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The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. FOUCHE. <
Entered at the pofitoffice at McDon
ough, Ga., as second "last, mail matter.
Advertising Kates 15c per inch, poei
sition 5c additional —special contracts.
Official Or«an of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., May 31, 1918.
Clips and Comments
Blackberry brigade about to in
vade.
Building operations over Henry
county still indicate prosperity.
General Humidity getting his
summer offensive well under
way.
Remember last winter’s exeri
ence and buy coal during coal
week.
A real patriot is the fellow who
invested his vacation fund in lib
erty bonds.
American boys are pouring into
the fritig line and something is go
ing to drop.
If you can’t find some one to
work in your garden, try it your
self. Do you and the garden
both good.
Mail to be delivered by aero
plane between Chicago and New
York will require about eleven
hours in transit.
It is a wise county that builds
good roads, but rarer wisdom is
that kind .which keeps good roads
in good condition.
President Wilson says we will
spend our last dollar and lose our
last man or put the German rape
machine out of business. Great
man.
Holders of first Liberty Loan
Bonds have received payment of
Semi-annual interest. It is said
to put most of them in fine humor
to subscribe for more when they
are issued.
The United States senatorship
still needs some great big broad
statesman who can bring dignity
to the exalted station —a Cobb,
Brantley, or someone in that ele
ment, for instance.
Who had any idea there was as
much money ill the country as is
being put in liberty bonds, war
saving stamps, contributions to red
cross and other war endeavors?
And at that nobody has been
strained. —Oglethorpe Echo.
There are now 20 uniforms for
women in war work in the United
States. They are for munitions
workers, telephone and radio op
erator, yeom m, emoloyees, Ship
ping Board and the Food Admin
tration, Red Cross workers, Y.
C. A. workers. Woman’s Motor
Corps, Girl S-outs, and students
of the N tional Service School of
the Woman’s Naval Service.
Men of 21 Years
Urged to Enlist.
The Congressional bill providing
that young men who have become
21 years of age since June 5, 1917,
are required to register under the
selective service regulations, has
deen passed. These men will be
requir' d to register on the next
registration day, June 5, 1918, and
wiii not be permitted to volunteer
on or after that date.
The local army recruiting station
has receivep the following appeal
to young men who will be affected
by this next registration:
“The time is drawing near. If
this law affects you there is one
chance for you to volunteer and
select the branch of service you
desire, and that chance is right
now, before you register.
“It you are between 18 and 40
years of age, inclusive, you may
volunteer provided you are not
registered. The Kaiser said he
was coming to America and whip
us when he finished the Allies, and
you know what that would mean.
“The country proposes to pre
vent this from happening by whip
ping Germany now, and is calling
upon American manhood now to
stand up and fight for American
rights and principles. Choose the
branch of the service you are fit
ted for. Practically ail branches
of the service are now open. En
list.”
Build Potato Storage
Houses.
Community sweet potato stor
age houses offer one of the finest
opportunities for farm business
co-operation we know of at this
time. We say “at this time” be
cause in order that farmers
plant a sufficient sweet potato
acreage, plans for putting up the
storage houses should be made
right now —or at least the definite
decision made that such houses
will be erected by all. It’s a
shame that our folks in the South,
having a monoply of this wonder
ful crop, have not made half the
profits out of it that good manage
ment would have brought us. It
seems to be only another illustra
tion of Dr. Knapp’s saying that
Southerners have “a weakness for
letting money slip through their
fingers.” It is impossible to say
how many millions of dollars have
been lost by the freezing of pota
toes in the old fashioned hills or
banks or how many more millions
our farmers might have produced
and sold if better methods of keep
ing the crop had been practiced.
When the writer was in Geor
gia a few weeks ago Pro r '. M, C.
Gay of the state marketing work
expressed the opinion that even
I during the recent unprecedented
winter, not 5 per cent of the pota
toes in storage houses were injur
ed, and practically all of this 5 per
cent loss was due to inexperience.
