The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, May 08, 1908, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextHENRY CttfNTY WEEKLY. *»*»■.■■...« ■■■■■■ . ■ - » ■■■ ' 1 ‘ r j. a. h orcar, l»nblii*lier. K. u JOHNSON Kill tor. Batered at the postoffica at McDon *u*h. a» second-claßs mail matter. "advertising Ratoa: SI.OO per la<A month. Reduction on atnadlaa iKMttracta by apecial agreement MeDonoh,Ga , May 8, 1908. Z~~ " ' —,, , The Memorial edition of the Henry County Weekly was a very creditable paper The issue con sisted of 32 pages and was printed on calendar paper,—Nowmin News- l The Memorial edition of the Henry County Weekly has reached our table. The entire thirty-two pages are neatly gotten up and ro ll -ct decided credit on the U. D. C. chapter of that place, as well as their deserving editor, Mr. Robert Lee Johnson.—Ashburn Farmer. The Henry County Weekly, of MqPonough, got out a very inter esting and creditable edition last week in honor of Memorial Day in the South. Messrs. Johnson and F niche are to he congratulated on the success of their effort, and they deserve the splendid support given them in their undertaking. —Telfair Enterprise. D. J. Green Elected Treasurer Monday. In the election held on Monday to fill the unexpired term for Treasurer of Henry county, Mr. I). J. Green was elected by a plu rality of 22 votes over the next highest man, Mr. H. M. Tolleson. Owing to the very busy time with the farmers a light vote was polled. The election was one of the quietest ever held in the coun ty. Tn another column will he found the vote in full of all the six can didates in the race. Qu a rte rl y M eet in g Saturday and Sunday. The second quarterly meeting of the McDonough circuit will he held at Turner's church on Satur day and Sunday, preaching hotli days by the presiding elder. The presiding elder will algo preach at the M qhodist church in McDonough on Sunday night. All official members are urged to he present at this quarterly meeting at Turners. Hampton’s New Meth odist Church to Se Dedicated May 17. The handsome new §8,000.00 Methodist church that lias just been completed at Hampton, will he dedicated on the 3rd Sunday— the 17th ot this month* Bishop Warren A. Candler to preach the dedicatory seamon. This is one of the handsomest church edific s in Henry county and does credit not only to Hamp ton hut to the entire county. The work of the church along all lines has been very satisfactory under Rev. F. J. Mashburn’s la bors. 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Anyone sending n obetrb nnd desorlntlnn may quickly iiscertain otir opinion free whether an invontiim ns probably pnientali’e. Conimunlca t; uisetrictlycnntldcntiail. HANDBOOK oil Patent* ennt tree, eldest mretiey for Mcanuß patent*. r ;s taken through Mnun 4 Co. receive sprrnil notice, without charge, lu the S&ntific African. A handsomely lUnatrated weekly. largest dr cola..,mi ot any srientiUc Journal. Terms. $3 a year: lour months, fL Sold by all newsdealers. MUfMCo. 36 ”"""’ NewYorit Branch Office. <25 F SC, Washington, D. C. An Appreciation. Editor Weekly: I wish to express through the columns of your paper my appreci ation of the Memorial Services ht Id here/ Monday overling, the first 1 ever attended, for the Con federate soldiers. Ido not know that there was another daughter of a “boy in blue’' in the audience, but I do know if there \i T as, she, nor no one, enjoyed more than I did. lam a daughter of a staunch Union Soldier, hut I deem it equal ly as great an honor to be able to say I am the grandauglitor of a Confederate. Mr. Nolan’s speech thrilled me with as much enthusiasm for your “hoys in gray” as I ever felt for the ones in Blue, and I am glad to have seen the successful effort made to show them that they are as dear to the people of today as they were to those of ’61.