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■v: ' ' 7 JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. > t * DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Tcsu* In Advance .. . . PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1923- No. 5 GOVERNMENT AID COAL PffiaUCTION .DWELL DENIES . M WEEVIL FI IT SETS NEW RECORD CONSFIMCV PLOT (FORMER CABINET MEMBER Me- i ADOO GIVES GEORGIA PRAI3E FOR MARKETING PLANS DaaaQKwaaBBoaoQSQaaanaaBeaoaoaaaanonnbaacaenaaaeaaea REPORT OUTPUT IS GREATER THAN EVER AT PRESENT ‘ SEASON STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of ' The State SUPPLY EXCEEDS DEMAND Increase Is Due To Betterment 01 Transportation Conditions — Big Demand East Of Mississippi Atlanta.—Adequate federal appropri ations for the purpose of launching a impaign for the eradication of the 11 weevil is the solution to the agri cultural problems confrQnting the farm ers of the South, William G. McAdoo, member of the Wilson cabinet, stated In an Interview at the Georgian Ter race during his recent three-hour visit to Atlanta; “It is most imperative that the fed eral government recognize the need of eliminating the weevil from the cotton fidlds of the South. The Southern farm ers and the states in the cotton belt are laboring under a great handicap. Funds are needed to apply knowledge that has been gained by exhaustive expert-^ ments both on the part of the state and' the government,’’ he said. Mr.' McAdoo paid a tribute to the Georgia farmers for establishing the co operative marketing system In handling ItCe cotton crop. ; “It is most' assuredly a step forward. Organization and the elimination of lost (motion is necessary for the agricultural (success of any section. ’ With the co operative system of marketing and free- !dom from the ravages of the weevil (Georgia would rebound to her former :position of prominence among the agri cultural states of the South.’’ Mr. McAdoo and his wife, who is ithe second daughter of Woodrow* Wil lson, alighted from the Augusta\train ’at the union station. They were greet ed by a score of friends and admir al’s. • “It’s great to be a Georgian," the (former secretary of the treasury and (director general of raillroads, said as Ihe stepped from the coach to the sta tion platform, "and such weather—1 (don’t expect to find it any more de lightful in California.’’ r.OWELL CAYS HE MADE MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF UNITED STATE,- NO STIMSON SCORES CHARGES Taft’s Secretary of WarJ3randa State- moat As Being “Preposterous" Io The Extreme Washington. — Production of both bituminous coal ahd anthracite is now greater than it. ha3 ever been at this season of the year, according to esti mates made public by the geological survey. For the week ending the output of bituminous coal was placed in the neighborhood of 11,000,000 tons, with an anthracite production of ap proximately 2,000,000 tons. Increa'Bes in the daily average out put from the bituminous mines, which have been noted since the Christmas,, holiday, the survey said, can be at tributed to betterment of transporta tion conditions. East of the Missis sippi river, it was added, consumers have been taking every ton of soft coal it has been possible to mine and transport, but west of the Mississippi the supply has exceeded the demand in many places and some mine opera tions have been closed dovtfh because of lack of market. Summing up the results of 1922 pro duction efforts in the anthracite fields the survey pointed out that during December a total of 9,430,000 tons was turned out, a greater amount than was ever previously mined during the same period. Due to the five months’ min ers’ strike, the output of anthracite for the year, however, was only 52,485,000 tons, as compared with $0,473,000 dur ing 1921. PEACH TREE FERTILIZERS. -j 91,900,000 Paid For Lyneh Interests f New York.