The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, December 23, 1910, Image 5
Ohristmas Shoppers' You can save money by buying for Christinas here. Fireworks, Toys, Glassware of every kind. Finest and Freshest of Fruits, Nuts and Candies.' Largest and Most Select Line of Holiday Goods in Town General Merchandise at closest prices. ED GOODWIN MCDONOUGH, <3A. locals. Mrs. J. A. Simpson and children are spenning the holidays with relatives at Danielsville. Miss Bess Fouche spent Satur day in Atlanta shopping. Mr. Frank Turner is visiting his mother, Mrs. Tommie Turner, for several weeks. Mrs. Fouche Lemon visited At lanta last Saturday. Mr. Eidson Smith visited Man chester and Woodbury on last Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Helen Lyon has come for an extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. E. J. Reagan. Miss Nena Turner spent the week-end with her parents, Judge and Mrs. Paul Turner. Miss Alla B. Carmichael is at home from Agnes Scott College for the holidays. Miss Hattie Sue Lowe, who is attending school at Shorter this year, is at home for the Christinas. Miss Laurie Benning will arrive the first of the week for a visit to Mrs. Fouche Lemon. Messrs. Carl and Wyman Sloan are at home for the holidays. Mr. Jerome Cook left Saturday to spend the holidays at his home in College Park. Mr. Gorden Dickson is at home from the University School for Boys. Messrs. Tymon Bowden and Pierce Stewart will spend the hol idays with their parents here. ' Miss Helen Dunn is at home from Wesleyan College for a couple of weeks. Mr. Ed vard Reagan visited At lanta Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Ralph Turner spent Sunday in Atlanta. Mrs. T. J. Patterson visited At lauta Friday. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hankinson left Saturday for Augusta and ■Orahgeburg, S. C., for a visit of several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Willingham, of Brushy Knob district, were in our city Monday. Mrs. A. R. Scott spent Tuesday in Atlanta. Mrs. A. F. Lemon visited Atlan ta Tuesday. Miss Jonie Berry has return ed home from a visit to friends in Atlanta. Mr. Reuben Berry is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bei i >. Misses Turner and Mrs. Wright Jiave gone to Jackson, Miss. Miss Lucy McDonald, who has been teaching school in Chicora College, in Greenville, S. C., ar rived in McDonough Saturday af ternoon and with her sister, Mrs. Will Green, Sunday and Monday, when she went to her home at Snapping Shoals to spend the hol idays. ! Miss Ludie V. Bond had as her guest for the week-end Miss Artie I Rowden, of Ellenwood. If you should need any machin ery repairing of any kind and should happen to forget the name —just think of ’phone No. 75. tf. John R. Smith. Dr. J. G. Smith and Messrs. Henry Hightower and Marvin Turndr made a business trip to Atlanta Tuesday. Mr. Tommie Tolleson visited At lanta Monday. Mrs. R. L. Johnson will spend the holidays with her mother in Winder. Misses May, Eunice, Emma and Louise Arnold are expected home today to spend the holidays. Mrs. J. A. Fouche left today to spend the week-end with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Brown, in Dawson. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Lemon spent last Saturday in Atlanta. Miss Masie Tucker, of Sunny Side, is expected as the guest of J Miss Evelyn Pendley at Mr. W. A. i Fields for the holidays. Xmas Cake a surety when you use Acme patent flour, the flour | that is ground from nothing but the cleanest, best wheat. Copeland-Turner Merc. Co. Mr. W. M. Settle, of Jackson, was in our city Tuesday. Mr. Jasper Pendley will spend the holidays in Lumpkin, with Mr. E. S. Tucker. Mr. Adam Sloan visited Atlanta Monday. Misses Jessie Turnipseed and Mattie and Lois Bunn, of Hamp ton, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Norman Sunday. Rev. J. E. England, of Hampton, was in our city a short time Tues day. * Rev. W. W. Arnold will have all hi? family as his guests during the Christmas season. Mrs. H. Dunn and daughter, Miss Helen, spent yesterday in Atlanta shopping. ✓ Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carmich ael will entertain at a family din ner on Monday. Mr. Walker Carmichael, from Texas, is here for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Farrar will spend Christmas Day with his brother, Mr. C. H. Farrar, of Jenkinsburg. Society Happen logs Mr. and Mrs. Fouche Lemon Hosts. Mr. and Mrs. Fouche Lemon en tertained at two tables of dominoes on Wednesday evening. Her guests were: Misses Ruth and Ruby Walker, Lucy Reagan, Messrs. Eidson Smith, John Hightower, £d Reagan and Tom mie Tolleson. GEORGIA BAPTIST CONVEN TION ISSUES MINUTES Dr. Ragsdale, as Secretary. Has Produced a Most Valuable Record. We are indebted to Dr. B. D. Ragsdale, of Locust Grove, for a copy of the minutes of the Eighty ninth Anniversary of the* Baptist Convention of the State of Geor gia, which was held, with the First Baptist church at Elberton on November 15-18, 1910. This booklet of nearly two hun dred pages embrace not only the minutes of this meeting, but is practically a year book of the work and progress of the Baptist church in Georgia. One of our Henry county citi zens compiled and arranged for publication this interesting record. Dr. B. D. Ragsdale, of