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THE ENTERPRISE
ESTABLISHED 1865
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JAS. P. COOLEY, Editor.
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Covington, Ga , Skpt.
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Hav- you registered for the wa¬
terworks election?
England’s largest crop is bay;
America’s is politicians.
No, clubs will not be trumps
:tfter .January 1. Spades will lay
them low.
Now’s the ad season. Get. Ill
the pu e h ! Plant an ad in The
Enterpi i-e.
Don’t faii to talk and vote lor
waterworks’—a modern necessity
and convenience.
Another Smith in the limelight
—"Billy” this time. He won the
pennant for Atlanta.
If prosperity kills the country,
-wlmt, a cheerful funeral it will
have, says an exchange.
The newly invented Milwaukee
airship is expected to again make
that city famous—it’s in the
schooner class.
Watermelons are said to coutain
95 per cent of water. Well, there’s
plenty of sweetness in the other
live per cent.
Many, many of our country
friends have been in town during
court and we were glad to see
then:, as we always are.
Efforts to adopt automobiles for
finny use will meet with much
discouragement. There’s already
man-killing enough in war.
A cure worse than the disease is
recommended when an exchange
says that appendicitis may be pre¬
vented by going on all fours.
Atlanta is “It” in the eyes of
the baseball fans. The Gate City
won the flag—a prize which she
justly deserves—and all of us re¬
joice.
Summer extends the glad hand
to autumn next Thursday, and
the warm days we’ve been experi¬
encing will sink into the dark re¬
cesses of the past.
Should President Roosevelt find
bear hunting in Louisiana unin¬
teresting this winter, he can come
to Georgia, after Jan. 1, and try
blind tiger hunting.
The disfranchisement bill passed
ut the , , lust session of , the , legwla- ,
ture is said to be tho cause of the
resignation of Rogers, the negro
lepreseutative from McIntosh
county
—
If reports are true that an Oys¬
ter bay citizen has a false tooth
which belonged to George Wash¬
ington, why not some one unearth
the hatchet that chopped down the
cherry tree?
A Chicago man eating beefsteak " ^
iffintcl choked In to HpmI, death in U laughing u- at h,a ,
landlady s joxe. Laughing would
oe unnecessary when eating some
beefsteak that makes its way to
the breakfast table.
_
i hose northern ministers
are wrangling over the distance of
hell from this earth, should think
of what the old colored
said' ‘‘It’s fur e' O 1 * f °t° .
VOU and close j enrmrh en °Ugh tt>r ter make
you sweat when coal is too high
nr yo’pocketbook!”
JUDGE L. S. ROAN’S ABLE AND FORCE¬
FUL CHARGE TO NEWTON GRAND JURY
Foreman and Gentlemen of Grand Jury:
In discharging the responsible duties of
my position under the law, as well as fol¬
lowing a time-honored custom, I desire to
invite your attention to some reasons why
you are called to this term of the court, and
for the time being dedicated to the public
service. With a view to your fitness for the I
work and service expected of your body, you j
have been carefully selected from the great
mass of your fellow-citizens .to appear at this
term of the court; and for what purpose? the
answer is, to see to it that organized civil j
government in this county shall still continue :
in undiminished authority and vigor; to see j
to it that every citizen shall have the protec- j
tion guaranteed by the Constitution of bis
rights, and the enjoyment of life, liberty j
and private property. This call you have j
received to serve the public, is a sacred cali,
and one which you cannot decline. The
office of a grand juror is not only sacred, j
but it is of such transcendent importance to ,
the commonwealth, that not only the present
but future generations in this county will re- j
ceive blessings or reverse, according to the
manner in which you shall measure up to or
fall below the legal requirements of your
present service. ■
You have been solemnly sworn to execute ;
your trust without fear or favor, reward or i
the hope thereof. But, gentlemen, you will
receive your reward, net in money, of course,
but in the consciousness of a duty well per¬
formed. Duty is said, and no doubt correct¬
ly said, to be the sublimest word in the En¬
glish language. The Confederate soldier is
a shining example in history of men doing
their full duty for their country, without
pay, and without fear of the consequences,
even at the sacrifice of all their worldly pos¬
sessions; and yet, clothed in poverty, as
many of them are, they are a shining exam¬
ple of duty well performed, without fear or
without reward, and now without the hope
of it, which renders this heroic band the
wonder and admiration of the civilized wosld.
