The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 01, 1911, Image 8
JOHN L. GARDNER IS IN NEW YORK BUYING FALL GOODS Nowhere else in the whole country is it possible to find such a great variety of New and fashionable goods as in New York. Considering the large quantities of goods we handle, and with an experienced and successful buyer at the market, we will be able to offer our customers the latest mate rials and best values ever displayed here. Come to Locust Grove and Make GARDNER’S 'foocals. Miss Wentzell is in the Eastern markets and will return Septem ber sth with the latest effects in high class styles. Having purchas ed her stock in New York, Phila delphia and Baltimore. It will be one of the best selected stocks ever brought South. 9-1,1 Camp meeting at Shingle-roof came to a close last night (Thurs day), and the meetings were most successful in every way. A number of very fine sermons were preached by Dr. Eakes, Dr. Jones and other ministers. Mrs. John Treadwell, of Jack sonville, Fla., is the guest of her aunt. Mrs. E. J. Reagan. lam again selling fine fresh meats, always on hand from this date. W. O. Welch, McDonough, Ga. 9-1,2. Miss Minnie Forester is expect ed to arrive in a few days to take charge of the millinery depart ment of the Copeland-Turner Mercantile Co. Mrs. B. E. Horton has had as her guests this week Misses Myrtle and Leila Cook, of College Park, and Misses Stansell, and Stella Williams, of Atlanta. Mr. Tommie Tolleson left Mon day for Fayetteville, where he and Mr. Lum Ingram have gone into the drug business. Miss Ruth Walker spent last week in Atlanta. For Sale. —Mrs. W. E. Ham’s home place, 5-room house and 7 acres of land, more or less. Ap ply to T. A. Sloan, McDonough, Ga. Judge E. J. Reagan, of Mc- Donough, former judge of the Flint circuit, was in the city yes terday on the way to Forsyth to attend Monroe superior court. — Tuesday’s Griffin News. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bankston and Mr. Joel Bankston attended the Brewer-Bankston wedding in Atlanta Tuesday. Mr. and M:s. J. T. Leek and Mrs. Taylor and Miss Taylor, of Atlanta, were the guests of Mr. Will King Sunday and attended camp meeting at Shingle-roof. Mr. Reuben B rry was the guest of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Berry Sunday and also at tended the camp meeting. Mr. C. A. McKibben, of Atlanta, was greeting his host of friends here for several days this week. Mr. Will Baker, who was one of the operators here for the Western Union Telegraph Com pany for several years, has accept ed a better position at Jackson ville, Florida. His many friends in McDonough regret his depart ure from our city. Mr. W. W. Teasley, of Dalton, spent the week end here as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dick son. 100 Cotton Baskets, Hamp Long make, for Sale by Planters’ Warehouse 8- 4. and Lumber Company. The Rev. T. J. Bledsoe, of Brox ton, is the guest of relatives and friends in and near McDonough. Mr. Boyd Carmichael leaves Tuesday for College Park, where he will enter the Georgia Military Academy. He has given an early order for The Weekly, so that it will come to him right from the start. For Sale. —Good farm 5 miles west of McDonough. Same dis tance to Hampton, and Lovejoy. 1 mile to Mt. Carmel church. 200 yards of best school in county. Part of Willis Copeland place. J. B. Pritchett, R. F. D. 3. McDonough, Ga. 9- 4. Professor Lawrence Duffey, of Barnesville, spent the week end in our city, and Mrs. Duffey and little Miss Sadie returned home with him Monday, after having been the guests of relatives here for some time. Professor Duffey is principal of the Agricultural School of the sixth Congressional School at Barnesville, and the prospects of the institution are flourishing and promise great progress under his able manage ment. Col. E. M. Smith, of McDonough was in the city yesterday, accom panied by his mother, who return ed to her home at Forsyth after a visit to him at McDonaugh. — Tuesday’s Griffin News. Judge F. J. Reagan attended superior court in Forsyth and Macon Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Joe M. Chaffin has bought fifty acres of land from the Hon. E. M. Smith a mile and a half from town on the Key’s Ferry road, and expects