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LIVESTOCK 10W OPENS
NEXT WEDNESDAY, 20th
It will be a Very Interesting
for the People of the /
The live stock exhibition by the
Newton County Live Stock Associa
will be held in Covington next
;ich the ball
Wednesday, the 20th, at
park, near the Central depot.
prof. C. I. Willoughby, of the Geor
gia Experiment station has been se
looted as judge for this occasion.
It is expected that the show will be
revelation in the way of what is be
a blooded
ing done in way of raising
stock in Newton county. The pro¬
show has attracted interest out
peso /is
jdt : the count., and among the
s u
;tor. who are expected to be present
is -tor G. i. .uunnicutt, the head
•
Ot of the most influential agricul
u.
turn ;apers in me south.
1 requesam by the management
.
show that all live stock be on
juud by 8:30 o’clock on Wednts
ornirg. 'the judging will coni
,T, at 10:20.
I entries mr the show are as
fob a:
t Ellington, 1 head,
.
er Rogers, a head.
J ,1. Dealing, eJrseys and Her
for
1 everybody iodis out to the ex
hit n on Wevtesuay and lend a
he! g hand to promote the inter
tsv live stock in this county.
Mt ig for Satur ay Morning.
A Uijeting of all citizens of the coun
ty i.o are interested in live stock is
,
called for Saturday morning at
10 o lock in the court house. It is
urgeu that all who take an interest
in improving stock should attend this
meeting.
This meeting is for all of those
who are not members of the associa
ticu as well as members.
JUDGE A. S. FLROENCE
DIES AT MONTICELLO.
Special from Monticello dated Oc
tober 6, says:
Judge A.S.Florence,soldier, citizen,
Christian died here Tuesday night.
Today at 4 o’clock p. m. he was laid
in West View cemetery. His compa¬
triots of ’61 carrying the bullet
scarred banner of the Jasper Blues,
were the honorary escorts, while his
lawn sons, Will S. Florence,Wesley
Florence, Thomas S. Florence, Frank
A. Florence and John Florence and
sons-in-law, LavoBia Maddox and R
L. Marsh, were the pall bearers.
The services were in the Methodist
church. They were conducted by the
pastor, Rev. R.M . Dixon, assisted by
Rev. D. N. Yarbro, of the Presbyter¬
ian church.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and nine children: W. S. Flor
,ence, Monticello; T. S., J. S. and W.
A, Florence, of Atlanta; F. A. Flor¬
ence, of Florala, Ala., Mrs. Lavosia
Maddox, Dublin; Mrs. R. L. Marsh,
Miss Irma and Emmie Florence, Mon
ticello.
Judge Florence was born at Jack
son, Butts county, on May 16, 1838.
Mis parents were Rev. Wm. A. Flor
ence and Harriet Fellows (Florence.
He graduated from Emory college,
a nd received his diploma in his con¬
federate uniform. He waB a mem ‘
w “er of . „ Greene Rifles, Wharton’s bri
sade and Phillo”s legion. He lost his
ighi arm at the second battle of Ma
assas. Upon his return home after
; he war be taught school at Macon,
adges Hardeman and Emory Speer
rtrv among his pupils. In the ear¬
ly ’70s he was admitted to the bar,
", began th e practice of law at So
J/ °«al Circle. Circle, He Logansville, also taught Shady school Dale at
* Dd in Walton county. At almost
Hry place he taught he was made
-ri or. He moved to Monticello 17
' £ars ag0 and served for two terms a
ayor ’ He *as elected ordinary of
-
“ s Per county, and held the office
ten years, retiring on account of
health. He was a devoted mem
r the Methodist church.
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^aco Roofing. Guaranteed in writ
-unsford & Milner.
Strict RENT—The Travis place in Hays
House and barn have just
recovered and repaired. Appl
A. M. Travis or Dr. W. D.
Travis.
