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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXIII
STOGKBRIDGE.
Miss Eva May Harris, of Mc-
Donough, was a visitor in town
Saturday.
Mr. Mentzell, of Atlanta, was a
visitor here last week.
Miss Henry Blalock, of Jones
boro, Miss Annie Nolan and Mr.
Ed Reagan, of McDonough were the
guests of Mrs. W. W. Ward a few’
days last week.
Miss Louise B ichannan, of At
lanta, was the charming guest of
Mrs. A. H. Swann several days last
week.
Mr. B H Harrell was bitten by
a mad dog last Monday and is now
taking treatment at the Pasteur
Instituse in Atlanta, and we hope
will soon be well again.
Mr. and Mrs. A G Harris, of
Fayetteville were the guests of the
latter’s parents a few r days last
week.
Mrs. A H Swann entertained the
U D C delightfully last Wednesday
afternoon, Feb. sth.
Miss Etta Harrell spent Sunday
in Atlanta.
Messrs. J E Lee and Oliver Ellis
returned Wednesday from a two
weeks stay in Jacksonville.
Mrs. Clifford Harris, of Atlanta,
has been visiling her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D P Shields, returning
home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. W W Ward were
visitors to the Gate City this week.
Mrs. J C Walden spent Thurs
day in Atlanta.
Last Wednesday night at the
home of the bride’s parents, Miss
Mae Terry and Mr. Walter Lee
were married- It was a very quiet
affair, only a few friends and rel
atives being present. After the
ceremony delicious refreshments
-were served by little Misses Inez
Harris and Treo Terry. Mr. and
Mrs. Lee are at home to their
friends on Milam street, the house
recently vacated by Mr. II M Glass.
Miss Allie Berry spent Saturday
and Sunday with her grand par-
1908. 1908.
A New Year GreetinG!
For 25 years our Business has in
creased both in volume and profits,
for which we want to thank each
and every customer, hoping to care
for vour wants even better in the
future. And from this day, we are
going sell all
UNDERTAKERS’ GOODS
at Cost, plus 10% for handling and
from $3.00 to $6.00 per trip for team
and driver, owing to distance,
Embalming done when* wanted, without any
charge whatever, by the very best method,
BEING LICENSED EMBALMERS,
with 10 years actual experience.
We pledge ourseives not to' have any pretended
nurses, or agents to look after the sick bed for the
sake of a funeral, nor expect any friend to come to
us except it be the wish of a family. Every bill in
this line is open to the purchaser for prices.
All calls promptly answered day or night, re=
gardless of distance or weather.
Thanking you for past favGrs, and a continuance
of same, we are, Yours truly,
B B Carmichael & Sons
McDonough, Georgia, Friday February i 4, igoß.
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Moves 4o McDonough.
Barnesville. Ga., Feb. 10—Colo
nel E. A. Stephens, who has been
city attorney and solicitor of the
city court here for the past several
years has moved with Ins family
to McDonongli, where he lias form
ed an important business connect
ion. For the present he will spend
part of the time here but as soon
as he can close up litigation with
which he is connected here lie will
leave permanently for McDonongli
his family having already gone
there. He will shortly resign as
city attorney and as solicitor of
the city court. He has made a po
pular official and his removal to
McDonough is a source of much re
gret among the people here.
Atlanta Journal.
The Sleet Storm.
Not since 1905 has such a destruc
tive sleet storm swept this section
as that on Sunday night and Mon
day. Great damage is reported
from all sections of the county to
the fruit trees and timber.
The local telephone systems was
the greatest sufferer, more than
half of the phones being out. Mr.
Bridges estimates that the damage
will reach at least §I.OOO all the
telegraph lines are down and the
trains have been run only by the
time cards.
The telegraph company has a
large force of men clearing up the
lines.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Tingle, of
Locust Grove, spent a day or two
with their daughter, Mrs. C. .J.
Dickson.
ents, near Jonesboro.
Mr. A W Mays made a business
trip to Atlanta this week. v
Miss Daisy Reynold is visiting
relatives in Atlanta.
Greer Writes of Truck
Farming in Florida.
Coleman, Fla. Feb. 8, ’OB.
Mr. Editor :—I have but little to
write about this week. I am still
in Coleman, and sometimes hunt
ing for quail, sometimes doing
nothing and sometimes working,
pulling beets and cutting and crat
ing cabbage.
