The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 12, 1919, Image 2
The Henry County Weekly By J. A. FOUCHE. Entered at the postoffice at McDon ough, Ga., as second^Jassmail matter. Advertising Rates 15c per inch, posi sition 6c additional —special contractu. Official Organ of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., Sept. 12 1919. * Next year’s crop of candidates promises to be the largest ever. Hope so. Another light epididemic of flu is predicted for the fall by health authorities. President Wilson is now on his tour to enlighten the people on the Peace pact. Henry county is represented in every section of the state by her brainy teachers. According to statistics more people were killed by flu than by German bullets. Up to the hour of going to press no one has given old man H. C. L. the knockout blow. t The merchant who fails to use printers ink now will lose the goose that lays the golden egg. Thus far we have not succumbed to the temptation to wear liver colored shoes with white socks. In Atlanta’s city election last week the women voters knocked the ward heelers out of the box. A woman’s will always prevails, unless she is rich enough for the lawyers to break it after she is dead. The state prison commission forbids the whipping of convicts in public by wardens or their deputies. It is figured that more unmar ried people commit suicide than married people. .Sure. Married people lose their nerve. With the boll weevil already here, and candidates on the way, our farmers should provide them selves with a blister remover. Uncle Sam had $70,000,000 worth of merchandise stolen from him since he assumed control of the railroads. Bet theives were profiteers. It is a misdemeanor, without any modification whatever, to draw a check on your account in the bank for a penny or more than you have on deposit. France has bought all the A. E. F. property in that country, amounting to $400,000,000, except that withheld for return to the United States or for the use of troops remaining there. No Johnny boy at the wheel of a new red car and a cigarette in the corner of his mouth is going to consider it a crime to spatter the road with some child who is walking. Bare feet, with sandals, is the style now predicted for Parisians. Bare feet, with sandals, is the style predicted for some people in this country when the price of shoes goes to where they say it is going this fall— Elbertcn Star. Walt Mason Converted By the Salvation Army. Walt Mason, one of our best beloved poets, has been converted by the Salvation. Army workers in Los Angeles, California. Mason, who is a genius, has tramped eve ry section of the country. He has been friendly with the Salvation Army for a long while, but recent ly Corps No. 1, of Los Angeles, was engaged in street service as Mason passed by and the call of the Army drum was too much for him, and he became converted. Brigadier Boyd, of Los Angeles, is loud in his praises for Mason. In his characteristic style, Mason wrote the following poem about his convertion by the Salvation Army: “One night while walking down the street, my mind on pleasure bent —I sought the pleasures of the world, but my soul was not content —I saw the bright lights of the theatre; they beckoned me to come, as did the music and the song in the place where they sold rum. I stepped into a pool hall and found a vacant chair, and thought that I would rest a bit and drive away dull and care; but my mind it still persisted in turn ing memory sod, reminding me of the time when I was winning souls for God. I couldn’t find that rest and peace —satisfaction would not come —when suddenly I heard the sound of the good old Army drum. Its voice it called me closer, and I found an open-air, and once more I could see mvself kneeling there in prayer. For I had been a sol dier, and known the Saviour’s smile, but now I was a deserter — a sinner weak and vile. But, in spite of all my meanness, I went to the hall that night. My inten tentions there were proper —I meant to do the right. But a de serter is a coward —always ready with some excuse —or perhaps a careless person, and wonders, What’s the use ? But the prayers of God’s faithful people won my hard and stony heart, and at the front that night I made another start. And today—praise God ! I’m fighting; Jesus took me back, and now once more I’m traveling in the good old Calvary trak. Sensible Parson. Here is a preacher who appre ciates the editor. At a recent editorial convention he offered the following toast: “To save an editor from starvation, take his paper and oay for it promptly. To save him from bankruptcy, advertise in his paper liberally. To save him from despair, send him every item of news of which you can get hold. To save him from profanity, write your corre; - pondence plainly on one side of the sheet and send it in as early as possible. To save him from mistakes, bury him. Dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes.” We object to any fellow hang ing over our desk and explaining what the country needs when what he needs himself is a bath and a disinfectant for his breath. Cut This Out—lt Is Worth Money DON’T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave.,Chicago, 111., writing your writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, i'or coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley Ca thartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic, for constipation, biliousness, hedache and sluggish bovvells. The Mc- Donough Drug Co. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA League of War. Eleven million of men were killed in the great war. Fifteen million men were injured in the great war. Almost every normal process of the world’s civilization was thrown out of joint. The League of Nations offers the only hope of making another big war impossible. Without the League of Nations there must come a blighting, crushing race to see who can pile up the biggest stack of guns for the next war. Just what can be in the minds of those senators who oppose the League of Nations ? Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in Michigan. Mrs. A. H. 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He did not know about the vast improvements made in the chassis, how the electric system has been perfected, how a heavier and masterly rear axle has been used, how Hot Spot and Ram“s-horn have given the engine a new efficiency, how the emergency brake has been set up on the transmission shaft, nor a score of others that would make a ‘ 'mechanical mind” forget his dinner. ' a It's a greater Maxwell than any of the 300,000 of the same type that grace • the highways of the world. * Though a respectable sum has been added in value, the price is only $985 M°. r r, m mtiJ! tr on a uZ f. o. b. Detroit. T. J. PATTERSON, Salesman McDonough, ga. Your Watch Your Companion Any man who owns a good watch is proud of it. He has a right to be, for it is the one daily companion that he can always rely upon to fulfill its exacting duty. He really loves to boast of “Ye Olde Faithful” who has never done him the mean trick of giving the wrong information. Have you just such a companion? You CAN have. 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