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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XX.XVI
HAIL TO HAMPTON,
HENRY’S METROPOLIS
Figures of 1910 Census for Henry County’s
Towns Are Given Out.
Hampton Has Population of 1903, McDonough
882, Locust Grove 716.
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The long hoped for announcement of the 1910 census figures for
McDonough and our neighbor towns came Monday afternoon.
Mr. Censusman makes McDonough possess 882 souls, an increase
of 27.67 per cent over our population of 683 of the census of 1900.
Hampton has a population of 1093, an increase of 133.54 per cent
over the 1900 figures of 468.
Locust Grove has grown to 716 from 240 of 1900, an increase of
198.33 per cent.
The figures for Stockbridge town, in some unexplained way,
were not announced with the others.
McDonough is like other small places, such as Griffin and Macon
and Augusta, who ci mplained at the census figures for them, and
we must say “me too.”
“We did think we wuz bigger than we are,” but you know we’ve
been living near Atlanta and Gritfin, and have imbibed some big ideas.
We are not going to do anything about it. We are not even going to
give the government any advice about the matter or make any threats
against it, except that we’re going to try a democratic administration
the next time and attempt to keep it in office long enough to take
our next census. Then we are going to keep quiet and grow like
blazes.
And Hampton, how she has grown! Who’d a thought it! We
knew she was growing, and sordid she, for she herself sometimes
told us so; but she has been so much busier growing than blowing
that we must now plead surprise.
There’s one more thing we mean to do we forgot to mention
above. We intend to secure an injunction to keep Hampton from
bragging. Not that we mind it, but then it will spoil her.
But truly HanYpton is a town of which Henry should be proud.
We salute you, our sister city. We hope for you continued and yet
greater growth. Don’t look back, for we’re coming.
Locust Grove “ain’t stood still” either. She has grown rapidly
and the past ten years has shown such a difference in this town,
both in numbers and improvements, that it is almost another town.
She is surely still growing, and we know that her fine citizenry
and business energy insures an even larger town for the future.
Stockbridge must have grown so fast that they have not finished
counting yet, for her name failed to apper in published list; though a
later list does give the population of Stockbridge Militia District as
1,592 as against 1,483 of 1900.
Ere the next census time, we expect to have even other incor
porated towns in which Uncle Sam must count the noses.
PROFESSOR DUFFEY RESIGNS.
The County Board of Education
met at McDonough Wednesday.
They were notified of the resig
nation of Professor Lawrence Duf
fey as County School Commission
er, effective the Ist of June.
This was not wholly unexpect
ed, as Professor Dufffey was elect
ed principal of the Sixth District
Agricultural School at Barnesville
some months ago, and he had in
formed his friends that he expect
ed to accept.
He has made one of the best
commissioners, if not the best, in
Georgia, and under his regime,
with the wise supervision of an
able county board, our schools
have grown and improved into
one of the most flourishing and
advanced anywhere. Professor
Duffey will carry our very best
wishes for his abundant success
and contentment, with our regret
at giving up him and his excellent
family.
This vacancy will have to be
filled by the county board, and we
have heard rumors of several
prospective applicants.
We understand that an examina
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tion will be held and the board
will elect from those who qualify
in the examination.
The board consists of Messrs.
T. J. Brown, Chairman, J. T. Lum
mus, J. D. Bowen, J. M. Tarpley,
E. F. Adams.
. CARD OF THANKS.
I desire, through the columns of
The Weekly, to express m> sin
cere appreciation and thanks to
all who so kindly contributed to
the fund collected for me in the
misfortune of the loss of my mule.
The sum of $110.82 was col
lected and was applied to the pay
ment of the mortgage against the
mule.
Again thanking each of you and
wishing you all good blessings, I !
am,
Yours gratefully,
Jesse Mayo.
Messrs. Carl and Wyman Sloan’ j
of Ga. Tech and University school
for boys respectively, will spend ,
the next week end with their pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Sloan.
McDonough, Georgia. Friday april 28, mi.
MCDONOUGH HIGH
SCHOOL HAPPENINGS.
We seem to live a new life as
we greet each other on these
fresh spring mornings, when na
ture has put on her new dress of
green, and we mingle with our
dear associates. But in this life
we have trials and temptations,
although we can easily pass over
these rough places, if we try.
The school boys and girls are
real busy now, especially the
gifted artists. A few of the girls
are busily engaged in making “red
carnations” for concert evening in
commencement. Hope they will
be more successful than they were
on last Monday evening.
Miss Annie Lemon went up to
Atlanta last Saturday to see
Emma Buntyn at The Grand.
Miss Ludie V. Bond was the
guest of out-of-town friends the
past week end.
School was suspended on
Wednesday, Memorial Day, and
Friday, to let the teachers attend
the State Convention in Macon,
A few pupils are being kept
from school this week on account
of mumps.
Two of our former schoolmates
were visitors to our school last
Thursday.
Singing at Flippen Methodist
Church.
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There will be a great singing at
the Flippen Methodist church on
the afternoon of the first Sunday
in May, the 7th of the month. It
will begin at 2.30 o’clock.
Mr. A. G. Combs and Miss
Combs, his daughter, will lead the
singing, assisted by Messrs. Will
Combs, Aldine Combs, and Cox, of
Locust Grove.
Everybody is invited, and all
singers are requested to bring
their song books.
All the leaders are well known
and excellent musicians and sing
ers, and a treat is in store for all
who attend.
