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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1923)
-• Local Happenings I HAVE MOVED MY OPTICAL OFFICE UPSTAIRS over the Western Union telegraph ofliee. I am prepared to examine the Eye and fit glasses for Eye Strains, Hyperopia, Myopia, Presbyopia, Astigmatism and Strabismus. My stock of Specta cle frames and Nose glasses of latest design. 1 repair Broken frames, replace Old and Broken Temples. CHAS. M. SPEER, Optician. Fraternal Lodge No. 37 F. & A. M. Regular communications of Frater nal Lodge No. 37 F. & A. M., meet Ist and 3rd Friday nights in each month. All duly qualified brethren fraternally and cordially invited to meet v«th us. Fred Leguinn W. M. Thos. J. Patterson Sec. A regular communication erf Pine Grove Lodge No. 177 F. &A. M. will be held at the Masonic Hall, Hampton, Ga., every second and fourth Tuesday evenings at the reg ular meeting hours. Visiting breth ren cordially invited. W. W. WISE, W. M. R. H. MOORE, Jr., Sec. Miss Louisa Cloud was visitor to our city Monday. Miss Annie Nolan spent Sat urday in Atlanta. Mr. Lee Newman was a week end visitor to our city. Miss Pearl Austin spent Sat urday in-Atlanta. Mr. A. N. Brown spent Tues in Atlanta. Mr. Billie Elliott spent Mon day in Atlanta. Mrs. W. E. Ham spent the week-end with her sister Mrs. Julia McDonald. Miss Martha Baker, of Griffin, is the charming guest of Esther Carmichael. Misses Sadie McLean and Fran ces Ammons spent Sunday in Atlanta. Mr. Hamilton Slevens spent the past week with the family of Mr. J. M. Carmichael. Miss Ola Mae Thompson is spending this week with rela tives in Atlanta. Mrs. Rebecca Harlan is quite sick at the home other nephew Mr. W. A. Fields. m m iss LeFever, of Kirkwood, *« the charming visitor of Mrs. Homer Elliott. Mrs. Davis, of Atlanta, spent a few days this week with her mother, Mrs. Fannie Dunn. Mr. Herman Whitaker is spending a while with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bonds, of Atlanta, spent several days the past week with Mrs. Delia •Hightower. Master Edward Brown spent the week-end w r ith his father. Mr. S. P. Brown. Mrs. Will Stewart spent last week at Fairbura with her son, Mr. Floyed Stewart and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ei Stewart spent Sunday in Conyers with Mr. and Mrs. Dvight Green. Miss Annie G. Thompson, Blake Bunn and Bess Fouche spent Sun day as guests of Miss Nina Wall in Atlanta. Messrs. F. L. Reagan and John Pullin returned Tuesday from Borden Wheeler Springs. Mrs. V. H. Davis, (if Law reneeville, spent several days this week with her mother, Mrs. F. E. Dunn. Mr. and Mrs. Benton Neal, of Shrewport La. were guests Tuesday of Mrs. E. M. Smith. Mrs. R. A. Sloan left Tuesday for Bullochville to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dunn. Mrs. C. S. Thompson and children have returned to their home in Atlanta after a visit to Mrs. R. E. Turner. Misses Marie Hightower and Elizabeth Patterson left Mon day for the State Normal at Athens. Circle No. 1 of the Methodist Church will hold a rummage sale Saturday in the store room next to G. W. Cathey. Miss Mary Ammons spent several days with Miss Esther Carmichael during the past week. Mrs. E. L. Reagan spent •several"days' in Griffin during the past week. Misses Mary and Leonora Weems will leave Saturday for Greensboro to spend some time. Messrs Howell and Gordon Dickson, of Atlanta, spent the week-end at home. Misses Mary Joe Smith, Kath leen Hulin and Lillie Lee Elliott left for Athens Monday to attend the State Normal School. Mrs. A. Y. Leslie went to Atlan ta Monday to attend the marriage of her sister, returning Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Green, of Conyers, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Green and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart. Mrs. Anna Wilson, of near Mc- Donough, spent Sunday with Misses Lucy and Laura Hollifieid. Conyers Times. Mrs. Luther Purks and daugh ter, Elizabeth, of McDonough, visited Messrs. C. A. and C. L. Howell and Mrs. H. F, Branham this week. Covi-gtcn News. HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA, Col. and Mrs. R. O. 