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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXII
S’xty Third Anniversary
of Mrs. T. J. Thurston
of Locust Grove.
The 63rd anniversary of Mrs. T.
J. Thurston occurred on Aug. 11,
•at their pleasant home in Locust
■Grove.
Many relatives and friends were
invited. Among those who were
there were the following: Mrs. L.
H. Pnrseley, Mrs. bailie McDaniel,
Mr. Arch Sandifer, Mr. Emmett
McMichael and family, Mr. R. L.
McMichael and wife, C. C. McMi
clntel, J. R McMichael, Miss Al
thie Richie, Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Rich, Mr. and Mrs. \V. J. Thurston
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Thurston, Sr.,
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Thurston, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Thurston, Mr.
Gland Thurston, Mr. J. H. Thurs
ton, Mrs. Nannie Chastain, Miss
Ella Chastain, Miss Ida Mangham,
Mr. Geo. Mangham.
The day was pleantly spent with
the family in purely a social way.
At noon there was a sumptuous
repast consisting of many good
things. The desert was ice cream
and cake with lemonade.
All enjoyed the occasion much
and wish for Mrs. Thurston many
more happy anniversaries.
May many birthdays yet to come,
Still find her up and on :
Is what the well pleased happy guests
All wished for Mrs. Thurston.
Mrs. Li. H. Pursely.
Locust Grove, Ga.
Sept. 4. 1907.
DELTA GROVE,
Cotton fields present a gloomy
appearance.
Mrs. Josie Campbell is visiting
her brother, Mr. Jay Love of At
lanta.
Mr. Grover Crumbley is rejoic
ing over the arrival ef a bouncing
boy at his home.
Messrs. Anzo and Carl Mayfield
visited our community Sunday.
Come out to hear Prof. C. P.
Aiken deliver his lecture on “The
■effect of Environment on the Men
tal development of Children,” at
Delta Grove Sunday school next
Sunday evening.
Mr. G. W. Crumbley aiul Mrs.
Aleck Crumbley visited Mrs. J. C.
'Crumbley Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Willingham and her
daughter, Miss Babe Willingham,
visited the former’s brother, Mr.
H. H. Kelley last week.
Mr. John Phillips and family
visited our town Sunday.
Quite a number of our citizens
attended Rev. C. M. Dunaway’s
meeting at Oak Hill.
Mrs. George Love, who has been
quite ill for some months, is
thought to be some better. *
Messrs. T. C. Kelley, R. L.
Thompson, V. L. andß. R. Crumb
ley took in the Gate city last Mon
day.
Mr. Lemuel Harris and family of
Conyers, visited Mr. Zachry Phil
lips last week.
Mr. W. E. Owen is laying the
foundation for a large cementblock
storehouse at this place. He has
just finished the most commodious
barn in our community and has
two new residences almost finished
—all of them have been built this
summer. From his hustling spirit
our town should Uike the name of
Hustleville. —Bud Key.
Wanted—CHICKENS, at
The Brown House, fle-
Donough Georgia.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday septmbeer 6, 1907.
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Typhoid Fever Claims
Younng Man at
Stockbridge.
Mr. Joe B. South died on last
Friday morning at 3 o’clock at
Stockbridge at the home of Dr
Hiphtower, after an illness of fonr
weeks with typhoid fever.
He was a most excellent young
man. He was about 29 yours old
and was a son of the late Newton
Sonth. He was a member of Beth
el Methodist church.
The funeral and interment oc
curred at the old family burying
ground at South Avenue on Sat
urday morning, 11 o'clock, Revs.
B. F. Dodson and J. M. Sewell, of
ficiating.
He is survived by 3 brothers and
6 sisters. He was unmarried.
A GLORIOUS MEETING.
The series of meetings that are
in progress at the Baptist church
here this week, are the most inter
esting and there is more inter
est is being manifested than for
quite a time.
Rev. O. J. Copeland, of Gaines
ville, has been delivering some
very strong and able sermons to
large and appreciative congrega
tions.
There will be two services a day
through Sunday and probably for
several days next week.
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Notice to the Schools.
A motion made by E. it. Cope
land which prevailed, to the effect
that each school furnish a repre
sentative forming a committee
with H. W. Carmichael, chairman,
to discuss the advisability of put
ting a paid worker in the Sunday
school field, under the care and
direction of the County Associa
tion, formulate plans for the same
and make a report at the next
meeting.
I, as chairman of committee ur
gently appeal to each school to se
lect and send your best man to
meet together in McDonough Sept.
20th at 9 o'clock a. m. in the office
of County School Commissioner,
and there suggest that said money
be raised by the churches, Sunday
schools and friends of the school
cause, discuss the movement in
the Sunday school work in your
churches, schools and privately.
