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ouse . IltiliP 8 JOHN H. HODGES, Prop'r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE • v Ift LtjfJ $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. aooanoannnonnaooaooonBnBeoooBoooaonononono High Grade Fertilizers oanaoanoncF RETIREMENT FORECAST AS OUT- COME OF PARLIAMENTARY DEADLOCK 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 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.” j HEARD BROTHERS. jj Manufacturers of High Grade Fertilizers. - | | MACON, - GEORGIA. I pBOBBBaaaanooPBBBaBaoBBBpnnaBBnnnnnonnooB^ococigtaflMttS If Its Bargains You are looking for Call at J. W. BLOODWORTH’S and find them. We are prepared to ( fill all orders for Hay Ties, Syrup Barrels, Crockery and Enamel ed Ware, Gun Shells, Stoves ana Ranges. Our Hardware line is complete and we carry the largest stock of Groceries in Perry and can there fore fill your needs in these lines to your best advantage. J. W. BLOODWORTH “THE FARMERS FRIEND.’ PERRY, - GEORGIA. »» HEADQUARTERS FOR Steaks and Fresh Meats of 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 and buy your seed and cotton. We ar< the market for Cotton, Cotton Seed, Hay, Corn, Velvet Beans, Peanuts and all farm products. ^ *