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MBHM . HOME JOHN H. HODGES. Prop'r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance VOL. LlII. PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923. WINS IN MINNESOTA RACE FARMER-LABORITE GETS SENA 11& ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHER- SEAT BY VERY LARUE j TY DEMANDS SEPARATION OF MAJORITY. BIG CORPORATION is TEST OF ADMINISTRATION FEAR COMPLETE MONOPOLY Had Lead Of 26,588 Votes Over Preus With Less Than Half Of rue Precincts Tabulated St. Paul, Minn.—Magnus Johnson, a practical farmer, of Kimball, Minn., was elected United States senator from Minnesota in succaasiou to the late Knute Nelson. Johnson is a farmer-laborite and a follower of Rob ert M. La Follette, When 1,729 of the states 8,52*0 pre cincts had reported, Johnson had a lead of 2G.688 over Governor Preus, the count standing: Johnson 169,521; Preus 142,933 and Carley 13,620. This vote—309,660—was believe^ to repre- sent about three-fifths of the total cast. Johnson’s plurality probably will ex* ceed 40,000 returns indicated, with Governor J. A. O. Preus, Republican, in second place and James A. Carley, Democrat, trailing far behind. Preus trad announced his intention to sup port the Harding administration. The main issue in the special elec tion held in Minnesota to elect a suc cessor to the late Knute Nelson, as viewed by the country at large, was Harding or La Follette, issues iuject- ed into the contest, making it clearly regarded as a test of the present ad ministration. Governor J. A. O. Preus, twice gov ernor of Mlnesota, and who was de feated by MagnuB Johnson, was an ad herent of the Harding administration. He was nominated in the June 18 primaries from a field on nine candi dates. Johnson during his campaign an- , nounced his Intention of affiliating with the La Follette group in congress if elected and he will support the farm bloc. Preus, the defeated candidate, last fall was reflected chief executive of Minnesota over Johnson by a plurality of* 14,000 votes. Umpire Released; Strike Is Probable, New York.—W. J. Phyle, an inter national League umpire whose last as-, signment was the Baltimore-Roeheater, series at Rochester, has been released by John Conway Toole, president of the circuit. Jack Manley, secretary', of the league, in announcing here the newB of Phyla’s release, said he had beard nothing of an umpire's strike at Rochester or anywhere else in the In-i Cernatlonal wheel. The report of the strike apparently came from Balti more. Manley skid he couldn’t explain! it but suggested that it may have pro- ceeded from a misunderstanding ‘of Phyle’s release. Conviction Of Garvey le Resented Washington.—A uk^ted protest from many negroes throughout the country against the recent conviction in New York of Marcus Garvey, head of the! Universal Negro Improvement asso ciation, was vafced in scores of tele- gramS addr^goBMf° Washington office of the jjB&ated Press, Each of the messagQKported sentiments said to have been expressed at a negro mass meeting. They came from nearly every state, and were Identical except for the number of persons re-, ported as in attendance at each local meeting. French General Guest Of U. S. Vets Chicago.—Gen. Henry J. F. Gou- rand, commander of the Rainbow di vision in the Champagn^ will be the guest of the 149th field artillery when he ,arrives here. He recently haa been the guest of the Rainbow divi sion at its convention in Indiana]?- • Us. ' Three Murdered By Knife Fiend New York.—A knife fiend entered the home of Morris Briggs and cut the throats of Mrs. Briggs and her two daughters, Marie and Grace. The husband, 35, returning from work, found the bodies on the floor in sep arate Booms. ; _ .. s Action would separate into i hree Distinct Corporations—Trade Com mission Behind Move Washington.—Separation of the In ternational Harvester company into at least three distinct corporations, with wholly separate owners, stock holders and officials, was demanded by Attorney General Daugherty in a petition filed in the federal district court at St. Paul, Minn. Such a step is necessary, the attor ney general’s petition declared, be cause the dissolution decree originally entered against the company in 1918 had proved “inadequate" to break up restraint of trade and restore compe- tion in the production of harvesting machines and other farm Implements. Unless steps are taken to effect a real dissolution, the petition contin ues, “the monopolistic control, exerted by the defendant, will increase and the vision of complete monopoly, which the organizers of the company had in 1902, will be completely real ized," to the detriment of the farm ers of the country in their'purchases of farm machinery, , The action of the attorney general was taken after prolonged conferences among government officials and fol lows the line suggested by the federal trade commission in a report to the senate in 1920. The petition declared that a reasonable “test period” has been given the corporation since the close of the jr/orld war, as provided in the original decree, to rearrange Its organization in the Interest of the public. That period having passed, It is added, the United States now has the right to such further relief as nay be necessary to restore competi tive conditions. Specifically, the petition cited the International Harvester company, the international Harvester Company it America, the International Flax Twine company, the Wisconsin Steel jompany, the Wisconsin Lumber com pany, the Illinois Northern railway, wd the Chicago,, West Pullman and Southern Railrba'd,' company and the )ffleers and directors of all these con- serifs, as patties to the alleged combi nation. The number of independent manu facturers, it is declared,. steadily is shrinking because of their Inability to sompete with the TnternatlonaL In 1918, it was asserted, the Interna tional produced by 64 per cent of the Harvesting implements manufactured, vhile during 1922, the percentage was sixty-six. Chicago.