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The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. FOUCHE.
Entered at sh** po*toffice at McDon
ough, Gn . a- 'econo "last mail matter.
Advertising Rates ISc i>er inch, posi
sition 5c additional—special contracts
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., Jule 7, 1918.
Clips and Comments -j*
June.
Long hot days.
Buy War Savings Stamps Now.
Mirth may prove a better di
gestive than pills.
Home without children is liken
ed to a garden without flowers.
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And upon tOD of it all, the meet
ing of the Georgia Legislature
draweth nigh.
June 28 is War Savings Stamps
Day. Pledge yourself to buy
your quota now.
Announcements of Georgia boys
being killed in battle at the iront
are beginning to come over.
The world is in the most ap
palling upheaval of its history.
Yet few apparently realize it.
About 70,000 church bells in
Germany are reported to have
been melted for munitions of war.
The daughter who is the flower
of the family is always the one
who knows best how to u«e the
flour of the family.
Things are beginning to happen
in this great war, and a wonder
ful world-change is evidently near
at hand. What will the end be?
My son put your trust in the
girl who can can all the vegeta
bles in the garden as fast as they
mature, and not only who can
but does.—Ex.
Boy scout organizations are ac
tive in locating black walnut trees.
Black walnut lumber is needed by
the war department for use in
making air plane propellers and
gunstocks.
The two picric acid plants to be
built at Little Rock, Ark., and
Brunswick, Ga., the contracts for
which have been completed by
the war department, will cost ap
proximately $7,000,000.
A great interdenominational
prayer meeting was held «t Five
Points in Atlanta last Thursday
noon, in accordance with Presi
dent Wilson’s proclamation for a
day of fasting and prayer.
Production of honey will be
greatly increased during 1918 in
many localities, according to the
department of agriculture. The
increase in Colorado, it is said,
will probably be 100 per cent.
The Spirit of a Mother.
“Their Country is their Mother
now.”
That was the word of a mother
who sent her sons to service at
the first call.
And that is the ideal of the boys
who serve —who go to the battle
fronts with home in their hearts,
and the sweet memory of mothers
—heroic, not only in giving all,
but in the grief and tears they
hide, and in the Light they bring
to the shadows of lonely homes.
For with the joy of giving all
that can be given, there must be
grief, and sudden rain of tears,
even though the tears have light
in them.
It’s the sweet old human way
of all the hearts and homes of this
time-worn, war-racked worid.
But the mothers —loved and
honored of home and country, are
not seeing the sacrifice side alone,
but putting themselves in the sha
dow of the Light of sacrifice —
with a spirit of unwavering devo
tion, that shrinks not from the
sacrifice supreme.
Such is the spirit of an Atlanta
mother, who but lately lost a son
in the aviation service in France,
and who sent this brave letter to
“the folks at home.”
Our bov has answered the
call to “Come up higher, my
son.” We had a letter from
the chaplain who buried what
seemed to be our boy. It
didn’t separate us, though,
and it never can, as what we
love about each each other is
that which lives and moves,
and has being in God, and
cannot die —even as God can
not die.
No German bullet was the
end of his mortal life; no Ger
man prison was his fate —just
a quick passing from a dream
of mortal discord into the per
fect day.
Don’t bother to say any
thing to me, dear children. I
know we have your tenderest
sympathy. Our boy’s own
message would be: “Come
up; the air is fine.” Loving
ly, Mother.
There spoke the spirit of a
mother who gave all —alone with
her grief, in that stillness which
is the Peace of God, and lifted up
in the spirit by the thought of
what the spirit of her boy was,
and the cheering message he
would send to her now, could the
Silence give utterance to it.
The Georgia mother of a Geor
gia boy, and a million mothers like
her —mothers unnumbered, thru
out this patriotic land.
