The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XXXVIII.
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
CLOSED FRIDAY NIGHT THE 23rd.
Thursday Afternoon's Reception A Delightful Oc
casion. Home Talent Used In Friday
Night's Play.
HANDSOME FUND REALIZED FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY.
McDonough High School’s com
vmencement closed with the Fri
day evening’s program.
On the preceding Thursday af
ternoon the faculty and students
were hosts to their friends at a de
lightful reception in the school
building. It was intended to have
the reception on the school cam
pus but the rain prevented that.
Every guest, however, thor
oughly enjoyed their hospitality.
Cream and cake were the re
freshments served.
Friday evening’s exercises were
easily the climax of the whole
brilliant week. The play, “A Fish
erman’s Luck,” was the program.
All the characters were the
school talent. Every one seemed
thoroughly to become the charac
ter he impersonated; and so we
became better acquainted with
several of our own than we had
ever been before, since some of
them discovered to us traits we
did not know before.
For instance nobody had here
tofore suspected that Miss Marie
Dupree was also such a fine and
natural matron as Mrs. Manley,
nor that Harold Sowell was at
once such a stage-struck simple
ton and slueth of sound sense as
Si Kidder.
We almost required an intro
duction to our old friend and
scoufc, Wiley Sanders, while he
was Squire Hammond.
And Dozier Fields had most
suddenly grown old, but to a
mellow and boyish old age, as
Uncle Davie. Miss Irene Gunter
very naturally became both the
wealthy ward and lover of a “poor
fisherman.” Little Ethel Sloan
easily became Little Nellie, living
and dying most becomingly.
Roddie Turner, as Tom Manley,
s poor fisherman; Harry Career,
as the villian, or James Hammond;
Parson Paul Sowell, silent but
solemn; and Miss Edna Rodgers,
as Ruth Manley: each and every
one showed a rare talent and
power of depicting the character
impersonated by him.
It seems to us to be the height
of the power of entertaining when
the present attraction so charms
us that we look neither forward
to what is coming nor backward
to the pleasure gone. So was
the whole evening’s program.
While the scenes were being
shifted between acts, the audience
forgot the play in hearing the beau
tiful music and the specialties.
The shell, a song by lower
grades in sight singing was both
beautiful and appropriate. The
song and march by the little girls
showed accurate and perfect
training.
The Patriotic Drill and Panto
mime, by the high school girls was
a charming production. The girls
were dressed in the stars and
stripes and each bore the flag of
.ir country. They acted the
“ itar SDangled Banner,” as it was
sung by voices behind the scenes.
Incidentally we might mention
the fact that the sum of $160.00
was realized for the school library
fund.
Fair View.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Morris and
daughter spent Sunday with Mr.
J. H. Carr and family.
i Mr. and Mrs. Homa Morris spent
Sunday with the latter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Walker.
Mrs. J. H. Carr and daughter
spent Wednesday night with Mrs.
C. S. Goodman, of Hampton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Martin visit
ed their brother, Mr. P. R. Mar
tin, of Luella, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Cloma Duffey and sister,
Miss Elon, and Miss Mary Lizzie
Greer passed through here Sun
day.
Mrs. J. H. Carr, Mrs. F. S. Mor
ris, and Miss Helen Carr visited
Misses Myrtle and Rosa Lee Mor
ris Sunday afternon.
Butterfly.
Luella Locals.
We are having fine weather for
farming.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Martin were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. R.
Martin Sunday.
Miss Mary Everett made a busi
ness trip to Griffin Monday.
Mrs. J. H. Carr and daughter,
Kate, made a business trip to Lu
ella Monday.
Miss Birdie Barham was the
guest of Mrs. B. F. Thompson
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Greer and
little daughter spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Standard.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bailey and
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Turner and
son spent Sunday at Towaliga,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lillian
Nutt.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nutt and
children spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Nutt.
Mrs, B. F. Thompson is on our
sick list but is better now.
Miss Sallie Nutt, of Towaliga, is
visiting in Luella this week.
Mrs. T. T. Barham was the
guest of Mrs. H. B. Foster Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Henley and
children spent Sunday with the
latter’s brother, Mr. R. L. Price.
Rose Bud.
Miss Anne Thomason, of Atlanta,
was the guest Sunday of her
cousin, Mrs. R. O. Jackson.
Miss Nina Wall will leave the
last of next week for Macon, to
attend Mercer commencement.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday may 30,1913.
Mr. W. A. Gardner
Celebrates 70th Birthday.
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On Saturday, May 24th, a reun
ion and barbecue was held at the
home of Mr. W. A. Gardner, of
Brushy Knob district. Mr. Gard
ner celebrated his seventh birth
day. Eight children, forty-nine
grand-chiidren, ten great-grand
children, Mr. and Mrs. S. K, Aus
tin, Mrs. Kelly Sims, of Rex, Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Simpson, of East
Atlanta, and Rev. W. L. Pate, of
Locust Grove, were those pres
ent.
Two hundred pounds of meat
was barbecued by Uncle Melvin
Merrett (colored), of Stockbridge.
Lemonade by the barrels, cream
in adundance, and many other
tempting eatables put the finishing
touches to the bill of fare.
Probably twelve baskets were
taken up after the multitude had
been fed.
It was a great day and all went
away happy.
Round About News.
We are still having some show
ers, the cotton is coming up finely
and the farmers are all smiles.
Last Thursday we had one of the
hardest rains and hail we have
had in a long time.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Callaway
are entertaining a new visitor,
who has come to stay with them,
a bright little girl.
