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, s].so per year.
Entered at the Post Office in'
Perry, Ga., as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
QUICK CHANGE
A doctor tells me of a man going
up for his medical who told the j
doctor his eyesight was so bad he I
couldn’t even see the board.
That night he celebrated by going
to the cinema. When the lights went
up he discovered, to his horror, that
he was sitting next to the doctor.
And, quite obviously, the doctor rec
ognized him.
"Excuse me, sir,” he said quick
ly, "can you tell me if this bus goes
to Chicago?”
Brigand
All the guests except one had left
the dining room, and he was busy
emptying his pockets of the spoons.
The host returned to the room sud
denly and found his guest there.
"So that’s your game!” he ex
claimed. "What have you to say for
yourself?”
“I can assure you it was all a mis
take,” replied the guest, soothingly.
"A mistake?”
"Yes,” explained the guest. "I
thought they were real silver.”
SURELY NOT
"I have a friend who is crazy over
golf.”
“Yes? And might I ask what drove
you that way?”
Contact
Striving to point out to one of his
flock the error of his ways, the vicar
said;
“You know that a man is known
by the company he keeps?”
“Is that so?” was the unrepentant
reply. "What I’d like to know is if
a good man, like me, for instance,
keeps company with a bad man, is i
the good man bad or the bad man I
good?”
She Hopes
The wife had been put on the
budget plan. At the end of each
month she and her husband would
go over the accounts together. Ev
ery once in a while ho would find an
item, "H.0.K., $3.75,” and a little
farther on. "H.0.K., $15.”
Finally he asked: “My dour, what
is this—‘ll.O K.’?”
"Heaven only knows,” she re
plied.
Weighty
Mrs. Dinocan—l wonder if you
would be so kind as to weigh this
package for me?
Butcher—Why, certainly; it weighs
exactly three and a quarter pounds.
Mrs. Dinocan—Thank you; it con
tains the bones you sent me in that
four-pound roast yesterday.
Contagious •
Dinocan—Do you believe there are
microbes in kisses?
Harriet—Yes. That’s what the sci
entists say.
Dinocan—What disease do they
cause?
Harriet—Palpitation of the heart,
1 believe.
Driver
“My daughter has a queer way
of getting her own back on the tele- |
phone people.”
“What’s her method?"
“She uses my car to knock down
their poles.”
UNVARNISHED TRUTH
.
Teacher—Tommy, can you name
the chief product of the European
countries?
Tommy—Ycs’m. Trouble, and
plenty of it at the present time.
Elsewhere
Willie (whose father is a telephone
engineer)—Mother, do they have
telephones in heaven?
Mother—No, dear. It requires en
gineers to build telephone lines. ;
Passes
“Yes,” said the stage manager,
“we did have an opening in the
chorus, but you’re too late.”
“Too late?”
"Yes—about ten years.”
I IMPROVED uJlll jj;il
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
(Releueed by Wf»ltrn Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for July 19
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
| permission.
CAIN AND ABEL: A CONTRAST
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 4:1-15.
GOLDEN TEXT—By faith Abel offered
• unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, by which he obtained witness that h*
j was righteous.—Hebrews 11:4.
The weed of sin is fast growing,
j and brings forth bitter fruit. The
1 disobedience of Adam and Eve re-
I suited in their being put forth from
j the garden, but that judgment did
not terminate the awful plague of
I sin. We see it in this lesson showing
j forth in their son, as it has in all
I the sons of Adam down through the
I centuries.
It is a dark picture and one which
would discourage us did we not
know that redemption has been
wrought out by “the second man,
the Lord from heaven” (I Cor. 15:
47).
We have here two sons of Adam
with their differing personalities,
a clash and the first murder, and
then one man, a vagabond on the
face of the earth.
I. Two Sons (vv. 1-7).
The birth of a child is always an
exciting occasion, and one can read
ily imagine what it must have meant
when the first boy ever to be born
put in his appearance. What joy,
what concern for his welfare, what
plans for the future! And then, what
disappointment and sorrow!
But before speaking of that, let
us observe how he and his brother
differed in their interests and per
sonalities, It is a surprising thing
how completely different two sons
in the same family can be.
Abel chose the work of a shep
herd, much honored in the early
history of man. Cain became a till
er of the soil, which with the pas
j sage of time has come to be more
important than the other.
They also had a different view
point on worship. Cain was a re
ligious man. He apparent!}' was
the first to worship, but he came in
the spirit of one who recognized God
only as his Creator, the One worthy
of his homage. Abel came also with
a gift, but his attitude was quite
different. His offering spoke of sac
rifice, the need of a covering for sin
(cf. Gen. 3:21), It was more than
homage, it was a plea for forgive
ness.
