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Ideals Before Marriage.
T'ext, for sermons upon marriage
numerous at the present time.
rare
-.aud it isn’t so discouraging as it
might seem to find prevalent dis
as to whv marriages fail
•cessions
Some one is thinku.g deeply upon
th.s problem, and some one is wait
ing fur a message about it or
■editors would throw the papers
turning upon that, into the waste
basket. Recently* a married wo¬
man took up the matter m thecol
titans of the Atlantic and,as one re
viewer puts it,“slaps her sister
■with both hand 4 . Simultaneously
an Englishwoman lays partial
blame for marriage failures to the
male member of the partnership.
,
Where there is free choice for both
it would certainly seem dogmatic
to lay the blame for an unhappy
alliance upon either the husaand
or the wife. The Englishwoman
above cited says plainly that a
man ought to know what he is do
ing when he chooses a wife. It. is
>-quaily plain that a'womau should
know what she is doing when she
accepts the man who has chosen
. her for a life partner.
'Marriage is often called a lot¬
tery, but not solely on account of
the immediate uncertainties in¬
volved. The case for happiness
■once made, there is seldom a
chance to take it hack. Most
cou pks intend to look well before
the leap is taken. In the matter
of tastes, disposition and habits,
both parties are usually
rspect. But among the masses it
•i.ot alone here that the stuff i
vwhich the man or wifp is put
the test. The marriage
Lrings up problems which no
»*ce, however astute, cun
^correctly beforehand. That
better, for worse,” of the
riage ceremony is a most
safeguard for the houtsof
trial, and it would be well
young people to study the
meaning of that simple
iu advance of taking the
Spartanburg Journal.
ELOPED WITH
tictaw llll lOIl rmi vslKJL.
Cecil Bower Married Only a
Few Hours When Father
Took Possession of
Daughter.
N-nrs has been received here of
the romantic marriage ot Miss
Hattie Squires, of Tift-on, to Mr.
Cecil E. Bower, formerly of this
city, and the s-on of Mr. A. R.
Bower, one of Newton’s influential
citizens.
In speaking of the marriage the
Tifton Gazette says:
Miss Hattie Squires, a most
beautiful and modest maiden of
sixteen summers, living three
miles east of Tifton, was married
to Mr. Cecil E. Bower; a worthy
young business man of 0 ur city,
last Sunday afternoon at the Meth¬
odist parsonage, Rev. E. M. Whit¬
ing officiating, and the strength of
the matrimonial tie has been test
ed by the court of ordinary, restor¬
ing to the father his beautiful
daughter, who as a bride, was in
company with the groom but an
hour or so.
Arriving in the city, Mr. J. R.
Squires, father of the bride, imme¬
diately swore out “kid-napping”
papers for Mr. Bower. Placing
them, in the hands of an officer,
the two men appeared at the home
of Mr A. P. Jones, who iminedi
ately went on the bond of 1 he
groom. Seeing that Mr. Squires
was enraged beyond reason, Mr.
Jones asked him to have no dis¬
turbance in his house, to which
Mr. Squires roplied : “I shall not,
but my daughter returns to her
home with me this night, or she
or I die.” Believing it best for
him to take her, become reconciled
by morning, Mrs. Bower, though
over her protest, and strongly so,
was persuaded to go.
Thinking that all would be well,
Monday morning, Rev. Miller, Col.
Fulwood and a representative of
the Gazette accompanied Mr. Bower
to the Squires home, (leaving the
THE ENTERPRISE COVINGTON GA
the groom in the back-ground)
hop,,rul of l ’ rinRUl - * ba recon -
l5| bauon and returning with the
bride. in answer to a question
pul to her there, Mrs. Bower re¬
plied: “Y^s, it father and mother
will *»u 1 v give their consent, I will
glad'y join Mr. Bower, fur I love
hi m > 1
Returning to the city, habeas
corpas papers were sworn out re¬
quiring Mr. Squires to produce his
daughter in court Tuesday. The
cased was entered into and forcibly
argued, and at the close of the ar¬
gument, Judge Walker said: “You
may draw an order restoring the
daughter to the father, in aceor
dance with her desires as spoken to
me privately, >» Before affixing
his signature, however, the matter
was left to Mrs. Bower to make
her decision.
Here was the test of her very
soul as the young heart’s blood
rushed through her weeping nerve
strained form. W'hat must she do?
Between whom of the two pleading
men then before her must i hoose?
With whom must she go. the father
from her conception or the husband
to whom she had but a few hours
ago entered into a life contract?
Sad indeed was her picture; trying
m truth was her task. For fully
ten minutes she weighed it all,
when slowly and seemingly reluc¬
tant, she removed the ring from
her finger and placed it into the
husband s hand, then left to re
! eIlter Her father s hume.
j worthy Being a young Miss man iuevery way
of Squires, her father
in court said that he had no ob¬
jections to Mr. Bower
—only the way m which he
her.
