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THE HENRY
COUNTY WEEKLY
FRANK KKAI.AN, Editor.
Entered at the postoffiaout McDonough,
Ga., as second-class mall matter.
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Warning. No statements purporting
to come from The Henry County Weekly
are genuine unless they have written on
their face the signature of Frank Reagan,
Editor, or are presented by him in person.
Any person receiving such a statement
will please notify Frank Reagan, Editor,
McDonough, Georgia.
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Sept. 1, 1911.
WHEN A LOTTERY
IS NOT A LOTTERY
This Is a Prizeless and Hope
less Contest.
LAWYERS CANNOT SOLVE IT.
And Even Uncle Sam, Who Ought to
Be Familiar, Has Precisely Different
Rulings Handed Down on Precisely
Similar Questions.
That most puzzling of puzzlesome
questions, “Just exactly what Is Un
cle Sam’s idea of a lottery?” Is an
swered by Outer F. Doud In Judicious
Advertising as follows:
And he cites these two particular
cases;
Before venturing your craft on
such uncertain waters send it to
the attorney general at Washing
ton for a test of its seaworthiness.
In this way you will avoid a
visit from postoffice inspectors
and perhaps a great deal of ex
pensive and unnecessary litiga
tion.
“At a recent business show held in
the east a manufacturer purchased
several tons of heavy wire, stretched
it from floor to roof and promised a
considerable prize to the man who
guessed nearest to its weight. A pro
fessor of mathematics examined the
wire, lenmed the exact height of the
building and, of course, found no dif
ficulty in giving the correct answer.
“Yet the courts held that this was a
lottery when it was really a question
of simple arithmetic.
“A merchant in an Ohio town made
the experiment of a guessing contest
with a quart Mason jar of white navy
beans. The visitor comes along, sees
the jar of beans, writes his estimate
of the number of individual beans in
the jar. and the one who makes the
closest guess is winner of the grand
prize.
“He put the jar in his show window.
6ent out letters to his patrons announc
ing the event and prepared to profit
by the advertising. An envious com
petitor reported the matter to postal
officials, and the progressive merchant
was haled into court and tried for vio
lation of the lottery statutes.
“It was finally decided that the ad
vertiser was guiltless on the grounds
that the beans were contained in a
quart mason jar and that all navy
beans were of exact dimensions, and
hence it was not a guessing contest
at all. but merely a matter of mathe
matics."
Whereupon the puzzlesome question
becomes more puzzlesome than ever.
Now. here is the governmental view
of a lottery:
Any proposition involving the
element of chance in connection
with the awarding of prizes in
which a consideration is requir
ed of contestants. The constit
uent elements of a lottery or
other scheme of chance as de
fined by the authorities are (1)
consideration, (2) chance, (3)
prize.
And here are two cases and two de
clsions. You may take your pick with
out any fear of coming under the ban
of the United States laws.
A certain newspaper out west of
fered some gold coin prizes for win
ning numbers on calendars sent out by
it through the mails. It asked for the
purchase of its daily issue for seven
days at a cost of 10 cents. Then if
the number on a calendar correspond
fcd with a number printed at tfae
Application for Charter.
Georgia. Henry County.
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petititionof .1 T. Sowell, J. M. Car
michael and W. E. Russell, of Henry
County, said State, and J. P. Etheridge,
of Butts county, state-,' respectfully
shows:
First. That they desire for themselves,
their associates, successors and assigns,
to become incorporated under the name
and style of the
“McDonough Trading- Company.”
Second. The term for which petition
ers ask to be incorporated is twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal at the end
of that time.
Third. The capital stock of the corpo
ration is to be fifteen thousand dollars,
divided into shares of one hundred dol
lars each by a majority vote of said
stock. Petitioners ask, however, the
privilege of increasing said capital stock,
at any time, to any amount not to exceed
thirty thousand dollars in the aggregate.
Fourth, The object of the proposed cor
poration is pecuniary profit and gain to
its Mock holders. Petitioners propose to
carry on a general merchandise business
and to deal in Dry Goods, Notions, Cloth
ing, Hats, Shoes, Groceries; buying and
selling for cash or on credit all such ar
ticles and things as may be profitably
handled and sold in connection therewith;
acting as general or special agents for
other persons or companies in selling or
handling any articles or class of articles
appropriate to the general merchandise
business or usually or conveniently con
nected therewith, and to exercise the
usual powers and to do all usual, neces
sary and proper acts which pertain to or
may be connected with the general mer
chandise business.
Fifth. Petitioners ask for the privilege
to have and use a common seal, to buy,
hold, lease, rent, sell and convey any kind
of real estate, to make or take security
for any Indebtedness, and for such secu.
ity to execute or receive deeds, mortgages,
collateral, or any lawful security, and to
pass such by-laws and rules as may be
necessary for the government of said cor
poration not inconsistent with the laws of
this State.
Sixth. The principal office and place of
business of the proposed corporation will
be in the City of McDonough, county and
state aforesaid.
Wherefore petioners pray to be made a
body corporate under the name and style
aforesaid,entitled to th*' rights, privileges
and immunities, and subject to the liabil
ities fixed by law.
