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Ebe Enterprise.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
CHAS. G. SMITH
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Covington, Ga., Jan. 18, I00o
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Ca^»W‘^ JKSVNA/
The population of Covington in
1906 should be 3,500,
\\ e have had some real Atlanta
%’t ther lor the last several days
The Hon. Newton Morris is
fcoin >what of a card writer himself.
Georgia Deniocracry is not like
]y 10 be Billy Osbornized two years
hence.
It would be interesting to know
just how Clark Howell regards the
Osborn-Morris controversy.
The man who will invest his
money in houses to rent in a
crowded city like Covington is a
public benefactor, whether it is his
intention to be so or not.
While our little building bo >m
is on, some enterprising citizen
should interest himself in the
building of a modern hotel, which
ihe rapid growth and progress of
the city demand.
The Mayor ami Council in the
effort they have started to put the
blind tigers out of business and to
break up drunkenness on the streets
should have the sympathy and co¬
operation of every law abiding citi¬
zen of the town.
These cotton burning reports
are creating quite as much excite¬
ment as did the boll weevil scare
several months ago, and there is
about as much truth in them as
there was in the boll weevil fabri¬
cations.
Postmaster Bush says that the
receipts of his office are increasing
at a rapid rate. The Btamp sales
for the last twelve mouths have
amounted to nearly five thousand
dollars. Another splendid evidence
of the growth and prosperity
the city.
< < Tom Watson's Magazine, 11
which is to make its appearance 10
February, will doubtless have a
very large patronage. Although
be has few political followers, the
brainy and brilliant Tom Watson
has many admirers who will read
his magazine.
It is a got d time now to start
that stihscriptiuti for the audito
rium at Academy spring. If we
would keep pace with the other
progressive towns of th« State, we
should have this building. Why
not take steps at once for its con¬
struction and havB it completed in
time to hold a summer chatauqua ?
C- !. Osborn, like some of his
pied cesscrs in the reforming line,
0011 recognize the futility of
f.gfe* ng the t t 11 in Georgia
yr!5 cs. Seab Wrifeht couldn’t do
it; Dupont Guerry got left, and
T. Watson made a miserable fail¬
ure in the attempt. And if Newt
Morris is telling the truth they’re
a darn sight better reformers than
the Savannah gentleman.
THE GEORGIA ENTBRPRISE, COVING ME, GA., FRIDAY MORiilNC*.
LACK OF FAITH AND STRAD¬
DLING MADE DEFEAT.
Failed Because in Political Hunger
Leaders Have Pandered to
the Powers of Republi¬
can Party.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 7 .—John
Temple Graves, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was chief oral r at the Jackson
Day banquet of the Duckworth
club tonight. Speaking on “Defi¬
nite Democracy,” he said:
“In its nature and in its mission
the Democratic party has been and
bi a reform party and a radical
party. In the conditions winch
surround it now this mission and
method becomes the price of its
popularity and the necessity of its
life. We have always failed, and
will always fail, as a party of ne¬
gation and a party of opposition.
We have failed because we have
have tr>mined and hesitated and
straddled. We have failed because
we have compromised with the ap
parmtly successful doctrine of Re¬
publican party and surrendered to
neu whose interests and convic¬
tions were so nearly akin to our
political opponents that they ought
in common honesty, to espouse
ti e Republican party to which
they belong. We have failed be¬
cause in our political hunger for
success we imitated the platforms
md pandered to the powers of the
opposite party that held the gov
erument.
“Mr. President, the Democratic
party never had a clearer mission
or a brighter promise than today.
Difeat is discipline and disaster is
education. Out of the wreck of
our fortunes we shall budd a nob¬
ler and more enduring usefulness.
The Democratic party is going to
be re born, reformed and re-con¬
secrated to the constitution and
to popular rights and liberty. We
cannot afford longer to be a party
of mere negotions, a party of op¬
position, or servile imitation ol
the party in power. We are going
to believe something and we are
going to do something. Wo are
going to tje a party of creeds and
not merely a party of hungry de
sires. We are going to quit craw
ling on our bellies before the jm>
geruauts of power and we are go
ing to quit truckling like coward
to the shad >w of a merely tem¬
porary success. We are going to
find and follow real leaders if we
have to smash every slate and an¬
nihilate every politician that has
fattened upon our suffrages for
forty years. We are going to make
a platform that will be an open
opposition and bolt challenge to
Repunliean creed everywhere. j >
Harvie Jordan is out in a strong
letter to the farmers, advising
against burning cotton.
