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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Price $1.50 A War. in Advance.
Publidhed Kv?>ry Thursday Morning
Official Organ of Houston Couuty
JOHN L. HODGHS. Editor.
Thursday, August 6.
P.OLLYANNA
COLYUM
If he chows a
large cigar in the
Pullmans'smoker,
hints Bill and
talks about swing
ing a $1,000,000
<loal with some
traction outfit, his
income tax last
year was $4.72 net.
Moh are, of course,
peculiar. Hut the aver-,
age woman lias three
butcher knives, none]
of them sharp.
Friday, savs liill is I
one of the lavs that is uulueky to i
smoke cigarettes in bod.
Nothing's as good as it's boost
ed or as bad as it's kicked.
"Time," says \ writer in the
Saturday Kvoning Post, "hoals all
things, cicatrizing the wounds of
the past, casting a mantle of for
getfulness about the bitter inci
dents of the dead years." Yes, true
onough. We havo almost forgotten
that terrible soug about Hie
bananas.
THE GIVEtt
I bring you silk and sandalwood,
I bring you teak and attar,
I bring you gold and gaudy stones.
And plumes and fruits and amber.
I bring you myrrh and tapestries.
I bring you wiues and mari
golds,
I bring you dreams and baubles.
And pretty toys and trinkets.
I fetch and lay them at your feet
These answers to your wisties,
With C. O. D. upon them writ
For I'm a IJ. S. Postman.
In a few years we will got edu
cation by liadio. Then small boy
shy on lessons can blame it oil
static.
A woman tried to commit suicide
by drinking a large bottle of iodine.
She said there was a stain on her
character. That's neither bore nor
there, but she certainly has a stain
on her interior.
J ust discovered the first saxo
phone was made in 18(50 and un
doubtedly it was this that really
brought on tho Civil War.
"Tell me t he worst, Doctor,"
"I'll mail it to you."
Bill says there are grand pianos,
upright pianos, and then upstart
pianos, which the neighbors start
before you are ready to get up iu
the morning.
It is easy to smile when the
world goes by like a sonj;. but the
man worth while is the one who
can smile when the song is being
played on a saxophone.
She: What are those holes in
the feuce?
He: Why, they are kaot-holep,
She: Why, they are too holes!
Another thing that is agaiust
the law, and that is the public.
"Pa,"' said Clarence, "what be
comes ?( a ball player when his
?yesight fails!"
"Make an umpire out of him."
growled his dad.
He: Do yon want to marry a
one-eyed man?
She: No, why!
He: Then let me carry your um
fcrella.
Toss?Who was that old lady in
I>abnqne 1 seen you with latt
night! I
* Turn?That wasn't de Buiek,
t^at was de Fllrrer.
The happiest moment of a fat
woman's life usually oomes when
she meets another woman just a
littla bit fatUr that she is.
SHALL WE OR SHALL WE NOT?
I doubt if there is an other
town iu the stalw that has made
the rapid progress our little city
has iu the past two or fhree years.
1 Marked degrees of progress con
front us on every hand. These
rapid strides of commercial ad
vancement bring to uscorrespona
iiiK burdens of respousibility. No
towu, state or nation, can cill
itself progressive without the
same degree of advancement ex
I isting in its churches and schools.
I The spiritual and educational
ideals of its people must keep pace
with the material advancement or
else there is no progress.
We are keenly confronted with
this problem iu our school system
at this time. It is true that we
have so far kept step in owr school
with the commercial awakening in
our community; but we have made
|our lant step forward uuless some
thing happens.
I Two years ago we dissolved our
independent schoel system and
|came under the jurisdiction of the
county,and automatically the local
tax for sch >ols in our independent
i system was annulled. This left us
! paying the county-wide five mills
only; and ou this basis we are paid1
| by t he county to support a nine
months school?the same basis as
Elko, Henderson, and some others
which attempt to run only an
eight month term. We are not
on equal ground with Bonaire.
They have a local tax in addition
to the county-wide tax. This last
school year has revealed clsarly to
everybody iu our school district
just what we are up against, We
had to cut short our grammar
school for the lack of funds; teach
chers' salaries for last month
or two have not been paid
(I know whereof I speak ) This
coming school term promises to be
a repetition of what happened last
term unless we do something and
DO IT NOW. We have the
building?one of the best in the
state. But what is a building
worth without funds to support
the school? I believe in good
roads, good court houses and jails,
but is it fair to the youth of our
community to build and construct
these at the expense of o u r
schools? Is it just to pay four or
five times as much for these as we
pay to our schools? This is what
we are doing.
There is a remedy; and I have
confidence in the good p'eople of
our schoel district to believe that
they will gladly rally to any
movement that promises relief.