to live there next year. Home P'or Sale. —My home located on New street. Terms to suit. Apply to Mrs. Anna Weaver. McDonough, Ga. 10-13, 8. The application for charter of the McDonough Mercantile Company appears this week with a change in the name. It is changed to the McDonogh Trading Comvany. After the same had been filed and adyertised’under the former name, it was discovered that there had already been a company by that name, though now not in active business. Through abundant caution to avoid the posibility of any confusion of names, it was thought best by the incorporators to incorpora ;e under the new name of McDonough Trading Company. Prof, and Mrs. Lawrence Duffey of Barnesville, were in the city yesterday on the way home from a visit to relatives in McDonough. Mr. Duffey is superintendent of the Sixth District Agricultural School at Barnesville and says he expects a large attendance the coming term. —Tuesday’s Griffin News. The funeral and burial of Mrs. Mary E. Copeland Sunday was largely atteded by the deceased’s many friends and relatives. A full account of her death appears in the Hampton news of The Weekly. Mrs. Copeland was an aunt of Messrs. H. J. and W. G. Copeland, of this city. Mr. G. W. Morris, of Brushy Knob district, made a busines trip to McDonough Wednesday. Rev. J. H. Eakes went over to McDonough yesterday to attend Shingleroof camp meeting, near McDonough. He was accompan ied by his brother, Rev. R. F. Eakes, of Elberton, and Rev. E. M. Dixon, of Forsvth. —Tuesday’s Griffin News. Professor E. D. Gunby arrived Wednesday and everything is in readiness for the McDonough High School opening next Mon day. A large attendance and successful year are confidently expected. The full faculty was given in The Weekly a few weeks ago. Miss Bess Fouche returned yes terday from Aniston, Ala., where she has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Sloan, Mrs. Carrie Mayo, Mr, and Mrs. Will Walker, Arthur Bowden, John Turner, and Willie Turner, return ed from New York last Sunday. Miss Bessie Thomas has returned to her home in Waynes boro, after a pleasant visit to Miss Alla B. Carmichael. Rev. and Mrs. John A. Simpson and children returned home to day from Danielsville. Special prices in cut glass at P. B. Cheek’s. 9-8, 2. Mrs. Annie M. Nolan and Mr. Q. R. Nolan made a business trip to Calhoun this week. Miss Edna Stephens, from Young Harris, has returned to take her place in McDonough High School. Dr. and Mrs. Adel Scott are expected home this week from a visit to relatives in Virginia. All sizes of Kodak films at P. B. Cheek’s. 9-8,2. Miss Nine Wall spent the week at the camp ground as the guest of Miss Blake Bunn. Mr. Fred Walker spent Monday in Atlanta. Mr. Sanders Smith, of Atlanta, spent Sunday here, making the trip in his automobile. Mr. F. D. McMillan and Miss Mamie Bellingrath, of Atlanta, spent the week end with relatives here. Missess Ruby and Ruth Walker visited Atlanta Wednesday. Mr. Lamar Etheridge, of Jack son, was here Wednesday. A “good roads train,” with a number of government road ex perts on board, is scheduled to reach McDonough at 10 o’clock on the morning of Friday, the 6th day of October. We have not been informed, however, that they will build us any roads. I am temporarily located in the Masonic building. Respectfully, 9-1, 1. T, A. Lifsey. Flave your kodak films finished at P. B. Cheek’s. 9-8, 2. Mr. T. A. Sloan has returned from New York, where he went to purchase the large select stock of dry goods and millinery for T. A. Sloan & Company’s fall business. He reports that he has selected the finest line which -has ever been displayed in McDon ough, and that he bought at such a bargain that he can sell the same way and give the firm’s jnany friends unheard of bargains. 9-1, 1. For Rent. —One 3-room house on Atlanta street, now being va cated by Mrs. Elliott. Apply to A. F. Bunn, McDonough, Ga. Notice to Itebiors and Creditors. Georgia, Henry County. Notice is hereby given to all creditors of the estate of M. V. Sowell, late of said county, deceased, to render in an account of their demands to me within the time prescj ilted by law, properly made out. And ill persons indebted to said de ceased are hereby requested to make im mediate payment to the undersigned. This Tth day of August, I'.Ul. A. C. Sowell, Administrator, 9 15, 6. Estate of M. V. Sowell. Application for Charter. Georgia. Henry County. To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of C. W. Walker, Mrs. Minnie Walker, and A. M. Bowden, all residents of said State and county, respect fully shows: 1. That they desire for themselves, t.heir associates, successors and assigns to be in corporated under the name and style of “The Walker-Bowden Company.” 