-A. W. C. M’QQNOUGH PUBLIC SCHOOL. EIGHTH SCHOLASTIC MONTH, HONOR ROLL. Fiist Grade Louise Brown, Grier Farrar, Mittie McGarrity, Edwin Rape, Matilda Stansell, Fannie Crornb ley, Marie Welch, G. B. Welch. Second Grade Myrtis Hunt. Third Robert Adams, Beatrice Patter son, Jewel Rape, Flossie Welch. Fourth Johnnie Goodwin, Henry Mc- Garrity, Nannie Rodgers, Troy Welch, Harold Sowell, Harrell W ullacc. Fifth Eva Barrett, Annie L. Bowden, Eldora Grant, Bei-aie Sowall. . Sixth Rosa Lee Brown, Paul Sowell, Millie Kate Stansell, Frank Turner Orlena Welch, Alma Wright. Seventh Dozier Fields. Luci’le Tolleson, Leona Welch, Ida Lou Tarpley. Eighth Donia Bankston, Frank Copeland, Mary Mayo, Berta Wallace, Mamie Woodward. Ninth Ben Bankston, Leone Tarpley. Tenth Clara Bright, Alex Brown, Ray mond Cathy, Maggie Manley, Ruth Rape, Dozier Russell. Distinguished Students First Grade —Louise Brown, Jim Frank Wall. Second—Myrtis Hunt. Third—Mary L. Tumipseed. Fourth—Susie Stallings. Fifth—Mary Russell. Sixth—Orlena Welch, Lindsay Coan. Seventh—Margaret Brown, Lu cile Tolleson, Leona Welch. PHILLIPPI. There is a bright prospect for a large crop of fruit this year. The farmers in this section are busy planting cotton seed since it has rained so much. Mr. G. B. Childs and family at tended service at County Line Sunday. Mrs. Hattie McKibben left Sun day for Atlanta where she will visit her sister and afterwards to relatives in Walker county. Mr. Allen and Miss Mentsie Crumhley visited Mrs. Roy Capp> Sunday. Messrs Rufus and Emerson Rogers and Odell Coan attended Sunday school at this place Sun day afternoon. Mrs. T. M. Bearden visited rela tivt s at Locust Grove. Mr. Paul Jinks and Miss Savep pa English were out riding Sun day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J J. Crumhley sp*nt Sunday with Mr. Barney Crnmbley. Wooden Wedding (Overflow ®f Mwnori.nl Edition.) On the evening of February the first, Mr and Mrs. T. A. Woodruff delightfully entertained, celebrat ing their fifth marriage anniversa ry, Mrs. Woodruff was assisted in receiving by Mrs. H. L. Carmichael, Mrs. S. F. McCurry and Miss Ella Berry. The lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff was beautifully de corated in shaving curls and wood en ca ndle sticks In the hall stood a typical bride’s trunk from which Miss Helen Harris presented to each guest a souvenir of the occa sion, a wooden mustard spoon tied with green ribbon. In the sitting room, Miss Mamie Neese and Miss Eva Harris served coffee in a charm ing manner. After an hour’s delightful social intercourse, a delicious salad course was served. Later the guests were ushered into the dining room, which was beautifully decorated. On the din ing table in the soft glow from the candles set in rustic candle sticks and on a wooden pedestial was an immense wedding cake in white «nd green. Much pleasure was furn ished b.y this novel pastime, as the guests watched to see where the ring, thimble and button would fall * during this time, salted peanuts and green and white mints were served. At a late hour the guests bade the host and hostess good night with many good wisher for the fu ture. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff received quite a large number of beautiful and useful gifts. A. P. S, (Last Week’s Letter.) Have you planted cotton seed? Mr. Candidate, do you think you will be elected? Mr. J T Wynn and family visit ed relatives over in Newton Satur day and Sunday? Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carter visited PeeEsville relatives Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W C Gunn, Mrs. Josiu Kimbell and family, includ ing Lizzie May whv had recently hovered so closely under the shad ow of the wings of the death an gel from the other shore, spent Sunday at this station. MAYS SCHOOL HOUSE, Mis. Pennie Callaway and little nephew , W bsloy, are visiting rela tives and friends here this week. We are sorry to note the illness of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart's little son, Frankie, who is very sick at this time. The picnic Saturday was enjoy ed by all present. Miss Ray Wilkins visited her mother Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines Callaway visited Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turner Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R L Pritchett vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Jim Turner, Sat urday. Misses Gertrude Murphy and El la Fields of Hampton, visited the latter s sister, Mrs. Walter Hill, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Wilburn