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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXII
locals.
Mr. Charlie L. Moore, of Atlan
ta, was the guest of friends in Mc-
Donough, on Tuesday.
Early fall line of percales and
ginghams, and ladies skirts in all
the popular colors.
Walker, Turner Co.
Mr. .John Turner, of Eatonton,
was the guest of his sister, Mrs. J.
Q. Nolan, Sunday and Monday.
See me for lumber and shingles.
R. C. Brown,
Locust Grove, Ga.
Mrs. Daniel Kelley, of Washing
ton City, arrived Monday for a vis
it to Mrs. Annie Nolan.
Enlarged Portraits and Picture
Frames of all kinds.
4t Walter Thompson, Agent.
Masters John and Dan Kelley, of
Washington City, were the guests
of Mrs. Annie Nolan first of week.
Beginning August Ist, I will re
turn back to old office hours, 7 :30
to 12 a. m. 1 to 5 p. m.
T. A. Lifsey.
Sumner Suddath, of Stockbridge
spent several days here last week
■with his parents.—Winder News.
I can save you money on buggies
and harness. Call and see them or
write me for prices—cash or credit.
JOHN S. BROWN,
Locust Grove, Ga.
Mrs. C. W. Bankston and little
child left Saturday for a week’s
visit to her mother at Jonesboro.
LOST —One pair Gold-mounted
rimless, nose Glasses, near public
square on Monday afternoon. Find
er please return to The Weekly of
fice and get reward.
FOR SALE—One vacant lot
next to my home on the north side
of the street.
Mrs. R. C. Manley,
McDonough, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harris have
returned after spending several
weeks with their parents in Henry
county. Mr. Harris will buy cot
ton this fall.—Fayetteville News.
We are also showing new styles
in fall clothing we carry every
thing that a 'well-dressed man
wants, come and let us show yon
our stock and be p’eased.
Walker, Turner Co.
Mr. Harry Dunn, who has been
clerk at the Wigwam hotel at In
dian Spring during the season just
closed, is at home for a short vaca
tion with home folks and friends.
Misses Lucile Withers and Lu
cile Ragsdale, two charming
young ladies of Atlanta, will ar
rive this afternoon for a visit to
Miss Florence Carmichael.
The local chapter of the U. D. C's
will meet with Mrs. T. A. Sloan on
next Thursday, Sept. 19th, at 4
o’clock p. m. Every member is
urged to be present at this meet
ing.
Dr. R. B. Thompson, the popular
young dentist who has been in the
old drug store on south side of the
square since locating here first of
the summer, has moved his of
fice into the office formerly occu
pied by Dr. Alton Ham over the
Star Store.
The W. B. J. Ingram Co. make
their fall announcement in this
issue of The Weekly. See their ad
on another page and note the at
tractive prices they offer on fall
and winter goods.
Miss Lucy Reagan, one of the
town's bright and winsom young
ladies, will leave on next Wednes
day for Decatur, where she goes to
resume her studies ip Agnes Scott
Institute.
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McDonough, Georgia, Friday septmbeer i 3, i<jo 7 .
Mr. W. W. Anns, one of Mc-
Donough’s prominent and influen
tial older citizens, has returned
from Indian Spring where he was
greatly benefitted in health.
Deposit your money with us
through the fall and winter and
next spring when you need money
we will loan it to you.
2t First National Bank.
Mrs. Robert Bernhardt, of Bir
mingham, Ala., will return home
next week after a month’s visit to
her parents here.
The little three months’ old child
of Mr. and Mrs. A. G Henderson
died at their home near Sardis on
last Friday after a short illness.
The funeral was held on Saturday.
The Weekly joins their many
friends in tender sympathy in their
sad loss.
New lines Ladies and Gents
Misses and Boys shoes and re
mamber we are agents for the cel
ebrated Queen Quality and Cros
sett lines the best advertised line
in the whole country.
Walker Turner Co.
FOR SALE—A one, and a two
liorse farm, on Atlanta Road, just
outside the city limits, known as
the C. D. McDonald place. For
price come to see me.
The cheapest farms in Henry
county—it costs you nothing to
see them.
2t D. T. Carmichael.
Mr. O. W. Johnson, of Crawford,
Qgletliorpe. Co., arrived Monday
ana will have charge of the school
at Bethany, four miles east of Mc-
Donough, the ensuing year. He is
a genial and affable gentleman and
comes highly recommended to
this splendid school. This is a fine
school and it is safe to say that it
will greatly improve under his
able and efficient management.
