The Home journal. (Perry, Houston County, GA.) 1901-1924, December 27, 1923, Image 2
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THE HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. In Advance
Published Every Thursday Morning
Offlciitl Organ of Houston County
JOHN H. & JOHN L. HODGES
Thursday, Dko. 27.
POLLYANNA
COLYUM
Hello folks. If
you are too gentle
folks will call you
a brute the first
time you are even
firm*
GEORGIA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
It's a oase of
genuine love,
thinks Bill if he
keeps his eye on the
girl instead of the
taxi meter.
Thetb’s a grocer in
my old home town,
says Bill., who has
oarroty hair, a cauli
flower far, radish cheeks, a turn
up nose, and a 7 ]/i bean.
All work and no play makes
jack. , .,
GIVE US CHECKERS
It may bo a great game
But still we think
We’ll leave Mali Jongg
To the Heathen Gliink,
A bird in tbe hand costs
average sportsman a dollar.
the
Once a woman was deeply dis
tressed. The other day she dropped
her baby while rolling a cigarette.
Putting off an easy thing, aptly
says Bill, makes it hard and put
ting off a hard thing makes it ini*
possible.
Whan the family goes out every
evening, sqys Bill yod can't blame
tlip furnace for doing likewise.
Heavy suppers produce light
sleepers.
Bill tells of a man . who shucks
coi*h so fast he has to ride a bi
cycle to keep up with himself. He
says that with his bicycle he can
easily shuck one hundred bushels
of popcorn a day But, of course, J
he can’t work at all if tbe field is
too muddy for his bicycle.
Too many people, thinks Bill
will give three cheors for- some
thing they won’t give anything
clso for.
Never judge a man by the r
tie he is wearing. Oftimes he
rather wear it and have J
feelings hurt than to hi?
feelings.
Parlors: None
mere, but wo have
Undertaking
Billiard.
Beau fy
Soft Drink
Tonsorial
Sun
Hotel
Church.
at home
these:
Prayer is often just begging foi*
what you oughtn’t to haver.
L. J. Spence, traffic director of
Southern Pacifio, after an extend
ed trip through the west, says:
“My contact with men of affairs
in different parts of the country
and a general survey of
conditions justify a prediction of
continued prosperity, which would
be greatly stimulated by a sub
stantial reduction of income taxes
during the approaching session of
Congress aud by reasonable assur
ance that there will be no radical
legislation to undermine the fun
damentals upon Which the em
ployment and prosperity of all
classes of people depend.”
Atlanta—New English Avenue
public school under construction
her*.
Athens—-New Dupree building
under construction
Covington—Central rai 1 r o a d
making extensive improvements
to local depot.
Amerieus—New Andersonville
Consolidated High School com
pleted at a cost of $12,000.
Albany—Plans being made for
erection of $100,000 office build
ing.
Newnan—Local Bank and Trust
Company declares six per cent
dividend.
Hawkinsville-—Local Cold Stor*
age company buys loeal creamery
plant.
Atlanta—Work on new Big
Bethel A- M. E. church resumed.
Amerieus—New Shipp Indus
trial School for negroes completed
Augusta—New $200,000 YMC
A and West End “Y” building to
be built.
Atlanta—$10,000,000 University
planned for poor boys aud girls
here.
Augusta—Contract to be let for
constriction work on new
wood Hospital here at a cost of
$000,000.
Savannah—New St. T h o m a s
Church completed-
Atlanta—Coca Cola Company
declares quarterly dividend.
Jackson—Butts county ships
119 Cars of pimento peppers this
season as compared with- 25 cars
last year.
Valdosta—Establi s li m e n t of
new Junior College for boys con
sidered.
Atlanta—Local Coal and Ice
Corporation declare 25 per eent
dividend.
Amerieus—Cayo Andrews com
pany organize* to carry on general
construction business here.
Geological Survey says average
daily production of electricity by
public utility power plants for
August was 150,200,000 kilowatt
hours-
Atlanta—Piedmont Operating
’Many takes lease on Piedmont
nvolving $160,000 yearly,
an Cotton Association
l estimate of cotton
" 000 bales,
itbern Ra i 1 w a y to
runk lino to Binning-
jia.
. S'. S. West Virginia
jrful fighting craft in
„ takes to water in near
e will be propelled by
v/00 horsepower General
Eltoviic iuduction motors, 12 feet
in diameter, weighing 62 tons,and
among largest ever built. Power
that would be sufficient to supply
a city of 100,000 population will
be derived from these motors.
Savaunah Morning News be
lieves that less frequent sessions
would tend to lower taxes, and
Mil Live' After Plunging 110 Feet'
Florence, Ala.—David Price, a negro:
imployee on Wilson dam, described
low it felt to fall 110 feet perpen-
ltcularly and land on one’s head on
lolid rock. Price was hurtled through
.ipace. Fellow workmen expected to
3nd him dead when they' reached the
fiver bed. They were surprised to
Ind that he not only dfd not lose con-
busi nasV ,cl0UBneBB from the fall but talked!
1 ’atlonally while being carried to a!
irst aid station. Surgeons said he
lad a fractured skull but was resting!
veil and would probably recover. i
Slant Oak Play* Role Decreed To It;
Nyack, N. Y.—A. superstition has;
sxisted in the family of Martin Fin-
ten that a giant oak standing in front,
if the FInken farmhouse would some;
lay bring a mishap to the family,
lecently the tree crashed down on
3arry Finken, eldest Bon, and killed
lim. The oak, moss-covered and gnarl-i
id with age, leaned dangerously to
ward the house. After the gales of
die last few nights Harry Finken do-!
