l lie Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXVII
TAX RECEIVER WALLACE
GIVES TAX RETURNS.
Efficient Henry County Official
Furnishes Weekly with
1912 Returns by
District?.
Henry Counfy possesses $3,784,
950 worth of taxable property.
This is shown by the 1912 returns
of Tax Receiver J. H. Wallace, of
which he has kindly supplied The
Weekly with a summary.
We give below the property
values of the separate districts of
the county as shown by the tax
returns of the white and colored
property owners.
Receiver Wallace has done
excellent work in securing the
returns and showing a good in
crease over last year. If he keeps
up his good work, it may be
possible in a few years to in
crease our expenditures for im
provements and yet reduce the
tax levy.
The list is given herewith:
District White
McDonough 1,072,531
Hampton 638,643
Sixth 115,440
Flippen 80,866
Stockbridge 238,566
Shakerag 68,008
Brushy Knob 105,652
Loves 194,287
McMullen’s 108,306
Beersheba 120,012
Sandy Ridge 112,778
Tussahaw 121,668
Locust Grove 424,004
Lowes 129,161
Total 3,529,922
NEWSPAPER SUPPORT.
A newspaper if it has any brains
conscience and muscle back of it,
must continually decide between
doing its duty and injuring its
pocket. In any position but that
of an editor, the public is able to
separate the indivual home from
the collective -citizen. But if an
editor does not please them, at
at his pocket they aim. Thus it is
the newspapers learn who their
friends are. The man who reads
the newspaper and admires it all
the year around, yet gives his
business support to some other
concern, whose principles or the
actions of the editor he detests, is
not a friend to the former news
paper. Admiration alone will not
run a newspaper. There are too
many men who expect an editor
to slave in defence of their pet
notions and hobbies, advocate
their views against the strongest
opposition and cooly withhold the
business support by which alone
a country newspaper can live.
Talk about a paper having a
public duty to perform, and an
editor having to work for his
principies, i% cheap when others
stand back and extend a lukewarm
neutrality. The result is the ed
itor may starve while laboring for
his principles and the cause of
right and justice, which they ad
mire but do not support. —Ex
Scholarship in an Atlanta Busi
ness College for sale cheap at The
Weekly office.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday august 23, 1912.
MISS VERA VARNOM
HEARS DEATH'S CALL
Popular Eastman Young
Lady Died At Stock
bridge Last
week.
Miss Vera Varnom died at 7
o’clock on Thursday morning of
last week at the home of her
uncle, Mr. John Wilkerson, at
Stockbridge.
Miss Varnom lived in Eastman
and was on a visit to her uncle’s
home when death called her.
She was just 21 years of age and
was an excellent and attractive
young lady, with hosts of friends
who will mourn her early going
away.
The remains were carried to
Eastman Friday morning, where
the funeral and interment occur
ed.
Miss Varnom is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Var
nom, of Eastman.
Colored Total
58,389 1,130,920.
32,829 671,472.
11,247 „ 126,687.
14,169 95,035.
19,791 258,357.
8,304 76,312.
6,033 111,685.
9,490 203,777.
9,895 118,201.
7,757 127,769.
13,126 125,904.
11,634 133,302.
27,481 451,485.
24,946 154,107.
255,028 3,784,950.
Eat English Sparrows.
“Cook a mess of English spar
rows,” advised the argicultural de
partment as a means of combat
ting the high cost of living, in the
farmers’ bulletin No. 493, issu e
Monday. The department says tie
birds are equal to quail as deli
cacies, which is the only redeem
ing feature to a long list of nui
sances of which they are accused
in the bu'letin,
“English sparrows are good to
eat and their use is recommended
as food because of their nutritive
value and as a means of reducing
their number,” says the bulletin.
“They have bee" utilized for,
food in the old world for centu
ries. Their flesh is palatable and,
though their bodies are small,
their numbers fully compensate
for their lack of size. Birds that
have been trapped may be kept
alive in large out door cages, shel
tered from storms and cold winds,
until they are wanted for the
table.
