The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, December 07, 1917, Image 2
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 < 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 % country loyally and patriotically. —Jackson Progress. ft 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. 4 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 Scholarships to be Given Away by f (jo//eye. You can win a prize if you start right away* This is your opportunity to win a Scholarship in Georgia s Leading Training School* Special Reduced Christmas Rates You can save from SIO.OO to $20.00 on a Life Scholarship if you will take advantage of uur Special Reduced Christmas R ites of tuT tion. You can buy now and enter any time it suits you. But we need you in our school now to orepare for a good position in the business world. We cannot supply the demand for our graduates. • learn Shorthand in Three Months. You can master our simplified system of shorthand in three months—hundreds have learned it in two months, and we know no reason why you should not do as well. If you will investigate you will be convinced that this is the college for you. We help our stu dents, not only while they are here in* school, but any time after they leave. FILL OUT AND RETURN Bagwell Business College, 34% Luckie St., Department H. C. W. M., Atlanta, Ga. Gentiemen : Please send me particulars of your contend, also give me your' Christmas rates. I am interested in the following courses: Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Typewriting. (Please underscore the courses in which you are interested) Name Address Date 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. 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