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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLI.
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DAY SCHOOL DAY
This Day Will Be Observed
Throughout the State on
Sunday, February 13.
A day That is claiming the at
tention of the Sunday school peo
ple of all denominations in Geor
gia just at this time is the second
annual Georgia Go-To-Sunday-
School Day which will be observ
ed Sunday, February 13.
The Sunday schools of all de
nominations are working to have
a record-breaking attendance on
this day.
From the office of the Georgia
Sunday School Association, 1519
Hurt building, Atlanta, comes the
information that thousands of free
programs are being sent out to
the Sunday schools over the State,
and many schools are planning to
more than double their attend
ance.
In many places the officers of
the county Sunday school accocia
tions and the Sunday school su
perintendents are meeting and
making plans for getting every
Sunday school in the county to
work for a large attendance on
February 13.
The program for the day was
prepared by a committee, ap
pointed from the executive com
mittee of the Georgia Sunday
School Association, and will be
sent free on request to any Sun
day school in the State. It is ex
pected that the Sunday school at-
this day will break
all past records of the State.
If every Sunday school reaches
the aim that has been suggested
—SO per cent over the average
attendance —there will be more
than half a million people in the
Sunday school.
Interest and enthusiasm is
growing daily in favor of the day.
Pastors, superintendents, teach
ers, Sunday school members, the
big and the little, are all interest
ed in getting a big attendance for
their Sunday school.
Strive to make the day so spir
itual that there will be the oppjr
tunity of giving an invitation to
those present to accept Christ as
their Saviour. Let every one go
home feeling that it has been
good to be at the service and
with a desire to come again.
Following the efforts of the day
with constant prayer, thus if all
Sunday school workers of Henry
county will work together and
with God there will come to our
county a rich blessing.
W. W. Milam, President,
Jerry Walker, Vice Pres.
Miss Carrie Gossett, Sec.
“A Peck of Trouble.”
- By an error in figures The
Weekly got Mr. Will Welch, the
popular grocer, into a peck of
trouble last week. It slated that
he was selling 25 pounds of sugar
for SI.OO, when the figures should
have been $1.60. Before the store
was barely opened he was liter
ally overrun, and had a lively
time explaining, to set matters
right. The fault was all ours and
we hasten to correct the error.
But it will be a “cool day in Au
gust” before Will Welch can be
convinced that advertisements are
not read.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Jmcrests of McDonough and Henry County.
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One of the most stormy and
picturesque careers known to the
history of the American continent
came to a close the other day at
El Paso, Tex.
The closing scene in the life of
the man who had defied the pow
er of the United States and almost
plunged a continent into war is
thus graphically described by a
correspondent of the Associated
Press:
"Garbed in the snowy uniform
of a Mexican general, the body of
Gen. Victoriano Huerta, former
provisional president of the Mexi
can republic, lay in state here and
was viewed by a large number
of his former adherents.
“Late in the afternoon mem
bers of the family and former of
ficers of the Mexican army follow
ed the casket to Concordia ceme
tery, where brief services were
conducted by Rev. Father Carlos
Mayer. It is planned to remove
the body to Mexico City after
peace is restored, in compliance
with the general’s dying request.
“Upon being asked when Huer
ta’s body could be taken to the
capital of his country, Carranza
officials here answered positively,
’not in a thousand years.’
“No request for permission to
transport the body through Mexi
can territory had been made of
the defacto government, it was
said.
“Huerta’s body lay in state in
the family residence, on a quiet
side street, and there came a mot
ly crowd of Mexicans, among
which appeared a few Americans,
to pay homage to the man whose
refusal to salute the American
flag precipitated the fighting at
Vera Cruz, with a consequent loss
of a score of American lives.
“The casket was draped with a
Mexican flag and atop it lay the
general’s jeweled sword and the
gold-braided shapeau he wore on
state occasions. On the dead
man’s breast appeared the gem
set star and emblems of orders he
wore for a time as the head of
the Mexican nation. On either
side of the casket and at the head
and foot candles burned dimly in
trie darkened room, and through
the smoke could be seen the
stolid features of the members of
Huerta’s military staff, who acted
as a guard of honor. Around the
casket knelt weeping women clad
in black.”
