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The Henry
County Weekly
Official Organ of Henry County.
B. S. ELLIOTT, Editor,
.Advertising Rales 25<- ™»r inch, posi
tion 5c additional-special contiacts
filtered at the postoffice at McDon
/»Kgn, Ga., as second class mail matter
>reinn AdvrrtUfna Representative
£ AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION |
SJf Donongli, Ga., August 24, 1023.
The Sunday school is the young
man’s iiist sttpping stone to suc
cess.
Lest we forget: Good roads make
better citizens than chug holes.
Three good tilings tocullivate —
good books, good friends anc
toed humor.
Which do you value the most,
jour automobile or your soul? If
the first you are to be pitied.
Have you received a good turn?
Forget it not. Have you done ?ne?
Remember it not.
There isn’t an old maid in this
county who will admit she can
remember the Spanish-American
war.
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There is many a good woman
who can’t sing play the piano or
dance, but is an expert with a
rolling pin.
Another Still Found
Early Wednesday morning
sheriff W. A. Word and his
deputy, A. 1). Tingle, with the
assistance of chief Copeland, of
Hampton, swooped down upon
a still over near Hampton, a
bout 1% miles, of Edward’s
mill, and found it heated up
aud ready for operation with
about 540 gallons of beer ready
for use.
The negro who was running
the still fled and was not cap
tured.
Notice
A meeting of the District Di
rectors and members of the
Henry County Farmers co-op
erative Fire Insurance Com
pany is called to meet at the
court house in McDonough,
Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 10
o'clock a. tn. for the purpose
of electing officers and attend
ing to any other business that
may come before them.
Seal) Darkness, Sect.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE
The Federal Land In tlio Snperi-
Bank of Columbia. lor Court of
YS ,Henry County
i April term,
T. \\ .V, oods } 1923 Complaint
To T. VV. Woods, defendant:
von
®re hereby commanded to be and
aupear at the next term of the
Superior Court, of said C unity, to
held on the third Monday in
October, 1923, and make your
answer in above named and stated
ease, <is required ny t.io order of
snid Court.
Witness the H morable \V. K. IT.
Searcy. Jr. Judge of the Superior
Court.
This 'l l™ of 1923.
HESS TOUCHE, Clerk
Superior Court.
Cacklings
Old Mother Hubbard vv.nt tu
the cupboard
To get her poor daughter some
gin;
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare
And her husband was wiping
h's chin.
A married couple had engaged
a cook. She was as pretty ns a
picturp, but her was
terrible, and one morning the
bacon was burned to such a crisp
as to be wholly inedible.
“Dear,” said ihe wife to her
husband, “I’m afraid the cook has
burned the bacon. You’ll have
to be «a‘isfied with a kiss for
breakfast this morning.”
“All right,” responded the hus
band, gruflly. “Cull her in.”
—Newnau Herald.
After a 52-davs session of do
ing nothing at an expense of a
hundred thousand dollars to the
tax payers of Georgia the legisla
ture adjourned last nighL The
only regret we hold is that it did
not adjourn for at least ten years.
—Butler Herald.
Aunt Hannah Miriar says that
them there girls what smoke cir
aroots ought to be wearing sack
cloth an’ ashes.
Another session of the legisla
ture has come to an end wi'hout
provision being made for repair
ing and renovating the state capi
tal. This once stately and impos
ing structure is in an almost dila
pidated condition and is unsightly
in appearance It cannot help
but leave an unfavorable impres
sion upon the hundreds of people
from our state who visit it.
—Dallas News.
Methuselah lived to a ripe old
age because he held on to his ton
sils and his appendix.
Mrs. Margaret Booking, former
ly of Covington, Ga., was held to
the Fulton superior-court Wednes
day by Judge L. F. McClelland
under a S3OO bond on charges of
bigamy, after documentary evi
dence had been introduced to
prove that she had been married
three times.
—Covington News.
A widow who is managing her
own affairs can be cheated out of
SIO,OO0 —but, not out of 20 cents,
When Our News Gatherer gets
on the Trail of a News Item if
might just as well throw up its
hands and stop running. But
there’s always an Item or two
that we never even hear of. not
being a mind reader, and that is
where you come in. You tell us.
—Conyers Times.
