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The Henry
County Weekly
15y J. A. FOUCHE.
Entered at the posrofflee at McDon
ough, Ga , as second '•lassmail matter.
Advertising Kates 15c inch, posi
sition 6c additional—special contracts
Official Organ of Henry County.
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McDonough, Ga., May 17, 1918.
** Clips and Comments
Rerlin’s beast bound to bite the
dust.
Ripe peaches on sale in the big
markets.
Aren’t you proud of your Lib
erty Bond ?
.lust as cotton is coming up the
price is going down.
To make the world safe for
summer —get behind a hoe.
Farmers making good use of
the recent favorable weather.
The latest war desert —corn-
bread puddin’ with syrup sauce.
Gardens yielding returns for
labor and expense bestowed upon
them.
It costs all it is worth to be pop
ular—but it is seldom worth what
it costs.
Not too late to plant food crops,
and if not needed for home con
sumption they can be easily -sold.
Two men in Missouri have de
clined the U. S. senatorship offer
ed them by the governor of that
State. What a difference in old
Georgia.
The bond campaign is over for
a time, hut the thrift stamp and
war stamp drive goes steadily on
and is also important.
Sherman may have been right
when he said what he did about
war, but they do say some of the
little boys now have his vocabu
lary backed off the map.
The fellow who is so persistent
for his “rights” that he will defy
law should remember that with
out law he would have no estab
lished rights.
Maybe if the price of cottton
should continue to decline tann
ers would not raise much row aft
er a little if a bill should be intro
duced in Congress to fix a price.
It is announced that by observ
ing the flour rules we are sending
our soldiers in France eighteen
million pounds per month, this
possibility being attributable to
the unlimited patriotism of Geor
gia’s citizenship.
The Sixth Liberty District ex
ceeded its quota by 50 per cent,
every one of the 420 counties go
ing “over the top.” This is in
deed a remarkable showing, as
well as a tribute to the loyalty
and patriotism of our people.
Cotton Prices.
The cotton farmer and the peo
ple of the South generally, insist
ing that, it cotton prices are to be
fixed at all that they be fixed fair
ly, cannot be accused of profiteer
ing. Cotton is not high because
of speculation and hoarding, but
simply because the South has not
been able to grow enough to sup
ply the demand. The Birming
ham News, published in a city de
pendent on steele, iron and coal
and not on cotton takes a very
fair position. It says:
While the News has no mind
to impeach the wisdom of
those who speak darkly of
Government regulations of
cotton prices, a mere state
ment of comparative ginning
figues for 1916 and 1917 would
scarcely justify any such move
on the part of the Govern
ment. Cotton ginned prior to
January 16, 1918, amounted
to 10,569,475 bales; cotton
cotton ginned prior to Janu
ary 16, 1917, amounted to 11,-
137,712 bales. The gradually
increasing prices of cotton
have not increased the pro
duction. Thirty and thirty
one cent cotton, compared
with prevailing prices of near
ly everything else useful, is
not more precious than twelve
or fifteen-cent cotton under
normal conditions, perhaps
not so precious. Government
fixing of cotton prices on a
scale down would be the ut
most folly.
Normal Cotton Crop
Declared Impossible.
Atlanta, May 10, —It will be im
possible for Georgia to make a
normal cotton crop this year under
existing conditions.
J. J. Brown, commissioner of
agriculture, returning from the
tractor rally at Albany Thursday
with stories of 20 pound cabbages
and other exceptional crops nev
ertheless made a definite and un
favorable report on the cotton
crop. The report was based upon
conferences at Albany and at
points on the return route, as well
as upon personal observation.
“Seldom has there been so poor
a stand of cotton at this time,”
said the commissioner. “Other
crops, too, are backward, but the
vagaries of the weather, now
warm for a day, then very cold,
has injured cotton severely. It
will he impossible to obtain a nor
mal crop this year.
“I found the farm labor situa
tion even more alarming than 1
had pictured it, and it is safe to
say that a considerable part of the
crops of the state cannot he har
vested unless there is relief.”
