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cember 3, 1908, at the post otlige at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Covington needs a Board of Trade
and a City Hall. When are we going
to get them?
Elsewhere than Covington you will
find a place to loaf. This city has no
room for idlers.
The president-elect will have a
crowd to greet him when he stops
here next Friday.
Business in every line is looking up
in Covington and the merchants are
beginning to feel better.
No, the city council has not taken
the lead of congress in the matter of
the citj r officials’ salaries.
Men who have made a success in
advertising were as persistent in the
dull season as in the rush.
Atlanta had a citizen to get killed
in the earthquake in Italy. We would
bet on Atlanta being represented, all
right.
When the Auditorium at the Public
School is finished it will be a beauty.
But then there is nothing too good for
Covington!
The park at Academy Spring has
been put in fine condition and only
lacks that proposed Auditorium to
make it complete.
When the other side of the public
square is paved with tiling, things
will look a great deal better in the
business part of town.
Covington’s water works and sew¬
erage system will be second to none
in the State when completed, and it
won’t be long till it is finished, either.
Roosevelt’s message to Congress
was ridiculed when read by that body,
and a resolution was offered to return
it to him. This is one time where his
Big Stick “swunk.”
As soon as the registration books
are opened we urge the citizens of
this county to register. Under the
new law the books close six months
previous to an election.
Editor Rhodes, of the Birmingham
News, is a coward of the first stamp,
if the utterances accredited to him
are true. The fourth estate is dis¬
graced by men of such calibre.
The $800,000 appropriation by Con¬
gress to the earthquake victims in
Italy, while not in accord with the
Constitution of the United States, is
generally approved by the people.
The Atlanta Journal seems to be
highly incensed over the prohibition
conditions in Savannah. However,
Savannah pays no attention to the
Journal and goes on her way smiling.
The action of the Library Associa¬
tion last week in making it free for
the present year, is highly apprecia¬
ted by the public and is receiving the
hearty commendation of the citizens
generally.
The News has received a number
of jobs of printing from other towns
this week and we appreciate them
too. The grade of work turned out
by this office and the prices on same
are building us up a nice business.
Roosevelt calls Ben Tillman a grafter
and Tillman says he will prove that
Roosevelt is a small potato, so there
you are. When it gets up before Con¬
gress there will certainly be some¬
thing doing, unless the Pitchfork
statesman has lost some of his erst¬
while vocabulary.
George H. Bell, who was at one
time editor of The Wiregrass Blade,
and who also represented Emanuel
county in the Legislature, is in the
State asylum, at Milledgeville; but if
the letters he is sending out to differ¬
ent papers in the State is an index to
sanity, he is about the brainiest man
there.
The “mail order fiend,” and he or
she exists everywhere, is the true out¬
growth of ignorance or false pride;
that ignorance that believes shoddy
goods cheap because they cost less, or
that false pride that thinks everything
best that is bought away from home,
and that the placing of an order is a
step towards a business career. Pat¬
ronize your home merchants.
SOME THINGS WE WON'T DO.
During the past several weeks The
News has had applications for adver¬
tising space from numerous patent
medicine manufacturers and fake jew¬
elry houses, all of which we promptly
and positively declined to consider.
Some of these would possibly have
paid well for contract space, and it
may not have been good business pol¬
icy for us to have turned them down,
but as we stated when we first began
the publication of The News that no
questionable advertising would ever
be admitted to its columns, we still
have the same conviction that this is
a class of reading matter which should
be excluded from the homes of our
readers—friends whom we have known
and loved and been associated with
all our lives.
The News will ever stand for what
we think is best, and at no time will
we accept advertising from any per¬
son or firm whose goods, honesty and
business integrity is of a questionable
nature, and whose reputation is not
personally known to the citizenry of
this section. In other words, it would
be inconsistent for us to boost our
home town and insist that our readers
patronize home merchants, and then
fill our colums with mail order, patent
medicine and fake jewelry advertise¬
ments.
Right here at home we have drug¬
gists and physicians who prepare
household remedies which are emi¬
nently better then the much adver¬
tised “patent” poisons; we have mer¬
chants who keep the best line of
goods procurable, and jewelry houses
who will sell you reputable goods at a
fair price, and our interests are with
them any day in the week in prefer¬
ence to the foreign fake concerns.
