The Henry County Weekly
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v i ikly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
VOL. XLI.
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LtAr YtAK UIKtUIUKT
Giving a Partial List of • Mc-
Donough’s Known
Bachelor Boys.
Johnnie Lowe.
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Dr. JBob Tye.
Bob Hairston. >
Will Harper.
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Harvey Rape.
Ed Reagan.
Timon Bowden.
Arthur Bowden.
Tom Wall.
Henry Woodward.
John Hightower.
Will Atkinson.
George Alexander.
Jay Greer.
Eulee Russell.
Frank Setzer.
Jerome Cook.
Robert McGarity.
Hugh Turner.
Blake Turner.
Troy Smith.
Frank Copeland.
Here you have the 1916 leap
year layout, girls!
We have been look ing the
stock on hand over, and com
mend the above list to your ap
proval.
There are many others no doubt
in and around McDonough, but
the above use check books in pay
ing their bills, and this is j big ad
vantage when Easter hat Jbiiis
come rolling in, you know.
It will doubtless be no easy job
to snare one of these, and to make
it further worth while, we’ll send
The Weekly free to the McDon
ough girl who can reach the wire
by the end of the year with one
of them as a running- mate.
Some of the bunch have seen
many leap years come and go, but
they still run halter free. Some
of the others have not seen so
many leap years, but have shown
no tendency to eat at the domes
tic manger.
There’s no reason we have
ever known for this bunch to be
so .backward. It can only be laid
to their inborn bashfulness —for
was a more timid layout ever
known ?
We leave them to the tender
mercies of this 1916 leap year,
with everything the fates may
have in store.
Woodmen of the World
Elect New Officers.
At the last regular meeting of
Camp No. 302 of the Woodmen of
the World here, the following of
ficers were elected for the ensu
ing year:
T. J. Patterson C. C., John R.
Smith Junior P. C., J. C. Culpep
per A. L., Joel Bankston banker,
W. B. Bankston escort, W. G.
Thompson clerk, J. W. Welch
watchman, C. R. Hooten sentry,
J. A. Putman, W. A. Ward and E.
0. Hooten managers.
The camp has a membership of
about forty members, and its reg
ular meeting nights are the sec
ond and fourth Wednesday nights.
Send The News.
If you know any local news —
visiting, being visited, or other
wise—tell The Weekly and let us
print 'em.
McDonough, Georgia, rriday, January ji. mo.
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nig 11 wuiiuii oeeu.
“Not only has your early pre
diction of 12-cent gotten come
true,”a farmer remarked the other
day, “but your prediction that cot
ton seed prices wouid break all
past records has had a speedy
vindication.”
Several factors enter into the
increased .price of cqfton seed.
For. one thing the export of oil to
Europe has increased enormously
exports for the first nine-months
of this year being 282.000,000
pounds against 133,000,000 for the
first nine months of last year.
Tho oii export therefore was more
than doubled. In the second
place cotton seed is a superb feed
and all feedstuffs are generally
high; and the third influence is
found in the fact taht cottonseed
meal, as everybody knows, is an
excellent fertilizer, analyzing 6 to
7 per cent nitrogen, 2 to 3 phos
phoric acid, and 1 1-2 to 2 potash,
and fertilizer prices, especially
potash prices, are now almost “out
of sight.” How greatly prices of
each ingredient have advanced is
indicated by the follwing state
ment sent us by a leading author
ity.
“A large shipment of acid phos
phate was sold in Baltimore last
fall at $9 per ton. The same
goods, we heard, last week sold
for $14.50. Nitrate of soda, which
a year ago dropped as low as $37
per ton, was recently quoted at
SSB. Muriate of potash sold be
fore the war at $45
—now sells from around $25/).
(These are factory prices. )’\
Progressive Fanner.
Prolific Swine Brood.
So far as we have heard, Mr.
Charlie Bankstpn a few days ago
killed the largest hog of the sea
son, weighing 525 pounds.
This was a sow from which a
litter of pigs had been raised in
something over a year, and upon
being killed formed a remarkable
weight record. They were raised
andslaughtered by different parties
as follows: Mr. C. W. Bankston,
(the mother) 525, Mr. Joel Banks
ton, two 484 and 472, Mr. Henry
Copeland one 400, Mr. Henry
Bankstpn one 400 —a total of 2281
pounds.
The Weekly respectfully sub
mits this record for the .blue rib
bon.
