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brief write-up
L Newton County in the Augus
ta Chronicle.
i, a» agricultural and «
«f rturiug county. Notmtb
‘“ steady increase in
eg the produced
i,mber L of balesof cotton
*' year, the local factories ta.e
P» S portion of the
o to whatever will
bunty one may please, he
bd excellent farming lands and
teal thy locality.
Wflterpowers are so numerous
the county, manufacturing es
blishments may, in the near fn
equal the number of school
W| edifices. It is
mses au d church
ougb to say that the people of
>wton stand for education and
ligious influences.
population, 1900: White 8,589;
lored, 8,145. Total, 10,734
ttfjgregntte value of taxable
joperty, $3,365,214
[Forest Timbers: O fc- , poplar and
bond-growth pine.
Agricultural Products: Cotton.
L, wheat, oats, rye, barley,
Ish ind sweet jotatoes, field
L ground peas. haye from crab
L] Bermuda irasse 3 and sugar
d sorghum one,
Minerals: Granite,
jfhe surface of Newton countv is
[ling and broken in the south-ri
fl southeastern parts. The so.
, stiff red clay, with some gr.-iy
ids in the eastern and norther
hious.
attention is now being diieoied
La d and piid to dairying an<l
i impiovemcnt of dairy Cattle
p dairies of N< tv ton countv pr->
pe annually about 5O0.00‘> .ru
[s "f milk a-i i 125,000 tou t t
• i r 11 Th« count;, s <!
‘VS- M ddie ! - cor 11 a-vH
t n u ed ->d i 2 » e- pi »p
i - *—-» • i 111 g I! i ev
ix and educatin' 'V
. ing!. is the un
Ht impo o (•)
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-i O \ tin ^ - ll ti - v
i 'bo ■ 5 S b se -'uer
at 1 : p*> 'i
ib¬ is
. i l mt ■ « iout At lanta ;
p iittrc comm rc« ami m chan¬
ts flour, ih.
Covington b s a fioo bysrem . f
pled ta I public schools, banking
of over $ 100 , 000 large cot
.
| compress, ai d at Portordale
) miles distant, n large cotton
11 , operating 80 looms and 6,000
odles consuming about 12.000
;s of cotton per annum
ibout two miles to the north
r t of Covington, and connected
[h the city by a horse car line,is
ford, a town of about 800 peo
, the seat of Emory college, one
the foremost educational insti
i"ns of the south, the property
die North and South Georgia
science of the Mah di-» Epis
,! 'l church, Soutk.
nere is one granite quarry- m-ur
city in operation
Secretary of Board of Trade: J.
2 orley.
Vx Rates 1905: htate M d
10 D' $12 60; City $7.00.
AH Day Singing.
P'here will h e an all day sin: iug
Macedonia , church Tuesda,, D
fiber -
26th to which <*vcr>b d !
"vi'td Dmn*>»• will bf eery d
<• 'u*
I tie tl ! 0 1 i-. t
■ , . -i ii- i
r lven "n Tuesday night
M" Chorus Committee is i es
hsis r quested to b*
P l»OS(; pr sent
having “Sacred Heml”
1 confe a favor liy brmg
■iiong.
f v AN t ED For ram y of four,
r t 3 or 4 '
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COVINGTON, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, <o
CITY ELECTION 1 NDAY.
The City Officials for the Yew
1906 Will be Duly Elected.
H>e regular city eleetO,. for
*™Vor, six members of the council
jboaid «d two will member.of lie the city school |
held Monday,
: 18th inst. j
In the white primary of last!
Monday, the following ticket .
was
nominated, which will be ratified
on the 18th inst:
MAYOR.
Lore A. Clark.
COUNCILMEN.
C. C. Brooks,
C. A. Sock well,
S. P. Thompson,
W. M. Duu'ap,
C. A. Harwell.
John B. Davis, Jr.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
C. E. Cook,
T. G. Callaway
The affairs of the city govern
ment are in good hand.? for the
year 1906, All the nominees are
well known and representative cit
izens and identified with the city
in various business enterprises.
Lodges Elect Officers.
The Roval Arcanum lodge met
Monday night and elected officers
for year 1906. Those elected are
as fo ! ow«:
Geo T Smith, Regent.
