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THE ENTERPRISE
ESTABLISHED 1865
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
JAS. P. COOLEY, Editor.
Entered at the Postoffice at Covington,
Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Subscription $1 Per Year, In
All leg?.! advertisements must be paid
in cash before first insertion.
Advertising rates furnished on
Coving ton, Ga , Oct. 4, 1907.
It’s 28 for the peekaboo waist.
Tim word “oyster” sounds good
tlmse days.
Now’s the time that fall ad
pay, Mr. Merchant.
Changing time of the year
in weatlmr and wear.
The circus is “camin > f 1 and
small hoy is in his gl try.
8iuikt-bites aie not apt to be so
common in Georgia next year.
The ire man has had his liitfing;
now comes the coal man. Gee!
Most colleges are still holding
examinations--for the football
team.
If the world owes every man a
living, many are too lazy to
the debt
Editor I. G. Walker’s
pe u is causing the DeKalb
Era to “blossom as the rose. ) t
Them bright days of
cause tlie fl“ecy staple to open
idly and meet the waiting hand
the gatherer.
The Kentuckian who married
girl named Money may be
of making a match for
else beside love.
Delaware has imposed a tax
tomhstoues, and it is safe to
that the unfortunates who lie
neath do not kick.
Taller things have been
about Mars than the claim of
scientists who say the
<>f ihat region are fifteen feet
What a happy time is coming,
What contentment weshall
When the frost is on the
And the pumpkin’s on the
J. Pierpont Morgan is said to
an enthusiastic trQUt
Then he is an exception, for
big capitalists generally angle
suckers.
That was a great tribute
the late President McKinley
day when the magnificent
ment to his memory was
at Canton, Ohio.
A medicine that it would
times be inconvenient to take
that discovered by a
professor r who . says be , can
anyone of lying.
Augusta is making great
rations for the Confederate
ans reunion next month.
city by the Savannah always
tertains most royally.
It has been estimated that
Rockefeller’s income amounts
$19 a minute, and an
siys you can bet that John
never allows the clock to
ticking.
A Kentucky mountaineer
tried before a jury arid fined
and costs. After the verdict
rendered, defendant remarked
he came out much lighter than
expected, for, within the past
years, he had certainly had a
sonal combat with three-fourths
the jurymen that sat on his case.
VOTE FOR WATERWORKS.
Covington is a good town, but
every good citizen wants to see it
become a better town. But unless
the good citizens stand by the
town, lend a hand, put a shoulder
to the wheel or get in front and
pull, without balking, there won’t
be any noticeable progress.
The election for bonds to erect
and equip a system of waterworks
and sewerage occurs next Wednes¬
day, and it is the plain duty of
every loyal Covingtonite to vote
for bonds, thereby demonstrating
that the city must have a place in
the front rank with other progres¬
sive towns.
Towns are not Topsies. No
town “just grows.” It’s the peo¬
ple in a town who make it grow by
feeding it the right sort of diet.
A vote for waterworks is the prop¬
er thing to place in the box if you
desire Covington to grow and
flourish.
It is up each and every citizen
of Covington to instill the “git up
and git”spirit into their bones and
puli for the things that are best
f*r the town. Sp<:ak a good word
for waterworks; then vote for
bonds next Wednesday.
To you the place where you live
is the most important place in the
woild. It is the best place in the
world. The universe revolves
around it.
This being so—and you can’t
deny it—why not help the center
of the universe by voting for wa¬
terworks, a most essential element
of modern progress? Then, when
the system of waterworks and sew¬
erage is completed, you may truly
tell your friends and acquaintances
elsewhere what they are
by living away from the real center.
Waterworks build up
towns—every town, in fact,
a system has been installed.
terworks can and wiD build
Covington. Get right now
vote right next Wednesday.
Two weeks more and we
the cotton grower will
over the gambler; that is, if
growers will stand
throughout the cotton belt.
chants and bankers, and
men generally, should advise
small farmer to hold the staple and,
it possible, help him to hold it
a short while. There is not
ficient cotton to meet the
demands; all mills are running
full time; there is an assured
ket for every yard ot cloth that
woven. The gamblers have not
a single instance treated the
ers fairly, and let us hope
Dixie’s sturdy farmers will
the lid on the robbing methods
the New York Cotton Exchange.
A negro in a Pennsylvania
h< > s because he la aR
tbnthvbecatMa
the citizens of the community.
This case reminds us of the
who . , laughed , „ so much , that ,
he died physicians had to cut
his liver and kill it with a club
make him stop laughing.
Poets evidently wait till
mellow rays of sunshine reign
about midday before singing
songs of lovely autumn ; not when
the coolness of dewy eve and
early morn chill the many persons
who have not yet discarded their
summer wearing apparel.