2. They desire to be incorporated for the period of Twenty Years, with the priv ilege of renewal at the expiration of said time. 3. The principal office and place of busi ness of said corporation shall be in the City of McDonough, said State and county, but petitioners desire the right to estab lish branch offices and places of business within this State from time to time, as may be considered for the best interest of the corporation, and to discontinue said offices and places of business whenever the directors of said corporation may see fit. 4. The object of said proposed corpora tion is pecuniary gain to itself and its stockholders. 5. The capital stock of said proposed cor, poration is Eight Thousand Dollars, which said sum has been actually paid in. They ask for the right to increase said amount of capital stock from time to time, to a maximum of Twenty Thousand Dollars, and for the right to decrease same at any time to the original amount of capital stock. Said capital stock is to be divided into shares of the par value of One Hundred Dollars per share. b. The particular business to be carried on by said proposed corporation is that of a general mercantile business, buying and selling for cash or credit, dry goods, no tions, shoes and all such articles and things as are usually embraced in the dry goods business and all such articles and things as may be profitably handled and sold in connection with the business of said proposed corporation. They usk for the right to buy and sell, for cash or cred it, groceries, hardware, buggies, wagons harness and all articles usually handled by a general mercantile establishment. 7. Petitioners ask for the right to buy sell, hold, rent, lease, convey and other wise dispose of ail kinds of property, real, personal and mixed, to take and make mortgages, deeds, and other evidences of debt, to borrow and lend money and to secure the same by mortgage, deed, or otherwise, to pledge its property or secur ities, and to provide for the payment of game. H. Petitioners ask for the right to pur chase, subscribe for,. or otherwise acquire and dispose of the shares, stocks, bonds, evidences of debt of other corporations, now organized or that may hereafter be organized under the laws of Georgia, and to hold the same with all the rights of ownership therein as is permitted to natural persons 9. Petitioners ask that said corporation have the right to sue and be sued, have and use a common seal, to plead and be impleaded, to make and execute all neces sary by-laws binding on its members, and to do all and everything that may be necessary and proper for the successful carrying on of the business contemplated, and with all such rights, powers and privileges and im munities as are incident to like corpora tions and permissible under the laws of Georgia. 10. Petitioners ask that said corporation have the power to apply for and accept amendments to its charter, to liquidate its affairs and wind up its business when ever it may desire. \\ herefore petitioners pray that they be made a body corporate, under the name and style aforesaid, with the powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth, and such others as are now or may hereafter be allowed corporations under the laws of Georgia, and subject to the lia bilities fixed by laws of said State. E. M. Smith, Petitioners' Attorneys. Georgia, Henry County: I, J. A. Fouche, Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said county, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the application filed in this office by C. W. walker and others to be incorporated as ‘ The Walker- Bowden Company,” as will appear from the records of file in this office. Given under my hand and seal of office this 39th day of August, 1911. J. A. Fouche, 9-32,4. C. S. C\ H. C. Ga.