A. local tax in our school district
is the only remedy.
SHALL WE or SHALL WE
NOT CONTINUE OUR AD
VANCEMENT?
J. M. Goodeu,
Supt. Schools.
It's always nearly true that
where big fields of alfalfa are
found the farmers are prosperous."
In one year chickens and eggs
worth $.147,323,170 were produced
in the United States.
Efforts on the part of the Crop
Improvement Association of Geor
gia have resulted in a great in
crease in the amount of pure bred
seed produced in the state
Last year there were 3.574,880
farm owned automobiles in the
United Slates, nearly ono for
every two families.
Figures from the Federal De
partment show that 3 per cent of
the milk produced in the United
States last year was lost by the
foot of the cow coming in violent
contact with the bucket.
Georgia ranks second in the
United States in the number of
eounty agents and extension work
ers, being surpassed only by
Tex**.
"Accuse not nature, she hath
done her part. I)o thon but
thine."?Milton.
There is something decidedly
wrong with a man who is always
accusing and suspecting others.
FOR SALE?Two large lots on
Mast side of Hall Street adjoining
New Perry Hotel property. Apply
flfra. Rochell* Skellie, Terry Qa.
Friar Bacon's Brazen
Head Ib Old Legend
According to a legend prevalent in
the Middle agrs. Itoger Huron (1214- i
12U2) spent seven years constructing
a bruzen head, which he funded would
tell hlui how to surround the Islund
of Great Britain with a wall of (truss, i
This heud wus to speak within a
month after its completion, but no spe- ;
rial hour was set for Its so doing. |
Bacon, accordingly, *et his servunt to
watch, specially enjoining him to no
tify his master in case the head
should speak. At the end of the first
half hour the servant heard the hend
exclaim: "Time Is"; at the end of the
second half hour, "Time wus," and at
the end of the third half hour, "Time's
pust"; whereupon It fell with a loud
crash and was shattered to pieces.
The servant neglected to call Bacon,
thinking he would not care to be dis
turbed for such a trifle, and thus the
knowledge necessary to build the bra
zen wall v.-as never acquired.
This belief in the existence of a talk
ing brazen head was widely spread in
the Middle ages. Gerbert, a French
churchman, Js said to have made such
a head; an*d Albertus Magnus is al
leged to have constructed an entire
man of brass.?Kansas City Star.
Wise at Latt
An old man was leading two lively
calves out to pasture In the morning.
When he came to the field he tied one
of the calves to one of his boot straps
and the other to the opposite boot
strap while he opened the rickety
gate. The calves proceeded to run
away. When he was picked up much
the worse for wear his wife asked
him:
"Didn't you know any better than
to do a foolish trick like that?"
"Yes," he answered. "I hadn't been
dragged four rods before I saw my
mistake." . ? .
Why He Did Not Fight
White, who was small and puny, had
offended Brown, who was a powerful
fellow six feet In height, and who
had. In consequence, declared that he
would thrash White whenever he met
him.
Some time later an unkind fate
threw them together and, true to his
promise, the big man gave poor White
such a blow on the face as almost
knocked him down.
Recovering himself, the victim ex
claimed :
"Confound It, sir! What's that for?
Do you mean thnt In Jest or earnest?"
"In earnest," replied the other, plac
ing himself In a lighting attitude.
"Oh, very well," said White. "If It's
in earnest there's nothing more to be
said, but If It had been in jest I should
not have liked It nt all."
And he walked off.?Minneapolis
Tribune.
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BATTERIES
READ THIS
GOOD NEWS
From now on you, you
can have your Battery re
charged in 8 to 12 hours,
instead of 2 or 3 days, as
formerly. Our One-Day
Charging Service puts
batteries in perfect shape
in a few hours. Saves
you money, gives you the
use of your own battery
instead of an uncertain
rental.
McLENDON AUTO CO.
Perry, Ga.
Annual Excursion To North
And South Carolina And
Tennessee Mountain Resorts
Etc., August 21, 1925.
On* far? plus 25 centsroond trip.
Tickets on ?ale August 91; final
return limit September 2, 1925.
?sk ticket agent tor exact round
trip fare?, information icgardinf
schedules, reservations, ete.
CENTRAL OF 0*0RGIA RAILWAY
T*E HIOHT WAY
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. SIMS,
Two Stores
GROCERIES, FURNITURE, UNDERTAKING.
Night Phone No. 22. Daj Phone No. 8,
Pekry Ga
If you pay mor*e 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
ob Farm Lands in Houston County at Low Rat? of
Interes? If you want m?My quick, write or call
HATCHER TURPIN CO.,
235 Mulberry St. Macon, Georgia.
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