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u Yj 6 THE ENTERPRISE
VOL. 45. NO. 23
]t]^VR IN MIND l Many People Read THE ENTERPRISE Who Do Not See Any Other Newton County Paper 1
ETTER DAYS, AS SEEN
BY DR. G. W. YARBROUGH
Dear Brother and Editor Snow: —
The Enterprise has found me in my
u iet little study up here among the
,
■ills, and rivers, and railroads and
Jctories of Rome. laid aside your last is-
1 have just
, ue for another reading.
' and later fifties Cov
in the earlier
jjgton had a paper published and edi¬
ted by a queer, but genial and sensi¬
ble gentleman by the name of Be
ee—a Hardshell Baptist preacher.
He irradiated from an office in his
rivate home in the forks of the road
rest of Covington,about a mile,where
ne fork of the road went to what is
10 w Porterdale and the other to
irown’s bridge on Yellow river. I
luppose the two forks lead the same
m yet, having heard nothing to the
jontrary.. jso ourHardshell brethren the pi
were
meets of Covington journalism.They
dazed your way. You are in the sue
(ession except in creed and water,
[he Hardshells were here all over our
and and country before we were,
md as far as I am concerned. I am
pilling for a “remnant according to
he election of grace” to remain,
i Mr.Lamb, the friend of my boyhood
ind the friend of my boyhood friends
L'ho owned guns, and hunted birds,
buir-rels and rabbits, was a gunsmith
nd had a shop not far from Mr.
ees piiming office and t at stoo
3 r the manufacturing business of Cov
ngton. I rode through the hot
•0H1 Oxford,in 1900,to visit the dear
Id man at his home on Yellow river
everal miles awrny from his home
1 my boyhood. His sun was getting
own behind the trees, and I take
; that he is now gone.
There was little shade in Covington
l those days—a few scattering mul
erry, locust and china trees, with an
WELVE MONUMENTAL LAWS!
A review of the work of the so
alled "reform” administration,which
as now come to a close, shows that
lany important enactments have been
laced upon the statute books by the
fgislature, many of them the result
t the recommendations of Governor
imith. Indeed, it Is doubtful if dur
kg any other administration of re
years have so many important |
been enacted and it maybe year.
ethe general assembly of 1907
has an equal in this respect.
It is of interest to enumerate sonat
t the legislative accomplishments of
ie last two years, not only because
I their importance, but because sev
■al of them will be subject of agi
ition at the present session of the
eneral assembly. Below appears an
(complete list of the general laws:
1- The disfranchisement law, de
Bng the venal and vicious negroes
le right to vote.
-■ The railroad commission law,
Marging the powers of the board, in
feasing its duties and membership.
! The prohibition law.
1 The new registration law,which
pis late. to purify the elections of the
It requires registration six
onths in advance of primaries and
r uon . at the time when taxes are
f
The Lowest Market Prices
Are always to be had of us in Bed Room,
Parlor, Dining R oom* Kitchen and Office
Furniture. tJLawn Swings, Porch goods*
Matting, Rugs, Art squares, cook stoves,
Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Ice Gream
freezers* Fireless cookers
Everything that g oes to make your Home o place of comfort.
Our Undertaking department the best in
c ity having the only Licensed Embalmer.
Everitts Furniture Store.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY JULY 2 1909.
occasional survivor of the original for
est.but Covington is growing beau¬
tiful in trees. Keep that work going.
“A Queer Will Is This,” was the
last article inTheEnterprise read this
morning. Can’t we induce some
more men,endowed like that man was
to go crazy and be carried to an asy¬
lum? Some men who go crazy have¬
n’t far to go, but that man’s route
was a long one—meandering through
smiling landscapes, along gurgling
streams, and beneath the wild laugh |
of cataracts and in the shade of ma¬
jestic mountains and through entranc¬
ing solitude of forests, sweet scented
by the flowers that had lavished their
blessings upon him.
What is it to be insane How can
a man, who has discarded the strat- j
um of the brute and has soared into
the realm of the beautiful, and the
spiritual—laid out for him by God
himself—miss being insane as men
count insanity? If he adopts the role
of a grub-worm and crawls through a,
manure pile to the top of it buoyant
from the inspiration it affords him,
and elated by his success,we call him
thrifty, if not a philosopher, and let
him stay at home.
Dr. Robert Hall, one of the great¬
est pulpit orators England ever pro¬
duced, was carried to an insane asy¬
lum. A water-join ted, saucer-eyed, pos
sum -headed ass walked up to him one
: day Rnd observed;
Dr ’ Hal1 ' You here? What
| brou S ht 5™ here? ”
i The noble quietly the
man threw
shadow of his great brow upon the
t
poor creature s face and gently re
j plied.
