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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1910)
BETHANY NEWS. HEXIIY SINGING CONVENTION MKT AT THIS FLACK. Host and I,argent Kinging Convention Ever Held in Henry County. The first annual session of the Henry County Singing Convention met at this place last Friday morn ing. It was called to order at 10 o’clock by President A. G. Combs, of Locust Grove, and much inter est was manifested in the very beginning, of this the first session of the convention ever held. The President appointed J. H. Jackson, of Bethany, W. W. Combs, of Locust Grove, and W. J. Pendley, of Pleasant Hill, - on committee of arrangements. A large number of music leaders from every section of the county were present, but space forbids giving personal mention of each one. A very striking feature of the convention was a lesson led by Wayman Barnett, only 11 years of age, from Liberty Hill church, and Gettys Rosser, 13 years of age, from Bethany church. Vice-president W. W. Combs, of Locust Grove, occupied the chair on Saturday morning and presided over the convention during the morning session. Prof. Powell Lee, of Forest Park, was present, and was a power in the convention, and clearly demonstrated the fact that he is one of Georgia’s coming men in the music line. W. G. Norman, of the Norman Buggy Co. of Griffin, was among the leaders who led in the conven tion. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Annie Bell Nor man. Prof. J. L. Moore, of Bethlehem, Ga., one of the state’s most prom inent music book publishers was present, and was the life of the convention. He has been teach ing music for 30 years and is do ing a grand work in Georgia. Among other leaders present from a distance were A. A. Duke, Bryan Gresham, and C. J. Kiinbeb, of Butts county. Mr. Charlie D. Tillman, of Atlanta, had accepted an invitation to be present, but from some cause, did not come. The convention had representa tives from all parts of the county, and Locust Grove, New Hope and Mt. Carmel, asked for ti e next session of the body. The contest was a most harmonious one, and resulted in Mt. Carmel being se lected as the place to hold the next convention in 11)11. Space forbids giving full details, but it was the best convention ever held in this county, the larg est attendance ever known at this place on the second day’s session. Secretary A. C. Norman, of Ola, deserves much credit for the suc cess of the convention, he having worked with untiring efforts for the success of the convention. The Henry County Singing Con vention is a new organization, for the up-building of the music in terests in our county, and now let everybody put their shoulder to the wheel, and pull for its success. A terrific rain and thunder storm passed over this vicinity Friday night. For a short length of time, one of the most electrical storms ever witnessed in the sec tion occurred, the Ola Telephone Exchange being entirely burned out, and the hue for some distance being badly damaged, and a num ber of people in this vicinity being considerable shocked by the force of the lightning. Co!. R. 0. Jack son, of McDonough, was spending the night at his father’s, and an umbrella belonging to him out on the veranda of his father’s home, was struck and torn up by light ning. It also struck in the yard of A. H. Farrar, killing a numbei ■yolWh. l of chickens; and also struck an apple tree within a feet of L. H. Thompson’s residence. The full force of the storm was felt at the residence of Uncle Tom Goss, he having been shocked by the light ning and the telephone post in front of his residence being knocked to splinters for several hundred yards. America’s Greatest Weekly. THE TOLEDO BLADE TOLEDO, OHIO The Best Known Newspaper in the United States. CIRCULATION 240.000 Popular in Every State. No Whiskey Advertising. The seventy-sixth day of its ex istence finds the Toledo Blade more popular than at any period of its remarkable career. It is now read each week by more than a million people. Its field is not circumscribed by State boundaries, but involves the length and breadth of the United States, giving it an unquestion able right of claiming to be the greatest national weekly newspa per in the country. The Weekly Blade is distinctly a family newspaper. The one ob ject of its publishers has always been to make it fit for the Ameri can home, for the fireside, and of interest to every member of the family. To fulfill this purpose it is kept clean and wholesome. The news of the world isjiandled in a comprehensive manner, and the various departments of The Blade are edited with painstaking care. The Household page is a delight to the women and children; cur rent affairs are treated editorially without prejudice; the serial sto ries are selected with the idea of pleasing the greatest number of fiction lovers; the Question Bu reau's a scrap-book of informa tion; the Farmstead columns are conducted with the purpose of giving the patrons a medium for the exchange of ideas and infor mation on farm topics. No de partment is neglected, but every feature is taken care of with the idea of making The Blade worth many times the price of subscrip tion —one dollar a year. Sample copies mailed free. Address: THE BLADE, 9-16 Toledo, Ohio. A FARMERS’ INSTITUTE FOR HENRY. On the above subject our at tention has been called to the fol lowing article in the Monticello Journal. The gentleman, who requests that we publish same, is one of our best farmers and in terested in every move looking to the farmer’s good: “The election