Deke Spriggins is forever talk
in’ ’bout the straight an’ narier
path, but 1 never seen m any of his
footprints onto it.
It is said an onion poultice will
raise hair on bald heads.
—Greensboro Herald.
It is said if you have a nice
head of heir you won’t have anv
left if madam, your wife, catches
you embracing your typist.
Our idea of fiirting with disas
ter is for a 200 pound girl to make
room f or a 220-pound man in a
hammock.
One trouble about high priced
watermelons is that you can hard
ly ever tell wlmt they are worth
until you cut them ooc-n and then
it is too late if they do not come
up to t xpectations.
Monroe Advertiser.
A mati and his wife are soon
pal icu ii illc) go ij i niio tin tile
diverse.
fIKMU' CO UNI X S\ LCki. 1, McUUNOUGcJ utPKGLi
Roads of the Ancients
The finist pavement in the world
—a Roman road built centuries
ago— is discovered four feet under
the earth’s surface at Colrhstir,
England.
This superb highway was put
together by the tesseliated or
checkerboard system, like the
mosaic patterns of tiles inlai 1 in
many colors as flooring f m
modern bathrooms, building
entrances, etc.
The design is worked out in
seven colors. The tiles in places
are arranged to form dragons,
bulls, flowers and dolphins, ac
cording to the Los Angeles Re
cord.
It starts vou thinking about the
glories of lost civilizations. Grim,
but a trifle more interesting, is a
skeleton found on top of this
ancient pavement in England. The
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If members of the genera! as
sembly were run through a dip
ping vat it might ht Ip some. It
might kill off some of the political
ger ms. Jackson Argus.
A man who hasn’t paid for his
straw hat by this time is in debt
over his ears.
Some girls are worth their
weight in gold, and yet their
mothers are never satisfied until
they give them away.
Jones County News.
COFFEE OF MERIT
Votan Style Coffee of highest
quality blends.
LISTEN!
With each three pound can of
Votan Coffee for $1.15 we will
give free a one pound can of the
same Coffee, only one deal to a
CllQfmnpr T imifArl
Your opportunity to try a most
pleasing high grade roasted
ground Coffee at a moderate price.
Votan Coffee brings smiles all
the time.
Get this deal while it is on.
Copeland-Turner
Merc. Company
We Do Job Printing.
bores of a young woman. Why
was she left there? You picture
a speeding chaiint, knocking her
down, the driver galloping his
horses ahead without stopping.
It you ever visit Peru and ex
plore what remains of the won
ceiful Inca civil zation destroyed
by Spanish conquerors, the Inci
roads would impress yon most —
particularly if you drive a car.
One of these roads was nearly
2,000 miles long. Twenty teet
wide, it stretches over the moun
tains, practically as good todiy ns
when it was built centuries ago.
First the Inca road makers laid
down huge slabs of stone. They
covered this with a thick coating
of bituminous cement. Time has
hardened this cement into solid
rock.
Describing this road, Charles J
Finger says in his book, “Lost
Civilizations”:
“I recall the gr at stone real of
the vanquished people, perfectly
level or gently sloping, le igues of
living rock being cut for its pass
age, ravines filled with solid
masonry, precipices carved. Nor
was the road left a mere me
chanic il triumph. On either side
there were embankments, lip
rapped with stone, and trees and
flow'ers were planted.”
The good roads movement
started when barbarians began
clearing trails through the dense
jungles. Civiiiza'io.' his always
been spurred or held back to a
gieat extent by highway condi
tions. And this is true now more
than ever before, because con
gestion of population requires
ad quate arteries of traffic.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our many
friends and relatives for their
kindness and words of sympa
thy extended us during the
sickness and death of our dear
-little daughter and sister. We
also svisb to express our appre
ciation for the beautiful floral
offering.
J. K*. Flmott and Children
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our many
friends for their kindness and
loving sympathy shown us dur
ing the sickness and death of
Mrs. T. G. Cowan, .also for the
beautiful floral offerings.
We pray God to bless com
fort and reward you in heaven.
Mr. T. G. Cowan.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Smith.
Miss Agnes Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Kicks.
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Card of Thanks
To all the friends whose sym
pathy and services were so
kindly tendered in our time of
bereavement, we desire to ex
tend our sincere thanks. —Sons,
Daughters and Grand Children
of Mrs. M. O. Elliott.