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Perry’s Oldest Citizen
Mrs. Bright Harper
Dies At Age Os 105
Perry’s oldest citizen,
Mrs. Bright Harper, died
Sunday night at the age of
105 at her home at 911
Evergreen Street. She
made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. W. E. Pace.
Funeral services were
held Tuesday in the Perry
United Methodist Church
with Rev. J. B. Smith and
Rev. James Teresi of
ficiating. Burial was in
Evergreen Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Dr. J. L.
Gallemore, E. P. Staples,
Jerry Rogers, Dan Britton,
Charles Shelton, and Ralph
Tabor.
Members of the United
Daughters of the Con
federacy sat in a body in
honor of Mrs. Harper. She
was the oldest registered
member of the U.D.C. in the
1866 Church Bell Comes Down . . .
The famous and legendary church bell at the Perry United
Methodist Church is pulled with precision out of the steeple to
make way for a new bell. The old bell was cast in 1866 in New
York for the Perry church. It took 5 men from the Milton
Beckham Construction Company and an especially rigged
dragline to perform the tedious task Saturday.
The Houston Home Journal
The Perry Area s Favorite Newspaper For The Past 100 Years
United States at the time of
her death. She was the oldest
living member of the Perry
Methodist Church, and was a
former Sunday School
teacher there.
The former Miss Loudie
Moore, she was born two
years after the end of the
War Between the States. She
raised five children after
losing her husband more
than a half century ago. She
was a lifelong resident of
Houston County.
Mrs. Harper is survived by
two sons, Louis Harper of
Perry and W. N. Harper of
Jacksonville, Florida; one
daughter, Mrs. W. E. Pace;
seven grandchildren and 12
great-grandchildren.
Watson-Hunt Funeral
Home of Perry had charge of
arrangements.
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Accuses Newspaper
Councilman Questions
The Way City Grants
Funds To Chamber
City Councilman D. K.
(Dot) Roughton told Council
Tuesday night he has doubts
about the way an annual
funding by the City to the
Perry Chamber of Com
merce is handled. Roughton
was referring to a grant
made each year by the City
that is 25 per cent of the
Georgia Power Company’s
rebate check to the City. This
year’s payment to the
Chamber amounted to
$9,600.
Roughton stated, “I am
not against the Chamber of
Commerce but I think this
thing ought to be done in a
business like manner. I have
stood up for the chamber
many times and I know they
do a lot for this community.”
Roughton said, according
to a Houston Home Journal
article, that this year’s
funding was agreed and
voted upon by Council. He
said that statement was not
true. He said he did not know
anything about the grant
being made. The Home
Journal article stated that
the annual request came up
in a pre-council meeting as a
matter of formality and was
agreed upon. Roughton
claims Council did not vote
on it and that he does not
think that is the proper
procedure.
Roughton indicated he is
dubious about the funding
because the City is operating
in the “red” and the
Chamber has a $6,000 sur
plus. He also said he couldn’t
understand why any of the
officials of the Chamber did
not appear before Council
and request the money.
Interim Mayor Dan
Britton said the Chamber is
set up in the charter and the
annual funding has been
made since 1965. Councilman
Frank Leonard said the
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Chamber operates as an
arm of the City.
Roughton, at that point in
the meeting, asked The
Home Journal editor in the
audience if an editorial he
had written accusing some
elected officials of not being
in favor of granting the
Chamber the funds was
pointed at him. The editor
said it was an editorial
opinion and that it was
pointed at whoever it should
be. Roughton asked, “Were
you writing about me?” The
answer was, “Should I have
been.”
Roughton then asked the
City Clerk to get a copy of the
City Charter so he could look
up something concerning the
City and the Chamber. When
he got the Charter he looked
through it a few minutes but
he could not find what he was
looking for. He indicated he
would bring up the subject at
a later date.
The Chamber of Com
merce is set up in the Perry
City Charter to operate as an
arm of the City.
STEWART WIGHT, pres,
of the Ga. Assoc, of Real
Estate Boards, will be the
guest speaker at the Perry
Kiwanis Club this Tuesday.
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New Bell Lifted To Steeple . . .
The new Methodist Church bell is hoisted to its new home in
the steeple where it will begin ringing out on Sunday mor
nings beginning next Sunday. The new bell was cast by the
same company that cast the original 1866 bell for the church
here. The new bell has a motorized ringer on it so that by the
flip of a switch on Sunday morning the distinct sounds of the
church bell will ring out over Perry.
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Police Officers Look Over Four Pounds Os Marijuana
Perry police officers involved and Councilman
Frank Leonard, police commissioner, examine
the four pounds of marijuana confiscated in the
arrest of two youths last Friday morning. Stan-
Police Nab Two With
| Big Cache Os Marijuana
Perry police officers
arrested two young men at a
local restaurant and con
fiscated approximately four
I pounds of marijuana, early
I Friday morning.
Chief B. E. Dennard
reported that Patrolman
Roy lyee Mathis noticed an
automobile at the Royal
Castle restaurant on High
way 341 north with an ex-
pired license plate and ex
pired motor vehicle in
spection sticker at 3:30 a.m.
During his investigation the
marijuana, in two plastic
bags and one paper bundle,
as well as rolled cigarettes,
was discovered in the
automobile. Sgt. Pat Padget,
Cpl. W. G. McCuan and Pt.
Willie Coates were called to
assist with the arrest.
1972 Bell Guided Into Place ....
Workmen guide the new bell into its’ final resting place
inside the steeple. A portion of the steeple had to be torn out
to get the old bell out and the new one in. It took workmen
several hours to effect the precision task of placing the bell.
The old bell, surrounded by history, will be mounted as a
permanent monument on the church grounds.
ding, from left, are Patrolmen Roy Lee Mathis,
Ptl. Willie Coates, and Chief B. E. Dennard.
Seated are Sgt. Pat Padgett, Councilman
Leonard, and Cpl. W. G. McCuan.
William Richard Mathis,
500 Bee Tree Avenue, Nash
ville, Georgia, age 19, was
charged with possession of
marijuana, driving with an
expired license plate and
expired motor vehicle in
spection sticker.
Ray C. Norvell, Jr., 2157
Nedfield Trail, Atlanta,
Georgia, age 19, was charge
with possession of marijuana
and permitting another to
drive his automobile with
expired license plate and
expired motor vehicle in
spection sticker.
Warrants were obtained
for the charges and the two
youths, both white, were
turned over to the county
Sheriff’s Department when
the investigation was
completed.