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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE
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$1.50 a Yoar In Advance
PERRY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1923.
CE BIG FOUR UNIONS
PR . ?» E ° F GASOLINE IN ATLANTA [COMMITTEES INSTRUCTED TO
j JUMPS FROM 20 TO 22 CENTS j GIVE THIRTY-DAY NOTICE TO
AT ALL FILLING STATIONS ALL EXPIRED CONTRACTS
[STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
SEEK $8 PER DAY MINIMUM
• Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From AJj Section* Of
The State
Atlanta—Effective recently the
Seek Resumption Of Schedules In Ef-
foot Before United States Labor
Board Reduced Wages
[Price of gasoline in Georgia' jumped
[2 cents per gallon, the price In At-
jlanta being raised from 20 to 22 cents
[going Into .effect throughout the state. 1
The two cent raise, It was annopnc-
led by Alanta dealers, was made to
[meet the special levy ,o'f two cents
per gallon provided for in an act of
the last general assembly which also
became .effective! at midnight Sunday.,
The amount of the tax has been add
ed to the prevailing prices In the
state to be paid by- the consumer.
The jump in prices brings to a tem
porary end, at least, a series, of reduc
tions over the past few months which
have resulted In a drop of 6 bents
per gallon in Atlanta. Two reduc
tions of one cent per gallon each,
coming recently and only a short time
apqrjt, were interpreted in many sec
tions as indicating further reductions
and Georgia motorists and risers of
gasoline generally had visions of pre
war pf ices within a short while’ only
to have the vision knocked into the
proverbial “cocked hat” by a sharp In
-line. , *
j The bill which passed the last ses
sion of the legislature provides for an
j“eilditional levy of two' cents per gal-
;lon" on gasoline and is in addition
jto the one cent per' gallon tax, levy
[already in effect. In addition to the
[three cents tax, there is a tax of one-
jhalf cent for “police’’ .or inspection
•fees. The one-half cent goes to the
Idepartment of agriculture and what-
[ever amount Is not used for expenses
fof inspection is turned into the gen
eral fund of the state treasury.
[ The two cents additional levy, pro
vided for under the bill introduced by
[Representative Mann, of Glynn coun-
Sty, will add approximately two and
jone-half million dollars to the reve
nue of the state and will go Into the
f igbway fund of the state. The state
lghway department will receive a
large part of this sum, and the re
minder will be divided among the
{counties of the state based on road
'■mileage of each county,
j Several amendments offered during
'debate preceding the passage of the
iMann bill and providing for division
[of the amount thus raised among
•other departments of the state were
Sail defeated.
[Rev. William T. Dakin Passes Away
• Savannah.—The Rev. William Tay-
■lor Dakin, rector of St. John’s Epis
copal church in Savannah, is dead in
iBoston, according to news received
[here by his parish members. He had
•been in, ill health for nearly two
lyeatrs. Funeral services will be held
jin bis church here, at the same hour
[funeral services over the body are
jto be held In his birthplace, Boston.
[Later memorial services will be held,
[with Bishop Reese the chief speaker,
^speaker..
Wright Named To Meet Premier
Washington.—The^tate department
designated Butler Wnght, third assist
ant secretary of state, to meet former
Premier David Lloyd George on his
arrival at New York on the liner Mau
retania.- Mr. Wright will represent
President Coolidge and, in addition,
Secretary Davis, a former countryman
of Mr. Lloyd George, will be present.
The itinerary .of the former prjme
minister calls for a month of travel
in North America, which will take
him over a large portion of the United
States and Canada. . •
Quakesi Are Reported At Formosa
Osaka.—A number of earth*-shocks
are reported to have recently occur
red on the east coast of Formosa at
Taito. Two' of' the shocks occurred
in the early afternoon, causing con-
siderablejdamage to houses and walls
j r n^^Wsf® are< I here, there Were some
aalttel.
Cleveland, Ohio.—Movement by. the
[four ■ railroad * transportation brother
hoods to spgain the wages in effect
’on the various railroads of the United
States in '1920—an increase of ap
proximately 12 T/2 [per cent over the
[present scale—is in full swing, the
[engineers having Joined with the fire-
;men, trainmen and conductors. In
[additions, the firemen are seeking an
j$8 per day minimum pay. So far as
:1s knowd, this is the first time that
ja minimum daily rate of pay has been
[demanded by the transportation bro
therhoods.
, Through a circular, Instructions
[were sent-to a general chairman and
[secretary . treasurers of all general
[committees of' adjustment of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
!the present thirty day notices .pf the
(Intention of the brotherhood members
to amend their schedules of pay to
irailroads where the contracts have
[expired.
The movement in several places was
a joint one by the engineers and the
'Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
[and Enginemen, The firemen served
[the notices on the Michigan Central,
[Pere Marquette and Chicago, and Al
lton seyeral. days ago. . Officials of
the New York Central, Erie and Cen
tral Railway of . New Jersey, among
others, were to have received them.
iThe engineers’ contract with the New
[Yorjc Central does not expire until
[October 3.
1 The system committees of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and the Order of Railway Conductors
were notified several days ago to pre
sent , their demands to the railroads
of October 10. ,
The brotherhood seeks a resumption
of schedules in effect before the Unit-
led States railroad labor board on
[July 1, 1921, .reduced the trainmen’s
wages.
