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; v ; '‘j - . * Si. _ . . • • m " m m St • - - __ 1 1 IwmI I i. m #"5I B bt & I If a tr . A & JOHN H. HODGES, Prop*r. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1923. HIGH RANH RANKS SECOND ON BASIS OF THE PURCHASING POWER OF j. . v TRADE SECTIONS {STATE NEWSJF INTEREST [Brief- News Items Gathered ''Here / And There From All Section* ( Of The State Atlanta.—The Atlanta tradeterri tory has a greater purchasing power than any trade district in the United Stages with the exception- of- the St. Louis district, According to figures compiled- by ‘‘Business Digest,” and published in its bulletin,', Novemb.er In explanation of the method used jfor determining the purchasing power {the bulletin says: , f- “The percentage sljown are based 'upon debts to individual • accounts, jthat is, charges which a bank makes on its books when depositors' checks jare presented for collection! "Debits made during four weeks of {October are compared with those jpxade in a similar ;period in September, Itohich is taken as representing 100. “Similarly, October debits "are com pared with those of October, 1022, Which period aiso represents 100. If, therefore, the percentage is 96 it means that 6 per cent fewer charges were made In October than In the period with which comparison la made." The table showing the purchasing power ratio of the principal trade sec tions is as follows: . Boston 108, 99; New York 106, 82 j {Philadelphia 107, 97; Cleveland 103, !106; Richmond 106, 101; Atlanta 116, illO; Chicago 104, 101; St. Louis 118, il07; Minneapolis 102, 101; Kansas City 100, 96; Dallas 109, 103; San Francisco 106, 1132 Canada 187, 162. CRAIG IS RELEASED BUT NOT PARDONED PRESIDENT COOLIDGE REMITS CONTEMPT TERM GIVEN TO COMPTROLLER CRAIG - Masons Honor Memory Of Bogman ' Atlanta.—Older members of Yaarab ! temple attended the funeral of one of their veterans associates, George .^WallRce, Bogman, whose death occur- 'red-in Atlanta on November 24, and yho held Card No. 10 in the temple membership. Following funeral serv ices,! the body was taken to Provi- idence, R. I„ for interment in the family .cemetery. Captain J. H._B. iBogman, signal corps,' U. S. Artfiy?l!r“ . rived recently from his station at the -Panama Canal Zone, having left for Atlanta immediately 'after receipt of ' a cablegram announcing that hlB father was? seriously ill. He £i& not know until; he arrived here that Mr.’ iBogman was dead. G. W. Bogman, Jr., anothe^son, is oonnepted with the Atlantic Ice & Coal Corp., in Atlanta. ,The deceased is survived by these two sons; his widow, Mrs. Kate Sprenger Bogman, and a daughter, Miss Catherine Bogman. Mr. Bogman was born in Boston, September 24, 1862, and was in his 72d year at the time of his death, which followed an illness of. one week. In his young manhood he spent eight years, on a ranch in Texas, moving from there to .tlanta in 1886 to become manager f the Atlanta Newspaper Union. He Continued in that capacity for 25 yeajjs, and some six years ago form ed fP connection with the Vittur Stor age company of this city. Savannah.—For the first time the h'ehd of the Seventh-day Adventists' or ganization, in America will visit Sa vannah. Rey. W. A. Spicer of Wash ington, D. C,,' president of the world's general coiiference of Seventh-day Adventists, ’is beginning a series of addresses in the church of that faith starting December 4. He will o. stop at Atlanta where he will de an address. £ COMPTRBLLER GETS SCORING Sentence Imposed Fully Deserved By Craig And Judge Was Right, Daugherty Says Washington.—Without condoning the offense, President Coolidge re mitted the 69-day jail sentence, im posed on Charles L. Craig, comptrol ler of New York . city, by Federal Judge Mayer for contempt of court . The chief executive acted in the case—one of the most widely discuss ed ' contempt cases in recent years— upon receipt of a report from Attor ney General Daugherty with refer ence to application of pardon for Craig made by Senator Copeland, of {New York, and by members of the hoard of estimate and apportionment for the city of New York. . Mr. Daugherty in effect recomy mended against the issuance; of a' par don and urged remission sentence "irrespective of what Craig, by his arrogance personally then and-now,, justly deserves," but because execu tion of the sentence might have an 'injurious effect upon the administra tion of the financial affairs of New York city; because the sentence .might be considered as too severe for. 