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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLVII.
Scott Rodgers to Represent
U. of Ga. at Camp Holabird
Daniel Scott Rodgers, of Mc-
Donough, will represent the Uni
versity of Georgia at the U. S.
Army Reserve Officers Training
Camp, June 13 to July 27. He has
been assigned to the Motor Trans
port division at Camp Holabird,
did.
The University of Georgia is
listed as one of the 15 distinguish
ed military institutions of the
United States. It is one of the
few universities where the War
Department maintains training
corps for cavalry, infantry and
motor transport. The staff of
army officers includes a Colonel,
a Major, three Captains and sev
eral Lieutenants, and the training
given is most complete.
The University furnished more
than 1,000 army officers during
the World War. In honor of its
1285 men in service, 45 of whom
gave their lives for their country,
the alumni are to raise a War Me
morial Fund of one miiiion doiiars
this fall. It will be used to pro
vide more buildings for agricul
ture veterinary medicine, science,
a men's dormitory, and a War Me
morial building.
The cavalry unit at the Univer
sity is the only one in the South
eastern Army department. It is
supplied with fine riding horses
and the latest army equipment,
including McClellan saddles, sa
bres. rifles, and 45 calibre pistols
Uniforms are issued to all mili
tary students free of charge, and
those who are selected by the
Chancellor for the advanced
course, are paid sl2 a month by
the Government. The men are
assured of being officers in case
of war.
Young People’s Rally.
The Young People’s Rally of
the Flint River Association is to
be held at the First Baptist church,
Griffin, Ga., on Tuesday, June 14.
The meeting will open at 10
o’clock, a. m. An interesting pro
gram has been arranged and every
church in the association is re
quested to send messengers to this
rally.
Revival Services.
The revival in progress in the
Methodist church grows in interest
and attendance'daily. Rev. A. M.
Pierce is doing good preaching.
The singing is fine. The hours of
service are 10 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
Come while the opportunity is
with us.
Notice.
Howard Duffey, son of Perry
Duffey, left home Saturday, May
28, without permission. I take
this means to notify the people of
Henry county not to hire him
without my permission.
Perry Duffey.
801 l Weevil Must Be Killed
or Crop Will Be Lost
If you can kill the parent boll
weevil before it doposits its young
into the squares of cotton you
will be enabled to destroy them
with one application of Calcium of
Arsenate. Our government says
it will kiil them. You can dust
cotton j.t its present size by fixing
one ply of a flour sack over the
end of a guano bugle. In this
wav it will take very little dust
and there will be no waste. See
J O. and C. M. Kimbell when you
want Calcium of Arsenate or for
further information.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
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IS IT COTTON, OR “WHAT?”
A Few Suggestions to the Cotton Man.
By REV. J. A. PARTRIDGE.
In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. After
this was completed He made man.
Man was made to have dominion
over all God’s creation. Sover
eignty was his unquestionable
possession. Cringing before the
lower order of creation was never
in the mind of God as the attitude
of man. A boll weevil was never
designed to be the master of the
animal made in the image of his
Creator. He has come —the boll
weevil has—and apparently come
to stay for quite a spell. Man
was here before the boll weevil
and certainly has a greater right
to remain—to live and move and
have his being. In order to carry
out the Creator’s plan he must eat
and dress and stav housed. “By
the sweat of his brow” must he
secure the necessary means for
the accomplishment of this end
and God has not restricted him to
the cultivation and production of
cotton as the only crop to be
planted without which man must
of necessity perish.
The time seems to have come
when “something new under the
sun” must be tried out and man
must continue to live and prosper.
There has been a great cry going
up all over this blest Southland of
ours that “We cannot raise any
thing else. Cotton is our main
money crop. Without cotton we
must Derish or move to the city to
find work,” which bv the way, is
tantamount to the same thing as
perishing for the average country
man who tries it.
In conversation with what we
commonly term a “cotton man”
the writer was told a few days
ago that for the past fifty-five
years, with the possible exception
of two or three years during war
times, coiton has been raised at a
Joss, all things attendant upon its
production considered. This has
been largely offset by the claiqi
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, June 10. 1921.
HALT!
ONE WAY TO STOP HIM.
that cotton is our ready money
crop. And so it has been. If the
statement made is to be taken lit
erally, then a cotton crop means
that the farmer, during the time
it has taken him to grow and
market it, has simply been putting
his time and expense money on
deposit to be drawn down in the
fall of the year at some discount.
During my time as a newspaper
man in South Carolina there oc
curred a vacancy in the position
of night telegraph editor—a posi
tion with what was then consider-1
ed a pretty good salary. I was;
asked to suggest a successor to i
the man who had so ably filled it I
up to the time of his death. I
communicated with my father,
then a man of some sixty years of
age, but was informed that his life
had been spent up to that time in
his home town and he did not
care to sever the relationships
there formed. Furthermore he
was “too old a dog to learn new
tricks.” That may have been
true, but times as now were then
undergoing changes and “new:
tricks” had to be learned by some
one.
