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6 CENTS A GALLON VIRGINIAN WILL SUCCEED G. B, CHRISTIAN AFTER LABOR DAY JOHN H. HODGES* Prop'r. _ DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE $1.50 a Year In Advance j VOL. LIII, PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1923. TYPOS GATHER IN : GOTH CONVENTION international typographical . UNION HOLDS ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN ATLANTA state news of interest [Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Of !• The State : Atlanta.—After months of prepara tion everything was in readiness for the opening of the sixty-eighth annual session of the International Typo graphical Union, which began its ses- ions in the city auditorium on the 13th with an attendance of 2,500 dele gates, a great, number of whom came la three or four days prior to the' opening. A number of the international offi cers have been here for several days preparing final details for formal opening of the meeting. These in clude President .Charles P. Howard, [Vice President William R. Trotter, .Charles N. Smith, Hugo Miller and Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Hays. The convention proper was not opened until the 13th, but a social session was held in the Hotel A ns " ley, on the 11th, at which hundreds of delegates and their wives were •present. Sunday’s program for the guests included a visit to Grant park and i viewing the cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta. When the convention settled down to its business session ,at the city nuditoruim. President P. L. Rikard, of Atlanta, was in the chair. The invoca tion was pronounced by Rev. William S. Weir, pastor of Fortified Hills Bap tist church and chaplain of Atlanta union No. 48. Addresses of welcome were made by Mr. Rikard, Governor Clifford Walker, Mayor Walter A. Sims, C. B. Grambllng, president of the Geor gia Federation of Labor; A. C. New ell, president of the Atlanta chamber of commerce; Maj. John S^. Cohen, of the i v Atlanta N ewspaper Publishers' association, and C. W. Cunningham, president of the Atlanta Federation of Trades. During the afternoon a trips was made /to Stone Mountain. Muoh of the preparation made for the guests has been in the form of en tertainments. Tuesday’s feature event was an old-fashioned /barbecue held at Lakewood park. The barbecue was lield at four o'clock and special cars were provided at the auditorium at three ^o’clock to transport delegates to the park. Woman’s Auxiliary No. 1 entertain ed auxiliary and visiting women at a luncheon at the Atlanta Woman’s club during the meeting here, in addition to various other features which were programmed. Headquarters of the International Union have been moved from Indian apolis to the Hotel Ansley and the entire clerical force is engaged in the task of carrying on the work of the organization there. For, several days previous to the convention the laws committee had been engaged in com pleting plans for carrying on the con vention and in considering various technical questions that have arisen. In addition to the convention of the union, the woman’s auxiliary was in session here at the same time. Con siderable important business came be fore this gathering, and speakers from many parts of the country ad dressed the delegates. A banquet marked the high point of the International Mailers’ union cention. The union is a part of the Typographical union. Charles N. Smith of Brooklyn was presiding offi cer at the convention, which was ad dressed by a number of noted speak ers, including Charles B. Gramling, president of the Georgia Federation of Labor; R. E. Gann, Luther H. Still and John W. Hays. American And Canadian flags were used in decorating thee ity auditorium, where sessions of the convention were held. The decorations are emblematic of the spirit of fraternity which domi nates the gathering. During the session of the union, J. B. O’Hara, delegate from West Palm peach,, states.that'.the ‘committee on STANDARD MAKES BIG PRICE CUTS EFFECT IVE IN ElEV STATES INDEPENDENTS CUT PRICES Sixteen Cents Is Now Ruling Price Throughout Mlddlewest—Other Cuts Are Predicted Chicago.—The Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana, serving eleven mid dle-western states with gasoline, act ed to fight the rapidly spreading gaso line price war when it announced a reduction of 6.6 cents a gallon, bring ing the retail price down to 15.4 cents, effective immediately. This heavj' cut results directly from the war on high gas prices begun by Governor W. H. McM^ster, of North Dakota, which spread like wildfire through the middle-weBt during the weekend. It Is effective in South Dakota, North Dakota,^—Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana,- Mien! inn and north ern Oklahoma. During the past three days more than half a dozen state capitals and a large number of towns and cities had announced official attacks on gasoline prices. At the time the board of directors of the Standard Oil Com pany of Indiana met here to take blanket action, their branches in va rious affected districts were meeting the new prices as fast as officials and independent companies brought them down. The reduction in the states affected averaged three cents a gal lon. Now 1C cents a gallon becomes the ruling price throughout the middle west, as all independent companies will be forced down to it. The big gest private cut previously had been one of five cents a gallon by inde pendents in Milwaukee. Independents fa Iso had gone down to 19 1-2 cents. Now 16 cents a gallon becomes the ruling price throughout the middle- west, as all independent companies will be forced down to it. The biggest private cut previously had been one of five cents a gallon by independents in Milwaukee. Independents also had gone down to 19 1-2 cents. i' The 16-cent price was the one es tablished by Governor McMasters, in South Dakota, when he announced that ihe state supply depot at Mit chell would sell gas to the public at that price, bringing the