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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXVII
PROFESSOR ADAMSON
WEDS M!SS COLBERT.
Former Member of L. G. I.
Faculty Wins West
Virginia Bride.
The following concerning the
marriage of Professor W. A.
Adamson is copied from a Hunt
ington, W. Va., paper. Professor
Adamson was until recently con
nected with the Locust Grove In
stitute and his many friends in
Henry County will be interested
in reading it.
A June wedding of rare beauty
was that of Wednesday evening,
the twelfth, at the home of Mrs.
Ada Colbert, on Sixth avenue,
when Miss Ada Rebecca Colbert
became the bride of Mr. William
Augustus Adamson, of Atlanta, Ga.
This being the month of roses,
a lovely profusion of pink
Killarney variety decorated the
various apartments, while the din
ing table was ornamented with a
centerpiece of bride’s roses, and
the blossoms throughout the
house were handsomely set off by
an artistic arrangement of ferns
and southern smilax. About
seventy-five guests, including the
relatives and the immediate friends
of the family, assembled at the ap
pointed hour, and were admitted
at the door by Miss Margaret
Neale, daintily attired in a summer
frock with pink butterfly bows.
The music preceding the marriage
consisted of love melodies played
very charmingly by Miss Mac-
George, and the grand old solo,
“0 Promise Me,” sung by Mrs. C.
E. Haworth, with Mr. Authur
Hurlin playing the accompani
ment. Promptly at eigkt thirty
o’clock, the first notes of the
wedding march were rendered by
Miss Mac George, and the bridal
party, consisting of Miss Colbert,
Mr. Adamson, and Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Mason, Jr., of Fairmont,
as the matron of honor, and best
man, entered the drawing-room,
to be met by the Rev. Newton
Donaldson, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, who per
formed the ceremony, using the
ring service, that is much admired.
A grouping of palms and ferns,
dotted effectively with Dink roses,
made an alluring background for
the wedding party, and contrast
ed richly with the lovely evening
gowns of the bride and her mat
ron of honor. Miss Colbert, who
is a bright and charming girl, was
attired in white satin, exquisitly
trimmed with real lace, pearls,
and orange blossoms, over which
was gracefully draped the bridal
veil, caught with a cluster of or
ange blossoms while her bouquet
was a shower of white sweet peas.
The matron of honor, Mrs. John
W. Mason, Jr., sister of the bride,
wore a becoming costume of white
satin and lace, and carried a
beautiful bunch of pink sweet
peas. Following the ceremony,
came the delightful reception,
during which delicious frappe and
buffet luncheon refreshed the
guests. The agreeable aids about
the home were Mrs. E. C. Carter,
Mrs. John Steenbergen, Mrs. Rudd
T. Neal, Misses Naidine Buck, Vir
ginia Foulk, Ellen Skene, Grace
Felton, and Elizabeth Carter, and
among the several house-guests
from a distance, were Mrs. John
McDonough, Georgia, Friday june2B, 1912.
W. Mason, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Mason, Jr., of Fairmont, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry G. Fields, and
others, of Hampton, Georgia. The
bride’s going away costume was
of dark blue cloth, fashionably
tailored, with French bodice, hat
and gloves en suite. After a
honeymoon tour of a faw weeks,
Mr. and Mrs. Adamson will return
to Huntington for a brief sojourn
before leaving for the east, where
Mr. Adamson, who is a Southern
er af splendid ability, is to have a
a chair at Cornell University dur
ing the coming year. The return
of the bride to Huntington will be
a pleasure to her wide circle of
friends, among whom she is re
garded with much favor because
of her sunny nature, and wonder
ful sweetness of manner. Mr.
and Mrs. Adamson expect to take
up their future residece in Ithaca,
New York, where the many gifts
received will make a pretty addi
tion to their home. The wedding
last evening has been pronounced
one of the most attractive of the
season and will be counted as a
leading event of the summer.
Happy Happenings.
Well, the farmers have had one
week of dry weather and nearly
everybody is through chopping
cotton. Crops *re looking fine in
some places. Mr. J. T. Stanfield
has the finest crop of anybody in
this locality.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Banks and
their daughter, Miss Nettie, visited
Mr. and Mrs. Will Pendley, of
Macon, and Mr. J. T. Wallace, of
Byron, Friday night, Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mrs. Ludie Dorsey and her
mother, Mrs. Doster, of Boling
broke, visited Mr. and Mrs. John
Dorsey Friday night.
