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VOL. 45. NO. 36
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NO JURY FRESL.1TMENTS GIVEN IN FULL
n Order that the Public May Know the
Doings of that Body
We, tlie Grand Jury, empannelled
the September Term, Newton Su
ior Court, beg leave to submit the,
.
lowing general presentments:
'hrough our committees we have
mined the records pertaining to
county and fine same generally
py and correctly kept.
Hie poor farm we find in good con
; on Eight inmates, three white
colored; all well satisfied. Build
c
s in good condition, as well as fur
;ure and furnishings.
'rom report of County School Com
sioner we find there are fifty-three
ool buildings, all in good condition
twenty-six white and twenty-seven
lored, with enrollment of 3,685;
> 2 d white and 1.965 colored. Cash
band $ 2 , 850 . 66 .Receipts, $10,163.60,
d disbursements $12,993.41. Pal
be on hand. $20.85. Paid to white
Lchers $9,721.49; paid to colored
.chers $1,982.90.
l T e find the present County School
mmissioner a very efficient and
Mistaking officer, and that he is
jjding up the schools generally of
e county. We wish to especially
bimend his good work, and to state
ei he seemE to be giving univnnvO
lisfaction over the entire county.
Ve find the Treasurer's books cor
:tly kept. We find the following fi
.ncial statement: Cash on hand
Lixh 15th, ;P09. $1,876.45. ■ Amount
jeh-ed, $15,490.22: amount disburse
cuts. $15,829.64. leaving a balance
$1,447,13 on hand September 20,
09, which deducted from the
red in note cf $21T12.42 leaves a
dance of $20,365.29, total indebted
[ss of the county.
fWe find the books of the Justices,
uh few exceptions, correctly kept.
We recoanaend that the J. P.’s use
(rre diligence and care in trying the
isos that are brought before them,
le have found during our session a
TORE BAGGING IS NOW NEEDED
armors are Cheating Their selves Under the
Present Sysierr. j
The process of reasoning which is
acting many thousand southern farm
fs to reduce the bagging and ties
p; their cotton below the average 6
jer cent allowance is hard to follow.
Manufacturers and exporters in buy
cotton figure cn 6 per cent for
ire. This amounts to 30 pounds of
uJU-pound bale, cr 26 peunds on a
pO-pound bale.
Vher. (he bagging and ties amount
‘ ess ; han this, the farmer is sina
'V cheating himself.
I me Progressive Farmer in pointing
jut the unreasonableness of farmers
Plowing this course, says:
‘Again we would urge our cotton
powers to put 0 n bagging and ties to
pe full 6 per cent limit this season,
F icu put on less than 6 per cent, it
| ! ' !m P'y a matter of giving cotton
-‘ |,r g00<1 cotton worth 12 1-2 cents
Pound, when he is paying you only
FOR SALE!
% farm containing 166 2-3 acres with about
75 acres in good state of cultivation; GU acres
-
1 good bottoms; good good
i pasture; water;
§ood out houses: ; one good six room dwelling
a na one four room dwelling. 1 his farm is Q |
mi] es east of Conyers on public road. On this
f^rm there is i a good grist mill with improved i
n ^chinery with good patronage. Terms of
s» c easy. E. B. ROSSER
;
Conyers Hotel Conyers, Ga.
THE © r * f H NTERPRISE
large number of no bills from cases
’-hat have been brought before the
Grand Jury. This takes up the time
dltion. We recommend that the Com
miss:oners employ a janitor for all hi
time. We find the jail in good condi
tion, except the cement floor needs r
pairing and recommend that it be re¬
paired at once.
We find the books of the Cierk and
neatly and correctly kept,
We find no changes to be made in
'the pension list except the proper
posting of deaths since last payment
of pensions.
We find that all drug stores in the
county keep a correct list of sales of
all poisons as required by law.
We find the Sheriff’s books correct
ly kept,
V’~ Tax Receiver’s and Tax
Coll tor - books are correctly and |
neatly kept. That the Tax Collector |
is very diligent in his duties. We find
that $165.90 has been collected from
Special Taxes. We find the County •
Commissioners have installed a. new ;
system o' books in their office, and j
think they have acted v- system,which isely in in- j
stalling this up to date
make 3 the records of the office eas. j
fly and findI tte same ta
very aUuiactoiy condition.
\V* find the convict camp in excel
lout nanitarv condition, good ears, 1
splendid tents and quarters for both |
guards and convicts and also jnules.