“We have 12,000 bushels here,
stored at a cost of 15 cents per
bushel,” one fanner said, “wheth
er it pays or not you can judge by
the fact that even the portion of
potatoes in banks that did last
through the freeze are bringing
only $1 a bushel whereas those
from storage houses are bringing
$1.50. They don’t sprout and get
so dry and pithy in storage houses
as they do in hills.”—Progressive
Farmer.
Marketing Hogs
beats burying them. Steye Hoo
ver, Alt. 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.”
F ,r sale by Henry County Sup
i ply Co.
i A Farmer’s Wife
Speaks Her Mind.
j Clipping, by special rc<juent.
Dear Mr. Editor: If you will
allow me space I will droD in a
few words on how we Americans
can win the war.
We want to win and must win,
but it can’t all be done by econo
my of the farmers and the farm
ers’ wives. There has been a lot
of talking, speaking and writing
on the subject of economy, all of
which has heen addressed to the
wives of the farmers. There are
not many farmers’ wives who
have not done their part and have
been all the while.
It is springtime and there is a
great demand for farm hands, and
we, the farmers’ wives, can take
our babies to the field and set
them down under a bush in a
cracker box and hoe back and forth
while two or three little ones play
around the box. This is often
seen on the farm.
And there is another scene, oft
en witnessed in the cities, and that
is a nurse in ihe back yard 'with
the cnildren while the mothers
are at card parties and receptions,
or some other social function. 1
do not know anything about those
societies, but I read about them.
They do a lot to win the war, they
say; but they could do more; they
could send those colored nurses
out in the country and help us
farmers’ wives work on the farms,
and attend to their own children
like I have to do. They could do
their own cooking and send their
cooks to the farms where they are
much needed to raise food-stuff.
They could clean their own hous
es, wash their own clothes and
the washerwomen and the scrub
women could be used on the
farms. Trv this for three months.
There are thousands of men and
women who are doing nothing
but have a good time just like
there was no war.
It makes me tired to read a piece
of advice to farmers’ wives. Aft
er we have finished our break
fast, cleaned up our house, milked
and churned, fed our chickens and
pigs, taken our box and babies to
tiie field, hoed until we think it is
11 o’clock, take up our load and
go back to the house to hurry
dinner the time the plow hands
get in. Wash days come when it
is too uet to work, and ironing
Saturday afternoon. And 1 think
after we have gone through all
this day after day we might have
meat or biscuit, if we raise it.
! And if anyone has to do without,
let it be the ones that do not work.
I am not trying to run the gov
ernment’s business, but I say if all
the nurses, maids, butlers, cooks,
chauffeurs and corner loafers
were sent to the farms and the
soldiers to the front, we could win
the war and have plenty to eat at
home and to feed our soldiers.
But the farmers cannot feed them
selves and soldiers and all these
idlers. Let’s everybody work.
Let’s all do something to win the
war and save our country.
A Farmer’s Wife.
This excellent admonition from
the Dalton Citizen : “Boys, there
isn’t any use of any of us falling
out about the senatorial race.
We’ve got to stay right on the job
and do our part toward winning
tiie war. This is the real job be
fore us now.”
WOMAN'S STATEMENT
WILL HELP STOCKBRIDGE
“I hated cooking because what
ever 1 ate gave me sour stomach
and a bloated feeling. 1 dra; k h t
water and olive oil by the gallon.
Nothing helped until I tried simple
buckthorn bark, glccerine. etc,, as
mixed in Adler-i-ka. ” Because it
flushes the ENTIRE bowel tra d
Completely Adler-i kn relieves ANY
CASE sour stomach, eas or Consti
pation and prevents appendicitis.
'Hie INSTANT action is surprising.
C. H. Pinson, druggist at Stock
bridge.
Sapolio doing its work. Scouring
for IJ.S.Marine Corps recruits.
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