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[EHOUSE CO.,
LECTS officers.
’s Union Hold Interest¬
ing Here Tuesday.
.31 Flourishing.
fce regular meeting of the
k p'jfion Warehouse Co.,
La! the city hall here Tuesday
election of officers for
[ion Warehouse followsC. was held, A.
bulled ill, as Bal
president; R. W.
[ice-president; and L. W. Jav- J.
lecretary treasurer;
j sey , general manager,
Inn derstand that a jffock
hy was orgainized at this
i for the purpose of hand
L eo tton grown by the mem
[the Uinon in Newton coun¬
is the purpose of this stock
hy to pay the highest poeei
L for every pound of cotton
l the members of this or
:ioti. To cut out the mid
l ; n the marketing of their
L and the members get full
ej the best price offered by
Lsumer.
L W. Jarman was elected
legate to represent the Un
his county at tne conven
jbe held in Fort Worth Tex
Kiesdav Sept. 1st.
Union in this countv is in
ehing condition and inter
! the organization is at its
t among the members.
Drop Prospects Good.
[crap prospect is promising
e section of the state, except
I few scattering localities
[the L farmers have suffered
Good rains have fallen
[rly f, every section of this
however, and the crops
hly a"e in as fine a condtion
ears. Cotton is as good or
than for many seasons, and
til fruited. The corn crop
In average over the comity
better than any crop of corn
in this section in several
j The fruit crop has been
nt.
believed that the people
‘hole in Newton are in a
ous condition.
I Mrs. Evans Suicides.
|he nigh of the 7th. at the
If her father, Mr. Robert
|. Evans, (f Walnutgrove, Mrs
l widow of the late
[} 6’ted Evans, of Walton county,
suicide by hanging
I with a rope in the smoke
• Evans was .only about
hears of age and had been a
f but u short time. The
Fas n assigned for the deed
Iperary f aberation, brought on
health. She leaves two
fen.
ake Room
SALE
h order to make room for our
i fall line of clothing We Offer
IR ENTIRE LINE OF MEN’S AND
'VS CLOTHING FOR THE NEXT
DAYS AT COST FOR CASH.
: MEAN WHAT WE SAY.
ARB WHITE & COMPANY.
COVINGTON, r?
GA., FRIDAY, AUG, ^2^1908.
THE ANNUAL
CELEBRATION
Was Held This Year in a Beau¬
tiful Oak Grove near Snap¬
ping Shoals Aug 5th.
This community has a fame ev¬
en beyond the state as the home
of Hon L. F. Livingston and as a
model community. We had beard
of it before we came to Newton
county, but the recent Sunday
School Celebration gave us the best
opportunity we have had to test
its merit.
The conclusion wae easily reach
ed that it had not been overrated.
A community of such sturdy, vir¬
tuous, high minded people cannot
be found just anywhere, even in a
state of high ideals and standards.
The pregram committee consist¬
ed of Messrs. Luke Cowan, Law
ton Lummus and Victor Williams,
and the arrangements were bounti¬
ful and most fitting for the occa
sion.
A fine program (foi the most
part) interspersed with a regal
Georgia dinner, under the trees in
a delightful grove made it a most
enjoyable day, but beyond it all
was the esprit-de-corps of the peo¬
ple, the public spirit, the talent,
the just pride among them.
The piogram cazmot be gone
over in detail but the singing by
different schools and competitive
oratory were leading features.
The Winners were Liberty school
for singing, and Miss Nancy Lum¬
mus for recitation.
Besides these there were several
addresses by Newton and Hemy
county speakers.
To New York to Buy Goods.
Mr. Thos. J. Harwell, general
manager of the T. C. Swann Co.,
leaves Sunday for a trip to New
York and Baltimore, where he
goes to buy a complete line of fall
and winter dry goods, notions and
a general stock of merchandise.
The line of goods carried by the
firm of T. C. Swann Co., needs no
commendation from our pen, they
are too well known to our people,
having done a general merchan¬
dise business for more than twenty
years.
Probably no man is better known
m this county than Tom Harwell
the manager of this firm. He is
a business man to the fullest ex¬
tent; a shrewd buyer and this
coupled with his ability to please
the people, we feel sure that no
firm in our city will receive a more
liberal share of the patronage than
they. Other from being a tine
business man, Mr. Harwell is al¬
ways progressive in his ideas, alert
m the interest of the town, in
which he resides, and he deserves
your patronage, Mr. Harwell will
be in the eastern markets about
three weeks.
GRAND AND
TRAVERSE JURORS
Drawn for September Term of
Newton Superior Court by
Judge Roan.
The following named persons
were drawn to serve as Traverse
Jurors for September term, 1908,
Newton Superior Court, to-wit:
E H Lewis Jno W Robertson
G W Avery J T Wilson
R E Lee W R Morgan
Otis Hardeman R I Weaver
R F Jackson E H Adams
C H White J Tom Morgan
J W Morgan G D Sammons
L W Jarman S B Fuller
I N Vaughn R D Dial
B M Leach VV H Boggus
W J Cook J F Fiqurtte
E L King W H Edwards
J L Smith J H Childs
Leonidas Loyd W H Sharp
B G Guinn T E Speer
The following named persons
were drawn to serve as Grand Ju¬
rors fci September term 1908 New¬
ton Superior Court, to-wit:
W H Ogletree J L Epps
J W F Park W LtJibsop
G O Livingston R W Campbell
W R King A N Hays
F D Ballard M B Sockwell
G W Hill I V/ Meadors
J B Ellington A C Belcher
0 W Jackson C E Cook
T W Hicks J W Giles
T G Calloway C U Skinner
L P Duke A S Floyd
H B Meadors W A Ellington
A C Heard A II Smith
J W Sockwell W A Ballard
N H Piper A S Murray
W T Milner P D Coffee
R G Franklin J C Mills
J H Echols W M Parker
Tent Meeting in Progress
The tent meeting being held on
the college campus here is largely
attended. Many of the stores have
closed during the days in order
that the proprietors and clerks can
attend the services. Much inter
est is taken in every meeting. Sev
eral additions to the church have
been made. Rev. W. E. Venable
who is in charge of each service is
preaching some forceful and in¬
structive sermons. The song ser¬
vices are conducted by Mr. P. C.
