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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
siticn 5c additional —special contracts.
Official Organ of Henry County.
Mct)onough, Ga., June 20,1919.
Paying the income tax knocks
the enjoyment out of an income —
so they tell US.
Some writer defines “news
papers” as the unmentionable in
unreadable things.
We may be cranky, but refuse
to be attached to a hand organ,
having no turn for music.
Counties all around us are
catching the good roads epidemic.
Why not get our share of it?
Mr. Burleson and the striking
operators are having it nip and
tuck with the winner in doubt.
The Germans are said to be
planning a flight across the At
lantic. We wonder where they
will land?
Violence is never good in a
movement that is good for all;
where voting is free there is no
need for bloodshed.
“President Wilson should come
at once.” says a headline. Yes,
and his first official act should be
to fire Burleson.
If a gang of men and women
were responsible for the recent
mailing of bombs the sooner they
are laid out the better.
Some kick about everything,
while others paw the air for
nothing. Retween the two you
can find some common sense.
Somebody thinks a newspaper
is hitting at them all the time;
as a matter of fact, the news
paper probably has forgotten
them.
Not an empty house in McDon
ough, although there are daily
calls for them. Here’s a good
investment for some of our capi
talists.
When it comes to farm land
Henry county stands second to
none and its soil will stand the
severest of tests for all agricul
tural purposes.
Just now Uncle Sam is after the
guy who sent a copy of the peace
treaty to Wall street. But the
job seems as difficult as stamping
out Bolsheviki.
McDonough has good railroad
facilities, a mild and healthy cli
mate, making it an ideal place for
manufactories, which would make
her blossom as the rose.
Nowhere does the sun shine
brighter or the birds sing sweeter
than in Henry county, a veritable
earthly Eden where everybody is
honest, God-fearing and truthful.
Col. W. A. Shackelford, one of
the best pargraphers and all-round
writers in the state, or elsewhere,
has again resumed control of the
Oglethorpe Echo, which already
looks like its former self. With
the return of “Shack” to the fold
let us rise and sing, “Hail! hail! all
the gang is here.”
Cotton and Its Relations.
Cotton is one of the most im
portant products in the world.
The South holds what is in effect
a practical monopoly of its pro
duction, but the growing of cotton
has really impoverished the South
and proven a bane instead of a
blessing. While impoverishing
the producers, cotton has enrich
ed the manufacturers anu ine
middlemen. The wealth created
in England and New England bv
the manufacture of southern cot
ton into the finished product many
times exceeds the wealth created
in the raising of cotton. The
growers of cotton, as a whole,
have made a bare existence; the
manufacturers of cotton, both in
England and elsewhere, have
made enormous wealth out of
their industry. Fundamentally
this is a false situation ; the grow
er, having a monopoly, should be
entitled to a profit which would
make the South the richest agri
cultural region in the world. But
by reason of conditions existing,
and the world-wide effort to hold
down the price of cotton, the cot
ton-growers have made a scanty
living. It is true that here and
there a large landowner has been
able to make money out of cotton
growing by cheap labor, or rather
by low-priced labor, or under the
tenant system. But the tenants
and the farm laborers have had to
bear the brunt of the poverty en
tailed by this system.
We believe that excessively
low wages are forever gone. This
is one of the greatest blessings
which will come out of the war,
and the man who seeks to beat
down wages on the farm, in order
to lessen the cost of cotton pro
duction. is an enemv to mankind.
One of the geeatest curses of the
South has been the low wages in
the cotton fields, which compelled
the women and the children of
the poorer classes to work in the
fields when the former should
have been at home and the latter
should have been in school.
Cotton could never have been
sold at the average price of the
last fifty years unless much of it
had been raised by this work of
the women and children. The
tenant farmer, white ami black,
has to a large extent been com
pelled to live in houses unfit for
human habitation, necessarily re
sulting in sickness and much ill
health. It is the duty of every
landowner and every business
man in the South to do all in his
power to reshape the entire farm
life of the South by a continuation
of high wages, based on high
prices of cotton, and in connection
therewith undertake a campaign
for providing reasonably comfort
able homes for every laborer,
white or black. Whithout this
i there can be no full development
of the educational and moral pos
sibilities of the people, nor can
there be that general betterment
of social conditions and increase
of wealth which are essential to
the South’s highest spiritual and
material progress. Manufactu
rers Record.
