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The Henry
County Weekly
By J. A. FOUCHE.
Entered at the postoffice at McDon
ough, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Advertising Kates 15c per inch, posi
sition 5c additional—special contracts.
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., June 13,1919.
Strike for good roads.
With world strikes following
world war, what’s the difference.
The boys are now enjoying
their gin-fizz, but after July 1 it
will be gee-whizz!
Looks now as if it may be Walk
er, Flynt, Holder and probably
Blalock for Governor.
We may be cranky, but we
never criticise the fault of others
which we ourselyes possess.
Only two weeks more, June 25,
and again the Georgia legislature
is again with us in all its glory.
Honesty is not only the best
policy, but the best paying propo
sition when it comes to cold divi
dends.
The way of the debt payer is
hard, but only for a while. The
debt dodger is the guy that has a
hard life.
The country must be infested
with wild beasts judging from the
number of "biind tigers” being
captured.
One thing must be handed to
President Wison, and that is his
sincerity of purpose in everything
he undertakes.
Running a newspaper exactly
as everybody thinks it should be
would be one of the greatest won
ders of the world.
A Florida paper proposes an
amendment to The Litany which
reads, “From all other ‘drives’ for
money, Good Lord deliver us!”
The Jackson Progress intimates
that June brides, blackberries, red
bugs, and the Georgia legislature
form a combination hard to beat.
Are four o’clocks reckless? At
least these popular flowers show
absolutely no regard for govern
ment time, but continue right on
in the old way.
Henry county j s a good place to
live in, a good place to die in. In
fact she’s alright anywav you take
her. Her arms are always open
to the outsider who will hustle —
but has no place for drones.
Somebody has figured out that
if everybody who advises others
to go back to the farm should fol
low their own advise there would
be no “back to the farm” move
ment. —Jackson Progress-Argus.
And ‘‘figures never lie.”
After a year and a half out of
the game we are struck with the
wonderful improvement in the
papers papers of the State. All
of our exchanges show more or
less improvement, better make-up,
better printj betterand more news
and editorials. The-Crawfordville
Advocate-Democrat and The Hen
ry County Weekly, two of the
smaller papers, are notable in
stances. Conyers Times. We
thank you.
Are We the Wise Ones?
He was sitting in the sun on a
pile of lumber. Beside him lay
the kit of a vagrant umbrella
mender and he had just unwrap
ped a huge sandwich of bread and
meat which some hospitable
woman had given him. “Good
morning,” we saluted cheerfully
as we passed, for there was some
thing in the sunshine that made
us feel genial. “Good morning,”
he responded with equal cheer
fulness as he cast aside the wrap
ping from his sandwich and eyed
the generous slices of bread with
satisfaction.
As we sat down at the desk and
became busy with the morning’s
mail we could not get the tramp
umbrella mender out of our mind.
Always there came the recurring
thought, which is the wise man —
the happy-go-lucky knight of the
road or the chap who struggles to
make something of himself and
keep up appearances?
The first letter opened was a
notice from the bank that a note
w'e had discounted two months
ago had not been paid and we
we were called upon to take it
up. My friend on the lumber pile
never knew the joy of being com
pelled to replace money he had
earned and spent because the
fellow that owed him had defaul
ted. The next envelope contained
a bill for a considerable sum.
True, it wasn’t due, but it cited the
fact that prices were advancing.
Viciously the knife was thrust into
the next envelope. Here was a
good vigorous kick. A foreign
advertisement in the last issue
had not been inserted at the top
of the column as was specified in
the contract. Oh, things were
breaking lovely this morning.
We shoved aside the mail and
began to wonder if it paid after
all to try. Wasn’t our scheme of
civilization all wrong? Which was
the wiser—the tramp or the busi
ness man? The vagrant breathes
the same pure air. He had his
breakfast, minus the grapefruit, it
is true, but just as nourishing as
ours. He collected for the job as
soon as it was completed. Soon
the cool sweet summer nights will
close over him as he lies upon
some grassy bank and gazes up at
the stars, while the chorus of
croaking frogs lull him to sleep.
The price of gasoline has no ter
rors for him. He can travel while
we must stay here and get out the
paper for an unappreciative public.
If he loses a dime he cusses and
goes on hisAvay. He doesn’t have
to take a bath unless he wants to
and when he does he plunges into
a cool creek and dries himself in
the sun, while we scrub out the
tub. He can just be his own lazy
independent self while we must
keep up the eternal bluff. If we
never write another line for this
sheet you may know we’ve chuck
ed the whole darn thing and gone
to live, as our forefathers did be
fore they inaugurated this won
derful system of civilization. —Ex.
Needed His Services.
