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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1918)
The Henry County Weekly A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. VOL. XLIV. Liberty Bonds! TT TAKES five hundred (500) Fourth ■*- Liberty Loan Bonds of $50.00 each, to buy this tractor TANK terror, and put it on the fighting field. | • HotV much of a Tank Will gou hug ? The Fourth Liberty Loan Drive opens this week — BUY! BUY!! BUY!!! i . TT TAKES “something sweet” to sat- A isfy nature’s craving for bodily fuel. This svoeet contains the carbohydrates physicians call bodily fuel. This fuel supplies the physical heat so essential to growing children, workers, soldiers and all active individuals. Some like this sweat in coffee, some in tea and some in fL> par’s, fp> 8 e** krbui3 S. S. Meeting of E. Division. At 2 o’clock p. m. sun time, Sun day, the Eastern Division will hold a meeting at Bethany church. Rev. H. S. Smith, Bro J. J. Wal ker, W. W. Milam and maybe oth er speakers will be present. Also, we shall have some of our best singers to lead in the music. We hope to have a fine occasion, both as to reports, and also to arouse more S. S. enthusiasm. Everybody is invited and urged to be present. T. J. HORTON, Chair. E. Div. McDonough, Georgia. Friday. September 27, 1918 Festival. Editor Henry County Weekly— Please express our thanks through your columns to all who helped to make the Junior Red Cross festival at South Avenue a success. About five months ago we or ganized the children of four schools, South Avenue, Mount Zion, Gordon and Ellenwood into the Junior Cross, admittance fee being each, with this money we began buying material for the hospital quilt, which these chil \\ \ \ straw .dptriiifc If Iftll SpA JBm /UpjfclS ! %^|| jj vp&fTi &******' <-i C# Fibre fciS^OßegsS^%j \ 1 dren have made, most of them having to learn to knit. Urged on by their faithfulness we gave them an ice cream festi val, and for amusement raffled the quilt, which brought sixteen dol lars and one cents, the proceeds from the quilt and cream bringing seventy dollars, which will be giv en to the McDonough Chapter. Mrs. W. G. Calloway, Former Sec’ty. Membership Com mittee of Stockbridge Chapter. Have your car painted at Jack son, Ga., by J. F. Maddox. 4t Do It the First Day ! By Wilbur D. Nesbit. You know you are going to buy Liberty Bond. Pou wouldn’t be square wjth yourself if you didn’t. You couldn’t take off your hat to the flag with half the sense of OWNERSHIP if you didn’t. You couldn’t cheer the marching of the troops with half the THRILL if you didn’t. You couldn’t watch the Jackies go by with half the PRIDE if you didn’t. Y9ll couldn’t glimpse a battleship off the coast with half the JOY if you didn’t. You couldn’t read the war newf with half the eager FAITH if you didn’t. You couldn’t be 100% American if you didn’t. You know the Fourth Liberty starts September 28th. You know that buying a Liberty Bond isn’t making a GIFT. You know you are simply lending your money to your Gov ermennt —to the best FRIEND you and your mother and sister and daughter. You know what SECURITY is back of your loan —security that means good interest and that your money is paid back. You know all that —you know the BUSINESS side as well as the patriotic side of it. Then, buy YOUR Liberty Bonds the very first day of the Loan. Don’t wait. Do your thinking beforehand. You don’t need to be ARGUED into it —you KNOW you will buy Liberty Bonds. Be one of the first to get the Badge of Honor —the Liberty Bond Button. Get YOURS on the first day —September 28th. You KNOW what an example that will set. Make September 28 your Liberty Boud day. Could you do a better thing right now ? U. S. GOVERNMENT BONDS FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN Buy Your Liberty Bonds the First Day The Government’s War Relic Train Will Visit McDonough Oct. 8, 4 O’Clock P. M. This will be a rare treat for Henry county citizens, giving them an idea of what our Henry county boys are doing in the trenches. Also displaying every implement of warefare, and the use of them will be explained by wnunded soldiers. Every one is invited. Don't fail to see it. REMEMBER —Next Tuesday week, October 8. Seaborn Pate Has No Fear of Hun Bullets. In a brief and very frank letter to his brother, Private Seaborn L. Pate, of Hampton, Ga., gives an account of his experiences in the war zone, experiences which have been surpassed by few individuals. The letter is written to his brother, J. E. Pate, of Locust Grove, and the writer records his experiences so simply he doesn’t seem to realize just what he has really been through. Private Pate has been in France a long time — arrived June 26, 1917. His letter is as follows: “On the eighteenth of June we started on a drive which I guess you have heard about. On the first day I came out fine. There were about forty men in our de tachment and when we reached our objective there were two left —the major and myself. “On the thirteenth, at 11 o’clock a. m., we received orders to go over the top again. Well, we started over and started following the enemy and when we had gone about half a mile, the major fell. I ran to him and asked him if he was hurt. He was shot just above the knee. I diessed his wound and he told me to carry a message to another officer. I started and had gone about one hundred yards when a bullet from a machine gun struck my left ankle right in the small of the leg and passed straight through. I crawled into a shell hole and dressed my wound and told another soldier to go ahead with the message. Don’t know whether he got through or not. I stayed in the shell hoie about four hours and during that time four French soldiers were wounded and one was killed. They were in the hole with me. When I de cided to get out I couldn’t walk so I had to crawl. I had about one thousand yards to go. They be gan shooting at me and the bullets were knocking dirt in my eyes. I didn’t believe, however, that they could hit me any more. They finally sent me to an American hospital. I have been doing fine ever since.” Private Pate is serving with Company I, Twenty-eighth infan • try.—Atlanta Journal. $1.50 A YEAR
