The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 29, 1916, Image 1
The Henry County Weekly VO! . XL!. OBSERVER For President —Woodrow Wil son. Against everything —Thomas E. Watson. For success Everybody pull together. For Governor —Hugh M. Dor sey of Fulton. For a safe guard—Sow plenty of grain. This is a great big world we are living in. How about an old widowers’ convention? Tne present price of meat will increase hog raising. Philadelphia church will hold its services at Bethahy next Satur day and Sunday. Rev. B. S. Elliott-filled his regu lar appointment at Hopewell Sun day. ’. A sure cure for a chronic kicker is to jusl lab him keep kicking. Talk about your burglars, but here* is the latest. Some one went into the cotton field of Mr. W. M. Rosser one night last week and picked about 100 pounds, and then took his departure for parts unknown, and also took the cot ton with him. if you can get up anything m the stealing line ahead of this, please trot, it ou’. In last Sunday’s issue of the Atlanta Journal there appeared a clipping from the Henry; Couidy Weekly in regard to ,ihe prayer over the telephone by Rev. J. A.- Jackson during the recent,revival at Bethany. The Chrisiian ‘lndex of Atlanta recently reproduced the article from The Weekly, and by chance a copy of that paper fell in the hands of a prominent citizen of Sabine, Texas, who was formerly a citizen of this’State, and after reading -the incident in regard to Brother .Jackson, .he was impressed to write and give «• Brother Jackson an incident in regard'to himself which Brother Jack Son had never known befpre. About 28 years ago prdther Jbck son visited the home of mis gen tleman, then a voung man. Dur ing tiis stay in the horne*lhat day Brother Jackson read from* the third chapter of John, and the reading of that passage* o|. Scrip ture* so impressed hiih that he confessed Christ, and upon read ing the article which accidentally fell in'his hands in his far-a-wav home, he was moved to write- Brother Jackson and'tell this ex peri°nce. This goes to prove the great power there is in the read ing of God’s word The South River Association which met last week, paid Brother and Mrs. Jackson, who was a for mer moderator of this association, a glowing tribute of respect, and to express their appreciation of his noble work in former years they sent him a nice contribution, amounting to between STS and S2O, which was a volunteer gift of the association. Bank Statements. The regular quarterly state ments of Henry county’s eight ex cellent bank si published last week and this, show them to be in fine condition, and financial affairs are in no immediate danger in old Henry. *A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. mcdonouoh, Georgia, fovday. September -ms. Butts County Fair. Jackson, Sept. 26.—The Butts County Fair, which will be held in Jackson October 10 to 14, will be one or lire mo: l complete county fairs in the State. Worth while attractions have been arranged for every day, and every day will be a big day. The association has just com pleted the erection of up-to-date fair buildings, the agricultural building, octagon shaped, being one of the most modern in the | country. The association ’s sup ported by the citizens of the en tire county, stock being divided into small shares and being well distributed among farmers, busi ; ness and professional men. • The Following special days have been arranged: Tuesday, Oct. 10 —Automobile Parade and Home Coming Day. Wednesday, Oct. 11 —Livestock and Confederate Veterans’ Day. Thursday, Oct. 12 —Club and Agricultural Day —old time Fid dlers’ Convention. Friday, OH. 13—Colored Folks’ Day. 1 A premium list of several hun dred dollars has been provided for. and all premiums will be paid in cash one hundred cents on the dollar. The merchants and business men of Jackson their piace? of business for the. fair. Hundreds .of .V’sil.jrs are expected tt> participate in nff- Automobile