C. A S >ekwell, Vice Regent.
C A. Harwell, Orator.
R P Lester, Past Regent
T. d Shields, Secretary
J W Peek, c -l c r
R R F wler Prea^ur r
W S R nns-y, Ch plait
W vl Du'dap. Gu'd
J B Cooe'and- Warden
B Bohnnan. S-orry
S. P Th ...» s tr s 1 3 i eat" i
A D 1 - r i- ne resent i
tive to the Grand Con cil, J. W.
Pe^k. aPernate.
a r< en m*>tn g < f the 0 <ld
Ft- ■ l o< toe, the following officers
wer- e- or d r th • **n-ui-ig y-ur;
,f Pc >, Nuoie Grand.
I P. Sain, Vice Grand.
J J Co.-'ey, Financial Sec.
H T. Huson Trens
E. R Gunn, Rec. Sec.
Mansfield City Election.
The city election of Mansfield
will be held on the 25th inst., and
judging from the Leader politics
is getting warm. There are two
full tickets in the field, one headed
by A. E. Coogler, formerly of this
city, and the other by T. M. Duke.
The two tickets are ns follows:
Mayor—A. E. Coogler. Council
men—W. A. Curtis, C E Hard¬
man and Albert. J. Johnson.
Mayor—T. M. Duke. Council
men—J. A. Starr, R. G Franklin
and J. C. McClendon.
City School Will Close Next Week.
The City public schools will
close next Thursday, the 21 nd inst.
and will open again on January 2.
The school under the superin
tendency of Prof. Forter and
his able corps of teachers, has
reached a high water marks in
attendance.
Special Notice.
Tiit Mayor d Council ,ive ;
!
notice that any p-r-on caught tx
pl-ding fire crackers. cant'OU
cruckers, dyuumite or any other
noisy explosions will be fined the
r «ll limit of th- law $100 00
$50 00 ftb,s imo n w ill be paid
• h* porti“s who urnisbes the evi¬
dence to convict.
U K' E -■? “ •
Geu. 1. cuiuh ^,, c rk.
MONEY FOR PUBLIC
Newton CourtyTshare is
$12,000.
State School CommUiwer U W
B Merriu has made public
p „ tU „„ me , lt9 „ f u ,eco,„,„
f „ r 1SXH .
The total school fund this
ls «i 'J 71 . o,. ' „ a J. . JU . ClA JW
‘ e
t i Jlu thal ll . Sd
""' '“ t 0
fam „ no part „ of - tl the
hitt is included in it for next year.
Get of the entire school
Newton county will receive $12
613,04.
Of this fund, $11,233 64 will
the .
to public schools of the
and $1,370.40 is the prorata
to the Covington Public
system.
Cotton Association to Meet.
President L L Middiebrook
* al,eU a ,neel in 8 of the
otto ‘ l Association . in , the
Saturday morning.
f ' 10 P es ® ,u ^ attendance
ee ' era ^ questions of vital impor
tance to every farmer will
brought up for discussion.
Remember the date,
the 16th.
Purchased Desirable Home.
Mr. J. C. Nixon, deputy sheriff,
has purchased the Weaver resi¬
dence on Clark street, just, Iniow
the Flusvers Hotel. The price
paid by Mr Nixon is $2400. It is
und-rst'iod that Mr. Nixon will
move into it aft>-r the Imlidavs and
share it with C<>1. Rogers
has the place rented until next
September
coccocco. 00000
o MAINLY PERSONAL.
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orooooooocooo
Captain .Tm>. W. Lindsey
tie»n reapp mted by
f'errei! ns pension
for a term of three years from
month
Frank A Arnold, a prominent
lawyer of Atlanta, died suddenly
with apoplexy in his office in
Century building on Tuesday.
A big tobacco factory at Elktop,
Ky., operated by the tobacco trust,
was blown up by dynamite Mon
day There was no loss of life but
the damage to the factory
complete.
The business men of Macon
contributed $100 to a lund to
used in Riving the poor of that
citv a big dinner Christm.a day.
...