We found there thirty-two male con- |
viets, all colored. Well fed and cloth i
ed id comfortable sleeping quar- ;
•
*ers. We find that they have twenty-;
four ’ des and one cow. Only saw
sixt- - :i mules as eight were cut on
;ke Mules m very good condi
tion rnA'-t three lame,
\\ •• find -ho roads in generally good
condition. That the Commissioners ;
are doing some d-strict valuable te’ permanent •d'rh we | i
worrit in Down's
wish o - mmend them. We wish to
■ .
for bagging and ties averaging about j
“ Th cents a pound. This is a matter
our ;rr-ners have been entirely too l
to imicrstand.”
F y. t.rs there has been complaint
°- f incut' ..cut covering on cotton.
io : m . y this defect, c.ipc, :.crs nti\c ^
adopt“d the plan of adding second- j
hand b: rg.i.g to the amount o. S ot
10 sunds and pocketing the extra ;
1 rofit
farmer has put in that
much weight in lint cotton worth 12 I
i-*> cents pound The exporter adds r
a .
extra bagging and ties worth 3 1-2
cents a pound and makes $1 a bale.
The Progressive Union has made a
valuable point which should not be
lost sight of. It will not take a very
sharp pencil to figure out that 470
j'ounds 0 f cotton and 30 pounds of
bagging will bring higher returns than
4S0 pounds of lint cotton and 20
.
COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY OCT 1, 1909.
commend the good citizens
this district- in donating their own
the body, and costs the county
money uselessly.
The Court House seems In good con
to assist the County authori- i
to make this permanent road ai 1
feel that if other communities
give as much assistance we
realize good roads very much
The Commissioners have one ,
of one scrape, eight mules and l
hired men going over the dif¬
districts repairing bad places
roads.
We recommend that the pay of all
be $2.00 per diem; of Court
$2.00 per diem; and riding
$3.00 per diem.
We recommend the following ap
as N. P. ex-officio J. P.:
xo. 567 district—T. L. Lurnmus.
Xo. 1618—W. B. Beckwith.
No. 1522 district—W. J. M. Preston.
We wish to extend our thanks and
to the Her.. Judge for
able charge and uniform kindness ;
to us, also to Solicitor W. j
Howard for able and efficient help
, 0 us during our sessions. i
We recommend that these present- j
be published in aacl. of the |
County papers, which desire to pub
them at a cost not exceeding five
c , ' ()1Iars eacil
E . W . Fowler, Foreman,
L Stephenson, Clerk, i
I
Whereupon, it is ordered by 'he
i
that these general presentments |
of the grand jury be spread upon the
of the court; ana that the
came be published as recommended.
L. S. Rcsn,
Judge S. C. Stone Mountain Ct.
jy y t ji e Court.
Wm. Schley Howard,
Sol.Genl. Stone Mt. Ct.
This Sept. 23, 1909.
CHANGE DATE
STOCK SHOW
The Live Stock exhibit will be held
October 20th instead of November 22,
change being made on account of
^ yj acon f a j r w hich is hold from
October 26th to Nov. 6th.
Interest is still growing in this ex
Libit and many visiters are-expected
It is very likely that purchases and
sales will be made on that day.
Below are additional entries for tho
exhibit:
c. A. Franklin, 1 head.
Edward Heard, 1 head.
V. B. Livingston, two head.
W. R. King, 2 head.
King & Brown, 1 hea.d.
See me for horses and mules when
in town. I handle all kinds. A. S.
McGarity.
If you want to sell or rvnt ycur
house let The Enterprise Want Col¬
umn do the work. It is read by thou
Sards and only coats one cent a
word. Try it.
pounds of bagging.
Moreover,by this course greater pro
tection to the staple is afforded, and
it arrives at its destinaion—particn
larly if it be a remote foreign port
m much better shape. The result m j
a pleased customer and more general 1 | |
all around. |
When a grocer sells 25-cent coffee, 1
does not mix in some of his 40- j
grade nor when he is buying a
of flour from the manufacturer I
he expect to get the weight of
barrel in a finer grade of flour,
that is what numbers of southern
are doing every season.
Lot the gross weight of the cotton j
include the maximum of bagging
ties and not the minimum amount
will hold it together. j
It is possibly a small point, but it is'
, . . ,
. 0I " a t .renct
!
80 cents or $1 a bale on the cot- j
crop is not a small item. ‘
NEW COTTON
IVS1LL NOW
ASSURED
The preliminary steps are now being
t a ken for the organization a third
company in this city for the manufac
ture of cotton goods.
As was intimated in The Enterprise
last week, this proejet is now taking
definite shape and J practically . , all ot .
'
tne one hundred , , thousand dollars cap
nal . stock has been pledged
almost all
of .... it being taken in Covington and
Newton _ . county.
