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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1919)
THE PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO REMOVE EMBARGO ON COTTON Petition Prepared By Senator Hoke Smith and Signed By All Southern Senators, Except One. The following 1b a copy of the petition prepared by Senator Hoke Bmlth, which was presented to President Wilson just before he sailed for France this month. It bears the signatures of all, but one, of the Southern •enators. It is hoped that the President will act favorably on this petition Very shortly and that the embargo will be removed. February Twenty-Fourth, 1919 Mr. President:— We respectfully urge the necessity for immediately removing cotton from the embargo list. The present price at which cotton sells is below the estimated cost of production in many localities. Bankers and merchants have advanced upon it in many instances beyond the prices at which it now sells. This situation is demoralizing business conditions in the States where Cotton is raised, and threatens serious financial loss to cotton growers and to merchants and bankers who have advanced money upon cotton. Cotton, now on the embargo list, can only be exported where the exportation is approved by the War Trades Board. A number of us have learned recently of large sales of cotton which would have been made to neutral countries, but for the fact that the War Trades Board refused li censes, and cotton, being on the embargo list, could not be exported without the licenses. That you may appreciate the condition and the injury that this re striction of markets places upon holders of cotton, we call your attention to the fact that cotton was selling last September for thirty-eight cents a pound. It was then that the subject of cotton was referred to the War Industries Board with a view to stabilizing the price, or fixing the price. This inter ference with the market broke the price and demoralized purchaser so that buyers ceased to purchase at the thirty-eight cent market and bid down the market to around thirty cents a pound. The War Industries Board finally determined that it had no authority to fix a price and no power to maintain It, but the injury had already been done. Then it developed that the War Trades Board was seriously inter fering with the export of cotton by restricting licenses for shipment even to countries not contiguous to Germany and Austria, and tf6m which countries cotton could not have reached either of the enemy countries. This still further demoralized the cotton market and forced down the price. If cottoy is taken off the embargo list, broader opportunities for sale At once will tollow, and the injury which has been done to cotton raisers and merchants and bankers in the sections where cotton is raised will be reduced.. We earnestly appeal to you to take cotton off the embargo list and permit it normally to be sold and shipped where purchasers are willing to buy. The cotton raiser has suffered more from the war than any class of our citizens. He is not now asking the Government to give him the assistance which is going to other farm products. We only ask that he be relieved from burdens placed upon him by his own Government. Respectfully, North Carolina: F. M. SIMMONS. LEE S. OVERMAN. South Carolina: — ELLISON D. SMITH. WM. P. POLLOCK. Georgia:- HOKE SMITH. THOS. W. HARDWICK. Florida: — DUNCAN U. FLETCHER. PARK TRAMMELL. Alabama: JNO. H. BANKHEAD. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD. Tennessee: — £ JNO. K. SHIELDS. 1 KENNETH McKELLAR. SI.OO PER MONTH Pressing Club Notice. Since the inconvenience brought about by war conditions of secur ing materials used in pressing clubs, such as dye, cleaning pre parations, coal, etc., has been eliminated, 1 am returning to the old prices. The PRESSING CLUB rates, beginning March Ist, SI.OO per month. And lam in position to accommodate every one who wants CLUB RATES. Club Rate % also is cheaper to the customer than having work done by the job. Persons not having enough press ing to authorize membership in PRESSING CLUB will find my prices on job work reasonable. 