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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
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Published Kv??ry Thursday Morning
Official Organ of IIouHtoa County
JOHN L. HODGKS, Editor.
TmOk-sday, July 9.
POLLYANNA
60IYUM'
No editor is as
silly as tbo lino-j
type sometimes
makes him feel.
Love intoxi
cates the old aud
sobers the young.
Voice: Mary
what are you doing
down there*
Mary: Tho best I
can, father.
T h 0 waiter won't
notico that you tip
your soup plato the
wrong wuy if you tip
hira the right way.
Tho world'? first family argu
ment took place when Eve ad
mitted she was in love with Ben
Davis.
A Florida plumber presented a
wealthy Miami man with a plumb
ing bill for $125. But tho man
handed the plumber a dollar and
.?aid sternly:
"Receipt that bill of your'a iu
full.''
"But?" said the plumber.
"Receipt it in full,*' presisted
the man, "I used to be a plumber
myself."
The plumber gave a start, took
out his gold fountain pen, receipt
ed the bill in full, and gave tho
man thirty-five cent? in change.
The cost of living is like an
evening gown, says Bill it looks
like it was going to come down,
but it doesn't.
A bank engages a number of
young men during the summer,
and on their salary receipts is
printed a legend something like
this: 41 Your salary is your personal
business?a confidential matter?
and should not be disclosed to
anybody ol?e."
One of the boys in signing this
reoeipt added: "I won't mention
it to nnybody. I'm as much
ashamed of it as you are. Good
bye."
It's easy to fall in Love?Get
ting out?There's the rub.
BUTCHER BOY BLUES
I never sausage eyes as thine,
And if you'll butcher baud in mine.
And liver round me every (lay,
We'll seek some hani-let far away.
We'll moat life's frown with
love's caress ?
And cleaver road to happiness.
T h e prohibition enforcement
program is likely to knock our
president's economy program into
a cocked hat.
Many a man is a hero to himself
without having to work hard at it. j
Love is a blending of the foolish
and the ridiculous ? but garlic
nnder any other name would be as
offensive.
Picnic?, says Bill ar? the mo?ft
enjoyable to those who can tak?
olives and get away with It.
And if all the farmers buy Henry
Ford's airplanes, stealing water
melons will become very, very
dangerous business indeed.
About the only thing a lot of |
men run at home is the lawn
Mower.
It is doubtful and remarkable
hew some alleged pure minded
people can see so muoh in an en
tire.ly respectable jok?.
Entirely too many girls get
married jast to keep from becom
ing old maid?, say? Bill.
They tell of a ma* who ran
away from beat#, gays Bill, kindly'
neighbors went in to help oat bis
wifo but sympathy took a sadden
ewileh when they found Afty-two
unwashed milk bottle?.
GEORGIA'S OPPORTUNITY
To Georgia's ?00,000 Taxpayers:
W hat would it be worth to Geor
gia to write into her constitution a
paragraph declaring against a stat*
income tax and a state inheritance
tel X?
Not less than one billion dollars!
Half a dozen lines written into
the constitution of a neighboring
state, induced 500 multi-million
aires to move their citizenship
there, and the present tremendous
Florida boom was the direct re
8UA New York man who controls
$100,000,000. told an Atlanta busi
ness man a few days ago that if
Georgia will offer protection to
to capital, hundreds of owners of
great fortunes will transfer their
citizenship to this state. ^
There is a deliberate Socialist
Bolshevist movement in thiscoun- (
try to confiiscate property through
income and inheritance taxes. A
Newnan citizen writes me that
while ho was in New England early
in June, a cotton manufacturer
there told liim that he is selling
his machinery and intends to tear ^
dOwn his mill buildings because j
taxes are taking all his earnings (
and are eating up his capital.
There aro thousands of similar
cases in the North and Middle
West.
These people are dissatistiea.
They want to move. If we offer
them protection from confiscation,
they will come to Georgia in droves.
Let us profit by the situation.
Abolish the "grave yard" tax, de
clare against a state income tax for
at le ist25 or 30 years and Georgia
will have an immense inpouring of
now citizens, now wealth, new in
dustries, Thousands will come to
buy our idle lands.
On the other hand, if we keep
our inheritance tax and impose an
i income tax, we will stop new capi
tal from coming here and we will
drive away much that we have.
Some citizens who draw their
salaries from the taxpayers, may
deny this. They are like the man
who, seeing a hump backed camel
for the first time, declared there
aint no sich animal." He did not]
believe his own eyes. Doubtless,
some people will deny that settlers
and wealth are pouring into
Florida
Certain Georgians want to in
crease the inheritance tax and
impose an income tax. They mean
well but they would destroy the,
state. .
Others want to declare against
both these taxes?just as our
neighbor has done?attract capital
and build up Georgia.
Cut over lands in Florida are!
retailing from $60.00 to $10,000.
an acre. Georgia will mis? a won
derful opportunity if she fails to
profit by her neighbor's experience- j
Unless wo amend our laws this
summer, we will not have auother i
chance for two years and by that j
time Virginia, Texas, California,
Maine, and a dozen other states,
will have followed our noighbor'sj
example. They have all learned
that they must stop soaking the
rich" or very soon they will not
have any rich left.
