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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.