NOT THE SOUTHERN SPIRIT.
Much has been said by a number of
Southern newspapers about President¬
elect Taft and his visit to Georgia.
Quite a good deal has been said about
Mr. Taft breaking the solidity of
Southern Democracy. This sounds
preposterous to us, as Southerners are
Democrats from necessity, and the
old line Democracy of the South can¬
not be broken by a dozen President¬
elects coming to spend a few months
with us and incidentally play a game
of golf with Rockefeller.
It is all right, of course, and shows
that true Southern hospitality is recog¬
nized to be the finest in all the world,
to make Mr. Taft feel at home, but
when it comes to the principles for
which the South stands now, as she
has always done, that is another
thing, and should be kept out of the
courtesies extended him. We say
this in no disparaging way, and be¬
lieve Mr. Taft will make a good Pres¬
ident, but we will not say that he can
break our Democracy for which all
true Southern men who are Demo¬
crats, are so justly proud and for
which they have battled at the polls
for the past hundred years.
Mr. Taft is welcome to Georgia the
same as any other prominent Ameri¬
can would be, but time will show that
the papers who are so persistent and
flowery to him will tell a different
tale.
NIGHT RIDERS CONVICTED.
The courts of Union City, Tenn.,
last Friday convicted eight of the
night riders who have made life at
that place a terror with their mur¬
ders, burning of homes, and whipping
of citizens. This trial was the se¬
quence to the murder of Captain Ran¬
kin several weeks ago and is what
the nation expected Tennessee to do.
Such crimes as were committed in
that State by night riders are a me¬
nace to contentment and have no
place in any section of America. The
trial has been in progress for the past
month and when the verdict of guilty
was returned by the jury the people
breathed freely for the first time in
months. People living in this county
can conceive of none of the horrors
experienced by citizens of that sec¬
tion of Tennessee, but they have kept
up with the affairs and rejoice with
that State in the conviction of the
ring leaders in this nefarious band.
The occupation tax proposition is
the theme of a good deal of argu¬
ment by our citizens. The greater
number seem to favor it.
The educational question is a live
wire in Newton county. She has bet¬
ter school facilities than any county
in the state with the same population.
Her One Ambition.
She wanted a }ob, she told the man¬
ager of the big store, and everything
about her, from drooping eyelashes to
neatly molded Instep, indicated that
she would draw enough trade, or
ought to, to cover her salary.
But the manager told her that for
one of her Inexperience she would
command only about $6 a week.
She accepted this, if it was the best
he could do, but as she was about to
turn away she hesitated and asked de¬
murely, looking at him through the
drooping lashes, “Do you suppose you
could make that $7 a week, so I could
have a little laundry done once in
awhile r’—SL Louis Republic.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ROADS.
The following from the Scientific
American is so full of able argument
and so freighted with sound reasoning,
that in view of the movement in this
state for good roads, it is reproduced.
No study 7 can be more convincing
than that of the economic waste place
upon the shoulders of the 85,000,000
people of this land from the almost
criminally shameful condition of 2,000,
000 miles of road. Every pound of
farm products brought from rural sec¬
tions to thickly-populated centers has
placed upon it a fictitous value, because
it costs the farmer more to transport
it than it would cost him were
the roads in passable condition. The
price of the lamb chop that Brooklyn
eats for breakfast is based, not upon
the real value of the lamb, but upon
the cost of bringing that lamb from
the western fields to the Brooklyn
breakfast table. The cost of the
breakfast role would be trifling did it
not cost the farmer w T ho grew the
wheat from which the roll was made
1.8 cents a bushel more to draw that
wheat from his farm mne miles to a
railroad station than it costs to carry
a bushel of wheat from New York to
Liverpool, a distance of 3,100 miles.
The cost of a soft-boiled egg, which is
also closely related to the American
breakfast, is established by the cost
of transporting the product of the hen
to the hotel, and not because the egg
was at all intrinsically worth what
was charged for it.