Coleman and those who attend are
listening to some of as good sing¬
ing as was ever heard in this city.
The services at the tent meeting
will close, we learn, next Sunday
night.
Col. King Opens Office Here.
Col. C. C. King, son of Mr. A.
L. King of this county, and a
graduate of Emory College, class
of 1900, has opened a law office
here in the Star building, and will
enter actively into the practice of
his piofession.
Col. King is also a graduate of
the law class of the University of
Georgia with high honors. He
was chosen as one of of the two
speakers for commencement exer¬
cises, out of a class of probably
fifty, is a high compliment to a
scholar and one that we believe
Col. King truly deserved.
It gives this paper unlimited
pleasure to speak of this promis¬
ing young attorney, and to re¬
commend him to the services of
those in need of his profession.
His card appears elsewhere in this
issue.
Excursion To lybee, Ga., Sept.
3, 1908, Via Central of
Georga Railway
$5.00 round trip. Return limit
September 8. 1908 Train leaves
Covington at 9,07 A. M. Arrives
Savannah 6:50 P. M., Tybee 8:00
P. M. same day.
For fmther information apply
to J. P. Byne Ticket Agent Cov¬
ington Ga.
The Label on Your Paper.
Watch your label, we are not able
To stand the agony around our
table
NEWTON’S TAX
INCREASE $121,170.
With an Increase in the Tax
Returns for 1908, Every Line
°f Business Prospering.
Tax Receiver J. F. Lunsford has
just finished compiling the tax re¬
turns for Newton county, which
show a gain over 1907 of $121 >•
170.00. lhi9 gain coming at a
time when financial depression has
been talked from one end of the
country to the other, speaks in the
highest terms of the growth and
prosperity of Newton cohuty, while
some other counties ci the state
have fallen off so much as to cause
considerable comment and a prob¬
able investigation by their re¬
spective tax equalizers: only a few r
districts in the county show a
decrease. Cedar Shoals shows a
decrease of nearly $00,000.00.
This is the only district that we
can say where the valuation of
property has decreased at ali-the
same property given m but a de¬
crease fn value.
In the town district, it will be
noticed that an increase of over
$90,000,00 is made, and still we
have property not given in at any
thing like its real value.
In Newton county there are
100,822 acres of land, and the
aggregate value of this land given
in for taxes so $1,284,215, or an
average of a little less than $8.00
per acre. Now where is any land
in Newton county which can be
bought for anythiug like $8.00 per
acre? The average price paid for
all the land sold in this county,
where we have had any knowledge
at-all of the sale, has been from
$18 00 to $80.00 per acre.
It is quite an iu'eresting study to
look over the tax collector’s books,
and it also fills one’s ire, as the
facts and figures there disclose the
honest poor paying the bulk of the
taxes. Here is one man, a renter
that toils in an official and pro¬
fessional capacity early and late
and life has meted out but a
meager competence, yet he pays
more of his part of the taxes of
the state and county. While
others right near hy, all owners of
town property and possessore
of many broad acres, with money
out at interest and houses, we
know, as well furnished as money
can furnish them, and there per¬
sonal taxes are-—well, look on the
tax books and see for yourself.
There ought to be a remedy for this
but it has ever been thus, yet there
is no reason that it should ever be
thus in this age of reform, but as
for the remedy that matter is open
for discussion.
Within the past eight years the
taxable property in Newton county
has increased from $2,888,000, to
$4,950,000, or nearly GO per cent.
Below we give the taxable prop¬
erty given in from each malitia
district by both the whites and
colored:
WHITE COL.
Town $1,080,242, $78,440
Oxford, 200,017, 19,085
Gum Creek, 122,040, 18,204
Wyatt, 38,1904, 8,029
Brick Store, 127,000, 21,740
Newborn 224,038, 17,021
Mansfield 278,819, 18,283
Hays, 201,737, 17,170
Gaithers, 32,201, 0,1 i i
Brewers, 87,471, 2,171
Legutn, 104,223, 13,809
Rocky Plains, 100,900, 12,430
Downs, 104,005, 7,851
Stansells, 200,947, 14,798
Ctdar Shoals, 456,467, 19,085
$4,803,573 265,885
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LOST
On or near Floyd street last Sun¬
day, a child’s gold bracelet. Fin¬
der will be rewarded if bracelet is
returned to The Enterprise office.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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FINE STATIONARY
Soap, Toilet Articles, Fine Cigars and Tobacco- Our
Mr. Archer will smile and thank you for each niche! tha
you spend.
For the Best Soda Water and other drinks at our
Fountain, made of from the very best Fruits and Syrups,
drawn from a clean fount into clean glasees, our Mr..
Camp will fix a good cold one and invite you to call
again.
Geo. T. Smith
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C. C- KING
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office 18 Star Building, Covington, Georgi ia.