Two Slain and One Wounded In Raid
Texarkana, Ark.—Fred Murrah, city
marshal, of Prescott, Ark., was killed
,and Sheriff John D. Parker, of Na-
jvada county, and Steel McClellan, of
Prescott, posse member, were serious
ly wounded at Lackland Springs, a
negro community near Prescott, dur
ing a raid on an illicit still, accord
ing to information received by the
Texarkanian. According to the infor
mation received here, the posse was
being led to the still by a negro in
formant and was within one hundred
yards on the alleged liquor cache
■when those supposedly in charge of it
opened fire on the raiders. Six ne
groes, one wounded, were reported to
have been arrested.
Victim Finally Captures Last Swindler
Dallas, Texas—,T. Frank Norfleet of
Hale Center, Hale county, Texas, the
n-.ost successful amateur detective of
his age, so officers here say, has at
last got his man. Fleeced out of $45,-
000 in Fort Worth, Texas, In-Novem
ber, 1919, for four years Norfleet cov
ered this country and others tracking
down and causing the arrest and con
viction of 75 confidence men. Vete
ran officers and detectives here de
clare the south Texas ranchman has
done more to break up operations of
[confidence men in the United States
than any other man in the country.
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BAVARIAN PREMIER RESIGNS
Dispatches Say Wurtcmberg ' And Ba
varia Are Planning Separatist
. Action Against Berlin
Berlin, Germany.—On the wide
stage of drama and crisis where the
tragedy of Germany’s capitulation is
being enacted, the scene has shifted
to Berlin, where Chancellor Stresse-
mann’s problems were augmented by
the threat that his cabinet might fall
at any moment.
Having crushed two potential arm
ed revolts in the past forty-eight hours,
Stressemann faces political, ruin
through his program of economic re
construction of other methods to
boost production and facilitate repa
rations payments.
Socialist members of the cabinet
balked at Increasing the burdens of
German labor. Word ran through
Berlin that the Socialists would re-;
sign if the chancellor stuck by his'
guns in backing the projected meas-;
ures.
'Such resignations would mean thej
fall of the cabinet, and the formation 1
of a new government. i
With the Rhineland and Bavaria
still actively threatening revolt, Berlin;
doubted whether a new government
could be formed.- ' r J
Dr. Otto Gessler, minister of de-,
fense, frankly told his colleagues of
the Democratic party that if the cabi
net fell, Germany would haste a reac
tionary dictatorship within 24 hours.!
Chancellor Stressemann’s efforts to'
construct a national parliamentary co-l
alition giving united approval for his,
proposed " economic dictatorship ”
have failed to win the undivided sup
port of all the reichstag parties, and'
up to a late hour the political Situa
tion was In a state of extreme con
fusion.
WALTON OVERWHELMED IN
THE OKLAHOMA ELECTION
Solons Given Orders To Review Gov*,
ernor’s Acts—Election Was
Orderly
Oklahoma City, Okla.—With nearly
one-half of the state, heard from, it
was indicated late during the night
of October 2 that a constitutional
amendment to open the door for the
state legislature to consider the of
ficial record of. Gov. J. C. Walton, had
swept to victory with the greatest
majority ever recorded in an election
in Oklahoma.
Although the rural vote was pro
portionately lighter than in the cities,
and towns and the total estimated;
vote waB lessened somewhat as a re-,
suit, the legislature proposal never
theless was holding Its ratio estab
lished early in the day. j
At midnight 1,361 precincts re
ported a total of 142,896 for the meas-j
ure and 36,237 against, i
Bank In Tennessee Looted By Bandits;
Chattanooga, Tenn.—News has been:
received here that three horsen^tj*^;
rode into the little town of AltamdfltVj
In Grundy county, Tennessee, and held
up the cashier and other employees
of the Altamont bank and made away
with a considerable sum of cash. The;
nows came here with a call for blood-j
hounds, but no further particulars of j
the robbery were given.
Birthplace Of “T. R. ’ Receives Relics
New York.-r-Work of moving fur
nishings and hejrlooms belonging tff
;tl>L- late President Roosevelt into the
house in which, he was born has been
[begun, and by October 27, the .anni-
iVerysary of his .birth, the building
will be * dedicated by the Woman’s
Roosevelt Memorial Association as a
•memorial and "museum of. American
ism.” The building will be open to
the public. The woman’s association
[has restored the house, at 28 East
[Twentieth street, and made it as near
p duplicate, .as possibly.
Raids Are Made On 1,300 Saloons!
Harrisburg, Pa.—A new era of lawj
[enforcement in Pennsylvania was pro-i
claimed by Governor Pinchot recently,!
as an army of federal and state de-;
partment of justice operatives de-|
seended upon mpij|, than thirteen hun-i
J, -- J ’“’'^Philadelphia and or-:
Ebusiness.
ired saloons in-
dered them out i
Wall Street Wo)f Located In Mexico
Washington.—David Lamarfknown;
as "the wolf of Wall street,” has.
been located by department of justice
agents in Mexico. He disappeared a
year or so ago after being sentenced
in New oYrk in connection with a
stock market transaction, j
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Our Hardware line is complete and we carry the
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PERRY, GA.
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