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The Fincher-Norris hardware Company have purchased the stock formerly owned by Coving- ! 3
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RMERS’ UNION
TO HOLD FAIR.
h Is the Suggestion That
imes From the Official Or
gan of That Associa¬
tion.
special from Atlanta says the
bnneement that a mammoth
l agricultural exposition will
ably be given in Atlanta by
Farmers’ Union in connection
the Atlanta Fair Association
caused the mo3t interested
bient and from all indications
fair will be the biggest ever
in the state.
[bile the members of the At
b Fair association say that the
ils for the fair have not beeu
kileted, it is learned from re
<! sources that farmers all over
state are heartily in favor of
nig the state exposition iu At
ii and that they will do all in
r power to make it one of the
Rust meets ever held.
I a recent editorial printed in
jLiiion News, which is edited
President Duckworth, of the
rgia division of the National
Biers’ Union, the suggestion is
It that the farmers of the state
I hold of the fair this year. The
prial says that the Union News
Id suggest that the Farmers’
i n take hold and run the ag
Itural end of the fair that has
I held previously under the au
I' s of the Georgia State Agi’i
liral Society.
I is reported that the farmers
I 'rgia realize what such an
pitiou la would mean for the pur
I of the many agricultural re¬
ps of the state and they are
I I to take hold of the fair,
a their membership of 100,000
pe-rgia farmers would be able
1 -k the fair an exhibit of ag
Itural and industrial products
[Idem seen.
s also understood that if the
Jis held by the farmers a nation
pi veution of the National Far-
6 1 nion will be held during
fair. Over 2,000.000 members
l,e represented at the coavon
I and at least 1,000 or 1,500
gates will be present.
I At the Wind's Mercy.
pa-dns Pew is always boasting about
balloon.”
r‘ at s ! >H it’s good for.”
p>at blow s all it’s good for?”
er. about.”—Cleveland Plain
Use For Them All.
J ijm-e three pairs of glasses, pro-
1 use one to read with, one to
l 11 dista Hce and the third to find
finer ,, two.”
' re is nothing worse for mortal*
igabond life.—Homer.
Incredible.
Homer (looking over his bill)—You
j in made two mistakes in this bill,
I your favor and once in mine,
kr-ln your favor? Where?— I.us
|R la tier.
A Reversal.
hat will happen wbeu women
toong other things, I presume fa¬
in-law jokes will come into style.”
bisville Courier-Journal.
psnre [knows or himself praise cannot correct—Baltimore affect a man
fican,
TESTING HIS TONGUE.
The Unhappy Experience of a Young
Married Woman.
A young married woman in Brooklyn
suspected that her husband was in¬
dulging in wine. She determined, how¬
ever. to say nothing till she had con¬
firmed her suspicions. In conversation
with her bosom friend she said she
would give anything to discover the
truth. The friend mentioned that a
man even slightly intoxicated cannot
pronounce words of length. This gave
the young wife an idea, which she pro¬
ceeded to put into execution.
When the young women met again,
the suspicious wife announced that the
worst had been ascertained. She burst
into tears and took from her hand bag
a paper, which she handed to her
friend.
“I gave him this,” she sobbed.
The friend read from the list the fol¬
lowing words: “Philoprogenitiveuess.
disproportiouableness, pseudaestbesia.
phthisis, parachronism, hypochondria¬
sis, photochromy, syucategorematic.”
“And,” added the unhappy wife, with
a fresh sob, “the wretch missed nearly
all of then)!”—New York Tribune.
In a French Chateau In Winter.
It is not all bliss to be invited to a
French chateau in midwinter, no mat¬
ter how distinguished the host or how
romantic and artistic the domicile. At
least it isn't for the steam heated Bos¬
tonian, lapped in the luxury of sum¬
mer warmth. A visitor to a distraet
ingly lovely abode near Fontainebleau
says he put in twenty-four hours of
physical anguish there and simply
came away wondering how his hosts
endured the arctic temperature of the
rooms. “If I meant to live in foreign
lands,” says this shivering person, “I
would go through the chilling process
which inures human flesh and blood in
France. What do these people do to
render the blood in their veins to
course like fire and act like an eternal
furnace?” That’s a question Ameri¬
cans abroad might well like to have
answered.—Boston Herald.
Heat cf ths Sun.
It has been computed that the tem¬
perature of the surface of the sun
would be expressed by 18,000 degrees
of Fahrenheit's thermometer, or be¬
tween eighty and ninety times the tem¬
perature of boiling water, This is
about five times the highest tempera¬
ture that man is able to produce by ar¬
tificial means. The light given off from
the surface of the sun is reckoned as
being 5,300 times more intense than
that of the molten metal in a Bessemer
converter, though that is of an almost
blinding brilliancy. If we compare it
with oxybydrogen flame, the sun sheds
a light equal to 14G times the intensity
of the limelight.
Children’s Favorite Toys.
