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THE HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. \ln Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES
Thursday, Aug. 16.
fMIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BY THE
GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
THE BEST FOR HOUSTON
In mental, moral, intellectual
and business qualification^ the
citizens of. Houston oouaty are at
least equal to the best in any area
in Georgia.
We claim that our people are
qualified to make this county the
best agricultural section of simi
lar area in the union.
That this may bo done, a con*
siderable number of the best quail
fied citizens of tne oounty must
assemble at a selected time and
place and consider the subject
thoroughly from a cooperative
stand-point.
After earnost consideration of
the purpose, the plan best to gain
suooess must be chosen and car
ried to completion with determin
ed and united energy.
These oo-oporatiug farmers mnst
obtain the endorsement of the
best bankers, merchants and busi-
ness men ef the county. In this
proposed combination there should
be no individual purpose superior
to chosen planTto make Houston
tho most progressive and success
ful county in the state.
Such a plan has plaeod Turner
county in the lead of agricultural
and industrial progress.
This writer is only one ol the
thousands who know that what
Turner county has done, Houston
can do.
The time to begin this much
needed work is now.
Somebody must begin. Tho
first, meeting of the most progres
sive citizens of the county should
bb held early enough for the plan
to bo pub at work early in October
of this yoar.
September, on tho first Tuesday
is not too early.
Mr. Fred Coolidgo, a merchant
of Atlanta, Ga , is a second oousin
of president Coolidge.
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Farmers in southere sections of
Michigan aie feeding wheat t»
their live stock. With wheat at
90 oents.they cannot afford to buy
$1 corn for live, stock feed.
Public owned hydroelectric en
terprises in Ontario arc very suc
cessful. It is stated that if not.
interfered with during tho next
five or six years the investment
will be over $500,000,000.
A total eclipse of the sun will
be visable in Mexico and southern
California on September Jlth and
astronomers from all parts of the
world are arranging te take photo
graphs.
FoRTY-nine carloads of water
melons were shipped from Georgia
last Saturday and it is believed
shipments will be concluded this,
week. As a whole the watermelon j
orop in Georgia was not profitable ■
President Coolidge has not re
placed any members of the official
Cabinet of the administration of
the lato president Harding. The
president has also declared that
he will not remove any of these
officials until after the next Con
gress begins next December. The
new president is following exactly
the promise voluntarily made last
week.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT
A man born in Vermont and
now a citizen of Massachusetts
has by death of a president from
the vice presidency been promoted
to chief executive of tbe nation.
The charge territorially is great
and the speculations of the people
is as great; that of the politicians
is greater from a party stand
point.
f he following from the Macon
Telegraph is reproduced by tho
Home Journal with approval.
“President Coolidge acted with
a large measure o( wivdom in re
taining the Cabinet. The fact
that the Cabinet is in the midst of
many important matters whose ex
ecution were under the supervision
! of President Harding and who ini
tiated tbe policy for each,suggests
of itself that the Harding Cabinet
should be allowed to stay on tbe
job at least until these matters
have been terminated or settled,
especially sinco Mr. Coolidgo has
announced that he would adhere
to and complete the execution of
the polices laid down by Mr.
Harding.
“President Coolidge requested
that no Cabinet members even
adopt the customary formal pro
cedure of handing in their resig
nations, The quiok decision and
announcement in this connection
are to be appreciated by the na
tion; thoy denote the man in
charge of the high office. By
making the decision and announ
cement quickly, the new President
headed off Republican patronage
seekers and a scramble for the
Cabinet places. Pressure would
hfcve been brought to bear from
the Johnson wing of the party to
oust Secretary of State Hughes or
refuse his reippoint.mont, and oth
er efforts of like character as re
gards other Cabinet offioiale would
have been made. However Mr.
Ooolidge did not give the political
camps time to organize such ef
forts. The de^th of the Chief Ex
ecutive was so sudden and unex
pected, it caught them unprepar
ed; and they are still reeling. It
would not be profitable nor de
sirous for them to make advances
during the nation’s sorrow; and
President Coolidge delivered a
body blow to such political actions
before they were able to show
their heads. Senator Johnson will
doubtless consider this an unfair
advantage on the part of the new
President; but it was the right
eous thing to do. It saved the na
tion much in the way of uncer
tainty and unstability, confusion
and demoralization. Although
tho general has fallen, there has
not been a break in the lines.
“The statement of President
Coolidge that he will carry out
President Hasding’s policies
means at least that there will be
no abrupt and sudden change that
result in a shook to any faction or
group. For six months certainly,
he will hold to the Harding path
of thought and action as laid down
by the late President in the last
months and weeks in the office.
After that, one may expect to see
the personality and individuality
of Coolidge asserted more and
more, until the more vivid traces
of Harding rogime have passed
away.
“Of courre, the Republican par
ty is hide-bound more or less to a
certain course and policy, and
Ooolidge hardly lias the lime to
get very far away from the reac
tionary grooves, if he should de
sire. But it will be keenly intrr-
esting to watch his course during
tho last year of the term of offleo.
His greatest handicap is that he is
serving out tho political end of
the term; the Republican party
leaders will ever be camped about
him to politi tally ad vise and guide.