is over. Pursuant to our policy contained in the first issue of the Journal we are going to hold for Jasper County a farm er’s institute on Monday, Septem ber the sth, and it is hoped that every farmer and business man in the county will be in Monticel lo on that day. The benefit to be derived from these institutes is untold if the farmers of the coun ty will take the interest in them that they should. We have a great county, the best farming section in Georgia; and we pro pose to help the farmers in the best manner possible. “Many of you will doubtless ask the question, What is a farmer’s institue? It is a meeting held un- der the auspices of tie State Col lege of Agriculture in the various counties of the state, where ev erybody interested in farming can get together and discuss the problems that are of greatest im portance to the localities. There will be three or four experts here from the college to make one hour talks along the line of crop rotation, soil fertility, livestock for Georgia, home supplies, farm management, etc. The speakers sent out by the college have a practical knowl edge of the problems they will discuss, and have an important message for the farmers who want to improve their conditions, and especially their methods. These men have given the sub ject of farming a lifetime study. You need not take their methods but you will agree with me that if they will discuss the problems of farming with you it will doubtless greatly aid you. The meeting is entirely free to all. Everyone is invited to be at the institute, and enter into the spirit of the meet ing by asking the speakers all the practical questions they may have in mind. If you are in doubt about any question concerning farming, about any question con cerning livestock, this is the time this question should be straight ened out by rpen who know their business. “A day spent at a farmer’s insti tute has been said to be worth a month in the field. Most of the farmers know that crops must be diversifed. Come to the meeting to learn how, when, and why it should be done. . “The program will be printed next week. Let everybody set aside the sth of September and be in Monticello to help make the men from the State College of Agriculture tell what they know. Don’t forget the date and the place. “Jasper county is a leading farm ing county in Middle Georgia. Its lands are the most fertile in this section. We have an abundant land for livestock raising. We raise more cotton per acre than any other county in Georgia. The farmers oLthis section are better educated and have more money than any other section in Geor gia. Why cannot we make fur ther improvements? If you will follow the Journal in our endeav or to help make this county the greatest in the South, and to help bring forward Midle Georgia as the most desirable section of the country, you will be amply paid. “We would be glad to have let ters from every man, in the coun ty, who is interested in this in stitute.” WHEN IN ATLANTA EAT AT ELIOT’S QUICK LUNCH 55 N. PRYOR ST. Quick, Clean Service. Moderate Prices. Good Coffee. E. W. ROBERTS, UM, Plaster your walls with “Ivory Cement Plaster” sold by. Planters Warehouse & Lumber Co, McDonough, Ga. T. A. LIFSEY, DENTIST Office Hours : T. 30 to 12 a. ;m. 1 to 5 I*. M. I will loan money on improved faimsat 7 percent interest, long, time. If you need money write me. Lester C. Dickson, A tty. Fayetteville, Ga HOWARD CARMICHAEL LEADINQ UNDERTAKER. Complete line of Ce,£ketsall styles and prices. Careful and polite attention given all funerals entru sted to me. f Embalming done according to latest and most im proved methods. Newest and most up to date equipment. Calls answered promptly day and night. Phones 28 and 30. HcDonough Ga. The Georgia Trading Company FORSYTH, CA. Offers for Sale Farms in Monroe County and Homes in Forsyth, Cheap and On Easy Terms. SPECIALS: 303 acres, only 3-4 of a mile from railroad station; 150 acres in cultiva tion, 25 acres bottom; four room dwelling, two barns, store house and three tenant houses. This is a splendid farm and conveniently located. Price, ------- $4000.00. 155 acres, one mile from the court house at Forsyth; one three-room, one two-room, and one one-room houses, with good barn and stables. Price, ..... - $2230.00. 500 acres, two miles north of Smarrs; 200 acres in fine state of cultiva tion, 50 acres good bottoms, 30 acres original woods and some fine pinetim ber; well watered and fine pasture under wire fence; 6000 bearing El beia and Carmen peach trees. Comparatively new seven-room dwelling, four tenant houses, good barns, buggy houses and large packing house. Price, - - - , - - $8300.00. 100 acres, one mile of Colliers; 60 acres cultivated, 20 acres bottoms; rented for three bales of cotton. Good new frame house and new barn. Price, $1100.09. THE GEORGIA TRADING CO. FORSYTH, GA! DR. JOEL B. WATKINS, JR„ VETERINARY SURGEON. Treatment ot diseases of all animals. All calls promptly attended to. SURGERY a specialty Correspondence solicited. OFFICE: KING & LEACH’S STABLE. Bell Phone: Residence, 13 i: Office, 44. JACKSON, GEORGIA. I In Any Emergency liil INIH The Telephone is the / /S\ ! I f //jr' l quickest means of se- / |l jj !i H Hwij i! I curing relief or calling A assistance. In rural districts the doctor or the neighbors can be sum- v\J^^ moned in less time than it takes 1| Bth the Bell System puts you % whole country. You need a tf Write to nearest Bell I Telephone Manager for I Farmers’ line Department 1 Southern Kell Telephone | and Telegraph Co. 1 -f s Soulb Pryor Street
