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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXII
PROF. HAM AGAIN
HEADS LOCUST GROVE
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
He Will Begin his Second Year’s
Work on the 2nd Day of Sep
tember==Outlook for School
Most Flattering.
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Prof. O. E. Ham, who for a nnm
-1361* of years was the leading factor
in the local educational world, and
who a year ago took charge of the
Locust Grove Grammar School,
< will begin his second year’s work
at Locust Grove on Monday, Sept.
2nd.
Prof. Ham needs no introduc
tion to the people of Henry coun
ty, or even to the public of this
part of Middle Georgia, for his
name placed in a school catalogue
or in connection with a school as
sures the success of that school so
long as lie is associated with it,
hut the Weekly wants to call the
attention of its readers to some of
the strides forward in educational
lines made by Locust Grove, a
town of only 500 inhabitants.
The Grammar School has a corps
of five experienced teachers who
ably preside over the several de
partments of the school.
The school building is modern
in its construction and the entire
equipment is the latest and best to
be had, thus making an ideal
physical school plant where every
convenience and comfort for the
best work is given both to teachers
and pupils.
There are two dormitories for
the school, one for the boys and
one for the girls, both of them be
ing under the personal supervision
of Prof. Ham.
Prof. Ham and his able corps of
teachers confidently expect a con
siderable increase in the enroll
ment of the school the coming
year, the total enrollment probably
reaching 200 pupils.
But the Grammar School is not
all of the educational work done
in Locust Grove.
The Locust Grove Institute, un
der the efficient management of
Prof. Claud Grey, is one of the
best high schools and preparatory
colleges in the state.
The two schools taken together
represent a school plant costing
$50,000, and the past year had a
total enrollment of 325 pupils, the
pupils coming from 70 counties in
t e state, as well as five different
states and Cuba furnishing student
material for these schools. Of the
325 pupils enrolled. 175 were board
ing pupils. The students were di
vided about equally between the
two schools last term.
The people of Locust Grove
show a very progressive spirit
along' educational lines and they
expect to make their town an ed
ucational center for this part of
the state, and they are now mak
ing rapid strides in that direction
with most sanguine hopes of an
early realization of this most com
mendable ambition to make their
town second to none as an educa
tional center.
Prof. Ham has been very busy
for several weeks in planning out
the work for the coming year and
when the school opens he will have
perfected a line of work for his
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school that will redound to the
good of every pupil in after years
who attends this school during the
ensuing school year.
Both the Grammar School and
the Institute will open on Sept.
2nd, and both now have pßospects
of the best year in the history of
the respective schools.
PROF. GREEN HERE;
READY FOR SCHOOL.
Is delighted with McDon
ough and Hospitality
of Her Peuple.
Prof. W. D. Green, the New
superintendent of the McDonough
City School, has arrived from his
home at .Tesnp to assume control
of this work here.
Prof. Green is a cultured and af
fable gentleman ynd has had a va
ried and long experience as a
teacher having been at Jessup for
the i>ast several years.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity at Nashville, Tenn., and of
the State Normal School at Athens
ann the Peabody Normal.
He is a profound scholar, affable,
courteous and dignified and the
Weekly bespeaks for him one of
the best schools under his manage
ment in the history of the .Mc-
Donough public schools.
The school will open on the first
Monday in September.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McKibben
and children, of Vaughn, were in
the city yesterday on the way to
McDonough, whei;e they will spend
a week with relatives.—Griffin
News.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday august 23, 1907.
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Locust Grove Grammar School, where Prof. O. E. Ham,
Will Begin his 29th Year’s Work on Sept. 2nd.
Baptists to Begin
Protracted Services
September Ist.
The annual series of services at
the McDonough Baptist church
will begin on Sunday night, Sept.
1, Rev. E. S. Atkinson, pastor,
preaching the opening sermon.
He will be assisted by Rev. (). .T.
Copeland, of Gainesville, who is
an able and earnest preacher and
well known in many parts of the
the slate.
Everyone is cordially invited to
these services which Will continue
throughout the first week in Sep
tember.
Camp meeting begins tonight.
Gus. Mitcham Buys Hamp
ton Livery Business.
Mr. A. B. Mitcham, who for a
number of years has. been one of
the leading business men of Love
joy and who the first of the year
moved to Hampton, has bought
the livery business at Hampton.
He will make many improve
ments in the business, and besides
the livery business, he will deal in
live stock, horses, mules, etc. He
will make a deserved success of
the bnsiness that will do credit to
himself and the demands of his
town.
Old Citizen Passes Away
at Locust Grove.
Mr. William Combs, one of the
oldest and most highly esteemed
citizens of Locust Grove, died at
his home on Saturday morning,
Aug. 10th, after a lingering illness
from the infirmities of old ago.
