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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXVI
Jackson Chautauqua Opens
Annual Session Sunday.
AND PROMISES TO BE A GREAT SUCCESS.
One of the Largest Crowds Ever Brought Together on One
Ocassion Will Hear William Jennings Bryan
Lecture in Jackson Monday.
Everything is now in readiness for the opening of the second
annual session of the Jackson Chautauqua Association, Sunday, June
11th. Our neighboring city has made great preparation for the week
from June 11th to 17th, and the Chautauqua will doubtless be the great
success that its promoters wish it to be. The movement has been
widely advertised, and for many miles in this section people will go
to hear William Jennings Bryan, and the nine other attractions. The
program is one of the best ever arranged for a chautauqua in Middle
Georgia, and the Jackson committee has secured the strongest talent
of the Lyceum stage for their great summer festival. The week will
be one of amusement, entertainment, educational uplift and general
interest.
Jackson will present a gala day appearance for the week. The
Daughters of the Confederacy of that city have recently had a clean
ing up day, the merchants have their windows attractively decorated,
the auditorium has been worked over, and the plans are now com
plete for the opening number of the Chautauqua.
The Chautauqua sermon will be preached by Dr. Edwin M.
Proteat, President of Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina,
a distinguished educator and well known speaker. He will preach
at the school auditorium at 11 o’clock, and will be followed in the
afternoon at 4 o’clock by Dr. Julius MaGath, of Oxford, Georgia, form
erly a professor in Emory College, and now a missionary for the
Methodist Church to the Jews. He will lecture on “The Contribution
of the Jewish'Race to the Civilization of the World.”
William Jennings Bryan, the headliner -of the Chautauqua pro
gram, will lecture Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock. His subject has
not yet been announced, though any of his four great lectures, “The
Price of a Spul,” “The Prince of Peace,” “The Signs of the Times,”
“The Passing of Plutocracy,” will be well worth going miles to hear.
The complete program of the Jackson Chautaqua is given below
for the benefit of readers of this paper, many of whom have declared
their intention of attending the Chautauqua:
Sunday, June 11 th, 11:00 A. M. Sermon, Dr. Edwin M. Poteat.
Sunday, June 11th, 4:00 P. M. Lecture, Dr. Julius MaGath.
Monday, June 12th, 10:30 A. M. Lecture, William Jennings Bryan.
Monday, June 12th, 8:00 P. M, Concert, Chicago Lyric Glee Club.
Tuesday, June 13th, 10:00 A. M. Lecture, Dr. Edwin M. Poteat.
Tuesday, June 13th, 8:00 P. M. Entertainment, Miss Evelyn Bar
gelt.
Wednesday, June 14th, 10:00 A. M. Lecture, Marvin Williams.
Wednesday, June 14th, 8:00 P. M. The Mikado, Glee Club.
Thursday, June 15th, 10:00 A. M. Lecture, Tom Corwine.
Thursday, June 15th, 8:00 P. M. Concert, Alkahest Band.
Friday, June 16th, 10:00 A. M. Entertainment, LaDell Fox Con
cert Company.
Friday, June 16th, 8:00 P. M. Entertainment, LaDell Fox Con
cert Company.
MR. OTIS TOLLESON
WEDS THIS MONTH.
His Engagement to Alabama Girl
is Announced.
The Sunday Constitution has the
following announcement:
“COE-TOLI.ESON.
Mrs. James Alex Coe, of Dothan,
Ala., announces the engagement
of her daughter, Ressie, to Mr.
Otis O. Tolleson, of • McDonough,
Ga., the marriage to take place in
June."
This announcement is of inter
est to McDonough and Henry
County people, practically all of
whom know and admire Mr. Tol
leson.
A son of our excellent fellow
townsman, Mr. H. M. Tolleson, he
has been reared and has spent the
greater part of his life in our town
and county.
Mr. Tolleson is a prominent and
popular young man who has made
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a success in the educational world.
He has occupied chairs in the Lo
cust Grove Institute and numer
ous other institutions of note in
Georgia and Alabama.
Hin many friends gre sincerely
congratulating him.
Miss Coe is a popular and beau
tiful young lady of Dothan, Ala
bama, and she will be gladly wel
comed to our city as a resident.
