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' THpwK m mm, • ■ ■ ■. mm p ^ : lfll tm. = Ford Car Given Away Absolutely Free vce SS ■■ o show our Friends and Customers that We appreciate your business we the undersigned business men and merchants of Perry are going to give away Absolutely FREE, One Ford touring Gar, As A Chrisrmas Present o THOSE WHO PAY THEIR BILLS OR SPEND THEIR CASH WITH US To every one who spends a $1.00 cash or pay a $1.00 on notes or accounts will receive a ticket which entitles them to a chance to win the Automobile ON THE 24th DAY OF DECEMBER 1923, all the tickets from the Undersigned Merchants, Bank, and Business Men will be placed in a large barrel or box; the tickets will then be well mixed and one ticket drawn from the container, which will be the lucky number and will entitle the owner the Automobile The Lucky number will have the Car ready for Christmas ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO TRADE WITH US, AND THE MORE TICKETS YOU HAVE, THE ■ MORE CHANCES YOU HAVE TO WIN. GET BUSY AND WIN THE FORD J. W. BLOODWORTH, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Feed Stuffs and General Merchandise SHORT & EDWARDS The Leading Dry Goods, Notions and Shoe Merchants HOUSTON BANKING COMPANY 1 The Wide Awake Bank of Perry PERRY WAREHOUSE COMPANY Cotton Factors and Buyers of Farm Products HEARD & EVANS The Drug Store Where Qnality and Service Counts A. M. ANDERSON The Ford Dealer, Who Needs No Introduction The race starts at once, get on and ride. The lucky ticket must be present on the day of the drawing. GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW in Industry means employment, 'employment means payrolls and payrolls mean money to spend for [the necessities and luxuries of life. Moral, encourage industrial sta bility and development. _ Dalton—Local Masonic order ^purchases Crawford street proper- by as site for proposed new temple, Pavo—$40,000 of farm products shipped from here in July- Elberton—Georgia Granite Cor poration to double capacity and employ 250 more men. Atlanta-New $500,000 gi r 1 s' high school to be constructed . Kewman-New $51,000 busineas building to be erected on Green- Tl Maeon—Pla”» for new$600,000 i#y auditorium being considered. Waycross-New concrete bindge ver Safcillft river under conecruo- opened at this place. Rockmart—Building boom progress in this vicinity. Albany—New creamery plant to open at this place. Crisp— New $11,005 b cho o 1 building planned. Juliette—Monroe county banks report great improvement in busi ness situations. Covington —Fire escapes to be instilled on schonl building. Toocoa—Toccoa Cotton purchased for $250,000. Dawson-Two new gins erected in this county. Culloden—Planing mill capacity 75,000 feet daily, completed Tbomaston-View planing plants installed to manufacture roofing and other dressed lumber. Moultrie—Moultrie-Thomasville road nearing completion. Macon—$75,000 of pipe put mills Newman—$50,000 to be expend- «d on new Presbyterian church. Columbus-Newhighechool ^proposed. Elberton-Work •concrete bridge in ‘‘^‘eon-Georgia 6, Pecan Com .any! capital $100,000, to com Zee gre« ral nnrsey bosmesa inoclalizing on peach and >r ««net-oCfactory proving ! Thoma“vmc-Loaal batchcry lapacity 14,000 oggs, doing b.g Sb *I*u»ta—>250,000 health resort *1t‘.‘“ cted on Peachtree road ^aboard crossing. f Scb^»- N#w h0UM on overhead western city pecan being Jaokson—Dam at this pontto be improved at cost of over $4,- 000,000. Atlanta—$30,000 bend issue proposed for construction of new school in Gross Keys district. Summerville—Work on big sub station of Georgia Railway and Power Company started. Atlanta—Georgia Peanut Grow* ers Association signs up over 100- 000 acres throughout state. The teaching of Are prevention and safety is to be made a part of the required courses of study in the Kansas g r a dod schools beginning with the next year. Electricity will be the main fuel and power of the future We have barely entered the electrical age. Chained lightening is growing up into yonr best slave. The estab lishment of telephone circuit of FEATURES OF TRANSPORTATION law on the oontrary limits th# Warnings of transportation cam* panics without making un deficits. chased for water service extention. 1 over 5^00 miles between Havana, Cedartown—Work started local Cuba and Santa Catalina Island, $10*00,000 textile plant for United 1 ooag t 0 f California is recent States Finishing Company. achievement of the Bell telephone Sparta—Peoan crop in this coun. syB tem. This is the longest cir- ty largest in years. . cuit in the world and in constant -Electric gin recent Montezuma Iy installed. Louisville—New ten-ton muni cipal ice plant recently installed. Atlanta—$125,000 hotel to be erected on corner of Pryer and Houston streets. Sylvester—New cheese factory may be established. Statesboro — Methodist church to have new$15,000Sunday school building. Southwest Georgia Melon Grow ers Association reports 615 oars at $205 per oar, Twelve of twenty short-line railroads operating in state report good business. Valdosta—Site for now batch ory to be considered at tiffs use. The voice travels under sea, over mountains and by radio in reaching its destination all in one operation. According to annual report ef New Orloans Cotton Exchange, boll weevil during last ftve years has cast South $1,500,000,000. —Axes, saws, hammers and hatch eta at H P Houser’s. 1 The two outstanding features of the transportation situation at the present time are the facts that the railways are rendering to Ameri can business more efficient service than at any time in the history of the country, and are accomplish ing this achievement at co&s to the traveling and shipping public lower than prevail anywhere else in the world. These statements are made in a review of the trans portation situation by W A Win- burn, President, Central of Geor gia Railway Company. Mr. Winburn points out that this year the railways are expend ing for equipment, improvements the enormous sum of $1,500,000,000- He declares that freight rates are not out of liue with commodity prices, inas much as rates are now 50 per cent higher than in 1913 while the av erage wholesale prioe of all com modities is 57 per cent higher than in 1913. Moreover, last year while commodity prices were in creasing, freight rates were re duced 13 per cent. Mr. Winburn asks if any other large American industry reduced to the consumer the cost of its product in 1922. He declares that the future de velopment ot transportation hinges upon the ability of the railways to secure sufficient capital to keep pace with the business demands of the country and asks for a fair trial of the present Transportation Act for a reasonable length of time under normal conditions. Attention is direoted to the faot that despite widespread public be lief there is no 6 per cent gnasan- tea of railway earnings, bat the GEORGIAN NAMED YOKOHAMA CONSOL' Nathaniel B Stewart, of Ameri- cus, Ga., chief of the office of cojji* sular personnel of the state de partment, has been appointed consul general at Yokohama to succeed the late George H Scid- more, and ordered to proceed at once to his new post to take charge of the consulate’s part ot America’* relief efforts. , Max Kirjassoff, consul at Yoko* additions and foama. who was killed in theearth- puake. had been in charge of the Yokohama staff since the death of Consul General Scid more. Mr Ste.Warb was born at Butler Ga., and maintains his residence at Americas. He entered govern ment service under the navy de partment in 1897, and. was ap pointed to the consular service in 1907 after having served under the war department, and the engi neer department of the city of Ha vana.—Atlanta Constitution. —FOB SALE—The W L Henry home on Macon street with alt modern equipment. Apply tw A A Smoak, Ferry, Ga. LOANS ON FARM LANDS. W* an pr«p»r«4 la don* orawylb «■ Fam LaaA • par at lataaaat 4 DUNCAN Ac NUNN, L— Fe*»r. ' iH m m ■ ■