Hill have returned from an extended visit to their daughter, Mrs. Pearl Sluther of near Asheville, N. C. Mrs. Bnss Rowan has returned from an extended visit with rela tives in Alabama. We are looking forward to the picnic next Saturdar at Dixon's Bridge on Flint River 4 miles west of Lovejoy. Don't forget the all day singing Sunday the 10th at New Hope near Lovejoy. Mrs Bulali Smyth and children visited her mother, Mrs. M. A. Wilkins, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Gaues Callaway have returned from an extended visit nour Riverdale. Mr. Alraliam, wake np; we en joy reading your letters. War Reminiscences. When t-he war first called for our loved t I was a small girl and can't give the places and dates of battles. Father's home was 6 miles east of Marietta in Cobh county. When the first soldiers were called for I had three broth ers to join the army. They were first sent to a place north of Marietta, called Big Shan ty and camped. I can’t remem ber how long they were there, but it was not long before they were called to face the hardships and ballets and bombs, with death staring them in the face ; hungry and tired ; blistered feet ;not much to ea't and no place to rest but the cold wet ground. I had one brother instantly kill ed, two badly wounded in the sev en days’ figlit. One of my broth ers fell in a mud hole when he was wounded. He sat there all night, and when the Yankees got him next morning the water was frozen around him. He lost his .right limb. He wrote home that if he died in prison he would die a rebel. Tn ’63 the call for “ho.vs 18 years olE' took another brother of mine. When the Fedeatl soldiers got to Marietta they camps/l there. Sometimes they burnt the towns. As well as I can remember I think farmers were through laying by their crops when the Yankees came in the country with wagons and cleaned up the country of crops, horses, cows, chickens. They took all our hogs but one old razor-back, too poor to got out of the way. They shot him down and left it. They would plunder all our houses but they never found our meat. We lived in two house. Father hid his meat in the steps and kept it. I had another brother at home, 15 years old, too young to join tlie army but well grown for his age. We did not know but the Yankees would take him prisoner. When we saw the first Yankees coming, he put on one of my dresses, then we were all girls. But the Yan kees nijver gave ns any Uneasiness, at night they were afraid to be very far from the camp at dark And very well they were for there were some gray uniforms around. My younger brother once had a very close call. He belonged to the cavalry and /had not been in the army long before the close of the war, I don’t remember just liow long. He got a furlough and came home for a few days while the Yankees were camped at Ma rietta. lie felt safe at home at home at night. He was so anxious to see how the Ya nkees were treat ing ns that he risked his own life to know. They would have killed him on first sight for a spy. He would stay in a scope of woods near by in the day and come home at night. One Corning he left to go to his hiding place and before he had time to get in the woods we heard the report of several guns. We knew in our minds they had killed him. Some of our neigh bors came running for they, too, thought it was my brother It was the Yankees all right; they htid come earlier than common that morning and had found some hogs in the woods and were kill ing them. It was but a short time until thev came down the pa f h that brotlTer had gone up with dead hogs tied on their horses The hogs had kept them from meeting him. It looks like provi dence had a hand in his protection. I enjoy reading the soldiers’ let ters and read all I see printed, yet they have a sad thought. I read one in The Weekly this week from Mr. Mr. B. H. Brown of Dawson. Ga I thought it all interesting. When he spoke of his strange blindness it reminded me of my daughter. One evening about sundown she said to me that she was blind, and she was blind every evening for about a month. She got all right, but the cause of her blindness I never could under stand. Ax Old Lady. Job work coma to u*. G**eral Presentments. GEOBISIA, Henry County—: We, the Grand Jurors, chosen and sworn for the April term 1908 of Henry Superior Court, beg leave to make the following report and recommendations. We have, through our various commit tees. examined the following offices and books: Ordinary. Clerk, Treasurer, Sher iff, Tax Collector, County School Commis sioner, County Court, J. P. and N. P ex otlicio J. p’s., and take pleasure in report ing them all neatly and correctly kept as fai- as we can ascertain in the limited time allowed us for examination.