Lizzardsville News.
Why wasn’t you all out at Tim
berridge last Sunday.
It looks like it is going to rain
this morning, but of course I hope
not.
Mr. Troy Crumbley went to Mc-
Donough last Sunday, and I guess
everybody was glad to see him.
Congressman David Cathey
spent last Saturday night with
Representative Hugh Fannin.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday june 9, 1911.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
MEETS AT FORSYTH.
June 20th is the Day and R. M.
Dixon Issues Call.
From Monroe Advertiser.
The annual conference of the
Griffin district will convene at the
Methodist church June 20, The
opening serrtion will be preached
Monday night, the 19th. The first
business session will be held
Tuesday morning, the twentieth.
The territory covered by this
conference is large and many
Methodists live in the district.
The pastoral charges are first
church of Griffin; Hanleiter
church; Third church and Kincaid;
Griffin Circuit; Barnesville Circuit;
Culloden and Yatesville; Fayette
ville; Flovilla; Forsyth Circuit;
Hampton; Inman; Jackson; Jen
kinsburg; Jonesboro; Locust
Grove; McDonough; Milner; Se
noia; Stockbridge; Thomaston
Mission; Zebulon.
Griffin District Institute located
at Zebulon.
These pastorates compose the
district over which Dr. J. H.
Eakes has jurisdiction. There are
19,511 members, with eighty-two
churches valued at $186,762.00.
There are 5,191 Sunday School
scholars and 239 officers and
teachers in the Sunday Schools.
There are fifty-two Woman’s For
eign Missionary societies with 559
j members and nine Woman’s
I Home Mission societies which
raised $5,698.82 while the Foreign
Mission societies raised $1,935.24.
For the support of the ministry
there was about $24,000 raised
last year. For all purposes there
was $63,018.23 raised last year for
the cause of Christ in the territory
embraced by the Griffin district.
In about three weeks there will
be more than a hundred of these
church representatives in Forsyth
looking after the interests of the
Kingdom at their respective places
and in the interests of the cause
the world over. Only about two
dozen preachers are expected, but
more than one hundred laymen
will be present. These will be
representing the different parts of
church work from different parts
of the state and other states.
It is to be hoped and believed
that Forsyth will do herself proud
during the time and each one con
sider himself or herself appointed
to make every visitor feel at home
and happy. It will only last two
or three days and we can afford
to be our best for the sake of
others for that length of time.
For him we love to do, it is for
Him this we do.
“Come to the light, it is shining for
thee,
Sweetly the light has dawned upon
me.
Once I was blind, but now I can
see,
The light of the world is Jesus.”
The committee to solicit homes
for the delegates has no easy job.
Let all who care to lighten their
burdens, see them or call them up
and tell them how many delegates
they will take.
The committee is composed of
Mrs. B. S. Willingham, Miss
Fletcher, Miss- Wylene Rumble,
Mrs. Walter Bramlett, Mrs. Olin
Smith and Miss Florence Phina
zee.
None can enjoy the privileges
it brings without helping to bear
the burdens we are disposed to
call it. R. M. Dixon.
HAMPTON HAPPENINGS.
SMALL FIRE MONDAY.
•On Monday morning about 8
o’clock a negro restaurant run by
Ned Varner, caught fire from a
defective stove flue. The fire was
under great headway before the 1
alarm was turned in, but by hard
work of our volunteer fireman the I
flames were soon extinguished, j
Very near the building w r as lo
cated a gasoline tank containing
50 gallons of gasoline. Only for,
our fire department and the quick
work of the firemen was the bus
iness portion of our little city
saved. Since the installation of
our water and light plant, we have
had only two or three small fires,
but without water works, they
could have done a lot of damage.
HOME FOR VACATION.
The following girls and boys
have returned home to spend the
vacation:
Miss Linnie Wilson, LaGrange
Female College; Miss Deile Tarp
ley, G. N. &I. College; Miss Nell
Foster, LaGrange Female College;
Miss Ethel Edwards, Brenau; Miss
Orian Arnold, Shorter; Henry
Harris and Creighton Turner,
University School for Boys, .
