The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLV.
STATE LAWMAKERS
FACE EXTRA SESSION
Unless the Legislators Put
Through Program or Gov.
Dorsey May Make Them
Come Back to Finish Work.
Atlanta, August 4. —Will Gov
ernor Dorse} call an extra session
of the legislature if that portion of
the program which requires im
mediate action is not put through
before adjournment?
Constructive measures have
been delayed by capital removal,
woman suffrage and other mat
ters. Forty-one days of the
session are gone. Only nine days
are left before adjournment.
Here are the big things that are
left:
1. The highway program.
2. The educational program.
3. The bill creating a depart
ment of banking.
Governor Dorsey has taken an
active and leading part in the
highway movement, and unless
the matter is settled within the
next nine days, it is not improb
able that he will call an extra
session.
Both morning and afternoon
sessions of the legislative body
will be held during the rest of the
session. Perhaps they will be
able to finish the business before
them. They seem determined to
work, at least some of them are
quoted as saying “nothing is going
to hinder us.”
Bryans Lands Bring
Expected Good Prices.
According to advertisement, the
John Bryans estate lands were
disposed of at public sales last
Tuesday, and fine prices were
realized. The lands are located
eight to ten miles east of McDon
ough, comprising approximately
600 acres near and along South
river, divided into tracts, and the
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
The Rent Problem.
The present year will probably
live long in the memory of those
people who depend upon rented
houses as a place of habitation.
The supply in every community is
too small to meet the demand
and the real estate market has
been affected in several ways.
The lack of houses for rent has
caused many people to buy homes
when they would have continued
to rent if sufficent houses had
been available, for in the real
estate world it is considered per
fectly proper to buy a home
which some other man is renting
while it is questionable to outbid
him in the matter of rent. The
unusual volume of buying has
forced up the price of homes to
an abnormal level until it has
come to pass that an owner no
longer prices his property at
what it is worth but at whatever
figure the times make it probable
that he can obtain.
The shortage of houses has also
affected the amount of rent which
must be paid for a home. It is to
be expected that rent should ad
vance somewhat in proportion to
other necessities. People rent
their houses todtsy not on the
basis of what the houses may
have formerly cost them but on
the basis of what they would
bring under present conditions.
There is no ground for serious
objection with higher rents pro
vided these rents are not out of
proportion to the value of the
houses rented. —Monroe Adver
tiser.
sales totaled $45,200, ranging from
not less than SSO to more than
SIOO per acre.
In view of the present demand
for lands, this was about what
was expected. All were bought
in by the heirs, with the exception
of one 100 acre tract secured by
Mr. Hugh Turner, without im
provements, at about $55 per acre,
and another of 155 acres, by Mr.
A. C. Norman for SI2OO.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, august 8, 1919.
GEORGIA BAPTISTS
Getting Ready for the Big
Campaign—Big Meeting to
be Held in Macon—Dr. L. R.
Scarborough to Speak.
By Louie Newton, Director of Pub
licity.
The Baptists of Georgia and the
friends of the denomination
throughout the state will be de
lighted to know that the organi
zation for the big $75,000,000
campaign is rapidly materializing,
and that by the time this paper is
in the hand of the subscribers the
state will have been covered by
the district organizers with the
result that there will be an associ
ational organizer, associational
publicity director, and association
al W. M. M. director.
The state has been divided into
twelve districts with a well-known
Baptist leader over each district.
Dr. Cree, state organizer, states
that the next outstanding stage of
the big campaign will be a meet
ing at Mercer University in Macon
on August 13 and 14, when the
associational workers will meet
with the state officials and the
district organizers for a two-day
conference.
At this conference Dr. L. M.
Scarborough, director general for
the south, will deliver an address
and will discuss with the Georgia
workers the big aspects of the
campaign. It is expected that
there wili be two hundred and
fifty leading men and women at
this Mercer meeting.
At that meeting the associ
ational workers will go back and
set up the campaign in each
association in the state. This
will amount in reality to the coun
tv units of the war drives.
By September 1 it is the hope
of the state officials to have Geor
gia pretty well organized. Then
October and November will be
devoted to training the team
workers in each church and hold
ing inspirational meetings where
the bigness of the appeal may be
duly set before the Baptists of
this state.
