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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1919)
The Henry County Weekly 13 y J. A. FOUCHE. Entered at the postoffice at McDon ough, Ga., as second-class mail matter. Advertising Rates 15c per inch, posi sition 5c additional—special contracts. Official Organ of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., Aug. 29, 1919. The state tax levy has been set at five mills for this year. Unless a change takes place in Mexico, something is going to “drap.” The onslaught of Uncle Sam on the profiteers is already showing results. Which is the greatest nuisance, the boll weevil or the speeding auto fiend ? A recent act of the legislature allows blind Confederate soldiers $150.00 a year. High waters in Terrell county is said to have covered several farms with caifish. Congress has been asked to appropriatesls,ooo,ooo with which to combat influenza. When the world owes a man a living it invariably settles the debt on the installment plan. A farmer living near Blakely claims to have killed fifty-nine snakes this season. Next! The recent holiness camp meet ing at Indian Springs is said to have the most successful yet held. The Jackson Progress-A rgus says that “Candidates will be as thick in Georgia next year as boll weevils.” The suggestion of a Chicago judge that a whioping post be provided for speeding autoists, should become a law. The late legislature was so lav ish with the peoples money that it is said the state will face a deficit of one million dollars. An airplane concern in Macon advertises trips at $25 00 per. Too rich lor us we’ll continue to pat ronize the “Ankle Express.” Soon the tingling of the school bell will be heard, and the merry peals of laughter silenced during vacation will again resound. “Uncle Shack” is all but in mourning over the defeat of road bonds in Oglethorpe county, and doubtless rightfully charges poli tics with the result. We don’t know which is the worst kicker—a Missouri jackass or a disgruntled man—Greensboro Herald-Journal. Why, a defeated politician has them skinned a mile. The time approaches when that overburdened public servant —the school teacher needs your praise rather than your rebuffs, especi ally if your kid has a gourd be tween its shoulders. Paying a ransom for those kid napped aviators in Mexico was a bad example, if the money was paid by cattlemen on the border. Those bandits should be pacified with bullets rather than bullion. Let’s Quit. One of the greatest and most apparent and far-reaching results of the war has been to make of us a nation of robbers —we might say fearless, conscienceless robbers. The only limit to the robbery committed by anybody these days is his opportunity —conscience has been thrown entirely to the winds. This state of affairs began soon after the beginning of the war and has doubled and doubled in den sity until it has become worse than appalling. We saw a cartoon in a magazine the other day that vividly por trayed the situation. It repre sented a circle of men engaged in different avocations pursuing each other around in a ring and each lifting from the pockets of the man in front of him the money he had just filched from the pocket of the man in front him. They were made to appear as being in a frenzy to get what the fellow at the front got from the man pre ceding him. Nobody’s pocket was being filled and nobody was gaining anything. They were all robbing to the limit of their abili ty, however. That same “ring-around-the posy” game is being played right here in this community and in ev ery other community of our coun try. And yet nobody is really gain ing—but a seered sense of right and wrong and everybody is los ing their chance for a brighter and better beyond. What’s the use, then, of keep ing it up? Why can’t we quit it and get back to consideration of the rights and welfare of our fel low man and a thought of the fact that there is a hereafter? Unless we do at no very great distant date we will have bred a nation of real criminal robbers and life and property will be hard ly safer with us than with the Wildest tribes of Africa. In fact we don’t know but that it has reached that point already. Stultify the inherent honor that is in any man; blind him to a sense of right and wrong or justice in any one particular and you have made a dangerous citizen of him. Is that not what we are doing at present in our robbery methods in our dealings with our fellow men ? Those of that generation that become rather set in their ways before he scramble came have possibly retained their selfrespect to savor conditions so that they may be endurable to a degree, but what of the generation that is be ing brought up in the midst of the recklessness and their characters shaped thereby ? What can be expected of them when they get