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VOL- L xx - No ‘ 31 ‘ PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA. t THURSDAY, JULY 31. 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870
bbomsts plan
vesper services
The Sunday night services of
p prrv .Methodist church in
will be Vesper services,
ft be held at 7 o’clock.
service will take place of
P (Tnworth League meeting,
J ic h has been held at 6:30 p.m.
the evening worship service
lib has been held at 8:30 late*
Vespers will last for forty-
L minutes. .. , .
The first Sunday night, Aug.
• he Young People will bring
Ldevotional service, and the
Stor will preach a short ser-
J, The Young People will
!ne as the choir each night.
E other Sunday nights various
Is in the church will lead
e devotional. The pastor plans
speak each time except one,
ben a member of the church
■ill speak in his place. These
services will be interesting and
jpful, and will use the variety
fnne talent of the church. You
re cordially invited to attend
ibese services. Remember the
iour 7 p. m.
The hour ot the morning ser
ies will remain the same, and
prayer services will be at 8:30
[dock on Wednesday nights.
The pastor will preach in the
Sunday morning service, Aug. 3.
yOUNG PEOPLE’S UNION
MEETING HERE AUG. 4
The Methodist Young People’s
Union meeting for the lower sec
tion of the Macon District will
meet at th e church Monday
aight, Aug. 4, at 8 o’clock. This
ton has recently been organiz
ed and this will be its first regu
lar monthly meeting.
Groups of young people from
Fort Valley, Perry, Marshall
vile, and the churches of the
Byron Charge are expected to be
present. Bobby Marchman of
fort Valley is president of the
pnization and Carlene Ogle
iree is secretary. The purpose
ol these meetings is to strength
en and develop the work of the
young people of the churches.
R.E. HARPER FINDS
OLD CHURCH RECORD
!
R.E. Harper, otherwise known
as Mr. Bob, has an interesting
paper which he discovered re
cently among family keepsakes.
Ills the original copy of the
Church Roll of Old Providence
Methodist Church, now extinct,
«iich was located a mile above
Hie Harper place on one of the I
wads leading from Perry to Fort
I alley, 1
This Church Roll is over a
hundred years old as it is dated
WO. It is in good condition and
w. Bob has framed it to keep it
that way.
The names of the male mem
are on the left side of the
Paper with the names of the fe
males on the right. Some of the 1
people whose names are on the
foil have descendants now living
>n Perry. In fact, Mr. Bob’s
ovvn grandparents, James Poole
and Mrs. Eliza Poole, are among
Members on the roll. Mrs. Bright
T ar Per’s grandparents, Howard
Moore and Mrs. Eliza Moore,also
r elisted as church members,
u , e parents of Mrs. John H.
« otl ges who was Miss Kate Nor
’(J°4 appear on the church roll.
a were Lorenzo D. Norwood
w' i l Catharine Ann Nor-
} v 'bo have many descen
ts in Perry and elsewhere. \
d °oly camp MEETING 1
>i ces are now in progress!
en ° ol V Camp Ground near Vi-j
i/oa H°urs of service daily are I
pj 3:30 p.m., and 8 p.m. !
Jlrr ! Wilson is doing !
ca J , r . ea yHng, assisted by the 10-i
et , nod ist pastors. Bishop!
Th n „ Ut ! T Moore will arrive!
morning, and will■
thf J 1 eac h day for the rest of 1
cortiT The services will
nue through Sunday night, |
D ur ; r ( übs . ‘Hitch-Hike’
ger Dni? a T Jick getaway from dan
lerveH ~T - bear cubs have been ob
told of tv ; ‘ ltch ' hikin g” by grabbing
01 their mother’s tail.
| TWO LOCAL GROUPS
TO BUILD HOUSES
1; i
j . Two Heal corporations are be
ing formed for the purpose of
building F. H. A. homes in Per
ry to house defense workers of !
the Wellston project and also of
other government projects in
Macon.
Andrew and Company is the
name of one corporation seeking
a charter and Perry Homes, Inc.
is the other company. Andrew
and Co. began the publication of
their application for charter in
last week’s issue of the Home
Journal. Perry Homes, Inc. will
will begin their application for
charter in next week’s issue.
