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MOUNT BETHEL NEWS.
Fried chicken on the move at
ast, i
Peaches, cherries, strawberries,
plums and fresh vegetables are an
old song —but still a most pleasing
one.
Glad to say that “Uncle Billie”
Hooten is recovering from his
recent* illness. Also Mrs. Sam
Smith, who has been quite sick, is
improving.
Very sorry to note the death of
the youngest child of Mr. and
Mrs. Crate Moore, which occurred
last week. The little babe suffered
for many weeks. Our sincere
sympathies are with the bereaved
ones.
Marvin W. Hooten came up from
White Plains last week to see his
\ father, W. H. Hooten, making the
trip in his handsome new Olds
mobile. He was accompanied by
his wife and daughter Annie and
his niece, Sarah Mason.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jackson and
little daughter Oterie of Covington
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Jackson Sunday.
Messrs. Harry Carmichael and
Ed Cook attended Sunday school
at Mt. Bethel Sunday. We were
glad to have them with us.
A party of young McDonough
people motored down to Snapping
Shoals Sunday afternoon and were
entertained in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lon Bailey. Those in
the party were: Missse Essie
Mae and Odell Knight, Eldora
• Grant, Ella Sue Wells, Kate and
Gertrude Calloway, Beulah Pattillo
and Messrs. Tom Glass, James
Brock and Troy Crumbly. .
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Presson of
Newton countv were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pressor Sun
day.
F. B. Strahn has removed the
■old rickety well shelter that has
been an eye sore to the public so
long and has erected one that
pleases his wife and that’s enough
There are two classes of men
who deserve both pity and con
demnation. One is the man who
kicks without cause, and the
other is the spineless jelly fish
who refuses to kick when he has
one coming. This speech is not
original with me, but are my sen
timents exactly, so I want to
repeat it.
Loy Strahn and Edward Boyd
spent Sunday afternoon in At
lanta. Mis’ Franc.
PROGRESS NEWS NOTES.
Say, folks. What kind of a
noise is a noisy noise?
Listen ! Do you know all gold
is golden, but all yellow is not
gold ?
Did you know a wise person
will change, but a fool will never?
What can’t be cured must be
endured.
Least said soonest mended.
If in life you should pursue,
always paddle your own canoe.
Mrs. J. W. Foster spent last
Wednesday with Mrs. L. P. and M.
E. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnson of
Atlanta were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. L. P. Johnson Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nash and Mr.
and Mrs. Waytnan Foster of At
lanta called on Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Foster Sunday.
Mrs. W. S, Foster spent Satur
day night and Sunday with Mrs.
Lillie Brown.
Mrs. J. W. McCullough spent
one afternoon last week with
Mrs. L. P. Johnson.
Misses Willie Kate and Mamie
South Avenue.
A good many from here attend
ed preaching service at Mount
Zion Sunday and heard a very
imoressive sermon by the pastor,
Rev. Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Gardner,
Miss Leek Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Thurman and Mrs. C. C.
White spent Friday in Atlanta.
The other dav a little Ford
“rambled right on” up the hill
with a horse that had strayed
from its home near Conyers tied
behind. I guess it was the own
er’s way of punishment, but I
would like to know how it served
the horse.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Peterman
and Agnes spent Sunday after
noon at Mr. A. C. Peterman’s.
Busy Bee’s hens are all of the
game type, and they positively re
fuse to set early in the spring
when the neighbors all have at
least half a dozen setting. They
are very industrious, however,
and stay away from the house so
much sometimes they are not
even missed until they march up
with a big drove of biddies. Thir
ty-eight was the crowd that four
hens brought to the house Satur
day, and they are all cooped with
two now. I had about one hun
dred hatched unexpectedly last
year and had fine luck raising
them. Late chicks are as easy to
raise as early ones if you see that
they drink some fresh buttermilk
before they have anything else.
