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SMITH-NEWMAN
MANUFACTURING CO.
McDonough Enterprise With
Great and Growing Possibil
ities. Already Large Busi
ness and Steadily Increasing.
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The Atlanta Journal of recent
date carried a large advertisement
of the Smith-Newman Manufac
turing Co.. McDonough. Ga., to
gether with the picture of the
owner and general manager, our
fellow townsman, Mr. Jno. R.
Smith, who is also the sole invent
or of the well known, celebrated
Smith’s Tri-Plex Combined Gum
mer and Filer for sharpening Gin
Saws, and Smith’s Patented Con
cave Gummer Files for use on the
Tri-Plex Machine, as well as other
inventions that thd Company has
not yet had the necessary time to
put on the market, owing to the
ever growing demand for their
Files and Machines.
The Smith-Newman Manufac
turing Co. is the only concern that
manufactures the Tri-Plex Ma
chines and Concave Files, as they
are both thoroughly covered by
United States patents, which is
owned solely by this Company,
and Mr. Smith states that the
hearty approval and warm recep
tion that the Tri-Plex Machine has
met with at the hands of' the gin
ners, the common “boss sense”
way of gumming and filing gins
employed, and the unprecednted
success the Tri-Plex has met with
from its infancy has enticed sev
eral different parties to try to
bring out “another” Combined
Gummer and Filer, but when
these parties applied for patepts
they woke up to the fact that your
'“Uncle Samuel” didn’t run his
patent business on the “hit and
miss” principal, and that the Tri-
Plex patent stood pat.
The manufacturers of the Tri-
Plex have been in the “game”
now upwards of five years, and
their business has grown to un
dreamed of proportions. The
first year their output was 31 ma
chines, the second year 99 ma
chines, the third year 160 ma
chines, the fourth year 210 ma
chines, and today they have one
thousand and thirty-five Tri-Plex
Machines out in the hands of gin
ners, doing their bit towards mak
ing life worth while to those who
own them.
Mr. Smith is one of these fel
lows that believes whole-hearted
ly in Southern manufacturing, as
we have heard him say repeatedly
that manufacturing can be done
just as good, if not better, in Mc-
Donough, Ga. as in the North and
easy, and his products amply prove
these assertions, as the Tri-Plex
Filing Machine has the enviable
repulation of being the peer of all
Filing Machines, and the best part
of it is the fact that this Machine
is 98% McDonough Made. In
other words, out of the 150 differ
ent parts that enter into each Tri-
Plex, 147 of these parts are ac
tually produced in their finished
state, right here in our own little
city, under the direct supervision
of the original inventor, who per
sonally looks after every detail of
its construction.
The Tri-Plex Machines are fast
displacing the old style out-of-date
makeshifts that have been on the
market for the past thirty or forty
years, and are now used very ex
tensively in the largest cotton
growing states, including Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Ten
nessee, Mississippi, Texas, Arkans
as and Oklahoma, all being large
users of the Tri Plex. Besides,
there has been quite a few of
these Machines exported into for
eign cotton growing countries,
Anvil Block News.
(Last Week’s Items.)
After a long absence here I
come again.
Mr. and Mrs. C. T, Pruett and
son, Abner, visited McDonough,
Friday.
Miss Mary Mayo spent the week -
end at Jonesboro with homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Mitchell and
children spent a while very pleas
antly Saturday night with Mr.
Chas Mitchell at Panthersville.
Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Henderson
and Mr, Loy Sockw'ell and sister,
Miss Vara, motored down to In
dian Springs, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cary Berry and
children have moved into our
midst. We welcome them to our
community.
Master Herman and Inman
Chaffin spent Sunday with Master
Ralph Boyd.
Mrs. Walter B. McDonald of At
lanta is spending a few days here
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs, C. W. Sockwell.
Miss Mary Clark is spending
some time in Atlanta with rela
tives.
Mrs. Oscar Matthews died at
her home near here Saturday
morning after short illness. We
were grieved to hear of her death,
as she leaves five orphan children,
her husband dieing a few weeks
before her.
Little Miss Inez Mitchell was the
dinner guest of Misses Fanny Ruth
and Inez Sockwell, Sunday.
Some of the lttle boys from the
school here were out playing last
Monday afternoon and they ran
about two hundred and fifty yards
from the school building and ran
upon some men making whiskey
at a “still.” I tell you, parents,
you had better not let the Sunday
school and prayer meeting die out
in your community by so much
Sunday visiting and neglect to
carry your children to Sunday
school. If you do, it won’t be
long before just such men as these
little boys found making whiskey
will have your boys off in the old
pine fields grambling and drink
ing that old rolten stuff you call
whiskey, and doing every other
kind of meanness. I tell you, you
had better “wake up” before it is
too late, as this whiskey was be
ing made in sight of the church.
Mr. Leondras Clark of Camp
Gordon spent Sunday here with
homefolks. SALLYANN.
and the Company has now inquir
ies covering quanity deliveries
solely for export to other coun
tries.
Mr. Smith is thoroughly enthus
iastic over the outlook, and with
the war over, and the immediate
prospects of the material situation
being to a certain extent reliev
ed, he anticipates a continual
growth of their business, extend
ing even into the uttermost nooks
and corners of all cotton growing
States and foreign cotton growing
countries.
As soon as the demands for Tri-
Plex Machines and Files are well
in hand, Mr. Smith expects to
bring out and place on the market
a line of Machine tools, etc., that
will be especially adpated to eco
nomical high-class manufacturing,
which will reduce manufacturing
costs very materially, these tools
being the outgrowth and results
of his long experience in this line
and his ever alert, inventive mind,
that will be as far ahead of the
present day methods as the Tri-
Plex Filing Machine is ahead of
others.