H. W. Carmichael.
“UNCLE DAVE" COPELAND
DEAD.
Mr. D. T. Copeland, one of the
oldest and most highly esteemed
old citizens of the county, died at
his home in McDonough on Sun
day night at i) o'clock after an ill
ness of several months fr o m
rheumatism.
He was 88 years old lacking only
one day. He was well and highly
esteemed by all who knew him.
He is survived by one son, Mr.
Jesse H. Copeland, one brother,
Mr. John P. Copeland, and one
sister, Mrs. Nancy Fields, he being
a member of a family of fourteen
children, all of whom have passed
to the Great Beyond, hut two.
He w T as a consecrated and devot
ed member of Turner Methodist
church. The funeral and inter
ment was at the Harper burying
ground, 7 miles east of McDonough
on Tuesday morning, Rev J. E.
England officiating.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Simpson
have returned home after an ex
tended trip to north Georgia.
AN AUSPICIOUS OPEN
ING 179 FIRST DAY.
Monday morning at 8 o'clock the
UcDonough Public School
op e nc d its doors for the fall
term under the most favoeable
auspices and brightest prospects in
the history of the school.
Prof. Greene and his able corps
of teachers are more than gratified
at the way school lias begun and
they confidently expect this first
day’s enrollment to almost double
before the end of the term,
A number of new pupils have
been added to the list of the open
ing day and by the close of this
week fully 200 will be enrolled.
There’s no reason why one of
the best public schools in Middle
Georgia should not be in McDon
ough and from the prospects at
present it seems that the most san
gu i n e expectations of patrons,
teachers and pupils are to become
a live fact.
McDonough should and will have
a schism keeping with her pro
gress public spiritedness and
The is much ; ratified over
the finish owing on opening day.
In another column will be found
the names of the teachers and
their respective grades and depart
ments and the rates of tuition.
UNION.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Henry County Farmers’ Union
was held in the court house last
Wednesday.
A large attendance evidenced an
increasing membership which was
; highly gratifying to the friends of
the order in old Henry, and those
present were enthusiastic over its
progress.
The afternoon was devoted prin
cipally to a session of the stock
holders, and some important bnsi
ness was transacted, both the Un
ion Gin Co and warehouse show
ing satisfactory progress.
The rapid growth and increase of
the Farmers Union throughout the
country, with the outlook of good
work ahead, is highly gratifying to
the order everywhere.
GREENWOOD.
Hot, dry and dusty. Cotton will
soon all be open if this weathers.
Mrs. Lizzie Waidrup visited her
daughter, Mrs. Tom Norris a few
days last week.
Mr. Elbert Copeland and family
visited Mr. and Mrs. Felix Morris
Saturday night and Sunday.
Miss Eddie Steel and sister visit
ed Miss Cleo Morris last Sunday.
Mrs. Elbert Copeland and child
ren visited her sister Mrs. J. FI.
Carr last Tuesday.
Mrs. Tom Morris and mother vis
ited Mrs. Felix Morris Sunday.
Miss Rhodes of Griffin visited
Miss Lizzie Pcndley a few days last
week.
Miss Willie Bates and friend, at
tended Sutidayschool at Pleasant
Hill last Sunday.
Mr. Butler Steel and wife visited
his father at Hampton last Sun
day.
Mr. J. Morris and family visited
his brother, Mr. Phelix Morris
Sunday.
Mr. Elie Rape and wife attended
campmeeting last Thursday.
Mrs. Ben Dingier has been real
sick but is better at this writing.
Miss Willie Bates visited Mrs.
Roan Saturday night.
Hickory Bill.
From Texas.
Kildare, Tex, 8, I t, 0?.
After suffering greatly for two
months lam again able to greet
the Weekly. And life would real
ly seem worth living, only for the
fact that “Old Sol” is doing busi
ness at the same old stand, and
from the intensity of the heat
seems to be doing penance for his
neglect last spring. As his scorch
ing rays beam forth from a pitiless
sky on the parched earth, which
has known but little rain since the
first of June, breathing even be
comes a sweltering, perspiring job.
The thermometer has registered
from 100 ro 104 degrees in the
shade for the past ten days.
Crops of all kinds are almost
ruined. Long before the first
sigh of the winter winds the fields
will be gleaned bare of the har
vest, whereas of former years
great fields of cotton remained un
touched on Christmas day.
From ail over the extreme South
west come discouraging reports
except a few isolated spots. Some
attribute the whimsical weather
this year to the near approach of
Mars to the Earth. If so, lam
gliid the worst of it is over, and
that Nature’s immutable laws are
gradually forcing the Celestial vis
itor back into the immensity of
space where his baleful influence
will not be a discouraging factor.
