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30 x 3 Vi USCO
at $ 10.90
USCO has always sold
as a quality tire of known
standards and perform-
cmce.
Today at $10.90 it
fixes the worth of >
your tire dollar at /
a new maximum /
by reason of its /
own distin* /
guished /
OUR tire dealer
is naturally
^ enthusiastic
whenhe shows
ypu the 30x3%
USCO’at $10.90.
To him USCO has al
ways represented a tire
value that he felt more
than justified in offering
his customers.
At the $10.90 price he
can hardly be blamed for
putting it to the front as
the value he would most
like to be remembered by.
3o»3%
USCO
. This much to keep in
mind—
United States liras
are Good Tires
Copyright
1922
il.S.TlreCa
United States Tires
United States @ Rubber Company
- PROGRAM -
STRAND THEATRE
MANAGEMENT
PERRY CONCERT BAND
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 16-17.
SPECIAL CAST
IN
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Two men in evening clothes grouping in the fog of San
Francisco’s streets, a blocl* away a man dying by an un
known hand. Thrilling? Mysterious? More than that
a drama in which treachery and intrigue struggle a ro
mance that will not be denied. A story that will chill
your blood with fear and make your heart throb with the
spirit of the deep love interest that lies beneath a serface
of sorrow and dispair.’
TUESDAY JUNE 20th.
LOUISE GLAUM
IN
“I Am Guilty.”
A master visualization of a highly dramatic incident in
the career of a neglected wife.
A First National Masterpiece.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 23-24.
“The Mistress ot the World.”
FIRST EPISODE.
“THE DRAGON’S CLAW.”
Rusing.upon yonr view like an avalanche of the world’s
good and evil! All of yesterday, all of today. All of
life and time. Sweeping down fr6m the love of Soloman
and Sheba, over Europ, Asia, Africa, on, on, ever grow
ing, ever swirling into its torrent more life, more thrill,
more spectacle, beauty, sensation, than any other enter
tainment ever conceived by mad. A story no more to be
told in one picture than Niagara could be caufht in a tea
cup. See it in four titanic photodramas that throw all
other screen productions in<o trifling insignificance.
Siart with the first, “The Dragon’s Claw.”
BUSINESS MEN’S CLUB PERFECT
ORGANIZATION
At a 12 o'clock luncheon at the
Theatre, prepared for them
ladies'of the Civic Improve
ment Club, the Business Men’s
Club perfected their organization.
Interesting talks were made by
membe-rsof the club outliningsome
of the needs of the city and a per
manent committee were named
by the President to look after the
various phases of work 10 be
undertaken.
One of toe most urgent needs
in Perry at this time as agreed by
all present, is homos for tlie
people who are now anxious to
make Perry their homo but who
have no place to live. A special
commiatec composed of J P Coop
er, Dr. R. L. Cater and T. D.
Mason was appointed to look in to
this matter with the idea of
forming a building and loan asso
ciation or to devise some plan of
erecting a number of dwellings in
Perry for rent or salo on easy
terms-
An enjoyable feature of the;
meeting was a reading by Mrs.
P. H. Skcllie at the co.,cliisio'ii of
the delightful liuichen. Twenty
nine members of the club were
present,
The next meeting of the club
will be held next Thursday at
noon at which times important
oommittoe reports will be heard,
adoption of by) laws for the club
and the real work for which the
club-was organized gotten under
way,
It is hoped that every loyal
Perry etc will join the club and i
take part in tlie co-operative
ondevor for the good of our town.
Full Week of Festivities,
Parades, Band Con
cert's, Wild West Exhi
bition, L i g h t Opera,
Lectures, Venetian
Singers, Dance Festival,
Pageantry, Fire Works,
Etc.
W. A. STROTHER,
- UNSURANCBL
1 Pisunv. Gkohoia.
Where You
Can Buy
U. S. Tires:
A. if. ANDERSON
Atlanta, Ga., May 17.—During the
week of May 29th through June 3rd;
the civic, social and commercial or
ganizations of Atlanta will sponsor a
big festival of celebration with the
purpose in view of reviving sectional
and national confidence, pride and op
timism, in order that the occasion may
typify the spirit of the purpose sought,
the event is called “PROGRESS AND
PROSPERITY WEEK,” and will be
in the nature of a full week of enter
tainment both enjoyable and educa
tional.
Included in the * more serious as
pects are a number of lectures hy men
of national prominence, a series of
motion pictures and lectures relative
to the Muscle Shoals project and edu
cational parades.
that somo 10,000 to 15,000 Fords will
participate.
A parade of secret orders, civic and
social organizations will be given
Thursday morning. The Rodeo Round*
Up will take up the entire afternoon.
In the evening there will be a Venetian
Water Carntval. Appropriate music,
Neapolitan costumes, with a realistic
Venetian setting, will tend to make
this one of the most attractive fea*
tures of the event.
Dance Festival—Pageantry
The Evolution of the Dance, chn*
sisting of a dance festival will also
be a part of the program during this
event,
Friday there will be another parade
in the morning, Rodeo Round-Up in
the aternoon, and the same evening
events as the day before.
On Saturday morning the Atlanta
Automobile Association will put on an
old Timers’ automobile parade. The
afternoon entertainments will he iden*
tlcal with that of the previous days.
Saturday evening will be in charge
of the Atlanta Ad Mens Club, and
will be given over to carnival events.
Something unusual is promised in the
way of amusement for this night. A
brilliant fire works display will com*
plete the program of the week. ,
Plans Completed '
Wonder Float Parade
The festivities of the week will be
gin on the evening of Monday, May
29th, the first event being a gorgeous
float parade called, "The Romance of
the Rose,” consisting of twenty splen
did floats Bimilar to those UBed in the
New Orleans Mardi Gras. The parade
will be followed by a brilliant fancy
dress ball.
