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The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. & A. L. FOUCHE.
Entered at the postoffice at McDon
ough, Ga., as second •'lassmail matter.
Advertising Hates 15c per inch. posi
sltion 6c additional—special contracts
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Dec. 7, 1917.
Taxes up again.
Big passenger trains loaded go
ing and coming.
Thirty cent cotton will doubt
less about sweep the deck.
Germany will succeed in at least
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one thing—turning world-hatred
against her.
Meat buying away from home
is soon to be a thing of the past
in Georgia.
Twentieth of this month abso
lutely last day to Day taxes with
out an execution.
Hunting comes high this sea
son. With oilier things the cost
of shooting has gone up.
At 30 cents a pound cotton has
reached the highest since right
after the civil war. But the end
is not yet.
The last of the country weekly
papers have been forced into the
$1.50 rate. It is either that or
shut up shop.
“A pig in the pen is worth two
in the store —to the fellow who
owns the pig,” correctly quoth
the Conyers times.
December 20 is absulutely the
last day to pay taxes this year.
After that date • the new law
forces the issuing of executions.
See your uncle Jim Wallace right
away,
The recent Henry county fair is
declared to have been a great
success. The promoters are so
encouraged over the results that
plans are already being made for
the 1918 exposition. Jackson
Progress.
The war has developed a lot of
new “movements,” “isms” and
fads. Some of them are worthy,
while many of them are just fash
ionable. Every fellow will have
to sift the chaff from the wheat,
according to his own notion, and
do the best he can to serve his
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country loyally and patriotically.
—Jackson Progress.
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We are just scratching around
on the edge of war times. People
who believe they have already
“done their bit” by making con
tributions here and there, have
some real jolts coming to them in
the future months. It is our pre
diction that before Uncle Sam gets
through with the job he has un
dertaken Americans in every com
munity who fail to give their
whole-hearted support to the gov
ernment will be censured and al
most ostracised by loyal, patriotic
people. —Commerce Observer.
Parcel Post Tax
After December 1.
Parcels and packages handled
through the parcel post depart
ment of postoffices will be sub
ject d, beginning December 1, to
a tax of one cent on every 25 cents
of postage or fraction thereof.
The following instructions have
been received at the local post
office :
“Upon every parcel or package
transported from one point in the
United States to another by par
cel post on which the postage
amounts to twenty-five cents or
more, there shall be paid a tax of
one cent for each 25 cents or frac
tional part thereof charged for
such transportation, to be paid by
the consignor. Nor such parcel
or package shall be transported
until a stamp or stamps represent
ing the tax due shall have been
affixed thereto.
“The tax on fourth-class matter
referred to in the preceding para
graph is not applicable to parcels
on which the postage amounts to
less than 25 cents. On a parcel
subject to 25 cents postage the tax
is one cent; on parcels on which
the postage amounts fo from 26
to 50 cents each, and so on. Par
cels shall not be accepted for mail
ing unless both the required post
age and tax are fully prepaid.
Special internal revenue stamps
shall be used to pay the tax; post
stamps are not for this purpose.”
Conservation.
They are getting up some ex
cellent slogans for the food con
servation and economy campaign.
One is: “It’s going to take both
the men in trenches and the wo
men in trenches to win this
war.” Another new motto for
housewives is : “Don’t stuff your
husband, but husband your stuff.”
Perhaps it might be wiser to say,
“If you don’t husband your stuff,
you can’t stuff, your husband.”
There will be food enough if
everybody stops waste, but only
economy can save the world from
want, says The Progressive Farm
er.
Good to Have in the House.
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Coughs, colds, croup and la
grippe are prevalent, Colds
promptly checked mean saving of
time, money and health. Pneu
monia and other serious illness
may follow a neglected cold. T.
R. Lynch, 100 Spring Av., Dußois,
Pa., writes: “For many years we
have kept Foley’s Honey and Tar
in fhe house and it has saved
many doctors’ bills. It is fine for
colds.” A child’s health is too
precious to risk giving imitations
or substitutes; insist on Foley’s.