The permanent organization will be
effected within a few days and steps
taken , , to commence work on the big
plant. •
_. The splendid ,
business success of
1 no two concerns already manufactur
mg cotton goods and the fact that the
mills of the entire country are unable
to meet the demands of the trade has
been r. strong factor in prompting the
organization of this new and third
company,
Qn'llJl *j % ! ? 1/ I 1 R iVl J1 Pi P i <1 ’ V ‘ ' f
I S S 4 > HUi
Falligan; Ti-avia.tha
' ^ " C n ° Al C A l
* ‘ '*
owu .laws, o; f Savannah, ^ who was
tailing 0 ^ from ;: ‘ 1Ured r. wagon sou:e and tiffic being ag0 run by
over by ic, is continuing to improve
under the skillful treatment cf liis
unc j c L , Vs - D 'pravis. ■
; *ma *vr* -wjnr* «•»»
STAGE COftC « mtmJ I ft IYS OF III CO l i r > CT3 as *t aa 'AV- •.<
Reminiscence 93 of tiie T* f C’ y ■«*« t, -<•- *> A, ^ L /-ta. ^ ry
Id. tile i .Ti vrf A ten O
TD stage- hern furnished the
niiis’c- to transportation during the last
'
da; s of the Old Chapel on the cam
pus of the Manual Labor school and
its first days on the Emory campus.
The stage coach was depended on
rhea for travel like we depend on the
steam car Pour horses, :
now. or
| diuarily made the team, on extra oc- i
j taricLS six would be driven. The
; R?ag . e coach brought the trustees and
visitors to the first commencements
at Oxford, except when they came by
I conveyance of their own. Every
j I thing about the little village was astir
i ' and in commoticn as one contribution
j of visitors after another would arrive,
I very much like it is now on the ar¬
’ rival and departure of the railway
| trains. The stage drivers would in- I
bulge in an extra flourish of trumpet',
■ making the notes reverberate through;
j rile forests, hills and vales of the ;
| highways of Newton. Ten cents a ;
I mile for eceh passenger was enough i
to put them on their best speed an:! j
loudest blasts. Fathers, mothers, sis
teis would go in their carriages to
hear their sons and brothers speak,
and then carry them home to their
vacations, after a trip, maybe, to the
moutains and some visits to kindred
and old friends.
The faithful servant who drove the
family carriage, and in whose hands
the family always felt secure, felt am¬
ply repaid for his service by the pleas, i
ure afforded him in lsitening j
"young marster show off” before the
crowd what a promising orator j
U»ey had coming on in the family. A j
picture of one of those drivers, occu
pying a privileged position during an
oration, from the Old Chapel ros '
trurn, of that “voung marster,” whom i
he had known and attended from his
f “adle, would elevate to high esteem
the strokes of the artists’ brush.
Let none make the mistake of sup¬
posing that the Georgians of that day
knew nothing of splendid equipage
and the highest style in general.They
r°de in carriages polished like mir
tors, and were drawn by well groom¬
ed and spirited horses, and attended
by servants who enjoyed, as much
any others.the honor of contribut
ing to the service and pleasure of the
A truste<? of Emory college. cvA
it-s earliest days, held a position
decided honor, and he showed his ;
of the honor, and of the
interests committed to him.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
SOLICITOR H0WA *° WAS
CALLED DOWN QUICK
Oid He Reflect Unduly Upon the
People ot Newton County in
Speech to the Jury |
!
I
In prosecuting a blind tiger case ;
last week Solicitor Howard, it is said,
made . tne assertion before the jury
’-“at , selling . I
uny one whiskey illegally
would swear to a lie to protect himself !
in ... it and . that , any one who would buy
whiskey , . , from blind , , ,
a tiger would also
swear falsely . , , to save the seller from
detection. ,
i
__,. Whereupon a . brother lawyer called , >
tho solicitor down on the score that
the solicitor . had reflected
on many
Food citizens of the county.The judge
sustained , the interruption and
pro
. cceded to give the solicitor a mild
i reprimand.
Without pretending to have fcncwl
edge , of the truthfulness or untruthful- •
ness of the solicitor's asserti n. wo
believe with him that to buy blind ti¬
gcr whiskey is as wrong end as mucl: ,
0 v iolaticn cf law at: to sell if.
! 1‘ it is illegal and made so by the \
| a'ate cf Georgia io «n te j i
j county it _ is also a crjemal j
^.regard c f law 'to buy it.
Why not?
Can it be true that Solicitor How- j
; :
nrd’s words of accusation reflect on
: many GOOD CITIZENS of the
by punctual atiendar.ee on the- meet-I
- n S s of thd board. They were pres- j
eat at the opening prayer, attend-1 j
ed all the exercises, and heard the
last commencement brr.edictian. :
The trustees of Emory who fir.-.
met in the Old Chapel shewed a high
devotion to ,he interests of the coi
lege by cc-mirg from the borders of
the state—come of them by private
conveyance —to attend' the sessions
of .he board.
Amcng the first to sit w ♦’
first rostrum were Col. James M.
