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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. * ■ • / —• Trouble Makes Ousted When a sufferer from stomach trouble takes Dr. King’s New Life Pills he’s ! mighty glad tr see hi« Dyspepsia and ln- I digestion fly, but more he's tickled over his new, fine appetite, strong nerves heal thy vigor, all because stomach, liver and kidneys new work right. 25c at All Drug Stores. $1 A YEAR