THE ENTERPRISE
PLAN ItT SCATTER
___ FIRE _ _ DEPARTMENT _ . r»*r»«r , ni* , n
PROPOSED
The city authorities, as well as
many of the citizens are somewha
divided over the purchase of a sit
for use of the fire department.
The majority of ,.ne council has
voted to purchase the building of the
old Clark Banking con pany, to pa
one thousand dollars down and the re
maining two thousand on time.
The county has offered the city the
use of a' portion of the lot at rea”
of the court house without cost, an
?n offer has been n a :e to erect a
suitable brick building on it for one
thousand dollars. This offer was de
dined by the majority of the council,
i hut the mayor and ®*bers whose ideas
i conflict with the ma ority strong
ly favor the last named plan
The council has, however, taken oi
fieia.1 action in regard to the purchase
0 f Qijjjk building, but it is ex
peeted that there will be an official
hitch when it comes to making the of
ffojai transfer, unless one side or the
0 ;h er recedes from its strongly ex
p reS8e d position.
This question having brought the
c j L y’ E fj re department into the public
has developed in the minds of
some of the citizens the idea of the
advisability of scattering the appa
ratus over the city rather than con
ceritrating it in one place.
| It is suggested that many sections
| of the residential portion of the city
| has water mains and that by placing
j Lose companies at various points' of
vantage the entire city could be bet¬
ter protected than by having it all
located in the center of the city.
It is pointed out that every proper¬
ty owner in the city is taxed for' the
water system, therefore should have
as near equal protection as possible
Should the companies be distribute
tinough the city, in case of a fire
the nearest company could do good
woik holding the fire in check while
the companies from other sections
vert making the run to the fire. It
is quite often that one stream of
vater, even, if quickly applied will
slcp a fire at its inception, when a
dozen would do little good later on.
It is contended by many citizens
that this feature should be considered
before permanent steps are taken to
locate the fire department in any one
place.
It has also been suggested that if
such a plan were adopted property
owners at various points would be
glad to furnish the city free of all
charge with suitable houses for the
apparatus, and all meetings could be
held in the council chamber, and the
money the city would put into per
manent fire headquarters could be
invested in additional apparatus, and
j that the city would thus get much
1 ! greater B protection from the same in
vestment.
POTATO DUCK,
Capt H D Terrell brought to The
.
enterprise office a few days ago a
cur j os jt y that has attracted much at
i tention.
! It is a sweet potato weighing about
! tw0 pounds that is almost the perfect
shape ^ a duck. The head, wings
and are a n clearly defined and
preeent ^ appearance of a duck in
rt . p08e on the water. The potato was
grown i n this city by Mr. R. C. Guinn
an(J may ^ see n at The Enterprise
by those who are so inclined.
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EDITOR INDISPOSED.
Editor J. N. Snow, of The Enter
prise, has been indisposed for more
than a week, to the regret of his nu
meroua friends.His work on the paper
lLia week w m be missed by its
readers. He is improving and will be
able to take up his accustomed du
ties within a day or two.
Texaco Roofing. Guaranteed in writ
ing. Lunsford & Milner.
COVINGTON, GA., FRIDAY OCT. 15 1909.
EARLY DAYS WITH THE I
J STUDENTS OF EMORY
suspicion has been abiding with
along the current of these con¬
tributions to the history of the Old
Chapel, that it was a part of our in
beritance from the Manual Labor
school nearer Covington, the forerun¬
ner of Emory college. Correspondence
with Rev. Dr. Robert W. Lovett,
er ° f OUr editor of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, and Rev. Asbury
C. Mixon, brother of Dr. J. F. Mixon,
ct the North Georgia Conference,with
in the last few days confirms this
fact. I will, just here, correct a
take in the last catalogue of Emory:
“Asbury C. Nixon,” in the class of
1845, should have been Asbury
Mixson. In the class of 1843 will be
found the name of Robert W. Lovett,
This is correct. He also belonged to
the Manual Labor school.