“To kill mercifully a sparrow
that has been trapped, place the
thumb nail at the base of its skull
and dislocate its neck by hard
and quick pressure. • The whole
operation requires only a fraction
of a minute and it can be done by
the fingers.
“Sparrows may be cooked by
any of the methods employed for
reed birds or quail. When boned,
broiled, budered and served on
toast, they are particularly good
and compare favorably with the
best kinds of small game.”
For economy the department
HOW TO MEASURE A RIVER.
Simple Method Described
1
For Determining The
Volume Of Any
Stream.
The United States Geological
Survey frequently receives letters
inquiring for some simple method
of determining the approximate
flow of streams or small rivers.
It is believed that the following
instructions may be of some value
to those who for any reason wish
to determine to velocity or volume
of a stream.
To ascertain the velocity of the
stream choose a place where the
channel is straight for 100 to 200
feet and has a nearly constant
width and depth; lay off on the
bank a line 50or 100 feet in length,
marking each end; then allow
small chips to float down the
stream, by "ne of the methods
described below, noting the time
required for these to traverse the
distance laid off on the bank.
The surface velocity in feet per
second is obtained by dividing
the distance in feet passed over
by the float by the time in seconds
it takes the float to travel this
distance. The average of seve
ral such determinations will give
the mean surface velocity of the
stream. This result multiplied by
the coefficient 0.80 gives very
nearly the mean velocity of the
stream.
To obtain the area of the cross
section of the stream, stretch a
tape from shore to shore and take
the depth of the stream at inter
vals of 2 to 5 feet. The average of
these depths may be assumed as
the mean depth of the stream.
This average multiplied by the
total width will give the area of
the cross section of the stream in
square feet.
The discharge is found by multi
plying this cross-section area by
the mean velocity, as obtained by
the measurements, the result
giving the discharge in second
feet, or, in other words, the num
ber of cubic feet flowing each sec
ond.
In determining the velocity for
small streams and when only ap
proximate results are desired the
float is placed in the center of the
stream only. For larger streams
and when greater accuracy is de
sered a tape is stretched across
the stream and the distance be
tween the banks is divided into a
number of equal spaces or sec
tions. Floats are then allowed to
drift down the stream as near as j
possible in the center of each of I
these spaces, the same number of j
floats being used for each section.
The mean velocity is then assum
ed to be the mean of the surface
velocities obtained for the several
sections. For each float the dis
tance of its starting point from
the right bank is recorded as indi
cated.
advises against long keeping of a
live supply, as each bird eats half
its weigh in food daily. Minute
details are given for dressing the
diminutive fowl and persons con
templating adding them to their
menus are invited to write tor in
structions.
MR. J.T. STREET BRINGS
FIRST OPEN BOLL.
Excellent Farmer of McMullens
District Shows Weekly 801 l
Which Opened Augjst
16th.
Mr. J. T. Street, of McMullens
district, brought The Weekly on
Fridav the first open boll of cot
ton which we have seen this sea
son.
The boll is of good size and
gives promise that what cotton
we shall have will be of good, first
class quality, and let us hope that
both quality and price will make
up the shortage in (quantity.
Mr. Street is a fine citizen and
a fine farmer and this boll shows
that he belongs to the early va
riety and sc you may expect him
to catch the worm and many good
things which escape the later
kind.
IN MEMORY.
After the sun had bid a lost
farewell to this beautiful but
cruel world; and the birds their
last song had hushed; and too,
while the trees and flowers, and
all living creatures were saying
“good night” to the light of an
other day and donning their
robes for slumber, the sweet spirit
of Miss Zada Sims also fell on sleep,
sweet sleep; but sad to our hearts:
she never wakes again in this
world.