Misses Susie, Ula and Jewel
Stanfeld and Bennie Maud Dorsey
and Nettie Banks visited Mr. and
Mrs. H. F. Stanfield, of Sunny
Side, last Saturday night’and Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Callaway, of
Hampton, Miss Mamie Crawford,
of Dothan, Ala., and Mr. Davis,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Stanfield Sunday,
Well, Mr. McVicker, we are glad
to have you join our band of
writers. We feel assured now
that we will always find something
worth reading when we get our
paper.
The little infant of Mr. Miles
Campbell was buried at Liberty
Hill last Sunday at 11 o’clock,
Rev. J. E. England conducting the
funeral services.
Pearl.
Parker-Smith.
Miss Elizabeth Parker was mar
ried to Mr. Joel Smith, of East
Point, at the home of the bride’s
mother, Mrs. Lawson, at Green
wood, on Sunday afternoon, June
16th, at 3:30 o’clock. The Rev
Olin King officiated.
Mrs. Smith is an attractive and
popular young lady of Henry
county, with many friends who
are extending to her their best
wishes.
Mr. Smith is a prominent and
capable young business man of
East Point.
HON. H. M. FLETCHER RUNS
FOR SOLICITOR GENERAL
Judge of City Court of Jackson
Announces in The
Weekly.
This issue of The Weekly con
tains the announcement of the
Hon. Henry M. Fletcher, of Jack
son, for the office of Solicitor-
General of the Flint circuit.
Judge Fletcher is at present
Judge of the City Court of Jack
son and is one of the best known
and most popular young lawyers
in the Flint circuit. He was edu
cated in the country schools of
Butts county and at the North
Georgia Agricultural College.
After teaching in the Jackson In
stitute for two years and Gordon
Institute at Bartlesville for nine
years, he spent one year at the
University Law School at Athena,
graduating with first honor in the
class of 1902.
He was twice elected mayor of
Jackson, having resigned that
office last fall to accept the judge
ship of the newly created city
court of Jackson.
As an official he has always
shown himself able and consci
entious. As a man, he is always
affable and pleasant in his dealings
with all.
He would make an excellent
prosecuting officer.
Judge Fletcher has a number
of relatives and friends in Henry
county, and wfli no doubt run a
strong race here.
Country Editor is
Called a Prophet.
Pardon us, but we may, and
maybe justly so, be left out of
what follows, but it has always
struck us that the truism about
“prophets not being without honor,
save in their own countries” is no
more applicable to any class ot
people than to the editors of what
are known as country papers.
We do know that while they are
not always held in higli estimate at
home that among people who are
aware of what they are or must
be to fill the high positions their
callings call for they are put upon
high pedesiais of good opinion.
For instance we copy below
some things a western editor, ana
he at the head of one of the big
daily papers, had recently to say
of his less famed and more highly
important brothers of the country
press:
“The country editor is coming
to his own; God bless him, ana
may his tribe increase. It was
Thomas Jefterson who said that
he would rather live in a country
with newspapers and without a
government, than to live in a
country without newspapers al
tnough it had a government. Ev
ery editor is a torch-bearer. He
spreads the light of intelligence
and the army of the editors illu
minate the world. Every editoi
is a preacher and a teacher ana
public benefactor.
“I have a special word of sin
cere praise for the country editor.
The big city papers have become
tremendous enterprises, requiring
enormous and almost fabulous
capital to finance them. Only ex
tremely rich men can own the
big city papers. Monopolists gen
erally control them. They often
use them to advance their selfish
interests, which are uniformly
against the best interests of the
public. Thus the big city papers
become merely tools in the hands
of greeu and special privilege.
They forget their sacred duty to
the public. They lose sight of the
true mission of newspaper work.
“The real writers of the editori
als and the stories are not known
to the people. They are con
cealed in the dark. They are
generally mere hired meu doing
the laborious and distasteful work
of drudges. They sell their indi
viduality to their employers. They
are oittimes ordered to distort’and
to mangle the truth, and to mur
der the facts, and they do it. The
big papers are too often the blud
geon which the predatory inter
ests use to first rob the people of
the consciousness and then ot
Lieir wealth. Their work is anon
ymous. When they attack a man
they shoot from ambush. They
are craven, soulless, mean, sordid
and sometimes thoroughly un
scrupulous and unclean in their
methods.