The first evening of the program
will also consist of band concerts, fire
works display, and an exhibition of
diving girls.
Wild West Round-Up
Tuesday morning the Atlanta Auto
mobile Club will have a beautifully
decorated car and float parade. Be
ginning at* 2:30 in the afternoon at
Lakewood the thrilling wild west
Ro^eo Round-Up will give its first per
formance under the direction of Chey
enne Kiser. Cow boys, cow girls, wild
steers and wild horses will enact true
scenes of western life. Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings there will he a
performance of light Opera.
On Wednesday morning there will
be a Ford car parade. It is expected
Sensing the need of a revival of ac*
tivities, both commercial and Indus*
trial, and appreciating the fact that
to accomplish this, the public must
be made to realize the return of prds*
perity, it is planned that this event
bo something in the nature of a fes*
tival occasion as well aB educational.
Plans are now about completed, and it
is stated that j never in the history
of the Southeast lias there been any*
thing of this nature quite as elaborate
and extensive in its scope.
All parades will he held in the early
morning hours in the downtown sec*
tions, ending about 10 o’clock, in order
that the people may have opportunity
to attend to business. The other at*
tractions will he ntaged at Lakewood
Park, beginning at 2:30 each after
noon, and with almost an uninterrupt
ed program continuing until 11 o’clock
in the evening.
100,000 Visitors Expected
The celebration will not only be
participated in by all of Georgia, but
by other adjacent states and the en
tire Southeast. R. M. Strlplin, general
chairman of the e'yen't, states, that
more- than 100,000 persons are expect*
ed to visit Atlanta during that week,
Cotton Bleachery Chartsr Is Asked’
Griffin.—The Lowell Bleachery com
pany, with headquarters in Lowell,
Mass., has joined hands with the Kin-
chid Manufacturing company of Grif-
tine, and has organized the Lowell
Bleachery, South. This company will
have its principal office at Experiment,
Ga. The new company has made ap
plication to the superior court of SpalA
ing county for a charter. The petition
ers are Sidney Coolidge, Charles P.
Curtis, P. W. Kiernan, Allen Little and
W. F. Ingram. The latter tw.o are of
ficials of the Kincaid company, while
Ijho first threo are officials of the Low
ell company.
Insane, Slays Wife And Escapes
Daniolsville.—Ordinary Bulloch was
recently requested to issue an order
for the arrest of W. M. Fleeman, neai
Colbert, Ga., for lunacy, and before
the sheriff could reach the place he
had killed his wife. Details concern
ing the weapon used are meager, but
it seems he attacked her with a ham
mer, beating her brains out, and then
ran away. I-Ie has not been apprehend
ed yet.
Judge Validates Butts Bonds
Jaclcson.—Judge W. E. H. Searcy.
Jr., of the superior courts of the Flint,
circuit has passed an order validating
the one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lar issue of road and highway improve
ment bonds voted on March. 28. As
intervention was filed, attacking the
registration as being improper. Aftei
hearing from the objectors, Judge
Searcy passed an order validating tin
bonds.
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1921
Coal Production Dropped
Washington.—Decrease of more
than 200,000„000 tons in the world's
production of coal in 1921 compared
with the output in 1920, was noted
in a statement on mining activities
recently issued by the United States
geological survey. From reports sc
far received, the statement says, tjn
total w?rld output of coal last yeai
was 1,100,000,000 metric tons, witt
France and Germany the only nations
showing an increased production. Tlu
British, strike and world’s wide depres
Sion aje. named. &a qhief .factors,
rfi J*
Cock Fighting Derby Ends l:i Rai:
’Siiringfield, Mass,—-Tivo men wore
shot, one hundred others were arrest-
ed, one hundred game cocks seized
ami, tlie cock-fighting derby of iVlassa
chusetts and Connecticut was brought
to an abrupt and ■ dramatic end .whet
the state,oimstabular officers and Ag
awam police under State Detective
David J. Manning surbun'ded and raid
ed the three : rin,g fight circus staged
in a tobacco barn kt Feeding Hills
The raid occurred in the midst of the
festivities, and the police swooped
down unexpectedly.
Three Marooned As Boat Is Swampee
New Orleans.—LeRoy Trahan, twen
ty, Peter Mancusoi, twenty^six, and
Albert Mancusa, all of New Orleans
whose boat was swamped in a gale
on Lake Ponchartrain recently, and
who were believed to have beer
drowned, were rescued later when the;
were discovered, marooned in a fishing
camp near Spanish Fort, where thej
had /taken refuge and had remained
nearly forty hours without food or wa
ter. The men wore terribly -fatigued
and hailed, their rescuers with grea.
acclaim.
Cotton Drive Starts In Terrell
Daw,son.—The drive In Terrell coun
ty to organize farmers in the Georgia
Cotton Growers’ Co-operative associa
tion was begun, recently with a meet
ing at the courthouse., This, assembly
was addressed by R. E. Buchanan, of
Texas,, who is the organizer assigned
to Terrell county. The plans and prin
ciples of the association were thor
oughly explained by the speaker, who
said that by this system Georgia plans
to pool 200,000 hales of cotton this
year. Terrell’s quota will be 6.000
hales to be signed before April,
Jury Returns Verdict Of Suicide
Atlanta.—A verdict of suicide in tha
death of Miss Beulah Helton was re
turned by a coroner’s jury investi
gating the circumstances. Miss Helton
was found with a bullet wound in tha
abdomen in .the apartment of Mrs.
Gladys Lucile Reeves, with whom she
lived and died two days later at flt
hospital. ,