It is not extravagant to state
that the 325,000 white Baptists in
Georgia are now stirred as they
have never been and they are
planning to do big things when
Victory Week arrives.
Singing Convention
Meets at Locust Grove.
The Henry County Singing Con
vention will be held at Locust
Grove Baptist church, Thursday
and Friday, August 14-15.
We are expecting to have some
of the best singers in this and ad
joining counties with us on those
dates. All music lovers are invit
ed to be with us.
Notification has been given that
Professors Beasely and Moms
will attend. A. G. COMBS.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
i fluenced by constitutional conditions, and
! in order to cure it you must take an
internal remedy. Hall’s Catarrh Medi
\ cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. It is com
posed of some of the best tonics known,
combined with some of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
' the ingredients in Hall’s Catarrh Medi
cine is what produces such wonderful
results in catarrhal conditions Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
I All Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Sale of Tye Lands.
It will be of interest to our
people to know that ttie Crockett
Plantation, owned by Dr. Robert
L. Tye of McDonough and Col.
John L. Tye of Atlanta, will be
sold at an early date.
The Messrs. Tye have employed
the Dozier Land Co. of Athens to
cut this place into a number of
small farms and offer them for
sale, announcement of which is
made this week, and details wili
be given in succeeding issues of
The Weekly.
This plantation is probably one
of the best known places in
Henry county, lying on the
Atlanta road between McDonough
and Flippen, and has been in the
Tye family more than a hundred
years. The Messers Tye realize
that the day of the big plantation
is over and that the best interest
of Henry county lies in the divi
ding of the large plantations into
small farms, to he occupied by the
land owner himself, and when
large plantations in this county
are thus divided, we will see an
era of unprecedented prosperity
in this section.
Real Estate Boom.
Never before in Henry county
have lands soared to such high
prices. In common with other
sections, big deals are pulled off
every few days, in some instances
figures seeming to reach the ut
most limit, but in a short while
considerable profits are still real
ized upon reselling. Two hun
dred and fifty dollars per acre is
no uncommon report —with seem
ingly the end not yet. Advice to
the expectant land owner is, if you
ever expect to buy, better buy
now while the buying is good.
Or isn’t it better to sell while the
selling is good—and subscribe for
your home paper.
LeConte Pears $1.50 per bushel.
First come first served. Limited
quantity. T. Patillo, Col. Bryan
home.
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T o the theatre, to a friends’, on a business
call, anywhere and everywhere you
want to go the car will take
you quickly, directly
and with ease.
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EXPERT REPAIRING '
PHONE 73 s ' MCDONOUGH*, GA,
CAMP MEETING WILL
DRAW BIG CROWDS
Rev. H. C. Morrison, Rev.
John Paul and Other Noted
Divines Will Address the
Congregations Each Day.
A number of people are plan
ning to attend the Indian Springs
Holiness Camp Meeting, begin
ning Thursday evening, August 7,
and lasting through Sunday eve
ning, August 17.
Two services daily will be ad
dressed by Rev. H. C. Morrison,
1). D., and Rev. John Paul, D. D.,
alternately. Dr. Morrison is presi
dent of Asbury College, Wilmore,
Ky. Dr. Paul holds the chair of
theology at the same institution.
The third speaker of the day will
be appointed by the president,
Rev. G. W. Morrison, I). D., of
Fort Valley. Chorus singing will
be in charge of O. W. Stapleton,
the singing evangelist and associ
ate of Tillman, who has conducted
the music in the past, but is
unable to attend this year on
account of illness.
Services of the day begin at
sunrise with a prayer meeting in
the Tabernacle. This is followed
by breakfast. An open air meet
ing, in the nature of an experience
meeting, takes place at 10 a. in.
Preaching services are held at 11
a. m., 4 p. m. and 9 p. m.
A regular attendance of 2,000 is
maintained throughout the meet
ing, witli a great increase in visit
ors who come for a day, two days
or a week end. Attendants from
North and South Georgia are
about evenly divided, those from
Florida are steadily increasing,
some few there from Alabama,
and some from Tennessee are
coming this time. In addition to
the hotels, there are four board
ing houses and fifty cottages.
County Court drew a big at
tendance Wednesday.
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