Prof. Adamson, of Locust Grove,
iis spending some time here with
1 his sister, Mrs. H. G. Fields. Prof.
Adamson will leave next week for
Chicago to spend six weeks.
Mr. C. O. Summers, of Barnes
ville, was here Tuesday.
Miss Louis Tarplev is spending
some time with relatives in For
syth.
Mrs. Fannie Whittle, of Atlanta,
was the guest of Mrs. E. H. Hair
Sunday and monday.
Mr. W. J. Harris returned home
Friday after spending three weeks
at Red Oak under treatment of
Dr. Lee for rheumatism. He is
much better and is able to be at
business.
Rev. J. J. Farmer returned home
Saturday from Macon.
Mrs. T. H. Parham is spending
a few weeks with Mrs. J. F. M.
i Fields, of McDonough.
Miss Eunice Arnold, of McDon-
MRS. W. J. McKIBBEN
DIES VERY SUDDENLY.
Wife of One of County's Prom
inent Citizens Passed Away
Tuesday.
Mrs. W. J. McKibben died verv
suddenly at her home in Tussa-i
'.haw district Tuesday at noon.
She had just seated heffcelf at
i the dinner table with the family,
when she was suddenly stricken
i and death was almost instan
i taneous.
Mrs. McKibben was a true Chris
tian woman who worthily lived
the creed she professed, and her
neighbors will miss her as a
friend, together with the bereaved
family.
She is survived by: her husband,
1 Mr. W. J. McKibben: five daugh
ters, Mrs. A. C. Chaffin, Mrs. Tom
Bearden, and Misses Lillie May,
Mary, and Alice McKibben: and
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By Geo. S. D. MaLaier.
ough, was here Sunday to see her
sister, Miss Mary Arnold.
Mr. T. A. Wilson spent Sunday
in Atlanta.
Mr. R. E. Henderson went up to
Atlanta Tuesday.
Hampton is seriously consider
ing Commission Government. If
Atlanta is to have Commission
government, why not fall in line?
Mr. and tyrs. Frank Dabney, of
Atlanta, were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Griffin Sunday.
Mrs. Dabney is very pleasantly re
membered here as Miss Marian
Wood.
Mr. W. M. Harris went up to
Atlanta Tuesday.
Miss Linnie Wilson returned
home from LaGrange Saturday,
where she has been attendii g
LaGrange Female College.
Mr. W. P. Wilson left Tuesday
morning on a trip to several points
in North Georgia in interest of the
Hampton Buggv Company.
Mrs. W. Z. Henderson spent Sat
urday in Atlanta.
Miss Ida King, of Atlanta, was
the guest of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. King, Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Chapman, of Senoia,
left for home Tuesday; after
spending a few days with Mrs.
J. E. Lyons and Miss Katie Red
wine.
Meeting closed at the Methodist
church Monday night. Mr. Eng
land preached a number of very
able sermons. He preached plain,
straightforward facts —facts that
stare us in the face every day.
Dr. W. S. Wood, of Atlanta, who
is spending a few weeks with his
mother, Mrs. S. H. Griffin, is im
proving very rapidly. Doctor
thinks that he is gaining one-fourth
of if pound per day.
Miss Nell Foster returned home
Tuesday from LaGrange Female
College to spend the summer.
Miss Deile Tarpley reached
home Tuesday evening from G. N.
& I. College.
Mrs. J. T. Manley was a visitor
to Atlanta Saturday.
three sons, Messrs. Ben, George,
and Don McKibben.
The funeral and interment were
at County Line church at 10.30
o’clock Wednesday ntorning.
Beersheba Items.
Mrs. Georgia Smith and Mrs.
Maud spent Sunday with Mrs. J.
E. Presson.
Miss Lena Dukes spent Sunday
with her sister, Mrs. Emma Piper.
Rev. J. G. Walker spent Satur
day n ; ght with Mr. W. N. Gilmore.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Presson are
all smiles over a fine boy.
Mrs. Alexander Rush and little
granddaughter, Ruby Gibson, of
Griffin, are spending awhile with
her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Presson.
Miss Candis Rosser spent Sun
, day with Miss Nellie Smith.
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