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SOCIAL LIFE IN OXFORD
Social and News Happenings Among die Peo
pie Covington’s Sister City.
Airs. Nannie Hudson, who has been
visiting Miss Lynn Branham, has
continued her visit to Eatonton,where
she is ilie guest of relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. Tom Ellis and sons,
of Macon, are the guests of Mrs.
Wynn.
The many friends of Miss I ; annic
Singleton will be glad to know tha
she will be in Oxford in a few davt
whore she will be the guest oi
friends.
Judge and Mrs. H. E. W. Palmer
of Atlanta, spent last Saturdaj
and Sunday in Oxford, the guests
of Judge and Mrs. J. W. Branham.
Miss Leonora Smith, after a visit
of several weeks in Oxford, the
guest of her brother Prof. Rembert
Smith, has returned to her home in
Atlanta.
*
Mrs. John S. A T oore and Aliss Alary
Hill Moore are in Norton-, Va.
Mrs. Dr. W. F. Melton, who has
been quite ill for some weeks, is now
able to be out again, to the delight
of her scores of friends.
Five room cottages are very much
in demand in Oxford at present.
The friends of Air. Dabney will he
glad u) know that he has recov
ered from an attack of fever and is
able to be attending to his duties
COUNTY STATEMENT
Receipts and Disbursements of Newton Co
from May 1st to June 1st, 11109.
Amount on hand 1503 92
June 1st Rec. of W. S. Ramsey,
Tax Collector 28 60
i t ( i Rec. of R. Moore,
com¬
mutation Tax 3 60
4 4 4 ( Rec. of J. E Dobbs
com¬
mutation Tax 7 20
“ “ Rec. of G. D. Heard
commutation tax ^ 10 00
“ “ Rec. of Emmet Robertson
commutation tail 28 00
4 i Rec- of J. S. Fillyaw
commutation tax 16 00
4 4 i 4 Rec of G. W. Hill
com¬
mutation tax 18 00
“ “ Rec. of R. F. Dick,
com¬
mutation tax 102 00
4 4 4 4 Rec. of A. G. Lane com¬
mutation tax 91 80
4 4 4 4 Rec. of C E Hardman
Commutation tax 136 00
“ “ Rec. of S. C. Chestnut
commutation tax 45 00
“ “ Rec. of T. D. Meador*
> commutation tax 23 00
“ “ Rec. of W P. Hooper
commutation tax 28 22
“ “ Rec. of J. S Mosely com¬
mutation tax , 1 50
4 4 “ Rec. of B- M. Leach
commutation tax 136 00
4 4 4 4 Rec. of Robt Rainey coal IS
$2179 49
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DISBURSEMENTS
Convict Funds
J M Neely for overseers & Guards 306 07
Fowler Bros, previsions 45 69
Stock feed 66 70
Dry goods 1 75
Sundries 5 20— 119 34
M W Flemister, provisions 11 82
Dr Luke Robinson Prof services 22 75
S R Ellington provisions 1 50
Dr Holmes professional service 46 35
Dr J. A. Wright medicine 3 25
A S Hopkins professional service 2 00
I W Meadors provisions 29 07
Dry goods 6 25
Sundries 3 10- 38 42
Hutchins Grocery Co. provisions 1 50
T C Swann Co. provisions 34 76
Stock feed 61 95— 96 71
J. A. Grant provisions 11 25
Heard, White & Co. Prov. 34 08
Stock feed 74 03- 108 11
F M Smith provisions 5 02
Lee Bros, provisions 41 96
Stock teed 59 00
Sundries 1 65- 102 61
Cook Bros provisions 7 16
Dr. A. S. Hopkins Prof, services 2 00
Oglesby Grocery Go. provisions 32 30
Total Convict Fund $868 16
General Rosd Fuad
Central of Ga. R R freight 4 80
(4 44 4 4 4 4 15 00
Georgia railroad freight 29 81
C E Hardman Com on Commutation
Tax 13 60
C E Hardman work on roads and
bridges 50 25
S C Chesnut Com on tax 19 40
« 4 Labor 5 55
A G Lane Labor 24 55
.* F.mmett Robertson Com on tax 11 80
4 4 Labor 2 50
R F Dick work on bridge 24 50
J S Fillyaw Com on tax 11 60
t 4 44 Labor 4|60
B M. Leach Com on tax 13 60
4 4 * 4 Labor 81 97
R M Moore, Labor, 3 50
P E Middlebrook, Labor 6 93
J VV McDaniel, Labor 6 65
J M Jones, labor 1 50
J J Kelly, labor 1 00
THE ENTERPRISE
again.
