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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Published Weekly at
Perry, Ga.
JOHN L. HODGES, Publisher.
RUBY 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.
THANKSGIVING
We are Americans, dear God,
We fain would thanks express
On this glad day: we who are
spared
From war, from dire distress;
Whose land in gracious peace
doth lie,
Rich ’neath the sun’s kind rays,
Whose harvests bounteous have
been
Garnered through recent days.
We like to think back through
the months
From cold of winter drear.
Through pregnant days of early
spring,
With promise everywhere;
Through summer’s sultry rain
and heat,
To autumn’s skies so clear:
Remembering Thou nee d s t
them all
To make a wondrous year.
Great God; where’er men pause
to pray,
Please hear our thanks, and
then
Help us to ponder earnestly
Thy plans, 0 God, for men.
Discipline us through suffering,
Warn us Pride’s way to shun.
Dare us to seek God’s way
the quest
For brotherhood begun.
B. H. N.
MONTH OF NOVEMBER
The month of November brings
a great variety of interests, it
is made up of special days and
weeks which remind us of our
pleasures and privileges in this
wonderful country of ours.
Of special interest this year
was Election Day. Nov. 5. Then
came Armistice Day, Nov. 11,
1 o 11 o w e d by the President’s
Thanksgiving, Nov. 21, and the
traditional Thanksgiving, No
vember 28.
National Hook Week, Nov. 10-
Id, called attention to the joys
of reading. Father and Son Week,
Nov. 10-1(5, is sponsored by the
National Council of the Y. M. C.
A. and the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica.
Hobby Week, Nov. 21-28, is
being observed nationally this
year.
November brings football,
basket-ball, and the hunting sea
son for quail, dove, etc. Novem
ber is also a harvest month, es
pecially for the gathering of pe
cans and other nuts.
For the farmer, November u
the time to sow small grains foi
winter cover crops, to plant trees
and shrubs for fruit aim dowers,
to lay in plenty of wood and i
feed supply for winter.
For the merchant, Novembe
is the third best sales month (
the year, being sandwiched in
between the second best (Octo
ber) and the best (December)
months for sales volume. It is
the time when people buy winter
clothing, buy clothes for the
special occasions of this month,
buy groceries and other table
supplies for Thanksgiving feast
ing, buy wood and coal and heat
ing units, and plan their Christ
mas buying.
For the housewife, November
is a busy season of preparing for
the winter months and for the
gathering of the family on
Thanksgiving.
From every standpoint, com
mercial, political, patriotic, cul
tural, and pleasurable, Novem
ber is an unusual and glorious
month. Above all, it is a time
of spiritual deepening brought
about by the season of thanks
giving and praise to God for his
manifold blessings to us.
Let us be truly thankful on
this Thanksgiving Day that we
live in these United States of
America a n d can experience
these varied interests and joys
of this month of November!
No business firm ever succeed
ed to any great extent who did
not take the public into its con
fidence, and the best method
yet to be discovered is by the ju
dicious use of printer's ink.
jCLASSIFIED ADS
For Sale or Rent—Two horse
farm. Apply
Perry Loan & Savings Bank.
For Sale—Fine young Pecan
Trees—Mahans, Schleys, and
/ Stuarts. Special prices on large
lots. Also ornamental shrubbery.
C. R. Morgan.
12:12 Americus, Ga.
i *
LOST White gold Elgin wrist
watch in Perry. Reward for re
turn to Bennie Hardy,
11:21 Perry, Ga.
PECANS
I am located in rear Summer's
■ Barber Shop. Can’t pay for a
million pounds but bring all your
Pecans in any day.
12:5 W. C. Jones, Perry, Ga.
'I FOR SALE FARM: 1,220
acres, 4 miles South Perry on
4 paved U. S. 41, quantity saw
' mill timber and fair young
growth; good improvements;
' electric power; varied soil types;
good investment possibilities.
For prices and terms write KAY
TIPTON, MADISON, GA. 11:28
,1
For Sale: All kinds of dry
wood; also coal. Truck for hire,
long or short distance hauling.
Phone 218.
A. E. Thompson.
TAX NOTICE
The books are now open for
the payment of state and county
taxes for the year, 1940. Please
pay taxes on or before Dec. 20,
1940 and save interest and cost.
M. E. Akin, T C.
Houston County, Ga.,
NOTICE
City Tax Books are now open
for payment of 1940 Taxes.
W. F. Norwood, Clerk,
NOTICE
Unless all 1939 Taxes are paid
immediately fi fas will be levied. |
W. F. Norwood, Clerk.
ELECTRIC
WIRING
- AND -
SUPPLIES
WOODROW GILBERT
Phone 202, Perry, Ca.
P. O. Elko. R. F. I).
THANKSGIVING
DAY SPECIAL!
TURKEY DINNER
With Cranberries, Mince
Meat Pie, and all the trim
mings on I burs. Nov. 21.
Eat with us and avoid the
worry of planning and cook
ing at home.
Real Pit Barbecue
Oyster Stew
Fried Oysters
and Other Treats.
LEE'S ALL AMERICAN CAFE
Perry, G«.