The McDonough Drug Co.
Locate your smoke house in
the back-yard —your own back
yard. If the people had been do
ing this a long time ago there
would not be any scarcity of meat
at this time. —Ex.
The Boy—l shall be glad when
I am old enough to do as I please.
The Man —And about that time
you’ll go and get married, so it
won’t do much good after all.
Boschee's German Syrup.
Why use ordinary cough reme
dies, when Boschee’s German Syr
uo has been used so successfully
for fifty-one years in all parts of
the United States for coughs,
bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles.
It gives the patient a good night’s
rest, free from coughing, with ea
sy expectoration in the morning,
gives nature a chance to soothe
the inflamed parts, throw off the
disease, helping the patient to re
gain his health. 25 and 75 cent
bottles. Sold by the McDonough
Drug Co.
Germans Held in U.S.
Number Nearly 2,800
Two classes of German prison
ers are now detained in this coun
try. One is comprised of sailors
taken into custody when the Unit
ed States entered the war; the
other consists of “alien enemies,”
civiliaus who have been arrested
and are now being held under
governmental regulations for va
rious reasons.
The principal detention camp is
at Fort McPherson, Ga., where
approximately 850 war prisoners
are held; at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
there are 165 alien enemies; at
Fort Douglas, Utah, there are 517
prisoners of war and 80 interned
Germans. Small detachments are
now temporarily quartered at
Armv posts throughout the coun
try, but their number is relatively
small.
Altogether there are 2,364 ac
tual prisoners of war in the cus
tody of the War Department and
about 400 interned aliens held at
the request of the Department of
Justice.
It is estimated that Germany is
now holding 150 sailors taken
from American ships by commerce
raiders and other German vessels.
Cultivate rabbits and defy the
beef trust. That is the latest slo
gan of food economy and food
conservation. In Canada the gov
ernment is raising Siberian hares
on a large scale to supply the peo
ple with meat. Experiments are
being conducted along the same
line by business organizations in
northern cities. Rabbits multiply
rapidly and the better breads are
as nourishing and palatable as
chicken.
Over $300.00 in Cash Prizes and
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Lowest cost per pound
of real roughage
much each pound of roughage in this form is costing you,
you must divide the price per ton by 1500 —not by 2000.
rRADC mark
RUCKEYF
V HULLS N
LINTLESS
cost exactly what you pay for them. Every pound is all roughage—
no useless lint. To really know the difference in cost between old
style hulls and Buckeye Hulls you must know the cost per pound of
real roughage.
Even though Buckeye Hulls do sell at a much lower price than old
style hulls, you can’t realize how much less they are costing you
until you consider how much more real roughage a ton contains.
Other Advantages
Buckeye Hulls go farther. Sacked —easy to handle.
They allow better assimilation They mix well with other forage.
of other food. Take half as much space in the
No trash or dust. barn.
Mr. Dan Wolf, Hammond Bldg. &Mfg. Co., Hammond, La.,says:
“I am Jeeding Buckeye Hulls to milch cows and find
them a satisfactory filler when mixed with cottonseed
meal and other concentrates. At the present price of
feed stuff, Buckeye Hulls are the cheapest roughage on
the market.”
To secure the best results and to develop the ensilage odor, wet the hulls
thoroughly twelve hours before feeding. It is easy to do this by
wetting them down night and morning for the next feeding. If at any time
this cannot be done, wet down at least thirty minutes. If you prefer to
feed the hulls dry, use only half as much by bulk as of old style hulls.
Book of Mixed Feeds Free
Gives the right formula for every combination of feeds used in the
South. Tells how much to feed for maintenance, for milk, for fat
tening, for work. Describes Buckeye Hulls and gives directions for
using them properly. Send for your copy to the nearest mill.
Dept, k The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. De P t. k
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