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Fhe Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXVI 8
MRS. MARY E. COPELAND
PASSES AWAY.
Aged Member of Prominant
Family of This County Dies
At Hampton Friday
Night.
Mr. Mary E. Copeland died at
her home in Hampton Friday
night at 11 o’cock. Old age was
the cause of her death, she being
85 at the time of her death.
Mrs. Copeland was born in
Laurens, S. C., and her parents
moved to Georgia when she was
quite young. She was married
to Mr. Elihu Copeland, of Henry
county, in 1854 and has lived here,
with the exception of five years
spent in Coweta county. She
joined the Baptist Church in 1854
and never missed a service when
health would permit and dearly
loved her church.
The remains were carried to
McDonough Sunday morning and
funeral services were conducted
by Elder E. Oglesby at 10 o’clock
at the McDonough Baptist Church.
The interment was in the Mc-
Donough cemetery.
She is survived by two daugh
ters and four sons as follows:
Mrs. M. A. Farris, of McDonough,
Miss Lizzie Copeland, of Hampton,
Mr. Samuel B. Copeland, of Decatur
Ga., Mr. Willaim Copeland, of
Whitesburg. Messrs. John F. and
Luther J. Copeland, of Hampton,
also a number of grand-children.
She was also an aunt of Meesrs.
H. J. Copeland and W. G. CoDe
land, of McDonough.
Hampton High School
Opens Sept. 4th.
Hampton High School will open
Monday September 4th. Prof. C.
C. Gilbert, Principal. Assistants:
Mr. A. B. Rhodes, Mrs. A. M.
Brown, Miss Lillian Biggers and
Mrs. C. C. Gilbert. Miss Lil Pen
nington will have charge of music
and expression department. A
Commercial course has been add
ed to the school and young men
and women wishing to take a
commercial course should avail
themselves of the opportunity,
thereby elimnating the expense
of leaving home.
Owen-Simpson.
Miss Florrie Owen and Mr. C.
J. Simpson were united in mar
riage at Flippen Sunday morning.
Rev. Mr. Rowden pronounced the
words that made them one.
Mrs. Simpson is the daughter
of Rev. George* W. Owen, of
Flippen district, and is a popular
and charming young lady, with a
wide circle of friends who wish
her life’s best blessings.
Mr. Simpson is the agent of the
telegraph company st Flippen
and is genial and competent man in
the business and social world. His
many friends are congratulating
him upon winning such an at
tractive bride.
Rawls-McGarity.
Miss Allie Rawls and Mr. Joe
McGarity were married Sunday
afternoon at the residence of Rev.
J. A. Jackson near Bethany, the
latter performing the ceremony.
The bride is daughter of Mr.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday September i, 1911.
J. H. Rawls, of Tussahaw district
and is a bright and attractive
young lady with many friends
throughout the county whose
best wishes she has in the happy
event.
Mr. McGarity is a son of Mr.
Mit McGarily, of McMullen’s dis
trict, and is one of the county’s
most clever and capable farmers.
His many friends are congraulat
ing him on his good fortune.
McDonough Has Much
Inventive Talent.
Two of McDonough’s young men
have become inventors of useful
things, which they are about to
have patented and put on the
market.
Mr. David Wall has originated
a contrivance to register the out
put of a typewriter by registering
the number of words written au
tomatically, without any other ef
fort on the operator’s part than
the usual work of operating the
typewriter. It is a very ingenuous
arrangement and should prove
useful as well.
Mr. Ben Bankston has invented
a pair of tools which remove the
tire and replace the same on an
automobile in a marvelously short
time. With these two simple im
plements in his tool box, the auto
mobilist no longer need have such
a dread of punctures, as he can
repair them very quickly with
this new invention.
We hope that these two inven
tors will reap a fortune from their
brain products and incidentally
bring some fame to their native
town in so doing.
Mrs. Anne Bonner
Called by Death.
Mrs. Anne Bonner passed away
at her home in Rockdale county
Monday morning at 7 o’clock. She
was 82 years of age when she
died.
