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B ^Vfi/ r.yn ones. stem ?i 9
The political pot is beginning to
blty tfji
know what’s “a cookin''.”
aril wonJL, authorities ifeFpripnf report that the
Army
southern recruits 'j'LC I '° t
those from other befetlons, hyttfdasfcto
of unciniarisis or the hook worm dis
htimb is messa |<? r\ sS.
v is< ‘.s llifliti f ‘■
gation of the great sugar “steal, but
The President knows the “House of
—mi-m More than score of first a ni U class J
a
homes lift*
this yeB.il l
cupied.f If
ington is a Myad town,he mpans some
otkdr ^“Gdvi^ton!4s therb are
fifteen
Somehow the hook worm didn’t af
ofcW»<’t««ii«Y«TOPtWh?a)«B^PPf
accounts for indifference to Northern
bullets.
XfkiUhi to kim
the people in the next gubernatorial
campaign will be: Does it ^»o
years or four years for comjil£t,$
dication.” It i »i nificant
that data is alrfe* ’ated is
to how each precinct went in the last
m-mi H0TDH1H?
And Mr. Bryan is to address the
Young Men’s Democratic League of
Atlanta. Were it to be an open air
address, we should go up to Decatur
and listen fixm Wi!
Howard’s^!
voice has as much volume as when
we heard him in Florida a few years
ago.
creased cost of living. Unless some¬
thing be done to bring about a down¬
ward revision of tariff, and our gro
cery biff' we 'expect to put up a good
supply of green persimmon kraut nex
season in order to shrink our-
wants IIET and live withUi f»TIU our income. stuid ,
iO UO y fc m,?<
A Wisconsin man in
for office the other day stated that
not one of his friends had begged
him, urged him, solicited him, or
prayed |f jpifih wls JiJffnil%|f(^|tit'4ffici iT^nf Jb ^r^uliqO Cui fof
that h
the simple TeaSon tnaTthere was*no
prospect of the living"wKw office running for
him. One man
announce “At the solicitation of my
many friends, etc.” Surely, an Is
Will not some patriarch of politicians
aoc 'ttewr-anti ’ssy
die since I have seen thy face and
thou art alive.”
ti "e pi
iidatiwfer s. ■* m
*honor,Kpo glory
p erso n^ rflor^ ! ____
ti wfeftes: pf
a
eVSSfSssSS/.'/ frme is a r ssss/ cftrch r jrsSf'.'4d.--r fnemifer, too! If
ls J1X§ olose
W¥*U1 ip. tfu;
of
his^^wwlwiwft r T!5 f ’ Mi ***' l » atherlv^c.go M w
fodiallbl^ifi^elocitoni-MStie-ArHia.
from going to the “bow wows,” and
m. im
,fH) i.-l ‘.:r‘ -
il MOflLEYqin v
MloousK isnflo ion
th s h . MaGprfWPnifcy?'- I fet^f
"j?o
m °^ri mi..
what we tave taAHfayph a j o:>:
( t ,
If you have anything to buy in the
MTCMBOI
they must be closafeofl^
less. the room.
Don’t fail t .see our linaJorS
ets and furs»«
stock of tii^Kj ^rau d miiffs, t lb
The o
Ladies and children’s hats. We have
s
need and Yf prices have got
ting | to t ||q^y t^rt^we^ftftvC
the profU,^^ .4tmy must
f
^ w
7a T fad - to see them. Yours for business.
E. H. MOBLEY,
Covington, Ga.