Maybe the readers of The Weekly
all know this, but for fear they
didn’t I wanted to pass it on, it
has been such a help to me. I
have all sizes of chickens on the
yard from small fryers down to
the biddies. I think I hear some
body say a chicken crank, but I’m
not; they take care of themselves
mostly.
And now a noonday flight around
the world in an airplane is pro
phesied, and there is no doubt
about it being done in the near
future. There is no telling what
will be going on in this world fifty
years hence. The writer stood at
Five Points in Atlanta recently j
and saw an airplane doing all'
sorts of stunts over the city.
Since then I have been ruminat
ing, as “Bill Arp” used to say, on
the great inventions of the last
century ; and I have come to the
conclusion that ere another cen
tury rolls around people will be
living in houses suspended in the
air by some great invention above
the foul atmosphere of the earth.
I imagine there will be currents
of air discovered that will be more
beneficial to health than the wat
eiing places people flock to now.
Church weddings will soon be
old fashioned, everybody will want
to get married up above the clouds.
Rev. and Mrs. W. N. South and
children were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Rodgers near McDon
ough Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Srayberry
were dinner guests of Mr. W. H.
Clark’s family Sunday.
Busy Bke.
Monroe County Farms
For Sale.
We offer to home seekers or for
investment very desirable farms
in acreage from 50 to 500, improv
ed and unimproved. See us and :
we will save you money.
HOLLIS & THORNTON,
Forsyth. Ga. ■
L. O. Hollis. G, W. Thornton.
Jim Foster spent an afternoon
with Misses Corene and Ethel
Hood last week.
Mr. A. A. Exum and family spent
Sunday as the guests of Mr. Tom
Adamson. TOMMY. I
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA
Atlanta Celebrates
Fourth of July.
The Southeastern Fair Associ
ation will devote two days to cele
brating the Fourth of July at
Lakewood Park this year, since
Saturday is a half holiday in At
lanta, and many of the large firms
have decided not to open on the
fifth.
This annual event at Lakewood
ParK has become fixed and Secre
j tary Striplin announces that the
program this year will outdo all
j former efforts even though there
! are two days. An order has been
! given a big fireworks firm in
j Chicago to prepare a Victory pro
' gram at a cost much exceeding
last year when all agreed that the
pyrotechnics was alone worth the
i price of admission. There will
also be horse racing and motor
cycle racing both days w'hich
assures enough events in front of
the grand stand to suit everybody.
The new attractions at Lake
wood Park include the Ostrich
Farm, Aeroplane Swing, Bug
House, and a big Ferris Wheel
| will be in operation by July 4th;
j the big dancing pavilion with its
$3,000 orchestrion will also be
ready. The park has been break
ing all records this year and the
| good business has made the man
agement all the more liberal in the
1 way of high class moving picture
i programs nightly and an illumi
nation of the grounds that makes
it a veritable fairy land, and with
out doubt justifies that it is not
only the only amusement park in
Atlanta but the largest in the
isouth.
Hopewell News.
Everybody is busy at work —
think they will soon be ready to
lay by.
Mrs. Claud Skinner visited Mrs.
Clifford Gilbert Saturday after
noon.
Everybody remember preaching
at Hopewell Saturday night be
fore the fifth Sunday.
Mrs. R. C. Bradberry visited her
sister, Mrs. Ben Turner, of Stock
bridge, Saturday afternoon.
Miss Leman Gilbert had as her
guests Sunday, Misses Unabell
Skinner and Estell Lewis.
Mr. Mun Pair spent the day
with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bradberry
Sunday.
Mr. C. E. Driver and daughter,
Miss Essie, made a trip to Atlanta
Saturday and stayed over until
Sundav afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Lewis had
as their guests Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Lewis and family of
Hapeville.
Mrs. H. L. Stephens and chil
dren visited Mrs. George Floyd
and family Saturday night.