The engineers on the Central
road who threaten to walk out on
, strike unless a quarter of a cent
ner mt e increase is given them,
At t present their pay is regulated
y size of the engme. Th,
, . , .
rCrfS RetTbS cents'per
mile and those running the small
engines 8 1-2 cents per mile, Fas
senger train engineers get 3 14
cents per mile.
Ernest Camp, one of the best
known newspaper men in Georgia,
has leased the Walton Tribune at
Monroe Mr. Camp’s first news
w.*rk was on the Wiregrass
at Swafnesboro. Next he
in charge of the Dublin Times
then he jumped to Brunswick
1 * 4 i da 1 1 Journal v *itl>
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•A l m ' k •
a
pap I e
U5 v ■
temely lively
The annual distribution of veg¬
and flower seeds by the de
agriculture has been
Congress appmpn
$290,000 fur this purpose each
\ card directed to your
on" es«in-m or Si nat -r will bring
desired seed.
OXFORD.
the spirit of Christina* is m
mraad the boys are becoming
restless for the home going. On
next I hursday at four o’clock they
will be turned loose for the holi
<Uye.
1 uL G '. lu,tU " d “'>d
! ^ , ,r [r Wl "? r Murray of the
' son ho
1 more clais attended the wedding
i of lhcil ‘ sister in Newnan this
i week.
! Gickey ha returned from
tlie * ?l0r ^ a conference and has
resumed his regular dntieB at the
college.
i Mr. Hah,
of the Alkahest Ly¬
ceum, will entertain the students
at Oxford on next Saturday even
ing at 8 Velock. Mr. Hale is an
impersonator and conies to us well
recommended
Mrs. G. Murray is spending a
few weeks with her parents at
Clayton Ala.
A crowd from Oxford spent last
Monday very pleasantly an the
j home of Miss Lucy Me Waters, five
miles from town. Those who
went wefe: Misses Fannie Sin¬
gleton and Carrie Smith; Messrs
R. \y. Btfgg, C. B, Quillian, W.
H. Venters, Ed Green, Ramon
i Boza, W. M. Barnett and Lindsay
Whitehead. Miss Lucy is a quaint
and lovable old lady and gave the
: people royal time.
young a
Mr. William Byrd is indisposed
®t Miss Lyuu Branham’s,
WANTED—500 pounds clean
washed cotton rags $ 1.00 per hund¬
red. The Norman Buggy Co—tf
Miss Julia Hopkins, of Nor
cross, 19 spending a while with her
brother, Dr Hopkirs.
Mrs. Carrie Anderson and Mrs.
J. W. Lee have returned home af¬
ter a short visit to Mrs. Claude
McKibben in Atlanta.
Don’t fail to read the "double
barrell love story of Newton coun¬
ty," by the famous author, Grape
Vine Twist. The article is written
for the benefit of our much appre¬
ciated advertisers.
Our line of solid gold jewelry
is the largest ever displayed
Covington. Watches, chains,
crosses necklaces, stick pins,
buttons, lockets, watch charms,
emblem pins, rings, etc.
Harrison Co.
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Interesting Items.
»'°“ ld R° bad wlth Mr . ' Mc '
Call if he should be fired J out , from
the New York Life. He says he
a p 00r man. "So he is—for
president.
^
j Steel Corporat.ou to be ,
States are
equipped to tt. ««of the dry a,r
blast process. It is said that the
P™«» of $2a *° D
and will result in a saving of from
$14,000,000 to $16,000,000 a year
to the corporation.
“He who goeth out of common
paths to look for opportunities
leaves his own door and misses
that of hi* neighbor. The man
who treats his fellow as a mere
means for the supply of his wants,
ai d not as a human being with
whom he has to do, is an obstruct¬
ing clod in the human circula¬
tion."— -George Macdonald.
T mo- p polar j ung man
in America, 1 f is what Mr. Edward j
B,,k used to call liiniself because 1
of the admiration in which he is j
held by womankind. Certainly
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah,
whom 2.000,000 American women
want flung OQ t of the Senate, could j
not enter the list to dispute Mr.
B 'k’s self-bestored title.
Advertise in the Enterprise.
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C We guarantee prices lower than 1
any in Covington, and Best Bargains I
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EVERYTHING GUARANTEED TOJBE OF
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