The first quarterly conference
for the new year was held at the
Methodiot church here last Sun
day, with an enjoyable “dinner on
the grounds.” Presiding Elder
Pierce, one of the ablest ministers
in Methodism, preached his first
sermon in the new charge, and
was warmly welcomed by our
people. The usual routine of
business was promptly transacted.
A change has occured in the
firm of Green, Tarpley & Co. for
the new year, though no formal
announcement has so far been
made. Mr. Lum Turner succeeds
Mr. H. C. Russell, whose friends
are glad to know will remain in
McDonough for the year, his time
occupied in closing collections.
Mr. Turner is a most excellent,
clever gentleman, and has numer
ous friends through the commu
nity who will be glad to do busi
ness with him. He resigned his
placeas cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank to take up
the new work.
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WtLUUMt mt WfcfcKLY
Kindly Expressions Tendered,
by Editor’s Old Friends
of the Press.
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For the cordial welcome ex
tended the ctuior of The Weekly
by old press -friends and colabor
ers, upoiw his return to the fold,
they have our deepest npprecia
4-iV\»■» To ikA*l«iH4n <\r f t%o fon upo ro
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we were otrt . more has been a
wonderful linprosirfuent in every
feature of the weekly press of
Georgia. We sincerely congratu*
ate “the boys” upon their splendid
work —and here’s the glad hand,
with best wishes to each and ev
one of you.
It is our pleasure to reproduce
these:
Mr. J. A. Fouche is now editor
of The Henry County Weekly,
succeeding Mr. Frank Keagan,who
is already editor of the Covington
News. We wish Brother Fouche
an abundance of success. —Con-
yers Times.
On January Ist Mr. J. A. Fouche
asssumed the management of The
Henry County Weekly. Brother
Fouche is a splendid paper man,
and we will see the imprint of
his worth and character upon The
Weekly.—Pike County Journal.
Thrice welcome back into the
; fold our friend, J. A. Fouche, who
! last week resumed control of The
! Henry Corn, y V ekly after hav
i nig bean out of Harness tor nine
-years. He shows that his hand
has lost none of its cunning in
getting out a model paper. —Ogle-
thorpe Echo.
Members of the Fourth Estate
of Georgia gladly welcome Mr. J.
|A. Fouche back into the newspa
j per field, after an absence of sev
eral years. Mr. Fouche is a ver
satile writer and his “first love,”
Henry County Weekly, is getting
better since he resumed control.
—Monticello News.
After trying other fields of labor
for nearly ten years, Col. J. A.
F'oucLe lias again returned to the
editorship of The Henry County
Weekly at. McDonough, and his
first issue shows a marked change
and improvement, and the old
time vitality that characterized the
paper so long has returned in re
newed energy and vigor.—Clarks-
ville Advertiser.
We are glad to note that our
old friend and former fellowciti
zen, Mr. J. A. Fouche, is back in
charge of The Henry County
Weekly again. As we have be
fore remarked, Brother Fouche is
not only a splendid gentleman but
a fine newspaper man, and the
first issue of The Weekly under
his management shows a marked
improvement —Hawkinsville News
and Dispatch.
Mr. J. A. Fouche is receiving a
Welcome back into the newspaper
game. Mr. Fouche is editor and
manager of the Henry County
Weekly and has already made
many improvements in the paper.
He was formerly editor of the pa
per at McDonough, giving up the
duties of this position to become
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Henry County. This position he
held for ten years; but he could
not resist the temptation to try
the newspaper game again. We
know he will make a success of
A Remarkable Man.
Jas. M Smith pf Oglethorpe
county, died a R*w weeks ago.
With his going one bf the
remarkable men in the State
passed rf n way.
Jim Smith began life a poor
mm*, with nothing but native good
sense and willingness to work as
his inheritance. One of the first
things he did was to seiM books.
Lat?r he went into the woods on
a plantation near “the Athens
branch of the Georgia railroad
and cut crossties for road.
Out of the proceeds of this labor
he paid his way through llimvas*
see College, Tennessee. Duriffg
the Civil War, being exempt from
military duty on account of defec
tive eyesight, he peddled on cow
hides and other produce, and was
fortunate enough to secure pos
session of a few bales of cotton.
This sold at a good price when
the war was over, and he bought
a not very desirable farm in Ogle
thorpe county. Here he began to
farm in a modest way. In ten
years he was making several
hundred bales of cotton, and in a
few years more had acquired at
least 20,000 acres of land.
