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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXI'V 12
SOKE TIMELY SUBSESTIQNS.
Carrollton, Ga., Sept. 22, ’O9.
Editor Henry Comity Weekly
We generally arrive at conclus
ions by comparing one thing with
another, one section with another,
men and communities with each
other ;by this method we are en
abled to demonstrate differences.
Let ns begin with comparing Car
roll with Henry in all that goes to
make their geography, topogra
phy,-civil, religious, and agricul
tural development—not furget
ting to touch nxion ethnological
differences.
In point of size Carroll is a thinl
larger than Henry, she being the
largest county above the wire
grass belt. Ethnologically speak
ing she has a white population of
25,000, and a scattering of Afri
cans, who, for the most part, have
fled from eastern and middle
Georgia, and Alabama to escape
the consequences of an outraged
law. To say that these refugees
are shiftless, worthless and vi
cious, would be declaring a fact
too well known. Murder, rape
and rapine are crimes too com
mon with them to deserve more
than a passing lynching, which
is now and then meted to the
worst of them.
In the main the white people are
prosperous one and two-horse
farmers, who cultivate their little
farms, containing from 50 to 100
acres. Neat, framed dwelling
houses, resplendent in snowy
coats of paint; and sleek, blooded,
barn-yard animals betoken aa»
awakening that would cause the
old timer to stare at the advance
made by his wide-awake progeny.
Schools and churches are ample
for the education and redemption
of the illiterate and the sinner.
If a boy or gix-1 remains ignorant
in Carroll county it may be at
tributed to idiocy or indolence ;if
he, she or they fail to hackle on
the armor of Faith, and.follow
the meek and lowly Nazarene it is
because it was predestined, from
the foundation of the world, that
old Master had turned such an one
over to the tender mercies of the
hideous, black fiend who superin
tends the barbecue pit of Eternity ;
for, if any man, woman or child,
within the broad domain of Car
roll county, desires to lead a re
ligions life he has a church near j
his door, and God fearing minis
ters of the gospel to counsel him. j
A wayfaring man, though a fool, \
could scarcely keep from running j
into a church on Sunday, -where ,
services are usually in full blast.
Carroll is among the largest
producers of cotton, producing
from 32,000 to 35,000 bales per an
num, Carrollton, the county site,
receives of this amount, from 27,-
000 to 30,000 bales, making it the
sprightliest town in the cotton
belt.
This about brings me down to
the milk in the monkey’s face. I
want to say something aboutroads
not railroads, automobile lines
or those plowed by the frisky air
eoplane, but simply the old, dirt
road that is good when free from
impedimenta -rocks, stumps, rfits,
gullies and mud. This is the
dawning of the road age. People
are road crazy. We must have
good roads, and those opposed to
them mast go ’wayback and sit
down and see the procession of
progress pass them by. The reac
tionary has no place in the scien
tific economy of the XX century.
He must take his place with bats
and owls in the cavernous past.
The future is pregnant with a road
system that will make the Appian
way of old Rome look like a pig
trail.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday October i, 1909.
Carroll lias inaugurated a road
system that will advance her al
ready advanced civilization. Her
farm lands, formerly cheap, are
now higher than those in neigh
boring counties. The course now
being pursued by the authorities
relative to good roads wi , in the
i next decade, give our people grad
ed roads, veneered with stones.
Now, a word about Henry coun
ty. I was reared there. It is the
dearest spot to me that marks the
Omnipotent footstool. The chanc
es are that it will never be my
home again. A fortuitous con
! course of circumstances lead me
| elsewhere. But what has this bit
jof sentiment to do with road
building? Nothing, to be sure.
But it may serve, however, to em
phasize a fact—that is, when I tell
you I desire her material prosper
ity, you will give credit to a heart
felt sentiment.
I am an expatriate of twenty
years standing. When I left the
county she had not then made the
great strides of improvement I be
hold on every hand. Then Hamp
ton was a little village, ruined by
being sandwiched between two
parallel lines of railway—running
so close to her commercial doors
that it cut off all avenues to busi
ness. But thanks to dhe fact that
she had in her midst, such men as
A. J. Henderson, Dr. R. «T. Arnold
Garnett Fields, and a score of oth
er idomitable spirits who wrung
commercial victory from circum
scribed limits by building factories
iof one kind and another, until to
day Hampton, poor as she was
twenty years ago, is now the com
mercial metropolis of the county.