The public is familiar with the
story of the rise of this man who
began life as an obscure boy,
largely of Indian blood, his entry
into the Mexican army where he
fought his way to the rank of a
general, the tragedy which mark
ed his entry into the president’s
chair, his defiance of the Ameri
can government, his fall and flight
to Spain, and his later return to
the United States.
On his way to Spain he landed
in the West Indies, and a Geor
gian who saw him there gives
this lucid description of the fa
mous Mexican:
“Huerta came ashore with his
coat hanging across his arm. His
skin was quite dark and his hair
gray. He wore cheap blue cot
ton trousers which seemed too
small, and were held up by sus
penders which were somewhat
soiled. He walked very pigeon
toed, as most Indians do, and his
shoes which were very cheap and
McDonough, Georgia, mrdday, January 28, im
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GINNED TO JAN. 16
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This County Show s Decrease
of Nearly >»,000 Bales F rom
Last Y#ar’s Figures.
The ninth potion ginning report
of the season; compiled from re
ports of census bureau corre
spondents and agents throughout
the cotton belt and issued at 10
a, m. Monday, announced that
10,766,202 bales of cotton, count
ing round as half bales, of the
growth of 19|5, has been ginned
prior to January 16.
The final ginning report of the
census bureau will be issued at
10 a. m., Monday, March 20, and
will show the quantity of cotton
ginned from the entire crop of
1915.
The government report, handed
The Weekly Wednesday by Agent
Oglesby, shows 22,908 bales for
Henry caunty up to January 16
this year, as compared with 30,-
649 ginned prior to January 16
last year —or a shortage of 7,741
bales.
Residence Burned
About 9 o’clock last Friday
morning the residence of Mr. Clar
ence Daniel was burned in Locust
Grove district.
The pupils’ of a school near by
responded to the alarm and suc
ceeded in saving some articles of
clothihg and furniture. The fire
is thought to.haye originated from
a defective flue! The loss is esti
mated at abopt $2,000, and only
about ope-third covered by insur
ance.
Warns Young Women.
Rev. Clayton L. Peck, pastor of
the Cleve’and Heights Methodist
church, has prepared this list of
“donts” for young women :
Don’t forget the respect due to
parents. !
Don’t sit in the parlor and read
a novel while mother is in the
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kitchen washing the dishes.
Don’t marry a man to reform
him.
Don’t do your sparking over
the phone, which was invented
for business and not buzzing.
Don’t expect a voung man earn
ing only •$ 10.00 a week to spend
sls nr S2O in automobile hue and
theatre tickets.
Don’t marry simply for a home,
but rather to make one.
Don’t harbor grudges.
Don’t think that powder and
paint make a lady, as beauty is
more than powder deep.
Don’t accept the company of a
young man who drinks or smokes
because no young man would be
seen on the street with a young :
woman carrying a cigarette in her
mouth.
Don’t fear being an old maid.
Personally I would rather have a
dozen old maids on my hands;
than one drunken son-in-law.
needed a shine, were not laced
all the way to the top. His eyes
squinted like one very near-sight
ed, and he moved about awk
wardly as if he felt lost.”
The historian of the future may
be able to see semething more in
this stout old Indian than a mur
derer and usurper of power.
Time will gradually bring out all
the light and shadows of the fu
ture. —J. A. H., in DeKalb New-
Era.
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I his sober, sensible editorial is
reproduced from the Savannah
Morning News:
“When morning dawned yes
terday five men hung limply from
one limb of a tree at a roadside
in Lee county. They were ne
groes, of course, victims of a
lynching. They were presumed
to have guilty knowledge, at
least, of the killing by negroes of
Sheriff Moreland of Lee county in
the Christmas holidays. Maybe
they were guilty and deserving of
death, mid it is possible that they
were not. They have suffered as
severe penalty as could be in
flicted upon them legally after
conviction of murder.
“Arguing logically from this act
of the men who killed them, it
should be expected that for a
long time there will be a quiet,'
orderly, peaceful, respectful ne
gro population in Lee county, that
for a long time there will be no
crimes committed by negroes
against white persons. But is
there really any reason for such
an expectation? Is it not true
that in counties where there have
been no lynchings in recent years
the negro population is just as
orderly and respectful as in coun-
ties that have had lynchings?