Mrs. Susan Stone and Mr.and Mrs.
Robinson are the guests of Judge and
.Mrs. J. ,W. Branham.They will spend
two weeks at this delightful home.
Miss Helen Williams, Miss Susie
Sandiford and Miss Edna Mizell com¬
pose an interesting trio of young
ladies attending the summer normal
school at Athens.
Work is progressing very rapidly on
the Allen Memorial church.
Dr. E. Iv Turner’s residence,which
is now under construction will be one
of the most comfortable as well as
one of the most beautiful residences
in Oxford when completed, It
is built of rock with a' tile roof.
Mrs. F. M. Means will entertain the
Kil Kare Klub at its regular meeting
next Tuesday afternoon, and the oc¬
casion is being anticipated with a
great deal of pleasure by the mem¬
bers.
Mrs. Kitchens, who has been quite
indisposed, is convalescing.
Mr. and Mrs.’ J. M. Skinner and
daughters, Misses Sarah and Prances,
MissesMartha Haygood and Lee Dunk
| ling, ing of Atlanta, compose an interest
spend the day party enjoying the
delightful hospitality of Rev. and
Mrs. W. H. LaPrade, Jr., today
5 00
10 00
W F Thomas Com on tax 13 70
Beck, Gregg Co 36
M D and H L Smith, equipments 132 63
Stephenson Hardware Co. Sundries 30 84
D A Thompson, equipment 62 »
1 incher-Norris Co. equipments IS 45
Crenshaw and Rainwater equipment 132 SI
G W Hill, labor 2 00
G S, Nelson, equipment 35
Central of Ga railroad equipment
Total Gen. road fund $ 832 16
Total convict and Gen. R fund 1700 38
General County Fund
Officers City Court 24 95
Dr Luke Robinson Prof, services 12 50
Covington News, printing 30 00
A D Meadow, Ordinary Lunacy 28 00
Jno Bird, holding election J P 4 00
Sellie Preston, non-resident witness 7 20
Dr T U Smith, Prof service 1 so
J B Davis transferring docket 44 35
H J Hays bringing prisoner from
Jackson county 30 07
S M Hay sheriff fee city court'H 5 00
J C Nixon balift city court 2 00
T F Maddox baliff city court 2 00
W H W haley salary city court 83 33
Geo D Barnard, sundries 4 50
Will Thomas, lumber 8 82
S M. Hay jail expenses 72 80
John Gaither salary 10 00
John Bass salary 4 oo
Stephenson k Callaway, broom
So Bell Tel. Co rent 3 00
Total $378 52
Bridge Fund
Dobbs Bros, labor 2 55
L S Hansford, work on b.idge 25 08
Joseph Smith, material 5 04
T L Loyd, material 10 26
G F Dobbs, lumber 60 00
R D Dial, labor 18 62
Dobbs Bros, labor 23 75
Stephenson Hdw Co 3 65
Total $154 67
Pauper Fund
Heard, White k Co provisions 1 23
Fowler Bros provisions 4 00
C A Harwell, coffin 6 15
W T Watson salary self a*d cook 17 33
W C Hitchcock sundries 5 00
Stephenson k Callaway provisions 15 98
J C Harwell coffin 12 50
J C Harwell sundries 10 00
T C Swann Co 2 00
Total $72 20
City Court
D I Mobley, J«ry Script §
N H Piper <4 < 4 8
T A Cook 44 • 4 §
F A Henderson 1 4 44 S
J B Glass, jury script Sup. court 8
$14 00
Abministrator’s Sale of Persontl Prop
erty.
