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Tlbe Enterprise.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
THE COVINGTON STAR ESTL 1674,
CONSOLIDATED 1902.
PUBLISHED EVERY’FRIDAY.
By ENTERPRISE PUB. CO.
JAS. P COOLEY, Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR
Entered at the Postoftiee at Covington
Ga , Second-Class Mail Matter.
Co vi noton, Ga., April 26, 1907.
A nun itching for fame is kept
busy scratching.
Frost played havoc all around,
but 1 lie country editor still re¬
joice*—the blackberry crop is safe.
A woman’s heart is a small af¬
fair. but it has upset some of the
greatest men who ever adorned a
nation.
We lu'p e t° see passed a bill for
prevention of cruelty to animals,
which is to be introduced and
pressed at the next session uf the
Geoigia legislature.
No doubt the Nebraska young
man who recently eloped with a
girl weighing 425 pounds, gave
due consideration to the weight of
the matter before he started.
Novel divorce suits continue, and
the latest follows: A New York
man is sueing for a divorce because
ins wife takes a whistle to bed and
blows it every time he snores.
A candidate for justice of the
peace in Oklahoma declares, in a
burst of oratory, that he would
gladly give his life for the people
he loves. Now what d’ye think
o’ that!
Now, if both the democrats and
^republicans were to nominate Ted
<iv for another term, wouldn’t his
big stick assume gigantic propor¬
tions! But they won’t, so what’s
the use.
“She never spoke to a man in
her life” is what the dispatches
say of an old maid who died in
Wyoming a few days ago. My,
but wouldn’t she have made an
ideal mother-in-law 1
“If Houston’s noble hens could
only lay sidewalks how happy we
would be,” says the Houston
(Tex.) Post, 4 4 Must be accus
tomed to walking on egg shells,”
remarks an exchange.
No hypocrisy for an old fellow
who died in Indiana the other day.
His last request was not to Bing a
hymnn, but instead that famous
old song “There”ll Be a HotTiine
in the Old Town Tonight.”
Age is on a couple soon to be
married in St. Louis. The groom
is 101 years old and the bride is
only ICO. i « True love never dies J ?
is here demonstrated, for thpy have
been sweethearts since their teens.
A great shortage of cotton seed
now co nfronts many Georgia farm¬
ers whose fields of cotton were
killed by the recent heavy frosts.
Great King Cotton justly causes
alarm when anything goes wrong
with the fleecy staple.
The teller of a New Jersey bank
is reported to be dying from blood
poison contracted from the hand¬
ling of unclean money. We are
among the many, however, who
are willing to handle unclean
money and take the risk.
Despite the fact that Queen El
berta will hardly be with us this
year, aud although we’ll miss her
ever so much, good old Georgia
will continue to prosper in other
ways aud remain the crown jewel
in the diadem of southern state¬
hood.
THE CITY PARK.
Perhaps some who are not familiar with the situation here, or who
are not acquainted with our people of this city, will be led to believe
that we are a set of paupers or beggare, judging from the frequent ap¬
peals ’ made through the columns of the Enterprise for contributions '' j
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for various enterprises.
However, such is not the case. Our people are the most liberal
and public spirited of any people in a town of the size of Covington,
in Georgia Whenever they realize that a thing is for the best inter
est of Covington, they go into their pockets and plank down the money.
The committee appointed by the Board of Trade to look into the
matter of purchasing, improving and beautifying the Academy Springs
property in order to have a public park for the city, is hard at work.
The committee is composed of Messrs. Chas. G. Smith, Jno. B. Davis,
J H Echols and H. T. Huson. They will be aided by the ladies of
the town, especially the Woman’s Club, which lias taken great inter¬
est in this question.
These gentlemen will make a thorough canvas of the city aud re
ceive subscriptions. We feel assured they will receive a hearty and
substantial response from every public spirited citizen they approach,
We venture the assertion that there are very few people in our town
that are not public spirited.
It is useless for 11 s 10 reiterate in these columns the urgent need
of a public park at Academy Springs. Every person in town will ad
mit it. Show your faith by your works and be courteous and respon
eive to the canvassing committee.
THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
Plutarch, who wrote much and traveled more, said he had visited
every known country at the time he lived, and that he had visited
countries where the people lived in caves, in trees and ordinary houses;
that he had seen people who were steeped in superstition and igno¬
rance; that he had been to places where 110 courthouses, theaters, am¬
phitheaters, were to be seen; but that he had never visited any coun¬
try where there was not a temple where the people worshiped accord¬
ing to their best knowledge and belief. Plutarch added further that
the temple was always the most attractive edifice in the community.
Handsome and substantial buildings for public worship are indi¬
cative of the public conscience and sentiment of a community.
Now, our Baptist brethren have begun the task of erecting a large,
comfortable and substantial church building on Floyd street. The
lowest estimated cost is $15000. Of course they will need some assist¬
ance from others not directly connected with their church, and that
they will receive this aid goes without saying. However, some of us
are prone to neglect so important an enterprise without our attention
being called to it. We trust everyone in town will contribute some¬
thing. This church will add much to our town, even in a way of pub¬
lic improvement and finance, to say nothing of the vast amount of
good that conies from it.
Let’s unloose our puree strings and give a liberal contribution for
the erection of the new church building.
MR. RICHARDS WRITES ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Atlanta, Ga., April 20, 1907.
Covington Enterprise.
Dear Sir: Have just seen a dipping from your columns of the
12th, with reference to selling liquor to minors. We are glad to see
you speak out on the question of violating law. The Anti-Saloon
League Btands ready to help you in any case you may be able to bring
up ior violating law.
It is a part of most liquor dealers’ business, if not all of thpni, to
sell to anybody they can, regardless ot law. That is, they are not
hunting for opportunities to do the clean thing in the matter of oo
serving law
A liquor dealer with no more conscience than to send his infernal
beverages into a territory that has said at the ballot box, 4 < we don’t
want the stuff sold here,” is not very likely to think about whom he
sello it to, or who is hurt by it. Yours for a clean State,
J. B. Richards, Associate Supt.
The above we received in regard to an editorial some weeks ago
relative to selling liquor to minors. We have been criticised by some
of our “friends” ior the stand we took with reference to the illicit sale
of whiskey. But we shall advocate that which we believe to be right
if every friend we have or expect to have goes back on us. However,
there are thousands of good men and women 111 Newton who desire to
uphold the law and honor of the state. They have caused to be placed
in our statute books the provision that any person (male or female)
selling or in any manner furnishing liquor to a minor is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Now there are a few men in the county who come to the express
office and get whiskey and deliver it to minors who have ordered it.
Theso gentlemen are firm in the belief they have violated 110 law, but
they have.
Our friend P. W. Godfrey and his able corps of assistants at the
express office, will not deliver a jug or package of whiskey to a minor
if they are satisfied as to his being a minor, but of course they will
not refuse to deliver a package to a mau who calls for it. These men
who call for it are acting in conjunction with the Atlanta dealers in
order to evade our laws and debauch the morals of our young men.
The editor of this paper was told a few- days ago that he would
injure his future political and public prospects if he stood boldly
against the liquor traffic. While we admit we have some ambition
and political aspirations, yet we trust they are honorable ones. If we
never attain to political or social prominence till we wink at, connive
at and act in conjunction with those things we know to be damnable
aud degrading and are oppased to every element that tends to make a
man, we prefer to remain 111 obscurity.
We try to be neither cranky, fanatical nor over zealous in any¬
thing, but to treat in a nommoa sense and conservative way every
question of public concern, The law-abiding, intelligent and upright
citizens of the county are with us, and as for the other contingent,
we are not. worried concerning their opinion of us.
Today is the day of days in the
South, for the noble old heroes of
Dixie’s vanished days are being
fittingly remembered in number¬
less cities and towns. Ayd glad
we are Covington is paying
tribute to the valorous sons of the
laud of sunshine.
THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON GA
April has evidently been afflicted |
with a real “brainstorm.” She
has done us bad.