;ermined to end both, superstition and
ree, was attacking the trunk with an!
ixe when the tree fell on him. )'
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£00 Live* Lost In Columbian ’Quake
Quito, Ecuador.—More than 200
persons were killed in ! the earthquake
shock which caused severe damagd
in the Ipiales region!’on the Colom-
blan-Ecuadorlan frontier, according
to latest dispatches received from the
’quake area. Damage is more ex
tensive than at first reported, many
frontier towns in both countries be
ing badly shaken. The shock was es
pecially severe at Tulcan City. Both
Colombian Red Ctobb are rushing re-
the Ecuadorian Red Cross and th*
lief units to the devastated area.
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No. 22. Day Phbne No. 8,
PSRRY GA. ' IH
lumber wanted
Three Men Are Held For Bomb Plot
Philadelphia.—Police are holding
throe men suspected of being Impli-
coted In the bomb explosions at the
Spanish and Italian consulates. The
Authorities admit, however, they do
not believe any of the men were dl-
jrectly responsible for the explosion *
Which damaged the buildings hour
Len- 1 th0 conBUl ates, slightly Injured :
than a score of persons and shat
the glass of windows In the nelknooi
hoods where they occurred. Suspicion
cents on a group of six men, who.
,were seen with suspicious packages.
A snake was discovered in tbe
wiugs at a Paris theater. Bill says
the poor reptile probably thought!
it had fonnd its way back to the tllat biennial sessions would make
garden of Eden. [for greater efficiency, that Georgia
,, 'is suffering from “to much legis -
John, is everything shut up Mure,
for the night.” j “Undoubtedly prosperity pre-
Every thing else, dear. ’ J vails in the south,” says Presi
dent Faifrax Harrison of tbe
1 Southern Railway Company. The
Southern is handling more traffic
the hunter waiting for him,
Make a mousetrap better
your neighbor and you will
nllypur neighbor’s rats.
than
catch
than ever before, handling it
smoothly and without congestion,
and at lower average freight rates
, (than have'been obtained for sev
eral years. In the first eight
months of 1923 the Southern’s
like freight revenues were $70,022,040
as compared with $55,635,052 for
Certainly—come out at night the same period of 1922. Passen-
and disappear in the morning.” ger revenues increased from $19,-
* 513,802 to $22,239,660.
Bill thiiks being president real- -— — 111 ’*■
&.fgreMTft JMf Acetylene Welding at
coal pile is going to last all winter. ' M sLendon Auto Co
THE LUMINARJES
“You women,ought to be
stars in the,live* of ns men.”
Mayor And 24 Tlfflnltes Are Indicted
Toledo, Ohio.—Mayor Adolph Un
ger, of Tiffin, Ohio, and twenty-four
other residents of Tiffin were indict
ed by the federal grand Jury on the
charge of conspiracy to vidlate the
national dry law. The indictment rei
cites a list of 42 alleged overt acts!
Unger, Eugene Grimes and Charles*
Bare, are charged with having formed 1 ;
a “partnership” at Unger’s suggestion
to “go into the bootlegging buslnes,’'
and Uner is said to have promised}
l,o protect the business of the partner
ship by prosecuting other violators.
Kellogg Confirmed As Ambassador
Washington.—After a contest in ex
ecutive session, the nomination of
Frank B. Kellogg, former United
States senator from Minnesota, to he
ambassador to Great Britain, has
been confirmed by the senate. Both
of the Farmer-Labor senators, John
son and Ships team and several others
are understood to have argued against
their confirmation. They lost their
Eight, however, on a roll call vote.
Kollog' will sail for Great Britain early
iii the beginning of the new year to
assume his duties.
Senator Johnson Will Enter Race
Pierre, South Dakota.—Senator Hi-
*am Johnson will file as a candidate
for the nomination as president at the
Murch state-wide primary. This has
been, made Jmown by John Suther
land, attorney of this city, and promi v
nent Republican, who received a tele
gram from Johnson giving him power
of attorney and asking him to file
Johnson's name'* on the minority Re
publican ticket in South Dakota. It
is ccncseded that Senator Johnson
will run a strong race in this state,
where he is well known.
Columbus.—A coal car of a work
train of the Central of Georgia rail,
pad was turned over at the crossing
of the Seaboard and Central near
Hurtsboro, Ala., recently, when struck
by a passenger train of the Seaboard,
according to .officials of the Centra!
of Georgia here. No one .was injured
and the damage was slight, looal of
ficials stated.
WW buy Rough Boards and Framing eith-
er green or dry; also clear boards green-
Best prices pajid and cash. 1
Macon, Georgia, and tell us
i you have to offer.
ARNETT LUMBER CO
MACON, GEORGIA ;
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Castor Oil, Paregoric, .Teething Drops “ and Soothing Syrups, .
prepared ic relieve Infants in arms and Children all
Constipation iWind Colic
Flatulency * To Sweeten Stomach:
Diarrhea Regulate Bowels : ^ M
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Natural Sleep without Opiates
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of '<
proven directions on each package.'
Mother And Girl Found ’In Ashes
Jefferson.—Lured from their home
by a fictitious note purporting to be
3igncd by a relative, waylaid on the
journey, slain, the bodies stripped,
carried to an abandoned farm house
In the country, and the house set
aflame to wipe out all trace of crime
such Is the theory upon which
posses of aroused citizens are sweep
ing Jackson and adjoining counties
In search of the alleged slayers of
! Mrs. Mag Sipions, 40, and her daugh-
! ter, Uzxle, 14, whose partially cre
mated bodies were found In the ashesj
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