Newspaper Page Text
JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a In Advance
VOL. LTI.
PEBRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY DECEMBER 14. 1922.
No. 50
(IP
04
;TWO POWERS PLAN TO KEEP f
ALLIES OUT OF BLACK SEA |
AND CONTROL WATERS j
HIGHWAY BOARD AUTHORIZES
CONSTRUCTION OF 40 MILES
OF ROADS, ONE BRIDGE
o. s. approvssAujeq stand
Ismet, Because Of Crushing Defeal
Administered To Greece, Assumes
i The Attitude Of Victor
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here Anc
There From All Sections Of
The State
' Lausanne.—M. Tchitcherin, the head
of the Russian delegation, and Ismei
Pasha had another long conference on
the Russo-Turkish attitude toward fu
ture control of the Bosphorus, the Dar
danelles and the Sea of Marmora, and
very soon they will initiate their
struggle in the Near Eastern confer
ence to upset international control ol
the Straits and place Turkey in abso
lute possession and complete control oi
the waterways connecting the Mediter
ranean and Black seas.
Russia and Turkey are ignoring the
terrible part Turkey played against
the allied powers in the great war and
,are scouting all suggestions that na
tionalist Turkey should pay for the
havoc wrought by the sultan’s forces
directed by German and Austrian lead
ers.
Ismet, encouraged by the Moscow
'government, is assuming the attitude
'of a victor because of the crushing
jdefeat' recently administered to
[Greece. He is ignoring the provisions
'fit the Sevres treaty negotiated with
Turkey by the allies after the great
Iwar, but never ratified,' as Mustapha
jKemal Pasha established a rival Tur
kish government in Antolia and de
clared that this treaty, signed by the
sultan’s representative was void.
The ^allied powers and the United
States have so far in the conference
[presented a united front in their de
termination not to allow Turkey to
•escape the consequences of the aid
‘she rendered to Germany by the mere
[shuffling of its capital from Europe
;to Asia and the substitution of Kemal
[and Angora for the sultan and his par
liament, and there is no reason to be-
jlieve that they will grant Turkey’s
(Remands for absolute domination ol
the straits and adjacent territory.
! M. Tchitcherin has decided to at
tend the session himself in spite oi
the failure of the inviting powers to
admit Russia to the sessions where
all the questions involving the pro
posed treaty with Turkey are consid
ered. He will formally protest againsi
ithe limitation of Russias participa
tion in the straits problem and, is ex*
pected to discqSs practically all prob
lems which the conference's facing it
an effort to prove that control' of the
straits can not be detached from the
disposition of western JThrace, anc
scores of economic questions, as well
as financial questions arising Trom the
capitulations which old Russia enjoyed
along with the other great powers.
BOBO OOOBnCMSaOOOOft oaiaoooov BOB OOOO »O»OfflBa»a«O0fflBOffl BOBO
i ifllHiai1 ■ §
VER'GENT OPINIONS ON ADVISA-
CiLi I Y OF POLITICAL UNION
ARE EX'-BESS ED
Opening Session Devoted Solely To Ex
change Of Friend!^ Assurance, in
Which United States Leads
Atlanta.—Contracts for road work tc
cost approximately three hundred thou
sand dollars were let recently by the
state highway board, according to ai
announcement made by John N. Hold,
er, chairman. Contracts for six pro}
ects aggregating about forty miles ol
construction work were let. A con
tract for one bridge was let, while an
other bridge project was deferred foi
later consideration.
Following were the contracts let:
No. 2D3—Wilkes county, from Whsh
ingtoh to Lexington, awarded to W
C. Hill, Abbeville, S. C., $37,324.06
Length of road, 10.15 miles.
No. 314—rWilkes county, from Tig
nail to Little River, awarded to Nich
ols Construction company, Atlanta
$35,946.33. Lentgh of road, 6.7 miles
No. 295—Wilkes county, from Wash
ington to Thomson, awarded ,to Stanlej
& Singer, Lafayette; Ala., $35,063.84
Length of road, 7.2 miles.
No. 299—Pulaski 'county, bridge b©
tween Hawkinsvlllo and Abbeville
awarded to Atkinson, Thomaaville
$25,176.72. Bridge across Bluff creek
No. 316—Early county, from project
196 to project 264, concrete paving
awarded to Davis Construction com
pany, Macon, $17,964.98. Length oi
road, .63 miles.