Parade and Home Coming Day * events. Alt former ‘residents of Butts county are ex tended a cordial invitation to at tend the fair on Home Coming Day. * This is the third annual sessioft of the Butts County Fair, which heretofore was held in the court house. The scope o£ the. enter prise has -been considerably en larged and the fair will be bigger and better 1108 year than ever" be fore. " -' * * f - t State Convention. ' With the exception of consider able disappointment ai the results of appellate judgeship nominations 'the State Coitvehtion ended its duties at Macoiuvery.satisfactorily last. Tuesday. To'say'that Mr. Blctodworth’s thousands Of -friends do.' not severely condemn his un just defeat, after leading with such a- handsome majority, couid be nothing short of flat-'misstatement, and the wrong should 1 be righted. Judge J. J. Fiynt of Griffin was honored with permanent chairm ship of the convention, by virtue of which he becomes head of the State Democraiic Executive Com mittee for the next two years. Judge Reagan was given the honor of Presidential Elector, and Mr. J. G. Ward member of the Sixth District Executive Commit tee i'rorn Henry county. Dr. Jarrell Lectures. Rev. C. C. Jarrell, in addition to preaching at the Methodist church next Sunday morning, will lecture tonight (Friday) oil “Amer ica—Whither Bound ?” and Sun day night on “The Boy with Key on His Shoulder.” No admission will be charged or collection taken at either of these lectures, and no one should fail to hear the able presentation of these subjects by Dr. oarrell. Johnsoii-iveagan. An event of much interest to a 1 wide circle of friends was the marriage of Miss Elsie Johnson, one of Griffin’s loveliest. young girls, to Mr. Edward L. Reagan of McDonough, at 9 oclock VV^tines-, day morning, a| * St. .George's'] church in the foVmer city,' Rev.-j C. B. Wihner, rector Luke’s church, Atlanta, officiating. Immediately after the’ceremonv the bride and grooin left for Stt* vannah, where they took'steamer, landing at Baltimore for trip through the A full? account of tiie be I given later. ■ New Adverti^pent. The First National Bank of Mc- Donough has a neat nsvvadver-*r tisement in this of The . Weekly, briefly showmg^ # some of its attractive feature*#.. Tfs mem bership in the Fecpbi Reserve Bank gives it addj#efr;d advan tages, and with its general facili ties renders the First National cue of Middle Georgia’s banking institutions. Read thtyr ad. and remember thenfJ ». .— lit —«<*■ Locust Gfove. Mrs. W. J. Neal of Cartersville ■ i. • x - 1 ' gave quite ■an interesting talk on Latin America*at L. G. I. Thurs day evening. v- * 'V. Mr. and Mirk yjUuqjfc-V Thursday Jack? mV}- Mrs. Bed (jraftop of ‘ Bernice, La., who has been i' l Hie last two weeks at me hpine of Mr. W. A. Smith, is slowly improving. Daisy Gray and Dorothy PjJjpThave returned to Meridian, Miss.- Messrs. Brvant Burk and Joel Price are at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Mr. Gus Pdek of Macon has re turned home after a visit to Mrs. W. M. Rosser. Mrs. Claud Gray, Mrs. Grady Casteltaw, Mrs. A. G. Combs, Mrs. W. J. Smith and Mrs. Donovan at tended the women’s ' meeting in . McDonough Wednesday. Miss Susie Atkinson has return ed to her home near Jenkinsburg after a visit to her sister. Mrs. Lon Smith, Misses Mylene Donovan and An ufis Parr have returned to Shorter | College. Miss Mary Russell has entered the G. N. and I. College at Mii ledgeville. Miss Lorena Combs and Mrs. Julian McKnight were in Jackson ; Monday. | Mrs. C. V. Williams was shop ping in McDonough Friday. Mr. Henry Colvin, who under went a serious Operation at the Davis Fisher Sanitarium some weeks ago, is rapidly improving. After a visit to relatives here, Miss Mary Emma Phillips has re turned to Decatur. Miss Agnes Duffy of Morrow has been on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Claud Gray. Mr. N. B. Cason spent the week 1 end with friends at Mercer Uni versity in Macon. i Mrs. J. W. Bone leaves this • week to make her home in At lanta. LIST OF JURORS FOR OOTOBcR TERM, 1916 GRIiND JURY. .