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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 j
and City of Perry.
Subscription, $1.50 per year.
Entered at the Post Office in
Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
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CORPUS DELICTI ■ j
The Negro was brought into court,
charged with stealing chickens from
a neighbor. The judge asked him
if he had anything to say in his
defense.
“Aii sure has," returned the ac
cused. “When Ah stole dat first
chicken, mah conscience begin to
bother me somethin’ terrible. So
de nex’ day, Ah came home and
’apologized to de owner—and he done
forgive mo,"
“Yes, yes,” snapped the judge.
“But then you hurried straight back
to the hen coop and stole another
chicken. How do you explain that?”
The defendant scratched his head.
"Yo see, yo honor," he said, “it’s
dis way: When Ah went to apolo
gize, Ah made a mistake. Ah done
apologized fo’ two chickens instead
of one!”
ONLY Till: BRAVE
“It is said that women are braver
than men. Do you believe it?"
“Well, I think more of them would
take a chance at marriage.”
Preparation
One Sunday morning the pastor of
a Negro congregation noticed that
an old face had reappeared among
his flock and after the sermon wel
comed the supposedly repentant
backslider.
"This is the first time you've been
to church for a long time,” he said.
“I’m glad to see you.”
“Ah done had to come,” ex
claimed Rastus. "Ah needs strength
enin’. I'se got a job whitevvashin’
a chicken coop an’ buildin’ a fence
roun’ a watermelon patch."
Awful Truth
The banker fell in love with an
actress and decided to marry her,
but to make certain he employed a
private detective to report on her
life.
Report: The lady has an excellent
reputation, her past is without blem
ish, she has an excellent circle of
pleasant friends. The only breath
of scandal is that lately she has been
seen a great deal in the company of
a banker of doubtful repute.
Dilemma
Entering the newly opened shop,
a neighbor exclaimed cheerfully:
"Good morning, Mr. Smith! How’s
trade?"
"Not so good."
"I'm sorry to hear it."
"Yes," Mr. Smith went on; “when
d man came into the shop yester
day and asked for an empty box, my
assistant gave him the cash regis
ter."
A FIN(E) THING
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Mrs. Trout—She talked terribly
about me.
Mr. Trout—The old catfish.
Memory
There was no avoiding it; the ,
hostess was going to sing. The new j
guest looked at his host in surprise.
“I didn’t know your wife sang,” he ■
raid.
The host settled himself deeper
into his chair for the ordeal.
"Never heard her before?" he
grunted. “Then you’ve got a great
deal to look backward to."
In Advance
A colored preacher looked over
his Easter congregation and said: '
"Ah realize that there are many
here who will not be with us again
until next Easter and I want to
take this opportunity to wish them a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year.”
S-s-sad
"I hear you've been to a school i
for stutterers. Did it cure you?” |
"Peter Piper picked a peck of !
pickled peppers.”
“Why, that’s wonderful!"
"Yes, but it’s d-d-darned hard to ;
work into an ordinary c-c-conversa- I
Lon.”
LEGAL SALE OF LAND
By virtue of the power con
tained in a certain deed with
power of sale to secure debt
given by Perry Warehouse Com
pany to the Fort Valley Oil Com
pany and recorded in deed book
II page 61, Clerk’s Office Hous
ton Superior Court, which deed
was transferred to J. P. Ether
idge, said transfer recorded in
deed book 41 page 61 Clerk’s Of
fice, will be sold before the court
house door in Perry Georgia,dur
ing the legal hours of sale to the
highest bidder for cash, on Tues
day, May sth, 1942, the follow
ing property: “All that tract or
parcel of land situated. lying and
being in the City of Perry, Hous
ton County Georgia and begin
ning at the southeast corner of
lot of Hardy Powell on Ball street
j and running in a southerly di
rection along Ball street a dis
tance of 60 feet. Thence in a
westerly direction parallel with
Hardy Powtll south line to Jer
nigan street, thence along Jer
nighan street a distance of 60
feet more or less, to lot of Smith,
Beckham & Warren; bounded on
north by Smith, Beckham &War
ren; and Hardy Powell, on the
south by Mrs. Mary L.Fudge and
J, R. Fudge; east by Ball street
and west by Jernighan street.
Said land will be sold for the
purpose of paying a certain debt
as evidenced by two promissory
notes for the principal sum of
$750.00 each dated February 25,
1931 and due October 1, 1931.
The said Perry Warehouse Com
pany having failed to pay said
notes when due the whole debt
becomes due and payable. The
proceeds from said sale will be
applied first to the payment of
said debt and the interest on
same and all taxes due and all
cost of this proceedings and the
balance if any will be paid to the
legal representatives of said Per
ry Warehouse C o m p a n y. A
deed to the purchaser will be
made by the undersigned.
J. P. Etheridge, Transferee.
J. W. Blood worth,
Attorney at-Law.
Slmly Sun From I’cak
A mountain workshop for study of
'he secrets of the sun has been es
tablished on the slopes of Fremont
pass, 11,513 feet up, in the Colorado
Rockies, near Climax, Colo. It is
the only one of its kind in the West
ern hemisphere and its completion
is the culmination of six years work.
