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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1921)
The Henry County Weekly VOL. XLVII. McDONOUGH'S FIRE FIGHTERS; RE-ORGANIZATION MEETING Citizens' Meeting at F. & M. Bank Reorganization of Fire Department —H. C. Hightower Re-Elected Chief. Ralph Turner Asst. Chief. Captains of the Hose Reels. Plenty of Water. Wednesday afternoon at a citi zens’ meeting at the Farmers & Merchants Bank the matter of making improvements in the work of fighting fires and the re-organi zation of McDonough’s admirable Fire Department were brought forward and new plans set on foot. Mayor J. E. Hooten, presiding, called the meeting to order. An election for chief resulted in the choice of Chief H. C. High tower, who has so ably filled this position in the past. The Assist ant Chief is Mr. Ralph Turner. The election of Hose Reel and Hook and Ladder men resulted as follows: Hose Reel No. 1, D. T. Carmichael captain, Wade Pullin, Benton Thompson, Guv Austin, P. W. Pullin, Jr., Hugh Kelley and D. C. Turner. Reel No. 2, Fred Walker captain, H. M. Amis, Levi Turner, Newt Lumsden, Ed Stew art, Lee Wilson and T. A. St. John. Hook and Ladder Truck, Wade Turner captain, T. J. Patterson, Ed Mason, H. E. Cook, H. M. Tur ner, Frank Setzer and Bail Elliott. These Reel and Hdok and Lad der men are requested to meet at the court house, 7 p. m., Monday, 21st, to assume the obligations re quired by the insurance companies. On motion, the City Council was requested to provide a fire alarm on the public square. This alarm to have four signals, to indicate the locality of the blaze. On motion, the City Council was also requested to provide proper accoutrements—hats, boots and coats for the firemen. The City Council has recently purchased new hose for the de partment. With an abundant supply! of water from the spring and the new artesian well, the de partment is well fitted to combat any fire that may happen in McDonough. The city is to be congratulated on the new order in her fire fight ing power and our citizens can rest easy on that score. The new insurance rates by reason of ade quate protection will amply repay the money spent on the invest ment. A Call to Prayer. The Woman’s Missionary Socie tv of Mt. Bethel will meet tonight, Friday, February, 18th, for the purpose of observing the day of prayer for the work of His serv ants at home and abroad. Let every Christian of every de nomination who is interested and can come be present and make this a great service. Time —7.30 to 9.30, p. m. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends for their kindness shown us dur ing the recent sickness and death of our dear wife and mother. May God’s richest blessings rest upon each and every one is our prayer. J. L. Laney and Children. A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County. ot OBSERVER oj Peach trees will soon be in bloom. Early gardeners are fixing to get busy. Warmest winter ever experienc ed so far. Several cases of small pox are reported in the county. Ordinary A. G. Harris spent Tuesday in Atlanta. . Mr. W. D. Knight is in charge of Thompson’s blacksmith shop. Bethany church will meet, and organize a Baptist Young People’s union next Sunday night, and eyerybody is cordially invited. Too much stress cannot be placed on planting a garden this year. A good garden is worth a lot these hard times. A farmer recently shipped a full grown cow hide to a commission house. The hide brought the express cost 85 6 ', and the firm sent the farmer four one-cent stamps for the hide. Mr. W. 0 Welch has opened up a full line of fancy groceries in the store room formerly occupied by Miss Blanche Wentzell millinery store, next door to the McDon ough Drug Co. Mr. Hard Elliott, who was form erly with the firm of B. B. Car michael & Son, has accepetd a position with the Ellis-Setzer Co., where he will be glad for his friends to call on him. Professor Claude Gray, who is President of Locust Grove Insti tute, has the sympathy of all in the death of his mother, which occur ed last Monday, and he has many friends throughout the state who sympathize with him in the death of his mother. All of us get discouraged at times, but whats the use? Life is just a series of ups and downs any way, and it looks like that every body is having more downs than I ups these days. The many friends of Mr. J. A. McDonald regret to know of his serious illness. He was carried to Atlanta Monday for treatment. Uncle Jim, has many friends who wish for him a speedy recovery. Hoyt Stephenson, little five-year old son of Mr. Gideon Stephenson, and a grand son of Rev. J. J. Stephenson, had the misfortune to receive a yery painful, though not fatal injury last Saturday after noon when a mule kicked him in j the