Judging from the reports of the
weather prophets, the coming sum- ,
mer will be warmer than the past
wlnter ‘ I
THE VETERANS ARE WITH US TODAY.
One year ago today a splendid audience of the gallant citizenry of
the city of Covington and of Newton county assembled in the beauti¬
ful park in the center of the public square and, with intent eyes and
an expression of the keenest sympathy, gazed upon the magnificent
shaft which now stands as an everlasting monument to the memory of
the heroic sons of Newton county and of our beloved Southland who
battled against a numberless foe during the dark days of the 60’s and
won the deserved title of the greatest soldiers the world has ever known.
And today some of these same citizens are 111 our city again to
commemorate the valor of the southern soldier, aud it is with open
hearts and hands that we greet them. Some of those veterans who
were bore a year ago aro with us again ; but there are those who are
not here, for they have answered the roll call of eternity and are rest
iug beneath the vernal shade of life’s immortal trees.
This day is celebrated in Covington under the auspices of the
Ladies’ Memorial Association, aud thus its appropriateness, for in the
midst of defeat and when the war clouds were still thick over bloody
battlefields, the fair women of our own dear land designated the 26th
day of April as a special day of remembrance for the men who fought
ior the cause they thought was right and died for the land tney loved.
Let us hope that today spring, the enchantress, has put its spell
upon the southland in the fullness of its beauty; that the red old earth
will be covered with the verdure aud bloom of bounteous nature; and
that the warm heart ot Dixie, mellowed to sweet melancholly by mem¬
ory, may cause die most sacred and inspiring tribute to bo paid in all
the history of our city and section.
The years are many since the turf was heaped 0.1 most of the
graves that are to be strewn with flowers, and the shook and pain of
their death has, even as the spring covers nature’s scars with leaf and
blossom, long ago been modified by time softened memories aud liv¬
ing hopes. But when we wend our solemn wuy to the cemetery and
mingle among the little white tombstones, let the thought of the sleep¬
ers below as fathers, sons, brothers, neighbors and friends impress us
with the true import of Memorial day and the full extent of war’s
sacrifice.
“Gashed with honorable scars
Low in glory’s lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendor through the sky.”
Today the flowers bloom and the feathered songsters sing their
sweetest carols for the soldier asleep and the soldier nodding as the
hour grows late. Nature is kind ; let us be kind. To the hero asleep,
the rustling of the leaves, the gentle murmur ot the river, and the
wild cry of the animals in the distance sing a slumber song. He
fought, bled and died for his country and his fireside and illustrated
southern valor, southern chivalry and southern patriotism on the gory
fields of battle of his native land. To the soldier nodding, we clearly
see that your cheeks are furrowed by the plow of time; that your head
is covered with whiter locks; that, yonr eteps are made slow and fee¬
ble by wouud9 or disease, and that you will not be among us but a
few more years, but each year, as the scythe of time thins the ranks
to which you belong, remember that we love you and. shall keep on
loving you until our hearts, like broken drums, have beat earth’s mu¬
sic out forever.
Noble women of Covington and Newton county, the day has been
and is in your hands and we know it will be a success. Yon ever stand
for all that is best and greatest ai d our devotion to you is inexpressible.
However, when the muse of history shall erect its monument to the
patriotism, the sacrifices, the bravery, the chivalry and the glory of
the Confederate soldier, the magnitude of the labor will compel her to
return again and again to the work; and when the work is completed
and the world shall be called to view the monument, ai.d shall ask
4 l where is the monument to the noble women of the south’’ the de¬
spairing muse in silence will point higher, higher, higher!
POLITICAL TEN COMMAND¬
MENTS.
At the annua! festival for the
U3W voteis in Faneuil Hall, Bos¬
ton, the following ten command¬
ments on politics were adopted:
1. Love thy country, which has
redeemed thee from tyranny and
bondage.
2. Thou shalt not worship any
political idols, nor bow down to
them, nor serye them, for their in¬
iquity will be visited upon thee
and upon thy children unto the
third aud fourth generations.
