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The Henry County Weekly
VOL. XLVII.
MEETING GEORGIA AGRICUL
TURAL AND HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETIES, MACON, AUG. 17-19
Dear Mr. Editor:
The annual meeting of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society
and the Georgia State Horticultur
al Society will be held in Macon
on August 17,-18-19,1921; and on
account of the many important
agricultural and financial problems
now before the people of our state,
we have invited all other agricul
tural organizations in Georgia who
are interested, also banking or
anizations, to attend this meeting,
participate in same, and co-operate
with our Societies. Among those
invited are the following:
Shorthorn Breeders, Georgia
Breeders, Swine Breeders, Bee-
Keepers, Jersey Cattle Club, Dairy
and Liye Stock Assn, Apple Grow
ers, Georgia Fruit Exchange, Far
mers Union, Pecan Growers Melon
Flippen Brieflets.
On last Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock Mr. Tom Evans and
Miss Bell Turner were happily
married at the home of Rev. G. T.
Sorrells, of Stockbridge. Miss
Turner is a popular young lady of
Flippen, while Mr. Evans is con
nected with the Gate City Manu
facturing Co., of Atlanta. After
the ceremony they left for their
home in Atlanta. We wish for
them a long and happy life.
Mrs. W. A. Wells, of Atlanta,
spent a few days last week with
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rowan.
Mr. Ralph Owen, of Atlanta, is
spending a few days with his
grandmother, Mrs. G. W. Owen.
Miss Willie Alston Warren, of
Florida, spent a few days last week
with Miss Annie Lou Johnson.
Among those who took a straw
ride to Salem last week were
Misses Fannie Johnson, Lela John
son, Laura Fields, Willie Alston
Warren, Annie Lou Jphnson and
Cecil Turnerr; Messrs. John Var
ner, Clayton Thurston, Marvin
Johnson, Norris Bright and Au
brey Fannin.
Mrs. Bertha Johnson has re
turned home, after a two weeks
visit to New Orleans.
Mr. Crew Fields, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end at home.
Mr. T. E. Hamilton has added a
new front porch to his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Fannin spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John
Burch.
Miss Nellie Elliott is spending
the week with her sister, Mrs.
Harp Nash.
Mr. Paul Rowan has returned
home, after spending two weeks
with homefolks.
Mr. Lovett Burch has moved his
family to Flippen, where he works
second trick at the depot.
Mr. Marvin Johns'n is spending
a few days with his brother at
Butler Crossing.
Mutt and Jeff.
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to thj Interests of McDonough and Henry County.
Growers, Georgia Farm Bureau,
Cotton Growers.
Knowing that you have the best
interests of our agricultural peo
ple at heart, 1 take the liberty of
requesting you to give this meet
ing all the possible, as
it will be, possibly, the most im
portant meeting, not only from an
agricultural standpoint, but to the
financial interests of the state as
well, ever held in Georgia, as we
are in the midst of reconstruction
after the world war.
Thanking you for any interest
you may take in this matter, and
for your co-operation in making
the meeting a success, I am, with
best wishes,
Respectfully yours,
W. E. Harvin,
President Georgia State
Agricultural Society.
C. L. Sims and Miss
Ruby Alvey Married,
Christian Parsonage
C. L. Sims and Miss Ruby Alvey
were married at the parsonage of
the First Christian church at 4:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Rev.
Leroy M. Anderson, pastor of the
church, officiating.
The bride is the charming daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alvey
and has been prominent in social
circles in Breckenridge since com
ing to this city more than a year
ago. The bridegroom is in the oil
business, recently coming from
Caddo.
The young people will make
their home in this city.—Brecken
ridge (Texas) Democrat.
A Pastor’s Request.
