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HOUSTON HUME JOURNAL
l*rice #1.50 A Year, la Advance.
Published Kvi-ry Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN L. HODGES, Editor.
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Thursday, Fkuruary 12.
FEBRUARY 12 IS GEORGIA DAY
Today, February I2th is Georgia
Day,marking the li):jid anniversary
?t the founding of tlie state l>y
?General Oglethorpe.
Georgian's have no reason to be
'Ashamed of i heir record and the
record of their ancestor) during
Che p.ist two centime?. In fact the
achievements of hut* m>us and the
?develoment of her icsomces is a
fact in which we (nay all be proud,
llowevur wi li all Iter achieve
ment i ho undeveloped rcMources
of the state ue almost limitless
and aie a challenge to every loyul
citizen to make of Georgia the
very best ? slate in the union.
When every day in "Georgia
Day" for every citizen this pos
sibility will i ocenile a reality,
A record of some of the ways in
which < eorgia is preeminent, as
compiled by .Vliss Mildred Ruth
erford anil ??thci>, i.' is follows.
Georgia the lirgt to rule
rum from he colony,
First to rule slavery from the
clony.
First in the United States to
establish an orphans' asylum ?
Ebenezer.
First to send a schooner against
the British in tlio American revo
lution.
First to legislate against the
slave 11 ado.
First to establish a state uni
versity?Athens, in 1785.
First lo have a Sunday school?
John Wesley, a year before the
birth of Robert Uaikes. to whom
the Credit is usually accorded.
First to have a pasaeuger rail
way Augusta to Charleston*
First to apply steam to navi
gation.
i'irst lo send a steamer across
-the ocean?The Savannah.
First in the world to have a
woman's foreign missionary so
ciety?at Athens, in 181'J.
First to charter a woman's col
?^Vge? Wesley an.
First woman in the world to re
ceive a diploma?Mrs. Catherine
H rawer.
First to bestow degrees on wo
men.
Fir>t to have a sewing machine.
First to discover ether anaes
thesia?Dr. Crawford W. Long.
First to send troops to the Con
fedeiate service?the 0?lotharpe
Light Infantry, of Savannah.
First to celebrate memorial day.
First to tunnel under the Hud
son river?William MeAdoo.
First, to cup trees for turpen
itino Prof. Clias. Ilerty.
First to diversify crops. First
prize at St. Louis exposition.
Hest peaches in the world.
The greatest mountain of granite
in the world?Stone Mountain.
The most sublime waterfall in
Jthe south?Tallulah.
?No other state had a Sidney
Lanier.
No other state had an "Uncle
Remus." Additional Things.
First Southern state to have a
poet lauroate?Frank L. Stanton.
Grier's Almanac was founded
and printed in Georgia.
Largest tobacco plantation in
.the world is in Georgia.
The Georgia railroad c o m
vnission, organized in 1877, was
the first in the history of the world, j
The circular saw was invented j
.by Mr- Cow in Georgia in 1895. [
There i? no other Okefenokee;
dwtmp in Amorica.
The United States has nine
zones of climate; Georgia has
eight of them.
Georgia has the only Peach
Blossom Festival and produces
more peaches t han any other state.
Largest deposit of kaoliu in the |
?world.
Among the Missing
What has become of the old
fashioned novelist who could inspire
the affoctlon of tils readers for at least
4>ne of his characters?
POLLYANNA
COLYUM
Kuitfht of the
Grip?Who is tho
responsible man
iu tbis store.
B o j?I don't
know who the re
sponsible party is.
but I am the ono
who Kt'tH all the
blame.
Mr. Newly wed (at
the dinner table) Dear
what kind of pie is
that?
M r s. Newlywed?
liliulmrb, darling:.
M r. Nowlywed?
But why did you make such a
large onef
Mi?. Newly wed?Because I
couldn't get any shorter rhubarb.
Marjorie, aged four, marched in
to the grocery store to tell the
uews
" We've got a uew baby brother
up at our house," she said.
''You don't tell ine!" said the
grocer. "Is he going to staj 1"
"I guess so, "Marjorie said,
"Htf's got his things off."
An Advertising Cow
Little Jane was walking in the
country with her mother.
''Graeiou?! What was that
noise?"' exclaimed mother.
"Oh, that's a cow mooning?
trying 10 sell her nulk." s.iid Jane.
Pleasures Not Forgotten
T was at a wedding yesternight.
A young man sat sedately,
L asked him if he'd kissed the bride.
He answered me, "Not lately."
Some of the shyest girls are the
most lovin' in the dark.
"No man can kiss ray daughter
and get away with it!" stormed
her father.
"But I'm not trying to get
away," protested the suitor. "1
came back for more,"
Sign above dance floor: "Dancers
please use'your feet."
Think of it! Headline says:"Man
accused of stealing llees from a
policeman.
Little girl (disturbed in her
prayers by her teasing young
brother) "Lord, parden me a
minute while I kick Willie.'"
The employee who aspires to be
come master must master his job.
"It should be no less than
capital punishment for any sales
person to preface or finish his oi
lier remarks with 'girlie', declares
Bill.
"Environment effects a man,"
said the head of the department
store. "Wefully understand that."
"What's the trouble sir?" asked
the salesman.
"You have become rather harsh
in files. We'll put you on soft soap
for a while.'"
liill says he knows another fel
low who thinks daylight savings
is a banking and trust company.