The Lord’s acceptance of Abel’s
sacrifice made Cain angry (v. 6).
Here again he differed from Abel,
for there was no angry response on
his part. Abel had recognized God’s
desire in worship. Cain not only
I failed to do so, but rejected God’s
| instruction and His plea (vv. 6,7).
Jealousy led to anger, and anger
(as it so often does) led to
11. Murder (vv. 8,9).
Instead of repentance and correc
tion, the anger of Cain carried him
to the awful conclusion of hatred,
the taking of life. We tend to think
of murder as a crime which only a
desperately wicked man would com
mit. We hardly think of the "re
spectable” little sin of envy as be
ing the root of murder, but it is,
often and sometimes very quickly.
Actually there is no little sin, for
it is (he genius of sin to grow, to
increase, to go step by step, yes,
often by leaps and bounds, to its
horrible fruition. “The heart is de
ceitful above all things, and desper
ately wicked: who can know it?”
(Jer. 17:9). Why trust it?
The deceitfulness of Cain’s heart
is shown by the callous evasiveness
of his reply to God concerning his
! murdered brother. His sin brought
God’s question. It always does. Do
not assume that you can hide from
Him. It has been suggested that
committing sin is like touching a
burglar alarm—the bell rings, and
one must answer for his act.
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” is
the perfect expression of (he selfish
i and indifferent attitude of the world.
Human beings are regarded as
simply those to be exploited, beings
upon whom they may prey. For
i example: Just to make money, men
j are willing to destroy a fellow man j
with intoxicating liquor, or break !
down his decency and morality by j
selling him indecent books or maga- I
! zines.
Murder having taken one of the j
i two sons, we find that the remain- |
ing one is just
111. A Vagabond (vv. 10-15).
Judgment lor sin made Cain a
wanderer and a fugitive. Never j
would he be able to get away from j
the cry of his brother's blood (v. I
i 10). No wonder he said he could not
bear it. But notice that his cry was
not one of repentance or contrition,
: but only of feat, of retribution.
So God shows mercy, forbidding ]
| the judgment of men upon Cain, j
Vengeance belongs to God, and in
this first murder He reserved judg- |
ment to Himself, Later He put upon I
man the responsibility of judging |
and punishing murder by death
(Gen. 9:6), but here He put His pro- I
tecting hand on Cain.
Yet, to be a fugitive, with no real !
| abiding place on earth, and every !
man’s hand against him, was in- i
deed a heavy punishment. One |
could have wished that it bad j
j brought repentance, but it did not. j
j May none of us go the way of Cain, I
I --
SALE UNDER POWER CON
TAINED IN DEED TO SE
CURE DEBT.
1 GEORGIA, —Houaton County;
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a deed
10 secure debt from George H.
Miller to Georgia basket & Lum
ber Company dated June 3, 1942,
recorded Book 41, Page 490,
Clerk's Office Houston Superior
Court,-
Will be sold before the door of
the courthouse of Houston
County, Georgia, on Tuesday,
August 4, 1942, between the le
gal hours of sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following
described property:
All that tract or parcel of land
lying and being in the State of
Georgia, County of Houston and
in the City of Perry therein, and
more particularly described as
follows:
a. Lots Nos. 28 and 29 in the
Cater Sub-division of the City of
Ferry, each fronting 75 feet on
Duncan Avenue and running
back with uniform width a dis
tance ol 131 feet, as shown by
plat of the Cater Sub-division re
corded in the cffice of the Clerk
of Houston Superior Court.
b. Lots 46, 47 and 48 in the
Andrew Smoak Sub-division of
the City of Perry, each fronting
South on Smoak Avenue for a
distance of 75 feet and running
back North with uniform width
a distance of 155 feet, as shown
on plat of the Andrew Smoak
Sub-division recorded in Map
Book 1, Page 317, Clerk’s Office
Houston Superior Court.
Default having occurred in the
payment ot the indebtedness se
cured by said deed to secure;
debt, the property will be soldi
I for the purpose of paying said i
! indebtedness.
Sale will be made subject to
the lien of a deed to secure debt|
from George H. Miller to Bank j
of Fort Valley, securing an in- :
! debtedness in the principal sum
of $6,550.00.
Proceeds of sale will be ap
plied as directed in the said deed
to secure debt, and deed will be
executed to the purchaser or
purchasers as authorized by said
deed to secure debt.
This 6th day of June, 1942.
