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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1914)
B. & F. A. MITCHAM, Funiture and Undertaking HAriPTON, GEORGIA. w e *have an experienced E nbilmer, a Henry county boy Mr. Perry Welch. All calls ssiiiswere4 promptly day or night. All embalming carefully done and according t< beat method* Oar stock of met*l and -wood caskets and robes are unequalled. Our services, hearses and equipment, are the best to be had. We furnish the best steel, briek or cement Vaults. BUG DEATH, BUG DEATH, Fresh Stock just received It destroys on tato, squash cucumber b> It prevents blight It saves beet> trom worm leaves. COPELAND TURNER MERCANTILE CO. Phone 25 McDonough, Georgia. A Ci OOP PHOTOGRAPH of yourself or member of your fa mi I v is always desired. YOUR OPPORTUNITY is now offered to secure such a photograph without an expen= sive trip to the city. 1 sh II be in McDonough every Saturday. My studio on second floor First National Bank Bldg., will be open from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. E. H. WEDGE Photo Artist. BOOKLET IS COMPLIED UPON “GEORGIA FACTS/' Georgia Chamber of Commerce Gives Many Intersting Facts On Georgia. The Geoagia chamber of com- 12 .ralse PH "Ills Currants, Celery, Tomatoes, Melons, SsiU&sh, Beets, Etc. USE BUO DEATH There is absolutely no preparation on tbe market that will riel your vines and leaves of the income killing pests so satisfactorily, thoroughly* economically end speedily WITHOUT the remotest possibility of injury to plant, leaf or vine in any way. Absolutely Free from Arsenic. ; In IW Ib. "teg*. 12*,. 3. 3 and 1 id. CacKases. 7 Ask for the fr<-e bool ' ‘‘C t op insurance.’#: merce has now at press a forty page booklet, entitled “Georgia Facts” which has bten carefully complied by William F. Park hurst, of that organization, and it contains valuable boiled-down facts on the resources of Geor gia. As a result of investigation made ihcompiiingmaterial for this book, Use Bug Death, it is your triend. It sticks, it stays, it stimulates, it saves. See us about sweet potato Slips. BUY A SATISFACTORY JEWELL COOK STOVE When you buy Jewell Cook Stoves you can rest as sured thatyou They stand in marked contrast with the many cheaply made, light-weight, unsatisfactory cook stoves which are advertised at low prices and which prove far more expensive in the end. Dont take our word for it, that Jewell cook Stoves and Ranges are better than others. See and examine the Stoves and Range'. They speak for them selves as thousands of satisfied buyers can testify. “BUY A JEWELL AND SAVE FUEL” IT PAYS TO DEAL WITH HOWARD CARMICHAEL FURNITURE COMPANY McDonough, Georgia. the standing of Georgia among For sister states of the union is shown to be remarkable. The fol lowing interesting facts will be of general interest: Out of 59,475 square miles of land in Georgia, only 540 square miles are covered with water. Georgia has 7,536 miles of rail roads. The financial condition of the state is splendid, as the total resources of the 693 states banks show an increase in 1913 over 1912 of $5,693,000. The individ ual deposits in the state banks on January 1/1914, were $91,441,535, and in the national banks $53,633,- 989 a total of more than $145,000,- 000. The total amount invested in capital stock of financial and commercial, public services, in dustrial and manufacturing, mer cantile and miscellaneous corpora tion is $485,593,822. Adding to this the capital stock of the 693 state banks $28,895,513, and of na tional banks $15,168, 500, it makes a splendid total of $529,667,839 invested in all Georgia corpora tions. Showing ho v easily farming is carried on within the state, Geor gia has an average of 235 growing days each year, while, for in stance, Ohio has only 165 growing days. Value of Property. The estimated total value of farm lands and buildings, imple ments and machinery and live stock in 1913 was $625,000,000, whereas in 1880 this total was on ly 143,158,308. Georgia farm pro ducts brought to the state in 1913 $360 000,000, whereas in 1880 farm products brought only’ $67,- 028,829. The income in Georgia lor 1913 from cotton, corn, oats i and hay over and above 1912 is estimated to be $47,611,090, and the total estimated value of Geor-1 gia agricultural products for 1913 j is $332,000,000. The value of crude cotton seed products has grown i 'om $1,670,- 196 in 1890 to more than $16,000,- 060 in 1913. The total value of the Georgia tobacco crops grew from $149,090 in 1912 to $558,000 in 1913. The estimated value of the peanut crops for 1913 is $2,250,000. The estimated value of sugar cane products is $2,500,000, as compar- 1 ed to $1,481,000 in 1899. Big Pecan Industry. The acreage planted to pecans apgj : r'' " 7 ;j H Xfe'nwon out,andthe’stareflei beck \\X and hid-'and all was h lack: *yJUP NvM •Outali!t>’nwhta summons came’, AC \S «OHi£tied with a tctir3rop fora name;-' i'/iyd \AI 3?or as X wondering, kissed it, 10, f'l/Pv Am line’ brtleath it told me so. „ jPnn y A *T3n3/?tfw the moon hangs over tne" U§4r c a disk of dazzling Driifiancy, nIJ TTndeVeVy star<tip stabs msysfant P gtVI Cacnrncbt. i«i«. TW M«mß roawy now represents a value of $12,- 500,000, and the annual nuts pro duction is almost 250,000 pounds. The mux ral products of Geor were vaiueu i i 1913 at $6,4(i0,000, as against $5,980,000 in 1905. Georgia now has more than 5,- 000 factories anti their total pro duction in 1912 was $202, 893,000.: The lumber industry in Georgia employs 22,000 men in 1,880 saw mills, and the value of the lumber is $24,632,000. The value of na val stores products amounts to $9,958,957' The value of public school pro perty in Georgia is near!} $13,000.- 000. In the state are universities, j colleges and technical schools to are get ting the Best Stoves that money, skilland brains can pro duce the number of 18: theology, law and medicine, 15: nursing, com mercial and manual training, 44,& 11 district agricultural schools I'here are 21 public libraries in the state, representing an aggregate investment of more than $700,000,- 000. Georgia leads all southern sta tes in the number of automobiles owned, there being registered, up to the middle of 1913, 20,078 cars, whereas, one year previouly, there were 14,000 cars, Georgians own nearly twice as mhny automobile as any state in the south. There are 90,189 telephones in use :n Georgia,,and of these 458 are farmers’ line stations. A