Conditions and circumstances
entirely beyond control have pre
vented the membership of the Mc-
Donough Baptist Church enjoy
ing the privilege of “giving the
hand of church fellowship” to can
didates recently baptized. Suffice
it to say, the prevalence of mea
slesinour city during and following
our protracted meeting last spring
and the necessary hindrances ac
companying that epidemic, added
to the enforced absence ot both
candidates and their families from
regular attendance upon our meet
ings, have interfered with our car
rying out this delightful and time
honored custom. Now, as pastor,
let me request these 23 candidates
to arrange if possible to attend
our services on Sunday morning
August 14th. Those who are away
or cannot arrange to be with us at
that time, will be welcomed later.
We hope however, it will suit the
convenience of all to be present.
Everybody cordially invited.
W. W. Arnold, Pastor
Camp Ground Hotel.
Anyone who wish boarding and
rooms not furnished at Shingle
roof camp ground hotel may se
cure same at $15.00 for two per
sons occupying the same room.
For further information write
W. R. COOK,
McDonough, Ga.
McDonough, Georgia, Friday, august 12, 1921.
A NEW CEMETERY
for McDonough
Chief of Police, Charles J. Dick
son, Changes Fast Spread
ing Wilderness Into a Place
of Beauty in the City of Its
Beloved Dead.
So it seems in the beautiful
McDonough resting place for its
beloved dead. In a once loved
spot down in the home state of
this scribe where for years the
dead were laid to await the resur
rection morn many homes had
representatives who had lived and
moved and had their being for
generations. Something out of
the ordinary caused a search for
records that were kept nowhere
else except on the marble tomb
stones marking these sacred spots.
To this place they went to discov
er that the lot had been permitted
to be overgrown with weeds, gras
ses and scrub oaks. No tomb
stone could be found. It was fin
ally remembered that a large oak
once stood at the head of the
grave in question, but the tree
had fallen in a storm. After con
siderable search had been made
one small piece of bark containing
a carved initial was located and
the grave discovered'all but lost
forever to those who had, with
loving hands, placed the remains
of the old father so many years
before.
This was in Florida, but it may
happen anywhere and to any peo
ple who allow themselves to grow
careless concerning the spot or the
cemetery holding their dead.
The wilderness was fast spread
ing its area in McDonough till our
good chief of police, Charles J.
Dickson, caught the idea that
something ought to be done to set
things aright, and when he reaches
a conclusion of this sort it is as
good as done.
With a gang of workers under
his direction the cemetery in this
God favored little city was trans
formed into a place of beauty.
Like the reptiles in the bellicose
days of Saint Patrick the ceme
tery families of snakes were ousted
and the pathways opened for easy
walking and safety of anyone
wishing to pay a visit to the lots
located there.
Now, what more should be ex
pected of those most directly in
terested than to make special ef
fort to keep the cemetery in beau
tiful shape; flowers on the graves,
and thus show both respect for
the dead and appreciation for
what the living chief of police has
done?
Let’s co-operate to keep the city
clean and attractive in every place
where the eye of the public natur
ally runs. Very little time and ef
fort is necessary to accomplish
this and we feel so much better
when it is done.
A gas or dust cloud has been
discovered in the heavens by a
Dutch scientist which he esti
mates to be twenty billion times
greater than the sun. We hope it
don’t drop.
LOST —One black and tan cas
trated hound, name Drum. Find
er please notify R. J. Simpson, Mc-
Donough, Ga., phone No. 2204,
and get reward.
THE INCURABLE DELUSION, THE
AMAZING SELF-DECEPTION OF
OUTLAWED LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Among all the varied phases of
the Prohibition question, none pre
sents a more curious study than
the incurable delusion, the amaz
ing self deception, of the advo
cates of the discredited and out
lawed liquor traffic. No human
beings have a more contented
sense of sophistication, yet no oth
ers, assuredly, are so helplessly
under the sway of myth and mis
information.
They declared that passage of
the law was impossible up to the
very hour of its final enactment
and irrevocably proclamation.