'one holding Craig’s official position, {and because, although Craig’s . .own fault, no court had an opportunity to {review the case on its merits. The attorney general fully support ed Judge Mayer, whose views were considered, in tbtit.whoever action wa3 taken “it shouhf not 'have the ef fect of approving; or seeming to ap prove, the conduct of Craig toward 'the court and should not be, in any sense, a vindication.’ 1 “Craig’s imprisonment," Mr. Daugherty told the president, "is not 'the greatest or the most important question involved in the controversy. From his attitude he seems willing, [it not desirous, to assume the attitude of a martyr, and it is conceivable that he would be more disappointed and punished by 1 not being required to go to jail than he would be by serv- inghiis sentence.” ' tEo “action of the president and at torney general in refusing a pardon .but in agreeing to a remission of sen tence immediately raised the question ,ong friends here of the New York mptroller as to whether, he would accept th^e' remission. He has been represented by those most active in his behalf here as having declared he would accept only a full and uncondi tional pardon and, failing to receive !it, would insist on serving the sixty days in the Essex county, New Jer sey jail, to which he was sentenced by Judge Mayer. v ARMISTICE ENDS IN HOUSE FIGHT ORGANIZATION OF THE SIXTY EIGHTH CONGRESS HAS BEEN BLOCKED FOR TWO DAYS AGREE TO KE-ELECT GELLETI ■ i Representative Nelson And Colleagues State That They Will Recom mend Quitting Fight Washington.—An armistico undei which the sixty-eighth congress may be organized was agreed upon by lead ers of the Republican insurgent and regular organizations, in the house. Under the agreement, Gillett, ol Massachusetts, whose re-electiou as speaker has been blocked for two days by the insurgents, is to be returned to office. This would clear the way for President Coolidge to deliver his first annual message to congress. Announcement of the agreement -came after, a conference between Rep resentative Longworth, of Ohio, the organization leader, and Representa tive Nelson, of Wisconsin; Woodruff, of Michigan, and Laguardia, Of New York. Mr. Nelson and his colleagues said they could not speak for the pro gressive bloc, but would recdmtndnd to it abandonment of the fight on Gil- letL The way for the. conference was paved by a statement issued by Mr. Longworth after, the house had had another four rounds of futile ballot ing. Mr. Longworth announced that, after due time and within a month the house would be given full oppor tunity to adopt such rules governing its procedure “as the majority may desire.” Insurgents from the first of the fight had stated that all they wanted was this, opportunity for the house to, act. ' . There still remained a difference between .the two groups, however. Mr. Longworth proposed a delay ' in action until after the rules commit tee could consider various suggestions for changes from the mombers, where as the insurgents insisted " upon amendments by the house before the adoption of any rules. This difference was Ironed out in the more than an hour of discussion, Mr. Longworth agreeing that the Insurgent* would have freedom of action in offering amendment* to any *Qd all of the rules as proposed by the rules com mittee. liver Yarbrough On Trial Third Time Macon.—Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, den tist, will ..be placed on trial for the third time in connection with a, series of flogging cases in Bibb county, it -is announced at the office of Solicitor Roy W. Moore of city- court. The charge under which he will be prose cuted at this time, the solicitor states, is that of rioting, the .same charge as at the previous trials, but a different {case. At the first trial of Doctor Yar brough there was a verdict of acquit- jtal. At the .second trial a mistrial was declared. : v- \ \j Aviators Are Slain As Planes Collide ; San Diego, Calif.