'Jackson, -mil children spent from Friday till Tuesday with Mrs. Jack son’s parents at Monticello. Mrs. Frank Sowell was call ed Monday to the bedside of her little grand daughter, Fran ces Gillaird who was seriously sick. Rev. W. S. Connett, of Locust Grove, wili preach at New Rocky C r eek Sunday afternoon, June, 24th. Messrs Lee Wilson, E. M. Copeland, Tom Pendleyand B. S. Elliott attended the singing at Mt. Vernon Sunday after noon. News has been received in McDonough of the arrival of a daughter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Carmichael in East Point. First in war, first in peace and first in matters of garden ing, Ed Copeland is enjoying* the succulent sweetness of his first roasting ears. Miss Eva Cathey left Monday for Athens’ where she will at tend the summer session of the State Normal School. Prof. H. K. Adams is plan ning to leave soon for New York to enter Columbia Uni versity for a summer course of study. Mrs. T. A. Lifsey, of Bartles ville, is with Mr. and Mrs. IT. W. Carmichael will remain several days visiting relatives and friends of McDonough. Mrs. J T. Weems accompanied by Julian Jr. a.id Misses E izabeth and Leonora Townsend spent the week-end at Greensboro. Mrs. R. H. Daniel and Boby re turned Friday afternoon from a weeks visit to the family of Mr. Asa Lemon in Atlanta. Miss Ma y Weems and Mr. Murray Copeland attended a camping party the past week-end given by Mr. Skeet Coleman of Jackson. Mrs. A. B. Combs returned to her home in Griffin Saturday after spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Combs, of Locust Grove and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Copeland, of McDonough. Prof, and Mrs. George H. Boyd and George Jr. spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Brown prior to leaving for John Hapkins University at Baltimore Ml. on Wednesday They made the tr ip by water Via Savannah. The Installation. Service ->f the foiling newly Elected dea cons, Homer Bryans, Moody Smith, Clarence Duffey, Wil liam Stanton and Green Rus sell will take place at Timber ridge church next Sunday after noon four o’clock. L. D. King. We are agents for the Gaines ville Steam Laundry and appre ciate your business. Collars nice ly laundred for 3 cts. each. Clevis Mason, McDonough Ga. I am requested to announce that Mrs. Shirley E. Kelley has Ferns most all kinds for Sale and most all other Flowers, Just ready to Pot out. She wants to sell them to be able to buy more Testaments, and for other Mission work. Mrs. Shirley E. Kelley, McDonough, Ga. CATARRH Catarrh Is a Local disease greaUy In fluenced by Constitutional conditions. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which gives Quick Relief by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Sur faces and assists in ridding your System of Catarrh. Bold by druggists for over 40 Tears. F. J. Cten?” f: Co ; . TobD, O. OBSERVER Annual all day singing at Mt. Car mel July 4th. Something over seven hundred negroes have left Henry County. Continued rains is causing the bo'l weevil to get a good start. Several of our farmers are planting a crop of Mexican June Corn. June bugs, red bugs and old time bed hugs makes life seem a little like old times. Rev. H. C. Emory a former pastor, of McDonough, Ins just closed a great revival at his church in Dalton Ga. Tax collector E. E. O wen of Rockdale County spent a few hours in McDonough Monday. He is just entering into his first year in office. An insect of some kind is ruin ing the bean crop in Alabama, and like the boll weevil, it is gradually covering the entiie Southern States. ' Rev. I. G. Walker was called a way from his appointment at Bethany last Sunday to conduct a funeral service in Spalding County. The Fox Street Choir and Fort McPherson Army Quartett, of At lanta, will be at Mt. Carmel church on July 4th. Huckleberry pie Blackberry jam and June Apple dumplings is here with us again and with plenty of beans, vegetables, etc., to eat every body is living high. A negro brass band played on the streets, of McDonough, a few minutes Tuesday afternoon, and while they were playing, Ordinary A. G. Harris was called in his of fice to perform a marriage cere mony for a colored couple, We regret to note the death of the little child, of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hooten