The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, January 28, 1916, Image 1
The Henry County Weekly VOL. XLI. nrnnoi* rn m rim UH-UilUlrt UU-IU-OUN 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. T M U, ¥ V* 1 XUI i IU« 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 i n ■»/»/» n ffln r* *i rn DHLCO GINNED TO JAN. 16 * 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 $2,000, and only about ope-third covered by insur ance. Warns Young Women. Rev. Clayton L. Peck, pastor of the Cleve’and Heights Methodist church, has prepared this list of “donts” for young women : Don’t forget the respect due to parents. ! Don’t sit in the parlor and read a novel while mother is in the / kitchen washing the dishes. Don’t marry a man to reform him. Don’t do your sparking over the phone, which was invented for business and not buzzing. Don’t expect a voung man earn ing only •$ 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. F «« •-*• 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.