The observatory is expected to give
scientists their best information on
disturbances of the sun.
Wax Spots From Rugs
Wax spots may be removed from
a rug by scraping as much as pos
sible of! with a spoon, then putting
n sheet of white blotting paper over
the spot and pressing with a hot iron.
GEO. C. NUNN & SON ***
Phone 31 FARM EQUIPMENT p erry> Ga.
SHERIFF’S SALE |
i
Georgia, Houston County. i
i' Will be sold before the Court
: House door, within the legal
1 hours of sale, on the first Tues
. day in May, 1942, the following
: property, to-wit:
1 sofa, 1 mattress, 1 pair bed
1 springs, 1 table, 1 bed room suit,
. consisting of bed, chest of draw
i ers, vanity, and vanity bench, 1
table, 1 breakfast suit, consist
: ing of 1 table ahd four chairs;
■ 1 upholstered chair; 3 window
: shades; 1 blue rug, 9 x 12 feet;
1 pair pillows: 1 living room
. chair; 8 Venetian blinds; 1 nite
• table; 3 yards linoleum: 1 set of
1 meliotone pottery; 1 chest of
drawers. Levied on as the pro
perty of the defendant, Carey B. !
’ Andrew Jr., and found in his po
ssession to satisfy an attachment
. from the Justice Court, 619 Uist.
.iG. M. Houston County Georgia,
ti This March 18. 1942.
, C. G. PIEKCE. Sheriff.
LEGAL SALE OF LAND
• GEORGIA, —Houston County:
Because of a default in the
. payment of a certain deed with
. power of sale to secure debt'
I given by C. H. Smith to J. E. i
Burney, recorded in book 41 fo-!
lio 123, Clerk’s Office Houston '
. County Superior Court, and by ;
virtue of the power of sale con
tained in said deed, there will be !
• sold to the highest bidder for
cash, for the purpose of satisfy- 1
ing said deed with power of sale !
,to secure debt and the notes se-|
'cured thereby, on the first Tues
day in May, 1942, between the
I I legal hours of sale, before the I
, court house door in Houston 1
‘j County, Ga. the following de-1
! scribed lands:
1 1 All that fifty acres of land ly-1
. ing and being on the North side
, of land lot No. 71 in the 12th I
land district, Houston County, i
1 Georgia, fronting on the Dixie
, Highway running from Hay tie-,
ville to Hawkinsville Georgia,and \
' being the land inherited by John
I Dempsey Clark under the will ol
'his late father, which will is re-
I corded in office of Ordinary,
Houston County, Ga.. and being
the same lands as described in
deed book 33, folio 263, and in
the deed to secure debt above re
ferred to, in Clerk’s office Hous
ton County Superior Court.
J. E. BURNEY.
Feeding Goldfish
Feeding goldfish is quite simple.
| They will eat everything within rea
; son. The dry fish foods sold coin
j rnercially are quite sufficient. They
j appreciate a few garden worms,
| however, or a few flies or other in
| sects. In very large pools, a «tiff
j mash of oatmeal boiled with shred
ded liver and put into the pool in
j lumps once in a while is sufficient
j to keep the fish in good shape.
LEGAL SALE OF LAND
GEORGIA. Houston County.
Because of a default in the
payment of a certain deed with !
power of sale to secure debt i
given by C. H. Smith to J. E.
Burney, and by virtue of the,l
power of sale granted J. E, Bur- <
ney in said deed, recorded in i
book 46 folio 74 Clerk’s Office:
Houston County, there will 1 e (
sold,on the first Tuesday in Miy, |,
1942, between the legal hours ofj
sale, before the court house door
in Houston County Georgia, for
the purpose of satisfying said
deed with power of sale and the
notes secured thereby, to the
highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described lands:
That tract of land containing
1 fifty acres, more or less, and
bounded on the North by lands ,
formerly owned by John Clark,
on East by lands formerly own- ,
ed by Harriet Clark, on South by ‘
| lands formerly owned by Buster
Clark and on West by lands for
merly owned by Ranee Johnson
j and being that tract No. 6 as
'shown by map of division among
i the heirs of Dempsey Clark re
corded in minute Book 8 page
,226 in Ordinary’s Office Houston
■ County Ga.
j Also that tract of land lying in
the 12th district, Houston Coun
: ty Ga. containing twenty acres,
more or less, and bounded as
: follows: on North by lands for-
I merly owned by Bryant Clark,on
I East by lands of Mrs. Ada Pol
[ hill, South by lands formerly
. owned by Celia Clark and West
, by lands formerly owned by
: Ranee Johnson and being a part
| of tract No. 7 in the aforesaid
plat of division of lands of Demp
| sey Clark.
All above lands lying in one
| body and containing seventy
I acres, more or less, and being
' the same as that described in
1 deed with power of sale from)
C. H. Smith to J. E. Burney!
i above referred to.