It will seem to him like he is the
head of an immense political ma
chine rather than the President of
a great nation.’’
POLLYANNA
COLYUM-
Judge Gary announces that a
plan has been practically agreed
upon to eliminate the 12-hour day.
The plan fnvolves a reduction of
from 24.80 for 12 hours to $4.00
j for eight hours, making a 25 per
cent increase in the houily and
base wages. The plan adds $45,-
000,000 to the pay roll and gives
employment to 60,000 more men.
Following is an
advertisers idea of
news story.
Robert Steel,
eight years old,
Anyolo Avenue
was fatally shot
while paying with
playing with a Swiss
& Messen revolver
yesterday afternoon
at Ipswfyich and Sa j
catchewan avenues, in 1
front of Scheldtmiere's
Sanitary Apothecary.;
Thebullet, entering the left sid e
punctured a suit just purchased
at Happelwhite’s Department Store'
sale now in progress (see 1 inch
2 coulmn advertisement on back
page of this paper.) /
The boy was attempting to
open a “Sanitary-sealed” package
of “Jim Dandy” animal crackers
with the barrel of tho revolver ,
when the exclusively designed
trigger, just patented, fell. The
cartridge was of the Powerless-
Brank, recently introduced to the
trade.
When the youngester fell to the
pavement a Never-Squirt fountain
Pen, in one of his coat-pockets, i
was badly crushed, but is still fit
for fimther use, it being saved by a
triple-ply composition rubber case;
furnished to each purchased with
out extra charge.
The funeral will be held from
Genteol parlors of the Grave
Diggers’ Undertaking establish
ment on Tenth Street, just oppo
site the newly erected plant of
Hermanstenis’ Soy Bean Genning
Company.
An Tmperisable Metallic. Casket’
made only in this city, , will be
used. Flowers will be furnished by
the Dandi-Lione Floral Company
who catered to the funeral of Mrs.
S. H. C. Buffington-Blubb, the
notbd society leader, when she
died later of aoute indigestion
recently.
The more a married man sounds
like an Orator when he is down
town the more he sounds like a
Door Mat when ho is at home says
Bill.
THE FALL OF MAN
A three act play with lots of
speed:
ACT 1
Maid one.
• ACT II
Maid won.
ACT III
Made one
(Curtain).
How often the bridegroom hands
the minister only a 5-spot for;
marrying him to a girl who looks'
like a milliod dollars, I
A friend in need sometimes'
keeps a man broke, says Bill.
Radical: any wildman who
would disturb your present graft.
The break had come at last. Ho
knew that the tension of the past
few hours would precipitate the
crisis and that the inevitable part-.
ing was near, but he dreaded just
this moment. Why could not this
embarrassment have been spared
him until they were far from the
rude stares of the passersby? On I
this day of all,—and with her!
Why had he trusted this weaken
ing garter on Sunday when all tue
stores were closed?
It is foolish expense to make the
same error twice, says Bill.
An ounce of performance is
worth a ton of complaint, snorts
Bill.
Following the line of least re
sistance, says Bill, gets many a
man’s arm around a waist line.
The wrong road never brings
you to the light place, thinks
Bill.
Once there was a poor man who
attended strictly to his own busi
ness and today he is rich and
happy.
T. B. or not T. B.—that is the
question, remarked the doctor to
Shakespeare. ,
Putting In A Call Fob An
Undertaker
“Well,” said the gunpowder
mnrehant as he turned the sticks
of dynatemite in the opposite di
rection, “I guess I’ll reverse the
charges.
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Ice Boxes
Refrigerators
Gause Wire
Wire Windows
Vudor Porch Shades
Flv Swatters
New Rugs
New Mattresses
New Iron Beds
New Bed Springs
New Spring Cots
New Cot Mats
ALL AT
W. B. SIMS,
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No. 22. ,< Day Phone No. 8,
Perry Ga-
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NOW
IS THE TIME
TO PAY
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
No Boll Weevil!
Big Crops—Cheap Land
W OULD you like to live in Lamb County,
Texas, where boll weevil is unknown
i: and where one man can farm 100 acres of cotton?
,. s Would you like to own a farm in Lamb i
County—just like land in this county, where
40 to 50 bales are being raised on 100 acres?
Would you like to come to Lamb County
and make some real money—and own this new
land on easy terms—less than rent in most
places—if so write us today.
The Halsell Ranch Is Now Being Subdivided %
Here is a new farming country with every
advantage. Corn and wheat can he raised as
well as cotton. A wonderful Dairying, Cattle
and Hog country—Abundance of good water. -*!
This Land Is On or Near the Santa Fe Railroad
Write Today for Descriptive /
Literature end Full Particulars '
The Halsell Farms Company
Lamb County, Texas
■ ' , A new town is now being built on the property. The
Santa Fe railroad station is already there. Schools and
, Churches will be established. Address your letter to
The Halsell Farms Company, Sudan, Texas.
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NOTICE
Plenty of Fresh Water Ground
Meal at all times.
MOSSY CREEK MILLING CO
W. L. HENRY.