She was a singularly sweet
spirit, gentle, patient, forbearing,
cheerful; for in her great physical
suffering she murmured not; but
rather prayed that she might be
taken before her mother, who so
tenderly nursed her during her
long affliction.
While we grieve her going
away and our hearts are hard to
be comforted and reconciled to her
early separation from us, we can
look to our God, who is all power
ful. He giveth and he taketh
away. Helpless creatures are we,
nothing remains to us but to sub
mit to his divive will.
I would not say “Weep Not,”
for our Blessed Lord wept with
the two-sisters when they were
so sorely grieved over the death
of their brother; however we
must find consolation in the fact
that our daer Miss Zada will rise
as did Lazarus from his sleep; for
the Lord Himself will call her
forth in His likeness. His blessed
word says, I am the resurrection
and the life: he that believeth in
me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live:”
“And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die.”
She was a strnog believer in
j Salvation by Grace: and her life
! and testimony b ‘fore her death
i help us to believe that she was a
j child of God.
The last sad rites were said at
Flat Shoals church, when Elder
: Josiah James preached the fun-
I eral, after which her body was
laid to rest near that of her father.
Miss Zada was born August 27,
1874 and died April 28, 1912. She
loves her mother, Mrs. Jane
Sims of Henry county; four sis
! ters: Mrs. Fannie Palmer, of Atlan
ta, Mrs. T. G. White and Mrs. Joe
Nix, of Henry county, and Mrs.
J. M. Wyatt, of Rockdale county,
and two brothers, C. F. and J. A.
Sims, both of Henry county.
1 A loving friend.
EMORY COLLEGE MEN
ARE FINE FARMERS.
One Of Newton County's Best
Farmers Visits Monroe
County's Famous
Farmer.
Mr. Wilson Jarman, of Newton
County, made the Editor of The
Weekly a brief visit Tuesday
afternoon.
He was enroute home from an
automobile trip to Mr. T. G.
Scott’s farm in Monroe county.
Mr. Jarman and Mr. Scott are
two of the most successful farm
ers in Georgia.
Mr. Scott’s Monroe county farm
is famous. The Weekly publish
ed last year an itemized statement
of the receipts and expenses on
his farm for one year, which
showed a profit of something over
$2,000.00 from a year’s crop on
100 acres.
This was a farm which had
been regarded as poor land and
almost worn out a few years ago.
It is a case of mixing brains with
his soil.
Mr. Jarman says of Mr. Scott’s:
farm:
“When I reached Tom Scott’s:
place, I knew it was his without
anybody’s informing me. It
showed a great difference.”
Now Mr. Jarman has a very
fine farm himself over in Newton
county. He is the leader in every
progressive movement for the
farmer and is always winning
hog and other prizes at the
fairs.
Both these men are Emory Col
lege men. "Jarman was in the
Editor’s class and was one of the
class’s best book students. He
won the mathematics medal there.
Scott was two years ahead of us
and also a fine student.
Now these farmers’ training at
Emory College was merely men
tal. Yet there are no finer farm
ers anywhere. So none can deny
the value even to the farmer of a
general college tiaining.
And Mr. Scott says some of his
most valuable aid in farming came
from the bulletins of the agricul
tural experiment stations.
It has been nearly fifteen years
since these men were in college.
Since their time special college
training for the farmer has been
provided and now he can secure the
general, as of old, and also the
special, a new thing.
Henry county boys and girls
have in the Sixth Dis rict Agri
cultural and Mechanical School
at Bartlesville the opportunity of
the ages, that for which men of
prophetic vision have for years
been longing: the opportunity
fpr special training for the farm.
This institution is capable of
producing for every militia dis
trict of our co mtv a ::!± :r Jar
man and Scott.
Mr. Jarman said that he found
the best country through which
he passed was in Henry c >unty.
What mav it not become when
all its powers are brought forth
by ari enlightened and land-loving,
generation of farmers?
Mrs. Sallie McCall and son, C.
8., are spending the week with.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Bankston.
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