The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, June 20, 1919, Image 4
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 1 “ t 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.