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OTTON market.
S day at Noon, August 11th.
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Spots— Middling, 10c.
n„od Middling,.. 10 / 4 C -
SONS CONVENE FOR
ONE DAY SESSION.
sens o f Fifth District Hold An
nua | Communication—Meet
at Monroe Next Year.
fith a thousand visiting dele
iu attendance, the second
es Fifth Dis
, ua ] session of the
t Maeonic Convention was call
to order at 10 o’clock Wednes
morning by Hon. T. JH. Jef
j
;s, deputy grand master.
Hie Fifth District Masonic con
jtion consists of thirty lodges,
uprising in territory, Newtou,
Llton Rockdale, Clayton, Dou
L [re DeKalb , and Fulton counties,
are four lodges in Newton.
[ most cordial welcome was ex¬
iled the delegates and their
Lilies [s and the day was made to
off as pleasantly as possible.
Lything fir possible was done for
pleasure and convenience.
It 10 o’clock the convention
[called [ to order by Deputy
D d Master Jeffries in the Ma
ic Hall.
fhe address of welcome on be
I [vered of the city of Covington was
by Hon. M. G. Turner,
Lor*of [ter the city, and Worshipful
of Golden Fleece Lodge.
I response was made by Hon.
H. Jeffries.
[he welcome address iu behalf deliv
Bolden Fleece Lodge was
I by Hon. J. G. Lester, Past
Iter Golden Fleece Lodge. The
louse was delivered by Hon.
|) B. Hutchison, of Jonesboro.
hen came the transaction of
ness, calling the roll and hear
the reports from different lodges
he district.
■: 11:30 the convention adjourn
SL ;h Methodist church, where
^■.-ster ^■exercises were public, lion.R.
acting as Grand Marshal,
exercises at the churcn were
by prayer by Rev. T. J.
^Bison, after which Hon. J. M.
U>out oue o’clock a ’cue was
to the masons and their
^■chool. on the grounds of the ptib
short business session was held
h afternoon when the Entered
reutice degree was conferred.
! eight o’clock the Master Ma
pegree was conferred.
WheThiid Annual Convacation
Hhe held at Monroe on the
y !( f \L‘dnesday in August 1906.
officers re-elected are T. H.
' ^fies, Gate City Lodge W. M.;
• Irwin, Philolgia lodge, S.
k- E. Edwards, Douglasville,
i-i R. R. Fowder, Golden
c e. Secretary and Treasurer.
le fallowing officer? were ap
bd by the Worshipful Master:
■ R- Young, Fairburn lodge,
j P J* J. Nuuually, Generous
[ en lod ge, J. D.; J. Moore,
Nboro lodge, S. S.; E. W. Rea
ILithonia lodge, J. S.; A. E.
rb Stone Mountain lodge,
P>aiu; N J. r Q. Ford, Golden
iodge, Tyler.
^J^ASthe H 'Tuesday prominent Judge visitors R.
WT*' were J.
Hon. J. C. Joiner,
■ Johnson, 1 '• Moon, J. C. Greenfield
Sam W. Wilkes,
J. R. Irwin, of Con
f■ b°n E ’ Brand, Edwards, of of Douglas
Lithonia.
[Justice of the Peace blanks
f i,uu Ike Enterprise office,
COVINGTON. GA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 18, .005.
JAIL l\. VER CAPTURED
IN m TH CAROLINA.
T. R. Haynes, Yv. ^roKe Jail
Here in February is jght
in Abbeville, S. C.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Maddox re¬
turned Friday afternoon from Ab¬
beville, S. C., bringing T. R.
Haynes, a prisoner.
Haynes was the man who planned
the jail delivery here in February,
and has been at large ever since.
Sheriff Hay Las been on his track
several times but he would elude
the officers.