“This is not so with the country
editor. He is known to his con
stituency. He must tell the truth.
He loses his business if he flunks.
He cannot dodge responsibility.
He loses the respect of his fellow
men if he does. He must be fair,
and he must run a decent sheet.
He cannot last if he fails in this.
The yellow sheets in small towns
are few and far between, and
short-lived. Hence, country edi
tors are as a rule extremely con
scientious, public spirited, patri
otic, tair, truth-loving and truth
telling men, attentive to business,
ready to help every worthy enter
prise and to expose every fraud;
ready to help the needy, the sick,
and the distressed in their towns.
“I make exception of the black
mailers, who butt into the profes
sion once in a while and occasion
ally, and particularly with ephem
eral and erratic campaign sheets.
Those are notj&wspaper men at
all. We do not own them. We
repudiate them.
“The country editors know
more about the conditions of the
people in their respective commun
ities than anybody else in them,
i'iiey are approached more for
help. They en.,oy more confi
dences and betray fewer. They
have the milk oi human kindness
in their souls. They are nearly
always good citizens and good
neighbors. They are broad and
magnanimous. They are scholars.
They are authorities on all sub
jects, irom baseball, and circuses,
and moving picture shows, to re
ligion, politics and metaphysics.
1 salute the country editors. —Lex-
ington Echo
Mrs. Williams and little daugh
ter, Francis, visited Atlanta last
week.
Misses Blanche Wentzell and An
nie Lemon spent Monday in At
lanta.
Mrs. J. W. Alexander and Mr.
rnd Mrs. A. K. Brown will leave
m July 11th for Wrightsvilie
Beach.
Mr. Foley was the guest of Mr.
iordon Dickson Friday.
Misses Woodliff and McKnight,
af Atlanta, are the guests ot Mrs.
P. B. Cheek.
MR. J. H. GARNER SENDS
SEASON S FIRST BLOOM.
One of Beersheha 9i« + -’ _ v jS t
Farmers Se,w ..My Ear
liest Cotton Bloom for
This Year.
Mr. J. H. Garner, of Route" 6,
has sent us the first cotton bloom
of the season. He states that he
found it on Friday, the 21st in
stant; that it was a pink bloom,
and grew in his field and not of
some garden stalk.
Mr. Garner is one of Henry
county’s best and most industri
ous farmers and always makes ex
cellent crops. We are satisfied
that this year will be a repetition'
of his former successes, and he
vvill make even better crops this
year.
This first bloom shows that Mr.
Garner does not lag behind with
iiis work, but is always on time or
ahead of time.
New Telephone Directory Out
Today.
The manager of the B.:il Tele
phone Company is urging lupon
telephone users the importance of
calling by number instead of by
lame. It is stated that when tele
phone calls are made by name ii
results in delay and confusion, be
cause operators cannot remember
the telephone numbers of a large
number of people.
In a modern telephone exchange
operators are changed from time
.o time, and under their training
hey deal only with telephone
lumbers. The rules of the Tele
phone Company prbvide that calk
>hall be made by number, and a
correct listing of all numbers ap
pears in the Telephone Directory.
In small communities where the
operators know every one, it has
sometimes been a local custom for
people to call by name and get
good service. However, McDon
ough has grown to such an extent
that tire operators cannot know
ihe name of every subscriber, and
•vhen calls are made by name
there is likely to be delay and an
noyance.
The manager of the Telephone
Company states that if subscribers
will adhere to the rule of calling
Dy number and consulting the di
rectory before making the call,
the service can be improved, anj
this co-operation on the part of
the subscribers will result in main
taining the service at a high state
of efficiency.
NOTICE.
Mr. D. W. Sims, General Secreta
ry Georgia Sunday-schooi Associa
tion, w 11 address a union meeting
of the Sunday-schools of McDon
ough on Sunday, July 7th at the
Methodist church, 4{. m., and at
the Baptist church at 8 p. m.
Mr. Sirns is a man of wide Sub
day-schpol experience, having hel ! d
a like position in Alabama for a
number of years. Come and let’s
get to know the man who is to
mean so much for a valued work
in our state.
A program of special interest to
j teachers, officers and workers is
being prepared.
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