“What you never had—brains!”
_
! Geo. W. Yarbrough.
Rome, Ga., June 28, 1909.
5. The abolition of the convict
lease system and the placing of the
convicts on the public roads of the
state.
6. The new primary election law,
which requires that all nominations
for state house and membership in the
legislature be held the same davand
that no primary be held more than 60
days before the election.
7. a law requiring candidates to
make sworn statements of their cam
paign expenses, showing where the
money came from .
8. A law to prohibit corporations
from contributing to the campaign
funds of the office seekers.
9- The parole bill, authorizing the
recognition of merit and good beha
vior among convicts.
10. The juvenile court bill, provid
ing for the trial and aiming to reform
youthful offenders.
11. The ‘‘near-beer’’ tax, which has
already netted the state over $220,
000.
12- A law to establish a tuberculo
sis hospital.
It has ben stated that the new
legislature would endeavor to amend
the new registration law. and possi
bly r f p ? al il ., in J ts entiret . J ’
by reducing the membership of the
board from five to three.
SKATING CARNIVAL
TONIGHT
Much interest centers about the
Skating Carnival which will be given
this evening at the Rink under the
auspices of the First Circle for the
library building fund.
It will be a fancy dress affair, no
one being allowed on the floor ex
cept those in fancy costume. Mr. J.
H. Echols will personally manage the
floor and a committee of prominent
gentlemen will act as judges,awarding
the prizes for:
The best girl skater under 12 years
Best boy skater under 14.
Most graceful couple of boys and
girls under 14 years.
Best young lady skater.
Best young man skater.
Most graceful couple, young man
and young lady.
Each contest will be allowed fifteen
minutes.
Punch will be served small throughout fee, Mrs. the j
evening for a very j
Otis Adair serving in a graceful way
this delightful beverage.
In every way much social interest
is attached to the affair, which prom
ises to be a particularly artistic event I
Skating will begin at 8 o’clock. Ad
mission, children 10 cents, adults,
15 cents.
CLUB HARD AT !
|
WORK ALREADY
With two representative students
canvass j n g the state during the sum
mer - n the lntere st of the college.the
Q re£der Emory Club, an undergradu
ate organization of Emory college, is
wor king hard for the advancement of
the co n e ge’s interests.T. O. Marshall
of Cedartown.who will travel in north
Georgia in the interest, of Emory, ar¬
rived in Atlanta yesterday,and leaves
for Acworth htis morning to enter
his summer campaign.The other rep¬
resentative is Evans V. Heath, of Gi¬
rard, who began work last week, and
is reporting progress from Mlllen and
Tennille, where he has stopped.Both
representatives are members of the
1909 class and are well fitted for the
work they are engaged in.—Atlanta
Constitution.
Attention Sir Knights.
The regular meeting of St. Bernard
Commandry No. 25, K. T. will be heli
in the Asylum on the nightofJuly 6th.
The order of the. Temple will be
conferred.
R. P. Lester, E. C.
J. W. Peek, Recorder.
MOTHER £ CIRCLE TO
MFFT lflEiEiI i FRIDAY IvILrr\ 1
,
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[q rs . q a Franklin will entertain
thg Mothers Circle at its regular
meeting next Friday afternoon, July 9
and tbe occas j on promises to be both
de ijghtful and helpful.
A most attractive program has been
arranged under the able
rection of Mrs. R. R. Fowler and Mrs
Dean Towers, who include the pro
gram committee.
The following questions will furnish
the basis of a very attractive study
1. Does the home exoect too much
from the school?
2. What are the most important rt
suits of manual training for boys?
3. How are girls helped by a knowl
edge of domestic science?
4.How are the qualities of concen
tration, attention and perseverance
developed by training?
5. A reading—"Teaching Children
to Be Useful.”
6.1s mental discipline increased by
manual training?
7. Has a college education a tend
ency to make girls dissatisfied with
home duties?
8. What are the chief benefits
of teaching girls domestic science?
9. The College Bred Woman as a
Wife and Mother.
10 . What is the effect of the high
! er education of women on the home?
Generous Gift.
The many pretty rugs that add
SO much to the attractiveness of the
Library's new home were graciously
donated by Mr. C. A. Harwell. For
1 this beautiful generosity the ladies
of the club extend their sincere
thanks.
