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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1913)
The Henry County Wjekly VOL. XXXVIII. FIRST COUNT TOMORROW. TEN DOLLARS TO BE GIVEN AWAY. At 7:30 0 clock. Ballot Box Will Close For First Count. Somebody is Going to Win Ten Dollars in Gold. GREAT INTEREST CENTERING ON FIRST COUNT WHICH WILL SHOW EACH CONTESTANT'S STANDING. As the time grows nearer for the first count many are getting anxious to know who the lucky contestant will be. The ballot box will close promptly at 7:30 P. M. and the judges, Messrs. J. B. Dickson, J. A. Fouche, and R. L. Turner, will proceed to count the vo+es and award the $lO in gold to the contestant who has the largfst number of votes. The time—Saturday, May 24th, to-morrow, at 7:30 o’clock P. M., the ballot box will close for the first count of the contest. The place—The Weekly office. The girls—are playing before many audiences at present and the performances will be kept up until the ballot box closes for the first count on Saturday, May 24th, at 7:30 o’clock, P. M. The voting contest is something like another election —you cannot tell who will be the winner until the final count. Sometimes, the last is first and the first is last. There are liable to be some “dark horses” in this race who are not making noise or saying much; they have been too busy getting votes. Of course if you win this special prize of SIO.OO in gold your votes will count on the piano and other valuable prizes, at the close of the contest. This is only done to get everybody started and to re pay them for getting these votes. But remember you are getting your votes away up in the thous ands and you will be better off when the final lap of the contest is started. For every seven new subscrip tions 4,000 extra, making a total of 8,200. For every seven renewal sub scriptions 3,000 extra, making a total of 6,500. For every seven back subscrip tions 2,000 extra, making a total of 4,800. Good until the first count on NOMINATING BLANK. Popular Voting Contest I hereby nominate or suggest the name of Address i As a lady worthy to. become a candidate in your Popular Voting Con test. I present this name with the distinct understanding and agree ment that the editor shall not divulge my name. This does not obli gate me in any way whatever. Signed Address 25VOTECOUPON Send this Coupon to The Henry County Weekly office within 15 days from date and it will count for Twenty-Five Votes. No money is repuired on this Coupon. Voted for MAY 23, 1913. Saturday, May 24th. The ballot box closes at 7:30 o’clock, p. m. Coupons must be brought to this office and checked in order to get the bonus. Remember to have your friends trade with the merchants giving coupons. The nominations so far made are as follows: MCDONOUGH. Miss Myrtle Weatherly. Miss Ruth Rape. Miss Ethel Sowell. Miss Helen Dunn. Miss Frances Neal. Miss Beatrice Patterson. Miss Vessie Mae Thrasher. Miss Anna Bell Ingram. Miss Beulah Atkinson. Miss Beulah Rosser. Miss Annie Lemon. Miss Helen Harris. Miss Lila Hand. Miss Annie G. Thompson. Miss Ruby Walker. MCDONOUGH R. F. D. No. 1. Miss Della Carter. Miss Estelle Jenkins. Miss Dora Bell Stroud. Miss Edna Rodgers. Miss Bertha L. McGarity. Miss Alma Culpepper. MCDONOUGH R. F. D. No. 2. Miss Millie Kate Stansell. MCDONOUGH R. F. D. No. 3. Miss Katie Pendley. Miss Margaret Brown. Miss Nannie Kate Kimbell. Miss Maude Woodward. Mrs. Oxford Barnett. MCDONOUGH R. F. D. No. 4. Miss Trellis Lane. Mrs. Fannie Strawn. MCDONOUGH R. F. D. No. 5. Miss Pearl Payne. Miss Thelma Hutchinson. Mrs. Mary Copeland. McDonough, Georgia. Friday may 23, m 3. MCDONOUGH, R. F. D. No. 6. Miss Missouri Austin. Miss Eva May Woods. Mrs. Hattie McDonold. GREENWOOD. Mrs. Paul Mays. Mrs. James Middleton. LUELLA. Miss Kate Carr. Mrs. P. R. Martin. Miss Vessie Standard. Miss Lucy Moore. JACKSON. Miss Lillie Harmon. Miss Rosa Lee Carmichael. Miss Carrie Jim McKibben. LOCUST GROVE. Mrs. J. S. Brown. Miss Gussie Castellaw. Miss Velna Simpson. Mrs. Lillian Lester. Miss Mattie Wilson. HAMPTON. Miss Janie Peebles. Miss Jeffie Bright. Miss Annie Pearl Jones. Miss Eva Redwine. Miss Mattie Wallace. Miss Eulah Mitchell. Miss Sallie King. Mrs. Annie Mitchell. Miss Lillian Stanfield. FLIPPEN. Miss Eva Fields. Miss May Glass. Miss Ora Johnson. Miss Ida Lou Knight. Miss Ruby Stillwell. ELLENWOOD. Miss Fannie McHayes. Miss Katie Lou McVicker. Mrs. Ella Chaffn. REX. Miss Annie May Milam. Miss Jennie Fullerton. Mrs. C. W. Gardner. STOCKBRIDGE. Miss Artie Bellah. Miss Sarah Mays. Miss Sarah McWilliams. Miss Ruth Clark. Miss Ruby Brannan. Miss Leonora Roseberry. Mrs. Pearlie Skinner. Mrs. R. G. Owen. Miss Mamie Jones. Miss Ruby Ford. Mrs. Grady Morris. JENKINSBURG. Miss Elon E’Dalgo. The Following merchants will give 25 vote coupons with each SI.OO cash purchase bought of them, subject to the conditions stated in the advertisement. B. B. Carmicheal & Son. H. L. Carmichael Furniture Co. Copeland-Turner Mercantile Co. Henry County Supply Company. McConnell-Manley Company. McDonough Drug Company. McDonough Trading Company. W. O. Welch. Beersheba News. Miss Beckie Crowell has return ed to her home near Stockbridge, after spending a week here with Miss Lizzie Duke. A large crowd from around here attended the picnic at Snapping Shoals Friday, given by Riverdale school, and reported a good time. Mr. and Mrs. John Presson at tended preaching at Fair View Sunday. Mrs. J. M. Duke and Mrs. Hom er Piper spent one day