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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXIV 10
Henry County In
Line for Roads.
HAMPTON, Ga., May 25.—1 n
view of the fight- being waged hy
the Atlanta Journal and New York
Herald for good roads a iorce of
convicts arrived at Hampton,
Henry county. Monday morning to
start work on the roads of the
county. At the break of day 34 con
vict:* start d work on the Henry
county load loading into Atlanta,
and before many more months
have passed this road will be in
shape fit for any ore to travt 1.
Near Hampton three counties
ran together and in all three—
Henry, Spalding and Clayton—the
roads are in good shape. The eon
victs of Clayton county have work
ed right up to the Henry county
line, while the convicts being work
ed by Spalding county are now
working up to the Henry county
line. As all three counties have
been at work on the highway lead
ing into Atlanta, it is already in
good condition, but is being put in
better shape each and every day.
At the recent meeting of the
Henry county grand jury it was
recommended that a commissioner
of roads be appointed to have gen
eral supervision of the work on all
the county roads. This recommen
dation has met with general favor,
and it is very probable that such
an cftice will be created at an early
date. At present the ordinary of
the county lias supervision of the
county road work,
The Journal party reached
Hampton at 11 o’clock, and was
given a hearty welcome. All seem
ed in favor of the good roads move
ment, and royally entertained the
party daring their stay. After ex
tending many courtesies the party
left for Macon.
All Thank The Journal
“You can just put it down the
entire population of the city,”
said J. M. Tarplev to The Journal
reporter when he was asked for
tlie names of those who favored
the Journal’s fight for good roads.
Mr. Tarplev is city clerk of Hamp
ton, and is one of the county’s
greatest believers in gopd roads.
He has supported the good roads
movement for many years.
“The Journal certainly deserves
credit for the tight they have wag
ed for good roads,” continued Mr.
Tarpley. “It is certainly a worthy
fight and is one that will work
much good for all. It isagood that
cannot be forgotton and The Jour
nal should certainly he thanked
for its great interest m the matter.
There is no doubt but what the
movement will be pushed through,
and mainly on account of the fight
being made for good roads hy The
Journal.”
Will Be Great Success
“lam in sympathy with The
Journal’s fight for good roads and
I, as well as all citizens of Hamp
ton, will aid them all we can,” ex
plained E. R. Harris, assistant
cashier of a big Hampton bank and
one of the most public spirited
citizens of the state. “It is the
move of all moves for the scuth,
and will be pushed to a grand suc
cess with such a paper as The Jour,
nal back of it.
“We have recently done work on
our roads, but by the great Jour
nal Herald contest have been stim
ulated to do even more. There is
nothing better for all classes than
good roads, and Georgia just must
and is going to have them in abun
dance.”
Journal’s Find Influence
“Of course lam for good roads,"
said J. W. Stephens, one of Hamp
ton’s biggest merchants, when
asked if he was for better roads in
. McDonough, Georgia, Friday june 4 .‘w.
Georgia and the south. “I have
always stood for the upbuilding of
the roads, and am now about to
see my dream come true mainly on
account of thconfluence of The
Atlanta Journal’s fight for better
highways.”
Journal in rather ot’Good Hoads
“I stand out prominently for
good vends in Georgia, said W ,
P. Wilson, a prominent citizen and
president of the Hampton Buggy
Co. The Journal is certainly the
father of the good roads movement
in Georgia and it cannot be given
any too much praise for the way it
has been conducting the fight for
better thoroughfares in the Em
pire State of the South.
“Our county intends to co-oper
ate in this state wide movement
and make the benefits to be deriv
ed from good roads state wide.
We will make the roads in our
.county as good as any of them, and
intend doing so right away. We
are not going to talk a lot about
improving our roads, but are go
ing on right now betteiirg them.”
Prosperity and Better Roads
A. J. Henderson, president of the
Hampton Knitting mills and one
of the best known citizens of Hamp
ton, was enthusiastic over the good
road movement, inaugurated hy
The Journal. He talked. ve:v in
terestingly of the work on the
roads throughout the state. In
part he said :
“The improvement of public
highways in a stale shows that
the community is prospering bet
ter than any other thing I know of.
As all Georgia is now interested
in the good road movement, main
ly through the fight waged for bet
ter roads by The Journal, I should
say that the state is in a prosper
ous condition and will build good
roads right away.”
Journal’s Move has Fine Effect
“The Atlanta Journal certainly
fathered a great movement when
they started their great fight for
good roads through out the south
and east,” said J. L. Moore, sec
retary and treusure of the Hamp
ton Fertilizer works, when talk
ing of representatives in Tlie Jour
nal scout cars Monday morning.
“They could not have undertaken
a public improvement that was
needed more nor could they have
striven harder to make the under
taking a success than they have.
