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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1908)
The Henry County Weekly VOU XXXIII Sketch ot Shakerag Dist, Shakerag District occupies the extreme northern part of theconn ty, the farthest j)oint being almost 20 miles from McDonough. It is bounded on the south by Stock bridge district and on the east by Brushy Knob on the north by De- Kalb county and west by Clayton county. The district is known as the 888th Dist. G. M. W. R. Whitaker is Justice of the Peace and Calla way South'is N. P. and ex-officio J. P. The Court days are the third Thursdays in each month. THE CHURCHES Bethel Methodist Church Bethel Methodist Church was organized in 1852—56 years ago. The present house of worship is the second church ediface erected by this congregation and was built about 24 years ago. “Uncle Johnny” Callaway gave 15 acres of land for a Campground at this place, but the Campground was never established but a church was built instead—the 15 acres of land belongs to the church still. There are now 156 members of the church. The church is now on the Stockbridge Circuit, and Rev. M. B. Sams is pastor. The first Sunday and Saturday before are the regular monthly service days, W. N. South is S. S. Supt.. which is held at 3 o’clock p. m. every Sunday but first, then at 10 a. m. The trustees are S. K. Austin, M. D. Ford, J. T. Lewis, J. W. Patillo, W, G. Callaway, W. W. Clark, J. W. Thurman. The Stewards are, S. K. Austin, J. M. Thurman, W. G. Callaway and J, W. Patillo. Anvil Rloek Methodist Protestant Church. This Church is right on the Coun ty line betw T een Clayton and Henry 3 miles east of Ellenwood, and was built in 1897-11 years ago. There are 75 members of the church at the present time. The trustees of of the church are : I. H. Simpson, P. M. Blackman, J. G. Sprayberry, W. I. Mitchell, W. C. Rowden. The stewards are, J. G. Sprayberry and P. M. Blackman. W. C. Row den is church clerk. P. M. Black man, is S. S. Supt,, which is held in the afternoon at 3 o’clock except 4th then at 10. a. m. Rev. Johnß. Anderson is pastor of the church, It is on the Cedar Grove Circuit, The regular services are held on the 4th Sunday and Saturday be fore. THE SCHOOLS Soutli Avenue School South Avenue School is one of the old schools of the county. The present school house was er ected about 3 years ago. The house is a large one, 40x40, The present attendance is about 70 pu pils. There are about 90 pupils within the school district. Miss May Woodward is the prin cipal and Miss Fay Callaway assis tant. The trustees of the school are, W. G, Callaway, J. W. Thur man and M. C. White. The school is located near the center of the Shakerag district. Anvil Block School This school is a line school and is a rather small school as com pared to others in that section. There are now 27 pupils in attend ance and 40 within school radius. The house is 20x40 which -was built about 4 years ago. The house is filled up with patent desks and seats and is well equipped for a school building. Samuel Masters 10 is principal of the school. The trustees are, W. A. Sock well, Charlie Pruit and A. G. Bowden. Masonic Fraturnity Sprayberry Lodge No. 251, F & A. M,, was established in 1895 and now lias 53 members. The Lodge room is at J. G. Sprayberry’s home in the northern part of the district. The officers this year are, G P. Sneed, W. M.: A. C. Petterinan, S W. ;G. C. Clark, J. W. ; W. C. Rowden, Secr'y. The regular meetings are held on the second and fourth Saturday afternoon in each month. Farmers Union Until a short timeago there was a local union at Sprayberry’s but during the past month this local was moved to Mt. Zion in Brushy Knob district. There are 30 mem bers to this local, which meets each Ist and 3rd Saturday after noon. Tom George is president and Bud Cook, Secy.-Treas. M. C. White has an up-to-date ginnery, a saw mill, and a general repair shop and a store near Beth el church. J. G. Sprayberry has a splendid and up to-date ginnery and a saw mill Charlie Pruitt runs a store near Anvil Block. W. R. Whitaker runs a store in the extreme northern part of the oounty. Remember R. C. Brown, of Lo cust Grove, sells Shingles, Lum ber etc. as low as anyone and oft en lower. The older men of the district sre, J. C. Pope, J A Simpson, M D Ford. Among the younger men are J H Henry, W W Skelton, W N South, W G Callaway, E N Gardner E M Scarborough, Almond McKee, W R Whitaker, J R McKee, J M Barton, Oscar Harvey, W B G Clark, W J Pope, G FChafin. L E Clark, C R Polk, JW Clark, E R Clark, F R Pope, John B. Clark, J G Sprayberry, A C Peterman, W. B