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I VOL- LXX. No. 44. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1941 ESTABLISHED 1870
M RECORD MADE
I BV PERRY BAPTISTS
■
I The Perry Baptist church has
I , v ersubscribed their budget for
■ 1941-42 during this first month
■ If the hew church year. The
■ Licet of $2,975 includes the
■ Ja S tor’s salary, fuel, lights, and
■ incidentals but does not include
■ benevolences, missions, and local
■ work. This fine precedent set
■ bv the church this month is in
■ keeping with the splendid record
■ nia de during the past church
■ vear.
■ ' The church brought to a close
■ October 1 one of the best years
ILits history. The fine response
■ of the people to its program of
I worship and work has been an
I inspiration to the pastor and
I people, Rev. J. A. Ivey says.
I In all the departments of the
I church there has been an up-
I ward swing. During the year
■ there has been added to its mem-
I bership 34 members, fourteen of
I these by baptism and twenty by
I letter. The church is trying to
I keep before its people the great
■ est fact of the Christian Reli-
I gion. Evangelism, this being em
| phasized in all its w o r k. It
I is hoped that this first work
I shall continue to have the great-
I er emphasis, the pastor stated.
I In the financial program the
I church has had its best year in the
I past five years; this year along
I with the past four showing a
I gradual increase in the response
I of the people.
I The church has during this
I year purchased a Hammond Or-
I gan and built a basement under
I the church building as new pro-
I jects for the year's work.
I The financial statement of the
I treasurer shows a total income to
I the church through its various
I departments for the year of $6,-
I 031.59. Of this amount $746.41
I was contributed to missions and
I benevolences outside of local
I work. The pastor feels that this
is a fine record for the church
and wishes to express his deepest
appreciation for the fine work
done by the people.
Rev. J. A. Ivey completed
his fifth year as pastor of the
Perry Baptist church on last
Sunday, “having enjoyed five of
the happiest years of his life
among the good people of Perry.”
He says that the whole commu
nity has made such contribu
tions to his work and happiness
as cannot be told in words. For
those five years of work, fellow
ship and happiness among you,
Rev. Ivey wishes to express his
deepest gratitude and joy.
SCHOOL OF MISSIONS
)»
A school of Missions was held
at the Perry Baptist church this
week in conformity with the
plans of the Rehoboth Associa
tion. Services were held three
nights.
Monday night, Dr. J.F, Plain
held, home mission worker in
Tampa, Fla., was the speaker.
Tuesday evening, Miss Gladys
Keith, missionary at the Good
will Center, New Orleans, La.,
spoke. Wednesday night, Rev.
Lucien Smith, missionary to the
french in Louisiana, concluded
the series of missionary mes
sages which challenged Chris
tians to greater endeavor.
Last Sunday morning, Rev.
cliff Lowe, missionary from
-south China, spoke at the church
service of his work in this war
torn country.
SERVICE GUILD MEETS |
j
The Wesleyan Service Guild (
bad an outdoor meeting last]
Thursday night in the grove at
T. D. Mason’s place. Miss Thel- j
roa Bickley, presided over the i
business session.
, Miss Allene Ryals, visc-presi-:
dent, presented a program on{
Lod in Nature. Those taking 1
Part were Mrs. T. C. Mayo, Missj
r ranees Moore, and Miss Ryals. i
A picnic supper was served.
i
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bledsoe and
sons spent the weekend with
triends in Lanett, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Greene
? Pent last Thursday in Atlanta
wuth their daughter, Mrs. Hobart
Richards. i
PERRY HIGH ACTIVITIES |
! The Perry High Panthers will
jplay Fort Valley High Thursday
night, Oct. 30, 8 p. m. in the
Perry High Gym.
This is a game you must see.
The boys need your support this
year. We must beat Fort Valley
to get revenge for the loss to
them in the tournament last
year. The boys have practiced
hard for this game, The boys on
the team are Boswell. S. Chap
man, D. Chapman, Daniels, Wil
son, Gray, Johnson, McKinley,
Roughton and Skellie.