On last Saturday afternoon at 4
o’clock, Mr. Charles Emory Coop
er, of Riverdale, and Miss Otelia
Wallace were happily united in
marriage at the home of Mr. John
Murphey, at No. 9 Pierce Street,
Atlanta. Mr. Cooper is one of
Clayton county’s prosperous farm
ers. Their many friends wish
them a long and happy life.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Stanfield vis
ited Mrs. Stone Friday. She is
very sick.
Miss Nettie Banks has returned
home, after a week’s visit to her
sisters, Mrs. Lillie Pendley and
Mrs. Maud Surls, of Macon, and
Mrs. Fannie Wallace, of Goggins.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Stan
field Friday.
Messrs. Fred Barnett and Hat
tie Stanfield attended the singing
at Mr. Jim Barnett’s, of Lovejoy,
Saturday night and reported a
nice time.
Mr. Lee Crawford, of Dothan,
Ala., has left this vicinity to ac
cept a position with his brother,
Mr. Seaborn Crawford, on the
Ceutral Railroad. His many
friends regret very much to see
him leave, as he had just stayed a
short while with us.
The singing at Mrs. Ada Wal
lace’s was enjoyed by a'l present.
Mr. Morris Pendley, of Macon,
visited relatives at this place last
week.
„ Mr. and Mrs Tom Dorsey, Mrs.
Jane Banks, Miss Susie Stanfield
and Miss Bennie Maude Dorsey
attended the barbecue at Sunny
Side Tuesday.
Mrs. Leila Crawford, of Albany,
and Mrs. Liz de Calloway, of In
man, spent a few days last week
with Mrs. W. A. Callaway.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Stanfield
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Stanfield Saturday night
and Sunday. Pansy.
SCHOOL NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTY OF HENRY.
A Department Devoted to The Interest of All
The Schools in The County With News
From Them Each Week.
by 0. O. Tolleson, County School Superintendent.
WHAT THOBK WHO H \VF, IT KAY
or COUNTY UNIT TAX ATION.
I think the county unit system
is far better than to levy tax by
districts.
H. J. Arnett,
Supt. Screven County.
“I do not think county unit tax
ation any better for rural schools
than for city schools, but I con
sider it jnst as good for one as for
the other. I understand that
some people living in the city and
owning property in the country
will oppose it on purely selfish
reasons, but if you can get their
renters to see the point, you can
put a quietus on that.
Since we have voted taxation
for rural schools, we have gone
from the upright board shack to
splendid equipped one-room hous
es in the smaller districts and two
or three room buildings for the
larger districts; from a five months
term, taught at any and all times
of the year, to a seven months
term with all schools beginning at
the same time. Before we had
local tax we had poorly paid and
in most cases inefficient teachers.
Now we have a very competent
and promptly paid corps of teach
ers.
I prefer the county unit plan, by
all means.
J. W. Weaver,
Supt. Irwin County.
“We have had county unit tax
ation for about six years, and have
never levied over one mill, as it
raises ample funds to run our
schools one month longer than
the state funds.
We pay all incidental expenses,
thus making the school absolutely
free, and require every teacher to
teach the high school studies
through the tenth grade. Patrons
thus save the expense of one or
two years at college where they
have girls and boys who expect to
attend them.
Since voting local taxation, we
have ceiled and painted every
white school house in the jounty,
and equipped them with patent j
desks, etc. Local tax makes the
people feel a more direct interest
in the school, enables us to pay a
much better salary, thereby we i
can get better trained teachers
and have longer terms and practi
cally educate our children at
home. By all means have unit
taxation; corooration taxes wiil
thus be evenly distributed over
the county, and each school will
be directly under the County
Board’s jurisdiction, therefore sal
aries can be more appropriately
adjusted, so that a poor teacher
in a district which has voted local
tax cannot get a better salary
than a good teacher who happens
SI.OO A YEAR
to be in a district not having the
tax.”
W. M. Kaigler,
Supt. Quitman County.
“The county unit system is infi
nitely better and we would be
taking a great step backward if it
should be changed. It has a ten
dency to make the country and
the city more interdependent and
breaks down many walls that
would otherwise be built up.
Some local districts would be
rich on account of corporations
while others equally needy, educa
tionally, would be poor on account
of these corporations. In the
county unit system all share alike
in the corporation tax.”
W. V. Lanier,
Supt. Jenkins County.
“We have had the county unit
system for about five years. Every
district in our county is in one
system.
We have a local tax of three
mills. This vith the amount the
state pays us enables us to run
our white schools nine months
and our colored schools five
months.”
J. W. F. Lowrey,
Supt. Terrell County.
“Our fiist tax was levied in the
fall of 1911, but our new system
really began Jan. 1, 1912. We
lev> two mills. Tuition is abso
lutely free.
One of the main arguments
against local taxation here was
that each parent is responsible
for the education of his own
children. We argued and proved
that education is a public business.
By all means get local taxation
as a county unit if possible.”
B. D. Purcell,
Supt. Wayne County.
Stockbridge High School
Closes Friday Evening.
Closing exercises of the Stock
bridge High School will be held
at the school building Friday even
ing, May 30th, beginning at eight
o’clock.
Time of exercises will be approx
imately three and one-half hours.
A small admission fee will be
charged, the proceeds of which
will go to the erection of a school
library.
S. L. Price, Prin.
How often do we hear people
say: “Where in the world do all
the flies come from?” It is simple
enough. The toper makes the
blue-bottle fly, the stern father
makes the gad fly, the cyclone
makes the house fly, the black
smith makes the fire fly, the driver
makes the horse fly, and the
boarder makes the butter fly.—
Fort Sumner Review.
