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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop’r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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VOL. LII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, I A., THURSDAY JULY 20, 1922-
179,328 RETURN TO WORK
Fifty-Two Out Of Sixty-Five Leading
Cities Report Increases In
June Over May
, Washington.—Employment in the
United States during the month of j
June increased 3.2 per cent, according I
to a report made by Francis I. Jones, I
director of the United States employ
ment service of the department of
labor.
' This increase was made despite Un
settled conditions caused by the coal,
textile and railroad controversies, it
was said. Approximately 179,328 peo
ple were returned to worlc in various
industries of the country.
All industries except the stone, clay
and glass, showed an increase in em
ployment. Fifty-two of the sixty-five
leading cities reported employment in
creases in June over May. Most of
the thirteen cities reporting decreases
were in the cotton textile district of
New England. Flint, Mich., was the
only city in the central manufacturing
district to show a decrease. Employ
ment in San Francisco, St. Paul, At
lanta and Pasaic decreased.
"Building activities are developing to
such an extent that a shortage of skill
ed building craftsmen is becoming ap
parent in many sections of the coun
try," the statement said. "The ex
tremely hot weather j hastened wheat
' cutting in Nebraska and Kansas, which,
coupled with transportation difficulties,
caused a temporary shortage in the har
vest fields of the middle West.
“The country is steadily but surely
forging its way toward a period of in
dustrial prosperity in which it is pos
sible that the labor supply will equal
the demand." ’
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TO USE OF T
THREATEN TO LEAVE POSTS Of:
CHICAGO AND ALTON UNLESS
TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN
After Conference With President, At
torney General Says Trains Will
Run, Despite The Strike
GERMAN REPUBLIC
TOTTERS ON VERGE
OF ABSOLUTE RUIN
Government, In Making Request For
Moratorium, Declares It Cannot
Make Payment Due
Berlin, Germany.—Germany has ask
ed the reparations commission to grant
a moratorium.
The government states that it can
not meet the next payment due on
July 15. 7
Complete political collapse and an
archy may follow the monetary dis
aster which has overtaken the repub
lic.
A restored monarchy or extreme
Communism are the alternatives if the
republic comes to an abrupt end as
a result of the present financial chaos.
Berlin is afire with rumors. Ab*
sence of newspapers helps keep alive
the wildest reports. The capital Is
kept orderly, but the surface qujet Is
ominous, covering a seething volcano
of unrest.
This week will write republican .Ger
many's future history, for during this
time it will be decided whether the
government can paly the 6,000,000,000
paper marks due July 16.
Payment of this sum will mean fi
nal, complete collapsei of the mark,
it is said in banking quarters. Indus
trial breakdown will follow, then po
litical chaos.
Bloomington, 111.—Chicago and Al
ton railroad clerks have adopted a res
olution announcing that they will re
fuse to work under the protection of
state troops.
Clerks on duty at the Union station
and shops are to quit unless the sol
diers are withdrawn. A committee left
the mass meeting to serve the notice
on the railroad management.
An effort is also being made to call
a strike of the big four brotherhoods.
The conductors and trainmen have
called a meeting anent this matter, and
it is stated that the engineers and fire
men are also planning to meet.
A committee is to be sent to Chica
go to tell President W. G. Bierd that
the brotherhood men will not work un
der protection of guardsmen.
Chicago.—With increasing numbers
of state troops and emergency forces
of United States deputy marshals on
guard wherever outbreaks have threat
ened, the government announced that
life and property will be protected, the,
mails continued and interstate com
merce not interrupted despite the
strike of railway shopmen.
After a conference with President
Harding, Attorney - General Daugher
ty says that the government will make
sure that law and order are observed.
He says that the appointment of deputy
marshals has been authorized and that
they wil be sent in wherever strike dis
orders justify.