—Management of the mo- lion picture theaters and film exchanges [operated throughout the South by the Southern Enterprises, incorporated, of which S. A. Lynch of Atlanta is the (head, has been taken over by the Fam- E s-Lasky corporation, it is announced Famous Players. The Picture cor- ration, the;. Announcement fifty's, paid (to the S. A. Lynch finance enterprise (corporation approximately $1,900,000, (Which appeared on the company's con solidated balance sheets as a liability. (Of this sum, $1,500,000 was paid in accordance with an agreement by Fam- ious Players-Lasky to issue to S. A. (Lynch and his associates 15,000 shares £ the common took of the Famou Play- s-Lasky corporation, it 1b reported. Collects Mora Than Half Of Salary Los Angeles, Calif.—Of the $500,000 which Jackie Coogan, child film actor, is said to havd received as a bonus lor signing a contract with Metro Pic tures corporation, $260,720 will go to the government in the form of income tax, according to figures made "public by Rex B. Goodselt, bollector Internal revenue.' The col; ctor explained his estimate did n'ot include the tax oi Jackie's reported salary of $1,250 a week, that of his father at $1,000 .a week, or Jackie's 60 per cent share of the net profits of films in which he is to be starred. J- . 1 v Moultrie Market In Mules Aetlve 1 Moultrie.—Moultrie mule dealers re- (port that not since 1919 have as many mules been sold as have been on the Jocal market during the past six weeks. jOns of the suprprising features, it is (stated, is the. large number of cash (sales that have been made. The mule dealers assert that conditions on the (farms in this territory are more en couraging than they-have been in a Jong time. The outlook for this year ils that crops will be fine, if seasons are propitious. Less automobiles are being sold. Bodies Of Couple Found In Woods Waco, Texas.-r-Bodies identified as those of Ed Hold and Mrs. Ethel Jacobs Denencamp were found lying side by side abojat 100 yards from the Springfield' road and half a mile trim the Tehuacana creek bridge as the result of a search which began when a bloody and bullet-riddled auto mobile was found in the heart of the business section. The man had been killed with a shotgun and the woman by a pistol. A\ rope was found tied around the man’s foot, and police be lieve his- body had been dragged be hind an automobile. Want U. S. To Act On Reparations Washington.—Desire for mediation [Ofice Of Doctor Looted At Waycroaa I Waycros3.—One of the most peculiar robberies ever perpetrated here, and which is puzzling the police occurred f one night recently when a burglar ran sacked the Bunn building, largest of fice building in the city. As the bur glar paid especial attention to the of fices of the doctor, it led authorities ito believe that the intruder was a dope fiend In search of drugs. Six mor phine tablets were stolen from the of- , fices of Dr. W- D. Mixon on the sec ond floor. So far the burglars go un- wprehended. that will bring a speedy- end to the j state of near war existing between France and Germany is growing here, as the results of • re Ruhr occupation are" beginning to be discerned. From many sides comes the alarming predic tion that central Euro^i is approach ing a dissolution that will be as par alyzing in its Effect on the world as has -been the collapse of Russia. An urgent cry that the United States, either alone or. in co-operation with Great Brit ain, “do something.” Washington.—Benedict .Crow,ell, war time asistant secretary of war, plead- ed not guilty in the District of Colum bia court to the indictment recently re turned against him and six others here charging consifiracy in connection with the construction of army camps. . Henry L. Stimson, who was secretary of war in the cabinet of President Taft, uppeared as counsel for Mr. Crow ell, and also issued a statement, in which.he declared the charges brought againsf his client wore “preposterous.’’ It would be a sorry precedent, Mr. Stimson added, if the war work of men like Mr. Crowell w^re rewarded by sus picion and dishonor. Mr. Crowell, in presenting his plea, reserved the right to withdraw it with in thirty days, and substitue for it a motion to quash the indictment. His statement follows: “I am charged In this indictment with having joined a gigantic con spiracy to conceal and\ parcel out for corrupt personal profit the entire building program of the war depart ment during the late war. The charge is that I waB engaged in such a plot to make money- out of my position at the expense of the nation and that by so doing I obstructed the proper conduct of (the