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The Henry County Weekly
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
VOL. XLIII.
HENRY COUNTY MEN
CALLED TO REPORT
Twelve Henry County Drafts
men Leave Wednesday to
Report for Training Service
at Camp Gordon.
Below is a list of twelve men
some time ago certified by the lo
cal Exemption Board of Henry
county, and they left Wednesday
in response to a telegram receiv
ed last week calling them to re
port for training service at Camp
Gordon.
Quite a number of ladies smd
gentlemen assembled at the court
house Wednesday morning to ex
tend the soldier boys a farewell.
Rev, J. M. Gilmore presided, Rev.
H. S. Smith opening with a touch
ing prayer, and Rev. M. C. Liddell
made an impressive, patriotic ad
dress. In behalf.of the Ladies’
Missionary Societies of the city,
brother Gilmore in a feeling talk
then presented each of the boys a
Testament, the benediction was
pronounced and they left on the
morning train.
Here’s to our gallant boys, with
fervent good wishes that the best
of all fortune and success may at
tend them, in which every citizen
of ol Henry unreservedly joins.
Following are those called in
the order named :
George Godfrey.
Troy Lee Evans.
Raymond Pullin.
David Timon Bowden.
Harry Foster Smith.
Charles New.
James Henry Wallace.
Hiram Dewitt Elliott.
Geo. D. F. Abbott.
Ephriam Lynch.
John Hugh Craig.
Ivan Chester Austin.
Following is Rev. -Liddell’s ad
dress :
My Dear Young Countrymen:
This is not the time nor place
for spread-eagle oratory; we shall
relegate that to 4th of July and
other national holidays, which may
in future be increased by one
which will be kept alive in the
minds of all true Americans the
death of tyrany, brutality and im
perialism, and birth of world-wide
democracy, etc.
We have met here to let you
know how we feel towards you
and all the sons of our great coun
try, as you leave home, parents,
friends, sweethearts, ease, pleas
ures, duties, to enter into and aid
in this" great world-conflict.
You will be missed. Your bright
intelligent faces and chery voices
wiil not be seen and heard for a
time, but blessed memory'will be
kind to us and recall them ever
and anon. You are making a
move not of your own choice
but compelled bv circumstances.
Your* country has spoken. You
are silent. It has called you to
respond heartily. Your mothers
did not rear you to be a military
man —no, no. No mother rears
her boy for the purpose of, mak
ing him a target to be tired upon
by a hostile people. But inas
much as duty calls and you are to
be a soldier, she had rather see
you dead than know you for a
coward.
And you and I and all of us
would rather die than be citizens
of a country that has grown flab
by with prosperity, that has so
soon forgotten all the blood and
tears that have been spilled to se
cure to it the only boons that make
-existence bearable. I speak of
< : OBSERVER : >
The Baptist Young Peoples’ Un
ion of McDonough will render a
special program at the Baptist
church next Sunday night, taking
the regular preaching hour, and a
cordial invitation is extended Jo
everybody to attend.
Christmas “give.”
Spareribs and backbone.
Let’s go rabbit huntin’.
Did you hit the ice trail ?
Lots of cotton to pick yet.
Pay The Weekly that dollar.
War situation looking gloomy.
A merry, merry Christmas to
our good editor, and to each of
the correspondents, and to every
reader of The Weekly, and to eve
ry little boy and girl, and when
you little tots hear old Santa Claus
come tumbling down the chimney,
don’t get scared, for he is the
same old Santa Claus that used to
come to see mamma and papa. A
merry Christmas to everybody,
and may the year 1918 bring many
blessings to us.
liberty of speech, press, consience.
And you and I and all of us had
rather die than be known as mem
bers of an inferior race. Remem
ber Nathan Hall, Patrick Henry,
Sergeant Jasper, and others.
It is not an easy thing to die for
one’s country. It will be terrible
to pass through the horrible shell
tire. But you had rather do that
than be cowering behind the scat
tered fragments of your fellows
who faced the foe bravely, and
you yourself be called a scab,
slacker, scalawag, although safe
physically.
It may be that the lovely daugh
ters of AmericaAvill not fall on
your neck and kiss you and weep
tears of sorrow; they may not
cheer you as you go away to bat
tle, but there are two figures who
ever stand emblazoned in our
memories. One stands at the en
trance of N* j w York harbor, with
a torch in her hand —the Statue
of Liberty. The other is stand
ing one foot upon the shore of
the United States of America, the
other on the S *a, in one hand the
sword, the other Old Glory, who
is seeking to become mother to a
new era in the world's history, to
give all men Justice, Liberty,
Equality.