Thirty-five boys and girls of
Perry High compose the School
Boy Patrol. A court has been
set up before which all those who
misbehave are brought. Officers
are: Supervisor, L. C. Walker,
who is also court judge; Bill Bos
tick, first captain; Edgar Bate
man, second captain; Durward
Wilson, secretary and treasurer;
Cullen Talton, reporter.
Meetings are held each Friday.
Last Friday State Trooper Craw
ford gave an interesting talk on
“Safety.”
The FFA chapter held a meet-j
ing Friday night. A Junior Far-1
mer initiation was held. Before!
the initiation, there was a wei-|
ner roast. Billy Giles, Carl Mar-|
shall, Jack Eason, Glyn Johnson,
P. S. Procter, Walter Overton,
Scarborough Watson and Walter
Gray were the seven members to
be initiated.
The Perry High Girl’s Drill
Squad has reorganized. Sixteen
members were selected for the I
first squad and four substitutes!
were selected. They have been
drilling regularly and plan to
drill soon at one of the forth
coming ball games.
The Dramatic Club is now
planning and practicing a play to
be presented in November. Funds
from this play will be used to
finance the club. This club has
planned several interesting fea
tures for the year.
WORLD'S GREAIESI CIRCUS
COMING TO ICON NOV. 11
With Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua
the Great, the world’s most pub
licized gorilla couple, as its su
perfeature, the Ringling Bros,
and Barnum & Bailey Circus will
exhibit in Macon on Tuesday,
Nov. 11, bringing to that city
1,600 people, 50 elephants, 1,009
menagerie animals and hundreds
of horses. The performances will
start at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m., ad
mitting the public to the radical
ly restyled menagerie, gorilla
tent, horse fair and big top—all
redesigned by Norman Bel Ged
des, of New York World’s Fair
Futurama fame.
Among the outstanding fea
tures are: the new fairyland
fantasy, “Old King Cole and
Mother Goose,” designed and
costumed by Bel Geddes, with
i ensembles staged by the famous
Albertina Rasch, Hollywood and
New York musical show dance
director; Alfred Court’s three
mixed groups of performing wild
animals of almost every known
specie, appearing simultaneously
in three steel arenas; the new
Birdland aerial ballet, starring
Elly Ardelty and costumed by
Max Weldy of Paris; the many
aerial and novelty acrobatic
troupes from South America,
headed by the three famous Fly
ing Diego-Fernandez acts; the
new high school and liberty
I horse offerings, headed by Vis-
I comte Roberto Vasconcellos, the
! famous Riding Cristianis; the
{great Truzzi, juggler; the Flying
Concello trupes, with Antoinette,
tin all, 800 performers.—Adv.
1 “
Hallowe’en Carnival
FRIDAY, Oct. 31
Beginning at 6:30 P. M.
Perry School Gym
1 Sponsored by Perry P. T. A.
Barbecue supper, weiners,
drinks, candy, and cake
for sale.
Public Invited.
1 1
A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS |
I Here it is the fall of the year with October just about gone, j
It is harvest time and that means subscription paying time for
many of the subscribers to the Houston Home Journal.
Within the past few days, we have mailed out a large num- j
ber of statements to subscribers. The response has been good |
and we appreciate the promptness of many of our subscribers.
Some, no doubt, are waiting until the first of November, or the
tenth of November, or whenever their next pay day comes.
Others will forget and have to be mailed another statement
November 15.
This is a plea to our subscribers to pay up as soon as pos
sible. It costs us a lot of time, work, and money to send you a
statement every month until you think to respond. The sub
scription price is very small, only $1.50 per year. The news
paper is worth many times this amount of money; so pay your
subscription at an early date if you received a statement show
ing yours to be due. The editor will deeply appreciate your
consideration in this matter.
METHODIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Church School-10:15 a. m
The Men’s Class wants 50 men
to be present Sunday.
Morning Worship 11:30 a. m.
The pastor will speak on “The
Sacrament of Friendship.” The
sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
will be observed.
Youth Fellowship for Inter
j mediate-Senior ages meets 6:30
Ip. ra. Sunday.
Evening Worship Service 7:30.