Standard down from its current price of 23 cents. The quick spread of the gas price was spontaneous and unprecedented. Chicago entered the movement when city councilmen demanded that Governor Len Small investigate the situation with a view to lower prices, and Small subsequently promised ac tion. A dispatch from Aberdeen said the. South Dakota price had gone down below 16 cents to 15.5 cents, the low est in ten years. In Texas, however, gasoline was reported ranging from, 1.1 cents in Dallas to 19 cents in Hous ton. Governor Bryan, of Nebraska, had telegraphed heads of the leading oil companies in the state demanding a come-down to the, 16-cent figure as established in South Dakota, and state competition was unofficially threat ened. In Kentucky, however, Gover nor Morrow announced that he had no public fund by which the plan of Governor McMaster could be followed. Nevertheless, Standard officials in Kentucky intimated that a cut was in prospect. Has Been Prominent In Republican Politics For Number Of Years. Harding’s Intimate Friend Washington.—Former Representa tive C. Bascom Slemp of Virginia has been tendered and has accepted the position of secretary to President Coolidge. Announcement of Mr. Slemp’s ap pointment was made at the white house shortly after he had concluded an hour and *a half conference with Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Slemp will not be a Me to close up his personal affairs and take permanent charge of his of fice until after Labor Day and, Jn the meantime, George B. Christian, Jr., secretary to the late President Harding, will remain as presidential secretary. The appointment of Mr. Slemp came as a surprise, inasmuch as his name had not been mentioned in connectipn with the secretaryship. Among those who had been talked of as successors to Mr. Christian, who submitted his resignation recently, were Edward T. Clark, who was Mr. Coolidge’s sopre- tery as vice president, and Benjamin F. Felt of Boston. Mr. Slemp was born at Turkey Cove, Lee county, Virginia, in 1870. He was graduated from the Virgiuia Military Institute in 1891. He studied law at the Univer sity of Virgiuia, taught mathematics at the Virginia Military Institute, and later practiced law at Big Stone Gap, Va., his present home. Mr. Slemp has been prominent in Republican politics for a number of years. He formerly was Republican national committeeman from Virginia and since 1905 has been chairman of the Virginian Republican state com mittee. He was an intimate friend of the late President Harding, who of fered him a place on the civil service commission, later the position of as sistant secretary of commerce and more recently the post of ambassador to Peru. All of the offers were de clined. i • ■ ■■■'■ ' j* | 37 MINERS TRAPPED BY BLAST RESCUED; 100 BELIEVED DEAD Pitiful Scenes Enacted At Mine As Women And Children Walt In Vain For Loved Ones Kemmerer, Wyo.—Fighting their way through the partially dismantled portions of frontier number one of the Kremmerer Coal company, one mile from here, scene of an explo sion shortly after eight o’clock in the morning, rescue workers worker all night and brought out alive thirty- seveh of the 138 miners entombed by the blast. It is feared that approx imately one hundred men still unac counted for have perished. y The explosion occurred in the vi cinity of the 1,700-foot level of the mine. Rescue workers, at ,last re ports, had penetrated tp nearly every quarter of the- underground workings, and it was indicated they had brought out all the /men remaining alive. Smoke - blackened members of mine cars, buried in a cave-in on the 1,700- foot level in the workings in entry 15, gave rise to the belief that fire had followed the blast which tore down sections of the roof, ripped up tracks on which “trip” cars are operated and dismantled the electric wiring of the mine, plunging the smoke-filled depths into darkness. The cause of the ex Ho. 34 ■: f High Grade FertHfllrs 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 and get prompt delivery. Our Customers get this kind of Service without any Extra Cost. “IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK THAT COUNTS.” I HEARD BROTHERS. 8 Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers. | | MACON, ■ GEORGIA. g oaaaaaaaaaaanaaaaaaaaooaaaoaaaaaaoaaaoaaauaaaBcaeaaaa For Riding Cpif You Can’t Beat A Long Spring ON YOUR FORD 12 Inches Longer Than Regular Front Spring and so Constructed that It Ab sorbs the Shocks as no Other Device can Do. It’s Guaranteed Not to Break. Price $9.00 Put on Your Ford. Perrj Auto til. • PERRY, - GA. HEADQUARTERS Steaks and Fresh Meats of t All Kinds. Staple and Fancy Grocries. Prompt Service. Phone 12. E. F. BARFIELD & CO. , PERRY, GA. We have put our Gins in good shape and have new brushes and we are ready to gin your cotton Retail Merchants Open Annual Meet Richmond, Va.—Fully 500 retail ' merchants of the southern states are expected to be present when the 1 seventh annual meeting of the South- | arn Retail Merchants’ conference gets ! under. Delegates are arriving and are , bringing scores of retailers from prac tically every Southern state. Initial session of the conference will be featured by th annual address of the president, A. L. M. Wiggins, and an ’ address by Irving S. Pauli, of the commerce repayment, personal repre sentative o? Secretary Hoover. , ! plosion is presumed to have been a 1 and buy your seed and cotton. We are always ii blowout shot, according to a state ment issued by the Kremmerer Coal company. Commission To Mexico To Report Washington/ — Members of the American commission now in \Mex- ico City are expected to reach Wash ington either late this month or early next month, bringing with them the official report of the joint delibera tions with ^Mexican commissioners which have had in view the ultimate recognition of the ^Mexican govern ment by the United the market for Cotton, Cotton Seed, Hay, Peas, Corn, Velvet Beans, Peanuts and . ,/ / all farm products. Perry Warehouse Co ‘Jl'Jn-i i . \L-