WHY NOT trijDjR A CARNEGIE UC I 1 LIBRARY? ' "
)t‘) '
4rle pearly three years ago Mr.
offered to donate a library build
ing to? the town on the. same condi¬
tions required Pf the thousand or
more towns which have accepted his
jdjoyatipns, viz^tljat: the municipal au-,
thorities make a reasonable approprk
4UftP to,maiidia^n. the library.
n Yhe matter was taken up wifh the
janthorities, but the ladies ^iotyd were id
formed thaf the . Council not
possibly s|e@ i|s, way,^clear\ to make
even the small appropriation required
{.Be it known, however, that-since-that
time ways and m ean s have not^been
other improvements. For
instance, iqpr ? e recitation room at the
fmbliq. sqhqol and an auditorium swere
Jieede®. pracitcally all the expenses
of building were raised by a rirect
find the town How has a
yqiibol plant of proikirtions to
dbnditions for years. This
,SL|[OULD commend all have concerned been done, for the w
en¬
terprise manifested. The gradual in
ifi School attendance and the
fact that more room has beem pro
-(Yitlfid,.for tfe^batiaiv Work during ^hore the
past two years, | necessitate
)feaM ^ s a( additional approprim
^ ^ <)f WQre t ^ n - fc i
Thousand Dollars is the outcome: This
shgufd ha-Xb be bn done, and it is a,n
evidence of the wholesome education¬
al sentiment of Covington. ,,
' Ot*e i' instaimesyof the town’s* pub
i<? efd rit are* Hot lacking, but how
hbjpi^t t^p appropriation to secure the
proffered Carnegie Library donation?
[Though ‘?i'#-nmM!#.^p9uncil thecommittee was
three years*
ago that there W|is no provision in
the f,ofyh fharteV authcrMug sch anu
appropriation, an amendment of one
clause TgVdnting thht this be thq .sta
tus) at the next session of the leg
mm, mm he situa
It has pot been told “in Gath or
in the streets of Askelon” that dur¬
ing the past two years, when other
needed improvements have been the
immxn K y or , ifcark- con
stitutipn^l, liputations.
We believe even as an auxiliary to
the public school work and next iu
importance to it, a library well Sup¬
plied with juvenile literature
as literature for the grownups) shoul
be liberally maintained r\ght here at
CbVin^tonV to4ns an^an-
8 eyeu. u^ade from
the school funds to support a $irst
class SCHOOL library. ,
Tlie children of the rural schools oi
-xxmnty have easy access to the
i*aH^ County Trayeling Libraig of
3000 voluniek, of the hij iest
el, ass Wiie*4y literature purchased from [time
to r the Board of Eduction
from in authorized the public under school the funds— schoolgaw thi|| be
S
_____ mmasm
Although we have taken no one in
‘-ronBulrafion, and -wrtrke- thts- fnrpeal
at the instance of no one, Covington
cannot afford to absolutely pass by
proposition made three
years ago and RENEWED THIS
.YKX£h' Mr. Carnegie donSf£a M-6tilTVeja ver
liable “idiot” to library uni
til jl proykiioK w first mi be ruaxle p to main
*■
* ,
-Cannm. the town arrange Xo meet
t i«;Te^gxed, iilwr cquditi^ns?' ¥^r@ngtp4 J Nttn^ers of
^ n
i arid gladly met the Car
negie conditions . We CAN if we
WrfM* -• <* l fini (C »(i i
- (UJn ^ckYnegie lil
br«ry *HR H«a^. required is for the<
toW „ i0 ma ^ appropriation of
f^t permit' n of the cost of h/aintaining the build
■ tlie : pUrpose * of
.^ flxed sum is designated to‘L for
mereiv within
reasonable ., k limits as. we understand
,a * w ' -
The ! ladies Of The town are going
.tt» have'a^niodefiCMbfary building one
Thlsf iM as fixed
dt- Aurttef '#rs' any -law of tke ancient
Mede^knd'PtYtonfe, but *\tTly ! not le|
Mr. Ihe. bilf, and then
'otheY the ftu'rcffage ^Vailable ,.of fuhds can 'and be used for
books other nec
J sarV’e4’uipmen*t! 1U 31
es
ft A
£ ;.B« a f i5m if • # Rf * mmi
ThCE LUCID INTERVAL.
^ e ,
^.\nd now hdSlies* k *i%wo deponents
say that N^ftb. Pole 00k bought!
