The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, May 17, 1918, Image 3
*A Great Net of Mercy drawn through K&j&fl| gwi 1111 Ocean or Unspeakable Pain" '“SUr* '<H ' Red Cross *♦**¥********»**♦***¥¥¥¥**¥*♦¥* * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ IT COST ONE DOLLAR TO SAVE THIS LIFE l "” ”' " ■ ■■—'■■ Perhaps It Was Your Red Cross Dollar That Gave This Broken Flier His Chance to Live. By BRUCE BARTON Of the Vigilantes. From the ground they could see that there was something the mutter with his machine. And even while they watched through their glasses he be gan to fall. A minute later the little Ford ambu lance was puffing its way across the five miles of shell-stricken road that lay between them and him. They found him beside the machine. He was unconscious, but a tree had broken his fall. “Just in the nick of time." said the doctor crisply. “He’ll be a pretty sick boy for a few weeks, but well have him all right again and back with his French comrades." Co they put him into the little Ford Horrible Accident. Miss Lillie Mae Ollie was in stantly killed, Miss Annie Foster seriously injured and a young man, supposed to be Job Allgood, was slightly injured in an auto mobile wreck at the bridge span ning Dead Indian Creek between Covington and PoUerdale about 4 o’clock last Sunday afternoon. Oliver Allgood, who was driv ing the car when a rim broke, is in jail on recommendation of the jury empanelled by Judge Joe S. Peek, acting coroner, that he be heid for murder on the charge of criminal negligence, it being stat ed that the car was running at a high rate of speed when the acci dent occurred, the passengers be ing caught under the overturned body as it tumbled down an em bankment. A man who fled from the seene of the accident was partially iden tified as Job Allgood, a brother of Oliver Allgood, their heme being at Midway, between Covington and Oxford. The young ladies were from Porterdale and, accord ing to report, the car was being used with out the knowledge or consent of the owner. Aligood claims that the car was being driven only about fifteen miles an hour, but witnesses in troduced at the investigation swore to the contrary, which, with tfn other facts submitted, the jurv considered sufficient to justify the verdict. —Covington News. Got Good Results. This honest, straight forward letter from a woman who has suf fered should be heeded by all af flicted with backache, rheumatic oains, sore muscles, awful tired feeling and other syr. ptoms of kidney and bladder trouble: “1 have got such good results from Foley Kidney Pills that lean sleep much better and the pain in rm back and sides is a good lot better. lam going to keep on taking the . Mrs. Chas. Gray, 170 6th St. De troit, Mich.” The McDonough Drug Co. There 5s in are Catarrh in this section of the country than ail other diseases put together, and for years it was sup posed to be incurable. Doctors pre scribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by con stitutional conditions and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is a consti tutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s'Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Send for circulars andStestimomals. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. ambulance, and —less than an hour | after iliej saw him tall lie was safe in a clean white bed. “That's what it means to have plen ty of equipment, plenty of ambulances and doctors and bandages and every thing,” said the Red Cross man who told me. “It means the difference in getting there on time or getting there just a minute too late." “Wonderful!” I answered. “And how much did it cost you to make that trip—to save that one French boy’s life?” He flushed a little. “We don’t meas ure it in terms of money." “I know it. But what do you think it cost,” 1 persisted—for gasoline and A Letter Home. With the American Army in France, May 10. —Gen. Persh ing has issured the following order to all units of the Amer ican expeditionary forces in France: “I wish every offi cer and soldier in the Ameri can expeditionary forces woujd write a letter home on mother’s day. This is a little thing to do, but these letters will carry back our courage and our affection to the patri otic women whose love and prayers inspire us and cheer us on to victory.” JIM-JAMS. Carey J. Williams in Oreensboro Herald- Journal. A rich man can loaf and not be considered a loafer. They call him a sight-seer. The gent who says life is not worth living is the one that usu ally runs to the storm pit first when a big cloud comes up. You can’t weigh some men’s words, because they seldom sav