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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1912)
Happy happenings Well the Lord has smiled on us in giving us refreshing showers, after a drouth of a few weeks, and praise his holy name, he has sent us thejlast week one of his humble servants, Brother Charles McDaniel, to preach ex pressly to us his holy word, which he did not fail to do. He did his part in the meeting at Mt. Carmel this passed week; if the people who heard him would only heed his teaching. Brother Charley is a man filled with the spirit of Hod and he was like Paul, he did not fear to tell us what God would have us to do. Oh people! I think we ought to heed the tender pleadings of God through his servants. How much longer do we expect to harden our hearts and stiffen our necks, when we know every day God is calling someone away to meet their fatal doom and then will it be as Brother Charley said in his sermon, some one else is the cause of my not going to heaven? Ah! we wont have time then to make our pitiful excuses, for now is the appointed time and is it going to be said to us, depart from me. Know ye not, ye people who go after the things of the world”? We hear so many say, “I want to have a big time.” Well what is a big time, going to dances and card parties,ball games sociable entertainments, going with boys and girls, spending your money for whiskey, coca-colr, ciga rettes, snuff and tobbacco, telling smutty jokes, slang phrases? Ola, isn’t it awful to hear voung men and young ladies using all kinds of slang in the presence of each cither! Do we ever stop to think that a word of purity would be much better for our souls and the souls of those whom we associate? All these are very easily caught from one to the other and we mav be sure we are setting an example for some one, if it is nothing but a pure little babe of three and four years of age. How awful it is to hear a small boy and girl singing those songs and saying those words that are not fit to be spoken by demons of hell! The bible says w here your heart is there you will be also. Now what is a good time? To know' you are pure in the sight of God, to treat your associates right, love your neighbor as your self, and to please God in all things; that is the best time we can find; if we will only change and try it a while we will find it to be heav en in our hearts and to our friends and loved ones, and peace on earth and, as christ Came and the angels sang, peace on earth and good will to men. It should be so. 1 must not close without say ing we had other good workers in the meeting: Brother Jack Pat terson, of Sunny Side, did his part in singing the good songs and Sister Bertha Andrews in playing the organ, and Brother Phillips in praying and Brother Dorsey, of Sunny Side, who preached a thrilling sermon last Sunday and did his part in talking until Wed nesday: and several others who were helpful. May God bless them, wherever they may go, and may the words, songs, and prayers sink deep down in the heart of their hearers. I guess I have said enough, for 1 will come again on a different subject next time to our young folk. Mr. and Mr. R. F. Stanfield and Mrs. Tom Dorsey and her three children, Roy, Zimmie Lee, ’ and Lucile, and Arnold Stanfield attended the sacred harp singing in Atlanta last Saturday and Sun day and also visited their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Stanfield and Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy. LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! Monroe Couuty hinds remain cheap and we are still oil‘ring them on easy teims. Here area lew samples ot manv on our descriptive list. 55 ACRES, 1 11 Kt lseyb district. 25 nercs chartd aid till new ground, balunee of place mostly in pines. Two room tenant house. 'This place readily r< nt-i in if* present condition foi two bales of cotton. Jf more* land was clear* d would probably rent for 4 hales. \\ e offer this place for 1 2 casn, balance in one arid two years, with 8 per cent on deffered payments. P rioe S7OO. 50 ACRES, in Kelseys district at public road crossing, with store-house and dwelling on place. Splendid stand for country store. We offer for || ]QQ 2(X) ACRES, of splendid land one mile from Snmrrs Station on public road This place is only a mile church and Railway station. The ownerjwill giv* ]o years in v bieh to pay fo/this lard and will build residence to suit purchaser, if liberal payment is made on the place. Price per acre s2O 330 ACRES, four miles from Forsyth with two story frame residence, recently remodeled and painted. More than 100 a ores in woodland, with a quanity of the best saw timber in tl is section. This farm is in a splendid locality. The land is strong and product ive, and moderately level.- Terms easy. Price ' SIO,OOO 00 we have others and would be glad to furnish list on application. THE GEORGIA TRADING COMPANY FORSYTH GA. NOTICE One house and lot for sale: one acre of land and seven room house, good barn, fine well of water, also running water on lot. ALSO Ten Thousand Dollar! Stock! of Goods for sale at cost. Come and see before buying. We will make it to your interest. We also want to say to our customers that we expect immediate settlement. We cannot carry their accounts longer than the first of October or the 15th. Fair notice is sufficient. W. D. Knight, McDonough, Ga. All are invited to come and see L. A. Lemon, dne of the leading negro tailors and merchants. 