Mr. Smith is a genius of well
known rare native ability, and has
a future of unbounded possibili
ties.
Here is luck to you, Jno. R., the
man that put McDonough on the
map to stay. We wish for you
the success you deserve.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McPONOUGH, GEORGIA
In Loving Memory of
Little Virdell Beard.
On the morning of Dec. 6, 1918,
the death angei visited the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Z. 0. Beard, and
took from them their litile son.
Its tender form was laid to rest at
Salem church Saturday morning,
Nov. 7.
But deivr friend, God knoweth best;
He taketh your little one to rest.
And it will seem for a spell.
But may your sins be forgiven and some
day meet little Virdell.
God always plucks our sweetest flower,
But He’ll be with you in your saddened
hours.
’Tis hard, so hard to give him un,
Yet we all shall taste our bitter cup.
He lay and suffered pains unknown
Till Jesus whispered from above, my son,
1 11 take thee home.
Just a few weeks ago when he
was well and happy, little did we
think that darling Virdell would
soon bid us farewell.
Now dear father, mother and sister, dry
your eyes
And look forward to mansions in the skies
For all your hopes in heaven are
Up there you have a shining star.
And may God so let it shine
That some day you will win a crown.
One Who Loved Him.
KATY BOYD GEORGE.
She Is rather wee and very winning.
Her eyes repeat the blue on her Y.
W. C. A. uniform that carries the
insignia of her service. Her hair,
grey for all the shortness of her span
of years, frames a face worn, not thin,
but fine with a suffering that is more
than merely vicarious.
She has lived in the shadows, has
stood by while the thins were press
ed down above tortured eyes, has held
the hands of those who knelt in their
Gethsemane. In a very literal and un
restricted sense, “She hath done what
she could” for those who overseas en
dure what we, sheltered and safe, read
about. She is to tell her story in all
cities of our Southeastern Department
as a National speaker for the Y. W.
C. A. during the United War Work
Campaign to raise $250,000,000 during
the week of November 11.
At the recent United War Work Con
vention in Jackson, she was wanted
for a speecli in the main convention
hall while she was busy with commit
tee work elsewhere. Several efforts
were made to find her, the program
lagged. Presently Gypsy Smith was
missed out of a front seat; soon after
he returned leading her up the aisle.
At the foot of the rostrum he gathered
up with a sweeping gesture R. H.
King, J. M. Clinton, Capt. George S.
Dingle and O. W. Buschgen. As the
audience rose to its feet at sight of
“Our Katie” the five men, like prank
ish school boys, made a crescent back
ground for the one small woman, while
from five throats —bass, tenor and
baritone —rolled the lilting strains ol
“Katie.”
To Katie Boyd George Mississippi
women owe the fact that today the
name of their grand old common
wealth is on the map of national and
international service. Shall all women
by concert of effort and sacrifice honor
her splendid achievement?
We owe her a spe.cial sort of allegi
ance —a fealty of duty, of tradition and
affection. When she speaks one hears
again the vibrant voice of her grand
father, J. Z. George, as in legislative
halls during trying days of reconstruc
tion, he helped to mould the destiny of
our generation. Her forebear’s indom
itable spirit rings in her voice, ema
nates from her small supple frame,
calls to you from her steady eyes.
Mississippi Woman
Serves Fighting Men
As Y. W. C. A. Worker
FAITH JUSTIFIED
BY EVENTS.
I do not believe that drastic
force need be applied to main
tain economic distribution and
sane use of supplies by the
great majority of American peo
ple, and I have learned a deep
and abiding faith in the intelli
gence of the average American
business man, whose aid we an
ticipate and depend on to reme
dy the evils developed by the
war. —Herbert Hoover, August
10, 1917.
Commendable Quality in Jewelry
No matter how little von pay. you get quality tor
the price. No matter how much you pay, you get
intrinsic value for your money. Aside from real
values you can choose from an assortment unrival
ed hereabouts.
T. H. WYNNE!
Manufacturing Jeweler and Optician, - - Griffin, Ga.
The Farmer Receives More Than Five
Thousand Dollars a Minute From
Swift & Company
This amount is paid to the farmer for live
stock, by Swift & Company alone, during the
trading hours of every business day.
All this money is paid to the farmer through
the open market in competition with large and
small packers, shippers, speculators and dealers.
The farmer, feeder, or shipper receives
every cent of this money ($300,000 an hour,
nearly $2,000,000 a day, $11,500,000 a week) in
cash, on the spot, as soon as the stock he has
just sold is weighed up.
Some of the money paid to the farmer dur
ing a single day comes back to the company in
a month from sale of products; much does not
come back for sixty or ninety days or more.
But the next day Swift & Company, to meet the
demands made by its customers, must pay out
another $2,000,000 or so, and at the present high
price levels keeps over $250,000,000 continuously
tied up in goods on the way to market and in
bills owed to the company.
This gives an idea of the volume of the
Swift & Company business and the requirements
of financing it. Only by doing a large business
can this company turn live stock into meat and
by-products at the lowest possible cost, prevent
waste, operate refrigerator cars, distribute to
retailers in all parts of the country and be
recompensed with a profit of only a fraction of
a cent a pound—a profit too small to have any
noticeable effect on the price of meat or live stock.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Cut This Out—lt Is Worth Money.
DON’T MISS THIS. Cut out
this slip, enclose with 5c and mail
it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield
Avenue, Chicago, 111., writing your
name and address clearly. You
will receive in return a trial pack
age containing Foley’s Honey and
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds
and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for
pain in sides and back; rheuma
tism, backache, kidney and blad
der ailments; and Foley Cathartic
Tablets, a wholesome and thor
oughly cleansing cathartic, for
constipation, biliousness, headache
and sluggish bowels. The Mc-
Donough Drug Co.
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