thoroughly hold of affairs ? We can’t believe that an all wise providence will let such con ditions exist for a time. If we do not stop to consider and realize whither we are drifting} and change our course providence is going to bring some appalling vis itation of the wrath of providence. Nothing less will bring us to our senses. If we will but see the hand writing on the wall now before we have seered to utter insensibility our consciences we may be able to again get into the paths of righteousness without haying to undergo a Sodom and Gomorra chastisement to bring us around right. Let’s begin to drop out of that ring of robbers the cartoonist drew. We can suffer no harm thereby; we will gain as much as if we stay in and save ourselves from demnition bow-wows. In plain terms, let’s quit—Ogle thorpe Echo. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA The unselfish are the happiest — those who work to make others happy and forget themselves. The dissatisfied are those who are seeking happiness for themselves. Growing Old Before Your Time. Kidney trouble tends to “slow up” men end women in middle life and they fear oncoming old age when it is only the kidneys that are at fault. Foley’s Kidney Pills assist Nature to restore a sound, healthv condition and to banish backache, soreness, lame ness and stiffness. W. W. Wells, Tonquin, Mich., writes: “Foley’s Kidney Pills made me feel like a new man.” Recommended also for bladder trouble. McDonough Drug Co. For Leave to Sell. GEORGIA —Henry County. To whom it may Concern: D. B. Morgan, Administrator of the estate of Moses Hooten, deceased, having in due form made applica tion for leave to sell the lands belonging to said estate, consisting of 75 acres in Beersheba District in said County and State. Said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said County to be held on the first Monday in Sep tember, 1919. This 19th day of July, 1919. A. G HARRIS, Ordinary. Dissolution Notice. This is to notify the public that I, G. W. Mosely, have this day sold my interest in the firm of Scar brough & Moseley to C. W. Scar brough, C. W. and Lon Scarbrough assuming all obligations of the firm of Scarbrough & Moseley, and all outstanding notes and accounts will be payable to the firm of Scar brough Brothers. G. W. MOSELEY. July 14, 1919. It is expensive to maintain a team of horses, an automobile or an affinity. In fact we can’t think of anything worth having, just now, that is not expensive. j 1 ■ ' •’#> :i£ ' - | t - "\ SOME comment on the ease with which the'****; wagon can be “backed up.” This is due* Ww to the full circle iron. The ordinary circle is but a Vfl fe*f pa §3*l' half circle (\j). In making a sharp turn bolsters W |fl /Jjjg T 5 often run to the end of the track and become W ||j j&£a | derailed.” Thornhills cannot do this because * *MPt s API their track is a circle (O). \ W Others comment on the fact that in spite of tre- f «•( /If H mendous overloads, Thornhill axles never break. \jmj /. I i The reason for this is plain. They use tough i \ xA. highland hickory—reinforced by a steel truss bar that extends the full length of the axle. I Still others comment that the gears never get out t^aat reeves king bolt of strain, of line. Tim unusual feature is due to one of To ethers the amazing feature is the long life of their workmen’s inventions. He designed a malle- Thornhill beds—due to their location which gives able front hound plate bolted to the gears at them the pick of the yearly cutting of wood and j P° ,ntß - E s literally a jacket of iron that due, in part, to the fact that they paint with pure holds gears in line and insures light running for life. lead and linseed oil despite its high cost. From hilly sections come reports that the old Thousands cf owners have found in Thornhills trouble of broken king bolts is unknown among unusual strength where they are accustomed to owners of Thornhill wagons. This because weakness. of a cup and saucer arrangement on the bolster Let us show you this perfected wagon. 1604-n] ESTES MANUFACTRUING CO., Rex, Ga. - V T\\- *V z/T . r mf i Mr DELICIOUS and REFRESHING * ■ You can’t think of “delicious” or “refreshing” without think ing of Coca-Cola. You can't drink Coca-Cola without being delighted and refreshed. The taste is the teat of Coca-Cola quality—so clearly distinguishes it from imitations that you cannot be deceived. ||j! 11l Demand the genuine by lull name Mini ram »—nicknames encourage substitution- The Coca-Cola Co; ''' ’tjß/j& ATLANTA, GA. Sold Everywhere Ocean travel is being made safer than it used to be, but there does not appear to be any promises of its becoming any less unsettling to the stomach. The big city papers tell of a woman wearing twelve diamond rings on one hand. She ought to wear a band around her head* to keep the crack from widening -