We desire to heartily congratu¬
late our friend, Col. James P.
Cooley, upon hi3 election to the
solicitorship of the City Court of
Covington. And we also think
that the City Court of Covington
is to be congratulated.—Walton
Tribune.
V ote for waterworks.
THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON GA
have you any city or
COUNTY PRIDE?
Why do you buy out of town?
You say “to save money”—but do
you?
Every dollar you put out of cir¬
culation here at home makes it
just so much harder tor you to find
another dollar to take its place.
Js that “saving money? » f
Your home merchant extends
you credit when you need it—and
you know how often that occurs
and for bow long yon “hang him
up”—but when you do your cash
buying you send your money to
some distant city because some
things on which the regular price
is widely advertised, are sold there
a few cents lower than the price
at home.
And the mail order house
“makes up” on something yon do
not know about—or on the quality
of the goods.
When yon buy of a home mer¬
chant and you find your purchase
is not “up to the standard,” yen
can go to him and ‘ have it out.’
Can you do that when you make
your purchase in Chicago?
You may argue that you do not
sell your products in Covington.
Perhaps you don’t—but couldn’t
you do so if the town was larger
aud more prosperous? Do you
think THIS town will grow if you
persist in sending to an out of town
firm for goods for which you cau
wait to have delivered?
If the millions of people sending
their orders to the big mail-order
houses would spend the same
amount of money in their own
towns, these towns would be grow¬
ing just as the larger cities are
growing. There would be a larger
demand for merchandise, a de¬
mand for a larger force of clerks
to handle the increased trade and
a demand for houses for the new
clerks to live in. There would he
a larger demand for farm products
for them to live upon, a larger de¬
mand for the “produce” that the
average farmer raises and is willing
to raise more of, if the demand
makes it necessary. Think it over
and see if YOUR trade would not
be of some help toward bringing
about these new conditions.
The enterprising merchants of
Covington seek your trade through
the columns of The Enterprise.
Patronize them and thus keep
money in circulation where it
should be—AT HOME.
Justice Not Wanted.
A Nashville lawyer once had a
client noted tor his unscrupulous
husiness methods. The client lived
in a small town, and bougnfc and
sold country produce. If the price
of potatoes went up after he Con¬
tracted to purchase the crop, he
wf'uld refuse to take them at the
market price. If the price went
down, however, he was surer than
death or taxes to claim at the
prevailing market figure. Natur¬
ally, this policy got him into fre¬
quent and bitter litigation.
On one occasion he had become
involved in a case based on a deal
in potatoes. The man who owned
the potatoes bronght suit and the
case was taken before a local jus¬
tice. The lawyer conducted the
defense along purely technical lines
and the case was taken under ad¬
visement by the justice.
The client was called away on
business in Chattanooga before the
justice had rendered lib decision,
so when the latter brought in a
verdict adverse to the plaintiff,
the lawyer, in his somewhat un
expected triumph, wired his client:
Justice has triumphed.
Immediately came back the
startled reply:
Take au appeal!
Lippinoott’s Magazine.
Girls are heeding the advice of
the divorced wife of a millionaire
who advises them not to marry a
man of millions. None of them
hardiy marry a man worth over a
quarter million, and from that
down to thirty cents.
Let us do your job printing.
LEGAL
Executor’s Sale.
GKORGIA— Newton County :
B 3 * virtue of authority contained in
will of S R. Mitcham late of
county, deceased, we will sell at
OU tcry before the Court House door in
City of Covington, in said county,
the legal hours of sale, on the First
day in November, UOi, the
tracts or parcels of land belonging to
estate of said S. K. Mitcham, to-wit:
One tract or parcel of land
Ninety one and Four One Hundred
(91 4 100 ). more or less, and bounded
follows : North by lands of S. It.
estate; East by lands of Joe Dial; West
lands of J. W. Arnold, and South by
of the estate of S. R Mitcham.
ALSO—At the same lime and place
be sold: One tract or parcel ot land
taining Seventy and Forty One
acres, (70 40 100). more or lsss. and boun
ded as follows : North by lands of the
tate of S. R. Mitcham; East by lands of J.
W. Gilts; West by lands of Robt. Tuck,
and South by lands of S. R Ellington.
These lands lie four miles Southwest
Waihutgrove, on public road, are well
proved and have a good dwelling and
on each. Sold for the purpose of distribu
lion among the legatees. Terms @f
CASH.
T. J., and W. W. MITCHAM,
Executors ot last will ot S. R. Mitcham
GEORGIA, Newton County. appli¬
Mrs- J. \V Avery, having made
cation for twelve months support out
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 of September 1907.