No. 315—Wilkes county, from Wash
ington to Lincolnton, awarded to Ogles,
by & Stark, Elberton, $71,467.86. Length
or road, 10.6 miles.
■ No. 279—Cook county, between Adel
and* Valdosta, awarded'to L. H. Smith,
Elberton, Ga., $77,676.10. Length oi
road, 10.6 miles.
No. 279—Cook county, between Adel
and Valdosta, awarded to L. H. Smith,
Elberton, Ga., $77,676.10. Length oi
road, 6,85 miles. ,
Couzens For Seriate Is Satisfactory
Detroit, Mich.—^Vfayor James Couz
ens, of Detroit, who will soon take the
seat in the United States senate re
linquished by Truman H. Newberry, is
“the best'man who could have been
-picked for the job,” in the opinion ol
Henry Eord, former employer of Mr.
Couzens. The seat to be taken by the
Detroit mayor is the one sought four
years ago by Mr. Ford, who was de
feated at the polls by Mr. Newberry.
Oklahoma Supreme Court Judge Dies
Durant, Okla.—Judge C. H. Elting oi
;teh Oklahoma state supreme court, died
[here the other morning. He was elect
led to the supreme bench two yeart
iago. He was fi graduate of the Uni
versity of Kansas and had been in Ok
lahoma 23 years.
' Relief Is Rushed To Fire Victims
Newbern, N. C.—In an effort to
somewhat assuage the loss suffered by
more than 3,000 homeless victims oi
the recent $2,000,000 fire, which swept
through approximately 7001 homes in
the western section of this city, or
ganized relief was well' under way,
Thousands of dollars were being do
nated to a fund for the sufferers,✓and
’/ volunteer workers, unchecked by i
steady rain, were exerting every effort
lo comfortably care for the vict-
At a mass meeting over $15,000
raised.
Negro Leader’s Raelal Good Will
Columbus.—Dr. Robert R. Moton,
pVinclpal of the Tuskegee institute,
with 24 colored associates, concluded
here, December 3, his good will tour
of twelve hundred miles through Geor
gia, where he spoke directly and frank
ly durin^he week ending December 2
to thirtyll^^housand white find color
ed people on practical methods of ce
menting cordial and sympathetic rela-
tions between the races. “The best
blood of the South,” said Doctor Mo
ton in his closing address, “has said
that lynching must be stopped and the
courts must govern. We are all safer
with the constituted authorities than
with the howling mobs. Never before
have the colored people had more white
friends, friends who are courageous,
than they have today in the South, as
well as in other, parts of the- country.
I count among my best friends many
of , the finest white people of Tuskegee
and Montgomery, Ala., Georgia and
other Southern states. There are more
clashes within the two races than
there are between the races. The
South suffers too often because the
bad is flashed all over the world and
the. good because it is not news, is
ignored.”
Washington.—Divergent opinions be
tween Central American countries' as
to the desirability of discussing here
the question of a political union ot all
five nations came to the surface imme
diately the opening of the Six-
power conference-on Central Aiuencau
affairs, called by the invi'.uJou of
President Harding. / ,
The subject was not on the agenda.
It was brought up sharply, however,
in the reply of Dr. Alberto Ucles, chiei
of the Honduran delegation, in reply
ing to Secretary Hughes’ address of
welcome. Doctor Ucles urged that the
matter of a federation of Central Amer-
ican states should receive first consid
eration by the conference.
In opposition to this view, Senor
Jose Andras Coranado, Costa Rican
foreign minister, pointed out that the
Central American governments were
'fully cognizant of the fact that the
“historic hour of their political unlou
has not yet struck." Senor Emilfano
Clmmorra, minister from Nicaragua to
Washington, in his address, said the
gathering further testified to “the re
ality of our aspiration for unity,” and
would “some day" result In the hoist
ing of “the sacred banner of one un
divided nation.’
Neither Secretary Hughes, speaking
as presiding officer and as head oi
the American delegation, nor Minis
ter Francisco Latour, for Guatemala,
nor Senor Francisco Suarez, of Sal
vadors, referred to the Central Amer-
lean union question in their formal
addresses. Action of the conference
must be unnanimous in determining
what points not specifically mention-
-ed in the invitation may be taken up,
If the opposition to discussion of the
Central Ameriqan plan indicated by
the Costa Rican delegation today is
pressed, therefore, it is to be assumed
that it will no the considered.
