Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service.
About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the pestofflce at McDon* ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: 51.00 per inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. ■ " -m Make a noise like a 55 bill, con tends the Boston Post, and the world will give you a smiling face. Prophesies the Chicago Inter- Ocean: "We shall have a great and Comprehensive waterway system when we reach the point of resolution to go on with the enterprise, and thus make it, in the broad sense, a non-partisan national work.’ Suggests the Boston Transcript: The cold era which Dr. Steinmetz foresees with the exhaustion of our coal supplies might be relieved by the wholesale migration of the popula tion, spring and fall, to follow the ex ample of the birds. Referring to the American fleet the Troy Times says: What a record these splendid vessels and their offi cers and men will have made in their 42,000 miles of travel! Not a serious accident yet, good feeling among the nations stimulated and proper respect for Uncle Sam increased. In this fast age we should be care ful to condense all our writings—let ters, briefs, wills, manuscripts of plays, prose, poetry, etc. Only 10 per cent of the stuff that we write these days is read, insists the New York Press. And white paper is going high er. Why waste it, and why waste time? An old style fellow, now in his eighties, wrote a six-page letter to a friend and had the courtesy to add this postscript: “Excuse me for mak ing this letter so long, but I really have not the time to make it shorter.” Almost every state legislature, north and Bouth, east and west, has had a scheme of highway improve ment before it this year; the most ambitious schemes of waterway and highway improvement are those of the Empire state, boasts the New York Mail. Railroad managers have abandoned their old attitude of indif ference or tacit opposition to inland waterways and improved highways, and are agitating in the agricultural state-s in behalf of scientific road making. The use of slag, of molasses refuse and of various tar preparations as a road foundation or binder is be ing tested here and in other lands, and today an international congress will meet in Paris, with 24 countries represented, to discuss means for the preservation of the highway. The rap id spread of automobile traffic has made such a conference urgent, for the plain lesßon of this traffic is that our roads must be made much better or they will get much worse. The public schools receive from time to time more or less criticism, which is doubtless on occasions de served, but, contends the Boston Transcript, is quite as frequently be stowed because they are public insti tutions and therefore considered fair game by those who help to support them. But President Eliot’s tribute to them at the reunion of the English high graduates last night is testimony on as high authority as the country affords, not only that they do good work but among the secondary schools the best work. Of course there are exceptions to all rules, but his report ed statement that “the boys who do the best work at college come from the public schools,” seems to be un equivocal. Next in order he rates the endowed schools, and last the private schools, and this, he declares, “is a very encouraging result for democra cy.” He has formed this opinion in college examination tests not only at entrance but subsequently, and more convincing testimony it would be im possible to obtain. It is the duty of the public schools to keep striving for improvement, but it is gratifying to learn that they already stand in the forefront of our educational system. RULES FOR DRUGOISTS State Board of Pharmacy Speci fy Lawful Drugs. REPORT OF DR. CHEATHAM Narcotics Can Be Sold Only on the Prescriptions of Physicians Dentists orVeterniary Surgeons. Atlanta, Ga. —Regulations govern ing the sale of drugs, particularly nar cotics, were promulgated by the state board of pharmacy through Tom G. Hudson, state commissioner of agri culture. The board was called upon to act as advisors in forming definite rules for the enforcement of the new pure drugs act. Dr. T. A. Cheatham, state drug inspector, submitted a report of the work so far done, and discussed with the board many of the problems that have arisen. It was decided to give 30 days warn ings to all druggists who upon first inspections were found to not be com eeeettttaaaaa ootlinnnneettnnatee plying strictly with the law. If af ter that time, they have not so com plied each will be prosecuted. The labelling of cotton seed oil as sweet oil, or refined cotton seed oil as what is commonly known as sweet oil was declared to constitute “mis branding” and to be in violation of law. It was held in the case of paregoric that the label should state the amount of opium and not the per cent of mor- Veterinary remedies cannot be sold hereafter except upon the prescrip tion of a veterinary surgeon, physi cian or dentist. Most important of all is the stand ard fixed for narcotic preparations. The board “certifies that habitina, an tikamnia and heroin tablets, acetanil id and codeine tablets, al codeine tab lets, all tablets containing heroin and codeine, somnos, bromida, cerebral se dative compound, hypnobromi com pound, elixir hypnotic compound, bromo-ehloral compound, bromadyne, bromide chloral compound and all pre parations that pontain more than 20 grains of chloral hydrate to each fluid ounce; also anti-mahy and all prepv arations that contain cocaine consti tute violations of the narcotic law when offered for general sale, and cannot be sold legally except on the prescriptions of physicians, dentists The following rule \Vas promul gat ed: “The sale by