The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, December 20, 1918, Image 3
SMITH-NEWMAN MANUFACTURING CO. McDonough Enterprise With Great and Growing Possibil ities. Already Large Busi ness and Steadily Increasing. *— 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. f#)