! Sermon by the pastor.
The Fellowship Sub District
| composed of Methodist Young
I People of Fort Valley, Marshall
ville, Elko, and Perry will meet
at the Perry church Monday
night, 8 o’clock. Perry will en
tertain the gathering.
Young Adult class meets Tues
day night in business and social
meeting.
| Annual conference opens Wed
nesday nignt in Valdosta.
Meeting of the Church Board
of Education Wednesday night
7:30 o’clock at the church.
The public is cordially invited
to all services.
Rev. Roy Gardner, Pastor.
43 FATAL ACCIDENTS
IN GA. IN SEPTEMBER
Death was the winner in 43
fatal Georgia Traffic Accidents in
September resulting in 43 fatali
ties, Major John E. Goodwin,
said today.
Death apparently paused for a
breath during September this
year since it won 77 lives last
September a year ago against 43
this year. Major Goodwin point
ed out that the total of deaths
for this year is only 69 above the
same period last year, which is a
decided drop from the lead of 77
a month ago.
Accidents have taken the aw
ful toll of 602 lives in 9 months
of this year, most of the acci
dents causing these deaths being
avoidable —in fact, all of them
could have been avoided as all
accidents are caused by some im
proper driving on the part of the
drivers of vehicles.
The list of September fatalities
include 9 drivers, 20 passengers,
9 pedestrians, 4 bicyclists and 1
occupant of an animal drawn ve
hicle.
There were 34 males and 9 fe
males killed, of these 30 being
white and 13 colored.
One perssn was fatally injured
in each of the 43 accidents on
record. There were, to date, no j
multiple death crashes reported {
for September.
Twelve death dealing crashes
occurred when motor vehicles
ran off the road; all on straight
level roads, 1 car hit a fixed ob
ject, 4 cars hit 4 bicycles, 1 hit
an animal drawn vehicle, 1 over
turned in the roadway, 11 oc
curred when motor vehicles hit
head-on in the center of the
road. 9 vehicles hit and killed 9
pedestrians whose ages ranged
from 2 1 /i years to 65, 4 persons
lost their lives when they fell
from vehicles, as the drivers
swerved around curves.
A number of persons suffering
from major injuries received in
unreported September accidents
will die and be reported later, if
our past experience holds. It is
not at all unusual for at least 1U
deaths to be reported, some as
late as 6 months after the injury.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of N. W. H. Gil
bert wish to express appreciation
for the thoughtfulness of their
friends and relatives during the
illness and passing of their loved
'one.
GRAIN-LEGUME MIXTURES
The AAA payments recently
announced for the seeding of
oats, rye or barley with winter
legumes or mixtures of these
small grains with mixtures of the
| winter legumes should help a
j great deal with the feed and soil
improvement program in Georgia
for 1942.
The ruling that these mixtures
are eligible for phosphate obtain
ed as grant-of-aid or that pay
ments may be secured for phos
j phate applied to these crops will
aid greatly in getting desired
growths.
For best results in north Geor
gia small grain-winter legume
mixtures should be planted by
the middle of October, In south
Georgia the planting date may
be 10 days to two weeks later.
The winter legume seed must be
inoculated with the right kind of
I culture.
If the previous crop was not
; fertilized with 300 to 500 pounds
| of high-grade complete fertilizer,
from 200 to 400 pounds of super-1
phosphate, or 400 to 800 pounds
of basic slag or their equivalents
in other phosphate materials
should be used per acre at plant
ing time. If possible, the land
should be well prepared and the
seed planted from two to three
inches deep. The three-row or
one-row drill can also be used to
good advantage.
A good rate of seeding for hay
is a regular rate of the small
grain and 15 pounds of vetch, 20
pounds of Austrian winter peas
or 10 pounds of clean crimson
clover seed, or 25 pounds in the
chaff. This rate should be doubl
ed for grazing. For soil im
provement the smaller rate of
l'/j bushels oats, 3-4 bushel of
rye, or one bushel of barley ap
proved for payment with the
winter legume seed suggested
should give good results.