8. Thou shalt not take the name
of patriotism in vain, nor use it to
hide thy selfish motives.
4. Remember the day of election
to keep it holy.
5. Honor the sanctity of the bal¬
lot, that the days of the republic
may be prolonged.
6 Thou shalt not kill the spirit
of freedom by neglecting to exer¬
cise the prerogative of a freeman.
7. Thou sl^alt not adulterate the
purity of civic life by entering into
politics for gain.
8. Thou shalt not encourage
public servants to steal by the in¬
difference.
9. Thou shalt not let greed for
political rewards bear false witness
against thy patr.olism.
10. Thou shalt not covet a public
office which thou art not to fill.
Young lady, don’t grab at the
first pair of good looking clothes
that comes along and say < ( It’s
mine, because I found it, 9 9 but
wait until a sure enough man comes
along. He may not be as Johuny
on the spot as the other kind, but
he will be there when the other
one has made you tired and passed
on.—Hazelhurst News.
“Straight whiskey will be la¬
beled as such,’’ is one of the regu¬
lations laid down by Attorney
General Bonaparte for the liquor
traffic. If Mr. Bonaparte were as
good a judge of whiskey as he is of
law he would know that the man
who takes his “straight” doesn’t
have to be informed of the quality
of the article he swallows, says the
Macon Telegraph.
The Fulton county courts are
over two years behind with their
work. Now, what’s the matter
with Atlanta ! She stays 011 the
top deck but seems to forget old
Fulton.
“The smallest hair throws a
shadow 9 9 —across a man’s appetite
when he finds it the butter.
( 1 Let up on this growling at the
chill spring weather,” says Frank
Stanton. “One month more, and
June will be here with rosy cheeks
and sunny smiles aud 109 in the
shade.”
The Secret Order.
I took the oath of beauty, aud they
chose a golden day
To show me how the Order w r orks
in such a wondrous way.
And I have never faltered in alle¬
giance to the bliss
Of the League of Love and Laugh
ter an c^the Rosary of the
Kiss!
Ah, be a fullfledged member, little
brothers of the care!
The dues are tender duty, aud the
benefits are rare—
For whother only two are in the
lodge or more belong hfa
The ritual of the Rosary heart
ot cheerful song!
-Exchange
Lodge Directory.
Hendrick Council No. 72t
ROYAL
ARCANUM
Meets Second and Fourth Mon
day evenings.
C. A. Sockwell, Regent,
T. T. Shields, Secretary.
Covington Lodge No. 7i.
Royal Arch Masons
Meets Second and Fourth Fri¬
day evenings.
M. G. TURNER,
High Priest.
R. R FOWLER,
Secretary.
4 Men Fl«
W( Lodge No, l
F. J±_. 3VL
Meets every First and Third
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins, W. M.
Tno. W. Peek, Sec.
Sewaunee Trite
No. 62.
Imp. 0. R. M.
Meets every Wednesday sleep,
at 7th run and 80th breath. Visit¬
ing brothers are invited to attend.
N. Z. Anderson, Sachem.
J. W. Harwell,
Chief of Records.
■BS-x.S STAR LODGE
^ NUMBER 164.
i I. 0. O. F.
Meets every Thursday evening.
Visiting brothers in the city cor¬
dially invited to meet with us.
Work in one degree each meeting.
Jas. P. Sain, Noble Grand.
J. W. Peek, Rec. Sect’y.
Knights of
55 r s. 7'
Lodge No. 118
Meets every First and Third
Monday evenings. Fraternal wel¬
come extended all visiting Broth*
ers. E. W. Carroll, C. C.
R. R. Fowler, K. of R. <fc S.
Elm Camp,
NO. 202.
■^7V. O. w.
Meets every Second and Fourtb
Tuesday evenings.
J. J. Corley, C. C.
W. N. Rainey, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar Camp,
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Meets First Tuesday in e aCl1
month at 2 o’clock, p. in.
J. \V. Anderson, Com
L. L. Middlebrook, Adjt.
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