The dread of the so called new
is one of the hindrances in the
way of Drogress and the one thing
that not infrequently coirmels a
man to spend many years in the
oppressive atmosphere of hard
times and short rations.
It is my privilege to associate
with men in all walks of life.
Farmers are my true and tried j
friends. They have scores of times
told me that their main trouble in
raising cotton was failing to give
attention to the production of food
stuffs for the reason that it took j
most all of their time to raise the
fleecy, but strange to relate the
consciousness of this cause of
trouble made little if any change
in their apnual program.
Down in Florida there lived a
man who was regarded in his
younger years as a “big farmer.”
He delighted to refer to himself as
a “landholder.” Farmer did not
sound big enough. His two plan
tations were composed of some
t\venty-one hundaed acres of good
land. He worked large nnmbers
of negroes and had fine mules.
Frequently he sent in six teams
with six mules to the wagon
through the heavv sandbeds with
as many bales of cotton as could
be hauled on these wagons. Then
he would go back after more.
That sounds like prosperity, I
grant you. Why didn’t he get
rich ? On the way out from town
he would drive by the supply store
and load as many six-hundred
pound boxes of side meat as one
large wagon could stand under
and six mules could pull. His feed
for stock must be bought in car
load quantity. His negroes sup
plied trom from stores. It looked
big. His home was one of the
finest residences in the town. To
be entertained there was a pleas
ure. His friendship was sought
after. Finally the crash came.
He was urged to raise his food
stuff, but would say “I’m running
this farm. It’s mine, not yours.”
That was quite true. H 6 was
running it —into ruin day by day.
Mortgages were made and time
extended and interest paid. But
he was living high and was a big
farmer.
Today,* you ask, where is he?
Mortgages were foreclosed.
Twenty-one hundred acres passed
into other hands. Friends of for
mer days raised by public sub
scription money to save the home
for the wife and daughters. The
once big farmer sits on street cor
ners in shabby attire, whittles a
stick, has a petty county office
that would hardly pay the grocer’s
bill. The land was good. Others
subdivided it and sold it- for a
quarter of a million of dollars.
Bad methods. Too much cot
ton. No food stuff.
We of the Soutnland upon which
God delights to smile are not ruin
ed. We are not dead, but have
been sleeping. God thinks too
much of us to allow us to proceed
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s* OBSERVER
If you want to get in an old-time
marble game, just go over to Dock
Cruriibley’s store. '
We heard a partridge whistling
Old-Bob-White a few days ago,
which sounded like old-times.
Tax Receiver Thompson has
closed the tax books and the band
of tax equalizers are in session.
Astronomers are making the
prediction that the tail of a cornet
will touch the earth on June 27.
Blackberries, dewberries, huck
leberriesandold-time yellow plums
makes a fellow think of old-limes.
Wheat threshing season was on
in full blast last week, and there ss
a pretty fair crop made this year.
Pitching horse shoes is getting
to be the leading game, and they
sav that Postmaster Ingram is an
expert.
Wheat threshing time makes us
think of our boyhood days when
we used to sleep on an old-time
straw bed.
You can get all the Buffalo nick
els you want now for two and
three cents apiece. See Frank
Copeland.
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Some think that we are living
in the last days, and that the end
of the world is near at hand.
Read 2-Tim.-3: 1-5.
There will be a singing at Coun
ty Line church near Jenkinsburg
on the third Sunday afternoon.
Everybody invited.
We have had several invitations
to come and eat some good old
time, home raised, home made
biscuits. Look for us.
There will be a singing at the
Snapping Shoals Methodist church
next Sunday afternoon and every
body is cordially invited. "Ob
server” has received a welcome
invitation from Uncle Newt Smith
to come down, and if nothing hap -
pens we will be there.
The singing at Oakland last
Sunday afternoon was attended
by a good crowd and was one of
the best singings that has been
held this year. Prof. T. J. Horton,
of McDonough, was chairman of
the exercises and a number of
good leaders were on hand, among
them being, Prof. Joe A. Brown,
Prof. W. J. Pendley, A. C. Norman.
S. M. Rosser, S. E. Coker, A. J.
Upchurch, Tom Callaway, and ai
number of other leaders. The mu
sic was good from start to finish.
The good people of Oakland are
taking a deep interest in the up
building of their church, and one
thing that they are taking a good
interest in is music, and there is
already a movement on foot to
have a music class taught there
during thecomingsummermonths.
Conference on Evangelism
A one day conference on ev an -
gelism will be held at the First
Baptist church of Griffin, on June
15 by the Baptists of the Flint
River association. The sessions
will begin at 10 a. m. and 1:30 p.
m. Dinner will be served on the
church lawn.
The day will be spent in singing
gospel songs, praying and plan
ning for the summer evangelistic
campaign and there will be in
spirational addresses. Rev. Martin
A. Wood, of Macon, has been in
vited to address the conference.
All pastors and deacons, church
clerks and treasurers, Sunday
school superintendents and teach
ers, all officers and workers, all
interested men and women are
urged to attend anu toe me pray
ing. The meeting will be open to
the public and all are cordially in
vited to attend.
Some people make up in noise
what they lack in sense.
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