IWWjjgerv^jons.and atthvPoTi^ "hence Vas never
ne Co-^k .jCteuSC'^l&Sfy and Dr.
should debate the question, Re
NfT LTh£j| $>11 (i Oil -iffghtier I I- i*
f ed Ciu
VvnVXTI ^ ^ mu turke 1 , v !
^ *
fonna spniething like a month;
m**rn t
for feed and this advertisement. Call
at this office. They were found north
f the Georgia Railroad depot.
J ll)i
We don’t claim to know much
iWpst*®?} UJhan
the many.mil|ion experts who espe¬
cially in 'imlitlbaV 1 ftkihpaigns, with all
the wisdom of sages, the sagacity of
Vbltjic*} 'W d H¥l < P?W vis
ion of prophetas, seek to enlighten
he on AH ipa Uer f; sxoOMg riErinGveO
Though it paa^ be qn$ p.f th^e in
scrutakle questions which only, p rov¬
idence, Guyt. McLendon and the rail¬
roads fully understand’,'* 1 ydt we DC
know that by, reason of BETTER
rentes,. tiiere are. othey tqwns ip the
st^te having npt the least advantage
Pft Qovingon in .he matter of, location,
ta kt have no difficulty in bringing ir.
capital for various manufocturiug en
terprises.
ThP matter of freight*rates-'is ai
all’ iriiportaht one ; tvith tT.C’dnaiurfac
turer seeking a' dotation. : It ik‘fur
thermore a matter of imporfahcfe to
the merchant',to [the farmer, and pther
fpunty interests, even apart from its
relation to the individual g^owty and
development-,of a town. ns 3rfT
With the Bibb Cottoq, Mills increas¬
ing their capacity on a large, .scale,
the Covington Mill growing fromnyear
to year, thetoil<iniiH < 4bin£ '& firie bus
a blanket factory organized,
and othei 1 ‘krianufafturihg drrtefeSfd ofi
a smaller scale than tWese,
in S« we have up, occasion to “howl”
but lex’s (
g,«jt, r^ydy to hieet the ad
kantagesj Georgia io he offered later, by the
Central fewpr,,Company.,
Iu other,,wprda, certain other towns
have taken up thei-matter of freight
fates,'■ and as a result have,sberared
concession^. 1 ''(Let's' at least-'fimT out
jus't wliei I d ,! iv'e are “at. let siiiO
We will VldVer' know if e^trybody’s
busjqes's! ? : T ‘ 1 4 ' H ' *f bind U t YJ\
:.n *•'»
Our Line qf Christmas Goods
j> r'ljg fjV, mow^ready
we,are to
^ >U l ^ e line . of To >' s
to be, found, in Covington, such as
dolls, doll beds, fancy boxes,, baskets
vasest, china ware, and.tq fact every¬
thing that goes along to make- up a,
Lind of Chhismtaas pfesbiitS. Im;w
A beautiful* liiie Of nebkWekr iri fan¬
cy boxes to retail at Sb dfelffS'. 11 ' 11 ■'* j ,,,
Notice ouf sh'ow'windows. Wo haves
pilt out dfibiit'ohe hundred m,ens hats
to close out. They are good styles
and good colors. These hats must 1
go. If y ,0
see them
Covington Cash Store, •n
Coyingtpn, Ga. (9
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CHRISTMAS GIFT *S beJinT »
... lo ilX O .0 jn.B9§i'
HA '’ J f jo! mqmoi binn
r.’jfiW OtlA bi'.ud fc i t • . 92 jR Xhnot eld
/19 291 it*) 79V,
s! nv/.nfl 1 Lstaiifls r.W. m
9 ft be vies bin;
lib iisii
ID 011 1 i M a b boltvn) 1? m
o
1 v' 7* ftf ulvsel 93;
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ft lo yen
na J\ |dl8e<
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aidCiADAfy! H3QW(
MM
WATCHES
■
Nickel, $1 to $2.50.
