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Large quanities of ha Has be' -hipped
into Houston county this y»nr and pros
pects are that more will be sh ipped
here next year.
You need a good Mowing Machine and
Rake to help save it.
We sell the McCormick Mower which is
the best known machine on th • market.
We have them ready for de very
to early
B. H. ANDREW & SON
PERRY, GA.
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And uraft By Federal
-lharsed By Governor Of
irtoylvania In Speech
is a harmless Substitute for
. Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups,
prepared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of
Constipation Wind Colic
Flatulency To Sweeten Stomach
Diarrhea Regulate Bowels
Aids in the assimilation of Food, promoting Cheerfulness, Rest, and
a Natural. Sleep without Opiates *
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of U
Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it.
Money to Loan
on Farm Lauda in Houston County a* Low Rate of Luteree
If you money quick write orcaT
Hatcher-Turpun Co.
235 Mulberry St.
Macon, Georgia.
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po;:. . . ;on however, there w-..
1,033 marriages in 1922, as eo;
With 1,055 In 1916, a deereas.; «>: 0
per cent.
Maryland led in the marriage ai
With 1.639 per 100,000 of pop V on.
Arkansas was second with 1,48?, t- toi
Ida third with 1,463, and Missis* ippi
fourth with 1,464. North Da ota,
with 676, had the lpwest rate
Divorces granted last year totaled
148,664 for the whole country, agfuust
112,036 In 1916; increase of 30.618.
To each 100,000 of population there
was 186 divorces last year, as com
pared with 112 in 1916; an increase
of 21.4 per cent.
Texas led the country In the num
ber of divorces In 1922, with a total of
12,339, which was one-fifth of the
number of marriages In that state, Illi
nois was second in the number of di
vorces, with 10,996; Ohio third with
10,182, and California fourth with 9.-
227.
South Carolina reported on divorces,
a3 its laws permit none. The District
of Columbia had the smallest number.
161, and the lowest rate per 100,000
population with 37. New York was
second with' 40 per 100,000; North
Carolina third with 60, and North Da
kota fourth with 61.
Nevada has the largest number of
divorces per. 100,000 population, with
1.3IV5, and the number of marriages
there was lower than the number of
divorces, totaling 1,208 per 100,000
population. Oregon had the second
targest number of divorces per 100.000,
population with 311; Oklahoma was
third, with 262, and Texas fourth,
with 269.
There was one divorce to 35.8 mar
riages in the District of Columbia to
22.G marriages In New York, to 19.4
in Georgia and 16.8 in North Carolind
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All the World
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son k.’ - injured I2,6:t; v«-
del d hdu i. The al properly
loss was wst n.--.ied at $20,710,000
Relief of -mi:,t ring cans, d by disas
ters of Snell magnitucf.t as to over
whelm the resources of the communi
ties in which iliey occur Is fundamen
tal to the charter of the American
Rod Cross. In addition to making ap
propriations from its treasury and as-
•fning trained personnel to relief
Work, the Red CrosB in disaster cen
tralizes and makes more effeotlve re
lief funds and supplies contributed by
the country at large.
Since 1881 the Red Cross has ad
ministered more than $20,000,000 for
the single purpose of disaster relief
That it may continue to accept the re
sponsibilities which grave emergen
cies place upon the American , Red
Cross appeal Is made for a nation
wide renewal of membership during
the annual roll call, which opens on
Armistice Day, November 11,. and
closes on Thanksgiving Day, Novem
ber 2^.
non.—Prohibition has been
• ,, by politics at Washington.
. n bestrayed in the house of
.1. No sincere, intelligent
. ever been made to enforce
amazing indictment was
ut the federal government by
v Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, at
meeting here Sunday. Coupled
as the demand, that President
take personal charge tem-
of responsibility for enforce*
■ et..spoke as chairman of the
ip confer; nee which is meet*
to find out wliat is wrong
oiiibition enforcement. Fresh
fight with Philadelphia saloon-
whom lie has tried to closo
■ hot came to the capital and
. mat poetics at Washiugton
triable for the “black disgrace
liha overt alien the people of
i non in the present eruption of
1 aking.C
•i liot. was emphatic that the sec*
of the treasury and the com-
onor of Internal revenue be re*
; from the line of authority and
i Mm prohibition commissioner ho
side directly responsible to the presi
dent Drys have secretly believed that
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and
Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair,
! oth of whom are over Haynes, aro
privately opposed to prohibition. Pin-
chot did not allude to this In his
speech, however.
"The thing that fias protected the
liquor criminal from the law is poll-
tics." Pinchot said. "Politics first#
law enforcement a poor second, has
been the order, Bad whisky, with
beer to help, has supplied the sinews
of the war for bad politics, and poli
tics has returned the favor."
Making no effort to hide this mean
ing behind suave diplomatic language#
Pinchot declared that:
No sincere, intelligent effort has
been made to enforce prohibition.
Federal agentB have served as col
lectors of graft money paid by brew
ers for immunity
Federal enforcement has been ham
strung at Washington.
Make it Speed Up by Using
For your Farm, For your Store, For your
Office, For your Shop
Its Good Advertising
and
It Pays to Advertise
LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER
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THE HOME JOURNAL
PERRY. GA.
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Represented by 93,668 members, the
American Red Cross penetrates to
nearly every part of the ,world. The
Insular and foreign roll call statistics
for the past year are a most condu- j
slve manifestation of ‘the Red Cross
spirit carried into the most remote
land's. In Europe there are 4,088
members; in Turkey, and active in
the Constantinople Chapter, 3B46. Chi
na has an enrollment of 2,252; Africa,
136; India. 224, and Australia, 29.
Even Vladivostok, in frigid Siberia,
has a live chapter with 100 members.
