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VOL. 45. NO. 25
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SALEM CAMP MEETING
Ministers and Workers Who
Will Conduct the Services
By REV. W. O. BUTLER.
The camp meeting for 1909 will opei
vriri'iv night August 6th and will con
tinue to the ’l 3 th. Efforts will be made
™ n make it an evengelistic camp,run
i, y jn the interest of the sal-
7 'ation of souls. iii All making who attend it a time are
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f salvation people and get
Let the come a
blessing and help to impart one to
others. ministers who will be
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worshippers. They are both
enced workers along evangelistic ones
and will help along other lines be
sides singing.
Mr. Haines will have charge of the
choir and music of the entire camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Haines have held ser
vices in nearly every government
prison in the United States from New
York to San Francisco r-d have had
great success in prison work. In 1907
they were appointed by the govern
or of Ohio as delegates at large to
the National Prisons Congress, from
Pistol Toting As Seen by Sam Snip
By SAM SNIP.
I think my own thoughts, express
my own opinion about a thing, put it
down as it strikes me and I am re
sponsible for what I write.
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STOSS'. V? ^TEool.
MLa!t nt r n pT,r«»
test of mankind they make their mis-
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maon, are throw,, to them.
Ah big a fool as I am I think I
can point out one evil they can rem
«dy and help the state of Georgia,
and that is the evil ot pistol toting.
It I were to tell it around that I had
found a ferocious lion in a certain
swamp I could get the aid of a hum
died me;, m two hours to help me ki
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ons as a fool with his stomach full
of liquor and a pocket full of pis
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(Fntlemem of the legislature, if you
v. an ' r st6p; Jth^3 evil do like Sam Jones
said do the bull—slow it up.
The very idea of as ignorant a
e?
The Lowest Market Prices
Are always to be had of us in Bed Room,
Parlor, Dining Room, Kitchen and Office
Furniture. fjLawn Swings, Porch goods, ; ! j
Matting, Rugs, Art squares, cook stoves, ! 1
Refrigerators, Ice Chests, Ice Cream
- freezers, Fireless cookers
Everything that make Home place of comfort. !
goes to your o ]
Our Undertaking department the best j
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city having the only Licensed Embalmef. 1
Everitts Furniture Store.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
present are the following:
Dr. C. E. Dowman, presiding elder.
Rev. W. O. Butler, preacher in
charge.
Rev. Ford McRee, of Milledgeville.
Rev. H. M. Quillian, of Covington.
Rev. H. F. Branham, of Conyers,
Rev. H. C. Christian, of Barnes
ville.
Rev. T. J. Christian, of Gainesville. j
These able ministers will give va- |
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to the pulpit ministrations.
In addition to these ministers,Rev. i
L - B - Haines and wife, Mrs. Kather- i
’.no Raines, of. it. Louis, M~ uin
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be present to add to the interest of
the meeting in their gospel duets, in
which they, charm any audience of
that, state. They have just toured
the states of Missouri and Texas in
evangelistic services and are at pres
ent in Northwest Georgia in a revi
val meeting,
Preceding the camp meeting a pro
traded meeting will be held in Salem
church, beginning Sunday night July]
25th, to run a, week. In this meeting
Rev. Haines and wife will assist the
pastor. Everybody is invited to be
present,
W. O. Butler, Pastor.
race as the tree negro carrying a
deadly weapon concealed about his
person whenever and wherever he
pleases! less
I have seen them in rags with
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gentleman had no use for one.”
\yken I was a boy what I did
not know wou id have made a big
book, ’ I bought a pistol and as soon
as m y father found it out he told me
if l thought I had enough enemies
t6 make it necessary to take a pistol
witb me for protection to stay at
home 1 took his advice, the first
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t ime 1 found a fellow who had less
seuse than I had I maaehim a pres- ]
ent of it and that hasbeen my last [
ownership of a pistoL
Last summer while I was in South
Georgia I met a cultured lady who
had six children to provide for. Her
COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY JULY 16 1909.
ln pT n?t r T, A T | 8 G nd
Rally in the Interest of Good o d
Roads will Be Held Then.
The date fixed, for the big gath
ering suits all.
The farmers wil be through with
their work and a day off will do them
good.
At least 5,000 people should con¬
gregate in Covington on the 18th
of August for a general old fash¬
ioned friendly talk on the subject
of good roads for Newton.
The issue is before us and me must
rise to meet it.
Farmers’ Union Endorses Bond Issue
At a meeting of the Newton
Farmers’ Union held this week in
Covington strong and hearty endorse¬
ment was given to the proposed is
suance of bonds for good roads by
the adoption of ....... the following .» >3
resolutions:
Whereas, There is at present a
movement on foot in this county for
good roads, and
Whereas, We believe that a bond
Endorses Bond Issue
By R. P. LESTER.
I have read with a great deal of
interest the opinions of the various
gentlemen who have discussed the
Good Roads question.
Do the people of Newton county
want good roads ?
I think every one will say—
YES.
Then how are we to get them?
Will they cost us much?
YES.
How are we to raise the money?