In a more optimistic vein, the
commissioner exhibited a mam
moth cabbage head from the farm
of Jno. B. Little, of Lee county,
which would measure about 14
inches in diameter. This cabbage
head, Mr. Brown said was a baoy
compared with others on the Lit
tle farm. Some of the heads, he
said, weighed 20 pounds.
It was estimated that the Little
cabbage harvest from only 16
acres ot Lee county land, wouid
yield a return of not much less
than $7,000 this year.
Marketing Hogs
beats burying them. Steye Hoo
ver, Mt. Pleasant, lowa, writes,
“Commenced feeding my herd of
about 100 hogs B. A. Thomas’ Hog
Powder over two months ago.
Fifity were sick and off feed.
Nearby herds had cholera. I did
not lose one—they are well and
growing fast.”
For sale by Henry County Sud
ply Co.
Thoughts.
How still it is! Thfe busy work
aday world has ceased its labors,
the rush and turmoil of daily strife
is over, and night stretches its
somber shadows over all. No
sound but the drip of the blessed
rain breaks the silence, and it falls
in a soft, slow dripping, as though
loath to break our slumber. Sit
ting alone in the stillness of our
room, looking out into the dark
ness. listening to the patter of the
raindrops, thoughts too many, and
many of them painful, tome
thronging to our brains —thoughts
that keep “Death’s twin sister,
Sleep,” far away. There are many
things, as we think of them, that
should not have been neglected —
manv unkind words spoken that
can never be recalled, whose
wounds after-words or deeds can
not heal. The flesh may heal
over a wound, but the scar ever
remains. If this is true of a flesh
wound, it is more so where the
feelings, the heart, has been hurt.
Strange, too, that it is not the
alien —the sometime guest or the
acquaintance—upon whom we in
flict these wounds, but those who
are nearest and dearest —those
upon whom the existence of our
lives, as it were, depends —those
who love us, and are entitled to
all the love and endearing words,
all the little acts of kindness, that
go toward making a happy life.
Just to think! we frown upon
one of our own household, and
turn with a sweet smile and pleas
ant word for the stranger—the
“friend” of an hourj —Selected.
Six Needed Laws
for Rural Progress.
Now as never before the nation
and the slates are aroused to the
importance of agriculture and to
the importance of making provis
ion for promoting agricultural
progress. It is a good time, there
fore, for farmers in every state
and county to decide what legisla
tion they need and take steps to
secure it. In this connection, we
are glad to notice the good exam
ple set by Louisiana, where the
farmers and agricultural leaders
have been called in conference to
meet at New Orleans March 4 to
consider a half - dozen needed
measures for progress in that
state In the official call sent out
by the State Extension Service,
we notice that a main purpose is
to make a definite statement of
the farmers’ wishes as to what
should be incorporated in—
1. A modernized chattel mort
gage law that will feciliate such
j enterprises as breeding and feed
ing beer cattle, hogs and the de
velopment of the dairy industry.
2. A law looking to the control
of the wandering dog.
3. A pure seed law.
4. Legislative and support of
agricultural education.
5. A simplified system of reg
istering land titles.
6. To decide whether it is best
to have a state-wide or local op
tion law restraining livestock from
running at large.
These are good subjects for
farmers in every section of the
South to consider now that the
time for selecting legislators is
approaching. Progressive Far
mer.
WOMAN S STATEMENT
WILL HELP STOCKBRIDGE
‘T hated cooking because what
ever I ate gave me sour stomach
and i bloated feeling. I drank li. t
water and olive oil by the t_ r allon.
Nothing helped until I tried simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as
mixed in Adler-i-ka.” Because it
flushes the ENTIRE bowel tra*et
Completely Adier-i ka relieves ANY
CASE sour stomach, gas or consti
pation and prevents appendicitis.
The INSTANT action is surprising.
C. H. Pinson, druggist at Stock
bridge.
Commendable Quality in Jewelry
No matter how little you pay. you get quality here
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get intrinsic value for your money. Aside from real
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hereabouts.
T. H. WYNN, The Jeweler,
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