Locust Grove, as secretary of the asso ciation, has shown his excellent judgment and painstaking accu racy in the work, and it is indeed a credit to him. We cannot begin to go into de tail as to the book’s contents. Suffice it to say that a mere turn ing of the leaves will convince a person that the activities of this church are as those of the count less branches of a great govern ment, and every department shows progress. , Not the least interesting or im portant feature of this work is the historical table, giving a complete history of the convention from the days of Jesse Mercer’s presidency in 1822. ‘We congratulate the Baptist church, the church universal, and Dr. Ragsdale upon this happy progress and the excellent method in which it is detailed. A Hero of Peace. We have heard a saying to the effect that certain kinds of ‘‘minds run in the same channel. We were revolving in our mind an editorial on the same subject as that given Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Copeland Hosts. Mr. and Mrs. Green Copeland entertained at dinner last week. Those enjoying their hospitality were : Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simp son, Miss White, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carmichael, Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Lifscy. below, when our old friend, and ! the excellent. Editor of the Griffin News, produces an editorial, which voices our sentiment so much bet ter than we could, that we present it herewith: ‘‘The man who accepts oilicc ac cepts it with all the responsibilities carried witli it. The man who ac cepts the position of sheriff know i hat there are Certain dangerous [ duties connected with the office that may, at. any moment, require bravery, and even sacriiice of life, lie receives, the office because the people believe that lie will be faith ful to its requirements. The man who becomes jailor—the custodian of the keys that lock the prison doors upon the off enders against the law—knows that there is a great responsibility upon him, and that the people expect him to do his du ty. For some time lynching in this stute and the South was toler ated. There are crimes that make the people call for summary pun ishment. No crime calls for lynch ing. Some call for rapid execution ct' justice, but none cull for the ‘‘rape of the law.” There are some jailors who know this great fundamental truth. The law must be supreme. ‘‘ln Cclumbus, Ga., they recently buried Jailor Phelts—a hero if there ever was one—who, as jailer, for fifteen years in Muscogee coun ty, had learned to respect his posi tion and to believe in its responsi bilities. He was,shot while guard ing a negro prisoner from u mob. It rakes courage ol the highest or der for a jailer to really oppose a southern mob when they thirst for the blood of a negro criminal. The man who does it knows that his ac tions will be condemned by many of his close friends. It demands courage, sustained by a high sense of public duty. Jailor Phelts had just this sort of courage. lie was a hero and died in the greatest cause known to civil life—in de fense of the supremacy of the law. It is a great thing to save a human life, hut it is a greater thing to die in defense of the law of the land.” Mr. and Mrs. Roy Turner will spend the Christmas holidays with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Turner, near McDonough. THOSE WHO FURNISHED THE PRIZES IN CONTEST Something of the Concerns Who Contributed to the Success of the Contest. We cannot pass by unnoticed the firms and individuals who fur nished the handsome prizes which were awarded in The Weekly’s Great Contest. The First Prize, the Piano, was furnished by the Editor. P. B. CHEEK. The Second Prize, the beautiful Diamond Ring, was furnished by McDonough’s enterprising jewel ler, Mr. P. B. Cheek. Mr. Cheek carries a complete line of everything beautiful, serv iceable, and desirable in the way of jewelry, watches, clocks, etc., and he believes in a liberal appli cation of printer’s ink. MALSBY, SHIPP & COMPANY The Third Prize, the fine Fleet wood Sewing Machine, was fur nished by the South’s foremost mail order house, Messrs. Malsby, Shipp & Co., of Atlanta. This concern is but a few years old but, composed of young men of high character and energy; it has grown to immense propor tions. Henry county has many users of their sewing machines, and they presented one to the Daugh ters of the Confederacy here. Their advertisement never misses an issue of The Weekly. JOHN R. SMITH. The Fourth Prize, the beautiful and speedy Bicycle, was furnished and put up and guaranteed by Mr. John R. Smith, bicycle dealer and repairer, and all round expert machinist, of McDonough. Mr. Smith has a machine shop fitted with apparatus for doing the most difficult of work, and his twenty years’ experience make him capable of doing well any kind of machine work or repairs. He, too, believes in advertising. Gin Notice. We will gin on Tuesday, the 17th of January, and will continue from day to day, i;ntil all cotton on the yard is ginned; then will close down for the season. A. N. Brown, 12.23. T. C. Kelley. The entertainment at the school auditorium on last Friday evening was enjoyed by all. Misses Beyer and Nolan are to be congratulated upon the success of their Under taking.