* T J A Unchurch 2 J WJ-iigh,tower, Sr ' 3 'WA Ammons 4 1 L MacaUA' . > . ■- t - r*** . 5 H J Vurijcr * . 6 . J W Pat Jio , ' 7 U CRdey* 8' J 8 Rodgers % W Ft. Knight TO . W A Combs • •*« • 11 CF Burch . 1:? pMt Ry w*n .HE 'A N Bf'own ■ 14 Jo.m $ branaan 15 Sam. Hf’itou . * ' '*•/ 16 WUr Dopuland /* ;V- ? ? T 7 M W Hotsum pack 1-8 W M Potts. ">< 19 C H GMellaw 20 A B Mitcham^ 21 Jp'C;ir£r * ■22 Robert Chappell 23 J P Thompson .24 J J Walker, Jr 25. D W Clb wr .26 J. 0. Dfivis - . 27 D C Turjier* * 28 John F Moseley 29 W*N Stricjktatffl . - 30 W L Wynn.- 4 * TRAVERSE JURY-First Week. 1 Ffi Andrews - & W C CriunfeW- Wa * . 4' foMrtir 5 Vv Iv Di oWii\ * 6 Newton Barnett 7 AC CastetMw 8 L‘D HigiifWer 9 W. H. Turner 10 P L Jinks 11 W A Bellah 12 W L Smith 13 J D Sorrow 14 T B Hays 15 R C Hearn 16 L C Dupree 17 H I Redwine 18 J W Standard 19 W B Moseley 20 G B Childs 21 L T White 22 W B Hays 23 J W W Ich 24 J H Chat in 25 A C Peterman 26 W E Owen 27 T C Kelley 28 RS Kennedy 29 T M Davis 30 E T King 31 A-G-44+w-^-Jr 32 J. B. Green 1 ~ 33 S T Clower 34 J P Glass 35 J W Cook 36 S B Moseley 37 WL Phillips 38 T D Harkins 39 A H Rowland 40 J B Rowan. TRAVERSE JURY—Second Week 1 C S Goodman 2 F B Stravvn 3 W O Tarpley 4 WB G Clark 5 CP Smith 6 M J Turpin 7 C Y Thurman 8 T G White 9 J C Lee 10 V R Jenkins 11 JC Walden 12 A A Lemon 13 R T Nutt 14 J C Sims 15 T J Morris Liviogston-Sims. C’nito h piGsustim; Fnr]>ris«- to iiiwiij fiiemls last HttiMav utmincton was the marriage of Miss Kamyio Ijv, of Newton" county, and -Mr. Elton Sims o£ McDonough, iu Covingtoq the pastor of* tiurPros- Fyte'rJan church there performing ’thy-flmeiuony'.* ' Sims is ths* ehicient and pop ular bdok-keeper at Ihe Fitst Na tiomil *Ea.nk of ‘ this eti v, his Pride beingwTne of Newton’s most execl lent uni! attractive young ladies, and numerous friends extend thorn heartiest congratulations and good wishes. For the present they arc residing a t the home of Lie groom’s f&ther* Mr. H. A. Sims. - 22 Cent Cotton’ -• • Mr. Walter Wilson <>i Hinton’s Mill brought in a bale of s\aple cotton Monday, and declined jan offer of 22 cents p|>r poun3 for it from Mr. J, S, Norton,- the well known expert cotton buyer, who has been in McDonough several seasons “past. recently stated, Henry coun ty will Ijave several hundred bales of this staple cotton the present season, which is attracting much interx'st, and the prospect is that it will command a very handsome price. From the present outlook, it will be extensively grown here next season, and more will doubt less be heard from it later. , '* •••**- • w* jVnTjpd its next meeting ’ day afternoon af tHe home of Mrs. Horton. The .Library Committee widies the public to take notice of the change in their plans. In future the library will be open every Monday afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30, and every Wednesday after noon from 4:30 to 5:30, with Mrs. O. L. Adams as librarian. New books are coming in,' and every one is asked to enjoy them. The club does not solicit the town for books, but merely states that any book that any one has and would like to put in this library would be gratefully received —or if a per son has a real new book, and would lend it to the rent she!? for a while it would help the club, and still the owner would not be out anything. 16 A W Walker, Jr 17 LD Moore 18 M H Berry 19 B H Starr 20 W L Welch 21 J H Strickland 22 M R Wall 23 Kelley Green 24 W J Hammond . 25 J W Wilson 26 1 E Carroll * 27 J=433tlgfrtmugr 28 J H Nutt 29 L E Clark 30 W H Barnett 31 W R Green 32 H H Forbes 33 W T Green 34 T H Stallworth 35 J D Phillips 36 J G Elliott 37 J O Rutherford 38 G W Cathy 39 E H Farris 40 F B Crowley 41 JR Elliott 42 Howard Morris 43 C W South 44 A H Swann 45 C M Power 46 J W Morgan 47 I L Nail 48 C M Rape. il.iift A YEAR