So our readers may rest satisfied
that we are under reliable guides in
fishing out the first facts about the
venerable chapel. By adding the name
of Rev. J. F. Mixon, D. D., to the
other two we have a trio of the sons
of Emory who were.from the begin¬
ning of its history,on the ground.The
last named was of the class of 1849.
More of him hereafter.
It comes to light then that we have
in the Old Chapel a link connecting
the two dispenastions—the first unde
the Manual Labor school, following it
the other under Emory college; the
first providing for the mind and the
body, the last for the mind and body
>—for the- body after a method of
training far more agreeable to
young men than mixing with plows,
and hoes and horses, mules and
steers, and sweating away their per
sonal attractions under the scorching
sun, and shivering under the the bit
ings of winter’s cold.
Remembering this transition state
during which the Old Chapel—minus
its wings that have since been added
was moved to Oxford, no apology will
be necessary for omission of facts
which, if they had been recorded at
the time would doubtless have proven
quite interesting now.
The history of Emory college will
some day be written. This history
ought to be written from initiative to
the last tap of the old bell on Seney
Hall.
It is hard to refrain from weaving
into our little story an occasional in
cident a little out of the main channe
we have been following.
Dr. Alexander Means was forced
to itinerate smewhaat his chemical ap
paratus and his wonderful lecture
one point to another at Oxford, im
provising a laboratory here and there,
Finally he located in a house, or
that was rolled over on wheels from
the old campus near Covington. Her
be gave, for the entertainment of the
faculty, students and citizens an
annual exhibition of the progress his
classes were making in chemistry, etc
On one of those occasions, by way of
injecting a little variety, he under¬
took to reveal the properties (then
quite wonderful) of laughing
John M. Marshal, who died a member
of the South Georgia Conference,was
among those who were experimented
THE NORTH POLE IS NO NATION’S
From the European Edition of the
New New York Herald.
Much has been said and much
written regarding the title to the own
ership of the North Pole. Both Com¬
mander Peary and Dr. Cook claim to
have nailed the American flag there,
and by right of discovery have secur¬
ed possession of that much coveted
goal on behalf of the United States;
in fact, both promptly and officially
notified their government to this ef¬
fect.
It appears from Commander Peary’s
own narration that the North Pole is j
the same as any other portion of the j j
frozen Arctic sea; that he found the
sea unfathomable; that there is no
laud anywhere at the North Pole.Not
only this, but the ice is in constant
motion, and the whole frozen surface
is trending toward the east. The
North Pole, therefore is a point sur¬
rounded by water, the depth of which
is unknown, but which is in a con¬
gealed state, and the question very
naturally arises, by what right claim
can be made to the high seas.
The discoverer may perhaps secure
on. He mounted th doorsteps and
spoke as long as the gas lasted, in
stirring strains:
“You’d scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,
And if I should chance to fall be
low
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don’t view me with a critic’s eye
Iiut P ass my imperfections by.”
The gas, in taking hold, and doing
its work, followed the lines of the
least resistence, and consequently
made itself felt in harmony with, the
natural bent. Marshal’s was oratory,
Another blossom with decided inclina
tione to romance, after inhaling for
an* inspiring dose, dropped the “gas
tag,” and made a bee-line for a group
of young ladies who were adding
grace to the occasion from the out
skirts of the audience. There was a
stampede, the lassies scattering in
flight, disdaining the wooing, an
hoping, as it appeared from their
shrieks, never again to be caught
wihtin range of one of Cupid’s emis
saries .
Milton P. Tucker, of the class of
1844, was constitutionally pugnacious
and was soon full of wrath and spyin
the German professor of mathematics
in the crowd, with fearful strides
! went for him. Hadaman, seeing he
j had but one chance, dodged through
j the by-standers,and fled to the wilder
j ness. Tucker and his gas close on
| Ills heels in hot pursuit. “Some of
the bovs,”my informant says,“I think
Robert W. Lovett and Jacob R. Dan- j
forth,” seeing Hadaman’s danger, ran |
to his rescue. It was a solemn time !
to have resulted from laughing gas.
