The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 15, 1919, Image 1
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 I PJ~£4SE HER. |§fc ;P^||§| If You Don't Believe That We Have the Finest Selection of Candies —All Kinds —that can be found in this vicinity. Come and See for Yourself We have Candy of all kinds, except the poor kinds, and your candy requirements can be met here, regardless of your taste. Don’t Think of Buying Candy Without Seeing Ours QUALITY AND SERVICE a, 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. -’”'■ '..' .- -*\ v' >'- ~’ : ~: ■• dandy '' ■ : ■'. '-.-■ 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 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. 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. * | lip 4" 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 you every advantage in this line at this garage. TOLLESDNsTURNER , . Automobiles &\ Accessories- V. 1 EXPERT REPAIRING PHONE 73 - MCDONOUGH, GA. “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. CAR. ECONOMY- thbjk ■a«gv dteal 51.50 A YEAR