Everybody who th? must concede
the evident fact that if a farmer with
two horses can draw but 600 pounds
to market in five hours, he would save
money if with one horse he could
haul 1,200 pound:., in two hours. Were
the roads in good condition he could
do that and more. Any saving in
hauling a ton of farm product would
bring a benefit, not alone to the farmer,
but to the consumer, and if the pro¬
duct hauled each year was large, it is
not hard to figure that the saving
would be large. Figures have been
assembled to prove that owing to the
frightful condition of almost all Amer¬
ican roads, it costs 25 cents a ton to
haul. The superb roads of the old
countries of Europe make possible the
hauling of farm products at 12 cents
a ton a mile. Therefore, every ton
hauled costs the American farmer 13
cents more per mile than the farmers
of the old country are forced to pay.
The average length of haul of farms
products in the United States is 9.4
miles; therefore, were our roads as
good as those of France, the farmer’s
gain would be 9.4 times 13 cents or
approximately $1.23.
By the same method of figuring as
that adopted above the hauling of this
would resultin a saving of about$305,
000, 000 a year. It would appear that
so vast a sum should not be annually
thrown away, simply because those
responsible for appropriations of mon¬
ey to construct roads cannot be
brought to a realization of their tre¬
mendous importance. The time for
an awakening is here, and the quicker
the awakening occurs, the greater
the benefit the farmer will enjoy.
Special.
—By special arrangements we have
a limited number of subscriptions to
the Atlanta Daily and Sunday Journal
which we are offering with The Cov¬
ington News for one year for $5.00.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHERIFF SALES.
Will he sold at the Court House door in New¬
ton County, Ga., on the First Tuesday in Febru¬
ary. 1909, within the legal hours of sale for cash,
the following property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land situated and ly¬
ing and being in Oxford district, G. M., Newton
County, Ga., containing Forty (40) acres, and
bounded as follows: on the south by J. H. Car
roll, west by public road leading from Covington
to Walnutgrove, north by Morgan Callaway and
east by James Bryans, and being the land set
aside as a dower to Josephene Bryant, widow of
John Bryant deceased, and now occupied by Jas.
Bryant and levied on as the property of the es¬
tate of John Bryant deceased. Said property lev¬
ied on with a Superior Court fi fa. issued from
Newton Superior Court in favor of W. W. Evans
and transferred to I).A. Thompson against W.B.
Haygood, administrator of John Bryant deceased.
Written notice given James Bryant, tenant in
possession as required by law. This, December
21, 1908.
S. M. HAY. Sheriff.
Citation.
GEORGIA. Newton County :
E. T. Hull, guardian of Opal Hull Cowan hav¬
ing applied to the Court of Ordinary of said coun¬
ty for a charge from his guardianship of Opal
Hull G j, this is therefore to cite all persons
concert, , to show cause why the said E. T. Hull
should not be dismissed from his guardienship of
Opal Hull Cowan, and receive the usual letters of
dismission. Given under my hand and official
signature.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary
Citation.
GEORGIA. Newton County :
K. W. Milner, of said State, having applied to
me for letters of administration with will annex¬
ed on the estate of K. M. Poison, late of said
county. This is therefore, to cite all and singu¬
lar the creditors and next of kin of said F. M.
Poison to be and appear at the February term
1909, the Court of Ordinary of said county, and
show cause, if any they can, why letters of ad¬
ministration with the will annexed, should not
lie granted to said r w. Milner on the estate of I
the f. m. 5th Poison, day of witness my official signature this |
January. 1909. j
a. d. meador, Ordinary.
Notice of Application For Alterations
In Roads And Bridges.
GEORGIA, NEWTON C#UNTY:
Central Georgia Power Company, a Georgia
corporation, owning lands in said county, having
applied for alterations or changes in the location
of certain public roads and bridges in said county,
which alterations or changes have been found of
public utility and laid out and marked conforma¬
bly to law by special road commissioners duly
appointed, and a report thereof under oath made
by them, said alterationsor changes in the loca¬
tion of said public roads and bridges as follows,
to.wit:
1. Waters' Bridge, on Alcova river, between
Newton and Jasper counties, and the public road
leading to said bridge on the Newton county side
of said river, at and near said bridge, to be altered
and their locations changed as follows : Begin¬
ning a point on said road 950 feet North-westerly
from the center of said Waters’ bridge, measured
along the middle of said road; said road to be al¬
tered or changed so that it will run from said
point in the diiection South 87 degrees 30 minutes
East, a distrance of 460 feet; thence South 28 de¬
grees 45 minutes East, a distance of 1,180 feet;
crossing the Alcova river and the reservoir to be
created thereon by said Central Georgia Power
company upon a suitable and substantial bridge
located approximately 35 feet down stream from
the existing bridge across said river on the pres¬
ent road, known as Waters' bridge ; thence South
75 degrees East, a distance of 400 feet, to a point
where it will intersect and join the existing road
on the South side of said river; said section of
road when altered or change to have a total length
of approximately 2,040 feet from said point where
it leaves the existing road on the North side of
said river to the point where it joins it again on
the South side of said river, and running in New¬
ton county through lands of Mrs. J. a. Bohanan.