By virtue of an order granted by
the Hon. A. D. Meador, Ordinary of
Newton county.we will sell before the
Court House door in the City of
Covington, on Monday Julv 26.1909,
within the legal hours of sale the
following property belonging to the
° f Wm ‘ ^ cDonald deceased,
to-wit: '
Three hnr«ea r «no b s ? wagon
and harn P fan fi lo h, g,eS tw ° sur
‘
r.es ries, four four lap-robes, rnhe« one * two K horse
s** 101
nur,. ,!«, year” Lise “tab!?!
lot” of”ntaUresses* arid comfom. To
be sold to the highest bidder, for easl
This July 10, 1909.
S. P. Thompson,
E. W. Fowler,
Administrators of Estate of Wm.
Donald, deceased.
A STATEMENT TO
The People of Newton County
from
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Recently the directors of a manu
facturing concern in Georgia issued
a statement to the stockholders call
ing attention to the condition of the
plant, its earning capacity, the na
| ture of its output, the condition
I concerned its optatives its and well other being; matters also
ing attenticn .to the mean® of
ing the investment.
It was shown that while the
duct of the mill was fairly food,
by the introduction of improved
chinery it could be greatly
as to quality, and increased as t
quantity. , The demand for the
then manufactured called for an
creased inv- stinent, while it would
impossible to supnlv the demand
the improved, product without
enlarging the plant. It was shown
that the most skilled operatives
being drawn away by the better
ges offered either in other lines
work or by other manufacturing con
cerns.
When these facts were laid before ti
stockholders they, by a large majori¬
ty vote, decided to bring the mill to
higher" c'egVee ot efficiency and earn¬
ing buildings, capacity, bv the enlargement of
the the introduction of im¬
proved machinery and the retention
the skilled operatives by means of
hotter v-.iget.
• Why did they vote this increased
assessment on themselves? Because
thev thought it would be dividends in
their nockets.
YOU ARE STOCKHOLDERS.
The most valuable manufacturing in
terest in this county is the Com
mon Schools.
The Board of Education of Newton
County,: as Directors of the Common
School Educational System of the
County, wish to call attention of
the citizens of the County - the
holders of this manufacturing concert;
to the condition of the plant and the
great need for its enlargement and
the bettering of its output
CONDITION AND NEEDS.
(11 The school houses are, as
school houses in the county which are
a credit to the neighborhoods in
which they are situated,but many,
many—of them do not afford comfort
able shelter to your children.Some few
of them would not be tolerated as out
houses oil many of your farms. The
school-room should be as attractive
and as comfortable as the best room
in your homes. Your Courthouse is
an imposing building. Your county
jail is a presentable structure, con¬
stantly presenting this question for
your answer: Will you make the shel
of your criminals more comfort¬
able and habitable than the rooms
whepe your innocent and sometimes
delicate children are trained?
(2) The school term is too short.
It is now five months—it should be a
least seven months. The chief pur¬
pose of an education is not the cram¬
ming of the pupil with facts and fig
ures—these might be obtained with¬
out attending school—but the mental
drill and discipline which he obtains
through the preparation and mastery
of his lessons. When, the term is so
short and frequently divided into two
or three sessions, hecannot suffi¬
ciently study a subjeefias to master
it.. Where'.the interval between the
school term : i& so long many of the
subjects are almost obliterated from
the mind before the next session, or
become so hazy that either the pupil
needs to again go over the same
ground or should he try to proceed h<
stumbles along in the dark without
certainty or surety. Such schooling
can not produce the best results.
(3( Better salaries need to be paid
to secure and keen the best talent
as teachers. You may improve your
school building till every one is a mod¬
el of its kind; you mav lengthen the
school term until nothing is to be de¬
sired, but without the vitalizing, viv¬
ifying influence of a good teacher
these things are naught. In the re¬
cent examination of teachers in our
County, the great majority of the
applicants were under tewnty-one
years of age. This means that our
more mature teachers are being drawn
off into other fields of usefulness and
employment by better compensation,
and that unless we can increase the
salary of our common school teachers
we will soon be dependent on bright
but inexperienced boys and girls as
our teachers, the best of whom will
soon be called off into other pursuits.
I'hink a minute! How many of those
whom you have known as teachers
have dropped out in the past five
years and what have been the
causes?
