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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1918)
Local Happenings Fraternal Lodge No 37 F. & A.M. Regular communications of Fraternal Lodge No. 37 F & A M meet Ist and H Firdav nights in each- month. All dulj qualified brethren fraternally and cordi ally invited to meet with us. Bailok Smith, \V. M. O. L. Adams, Sec. Call on Speer, the Optromfrist, when YOU NEED GLASSES. He keeps in stock all the latest styles of frames and nose glasses. Two good horses for sale. W. B. J. Ingram. Prof. Clarke and sister spent ‘Tuesday in Atlanta. A finer cotton picking season perhaps never known. Attendance on “big court’’ rath er below the average. Highest market price paid for scrap iron. Olin Kimbell. You will find Speer the spec tacle-man at the old stand. Postmaster Varner is back at his post after several days illness. •J. Ojin Kimbell will buv your scrap iron at the highest market price. Mr. Jim Bowden of the Federal Bank was down from Atlanta Sunday. Wanted to rent, two horse farm convenient to schools. W. L. Carter, Route 1. Small mule for sale cheap for cash, weight about 800 pounds. B. B. Carmichael. Wanted to buy 1000 (one thou sand) stalks of ribbon cane for seed. A. R. Scott. Miss Mary Barker of Atlanta was the guest of Mrs. Annie Nolan several days this week. Mr. Arthur Bowden has return ed home from Monroe and will be in the cotton market here awhile. Forty acres fine wheat land for rent, for straw and one-third of wheat. See me at Flippen at once. H. R. Pair. The friends of Mrs. Fred Walk er regret to know of her illness, necessitating removal to an At lanta hospital Tuesday. Mr. R. S. Thorpe, one of Ma con’s leading men, with his family was a dinner ■guest at the Brown House Tuesday, returning by auto from Atlanta. I am pleased to announce to my white friends that I am again at my old stand, appreciate past favors, and vvili be glad to serve all the best I can. John Powell. Mrs. Lunie McLucas of Macon lias purchased the garden lot of Judge T. J. Brown at the at tractive figures of SIOOO and will erect a handsome residence in the early future. % Mr. Wayne Stansell, who has been at home from Monroe about two months, awaiting call, will leave Friday morning for Georgia Tech, to receive two months U. S. Motor Truck training. Woodrow Wilson and John J. Pershing were two distinguished arrivals at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Manse Crumbley in Kelley town Tuesday night. Both well and due honors accorded. Dr. Dorse Brown Brown is out again, after several days confine ment, threatened with “flu.” We are requested to announce that there will be Sunday school and preaching at the Methodist church Sunday. There is coal on hand and the church will be com fortable in event of cool weather. The friends of Mr. Hendley Daniel were glad to welcome him home Monday afternoon, the first time since his departure to Camp Gordon. He returned Tuesday night preparatory for departure overseas. As a precautionary measure to prevent spreading of “Spanish flu,” the board of trustees have had McDonough Public School closed for ten days, from last Thursday to next Monday, 27th. The situation was not serious, and without further development the school will reopen at the appoint ed time. Red Cross Notice. Christmas packages intended for the boys in France must be mailed on or before November fifteenth. Only one package can be sent to each soldier. A card will be is sued in France to the soldier him self, He then may send this card to the person he desires to for ward the package. The articles to be sent are taken, together with this card, and the required amount of postage, to the neaVest Red Cross Chapter. The. chapter will furnish a prescribed box, and will weigh and mail the package ac cording to government regula tions. Each package must weigh not more than three pounds. Mrs. R. H. Hankinson, Press Chm’n. “Red” Fields Starts on Trip After Hun Fliers. Wyatt M. Fields, one of the most popular members of The Journal’s composing room force, left Tuesday for Garden City Long Island, to enter the aviation school there in preparation for active operations on the western fighting front. Although not yet of age, “Red,’'’ as he is known by reason of his fiery-hued cranial thatch, has been enthusiastic over the prospect of getting into the air service and when Uncle Sam opened the way for him to make application, he lost no time in doing so. His home is in McDrmough, Ga., but for some time past he has re sided in this city. “Red” insists that before many moons The Journal will be carrying a seven column streamer on the front page telling of his citation as an “ace” with a long list of Hun flyers to his credit. —Atlanta