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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL j
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga.
JOHN L. HODGES, Publisher.
RUDY C. HODGES, Editor.
Official Organ of Houston County
and City of Perry.
Subscription, $1.50 per year.
Entered at the Post Office in
Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
0 come, let us sing unto the
Lord; let us make a joyful noise
to the rock of our salvation.—
Psalms 95:1.
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Another old idea that has be
come outgrown is the idea that
there never was such a thing as
getting something for nothing.
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Remember when the giving
away of a dimes worth of seeds
by a congressman was condemn
ed as an unnecessary extrava
gance?
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There seems to be two schools
of thought on what are the
qualifications necessary to make
a master farmer. 0n e group
contends that a master farmer is
one who can pay his taxes with
out borrowing the money. 'The
other group believes that a mast
er farmer is one who is able to
borrow the money necessary to
pay his taxes. It would seem
that either group is entitled to
be well toward the head of the
master class.
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Tis said that the little things
in life count, the only trouble
being that they don’t add up
last enough to suit some peo
ple.
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When it comes to advice, some
people really give until it
hurts.
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The wise men say that func
tion makes faculty, which,
means that we learn by doing.
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No cord nor cable can so for
cibly draw, or hold so fast, as
love can do with a twined thread
—Burton.
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Few things are impossible to
diligence and skill.—Johnson.
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Example is the school of man
kind, and they will learn at no
other,—Burke.
His best companions,innocence
and health; and his best riches,
ignorance of wealth.—Goldsmith.
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The success of any great moral
enterprise does not depend upon
numbers.—Garrison.
Chords that vibrate sweetest
pleasure, thrill the deepest notes
of woe.—-Robert Burns.
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Give me the avowed, the erect
manly foe.
Bold I can meet, -perhaps may
turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Hoavtn,
thy wrath can send,
Save, Save, Oh save me from the
candid friend,
—George Canning.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp!
of power,
And all that beauty, all that
wealth e’er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to
the grave.
- Thomas Gray.
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will and wisdom finds
away.
-George Crabbe.
Freedom has a thousand charms
to show,
That slaves, howe’er contented
never know,.
-William Cowper.
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All are but parts of one stu
pendous whole, whose body Na
ture is, and God the soul.-Pope.
College bred is made from the
flower of youth and the dough
of old age.
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Advertising is “the salt of thei
earth” in business.
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To earn your salt, sail under
.your own steam. _ I
NO UATTIH HOW YOU
DAIVC OR WHERE
MARATHON
MEANS
f IN THE LONG RUN
Only by covering long distances
could you get a true picture of
the toughness and mileage that are
built Into the thick-tread, bruise
resisting. safe MARATHON Tirel
After months of comfortable, worry
free driving, you will fully realise
fhat fhls one-price, one-quallfy tire
Is in a class of its ownl
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DON'T GAMBLE WITH SAFETY. At
current prices. It's certainly cheaper
to put MARATHONS on now than to
take chances with dangerous old
tires.
BUY NOW . . .
BE SAFE ... BE THRIFTY
THE GOODYEAR DIAMOND
McLendon auto coJ
Phone 57 - Perry, Ga.
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to the World's Biggest
Sunday School Class?
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You do, if you are one
of the many readers of
this paper who follow
closely the Sunday
School lessons that we
publish each week. Dr.
P. B. Fitzwater, who
prepares this exposition
of the weekly lesson, is a
member of the faculty
of the Moody Bible In
stitute of Chicago and is
recognized everywhere
as an authority on all
things biblical.
O IJ you are not a member o] this
record-breaking class, join now, by
simply turning to the lesson in this
issue .,. tell your friends about it.
Famous Sea Monster
One of the most famous of sea
monsters was the serpent sighted by
her majesty’s ship Daedalus in Oc
i tuber, 1838, while cruising from the j
Cape of Good Hope to St. Helena.
According to one witness, the crea
ture “passed rapidly, but so close
: under our Ice quarters that had it
been a man of my acquaintance, I
should easily have recognized his !
features with the naked eye; and it i
did not, either in approaching the
«hip or after it had passed our wake,
deviate in the slightest degree from
its course, which it held on at the
pace of from 12 to 15 miles per
hour, apparently on some deter
mined purpose. Its color was brown
I and yellowish-white about the
throat. It had no fins, but some- |
; thing like the mane of a horse, or
rather a bunch of seaweed, washed I
about its back.”
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An Odd Fashion
A very odd fashion appeared in
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth cen
turies, of embroidering heraldic de
vices on the long gowns of the
ladies of rank. A picture of those
j days shows a duchess in a corsage
: and train of ermine, with a very
fierce looking lion rampant embroid
ered twice on her long gown. An
other display* an heraldic dolphin
of very sinister aspect upon one i
side of her corsage and on the skirt \
j pf her long gown.