Just as Hadaman was reached and
Tucker was about to strike him the
former fell and Tucker’s velocity car,
ried him forward. At this juncture
his gas died out, and he picked him
self up, looking as blank as an explod
ed cartridge.Hadaman had a little ski
ned place on his chin—no serious dax
age—but with him it was no laughing
matter, and after that episode laugh
ing had to come to the people along
other routes.
At the Steward’s Hall, Dr. MeanB
would give an occasional exhibition t
the public of the wonders of chei
htry.
On one such occasion, the hall
being crowded with students and cit
izens, some of the meddlesome chil
dren got behind the bar into the
doctor’s sanctum, and jostled some of
the Jars of the dangerous contents to
the uninitiated. A jar of gas, of
two or three gallons capacity, explod
ed, blew out every light in the house,
scattered fragments of glass in every
direction, one of which struck a vis
tor from Augusta—Miss Campfield—
and put out her eye; other fragments
cut the hands of Mr. Holcomb, the
doctor's assistant, badly; and the
heavy brass head of the jar struck Dr
Means on the stomach and pained
him seriously.
Here the curtain fell on the last
public exhibition given by Dr. Meam
from his laboratory. Electricity was
never intended for children as a
plaything,
V Geo. W. Yarbrough.
footing on a floating icebreg,plant
his nation’s flag on its unsubmerged
crest and by right of conquest claim
it as his nation’s right, but could not
claim it legally against another equal
ly vigorous and hardy mariner who
sought the land.
The high seas belong to no one
nation; they are the right of all, and
the law of nations prohibits them from
unnecessary exclusiveness in the rest¬
less sea beyond a defined distance ex
North tending Pole from is each nothing nation’s more land. or The less j |
than the high seas, frozen, it is true
but none the less a waste of unfath
omable water .which by the law of na
tions is free and the property of no
one iT country. It is not land, so neith j
territory.Iti s,in the language
Dr. Cook, “An endless field of :
snow; no land, but a dead
world of ice.” I
The old theory that a state could
appropriation secure predominant
to parts of the high seas has
entirely disappeared. The rights
any nation are now restricted to
marginal belt, the extent of which
been regarded as extending three
from the shore,but the supposed
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR IN
OPEN UP A NEW
SUBDIVISION NEAR HERE
will Bring Covington and Oxford
Much Closer Together
OF WATJ*R
SYSTEM SH01VN
FRIDAY
Last Friday afternoon the real val
ue of the city’s new system of water
works was clearly demonstrated, and
perhaps property to half the value of
the plant was saved from instruction,
Fire started in the Star building,
originating in the dental office of Dr.
T. U. Smith, and when the fire alarm
was sounded the room was in a mass
lof flames. Hose companies Ncs. 1, 2
and 3 responded and by quick anil ef
ficient work soon subdued the flames,
Dr. Smith’s outfit was almost com¬
pletely ruined, though his loss was
partially covered by insurance.
Other occupants of the second floor
of the building suffered small damage
from water. Besides a large number
cf occupants on the second floor, the
building was occupied on the ground
fl°° r by Fowler Bros., general mer
chandise, and the Bank of Newton
County,and in the basement is located
the plant of the Wells Bottling com
pany. The complete destruction of
the building would have meant a tre
mendous loss, and this would have
been inevitable had it not been for
the water supply.
While the firemen as yet lack ex
perience in fighting fire, yet their
work on this occasion was thoroughly
creditable and heir quick work an
well directed < .orts is due the fact
tnat a large conflagration was avert
ed.
The building is owned by Col. J. W
Anderson and he thoroughly appre
ciates the splendid work done by the
fire department.
$100 for a Bottle.
Ibis would not be a large price to
pay for Dr. Drummond’s Lightning
Remedies for rheumatism if one
could not get relief any cheaper
The Drummond Medicine Co., New
solicited testimonials from grateful
Yoik, have received hunt:reds of un
people restored to b^-alth by the use
of their remedies, w ho w id not hes
ii ate to pay any price r her thai
suffer the former tore If yoi
would like to try these r medies.anc
your druggist has not g 'em,writ'
direct to the company. s warn
When the Heart is fo 'ted.