face. —Conyers Times. The latest thing that we have heard of being taxed is talk. The ! Southern Bell Telephone Co. has | recently ordered an increase on I all telephones, and from now on iin the future, it is going to cost | more to talk than it has in the i past. About the only time a fel low is free now, is when he is sound asleep. Mr. J. A. NcDonald. Mr. J. A. McDonald, one of Henrv county’s Confederate sol diers, and one of her oldest citi zens, died Wednesday in a sani tarium in Atlanta. He was brought back here for funeral and burial. He was buried by the side of his wife who died a few months ago, in Fair View cemetery near Snapping Shoals in his old home community. He leaves three daughters and three sons with a host of friends to mourn his going away. No gasoline Oder in clothes cleaned by Mackey. Bring in your clothes and see. McDonough, Georgia, Friday, February is, 1921. STOCKBRIDGE Plant Potatoes—Extravagance— The Road Down—“ Old Time” Darkey—Mrs. Carnes Sings. Bethel Committees Modern Dances Quarterly Confer ence— To Increase Attend ance at Church —Rev. R. M. Hollingsworth - Public School and Sunday School Thriving. Plant. Plant potatoes. Plant Irish potatoes. Plant a good many of them. Plant them now in February. Sunday last, the beautiful! “ There is but one cure for a lie, and that is the truth.” Miss Cornelia Lee, of La Grange college, has been at home for some days. One hundred and ten pupils at the public school in town is grati fying all round. Ninety-five attendants was the count at the Methodist Sunday school last Sunday. “ Extravagance is the advance agent of that soul-stirring drama : Over the Hills to the Poor House.” “ Money makes the mare go, but high-priced gas makes the motor ist wonder how he is going to keep going.” “The first step to ruin is for a young man to come to believe that the devil hasn’t any snares for him along the way.” Get ahead of the potato beetle by planting Irish potatoes early. The potatoes are made before the bug eats the vines. A rook and valentine party were features of the Ladies Club meeting Tuesday at the residence of Mrs. Bessie Ward. If corn is planted early it will make better corn than late plant ed. If frost gets it, it will sprout again. March is the month. Ellen James, an “ old time” dar key, was buried here Sunday, her funeral being attended by several white people who knew her and were acquainted with her worth. At the Presbyterian church Sun day night Mrs. Dora Milam Carnes, of Jonesboro, sang “ He Died of a Broken Heart,” her rich voice with tender expression carrying the touching message to every heart. Dr. John R. Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, N. Y. City, says “ modern dances are wholly bad.” He recently preached his fa mous sermon on “The Deadly Dance” in Atlanta, which has been delivered in Montreal, Canada, and New York Ciiv. It is refreshing to hear of a preacher who shoots in the hole where there is some game. Rev. W. W. Brinsfield expects to attend the Quarterly Conference here Saturday. He preached at Bethel Sunday to a fine congrega tion and sooke also on the Stock bridge Superannuate Home. A committee of solicitation was nam ed as follows: Rev. Will South, Mrs. W. G. Callawav, Miss Ethel White, Mrs. Clyde Y. Thurmond, Coleman White and Grace Cowan, who will look .after subscriptions there. Another way to increase church attendance, Editor Shannon, of the Commerce News, says: “A Chi cago minister has added to his church a dance hall and a biliiard table, and in two months the at tendance increased from twenty to one hundred. Now if that preacher wbll add a barroom and furnish good liquor, we guarantee the attendance will go to five thousand in less than a week, and further, that the whole bunch will go to hell.” Week end progam at the Meth- Southern Auto Show. The Great Southern Automoblie Show to be held in Atlanta, March sth-12th, at the immense audito torium, will be to the South, from every standpoint, what the great New York show was to the North and East, and the Coliseum show in Chicago was to the West. It will be the gathering place of the Southern dealers in motor cars, trucks, and automotive equip ment —an ingathering of these progressive and undaunted mer chants who have been a real fac tor in the upbuilding of their in dividual communities, and collect ively of all the South. More than that, it will be the center of interest to the many thousands in the Southern States who are present owners and oper ators of gasoline-propelled vehi cles, and who are interested in the many needful articles of equip ment for the automobile. The visitors at the Show are promised a genuine surprise in the unique, and elaborate decorations planned for the interior of the auditorium. An entirely new dec orative