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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.