The Philippine Islands can mobilize
68,747 under the Red Cross banner
and Hawaii 7,863. The total funds
raised through foreign ind insular
membership enrollment and sent to
national headquarters in Washington
mounted to $60,216.54, while an addi
tional $33,850 was forwarded for the
endowment fund of the American Red
Cross. The high seas roll call in 1922
was an inspiring success. The Navy
signed on 4,331 for the Red Cross and
the merchant ships 4,141. Of the to
tal membership outside the United
States 83,990 are registered with chap
ters in foreign lands, the insular pos
sessions and dependencies.
Many Die In Warsaw Munitions Blast
Warsaw.—Many persons were killed
and injured when the munitions store
here exploded. One fort was blown
!up and several nearby houses com-
ipletely destroyed. The explosion,
iwhich was heard for miles, caused
great excitement. The cause of the
blast has not yet been ascertained.
Record River Flood Ib Threatened
Oklahoma City.—Warning that a
flood of unprecedented proportions
was rusing toward Oklahoma City inj
the foaming and muddy, waters of thei
North Canadian river, already above'
flood stage here, has been issued by
the United States bureau. One 'hun
dred and fifty miles up the river the;
highest waters in the history of thei
weather bureau were reported at
Woodward. Halfway;between there
and Oklahoma City, Canton also re
ported a new rush of waters of thei'
North Canadian. , Rain fell steadily
for twenty-four hours throughout the
watershed territory.
"I want to; therefore I can!" is the
spirit that spurs the Re'd Cross work
er in well-doing.
Court Postpones Stokes Divorce Case
New York.—Supreme Court Justice
Mahoney postponed the trial of the
Suit brouhgt by W. E. D. Stokes, weal
thy realty operator, against Helen El-
wood '■ Stokes.
Savannah Offers Prize For Slogan
Savannah.—The city of Savannah,
Ga., through its Board of Trade wants
a slogan or motto which will help
sell the city to the world at large.
Directors of the .commercial organiza
tion have individually mado up a purse
of $100 which is offered as a cash
prize to the person submitting' the
best slogan in the contest which is
now open and will be closed Decem
ber 16th. MoBt “up and coming”
American cities have their slogans,
acquired by natural process pr through
the channels of a contest and Savan
nah, firm in the belief that a great
future lies ahead of her and that she
has such a variety of things to offer
to the world that an appropriate
slogan should be “easy picking," wants
the world to help her select, a telling
motto that will have sales' Value,.
.Germany Repeals Ruhr Trade Decree
Washington.—The state department
was informed recently that the Ger- j
man government had repealed the de- ’
cree prohibiting German Nationals
from making application to the occu-!
pational authorities in' the Ruhr for '
import and export licenses covering ;
shipments of merchandise to and from
that territory. Reports of American
consular officers In Germany Indicate
that German merchants are applying to
the occupational authorities in stead
ily ' increasing numbers since the re
peal of the decree. ]
Must Pay Or Stand Gaff, Says Poincare
Paris.—In what was widely accepted
as a reference to Lloyd-George, Pre
mier Poincare told a "former premier"
that Prance is going to stand pat until
paid. “A former premier of the al
lies has undertaken weekly newspa
per articles in a campaign against
France,” Poincare declared, in a
Bpeech 'at £ierre-Fitte-Sur-AIre. "But
there are riiany people in France—
and I am one of them—who will not
rest tranquil until Germany has ef
faced all traces of her passage .through
our territory, and her crimes,"
Groves. Bergdoll Plans To Return
New York.—Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, fugitive from. Justice in Germa
ny, intends to return to this country
and to serve his sentence for draft
evasion, his mother, Mrs. Emma Berg
doll, declared on her arrival on the
Albert Ballln from Germany, where
she visited her son. His return, she
said, would have to await the con
clusion of court proceedings following
thh alleged attempt recently to kidnap
him when one of the men who tried
to get him out of Germany was killed
and another wounded.
Governors Convene In Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Ind.—Chief executives
of thirty-six states and territories,
are gathered in Indiana for the fif
teenth annual governors’ conference:
at West Baden to discuss national!
problems and means of uniform relief
legislation. Following the three-dajr
mooting in thiB state, the governors!'
will move to Washington for a lunch-r
eon conference with President Coo-j
Jidfee at the capital. ...
12 To 1 8hot Captures 2,000 Purso
, Kempton Park, England.—The Duke
of York handicap, carrying 2,000 sov
ereigns, was won by Maj. Harold Cay-
zer’s four-year-old brown colt Poison-
led Arrow* quoted at odds of 100 to
•8 in the better. N. Baring’s Roman
Bachelor at 100 to 7 came in second,
and Capt. F, Forester’s Light Dra
goon at 7 to 1 third. Fifteen horses
ran.
Couple Are Found Murdered In Cellan
Hagerstown, Md.—John Cline and
his wife, an aged couple residing onj
a small farm near here, were found)
dead in the cellar of their house, their)
skulls crushed as with a heavy ironh
bar in th ehands of an assailant wh«
left no clue behind. The tragedy waaj
reported to the police by their son,}
Harry Cline, who said he found the}
bodies when he came from a neigh-,
boring farm for hiB noonday medl. Hej
was taken into custody, pending in-;
yestigation. The dead man was 70|
ydars old and his wife 63.
Price Plot Is Laid To Coal Dealer*
Washington.—Five New York and
Massachusetts wholesale coal dealer*
and Madeira, Hill & Co., an anthracite*
mining firm with offices in Philadel-}
phia, have been summoned by the|
federal trade commission to appeaij
before, it November 19 to answer the
charge of engaging in a conspiracy
to enhance the price of coel. Tk«
summons issued by the trade comm*
slon results from an inquiry made
the commission a short time ago
[President Coolidge on the situatic
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