6-3-3. 7-4-7, 8-3-10, 8-4-4, i
Are grades that can be used with i
I good results, under varying con
ditions^ We can furnish you I
any Special Formula you
< may need.
We sell Raw bone Meal, D-tied Ground Fish
Scray, Tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, Sulphate
of Amonia, Sulphate of Potash, Mur ate of Pot-'
j ash and various other fertilizer materials.
I WRITE US FOR PRICES.
| f 1 >
| HEARD BROTHERS
j MACON, GEORGIA.
| Manufacturers of Plant Food for All Lands. |
iaaeQaaaaaaaaoaaanaooaaacDoaaaaaaaaoaaaaa -aaaaaKs&ooaa
COFFIN OF GIANT
PLACED IN GRAVE
,• OF DOUBLE
SIZE
New York.—Even in death, George
Augur, a circus giant, was all out
of gear with the world of comparative
Liliputiane in which ,he was so miser
ably conspicuous. His funeral arrange
ments necessitated teats of elemental-:
engineering. The customary arrange
ments for burial were necessarily per-
fbrmed on a prodigious scale. Twelve
strong men were hired to bear his
pall and even they could not handle
the huge coffin, eight feet six inches
long and three feet wide, weighing
more than five hundred pounds. There
fore, it was necessary to rig a block
and tackle to lower the giant from
the window of the apartment in which
he died of indigestion.
Aged Gi\eek Is Killed For Robber
Atlanta.—James A. Sirmas, an aged
Greek, was shot and killed in his
room here when Tom Polites, his
roommate, fired upon him in the
darkness, mistaking him for a burglar,
according to the story told the police
by Polites. Polites was arrested seven-
hours after the shooting, and is being
held on suspicion pending an investiga
tion of the tragedy, and a coroner’s in
quest. Polites said he summoned the
U. 8. Property. Owners Are Warned
Washington.—Warning to American
holders of properties in the consular
districts of Acapulco, Mexico, to# take
steps at once to protect their lands
from possible enforced distribution un
der the agrarian - laws of Mexico and
the Btate of Guerrero, has zeen issued
by the state department. A consider
able number of American holdings in,
the Acapulco district, the statement?
says, were threatened by the statutes
and the American vice couneul there
was unable to I locate the owners or •
ascertain any information.
aaBfi
REPAIR WORK
By Expert Mechanics On All Gars.
BATTERY SERVICE
We Recharge and Rebuild A[ 1 Sizes and Makes.
New Willard Batteries in Stock.
WELDING
Acetylene Welding of All Kind.
tires and Tubes
iii.iu&Ull and Seibling Tires.
McLendon Auto Co.
CALVIN E. McLENDON, Brop’r.
PERRY - GA.
.IS.. I ... H I . L! —i ' ' hi
J. .W BLOODWORTH
% • - 1
We are prepared to furnish you the following at
lowest possible prices.
Shells by Box or Case.
Ranges, Stoves, Heaters, Pipe and Utensils. N
New Syrup Barrels and,Cans.
We carry at all times a line of farm and
hardware fancy and family groceries.
- WELCOME -
Make Our Store Your Headquarters.
shelf
J. .W BLOODWORTH
r“THE FARMERS FRIEND.”
PERRY, - GEORGIA.
John Wanamaker Reported Ybry III
Philadelphia.—The condition of John
Wanamaker, who has been ill at his
. home here for several weeks, was re-
police immediately after the shooting. > p 0r t e( j by hi s physicians as having as-
He told Call Officers, McWilliams arid i sume( j a fgrave aspect when newspaper
Lmve on the scena of the killing that j men inquired as to his condition. Mr.
he had been attr^ted by a noise at i vvanamaker was postmaster general
the jnndow, and had fired thinking a | some y ears ag0 ^ a nd made a great rep-
burglar had entered. When lie switched ■ utatioDi He has long been known as
on the. light, his friend was dying onj |b e merchant king of the United States
; the floor he said. The police yepbrt-
ed that Sirmas had been shot through,
the back. The bullet, they said, seem
ed to have punctured the heart on its
course through its victim’s body.
—at least since the death of Marshall
Field of Chicago. While a strict busi
ness man, he has not been without
his philanthropies,
We are in the market at alljtimes for Seed Cotton,
Cottonseed, Peas, Velvet beans and all
other farm products
't Bring us your products.
Peny Warehouse Go.