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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1910)
i LilLNis n KltANii KKACAX, Kditor. Snltre-d at the postofflc* at Uc&on Mffe, a* aecoad-claae mall mattar. ~A4T*rtlßlm* Kata*: 1100 P«r far month. Reduction an ttaadiiac BOBtmat* by special agraemaat a McDonough, Ga. Dec. 23, 1910- Obituaries not containing more than one hnndred words will be published free. All obituaries con taining more than one hnndred words must be accompanied with one cent per word for all in excess of one hnndred words. We cannot undertake to cut them down to the one hundred word limit. Man uscripts, not accompanied with postage, will not be returned. No statements purporting to come from The Henry County Weekly are genuine unless they have written on their face the signature of Frank Keagan,Editor, or are presented by him in person, any person receiving such a state ment, without the signature will please notify Frank Reagan Editor McDonough, Georgia. Christmas and a Purchased Peace. Did it ever occur to you how appropriate to his mission was the season of the year when Christ was born? It was a few days later than the shortest day of the year and the condition of human ity was in accordance with the long nights of the season. Life’s little light burned low and dim and faith seemed to have lost itself in formalism and superstition. But just as the days began to lengthen a little and their light longer to linger upon the earth, even the night grew bright with the holy light of a star such as hitherto was never seen on land or sea, the Star of Bethlehem, of such glory that far-severed kings were united and guided by its brilliance —guided to the man gar whence began to beam forth the “Light of the World,” which hght eth every man that eoineth into the world.” And all through the ages since, year after year and century after century, the dark night of sin and sorrow of soul is shortening and the day of faith and hope, filled with service and cheer, grows longer and happier until at last it will length into endless day. And He came not with the sword, but with the Word his only weapon, and came to bring peace. As the Prince of Peace, He insti tuted His reign and none but lov ers of peace are his subjects. They “who make a desolation and call it peace” coin a misnomer in L 3 designating it. For there is i ' cace save in Him. . ,ther can this peace be pur c d with the gift or expendi i. 1 f millions. It occurs to us w < : e hostages which in history Iv.'.vc keen given as a guarantee of pledges of peace have been ex alted and honored personages, -whose death would make weep ing in the nation so pledged, and not mere money. Money securi ties have been left to modern times, when pelf is more powerful than person. We remember too, that the greatest peace of which we know, peace with God, was valued be yond all price of lucre and de manded the gift of a person, the life of a person, the most worthy Life ever lived. And nothing short of this can bring peace in the nation or peace in the heart of men. Men have purchased silence with money and somehow leaks have let out the secret; but love has learned many a man’s deeds of a double life and never whispered the news and aid, been the means of weaning the wayward back to a right life. The gospel of Christ in silence spreads the spirit of brotherhood among the people of the nations, by leading them to the new birth; in consequence, wars begin to cease, and at once all the metallic alarums of the money kings sound forth announcing that they have purchased a faster arriving mille nium of peace. But peace is promised and peace is coming, in spite of and regard less of the money or power of earth —peace with liberty and not peace shackled with shekels. And we see that millions are also given to a university to pro mote religion there. The uses of money are many, but is there not danger of our re lying too greatly upon its power? The greatest conquests of the cross have been the lives of many lowly ones who lived the Christ life. We would not forget that the promised and ever accessible pow er for all things is the Holy Spirit himself and not the almighty (?) dollar, who is rightly only a sub ject and not a king. To Our Correspondents. We wish to thank our corres pondents throughout the county and the adjacent communities for their interesting news letters con tributed during the year now closing. The great success of The Weekly would have been impossi ble without their aid, in the regu lar news they furnished us for our readers. We so appreciate their help that we shall try to do more for them in 1911. Next year we shall give several cash prizes to the most regular correspondents for the first six months, and repeat the offer for the second six months. We wish to enroll a staff of reg ular correspondents, not less than one in each militia district. Write to the Editor for full par ticulars of the offer and then de cide whether you will furnish us with news for 1911. To Our Advertisers. The great increase [in our circu lation has greatly increased our operating expenses to such an ex tent that the present rare for ad vertising charged by us will not enable us to meet this increase. For several years our rate has been ten cents an inch for display advertising, though our circulation justified a rate of thirteen cents. We shall therefore have to make a slight increase in our rates, to begin January 15,1911. To those, however, who contract with us on or before January 15, 1911, for sufficient space, we shall give the old rate. We shall issue next week a com plete rate sheet which will ex 's plain the change fully. Notice. Just received fresh lot nice shingles. R. C. Brown, 12-23. Locust Grove. Preaching at Mew Hope. There will be a series of meet ings at New Hope church, begin ning Christmas day and continu ing a week. The evangelist, the Rev. Jack Penn, of Atlanta, will preach; ail are urged to come. Services morning and evening. W. J. Deßardeleben, Pastor. Protection against poor biscuit, Merry Widow and Miss Dixie self-rising Flour. Copeland-Turner Merc. Co. Why Not Wove Capital to Juliette? We cannot see in the problem of moving the State Capitol from* Atlanta such a problem after all. Its solution is simplicity itself, and we have but to mention the place to secure “unanimous consent.” Why not move the capitol to Juliette —Near-the-Toll-bridge? In the short space of a single editorial, we could not begin to mention all the advantages of this ideal site for the state’s future home. But we understand the fishing is good, and the season is right for the solons to spend their large quantity of leisure catching fish and mosquito bites. Then the river is fine for rafting, so that all the dead timber which accumulates where there is such a heavy growth of political forest could easily be floated down the Ocu mulgee. But the one advantage, above all others, which