—Three naval air men were killed when two airplanes collided at an altitude of about 1,000 feet at a point almost directly over the bridge bjetween Coronado and North IslancL The dead are: Lieu tenant F. m!" Byers, 28, of Coronado. Williard B. Jackson, 2.6, ..aviation chief machinist mate, of San Diego. Thomas B. Entwistlb,- "aviation chief machinist mate, 29, whose widow re sides at Pensacola, Pla. Jackson and Entwistle, flying about 60 miles an hour, were nosing down preparatory to landing when Lieutenant Byers swung along the same course. Both airplanes crashed and plunged down ward in a spin. ’?•; J:>< Chicago Girl Is Kidnaped By Moron Chicago.—After more than 36 hours of search the police have concluded that 12-year-old Rose Borth, who dis appeared-recently after -she had been' sent for groceries, has* been kidnaped by a moron. The police say^pey are seeking a self-styled “celestial angel and heavenly father’ 1 as the possible kidnaper. They say he is described In criminal records as a moron and maniac. He is said to have escaped recently from a state hospital for the insane at Elgin, where he was sent after conviction for attacking cliil- ,dren in his religious cult under guise pf performing a religious ceremony. 80UTH DAKOTA INDOR8E8 , McADOO AND COOLIDGE Ford Is Beaten In Convention* Of Two Parties-—LaFollette Cholo* Of Fai-mer-Laborit** Pierre, S. D.—William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, re ceived the Democratic presidential in dorsement in the Democratic proposal convention with a total of 39,018 against 6,072 for Henry Ford. Ford and McAdoo were the only candidates placed in nomlnatiou. McAdoo was nominated by State Chairman W. W. Howes, of Wolsey, who made a stirring appeal for the indorsement of a “progressive and en lightened Democrat with an unchal lenged record, for constructive wel fare." Ford was nominated by James F. Houlihan of Watertown, an officer of the South Dakota Ford-for-President club, f Seventeen out of some 200 dele gates cast their votes for Ford, who received scattered. votes from eleven out of sixty-five counties. Codington county, from which Houlihan is a pro posal man and Spink county, the only two counties which voted solidly for Ford, caBt a combined vote of 2 } 006. Senator Robert M. La Follette! of Wisconsin, was given the farmer- labor presidential endorsement by a vote of 31,999 against 7,247 for Henry Ford. ; S*. -j2 aoBocpccqopooaoooBopaanoeooopnoonnqnnnnennngnnni High Grade Fertilizers We ate 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{got this kind of Service without I any Extra Cost. § “IT’S WHAT’S IN THE SACK 1 } p THAT COUNTS.” | HEARD BROTHERS. i . .^Manufacturers of fifigh Grade Fertilizers. | I; MACON, - GEORGIA. § oancrjnaoaDnocoaoonoaoooaooaoooBacooacoooa^aac D aaa ——5 — ■ ■’ If Its Bargains You are looking for Call at J. W. BLOODWORTH’S and find them. We are prepared to fill all artless for Hay Ties, Syrup Barrels, Crockery and Enamd^ ed Ware, Gun Shells, Stoves ana Ranges. Our Hardware line is complete and we carry the largest stock of Groceries in Peiry and can tbeifr* fore fill your needs in these lines to your best advantage. J. W. BLOODWORTH “THE FARMERS FRIEND.” PERRY, - GEORGIA. HEADQUARTERS 9 FOR Stakes and Fresh Meats of All Kinds. Staple and Fancy Grocries. Prompt Service. Phone 12. E. F. BARFIELD & CO. PERRY, GA. . Peach Grower Marquis Is Sued By Wealthy Woman Paris.—The Marquis de Poriteves, 64, an officer in the French army, has begun a breach of promise suit for 600,000 francs against the Countess de Beaurepaire, 50, said to be the widow of a Cincinnati millionaire named Thompson, who died in 1913 leaving her an income of 2,000,000 frames. - -• —-> You can get anything in Orchard Supplies right now. We have Spray Material o£ every Hardie Spray Machines and parts, Spray Ma terial needed now, Lime Sulphur Solution, Soluble Sulphur, Compound and Oil Emulsion* For Orchard Supplies of all kinds see Warehouse Co, Wm IS m