Above all, good amounts of
phosphate should be used as it
will aid in getting growths of
the mixtures and a large portion
will be there for other crops that
follow if not lost by erosion.
Let’s make this a banner year
for winter and spring grazing,
spring hay and soil improvement.
E. D. Alexander,
Extension Agronomist.
FARM PRODUCTION GOALS
The low income farmer in
Houston county has a place in
the Farm Defense Program an
nounced by Secretary of Agri
{culture Wickard, no less than
i the large producer, it was stated
'today by Walker L. Hawes, coun
ty farm supervisor of the Farm
Security Administration.
“No matter how small th el
farm,” said Mr. Hawes, “it can
be turned to the purpose of na
tional defense, which means, in
the case of agriculture, the pro
duction of more food for our
selves and for our friends over
seas.
“For every family on the Farm
Security Program, minimum pro-'
duction goals have been estab-j
fished, and its farm plan will be]
written for the coming season i
with a view to producing which
the Secretary says is needed
abroad as well as at home.”
The minimum production to be
urged by every FSA family in
Houston county will be: Wheat,
three acres; al2 month garden,
one-third acre; Irish potatoes,
lone-fourth acre; sweet potatoes,
one-half acre; rice, one-half acre,
j For feed crops, increases from
50 to 200 percent will be urged in,
every farm plan written, the bet
ter to assure large production
from livestock enterprises, with
: minimum goals as follows: Oats
and barley, three acres; hay, six
acres; grain, sorghum, two
! MEDICAL NEEDS IN CHINA
By MARTHA COOPER
I
j I don’t like pain. When I go
|to the dentist even for the
I smallest cavity I try to persuade
him to give me novacaine. 1 just
don’t like to hurt.
Yet I understand in China to
day that for the lack of money
hundreds of people undergo
operations without anesthetics
and all of these are not strong
willed soldiers. The air raids
leave many women and children
in need of surgical attention.
About 2) j cents of our money
would give a person ease while
a bone was being set. One dime
or two Coca-colas would deaden
pain for four peuple.
And I’ve always been afraid
that Perry might some day have
an epedemic of cholera, typhoid,
or bubonic plague. To do my
part to prevent this, I martyr
like go down regularly for the
typhoid anti toxin. I think what
a good citizen I am as the needle
goes in.
Yet in China today there is not
enough money to buy anti-toxins
to prevent epidemics. Because
of her unhygenic millions China
has always been a land of plagues
and today with bombed water
works and sewerage systems,
and her wandering refugee pop
ulation she is in more danger
than ever before from epedemics.
One United States Dollar ($l.OO
U. S. A.) would immunize a Chi
nese city the size of Perry
against cholera, typhoid, or bu
bonic plague. In other words
$l.OO would most probably mean
I, people would be saved a
spell of sickness and maybe
death.
I had malaria once and it is
bad, about as bad as anything
can be because it makes you feel
so lazy. I wanted to get rid of
it so I took all the quinine the
doctor prescribed and with each
swallow I thought what an ac
comodating person I was to take
the quinine. I did not think how
bad malaria would be if 1 could
not cure it.
Yet there isn’t enough quinine
in China today for the malaria
patients. One dollar from over
here will buy enough quinine to
cure one Chinese and believe me
being cured of malaria is worth
more than a dollar.
But most of all 1 don’t like the
idea of little children wandering
around without food or shelter
because their parents were killed
in an air raid or the thought that
a sick child does not have enough
nourishing food to get well.
Yet as unpleasant as it sounds
we know that it is true. One,
dime of our money will keep one j
of these wandering children two
days and one dime will feed a
convalescent child three days.
That sounds like a little bit to
do so much, but during the next
week it you have an extra dime
or even a dollar what about sav
ing it and giving it to the Chi
nese Emergency Relief Com- ■
mittee.
The Wesleyan alumnae of Per
ry will collect this money. With
what they collect they will buy a
portrait of Madame Chiang Kai
shek, China’s First Lady, and
the person who has taken on the
responsibility of all the war or
phans of China. This portrait
will hang at Wesleyan to show
that Georgians honor her and to
remind us of her good and great
I work, but every cent collected
will be sent to aid the physical
suffering of the Chinese people
today.
