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SHOP AND MAIL NOW One of the important features in the Shop Early, Mail Early cam- | paign, which id being pnt on, 0 lrou^hout the country hy the Font Office Department, in the proper addressing aad seearely wrapping of Christmas package?. \V hen you wrap your Christmas: packages, wrap them securely, put four address in the upper left corner, no, if by any chance, it should go astray, it cau be return- | ed to you and not sent to the dead letter office* The good folks of our community last year helped tt bring joy and happiness to huad reds of thousuuds of postmen and clerks. Let a do our shopping ?arly and mailing early again this year, so ? hat wo may again enable the postmen and the post office clerks to eat their Christmas dinucrs home with tkeir families and at the same time assure our selves of having our Christinas presents delivered to our friends in order that they may ho opened on Clirisauins morning. HOUSTON CROP REPORT With an estimated increase of thirty por ceni in the acreage of cotton planted, Houston County had ginned eleven thousand and sixty seven bales prior to Decem ber the 1st 11)24 as compared to nix thousand live hundred and forty-seven bales to corresponding date last year. This practically completes the crop of 1924 as khere is only a few more scattering bales to bo ginned. With a splei d d melon crop, a good oorn crop etc. business conditions have improved quite a bit and business men in general ara looking forward to 1925 with a spirit af determination that hasn't, been manifested iu several years. M. C. Watson. I HATE P The fellow who gets up at 5 a. in. jumps into a tub of ice water, ?teams and blows for half an honr and then jumps back into bed und #ays, "Boy, ain't il great!"' 1 he follow who tries to make up with his girl only a week after 4bii6tmas~-(he should wail two weeks.) The guy who meets me on tile street and hollers- "Wha d'ye know, old man?" The bird who is always telling aboiv Vie good stuff he got before prohibition. The fellow who thinks that ?diting a college magaziae is "good experience." I The rube who changes the phonograph needle every time he flays a recsrd. Tiie girl who says that she had jifr fmir bobbed because it was failift? out. 1 Ths fellow who does not agree with me, "Getting Even" A grent dent of "getting oven" linn At last to molt down Into Just grumbling. Japan Leads in Divorces In proportion to population, Japan ! loads all other countries in the num ber of divorces. Necessary Losing one's temper is. of course, reprehensible, hut It Is the last resort In convincing some natures that you want to he let alone. Modern News Country el t irons now don't have to gather around tho stove In the cro <ery to discuss public questions. They ' get nil that In thoir newspapers and ? grent denl more. The Real Evil Oomes n preacher with the rows ?hot the reason there are no divorces tn heaven is because there nre no lawyers up there.?Pulletln. ? ? His Mistake Walter -"How did you order your beef, ?ir?" Omfflelgh?"I'errnnnll?, eonfound you! 1 suppose 1 oucht to have ordered It by mall two weeks in advance "?Cleveland Plain I ?enter. PAGEANT CHRISTMAS NIGHT AT 6APTIST CHURCH A Christmas pageant will be given al the Baptist church Christ mas evening at 8 o'clock by all the churches of Perry. The story of the Christ child will be told ib paatoinine and song bringing to our miads the greatest gift of God to man. A free will offering will be re ceived for the Sunday scheol rooms now under construction ?t the Baptist church, aud gifts for the needy our coinmuuity will be glad ly taken. Mr. G. C. Naan, Mr. J. R. Fudge and Mr, L. C. Howard will dis tribute the ttlfts to the poor from the three Sunday schools. Committee. SCHOOL NEWS Perry High played a de::ble lieader with Cochran High at Cochran last Friday Bight and won both gainer, by one point each. Alas, the tims is about to ar rive when Perry High will be de scried for the whole amount of two weeks. School closes Friday, December 19; for the Christmas holidays and opens again Monday, Jauuary 5, 1925; (much to our sorrow.) Of course, we are all thrilled over the long-looked-for holidays.A i This is the meath for the Sopho I mors.fJunior issue of the "<*laroon and Gold." The little Freshmen and the dignified Seniois seem a little worried. No doubt this issue will cause them to spend a few sleepless nights. liow wonderful it musk be to ride areund in a closed car for a week before school closes and see others working hard trying to acquire a little knowledge! Well, of the two evils, "mumps" or school, most of us will choose the latter. S. M- T. BUSINESS BOOM COMING! For menlhs the aigns have point ed to a revival of business that would approach 'boom" pro portions, ami now the "business boom'1 is here, according to busi ness leaders and experts here who make a study of conditions. " 1 he nation-wide business re vival now on hna much to justify it and niueh reason for continuing indefinitely," said Frank Hcmpf stead, Atlanta busirfis counsellor and probably ene of the best in formed men in the Sonth en busi ness conditions. "The year 1925 should be America's best for business," declared Mr. Hemp stead. The indications aro that the awakened business activity now so pronounced in the last, and which is rapidly spreading and already is felt in Atlanta and othar South ern cities.is according to Mr.Hcmp stead, a substantial business re vival, accompanied by a sub stantial industrial revival, and that it will last. It is a "boom" ouly of the inflated kind, that is likely to be punctured when the excitement wears off, Mr. Hemp stead says. Th? nation, according to the be lief of conservative and observant