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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS' AND CULTURE
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VOL. LIII.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JANUARY 25. 1923. ,
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;BUDGET ANNOUNCED FOR JANU
, ARY AND FEBRUARY—TEN-
TATIVE CURRENT BUDGET
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STATE NEWS f INTEREST
Brief, News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State, .
Atlanta.—The Georgia state highway
''department will operate on a monthly
bucfget system durihg 1923. Chairman
John A. Holder announced the other
day when he gave out the budget for
January ,and February a tentative bud
get for the remaining ten months.
The budget for January and Febru
ary calls for the same expenditure and
Is as follows for each month:
General expenses, including admin
istration, engineering, drafting, bridge
designs, accounting, supervision, office
supplies, postage, express, telephones,
telegraphy drayage, rent Ad inciden
tals, $14,445.61.
Construction, including surveys, plans
and supervision^ $8,380,706.00; road and
bridge work now being carried on in
the state, $19,650.
Maintenance of 6,600 miles of state
road system—labor, gas, oil, operating
equipment, bridge, work, material and
repairs, $48,460.
Equipment depot, including freight,
' insurance, receiving, housing and dis
tributing equipment donated by federal
government, $6,000'. „
Beginning March 1, a tentative
monthly budget has been worked out
as follows:
Construction as above itemized for
pll divisions, $19,550.
Maintenance, 6,500 miles as above
shown in detail, $79,450.
\ General expense, as shown above,
$14,600.
Under the new system the budget is
made for each month and at the end
of the month each division and the
general office will make a report show
ing that the budget hae been carried
out in detail.
In maintaining roads, the state is di-
. vided into one hundred road sections.
Each section consists of about fifty-
five miles of nrad and each section is
in charge of a maintenance patrolman,
machine operator and three or more la
borers. A machinist has-charge of nine
section?. Each road section is provid
. 'ed with a truck, tractor, road machine,
malntainer, picks, shovels, axes and
other equipment necessary to keep
'road in repair. *
! In addition to this maintenance
•equipment, there is a heavy equipment
for each three rohd section. This
(heavy equipment' consists of a ten-ton
.tractor, road machine, scarifier and
other things^necessary. to do betterment
work on the highways. •
These ten-ton tractors were given to
the state highway department by the
ifederal government and the heavy road
machines were purchased by the state
• highway board to be operated by these
jten-ton tractors so as to utilize equip
ment given to the state by the federal
government This heavy equipment Is
very valuable in plowing, up roads that
have been badly scarred with holes
\ and, washes.
i Declares Mormon Strength Growing
Savannah. — Mrs. Lula Loveland-
Shepherd of Salt Lake City, Utah;- at
the head of the national organization
opposing polygamy and advocating the
passage of national ^Jaws forbidding it,
spoke to three great audiences, one
at the First Christian/ church to
women only, in tlie Sunday school
room of tie Independent Presbyterian
church and at Thunderbolt.
Negro Burgla'r Shoots Watchman
Augusta.—C. H. Jones, watchman at
the Broadway apartments, one of the
most fashionable apartment houses in
' the city, was held up and ‘shot by a
negro the other night. The*shooting
occurred just off the court qf the apart
ment when the negro stepped from be
hind the corner of the building and
demanded of Jones ta “throw them up.”
Joneg, refused with the result that the
negro fired three shots at him. f Only
one < if the bullets took effect; His
woun . i! not serious. The apartment" is
ta the heart of the city.
PRELIMINARY STEPS TAKEN NOW
WHILE EUROPE IS IN MORASS
OF POST-WAR TROUBLES
TRADE BATTLES EXPECTED
United States Is Now Bending Every
Effort To Extend Its Good Will
Throughout Entire Section
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HAVE STAGE) DAYLIGHT
ROBBERY IN DENVER
MAN MAKES STRONG DENIAL
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Police Make Arrest After ^‘Listening
In’- On Telephone ^Conversation
With Another Suspect
Washington.—Wiiile Europe flound
ers in a morass of post-war troubles,
says a staff correspondent, the Harding
administration is'i seizing the opportun
ity to build a commanding position for
the United States throughout the west
ern hemisphere.
The South American tour which Sec
retary of State. Hughes is to make in
March is the latest project in a care
fully, planned chain of activity. He
will visit Argentina, Brazil, Peru and
other countrie^for the purpose of draw
ing closer ties with the United States
by emphasizing the mutual interests
which can be developed to the profit
and increased security v of the United
States and the South American nations
alike. Hughes also will attend the Pan-
American conference at Santiago, Chile.
The problem of effecting the solidar-
ity of the new world war under Ameri
can guidance is one to which President
Harding attaches the greatest impor
tance. He regards it is a necessary
step in preparation for the trade bat
tle which is expected as soon as Great
Britain, France' and Germany reach a
settlement which will enable them to
concentrate on selling campaigns in
South America! Those countries can
pay their heavy debts through selling
machinery, textiles, electrical equip
ment and other commodities to the
South American cbuntries.
Argentina, Brazil and Chile are the
best prospective customers Europe has.
But the United States regards them
as its customers and intends to keep
them. Proposals are being made by
some British trade experts for a triang
ular flow of goods between Europe,
South America and the United States,
hut the,effect,of that would be to give
the European countries the first chance
at the South American buyers.