Mrs. W. E. Marshall Jr. spent
Tuesday in Americus with her
mother, Mrs. Bell.
Mrs. P.M. Satterfield and Mrs
J. M. Satterfield were hostesses
ito the Clifford Hunter Sunday
!school class Monday night.
Rev. and Mrs. R. F. Boyd and
daughter, Mary, spent last
Thursday in Atlanta.
Mr. Marvin Greene, student ol
Mercer University, was at home
for the weekend.
Mrs. S. L. Norwood Jr. went
to Forsyth Wednesday to spend
several days.
acres; soil building crops, five
acres; improved pastures, one
acre.
Every family’s plan will in
cludes a minimum of 100 chicken,
with egg production to be em
phasized; cows, two; hogs for
market, one; hogs for subsis
tence, four.
FARMERS URGED TO
SAVE PEANUT SEED
>
> Congressman Stephen Pace has
; sent suggestions and informa
tion in regard to the increased
. production of peanuts for oil
■ next year, to all county agents
> and A. A. A. administrative of
i ficers in the third congressional
district.
i That farmers save enough of
i their number one peanuts from
their present crop for seed next
year is urged by the congress
; man. Mr. Pace’s letter follows:
i “I want to suggest that you be
i sure to caution all farmers to
save enough of their number one
i peanuts from their present crop
. for seed.
“Large quantities of seed pea
nuts will be needed for the in
creased acreage and if the far
i mers should sell all of their pres
; ent crop for $90.00 per ton they
I may have to pay twice the
amount for seed next spring.
“It should further be explain
i ed that a farmer can save his ex
i cess or oil peanuts for seed for
i his own farm, but he will not be
i permitted to sell such excess or
, oil peanuts to anyone else for
planting,
“I am also taking up this mat
■ ter with the GFA Peanut Asso
ciation and asking them to hold
\ in stock, and not sell or crush,
a good quantity of number one
Spanish peanuts, so these will be
on hand next spring to sell to the
i farmers for seed and will protect
the farmers against excessive
prices. The officials of the De
partment of Agriculture are join
ing me in that request.”
HOUSTON SCHOOLS
GET BEER PAX FUNDS
ATLANTA, Ga. —Schools in
Houston county received a total
iof $6,037.68 in text book funds
daring the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1941, from state excise
taxes on beer and from state re
tail beer licenses. These figures,
released by the State Department
of Education, were announced to
day by Judge John S. Wood,
state director of the Brewers and
Beer Distributors Committee of
Georgia.
In Houston county, as in all
other counties in Georgia, all re
ceipts from the state beer levy
are applied to the purchase of
free text books for pupils in the
public schools.
The total revenue from this
source throughout the state, $l,-
,343,558.51),represents an increase
|of $177,159.46 over the amount
collected during the fiscal year
which ended June 30, 1940. Judge
Wood pointed out that this sum
is in addition to the thousands of
dollars paid by the brewing in
dustry in the state in federal
taxes and for federal,county and
municipal licenses. In the na
tion as a whole, the industry
pays more than $1,000,000 each
day in federal taxes, he said.
PRESBYTERIAN NOTICE
Perry Church
Sunday School-10;15 a. m.
Worship Service--ll:30 a. m.
Clinchfield
Sunday School--3:00 p. m.
Worship Servicp--8:00 p. m.
Rev. K. F. Boyd, Pastor.
BAPTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bible School each Sunday morn
ing 10:15.
Morning Worship Service 11:30.
Sermon by the pastor.
Baptist Training Union 7 p. m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p. m.
Mid-Week Prayer Service Wed
nesday Evening 7:30,
J. A. Ivey, Pastor.
NOTICE
Houston County Tax Books are
now open for 1941 tax collections.
Pay your tax before Dec. 20, and
save interest and cost.
M. E, AKIN, Tax Collector,
12:18 Houston County, Ga.
NOTICE
Books are now open for the
.payment of 1941 City Taxes.
I W. F. Norwood, City Clerk*