THIS IS
PRINTING TIME
Don’t wait until you need a
“rush job.” Check your print
ing needs now. The odds are
in our favor that you need
letterheads, envelopes, order
blanks, tags, circulars, office
■ forms, statements, and other
I printed matter.
Our business is to help your
business.
Phone 35
HOME JOURNAL
PRINT SHOP
Do you know that the shortest,
I thing in the world is the pub-'
,lie’s memory? That’s the rea
son why every merchant should,
if possible, present his sales mes
sage in each issue of the news
paper.
11 PUBLIC SALE OF LAND
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Whereas on the 31st day of
December, 1935, W. F. Jordan,of
Houston County, Georgia, exe
’ cuted and delivered to Mrs. R.
!’D. Gray his promissory note for
‘ Three Hundred Forty and 13-100
; Dollars ($340.13) due Novmber
15, 1936, bearing interest after
date at eight per centum per an
num (8%) payable annually; and
■ did co-incidently therewith exe
t cute and deliver to the said Mrs.
. R. D. Gray his deed to secure
debt with power of sale to the
land hereinafter described, sub
, ject to prior deed to secure debt
to Land Bank Commissioner,
same being given to secure the I
, indebtedness represented by said |
’ note; deed being recorded in '
. Hook 37, page 577, Clerk’s office,
Houston Superior Court.
And Whereas, on the second
day of November, 1940, the said
’ (Mrs. R. D. Gray did transfer
’'said note and did likewise trans
-11 fer and assign said deed to se
cure debt, together with the in
‘ debtedness secured thereby and j
■ the land described therein to
' Paschal Muse:
And Whereas, the said deed to
secure debt provides that if said
’ debt so secured is not promptly
■ paid at maturity the grantee in
said deed, or her assigns, may
j sell the property described in
jsaid deed before the Court House
jdoor in the County of Houston,to
'the highest bidder for cash after
/advertising the time, place, and
j terms of said sale in the news
paper published in said county
'of Houston once a week for four
weeks prior to said sale:
And Whereas, since the execu
tion of said note and said deed to
secure deed the said W. F. Jor
dan has died; and the said W. F.
Jordan and the heirs at law of
i the said W. F. Jordan have fail
led to pay the interest on said
note and have failed to pay the
principal of said note or any part
thereof:
Now, therefore, under and by
virtue of the power of sale con
tained in said deed to secure
debt the undersigned will sell be
fore the Court House door to the
, highest bidder for cash during
the legal hours of sale on the
I first Tuesday in December, 1940,
which will be December 3, the
following described land, to-wit:
“All that certain tract or par
cel of land containing 82.24
acres, being parts of lots six (6)
and twenty-seven (27) in the
j Ninth (9th) Land District of
Houston County, Georgia; bound
ed north by the old Bright Harp
er Place and the Harkins lands;
|on east by a place known as the
j Mrs. Gilbert place; on south by
l lands of Paschal Muse; and
on west by lands of the M. M.
Thompson Estate. Said tract ba
ling more particularly described
according to a plat prepared by
Rhodes Sewell, C. S., on Au
, gust 29, 1933, which is recorded
in Map Book 1, page 248, in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Houston County, Geor
igia. Subject only to a deed to
j secure debt in the principal
amount of $400.00 executed by
! said Jordan to the Land Bank
Commissioner in 1934 and State
and County Taxes.”
Said property will be sold sub
ject to a prior deed to secure
debt to said land executed by
said W. F. Jordan to Land Bank
Commissioner which deed to se
cure debt is recorded in the of
jficeof the Clerk of the Superioi
Court of Houston County, Geor-
Ria.
Said land will also be sold sub
ject to all unpaid taxes due
thereon.
The said W. F. Jordan having
died since the execution of said
i deed to secure debt, said land
j will be sold as the property of
j the said W. F. Jordan and of
I the heirs at law of said W, F.
| Jordan.
Deed will be executed to the
purchaser as provided in said
deed to secure debt and the pro
ceeds of said sale will be applied
as provided in said deed to se
cure debt.
This the sth day of Novem
ber, 1940.
PASCHAL MUSE
S. A. Nunn, Attorney at
Law for Paschal Muse.
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
Georgia, Houston County.
Mrs. Mattie R. King having
applied for Letters of Adminis
tration on the estate of Mrs. G.
M. Renfroe, deceased; this is
therefore to notify all persons
concerned, to show cause, if any
; they can. why her application
should not be granted at the
Court of Ordinary on the first
Monday in December next.
This November 4. 1940.
JOHN L. HODGES.
Ordinary.
HELPFUL!
—-
She was a very efficient young
woman. One day she saw a large
car rolling slowly down the street
without a driver. Unhesitatingly
,she ran to the side of the moving
vehicle, opened the door, hopped in
and applied the brakes. Then she
got out and looked for the driver.
A man appeared, and she asked:
“Is this your car?”
He admitted ownership.
“Well,” she said, “it was running
away down the street.”
“I know it was,” said the man
sadly. “I was pushing it to the
garage.”
THE LEMONADE SEASON
Tumbler Well, Miss Lemon,
you’ll get a good squeezing soon.