war—even as the in dictment says, to the producing of the sickness and death of soldiers. “The facts are that I never profited one cent by the trust imposed in me by the country. No such conspiracy did or -could have existed. It is not in human nature that a man, given the opportunities for service that yrere given to me in the time of ther coun try’s need, could have devoted thoBe two years in cqld blood to cheating and wounding the nation for his own miserable profit. “The specification in the indictment against me is that a contract , was awarded the Cleveland Construction company in May, 1918, and that at that time the stock of the, Cleveland Construction company was owned by a company in the profits of which was interested. “ThiB charge Is absolutely false. Furthermore, evidence of its falsity is on record and bias been always avail able to the department of justice. Until I learned through the publio press of the filing of this indictment, I had received no intimation that any such charge was even und'er consid eration. It was not due to me per sonally, but it was due to the office which I had held and to the good name of the nation to advise me of this charge and listen to the facts. “The personal wijong to me is com- paratively unimportant, but the wrong done to the Country in detracting from the great national achievement of 1918 is not unimportant, and to publish to the world the false charge that the United States in that critical year placed the direction of the supply of its army in the hands of a traitor and a cheat is a wrong done to every citi zen.” 11. 6-3-1 7-4-7, 8-3-10, 8-4-4, S Are grades that can be used with | good results, under varying con- | ditions. We can furnish you any Special Formula you may need. We sell Raw bone Meal, D^iecJ Ground Fish Scray, Tankage, Cotton Seed Meal, Sulphate of Amonia, Sulphate of potash, Murate of Pot ash and .various dther fertilizer materials. WRITE US FOR PRICES. « V ■ • t, if oaaaaaaanaunnaaanaaaananaDaaanaaaaaaaGHBaa «aaaaaaa aawa ' HEARD BROTHERS MACQN, GEORGIA. Manufacturers of Plant Food for All Lands. REPAIR WORK By Expert Mechanics On All Cars. BATTERY SERVICE We Recharge ard Rebuild Ail Sizes and Makes New Willard Batteries in Stock. WELDING - Acetylene Welding of All Kind* TIRES andTUBES Goodyear and Seibling Tires. McLendon Auto Co. CALVIN E. McLENDON, Prop’r. PERRY - GA. J. W. BLOODWORTH We are prepared te furnish you the following at ltoweat possible prices. |~|f Shells by Box or Case. Ranges, Stoves, Heaters, Pipe and Utensils. 1 New Syrup Barrels and Cans. We carry at all times a line of farm and t hardware fancy and family groceries. - WELCOME - Make Our Store Your Headquarters. shelf ■ M Scab rook Becomes Mayor Of Savannah Savannah.—Judge Paul E. Seabrook, with 12 new aldermen, six of nvhom were chosen as Stewart men in the primary election In December and six of whom were from the Rogers side of the primary contest, will take office soon. — J. W. BLOODWORTH “THE FARMERS,EMEND.”| - GEORGIA. We are in the market at all times for Seed Cotton, Hughes Denies That He Will Resign Washington.—Taking cognizance of published reports that he might re sign from the cabinet, Secretary Hughes recently authorized the state ment that he had no intention of do ing so. I Home Town Folks Fete Movie Star | Cordele.—Walter Hiera, nationally . known cinema star, left Cordele for Amoricus, after having been royally feted by his old home town during a one day visit. A delegation of 500 peo ple, most of them having known him when he was a little fatb oy in short trousers, met the train _on which the comedian and his bride 'reached town from a visiU to Savannah and Doug las. A reception was. held for him He left. Cordele Males Lead Suicide List In New York New York—Of the'839 persons who killed themselves in New York last year, 586 were males and 253 females, acording to the annual report of Chief at the Suwanee hotel Medical ‘Examiner Norris, Married about twenty years ago. He visited rel- folks were in the majority, 315 mar- y.tives in Americus. ried men and 141 married women tak- " i&g their own lives. / Cotton Seed, Peas, Velvet beans and all other farm products Bring us your products. Perry Warehouse m 7-■-•••'--n ■ -I—.-,.:- 4--- —