Mr. John Gilbert and Mr. Buck
Evans visited Mr. and Mrs. Berl
Lewis and family near Ola Satur
day night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Skinner had
as their guests Sunday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lewis, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Gilbert and Mrs. Clifford Gil
bert. Jimmie.
LISTEN!
We have been pleasing and dis
pleasing people ever since 1904.
We have made money and lost
money. We have been cussed
and discussed, knocked and talked
about, double-crossed, lied to,
biked, held up, robbed, disquali
fied, to the end of the chapter.
Ihe only reason we remain in the
barber business is to see what in
hades will happen next by Heck!
Give us a trial.
HAND & COKER.
Griffin.
A sad death occurred in Griffin
Wednesday, when Mr. Cliff Greer
1 breathed his last, after a short
illness from blood Doison. He
was just in the prime of life being
only 35 years old. He had been
an employee of the Norman
Buggy Company for many years
(■and will be greatly missed by his
fellow workmen. He was a man
of fine integrity and admired by
all who knew him for his noble
traits of character. He leaves a
wife and three little ones to mourn
his loss, to whom much sympathy
is extended. His remains were
carried by antomobile to Mansfield
for interment. Mr. W. W. Norman
and also the employes, showed
their devotion to him by donating
some beautiful flowers. Peace to
his ashes.
It is very gratifying news to us
each week as we read of the
Henry boys being discharged and
coming home. The latest being
Lt. Roddy Turner.
Mrs. J. D. Hales and daughters
Ethel and Opal of Orchard Hill
spent last Sunday with relatives
here.
Mr. Newton Blankenship, who
has recently returned from over
seas, has been visiting in Griffin
this week.
“When you gits de notion ’tother
folks ain’t in yo class, dey mighty
apt to ’gree wid yo —an’ dey mon
strous proud dey ain’t too.”—
Hambone.
We frequently meet people here
who speak complimentary of our
editor and his paper which of
course makes us feel proud of our
home county. If you -have any
thing good to say about your
say ii whiie they are here.
It was the pleasure of the writer
and good man to visit at the home
of Mr. W. S. Crumbley a few days
ago. We were treated to a good
dinner with plenty of lemonade
and ice cream. We were glad to
find Mrs. M. O. Elliott very much
improved and walking on crutches
and enjoying fresh air in her
roller chair on the porch. Her
sons, Messrs. Tom and Jonce
Elliott, were present which added
joy and sunshine to her in her
feebleness.
Gardens needing rains bidly.
One Two.
A doctor said to his wife: “You
see, dear, I have pulled the patient
through after all; a very critical
case, l can tell you.”
“Yes, dear hubby,” was the an
swer; “but then you are so clever
in your profession. Ah, if I had
only known you five years earlier!
I feel certain my first husband —
my poor Robert—would have
been saved.”
For Sale.
120 acres of land (more or less)
7 miles from McDonough on good
road, near church and school,
running water, timber, two new
dwellings, two new barns. This
.is a cheap farm and pick-up for
someone.
TALMON PATTILLO,
Real Estate,
McDonough, Ga
To Platinize Silver.
Place some platinum in a small
quantity of aqua regia or nitro-mu
riatic acid, and keep it in a warm
place a few days; it will dissolve. As
soon as it has dissolved, evaporate the
liquid at a gentle heat until it is as
thick as honey, so as to get rid oi
the excess of the nitric and muriatic
rcids. Add a little water, and it is
ready for use. A dozen drops of this
solution goes a long way in platiniz
ing silver. The operation is performed f
in a small glass or beaker, covered with
a watchglass to keep in the fumes,
and placed in a little sand in a saucer,
to equalize the heat.
WONDERFUL RECORD
FOR THE PIG CLUBS
They Have Outstripped The
Other Agricultural Clubs
A brief summary of the pig club
work given below shows that material
i progress has been made in this line
of club work. The membership has
Increased; the methods of feeding and
caring for the pigs are based on
scientific principles; better blood is
being used; progress is being made
along all ines. This club now sur
passes the com club in the numbers
enrolled.