Hays, W A Sockwell,C T Pruitt, G A Higganbotham. P M Blackman, Alex Blackman, Lem Cook, Albert Bowden, John B Clark, Ed Trammell, J B Clark, John Kelley, Jim J Clark, Wiley Kelley, John Howell, Arthur Bradbury, Curtis Bradbury, John Barr, Walter Barr, Emmett Ba"r, W H Clark, Calloway South, W H White, M C White, Oscar Miller Tom Morris, L T Rowan, Minor Patillo, J W Thurman, B W Wal den. FOR SALE. Will be sold before the court house door on next Tuesday, Dec. Ist. to the highest bidder, three good large building lots, known as the Tidwell place, just off the public square. This property sold for distribution among the heirs, and wili be a fine opportunity for good building lots near in. Mrs. W. R. Tidwell. Miss M. E. White returned to her home at Danielsville on last Sat urday after a month’s visit to her sisters, Mrs. J. A. Simpson and Miss Edith White. McDonough, Georgia, Friday November 27, iyoß. THOMAS CLARK DIES GF WOUND. Southern Railway Employee Was Shot Down in Stockbridge. Ga, Thomas Clark, aged 21 years, hii employee of the Southern rail way, who was shot through the lungs by an unknown party Fri day night while walking down the streets of Stockbridge, Ga., his home town, died at a private san itarium in Atlanta yesterday af ternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Pneu monia developed shortly after Mr. Clark was wounded, which hastened death. He never re gained complete consciousness. The body was removed to the undertaking establishment of H. M. Patterson & Son. where last, night an autopsy was held for the purpose of locating and recover ing the ballet, which the friends of the deceased hope to use in con victing the slayer. Mr. Clark was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Clark, of Stook bridge, and was a member of the bridge force of the Southern road at Stockbridge, 19 miles of At lanta. The shooting oocurred Friday night at 10 o’clock, as Mr. Clark and his two friends, Bunn Hightower and another young man, were walking down the street in Stockbridge. It is the supposition that a negro man, who is now lodged in the McDonough, Ga., jail, was the slayer of Mr. Clark. Several shots were fired, one taking effect in Mr. Clark’s right lung and ranging diagonally through the body. Another shot passed through Mr. Hightower’s list, the remaining shot flew wide of its mark. Mr. Clark fell forward, and in the excitement that fol lowed the slayer made his escape. Young Clark was at once carried to his residence, and on Saturday morning he was brought to At lanta and removed to a private sanitarium, where skilled surgi cal attention was given him. Pneumonia soon developed, and his recovery was then announced to be hopeless. He could give but a faint de scription of the shooting on ac count of his condition, hut his de scription of the negro whom he said did the shooting answers to that of the one imprisoned in McDonough, it is said. Besides his parents, the de ceased is survived by five broth ers and three sisters. One of his sisters, Mrs. J. J. Barge, resides in Atlanta, and his other married sisters are Mrs. R. A. Hawkins, of Mexico, and Mrs. B. L. Walden, of Forest Park, Ga. The funeral services will be conducted at the residence in Stockbridge Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. The interment will occur in the family burying ground at Master’s graveyard.— Monday’s Constitution. “On Monday afternoon Coroner E. Foster held an inquest and the verdict of the jury was that Mr. Clark came to his death from wonnds inflicted by Will Steven son, a negro residing on Mr. W. C. Milam s place near Stockbridge. Sheriff Sowell arrested Steven son last Saturday and lodged him in the county jail here where he is incarcerated to await trial in the superior court of this county, I offer my en ire ine of Dry Goods at COST. W. B. J. INGRAM. Only 41 month left of this year. MAGNIFICENT NEW MASON IC TEMPLE PLANNED B¥ M’DOHOUGH MASONS. Old Lodge Room sold to Owners of McDonough Drug Go’s, store and H. C. Turner corner pur chased for new site. The members of Fraternal Lodge No. 37, F. & A. M., on last Satur day afternoon at their regular meeting decided to sell their lodge room on the northeast corner of the public square and to bay the corner lot from the heirs of the estate of the late H. C. Turner on the southwest corner of the public square. The committee appointed at this regular meeting made a report at the “called off” meeting of Fra ternal Lodge on Monday night and reported that the old lodge room had been sold and arrangements made to purchase the site mention ed above. The local lodge of Masons