which arrived at their home in Beersheba Dis trict list Monday. It’s remains were hod to rest at Beth my Mon day, after funeral services con ducted by Rev. I. G. Walker. Ellis Setzer Co funeral dilectors in charge. A dispatch in the last Sunday’s issue of the Atlanta Journal stated ‘hat a pastor of one of the leading churches in Rome Ga. was ask(d by the county agent of Floyd County to lead a service, asking God to destroy the boll weevil, and in a cotton field near Rome in the presence of about 40promi 'nent citizens of the town, this service was held, the pastor lead ing. Mr. L. H. Presley the clever and well known blacksmith, of Locust Grove, is some weather prophet and takes the blue ribbon up to as a weather prognostigator. A bout two months ago a certain new moon had a certain peculiar hang to it, and Mr. Pursley an nounced that it would continue to rain up to about the middle of July, and it has come true. A severe windstorm passed over this vicinity in around Bethany church last week, which almost reached the severity of a cyclone. Trees were blown down in several places, and the three large oak trees in the Bethany churchyard were blown down which have been standing there for over half a century. I CPA! MfITIPrC LLUHL IIUIIULO. 4 DISCHARGE In tno District Coart of the United States, for the Northern District of Georgia In re William G. Callaway Bank rupt No. Bl2f> in Bankruptcy. A petition for discharge having been filed in conformity with law by above-named bankrupt, and the Court having ordered that the hearing upon said petition oe had on July 21, 1923 at tono’clocka. m., at the United States District Court room, in the city of Atlanta, Geor gia, notice is hereby given to all creditors and other persons in in terest to appear at said time and nluoe and show cause, if any they lmve, why the prayer of the bank rupt for discharge should not be granted. O. C. FULLER, Clerk. CARD OF THANKS. We Wish to thank our many friends of Henry County for the many kind expressions of sym pathy during the illness and at the death of our husband, son and brother. Also extend our thahks and appreciation for the many beautiful floral offering. Mrs. J. B. Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Cowan, and family. Picnic at Lake Davis A congenial party picnicked at Lake Davis on last Friday after noon. This attractive resort offers many pleasures to the young peo ple in form of swimming and boating with the very convenient arrangements for luncheon, and this proved a most delightful oc casion. Those attending were, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Turner, Mr. and Mrs. J e Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Tolleson and Miriam, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Weems, Mhses Mary and Lenora Weems, Elizabeth and Leonora Townsend, Mary Joe Smith, Louise Smith, Eizabeth Thompson, Mesdames E. M. Smith and W. G. Copeland and Messrs. H M. Tolleson, Mur ray Copeland, Ernest Smith, Julian Weems, Jr. and Seymour Thompson. house pin Mrs. L D. King is entertaining quite a number of young friends at a house parly this week. Many d lightful social affairs have been nlannei for their en tertainment and altogether this is joy week at the manse. Those attending the party are Misses Wi Ileretie A"wood, of At lanta, Martha and Dorothv Perk erson, of Austed, Cora Huie and Lil ian Conine, of Forest Park, Margaret Candler and Marian Fielder, of Villa Rica. The annual conven ion of the Henry county Sunday School As sociation will be held at the Methodist church in McDonough on Sunday July 29th. A fu'l de legation is expected from every Sunday school in the county. A banner will be awarded to the Sunday School having the largest attendence, in proportion to the number of miles traveled. Ii was a good pleasure to attend the all day singing at Mt. Vernon church last Sunday. A good crowd w'as present and a number of good leaders w'ere onhandand the singing was a success. A de legation of singers from the Fox Street choir in Atlanta was pres ent which largely helped to make the day a success. Mr. W. F. Helms was chairman of the exercises of the day, and had charge of the program which was good throughout the entire day.