The attorney - general’s announce
ment came shortly after Lieutenant-
Governor Sterling, who is acting gov
ernor of UlinQis, in the absence of
Governor Small, had ordered five com
panies of National Guardsmen to
Bloomington to protect the shops of
the Chicago and Alton railroad. The
ordering' out of the state troops fol
lowed appeals from the authorities had
collapsed and the soldiers were needed
to protect life and property. The strike
sympathizers jeered the troops upon
their arrival at Bloomington.
Following reports from Bloomington,
that an effort would be made to call
a strike Of the big four brotherhoods
on the ground that they should not he
compelled to work under the protec
tion of state troops, word was given out
in labor circles that Warern S. Stone,
representing the engineers; L. E.
Sheppard, head of the conductors, and
W; S. Carter, representing the fire
men, would arrive in Chicago soon
to discuss matters of policy, with the t
railway executives.
JEALOUS YOUTHS FIRE
THEIR POPULAR RIVAL;
IS SAVED FROM DEATH
Kingsville, Ontario.—Eddie Sander
boo of Bellingham, Washington, was
here visjting and promptly became
Popular with a little Kingsville girl.
But three boys—all between ten and
twelve, liked the little gril, and they
didn't like Eddie’s popularity.
Men passing a small woods near the
town heard a boy’s cries. They smelled
smoke and rushed into the woods.
Tied to a stake with a fire eating its
way up his legs was Eddie Sanderson.
They cut the rope and freed tjjlpi.
Eddie Baid the three boys carried
him into the woods and there kin
dled a fire of, paper and sticks, tied
him to a stake and as the flames start
ed up, left him.
ALL INTERFERENCE WITH'INTER.
STATE TRAINS MUST END, "
SAYS PRESIDENT
Proclamation Issued By President And
Secretary Hughes—Leaders
TO ^
Washington.—President Harding, In
a proclamation, issued at the white
house, directed “all persons to refrain
from all interference with lawful ef
forts to maintain interstate transporta
tion and the carrying of the United
States mail."
In the proclamation which was is
sued after a day in which continued
reports had reached the postoffice de
partment of interference by railroad
strikers with mail trains, the president
invited the co-operation of all public
authorities, state and municipal and
the “aid of all good citizens" to up- i
bold the laws and to “facilitate” those J
operations in safety which are essen- \ j
tial to life and liberty, and the security \ j
of property and our common public
welfare.”
The peaceful settlement of controver
sies between the shop craft employees
and carriers, it was stated, “in accord
ance with law arid due respect for the
established agoncies for such settle
ment are essential to the security and
well-being of our people."
The president took the position that
men willing to maintain the operation
of railroad trains in order to transport
mail have the “same indisputable right
to work that others have to decline to
work.”
President Harding was occupied
throughout an entire evening with the
preparation of the proclamation, de
laying his dinner one hour in order
to* go over the first transcript. He re
turned to the executive offices after
dinner and remained there until the
proclamation was made public.
Chicago.—With state troops and
United States deputy marshals on
guard in half a dozen states to avert
violence and prevent interference with
the movement of the mails for instate
commerce, leaders of the “big four”
railroad brotherhoods and railway exec
utives are hurrying to Chicago to con
fer on iss.ues growing out of the shop
men’s strike.
At Bloomington, 111., where state
troops have been guarding the Chicago
and Alton shops, engineers, firemen,
trainmen and conductors, members of
the four big brotherhoods, voted not
to enter the shops or yards as long as
troops arc stationed ^there. The matter
of working with guards and state
troops on djity was expected to be one
of the matters taken up at the meet
ing.
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FARM WAGONS
AT PRE-W \R PRICES
| “Hackney” “Onesboro” and “White
Hickory.”
You can take your choice they are all high-
grade. We handle Vulcan Plows and Parts.
You will probably not use much Fertilizers but
will want what you do use to be strictly High
t&ade.
We make ours and know what’s in it and you do not
have to pay and more than for the ordinary kind.
IT WILL PAY)YOU TO FIGURE WITH US.
HEARD BROTHERS
MACON, GEORGIA.