Like other progressive towns she
boasts of a waterworks system
that supplies her people with am
ple fire protection and wholesome
water for home demands. lam
proud of her upbuilding.
Locust Grove is the conceded
seat of learning in that section of
the state. To use a very poor
simile, when I was wont to visit
my Lucnst Grove friends twenty
years ago “it was just a wide
place in the road”, hut bless my
stars ! it is now a thriving little
city of a half thousand industri-1
ous, intelligent people who are j
doing their best to make their
town one of the foremost seats of
learning in Georgia. And judg
ing from their modest beginning
and witnessing present develop
ments, it is made patent to the
most casual observer, that Locust
Grove is forging to the front as a
seat of learning.
Stockbridge has had a wonder
ful growth in the two last decades.
In former days the town was a
hamlet of not more than a half
dozen houses, The old East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road depot was the casa granda
(the big house) of the town, the
cynosure of the countryside. But
alas ! that grand edifice, of other
days, has had to yield the palm to
a hundred or more excellent pub
lic and private buildings, ana
“None so poor to do it reverence!”
She has become a money center.
Her people no longer look to At
lanta or McDonongh for “the
sinews of war.” The plethoric
vaults of her banking house dis
penses needful dinaro to all good
customers. Plncky little Stock
bridge is destined one day to be
one of the brightest municipal
jewels that adorn the bosom of
her mother county.
McDonongh, the county site,
and my old home, might be said
to h.e “the Sleepy Hollow” of the
county. It has shown, until quite
recently, an apathy for public im
provements that has no counter
part on either side of the Missis
sippi. Lying amid fertile undu
lating plains, watered by hund
reds of streams of living water,
its farmers havo prospered ; there
being amongvtuem numbers whoso
individual holdings amount to
upwards of §IOO,OOO : and yet with
all this wealth, the people of Mc-
Donough have allowed it to seek
investment in surrounding towns.
She has never had those cap
tains of industry who could see
money in manufacturing enter
prises. These grand opportuni
ties were left to Griffin, Jackson
and Hamilton : and behold thous
ands and tens of thousands of
spindles in those towns convert
ing the raw cotton into manufac
tured products out of which the
manufacturer has frequently
made 50-100 per cent. In view of
all these facts the good, cld town
of McDonough has rested supine
ly upon her financial oars, and al
lowed opportunity after oppor
tunity to slip through their hands.
Today there is neither cotton mill
knitting mill, oil mill, guano
factory or other enterprise of a
textile nature. How, 011 how
long! will your money barons
send send their cash to other
doox'S to seek investment?
I would not have my friends at
Flippen, Tunis, Greenwood, and
Luella to think that I have over
looked their worthy efforts. Each
lias shown marvelous develop
ment, and have many municipal
advantages over their larger sis
ters. They have no taxgatherers,
no scramble for office, yei they
have fine schools and excellent
churches. As the old song rnns :
“There is fun in the country
As well as in town.”
It is pleasing to note the grand,
old county has adopted the chi in
gang system, for, by it, under the
present efficient management, she
will soon have a road system sec
ond to no county in Georgia, Your
Ordinary, Judge A. G. Harris, de
serves much credit for the skilful
management of the road busines.
First : It is of prime importance
to have an experienced warden, a
man who understands road build
ing and who has had experience
in handling convicts Your pres
ent warden, Capt. Road Hackney,
is such a mar. Both the county
and Judge Harris should feel
proud they were fortunate enough
to secure his services. I have
known Captain Hackney by repu
tation for the past twenty years.
He was reared at Newnan, where
he held a number of offices of
trust and honor. He moved to
Rome, where he was appointed
by the County Commissioners of
Floyd county, superintendent of
public highways, which has been
worked by a chaingang system
for the past fifteen or eighteen
years. Under his guidance and
skillful management he gave
Floyd county some of the best
roads in the state.