The following is some of the phases
and activities of the pig club work in
Georgia as carried on by the Exten
sion Division of the State College of
J Agriculture in co-operation with the
I United States Department of Agricul
ture;
Fourteen schools in one county
i raised pigs on the waste from schol
ars’ lunch baskets and sold them for
$590.00 at an auction sale.
One town of 2,000 people produced
i 35,000 pounds of pork from pigs
raised in back yards. The white boys
of the same county raised $12,340.00
worth of meat hogs, and the negro
, boys $2,134.85, a total of $14,474.85
worth of meat produced by pig club
boys.
An all-cotton county reports an in
crease of 5,000 hogs in 1918.
Fifty-seven pig club members in one
county raised 250 head of registered
Duroc-Jerseys. The amount invested
was $2,300.00 An auction sale dis
posed of 80 head of surplus. The sale
and remaining hogs represent $7,-
800.00
Twenty-two schools in one county
are raising twenty two pure bred hogs
this spring on waste from the pupils'
dinner baskets.
With twenty-eight pig club hogs one
county won seventy-six ribbons, and
prizes amounting to $817.50, including
the State championship.
The State champion was the eleven
year-old son of a one-horse farmer
who bought his pig at an auction sale
for $37.50. She is worth S3OO today
Six pig club boys in one county will
start hog farms in 1919. Three of
these boys have their hogs and land.
All of them started with one small
Pig.
Of the 2,105 hogs at the Southetst
ern Fair, 345 were owned and raised
by pig club boys who won thirty-one
ribbons and $330 in prizes in the open
ring. Three of the ribbons were
Junior Champions.
Of the 350 hogs at the State Fair,
8 7were owned and raised by pig club
boys who won 39 ribbons in the open
ring and $272 in prizes. One of the
ribbons was a Junior Champion.
Pig club boys won 70 ribbons and
$505 in prizes in the open ring at two
Georgia fairs. Four of the ribbons
were Junior Champions.
The total sum represented by the
hogs and pigs in the hands of the pig
club members during 1918 was almost
a half million dollars.
The increase in the initial cost of
pig clubs’ pigs in 1918 was almost
60 per cent more than in 1917.
The increase in the final value of
hogs raised by pig club boys in 1918
over those of 1917 was over 56 per
cent.
The increase in the number of pure
bred hogs raised by pig club boys in
1918 over 1917 was over 306 per cent.
The increase in the number of pigs
exhibited at two fairs by pig club
boys in 1918 over 1917 was nearly 60
per cent.
The increase in profits of hogs
raised in 1918 over 1917 was over 61
per cent.
At the second annual Negro Meat
Show, at Fort Valley, there were 896
pieces of hog meat exhibited, 284
dozen fresh eggs, and 43 1-2 pounds
of butter. A close inspection detected
fifty-seven shoulders slightly off in
odor and but two actually sour. —J. K.
Giles, Georgia State College of Agri
culture
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EXTENSION SCHOOLS.
Four-day extension schools will b®
held at nine of the eleven district agri
cultural schools during the month be
ginning July 8, announces the Geor
gia State College of Agriculture. Th®
dates for the meetings are as fellows:
Douglas. July 1-3; Statesboro and
Barnesrille, July 8-11; Granite Hill
and Madison, July 15-18; Monroe and
Carrollton, July 22-25; and Powder
Springs and Clarkesville, July 29 to
August 1. Boys’ and Girls’ club work
will be a special feature of the pro
gram.
Sylvania Marshal Kills Man
Sylvania.—<Gordon Mills, a young
white man, was shot and killed here
by the city marshal, R. H. Baz. more.
The city marshal had been sent for
to arrest Mills for disorderly conduct,
and when he entered the house Mills
threw a pistol in the officer’s face,
whereupon the latter shot him three
times, killing him instantly.