He was a man who was widely
and favorably known and for a
long time was one of the county’s
active and leading citizens.
He was about 79 years old. He
is survived by his wife and three
sons and four daughters.
The funeral and interment was
at Locust Grove on Sunday after
noon at 4 o’clock.
One of the largest funeral pro
cessions ever seen in Locnst Grove
attended Mr. Combs’ funeral, thus
attesting the high esteem, love
and affection in which he was held
by all who knew him.
WANTED—Chickens ! Bring
them-in to the Brown House.
Andy Price Dies at Locust
Grove.
Mr. Andy Price, Son of Mr. .T.
M. Price, one of Locust Grove’s
prominent and popular young
men, died at his home near Locust
Grove on Saturday August 17th,
after a long illness from typhoid
fever.
He was one of that part of the
county’s most highly esteemed
and valued citizens.
He was about 2f> years old and
had been married only a few years.
He is survived by his wife and one
child.
The funeral and interment was
at Indian Creek Baptist church at
Locust Grove on Sunday afternoon
at J o’clock.
Mrs. Goss Passes
to Great Beyond.
Mrs. Tom Goss died at her home
near Bethany church 4 miles east
of McDonough, on Tuesday, Aug.
14th, after a lingering illness.
She was a most excellent lady
and was about (50 years old.
She is survived by her husband.
She had been sick for a long time
and all that loving hands and med
ical skill could do could not stay
the hand of the Resistless Reaper.
The funeral and interment was
at Bethany church on Wednesday
at 11 o’clock a. m*.
He that builds on insecure foun
dation will sooner or later witness
a fall.
Mr. W. M. Shultz, a representa
tive of the Cable Piano Co., of At
lanta, has been here this week in
the interest of his company.
.Miss Florence Carmichael has
returned from Atlanta where she
was a guest of honor at a house
party given by Miss Redona Rags
dale.
Miss Luella McKibben returned
Wednesday from Stockbridge
where where she was guest of hon
or at a house party given by Mes
dames Ward.
Miss Mary Alice Strange, Messrs.
Frank McKibben and Edwin
Strange, of Winder, and Miss Lida
May McKibben of Jackson, arrived
Wednesday afternoon for a visit
to Miss Luella McKibben.
Judge and Mrs. E. J. Reagan
and their charming daughter, Miss
Lucy Reagan, returned Wednes
day from an extended trip to
Washington, Jamestown, and oth
er points of interest in the North
and East.
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CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL
LABORATORY TO BE ADDED
TO M'DONOUGH PUBLIC
SCHOOL,
A chemical and physical labors.,
tory being found highly necessary
for McDonough Public School,
with commendable liberality onr
citizens are raising the funds for
its purchase bv private subscrip
tion.
It will lie a. most valuable addi
tion to the school, and the prompt
manner in which onr people ara re
sponding to the call made upon
them speaks in undeniable credit
to their educational enthusiasm.
That the required amount will
he easily raised before the own
ing of the fall term next month
there can be no doubt, as the list,
was only presented the first of
this week, and already the follow
ing amounts have been subscribed :
Dr. D W Scott 5.00
J A Fouelie 2.50
Lawrence Duffcy 2.50
A C Sowell 5.00
E M Smith 5.00
H B Neal . 5.00
D .T Green 5.00
J B Dickson 2.00
R L Turner 1.00
.1 M, Carmichael . 1.00
.1 C Harris 1.00
John Dnproe 1.00
11 C Bridges 1.00
A N Brown 5.00
E M Copeland 1.00
Dr. J G Smith 5.00
WDTarpley 1.00
G W Cathey 1.00
H C Turner 2.00
Singleton Hunt 1.00
B H Welch 2.00
G G Weems 2.00
- H L Carmichael 1.50
R L Johnson 1.00
J F M Fields 1.00
W D Knight 1.00
Henry Woqdward .50
J T Sowell 1.00
SC McWilliams 1.00
Marvin Turner 1.00
C Engber 1.00
J B Brown I'.OO-
Dr. B E Horton 5.00
N A Glass ] .00
T J Brown 1.00
Any additional subscriptions
left at the office of Co. School
Com., Duffcy will be properly re
corded and duly appreciated.
FUTURE EVENT
CALENDER.
DATES AND PLACES OF SOME OF THE
MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS TO BE
HELD IN HENRY COUNTY IN
THE NEAR FUTURE.
The Camp Meeting at Shingle Hoof, be
gins on Friday night before 4th Sunday
in Aug.—23rd, and continues one week.
All Pay Singing to lx* held at the Court
house in McDonough, Sunday, Sept. 29th
At Hampton on Thursday November
28, an all-day singing at the school audi
torium.
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