“I have watched the effect thaf V
the announcement of the big At
lanta Journal-New York Herald
f
Atlanta to New York run has had
on the Georgia counties and it is
marvelous. Seeing that these two
great papers are going to improve
the highway between the east and
south the Georgia counties took
the matter of local improvement
up and are co-operating vith The
Journal in the upbuilding of Geor
gia roads.”
Other Hampton citizens who are
highly in favor of the improve
ment of the roads through the
state are, Mayor, W. S. Davis,
Councilman H. O Moore, W. M.
Harris, C. L. Hammock, W. A.
North, H. G. J. C. Tar
pley, A. D Henderson, A. M. Hen
derson, J. V. Chunn—Atlanta
Journal.
BIDS FOR COUNTY FARM WANTED
Any parties having from 300 to
500 acres of land far sale in Henry
county the Ordinary, with the
committee appointed by the last
Grand Jury, to sell the poor farm
and buy a larger one, will be glad
to receive descriptions, locations
and prices, which may be sent to
either the Ordinary, McDonough,
or S. C. McWilliams, Stockbridge,
or B. H, Welch, McDonough, Ga.
The U. D. C. Official Pro
gram for June i 909
Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederacy. Born June 3. IsSO,
in Christian County, Ivy., Died
1889 in New Orleans, La,
QUESTIONS:
1. By what close ties of birth is
the life of Jefferson Davis connect
ed willi Georgia?
2. What is said of theeommnni;
ty in which he spent his childhood
and youth? Of the traits he ac
quired at the outset of life?
3. What was his class standing
at Translyvania University, and
how was he considered? W hut
two great Confederate general were
his most intimate frier ds at West
Point ?
4. What was the oceusion of his
visit to Havana? How long did he
follow the life of a planter in Miss
issippi with his brother?
5. How did he serve in the
Black Hawk War? From whom
did Abraham Lincoln take his first
oath of allegiance to the United
States? Relate the circumstances
What did Black Hawk, in writing
of his capture, say of “the big war
chief”?
6. How did Jefferson Davis dis
tinguish himself in the Mexican
War?
7. When was Mr. Davis made
Secretary of war, and in whose
j cabinet ? What did he do for the
S army that was soon to he arrayed
against the government over which
he was to preside?
8. Where and when did he do
i liver his famous address on the
j subject of “The South and Slav
ery”? What was theeffect?
9. Describe the occasion of his
farewell address to the Senate,
For what length of time was he
elected President of the seceding
states? Give an account of the
Provisional Congress at Montgo
mery. Who presided, and what
other Georgians were prominent
on tlirt occasion?
10. What is proven hy subse- j
quent history in regard to bis load-'
ership? Describe his capture as
depicted by an eld body servant;
his life in prison. What hook did
he write which makes clear many
points not fully understood before?
t events with
which the name of Jefferson Davis
has been connected.
12. Why should all Southern
schools be supplied with pictures
of Davis? Ia mind, manner and
heart, of what was he a type? Did
he seek the Presidency of the Con
federate States? What has re
cently been purchased fer memori
al to Jefferson Davis?
Answer to questions may be
found in “The South in History
and Literature,” by Miss Ruther
ford,
Mrs J. F. Wall will entertain
The U. D. C’s. at their next regu
lar meeting Thnrsday, Juno 17th.
ELLIOTT—BRANAN
Miss Annie Lee Elliott and Mr.
Roy Branan were married at Lo
cust Grove on last Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr. W. F.
Davis, Rev. R. F. Smith officiating.
The bride is ohe of Bethany’s
bright young women and the groom
isoneof Salem community’s en
ergetic young men.
Jndge Paul Turner, Mr. H. M.
T imer and Miss Nena Turner re
turned Wednesday from Athens
where they went to attend the com
mencement exercises of Lucy Cobb
College.
A Georgia Boy and Wife
In Texas
A passion for building animates
Mrs. R. C. McKissack of 2217
Hemphill street, and she is the
only woman in tr.e United States
who'draws the plans, engages the
contractors and superinterds per
sonally the construction of homes
erected upon the extensive proper
ty holdings of herself and husband.
Mrs. McKissack has long had an
ambition to have a whole block
upon which to exemplify her ideas
of home building, Her ambition
has been nearoly-ratified, for late
ly Mr, McKissack has bought five
lots in the 1700 block on Jennings
avenue. Mrs, McKissack has pre
pared the plans tor five pretty
bungalows, to cost fretn $3,500 to
$4,000 each, and when completed
they will show to advantage her
splended taste and fine conceptions
as a builder.
Mrs. McKissack hasmadea study
of building homes for eight years, !
and no less than thirty-five resi
dences in the city attest her mas
terful art. Last year, desiring to
perfect her knowledge cf house
construction, she spent a longtime
in Los Angeles, studying Mission
style architecture, and in the mean
time took a course in architecture
at Leknd Stanford University.
Mrs. McKissack makes conveni
ent kitchens, such an aid to the
housewife, and large cool balls
and broad poarclres a distinguish
ing feature of her home.
When the plans are all drawn
and the con tract let does Mrs. Mc-
Kissack consider In r work none?
