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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1907)
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. 8 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. f ■ 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 PAGES 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. $i A YEAR