I am in no sense a financier, or th<
son of one, therefore I am willing to
let other men (who have made a suc¬
cess with finances) think for me.
It seems to me that the only so¬
lution of the question is to issue a
sufficient amount of bonds to in¬
sure the county good roads.
This cannot but equally affect .the
tax payers. The man who has the
most property will pay the most tax
in the form of interest and money
with which to redeem the bonds, and
the man who has less property will
have less of the extra tax to pay.
Then, too, the next generation w,ill
, d father „ ma“ild lim _ n , hor
history ‘ She a youna man
SinS j d cir T ’ °° k to
and one day while on a
drunk pulled out a pistol and shot
a man down. His wife spent all they
had on him and after it was
SothTS he was sent M nn 'Tx for lifo
and was then doing business in
Chattahoochee brick yard, As I
looked on those little children and
heard this pathetic story my
was melted to tears. On and on sucl
cases can be enumerated
Gentlemen of the legislature.come
to our relief, put a tax on pistols
or send every owner to the chain
gang and let him stay there.
I have heard too many sad stories
caused by pistols, but no more than
you have.
Gentlemen,think of it and act.Think
of , my . boy, your boy and the rest
of mankind.Do something to purify
this poisonous stream of evil that is
carrying a deadly drug down stream,
Where a pistol has saved one man’s
life it has made a thousand
and orphi 3 You can CL it, and
it is your CL to do it. O to make
an earnest effort.
Sam Snip.
Life 100,000 Years Ago.
Scientists have found in a cave in
Switzerland 100,000 bones of men, w ho livid
years ago, w-hen life was in
constant danger from wild
Today the danger, as shown by A. W
Brown of Alexander, Me., is'largelv
from deadly disease. “If it
been for Dr. King's New Discovery,
which cured me, I could not have Uv
he writes, "suffering as I did
from a severe hing trouble and stub
born cough.To cure Sore Lungs.colds
obstinate Coughs, and prevent Pneu
monia its the best medicine on earth.
50c and $1.00. Guaranteed by C. C.
Brooks and Geo. T. Smith.
Good roads are coming and it won’t
do for Newton to lao behind.
Tell your neighbors when you meet
them about the great rally on the
18th of August.
There is no reason why Covington
should not be crowded with enthusi
astic good roads advocates on that
day.
Let the word pass along—
j TO COVINGTON ON THE 18th DAY
I OF AUGUST 5,000 STRONG.
issue would supply money to give us
good roads,
RESOLVED, That we are heartily
in favor of this movement if the
whole plan of issuing bonds and
si'ending the money is wisely car
rieJ cut in a business like way.
G. Q. Livingston,
President.
R. P. Boyd, ’
Secretary.
have most of it to pay. And will
they object to doing something that
will prove one df the greatest bless¬
ings a county can enjoy?
I think not.
I desire to express my commendation
of your editorial on the subject, as
one of the best utterances I have
read. We haVe demonstrated that
under our -present system we will
hardly live to enjoy good roads.
All honor to the County Commis¬
sioners who are doing the best they
can with the limited means at their
disposal, but let us, the citizens of
the best county in the state, come to
their relief and put in their hands
enough money to enable them to put
every road in the county in first
class condition.
That a bond issue is the only pos¬
sible solution of this important ques¬
tion I am fully convinced.
Keep the agitation up until the
sentiment shall crystalize on good
roads first, and a bond issue as a
means thereto.
R. P. Lester.
A FINK PROGRAM
Below will be found the program of
the Sunday School Convention of the
Central Association to be held with
New ***$&£!£$ *** ^
9;30 and » a ise service. R.
L. Oxford, J. M. Davis.
10 Enrollment of delegates and or¬
ganizations. sermon—Rev. Geo.
11 Convention
W. Garner.
12 Adjournment for dinner.
1:30 Report trom schools by rep
resentatfves.
2.30 The Teacher that’s Worth
While—Dr. Joe Broughton. Discussio
and adjourn.near
THURSDAY.
9:30 Prayer and Praise service—
j. b. Harris, L .L Mercer
10 The Country Sunday School,sue
cessiul and why?—Geo. W. Andrews,
Jim Newman and others.
11 .Broader view' of Sunday school
work—Dr. Joe Broughton.
12 Aujourn for one hour.
1 Business session, reports of com
mittees and vice presidents.
1:30 Demonstration or primar
work—By one w r ho knows how.
2 Our boys. What are you going
L° Sun do uay ab scho01 ^ \ hem as as an a indBid cb ^’, «- 11 a8 and a
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General discussion led by Geo. W.
Annie ws.
Superintendents are earnestly re
quested to fill out statistic blanks
6ent tbem and return same by mail or
messenger to
T. J. Chaffin, Sec..
Mansfieiu. Ga.
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tIe Dr. and Wilson, Mrs J. and A.Wright Mrs. George and lit- C. j
son
Carr visited Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Davis at Monticello this wYek. Dr.
Wright returned Tuesday and the
others Wednesday .
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
WROVEMENTS TN RELIGIOUS
MATTERS IN NEWTON COUNTY
By REV. GEO. W. YARBROUGH.