G. I). HEARD, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Notice is hereby given that the under¬
signed has applied to Ordinary of said
county for leave to sell land belonging
the estate of Walter A. Ogletree for the
payment of debts. Said aplication will
1 card at the regular term of the Court
Ordinary for said county to be held on
first Monday in October 1907.
This 2nd day of September 1907.
CHAS. I. OGLETREE.
Executor of Will said Walter A. Ogletree
“The wages of sin is death”
recently demonstrated out west
the fellow who got in a
about making a collection
then committed suicide.
The Enterprise and the
News, a newspaper published
the interest of the farmers,
only $1.50 per year.
LETTER TO C. A.
Covington, Ga.
Dear Sir: If you could get
exclusive sale of a sweeter sugar
for five miles round—l-21b
sweet as a pound of usual sugar,
and cost no more—you’d jump
at it, wouldn’t you?
There wouldn’t be 100 lbs ot any
other sugar sold in a year in your
town ; you’d gobble the trade ; and
it wouldn’t hurt your whole bus¬
iness.
Devoe is like that among paints:
it is twice as sweet as some; it is
sweeter than any: not one except¬
ion ; one gallon is two or one-and
a-half or one-and-three-quarters.
Better than that; paint has to be
painted ; that cost $2 to $4 a gallon.
A gallon saved is $2 to $4 saved in
labor, besides the paint.
Even that isn’t all. A gallon
Devoe put-on wears as long as two
gallons put-on at a cost of $2 to
$4 a gallon and two gallons more
put on at $2 to $4 a gallon. Count
all that. The paint that wears
double cost less by 3 gallons of
paint 3 gallons of painting; that’s
about $15 a gallon for those sup¬
erfluous gallons.
That’s as good as a double-sweet,
sugar, isn’t it? Yours truly
F W Devoe it Co. New York.
P. S. Covington Hardware sells
our paint.
Help Wanted.
A competent saleswoman for
dress goods department, Also
combination cash boy and bundle
wrapper. Apply in writing to P.
O. box 98, Covington, Ga.
IF him See Your Joe cured Horse W. Wnght or Mule and is sick. have
NOTICE OF ELECTION
To The Qualified Voters of
City of Covington:
Notice is hereby given by
Mayor and Council of the City
I
i Covington pursuant to an
( nanC0 duly adopted on the5th
of September, 1907, that on
9th day of October. 1907, an
tion will be held in said City, at
which will be submitted to
qualified voters of said City, for
their determination, the question
whether bonds shall be issued by
said City, in aggregate amount
j Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000)
principal for the purpose of pro¬
curing funds, to be applied as
follows:
| Fifty-five Thousand Dollars
i
($55,000) thereof to the purpose ot
establishing, erecting and equip
ing a system of waterworks and
sewerage in said City, aud 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 b«ar 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, aud the principal of
said bonds to be payable in Thirty
(30) Years from their date, to wit:
January 1st, 1938, and at the end
of thirty years from the date of
said bonds, they shall be fully
paid off.
All qualified voters of the City
of Covington, desiring to vote in
said election, and who have not al¬
ready 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
ol the City of Covington at Smith’s
drug store, and said book will be
kept open from the Gtb day of Sept.
1907, to the 26th day of Sept. 1907,
Sundays excepted, between the
hours of 9 a m and 4pm each dav.
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,” aud those desir¬
ing to vote against said issue must
do so by casting ballotB having
written or printed upon them the
words “AGAINST BONDS.”
Dated this the 5th day of Sep¬
tember, 1907.
E VV FOWLER, Mayor.
II T Huson, Councilman,
J B Davis, Jr., Councilman,
C A Haiuvell, Councilman,
S P Thompson, Councilman,
C A Sock well, Councilman,
C C Brooks, Councilman.
Attest:
Geo. T Smith, Clerk.
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Royal Arch Masons
Meets Second and Fourth
day evenings.
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R. R FOWLER, High Prj
Secretary.
Lodge No.
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Meets every First and T
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins, W,
Tno. W. Peek, Sec.
pi Sewaunee I(
No. 62,1
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Meets every Wednesday s
at 7th run and 80th breath. \
ing brothers are invited toattl
W. N. Z. Anderson, Sachej
R. Stillwell,
Chief of Record
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Meets every Thursday even
Visiting brothers in the city
dially invited to meet with
Work in one degree each mce
Jas P. Sain, Noble Gran
J. W. Peek, Rec. Sect’y.
Knights #l
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Lodge No.
Meets every First and 1
Monday evenings. Fraternal
come extended all visiting C.l 3|
ers. E. W. Carroll,
R. R. Fowler, K. oflU
Elm Camp,
NO. 20i
■W. Q. TN
Meets every Second and ft
Tuesday evenings. Corley,C
J. J.
W. N. Rainey, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar Up
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First Tuesday ifl
Meets
month at 2 o’clock, p- ®’
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