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FIRS' 1 ' STATE CHAMPS FOR PERRY—This sq -ad was the first P-rry basketball team to win
the Slate Tournament, although 15 other local t ms had been to the state meet. Left to right,
front row, Jack Watts, Ed Chapman, Ed Thom on, D'Tryle Whipple, Mac Peyton, Seabie
Hickson and Rubber Riley. Back row, left to right, Coach E. P. Staples, Charles Whitworth,
John Blue Calhoun, Billy Bledsoe, James Matthews, Clint Cooper, and Bobby Sutton and
Jimmy Connell, managers. They won the Class B meet in Macon in 1947.
REV. B. F. THAHPE WAS
IN IST. MERCER CLASS
Rev. Benjamin Franklin Tharpe
of Perry was a graduate of the
first class of Mercer University,
then located at Penfield, Ga.,
many years before it v/as moved
to ,Macon.
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THEATER AND RINK
An old building in Armory
Grove, near where the new
water lank now stands, used to
be the main auditorium for plays
and recitals in Perry. Later if
was used as a roller skating rink.
HEAVY TRUCK TRAFFIC
Hundreds of huge highway
trailer trucks and car transports
each carrying about as much load
as a railroad freight car, pass
through Perry on its three main
highways every day and night.
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J. M. Gooden
Started Perry
Basketball
Basketball, which annually at
[ tracts more sports lovers than
any other athletic events in Per
ry, got its start when J. M. Good
en became superintendent of the
Perry High School back in 1919.
Mr. Gooden started a basket
ball team and competed against
other schools in this section in
1919 for the first time. Members
of the first team that he had in
cluded E. A. Murray, Marion
Houser, Dennard Skellie, Elmore
McCarey # Raleigh Ward and oth
ers. Basketball players who fol
lowed in the next few years in
cluded Wordna Gray, Hilt Gray,
Floyd Tabor, Homer Davis, Louis
Gilbert, Alfred Edwards, Smokey
Harper, Jake Murray, Emmett
and Alton Rainey and Emmett
Johnson.
Perry won its first tournament
in Hawkinsville in 1927, when
Perry was in the old 12th Dis
trict
FIRST WINNER IN 1927
j The first district tournament
won by Perry came in 1927, when
the local five was victorious at
Hawkinsville. Playing on this
team were Jube Strother, Glea
Gray, Chester Edwards, Ernest
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Edwards and Nick Harper. Sub
stitutes included Ormond Skellie,
Hilt Gray, Bill Dorsett and Ben
ny Hall.
The next year, Benny Hall re
placed Jube Strother, who had
graduated, and Perry again won
the district tournament played in
Perry. (The new gymnasium was
built in the season of 1926-27).
The team was defeated by one
point in the old Middle Georgia
basketball tournament by Vien
na’s second Wonder Five.
In 1929, the Perry boys again
won the district tourney, playing
at Vidalia. By that time new
members of the team included
Harold Duncan, Elmer Wolf, Jim
Thorpe, Francis Nunn, Herman
Martin, Wilson Martin, and
Bowie Gray. The team entered
the Cotton States tournament at
Auburn, Ala., that year but did
not win.
In 1930, Perry again won the
district meet in Cochran and re
peated in 1931 at Mcßae.
Riterest Rates
Once 25%; Then
Banks Came
Before the days of banks, “cash
capitalists” in Houston county
loaned money at interest rates of |
20 to 25 percent, according to old
civil court records.
One historian says that the de
mand for farm products, partic
ularly cotton, was so strong in
those days that people who had
no money could borrow to secure
land, stock and farm im
plements and make tremendous
profits. The system of merchants
crediting farmers until the fall
harvest was called “running
him.”
The first Houston county bank
was the Ft. Valley Loan and
Trust Co., chartered in 1868. Orig
inal incorporators were William
J. Anderson, William A. Math
ews, William R. Brown, A. L.
Brown, William H. Hollinshed/
H. C. Harris and D. W. Visscher.
Other Banks
Two years later its name was
changed to Planters Bank. The
next Ft. Valley bank was the
Dow Law Bank, chartered in
1888, incorporators being H. C.
Harris, S. Neil, F. C. Houser, S. E.
Bassett, John A. Houser and
H. A. Mathews. This later be
came the First National Bank.
More recent were the Exchange
Bank and Citizens Bank.
First bank in Perry was the
Perry Loan and Savings BankJ
incorporated in 1889. Some years I
later the Houston Banking Co. {
was organized but it later merg-1
ed with the Loan. & Savings I
Bank. At one time there were'
also chartered banks at Elko and j
Byron.
OAT WILT SCARE
Although oak wilt has been ap- j
pearing in sbme of the mid-west- I
ern states for several years it has
not been reported in Georgia or
any surrounding states, accord
ing to C. Dorsey Dyer, Agricul
tural Extension Service forester.
Oak wilt is a very serious disease
and kills the treets attacked,
Dyer says.
John B. Hunt
Gave County
Fine Families
John B. Hunt, progenitor of all
the Hunts of Houston county, was
born in Henry county, Georgia in
1845. He joined the Confederate
Army and fought throughout the
conflict.
On his return home he visited
relatives in the Heard commun
ity of Houston county and liked
it so well that he settled there
and married Miss Mattie Strick
land.
Thanks to John B. for the
many fine families of Hunts who
have meant so much to Houston
county. They continue to be some
of our best and most active citi
zens.
Over 3,000 Georgia 4-H boys
and girls have planted more than
1,000,000 pine trees during the
past year.
1927 - 1951
24 Years of Service
To Houston County and Perry
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HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 19)1
CHARLES ANDREW ONCE
FLEW—WITHOUT PLANE
One of Perry’s prominent bus
inessmen once flew like a bird—
in his younger days, of course.
It was Charles Andrew.
In the 1920 s Carey B. Andrew
Jr., his brother, was taking a
boat to Houston Lake on a trailer
pulled behind an old Ford chassis
on which a flat-bottomed peach
hauling body had been placed.
Charles was riding in the boat
—un ti 1 it became unhitched
somehow, turned into a ditch and
buried its prow in a bank. The
sudden stop sent Charles sailing
through the air for 20 or 30 feet.
He landed in a soft potato patch
and everybody was thankful that
he was not hurt.
“Life and Life” is the title of a
new educational motion picture
to be released in the Southeast in
June.
It's "How-ston"
Not "Hugh-ston"
It’s historically correct t„
pronounce the name of our
county “How-ston’ instead of
“Hugh-ston.”
Named for John Houston, son
of Sir Patrick Houston, one of
the most zealous advocates of
the Colonies and governor of
Georgia from 1778 to 1784, the
family name and the countv
were from the first pronounced
“How-ston,” according to sourc
es consulted in compiling the
history of the county.
The second “u” was dropped
in naming the county but the
pronunciation remained th e
same and is not to be confused
with “Hugh-ston,” Texas.
Clean, comfortable and happ'
cows produce more milk.