T. Sloan & Co., are showing
an elegant line of boys’ clothing.
Call and see them. It
Miss Blanche Wentzell, who
spent the summer vacation with
home folks at Harper’s Ferry, Va.,
returned to McDonough on last
Saturday, and is again back at
Walker Tarner Co’s., where she is
again in charge of the millinery de
partment of this popular firm. She
is a most lovely and excellent wo
man and her hosts of friends here
always heartily welcome her back
with them again.
We have just opened up the
most complete line of dress goods,
trimmings, and Millinery ever
shown in this section. We ( invite
your inspection.
It T. A. Sloan & Co.
The death of Miss Carrie Lee
Lifsey at Carrollton on Aug., 30,
was a sad shock to her hosts of
McDonough friends. She had vis
ited here during the summer, re
turning home about one mont be
fore her death, being taken with
fever shortly after her return
home. She was a sister of Dr. T.
A. Lifsey, McDonough’s popular
dentist Dr. and Mrs. Lifsey re
turned on Saturday from Carroll
ton where they went to attend the
funeral of Miss Lifsey.
Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Scott will
leave here next Monday for Phila
delphia, where he goes to take a
vear’s post graduate course in one
of the finest medical colleges of
the country. He is a young man
who has already won quite a suc
cess in his chosen field and when
his special course is completed it is
safe to predict for him a brilliant
career in the local practitioner's
field. Their hosts of friends will
greatly miss them during the
year’s absence, but all wish them
health and much happiness during
their stay in the city of Brotherly
Love.
Miss Emmie Clements is visiting
relatives in Atlanta this week.
Deposit your money with the
First National Bank. 2t
Miss Willie Lee Hill, of Bul
lochville, is one of the bright
boarding pupils in the McDonough
Public School.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Nichols, of
Griffin, have been the guests of
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Daniel, this week.
Quite a number of baseball lov
ers went up to Atlanta this week
to witness the closing games in the
Southern League series.
Start a Bank account and save
your money. One dollar starts an
account at the First National
Bknk. 2t
The many friends of Miss Bertha
Dickson are glad to know she is
rapidly recovering from her re
cent accident at Locust Grove.
She is at her home in McDonough
now.
LOST—One small Ladies’ breast
pin with small diamonds set in
gold pansy leaves. Finder please
return to, and bo suitably reward
ed by M. C. Low, McDonough
Ga.
LOST—Cotton Book. A small
Cotton Bcok about memorandum
size, red leather back. Name on
inside, “J. B. Holst Co.” Finder
return to J. C. Harris, McDonough
Ga. and receive liberal reward.
Miss Zetta Clonts, a beautiful
and attractive young lady of Lake
land, Fla., arrived on Tuesday to
be the charming guest of Miss An
nie Lou Copeland and other
friends in McDonough for a fort
night.
Mr. H. E. Elliott, Jr., who for
a long time has been one of the
popular salesmen at the Welcli-
Hunt Supply Co., has resigned his
position there and next Monday he
will begin work for the Walker-
Turner Co. He will be glad to see
his many friends at his new place
of business.
Mr. W. O. Welch, who for a
long time has been one of the
members of the Welch-llunt Sup
ply Co., has sold his interest to the
other members of the firm and he
has gone to Atlanta, where he has
accejited a position with the Geor
gia Railway and Electric Co. His
hosts of friends here wish for him
much success in his new field of
labor.
On next Saturday, Sept. 21,
there will be held in McDonough
at the Methodist church an im
portant meeting of the Henry
county Sunday School Association.
It is earnestly desired that every
one who can attend this meeting
as matters of great importance are
to come up for consideration at
this meeting. Saturday the 21st
at 10 o'clock a. in.
Mr. Charlie Cole, of Fort Valley,
a fireman on one of the A. & F.
freight trains, had a very painful
and serious accident here Tuesday
morning. As the engine* went up
to the water tank and he went to
take hold of the spout to adjust it
to the engine tank the heavy
spout in some way fell from its
hangings and knocked him to the
ground, he falling on his head and
causing a bad scalp wound and a
slight concussion of the brain.
Drs. Scott, the railroad surgeons
here, were called and the wounded
man was carried to the Brown
House where his wounds were
dressed. He was able in the after
noon to be carried to his home at
Fort Valley, being accompanied
by his father and his wife who
had come up on the morning train
to be with him.
Judge ReagaiFDid Not
Like Commissioners
Collecting the Fine.
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 10.—Fol
lowing their refusal to pay the ex
penses of holding the City Court of
Griffin last week the board of
commissioners of revenues and
roads of Spalding county have al
so raised issue with the Superior
court of Spalding covnty.