The small nations of Central Amer
ica alsp come into the picture as the
United States 1b anxious to continue as
their moral sponsor.
Declare New Clinic May Reduce Crime
Cincinnati, Ohio.—The Cincinnati
Central Psychiatric clinic, said by
physicians to be the first of its kind
in the country to attempt to reduce
criminality, will be opened here soon,
it has beep announced. T|e plan of
the institution is to give the youths
of the city >the maximum opportunity
for normal development through co
ordination with the courts, social agen
cies, the public school, board of health,
vocational bureaus and other institu
tions in touch with deficient persons.
The clinic will be under the superin
tendency of Dr. Emerson A. North,
former superintendent bf the Long
view Hospital for Insane, at Cincin
nati.
Chicago.—A man, answering the de
scription of Albert T. Hollywood, said
by police to have been the leader oL
the band which robbed Federal Re
serve bank guards of $200,000 at the
door of the Denvep mint December 18,
was arrested here when detectives
raided bis room in a 1 hotel.
He denied he is Hollywood and im
sistod he is Da^ Culbane, a St. Louis
gambler.
Culbane was asleep when five de
tectives entered his room and cov
ered him "with guns. The arrest was
made on v a tip from Kansas City po
lice, who listened in on a telephone
conversation said to have bjaen con
ducted by Culbane from the. hotel herb
with another robbery suspect at Kan
sas City.
Police s&s Hollywood* Is wanted for
the Denvef ifobbery, and also for the
robbery of the Citizens’ bank at”
Springfield, Mo„ in which $20,000 ‘was
taken after a policeman apd citizens
were shot.
; Detectives following up v the Kansas
City tip found Culbane’'registered in
room 1011 at the Washington hotel,
and the hdtel records showed he had
talked to Kansas City.
! Two detectives went up the fire
{escape and three to the door. Under
{their guns Culbane wae forced to get
up. An automatic, pistol ytaay found
junder his pillow. <
■ Only a small amount of money was
.found in the suspect's pockets, but
police found several marked wrappers,
pf the kind banks use about packages
of currency, sewed in his vest lining.
jHe refused to explain why he carried
them there.
The prisoner is about 30 years old,
fire feet seven inches tall and weighs
150 pounds. /
Kansas City police are expected to
come for him very soon.
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Mexicans Decline Pan-American Meet
Mexico City.—Mexico’s regrets that"
she will not he able to take part in
the Pan-American congress to be held
jon March 4, at Santiago, Chile, are oh
thdir way to the Chilean government.
|in a note handed to Enrique de Mu
dez, the Chilean minister, Foreign Sec
retary Pani aaye that Mexico is forced
ito decline the conferenceinvitation be
cause she has not an accredited rep
resentative at Washington and there
fore canapt comply with one pf the re
quirements of admission to the confer
ence circle.
Increased Rail BualheSs Is Predlctec
Chicago.—Indications that the rail
troads anticipate increased business it
seen in orders for additional equipment
totaling twenty-two million dollar by
several mid-western railroad.
Woman Charged With Killing Husband
Greenville, S. C.—Mrs.. Della Kate
Williamson was arrested at her home
Oppose Debt Funding Amendment
Washington.—President Harding and
here "on^a^warrant* charging “her “with after
the murder of her husband, Robert L.
Williams, who died at his home in
Aiken, s. C.; November 23, 1921, after
his throat had been cut, under mys
terious circumstances. The a^resl
was made by Sheriff Carlgs Rector,
of Greenville county, and two detec
tives-. representing the governor oi
South Carolina, and who it was said
had been working of the case 1 for over
two years. The detectives . placeJ
Mrs. Williamson in a room at a local
hotel and are expecting to start for
Aiken with their prisoner.
thorough canvass of the situation, have
[decided ,that this is not the tipie tc
iseek an amendment to the debt-fund
ing law liberalizing the ter-jns of set
tlement by nations o^ving . money tc
the United States. It was said- thai
amendatory legislation probably would
be asked for after" the negotiations be
tween the British and American debt
commissions now jn progress have been
completed. The executive and bis call
ers were in agreement.
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PERRY ; GA,
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We are prepared to furpish you the following at
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Shells by Bo* or Case. *
Ranges, Stoves, Heaters, Pipe and Utensils.
New Syrup Barrels and Cans.
We carry at all times a line of farm
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PERRY, - GEORGIA.
No Agreement v Yet On Britain Debt
Washington.—A difference of viows
as to terms of settlement having been
developed, 'conversations between the
British and American 1 commissions re
garding the refunding of Great Brit
ain’s war debt to the United States
were halted while the British awaited
instructions from London. The sub
ject matter of these- instructions is
withheld, but it was learned from the
highest official sources that the time
of final payment and the interest rate
-have been canvassed thoroughly in an
informal way,..
Plans Wide Tour For Federal Agencies
Washington.—Prohibition Commis
sioner Haynes, accompanied by repre
sentatives of the legal and narcotic di
visions of the bureau, left Washington
on an inspection trip through the west
ern and southern states planned tc
.comprise a thorough investigation oi
.the federal agencies for'enforcing pro-
hibtion and anti-narcdtic laws. L, G
r-Nutt, chief of narcotic i-section, 1 anc
•H. W. Orcutt of the bureau’s legal
were in* the party. Mr. Haynes
roceed to Portland, Oregon, where
11 fegeak jgpuary 17.
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