Visitor: Will you be good
enough to tell me the name of the
pie.tue they're producing?
Bystander: 1 don't know yet.
What is it all about, then?
I'm sure I can't say.
Aren't you one of the directors?
Lord, no! I'm the author,
"Did you fall?" asked a man
rushing to the rescue of a woman
who slipped on the cement pave
ment.
"Oh, no," she said, "I just sat
down here to see if I couldn't find
some four leaf clovers.1'
A dairy maid milked tbe pensive
goat.
And pouting, paused to mutter,
"i wish, you brute, you'd turn to
milk,''
And the animal turned to butt
her.
Vote for H. P. Houser for
Treasurer.
German Silver
Combination of ropprr. nlrfctf nnd
^.'n<-, and sometimes a little Iron ami
tin. makes Gcnnar silver. j
TIME TO QUIT
TRADING DOLLARS
HASTINGS DECLARES THAT PRES
ENT SOUTHERN FARM SYSTEM
GETS US NOWHERE
Atlanta. Ga.? (Special.)?"It's time
for every Southern farmer who clings)
to the all, or nearly all, cotton idea to
do a lot of straight thinking before
ho pitches his 1925 crop. Most of our
cotton farmers are trading dollars
and losing at that three years out of
four," said H. G. Hastings, leading
agricultural authority and Chairman
of the Farm and Marketing Iiureau of
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
"For the past two years Providence
has stepped in and saved us from the
results of our own folly. In 11)23 we
planted thirty ? nine million acros ol
cotton; in 1324 forty million acres
In each of these years there was acre
ago enough to have made, with even
fair season conditions, sixteen to eigh?
teen million hales and a ten-cent price
or less with the inevitable farm smash
that such price would bring." Provi-,
donee cannot be depended on indefi '
nitely to bring unfavorable seasons j
and cut down yield per acre. We |
utepped up a couple of million bales i
in 1924, and, by so doiiv?, the South
has lost about threo hundred million j
dollars that have come right out oJ I
the farm pocket.
"In spite of theso danger signals
flying in every cotton state, plant ;
are being made everywhere to in-;
crease cotton acreage in 1925. Thi
can only be done at the oxpoho
of cutting down food and gr.iin acres,
at a time when food and grain is hiyb
and going higher every week.
"I am no alarmist, but the present
tendency, the intent to plant the whole ;
face of the earth in. cotton this spring
that is so evident gives me grave con
cern. If the boll weevil or drought
don't cut the 1925 crop, starvation low
prices will get the cotton grower. The
situation looks just as hazardous to me
as in 1920, unless the craze for in
creased cottoa acreage can be headed
off somehow.
Growing cotton and buying bread
meat and grain is simply trading dol
lar?., or worse. It never is profitable.
Most years it's a losing game. There
is only one way to safeguard 1925 !
Plan for and plant enough food, grain
and forage acres to insure your family
ar.d live stock fall food supply with
out buying from store or feed dealer
In this don't forget that a good bi?
homo garden is a wonderful fooci
source. With food and live stock
amply provided for, a good living is
insured, reganllesr, of cotton prices.'
The Seal Of
"EYE SIGHT SAFETY"
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
MACON OPTICAL CO.,
J. N. Kalish F. H. Johnson
Maoon, Ga,
Modern News
Country citizens now don't have to
gather around Hie stove In the gro
cery to discuss public questions. They
get all that in their newspapers and
a great deal more.
o ?? ?
Wasted Allowances
Tutor?"Of course, I admit your son
Is extravagant. But you must make
allowances. lie's young." The Father
?'"Tint's all right! Put the more al
lowniires I mak j the quicker he spend?
'cm."?Stray Stories.
Where Women Are Barred
According to the census there are
3f> occupations of the total number of
listed occupations In which no women
are found, while there is but one oe
rupnt^n that 13 without men. The
last enumeration even listed 250 men
as chambermaids and 11 men as
nursemaids. Only one woman was
listed as a butler.
Vote for H. P. Houser for
Treaturer.
FURNITURE
We are offering many useful articles in our
Furniture Store that you will do well to look at
when in Perry.
GROCERIES
Our s took is fresh and up-to-date. Buy once of
us and you will be pleased with
every purchase.
W. B.SIMS,
Two Stores
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No.2&. Daj Phone No. 8,
Pekhy Ga.
Big Reductions
On broken lots of
Shoes
500 pairs Mens, Womens and Chil
drens Shoes and Slippers to be sacri
ficed to make room for the New Spring
Slippers which will arrive in a few
days. Ii you are in need of Shoes and
can be fitted in this lot, you can have
your choice at about half price.
Come in and look them over.
W. E. SWANSON,
PERRY, GA.
TO THE VOTERS OF
HOUSTON COUNTY
I just want to announce to you that I am in the
race for County Treasurer. As you know I was
born in Houston, raised in Houston, and married
in Houston. I have always tried to be a public
spirited and patriotic citizen, and this is the first
time I have ever ask for a County Office. I will
appreciate your support and your influence and
will promise my best service if elected.
Yours very sincerely,
HOUSTON P. HOUSER,
FRESH
FISH
AND
OYSTER S
DAILY
WE ARE PREPARED TO SERVE YOU
BETTER THAN EVER
W. II. & J. L. KUNZ,
KUNiC BUILDING, PERRY, OA.