I with others had joyously con
! templated a visit to the Weekly
, ami its interesting family of read
| ers, and to attend the protracted
j meeting, swap yarns with the boys
j and have a good easy l ime and im
agine I had religion, but the bard
l of Bonnie Doon happily expresses
| the situation in the following
quaint lines:
“The best laid plans o’ mice and men
Gang aft agley.”
Well, “Hell’s broke loose in
Georgia.” So the whiskey people
say, and a wail goes up that the
legislature by one fell swoop has
robbed them. That property will
depreciate and the country go to
the Bow-wows. While the tem
perance people are much elated
over their successful campaign.
The saloon men should take
their medicine. It is the same
dose they have forced many a
hopeless, weak brother to swallow
which crushed the heart of many
a miserable sister.
But let no one be deluded with
the belief that putting the saloons
out of business ends the fight, for
even while they are congratulat
ing themselves the moonshine dis
tillery and the blind tiger may be
in their midst while the boot
legs will ply his trade with all the
cunning of his vile nature.
Long experience with that per
verse biped belonging to the genus
homo known as the American cit
izens has convinced me that you
cannot make him good by legisla
tion. If he is intemperate he can
not be reclaimed by sumptuary
laws which he regards as a menace
to personal freedom and individual
liberty.
When he can no longer procure
his favorite beverage by legal
methods, he resorts to illegal ones
regardless of costs or consequences.
The profits of the illicit traffic are
so enormous as to tempt the greed
and cupidity of mercenary beings
who find means of smuggling it in
to prohibition districts even tho’
jail doors yawn in the distance. I
speak from experience : 60 per cent
of our people live under die most
drastic temperance laws, some of
them 35 years. Ninety counties in
our state are totally dry while in
the others whiskey is only sold in
the larger towns with ample police
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protection. My own county has
been dry for five years and still
there is more drunkenness than
when we had saloons. Men order
from St. Louis, Kansas City and
elsewhere and make beasts of
themselves as much for the an
noyance of prohibitionists as any
thing else.
The worst of it all is that for
merly minors were not allowed by
law to even enter a saloon, but
now young lads assemble, make up
a purse and order whiskey and,
with boyish indiscretion, (Jrink un
til reason is dethroned and they
become h nnisHnce and insult to de
coney.
If the now law can suppress the
unholy traffic in all of its forms, it
is well, and lam with you heart
and soul. But if it only eliminates
the saloon and allows the mon
strous evil to assume a hydra head
luring stealthily in the dark cor
ners, permeating the very air of
Heaven with its poison laden
breath —then it were better to
again legalize the sale and make
the dealer pay for the privilege.
Bleeding Kansas began a crusade
against intemperance years ago
and has fought with unremitting
zeal ever since. Last year there
were three thousand places within
her borders where liquor was dis
pensed. Even last month one
drug store iy Topeka sold $4.50
worth of medicine on prescriptions
and $1,400 worth of intoxicants.
This is a confession of the drug
gist to J. J. Schenck Co. attorney.
Perhaps the $1.50 was spent for
headache medicine.
So after twenty years Kansas
comes limping along with her trip
le burden of temperance laws,
whiskey joints, Carrie Nations and
the Lord only knows what else.
Almost ready as her sister state,
lowa, to acknowledge her defeat.
Intemperance is an inherent vice.
A blot on our civilization that I
fear legislation will never erase.
Reduced to its last analysis the
logical conclusion is that prohibi
tion is with some a delusion and
with others a fad, pure and simple.
But if, I repeat, every form of
the vicious traffic can bo suppress
ed and oui loved ones freed from
its pernicious influence then we
exclaim “God hasten the day !”
Pardon mo for covering so much
space.
—W. H. GOODMAN.
Mr. Matt Mitchell Dead.
Mr. Matt Mitchell, one of Brushy
Knob’s prominent and popular cit
izens, died on last Friday morning
after a short illness from typhoid
fever.
He was a most excellent and
highly esteemed citizen. Fie was
about 40 years old and is survived
by his wife and three sons.
The funeral and interment was
at the Masters’ cemetery on Satur
day morning, Rev. M. Keath, offi
ciating.
Patterson-Price.
A marriage of interest to the
people of Henry county was that of
Mr. William A. Price, formerly of
Flippen. but now of Atlanta, to
Miss Marie Patterson, of Savannah
the marriage occurring in Atlanta
on Tuesday evening at the resi
dence of Rev. T. L. Kendall, he
performing the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
C. D. Patterson, and is a most
lovely and accomplished young
woman. The groom is the son of
Mr. John R. Price of near Flippen,
and is a most excellent young man.
l>r. Price’s Cream Baking Powdev
World’* Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
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