So it is, gentlemen of the Grand Jury, in
every department of human endeavor, that
man is happiest and most contented who can
look back on a life spent in an honest effort
on his part to do his duty to his God and his
country.
It is no doubt needless for me to say to you
that public moraiity, the protection of our
homes, the security of private property, the
enjoyment of personal liberty, the enforce¬
ment of just and wholesome laws,—all made
for the protection of society, depend in a
large measure upon the manner in which you
discharge your duty. Gentlemen, this, court
will be powerless to restrain the lawless ele¬
ment in this community, unless the grand
jury shall first do its duty. For no person,
however black with crime he may be, can be
called to answer for it before the courts, un¬
less he has first been indicted by a grand
jury. Therefore, gentlemen, you will see
at once that the wheels of justice will remain
stationary, and the Court will be feeble and
powerless, without the strength and support
which can only come from you. Retributive
justice will sleep on and never wake, until
you have touched the button that puts the
judical machinery into action. You, gentle¬
men, are the ministers of justice, and in
your hands has been placed the power to
avenge outrages committed upon law and
society.
I trust I do not overestimate or in the least
exaggerate the authority and responsibility of
grand jurors. I am sure I do not, for I
declare to you from this bench, that it is my
solemn as well as matured opinion, that it is
to the grand juries of this country in a large
measure we must look and depend for the
perpetunity and unimpraved vigor of our
political as well as social fabric.
Passing from these general observations,
it may serve a good purpose to briefly refer
to nature of the oath which you have just
taken. That oath, which is to be found in
section 825 of the Penal Code of Gerrgia, is,
as follows: "You as foreman of the grand
jury of the county of Newton shall diligently
inquire and true presentments make of all
sueh matters and things as shall be given
you in charge, or shall come to your knowl¬
edge touching the present service; the
State ’ s council > your £eiw your own;
you shall keen secret, unless called uDon to
give evidence therecf in some coun ; f law
I j in this hatred, State; you malice, shall present shall no one leave from
envy, or nor you
any one ““presented from fear, favor, affec
j tion shall ’ present re ward, all or things the hope truly, thereof, and but they you
as
come to your knowledge. So help you God. »t
I need not comment at length on the terms
of this oath, for it, in the broadest, clearest
possible language puts before you the duty
of each grand juror. And first, he is bound
; under oath to make diligent inquiry as to all
! such matters and things as shall be given
him in charge touching his present service.
He is not to sit in complacent indolence, and
wait £or others t0 do and perform the labors
I which he has sworn to discharge himself,
i, «p.c„d „ ,„d should b,, up
j doing inquiring, something; to be active, moving
! and not playing the part of a mere
i figure line ' head ' He is placed on the picket
j a* a V'dette, and should, while watching
and spying on the enemies of the common
. wealth, keep both his eyes and ears open,
j boId > wit h no friends to reward and no
enemies t0 crash.
,
rhe ^ tate s council, yourfellows and your
! j ° means wn ’ 7 °“ that sh the * U keep delibrations ‘ ecret - of the grand o£ course,
ke jury
i are t0 be P l profoundly secret.
j fore, you will have no right to even intimate
i by look, word, or deed to your most trusted
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THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON GA
in your body, and when you do so, you have
perjured yourself, and thereby lost your own
self-respect, the confidence and respect of
the county that trusted your name to be
placed on the list of men thought fit for ser
vice as grand jurors, and worst of all, y ou
will have lost the confidence of the person to
whom you made the disclosure, and he him
self, for all time to come, although he may
have profited by your perfidy and perjury,
will, when he thinks of you, be filled with
distrust and a want of confidence and respect.
