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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLV.
W M. U. Program
Flint River Association.
The W. M. U. of the Flint River
Association will hold its annual
meeting with Rehobeth church
the 24th of this month, when the
following program will be ren
dered:
MORNING SESSION.
Hymn—“ Jesus Culls Me O’er
the Tumult.”
Devotional —Mrs. A. G. Cope
land.
Word of Welcome —Miss Annie
Mae Biles.
Response —Miss Clyde Eppinger.
Reports of Superintendent,
Secretary-Treasurer, District Sec
retaries; Publicity Press Chairman.
Appointment of Committees.
Gold Star Memorials —Mrs. C.
H. Gwynn.
Solo —Miss Ida Lou Tarpley.
Address —Rev. A. Scott Patter
son, Missionary to Africa.
Prayer.
Adjourn for Dinner.
EVENING SESSION.
Hymn.
Devotional —Scripture Promises
Led by Mrs. H. V. Adamson.
The importance of Training for
(a) Children, (b) Women W. M.
U. draining School. Mrs. C. F.
Duffee.
$75,000,000 Campaign—Mrs. F.
Warui-iAff
. v v ilium.
Song—Rehobeth Sunbeams.
W. M. U. Study Course Explain
ed —Mrs. J. P. Nichols.
Survey of Field —Mrs. J. E.
Sammons.
Dialogue —“Aunt Polly Joins the
Missionary Society.”
Reports of Committees.
Expressions (free to all)—How
has this meeting benefitted me?
Song.
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Dismiss.
McDonough Ladies to be
In Confederate Parade.
The following have been ap
pointed maids of honor on Gen.
Gilmore’s staff for the Confederate
reunion to be held in Atlanta on
October 7, 8. 9, 10.
Miss Annie G. Thompson,
Miss Bess Fouche,
Miss Eilene Neal,
Miss Flora Neal,
Miss Marie Dupree,
Miss Marie Hightower,
Mrs. E. L. Reagan,
Mrs. Adam Sloan,
Mrs. Fred Walker.
For further information call on
Judge A. G. Harris.
Ailison-Fears.
The Atlanta Constitution of
Wednesday contained the follow
ing announcement which will be
read with much interest through
this section:
“Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Franklin
Allison of Okmulgee, Okla., for
merly of Columbus, Ga., announce
the engagement of their daugh
ter, Minnie Istalena, to Mr. Grady
Frank Fears of Hampton, Ga.,
the wedding to take place early
in October. No cards.”
Singing at Mt. Carmel.
There will be singing at Mount
Carmel next Sunday p. m. Sep
tember 21. Prof. Bill Lee and
family will be there. If you want
to hear something good come
right on. We extend this invi
tation to all lovers of music.
J. S. Barnett.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
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(By courtesy of Hie Atlanta
Georgian, The Weekly is permit
ted to publish the above cartoon
by Ray McGill with accompanying
sketch, which will be read with
interest by his numerous friends).
Recognition of the solendid
service being rendered Atlanta by
Ray McGill, cartoonist of The
Georgian and American, and of
the original, striking and convinc
ing cartoons he draws portraying
the advanced spirit of Atlanta, is
contained in the September num
ber of the City Builder, the official
organ of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerc . which has just come
off the press.
With a sketch of Artist McGill’s
career and a discussion of the
service he is rendering the city
is carried a reproduction of one
of his cartoons, entitled “Achieve
ment,” and a photograph of Mr.
McGill. In another part of the
magazine one of McGill’s cartoons
made at Conyers is reproduced
from The Atlanta Georgian.
Sketch of McGill.'
Following is the sketch of the
work of Mr. McMill which appears
in the September issue.
“Georgia Talent Comes Home.
“Given a real, sure enough, in
born talent —whether it be for
writing books or raising race
horses —and it’s going to take
something more than opposition
and lack of encouragement to
crush it.
“Ray McGill, the new cartoonist
of The Georgian, is a splendid ex
ample of this. Ever since he was
a tiny little lad playing around his
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, septemuer 19, 1919.
f itiivr’s grocery store down here
in Dawson, Ga., drawing funny
faces on the eggs an 1 covering
the wrappings of the grocery
packages with comical sketches,
Ray McGill has loved to draw.
“At 16 young McGill started out
on his own resources. He went
to Chicago, got all sorts of o ld
jobs to do and succeeding in land
ing a soholarship in the Art Insti
tute of Chicago. For several
years following his studies at the
institute lie did illustrating for
some of the big advertising agen
cies, then went with the Interna
tional Harvester Company to make
the charts for their bureau of ex
tension and research, illustrate
their ads and draw the cartoons
for their house organ, the Har
vester world.