Locust Grove Races to Draw
Crowd.
The Locust Grove Race Track
Company will have a great meet
on their new track near Locust
Grove on Saturday, the 6th of
May.
Horse races of all kinds will be
held and probably automobile
races also.
See their advertisement in this
issue of The Weekly.
Mrs. Oscar Walden and Child
Are Dead.
Mrs. Polly Walden died Monday
evening at 7 o’clock at her home
in Stockbridge district. Her little
eight months’ old infant passed
away near the same time, and
mother and child were buried to
gether at Noah’s Ark Tuesday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock, the Rev. w.
0. Butler officiating.
Mrs. Walden was a woman ad
mired and loved by those who
knew her and with many friends
who mourn her departure.
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. Oscar Walden, and one son.
MEMORY OF SOUTHERN
SIRES IS HONORED.
McDonough Celebrates Memorial Day Wednes
day With Appropriate Exercises.
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MR. R.O. JACKSON MAKES ELOQUENT ADDRESS.
. All ages and all classes and conditions of people united in Mc-
Donough in celebrating our annual memorial day on Wednesday, the
26th instant.
The High School auditorium was filled to oVer-flowing with those
who were willing for a brief period to lay aside all the exacting duties
of business and gather to pay tribute in common to the boys of ’9l,
whose heritage of heroism has made our south immortal and glorified
our history, and shall illumine all our future.
The whole program was rendered with spirit and talent and re
ceived with interest and enthusiasm; from the fervent and peace
praying invocation of the Rev. Olin King to the tender benediction of
the Rev. W. w. Arnold.
After the invocation, the choir sang “The Old Folks At Home”
with that feeling which only a voice of the south can express.
Miss Nina Wall’s reading, “A Judith Of 1864,” might have been
called a reconciliation in time of war, and most skilfully did she
harmonize the many conflicting incidents of the subject, with her
grace and charm of expression.
The rare voice of Mrs. Fouche was heard in the solo of “Home,
Sweet Home,” and s veeter seemed the song sung by such a gifted
one.
• Messrs. Wall, Tolleson, Bowden, and Thompson received the ap
plause of the whole house with an excellently sung medley.
Miss Annie Ola Sloan truly gave us an insight into the character
of Uncle Remus in “A Tar Baby.”
The recitation of Frank L. Stanton’s, “A Georgia Volunteer ” was
given with the genuine spirit of the selection by Miss Nannip Mi«jp
Rodgers.
Miss Annie Nolan’s sweet voice charmed the audience with a solo
with a tender toucli of “Dixie” in it.
In a few well chosen and well said words, Mr. T. ,1. Brown intro
duced the orator of the day, Mr. R. O. Jackson.
Mr. Jackson, in excellent voice and eloquent expression, stirred
the veterans and the younger ones alike with a fine oration. ’ He did
not forget to pay an unusually beautiful tribute to the ladies of those
trying times.
Then the Daughters delivered to Mr. S. P. Green the Gross of
Honor and the names of others for whom crosses were on hand were
read, but the persons were absent.
While Miss Annie G. Thompson inspiringly played “Dixie ”, the
crowd formed in line, the children bearing flowers in the lead, fol
lowed by the veterans, and marched to the Confederate monument
on the public square. Here the children covered the monument with
the flowers, while they marched around it in a circle singing “Dixie.”
So another sacred occasion made possible by the good ladies be
comes history and a memory too.
HAMPTON HAPPENINGS.
Miss Eunice Arnold spent Sun
day with her sister, Mrs. Doe, in
LaGrange.
Mrs. H. G. Fields and Mrs. J. L.
Moore spent Friday in Atlanta.
H. H. Harris, of Stone Mountain,
was here Saturday and Sunday to
see his parents.
Among the attendants at court
from here this week were: Messrs.
E. R. Harris, J. L. Moore, W. M.
Harris, J. M. Tarpley, W. H. Bar
nett, J. F. Copeland, Harvey Pond
er, and J. E. Tinley.
Mr. James Henderson will with
in a few days run one of the
classiest autos out of the paint
shop of the Hampton Buggy Com
pany ever seen in Middle Georgia.
Mr. Henderson has had the car
painted according to his own idea*.
. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Thomas, of
Griffin, were here Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moore went
down to Griffin Sunday afternoon.
Hampton Products Shipped to
Oregon.
On Tuesday morning Hender-
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son Manufacturing Company ship
ped a solid car of ladies’ medium
weight underwear to Fleischner,
Myer & Co., Portland. Oregon.
This bespeaks the quality of goods
made by a Hampton factory and
the demand for same. The Hen
derson Manufacturing Company
have been manufacturing ladies’
underwear for a number of years,
and have always made quality
their watchword; there goods are
sold in nearly every State in the
Union. For the past two years
they have been unable to fill ord
ers received.
Hampton Ahead.
According to the census just
published by the government,
Hampton has a population of 1,093,
McDonough 800, Fayetteville un
der 800, and Jonesboro a little
over 900. Now let every citizen
of Hampton pull together and by
1920 have a population over 10,000;
it may sound a little unreasonable
at this time, but there is no reason
why we should not reach the 10,-
000 mark by 1920. Talk for your
town, work for it, speak a word of
praise for it everywhere you go.
let every one know that you are
proud of your town. We should
feel proud of our home town, not
because it is our home, but accord
ing to the number of inhabitants,
we have the best town to be found
in Georgia.
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