American Triumph.
Before the war, exports in dye
stuffs from United States were
$500,000 a year. In 1918 the fig
ures ran to $17,000,000. Ameri
can textile manufacturers, when
the war broke out, were panic
stricken, because they believed
that Germany was the only coun
try that could produce fine dyes.
American chemists, hswever, came
to the rescue and are now pro
ducing dyes better than the Ger
man.
Japan is reported not in love
with the Allies. Who ever thought
that she was?
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
Using New Cotton
To Beat 801 l Weevil.
Statesboro, June 12. —That Bul
loch county is prominently recog
nized as a cotton producing coun
ty is evidenced by the fact that
the West India Corporation has
placed an order for Bulloch coun
ty cotton seed with J. W. Williams
of Statesboro, and Mr. Williams
will this week send 250 bushels of
his Mead Cotton seed to Haiti.
This is a new variety of cotton
and has already established a good
market. It grows like short sta
ple and is ginned like short staple,
but the fiber is said to be the
equal of sea island cotton, and the
price about the same as sea island.
Mr. Williams first procured a
few of the seed of Mead cotton
from the United States Govern
ment as an experiment, and so
great was the yield he has plant
ed it ever since. Last year he
sold between 1,000 and 1,2000
bushels of seed from his crop. It
is an early variety and is calcula
ted to besi the boll wevil. A great
many farmers in this county have
planted this variety this year and
every case it is ahead of the short
staple and sea island.
To Plant In Haiti.
Prof. Loy E. Rast, for six years
head of the cotton industry at the
State College of Agrculture at
Athens, praises this variety of
cotton. Prof. Rast now has head
quarters in Statesboro as boll
weevil expert in the extension
division of the State College. He
has just returned from Haiti,
where he went to study the cotton
situation on the island, going at
the instance of Eastern capitalists
who own large areas of land in
Haiti.
The West Indian Corporation,
it is understood, owns 30,000 acres
of land in Haiti and will plant
large areas of cotton this summer.
According to Prof. Rast cotton
can be planted there almost any
month in the year and bears
almost continually, there being no
frost to kill it.
One Little Word.
In the good old times when gas
light was used on the streets,
when omnibuses ran rattling over
the cobblestones insead of street
cars, when chickens and live stock
were brought to market in place
of tasteless cold-storage meat,
great droves of pigs used to come
grunting and squealing along John
street, in Cincinnati; also, herds
of wild-eyed, long-horned cattle,
driven by wild-looking men on
horseback, and great droves of
gray-colored mules with a leader
carrying a bell on his neck.
Well, this lead mule was often
a beautiful, clean-limbed beast,
and one day an old negro said to
the writer (who is Dan Bead, the
author of an article on making
rustic furniture, in Boy’s Life):
“Say, Danie, did you see dat
white bell mule?”
“Yes, uncle, I saw him, and he
is a mighty pretty mule.”
“Yea, he am a mighty fine mule,
an’, Danie, he cum mighty near
being my mule.”
“Go ‘long, uncle! What are
talking about ?”
“He sure did, Danie, I asked de
driver to give him to me, an’ he
said ‘No.’ If he had said ‘Yes,’
Uncle Cassius would hab owned
dat mule!”
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 snch 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.
Just in Time.
Doctor —“Mv dear sir, it’s a
good thing you came to me when
you did.”
“Why, Doc? Are you broke? —
Life.
hiM
YOURf
KIDSEfS
Mayb* you THINK they’ra
all right and raayba you’re
wrong about it.