J. E. BURNEY.
Appropriation for Mexican Road
President Avila Camacho has just
announced, according to the Four
States Highway association, that the
Mexican government has allocated j
100,000,000 pesos (about $20,000,000) i
,’or additional work on the Interna- :
tional Pacific highway, extending
along the west coast of Mexico route j
to Guadalajara and Mexico City. A
splendid new road was opened last
year, between Guadalajara and Mex- j
ico City, and some sections of the 1
road between Nogales, Ariz., and i
Guaymas are in excellent condition, I
Chinese Tongs
Certain Chinese societies are I
called tongs because it refers to the j '
living room of a Chinese house and I
was probably applied to the societies i
because they originally met in the
houses of the members. i
ORDINARY’S CITATIONS
GEORGIA, Houston County.
I B. Griffin, Guardian of Ira
Bradford Griffin, Jr., minor, hav
ing applied for Letters of Dis
mission from his Guardianship,
this is to notifiy all persons con
cerned to show cause, if any
they can, why his application
should not be granted at the
Court of Ordinary on the First
Monday in June, 1942.
This April 6, }« L H odges.
Ordinary.
Georgia, Houston County.
Mrs. Ophelia K. Gurr, Admin
istratrix of the estate of W.Hayis
Kunz, deceased, having applied
for Letters of Dismission from
her administration; this is to no
tify all persons concerned, to
show cause, if any they can. why
her application should not be
granted at the Court of Ordi
nary on the First Monday in May,
1942
JOHN L. HODGES.
Ordinary.
Shark Mere Valuable
In many respects the shark is
more valuable to man than the pig-
From the hides of these marine
scavengers various grades of dura
ble leather can be made; medicinal
and other oils are obtained from the
liver and intestines; the head can
be converted into glue; the teeth
sold to jewelers: fins exported to
China; bones ground into fertilizer,
and the flesh used as food, shark
meat not only being edible, but very
palatable.
Skunk in Hero Role
The lowly unpopular skunk has
been hailed as the new woodland
hero of the land by the American
Wildlife institute. Grub worms were
harboring on the New York con
servation department's Saratoga
Nursery, world’s largest forest tree
[ production plant. Along came the
I skunk and found himself over
j whelmed with a delicious plenty of
j the things he holds best in life.
; And grub worms make a tasty mor
[ scl for sktrks.
Prevents Sicel Becoming Brittle
! Manganese prevents steel from
becoming brittle but it also increases
the milk mother rats have available
to nourish their babies. Lack of
manganese in the bones of chick
ens results in a bone disease com
monly known as “slipped tendon.”
These are only a few of the findings
made by University of California in
vestigators with the aid of radio
active “tagged” manganese atoms.
Drinking Coffee Forbidden
Drinking coffee was forbidden in
Sixteenth - century Constantinople.
The ruling dictator believed that cof
fee stimulated thinking among the
common people. The first offense
was punished by a beating; the sec
ond by death.
CLASSIFIED ADS
j Lost, strayed, or stolen-P
. Horse, chestnut, clipped
-for return to Bob C.
; Perry, Ga. Masse *.
J For Sale—Cotton Seed, dm,
. wilt No. 7 Strain 2; also Coke,-'
I 4in 1 Strain 4. These seed *
: pecially adapted to (his section
j Germination 85 per cent n r
~|f. o b. Dan Gunn Place on t
v con Highway.
Address—Dan Gnnn
4:8 Byron, Ga. R.F.D. No \
s ~-
i A. W. DAHLBERG
] Certified Public Accountant
3 Perry, Georgia
M Audits - Systems - Income Tax
I Advertisement For Bids
Sealed proposals will be reepk
’ ed by the Board of Education
Houston County, Ga. at the of
fice of the Board of Educational
II o’clock a. m. EWT, on Z
17, 1942, for improvements
Bonaire School including the f o l
lowing units: Unit 1, Plumbing
Work including installation of
fixtures, septic tank, drainage
field, and water tank; Unit II
Painting; Unit 111, General R e ’.
pairs and other work; Unit IV
Equipment. Bidders mav sub
mit proposals for any one or
more of the above units and-or
a combination bid for all units
Copies of the Plans and Speci
fications and other proposed con
tract documents are on file and
’ open to public inspection at the
office of the Board of Education
| Perry, Ga., and at the office of
; Dennis & Dennis, Architects, 556
Mulberry St., Macon, Ga.
i j A set of such documents may
: - be obtained from Dennis & Den
; ! nis, Architects at Macon, Ga„
', upon deposit of $lO.OO
If, within the 80 days after
! the ultimate time set for the re
! ceipt of bids, the documents are
returned undamaged, deposits of
those who submit bids will be
fully refunded and other deposits,
less the actual cost of reproduc
tion will be refunded,
i Each bidder will be required to
submit with his bid a certified
check or bid bond in the amount
of 5% of his bid.
! The character and amount of
security required to be furnished
for and in connection with the
, performance of the contract is
(stated in the proposed contract
documents.
1 The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids and to waive in
j formalities.
Board of Education of
Houston County.
F. M. Greene, Secretary.