GEORGIA BASKET &
LUMBER COMPANY.
By C. L. Shepard,
Its Attorney at Law,
Fort Valley, Ga.
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CAN SfMK. U-OOAT3
• BOV
Utrltd State War S«vinq<* Bonds tramps
L\ S. Treasury Department
No Secret
Tom—You ought to brace up and
| show your wife just who is boss
around your house.
Gill—l don’t have to. She already
knows.
With the Wind
Bimms —Do you think a dollar goes
as far as it used to?
Simms—Oh, much farther. In fact,
mine all go so far they never get
back.
Reservations
Minister —You know, Sambo, it’s
[ no disgrace to work for a living.
Sambo —Yasash! Dat’s whut All
| always tells mah wife.
Quitting Time
Bore—l don’t know how it is, but I
feel thoroughly wound up tonight.
Hostess—How strange! And yet
| you don’t seem to go.
I
Loud
“How does this suit strike you?’*
“I am not clear whether your
| taste in dress is becoming quiet or
my hearing is getting defective.”
Practice
“So you’re twenty-nine today,
i Isn’t it terrible to celebrate a birth
-1 day so near your thirtieth?”
“Oh, no; I’m getting used to it!”
Unidentified
Diggins—Who is Gladys engaged
i to?
Wiggins—l don’t know—l couldn’t
j identify the engagement ring.
Relief
Ruth—Oh, Gill, the baby can walk.
Gill—Good! Now she can walk the
floor by herself at night.
Aware
Mrs. Murphy—l took gre.’.t pains
I U) make this salad.
Murphy—l know; I’ve got them
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I Houston County will purchase
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I condition.
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*
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Certified Public Accountant
i |
Perry, Georgia
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
j
To the Voters of Houston County:;
1 hereby announce my candi-1
dacy for Representative of Hous-1
'ton County in the General As
sembly, subject to the Democratic!
i Primary of September 9, 1942. 1
If nominated and elected,! prom- (
Jise to give my very best services
jto the people of Houston County
and the State of Georgia. 1 take
; this opportunity to thank the
voters and friends for past fa
vors and earnestly solicit their
vote and influence in the coming
Primary, On account of the tire
and gasoline shortages, I will be
unable to make a thorough can
vass of the county, but I shall j
appreciate your help very much, i
Very respectfully,
W. W. GRAY,
Old 13th Dist.
j I hereby announce my candi
dacy for the office of Representa
tive of Houston County, subject
■ to the rules of the Democratic
Primary of Sept. 9. I will ap
preciate the vote and support of
the citizens of Houston County.
PASCHAL MUSE.
i
FOR STATE SENATOR
1 am a candidate for the office
of State Senator from the 23rd
Senatorial District, subject to
the rules and regulations of the
Democratic party. If elected I
pledge my very best efforts for
the betterment of my constitu- ;
ents. Your vote and supoort will
be highly appreciated.
J. W. BLOODWORTH.
I hereby announce my candi
dacy lor State Senator from the
23rd. Senatorial District, subject
to the rules of the Democratic
Primary of Sept. 9. I will appre
ciate the support of the voters of
Houston County.
RHODES SEWELL, j
FOR
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
I hereby announce ray candi
dacy for re-election to the office
of county commissioner of Hous
ton county, subject to the rules
and regulations of the Demo
cratic Primary of Sept. 9, 1942.
I Your vote and support will be
’greatly appreciated.
T. L. WARREN.
I am a candidate for re-elec
tion to the office of county com
missioner of Houston county,
subject to the rules and regula
tions of the County Democratic
Primary of September 9, 1942.
Your vote and influence will be
appreciated.
WARREN B. HODGE.
NOTICE
City Tax Books are now open
for payment of 1942 Taxes. Pay
early and save penalty.
W, F. Norwood, Clerk
City of Perry.
A dime out of every
Tf doliar we earn
ASM IS OUR QUOTA
for VICTORY with
U.
1 I
TIME TO POISON COTTON
Don’t Let WEEVILS Gather Your Crop.
Start Poisoning Early.
We have Calcium Arsenate and Molasses.
We can supply Peas, Soy and Velvet Beans, Sor
ghum Seed, Cat-Tail Millet, and Okra Seed.
Final Date for Furnishing Government Peanuts
Extended to June 30. Only a few left.
\
Just received Car Power Balers. Get yours quick.
No More for Duration.
Several Used Threshers, Combines, and Tractors.
Hay Balers and Mowers. New Equipment Very
Scarce. See these Now.
SEE US FOR WHAT YOU WANT
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Phone 31 Perry, Ga.
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