financiers and business meu, based on reports received here, is on eve of the greatest busiuess and industrial activity it has not seen for a number of years. Optimism appears general, and as Atlanta bn<?ines* men show, where there is optimism there is something to justify it. BASKET BALL TEAMS ENTERTAINED After the basket ball games played at Cocbian by l'erry and Cochran teams last Friday night, Miss Mary Bailey entertained t ho Perry teams at her home. Interest ing games were played and sandwiehes ?ud puneh were served. AUNT LIZZIE ANN'S CHRISTMAS LETTER OW, If Aunt Lizzie Ann had only written for Christmas, the family agreed ag they sat around the bif fir? that blazed upon the open hearth, everything would have been Just perfect. As it was, things were awfully nice and everyone was having such a good time, but Aunt Lizzie Ann's Christmas letter hod failed to come?the first miss since they all remembered?and its absence cast a little cloud over them, try as they would to hide It. Aunt Lizzie Ann had always written the dearest Christmas letter?gifts she had none to send since Uncle Kd died several years ago?hut always there had been that wonderful letter, that breathed so deep the very spirit of Christmas that It had almost be come a part of the very time Itself for the Dermott family. And although none of the family had yet framed the thought that Aunt Lizzie Ann must bo III, or something dreadful must have happened. It lay heavy upon them all So when George announced that he was going down to the telegraph oftice to wire they all agreed that It was the best thing to do. A soft, powdery snow was falling as he opened the door to step without. Hp had been gone only a short time when a shout from him brought them all to the doorway. And there, with the snowflukes falling around her, was the dearest little old lady, laden with bundles, which George tried In vain no help her with. "It's Aunt Lizzie Ann!" they all cried In unison. And sure enough It was Aunt Lizzie Ann. coming tills year herself instead of sending her usual letter, and she had the dearest and loveliest gifts for them all. And when the excitement of her coming had died down and they all sat around the blazing logs again, Aunt Lizzie Ann explained how she had been able to come. Uncle Ed had taken out an endowment policy for her several years ago; it had now ma tured and she was free to do the things she had wanted to for so long. "You have been giving to me for so many years," she said, "it makes me feel real good to be able to make some return at last." But the family assured her In all sincerity that It was she who had given the most to them always?for her wonderful Christmas letter had helped them more than they could ever tell her.?Katherlne Edelman. (?. 1924. Western Newspaper Union.) THE "SANTA SACK" GAME FOR KIDDIES ANTA CLAUS is a real problem to some mothers. Shall theil" children he told the troth about Santa Claus, or shall they think of him as sliding down the chimney with reindeer and sleigh? This idea may help some mother who is puzzled over this question: Before our little folks were old enough to understand about the exist ence of Santa Claus, whenever we sew a picture of the Jolly old man, we called him Sunny, or Smiling Santa, because he looked happy. And he looked happy because he was good and kind to everyone. So when the children quarreled or pouted we would try to have them smile and look jolly, like Santa, whose picture we had among others we referred to, as moral or myth pictures. As the children grow to understand more fully the meaning of the Chrlst mnstide we played n game, "Santa sack," which meant that If they al lowed each other or their playmates to play with their toys or gave them of their apples or cookies, they were playing Santa Claus, because Santa Claus was unselfish and divided what ever he had from his sack. Sometimes when thpir playmates came, we would say, "You'll want to play 'Santa Sack.' and away they would skip to distribute tlieir toys like Santa. They delighted to play and be called Santa when they ran er rands. smiled or did something kind. Santa was a make-helleve creature, as characters In poems which we read to them, such as "The Raggedy Man," "Children's Hour," "Jack Sprat," "Hiawatha." Anyone who gave a gift at any time of year was a Santa. And whenever Santa Claus distributed gifts at school or at any public place, they were delighted that someone was playing Santa as they played "bear." "doctor" or "teacher" In the home with their little friends. For anyone who Is unselfish, kind and cheerful Is to them a Santa Claus to someone else. As they grew older the Santa sack was woven Into a lesson story with the thought that each of us has some thing in smiles, kind words and deeds to give to another all the time. For the real Santa enve much?all he had?from his sack of treasures In Bethlehem long ago! So Santa Clans means unselfishness. cheerfulness, kindness?many thincs that are worth while to our children. ? Gertrude Walton. (?. 1924. Wf?t?rB Kew?>??#r Vnloa.) Provide for the Future by Using Our Sayings Department We Pay Four Per Cent Quarterly Houston Banking Co., "Bank of Service" PERRY, , GEORGIA. RIES & ARMSTRONG RELIABLE GOODS ONLY Phone 836 315 Third Street Macon, Ga. Don't Throw Money Away Buy useful Christmas Presents Buckeye Incubators, Buckeye Brooders, Kelly Axes and Handles, Pruning Shears, Lard Cans, Salt for Meat, Plows and Plow Gear, Wagon Harness, Gas Engines, Wagon Lines. PURINA FEEDS Startena, Baby Chick Feed, Laying Mash, Scratch Feed, Cow Chow, Pig Chow, Horse and Mule Feed, and numerous other useful gifts. Come to see us and get some thing useful. GEO. C. NUNN, THE HUSTLER Phone 31 Perry, Ga. Opposite Depot