Composing Andrew and Com
pany are Carey B. Andrew Jr.,
his brother, Charles H, Andrew,
and Geo. B. Wells.
The stock of Perry Homes,lnc.
is being subscribed by a number
of local citizens. The committee
taking these subscriptions is com
posed of J. P. Etheridge, F. M.
Houser, and C. E.McLendon.
At a meeting of citizens last
week, S. A. Nunn was named
chairman and F. M. Houser,
secretary.
Both of these groups are tak
ing options on land to be used as
the site of this housing project.
Each company will build twenty
five to fifty houses within the
next few months.
COTTON INSURANCE
PROGRAM FOR 1942
Machinery for application of
the United States Department
of Agriculture’s cotton crop in
surance program to the 1942 cot
ton crop is being perfected by
the Federal Crop Insurance Cor- i
poration in Washington, F. R. I
Hobbs, county administrative of- j
ficer, announces.
Details will be worked out in
plenty of time so that all cotton
growers in Houston county can
apply for insurance on their next
year’s crop before planting time.
Growers will be able to insure 50
percent or 75 percent of their
average yield, he explained. The
insurance will protect them from
all unavoidable hazards, such as
drought, insects, including boll
weevils, flood, plant disease,
wind, fire and hail.
Guaranteed yields will be figur
ed in terms of pounds of lint cot
ton, as well as premiums. Prem
iums, Mr. Hobbs said, will be
based on the crop-loss history of
individual farms adjusted to re
flect the crop-loss experience of
the county. Both yields and
crop-loss averages will be figur
ed on the basis of historical or
[appraised productivity over a pe
riod of years.
Premiums for individual grow
lers also will be figured on a
lint coeton basis, although pay
ment of premiums will be made
with a commodity note. All ap
plicants for cotton crop insurance
will sign a commodity note
guaranteeing to pay their prem
iums on or before the date ol
maturity. This maturity date
1 will approximate the time that
cotton generally is picked m each
State or about the time that in
demnities usually are paid.
Payment of the note may be
made in either cotton or t h e
cash equivalent on or before ma
turity. If the note is not paid
when it matures, the ca s h
amount of the premium will be
deducted from the indemnity
paid the grower, if any. or from
the first Government payment he
receives, such as a cotton loan,
parity payment, or AAA pay
ment.
Finish Backwards
j Fleas jump head first, but finis.
up backwards, declares a scientist
1 of Wimbledon, England, after an e
j tensive investigation.
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Refugee ‘Sweating 5
j Jewish manufacturers in Austra
i lia have formed a committee to stop -
j -sweating” on exploitation of Jew; .
I ish refugees arriving m that coun
j try.
Snake Can’t Milk
1 snake could not possibly milk ,
I a cow, even if the cow raised no ob- ;
jections. The shape of its mouth
makes the feat impossible, and the ,
sharp teeth would stampede the ,
gentlest of cows. It’s just a snake
story that will not stand up under
1 sensible thinking. ,
Perry Citizens To Vote On Bonds
For Sewerage System September Ij
An election has been called for
Monday, Sept. 1, by the Mayor
land Council of Perry for the pur
pose of deciding whether the
City of Perry shall issue $30,000
of bonds for the purpose of build
ing a sewerage system and ex
tending the waterworks system.
The election will be held at the
City Hall. Polls will be open
from 8 a, m. to 6 p. m.
The city officials issued this
call for an election at a meeting
Monday night. The city will
make application for a P. W. A.
grant of money to be used in
building the sewerage system if
the issuance of bands be author
ized by the voters of Perry.
When Perry was placed in the
defense area recently, it became
possible for the city to obtain a
grant from P. W. A. for needed
public improvements.
The purpose in calling the elec
tion immediately is to expedite
the P. W. A. project and to put
the City of Perry in position to
carry out the P. W. A. project
just as quickly as the same is ap
proved by P. W. A., Mayor Sam
A. Nunn said Tuesday.
At a meeting Friday night, the
Mayor and Council accepted an
offer from a group of Atlanta
land Macon bond dealers to pur
chase a proposed issue of bonds
for sewerage and water works
extension, the interest rate on
such bonds to be 2 3 4 per cen
tum and the price of the bonds
to be $lOl.OO, yielding a total
premium of $300.00 on the issue
of $30,000.00 of bonds.