A hundred and thirty-two schoolboys
of Taris and seventy-two girls were in¬
vited to describe their preferences in
tbo way of toys. Among the former
thirty-one. voted for a railway train,
twenty-three for tin soldiers, ten for
steam engines, nine for building bricks
and eight for toy typewriters and uie
chauical horses. Forty girls—a solid
majority—declared without hesitation
that a doll was superior to auy other
implement of recreation. The super¬
child seems, happily, a long way off.—
Pall Mall Gazette.
Napoleon as a Reader.
Napoleon was a reader—persistent,
omnivorous, indefatigable, By the
camp tire and in his traveling carriage,
in'll is temporary staff office or his own
bedroom his favorite volumes were
ever kept within easy reach.— Reader
Magazine.
Now and Then.
She—You love me, then? He-I love
you now She—Ah well! I suppose if
a woman can get’a man to contented? love her
now and then she should be
—Fair Journal.
Very Considerate.
He—Did you tell your father, darling?
She—I told him I was engaged, dear,
but not to whom. He is not well, and
I thought I would break it to him grad¬
ually.—Life.
In tbe long run the best way to make
money backing horses i* to drive •
cart on a dump.
THE ENTERPRISE C VINGTON C.A
MUCH MONEY
FOR WHISKEY.
In January the Amount of Pest
Office Money Orders Sold
On Chattanooga in At¬
lanta Was $200,000.
... anta special
n sajs,
it doesn’t give anything line an
accurate Idea of the amount Q f
■ consumed and
)l,OZfi 111 around At
ianta, it may be interesting to
know that the amount ot postoffice
irionay orders sold on Chattanooga
alone, during the month of Junu
ary, was in round numbers $200,
*
nnn CUu. T Here t is a begtnuiug of the
caliulatien with $2,400,000 a year,
Chattanooga, ’ of course C| is At'aii- fVl * u
tn chief . liquor . shipping
8 point,
because the best known among At
lanta dealers have gone " there and
earned their patronage with them.
As a result of this fact the post
office in Atlanta has found it nec
essary to have printed a special
form of money order on Chatta
n >oga, that is, one with every
thing filled in except amount and
signature which facilitates the
v. o,k , of c the pation in making . it .
cUt.
Naturally there are a great many
consumers of brands which are
not procurable in Chattanooga ;
there are others who send checks
to Chattanooga or whatever point
they order from ; there are still
others, who equipped themselves
a-umcLtitly , , , , before the , advent ,
prohibition aud have not vet found
it necessary to replenish.
All of which may give some
faint idea of what the liquor busi
uess used to be and still is in At
lanta.
Tbe consumption of beer has
fallen off cousiderablj* in Atlanta,
and those who use to drink it, it
—
. said, turn whiskey be
is now to
cause it is easier to manage.
haps c in the summer time beer will
become the favorite . . with .
again
those who can command the use
of an ice box, because it will be
lmpossible^yvithout . .
various
sils and ingredients to get the
eulent mint julep J or tbe bracing
toddy.
It is interesting to speculate
upon wbat sort of n money order
business the department will do
when the present supply begins to
show undoubted signs of exhaus¬
tion.
» *—
A “Social Function.''
A Georgia editor hands out the
following regarding a "social func¬
tion’’ pulled off in his town:
"Mr. C. J. Clark entertained re- I
-eently with a delightful coilaidj
course,” with side entres of pot- i
1 and buttermilk. I
j “Green was the , leading , , color, i |
j eac h guest being presented with a
hemstitched dishrug as a souvenir
■
uf the occasion. I 9
Schedule of Trains at Covington
EAST WEST
No 2, 8:59 a m No 1, 11:17 a m
‘‘4, 1:39 a m “ 3, 3:16 a m
i « 28, 4:43 p m “ 27, 6:52 p m
“ 10, 8.00 p in "9, 5:40 am
HIT HIM IN TWO PLACES.
The Way Cicsro Treated His Devoted
Admirer Petrarch.
the early autumn of 1358 Petrarch
suffered an accident which may be
narrated in his own words. “You shall
hear,” he writes to a friend, “what a
trick Cicero, the man whom I have
loved and worshiped from my boyhood,
has just played uie. I possess a huge
! volume of his letters, which 1 wrote
out some time ago with my own baud
because there was no original manu
| script Health accessible hindered to but the copyists. great love Ill
j me, my
j of Cicero and delight in the letters and
i eagerness to possess them prevailed
l against my bodily weakness and tfio
I laboriousness of the work. This is tfio
book which you have seen leaning
against the doorpost at the entry to
“ y iibrary ' day going into
the room thinking about something
else, as I often do, I happened iuad
vertently to catch the book in the
fri,lge of my gowu ‘ Iu ils faH jt s \ ruck
me lightly on the left leg a little above
j ! the I. bantering heel. ‘What! him, ‘pray My Cicero.’ what are quoth you
! j hitt next ! ug day me for 7 I He sald . not the t h h , “ 8 ' b "!
as came again same
| way he hit me again, and again I
j laughed p,ace Why at him make and set f him st °ZL?Z up in his
j ' a lg
I and over again I went on suttenng the
same hurt, and, thinking he might be
cross at having to stand on the ground,
I put him up a shelf higher, but not
till after the repeated blows on the
i same spot bad broken the skin and a
j | far I despised frOD} despicable it, though, sore reckoning had resuited. the
cai1ge of my accident of much more
weight than the accident itself. At
last - wheu rde P aiu was to ° liiuch uot
only for my wit, but for sleep and
| rest, so that to neglect the thing any
longer seemed not courage, but mad
ness - 1 v ' as f °rced t0 cal1 in the doc '
tors, who have now for some days
been fussing over this really ridicu
lous wound, not without great pain
aud some danger to the wounded limb,
as they insist, though I think you know
what reliance I place on their
prognostications either of good or evil.