The reason for this solemn injunction of
secrecy must be plain to the commonest un
derstanding. Any other rule would throw
open the door of escape to the worst crimi
nals in your country. Forewarned by the
thoughtless and silly talk of foolish or de
signing grand jurors, those who are about to
be charged with violations of the law could
be gone long before a bench warrant could
be issued on the indictment and placed in the
sheriff’s hands for his arrest. Again, jurors
should feel that they can, where their con
sciences so dictate, vote for the finding true
a bill without it ever being known outside
the jury room how any juror voted; Other
wise, jurors would be seriously handicapped
in the discharge of their duties. But the
foremost and most powerful reason to an
honest man is that he has taken a solemn oath
that he will keep it secret.
I charge you further that you should
present no one from envy, hatred, or
malice. You should divest yourselves ab¬
solutely ol any desire to favor your friends
or to punish your enemies. The grand
jury room is no place to settle private ac¬
counts with your neighbors. No juror who
regards his oath can aft’jrd to go into the
jury room to crush a personal enemy, or to
wantonly subject him to pain and humilia¬
tion for his <wn personal gratification. In
the discharge of your duties, you should be
fearless, impartial, and absolutely disinter¬
ested, as well as free from the faintest sus¬
picion of sinister influence, and fear noth¬
ing but to do wrong
Gueh, gentlemen, is a brief, but by no
means an exhaustive analysis of the sub
stantial features of the oath you have
taken. 1 feel assured that you will ob¬
serve your oath faithfully, and as tar as
you can, do your whole duty 1 1 your God
and your country, and receive the cordial
approval ol ,hc hour, and ,„„r Idle, ci.r
zens.
GAMBLING
Gentlemen ot the Jury, the Judge of the
Superior Court is required by law to give
specially in charge at each term of c -urt
cei-tain sections of the Penal Code of Gcor
gia. I, therefore earnestly ask your special
attention to the provisions of these sec
lions, and cite the same by number of sec
tion in the order they appear in our Penal
Code, sections 398, 399. 400, 401, 402 and
403- The first oi these sections deals with
earning house; the next is permitting min¬
ors to play and bet with cards or dice,
where liquors are retailed- Section 409 is
against keeping gaming tables; section 401
is against gambling at any game or device;
section -102 is directed against the keeper
of a gaming table; section 403 is directed
against those earning with officers or agents
of a bank and clerks in a post office- Now,
gentlemen. I have not taken the time to
read these sections in full to you, as you
will have the Penal Code in your room
with you, and can read them yourself, or
have the Solicitor General, who is your
safe legal adviser, to read and explain
them for you whenever you wish it done.
Gentlemen, gambling and gaming in all
its forms is an unmitigated evil. There is
not one redeeming feature connected with
it. There is not a country upon the face
of the globe that is not now, and has been
for all times past, cursed by its blighting
aii#demoralizing influence. There is not
a country under the sun, that is worth liv¬
ing in, where gamblbig is not prescribed,
but under the ban of the law, and gamblers
subjected to the severest penalties. The
speculative or gambling craze seems to
have permeated every grade of society. It
reaches from the highest to the lowest, from
the throwing of dice for the cost of a drink
by a lot of low, dirtv negroes, in some dark
loathsome den, perhaps on Decatur street,
Atlanta, or some similar street in some
other city, or town, to Monte Carlo, with
its gilded places of sin, crowded by its
multi millionaires, where the stakes are
rarely ever less than a sum sufficient to
ransom a king.
The vigilence of the courts and the pow
er ot the government, backed by all the
c * v ihzation produced by twenty centuries
P rac tical Christianity, is defied and
lnoc k e< i by thisjnonster evil. The lowest
c ^ ass o£ gamblers defy and mock the courts
an( ^ dieir laws by cunning and secrecy,
; r!lt ' '“gher class, on the other hand, so
P an °plicdby riches and powerful mflunces,
: ; se(:k immunity from punishment through
i })oW defiant threats hurled at legisla'ures
and couru.