It is very interesting, indeed, to
drive through this wonderful
Hammock and view the well kept
land. The most of it is laid off in
squares of live acres. Some have
ten, with well kept reads between
each track or square. These roads
are used in hauling out the vege
tables. Each square has a shed or
packing house in the centei over
the road so that wagons and teams
may pass under. Running through
the center, or main, are two roads
called public roads,* with gates to
pass in and out. These roads are
built up above the levtff with rock
and coveied with saw dust which
makes a good, firm road bed.
One of the most extensive truck
ers in this Hamm jck is Mr. N. J.
Wicker who has fifteen acres un
der irrigation, most of which is
planted in cucumbers.
The net cost of irrigating this
fifteen acres is five thousand dol
lars, this including the troughs to
cover the plants when young to
keep them from getting killed in
the event of a sudden cold snap.
We will not go into the details
of the expense of planting and cul
tivating this fifteen acres, but will
just say that the fertilizers cost
§450.00 and the seed about §50.00,
and the labor to market this crop
including cost of shipping, will
amount to §500.00.
When the market is favorable,
there is a clear profit of five hun
dred dollars per acre. Very often,
though, the market is low and
hardly any clear money is realized.
On my last hunt for quail we
killed 105, one rabbit and oue mon
ster rattle snake that measured
six feet long, with 13 rattles.
He was a fine specimen uf that
reptile.
As there has been some question
as to the letter I wrote at Savan
nah—and possibly it did lead some
to believe to believe that I was an
old veteran of the war—will just
say in way of explanation that 1
visited that place with my mother
when she went to visit my father
who was a confederate soldier sta
tioned there. I heard my mother
speak so often of that occasion that
my imagination makes it very
clear to my mind, yet at the time 1
was only six months old Like so
many other things my mother
told me in my childhood days, it is
as clear to my mind as if I had
been grown at the timq of these
hapjihnings.
That night at Savannah (they
told me) when the full moon rose
across the ocean many hearts al
most broke for they thought it
was the enemies vessel approach
ing as it sent forth the rays of red
light over the city of Savannah. I
suppose there are some old veter
ans living vet who witnessed this
occasion, and I hope tljatthis coun
try will always be so peaceful
that such scenes will never be en
acted again. H. H. Greer.
Going to John Hopkins.
Dr. C. I. Bryans’ many Henry
county friends will be much inter
ested in the following from Mon
day’s Augusta Chronicle: “Dr. C.
I. Bryans, city physician of conta
gions diseases and member of the
faculty of the Medical College,
leaves this week for John Hopkins,
Baltimore, where he will spend two
months or more engaged in special
study.”
Leap Year Party
at Hampton.
The young people of Hampton
were delightfully entertained at
a lea}) year party at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Mashburn Fri
day evening.
The color scheme being pink and
white. Chocolate and cake was
served by Misses Pearle Adams
and Orion Arnold. The prize for
the best proposal was won by Miss
Genora Chapman. The gentle
man’s prize for the best acceptance
was won by Mr. Arnold Henderson.
The booby was won by Miss Lois
Davis.
Those present were Misses Fields,
Adams, Arnold, Turner, Jewell
and Burnyce Turpley, Delle Tarp
ley. Lois Davis, Moore Norris,
Chapman, Foster, Redwine, Wil
son.
Messrs. Henderson, Fields, Mc-
Lair, Harris, Hawkins, Tarpley,
Turner, Poole, Starr, Moore.
Col. R. O. Jackson, one of Mc-
Donough’s leading young attor
neys, and one of her prominent
young citizens, announces in this
issue of the Weekly for represent
ative. This announcement will he
the source of much pleasurable in
terest to his many friebds through
out the county. If lie is elected
he will ably represent this county
in the General Assembly, and will
be a credit not only to his home
county but to the entire state at
large.
Agriculture and Cotton.
Brother Farmer: Seeing the
need of scientific farming, and a
more careful study of cotton, onr
valuable product which moves the
commerce of the world, we as
farmers, should cultivate our lands
propetly. We should use fertiliz
ers to suit our soils, rotate our
crops and build up our soil by sav
ing all the littbr on the ground, for
this contains a certain per cent of
chemicals which we are spending
our money for every spring. Sow
down your lands, if you cannot af
ford to sow very many acres, ro
tate yonr crops so that you can
spare acres every year. Then turn
under your hay crops just when
they are read y to harvest. By
this method you will obtain a large
per cent of food for the soil.