Mrs. Bonner was the widow of
the late John Bonner and posses
sed many friends in this and Rock
dale county, who will sorrow to
hear of her death.
The funeral and interment were
at the family burial ground in
Rockdale county Tuesday morning,
the Rev. A. C. Elliott officiating.
Moved But Still Pressing.
I wish to state to my many
friends and customers that I have
had to remove from my former
location in the Farmers Union
Building, and am now located in
the servant house in the rear of
the place formerly occupied by
Mr. Wade Turner on depot street.
I shall call on the people in town
regularly for their work and
shall appreciate a continuance of
the fine trade which the good
white people of McDonough have
given me. Let me do your pressing,
cleaning,dyeing and repairing. Old
clothes made to look like new
With thanks for your kindness I
am
Yours respectfully,
J. P. Powell.
Miss Nell Hendrix, who has been
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. H. S.
Williams, returned to her home at
Waverly Hall Thursday.
MCDONOUGH HAS THE
BUILDING HABIT,
McDonough Continues to Grow
Very Rapidly and New Build
ings Continue to go up
Almost Daily.
Mr. Ed goodwill has broken
ground and begun to lay brick on
a fine new brick stable building
immediately in the rear of
Lemon Brothers' garage. As
soon as this is completed so as to
allow him to vacate his present
Iviery stable, Mr. Goodwin will
pull down the wooden stable
buildings next door to the Ingram
building and erect a brick build
ing for store purposes in its
place.
Mr. J. V. Upchurch has ordered
the material for a large new
brick store building to go up im
mediately to the east of Mr.
Goodwin’s new stables just begun.
The Farmers’ and Merchants’
Bank have almost completed
their new bank building next
door to Mr. T. J. Patterson’s
store.
The old First National Bank
location is practically completed,
and work will begin in a few days
on making a modern bank build
ing of the present location of the
Horton Drug Company to be oc
cupied by the First National
Bank.
The Walker- Bowden Company
and The Variety Store have mov
ed into the new building erected
in place of the Walker buildings
which were burned.
McDonough has just begun to
grow. Watch her grow.
LOCUST GROVE INSTITUTE
FORCED TO ENLARGE
Enrollment for the Coming Year
Greater than Accommodations
And Enlargement to begin
At Once.
Locust Grove Institute opens
its fall term next Tuesday, the sth
instant, as will be seen by
reference to its advertisement
elsewhere in this issue.
Professor Gray, the institution’s
brainy and resourceful president,
informs The Weekly that the
school is sure to have the largest
attendance in its history. The
number of applications already on
file is greater than the rooms
now available for the students
and makes immediate enlarge
ment of the domitories imperative.
This work will begin at once and
be ready in a very short time.
When it is completed, it will make
this school the equal of any se
condary school in this section of
the country in accommodations,
as it has heretofore been in thor
oughness and efficiency.
Locust Grove and Henry county
are to be congratulated on possess
ing such an excellent institution
of learning and the institution is
to be congratulated on possessing
such an excellent board of trustees
and president and faculty as have
brought it up to the present high
standard of usefulness and
success.
At the opening on the sth Dr.
Chas. W. Daniel, of the First
Baptist Church of Atlanta, will
make the opening address.
26 HURT IN WRECK
AT MCDONOUGH.
Passenger Train 29 Split
Switch Here Sunday Night.
, The Southern passenger train
No. 29, from Columbus, was
wrecked in the yards near the
McDonough depot Sunday night
at 10 o’clock. The injured pass
engers numbered 26, several of
whom were Henry county people,
the majority being Atlanta people.
The cause of the accident was
a split switch. The switch at the
south end of the yards had been
left unlocked and was thrown
open by the train after the engine
had passed.
As the negro car left the track,
followed by the first class car
the former crashed into a freight
car, tearing itself to pieces and
demolishing one end of the
freight car.
A special train was made up
here and proceeded with the
passengers to Atlanta.
It is reported that none of the
injured were seriously hurt.
Conductor H. N. Ward and
Engineer Tom Gay were in
charge of the train.
Revival at Union Church.