1 am also in position to do first-class DYEING. Ladies also will save money by letting me do their work. 1 pledge my personal atten tion to all work, also prompt serv ice and delivery. DAVIS’ PRESSING CLUB (annex of Seace’s Tailor Shop). In the same old stand on the cor ner. Dollars and Cents. Counting it only dollars and cents how much did that last cold cost you? A man may not always stop work -when he has a cold, but per haps it would be better if he did. It takes about ten days to get com pletely rid of a cold under the usu al treatment. That time cah be much shortened by taking Cham berlin’s Cough Remedy and proper Care of yourself, in fact, a bottle of this remedy in the house is a migh ty good investment during the win ter and spring months. Horton Drug Co. Mississippi: JAMES K. VARDAMAN. Louisiana: JOS. E. RANSDELU EDWARD J. GAY. Arkansas:— JOS. T. ROBINSON. WILLIAM F. KIRBY. Oklahoma:- THOMAS P. GORE, "ROBERT L. OWEN. Texas:— CHAS. A. CULBERSON. MORRIS SHEPPARD. Spring Cleaning Time Is Here. If a house needs Spring clean ing, how about the human body after a winter of indoor life and heavy food ? Mrs. Jennie Miner, R. F. D. 1, Box 58, Davidson, Ind., write*: “I can truthfully say that Foley Cathartic Tablets are the best I ever used. Thev are so mild in action. I felt like I had been renovated and made over again.” Don’t suffer from indi gestion, biliousness, bad breath, bloating, gas or constipation, when relief can be so easily had. The McDonou h Drug Co. Vigor CUCCESS IS ACHIEVED by vigorous men and women. When one is lacking in strength and endurance, when good health is wanting, when physical power is at low ebb, it is impossible to accom plish one’s work. One of the causes of ill health and low vitality is the improper functioning ot the kidneys. Trouble results when they fail to eliminate waste and poisonous matter from the system, and rheumatic pains, backache, stiff joints, sore muscles, and other symptoms quickly follow. Joley glllS banish effects of kidney and bladder trouble by removing the cause. They are healing and curative. They tone up and strengthen the weakened or diseased organs. H. D. Castleberry, Marine Engineer. Port Vincent, La., writes: “I consider Foley Kidney Pills the greatest medicine for kidney and bladder Uouble I ever used. 1 recommend them to all * k ho suffer with kidney and bladder trouble.” Th. McDoooi’■?*■> Ov'io 'o For Administration. G E ORGTA —Henit County. To whom it may oonern: J. Sam Bran nan having made application to me to be made permanent administrator upon the estate of J. W Bran nan. late ot said county, notice is hereby given that said application will be heard at the regular term of the court of ordinary for said county, to held on the first Mondav in April, 1919. Witness my hand and offi cial signature, this 26th day of Feb 1919. A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGK, GEORGIA t\ BUICK MODELS FOR 1919 THE BUICK line of models for Nineteen-nineteen comprise a Roadster, Five-passenger and Seven-passenger in open types and a Coupe, Five-passenger and Seven-passenger Sedan, in • the Closed-body designs. Every model has inbuilt the characteristic Buick features —all six-cylinder motors, Buick Valve-in-head design, but with many de sirable changes and improvements over the cars of the previous seasons. The Valve Mechanism is automatically lubricated and is covered with dust-proof cover, prolonging the life of the bearings. The valve lifters, rollers and pins have been made larger, which will reduce wear. A tension spring has been placed in valve lifter to keep roller on cam constantly, re lieving valve spring of all work except seat ing of the valves. The new design of cam shaft insures gradual seating action of valve lifters AND ELIMINATES NOISE. NEW STYLE ON ALL MODELS. Price List, Delivered at McDonough, Ga. H-44 $1675. H-46 $2185. H-49 $1975. H-45 1675. H-47 2400. H-50 2824. Demonstration or Catalog Upon Request. Tolleson & Turner, McDonough, Ga. r?\ your own Linseed Oil. MAKES BEST PAINT—WEARS LONGEST The Paint is so positively good ,*• >”'7 that it is known as the “firsaster Paint. 33 When Linseed Oil is added, then the actual 7pm V costofL&lVl Paint— thereby made ready v for use is about SI.OO per gallon less than the price ot other high-grade paints that They are simply adding Linseed , , ~ , c Oil toL&M Semi-Pasts Paint are sold all ready for use. Copeland-Turner Mercantile Co. D. A. BROWN. DENTIST Office Hours : 6 a. m. to 2 F. M TERMS: STRICTLY CASH. McDonough, Ga. BROWN k BROWN Attorneys at Law McDonough, Ga. Call or write us for farm loans. Ask Your Grocer For CHEEK-NEAtS COFFEES Best By Every Test &’• - - J : ■ For Administration. GEORGIA—Henry County. To whom it may concern : C. M. Rape having made application to me in due form to be appointed permanent adminis trator upon the estate of W. H. Stansell, late of said county, notice is hereby given that said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said county, to be held on the first Mon day in April, 1919. Witness my hand and official signature, this 6th day of March. 1919. A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