There were two charkes against
Haynes here, one for selling mort¬
gaged property, the other for bur¬
glary. On Saturday he went be¬
fore Judge Dickson and plead guil¬
ty to the former charge and was
sentenced to six months in the
chain gang. Yes Farmer carried
him out on Monday morning. He
will probably be tried on the charge
ot burglary at the September term
oi the Superior court.
Haynes is the man who jumped
from the window of a moving train
near Decatur last year when he
was a prisoner in charge of an offi¬
cer—but was run down by dogs
and captured near Lithonia late in
the afternoon of the eame day.
He is a brother of the alleged
bigamist in Atlanta.
NEGRO BOY ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS HIS BROTHER.
“Didn’t Know It Was Loaded,”
Consequently a Dead Nig¬
ger and a Coroner’s
Inquest.
Anvester Shy, a negro boy four¬
teen years old, was shot and killed
at Patrick’s old mill, near Newborn
last Fiidaj'. No one was present
at the time of the shooting except
a small negro boy nine years old
and he could tell very little about
the shooting.
Judge John Walker Robertson,
who lives near by thought an in¬
quest should be held and wrote
j Sheriff Hay to that effect, stating
that it might be suicide or acci¬
dental.
Saturday morning Mr. Hay and
Coroner Peek went down and held
an inquest. The evidence before
the coroner’s jury was that he was
shot with an old pistol by the nine
year old boy, and that it was acci¬
dental. The boy “didn’t know it
was loaded. y y
Notice Veterans.
Captain Dalton Mitchell who is
connected with the Roster Com¬
mission of Ga. is in our city seek¬
ing information about the records
of the Confederate soldiers who
enlisted from this county in the
sixties. He has leit with Major
.Tno. B. Davis, Jefferson-Lamar
Camp, and the Enterprise office a
list of names of those soldiers who
left this place of whom no record
has been obtained, It is the ear
nest wish and desire of the Com
missioner that the record of each
soldier be filled out as completely
as possible by some relative or
friend aud urge the necessity ot
their going at once to either of the
ebove named places and giving all
the information which they may
have regarding these old and gal¬
lant soldiers who wore the gray.
Land For Sale.
1500 acres land for sale in tracts
from 85 to 370 acres, located in the
gray lands, the most prosperous
section of Greene county.
E. T. BOSWELL,
4t. Siloam, Ga.
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See The Enterprise for first-class
job printing
VETERINARY SURGEON BILL
BEFORE THE HOUSE.
Bill of Hen. J. W. King to Ap¬
point Veterinary Surgeon for
Georgia Tabled.
The bill of Representative J. W.
King, to appoint a veterinary sur¬
geon for Georgia, was under con¬
sideration in the legislature on
Monday alternoon.
Considerable objection was rais¬
ed to the bill on account of a pro¬
vision which requires counties to
pay half the values of any cattle
or live stock destroyed to prevent
the spread of disease.
It is stated by the opponents of
the bill that it would be unconsti¬
tutional for counties to levy tax
for this purpose.
On account of this objection the
bill was tabled.
THE NEW ELECTRIC PLANT
WILL SOON BE COMPLETD.
All the Machinery Has Arrived
and the Work is Being Rap¬
idly Pushed.
The building near the Central
depot for the electric light plant
is nearly completed.
All the machinery has cr ivt-d
and some of it installed, the other
is being placed and it is expected
to be ready for use about the first
of September.
When completed this will be one
of the best equipped plants ever
built in this y -,rt of the country,
as every piece of machinery is
strictly first class.
Killed by Lightning,
Marks Puckett, a negro man
living near Newborn, was killed
by a bolt of lightning while sitting
in the back door of his house on
last Friday afternoon. He was a
hard working and worthy colored
man and had just come in from
the field to get out of the rain and
had only been in the door for a
few minutes.
Heavy Rains Damage Crops.
On last Friday afternoon one of
the heaviest rains in sometime fell
here. The rain came iu torrents
and dunng the down-pour more
than two inches fell. Crops up
to that time were in a fine condi¬
tion, but the accessive rains dur¬
ing the past week have done con¬
siderable damage to them through¬
out this section. Rain has fallen
in Covington almost every day
since last Friday week, and sever¬
al heavy down-pours are recorded.