Pains In tba back, cloudy
reddish sediment In the
urine, palpitation of the
heart, puffy ski« under the
eyes—these are SOME of
the symptoms of kidney
trouble, and they call for
Dr. Thacker'S
Liver arr Blood
Syrup
A remedy of 67 years stand
ing. Laxative or cat! xrtlc;
liver regulator; blood puri
fier and kidney tonic. At
your drug store.
He Threw Ceiemel Away
Wm. S. Prince of Birmingham,
Al«., writes: "I was suffering
with indigestion, billiouaness and
kidney trouble. I tried calomel
and the doctor* for about e
month. Finally I tried DR.
THACHKR’S LIVER AND BLOC®
SYRUP and the first bottle re
lieved me very much. 1 am
sound and well, can eat any
thing.”
Thacher medicine Co.
Chatianeoga, Tmo., H. A. A.
For Sale by Horton Drug Co.
Petition to Amend.
State of Georgia—Henry County.
To the Superior Court of H' j nrv Co.
The Petition of HAMPTON CCT
TON MILLS respectfullv shows;
1. That your petitioner. Hamp
ton Cotton Mills, is a corporation,
incorporated by the Superior Court,
of Henrv County, Georgia, on the
17th day of May, 1900. Said chat
ter has never been amended, and
will expire on the 17th day of Mav,
1920.
2. Petitioner desires a renewal
of its charter as set out in the
original act of incorporation, to
gether with certain amendments
which are desired in the renewal
of said charter. Said desired
amendments are hereinafter fully
set forth.
3. Petitioner desires said re
newal of its charter to take effect
from the expiration of its original
charter, and to extend for the full
term of twenty (20) years there
after, with the privilege of renewal
at the expiration of that time.
4. Petitioner desires its charter
amended, to take effect upon the
granting of the order, in the follow
ing particulars. to-wit:
(a) The capital stock of said
corporation shall be Three Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00),
divided into shares of the par
value of One Hundred Dollars
($100.00) each; but said corpora
tion is authorized by the vote of
the majority of its stockholders to
increase its capital stock from time
to time to any amount, not to
exceed Six Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($600,000.00).
(b) In addition to the particular
business authorized to be carried
on by said corporation, petitioner
desires the further right of carry
ing on the business of a general
merchandise and commissary store
and to buy and sell both at whole
sale and retail all goods, wares and
merchandise usually carried and
sold in such stores.
5. Petitioner attaches hereto,
and files along with this petition a
certified abstract from the minutes
of the corporation, showing that
this application for renewal and
amendment has been authorized by
proper corporate action.
Wherefore, petitioner prays that
its said charter may be renewed and
amended as above specified
HAMPTON COTTON MILLS.
By Cleveland & Goodrich, Attys.
GEORGIA—Henry County.
I, H. C. Hightower, Clerk of the
Superior Court of said County, do
hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the
application for renewal and amend
ment of the charter of Hampton
Cotton Mills, as the same appears
on file in this office.
Witness my official signature
and the seal of said Court, this
13th day of June. 1919.
H. C. HIGHTOWER, Clerk
Superior Court Henry County, Ga.
Notice.
GEORGIA—Henry County.
A. C. Castellaw having applied
to the Ordinary of said comity 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 the
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, Exeontors of said
estate and L. G. 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 duly Term, 1919, at the Court
of Ordinary of Henry County ana
show cause, if any they can. why
the said executors should not be
required to make said deed as pray
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 within the
State, and an older having been
made for service on her, Pearl
Johnson, by 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 21st dav of April, 19]9„
H. C. HIGHTOWER,
Clerk Superior Court.
Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA—Henry County.
F. G. Dobson, A. M. Beck and A.
S. Odom, Administrators De Bonis
Non, Cnm-Testamento-Annexo of
the estate of T. J. Upchurch, late
of said county, have applied to the
Ordinarv 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.
Given 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 tindersigned. 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
testanmnto-annexo, estate of T.
J. Upchurch, deceased.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
To whom it may concern : Al 2
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 :
7 a. u. to 12 m
TERMS: STRICTLY CASH.
McDonough, Ga.