THE PLAN TO GET
GOOD ROADS
Editor Enterprise:
la last week’s Enterprise, by re
quest, I gave you an article intended
to awaken interest and arouse en
thusiasm upon the subject of GOOD
ROADS in Newton county. Now for
the plan.
To build good, PERMANENT roads
throughout the county, and monej
spent in building any other kind of
roads is money wasted—will require
money—lots of money.
When the Federal government needs
money; when any of the states of the
Union need money; when railroads
need money; when cities need money
when corporations of any and every
kind—the biggest and shrewd
est concerns in all the country—need
money, what?
They get the money needed by is¬
suing bonds; and money obtained by
low rate of interest, the cheapest
money that can be had; and hence
they issue bonds as a sound, sensible
profitable business transaction; and
thus they get the money needed and
accomplish their purposes,
As those who will come after us
for years and years to come, will en
joy and get incalculable benefit from
the good, permanent roads that we
build, isn’t it fair and just and right
and reasonable, that they should help
pay for them? Why not? Is there,
and can there be, anything wrong, in
asking a man to help pay for what he
enjoys, what gives him pleasure and
greatly benefits him, and what saves
him money and time and the most
vexations and worry?
The more shoulders you put under a
burden the lighter the burden becomes j
Put enough shoulders under it, and it
will cease absolutely, to be a bur
den.
John B. Davis.
ROAD SIGNS TO
BE ERECTED SOON
St. Elmo Massengale, who is pres¬
ident of the Massengale Advertising
Agency, of Atlanta, Ga., is an enthusi
astic automobilist, and has toured ovt
the state a good deal in his car. He
has arranged to get up signs for the
county commissioners of the various
counties and automobile clubs over
Georgia, whereby all cross-roads will
have signs regarding distances and
directions.
The Massnegale Advertising Agency
makes a specialty of advertising ot
billboards, signs, etc.
THE HALL OF FAME
Judge Jacob M. Dickinson,Secretary
of War, Is th ebset story teller in the
Cabinet set.
Senor Nabuco the Brazilian Ambass
ador, is the star orator of the Am
bassadorial bunch.
-
Professor WJ McGee, who investi
gates soil erosions for the govern
ment, gets mad every time his name
is printed \V. J. McGee. He says he
was christened WJ, and that is ail
the front name he has.
Henry Gassaway Davis,former
j tor from West Virginia, former Dem
ocratie nominee for Vice-Prse: lent,
who has so many millions he doesn’t
j know what to do. is eighty-six and
j spry as a lad of forty.
It’s a tie beteween Assistant Secre
j t ary McHarg. of the Department of
Commerce, and Assistant Secretary
j Nortec, of the Treasury Department,
las to who is the best looking of the
new administration men.
Franklin Adams, assistant director o
, the Bureau ot American Republics.has
■ visited, explored and otherwise trav-
1 eled through every one of the
i C an republics.except Haiti, and he is
going there this summer just to com
pi e the list.
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Lawn Party.
Mrs. George T. Wells entertained
; about forty young boys and girls out
° n the lawn of her beautiful colo
n * a ^ home last Monday afternoon in
honor of little Miss Edna Tompkins,
* of Helena.
Punch was served and a most on
joyable time was experienced by
! present.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
LIBRARY BUILDING OPENED
WITH BRILLIANT RECEPTION
The removal of the Library from
its rented quarters in the Clark build
ing into its OWN home on Coliege-st.
was celebrated Wednesday afternoon
in a particularly happy way by a pret
reception given by the Womans
Club to the public.
The reception was of special interest
from the fact that it marks the formal
opening of the Clubs own HOME for
the library it many months ago open¬
ed free to the public—an established
feature in the esthetic life of the
city.
This opening of the library’s own
home emphasizes one of fhe most am¬
bitious enternrises ever undertaken by
am- womans organization and it stands
today as a memorial of indomitable
energy and devoted efforts on the part
of the members of the Womans Club
and as an outpost of future devel¬
opment.
The project of the Womans Club
owning its own home for the library
was only actively launched two monhs
ago when the purchase of its home
was consummated at an indebted
ness of ;750.This debt has been reduc
ed $3to in two months
and the various Circles, which include
FOR BETTER MORALS-SAM SNIP
I have long wanted to see the day
when we could say in truth that
the morals of our land were better.
When I was a boy I said I did not
believe God would suffer such a curs#
as liquor was to stay always.
When I open the book of my child¬
hood and turn back the pages of my
first memory I see log huts and steep
hill sides, at the foot of which ran
clear brooks, filled with minnows and
pebbles.
As I chased the little minnows down
the mt , e wlnding stream how often y
would i itlle fruit still! i
run upon a j
There was no thing thought of. it.