Very many people think that they
can teach school—possibly one out
of five hundred can. To let a good
teacher slip through your fingers
calls for an explanation.All praise to
those devoted ones who through love
of the work and of immortal minds
and souls have stuck to your school¬
rooms. but what about those who
have stinted them at every turn?
In this day of increasing prosperity
and enlarged opportunity it is too
great a sacrifice to expect that this
condition to continue.
WWAT WPIMI IC It, tuc THE Dcucnv/ REMEDY !
.Mow fellow stockholders, we have
shown you the need. You ask: Wha
is the remedy? We reply: Vote au¬
thorizing “Local Taxation for
Schools.”'
WHOM WILL IT BENEFIT?
You ask that ever present question.
Will it pay? Where are the divi¬
dends? We answer: Yes, it will
pay.
(i) The PROPERTY OWNER will
^ benefitte d by an increased sell
ing price for his property-by increas
ed security of society-by more intel
lierent and painstaking tenants Have
you anr i4e * i, ° w much |os >
K- bV r ” aS ° n J0Ur '" < ' k ,he,e
<2 ’ The PARENTS wl " b * bene,lt
ted by more obedient, intelligent, cor
i tented children.for as the intelHectual
I and secia * atmosphere of your com
mumty . made better
is and purer so
w ill your children be more willing to
remain on the farm and become more
capable of building up the waste
places. Home will be happier,Heaven
will be nearer. You have no possible
means of estimating yours or your
neighbors losses on these lines in thi
P ast -
(3) The INDIVIDUAL will be ben¬
efited.Dr. Thompkins tells us that our
earning capacity is increased twelve
and 0 ne half times by a common
| school education; and twenty-five
times by a high, school education,
Dr. W. W. Smith, of Virginia, figures
out for us:
(a)Tlirt an uneducated child has one
chance in 150,000 of attaining dis¬
tinction as a factor in the progress
of the age.
(b) That a common school educa¬
tion will uierei.se his chances nearly
four times.
(c) That a high school training will
increase the chances of the common
school boy 23 times, giving him 87
times the chance of the uneducated.
Dr. W. T. Harris, U. S. Commission
er of'Education says: “I would esti¬
mate the average salary or income of
the illiterate at $150 to $200. Of one
having taken a partial elementary
course at $300; the eight years ele¬
mentary course at $500; the high
school graduate at $ 1 , 000 .”
Judge Thos. J. Lawson, of Putnam
County, says: “We cannot weigh an
educated and well balanced mind in
the scales as we would a quantity of
lead. What can we place in the
opposite scale as an equivalent? We
may compute the value of gold and sil¬
ver because they are earthly and
perioh&ble, but by what svstem of
mathematics can we compute the val¬
ue of that electric spark of intellect
that is destined to live and glow and
j earth radiate shall when have the passed heavens away?The and the
j que
tjon of the Man of Galilee is as perti
nent now as when he spoke it nine
teen centuries ago: “For what shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul, or what
shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?’”
(4) The ENTIRE COMMUNITY
will be benefitted by the higher tone
of its people and those intangible
| and inestimable somethings which go
' to make that neighborhood desirable
as a residence section to the best
and most law abiding citizens. Try
and see how hard a thing it is to get
a good familv to move into a neigh
THE COST T(3 YOU.
Your Board estimates that with a
tax of twenty cents on the one hun
dred dollars worth of property the
troubles in your school system can be
largelv removed and Newton have on«
of the best in the state in fact,
as well as in name. Write down the
value of your tax returns and figure
out. in dollars, just how little this will
call from each of you,even the largest
property owner in your community,
Do not fear the cost of good schools,
but rather fear the conditions which
will take hold of us without them.
They will cost you some money in
the way of a school tax, but have you
any way of estimating the saving to
you in taxes for the prosecution of
crime or the harm and hurt of ignor¬
ance and narrow mindedness? They
will cost you something—but so will
good clothes (shoddv ones are the
deareri—so vill a good horse—so
will good roads, or good bridges— so
will good ho k«-r and farms—so w it
anything tint is worth having.
Is it well to practice a
gruding economy on the only
immortal parts of our being*? We
must leave our lands aftd our stock
and our factories in a few years
in other hands but our minds and our
souls will live on and on forever.
