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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1915)
the: Herry County Weekly FKANK KF.AGAK, Fditor He*** red at tb* pcstoffircnl McTVnongn a c seoortd-c.asf u.u.j tuutM r. >dvwrtlnlnjf R'U** fontiUhwl on *«lon. Official Organ of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., Mar. 26, 1915 Greater Co-operation. It is glorious to be living in an .Age like this. The greatest glory ?s in what it promises for the fu ture. Do not understand us here or elsewhere to intimate a belief that the material is the greatest part of this glory. We are mere y now mentioning the material as one side of the matter. The news items which daily and weekly fill the papers give evidence of this increasing glory. Moultrie has the courage to challenge the beef and pork trust in its own game. It Its own packing house, so the farmers cannot refuse to raise hogs with the excuse of no mar ket. This one act alone has given Moultrie more free advertising to the farthest ends of our coun try than could have been purchas ed for any sum of mere money. Its example has also been valu able: various citits and sections of Georgia have sent' pilgrimages to Moultrie to see the successs of this enterprise and to return hpme with the desire to astablish one at home. Dublin is about to build its packing house, and so is Grif fin. We are informed that at Moul trie the Chicago packing concerns are offering their meats at five cents per pound. Of course you rsee their purpose; it is to destroy t!he Moultrie market and so put it out of business. Perhaps they would buy it out, if they could, ' and then close it down. Of course until the trust lowers nts price elsewhere, this cannot fburt, for the local concern can ship to a higher price market. But when the trust enters into a rice cutting move elsewhere, then he co-operative concerns must o something. We see but one help; that isj for these concerns to become *4ouble-barrell co-operative con cerns, co-operative in both selling and buying. Now Pulaski county is solving She farmer’s prbblems of market ing his products other than cotton. At Hawkinsville they have form ed a farmers’ exchange. This ex change will find the markets and the farmers will bring their pro ducts to the exchange, so that they can ship them in car-load lots. The idea is very old. A few years ago the fruit men were on She verge of bankruptcy, because She railroads and middlemen reaped ill the profits and the farmers could make none. Then they otgrnized their exchanges and are no v m iking money. You remnmber some years ago She idea of grape-culture swept over our section like wild fire and our farm rs planted vvh >le acres ins vineyards. In a i'ew years they cut down the vines. The lack of a profit able rn trkl w is the cause. Co operation would have saved tin* indust y What is unpossible for yiu alone to do is easy for vou and a ew of your n igh'iors to_ 'herto do. The farmers of Laurens county are going to co operate in s lling ■sweet potatoes. They begin to *fet the figures from the.farmers of ho v many each farmer will have , for the market, so that when the crop comes in, the exchange has already contracted to sell a.S|inany cars as the farmers have agreed to furnish. Our neighbors just across the county line, Evans, Lunceford, and Wilson Junn m, lave import ed a herd of tine cat Me and are selling them to fanners, who want to raise our standard of cat tle. Why cannot Henry county co operate in the use of its unlimited and unrivaled resources? Will we be among the leaders in this new and glorious era or shall be left behind in the forward march of progress? We Sell for You Without Cost to You. We have heard and read so much of a lark of somewhere to sell the many products which a farmer can and does sometimes make on the farm. Mahyof us have read of how this market has been successfully pro videdin man / counties by co-op. - ative marketing. What has been done elsewhere can be done in Henry county. Our people could even now form their own exchange. We do not know whether they are ready or not. In the meanwhile The Weekly offers our farmers a method of finding, a market for their individ ual products within our own coun ty- So we make this offer to all who arfi bona fide farmers Jand subscribers to The Weekly; that is, farmers actually .living'on and operating farms, whetherjtheyldo or do not own thejt'arms; Until nfurtharj notide .ve." will give absolutely free to ten such farmers each veek;spice : in tip' columns of our classified] advet;- tisem 'nis, tejt le number of jnot more.th in 25 words tor each, in which hem i.v advertise for sale anything produeedjjon his farm and for sale by him. He must write his own copy and.let it reach The Weekly not later than Monday. The first ten S 'sueh’ advertise ments will be published. Others received will he list'd in the n yt issue iii the order of.their >e :eipt by us. Of course the same person may secure only one insertion of one advertisement under this offer. This offer is not wholly unself ish on our part. We know that for the man who has anything to sell advertising is the most profit able investment he can make. We know that it is riot a luxury. We know that it can yield