* We find proper vouches for all money received and paid out and all papers and books in proper place. We find in the treasury at the time of Mr. IT. C, Turner’s death, fifty one hun dred a»d thirty one and 79-100 Dollars ($5,131.79) and that same was turned over to his successor in office, X. A.. Glass, who reports a balance of forty four hundred and fifty seven and 58 100 Dollars balance April 21. 1908. We find poor farm in good shape. We recommend that the Alice Cook house roof be repaired and window he put in stove room. We recommend that X. A. Woodward he appointed superintendent of poor farm, under same contract as previously let, ex cept to pay 3,000 lbs middling lint cotton. We recommend that Dr. Smith be reap pointed county physcian under same con tract. We find the jail as neat and well kept as the crowded condition will allow We recommend that road running from L. P. Owen’s to IT. .T. Phillips' be made a public road. We recommend that Lucy Ann Cook he paid Ten Dollars per quarter for one year. We recommend that Sarah Hanes, W. W. Walden and Mrs. Patty Paxton each be paid five dollars per quarter for one year. We recommend that John Bell Rowan be appointed Notary Public at Flippen and Dr. R. H. Hightower at Stockhridge. We have elected J. D. Bowen and E. F. Adams on County School Board. M e recommend that a new bridge he built or old one be repaired known as Copeland bridge over Walnut Creek. W e find that there is only one peddlar in county paying tax. We recommend that the proper officers investigate all Ped-’lnr license. We recommend that our representative endeavor to have a hill passed to have all county school commissioners elected by popular vote. On taking leave of his honor, Judge E. J. Reagan, we beg to tender our thanks for his able and impartial charge and uni form county to our body. Also to Solici tor Bloodworth and Redding for their cheerful and able assistance to this body. Also to our wortny foreman, E. E. Ad ams, for his kind courteous treatment of our body. V\ e recommend that these pi 1 “sentments take the regular course of publication in the Henry County Weekly. E. F. Adams, Foreman. J. T. Lmnraus, Clerk. This Apr. 29, 1908. G YV Hinton, T H Sha ,v, S T Glower, Uriah Askew, RR (’awthorn, B II Mor ris. F B Parr, B H Welch, B F Brown, Sam Hinton W A Craig, J T Fargason, J A Cpcharch, J W Fields, Green Mitch ell, D G Turner, ,T L Gardner, J T Coan, T. T. Wise, J F Mpss. It is ordered that the foregoing present ments lie entered on the minutes of the court and published as therein recom mended. This 29th day of April 1908. E. J. Rerga-n, Judge S. C. F C. «• CARD OF THANKS. We desire through the columns of The Weekly to extend to the many kind friends and neighbors our heartfelt thanks for the many kindnesses shown us during the hist, sickness and dentil of our loved one, Mr. W. A. Stewart. May God richly reward them with his abundant grace. Mrs. W. A. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cleveland. C \IU) OF THANKS. We wish to thank the good peo ple of Henry county for t heir many kind deeds in helping us during the death of our dear hus band and father. Their sympathy shown us during this sad bereave ment shall never be forgotten and may God’s richest blessings ever rest and remain upon them, is our prayer. Mrs. G. M. Hays, and Family. CARD OF THANKS. Mr. Editor: Will you allow us space in your paper to thank all who have sym pathized with us in our recent shock of bereavement May the good Father's richest blessings rest upon each and all of them. T J. Johnson and Family. The world says only gt.od things about men who are dead- hut nev er about thoaa who are broke.