The offer was submitted by
Henry Wyatt acting for the fol
lowing group of bond dealers:
[Trust Company of Georgia; J, H.
iHillsman & Company; Brooke,
j Tindall & Company; Norris &
jHirshberg; Wyatt, Neal & Wag
goner; The Robinson-Humphrey
Company; Johnson, Lane, Space
& Company: and Clement A.
Evans & Company: all of Atlan
ta; and Brown & Groover, of
Macon.
The proposal to purchase these
bonds and the acceptance of the
proposal by the Mayor ami Coun
cil of the City of Perry is con
ditioned upon the bonds being
voted and validated. If the
bonds are not voted by the citi
zens of Perry, the city is under
no further obligation. If the
bonds are voted but not validat
ed by the court, the City of Per
ry is under no further obligation.
The interest rate on these
bonds is the lowest the City of
Perry has ever been able to get,
and few, if any, municipalities
of the size of Perry, in Georgia,
have ever been able to obtain so
low a rate of interest on its
bonds.
The City of Perry has out
standing at the present time
$5,000.00 of bonds bearing 6%
interest voted by the people in
1921. It also has outstanding
$18,000.00 out of a $20,000.00
bond issue voted in 1938, the in
terest rate on these bonds being
3 y 2 c /o. Of the total of $23,000.00
of both these bond issues still
outstanding, $2,000.00 will be re
tired in December of this year,
leaving as of January 1, next
year, $21,000.00 of these old
bond issues still outstanding.
The maturity dates on the new
bonds proposed to be issued by
the Mayor and Council, if the
voters approve, are so arranged
that none of the principal of the
bonds will become due until the
remaining $5,000.00 of 6% bonds
have been paid off, which will
be December, 1946. The City ol
Perry is now paying $2,000,00 a
year principal on its bonds, and
if the new bonds are voted, the
principal payment will in no year
exceed $2,000.00. The Mayor and
Council are of the opinion that
the normal increase in building
and the normal increase in popu
lation will provide ample funds
for the payment of the interest
on this bond issue of $30,000.00
I without any increase in tax rate.
i PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry Church
Sunday School-10;15 a. m. \
Worship Service-ll;30 a. m.
Clinchfield
Sunday School-3:00 p. m.
Worship Service-8:00 p. m.
Rev. R. F. Pcjd, Ptstor.
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Notice Of Bond Election
To the Qualified Voters of the!
City of Perry, Georgia; j
You are hereby notified that
on the Ist day of September, 1941.
an election will be held in said
City of Perry at which there will
be submitted to the qualified
voters of said city for their de
termination the question of
whether bonds shall be issued
by said city in the aggregate
amount of $30,000.00 for the pur
pose of building a sewer system
and extending the waterworks
system, said bonds to be dated
as of July 1, 1941, and to be in
denominations of One Thousand
Dollars ($1,000.00) each, to bear
interest at the rate of Two and
Three-Fourths Per Centum
(2 3-4%) per annum, the said in
terest to be payable semi-annual
ly each year on the first day of
January and the first day of
July, respectively: the said bonds
to mature as follows:
One of said bonds of One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to
be paid on the first day of Jan
uary of each of the years 1947 to
1959, both inclusive;
Two of said bonds of One
Thousand Dollars(sl,ooo.oo)each
to be paid on January 1 of each
of the years from 1960 to 1967,
both inclusive:
One of said bonds of One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to
be paid on January 1 of the year
1968.
The principal and interest of
all of said bonds shall be payable
in lawful money of the United
States of America at such bank
or banks as may hereafter be de
termined.
The place of holding said elec
tion will be at the City Hall in
the City of Perry; the polls will
be open from 8:00 o’clock a. m.
until 6:00 p. m., E. S. T. All
persons who have resided in the
City of Perry ninety (90) days
or more next preceding the said
election, who are duly registered
and qualified voters in Houston
County, and who are entitled to
vote in elections for members of
the State Legislature in said
county, shall be entitled to vote
in said bond election; and only
persons so qualified shall be en
titled to vote in said bond elec
tion.