general dealers, mer chants and druggists who do not keep poison registers of such articles as Paris green, London purple, rat pois ons, red bug poisons, tincture of iodine and carbolic acid, except where used solely as a disinfectant, will be con sidered later, no definite action being takon.” It was decided that wholesale drug gists and Jobbers, who manuufacture and manufacturers of all drugs, phar maceuticals and preparations made in accordance with the United States Pharmacopia, shall be required to have a man licensed by the state board of pharmacy in charge of such work. LAST CONVICT LEASE MONEY. State Gets $93,162.20 From Convicts for Final Quarter. Atlanta, Ga. —There will be paid to the state this month the last money it will receive from the hire of con victs, or from the lease system. The amount due the state for the quarter ending March 31, 1909, which also witnessed the end of the lease system, as figured out by Secretary Goodloe Yancey of the prison com mission is $93,162.20. This money must be paid within ten days after notices are sent out. This amount will not, as has been usual, be distributed to the counties not using convicts, for school pur poses. The current expenses of the penitentiary department will be paid from it, and if there is any left a distribution may be made later. PAROLES AND PARDONS. Gallows Yawns for Two Condemned Men; Others Are Pardoned. Atlanta, Ga.—The prison commis sion, in its report to Governor Smith, has declined to recommend clemency for Lewis Millirons, a white man, sentenced to be hangtd in Clay coun ty for rape, and Sam Taylor, a negro, convicted of murder in Coweta ccoun ty, and given the death penalty. * The commission recommended a pa role for John Blasingame, the young white man of Murray county, who is serving a life sentence for the mur der of Will N. Osborn. The prison commission has also sent to Governor Smith the following recommendations for parole and com mutations of sentence: .Nat Carswell, Fulton county, bur glary, five years; commutation to present service. Thomas Kemp, Marion county, mur der, life; parole. Felix Bell, Oglethorpe county, bur glary, twenty years; commutation to present service. Sally Johnson, Hart county, attempt to murder, eighteen months; commu tation to present service. A. L. Frierson, Lowndes, voluntary manslaughter, ten years; parole. Ashley McDuffie, Wilcox, voluntary manslaughter, ten years; parole. Will Morgan, Jasper, burglary, ten years; commutation to present serv iC6. Andy Hollingsworth, Liberty, mur der, life; parole. Light Locckett, Polk, voluntary manslaughter, four years; commuta tion to present service. Eugene Kumney, Bibb, bigamy, four years: parole. Helen Drew', Mitchell, concealed weapons, etc., twelve months; com mutation to present service. SOUTHERN MUSICAL FESTIVAL Railroads Have Granted Reduced Rates to Atlanta for Occasion. Atlanta, Ga. —Preparations are now complete in every particular for thf peat Southern Music festival that is to be held in Atlanta next May, the 4th, sth and 6th. Contracts have been signed with Enrico Caruso, the world's greatest singer and ten oth er musical artists renowned on both sides of the Atlantic. Besides these there is the Dresden Philharmonic orchestra, of Dresden, Germany, con sisting of seventy men and a local chorus of five hundred voices. The city’s new auditorium in which the five performances of the festival will take place, has received its fin ishing touches. This is one of the remarkable buildings in all America. Its seating capacity is little short of eight thousand, thus making it the largest public building in the south. Throughout its vast area there is not a single column to obstruct the view or hearing. The roof which covers practically a whole city square is supported with giant trusses of steel It has been lighted with a new de sign of electric burners that diffuse a radiance more like sunlight than anything else ever invented. Besides this the hundreds of different lights are so arranged that not one of them shines directly in the spectators’ eyes or produces anything like a glare The opening of this building will be within itsellf an event of state-wide and sectional importance. During the festival season Atlanta will be decked from one end to the other in flags and bunting. Mer chants will put on extra displays and the whole town will be flooded in a holiday spirit. There will be five per formances. They will take place on the evenings of May the 4th, sth and 6th, and on- the afternoons of the sth and 6th. Caruso will sing on the evening of the 4th and the 6th. The fact that the price of admis sion tickets has been placed within everybody’s reach and that the rail roads have granted reduced rates over a wide stretch of territory prom ises to bring the biggest gathering of southern people yet known. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. Dr. J. A. Bonsteel will visit Savan nah on April 19, in response to the request for a soil survey of Chatham county. Dr. Bonsteel is an expert from the United States agricultural department, who is in charge of the soil surveys in the eastern district of the United States. He will make an inspection tour of the southern states’ this month. Dr. A. J. Payne of the federal de partment of agriculture, who for a year or more has been in charge ol the government’s tick eradication work in Georgia, has been transferred to North Dakota, and Montana, where’ 1 he will work in future. Dr. E. M Nybert has been placed in charge of the Georgia work. Two Insurance companies have been barred from the state by Comp troller General W. A. Wright, who is also ex-oflicio state insurance com missioner Colonel Wright has declin ed to issune a license to the Royal Casualty company of St. Louis, Mo. He claims