last week with Mrs. Lena Presson. CONFEDERATE COLONY IN BRAZIL AT REUNION. Their Interesting History. Have Been Invited to Chattanoo ga By U. D. C Chattanooga, Tenn., May—When the local Daughters of the Confed eracy issued an invitation to the ex-Confederates of Brazil to attend a reception here during the reun ion, they sent a great many peo ple to the history books for infor mation. It was the first time that an invitation had been addressed to those exiles in South America to attend a social function at a Con federate reunion. At the close of war quite a num ber of southerners refused to take the oath of allegiance and begin life anew under conditions that they did not like. Brazil appealed to them, and they went from near ly every southern state and plant ed a colony in that country. They have a neat, prosperous village, known as Villa \mericana, situat ed something more than a 100 miles west of the city of Sao Paulo. Some members of the colony grew tired of the Brazilian life and re turned home, but there are some 600 members of the colony now within a radius of a few miles. Nevin C. Winter, in one of his books on Brazil, says that these southerners are still Americans at heart, but thev have become citi zens of Brazil by birth or procla mation. They are thrifty and well to do people. The following ex cerpts from Mr. Winter’s book will be of interest just now: “Some one had told me that the war was a tabooed subject; that the few older members left were fighting the battles over. When 1 met the oldest member of the colony, who had left the United States in 1865, the impulse came to test this sub ject. I mention the fact that my own father had served in the Un ion army and fought for his coun try on that side. This old man, who was past the allotted three score and ten, and had fought with that intrepid warrior, Stonewall Jackson, then told me the whole history of the colony and the cause that led to its establishment. ‘lt was a mistake’, he said, ‘hut we did not realize it then, and after ward it was too late to sacrifice what we had here and move back. We still love the old flag.’ ” “When Senator Root,” to take up the thread at another point, “the secretary of state, visited Brazil four years ago, a new state was named Elihu Root in his hon or on the Paulista railway, and his name stauds out conspicuously on every time table of that line. The special train conveying him passed the Villa Americana, and he was asked to stop and address the Americans. When the train stop ped many of the older residents met him with tears in their eyes; and, I was told, the eyes of the distinguished American were not dry; and he has said that it was the most pathetic incident in his trip. He was asked whether it would be better for the colony to remain in Brazil or return to the United Staaes. Stay where you are, he said, and be good Brazil ians. You will find the states so changed that they would no long er seem like home.” “The secretary was right. A SI,OO A YEyU< Locust Grove Institute Gives CommencervtHrtE PROGRAMME. Saturday, May 24, BP. W cert by Music Department Sunday, May 25, 11 A. M. --- by Rev. W. L. Richards, hamm Springs, Ala. Sunday, May 25, 8 P. MA-Sferi - mon by W. L. Richards. Monday, May 26, 10 A. M.~--Ad dress before Literary Societies*- Dr. Chas. W. Daniel, Atlanta, * a*. Monday, May 26, 8 P. M. torieal contest. Tuesday, May 27, 10 A. M. —rt»*- promptu Debate. Tuesday, May 27, 8 P. M. —Con- cert by Music and Expression ■/*• partments. Wednesday, May 28, 10 A 1L Graduating Exercises. Wednesday, May 28, 11 A &L Address to Graduating Class -Dir. J. J. Bennett, Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday, May 28, 3 P llfc Senior Class Exercises. Wednesday, May 28, 8 P.^ML — Champion Debate. SENIOR CLASS ROLL. Annette Alexander Lillian Beatrice Barnard James Harris Bowden n James Wesley Canhvll John Nelson Clements Cathaline Combs John Julian Compton Frank Tharpe Denham Nannie Lee Elder John Clarence Fields William Steed Florence Frank Leslie Fort Corinna Josephine Gibson Hugh Coskery Gilt hrist John Murdoc Gillis. John William Harkins Claude Rayford Hudson Tully Joe Johnston Clementine LeCount Emma Pauline Murphey James Marvin Nicholson Cecil Katherine Oxford Annie Dell Peek Mamie Alline Phillips Dorothy Mary Price Isaac Lamor Richardson Frank McKemie Rogers Benjamine Franklin Samimim.’ Samuel Levi Stephens Lillian Tharpe O’Kelley Ray Walker Hattie Sue Wiggins Bessie Williams few months before my visit one the prosperous members of colony went, with his family, to hsr' old home in Texas, with the intteH* - tion of remaining there. He k*PC his property in the hands of aw agent for sale. A few week;;- a# - ter his arrival in Texas he cabJ*«f i to his agent not to sell his propcnr - ty, as he was coming back, m-nrx few months he and his family re turned to the Villa, giving as few; reason that the old neighborhood had changed so much that it dkfci not seem so much like home •*»? Brazil.” Flippen. Mesdames Cora and Ehmnn Fields and Miss Fannie Hood speetT Monday in McDonough. Miss May Glass is visiting sister, Mrs. Zhachry Thompson* m Carrollton. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Dailey were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Andress. Dailey Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. Howard Glass spei&fr: the week-end at College Park. Miss Leila Johnson spent Wed - nesday at Tunis. Mrs. Jord Johnson is visitMsatg her parents in Jonesboro.