Brother Farmer, you treat your
land as 3 7 0 u treat yonr farm ani
mals, feed it well and put more
tood stuff into the soil every year.
We remark sometimes that our
soil is going down every year. Find
the per cent of phosphoric acid, j
nitrogen and potash each crop
takes from your s< il then use all of
your manure and filth on the land.
Then, besides that, put the per
cent of chemicals of fertilizers each
\?rop takes each year, then you
will be able to realize a better re
sult.
Take our state. In her boundary
lines there ure 36,000,000 acres,
and the commercial value is §5.00,
which makes the soil of our state
worth §180,000,000.
The commercial value of Geor
gia can he made, inside of five
years, twice this amount, if each
farmer that tills the soil will only
treat his land by giving it its prop
er food and rotating his crops.
Then the farmers can look over
the old State with pride at her val
ue. Why? Because by their
building the soil, and rotating the
crops, have brought the old State
fo twice its value. We are com
ing gradually. Just keep palling,
and pull harder.
I have just come back from Ath
ens where there were 104 farmers,
cotton buyers and a few merchants
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from 57 counties, and everyone
present took interest in all that
was said, and the trip proves to be
of great benefit to everyone. All
went home with new ideas, and
plans which will prove to be a bles
sing to old Georgia.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, the presi
dent of the State University is a
man that is in sympathy with the
people and wants every class en
lightened. Athens has an agricul
tural building, now being erected
at a cost of §96,000 and nine hun
dred acres of land, where they are
preparing to teach agriculture and
by January 1909 they want to
teach another cotton scdiool.
Onr school commissioners of
each comity should have a branch
study of agriculture taught in ev
ery school. Have a plot of land
and give the pupils a short period
each day to study, demonstrate
the soil, so when they are prepared
to go to college let them be pre
pared(if any chose in this line) to
go to an agricultural school. For
every student that goes to college
does not probably want to he a
lawyer, doctor preacher, or mer
chant, but may have a talent for
agriculture. I say, give all our
boys a chance to learn the nature
of mother earth.
Mr. Griffith, another one of onr
able teachers who instructed us on
warehousing, and cotton grading,
who for the past twenty years has
had experience in this line.
Wo would go into the laboratory
and ho would furnish cotton from
his warehouse. Then for work,
we would gather around the grad
ing tables, take our cotton and
grade it. Then .Air. Griffith would
come around and see if we wore
right, and if not lie would correct,
and tell why it was certain grades.
Then at night lie would give us
lectures on warehousing, the best
system of running them, and to
operate them successfully.
Bro. farmers, another tiling in
cotton that is very essential is the
handling your cotton properly
from the field to the ginnery and
to market. We pick and gather
onr cotton wet or dry, in no hurry
to have it ginned, pile it down on
the ground, probably sweeping a
clean place on the ground.
Farmers, take care of your sta
ple. Build sufficient houses to
store yonr unginnea cotton in. In
one season you would receive big
pay. When you haul your cotton
to the gin wet the machinery cuts
it, and wads it up, and when put
on the market the value is cut
from 1-2 to 2 cents on a pound, be
ing such a loss to the mill man.
Another point in handling cot
ton from gin to warehouse, is to
have your bales packed in medium
weight, then liuve your bagging
put on in a uniform style. Sew up
the ends and put first class ties on.
It would surprise some of yon
farmers if I should tell you how
some of our cotton is brought to
the warehouse. Fix your staple ;
handle it with care, and then yon
can demand a good price.
The Interstate Cotton college, of
Atlanta, will open up July 1, 190*,
with experienced teachers in cot
ton grading. A very small tui
tion is charged, §IO.OO cash before
the first of July, or note for §12.50
payable by tlie first. This gives
you a scholarship to the entire
course. It says an unlimited course.
Mr. McArthur, secretary of that
school, made me his agent and
would’ve glad you would call and
let me get yon a scholarship for a
course. I feel that every farmer
should know the grade of his sta
ple.
Hoping to have many to go, I am
yours in the work.
Byron Mayo,
McDonough, Ga.
$i A YEAR