Brown & Rrown,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Georgia, Henry County.
I. J. A. Fouche, Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the original petition for Charter
of the “McDonouerh Trading Com
pany” as appears of file in said office.
Witness my official signature and seal
of said Court, this August 21, 1911.
9 22, 4. J. A. Fouche, Clerk.
of the first page of the paper each day
the fortunate holder could trip lightly
to the newspaper office and get any
where from $5 to SSO In shining gold
coin.
The postal authorities promptly leap
ed into the middle of that contest and
brought it to a quick close. The legal
talent employed by the newspaper
maintained that the first element of a
lottery, consideration, was missing,
inasmuch as subscribers were buying
the paper and not a chance in the
drawing.
Finally, however, it was decided that
there was a consideration in the work
done by contestants in advertising the
paper and by personally carrying the
winning calendars to the office for re
deinption.
A shoe merchant in Denver placed
a piano conspicuously in his show’ win
dow and advertised it in the newspa
pers and by letter.
Every customer registering at the
store or sending a stamped and self
addressed envelope received a num
bered card which entitled him to a
chance in the drawing.
The supreme court of Colorado held
that there was no consideration paid
for the card and hence the scheme was
uot a lottery.
The court adds:
“The fact that such a chance or card
given away to induce persons to visit
their store with the expectation that
they might purchase goods and there
by increase their trade is a benefit too
remote to constitute a consideration
for chance.”
Here are two rulings on the question
of consideration at variance with each
other.
As we graciously observed before,
“Take your pick.”
Royal Humor.
The late King Leopold 11. of Bel
gium once made a quick answer to a
radical deputy who had said of the
king that he would make an admira
ble president of a republic.
“Really?” replied the king, with his
most ingenuous air. "Really? Do you
know. I think I shall pay a compli
ment in your style to my physician.
Dr. Thirier. who is coming to see me
presently. 1 shall say. “Thirier, you
are a great doctor, and 1 think you
would make an excellent veterinary
surgeon.’ "
SOCIETY.
Miss Sowell Hostess.
On Saturday evening Miss Ethel
Sowell was hostess to her friends
at a pretty evening party.
The veranda and lawn were
bright with lanterns.
Punch was served on the ve
randa.
There were a great many at
tractive visitors present who ad
ded pleasure to the evening.
The guests were served to an
iced course late in the evening.
Miss Alla B. Carmichael Hostess.
Miss Alla B. Carmichael was
hostess Thursday afternoon to a
number of friends, as a compli
ment to her guest, Miss Bessie
Thomas, of Waynesboro.
“42” was enjoyed. Iced tea and
cake were served by Misses Ruth
and Esther Carmichael, who later
served cream and cake also.
The guests numbered twenty.
Miss Carmichael Hostess.
On last Friday evening Miss
Alla B. Carmichael most delight
fully entertained for her house
guest, Miss Thomas.
Punch was served on the spac
ious veranda by Misses Ruth and
Esther Carmichael.
A memory contest was enjoyed,
the guests being shown into a
room where there was a large ta
ble covered with some hundred
articles. The object was to re
member what was there and write
them down.
Miss Thomas won the first prize,
a box of Nunnally’s candy,and Mr.
Gordon Dixon the booby, a large
stick of red candy.
Music and conversation made
the evening pass very rapidly.
Cream and cake were served.
About thirty enjoyed Miss Car
michael’s hospitality.
Miss Lowe Hostess.
A delightful affair of the week
was the party Wednesday evening
given by Miss Hattie Sue Lowe,
for her house guests, who were
Misses Lemmie Simms and Laurie
Benning, of Atlanta, Margaret Pol
hill, of Hawkinsville; Messrs. John
Reynolds, of Atlanta, and Harry
Turner, of Gainesville.
Punch was served under the
trees on the lawn. Music, conver
sation, and cards were enjoyed
until a late hour, when an iced
course was served.
The guests numbered about
thirty.
Why Repine?
Why. why repine, my pensive friend,
At pleasure slipt away?
Some the stern fates will never lend
And all refuse to stay.
I see the rainbow In the sky,
The dew upon the grass.
I see them, and 1 ask not why
They glimmer or they pass.
With folded-arms I linger not
To call them back; ’twere vain.
In this or in some other spot
I know they’ll shine again.
—W. S. Dander.
A Phenomenon.
He was an odd character about town.
He was known as Tommy and was
tolerated because of his quaint ways.
Tommy got pneumonia and had a long
siege in the hospital, where they treat
ed him so well that he was much
averse to the prospect of being dis
charged as "cured.”
One day the doctor in charge was
taking his temperature, and while
Tommy had the thermometer In his
mouth the doctor moved on and hap
pened to turn his back. Tommy saw
his chance. He pulled the thermome
ter out of his mouth and popped it Into
a cup of hot tea, replacing it in his
mouth at the first sign of the medico
turning.
When that worthy examined the
thermometer he jumped a foot, looked
at Tommy, then back to the thermom
eter and finally gasped:
“Well, my man. you’re not dead, but,
by Jove, you ought to be!”
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MCDONOUGH, GA.
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