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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1921)
McDonough to Houston. If you are planning a trip you had ought by all means to try it one time from McDonough, Ga., to Houston, Tex. We have just tried the trip and know what we are talking about. In planning the trip we found that we did not have the money or an automobile. We had good luck and a friend oozed us the cail. Another good friend at Bremen, Ga., owed us some money and the stars told us to see him and get more money. Now, after all this fixing and no train going our way, we needed an auto. In looking for an auto that could not be seen, we spied Master Turk Dunnis’ kite flying high over the city. A piece of trash flew off the kite or from somewhere and hit in our left eye. Then we could not see the kite nor a taxi, but in the meantime Mr. Ike Sowell came up in his speedy Ford and we immediately started out on a lightning trip to Griffin to catch a train that was to leave in less than an Jiour for Bremen. By Mr. Sowell’s good and speedy driving we caught the Central train at Hampton and that train caught the other train at Griffin. The friend that owed us the money met us at Bremen, paid six dollars in cash and nearly SSOO in talk—yes, just talk. Bremen is a good town and as near as we could see in the dark, must be the right placje. While there we got shod in the earliest summer slippers for four dollars, hair cut and pink whiskers removed for fifty cents and a good hot supper for forty cents, The only place in the world where there is no modern profiteering. At 12:45 the big train came and took us on our way to Birming ham while it was yet night. They always do that from that side and we wonder if there is nothing to see. Leaving Birmingham just at daylight and prettv soon hearing the trainmen call Bessemer! Bes semer! Bessemer! and she did not answer. We discovered it was a town instead of a girl. They had just had heavy rains all through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. The rivers were running over and flat woods cov ered with back water. Farming in those states is away behind Georgia. We passed through Meredian, Jackson and Vicksburg, all of which are pretty and progressive cities. The railroad played out at Vicks burg and they put our train on a large boat and carried us across the Mississippi river. At sundown they pulled our train ashore on the Louisiana side and we were off for Shreveport and arrived there at 12:30 a. m. People said there was lots of pretty farm land in the Delta and Bed river district before reaching Shreveport. It could not be seen and might have been another Bir mingham stunt. Everybody heard just lots about oil gushers that had come in Sat urday night and Sunday. And EXCELLENT MONROE COUNTY FARMS FOR SALE Improved and Unimprovd. See us before buying L. O. HOLLIS, Forsyth, Ga. G. W. THORNTON. mw ill. llj m 50good cigarettes for 10c from one sack of GENUINE 'BU IT DURHAM TOBACCO Look Up—See Something. The best and surest way to bring prosperity back again is for everybody to believe in it and talk about it. Growling and grumbling does a lot of harm and no good. It pro duces nothing but further cause for complaint. The rays of the sun may be peeping through the clouds that seek to obscure it, but we can not see it as long as we keep looking at the mud beneath our feet. Look up and you will see some thing. Shreveport was wild over seeing Babe Ruth hit three home runs in one game of ball Sunday after noon. The last 232 miles of this jour ney—from Shreveport to Hous ton—is pretty. When you come to Macadaches, Texas it takes you back to your boyhood and hard history lessons. Texas is in much better shape financially and otherwise than most any state. The oil fields and gusher oil wells are w-onders to behold. And then you would be staggars to see the immense amount of money that is being passed daily in the oil industry, one way or the other. Here is the least part of the money we have missed. Houston claims 150,000 popula tion, has every natural advantage and is one of the beauty spots of world. She is full of gay life and qualities of all sorts, and money being spent lavishly. Nothing/shut down and no idle ness work out here. A few cowboys on hand cursing the quarantine against Harris county cattle, which prevents them from shipping. However, they are having a big time riding ponies a id taking their sweethearts to the movies. The girls here do not have a pretty complexion iike our Geor gia girls but the boys seems to love them just the same as I love Sue. ” A WIREGRASS BOY. Houston, Tex., Mar. 15, 1921. CASTOR SA For Infants and Children In Use for Over 30 Years Always bea.rs Signature of HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA. This Drug Store Affords you many attrac tive conveniences and beneficial opportunities. 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