By rheumatism or any of he muscles
near that organ, it is like tampering
with an electric wire, for death may
at any moment. If life is wort
do not hesitate, but get Dr.Drum
monds Lightning Remedy. Send $5
the Drummond Medicine Co., New
they’ll send you two large
enough for a months treat
by the first express. It is not
fnii' k as electricity, but it will sav
life if you take it in time. j
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of big guns or the increasing
of modern rifles might probably
this distance.
An illustration of this principle of
law of nations is found in the case
the Behring sea controversy.There
United States asserted the right
profit seal catching in the water
Behring sea and seize and condem
i es ^ fishing. But a question be
submitted to arbitration, it was
that the United States had no
over the whole body of
known as Behring sea and could
?y protect the seals within the or
j nary three mile limit of marginal
'
title to ice is incident to the
to land,as the ownership of un
ice remains with the owner
lessee or the water on which it
as the ice at the NorthPoie
on the high seas,to which no
nation can lay exclusive claim, it
that it is in fact and in law
man’s land because it is not land,
Covington and Oxford will soon be
ned to S eth er by an entirely new
which will mean a consid
k le amount of building operations.
Last week Mr. M. M. Marshall, an.
student, consumated the pur¬
of that tract of land lying just
Covington and Oxford, on the
side of the road and known at
time as the Bailey place, but in
years it has been used for gen
farm purposes.
Mr. Marshall representing T. W.
and others of Milledgeville.be
the owners of the twenty-tour
of lard in question and it will
be cut up into building lots aod
on the market, nr resri. ice
for the better class c eo
who desire homes well located
The place Iroms on the car .me
Oxfora and Covin,to., n J
admirably Uuaie~ for homes t
be well conuecteu with Caring
by good smects, am a nui , jc of
streets will be laid off iliru the
making it in every w
s;cable for homes,
The land was purchased frem J. W.
and J. Z. Johnson at a
handsome price. These gentlemen
this property last spriag
paid a good price fer it, and in
jjttle more than six months have
a good profit on their little
transaction. This is only one of the
recent instances illustrating the
increase in the vaiue of aJ
<>* property around this city aa
as in Newton county.
The new owners of the property
decided to offer it for sale im
as will be seen by refer
to their large advertisement in
issue of The Enterprise, which
be found very interesting to any
desiring such w'ell located prop¬
Kinds of Paper Money.
The only paper money that is ac
practically all over the globe
not money at all, but the notes
the Bank of England. These
are simply printed in black ink
Irish linen water lined paper,plain
with ragged edges. The rea¬
that a badly soiled or worn Bank
England note is rarely ever seen
that notes which find their way
to the bank are immediately
and new ones are issued.
The notes of the Banque de France
made of white water-lined paper
in black and white, with nu¬
mythological and allegorical
They are in denominations
.f from twenty-five francs to one
francs,
Bank of England notes are of a
unhandy size five by eight
South American currency
the bills of the United
except h ctaminnaon brown
slate blue are the prevailing col
rs. German currency Is printed
green and black, the notes being
denominations of from five to one
marks. The one thousand
bills are printed on silk fiber
It takes an expert or a native to
a Chinese bill from a
ticket if the bill is of low
or a firecracker label
for a large amount, the print be
in red on white or yellow on
with much gilt and orge
Italian notes are of all sizes,
and colors, The smaller bills.
and ten lire, are printed on white
in pink, blue and carmine inks,
The most striking paper currency
the world is the one-hundred ruble
of Russia which is barred from
to bottom with all the colors of
rainbow, blended as when a sun
passes through a prism. In the
in bold relief is a finely ex»
vignette in black, The ro
of the engraving on the note
in dark and light brown ink.
The American practice of scatter
strands of silk through the paper
as a protection against counter
is unique.—Harper’s Weekly.