My attention will be confined to
the Methodist church because I know
more of it than of the the others,
as it relates to the times about which
I shall write.
In the early fifties, and later, the
Oxford Circuit extended from the
Brick Store east to Conyers and Eben
ezer west, in one direction, and from
Red Oak to Philadelphia in the other
direction.The names of the churches
stood as follows:
Oxford, Shiloh,Sardis, Mount Tabor,
Philadelphia, Brick Store, Starrsville,
Newborn, Red Oak, Salem, Prospect,
Ebenezer. Middlebrook, Conyers, Ce¬
dar Shoals or Liberty. There were
other preaching places, not regular
appeintmer-.s, where we were ex¬
pected to hold forth while resting.
Week day preaching was the order
of the day, and the local preacher
taking part, we were able to cover
the ground.
Think of LaPrade, or Quillian, or
Henrv Branham, or Butler, on such a
circuit, with a junior striker, now!
One blessed advantage we eujoy
ed then was that, in hot weather
like we are having now, when study
ing was a task, we could repeat our
sermons without being caught. A
sermon preached at Brick Store,for
instance, could be carried across to
Conyers, and be new to everybody,
and so the same sermon could do
good service at Red Oak and at P t T II
adelphia.
I have heard of a Methodist preach
er who reared a family on four ser
mon s.His preaching places must have
been scattering like they were in
Newton.
The junior preacher then was an
institution. The preachers in charge
were expected to take charge of the
juniors and teach them good man
ners and how to preach. One of the
old brethren went with me to one
of my appointments to see how
I was getting along in the business.
I insisted on his preaching, stating
that, expecting him, I had made no
preparation. He said something
about the Spirit filling my mouth,
etc., and I had to do the best I
could.
This was one way the old preach¬
ers had of breaking the younger ones.
They treated us like the big boys
used to teach the small boys how to
swim. They would build a raft out
of slabs, —♦ the boys on it, float
SNAPPING SHOALS SUNDAY
SCHOOL CELEBRATION PROGRAM.
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SMITH WILL SPEAK
Below lx the program oT the Snap
ping and S ri,ir,“tr«rh.^“ of
in the grove near the residence
S. W. G. Lummus, on Wednesday
August 4, 1909:
10 Song by all— Coronation.
Prayer—Rev. John B. Gordon.
Welcome address—T. L. Lummus.
Response—Col. A. H. Foster.
Singing contest by various schools
each school being allowed two
1 Bethany.
2 County Line.
3 Hopewell.
4 Liberty,
5 Lovejoy.
6 Prospect.
7 Sardis.
8 Snapping Shoals.
it out into the middle of the mill¬
pond, sink it and wash us off and
theu make us pull for the shore,
keeping close enough to prevent our
drowning Many a youngster has had
to learn to preach that way.
Helps of one sort and, another,have
n ie.plied until the young preachers,
are at out as shiny those days with
a ten uk the older ones.
We note wonderful improvement in.
cam. it i.i.iitcnes and p;u socages. In
my first ilay J it: Newton sin re was
not a tarsonage in the county. A
pr. acker was expected to.preach like
thunder and lightning and find him¬
self in such matters. Some churches
were built of logs, with cracks thru
them which you could have thrown
a fico dog and such a thing as a
stove 'n winter was considered un
I parliamentary, it not irreligious,and
i sure to give people a cold. The ne-
1 groes now have better churches than
we had then and they too, following
our example, are providing comfort
able homes for their preachers,
The. way to ascertain what our bless
ed religion is doing in any partic
ular locality, is to look hack over a
hah century and more,
I was licensed to preach in the old
frame building that stood where the
Methodist church in Covington now
shinds. It had two front door en
trances and an old style pulpit
standing between. This was in the
summer of 1857'. In sweeping over
the past my memory frequently folds
] its wings over Covington and many
other sacred spots and scenes adja
ceut of which The Enterprise may
hear when the thermometer marks a
lower degree.
1 will say, before putting down my
pen, that the preachers of Coving¬
ton are acting wisely in rallying to
one church,when Sunday night comes
this hot weather; and bunch your
singers and have at least a half doz¬
en songs. The people will stand any;
sort of preaching these hot nights,
if it falls inside of thirty-five minute*
ana has lots of good singing to help
it out.
In my first days in Covington there
was but one congregation.unless there
was one on the hill, across the creek,
west, represented, by a large frame
building, taken down years ago, and
owned, if memory is not at fault,
ly the Primitive Baptists.
Geo. W. Yarbrough.
Rome, Ga.
Annual addre.s-Hon. Hoke Smith.
Oinner
2 Literary exerc s e
Music. >r G. A*
Declamation To the Liouo,
j Woodruff. Industrial Education—e. „ L. r King
Music.
Address Rural School Improve
men t_Prof. J. O. Martin,
Address Bond Issue for Good Roads
' W. L. Jarman.
! Music.
The Old South and the New—Ben
i | Hicks Woodruff.
Address “Silence”—E. H. Jordan.
Music.
Benediction.