared with this reduc*
tion of $907,600,000, the director o!
the budget details $250,134,835.03 ,ad
the sum representing the savings and
the largest gathering numerically thal
Atlanta has entertained this year, the .economics which may be fairly nc*
largest gathering numerically that At- [credited to the new system of admin*
lanta has entertained Ihis year, the istratlon and the widespread commit*
largest investment of capital evei Jment throughout the various depart*
.brought together through industrial
representatives in the South will dis
cuss the problems of modern mechan
ics.
Antibond Issue Rally Is Called
Bainbridge.—A mass meeting will
be held In the courthouse May 16, in
protest against the-various bond issueE
being proposed. There is a movement
against any more bond issues in the
State for roads, against the income
tax) the proposition of buying any
railroads or issuing any school bonds
for the State. Speakers of promi
nence have been engaged for the
meeting, and there will be those foi
and against present.
ments to effect a more efficient and
economic administration of the gov*
lernment’s business. Of this sum about
’$12,000,000 represents postponed con*
jstruction and maintenance which bill
probably he unnecessary under the
■reduced program of next yean
Dewberries Raised In Amerlcus
Amerlcus.—-A yield of $350 an acre
is expected this year by A. W. Josey
from four acres planted to domestica
ted dewberries. Dewberries are the
most ordinary of all wild berries in
this section of south Georgia, and Mr
josey is the first farmer! to success
fully domesticate them. He markets
his product in Atlan 1 \ finding a ready
sale for the berries at $7 a crate, each
.acre yielding fifty crates in this theli
third year of bearing.
iCroker Competency Decision Affirmed
Tallahassee, Fla.—The supreme court
,of Florida has affirmed the decision 0!
(the circuit court for Palm Beach coun*
ity, in which the late Richard Croket
was declared to be competent to handle
;his affairs. The case involved a suit
brought by Howard Croker, a son, seek*
ing to annul the action of the fathei
in turning his property oVer to hid
wife known as “The Indian Princess."
Man Slays Professor And Then SeH
Columbia, S. C.—Prof. M. Goode
Homes, of the school of engineering
of the University of South Carolina,
and Ben Haile, marshal of the uni*
versity, are dead as the result of shots
firpd by Marshal Haile in the treas*
urer’s office of the university. The
double tragedy seems to have result*
ed from a chance meeting of the men.
•68 Wmu « cold quicker tins m*»jr
remedy we know.
W. A. STRQT1IER.
- INSURANCE -
Pbhbt, GsoaeiA.
Rub-My-Tirm is a pppqrfal antisep
tic; K kills the poison called from in-
fattid mts, rmrss eLl mu tatbr^e.
Fire Insurance Company Sued
Atlanta.—The case of C. W. Scar
borough and the Bank of StoclcbrldgE
against the Home Insurance Company
;of New York, entered originally in
the superior court of Henry county,
has been transferred to the federal
court of the Northern District of Geor
gia. In this case it is charged that
ithe Home Insurance Company has
-failed to settle a claim of the Bank
of Stockbrldge following the total loss
'by fire of the home and effects oj
Scarbrough. That amount involved
is $4,030.
Postal Improvement Is Interesting
Dublin.—Postal improvement week
in Dublin has resulted in Postmaste:
Y. L. Stanley putting some valuable
information regarding the post office
before the people in several ways. Ar
ticles on different departments of the
postoffice affairs have been run in
the local daily papers each day, the
workings of various phases of the sys
tem explained to the public.
Mrs. Bryan Reported To Be Very III
San Antonio, Texas.—Mrs. WllUand
Jennings Bryan is seriously ill here a!
-the home of friends, it was learned,
'Mr. Bryan arrived here with Mrs. Bry*
an on an automobile trip to California
from Florida. It was announced that
ithe plan for the remainder of the
motor trip had been abandoned.
8th U. S. Infantry.To Quit Rhineland
Washington;—War department plain
now contemplate the return from th<
Rhine of the Eighth United States in
fantry’, the last combat unit of th<
A. E, F. to leave Europe, late in June
[according to a letter from Secretary
[Weeks recently sent, to Senator Wil
liam J. Harris of Georgia. The regi
ment’s headquarters will be at Fori
[Screven, near Savannah. “The exacl
date of the arrivals at Savannah,” Seo
• retary Weeks wrote, "cannot yet be dd
• tfrmiried.” However, it will sail som<
time in June.
Has Cotton Field In Bloom
Moultrie.—W. E. McLaughlin, Col
quitt county armer, brought to Moul
trie a stalk of cotton with blooms
He said he had twenty acres planted
early in April and that the whole field
would be in bloom within a week. He
expects to gin a bale before the end
'of June.
| Is Fined Five Cents At Liquor Hearlnj
Newark, N, J.—A fine of 6 cents wa
-levied against Steve Madura, chargei
[with transporting a half-pint of. ljquoi
"How long have you been in Jai
awaiting hearing?” asked Federa
.Judge Lynch. “Five weeks,” replie
[Federal Judge Lynch. “Five weeks,
[Madura. “You've suffered enougt
jbut I've got to fine you,” the cour
[said. "Pay a nickel.” Madura didn’
[have that much money. So the Judg
(paid.the fine. Madura left the couz
[room with a long smile beaming 01
l&ia face. - _2 .