lhe poor clerk who becomes weary
s * ow gains from honest labor hears ot
a turn o£til<? "heel that left a competence
j 1D ,lie hands ot some other clerk perhaps
j aml hastens to try his luc-k that riches may
i % t0 him on wings, without the necessity
j ,)£ wa * t '»K on lhe slow, honest and toilsome
j methods that brought character along with
< ' ,m P etence a, *fi plenty to his parents and
j grttnd -P ar enis.^ He sets aside the wise
eouns<d8 o£ laticer and mother, and the ex
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•‘"•1"'- ' • •* a, i .n- .wmhits of the past,
i ,in< * a '* ows t * le £a ta! temptation to seize
Con ued on page 3)
LEGAL ADVERTISEMPS.
Sheriff Sales.
Will be sold before the court nouse door
in the city ot Covington, on the first Tues¬
day in October, 1907, between the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property, to-wit:
One-eighth undivided interest in the
Sarah Hays estate in the city of Oxford,
Newton county, Georgia, and containing
2 acres of land, more or less, and the same
having 3 two room houses on it, and
bounded as follows: North by lands of J.
Z. Johnson; East by Brr.ron street;
South by lands of J- H. Bailey; West by
lands of Cager Hays. Said property levied
on as the property of Toy Hays, with a
Justice Court fi fa issued from the Justice
Court of the 1525th district, G. M. of said
county and Strte, in Jfavor of Dr. Luke
Robinson vs Toy Hays. Written notice
given Toy Hays defendant in possession,
ana Peter and Ipp Hays tenants in pos¬
session, as requited by law. Levy made
by J. E. Blackstock, JL. C , and turned j
over to me. This Sept. 3, 1907.
S. M HAY, Sheriff.
GEORGIA, Newton County. made appli¬
Mrs- J. VV Avery, having (
cation for twelve months support out of
the estate of J. W. Avery, and appraisers >
duly appointed to set apart the same hav¬
ing tiled their return, all persons concern¬
ed are hereby required to show cause be
ore the court of Ordinary of said county
on the first Monday in October, 1907, why
said application should not be granted.
This 2nd day ot 1 eptember 1907
G. I). HEARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Notice is hereby given that the undei?
signed has applied to Ordinary of said
county for leave to sell land belonging to
the estate of Walter A. Ogletree for the
payment of debts. Said aplication will be
1 card at the regn’ar term of the Court of
Ordinary for said county to bj held on the
first Monday in October 1907.
This 2nd day of September 1907.
’
CHAS. I. OGLETREE,
Executor of Wifi said Walter A. Ogletree.
! WfYFIFF * 1U1 OF FI FFTION 1 lWI
:
To The Qualified Voters of The
City of Covington:
Notice is hereby given by the
Mayor and Council of the City of
Covington pursuant to an Ordi¬
nance duly adopted on the 5th day
of September, 1907, that on the
9th day of October. 1907, an elec¬
tion will be held in said City, at
which will be submitted to the
qualified voters of said City, for
their determination, the question
whether bonds shall be issued by
said City, in aggregate amount of
Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000)
principal for the purpose of pro¬
curing funds, to be applied as
follows:
Fifty-five Thousand Dollars
($55,000) thereof to the purpose ot
establishing, erecting and equip
ing a system of waterworks and
sewerage in said City, and Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000) thereof
to the purpose of building an
Annex to the Public School Build¬
ing of said City.
Said bonds to bear date of the
1st day of January, 1908, to be
issued in denominations of One
Thousand Dollars each, to bear in¬
terest at the rate of Five per
centum per annum, payable anuu
ally on the 1st day of January in
each year, interest payable in New
York City, and the principal of
said bonds to be payable in Thirty
! (30) Years from their date, to-wit:
January 1st, 1988, and at the end
j ^irty from the date of
I years
j " bonds ’ they shall be fully
!
j paid off.
qualified rr , voters Ot , tue ,, Lity
of Covington, desiring to vote ill
I ! said election, and who have not al
rea( jy registered, for the last
general election in said City
' for officers thereof, must
register therefor in the book open¬
ed for that purpose by the Clerk
of the City of Covington at Smith’s
drug store, and said book will be
kept open from the 6tb day of Sept.
