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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A Year. In Advance.
Published Every Thurwday Morning
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Official Organ of Houston County
JOHN L. HODGKS, Editor.
Thursday, Jui.y 30.
THE HOME NEWSPAPER
It has been ?aid that no institu
tion not founded on a fundamental
.human need cau live. The reverse
of this is also true. This is why
the home newspaper, as an insti
tution, lias survived mauy things;
the onslaughts of individual op
position, the increase of paper and
printing costs, the peril of unpaid 1
subscriptions, tho uncertainty of
advertising patronage, the prob
lems, of its own professional compe
tition, and the hazards of its own
mistakes. Through all tbese the
home newspaper still lives.
When subjected to the test of
whether the home newspaper could
?be done without, there always fol
lows the inevitable reaction of
whether the people of the com
munity would want to do without
Jt. The more 17,000 daily, weekly
woini-weekly and tri-weekly news
papers in the United Stato and
Cyaoada stand as proof of the im
portant service the newspaper
renders in its local circulation field.
The newspaper is not au in
vention nor is it a fad or fancy. It
is a growth, a development made
possible by the co-operative and
xeceptive spirit of the people them
selves because of the need for the
transmission of news and as a
circulation medium for advertising
tho products of the community
and of the world. But the home
newspaper is even more than this.
It is the echo of the community's
voice, a spokesman of the com
inunity's mind, a reflection of the
community's vision, a champion
of the community's rights, and a
direct avenue for the community's
progress.?The Knoxville (Tenu.)
Tribune.
Some people think we have too
Ynany laws in this country,but why
worry? Only a few of thein are
being obeyed.
Mrs. Bands ? Does your husband
confide I)is business troubles to
you?
Mrs. Hands?Yea, indeed?
*svery time I buy aaything.
Bobbed bair is for young girls
and girls who thought they'd look
young wheu they bobbed it.
Mrs Kate Andrews of New York
.aged ?4, was arrested for speed
ing. These modern girls are certain
-ly terrible.
An elderly bishop, a bachelor,
fouud his maid had been using
his private bath. He proceeded to
?cold her, and concluding said:
What distresses me most, Mary,
in that you have done this behind
jny back."
From the tree of useless knowl
edge we learn that a ring on the
hand is worth two on the phone.
A radio bug tells that he tuned
in on the ice box and got Bologna.
If a girl had three gentleman
friends, named respectively Wil
liam. William and William, ceuld
-it be said that she bad the willies?
Keeping in the lead of your
creditors by one jump is another
Hign of real leadership!
ff>ibble ?"What was the greatest
-war eoog ever written?''
Dabble?"Herecome? the bride''
?Bill says that many girls wisely
enrb their taste for green onions
antil after marriage.
l>ove isn't blind. It simply
doesn't give a darn.
The only utterly efficient op
,lifters are these who work on
;?rie?*.
IB v en mosquito* don't seem to
?ia to have the punch they used to. ?
Driving an automobile would
not be so bad if the sane driver
knew whai the fool driver might
-4o.
PROTEST AGAINST HIGH RENTS
After uiany, years of inactivity
Perry has become almost over
night known to be The Growing
City, the place of opportunity, the
subject of our dreams and desires;
but we are not living up to our
opportunities in encouraging its
growth and development.
It is reported that the Clinch
field Corporation finds it increas
ingly difficult to keep operatives
on account of the very high prices
being charged tbem here for living
accomodations. It is reported that
those who want rooms arc charged
from $40. to $60. for rooms that a
year ago would have rented for
$15. or $20. and that they are be
ing charged for board at the rate
of $13. to $15. per week, whereas a
year ago they would have gotten
this board for $7.50 per week. We
know that it is only human to get
all we can for anything that we
have to sell but wo are afraid thai
some day we will wake up aud
find that we have "killed the
goose that laid Ihe golden egg".
It is not at all without the bounds
of possibility for the Clinchfield
Corporation to build an immense
Apartment House where their em
ployees can get living accomoda-'
tions at a price that they can af
ford to pay and then we will have
no one to whom we can rent at
any price.
We feel that to bring this to the
attention of our good people that i
they will take steps to remedy i
this practice for we do not belive1
that there are any citizens of Per-'
ry who would deliberately stab her
to the heart and they are certainly
doing it if they continue to charge
for the above accemodatiens as
they are now charging.
Lets all pull together for Perry
and in a few years you will be re
warded greater ^han you will by
trying to get at all that you can
now.
Civitan Committee.
SUNDAY CLOSING
I want to be the first to com
mend the Meat Markets and Gro
cery Stores for their recent aetion
in refusing to open their places of
business ou the Sabbath. This
was done I understand without,
suggestion from any one and from
a desire on the part of the owners
to observe the Sabbath and allow
their employes as well as them:
selves to attend services at
church.
Now if our good friends the
Garages will get together and
only keep one Gasoline Station
open each Sunday, taking it "turn
about" we will then have taken
another step in the right direction.
I have talked to more than one
of them and they want some kind
of arrangement whereby they will
not have to work all day Sunday.
Lets get together and work out a
plan of cooperation along this
line. \J. P. Ethridge.
Georgia stands third from last
in 10 states in size of her general
property tax and spends a smaller
proportion of her taxes for school?
than any other state in the South.
The average salary of a white
school teacher in Georgia is $000
a year. In Louisiana it is $1,100,
nearly twice as much.
If Georgia's expenditure on col
leges were divided equally among
the white people of the state,each
would pay 38c a year.