Chambers, Seaborn Jcne-s ana b. H.
Hodges, from Columbus: Jchn Ho
frj. from r-'accn; Sfcider, from Savar
nali. All claims of business at home
surrendered, miles added to miles of
tedious tiresome travel along the com
ir.on thoroughfares of the country
disregarded, for the sake of aiding a
struggling college to start cn its
heaven-sent mission of Christian e-in¬
What a pattern fer tho r.ri
Union of their successors in office,
To make such a beginning as Emory ,
did in the face of so many obstrue-,
tions, gripping her purpose more he
roically as impossibility itself seemed
to mock her efforts; holding on and
moving forward unblanched and undie*
ruayed for threescore years and ten,
maj- she not be allowed to challenge
the admiration of the Nation, and ag
gregate about her, in resources from 1
those whom she has helped to on—
noble, and whom God has enriched,
what will be to her the realization ,
of her long-cherished ideal, and to
her benefactors a lofty expression of
Christian Manhood? S
In the paragraphs last written the
has lifted the curtain at the
where some of the noblest char-.
of the Southern people lie
from the ruthless adventur¬
who tram our fair doniain.In Mid¬
Georgia—the best of Georgia and
best of our globe in the days tin
review'—the relation of master
servant was of the patriarchial
in one family. Family pride
family interest extended from
to cabin. When Sherman’s
marched through Georgia, his
especially of the west
heard to say, "We never knew
what slavery was. We are not
to disturb this state of things;
are fighting to preserve the
The problem that now T hangs
us as a thick cloud is, what
we going to do to compensate the
ty?
Is he a GOOD citizen who secretly
aids the seller of whiskey in the vi¬
olation of law by purchasing his con
traband stuff with the slyness of a
fox?
Solicitor Howard may have been mis
taken when he asserted that one who
would buy blind tiger whiskey would
tie about it but lie was preerninentlv J
right . , in the principle he enunciated
in
making his assertion,
If it is wrong to sell whiskey it is
wrong to buy it.
The laws of our country are for our
protection and we should keep them
intact. .
Orphans Day
The Orphans Day exercises at the
.Methodist church last Sunday were
IT 11 of interest and altogether sue
cesaful. The sum total of the contri¬
butions was $174.61. This larger sum
represents much hard work and en
W.usiasm cn the part of the chil¬
dren. Under the leadership of R. P.
Lester, superintendent, the Metho¬
dist Sunday school has increased its
0m,x ' lcr to U;e orphans fold
s many
J * T - a ^ ° IX 3 ears t-TitT-TS? when the edi
tor was paster the largest amount do-
5 ; -’- c;i to the orphans was $40. //he
rood cause has net been allowed to
die. Some things in Covington may
he cull and dying-but it is evident
a;it Dick Lester’s Sunday school is
i either.
:s.s thit came to the cal weil race
oy this disturbance of oi.r civic and
jidcJ relations? . A beck b aring
r e doleful title ‘T-. ’e Ten. Without
Cabin,” may be written, and if it
written, it may contain a. answer
^ this question; and the question
v ji] (- 0 turn cn whether or
vct “Uncle Tom” gets in the Yankee’s
way. He got in his way once, and he
bay to get out; and he will get out
; his way again if he should be un
frrruiave enough tq got in his way.
’ la e net been posted ii; my forecast
lie negro’s destiny one iota since
. e war between the states,
I at lot’s get back to oratory at Ent¬
in the oar./ cays cf the Old
Chapel, V. made
this short break ir. cur story at the
>k-t where the faithful old carriage
.1 her was swelling with pride over
prnoise his young master was
jvir.g on the rostrum of future great
■ ss, and of the runic- he would bring
the whole family.
The transition from the Manual La
or school to Emory college proper
from Ceres to Minerva and the
Muses. Parassus now—enough
cotton furrows, cornfields, fodder
stacks, shucks pens, potato and tur
patches. While resting from the
rounds of manual labor they
been sipping “shallow draughts”
the “Pierian spring, about
nough to “intoxicate the brain.”
“drinking deep’ must
them again.”
One of the “Secret Societies” had
on its beautiful gold badge
picture of a Roman youth bend
up the “Hill of Science” with a
in his hand, and pointing to
James Fair Temple shining afar
which the record of his deeds was
be deposited, the motto above him
summuni.” Each member of the
bore in secret the name of
of the “Nine Muses.”
The dawn of the classical era at
was heralded with great de¬
The faces of the faculty and
were lighted up with new
Powers hitherto latent were
The themes of speech and
topics of ordinary conversation,
no longer tame. Demosthenes
Cicero, although dead, were yet
and throwing over all the
of their enchantment and what
Acropolis was to Athens the Old
was to Oxford.
Geo. W. Yarbrough-