Some tilings you will get out cf
being a soldier boy in the Ameri
can army: It will he a great
schooling for you; it will give von
bodily strength; it will teach you
courage, how to be a man; it will
teach you how to die; it will teach
you how to live.
So he died for his faith? That is fine.
More tha n ih‘ j jnost of us do
But say, can you add to that line
That he lived for it too?
In his death he bare witness at last
As a martyr to truth.
Did his life do the same in the past
From the days of his youth?
It is easy to die. Men have died
For a wish or a whim,
From bravado, or passion’s pride.
Was it harder for him?
But to live, every day, to live out
All the truth that he dream'fit.
While his friends saw his conduct with
doubt,
And the world with contempt.
Was it thus he plodded ahead,
Never turning aside?
Then we’ll talk of the life that he lived*.
Never mind how he died.
Some of vou are going away
clean, pure. Come back that way.
Keep thyself pure. Aim at noble,
great things.
We are proud of you. God
bless you and be with you till we
jneet again.
FOR SALE.
Good house and lot in Locust
Grove, containing about one acre.
MRS. S. A. SMITH,
Hampton, Ga.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday. December 21, 1917.
Red Cross.
Tlie Henry county Red Cross
workers have finished and ship
ped their quota of Christmas box
es. A number of trench candles
have also been made, and the sur
gical dressings and hospital gar
ments continue to come in satis
factorily. The women are putting
in every spare minute of their
time, are regularly at their posts,
and are dispensing work with all
possible speed.
The membership campaign is
now on, and will continue until
Christmas eve. The least one can
do for the absent soldiers and
sailors is to become a member of
this organization. It is the plan
of the committee to extend the
Red Cross work into every com
munity, and each resident of Hen
ry county should give hearty co
operation to this extension work.
The following names have been
added to tlie Red Cross Roll since
it was last published. Is your name
here? It not, booths are being
cQnducted at the First National
Bank and at Horton’s Drug Store.
Enroll now, that Henry county
may not fail in its duty:
Joe Tarpley
Mrs. Will Allen
Mrs. Lillie Fargason
Miss Helen Harris
Miss Louise Smith
Ernest Smith, Jr.
Mrs. A. C. Smith
Miss Nellie Calloway
Mrs. L G. Bowden
Aldine Allen
A. C. Sowell.
H. C. Harris
Mrs. J. M. Stroud
Mrs. E D rolleson
Miss Lucile Tolleson
E. O. Fisher
Mrs. Li. B. Neal
Mrs. Benton Thompson
C. VV. Walker
Miss Mary W. Knight
Mrs. Cora Knott
Mts J. M Carmichael
Mrs. Wade Turner
Mrs. W. 0. Welch
Scip Speer
Mrs. Andrew Walker
Prof. William Preston
J. S. Rodgers
Mrs. J. V. Upchurch
George Spinks
J. S, Norton
Miss Marie Hightower
J. F. M. Fields
Mrs. J. F. M Fields
Miss Irene Nelson
Miss Cora Nelson
Mrs. B. H. Welch
B. H. Welch
Mrs. George Spinks
Mrs. Sadie Rountree
Mrs, A. G Harris
Mrs. Joe J. Smith
Mrs. Alex Borders
Miss Rebecca Smith
Miss Mary Alice Carmichael
Jim Alexander
Jno. R. Smith
Mrs. Jno. R. Smith
Mrs. F. M. Setzer
F. M. Setzer
Mrs. M. F. Gunter
Mrs. W. D. Tarpley
Mrs. Ola Thompson
Miss Florene Tarpley
Miss Lillie Coan
Mrs. Otis Oglesby
J. L Fargason
A. K. Brown
Mrs. A. K. Brown
Mrs. Mary Patterson
J. H Stroud
Miss Nellie Forsyth
Miss Lessie Moore
Miss Nina Wall
Miss Irene Turner
J. M. Tyler
Miss Willie Rountree
W. A Ward
Miss Ida Owen
Mrs. W. L. Pair
Miss Lessie Pair
J. B. Brown
J. C. Nash
W. C. Dailey
H.'H. Fannin
John M. Tyler
T lr\o Wir\r\ing
OF
LATAH B
School Auditorium—Friday, Dec, 21, 7:30
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Philip P. Cashton —President Cashton Phosphate Co., and