So this is how my beloved Cicero has
treated me. lie long ago struck my
] ieai -t, and now he has struck my log.”
—From II. C. Ilollway-Calthorp’s “Pe
trareb.”
GUIDEP0STS IN FRANCE.
A Striking Feature cf the Roads
Throughout the Country.
A feature of the roads of France is
pie ever present guidepost. These guide
posts consist of an iron plaque about
nv0 fee * lon « and a foot high f c ure,y
mounted on sturdy posts or fastened ,
j 0 substantial wall. They are
painted in white and blue and show
^ thout an v lability !lli * take I10t
*
only the v commune or township in
they stand, hut the next impor
fact place in either direction as well as
stances between all the chief
points upon that route. Thus you will
find if you are traveling on a road
which leads to Paris that the name of
the metropolis will appear on the sign¬
board, although it may be several hun¬
dred kilometers distant.
In addition .to these guideposts the
Touring Club of France has put on
the chief roads a series of signs and
symbols to indicate to motorists aud
bicyclists what sort of a road they are
approaching. The sign “ralentir.” which
translated into good United States
means to “let up,” has caused many a
motorist who is unfamiliar with the
road ho is traveling to slow down and
to find shortly after the sign had been
passed that it was well that he paid at
!,tion to * becansc *1 a ste f p grade
or some abrupt turn. There is no ex
cll£ e, in view of the symbols and sign
boards, for any one motoring in France
t0 get ? n J he ^T S ^ ^ "T"
unexpectedly f into , trouble.-! rank Pres
brey in 0 uting Magazine,
Shakespeare's Last Illness.
According to a tradition handed
down by Ward, the vicar of Stratford,
Shakespeare's last iliness was a fever
brought on by a “merry meeting” with
Drayton and Ben Jonson. Another au¬
thority, Halliwell-rhillips, says that
the great poet died of typhoid, caused
by the filth and bad drainage about
New Place. Like nearly everything
else about Shakespeare, the question
of the character of his last illness can
lie answered only conjecturaliy.
Behind.
In the midst ot an era of pros¬
perity and unprecedente 1 activity
and expansion in all industnal
lines, the country finds itself wait¬
ing—waiting for things that are
needed today but cannot oe had
until tomorrow or next week, or
perhaps next month. Everybody
seems to have fallen behind, and
it is almost impossible for those
who are engaged in the manufac¬
ture of anything that is of general
utility to catch up with their
orders and make promp delivery.
And in the general rush the point
has been reached where everybody
is waiting on somebody else. This
is especially the case with those
who are engaged iu building or in
the construction of anything re¬
quiring several different mateiial.
Fortunate indeed is the contractor
who starts to build a house if he
dosen't have to wait for some of
the material. And these delays
are not only annoying, butjccstly.
To realize how much one half
of the industrial world is behind
the other halt these days one only
has to put in an orffir for some
machinery or to undertake to have
some mechanical work done. It
matters rot what kind of machine¬
ry or what kind of manufactured
material one 1 ms to have, lie is
liable to have to wait, fi r it, for
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CO* v MIGHT 1»C«i BY O TCAULT, A CO. CHICAGO ttJL.
Little House Maid says you can’t rock if you
don’t have a a Rocker.
We have the Rockers and everssthing else
in Furniture that goes to make your home a fit
place to dwell in.
The same rule applies to Buggies and Har
ness. You can t ride m comfort unless you
have a good buggy and harness. We have
them and at prices you can afford to pay.
Yours truly,
I I EYERITT.
everybody engaged in the manu¬
facture of such things seemes to
he in a rush and behind.
This condition-- this matter of
one-half the industrial world being
behind and keeping the ether half
waiting, appears to be quite gen¬
eral. It is confined to no par¬
ticular section or locality.
Really, it looks like everybody
that is trying to do anything is
behind,
It is very annoying to Lave one’s
carefully laid plans all thrown
away by one’s having to wait on
some one else who is behind. But
in (he end we all seem to have
fallen behind, and can even up
with each other in turn by assur¬
ing 1 hose who are waiting on us
that the blame is all on the other
fellow who is keeping us waiting.
-Ex.
A. H. FOSTER,
ATTORNEY at LAW.
(Admitted to Bar in 1901)
General Practice in State & Federal Courts.
Loans Negotiated on Farm Lands.
Office in Court House.
Office Phone 254 Residence Phone 120
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Lon L. Flowers is the authorized
agent of "Uncle Remus’ ”maga
zine in this section. See* him at
The Enterpiise.