The Atlanta Constitution is being
heavily censured in some quarters
for publishing Price’s letter.
Last week an Augusta whisky
drummer was arrested and lodged
in jail at Washington, Ga., for so¬
liciting. liquor orders. It is a clear
violation of the law to carry on
such business in a prohibition
county. Similar action might be
taken by the authorities ot this
city.
We have great faith in Coving¬
ton. We think it is the best town
tf its size in Georgia. We boast
of its rapid advancement and point
with commendable pride to its
wide-awake, public-spirited citi¬
zenship; but somehow or other our
civic pride becomes somewhat de
pressed when we think of that
antiquated street railway system
of ours.
TT Hon. John T , _ Temple Graves, the
gifted and versatile editor of The
Atlanta News, delivered a great
epeech before the-Duckworth Club
of Cincinnati on January 7, Jack
son IXm . His magnificent address
on >•■ finite Democracy, outlin
mg the issues upon which the next
president a. campaign of the Dem¬
ocratic party should be waged was
,
enthusiastically received by the
^eople of Cincinnati.
Opportunity
Among the farmers’ boy9 re
cently scrambling around Christ
mas trees for presents. or crying
because he did not find what he
wanted in his stocking, were
eral future Presidents of the Unit< d
States. There were also many des¬
tined to be Governor^, Senators,
captains of industry, great million¬
aires, engineers, architects and
other movers of the world. It
would be safe to say that nine out
of ten of these boys are going to
start life without any special
vantages. The best equipment
they can have is a good training
up to twenty years of age on the
farm, education in the common
schools and habits of industry,
honesty and sobriety. It is really
a misfortune to be born the son of
very rich parents. Few such ever
achieve much in life, and those
who do acquire their fame in spite
of, and not on account of, their
inherited riches. Mest sons of
rich men go to the dogs from idle¬
ness or dissipation, or pass through
life as colorless drones. As we
have said, some of our readers
bumped up against the future Pres¬
ident during the Christmas holi¬
days. They didn’t know him, hut
he was ther^—a strong, healthy,
open faced, industrious boy, who
doesn’c lose his temper when called
out of bed at four o’clock these
cold winter mornings to feed the
stock. Neither does be “sass”
his mother, play “hookey” from
school or spend his time around
saloons or corner groceries.
We are told, and often by those
high up in public notice, who
should know better, that there is
no change for young men theFe
days. A few havegot all the money
and power, and the rest of us are
condemned to be hewers ot wood
and drawers of water, like the
Gibeonites of old. We hear this
( ( rot” from the crank leaders of
crank parties, from pessimistic ed¬
itors and dyapeptic students of so¬
ciology. Never was there a more
transparent falsehood nor cue so
The Labor Problem.
The rf\ if farm labor , 1 question . as areal ,
iroblem. Ihe wonderful industrial
development in the South has
diawn thousands of negroes from
the farms and given them employ
while T* » almost have
as many more
gone to the cities to loaf and look
on. The latter class will not work
unless it is an absolute necessity,
and it is strange how little they
seem to need to work in order to
live. Education has not done any
good in this respect—in fact, it
seems to have had an opposite
effect.
Negro labor has been essential
to the success of southern agricul¬
ture in the past, and the problem
brought about by the conditions
stated above must be solved Du
ring the past year many southern
farmers experienced great difficulty
in cultivating and harvesting their
crops, and their troubles along this
line will rapidly multiply. They
will be forced to use more and bet¬
ter machiney, which they have not
heretofore had the funds available
to purchase, in making and gather¬
ing their crops. But even with
this, which will now probably fol¬
low owing to improved financial
conditions throughout this section,
the labor question will only be
partially settled. It may be poesi
ble to find a laborer through immi
g™tion that will take the place of
■ the negro, but that is not at all
likely, for there is no labor that is
better adapted to the particular
type of farming in the south than
the faithful and trusted darkey,
j who has made our vast crops of
: cotton and corn all these many
years. The best and only solution
of the situation will be thediscov
ery of some means by which the
j ; negro will be kept on the farm and
at the business for which he i, best
suited.—Dawson News.
1 W. B. Corsets at Adair’s.
the Man.
easily refuted by all we see around
us. One has only to take a glance
at the industrial or political world
.
; to see that these Jeremiahs don t
what they are talking about.