T;here was no tax or revenue derived j
from it m ^ re than a fanner would ,
have to pay on his sorghum syrup of
j his own make now.
! Who did I find at those stills?
I found men who called themselves
fathers and husbands, who should
have been i n one of those huts on the
hillside discharging his duty as such.
Often he would carry away a sup
ply 0 f pea ch brandy, get drunk, sober
up and send his ten year old boy
back after another supply.
While this was going on his pure,
noble and Christian wife and grown
up daughters were living on hard
and scanty diet, running a spinning j
wheel and the loom. I hear the
old wheel, the shuttles and bobbins
now. I
| How hard and faithfully they worked
! to get out that bolt of cloth to send
to a prosperous farmer who sent
j back the ready cash to be turned
meat and bread to feed that husband
who ought to have been in the chain
j gang.
There were four stills within one
mile of where I spent my boyhood
days and I wish many of the scenes
and incidents were blotted out of my
memory. I saw a five gallon jug of
j brandy get bursted one day and a
j Young man get down on his knees
and drink out of a cow track until he
was beastly drunk.
Spend'the Day Party.
A most delightful affair of last
week was that at which Miss Essie;
Jordan entertained a spend the day j
party at her pretty home on Church
street, in honor of her school girl
friends. Those enjoying the hos
pitality of this charming young hos- j
tess were Misses Emih- Melton, of j
Oxford, Annie Mae Lester, Christine j
" bite and Gladys Lee. i
!
Successful Sales.
The mammoth sale which has been
going on at W. Cohen’s dry goods 1
store has netted an intreesting sum :
for the ladies of the Fourth Circle to
.
the building fund committee are now
rapidly raising the remainder of the
amount.
For the substantial encouragement:
that the building fund committee has
on every hand met with the ladies
feel most grateful. Truly the people
of the city have esteemed it a priv¬
ilege to respond liberally to the erdi
that the sum now lacking will he
speedily made up, and this splendid!
institution given a free right-of-way
to further usefulness—an insitutioi*
which Covington may juslv regard:
as one of the chief jewels of her
civic crown.
The opening was a beautiful occa¬
sion socially as well as "hilanthropi
cally. The library rooms had been
made beautiful and fragrant with quan¬
tities of cut flowers combined with
graceful ferns arranged in vases and
bowls with artistic effect everywhere,
A delicious fruit punch was serv¬
ed throughout the reception hours
by Mrs. C.A. Sockwell. Many visitors
thronged the attractive quarters an<6
to each and all Covington may say
in the language of Sir Christonhwr
Wren’s enitaph around the dome of St
Paul's, “If you would see her mon¬
ument, look around you."
1 saw a man take his shot gun ant*
chase his twelve year old boy thra
the woods. The poor little fellow
lay out until late in the night, went
home, his precious mother slipped
his supper to him, that brute of a
father sobered up about midnight
and took that boy out of bed and
alarmed the neighborhood by beat¬
ing him nearly to death.
I have known men to lay around
those stills when their children could
not go to school for the want of a
book.
j have known them to work there
and take every penny of their wages
in brandy when there was not a
dust of m eal, flour or pound of meat
home.
I have known them to work their
children in these stills and take all
their wages in peach brandy.
I could go on and write a book of
many pages—and I think sometimes
I will—on this line, but I have given
these facts to bear me out in saying
the moral standard is growing higher.
and no one is being more benefited
by it than I am, because with God’s
help, I am trying to do my duty in
raising five sons.
I have not drawn any extreme pic
mres in the above statements, and
have living witnesses to prove it.
After having such early and lasting
impressions can anyone blame me
j or bating liquor?
Still, the morals of our land and
country are not up to a proper stand
ard yet wben boys are allowed to
arry pistols and cards and use one
or both on the Sabbath day or any
other day and place they choose and
go unpunished.
The hope of our country lies in our
boys and it is our duty, and a sa¬
cred duty we owe them.to do our part
toward fitting and preparing them for
the responsibilities that lay out be
fore them . But thank God for what
has been done.
Sam Snip.
whom .Mr. Cohen graciously donated
five per cent of each day's receipts
for the library fund.
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six O’Clock Dinner,
A delightful event of last week was
the six o’clock dinner at which Miss
Mary Carter entertained at her at¬
tractive home on Wednesday evening
in honor of Mrs. James Carithers, of
Athens. Those present were Mr. and
Mrs. James Carithers. of Athens, Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Corley and Dr. and
Mrs. J. A. Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Downs annou^t
the birth of a son.