While the editor of a certain
newspaper was away from home
he left his paper in charge of a
minister of the gospel. During
the minister’s stay in the office
the following letter came in from
a subscriber: “I know very well
that I paid my subscription to your
paper the last time I was in your
office. If I get any more letters
as I received last week, I will
come,in and maul hell out of you.”
The minister gasweced the note
like this : “I have been trying to
get that out of the editor for ten
years, and if you will come down
and maul it out of him, then, my
dear sir, I have twenty members
of my church I will let you operate
on.”—Ex.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. McDQNOUGH, GEORGIA
Concrete Road to
Henry County Line.
The The Spalding County Com
missioners at their regular meet
ing Tuesday awarded a contract
for the construction of a concrete
road on the Dixie Highway from
Experiment to the Henry county
line to the McDi ugale Construc
tion Company of Atlanta and
work on the new roadway will
commence as soon as the neces
sary preliminary arrangements are
completed.
There were nine other bidders,
being Campbell Construction Co.,
Columbus;Smith Construction Co.,
Atlanta; Kreis-Waldrop Co., Knox
ville; Pittman Construction Co.,
Atlanta; Meador Construction Co..
Atlanta; Brooks-Calloway Co.,
Atlanta; Case &. Cathron, Atlanta;
Connell-Young Co., Macon, and
W. Z. Williams Co., Macon.
The contract was divided into
two classes. The successful bid
ders offered to do the work for
$2.54 each per square yard on
contracts numbers one and two.
There are 64,000 square yards to
be paved and the approximate
bid of the McDougale Company is
$160,000. The county and the
federal government share equally
in the expense incurred in the
contract. This is the only paving
in the state that the government
has yet approved Recently an
inspector went over the proposed
road and after thoroughly inspect
ing it rendered a favorable report.
The highwav will be paved with
concrete and the roadway will be
eighteen feet wide. The paving
starts at the end of the demon
stration paving at Experiment and
will extend to the Henry county
line, being six miles.
Chairman Wallace and the other
members of the county board will
at once have the contracting com
pany’s bond fixed, look into all
other details and begin work on
the new roadway as early as
practicable, which it is anticipated
will only be a short time. —Griffin
»
News.
Good Banking Law.
Comptroller of the Currency
Williams reports only one national
bank failure in the past four
months, and it is a gratifying
showing for that system. When
we recall some of the terriffic
scandals and damaging failures
which mark the financial history
of the past we can realize how
much we have to be thankful for
in the modern banking laws which
protect by strict regulations the
deposits of bank patrons.
Notwithstanding the fine banks
which are now offering their ser
vices to people in all sections o
our great nation, there are still
some who persist in keeping their
money hid at home under a board
in the floor or in the chimney.
Very often we read of, a robbery
under such circumstances, but the
unfortunate victims have only
themselves to blame. Money
should be kept in banks, and not
only is it safer, but it helps to
have funds in these institutions.
Mr. Wisler Cured of Indigestion
‘‘Some time in 1909 when I had
an attack of indigestion and every
thing looked gloomy to me, I re
ceived a free sample of Chamber
lain’s Tablets by mail. I gave
them a trial and they were such a
help to me that I bought a package,
and I can truthfully say that I have
not had a similar attack since,’ ‘
writes Wm, B. Wisler, Douglass
ville. Pa. For sale by Horton Drug
Co.
Our neighbor, the Jackson Prog
ress-Argus, bloomed out in six
column form last week. Brother
Jones is giving Jackson one of the
very best of Georgia’s splendid
weeklies —and here’s congratula
tions and best wishes.
President is Sincere.
Whether one agrees with Presi
dent Wilson in his attitude toward
the repeal of the war-time prohi
bition measure or not, there can
be no doubt of his sincerity in the
matter. He believes that he has
the authority to enforce war-time
prohibition since the war has
ended, or will be by the time the
bill goes into effect, and therefore
requests congress to authorize
him not to do so, stating that if
the matter were entirely in his
hands he would repeal the law. —
Oglethorpe Echo.
Your Country.
“Perhaps you have never
thought what your country means
It is all that surrounds you, all
that has brought you up and fed
you, all that you have loved!
This ground that you see, these
houses, these trees, those laugh
ing girls who are passing—this is
your country ! The laws which
protect you, the bread which re
wards your work, the words
which you exchange with others,
the joy and the grief which comes
to you from the men and things
among which you live —this is
your country! The little room
where you used to see your moth
er, the" remembrances she has left
you, the earth in which she rests
—this is your country, You see
it,'you breathe it, everywhere!
Picture to yourself, your rights
and your duties, your affections
and your wants, your memories
and your blessings; write them all
under a single name —and that
name will be your country.” —Ex.