settles the ques tion in Juliette’s favor is that it has the most superior facilities for informing the public of what their trusted officials may be doing to the minutest detail. We are sure that the Griffin News and Sun would outdistance all rivals, with Paul Russel Wil liams in the press gallery as its special correspondent. Already all the state news of importance is first dispensed from Juliette, as it must have the Ju liette date line to be news; even i though the Atlanta papers may have carried a story two weeks earlier, when this Atlanta paper receives the same story from Ju iiette, it is news. Let’s move the capital to Juliette Near-the-Toll-bridge. Mr. Tyman Bowden came home yesterday from the University to spend the holidays at home. Mrr. Howard Carmichael will spend next Tuesday with Miss. Ella Berry near Flippen. !VSrs. Cruikshanks Gives Unique Entertainment. Mrs. Eliza Cruikshanks carried her Sunday School class of forty live on a trip to Africa this after noon at 3 o’clock. They met at t-he Baptist church and there procured tickets. Con ductor collected fare after which they were told stories of African life. At the first stopover they were met by guides who took them to hunt animals, and they found hid in different parts of the church plenty of animal crackers, ele phants, tigers, lions, etc. After the hunt they found plenty of dates (which is a great food for the Africans) on the trees, for they were tired and hungry. On their next hunt they found bears. Each one was given a how and arrow with which to shoot at the ‘‘teddy bears.” In the meantime a nice lunch was prepared for them after their novel experience at hunting. No Paper Next Week. Habit holds ns. for next week at least, and The Weekly will beg to be excused from making its regu lar visit to its valued readers next week. This is £in accordance with long custom which has allowed The Weekly to rest and properly observe i the Christmas season. We wish every one ofjyon a mer !ry Ghristim s, with all His good J gifts, and a prosperous New Year. JOB PRINTING The County Weekly Get Something of Value. What would be any more appropriate than Sterling Silver Toilet Set $3-°° to $25.00 Sterling Silver Manicure Set i-oo to 15.00 Sterling Silver Coat Brush i-oo to 6.00 Gold-Diamond Set Lock 10.00 to 40.00 Solid Gold Plain Lockets 1.00 to 12.50 “ “ Chain, ot any length, 3.00 to 25.00 “ “ Cutf Links 2.00 to 8.00 “ “ Ladies Watches 18.50 to 45 Ladies Watch Fobs 3.50 to 12.50 VANITY Boxes, Sterling and Gold filled. Vanity Hatpin a New Fad. COME AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION EARLY. We make no charge for engraving. P. B. C H £ E K, J EWELER, McDonough, Georgia. cals. Miss Forrester will leave Sun day to spend Christmas at her home in Atlanta. Misses Eunice and Ida Lou Tarpley expect as their guests next week Misses Louise Lynch, of Griffin, and Ruby Langston, of Atlanta. Judge and Mrs. E. J. Reagan will entertain at a family dinner on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Vera Harper, of Covington, and Mr. and Mrs. Parry Lee and children, of Macon, will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Harper next week. Mrs. Rauschenberg and Miss Pullen, of Atlanta, were guests of Mrs. Arthur Stewart Thursday. The young men will entertain at a dance on Christmas pve. Miss Kate 0. Reagan is at home for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Will Green will spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim McDonald at Snapping Shoals. Mr. and Mrs. Kimbel Patterson visiter Atlanta Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Carmichael spent Thursday in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Boykin Newman were in Atlanta Thursday. Miss Lillian Newman, of Wood bury, is expected next week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Boykin Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Upchurch and family will spend Christmas at Riverside. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown and children will spend a tew days in Jackson aud Flovilla next week. Miss Maud Smith will spend the w r eek-end here with her sister, Mrs. Tom Brown. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Lowe spent Thursday in Atlanta. Mr. Dee Tolleson, of Jackson, is expected to spend Christmas Day here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Tollerson. The friends of Mrs. J. B. Dick son regret to know that she is ill. Mr. and Mrs. Vandeventer and i children will spend Christmas at i Woolsey with her parents. Miss Martha Rogers will arrive Monday evening to be with Miss Alla B. Carmichael for the holi days. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Farrar will entertain at a family dinner on Tuesday evening. j Mr. Perry Sowell who is in school at Young Harris, is at heme for the holidays. Miss Ethel Smith visited Macon Tuesday. Mrs. W. B. J. Ingram will spend part of the holidays in Lovejoy, with her mother, Mrs. John wise. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Weems and children will spend the holidays with her mother at Greensboro. Miss Ada Bell Johnson, of Jack son, spent Thursday with Mrs. H. S. Williams. Mrs. M. G. Graham, of Atlanta, will visit her sister, Mrs. H. S. Williams Monday. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Williams will go to Waverly Hall Sunday to at tend the marriage of her neice, Miss Lucile Hendrix, to Mr. W. G. Graham. Mr. and Mrs A. W. Varner ex pect to entertain at dinner Sun day for the relatives and a few friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Daniel ex pect to have a family reunion next week. They will have with them all their children, Mr. and Mrs. Tom McKibben, of Eatonton; Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Nicholls, of Griffin; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Blake and children, of Griffin, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amis and children, of Greenwood. Dr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hightow er will, on next Wednesday, en tertains at a splendid dinner for the pleasure of their children and grand-children. Dr. Alton Ham and wife and child, of Apalachicola, Fla., are ex pected to visit his mother and sisters in Atlanta, and also his aunt, Mrs. Julia McDonald, here during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Carmichael are expecting a most pleasant time next Tuesday, when they will have with them their chil | dren and grand-children at a | Christmas dining. Mr. Benton Thompsan spent a few days in Atlanta this week. The young people enjoyed a dance last evening given in 'he hall at the Masonic Temple. The presence of many of the girls and boys who had been away at school, made it an unusually blight and enjoyable affair. Miss Bertha Bunn has returned from Atlanta. Misses Nina Wall, who liasT>uen teaching expression at Manslield, will spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wall, g