Twelve years ago a young man
in the East was glad to make his
living at the ordinary wages of a
typewriter. He did his work so
well that a certain big man ap
pointed him his private secretary.
j Another big man, noticing this,
j gave him a similar position after
his former employer died. This
por-r young man was the national
j chairman o» a great political party
during the recent election, a.id will
be Postmaster-General in the cab
met for the next four years. The
chairman of the other great party
has bad a somewhat similar career.
About twenty years ago a poor
Irish lad, he was glad to sell pies
for a living until he could do bet
ter. He'had neither money nor
friends, but soon made many of
the latter by his urbanity and
kindness to others. He achieved
repeated elections to important
offices and eventually a place ot
highest influence in his party, be
side-> being successful in business.
The next Governor of Missouri
came to St. Louis some eight or
tenyearsagoasapoorandfricnd
less yuug man. Sixteen years
ago the next Governor of Indiana
was digging ditches at a dollar
and a halt a day. The two men
who will be elected Senators from
Indiana this winter, were a few
years ago among the poorest of
the poor without money or ioflu
ential backing. Three young men
only thirty years old or thereabouts
and with but little property, weie
elected to Congress in Illinois lust
fall. If we had the space, we
could mention thousands of others
now in high positions in the rail¬
road, manufacturing, farming,
stock raising and other lines, all
of whom started poor from twenty
to thirty years ago. Still they
tell us there is no chance now for
tlie poor young man. We don’t
believe it —American Farmer.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
The creditors of Lavender Bros. (F. C.
Cavender nud ,, M . Cavomler) mercba , lts
j ol Mansfield, Ga., are hereby notified that
j they were on January 2. 1905, duly adju
I ^'O'U-d bankrupt, and that the first meet
i of their cre,litor ‘ s wiil lje htUl in tl,e
1 ZXZ "TS^tT a in. G ” J “
CLIFFORD WALKER,
Referee in Bankruptcy
Monroe. Ga., Jan. 2. 1905.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
In re: ) I No 1303
S. R. McCart, Jr. In Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt j
In the District Court of the United
States for the Northern District of Georgia.
A petition for discharge having been
filed in conformity with law by the above
named bankrupt and the court having
duly ordered that the hearing upon said
petition be had Jan 21st 1905, at 10 o’clock
A. M , at the United States Court room at
Atlanta, Ga-, notice is hereby given to all
creditors and o'her persons in interest to
appear at the time and place named and
show cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of said bankrupt for discharge
should not be granted. This 9th day Jan.
1905, W. C. CARTER, Clerk.
MARSHAL SALE.
GEORGIA—Newton County.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in
Febuary 1905 within the legal hours of
sale for Cash in front of Court House tlie
following property to wit:
| One city lot lying and being in the Wes¬
tern part of the city and containing (2)
two acres more or less and bounded as
follows on South by Clark St. on West by
lot of Louisa C;irr oti - North by Mary
Clark and Lottie Lovelace on the East by
Dried Indian Greek said property levied
on to satisfy a City Tax fifa issued by Citv
Clerk in favor of ihe City of Covington
against the estate of Mrs S. J. Davis for
City Tax for the year 1904. Written no
tice given tenant in possession as required
by law.
This January 19 1905,
BRADFORD BQHANAX,
Chief M. C, C.
WANTED TO LEASE'—Several
pieces of land, from 1 to 3-horse
farm, in Newton count}*. Address
i t Robinson,” care Enterprise office,
SHERIFF SALES.
\1 TILL be sold an the first Tuesday in
* * February nest, before the court house
sa ;d C ouuty. beiween the legal hours of
sale, for cash, to the Highest bidder, the
foliowing property, to »h:
Jne store!...... e and lot in Mansfie
Newton county. Georgia, Block H, Xo. f(,
26x100 feet, storehouse on same 25x60
feet- All in the town of Mansfield Said
property levied on with a Justice court fi
fa issued from 1522 district, G M , in favor
ot Kelly. BecKwith & Boyd. Said proper
»y levied on as the property of the defen¬
dant J. E Roquemore. Property pointed
out by W. B. Beckwilh Writted notice
given A. B Thompson, tennant in possess¬
ion, and de:endant, as required by law.
Ibis January 3, 1905.
S. M HAY. Sheriff
CITATION.
GEORG I A—Newton County.
To whom it may concern:
J. W. Worsham having made application
to me tu be appointed permanent Admin¬
istrator upon the estate of Mrs Caroline H.
Worsham, late of said county, notice is
hereby given that said application will be
heard at the regular term ot the Court of
Ordinary for said county, to be held on the
first Monday in February, 1905.