Talk to or write your represeuta-,
tive and senator and urge action
this summer.
Yours truly,
Frank Weldon,
622 Forsyth Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Audubon's Great Work
The price of each copy of the first
edition of the noted American orni
thologist John James Audubon's fa
mous work, "Birds of America," wns
91,000. It was published by subscrip
tion. between the years 1827 and 1880.
Common Sense
After all, ommon sense Is only the
sort of sense which you have In abund
ance and In which other people are sin
gularly lacking.?Waterbury Republi
can.
Active Mind's Great Value
The blessing of an active mind, when
It la In good condition. Is, that It not
only employs Itself, but la almoat sure
to be tbe means of giving wholesale
employment ?? others.?Exchange.
Radioactive Beings
Albert Nodon, Paris, has made ex
periments which Indicate that all living
thing* ire radioactive.
20-YEAR RECORD OF
PROGRESS IN SOUTH
Progress made by the South in
the expansion and diversification
of its manufacturing activities
during the past 20 years is graphi
cally shown by figures contained
in the annual report of the South
ern Kail way Company just issued.
From 1904 to 1924 the tous of
manufactured products, including
all less than carload freight,
handled by the Southern increased
from 5,820,828 to 12,291,573, or
111 per cent.
During the same perid the tons
of products of mines increased
from 8,568,471 to 19,009,314 tons,
or 110 per cent, an interesting fact j
being that the coal traffic doubled
despite the very large development
of hjdro-electric power in the,
South.
The tonnage of products of,
forests increased from 3,607,174
7,785.836, or 116 per cent; pro-j
ductsof agriculture from 2,450,732
to 4.232,224, or 73 per cpnt, and
products of animals from 285,844
to431,334 tons, or 51 percent.? EtJ
PETITION FOR LEAVE TO SELL LAND
Georgia Houston County.
Rebecca Bentley, administratrix of the
?state of Tom Bontley deceased having
applied for leave to sell the following
property te-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land, situate
lying and being in the Tenth District of
Houston County Georgia, ami being
known as the southern half of lot num
ber 217, containing one hundred and one
and one fourth (10lX) acres, more or
less, and the Northern portion of lot
216 extending to the branch, and con
taining seventy (70) acres, more or les?,
and the Southeastern eorner of lot fOO
containing thirty one (31) acres. All of
said tracts or parcels of land together
containing Iwo hundred two and one half
(202>?) acres, more or leas, being a part
of the land deeded to C. B. Willingham
Jr. by L. K. and C. B. Willingham, by
deed recorded in Clerk's Office, Houston
County, Hook 7 folio 323.
Said property to be sold for the purpose
of payiu&r debts and for destruction.
This is to notify all persons concerned
to show cause if any they enn why her
application for leave to sell should not
be granted at the Court of Ordinary on
the first Monday in August next. This
July 7, 1925.
M. L. Cooper Ordinary, i
Safety
No intelligent man or womao
doubts the absolute safety of Old
Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance
today and certainly not a Com
pany with forty years experience
and five hundred millions of in
surance in force?
Service
includes the solicitation of your
business, the medical examination
the delivery of the policy, collec
tion of premiums, arrangement of
loans, assignments, change of bene
ficiaries, etc.,and finally the proofs
of death and payment to bene
ficiary?
Satisfaction
can only be gained by entrusting
your business to one who is not
only willing but capable of serv
ing vou with safety.
j. GUY JACKSON,
"The Guy Who Puts The Sure In
Your Insurance."
Life-Acoident-Health-Group
Missouri State Life Insurance Co.,
Citizens and Southern Bank Bldg,
Phones: 11423514-w
Bex 53 Macon, G a.
W. Cooper Jones,
Local Kepiesentative.
WARNING NOTICE
Persons are hereby warded not lo
buy or trade for a note for $100.00
made by Chas. Banister te W. h.
Henry and dne August 20, 1925.
Chas. Banister, Perry Gal
Keep kool with a General Elec
tric Fan; we have the all sixes.1
Mo Lend on Auto Co. j
FOK SALH?Twenty milk caw, |
fresk in milk. Robert S. Andersons!
Hawkinsrille, Ga. I
W. A. STROTHER j
IINtURANCI
FURNITURE
We are offering many useful articles in our
Furniture Store that you will do well to look at
when in Perry.
GROCERIES
Our stook is fresh and up-to-date. Buy once of
us and you will be pleased with
every purchase.
W. B. SI M S,
Two Stores
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No. 2*2. Day Phone No. 8,
Pkrry Ga
JUST RECEIVED
A most remarkable line of
Summer Hats for Ladies
and Misses at a most
remarkable price.
SEE OUR WINDOW
YOUR CHOICE $1.45
Also just received a new line of Fancy
Voiles and Satinettes. They are pret
ty goods. You want to give
our line a look.
W. E. SWANSON,
PERRY, GA.
HEADQUARTERS
FOR
Steaks and Fresh Meats of
All Kinds.
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Prompt Service. Phone 12.
E. F. BARFIELD & CO.
PERRY, GA.
The Best in Fire Insurance
Quick Service in Auto Insurance
See Us Before the Fire
H. P. HOUSER, Agency
Perry, Ga., Phone 36
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