large returns to the farmer who will use it. We are willing for hinrTto learn this fact, so certai ito our mind at our expense. We are willing to b*gia the de velopment of this ne v and fertih field. Now let’s see if you hav* p~' duced a’ 1 now sb'll have som thing vou wish to s *ll. Try it at our expanse Our Advice Is: When j r ou feel out of sorts from consti pation, let us say that if ote%a£2. (StdexGle&. do not relieve you, see a physicisn, because no other home remedy wiiL Sold only by us, 10 cents. The M i iou~h D 'ug Co. Mr. Holt i , • Mom ■s a orp | ) j H iU< ' u< sday. The Mbs. srv evle of h Met'; , list ch i n n . itll M;s«n Liliel 6 jvveii i urMv afternoo W 1 v*sd w wi M > Marvin T~m *r entert lined a roolc a few f.'ien Is most delight fully. BLOpilS IHAtiSliitAliOH OF WORLD’S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION ASSURES CONTINUED SUCCESS a -rzjlTH an attendance for the first week greater (.bin the combined attendance for the same period of the world's expositions at Chicago and St. Loulb, the Panama-Pacific International exposition <tt .an ran MviJl cisco has started on a career that the most conservative judgments predict will break all recor s o exposition success. The exposition opened on February 20, 100 per cent complete structr.niriy, and oponed > .< 1 at tendance of one quarter of a million people. From every state of the United and from t eoa ion# of the woria came critical visitors to pass on the merits of tbe celebration that huu been so win- ■> 1 ‘' They found nothing to criticize. Every claim made by San Francisco and the exposition was fulfil.ed t s» • to say that not a single visitor went away disappointed. The result has been that the advertisement by ort •> mouth, and by letters home and to friends —the most powerful form of advertisement has been gmu -w e *l* oßl tion. In consequence the transportation companies report a constantly Increasing booking mr tra\ el to ban ran cisco both by land and water. . . Exceptionally low rates have been given by the transportation companies from all points '* “ mn to n States to San Francisco, offering many people an opportunity that could not otherwise be taken, of com in ng a pleasure journey to the exposition with a sightseeing tour through California and the West. A feature of the exposition tha‘ has called for universal comment is the action' that mur..s exhibits, e\e.y exhibit capable of operation by steam or electricity beina shown in motion. A flood of inquiries concerning ratC3 and hotel aecammodationa Isas been received by the.information bur.aa of the exposition since the news of its successful opening was flashed around the world, all such lnquiiies being given prompt attention. San Francisco and California m fulfilling their hos; duties living up to the u putat.on the West has always had for hospitable treatment for the stranger. HANDSOME SIXTY-PAGE BOOK ON THE PANAM i-PAc.FIG INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION SENT FREE OF CHARGE TO ANY ADDRESS. Those who are Interested in this great exposition may obtain free of charge a handsomely illustrateu book of sixty pages, reproducing the exhibit palace iin their natural colors :d giving essential data about the exposition, San Francisco, California and th"? Panama canal. To cbtain thL book send a letter to the Manager, Bureau of Publication, Panama-Paci.ic International Exposition C ouuds, San Francisco, Calif. DURING A LULL IM THE OPENING DAY CEREMONIES AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION < V .< '< | - >..•• - | 4: ' V ‘ . ,• v ... . . IfStill ' 'I ■ P mm \... ■ ■«,; - ~T —-—----- , ■-f ~ - .... yi, 1 ; * ■ ■■ * _ ■ /} _ ' trl; mm , ' >■> ! I *' m i«> , ' f. ... 1 - ‘ < • v I’'';-!)-! » The Panama-Pacific imernational exposition was opened by a wireless spark, dispatdlied by President Woodrow Wilson at Washington, and aught cn the tendrils of a wireless aerial on the lofty Tower of Jewels at the exposi tion. Instantly the power was released in the mighty Palace of Machinery and the portals of the .exhibit palaces opened. The scene is on the grand stand after the ceremonies had ended, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, Gov. Hiram Johnson o' California, Mayor James Ralph, Jr., of San Francisco, President. C. C. Mpore of the exposition and a notable group of visiting dignitaries being seen in animated discussion of the epochaf event. In the press box the correspondents are seen flashing to the world the news that the exposition had opened. WHEN A QUARTER OF A MILLION OF PEOPLE INAUGURATED THE VAST PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT SAN FRANCISCO f / X" wmmmm I t V\i!s\ j/It w * M j i ■ • ' .. " ■ ' ~..spor;a:ion reports shov, that every state in the United States and most ol the nt.tin - - • •->re if:i ::ted in the great throng of 230,000 people v h naugurot^J the Fanama-Pacifle Iniernafon; . ; , s , it San Francisco on February 20. This pi -ture, showi th 1 mighty South gardens ; n • c tion of the cpen : ::g day throng In the first live da.. < » r .-. -s.- the expcs'lion i•.. : r; .. i ih.u the combined totals ol the Chicago and St. Louis xposi;;ons and the ratio cc:. uiuej in » u.,u tions of the moE; spectacular success for the exposition.
