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The Henry County Weekly
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HON. THOMAS W. HARDWICK, Governor-Elect and Ora'or of the Day at Henry
County’s Celebration of her One Hundredth Anniversary. He made an eloquent address which
will go down in history as a splendid feature of the memorable occasion.
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to tha Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, may 20, 1921
HENRY COUNTY’S CENTENARY
CELEBRATION GREAT SUCCESS
On May 14 the People of
Henry County Witness
ed one of the Greatest
Events in Her History—
Over 6,000 People in
Attendance.
THE greatest event ever wit
nessed in Jier hundred years
of history was that of Saturday,
May 14th, when Henry, “Mother
of Counties,” celebrated her Cen
tenary Day with pomp and pride
and ceremony, in her capital city;
and McDonough has never seen a
sight so grand and glorious and
inspiring as the great pageant and
accompanying scenes that ushered
in the day.
The celebration was so immense,
the demonstration so large, the
events commemorated so exten
sive, that a newspaperwriter is at
a loss to know how to condense
into appropriate space such mag
nitudes.- What to put on record
and what to omit concerning the
day handicaps the writer as he
views its multitudinous phases.
Suffice it to say that it was Hen
ry county’s great day and her
great occasion that drew like a
magnet the masses from far and
near until net.r 6,000 were present
to greet and honor Old Henry, the
first of Georgia’s counties to cel
ebrate her hundredth birthday.
The beauty and chivalry of the
Anglo Saxon of America was here
to meet one another and to re
joice in a history so pregnant with
great achievements along all lines
of endeavor in peace as well as in
war.
Henry county’s people have had
a hand in the advancement that
has made Georgia the Empire
State of the South. In agricul
ture, in m uiufactures, in com
merce, in education, in morals and
At the upper left is shown a small sample of the 5000 per
sons who attended the celebration. Miss Lucy Ward is ilie ‘ girl
with the bell” seen in the upper right. In the army car are G. E.
Dickson, Miss Rebecca Padgett, T. C. Partridge, Timon Bowden,
Miss Carolyn Amis, Uncle Sam, W. L. Barton and A. B Mitchell.
In the view of the “old-fashioned girl” are seen W. H. Pullin,
Miss Mary Weems and Mrs. W. B. Pullin. The view of the “city
fathers” includes, left to right, J. D. Hightower, A. A. Lemon,
Parks Cook, Harris Carmichael, Mayor J. E. liooten, H. M. Amis
and John Rodgers.—Sunday American, Atlanta.
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religion they have held a front
rank position. Not laggards nor
sluggards, they have borne brave
ly and ably their part in the tri
umphs ot our grand old common
wealth. And this centennial day
manifests our progress and enter
prise and accomplishment in these
years that have intervened since
Gen. Mclntosh, the United States
Commissioners and the Chiefs of
the Creek Indians a hundred years
ago at Indian Spring signed the
treaty that placed in the hands of
the white man this portion of the
glorious South, which the white
man has redeemed from a wilder
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