* " $6.00 upward. Gold, $8.00
$75.00.
■4 SIGNET RINGS
Sl.oy tp .fS.00, sqlid gold.
f
! BRACELETS
The ed pleasing $1.50 to kind. $5.00. Gold [fill¬
Solid
..jGojd, $BL00.
SCARF PINS
Gold filled, 50c upward.
FOUNTAIN PENS
' W aterrhalf’k 1 idea/, best on
( earth, $2.50 upward. Par
»;» 1 ker’s pbns, all guaranteed,
$1.50 upwards.
Pinni/C uLUuKo
l l 7 i /i i i < 11 v
Gold and silver plited, $3.50
U , IV*^) upwards. Others from
j ,, •, !
7
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: a 1 znm THE 9vc ! I 53 COVINGTON DilM 9nl i 1
i A. 1 ‘ JEWELRY STORE Tl s
■ii.uigfe a tsess z
ONLY A FEW DAYS iLynninpO ot
We will take Inventory Christmas, and in
der to reduce our stock as much as ppssible by t t
the quick; ;
time we have cut prices to i J
9 1 .A S :
Woolen dress Goods and Silks to id 1 off
•
-
Dress trimmings, n ! H
O 3 C \ m 40
Op . iac i ■PL?
■ H2 Percales alaod mol .! & :
* 42 ntiiauH 900 juiiJ 7 8 sBaiah 07 J 4 zm
■ V* SM vv .-.
3 d) lo f> T
. Best Calicoes Dolmltl - '• a m •
h jaol 89 i , ns
1 Oc flannelettes and outings :e.1 oh
———— .. . J i-unesaoH bn* slispomY vr- 5--* Wi V. J;
of 1 iliirnmo 2 1 -2c 1 flannelettes and outings i i -mi al I!»dmlM rt ;/ 10c ntr.lii N luilnihA Smm
■Oil J
>*1 c«i D iflnoltfiX !ua L ilSiGO; 20QX9 u« n i.iqitidsitW od ■ ^ bot99l98 u Ujsm
Best <pQt|tbn checks djl'/7'—.id V tiVniii'O;., .£a r 0) iurjlibiuA 8»t)?-10dl
* ^ 1 -Hal t a Ti'.. l 9 f •/. i
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l*iod aril to r-ib/o teod 'aahoiicifl erf •>ii' ... 9iio >>l ilBddii i-i i.ia.‘:;if)A eisjc •.
1 Oc Cheviets oi i mi M»nba c* kTiowQIjb It)
icigm ■mjT « ojt ! JBb'tfbl!
ai c uitfll 'filiiao' no ha nobd id
. 7
JO 8t 9ll n ( lr > a b Aift | 7b7,|. ail abing bdl
Laces and embroideries j usm ;
t/pisM has »/bK qidabUfad 1-5 off » bUBOUflOO
a s .VbBISl
jJiid t ci 1 <rn;: olnt (iirbD !
All white goods >!'iH yidsifoiq bifsJ riohiw In nlbLim bus rij .h-mh hi ; i .MOOR 1 -5"off OT:c;j
1 ables linen, doilies and towels £> '/ soi’b J-ya<i9i» 1 -5 (iOTjW off Insmrnavoa
ne sis F
{' ' t s Clothing g btrsrl srtisi and ladies ? beta T9q 'to j xlhip, mrr'aoiiia J-5 Jo A off sHTOf WbVI
w^aps fsfi ni‘ .a | -juo A'io'1 '//!,» •fif lo mood
> 991 Cl i -Tl 9TO „, gnjiiinxb util
Bed comforts 7k :m3h iGiioidHa
til n j i.oiiq ni eah
il qc; oinomnion/ij]
ri t 5
)ij 8 balls dewing cotton 1.3 ^ t ubL. 3 W ,riJi 91 c ttiw
Jli 1
8 packages celluloid starch n 870)8 rigid f bbIBO?. Js
3bl 10. iiv? fiogxi-L
»i i ? 1 1 i. *l "f i ) ’
.