Witness mv hand and official seal, this
January 2, 1905.
H B ANDERSON, Ord’y
CITATION.
GEORGIA— Newton County.
To whom it may concern :
J- II. Stanton having made application
to me, in due form, to be appointed per¬
manent Administrator upon the estate of
Austin Webb, late of said county, notice is
hereby ive 11 tlmt said application will lie
heard at the regular term ot the Court of
Ordinary ior said county, to be held on the
first Monday in February, 1905.
Witness rav hand and official signature,
this January 2. 1905.
II B. ANDERSON, Ord’y.
CITATION.
GEORGIA— Nkh ton County.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the Justice
Court for the 477th District, G. M., after
the January term, 1905, will be held at
Ilayston, in said district, to which place
the court ground for said district has been
removed
This 20th day of Dec., 1901.
F. M. Hays J. P.
477th Dist., G M.
CITATION.
GEORG1A—NKwrox County.
To whom it may concern:
Mrs. Lula Jarrell having made applica
lion for a year’s support out of the estate
of R. L. Jarrell, and appraisers, duly ap¬
pointed to set apart the same, having filed
their return, all persons concerned are
hereby required to show cause before the
Court of Ordinarj- ot said county, on the
iiM Monday in February next, why said
application should not lie granted.
This Jan. 2, 1905.
H. B. ANDERSON. Ord’y.
CITATION.
GEORGIA— Newton County.
To whom it may concern:
J J. Freeman having made application
to me, in due lorm, to be appointed per¬
manent Administrator upon the estate ot
William Freeman, late of said county,
notice is hereby given that said application
will he heard at tlie regular term of the
Court of Ordinary for said county, to be
held on the first Monday in February, 1905.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this Jan. 2, 1905.
H. B. ANDERSON, Ord’y.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors
of the estate of Mrs. J. A. F. Nelms, dec’d,
to render to me an account of their de¬
mands, properly made out, within the time
prescribed by law”, and all persons in¬
debted to said deceased are hereby re¬
quested to make immediate payment to
the undersigned.
This Jan. 5th, 1905.
J. W. KING.
Adm’r of Mrs .T. A. F. Nelms, dec’d.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors of
the estate of Mrs. N. F. Ogletree, deceased,
lute of Newton county, to render to me
an account of their demands, properly
made out, within the time prescribed by
law; and all persons indebted to said de¬
ceased are hereby requested to make im¬
mediate payment to the undersigned.
Thu January 3, 1905.
J. f. McCord.
Adm’r of Nancy F. Ogletree. dee d.
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type just received and we are pre¬
pared to do all kinds of work at
'reasonable prices.
General Directory 1
CITY DIRECTORY.
Mayor— Hon. M. G. Turner. U<
Mayor PhoTem—J no. F. H t . n ,i er
._
Clerk and Treasurer—G eo. T. >• J™
Chief Deputy of Police— Police—B H VV. radford Bohs^ .jH
Clark c«
Deputy Police— P. W. Skeit-m. it
Ftrfet Overbeer— S. C. Rheh |"V. tt
Councilmen— J. F. Henderson, c fl
Brookr, J. II. Echols, J. L 8tepb Harweii^^ e , I(1Q .M
.T. L. Whitehead end C. A. s
Council Meeting —First Wedne^jB
in each month. “
C. Finance C. Brooks. -J. C. F. A. Henderson, chnirmJ "1"
Harwell. Bca^df"
Electric Lights <fe Public
—C. C. Brooks, chairman, J. jq « au
derson, J. L. Whitehead. Hi
Streets J. II. Echols, chairman, • th
L. Stephenson, C. C. Brooks. )r
StenU„:.J5 ,
Parks & Cemetery—J. L.
chairman, J. F. Henderson, J. I, w^, ™
head. III
Ordinance A Relief— J. L. White!,* va
chairman, J. H Echols, C. A. Har**®
Sanitary— C, A. Harwell, chains ;m
J L. Stephenson, J. H. Echols. |
City School Board w
-Meets first Tun ! T
day in each month. C. II. Whit*
Chairman, C. E. Cook, J. G. I.ester, ; IK
S. Turner, N. Z. Anderson and R i Job
Fowler. pi
CHURCH DIRECTORY. *1
Methodist Church— Preaching evetl 6 *!