1 nursday Mr. Squires called on
Mr. Bower, shook ha.-.ds with.him,
told him he had no objection
him personally, and that if
wanted to call on or writq
daughter he was free to do so,
her consent, and if she wanted
see him be would send for him,
if she wanted to corar to see ‘ him,
he would bring her. A
tion appears to be only a matter
THE COVINGTON
COTTON MARKET.
The Price Has Advanced a Few
Points Since Last Week.
Receipts Not as
Heavy.
Today (Thursday) at noon from
eleven and one eighth to eleven
and one-quarter cents per pound
is being paid for cotton on the
streets here. This is a slight ad¬
vance of about one-eighth of a cent
per pound since the lu9t issue of
this paper.
The receipts during the week
have been light. Although the
weather has been ideal for the
gathering of the staple, some of
the farmers have begun holding
their cotton, which reduced the
receipts considerably,
Newton Citizens Move
To Social Circle.
Mr. R. H. Cooper, one of New¬
tons’ progressive farmers and eiti
w ^° resides at Pine Grove,
has purchased the fine residence
and farm of Mr. J. P. Freeman, a
mile this side of Social Circle, and
will soon move his family there.
The purchase price was $7,000.
Mr. I. A, Stanton, als<< a most
prominent and progressive New
tonite, has purchased Mr. M. W.
Burton’s handsome residence in
Social Circle and will, with his es¬
timable family reside in that city
in the future. Mr. Burton is to
move to Atlanta.
of a few hours.
The young lady, who has acted
in the latter part of the affair with
rare good judgement, is said to
have expressed herself as being un¬
xiou® to join the man of her choice
when a little time brings sober re¬
flection and tnis in torn brings
about a condition of affairs ^iat
will be just to both her parent#
and to him.
PUSH AND PLUCK
WIN ALWAYS.
Mr. G. T. Wells Has Built Up An
Enviable Trade at the Wells
Bottling Works- -No Bet¬
ter Plant in Georgia.
On the southw. st corner of the
public square is located one of
Covington’s finest tvko-ltory busi¬
ness houses, the Star building,
which gets its name from a weekly
paper published years ago in this
city known as “The Star, » » and
the owner of the building, “Uncle
Jimmie > J Anderson, one of our
noble, good-hearted pioneer citi
zens, wus the publisher of that
weekly journal.
A representative of The Enter¬
prise journeyed around to this
building Wednesday afternoon and
went around the corner and down
into that portion of the basement
two rooms—occupied by the
Wells Bottling Works, a concern
which traveling men say hasn't an
equal tor cleanliness, uptodate ma
chinery and business-like opera
tion anywhere in Georgia, and it
is needless for us to say that this
state of affairs is due solely to the
owner, genial Tom Wells.
Now, Mr. Wells is an old news¬
paper man and, when it comes to
genuine cleverness, has not, by
any means, lost the welcoming
smile which greets the stranger
who strolls into the country news
paper office. So, when we got
with Mr. Wells. we were at home.
Only a feiv moments observation
is required to fully convince the
onlooker ct the completeness of
the bottling works plant In the
main room is a two-horse power
gasoline engine of the finest make
which propels all the machinery ; a
crown buttling machine, complete
m every detail, which has an out¬
put of 400 dozen bottles per day ;
two of the latest improved bottle
washers, aud a section of the lab
oratory used for compounding
syrups.
Iu the other room is 'another
section ot’ the laboratory,
space is then taken up by wel
arranged shelving on which
goods, after being buttled
cased, are placed fur the trade.
Mr. Wells uses only
purest water and syrups in
manufacture of drinks. Event
temperature, when carbonated,
the same as when first drawn o
ot the well on account of
ground pipes placed at a
which keeps water the same tei
perature at all times. The
is put through an unequalled
teting process before being
hence, the quality of
on the market is unexcelled ®
Starting with only 4jj gross 1
ties in 1901, Mr. Wells’ busiu
grew rapidly till 1904, when
of the most disastrous fires tl
has ever visited the city
ly destroyed his plant. At
time he had 100 gross bottles a
commanded a splendid patron^
But “you can’t keep a goodm
down.” Mr. Wells arosefroak
asheS and, with the p>layedj unfailj
energy which has always
important part in his make-^™ rpr
went to work harder than e
soon had in a bottling worksp
or which he today should fed]’
ly proud. Phoenix-like has b
the growth of his business 8'k
push and pluck will make ;t s i
better, Tom Wells of Mr. will Wells doit- sr,cC J |
The secret foil
may be summed up - s
He does all the inside work
self and the only help b e ^ a5 l!
delivery boy; uses the best
tainable extracts and makes
syrups id iu the most careful nia«
thereby producing drinks
when once tried will coutlB
.
be used, for their purity* el '
and refreshing < 7 ua l * l
ness u
simply too fine and go
scribed. bottle* , aJM nm U
Although he
ale popular and ginger drinks, ale, pmcb the ffi ^ r J
own make throughout,» 1
and w« would advsw *
dulge ;n health f' laoo IfidJ U
soft drinks of the to i,iV0 goods f£ 1
celleuce Bottling ^ I
Wells '
by the