Old Maid Lemon—l know it, tee
hee!
Only One Desire
Smith and Brown were making
their first trip across the ocean.
Smith soon found his sea-legs, but
Brown was less fortunate, and was
forced to retire .to his cabin.
After a while Smith burst in upon
him.
“Come on,” he shouted, “there’s
something I want to show you.”
Brown groaned. “What—what is
it?” he asked.
“It’s a most wonderful sailing
ship,” said Smith.
“I don’t want to see a ship,”
Brown returned. “Call me when
you see a tree.”
The Old, Old Story
Through the pathless depths of
the jungle the intrepid explorer
made his way to the hidden vil
lage of the great native chief. Bow
ing low before the awe-inspiring
mass of paint, fur, and feathers, he
said:
“I come to you from the land of
the Great White King beyond the
sunset—”
“Just a minute!” said the chief
curtly. “Why don’t your people do
something about the rotten wireless
programs they’ve been putting over
lately?”
Not According to Instructions
The business man carefully pe
rused the menu, He needed a quick
lunch.
“Waiter!” he called. The man
came to his table.
“Bring me two eggs,” went on
the customer, “and remember this.
They must be done properly. Boil
them both for exactly four minutes,
and then take them out of the water.
Do you understand?”
The waiter nodded.
“Exactly, sir,” he replied; “they’ll
be ready in half a minute.”
By George
A man whose wife was inclined
to be jealous, was sitting with her
one evening when the telephone
rang.
“Hello—is that you, George?” his
wife heard him say. “How are you,
George? Certainly, George. When
did you say, George? Right you are,
George. Good-by, George.”
Replacing the receiver, he turned
to his wife and said:
“My dear, that was George.”
DIDN’T KNOW IT, IF HE WAS
Traffic Cop—Hey, there, don’t you
know this is a one-way street?
Motorist—Well, what of it? I ain’t
going two ways at once, am I?
Once Was Enough
“Mother, I want a dark break
fast.”
“Dark breakfast! What do you !
mean, child?”
“Why, last night you told Mary to
give me a light supper, and I didn’t
like It.”
Have One on Me
Teacher—Parse the word kiss. i
Pupil—This word is a noun, but !
it is usually used as a conjunction.
It is never declined, and more com
mon than proper. It is not very
singular, in that it is usually used
in the plural. It agrees with me.
Give Him Time
Playful Wife—Darling, tell wifie—
what shall she buy him for his birth
day present?
Harassed Husband Well, love.
I’ve still got eight more installments i
to pay on the one you gave me last
year.
Early to Bed
"Times certainly have changed.”
“I'll say. When we were younger
supper and not breakfast was the
meal we ate before going to bed.”
This Machine Age
"What is the most pathetic picture
in the world?”
“A herse fly sitting on g radiator
cap.”
i M ost Comfortable Shoe I
Your feet will revel in this
\ amazing shoe —because it
'jf actually fits the bottom of p
P art °f i f > with a sole that ||!
1 -YOUR FOOTPRINT IN LEATHER" is a / ootp r in t. actually 1
; | moulded in leather. m
I Sold in MACON by |
I R. S. THORPE I
and SONS I
New Seed Grading Machine
You are invited to see the work
which our New Seed Grading and
Recleaning Machine does.
It cleans, grades and treats with Ceresan
at one operation. We are recleaning and
grading wheat at this time and it is well
worth the small amount that we charge to
get your seed clean, pure and treated with
Ceresan for disease.
SEE THIS MACHINE IN OPERATION.
J. P. ETHERIDGE
Phone 45 - Perry, Ga.
THEY ARE HERE
JUST ARRIVED--TWO CARS
CASE TRACTORS
All Sizes for Every Farm Job
Come See Them, Pick the One You Want.
LET’S TRADE!
Complete line of-HARROWS, PLOWS, STALK
CUTTERS, HAY BALERS, WAGONS, HARNESS,
MULES, and FARM EQUIPMENT.
See Us for-SEED OATS, RYE, WHEAT, and VETCH
We Want to Buy—Peanut Hay, Peas, Velvet
Beans, Cotton Seed, and Peanuts.
Geo. C. Nunn & Son
Phone 31 Perry, Ga.
MR. FARMER
MULES and MARES and two years to pay.
If you are planning on buying or trading this Season,
come to see us. We carry a large stock of Kentucky
Mules and Brood Mares at all times.
YOU CAN TRADE CHEAPER HERE AND HAVE TWO
YEARS TO PAY AT NO EXTRA CHARGE.
We keep a fine Jack and Stallion for breeding purposes.
, MACON’S OLDEST LIVE STOCK STABLE
WARFIELD STABLE
460 Plum St. Macon, Ga.
Dock Childers, Salesman George Childers, Salesman
ONLY THE BEST IN
Diamonds, Watches, China, Silverwear, Glassware
and a complete line of Jewelry
See our complete line of Wedding Invitations,
Announcements and Visiting Cards
Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing a Specialty
KERNAGHAN, Inc.
1 411 Cherry St. JEWELERS Macon, Ga.
