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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLV.
Camp Meeting
At Shingleroof.
The annual Shingleroof camp
meeting begins next Friday night,
August 22, and continues one
week according to established
custom.
Needed repairs on a number of
tents will be completed in time,
most of which have already been
finished, and all are expected to
be filled to capacity.
Able ministers have been pro
vided and splendid services are
expected this year.
Many are the pleasant and glad
rejoicings which have gone up
from old Shingleroof, and it is
hoped that all who can will once
more attend and help make this
meeting the best yet.
Moves to Atlanta.
Mr. Ray McGill, recently re
turned from France, spent a day
or so this week with his uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Brown. Mr. McGill is a graduate
of the Chicago School of Art, and
alter graduation made his home
there until the outbreak of the
war. After the armistice he was
given the privilege of a course at
the Julian Art School in Paris, and
spent four months there. He is a
cartoonist, and his work had at
tracted such favorable notice that
shortly after his return from
France he had an offer to join the
staff of the Atlanta Georgian. He
accepted the place tendered him
and will begin work on that paper
tomorrow. He is a Georgia boy,
having been reared at Dawson,
and still claims that town as his
home. —Newnan Herald.
Hardiness and the high cost of
living are good for most every
body, yet few believe it, and ap
preciate the blessings under such
an undesirable disguise. Hard
tirhes teach economy and thrift,
and consequently mean easier
times in the future, but it is a cruel
method of teaching.
Is what
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MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA. •
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
To Hurt Your Town.
Fight on the streets.
Oppose improvements.
Mistrust public men.
Run the town down to strang
ers.
Go to some other town to trade.
Refuse to advertise in your
paper.
Do not invest a cent; lay out
your money somewhere else.
Be particular to discredit the
motives of public spirited men.
Lengthen your face when a
stranger speaks of locating in your
town.
If a man wants to buy your
property ask him two prices for it.
If he wants anybody else’s, in
terfere and discurage him.
Refuse to see the merit in any
scheme that does not exactly ben
efit you.
Run down your newspapers.
Run down your officers.
Run down everything and eve
rybody but Number One.
Talk in the barber shops and
loafing places of how bad times
are, of how everything and every
body is going to the deinnition
bow-wows. —Ex.
Hammer and Tongs.
Bishop Elliston and Caruthers
of Savannah, Ga., was talking
about Russia.
“Poor Russia is in a bad way,”
he said. “Bolsheviks and cadets,
maximalists and Cossacks are go
ing for one another hammer and
tongs. Instead of uniting to de
feat the common enemy, the
squabble like —like the parson and
the choir.
“The parson, you know, thought
to get the better of the hostile
choir one Sunday morning by an
nouncing at the end of the first
anthem :
“ ‘Our text brethren, will be
“And after the uproar was ceased.”
“But the choir got back at the
parson by singing for the closing
anhthem at the sermon’s end :
“ ‘Now it is high time to awake
out of sleep.’ ” —Cincinnati En
quirer.
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McDonough, Georgia, Friday, august is, 1919.
Drain Swamp Lands.
Perhaps no county has more
valuable swamp lands than Henry,
and with the drainage movement
now under way here, the follow
ing from the Covington News is
of special interest:
“Having recently inspected
about five thousand acres of
growing corn that promises a
large yield on land effectively re
claimed by the drainage process,
the editor of The News bears un
qualified testimony of the success
that has been achieved in the
neighboring county of Walton.
“The members of the press
party were motored out to Jack’s
Creek at the annual meeting of
the Georgia Press Association in
Monroe last month, every member
being convincingly impressed by
the material results derived at
insignificant expenses when com
pared with the profits that are
bound to ensue.
“There is no finer corn in Wal
ton county than that where the
drainage project has been prose
cuted to the extent of rendering
waste swamp lands easily eultiva
table, and where only a few short
months ago water and mud were
breeding mosquitoes and other
pests, richly colored corn is grow
ing on fertile soil that had long
beeq worthless.
