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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1912)
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. $i A Year