scheme which will greatly enhance the beauty of the indivi dual displays has been developed. At tremendous expense the management has secured for the period of the Show the celebrated Kilties Band. This is the oqe mus ical organization about which all Canadians boast. It has won du ring the past several years an in ternational reputation, and the daily program of the Kilties is sure to prove an added attraction to Show visitors. “We are pleased to announce” says Mr. E. D. Tolleson, of Tolle son & Turner, local dealers for BUICK, “that a full line of Buick models will be on display. We feel confident that the Great Southern Automobile Show will be the fore runner of an increasing motor car demand. odist church this week : 1. Saturday, 11 a. m., sermon by Rev. Dr. J. H, Eakes, P. E. 2. Basket dinner on the church grounds, 12:15 p. m. 3. Conference session 1:30 p. m., Dr. Eakes presiding. 4. Sunday, 10 a. m.. School, S. C. McWilliams, supt., W. W. Milam leader of song. 5. Eleven o’clock, sermon by the pastor, R iV. Geo. T. Sorrells, who will also preach at night. Everybody invited to attend all the;->e services. Rev. R. M. Hollingsworth was greeted with fine congregations at the Presbyterian church Sunday, the buiildng nearly full at night. The morning topic was “Thinking on the Best Things,” the text from the Philippian epistle. He first spoke of good things as not the best things: 1. Reputation was a good tiling and a blessing, if a good one, but not the best, be cause it would not admit us to heaven. 2. Good health was a good thing, but not the best. Bad health was a calamity, and led to nerve and hraiti wrecking. There was something better than health. 3. Wealth was a splendid thing, ' but not the best. Too many seek wealth as a remedy for nearly all the ills of life, there is something better. Among the best things the preacher noted the words of i Jesus in the sermon on the mount, lin which the basic stones of our religion were laid : 1. Poverty of spirit. 2. Hungering and thirsting after righteousness. 3. Being Mer ciful. The speaker was listened to with great interest. $2.00 A YEAR Among the Churches. Rov. Partridge at Turner's Sunday Last Sunday by far the largest congregation of the conference year for Turner’s church gathered for worship and to hear the pas tor, Rev. J. A. Partridge, preach. The day was ar; ideal one, full of sunshine and fresh air. Coming as it did after stormy weather, folk were in frame of mind and thank ful spirit to enjoy the service. The singing was great, led by Un - cle John Upchurch. The preacher used the text, “Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price; therefore, glo rify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1. Cor: vi: 19,20. Preaching on Christian Conse cration the message urged the im portance of a thorough recogni tion of the truth that man is cre ated for God’s express service; that Christian love, such as char acterized the early Christian church, should make it a delight ful privilege to empty ourselves for the infilling of the Spirit and glorify God, for whom the body is made, by going our limit in ser vice, Coming into this world in pos session of nothing; impossible to carry anything out, man should bend every effort toward the lay ing up in heaven of treasure the very nature of which makes it imperishable. The destuction of selfishness is not a pleasing doctrine to the worldling, as commonly under stood, but thrills the heart of those heayenly-minded, humble, cross-bearing. The church was urged to insist upon this high type of godly con secration and confidently expect ease in distinguishing between the precious and the vile; between such as follow Christ for the loaves and fishes, and those who follow him because they love him. Before the influence of such a band of Christians, hearts of stone would be broken; the scoffer si lenced; the sinner would tremble; infidelity would be struck dumb, and hell shaken from centre to circumference. When the church adopts this standard as the rule of its mem bership the voice of God will be heard from heaven proclaiming to a converted world: “Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Mrs. Georgia Hammonds. Mrs. Georgia Hammonds died last Friday at the home of her daughter at Sunnyside, and was brought to McDonough Saturday for burial. The funeral was held at the Methodist church, Rev. J. A. Partridge officiating. Interment was in the McDonough cemetery. She leaves five daughters and two sons and a host of friends to mourn her going away. Your Gin Bill. All who have not paid for their ginning will please meet me at Hinton’s mill Saturday, February 26th. As I have some obligations, to meet on the Ist of March, I will greatly appreciate it if you will meet me there. LON HINTON.