pro pose to erect a handsome temple ot either two or thrqe stories high, the building to be thoroughly mod ern and up-to date in every way. This will add greatly to the ap pearance of the town and will not only do credit to the masonic fra ternity but it will be a credit to McDonough and Henry county, to have such a magnificent building on the public square as is proposed to be erected by Fraternal Lodge. The first floor will have two largo store rooms, the second floor 11 or 12 elegant office rooms and the top floor will be for the Lodge room. LITTLE ONES GONE. The little fonr-months old child of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Fields, of Flippen, died at their home Monday afternoon. The funeral and interment was held on Tues day afternoon at the Methodist church at that place. Sunday afternoon the little in fant of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Savage died at their home in Sandy Ridge (patriot. The funeral and interment was held at Sardis church on Monday. NEGRO KILLS AN OTHER NEAR LOCUST GROVE Lum Pittman shot Son Grier at the latter’s home on Mr. John El kin's place last Sunday afternoon, the latter dying on Monday after noon. Pittman claims that the killing was an accident, but it seems that he had chased the Grier boy, who was only ten years old, around the house several times with a gun and as Grier started to enter the house he was fired upon by Pittman. The latter is 21 years old, and has been placed in the county jail by Sheriff Sowell to await trial at the next term of the superior court. Locust Grove 23; Spalding Gray 0 Griffin, Ga., November 23, — (Special.)—Locust Grove defeated the Spalding Grays here this after noon in an interesting game, score, 23 to 0. The Grays fought hard, but the school showed superior training. Newnan comes here for a game Thanksgiving. \ II PAGES $1 A YEAR Tarpley-Erown- A marriage that occasioned much surprise to the hosts of friends of the contracting parties was that of Miss Leone Tarpley, and Dr. Doss Brown on Sunday night. They left here about 8 o’clock in Mr. A. F. Lemon's automobile and went to Atlanta by way of Jonesboro where they secured li cense and when they reached East Point they wore married. Mr. Lemon and the groom’s sis ter accompanied them and wit nessed the happy affair. The bride is the daughter of Mayor and Mrs. W.D. Tarpley and is one of McDonough’s bright and beautiful young women. The groom is a son of Mr. J. B. Brown and has almost completed his course in dentistry and has very promising prospects for much success in his chosen field of labor. They remained in Atlanta until Wednesday when they came down home for a few days stay. GET YOUR BEAUTY STRUCK. Carl Kuhrfs, the’Photographer from Atlanta, has arrived with his Photo Tent Studio. If yon want some fine photos taken, this is yonr opportunity as he is especially fixed this time for large, fine work. For the benefit of the young people, he will make Penny Pic tures in afternoon from 3 to 5. Large work should be taken in the morning or early afternoon to get best results. CONFERENCE RE TURNS PASTORS. The closing session of the North Georgia Conference assigned all the pastors in Henry county back to their work here for another year, which is highly gratifying to everyone—all the pastors of the several charges in this coun ty are much beloved not only by their churches but by all the peo ple. Rev. J. E. England, of the Mc- Donough charge, and Rev. F. J. Mashbnrn of the Hampton charge, are returned for the third time, while Rev. M, B. Sams of the Stockbridge charge, and Rev. A. F. Ward of the Locust Grove charge come back for their sec ond year’s work. The appointments for the Grif fin district are as follows: J H Eakes, presiding elder; Griffin First church, C O Jones ; Griffin Hanlieter, E M Stanton ; Griffin Third church and Kincaid, H D Peace ; Griffin circuit, E A Ware ; Barnesville station, HCChristian ; Barnesville church, P A Kellet; Cnlloden and Yatesville. J B Al len ; Fayetteville, I W Keithly ; Flovilla, M L Harris; Forsyth, George W Griner ; Forsyth church J W Hawkins; Hampton, F J Mashbnrn; Inman, J W Bailey; Jackson, S P Wiggins; Jenkius burg, B F Dodson, supply ; Jones boro, J C Atkinson ; Locust Grove, A F Ward ; McDonough, J E Eng land ; Milner, M K Patillo ; Sen-da. EW Jones; Stockbridge, M B Sams; Thomaston, RBO Eng land ; Thomaston mission, Walter Carmichael, supply; Zebulon, W H Speer ; conference mission evan gelist, Nath Thompson. The Atlanta Georgian. 8 3-4 cents per week. W. G. Thompson, Agnt. At Bankstons Shop. White and brown shorts and germ meal. Copeland Met. Co.