Sunday at 11 a. m. at 7:00 p. m. Sundae e
School every Sunday afternoon eo a 1
ducted by Col. James G. Lester. evening® PnJM
er meeting every Thursday
R. C Cleckler, pastor. ne
Baptist Church— Preaching § th.®
first and third Sunday at 11 a. E atii °U
7:00 p. m. Sunday school every
morning at 9:30, conducted bv C, L dg
Cook. Prayer meeting Wednesdw® fl
evening. E. R Pendleton, pastor,
Presbytebian Church—P reaching oil
the lira’, second and fourth Sundays 86
II a. m. and 7:00 p. m Sunday echo fit
every Sunday morning at 9:45, conduct^^ er
ed by 1). A. Thompson, Jr. Pravi ^
meeting every Tuesday evening. J.|>®
Hillhouse, pastor.
__
Midway M nriioDisT— Preaching ever r 3 *
Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7:30 p. tn. Prat $>I
er meeting every Thursday afteinool® eveniti. vc
Sunday School every Sunday E;®
conducted by Dr. C. W. Peppier.
worth League every Sunday evening ,sjg
7:00 ♦ W. Yarbrough, pastor. Cl!
COUNTY DIRECTORY. as
Sheriff— S. M. Hay.
Deputy Sheriff— T. F. Maddox anfl
J. C. Nixon.
Ordinary— H. B. Anderson. br
Clerk of Court— J no. B. l)ayis. he
Treasurer- J. \V. Stephehson. m
Tax Collector —W. S. Ramsey. in,
Tax Receiver— J. F. Lunsford.
Coroner —Si Johnson.
County Surveyor— Wm. A. Adams 83
Superior Court— Third Monday ^
March and September. L. S. KuaJin
Judge, Fairburn, Ga., Col Win. Schlr in
Howard, Solicitor-General, Atlanta,
County Court —First Wednesday i|9
each mouth. Capers Dickson, Judgi
Oxford, Ga., J. F. Rogers, Solicito
General, Covington, Ga. bt
Ordinary Court —First Monday iltl
each month, II. B. Anderson, Ordif+Q
nary, Covington, Ga. th
Justice Court —Second Monday iu_
each month. G. II. Cornwell, Justii®
of Peace, Covington, Ga., A. D. Met
or. Notary Public, Covington, Ga. lu
County Commissioners— Third MotJjq (
day in each month. T. C. Swann, ith
A. Perry and T. J. Speer, Couimi U(
sioners.
County Board of Education—M ee®
First Monday in each month. H. t H
Stone, president, Oxford, Ga.. A- 1 Ify H
Heard, D J. Adams, L. F. StepheMoi
J M. Mitcham, Covington, Ga. be
Town Disr. 462—G. H. Cornwell, i-_
Constable. P., A. I). Meador, Court N. P., T. Monday, M. Maddot^ M
second j
Newborn Dist. 1522—Capers Robe
son, J. P., J. W. Robertson, N. P.. H.t wi
Armstrong, Wednesday. Constable. Court seconj: Q
Hays Dist. 477—F. p sa
M Hava, fonstabl® I- - «
C. Morgan, N.P., [. R. Dobbs,
Court third Tuesday. an
P., Leguin H. Smith, Dist. 1513—G. N. W. Coggins, C | cr
A. I-., A. Willson, at
stable. Court third Saturday. yc
Brick SioRE Dist. 420—W. II, Stewa® Aarofl
J. P-, W. T. Patrick, N. P., W. II.
Constable. Court second Saturday. ®
Gaithers J)ist. 546—A. M. Griflin, S
P., R. F. Dick, N. P„ A. W. Yancc®
Constable. Court second Saturday. Y
Oxford Disr. 1525—J. N. A. Rend®
son, Blackstock, J. P., J. W. Constable. Branham, Court N. P, J- Jfl
Saturday. lO'
I. Brewers L. Parker, Dist. N. P., 464— Samp I. F, Dick, J. '«£j
Aiken.
stable. Stansells Court first Saturday. ^ ®
Dist. 461—W. H. Ogietre
J. P., P. G, Turner, N. P., J. fl. Mali! ■
and G. Lane, Coal ■ •m
A. C onstables.
third Saturday. Jj
Downs Dist. 547—W. R. King, 1- ®
P. W. Turner, N. P., I). Davidson, W®
stable. Court fourth Saturday.
Rocky Plains Dist. 567—R. L. Cowl®
J. P., S. H. A very, N. P., Dave I.unsfo'JB
Constable. Court second Saturday- I
Gum Ckeek Dist. 1249—1. B. W. Dial, Gile&^^B C pj
P., Jno. R. Bird, N. P., C. t
stable. Court third Saturday.