—Prices of harvesting ma chinery are the result of vigorous competition, which the Sherman law was enacted to preserve, and are !airly comparable with the price of ether implements fixed by normal competition. Alexander Legge, pres- dent of the International Harvester company, sftys, in a statement com- nenting on the- government's suit (gainst the company filed in federal llBtrict court at St. Paul. The suit, Mr.'Legge said, is a con tinuation of the governihent action Drought againBt the company eleven rears ago. The Harvester company, le says, was acquitted by court findings and the attorney general’s tdmission of any wrongful dealings >r unfair practices towards customers >r competitors, but in 1918 a decree vas entered to insure fullest com- cetition, requiring - the company to sell to competitor^ certain complete ines of harvesting machinery and inciting sales representatives to a angle dealer in any one city. That lecree, he said, provided that nt the md of a test period which has now ixpired, the government might ask he court to determine whether or not he competition contemplated by the Sherman anti-trust law exists in the farm implement industry. .This step :he government is now taking, the itatement says. STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICUL TURE OFFICIALS MAKE RE PORT ON INDUSTRY STATE NEWS OF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of The State Athens.—That there has been good progress in the development of the dairy industry in Georgia is evidenced by a report just made public by ofil- cials of the state college o£ agrlcul-. ture here. The increase in the num-| her of creameries has been very mark- j ed, there being 16 in operatlou at this time, as compared with five last year. Ch6ese factories are becoming very popular in the northern section ol the state, the report says, due to the fact that small capital is required, and one may be supported on leBS than 100 cows. This makes them woll adapted to communities just started into dairying. About one million dollars worth of products have been turned out by the creameries and cheese factories m the state, and practically every county in ;the state is participating in this wonderful development, say officials. It has been demonstrated that the quality 'of Georgia made butter is better than,that shipped in, and .this lias gone a long way to establish the home product on local markets. In spite of all the development that has occurred, it is said that the state is still producing leas than 5 per cent of the butter consumed within tthe state. Another Bunco Man Hears Hit Fate Atlanta;—As a result of Solicitor Boykin’S'bunco raids of 1921, fourteen men hove been apprehended and sent to the penitentiary to date. The four teenth man heard his fate recently. He is Fuller Scarborough, member of a widely known Americus family and former associate of the late “Jack- nite” O'Brien, alleged “speller" in Floyd /Woodward's get - rich - quick schemes. Under the name of Jack Adams, the alias U* to alleged to have used during hto short-lived ca reer with the Woodward organiza tion, Scarborough went before Judge Samuel H. Sibley to United States dis trict court and entered a plea of guilty to * n indictment charging that he used the malls to • the furtherance of a fraudulent B^ejne. Mangled Remains Of Man Found Atlanta. — Scattered for several yards along the track, the dismember ed body of an unidentified white man was discovered at dawn recently on the main line tracks of the Southern Railway between Brookwoc-u and Ar mour stations. It is believed by po lice that the man had destroyed his clothes to forestall identification and then Jumped in front of a passing train with suicidal intent. County Policeman A. A. Stovall, who conduct ed the investigation, reports finding the remnants of a burned coat and the ashes of a dead fire. Around the ashes Stovall found scattered a cake of soap, a comb, a bag of sugar and a small slab of bacon. Lincolnton To Have Union Revival Lincolnton.—A union revival meet ing, to be conducted by all denomina tions of Lincolnton, Is to open at the Baptist church here. The preaching is to be by Rev. J. M. Bass, of Macon, Ga., a former evangelist of the Metho dist church, now pastor of the Vine- ville Methodist church of Macon. The singing will be in charge of M. F- Lifsey, also of Macon. ooooocHBBOOBgaoanBagpnaooBOOBnaMapaanaaanqg«a«Ht»mwfr | High Grade Fertilizers I We are On the Job from January to | January, twelve months each year. | You can buy One Sack or A Hundred: | Tons, or More, any day in the year g and get prompt delivery. | Our Customers get this kind of Service withosft | any Extra Cost. I “IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK | THAT COUNTS.” 1 HEARD BROTHERS. Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers, MACON, - GEORGIA. oooaaDaaoDflooaoaaaooaDaotmaoaoonaaoocaoca.uDo-r^eMt For Riding Comfort You Can’t Beat A Temmy Long Spring ON YOUR FORD 12 Inches Longer Than Regular Fjtnf: Spring and so Constructed that It Ah sorbs the Shocks as no Other Device cam. Do. It’s Guaranteed Not to Break. Price $9.00 Put on Your Ford. PERRY, - GA. Big School Is Nearing Completion ; Brunswick.—The Memorial Bchool, which is nearing completion in this city, will he dedicated Armistice day. The board of education decided to in vite one of the most prominent speak ers in the country for the occasion. This Is one of the handsomest schools ifs about $175,000. A resolution was passed by the board of education to have a bill entered authorizing the board to hold Its meetings in the new Memorial school, instead of the court house. FOR Steaks and Fresh'' Meats of All Kinds. Staple and Fancy Gro cries. . Prompt Service. Phone I3L E. I BARFIELD & CO. PERRY, GA. We are carrying a complete stock of Arsenate of Lead and Atomic Sulphur as well as Bushel Bas kets and Picking Baskets. These goods are car- in stock and we shall’ be glad to have your or ders for delivery later or for immediate acceptance. Perry Warehouse Co ried INDISTINCT PRINT