The Henry
County Weekly
Hy J. A. fouciie.
Enured at the postoffice at McDon
ough, Ga., os secono "lass mail n atter.
Advertising Hates 15c per inch, posi
sttion 6c additional—special contracts
Official Orifan of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Jan. 11, 1918.
O, you cotton.
An ounce of precaution is some
times worth a plumber’s bill.
May this bio xlirst war of all
time end with the good year
1918.
Cotton thrty one and a half and
still rising—but not quite out of
sight yet.
With the ground frozen a solid
month, the Decemebr record is
broken in Georgia.
In paying $1 59 for your paper,
remember it is not as much as
your dollar was two years ago.
“N v< r <\ • n ,” said Elbert
Hub > ird, "> in' fri< ids do nol
ne< ■. i ii in i yout u mies vvill not
believe it.
With all eyes strained towards
Cuba, not a sugar.ship has yet
been sighted to relieve the short
age for us.
And now comes the Savannah
Press with the statement that
“sugarlutnp” ought to be a strong
er term of endearment than it
useter.
Truly i- this a time to prove
men’s nn t■ ■ .in ■ olving to work
more this y ir ih n \ r before,
only .moth r method of demon
strating true p itnotism.
A United St des coast and geo
detic survey of the territory adja
cent to Savannah has been in
progress for the p ist nine months.
The survey is for puparedmss,
and its m ait is a military secret
with the government.
The Weekly joins the entire
Georgia press in fraternal sympa
thy with the Beutia Vista Patriot,
which suffered the total destruc
tion of its splendid plant when a
big fire swept the main portion of
the town two weeks ago.
For the time since the town
was incorporated—over seventy
five years ago —Newnan parsed a
“drunkless” Chri tmas. Not a
single case of drunkenness was
reported. More than that, if any
man, white or black, bad a drink
concealed under his tunic he Kept
mighty quiet about it. “I have
been doing police duty iti Newnan
during Christmas time for the
past twenty years,” said Chief
Fincannon, “and this is the only
Christmas in my experience that
arrests for drunkenness were not
made. What is the explanation ?
‘Bone-dry’ prohibition, of course.
•“Newnan Herald.
Nitrate of Soda.
The State Department of Agri
culture is advised by Mell R. Wil
kinson, of Atlanfa, who is now act
ing as assistant to the United
States Commissioner of Agricul
ture, that the farmers of Georgia
will be able to obtain nitrate of
soda, in reasonable quantities, for
fertilizing their crops during 1918.
Mr. Wilkinson writes the de
partment from Washington that
negotiations have already pro
ceeded to the point where it is
now assured that the greater part
of the requirements of the farmers
can be supplied from January to
June, 1918. The announcement
as to prices and the months in
which deliveries can be made, will
be forthcoming very soon.
The State Department will keep
posted on this situation, and will
be glad to furnish any one inter
ested all information it has in
hand, upon application.
Labor scarcity this year is going
to make liberal and careful fertili
zation more important than ever.
Farmers should get in their fertil
izer supplies early, and while us
ing liberally, should employ it in
the manner to get the maximum
of good results.
A Quarter Million
From Smith Estate.
Atlanta, Jan. 4. —Nearly a quar
ter or a millon dollars poured in
to the State treasury in 1917 from
inheritance taxes on estates, of
which amount no less than $96,-
000 was collected on Ihe estate of
the late James M Smith, million
aire planter of Oglethorpe county,
whose farm has been tf f bone of
contention between a dozen dif*
ferent sets of “heirs” ever since
his death.
The tax equalization law has
caused a great deal of criticism in
certain quarters where large land
owners have been forced to hear
the tax equilization act, was pass
ed the inheritance tax law, and no
complaints can be heard with the
naked ear against this law, al
though it has yielded an annual
revenue almost equal to the in
creased revenue produced by the
tax equilization act.
There is every indication that
the equilization act is growing in
favor as the people understand it
better. They see that it works
no hardship on the small property
owner who was never able to
dodge his taxes, while it compels
the large and influential property
owner to give m his lands and
other real estate at something like
their actual market value.
Missouri Masons.
The Grand Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons of the state of
Missouri, at a m vting held in St.
Louis September 18. pissed amid
cheers, a most drastic resolution
in favor of bom dry prohibition.
The resolution provides for the
expulsion from the order of any
Mason signing a petition for a sa
loon or a saloomst’s bond. The
resolution passed by a vote of 1,-
180 to 360. Counted by lodges,
the vote stood 236 to 72.
Was Feeling Run Down
Symptoms of on-coming kidney
trouble deserve prompt attention,
for neglect invites serious illness.
Louis Buckner, Somerset, Va,
writes: “I was feeling ail run
down; tired, with pains in my
back. After taking Foley Kidney
Pills 1 felt like a new man.” Back
ache, rheumatic pains, stiff joints,
sore muscles, swollen ankles, puf
finess under eyes, and sleep-dis
turbing bladder ailments yield
quickly to this time-tried remedy.
A boon to middle-aged men and
women. The McDonough Drug
Co.
Soldiers Prefer Service In
stead of Officers’ Course.
Soldiers at the cantonments
would rather see service at once
on the battle lines as privates
than go later as officers. In many
instances enlisted men eligible for
admission to officers’ training
schools have refused to apply be
cause they feared the work would
lessen their chances of immediate
active service in Europe.
In one division, with 380 men
to be selected for training schools,
only 40 would apoly. The rumor
was abroad in camp that the di
vision would sail before the work
at the school was completed and
not until the men were assured
that the school would move with
division where quota were stilled.
George Long, the Macon Tele
graoh’s able editorial writer, who
is originally from Canada and one
of the strongest pro-allys at all,
has been laid up with Ihe German
measles, which causes the Ameri
cus Times-Recorder to wonder if
the kaiser’s agents are at work in
Macon.
Boschee’s German Syrup.
will quiet your cough, soothe the
inflammation of a throat ami lungs,
stop irritation in the bronchial
tubes, insuring a good night’s rest,
free from coughing and with easy
expectoration in the morning.
Made and sold in America for fif
ty-two years. A wonierful pre
scription, assisting nature in build
ing uo your general health and
throwing otf the disease. Especi
ally useful in lung trouble, asthma,
croup, bronchitis, etc. For sale
by McDonough Drug Co. 30 and
90 cent bottles.
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cotton warehouse?
WHEN you store a ton of old style cottonseed hulls
you give space to almost 500 pounds of lint and
all the extra bulk that the lint causes.
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you to carry twice as much roughage.
Other Advantages
2000 pounds of roughage value Better assimilation of other food.
to the ton —not 1500. No trash or dust.
Priced much less per ton. Sacked —easy to handle.
Every pound goes farther. Mix well with other forage.
Mr. John Wicker, Forest, Miss., says:
that his first experience in feeding Buckeye Hulls was
unsatisfactory as he fed them improperly. He now
soaks the hulls over night, then feeds them and has
very satisfactory results. Mr. Wicker states that these
hulls are more economical than the old style hulls and
thinks that they go almost twice as far as the old stfjle
hulls at a considerably less cost to begin with.
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
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this cannot be done, wet down at least thirty minutes. If you prefer to
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