1 make clothes to order, repair, clean, press and dye them for you. Ladies work a specialty. Don’t forget —My line of family groceries. Shall be glad and thankful to serve all people at ail times. Located on Macon road near depot and negro Baptist Church. tf. L. A. LEfION TcOONOUCiH, QA. FOR SALK fifty acres of land 2 miles west of Greenwood. 35 acres in cultivation, 15 acres in oiginal woods. S. P. Brown, McDonough, Ga., Route 5. tf. The Women’s Foreign Mission ary Soceity ol t le Methodist church had a delightful literary meeting with Miss Bertha Bunn Wednes day afternoon. Misses Rosa Lee Brown and Lillie Coan spent Saturday in At lanta. Miss Tilda Brown, of Ellen wood, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. McLendon. Mrs. Lydia Pendley and her two children visited relatives at this place a few days this week. Pearl FOR SALE —81 acre farm in Mc- Donough district. Good 6 room house, barn and outhouses. Well watered. J. D. Solomon, Locust Grove, Route 3, Box 14. 9-20,4. Dr. H. C. Hightower visited Rex and Hampton Monday. Mr. Harry Dunn spent Saturday in Atlanta. Mrs. A. F. Lemon Hostess. Mrs. A. F. Lemon was the charming hostess to a few friends Friday afternoon. Punch was served and bridge was played. After the games a delicious salad course was served. The guests were: Mrs. E. D. Tolleson, Mrs. Paul Turner, Mrs. Tom Patterson, Mrs. Asa Lemon, and Misess Nena Tye, Eliene Neal and Bess Fouche. MISS BLANCHE WENTZELL’S High grade millinery depart ment is now ready with a complete line of all the lat est effects in new fall milli nery. Opening this week was quite a success, even though the weather was warm. Call and you will be pleas ed. Yours Respectfully, MISS BLANCHE WENTZELL Rex. Cotton picking time is on hand now; the second new bale has been ginned at th : s place. Miss Green Livingston, of Stock bridge, was a visitor here a short while last Wednesday. Mr. K. E. McMullen and family, from Jonesboro, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Linton Powell. Miss Magaret Heflin is visiting her brother, Dr. J. H. Heflin, and family. Several around here attended meeting at Stockdridge Tuesday night. The association will be at Rock Church on Tuesday and Wednes day after the fourth Sunday of this month. Everybody is invited to come and bring a well filled basket. Would like to see our edi tor there too. Mr W. E. Camp and two sons, Master Floyu and Homer Camp, spent Friday in Atlanta. The Ware house of Rex is going up very fast, the brick work will soon b« finished. Bonnie. Home Coming at Mt. Pleasnnt. On the fifth Sunday of the pre sent month, there will be an all day meeting at Mt.Pleasent church in the Hampton circuit. There will be preaching at 11 o’clock, followed by the adminstration of the Lord’s Supper, after then will be the exercises of one hour or more. Dinner wll be served on the ground. Preachwog again in the after noon. The present membership and those who were once members and all those that can do so are cor dially invited to be with us. We want to make it a great day for the church that has so long stood for the truth and against errors. The fathers and mothers of the church in their day served loyally and faithfully, they are now sleep ing peacefully in the cemetery nearby. Come one and all and let us spend one more day together at the old home church. We hope to make it pleasant and profitable for you. Bring baskets with such things as will satisfy the appetite of the physical man. J. E. England, Pastor. Lovejoy Live Topics. Mr. Editor: I notice with much pleasure “Reader’s” reply to my letters. He still continues that Adam and Eve were the first. He said that he would take my Scripture and show beyond a doubt that Adam and Eve were the first, but he fails to reproduce the Scripture. He refers too, but inserts other Scrip tures to prove his points. He says I skipped some verses. I did not want to make my letter too long. He says I skipped the sth verse which is the strongest proof of the whole chapter that there was not a man to till the land. Let’s go back to the Ist chapter, 27th verse of Genesis and read: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.” 28th verse: “And God blessed them and God said unto-them, Be fruitful and multiply and re plenish the earth.” Very easy to see that this crea ture was not intended to till the ground. I take the Scriptures for what they teach. Adam was not created either to till the ground; he was placed in the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it and he was to eat of every fruit, except the tree of knowledge. My brother will have to get up some better proof. He says he is proud I am taking interest along this line and he is willing at all times to swap, opinions with me. I think a great deal more of this kind of argument than I do of visiting. I see where Pearl compliments R ader very much for answering her question. I have failed to see where it has ever been an swered. She further says she would like to know who Reader is. I had just as soon shoot at him in the dark. 1 have always signed my initials to my communications, which 1 think is right. J. H. Wynn has completed his new warehouse, which makes quite an improvement to our town. Cotton is coming in slowly; it is selling for 11 3-8 cents per pound, The crop will be short. More next week if this escapes the waste basket. A. V. M.