They put themselves in the
background of the great war pic
ture ; they would be the unknown
—unmentioned forces in the fight
for home, and for world-freedom ;
but they come to the front for all
that; they “stand in their own
place but it is that place of hon
or where the world-light loves to
shine ; and the light of their love
and devotion leads the world to
them —to comfort, and be com
forted.
And the sons of these mothers,
not vet on the scene of battle —
are none the less heroes because
they are not in the battle-lights;—
they are serving for the greater
service; and when, as in this in
stance his mother writes, they die
in service, they have done what
they could.”
That is the supreme test, and
they will have met it with honor
to themselves and to their coun
try.
We are going to win this war as
much through the brave spirit of
the women who are fighting the
home-battles, as with the sacrific
es of the men behind the guns.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Earnest Appeal.
“For G. d’s sake men and wo
men, mak this war a personal
affair.”
Suppose the German army was
marching into Atlanta, and in our
fright we appealed frantically to
our president in Washington to
send aid!
Suppose we watched and wait
ed—the enemy coming closer and
closer to our Homes every day —
and we repealed our appeals for
help, help, help!
Suppose it was six months before
help arrived ? What would have
become of us —you or your loved
ones, me and mine? It’s all too
horrible to think of, isn’t it? Sure
ly our president would not keep
us waiting six months. He would
answer our call immediately!
Do you know that the president
called on us six months ago, for
help —and we have not answered
him yet. Do you know that Pres
ident Wilson asked Georgia to
purchase fifty-seven millions, five
hundred thousand dollars worth
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of war savings stamps —and with
nearly half a vear gone by, I’m
ashamed to tell you the small
amount we have nought!
Yes, I know you subscribed to
Liberty Bonds. I know you helped
the Red Cross and every other
cause, and God bless you for it —
but, the W. S. S. campaign is just
another method of securing mon
ey, sorely needed, and just as im
portant as Liberty Bonds.
It’s not too late yet. Georgia
will buy her full quota of W. S. S.!
June 28 has been set aside as Na
tional War Savings Day and the
purpose of this letter is to tell you
to start today with your own fam
ily, your neignbors and you friends
to help us put Georgia over the
top!
And because I know that you
are American, from tip to toe —
and a Georgian too," 1 know you
will join with me in saying—We
Cannnot Fad !
Very sincerely yours,
Jack Carr,
Director of Publicity, W. S. S.
Dangers of Ccstiveness.
“Auto - intoxication, headache,
lassitude, irritability, “blues,” sal
lowness, blotches, are among the
results of constipation. If long
neglected it may cause piles, ul
ceration of bowels, appendicitis,
nervous prostration, paralysis.
Don’t delay treatment. Best rem
edy is Foley Cathartic Tablets, as
many thousands know from expe
rience. They not only do their
work surely, easily, gently, but
without injury to stomach intes
tinal lining. Contains no habit
forming element. The McDon
ough Drug Co.
The old shot gun loaded with
buckshot idea has besn employed
in a new gun already in the hands
of our soldiers in France, which
will fire six shells, each contain
ing nine buckshot, that, at 40
yards, will go through two inches
of pine, and at 50 yards will thor
oughly spray an area 9 feet wide
and 2 feet high. This new gun
might be called a harvester.
It is nice to be handsome, but a
good deal handsomer to be nice.
STOCKBRfDGE PEOPLE
SHOULD EAT PiE DAILY
Pie is wholesome, combining
both fruit and grain. Those who
have trouble digesting; the should
take ONE SPOONFUL simple
buckthorn hark, glycerine, etc. as
mixed in Adler-i-ka. This flushes
the ENTIRE bowel tract, removes
foul matter which poisoned your
stomach for months and relieves
ANY CASE soar stomach, gas or
constipation and prevents appendi
citis. Leaves stomach in condition
to digest ANYTHING. C H. Pin
sod. druggist at Stockbaidge.
Sapolio doing its work. Securing
for U.S.Harine Corps recruits.
JOin NOV/! who wear
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16 YEARS IN BUSINESS HERE
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Locust Grove, Ga.