Those qualified voters at the
time of the election desiring to
vote in favor of the issuance of
sewer and waterworks extension
| bonds will do so by casting their
baHots having written or printed
thereon: “For issuance of Thir
ty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00)
of sewer and waterworks exten
sion bonds.’’ Those qualified
voters at the time of the election
desiring to vote against the is
suance of said sewer and water
works extension bonds will do so
by casting their ballots having
written or printed there© n:
“Against issuance of T h i rt y
Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) of
sewer and waterworks extension
bonds.”
MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN
OF THE CITY OF PERRY.
W. Felton Norwood,
City Clerk & Treas.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible School each Sunday morn-j
ing 10:15.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Evening Worship Service 8:30,
Baptist Training Union 6:45.
Mid-Week Prayer Service Wed
nesday Evening 8:00.
J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
FIRST OPEN BOLL
i
The first open cotton boll of j
the season was brought in by W.
W. Gray, Houston county’s rep
resentative in the state legisla
ture.
KIWANIS PLAYS BALL
The Perry Kiwanis club play
ed the Hawkinsville Rotarians in
I a ball game Friday night in Haw
fkinsville. The score was 7-7.
f Perry players were W. K.
! Whipple, Albert Skellie, R. P.
(Shepard, W. E. Marshall Jr., E.
P. Staples, G F. Nunn, C. E.
Andrew, L. C. Walker, G. W.
Rhodes, A. M. Anderson, John
Heller, and F. M. Houser.
|n. y. a. director for
; HOUSTON APPOINTED
\
I
j Miss Sykes Hewitt has ben
announced as the new NYA
' resentative for Houston county
iby the NYA Area Office located
jin Americus, Ga. Houston coun
ty is now included in the Ameri
cus Area and Miss Hewitt has
recently been transferred from
Marietta, Ga. to this area as the
NYA Youth Personnel Represen
tative for Peach, Pulaski, Macon,
Houston and Dooly counties,with
home office located in Fort Val
ley, Ga.
Miss Hewitt will fulfill the per
sonnel duties of Miss Mary E.
Lowe, former NYA Area Di
rector, who, before being trans
ferred to the Waycross Area, in
terviewed and took applications
from all Houston county boys
smd girls who wished to apply
for NYA work experience. A
regular weekly schedule for in
terviewing prospective Houston
County NYA applicants has been
established for every Monday
morning at 10 o’clock in the De
partment of Public Welfare Of
fice in Perry, Ga. All boys and
girls desiring to apply for NYA
work experience can always see
her at that time.
To be eligible for NYA work, a
youth must be between the ages
of 16 and 24, unemployed, and
out of school. The program in
cludes the following shops in
which inexperienced boys and
girls work to gain experience in
a trade that will make them more
useful and more employable;
machine shop, sheet metal shop,
wood shop, auto-mechanics, weld
ing, radio, ship building, con
struction and building trades,
home economics, crafts, and
power machine sewing. Away
lis provided whereby they earn
all living expenses and $lO.OO in
cash per month.
AVOID HAY LOSSES
BY GOOD PRACTICES
Houston county farmers, now
in various stages of mid-summer
haying, are carefully “bottling
up” their livestock’s winter sup
ply of vitamin A.
High-quality hay is one of the
best winter sources of this im
portant vitamin, but it may be
largely lost in haymaking if the
hay is leached by rain, bleached
by the sun, undercured so that
it becomes musty and moldy in
the stack or bale, or is allowed to
become so dry that the leaves
shatter, in the opinion of County
Extension Agent W. T. Middle
brooks.
Mr. Middlebrooks points out!
that it is to tne farmer’s advan
tage to avoid this loss, particu
larly this year when feeding
practices mean more food for
national defense and prices for
farm products are good.
Built from carotene, the
orange-yellow pigment in grasses
and legumes, vitamin A is es
sential for health in all farm
stock. Cows fed rations low in
“A” may abort, or bear weak,
dead, or blind calves. Some of
the offspring from cows so fed
may live a few days or weeks,
only to develop severe diarrhea,
I pneumonia, permanent blindness,
convulsions, or other disorders,
says the countv agent Horses,
I sheep, and swine are also af-
( fected.