The question is, What good does
lynching do toward preventing
crimes by negroes against white
persons? So far as it is possible
to discover it not only fails to pre
vent such crimes, but also actually
stirs up race feeling and tends to
promote them. If that is true
lynching is not only a crime, but
it actually feeds the very thing it
is supposed to be killing.
“However, there need be no ar
gument about lynching. There is
no excuse for it. No county
should permit lynchings within its
limits and if one occurs, the coun
ty should discover and punish the
lynchers without the loss of a
moment more than is necessary to
find and try them. Lynching!
does not prevent crimes of the
sort it avenges. It may even
tend to increase their number.
It tends to prevent the develop
ment of the counties in which it
occurs and of the whole State.
It hits the pocketbooks of the
communities where it goes un
punished. And it hurts the fair
name of Georgia. How any pa
triotic Georgian can condone it is
a mystery.”
Hall —Ivey
Quite a pleasant surprise marri
age to numerous friends was that
of Miss Lula E. Hall, for some time
a popular teacher in McDonough
Public Schools, and Mr. A. L. Ivey
of Atlanta, at the home of Mr. J. C.
Harris in this city, 10 a.m. Sunday
Jan. 23, 1916. Rev. J. M. Gilmore,
pastor of the Baptist Church, per
formed the ceremony.
Mrs. Ivey is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Hall of Mesena.
She received her education at
Tubman High School, Augusta,
and Bessie Tift College. She also
studied extensively at the Atlanta
Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Ivey is a promising young
lawyer of Atlanta. He is a grad
uate of the State University of
Georgia, also of the Columbia
University of New York.
For the present Mrs. Ivey is
filling her place in the school.
Later they will make their home
in Atlanta.
$1.0!) A YEAP
THREE AGED CITIZENS
PASS TO BEYOND
All Long Time and Honor
able Residents of Henry
County lnterments.
The remains of Mr. C. M. Shields
were brougiil down from Atlanta
at 1 o’clock Wednesday sfternooc
and laid to rest in McDonough
cemetery, lie having breathed his
last in that city on Monday.
Mr. Shields was for a long while
a resident of Stock bridge district*
where he was well known as *
useful and honorable citizen, hav
ing spent a large part of life teach
ing. Later he moved to McDon
ough and lived here some tim<* rj
going to Atlanta several years ag®
where he had since resided. Be
sides a large number of family
connections, he leaves hosts of
friends to honor his memory.
On Monday, January 24, at the
home of his daughter in Cork,
Butts county, Mr. W. J. Jenkins
passed peacefully away, and hit
remains were laid to rest at San
dy Creek church, near that place.
For the greater part of his life
Mr. Jenkins, ( “Uncle Bill” as he
was familiarly known) lived io
Henry county, and a cleverer and
more generally liked citizen could
not be found anywhere. He was
the father of thirteen children, all
of whom survive him, and numer
ous friends join them in mourn
ing his departure.
Between 12 and 1 o’clock oi
Wednesday last, Mr. D. A. Wilson,
at his home in McMullen’s dis
trict, quietly passed to the end of
life’s journey.
“Uncle Dave,” as he was pleas'-
antly known, was one of Henry
county’s most peaceful and hon
orable citizens, and was highly
respected by all who knew him.
His aged wife was very low as he
passed away, with the probable
end at any moment, and the sur
vivors of the family are tendered
deep sympathy.
All three of the above citizens
were aged and honored Confeder
ate veterans, whose departure
from the greatly depleted ranks
elicits tender sympathy front
scores of friends.
Notice.
To the Sunday School Workers
of Henry County: Mr. J. W.
Brown, vice president of the Hen
ry County Association, moved
from our county the first of the
year, therefore it becomes neces
sary for us to appoint another.
After consulting with some of the
leading Sunday school workers of
the county, it has been the unani
mous consent of them all to ap
point Mr. Jerry Walker of Locust
Grove in his stead. If any school
in the county wants some good
help in your Sunday school call
on Brother Walker.
W. W. Milam,
Pres. H. C. S. S. Ass’rn
Not*ce
I will preach at Turner’s church
the fifth Sunday morning, Jan 30,
at 11 o’clock. H. S. Smith.