Georgia spends $5.34 per in
habitant on her state and loeal
government, and 4c less on edu
cating her children.
In 1922 the per capita debt of
Georgia was #1.82. Of North
Carolina 913.11.
He knew that he was not like
other moo. And it worried bim.
For the masculine complex is
different;men seem to want to con*
form io the usual. But one morn
ing he eame to work jnbilant.Now
he conld look his fellowman in the
eye. It had happened. He had cat
himself sharing.
If yoi think business is bad just
count the automobiles going by
7019 iNf.
SALE OF LAND
Georgia, Houston County.
Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in the deed to secure
debt made by R. H. Hartley to Citizens
bank of Fort Valley on th? 30th day of
August, 1924, same being recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Houston County, Georgia, iu
Book No. 32, at Page No. 280.
Will be sold before the door of the
Court House of Houston County, .Geor
gia, on the 26th day *?f August, 1925,
between the legal hours of sale to the
highest and best bidder for cash, all of
the following described property, to-wit:
All my one-half undivided interest
in all that certain tract, lot or parcel of
land, situate, lying and being in said
Houston County, Georgia, and in the i
city of Fort Valley therein, fronting
West on Macon Street & distance of ]
eighty [80] feet, more or less, and run- <
ning back Eastward]/ with uniform <
width a distance of one hundred fifteen J
[115] feet, more or less; said lot bound- ,
ed on the North by Central Avenue (
[formerly known as New Mreet];on J
the East by lot of A.J. Evans; on the (
South oy a ten foot alley; and on the (
West by Macon Street; the said de-'j
scribed and conveyed lot being the same |
whereon the party of the first part has <
operated his cotton warehouse for a J
number of years, and on which said
warehouse now situated.
The said described deed to secure debt
was given for the purpose or securing '
the payment of thr^e promissory notes i <
for the sum of Five Thousand Four j 1
Hundred Seventy & 70-100 Dollars (
[$5,470.70], one note dated August ;i?th,
1924, for the principal sum of $l,?00.00,
with interest from its maturity date of
December 28th, 1924, at 8 per cent per
annum; the seoond note signed by J. C.
Hartley and R. H. Hartley dated
August llth, 1924, due October 1st,
1924, for the principal sum of Tweuty
Seven Hundred Five and 77-100 Dollars
[sJ.2705.77J with interest from maturity
at the rate of 8 per cent per annum,
and the third note dated August 30th,
1924, maturing November 1st; 1924'
for the principal sum of Seventeen
Hundred Sixty Four and 93-100 Dollars
[$17G4.93J said note endorsed by G. D.
Hartley and bearing interest from ma
turity at the rate of 8 per cent per
annum. t
Default has been made in the pay- !
ment of all of the three above describ
ed promissory notes, and the entire in
debtedi.o?s is now due and payable, and
the party of the second part is exercis- |
ing the authorty conferred on it by the
security deed aforesaid and is bringing
the property to sale for the purpose
of payiug said indebtedness.
The proceeds of said tale will be ap-1
plied first to the discharge of the in- j
debtedness above described and the ex
penses of said sale; aud the balance, '
if any, shall be paid to the said R. H. [
Hartley, his heirs, legal representatives :
or assigns.
Deed will be made to the purchaser i
at said sale pursuant to the provisions?
of the said deed to secure debt. This
July 29th, 1925.
Citizens bank of Fort Valley
Geo. B. Culpeppper, Jr., Attorney ot
Law, Fort Valley, Georgia.
FOR SALE
I am closing out my Gro
cery Business and have the
following for sale at once:
1 National Cash Register,
1 Large McCrary Refrigera
tor, 1 60 Gal. Kerosene Oil
Tank, 1 Large Herrin-Hai1
Marvin Safe, 1 Bui rough's
5 Column Machine, 1 Dis
play Show Case, 6 Show
Cases, 1 Small Refrigerator,
1 Pair Floor Scales, 1 Coun
ter Dayton Computing
Scale, 1 Awning.
A. M. THOMAS,
Phone 62
Hawkinsville, Ga.
There are five million acres of
land in North Georgia ideally
adaprcd to growing alfalfa.
An average of $182 worth of
timber was sold from every farm
in Georgia last year.
More than $25,000,000 it lost
to the state annually through
forest fires.
In a norrey made in 1922 it was
feund that Geergia led Florida,
Louisiana, Alabama. Arkansas,
South Carolina and Mississippi in
the value of her property, bat
spent less on education per capita
than any of them.
A reeent survey shewed Geor
gia standing third among ten
states in per farm value of crops
and spending less per person for
?dncatiea tfean any state in Ike
?t ?t|.
FURNITURE
We are offering many useful articles in our
Furniture Store that you will do well to look at
when in Periy.
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.22. Day Phone No. 8,
Pehry Ga.
If you pay more for goods else
where, don't blame me, you have
had fair warning.
The big sale will continue two
weeks longer and goods will be
sold cheaper than since the
World War.
It will pay you to buy your Winter
Outfit in Staple and Domestic
Goods NOW!
, ? Don't delay, but Come and
BE CONVINCED.
W. E. SWANSON,
PERRY, GA.
You
Need
US
, We
Need
YOU
Houston Banking Co.,
"Bank of Service"
PERRY GEORGIA.
Money to Loan
on Farm Lands in Houston County at Low Rate of
Interes. If you want miMy qeick, writ# or call
KATCHER-TURP1N CO.,
235 Mulberry St, . Macon, Georgia.
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