Studies by the Department of
Agriculture have shown that the
vitamin A potency of butterfat
from cows fed U. S. No. 1 alfal
fa hay was at least four times
that of fat from cows fed U. S.
No. 3 timothy.
Grass or legume pasture in the
summer and liberal quantities of
properly cured legume or grass
ihay of the current season’s crop
!in winter or during periods ot
Jdry-lot feeding will prevent or
| cure vitamin A deficiency in ent
itle, sheep, horses, and goats,
j Swine also obtain considerable
| carotene from good pasture, and
!during the winter leafy legume
| hav or 5 to 10 percent high-grade
(alfalfa meal in the grain mixture
i will supply sufficient vitamin A
for sows or fattening hogs,
CARD OF THANKS
| We wish to thank our friends
! who were so kind to us when we
lost our mother,
i Martha Cooper
Aurelia Cooper Evans.
FARM WORKERS MAY
ASK fOK DEFERMENT
What Houston county farmers
can do to help assure themselves
a labor supply adequate for the
production of essential farm
goods was outlined this week by
L. W. Tabor, chairman of the
Houston county AAA committee.
The Director of the Selective
Service System has asked all lo
cal draft boards to give special
consideration to deferment of
men needed in agricultural pro
duction, Mr. Tabor said. In ad
dition, the WPA is making
special effort to supply demands
for farm labor.
The AAA chairman said in case
a man believed to be indispensa
ble to the farm, here is what to
do: (1) When the Selective Ser
vice questionnaire is received,
ask deferment in Class 2, occu
pational deferment; or, if there
are dependents, Class 3, depen
dency. (2) The employer or de
pendent should submit to the lo
cal draft board Form 42 or a let
ter properly witnessed and pre
senting the reasons for request
ing deferment. The registrant
should also present the facts and
request for deferment by letter if
necessary, in addition to the
statement in the questionnaire.
(3) If the local board does not
grant the requested deferment,
the case may be appealed to the
Board of Appeals by the regis
trant, by the persons who signed
Form 42, by a dependent, by the
Government appeal agent, or by
the State Director of the Selec
tive Service. A Government ap
peal agent is attached to each lo
cal and he will assist in
filing appeals.
“Agriculture is not asking
treatment that is not warrant
ed,” Mr. Tabor said, “but it is
in the national interest that
cases affecting production of vi
tal products should be studied
I carefully. The Selective Service
I has recognized this already, and
' a substantial portion of the occu
-1 pational deferments has been
I made for agriculture.”
Mr. Tabor called the attention
of farmers who heed farm hands
to the service offered by the of
fice of the State Employment
Service at Macon.
In addition to the regular em
ployment lists maintained by the
office, all WPA workers are
registered, so that altogether the
office has the largest pool of
available labor in this area.
METHODS OF PICKING
| HIKE COTTON INCOME
County Extension Agent W.T.
Middlebrooks this week suggest
ed a few simple rules which
farmers would do well to ob
serve as a means of eliminating
a good deal of rough cotton and
thus increase their profit from
■ the lint crop.
Foremost of Mr. Middlebrooks
suggestions was to allow the cot
ton bolls to open wide before
picking.
In the second place, the county
agent pointed out, if cotton is
picked with morning dew or oth
er moisture on it, spread it out
on sheets in the field and give it
a chance to dry before loading in
wagons and trucks. Spread it
out thin on the sheets and when
one side is dry turn up the other
side. Don’t allow picked cotton
to lie in the field over night with
out protection from dew and
rain, he asserted.
Mr. Middlebrooks suggested
that wet cotton not be packed in
baskets or idled up, since it can
not dry under these conditions.
Another suggestion to farmers
was that they have their cotton
ginned where they will be sure
of getting a good smooth job.
“Insist that ginners gin your
cotton with a loose seed roll. If
you insist on the ginners ‘skid
ding’ your seed, he will have to
operate with a tight seed roll and
if he does, that will rough up
ycur cotton and lower its value
from $3 to $lO per bale.”
TtiussisSippi River
, The Mississippi river proper rises
j in the lake and swamp region of
! northern Minnesota, 1,472 feet above
i sea level, in Lake Hermando de
Soto, Becker county. It empties
into the Gulf of Mexico, the gulf
having a mean elevation of 500
feet.