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No; 29
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Task Over Chicago Typo Scale Ends
Chicago.—After nine weeks of arbi
tration over the adjustment of the
minimum scale of $46.65 fixed by a
pontract which expired November 6,
1921, the Chicago Typographical Union
was granted a new scale of $48.40 for
44 hours a week for a period of one
year, effective June 16, 1922, This is
an increase of $1.75 over the
scale.
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Lewis And President To Discuss Strike
Washington* 1 —A conference with the
president on the national coal strike is
[understood to the purpose of the pres-
jence here of John L. Lewis, president
)of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica. Mr. Lewis refuses to discuss his
visit, but the impression has been gain-
led that he came in response to a re
quest front Secretary Davis of the la-
jbor department.
Morse And 3 Sons Must Stand Trial
Washington.—Charles W. Morse, his
three sons and eight-others must stand
trial here on indictments charging
them with conspiracy to defraud the
United States government through
wartime ship contracts with the Emer
gency Fleet corporation of the shipping
board, the District of Columbia court
of appeals held.
Republicans And Free Staters Clash
Belfast.—Republican and Free State
forces clashed at Fieldstown, between
Dunleer and Drogheda, in County
Louth. Twenty-two insurgents were
captured. A band of Republicans en
tered Manor Hamilton, County Leitrim,
and prepared to attack the Free States’
barracks, when thg curate asked them
to stop, threatening to place himself
in front, and receive the first shots.
His appeal was effective.
BATTERY SERVICE
When starter fails to crank your car on cold mornings
remember we have service batteries. We
recharge and rebuild all sizes and makes '
of Batteries.
New Willard Batteries in stock.
Call us fof' Service.
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CALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r.
PERRY -GA.
DON’T BE DECEIVED
Buy your Goods for Cash and I will sell you, Grocer
ies, Hardware, Enamelware, Crockery, Stoves, Ranges,
Glassware, Churns, Ete., CHEAPER than any man in
Perry. I am in business to stay; I know that all Mer
chandise is cheaper than it was six months ago; I have
taken my loss and if you buy from me I will not sell you
one article for less than cost and make it up on something
else. All I ask is an opportunity to meet honest compe
tition on any line I [sell.
Lets Forgetjthe Blues, Go To Work and Make
The Best of It
J. .W BLOODWORTH,
“THE FARMERS FRIEND.
PERRY, - GEORGIA. .
American To Race «raft Over Atlantic
Now York.—William Washburn Nut
ting, editor of a marine magazine, an
nounces that he has sent a message to
the duke of Leinster in London accept-
| ing a challenge to race across the At
lantic single-handed in a ketch. The
duke of Leinster ketch is described as
a lightly rigged vessel of twelve tons
with a twenty-horsepower engine.
We are in the market at all times for Seed Cotton
Cotton Seed, Peas, Velvet beans and all
Chemical Foundation Cooks To Jury
Washington.—Francis P. Garvan, the
Britain’s Unemployment Still Large' alien property custodian in the Wilson
I Lottdon—The number of persons I administration, and now president of
wholly unemployed in Greqt Britain I the Chemical Foundation, Inc., brought
on June 1 was 45,657 less than in the to Washington all the records and
previous week, and 352,133 less than • hooks of the foundation to present to
the figures recorded at the beginning L the special grand jury recently impan-
of January. Nevertheless there are, elle <l to investigate war contracts.
still some 1,471,600 unemployed in the • ~ “ j “ j ,
country. The number working short j Cantaloupes Are Cheap In New York
time' and drawing benefit June 1, to- j New York.—Cantaloupes from Cali-
taled 111,000, as compared to 119,8121 fornia are selling at only from 3 to 5
cents, apiece wholesale in New Yorlj
in the previous week, and 934,876 in j
July, 1921. The foregoing figures are]
official.
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market. The cons.mer is paying from i
8 to 10 cents for melons. I
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other farm products.
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