THE TOOTER
By PAUL MUSE
T he tooter-a modern nuisance,
with emphasis on nuisance; es
pecially midnight and before-day
tooti rs.
The automobile horn itself is a
well meaning affair. It has a
very useful purpose to serve,
and is ail right until it falls into
the hands of the tooter type of
mind. Th i s danger warning
mechanism on a car was never
intended to be used as a joke
being pulled by Gabriel practic
ing on his trumphet and startling
one out of his sleep,and his wits,
duiing the small hours of the
night. Nor was it intended as a
substitute for a door-bell, or the
vulgar destroyer of proper cour
tesies.
As Jack London observed sev
eral years ago, this type of driv
er seems to depend for safe driv
ing upon the loudness of his
horn rather than upon mental
efficiency. Seeing, or hearing, a
driver streaking through thick
fog with throttle and horn wide
open, London said that such al
v\ays set mid to him to say,
“loot, toct -Lm coming. Toot,
toot--lock out for me. Toot,toot
--I have’nt sense enough to look
out for my self.”
One can but wonder what a
tooter thinks about between
toots, when he, cr she, or it
isn’t driving, Jt no doubt thinks
that the auto horn furnishes the
sweetest, most soothing sleep
producing music in the world.
Assuredly the tooter thinks as
much. Why else would a tooter
dash up to stme horse at the
hour of midnight or before day
break, letting out such a screech
from his horn as will send all the
cats for blocks around scamper
ing for cover? The tooter be
lieves the auto horn “hath
charms to sooth” the most sleep
less into sweet slumber and that
it is so soft and gentle as not to
distuib the lightest sleeper. As
for any sick or nervous unfortu
nate in the community, the
horn’s dead raising scream will
act as a comforting sedative.
Or perhaps the tooter thinks,
if ever, of the marvelous magic
contained in the toot of an auto
horn. In a hopeless traffic jam
see, or hear, the tooter tooting
his horn. Why? The magic in
the sound will start the stalled
car half a block down the jam, or
clear the way of the head-on
wreck that has tied things up.
The tooter has an unshaken faith
in the magic of the horn.
When at last the tooter gets to
heaven he will be directed
through a side-door into a deten
tion section prepared for all loot
ers. The only music there will
be that of the auto horn-the
music of footers. There will be
some million of these horns
sounding all at once, each hom
blowing louder than the other
one, until the whole universe
will seem to have turned into an
auto horn. This bedlam blast
will fall on the ears of all tooters
for ten thousand years, or at
least until the guilty tooter says,
or makes signs, that he has
enough of auto horns. Thus
will the tooter be redeemed from
the awful sin of thinking an auto
horn is a musical instrument.
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CLASSIFIED ADS
Fryers for Sale - Phone 407, [
Perry, Ga. Mrs. Paschal Muse.)
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FOR SALE---Several good
Mules, Cheap.
Andrew Hardware Co.
For Sale—Plenty of John)
■ Deere walking cultivators. Avery!
. walking cultivators. Spring tooth:
. harrows. Weeders. All ready to
go. Marritt & Anderson Bros ,
Co., Hawkinsville, Ga. 5:25
ORDINARY’S CITATION
Georgia, Houston County.
H. T. Gilbert, Administrator
of the estate of John R. Neil,de
ceased, having applied for leave
to sell all real estate and per
sonal property belonging to said
estate: this is to notify all per
sons concerned, to show cause,
if any they tun, why his applica
tion should not be granted at the'
Court of Ordinary on the First
| Monday in June next.
This May 1, 1939.
JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary.
Georgia, Houston County.,
S. T. Borom having applied
for permanent letters of admin
istration on the estate of Mrs.D.
G. Borom, deceased; th.s is to
notify all persons concerned to
‘show cause, if any they can.whv
I his application should not bs
granted at the Court of Ordinary
on the first Monday in June,next,
i This May 5, 1939.
, JOHN L. HODGES,
Ordinary
Name Sylvester of Latin
Origin, Authority Says
The name Sylvester, sometimes |
spelled with an i for the second let
-1 ter, is of Latin origin and means
■ “forest dweller,” “of the woods,” or,
; in a general sense, “country bred.”
> This name has been borne by two
> popes, in the Fourth and Tenth cen
. turies, and by two anti-popes (elect
, ed in opposition to those regularly
| chosen) in the Eleventh and Twelfth
centuries, according to Florence A.
Cowles in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
‘ Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (1707-86)
> helped to colonize a part of Maine
i and the city of Gardiner, Maine, is
• named for him. He was a loyalist
| during the Revolutionary war and
I removed to Halifax and later to
England, being one of those who
were proscribed in 1778. But he re
-1 turned to America about a year be
fore his death. To him goes credit
i for introducing inoculation for
smallpox.
, Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was
[ a New England Presbyterian min
ister, a temperance lecturer and an
advocate of vegetarianism. His
■ theory was that a diet of vegeta
-1 bles prevented a craving for liquor,
; and he recommended using an un
« bolted wheat flour for bread. Gra
. ham flour and bread perpetuate his
( name.
Use of the ‘Chile Wheel'
) The only “Chile Wheel” south of
' Sonora is on the Nelson mining
i claim in the Greenhorn mountains,
, 36 miles east of Bakersfield and two
miles east of the Oak Flat ranger
. station, says the Los Angeles Times.
, It was used to crush gold-bearing
’ quartz and was introduced into Cali
fornia by Chilean miners, hence the
> name. An upright was fitted into
a square hole and atop this was a
, beam with a wheel on one end. To
the other end was hitched a horse
or mule, which moved the wheel
around in a rock-lined circular
trench with a sort of rocker move
ment. This “wheel” is of granite
and is six feet in diameter, nine
inches in thickness at the rim and
14 inches in thickness at the hub.
It weighs approximately 3,500
pounds.
The Lurcher Dog
According to Webster, a lurcher
is a poacher. Consequently any
dog that aids his master in bagging
game on land where hunting is for
bidden is called a lurcher. Lur
chers are frequently found near es
tates in England where game is
plentiful and hunting forbidden ex
cept for the owner and his guests.
The favorite dog with the poacher
j is usually a cross between a collie
1 and a greyhound because a speedy
! and silent retrieve of the game is
1 essential to the poacher if he is to
stay out of jail. Lurchers work in
| peril since, while they are faithful
I to lawbreaking masters, they are
apt to be shot on sight by game
i keepers of the estates they poach
on.
Jitterbug Bees
If you see a honeybee doing the
’ hula-hula, prick up your ears and
maybe you’ll hear some gossip hot
■ from the hive, says Country Home
Magazine. Scientists have discov
ered that bees don’t talk with the
buzz of their wings, but with the
: movements of their bodies. Ac
-1 cording to Dr. J. E. Eckert, bee
■ specialist at the University of Cali
fornia, there’s a word for every wig
gle. Most of the bees’ undulations,
performed in the air, tell other bees
where to locate a new supply of
food.
| CHICKEN RAISING TIME
We have just the FEED you need.
Ful-O-Pep GROWING MASH
made by the Quaker Oats Co. for little chickens.
Laying Mash & Egg Breeder Mash
for other chickens.
Complete Line of Table Condiments, including Duke’s
Mayonnaise, Southern Lady Salad Dressing, Kraft’s
French Dressing, Worcestershire Sauce, etc.
W B SIMS
STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES
PhoneS DELIVERY SERVICE Perry, Ga.
For Grain Gathering--
McCormick-Deering Machinery
BINDERS, Binder Twine, and Repair Parts.
FARMALL TRACTORS, all sizes.
COMBINES, all sizes.
FOR SPRING PLANTING
pIows, PLOW PARTS, SCOOTERS, SCRAPES,
GARDEN and FIELD TOOLS of all kinds.
Andrew Hardware Co.
PHONE 500 : PERRY, GA.
What You Need
We Can Supply
FOR GRAIN SEASON
Combines, Binders, Binder Twine, Mowers, Rales, Hty
Balers, Tractors and Bags.
FOR CULTIVATION
Walking and Riding Cultivators, Weeders, Harrows,
Spring Tooth Cultivators, Plows, Scrapes, Scooters,.
Sweeps, Hoes, and Handles.
FOR FEED
PURINA—Hog, Cow, Horse, and Poultry. Also Hay,.
Corn, Oats, Tankage, and Bone Meal.
FOR PLANTING
Soy Beans, Peas, Velvet Beans, Cattail Millet, Japanese
Millet, Seed Corn, Cane Seed, Seed Peanuts & Garden Seed.
Come To See Us—Let’s Trade Together
GEO. C. NUNN
Phone 31 CASE DEALER Perry,. Ga.
IT LOOKS MORE BUSINESS-LIKE
A part of your, personal appearance is your hair. If your
hair is kept neatly clipped, people will have a Higher res
pect for you, and realize you are business-like in other
matters. Come in and let us serve you.
HAVE YOUR HAIR CUT EVERY WEEKI
CITY BARBER SHOP
T. R. SUMMERS, Prop’r.
10 to 25 Percent Discount for CASH on Diamonds,.
Silverware, Wedding & Graduation Presents;
Invitations & Announcements included.
CHARGE ACCOUNTS SOLICITED
Watch, Jewelry and Clock Repairing a Specialty#
Contract Merchandise Excepted
Kernaghan-Goodman, Inc.
JEWELERS
411 Cherry St, Phone 836, Macon, Ga.
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