A meeting of growing interest
is in progress this week at Union
church, in Rockdale county. Rev.
Charlie Tillman is preaching to
crowded houses and great good is
being done. On Sunday, Sept. 3,
there will be three services with
lunch at noon. Everybody invited.
The music and song features are
attracting the people. Come and
be with us. W. 0. Butler,
Pastor.
Mr. Parks Wise Has First Bale.
Mr. T. P. * Wise, of Lovejoy,!
brought to McDonough its first
bale of this season’s cotton Mon
day afternoon. The bale weighed
486 pounds and was sold to Mr
J. C. Harris for eleven and three
fourths cents per pound.
Though Mr. Wise now lives in
Clayton county, Henry still claims
him because of his excellent past
in Henry county, and the cotton
was good old Henry cotton, raised
on his farm in the Sixth district.
Mr. Wise knows how to farm
and makes a good and paying crop
every year.
In Memmory of
William Hampton Tarpley.
Whereas, on the 16th day of
May, 1911, our Heavenly father
saw proper to remove from his
earthly home, church and com
munity, our brother in Christ,
William Hampton Tarpley.
Resolved, that our church has
lost a valuable member, and the
last of the original constituents
of this church, which was consti
tuted in 1855.
Brother Tarpley was married to
Miss Mattie Aiken, to whom were
born four daughters and three
sons: Mrs. Etta Elexander, deceas
ed, Mrs. Lilia Bright, of McDon-)
ough, Mrs. Ada Elexander. Mrs. s
Clara Barnett, and Mr. Marcellous
Tarpley, deceased, Linton Tarpley
and J. M. Tarpley, of Hampton.
Brother Tarpley was born in
Oglethorpe county on the 7th day
of May 1832, and united with the
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MISS BREWER AND
MR. BANKSTON MARRY.
Popular and Well Known Mc-
Donough People Surprise
Their Friends.
Miss Mattie Brewer and Mr.
James Bankston were united in
marrage Tuesday afternoon in
Atlanta. The wedding was a
pleasent surprise to the friends of
the happy couple, as only a few
relatives and friends were ap
prised of their intentions, when
they left McDonough Tuesday
morning for Atlanta.
Mrs. Bankston is a charming
young lady of Griffin formerly
but for several years a resident
of McDonough, where she has
made many friends. She is a
lovable young lady who will
bless the new home over which
she presides.
Mr. Bankston is a son of the
late Joel Bankston and of Mrs.
Joel Bankston, and is one ©f the
most interprising and capable
young business men of our city.
He is the proprietor of the Mc-
Donough Bottting Works and en
joys a large patronage for the
products of the same.
Army Worm Raids Henry County.
The destructive army worm has
j pitched his camp in Henry county
and is rapidly devastating some of
I our finest cotton fields. It first
I appeared in Judge Paul Turner’s
field Saturday and has now spread
over considerable territory.
The fields where the worm has
traversed have lost probably half
of the maturing fruit and its rapid
movement, if continued, will soon
complete the conquest of this
county, fully entitling it to its war
ike na me.
Baptist church at an early age
was ordained a deacon in Liberty
Hill church Oct. 16th 1875. Be
cause of affliction, Brother Tarpley
was deprived of the opportunity
of attending divine worship at his
church, during the last five years
of his life, but he is now at rest
in the Paradise of God, where he
knows no pains or sorrow, to
await the coming of those he left
behind.
We extend to his bereaved
widow, children and relatives our
deepest sympathy.
“In my Father’s House are
many munsions; I go to prepare
a place for you, that where I am
there ye may be also.”
Newton Barnett,
J. S. Barnett,
S. M. Coker,
Committee.
A. S. Ulm, Pastor.
Miss Walker Hostess.
Miss Ruby Walker entertained
at dominoes last Friday afternoon
for Miss Anna Riviere,the guest of
Miss Lucy Reagan.
Miss Walker was assisted in en
tertaining by her sister, Mrs. Wil
lie Turner.
Iced grape juice was served be
fore the game and an ice course
at the conclusion.
Her guests numbered seventeen.
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