1907, to the 2Gth day of Sept. 1907,
Sundays excepted, between the
hours of 9 a m and 4pm each day.
All those desiring to vote in favor
of the issue of the sale of the said
proposed bonds will do so by cast¬
ing ballots having written or
printed upon them the words
"FOR BONDS,” and those desir
ing to vote against said issue mnst
do so hy costing ballots having
written or printed upon them the
words ‘‘AGAINST BONDS.”
Dated this the 5th day of Sep¬
tember, 1907.
E W FOWLER, Mayor.
H T Huson, Councilman,
J B Davis, Jr., Councilman,
C A Harwell, Councilman,
S P Thompson, Councilman,
C A Sockwell, Councilman,
C C Brooks, Councilman.
Attest;
Geo T Smith, Cleilc.
Notice of Eieciion.
GEORGIA—Newton County.
In compliance with the require¬
ments of an Act of the General As¬
sembly of the State of Georgia ap¬
proved August 22, 1907, I hereby
call an election to be held at each
of the voting precincts of Newton
county on the 20th day of Septem¬
ber, 1907, for the purpose of elect¬
ing a Judge and also a Solicitor of
the City Court of Covington, re
cently established by said Act.
Said election to be held under the
same rules and regulations as are
general elections for county of¬
ficers, at d returns are to be con¬
solidated on the day following said
election and the result certified to
the Ordinary,
Witness my hand and official
signature, this 24th day of August,
1907. G. D. HEARD,
Oidiuary of Newton County Ga.
NEWTON COUNTY
TAX ASSESSMENT
FOR THE YEAR 1907.
His Excellency, the Governor
having assessed five (5.00) mills
on all taxable, property of the
State for the year 1907, it is here¬
by ordered by the Board of Com¬
missioners of Newton County, that
the following assessments be made
ar the County Tax for said County
for the year 1907. Four and
Eighty One Hundredth (4.80) of
a mill for the purposes herein
mentioned, and that the same be
collected by the Tax Collector of
said county and paid over to the
County Treasarer as the law di¬
rect, to be divided as follows;
1
To pay general county purposes
87 per cent.
2
To pay grand, petit and talis
juriors 13 per cent.
8
Also two tenths (2-10) of • me
per cent, on all the taxable prop¬
erty of Newton county to be known
as the Public Road Fund.
J. /. JOHNSON,
Chairmrn Board County Com¬
missioners.
\\ anted—Everyone to know that
Furniture R E EveritfTs and Undertaking is the place to buy 1 j
goods.
5 L( % Directo fj
Hendrick Council No. *
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ARCARII.
Meets Second and Fonrtl
day evenings.
C - A - SOCKWELL, ReJ
T. J. Shields, Secretary.
Covington Lodge No
Royal Arch Mason
day Meets evenings. Second and Fourth)
M * G. TURM
R. R FOWLER, High H
Secretary,
sm Lodge Si
IF*. efts A. 3U
Meets every First and
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins, V,
Tno. W. Peek, Sec.
\ ^20 toP. 0. R
Meets every Wednesday
nt 7th run and 30th breath,
ing brothers are invited toa
N. Z. Anderson, Sad
W. R. Stillwell,
Chief of Ileno:
i > STAR LOD
$ NUMBER!
I. 0. 0. F,
Meets every Thursday evci
Visiting brothers in the city
dially invited to meet with
Work, in one degree each Graj nice
Jas P. Sain, Noble
J. W. Peek, Ree. Sect'y.
Knighls i
Pythi
Meets every First and
Monday evenings. Fraterua
come extended all visiting J
ers. E. W. Carroll, C.
R. R. Fowler, K. ofR. &
IWoCw Elm Camp,
NO. 202.
■W. O. V3
Meets every Second and Fo
Tuesday evenings. C*
J, J. Corley,
W. N. Rainev, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar fia
or-er
Meets First Tuesday »
month at 2 o’clock, Andersoy. p. ®- J
j. W.
L. L. Middlebrook, Adjt.
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