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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1908)
The Henry County Weekly VOL. XXXIII 8 HAMPTON HERE MONDAY ROCKMART WEDNESDAY Fast Gaines Expected—Hampton Tackles F.x— Leaguei s Tuesday. Tommorrow afternooon the Hampton baseball team pitches its tents in Atlanta for one day to take a chance at the Athletic Club ball team at Ponce de Leon at 4 o’clock. Most of the teames that have been coming to the Gate City with the avowed intention of “doing up’ the bloomin Athletics have padded up with a lot of high grade players not at all native to the town that was purporting to play and in some instances the Athletic found themselves matched against well known professionals. The Hamil ton team however, stands in need of no such propping, for the* sim ple reason that the town boasts of • being the residing place of all the fine ball players they need when it comes to meeting the other amateur teams of the state, and as it has won twelve games thus far and lost only two it cannot be de nied that they have some ground for their belief. One of the best known players on the Hamp ton team is Billy Wilson, who placed on both the football and baseball teams at Tech, and was a star of first magnitude in both branches of sport. He has hun dreds of friends in Atlanta who have not had an opportunity to get a glimpse of him on the athletic field since he left Tech, and these will undoubtedly turn out in scores to get another glimpse of him in action. Bob Arnold, mana ger of the Georgia football team for ’O9 is also a member of the team and is manager. He promis es that Atlanta will see some real baseball when his team goes aganst the athletics. There will be but one game be tween Hampton and the Athletics as on Tuesday afternoon the latter team goes up against the Ex-Lea guers, which latter is a mighty strong aggregation gotten together by Mr. Tas Short. He will have on his team such ex-stars as Billy Peel, Cottingham and numbers of others who have won fame on the diamond and who are more than confident that they are still able to teach the young idea how to shoot ’em out and over. And make no mistake they’re more than likely to do that very thing. They are not hasbeens just because they have dropped out of it for a year or two. On Wednesday comes the Rock mart team and that’s another “hammer.” They have one of the very best teams in this section of the state ; in fact the Athletics don’t schedule any other kind as they don’t want the interest to lag in any of their games. On Thursday comes the greatest game of all, the one with Georgia Railway and Electric Company team, which will be for the ama tuer championship of the city and state. But more of that a little latter. Just now the thing to re member is that the Hampton team comes for one game only, and that tomorrow afternoon. Thene ama teur games that the Athletic Club is pulling off every afternoon are something “swell” and it will pay any one to go out and have a look at them. Hampton will give the Athletics a run of it.—Sunday Constitution. The game resulted in a defeat of the Hampton team on Monday by a score ot 11 to 0. Life without difficulties is but death. McDonough, Georgia, Friday September 4. 1908. UNION WAREHOUSE PREPARED TO TAKE CARE OF ALL COTTON- The Farmer's Union Warehouse Co. are now prepared to take care of all the farmers cotton of Henry county this fall, and have an ef ficient set of men in charge of the warehouse. Tt. L. Thrasher is President, G. W. Cathy, Cotton Buyer, W. C. Wood, Manager and M. A. Norman Assistant Manager. They want all the Union men of the county as well as all other farmers to not fail to bring their cotton to them. This warehouse is a member of Union Cotton Co., of Macon, Ga., which proposes to assist all the farmers in getting the best prices for their staple, and help them market the cotton always to the best advantage to the producers. A Brilliant Opening of McDonough’s School. Munday morning witnessed the opening of the McDonough’s Pub lic schools for the year of 1908-09. The opening was most auspici ous, 196 pupils being enrolled on the first day, and now the enroll ment has been run up to 202. A large number of visitors were present on the opening morning, parents, patrons and citizens, all joining in with the teachers and pupils in giving the school a good “send off.” It is expected that fully 250 pupils will be enrolled before the end of the first month. In another column will be found the names of all the teachers and the grades they will be in charge of. Singing Convention at Ozias. There was a large crowd present on the last day of the singing con vention of the United Sacred Harp association which held a three days session at Ozias last Friday, Satur day and Sunday. The singing was very fine and all present greatly enjoyed it from the youngest to the oldest. Beside the singing a sumptuous basket dinner was served at the noon hour in which all heartly en tered into. The day was*one that will long be remembered by all present, especially the grand old music of this old Sacred Harp book. M’DONOUGH 5; JACKSON 0. One of the best games that the local team has played this year was on last Saturday with the Jackson team on their grounds, the score being sto 0 in favor of the locals. All our players acquitted them selves admirably and won the game by suprior playing over Jackson’s strong team. This was probably the last game of the season for the locals. This has been a very fine season for them, only being defeated but three or four times during the entire year. FOR SALE. Good horse, buggy and surrey. J. Clarence Harris. Messrs. H. J. Copeland and J. W. Rape have returned from New York, Biltimore and other north ern points where they went to purchase the fall and winter stock for the Copeland Mer. Co. He who never said a harsh word of anyone failed in his duty to everyone. The High Fall Singing Con vention at Bethany Church Sept. 18, 19 The High Falls Musical Conven tion will hold its annual session at Bethany church 4 miles east of McDonough on Friday and Satur day Sept, lfstli and 19th. The convention is composed of the counties of Butts, Jasper and Henry, and every church, Sunday School, or singing class in this county is entitled to send delegates and if not a member already, can therefore become a member of the convention. This is Henry county’s time, and every singing leader in the county should see to it that his class is represented at tins session. - Dangerous Dogs There is a number of worthless and vicious dogs, that are constant ly strolling about the streets of McDonough to such an extent, that it has become dangerous for children to even pass along the streets. Children have recently been attacted and bitten by dogs and no steps have been taken to prevent a repetition of it. We suggest that the people of our town present an earnest ap peal to the city council, and de mand a rigid ordinance passed compelling owners of dogs to keep them in such a manner, that it will insure safty to the general public. The large number of worthless dogs that roam over the town, at night is almost a public nuisance as well as dangerous and we be lieve the time has arrived when our town should take some action in regard to this matter. Our neighboring towns St-ockbridge, Jackson and other places have passed an ordinance in regard to this matter, and why not our town take the matter in hands. The welfare and safty of our school children and the general public demands it at once. “Citizen.” No Co-operative Creamery At a meeting of a number of farmers who had put themselves down for a co operative creamery to be situated at McDonough one day last week they decided not to establish this enterprise at this place at the present time. The creamery plant proposed would have cost $5,000 and would have been owned by 60 men or more and each stock holder would have centralized all their milk here to be put on the market. Some were in favor of the cream ery while others were opposed to it, so all of them decided to drop the enterprise at the present time at least. Mrs. Rowland Dead. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rowland, wife of Mr. W. E. Rowland, of tlippen, died at the Presbyterian hospital in Atlanta on last Saturday morn ing after an illness of several weekß, she having been at the hospital about a week. She was a most excellent woman and from early life had been a de voted and consistent christen. She was a member of Flippen Methodist church. She was about 39 years old and had been mar ried about 19 years. She was a Miss Day before her marriage, she being the second wife of Mr. Row land. The funeral and interment oc curred at the Flippen Methodist church Sunday morning at 10 o,clock, Rev. J. E. England official ing. A Few Reasons Why tlie Justly Celebrated Mitchell Wagon IS THE RECOGNIZED STANDARD ALL OVER THE WORLD, • FOR nearly sixty years Henry Mitchell superintended the construction ot the MITCHELL WAGON. His motto always was “The Best.” The rnsult ot his efforts has been the establishment ot a wagon complete and perlect, and the high standard so gained will be always maintained by the Company. 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