Journal. FOR SALE. 100 Acre tract of land 2% miles from Locust Grove, Ga. Public road. Four-room dwelling house, barns, one 3-room tenant house, running water, timber, land slight ly rolling. $6,000.00, one thous and dollars Jan. Ist 1919, balance $1,000.00 per annum at 8%. TAMON PATILLO, Real Estate, McDonough, Ga. Mr. J. S. Brown, Locust Grove, Ga., will show this property. - CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA _ - - r Auction Sale of Red Cross Corn. Corn from about seventy-five acres will be sold before the court house on the first Tuesday in No vember to the highest bidder. Come prepared to take care of your purchases. Every dollar of the proceeds goes to the Red Cross War Work Fund. For further information inquire of H. J. Turner, Chairman 2d Red Cross War Work Fund. CARD OF THANKS. i Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Gunter re turn heartfelt thanks to the nu merous friends whose acts of kindness and loyalty, during our own sore afflictions and loss of precious little daughter, shall be indellibly impressed among life’s most treasured memories. PUBLIC SALE. Will be sold to the highest bid der for cash, on the first Tuesday m November, 1918, one tract of land lying 1% miles northwest of Flippen, known as part of the .). B. Price place, one lot of 117% acres and one or 5U6. JOHN J. VARNER. » There is mare Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was sup posed to be incurable. Doctprs 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 ottered for any case that Hall’s*Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Send for circulars andGtestimonials. . F. J. CHENEY tz CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 7Hc. Hall’s Family PUls for constipation. Since You Must Pay More for Mosft Everything You Buy, You Will Find It the Part of Economy and Thorough . Satisfaction to Purchase From THE BIG STORE Dresses Freshly Arrived from New York $25.00, $30.00 & $35.00 Values Special for the week. The collection comprises one of the most advantageous purchases we have been able to make since Fall began. Rich, Stylish models, made of taffeta, jersey and serge. Styles include new col larless models, various plaited effects, fringe, beading and embroidery. Choice is excep tional. If you want to save from! $5.00 to SIO.OO on the dress you had intendedjbuy ing, here is a wonderful opportunity. ____ Individuality Finds It* Ex pression in the Fall Coats Now Beniß Displayed Here. Every woman buying a coat, aims first to secure a style that is becoming and smart. Materials, too, are important—so is the work manship. Combining individuality and workmanship brings to our customers a most satisfying col lection of the new Fall coats that are pleasing and satisfying. Let us repeat again, it is wis dom, common sense and economy to buy early, as all lines of goods are bound to cost more. You will congratulate yourself within the next few months if your coat is purchased now. Fall coats SIO.OO to $50.00. « GRIFFIN MERCANTILE COMPANY THE BIG STORE GRIFFIN, GA. Special Announcement There will be given a demonstration of the Famous Moline Tractor Plow at McDonough next Tuesday, October 29th, by the Henry County Supply Co., who are Agents for this Tractor. For further information call on HENRY COUNTY SUPPLY COMPANY. THE VARIETY FARM, HAMPTON, GA. two miles east of Hampton offers for sale 25 head of sheep mostly bred yews* 40 pure bred Poland China' hogs, in cluding shoats and bred gilts* 1 registered Holstein Bull, with a record behind him that is worth while* Also, we offer Soy Beans for planting purposes* I am soon to be inducted into the service at an early date and the management of the farm for another year requires less stock than has been kept here before on this farm* G. F. FEARS. It Is Only Natural That Women Be interested in the New Fur Scarfs and Muffs. The new suits and coats depend so much upon furs for their effectiveness, that furs are making their appearance on the streets every day. When you purchase a fur set at this store, aside from the furs, you buy sat isfaction of reliability and correct fasoion. The new fur scarfs are priced at $6.00 to $32,500. The new muffs are priced at $5.00 to $32.50. The naw fur sets‘are priced at $15.00 to $50.00. An Extraordinary Value in Suits Now Marked at $35.00. A money-saving event of the highest importance. Selection is most unusual. May be had in the strictly tatlored, dressy, and sports models. Plenty of materials and colors to choose from. These new Fail suits at $35.00 will help convince you of the type of value giving characteristics of this store, and particularly in reference to our ready-to wear department. Other suits range in price from $25.00 to $75.00.