Brawner Strickland, a n egro
convict, was recently released
from the execution of a twelve
months sentence on the payment
of SIOO to the board of commis
sioners. Judge E. J. Reagan, of
the Flint circuit, who heard of the
proceeding in open court yesterday
ordered Strickland re-arrested and
placed on the chaingang, from
which he will bo released on the
payment of the SIOO to the officers
of the court. Following this rul
ing Judge Reagan announced that
in future Superior court convicts
would remain in jail sentence and
in event that the specified fines
had not been paid at the expira
tion of that time the prisoners
would be put in the chaingang
without the privilege of paying
out. This order was issued to pre
vent future conflict between the
Superior court and the county
commissioners.
The commissioners will pay the
expenses of running the City court
last week.
JACK.
Miss Birdie Duke is spending the
week with relatives in Butts.
Bethany Sunday school will re
organize and elect new officers
next Sunday.
Prof. O. E. Ham and A. F. Bunn
were the guests of Mr. W. P. Rod
gers Sunday afternoon.
Turner Terry, of Stockbridge,
hitched his horse to the same old
post again Sunday.
Continued agitation and public
sentiment knocked whiskey clear
across the state line in the first
round.
It is estimated by some that the
cotton crop has been cut off fully
one-tliird from what it at one time
looked to be, and the -present crop
will be a short one in the county.
The many friends of Mr. W. B.
Bowden who has recently been se
riously sick with fever at his home
in Jenkinsburg will be glad to
learn that he is fast recovering
from his severe illness.
On the sth Sunday there will oc
cur something unusual to the peo
ple of Henry county, and that is
an all day singing in the court
house. Think about it, talk about
it, tell your neighbor about it and
tell them to tell the other fellow
about it, and then be sure to come
yourself, it is going to be one of
the best all-day singings ever held
in the county, and now all togeth
er everybody, and help to make it
a complete success.
We are pained to note the death
of Mrs. Mary Ann Rawls which
occurred at her home last Saturday
after an illness of several months
duration. She had lived to a ripe
old age, having been born in 1832.
Her husband was killed in the
Civil war and she has lived ever
since with her children, four of
whom are still living to mourn her
death. Her remains were laia to
rest at Bethany Sunday morning,
Rev. C. V. Weathers conducting
the funeral services.
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Aged Woman Passes
Away.
On last Saturday morning about
9 o’clock Mrs. Mary Ann Rawls
died at her home near Bethany af
ter a long illness from dropsy of
the heart.
She was a most excellent and
highly esteemed lady. She was
about 75 years old, and is survived
by three sons and one daughter.
The funeral and interment was
at Bethany on Sunday morning at
11a clock, Rev. C. V. Weathers
officiating.
Negro Killed in Well.
Dan Duffey, who lived with .Air.
. R. Sowell near Bethany, was
killed in a well in Newton county
on Wednesday morning. He was
in the well when the bucket fell on
him full of dirt and mud, killing
him almost instantly.
Farm For Rent.
Thrde-hor.se farm, five-r oo m
dwelling, out-buildings, tenant
houses, good water, convenient to
school, four and half miles from
McDonough, near Turner church.
For particulars apply to
Mrs. Anna Weaver,
McDonough, Ga.
Messrs. Visco Gunter and Em
mett Price, of Bethany, spent Sat
urday in the city.
5 per cent interest paid on time
deposits at the First National
Bank. 2 t
Mr. Frank Crnmbley, of White
House, visited relatives hero last
week.
Misses Myrtle Clements, of this
citj, and Kate Glass, of Flippen,
loft yesterday for Meridian, Miss.,
to attend the Meridian Female
College.
Misses Daisy and Nettie Gray, of
Locust Grove, left yesterday for
Meridian, Miss., where they go as
teachers*in the Mertdian Female
College.
Notice to the Schools.
A motion made by E. M. 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 jjbest man to
meet together in McDonough Sept.
21st 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 the school
cause, discuss the movement in
the Sunday school ‘J. work in your
churches, schools and privately.
H. W. Carmichael.
Lame Hack.
This is an "ailment for which
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm has
proven especially valuable. In al
most every instance it affords
prompt and permanent relief. Mr.
Luke LaGrange, of Orange, Mich.,
says of . it: • ‘After using a plaster
and other remedies for three
weeks for a bad lame back, I pur
chased a bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm, and two applications
effected a cure. For sale by
Donough Drug^Co.
$i A YEAR