anything that will balance the scales. If men didn’t argue over poli tics and religion there wouldn’t be anything else left for them to fight over. The fellow who always starts off by saying ‘‘you don’t have to believe this if you don’t want to,” gets mad if you don’t want to. Unde Jake says no matter how important you are or think you are the worid isn’t going to quit revolving when you cash in. Some women take such an in terest in reform work that they marry some men. A poet never would write poe try about the wind if he had to chase his sky-piece a couple of blocks when the wind blew oft his dome. The gent who can’t control his temper usually has a wife that can control both him and his temper. Some men give as their excuse for drinking that they were drivei to it. but you don’t have to lead a thirsty horse to water. Just to prove that looks are de ceiving, we call your attention to the fact that in some stores you would think some of the clerks own the establishment. the trip and the bandages and all?" “Perhaps a dollar, maybe two. But why do you ask?” “A dollar I" I answered. “A dollar to save a boy’s life! To send him home again from the war u> the moth er and father who have scanned every headline and waited breathlessly for every visit of the letter carrier! Cun a dollar do u miracle like that?” “It can," said the Red Cross man. And then the thought occurred to me thin perhaps it might have oeen one of my dollars. It was somebody’s dollar that did it. It might have been mine—or one of yours. Who knows? War Worries Upset Health. It is agreed by medical authori ties that worry affects the digest ive organs. When the digestion is out of order, it throws the whole physical being out of order. B B. Hayward, Unadilla. Ga., writes: “Foley Cathartic Tablets give me quicker relief than anything I have ever tried.” They relieve bilious ness, bad breath, bloating, gas, in digestion and constipation. No griping or nausea. The McDon ough Drug Co. The Food Administration’s an nouncement that housewives would be permitted to buy sugar for their season’s jellies, preverv es, etc., has caused a run on the available supply of preserving jars and jelly glasses. War Saving Stamps for every bank and postoffice in Hen ry county. No amount is too small. Thrift cards care for all. Buy War Sav ing Stamps. Money saved works day and night for you. Buy War Saying Stamps. No amount is too small to lend to your country. Buy War Sav ing Stamps. A war saver is a life saver. Buy War Saving Stamps. Consider Accessibility Means Economy: Every principal unit in MONITOR construction is standardized. Every part is readily accessible. With the tools in tool kit, you can remove the Universal joint in twenty minutes, the transmission in thirty minutes. MONI FOR owners save fifty per cent, on labor when their cars require attention from the mechanic because of accessibility. Simplicity: MONITOR cars are constructed With three hundred and fifty less parts than are used in the average car, with no sacrifice in strength or service. W. G. COPELAND, Agent, - McDONOUGH, GA. WHEN YOUR EYES depend on glasses you want glasses your eyes • can depend on. That is the kind we furnish. Our business is to tell you when you need glasses and we have the proper means of find ing out. Prcperly fitted glasses cost no more than improper ly fitted ones. They certainly cost less eye strain, and the satisfaction of knowing that you have the right ones is worth a great deal to you. [ hat’s why it’s a very decided advan tage to have your eyes fitted here. Call on us :or this examination and if glass es are required, we supply them. We make the examination and prescribe and fit the glass es so that they will be scientifically correct. JOHN J. BOOKOUT, Optician and Jeweler, 110 Peachtree Arcade. & Note the Change of Address, c* Sucino&RCon vjvJSflmfSw/* -ngp \CKIES In the Amerl- Msfe ‘S gj can navy are classed SB as the best fed body men 1,1 l^e wor’d gObf a « In the ship’s galleys pr it k i ll every effort is made to wa eliminate waste. one of the cooks on the North Dakota is opor vfi § ating a meat slicer that cuts bacon with the ' s *ssiJ w least possible wastage. Fat is fuel for fighters. Bacon is badly needed In the allied armies and navies. The allied needs in pork prod ucts are ISO,000.IKK) pounds monthly, three times as much as before the war. Anotherwasteeliminator on the North Dakota is the potato peeler, shown in the lower photo. Nothing is lost ex-! eept tiie actual potato skin. There is a sufficient quantity of po tatoes In America for greater use la every home and for all needs of army and navy. Eat more potatoes, eat less wheat.