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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1919)
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.