Mrs. H. took his little son to a
slatghtering establishment where
they saw the porkers placed in
the great scalding vats in process
of preparation for the market.
The following Sunday he took
him to service at the Baptist
church and there several women
were immersed, the first immer
sions the little fellow had ever
seen. The next time Mr. H. took
the little fellow for a walk he ask
ed him where they should go, and
the youngster quickly replied:
“Let’s go where they scald the
women.”
When a kid at school
1 was never flip
Round a teacher with hair
On her upper lip.
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For "Sale foy Horton Df&g Co.
Notice.
GEORGIA— Henry County.
A. C. Castellaw having applied
to the Ordinary of said county by
petition asking that C. E. Eubanks,
L. W. Houser and L. G. Smith,
Executors of the estate of R. F.
Smith, deceased, late of said coun
ty. be required to make him a deed
to a brick storehouse and lot in th©
town of Locust Grove, Ga., in pur
suance to a bond for title made by
the said R. F. Smith to the said A.
C. Castallaw, in his life time, the
said A. C. Castellaw alleging that
he has fully met his obligations in
said bond. This is to notify the
said C. E. Eubanks, L. W. Houser
and L. G Smith, Executors of said
estate and L. C. Smith, Mrs. C. E.
Eubanks, Mrs. L. W. Houser, Miss
Margaret Smith, Miss Delia Smith
and Mrs. R. F. (Smith, heirs at law
of said estate, to be and appear at
the .Inly Term, 1919, at the Ccfurt
of Ordinary of Henry County and
show cause, if any they can, why
the said executors should not be
required to make said deed as may
ed for by the said A. C. Castellaw,
petitioner
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
Petition for Divorce
GEORGIA—Henry County,
Jordan Johnson vs. Pearl Johnson.
Petition for Divorce. In Henry
Superior Court April Term, 1919..
To the Defendant Pearl Johnson :
The plaintiff Jordan Johnson hav
ing filed his petition for divorce
against Pearl Johnson, in this
Court, returnable to this term of
the Court, and it being made to
appear that Pearl Johnson is not a
resident of said county and also
that she does not reside witnin the
State, and an older having been
made for service on her, Pearl
Johnson, bv publication, this there
fore is to notify you to be and
appear at the next term of Henry
Superior Court to be held on the
Third Monday in October, 1919,
then and there to answer said com
plaint of Jordan Johnson.
Witness the Hon. W. E. H.
Searcy! .Tr . Judge of the Superior
Court. This List (lay of April 1919.
H. C. HIGHTOWER,
Clerk Superior Court.
Leave to Sell.
(GEORGIA—Henry County.
F. G. Hobson, A. M. Beck and A.
S. Odom, Administrators He Bonis
Non, Cum-Testamento-Annexo of
the estate of T. J. Upchurch, late
of said county, have applied to the
Ordinary of said County for leave
to sell all the real estate of said
deceased and Two Shares of the
Capital Stock of the Atlanta Trust
Company and Ten Shares of the
Capital Stock of the Merchants and
Planters Warehouse of Locust
Grove, Ga.
Said application will he heard on
the first Monday in July 1919, and
this is to notify all parties inter
ested that they may show cause, if
any they have, why said applica
tion should not be granted.
(-liven under mv hand and seal
this June 2nd, 1919.
A. G. HARRIS, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors,
To whom it may concern: All
persons indebted to the estate of
the late T. J. Upchurch are reques
ted to make immediate settlement
to the undersigned, and all persons
having claims against said estate
are requested to present them prop
erly made out for payment.
F. G. DOBSON,
A. M. BECK,
A. S. ODOM,
Administrators de-bonis-non, cum
testamanto-annexo, estate’ of T,
J. Upclimch, deceased.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
To whom it may concern : All
persons indebted to the estate of
Mrs. Sarah Upchurch, late of said,
county, are requested to make im
mediate settlement to the under
signed, and all persons having
claims against said estate are re
quested to present said claims
properly made out for payment.
This June 2nd, 1919.
F. G. DOBSON,
A. M. BECK,
A. S. ODOM,
Executors last will and testament
of Mrs. Sarah Upchurch.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
To whom it may concern: All
persons indebted to J. A. Solomon,
deceased, are requested to make
immediate settlement; and all per
sons having claims against ' his
estate will present them to the
undersigned properly made out for
payment. June 2nd, 1919.
J . D. SOLOMON,
Executor Will of J. A. Solomon.
D. A. BROWN.
DENTIST
Office Hours :
? A. ML to 12 M.
TERMS: STRICTLY CASH.
M&odeufth, Ga.