that of the $190,000 capital stock of the company, $47,500 is not invested in stocks or bonds or mort gages in real estate, as required by the laws of this state. For similar reasons the Lumber Underwriters’ association of New York has been barred. Tt is on the order of Lloyd’s, agency. The comptrolller says that none of the assts of the company (it has no capital stock) are invested in stocks, lands or real estate mort gages, as the law of Georgia requires but is on deposit in New York banks He has others under consideration and says he is determined to exclude all that do not comply strictly witfi the Georgia law. A conference was held in Atlatf.a between the independent fertili/.er manufacturers of Georgia and repre sentatives of the J. P. Morgan syndi cate, looking to the taking over by Morgan of all the independent fartil izer concerns in Georgia. It is probable that a bill Will be introduced in the legislature this sum mer providing a special medf.l for Ben Futral of Griffin in recognition of his long service as a soldier for the state. Mr. Futral has forty-five years’ continuous service to his cred it, and is still an act/ve ruamber of the ranks. Fire, which broke out in the resi dence of C. W. Cason at Warrenton, destroyed the county cojrt house, anti laid in ruins the residence of W. L. Wicker and the c-ffices of Dr. R. J. Lockett. The loss will aggregate more than $60,000, acccrding to con servative estimates. Contracts that call far an expendi ture of over $200,000 have been let by the Hebard Cypress company for the construction of mills in Waycross. The mills are to be reinforced con crete, to have two band saws and a resaw band saw. The total expendi ture in getting to the Okefenokee tim ber will reach $1,000,000. Georgia farmers use more German kainit and muriate of potash than those of any other state, it is said, and the proposal to put a 20 per cent tariff duty on potash salts which would result in a large increase in the cost of fertilizing materials, Corn miss renoiorifgActda cdhiryert 6aln missioner of Agriculture T. G. Hud son says, w'ould cost the farmers of this state alone about $400,000 annu ally. Commissioner Hudson has tak en the matter up with Georgia repre sentatives and senators in congress and urged them to fight this Increas ed duty. THE NATIONAL GAME. “Ee-ah” has been discarded by Hughey Jennings. First baseman Harold Danzig, the giant of the Boston team, is known as “Babe.” Minneapolis claims the scrappiest catchers in the minor leagues in Rapp and Block. St. Louis writers predict that first baseman Tom Jones will have a good year with the Browns. Outfielder Clyde Engle, the Newark recruit, is doing some great work with the New York Americans in practice. President Dreyfuss has issued an order forbidding cigarette smoking among the Pirates during the train ing season. Seven Boston American players claim Harry as their given name, namely, Lord, Niles, Gessler, Hooper, Danzig, Wolter, Morgan. Manager Stallings isn’t permitting any player of promise to slip away. He doesn’t want to hear any one ask, “Why did you let him go?” The Anderson (Carolina Associa tion) Club has signed outfielder Leo McHugh, late of the Hazleton Club, of the outlaw Atlantic League. An Indianapolis dispatch states that the local Methodist Ministers’ Association will test the constitution ality of the new Sunday ball law. Manager Jack Dunn, of the Balti more (Eastern League) Club, has signed Joseph A. Lewis, a promising young West Philadelphia player. Clark Griffith is drilling the Reds in batting against the spit ball. Griff says that pitchers will shelve the elu sive thing when his eager youngsters show their skill against it. NOV/ IS THE IDEAL TIME FOR TRAVEL o+o+o+o+o+o WINTER TOURIST TICKETS ARE ON SALE VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO TOURIST POINTS IN;- ALABAMA, COLORADO, CUBA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, LOUSIANA, MEXICO, MISSISSIPPI, NEW MEXICO, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, TENNESSEE. Double Daily Service to Florida and through Pullman Service to and from important Cities of the East and West, Dining Car Service on all Through Trains. For complete information regard ing rates, schedules., write to, J. L. MEEK, G. R. PETIT, A. G. P, A. T: P. A. ATLANTA, GA. MACON, GA. G. W. MORRIS, Pres. J. G. WARD, V-Pres. J. T. BOND, V-Pres. C. M. POW ER, Cashier. BANK OF STOCKBRIDGE STOCKBRIDGE; GA. WE HAVE Fidelity Bonds A “Deposits Insured’* Fire Insurance N In Reserve Fund Burglarly Insurance D of $250,000.00. Deposit Your Money With Us. STOCKBRIDGE WAREHOUSE CO. Will store your Cotton FREE for 30 Days. Insurance Rates : 10c. per month.* Storage after 30 Days 25c. per month for four months; Balance of the Year F l, EE O! M*~SEND US YOUR COTTON! Women as Well as lien Are Madu miserable by Kidney and Bladder Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upop the mind, discourages and lessens ambition; beauty, # vigor and cheerful ness soon disappear when the kidneys are out of order or dis- Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncom mon for a child to be born afflicted with weak kidneys. If the child urinates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi culty is kidney trouble, and the first step'should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made miser able with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold cent and one-dollar rflpljirjaV^ size bottles. You may IflisSiSjjjf E fff Lxftj have a sample bottle by mail free, also a Homo of Swamp-Root, pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root, including many of the thousands of testi monial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don’t make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