Thev waited with child-like confi
dence to see it canceled by an ex
ecutive veto. When that failed,
they predicted its nullification by
judicial decree. When tlie su
preme tribunal of the land upheld
the statutes they announced that
the decision would be reversed by
the court of public opinion. They
pictured labor in arms, an incens-
The Annual Trustees
Meeting at the Court
House September 6th
On the first Tuesday in Septem
ber, at 9:30 o’clock, all the trus
tees of the county are urged to
meet with the Board of Education
at the court house. The Board
also invites the patrons to join the
trustees and come. One of the
school supervisors will address us.
Everybody is invited to be present.
ResDectfullv,
T. J. HORTON, C. S. S.
Rocky Creek News.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Nail were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
Payne Sunday.
Mrs. J. W. Hilley and daughter
are visiting in McDonough this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Burt Payne mo
tored to Atlanta Friday.
Misses Bernice and Thelma Hil
ley and Ruth Payne have return
ed home, after visit near Jackson.
A large crowd attended services
here Sunday.
Mrs. Hutchins family, of College
Park, were the week-end guests
of her sister, Mrs. John Greer.
Rev. Charlie Smith is assisting
Rev. Long in the services here
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Glynn Sears and
little daughter, Pauline, attended
services here Sunday.
The singing given by Mr. and
Mrs. John Greer Saturday night
was enjoyed by a large crowd.
Blue Eyes.
Farm For Sale.
Seventy-five acres of land, IX
miles north of Locust Grove, 1%
miles of Locust Grove High School
on Macon and Atlanta highway.
Good 6-room house, 2 verandas,
2 tenant houses. Good automo
bile house, barn and 2 other build
ings. For further information,
see owner at Locust Grove.
MRS. M. P. JOHNSON, ALLEN.
ed soldiery repudiating at the polls
those who had legislated against
the saloon. They talked darkly
of uprisings by an outraged pop
ulace. of battles for beer, revolu
tions for rum. A craven Congress,
they said, might obey behests of a
few organized fanatics, but the
American spirit of “personal liber
ty” would not suffer its alcoholic
contents to be limited.
One after another these predic
tions were falsified, but the legend
of a widespread sentiment for re
vival of the liquor business re
mained in complete possesion of
their minds. They believed it in
the face of the fact that 80 per
cent of the country had abolished
booze before the national law was
passed; they clung to their delu
sion while Cohgress on every test
reflected an overwhelming and
ever-growing demand for effec
tive enforcement. Philadelphia
North American.
South Avenue.
Revival services at Bethel church
this week.
Pastor Sorrells delivered a great
sermon to a very attentive con
gregation Sunday at 11 o’clock.
Services were rained out in the
evening.
Mr. Robert Milam h»s charge
of the song services during the
revival.
Mrs. Delia Kyle and son, Ralph,
of Birmingham Ala., visited her
sister, Mrs. Joe Callahan, last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Suttles and
daughter, Maud, and Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Moore and Homer Jr., of
Atlanta, were guests of W. G. Cal
laway’s family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Howell and
Mr. and Mrs. Ollis Bowen, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C- How
ell Sunday.
Mrs. Lee Cook and children, of
Conyers, were guests of relatives
here a few days last week.
Mrs. T. A. Martin, Roy and Mi
ne Martin; Mrs. Hunnicutt, of At
lanta, were the spend-the-day
guests of Mr. C. W. South’s fami
ly Tuesday.
Mrs. Henry Moseley and Clar*
Bess Moseley were the guests of
Mrs. John Bonner Monday.
Quite a number of visitors were
in the congregation at Bethel
Snuday. Those from a distance
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heflm
and daughter, Marjorie, of Hog
ansyille, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Carroll
and family, of Conyers, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Suttles and daughter,
Maud, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Moore,
of Atlanta. We were glad to see
them all, in fact, we just had a
happy home coming very unex
pectedly.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Heflin mi
daughter, Marjorie, of Hogans
ville were week-end guests of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. South.
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Carroll were
dinner guents of W. 11. Whitens
family Sunday, and Mr. and Mrs.
Gorden West, were guests at T.W.
Peterman’s.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. King, and Mr.
and Mrs. James King were dinner
guests of C. W. South’s family
Sunday. Busy Bee-
$2.00 A YEAR