“Then came the war. McGill
enlisted in September, 1917, serv
ed overseas for eighteen months,
and was discharged in July, 1919.
After the armistice was signed he
got into the Sorbonne Detach
ment at Paris, being one of the
two men out of the 1,700 to get
government scholarships there.
His months of study at the Atelier
Julian study were a happy change
from the arduous army duty of
road digging.
“After discharged at Camp
Mills in July, Mr. McGill came
immediately to Georgia to see his
mother. It was while passing
through Atlanta on this trip that
he had the conference with the
chiefs of the Georgian that resul
ted in his contracting to stay with
them.
“Already Mr. McGill’s work on
Hie Georgian lias created a great
deal of interest and favorable
comment. Particularly effective
is his idea of epitomizing the real
spirit of Atlanta in the attractive
figure of ‘Achievement.’ This
figure is appearing in a series of
cartoons of what might be called
the ‘boaster’ type and is giving
Atlanta some exceedingly clever
and worth-while publicity. It is
this spirit that vve need to get
across not only to the world out
side Atlanta, but to many Atlan
tans right here at homfe. We
congratulate The Georgian on its
acquisition of so bright minded
and talented a cartoonist as Mr.
McGill.”
Tribute of Respect.
On September first the death
angel visited the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Steele and took from
them their sixteen-months-old
baby, little Flora Kate. May God’s
richest blessings rest upon the
grief stricken father and mother.
We thank the neighbors and
friends for their kindness during
the sickness and death of this
little one.
We miss the voice of one we
we love, a precious form has
passed away, to join the angel
throng above in realms of endless
day. One Who Loved Her.
No Place for Him to Die.
Daniel Webster, taken ill one day In
a town, of decided Democratic lean
ings, begged his friends to take him
heme at onre. “I was born a Federal
ist,” he pleaded. “I have lived a Fed
eralist, and I can’t die in a Democratic
town.”
OBSERVER
Old-time potato pie time.
Scuppernongs and muscadiaes
ripe.
Cotton fields getting whiter and
whiter.
Soon be time to go “possum
huntin.”
Read Revelations second chap
ter first to fifth verses.
Several from McDonough at
tended the big Sacred Harp sing
ing convention in Atlanta last
week.
Uncle Jess Brown, one of Henry
county’s oldest colored citizens*
who lives on Judge Paul Turner's
farm near town, is between eighty
and ninety years of age, but he
picks one hundred and fifty
pounds of cotton a day and is still
hale and hearty.
McDonough is one of the best
places to live in the world, but it
will never be any larger until
more houses are built. But not
withstanding this, a party from
Atlanta were recently here look
ing out a site for a new manufactu
ring plant. And if plans don't
fail we are going to grow.
Mr. Ray Pair of Flippencmne
very near happening to a st riotis
accident Monday morning by acci
dentally falling from a wagon at
the Flippen ginnery. At first it
was thought he was fatally injured
which proved later not to be
serious, we are glad to state.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther George,
who have been residing in Bir
mingham, have moved here and
are occupying rooms with Mrs.
Gunter on College street. Mr.
George has entered into partner
nership with his father, Mr. W.
W. George, in his shoe shop. We
are glad to welcome him to Mc-
Donough.
If the Confederate monument i»
the park in McDonough could talk
it would doubtless want to know,
first thing—why the drinking
fountain has run dry. And then
if it could cry, it would no doubt
shed tears of sadness for the
noble and faithful efforts put
forth by the good women of the
town who worked so faithfully for
the drinking fountain only to see
their efforts fail so soon. It is
none of Observer’s business, and
we are not criticising anybody,
but we wonder what is the matter
with the drinking fountain ?
It was our pleasure to accom
pany Mr. John R. Smith on a trip
over in Newton county last Thurs
day afternoon where he went in
the interest of his celebrated gin
saw filing machine. It was indeed
a pleasant trip for us, as we spent
awhile in the citv of Snapping
Shoals, and traveled over roads
we had not seen since we were i
kid. Mr. Smith left for Norcross.
Dalton and other Georgia towns
this week, and will leave next
week for a trip oyer in Alabama
and other points. His machine !*
a wonderful invention and Ids
business is increasing.
Had to Split Up.
Little Jack, very much impressed
with his first night in a herth on %,
Pullman sleeper, said: “Why, grand
ma, the flats were so small we couldn’t
all live together. Mamma and I slept
In the first flat, and Daddy In the sec
ond flat.”
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