New Bank for Mansfield.
At a meeting of the citizens of
Mansfield last week a bnnkwas or¬
ganized with a capital stock of
$25,000, $15,000 of which is paid
(in and a petition for charter will
be immediately applied for, It is
thought the new institution will
be open for business by October
first, and Mansfield will at last
have an enterprise that she has
long needed.
Messrs J. M. Hurst, G. B. Stan¬
ton and E. L. Almand, of Social
Circle, came down one morning
for the purpose of co-cperating
with the business men of this place
in the organization of a bank aud
met with good success, as the peo¬
ple of this vicinity have long felf
the want of a sate institution ot
this kind.
A board of directors and officers
will be elected and plans for the
business will be made as early as
is practicable. It is now almost
positive that a building will be!
erected by the first of October in
which to conduct the business.—
Mansfield Leader.
RAILROAD TICKET TWENTY
ONE YEARS OLD.
Ticket Purchased Twenty-One
Years Ago is Taken Up by
Capt. J. 0. Cooper.
Captain J. O. Cooper, conductor
on the Central railroad was offered
a ticket for transportation Satur.
day which was purchased just 21
years ago. The ticket was issued
on October 30, 1884, and was good
for “one seat” from Milledgeville
to Eatonton.
The ticket was not taken up by
the conductor in 1884, and this
was the next trip the passenger
had made to Eatonton since that
time.
This passenger thinking the tick¬
et not good, purchased another.
A strange coincidence was the
tickets were purchased just 21
years apart, and the difference in
their numbers was 21.
A. D* Nesbit sold both tickets,
and has been railroad agent at
Milledgeville continuously. Cap¬
tain Cooper was not on the road
at that that time, he having come
on the road in January, 1886.
NINE GAMES BASEBALL
ON HOME GROUNDS.
Locals Meet Winder, Hillsboro
and Kennesaw Ball Teams
on the Home Ground.
Beginning today, Thursday, we
will have baseball for nine consec¬
utive days on the home grounds
with the following teams:
17th, 18th and 19th with Win¬
der’s crack team.
21st, 22nd and 28rd with Hills¬
boro, who has a good picked team,
This bunch is a hot rival of the
MbnUctttlo team.
On the 24th, 25th and 26th Ken¬
nesaw will play here.
We expect to win many of these
games with our strong team and
invincible pitchers.
Covington Wins.
Covington and Monroe played a
game of ball here Wednesday
score standing 2 to 1 for
ton. King was in the ‘box
Covington and pitched an
ginie, striking out 13 men.
rill was the opposing slabman and
showed up in fine form.
The support accorded
pitchers was groggy, lly balls
the infields and outfields were
muffed with a regularity that would
have put a third degree team
the bud.
Pay your subscription.
Teachers Examination.
The next examination of appli¬
cants for licence to teach will be
held at Covington August 25-26,
beginning at 8 a.m.
The examination questions will
be based on Roark’s Method,
Page’s Theory and Practice, some
good history of education, Hal
leck’s Psychology and lhe’ t couunon
school books of the state. Outlines
for Teachers Institutes is a very
suggestive little pamphlet for this
preparation. It can be had free at
my office.
All who need licence for the
coming term are urged to take this
examination, as a fee of $2.00 is
charged for special examinations.
G. C. ADAMS, C. S. C.
Notice to Ginners.
I am now prepared to do all
kinds of repair work on Cotton
Gins, Elavatiug Machinery aud
will appreciate your orders,
Geo. T. Meriutt,
Starrsville, Ga., R. F. D.
Take The Enterprise for the news,
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KEEP COOL.
TURNER’S FOUNT IS
THE PLACE TO ESCAPE
THE SWELTERING HEAT.
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ft) 5 popular. Our Creams are the
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