The general impression is that
Mr. Smith made most of his
money leasing convicts; but, as a
matter of fact, his greatest success
was in farming. He added mer
chandising, milling, the manufac
ture of fer.il zars, and other enter
prises to his undertakings; but
farming, Was io the last, his chief,
concern. Among other things, he
built a railroad 10 miles long for
his own convenience. When he
died he was probably the largest
land owner in Georgia, and reput
ed to be worth at ieast $2,000,000.
Jim Smith, as he was familiarly
known by his friends, was a man
of many resources, a master in his
judgment of human nature, and a
much better man than some
have represented him to be.
the management of the Weekly
and hope that his home people
will give him the support that he
so richly deserves. —Monroe Ad
vertiser.
The Henry County Weekly, of
McDonough, is now uuder the
management of Mr. J. A. Fouche,
a veteran and experienced news
paper man. The first issue of tlie
paper showed marked improve
ment, and when Mr. Fouche hits
his true stride he will .no doubt
give Henry county the best paper
it ever had. The return of this
veteran craftsman to the work
he loves so well is a real acquisi
tion by the weekly press of Geor
gia.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
The News is glad to welcome
the return of Hon. J. A. Fouche
to the newspaper fraternity. Af
ter the lapse of years he is again
editor and publisher of The Henry
County Weekly, and has already
made marked improvement in that
paper. Mr. Fouche is an affable
gentleman and a versatile writer,
and has numerous friends here at
his old home in Dawson who ex
tend him best wishes. And none
of them are more cordial and
sincere than our own. —Dawson
News.
After the striking apparatus
being out of commission a while
the past week, the city clock is on
regular duty again chiming off the
hours.
SI.OO A YBAR
3ANK MEETINGS HELD
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McDonough’s Tlnde Banks
Held Their, Annual Meet
mgs Last Week*
% McDoifough’s fhre<f banks have
recently held Ahelr annyn!*meet
ings, and the excellent showing
made by each of them is indeed
creditable. The safe and conserv
ative management assures the
best banking facilities to be had
anywhere, and splendid officials
are justly entitled to the congrat
ulations and confidence accorded
|tan by the many in this territory
whose banking business is en
trustctpo their care.
While Tnany banks in other
sections 'have reduced dividends,
the past year, ours have sustained
their splendid reputation by not
falling below' the stannard, despite
the depression in business circles.
The stockholders and directors
of The Bank of Henry County held
their annual meeting at the office
of said bank on Monday, January
10,1916, and after Hearing a re
port from the officers of the past
year’s business, which disclosed
very satisfactory results, the us
ual 5 per cent semi-annual cash
dividend was declared, and bal
ance to undivided protit account
The following officers and dr
rectors were re-elected for the
ensuing yeafr
president,
H. J. Copeland me president*- J.
B. Dickson cashier, John D. High
tower assistant cashier, John G.
Pullin bookkeeper.
Directors—P. W. Pullin, F. S.
Etheridge, D. J. Green, R. W.
Dickerson, E. M. Smith, A. N.
Brown, ii. J. Copeland, J. B. Dick
son, F, M. Copeland.
The First National Bank of Mc-
Donough, Ga., held its annual
[stockholders and directors meet
i ing on the 13th of January.
Thirty-one shareholders were
present and listened to llu; annual
reports of the otneers, \ hich were
very gratifying. They showed
that the bank had the best year
in its history. The usual 8 per
cent dividend was declared and a
substantial amount credited to
the* undivided profit account.
This bank has a capital of SBO,-
000.00 and surplus and undivided
profits of $40,000.00, which shows
a steady growth.
The following officers were re
elected: T, A. Sloan president,
Ralph L. Turner vice president
and cashier, Henry Woodward as
sistant cashi.r, Elton Sims book
keeper.
The annual stockholders meet
ing of the Fanners and Merchants
Bank was held on last Thursday,
the 13th.
The regular dividend of 8 per
cent was declared, and a nice bal
ance was passed to the undivided
profits account.
The following officers were
elected: H. J. Turner president,
W. D. Tarpley vice president, and
J. B. Turner cashier; D. C. Turner,
the former cashier, having re
signed the first of January to take
a position with Green-Tarpley &
Co. The old board of directors
were re-elected for the ensuing
year.