There are many things worse than
taxes. That man is a poor farmer win
stints his crop the proper work or
his stock the proper food because it
costs mone^.That government is not
the best that levies the smallest taxes
if so we might take lessons in good
government from the dwellers in the
Islands of the sea. Nor can we look
on that man as the highest type of
citizen and patriot who first asks:
“How will that pay me?” “What can
I get out of it?” rather than “Is it
a good thing for the community?”
“Will it advance the general good?”
“That man may last, but never lives
Who mu-h receives, but little
gives.”
DIVIDENDS
The Dividends that we assure you
will ensue cannot be estimated in dol
lars and cents like lands and mules
and cotton; nor weighed nor handled;]
nor figured into per cents,and tabula¬
ted into columns.We present toyou as
the possible output of your improv¬
ed educational plant—manly boys and
womanly girls —young people im
bued with high ideals, with trust in
God and reliance in self. Young peo¬
ple who will bring happiness to your
homes and joy to your hearts—who
will build up your communities—who
will advance your county in all good
thines.
Newton county’s children are in
deed Newton countv’s jewels. Noth¬
ing you can endow them with is too
good for them. God bless them every
one!
SUGGESTION OF DIRECTORS.
We have tried to show you the
°f the present common school
system of Newton county—your sys
tem of schools. We have done our
best for you v r.l" ti e meager equip
ment entrusted to us. It is entirely
inadequate to meet yvur needs and we
advise that the plant be enlarged;
promising an increased rate of interest
on the investment
H.H. STONE,
President.
D. J. ADAMS,
A. J. BELCHER,
M. C. DAVIS,
S. R. ELLINGTON,
Board Education Newton County.
A. H. FOSTER,
Count” School Commissioner. .
Tortured on a Horse.
“For 10 years I couldn’t ride a horse
without being in torture from the
piles,” writes L. S. Napier, of Rugles;
Kv., “when all doctors and other rem
edies failed. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
j cured me .” infallible for Piles,Burns,
| g oa i ds Cuts, Bolis, Fever-Sores, Ee
zerna Salt Rheum. Corns 25c. Guar
tee d bv c . C. Brooks and Geo. T.
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THE GREAT MAJESTII
MALLEABLE AND CHARCOAL IRON RANGE
Lasts Longer, Heats More Water, Heats it
Quicker, Uses Less Fuel, Bakes Better,
And gives better general satisfaction than any
other range on the market.
If you will call at our store, we will prove these facts to j
JAMES R. STEPHENSOj
GOOD FARM FOR SAL
Near Snapping Shoals, Newton County, G
183 1-2 Acres, $25 00 per acre. A Three Horse F
open. Enough of bottom land to make corn to supply t
place. Good house painted, new barn and 3 tenant hou
Fine pasture; so if you are interested, go and look at it ;
I think you will buy it.
J. F. Adair, MoD rF?D:NoT
WHY DO YOU WORRY
about getting your
wood cut and split
When you can call 199 and soon have it there to "bile
dem cabbage down,”
We have all kinds and sizes and make prompt delivery,
S. B. FULLER, Wood Yard.
Call 199 and we'll do the rest.
FOR SALE
OXFORD, GA.
A most conveniently located 8 room, 2 st
residence in Oxford, Ga., on comer lot o
taining one and one half acres. good
Has two room cottage on the lot. Property is in
dition, lot lies well, in two blocks of the car line, close to Coll
schools, post office and church.
Most centrally located place in the town.
Will sell cheap on easy terms.
(Rev.) W. A. Farriss, College Park, G 3,
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FOR YOUNG LADIES GAiNESVILLE. ^
All standard literary courses; cuir culum raised .0 conform to stsnd
? r< * °f “Class A” Colleges. Special two year courses. Advan £
m MusD, Art and Oratory are unequalled. . . j
L Pfefferkorn, Geiger, Musgrove, Schliewen and other distingue
musicians in fhe,faculty.. Elegant and extensive material equiptn* •
Beautiful campus and park of 75 acres, with lake, mineral s P rl ”- ,’
mountain Rates from $200 $400 year. ;
L scenery, etc. to oer
L V ter A. m begins Sept. 16. Presidents ...»
W. VAN H00SE and H. J. PEARCE Associate
5 Gainesville, Ga.