father of Latone Clarance Elliott
Mrs. Philip P. Cashton —Step mother to Latane and aid of
villain Addie Kate Patterson
Ruth Spaulding—Private Secretary to Mr. Cashton and
divorced wife of villain Ella Mae Fields
Julius Sears —First villain/ man of millions and suitor for
Latane’s hand Edwin Rape
Robert Sparr—Second villain, Supt. of Co., and
friend of Sears * Murray Copeland
Cyrus W. Gilbert —Chairman board of directors, Upland
Phosphate Co _.Satn Dailey
Trusty Hopkins—Faithful negro servant Greer Farrar
Frank Efferton —Faithful employee of Mr. Cashton and
lover of his daughter . Ernest Thompson
Latane Cashton —Faithful daughter of Mr. Cashton and
lover of Frank.. ..Gertrude Calloway
—ALSO—
Tommie Heinz —Office boy Howell Dickson
Richard Prince —Newsboy William Amis
Harry Forrest —Messenger boy H. M Tolleson
• SYNOPSIS •€—
to*
ACT I. —Julius Sears, having fallen in love with Latane “down at
the seashore,” comes to her home “to win her.” He meets opposi
tion on the part of Ruth Spaulding and Frank Efferton. He plans to
rob Mr. Cashton of his Company to accomplish his villainy.
* ACT ll.—Mrs. Cashton, desirous of “getting into high society,"
becomes Sears’ “first lieutenant” and is “crazy” for Latane to marry
him. She persuadesfMr. Cashton to “let Frank go” and and to put his
business into the “big trust” Sears is forming.
ACT 111. —Frank, deceived and led to believe that Latane loves
Sears and is going to marry him, prepares to depart with Trusty
for “foreign lands,” where he “hopes to forget everything.” He foils
an attempt on the part of Sears and Sparr to kill him.
ACT IV. —Two months later Frank returns to reinstate Mr. Cash
ton, wiio has been reduced to dire poverty and to wretched health,
and to receive Latane and her father’s “richest blessings.”
Thornton Farrar
Frank Copeland
T. E. Shaw
J. C. Culpepper
Miss Carrie Riley
Lon Blankenship
T. B. Thompson
Miss Eldora Grant
Mrs. E. F. Adams
J. E. Pend ley
Harrell Wallace
Earl Wallace
Will Berry
Windsor Setzer
J. N Woodruff
B. F. Gi ant
Robert McDonald
C. L. Farris
E. F. Adams
Mrs. Charlie Dickson
Miss Ruth Dickson
J. W. Dozier
Bob Bryant
Boyce Moss
Roy Crumbley
Johnie Bryans
Miss Elizai eth Smith
C. A. Rape
H. R Pair
Grady Russell
R. C. Walker
David Walker
L. A. Waters
G. G. LeGuiun
T. C. White
Mrs. B. F. Grant
J. H. Harper
Mrs. W. N. Owen
G. A. Brannan
Mrs. J. R. Turner
Mrs. J. G. Alexander
J. G. Alexander
C. J. Green
Mrs. H. C. Riley
Miss Mattie Riley
Miss May Glass
J. E. Morris
Mrs. J. E. Morris
Miss Willie Warren
Mrs. R. C. Riley
George Brannan
W. S. Stroud
Mrs. W. S. Stroud
Mrs. R. H. Hankinson,
Publicity Chairman.
Death of Mrs. Fisher.
The death of Mrs. Mary Fisher
occm ed at the home of her daugh
ter in Locnst Grove on Saturday
night last, Dec. 21, after an illness
of about two months, having been
in feeble health since the death
of her husband two years ago.
Mrs. Fisher was a good woman,
loved and respected by those wh/»
knew her, and leaves a large cir
cle of friends who join in sympa
thy with the bereaved ones.
was the mother of Mr. John Fish
er of McDonough, besides several
other grown children, and was
58 years ot age.
Interment occurred Monday at
Hopewell, in NeWton county, fu
neral services being conducted by
the paston, Rev. Mr. Kenifedy.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank the kind
friends who assisted us so macfe
in the illness and death of our
dear daughter and sister, and for
the floral offerings, May God's
richest blessings rest on each of
them is the prayer of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Upchurch
and Family.
Hole-Fix, the one best inner
tube repair—all Dealers carry it
in stock. 75c per.
$1.50 A YEAR