has SftIH ! 9 j I * lit harfono cuDiJO'
C. C. ROBINSON is frisvog T asisd g» 79yo ritod jaom O'lO ainiot sri ,08.Si 00! or!: i
i 91 l 1 noltoR ,
n 03 61! •bevolio’
9ri Covington, Georgia. It b^rfirt n Oft rt'iifui i
Gifts For Ladies
Card Diamond Gases Rings ^•JJ
Neck Charms 1.00 t t
Lockets 1.0Q “
Fobs 1-25 “
‘
Back Combs .50 “
Waist Sets 1
Veil Pins <<
Link Buttons .50 “
Brooches 2.00 “
Collar Pins "
Scarf Pins
Belt. Pins j l‘oo 00 ,,
Belt Buckles “
Hat Pins ‘ J " ' 1.00 “
Rings aril 1.00 “
Comb and Brush (Sterling) 8.00 “
Mirrors ,y l ‘-‘inib' ; "<t 2.50 “
Bracelets esai; t
1.25 “
Book Marks .25 “
Tooth Brush Holders 1.00 “
Largnette Chains 1.50 “
Signet Rings 1.00 “
Stone Rings 7 ! 2,50 “
T«a Balls ? 5.$"“ Qp “
Tea Bells
Nail Scissors,q Files n n .75“
.50 “
Nail Cuticles A ‘ .75 “
Glove Buttoners 1.00“
Gold Handle Parasols 10.00“
Silver Trays
Fountain Thimbfes Pens 9 "to lt
Silver “
SE. Ai anleU re Sets 10 's«- 00 “ I
Tooth Brushes .50 “ i
Nut Pick SetS “
Paper Knives “
so “
5.00 ;;
Hair Curlers |.00 “ f
Gifts For Men
Broshes $4.00 up
!Cui¥ Links .50 “
Vest Chaines 1.50“
Fobs .75 “
Nall Clips .75 “
Military* Sets 7.50 “
Bottle Cpenefi)' .75 “
Hair Brushes ipO J “
Charnis l.oo “
Signet Rings 3.50 “
' Shaving Sets 5.00 “
Tie Clasps .75 “
'
Shirt Studs .75 “
Scarf Pins ,50 “
»v,hisk Brooms „ --------
1.00 “
Watermans Pens 2.50 “
Parkers Pens 1.50 “
Writin mSS „ Shs 1.5QJ‘
.75 “
nai g“;t edtt e<loW ^ , Yl .25 .75 “ “
f ‘. s 5.00 “
^^ > ^? der8 '*‘ u ' 1.50 .75 “ “
;? ■
oxe8 A .50 “
^ c “.^ e8 ,75 .50 “ “
Pooth Brushes .50 “
Hat Markti FT ,50-“
Silver HQwanJWMtfi Crown Openers .75 “
Hea Walking 37.00
a Canes 8.00 ,
'V e make no extra charge for en
K ravin K goods bought from us.
E ARLY avoid the holi
day rush. »
b ! liX . S'
. NAPKIN RINGS
Burling Silver Napkin Rings,
r r c'/T i und
GUFF LINKS qxs 1)D
> 118(1
With signet tops, or etigrav- : b
ed. Gold filled, 75© upr v(.
^ards. Solid Gold, $3,-00
upwards.
-
) f<7 /A 9f fv
GUT GLASS w c
Libbeys patterns from , $3.p0 tm
u a. wards. ! :> (ft N
!
TEA SETS
Silver piat©d, $10.00. Solid,
to order. , , ,
f V — -v no — .i - bw ij, U
r- rg*d It ,7 b)3 eh
f r 1 ba'forie b
i. s, forks,
spoons, odd piece*.
fi': in
PARASOLS
Ladies gold handle, silk tops,
from $8.00 to $20.00..^
aTV 00,<
FOBS
Ladies and Gen to* ribbohfobs
and gold fob* from |1..50 ^