“There are doubtless thousands
of acres of wild swamp land in
Newton county that could be re
claimed and converted into a
valuable asset by the expenditure
of a small sum of money and
some energy. The Federal Gov
ernment is willing to co-operate
in the progressive movement and
it is extremely gratifying to know
that the local farm demonstrator
has already succeeded in inter
esting a number of thoughtful
Goose Creek district planters in a
sensibly defined campaign. The
landlord who fails to embrace this
opportunity to advance the value
of his real estate and increase his
annual income is not informed
concerning the project, but a trip
to Jack’s Creek will eliminate all
doubts from the mind of all in
telligent citizens.
“The News would be glad to
witness a reclamation of the
swamp lands of Newton cpunty,
for there can be no doubt that an
acre of corn is worth more to the
owner than a wilderness ,of mud
and rushes.”
Help the Teacher.
If anyone needs your sympathy
and support it is the public school
teacher, no matter whether it is a
city school or out in a country
district, the trials of a teacher are
manifold and severe. The teacher
has to deal with mismanagement
of every home in the district, and
in too many cases has the bad
disposition of the parents as well
as the faults of the scholars to
contend with.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly in
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
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combined with some of the best blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
the ingredients in Hall’s Catarrh Medi
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All Druggists, 76c.
Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Trustees Meeting.
On the first Tuesday in Sep
tember every white trustee is
requested to meet with the Board
of Education at 10 o’clock (sun
time) at the court house.
Let’s get better acquainted and
resolve to pull for Henry county
schools. Now is the time to give
your children a chance, not five
years from now, when it is too
late.
Talk it up and come.
T. J. HORTON,
County Superintendent.
Reunion.
The veterans reunion at Shingle
roof last Thursday added another
pleasant occasion to the long list
of these annual gatherings of the
“gallant boys in gray.” Rev. H.
C. Emory was called upon in the
failure of Hon. E. W. Bale, the
orator of the day, to arrive, and
delivered a most excellent and
impressive address. At the noon
hour the usual bountiful dinner
was spread, and the day was one
of accustomed social enjoyments
and other features throughout.
Numbers of ladies were present
and contributed their full share to
the attractions and success of the
occasion.
Canvas of the political situation
discloses that there are more as
pirants for the presidency of the
United States than ever before in
the country’s history. Dozens of
United States senators, several
cabinet members, an ex-president,
several business men, and others
in varying fields of activity are in
cluded among the men being talk
ed about by the various parties.
Booms and boom lets galore are
either formed or in the process of
formation. —Moultrie Observer.
Some people never hand in an
item of news for publication, but
if we happen to miss an item in
which they are interested they
are sure to hand us a north pole
star that would freeze the liver of
a polar boar.
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IT is in the upkeep of your car that you want to
practice economy. If you buy your
gas and lubricants right and
get the right
sort of service
on repairs, you are
practicing car economy. We offer
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“Will Forget the Land.”
Tifton Gazette: The announced
policy of Judge Evans in United
States court of imposing chain
gang sentences in cases of con
viction of distilling whiskey, is
tightening the screws on violators
of the law. When Judge Evans
sent a witness to jail for six
months and fined him $1(30 for re
fusing to testify he set another
wholesale example, as well as in
dicating the hardening of public
sentiment against such violators.
It comes'from good authority
that the federal courts will now
enforce a statue which has been
on the books for some time, but
which has not been called into
service because of its severity.
Under this statute, the land on
which a whiskey still is found is
forfeited to the law and can be con
fiscated and sold. The statement
is made that warning has been
given that this statute will be en
forced. The Gazette has been re
quested to give publicity to this
that property owners in Tift may
use unusual diligence to see that
no liquor distilleries are located
on‘their farms or other property.
Many college-bred girls never
teach. They go out in the world
and raise the average intelligence;
they elevate their own house
holds and exert an influence in.the
sphere of the private citizen. The
standard is raised at home, and
home is the fountain head.
Women who marry after b n ing
liberally educated make more
satisfactory unions than they
otherwise would have made.
Labor is life, worry is killing.
Accept things as they are, do not
bother about the yesterday, which
is gone forever; do not bother
about tomorrow, which is not
yours; but take the present day
and make the best of it,
A good example is the best tea
cher. Precepts are useless if
contradicted by our daily life.
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ECONOMY-
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