Not a bit of it. She sees to the
buying of the material, the lum
her, the nails, the windows—every
thing, and then when the work is
actually begun she is right on the
job every minute. She is first to
get clown to the new building every
morning and last to leave it in the
evening. If she discovers it nail
driven wrong, she reminds the
careless carpenter and has the nail
pulled out. She superintendsevery
feature of the construction, down
to the smallest details, and the
contractors find her advice helpful
and not supercritical.
I he McKissacks ato to
build an eight room brick resi
dence on Hemphill street. It will
be mission stylo, and will be the
ideal toward which Mrs. McKis
sack has been working all these
years. Her hnsband is very proud
of his wife’s accomplishment.
Mrs. McKissack has never adopted
building as a profession, though
she lias drawn plans for homes
for her friends in addition to her
own houses. She simply loves the
work.—Fort Worth Stgr Telegram
TO THE RUBRIC
Notice is hereby given that on
the Fifth day of June A, D. nine
teen hundred and nine, at eleven
o’clock in the fore noon of that
day, at the court house in McDon
ough, Georgia, will be heard the
cause of the State of Georgia
against the Mayor and Council of
the City of Hampton, being pro
ceeding for validation and con
firmation of bonds proposed to be
issued by said city, in accordance
with the result of the bond elec
tion held in said city on the tenth
day of May nineteen hundred and
nine.
Dated this 22nd day of May,
nineteen hundred and nine.
J. A. Fonche,
Clerk Superior Court Co.
Absolutely pure Georgia
cane syrup in half and one
gallon cans.
I Copeland Mer. Co.
PAGES
GRIFFIN DISTRICT, THIRD MU
First Church, June 13th, a. m.
Hanleiter, .Inn*- 13th, p ni.
Jonesboro, Noah’s Ark, June IS,
20tlr, a. in.
Hampton, Mt. Carmel, June2stH,
a. m.
Barnesville Circuit, Prospect*
June 20th, a. m.
Barnesville Station, Juno, 27th,
a. m.
Third church, June 27th, p. ra.
Forsy th Ct., Mt. Zion, .Inly 3rd.
a. :u.
Forsyth Sta. July 3rd, a. in.
Senoia Ct. Mt, Carmel, July 91b
a. in.
Inman Ct. Brooks, July, lOfl
11th, a. m.
Milner Ct. Orchard Hill, July
16th, a. m. y
Griliin Ct., Mt. Zion, July 17'lh
and 18th.
Stockbridge Ct., Williams Cluip
el, July 23rd, a. m. *
Locust Grove, Ct , Philadelphia,
July 24th, a. m.
McDonough Ct. McDonough,
July 25th, a. m.
Thomuston Miss., Bethel, July
30th, a. m.
Culloden and Yatesville,*ATUoldff
July 31st, a. m.
Thonmston St., August Ist, a.m.
Zebulon Ct., August Oth, a in,
Fayetteville ( t., August, 7 8.
Flovilla Ct., Aug. 13th. a. m.
Jenkinsburg Ct., Aug. l-ltli, a. in.
Jackson Sta.. Aug. 15th, a. m.
The District Conferences will
meet at Hampton, Ga , .Line 22nd
at 9 :30 a. in, Pastors will please
see that their Quarterly Confer
ence Records are oil hand, also
that the assessment for Bishop's
Fund is ready to he paid in. Let
the names of all delegates and lo
ot 1 preachers be sent ut an early
day as possible to Rev. F. J. Mash
burn, Hampton, Ga.
Jas. Eakes, P. E.
PEASANT GROVE
Prof. Aikon made a business
trip to McDonough Monday.
Mr, J. B. Mosley Jr. and liis sit
ter, Miss Emma, Mr. William Cock
and Mr. Roy Ford attended the all
day Sacred harp singing at Beer
sheba Sunday ; they reported a.
largo crowd and fine singing.
Mr. Jack Hammonds and family
visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosley
Monday evening.
Mrs. Ola Smith visited her par
ents,'Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mosley,
Sr. Sunday.
Elder A. C. Elliott and daughter.
Miss Georgia, attended a Union
meeting Friday, Saturday and
Sunday near Zebulon,
Miss Emma Mosley spent Satur
day with her brother, Jim Mosley
and family,
Prof, and Mrs. Aiken, with their
sons, Wayne and C. P. Jr. event, to
the Gate City Sunday, visiting Mr.
Sam Aiken and family.
Mrs. Cora Gleaton, son Joseph
a,nd Mrs. C. C. Gleaton paid their
aged uncle, Mr. Carter, of near
Jonesboro, a visit the latter part
of last week.
Mr. J. B. Mosley Sr. visited Mr.
N. J. Carroll and Mr. and Mrs.
Josh Berry, of near Stockbridge
and Jonesboro last week.
Mr John Mosley went to mill
Monday morning.
Mr. Rufus Love went over in
Rockdale Monday.
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