My advice to my Henry county
friends is to give Capt. Hackney
an opportunity to demonstrate his
skill, and when this is done they
would not exchange him for any
warden now in Georgia. With
best wishes for the public good
and yourself individually.
I am Yours,
Chas. M. Speer.
Let us talk wagons to
you, We are selling with
out a doubt the best wag
ons on the market today
for the money, if yon in
tend buying a wagon any
time soon. The Mitchell
and Thornhill wagons
stand for Superiority and
excellence.
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The prime motive of this scum
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lent institution and even blas
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Then they that feared the Lord
spake often one to another : and
the Lord harkened and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was
written be fore him for them that
feared the Lord, and thonghtupon
his name, Mat. 3c, and 16 verse.
We are sorry to note the illness
of Mr. Kaleb Bright.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Pendley, of
Sunny Side, were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dorsey last Sun
day.
Mr. John Dorsey and Maters
Wilson Dorsey and little Miss Ben
nie Maude Dorsey, visited Mr.
Josh Dorsey, of Milner the third
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lina Barnette vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas
Mays the third Saturday nightand
Sunday.
We are sorry to note the severe
illness of Mrs. Chairitv Barnette,
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we hope her and Mr. Bright both
a speedy recovery.
Mr. Ira Callaway is all smiles
over a new visitor-a little girl.
Miss Lela Callaway is visiting
her sister and brother, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Callaway at this writ
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Young and son and
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Banks and Mr.
and Mrs. John Loving were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Young
last third Sunday.
Miss Li IVi an Stanfield was the
guest of Miss Aland Banks last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Callaway
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Gibs last Sunday week.
Mr. Miles Campbell and Miss
Leon Miise were out riding last
Sunday afternoon and also Mr.
Robert Massey and Miss Stella
Barnett, and Mr. Am Mitchell and
Miss Mamie Stanfield.
We want to say again to the peo
ple in and around Liberty Hill that
our Sunday School will start the
first Sunday in October and wo
want every body to come.
Mr. Mance Guice, of near New
Hope has moved out to Fayette
ville for the purpose of educating
his children.
Misses Santie and Lela Callaway
have returned home after a week’s
visit with their cousins Misses
Mandie and- Emma Hanes, of
Jonesboro.
Mr. Robert Gnioe and famiiy
have returned to their home in
Florida after spending the Summer
with their mother and brother,
Mrs. Guice and Mr. William Guice.
Rev. Ulm sermon was enjoy* d
by all who wore present Sunday,
his discourse was making excuses
when called upon to work for
Christ.
Miss Bozzie Tunner, of Griffin,
was the guest of Miss Lela Cam
pbell last third Sunday,
Mrs. N. J. McLendon and son
Air. Emmit Wallace went to Grif
fin Friday last on a business trip.
Airs, and Airs. R. F. Stanfield and
Mr. and Airs. Sid Fort and Mr. and
Airs. Henry Rowan and Air. and
Mrs. John Thomas Mays were all
the guests of Air. and Mrs. Elio
Alexander Sunday last.
Misses Susie and AlamieStanfield
w’ere the guests of Aliss Lela Cam
pbell Sunday last.
Mr. and Airs. Gideon Banks visi
ted theirdaughter Airs- Lillie Pen.
dley of Sunny Side last Saturday
night.
Mr. and Airs. Nichels, of Atlanta
visited their mother, Mrs. Ghairity
Barnette Sunday last.
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dorsey and
Miss Lillian Stanfield were the
nests of Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Campbell last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chat Dorsey were
the guests of Air. and Mrs. S. E.
Campbell last Sunday,
Rev. Ulm and family visited Mr.
R. H. Chinn last Sunday.
New things in Ladies
Shirt waists, Skirts, Fancy
goods, Novelties, Laces,
Long Coats and many ot
her new fall goods which
we will be pleased to have
you call and inspect before
you buy.
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Don’t forget about yeur Photos,
Be here again next Saturday and
Monday-our tent located on the
Shields lot near Court House.
C. A. Kuhn.
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