2. Allen's bridge on Yellow river, in said New¬
ton county and the public road leading to said
bridge, at and near said bridge, on both sides of
said river, to be altered and their locations
changed as follows ; Beginning at a point on said
road running from Mann's bridge on the South
river to said Allen’s bridge 370 feet South of the
center of the said Allen's, measured along the
middle of said road, said road to be changed so
that it will run from said point in the direction
North 12 degrees 30 minutes East, a distance of
100 feet. thence due North, a distance of 550 feet,
to a point where it will intersect and join said
existing road on the North side of said river, and
crossing in said course Yellow river and the res¬
ervoir to be created thereon by said Central Geor¬
gia Power Company upon a suitable and substan¬
tial bridge approximately 65 feet down stream
from the existing bridge across said river on the
present road, known as Allen's bridge ; said sec¬
tion of road when altered or changed to have a
total length of approximately 650 feet from
said point where it leaves the existing road on
the South side of said river to the point where
it joins it again on the North side of said
river, and running through the lauds of A. I,.
King on the South side of said river, and through
the lands of F. D. and R. W. Ballard on the North
side of said river.
3. Mann's bridge on South river between Butts
and Newton counties and the public road in said
Newton county leading to said bridge, at and
near said bridge, to be altered and their locations
changed as follows : Beginning at a point on said
road on the Butts county side of South river, 1,455
feet Westerly from the center of said bridge,
measured along the middle of said road, said road
to be altered or changed so that it will run from
said point in the direction North 71 degrees East,
a distance of 475 feet; thence North 85 degrees
East, a distance of 225 feet; thence South 82 de¬
grees 30 minutes East, a distance of 615 feet;
thence North 85 degrees 25 minutes East, a dis¬
tance of 345 feet; crossing in said last two courses
said South river and the reservoir to be created
thereon by said Central Georgia Power Company
upon a suitable and substantial bridge located
approximately 160 feet up-stream from the exist¬
ing bridge across said South river on the present
road known as Mann's bridge, thence South 26
degrees 15 minutes East, a distance of 190 feet, to
a point where it will intersect and join said exist¬
ing road in Newton county leading to said bridge,
said point being approximately 282 feet Easterly
from the center of said bridge, measured along
the center of said road; said section of road when
altered or changed to have a total length of ap¬
proximately 1,850 from said point where it leaves
said existing road on the Butts county side of said
river to said point where it joins it again on the
Newton county side of said river, and running in
Newton county through the lands of A. L,. King.
4. The public road in said Newton county be¬
ginning in front of the fesidence of J. A. Bohanan
in Jasper county and running from the road lead¬
ing to Water's bridge in a Westerly direction
across Connally branch to the road running from
Stewart to Allen's bridge on Yellow river, at and
near said Connally branch on both sides of the
same, to be altered and changed as follews : Be¬
ginning at a point on said road 240 feet North¬
westerly from the center of the present bridge on
said road across said branch, measured along the
middle of said road: said road to be altered or
changed so that it will run from said point due
South, a distance of 250 feet: thence South 50 de¬
grees 45 minutes West, a distance of 470 feet, to a
point where it will intersect and join said exist¬
ing road on the Westerly side of said branch
(said point being 450 feet South-westerly from
the center of said existing bridge across said
branch, measured along the middle of said road)
and across said Connally branch and the arm of
the reservoir to lie created thereon by said Central
Georgia Power Company upon a suitable and
substantial bridge located approximately 140 feet
down stream from the existing bridge across said
branch; said section of road when altered or
changed to have a total length of approximately
720 feet from said point where it leaves said ex¬
isting road on the Easterly side of said branch to
said point where it joins it again on the Westerly
side of said branch, and running through the
lands of Mrs. S. E. Steele,
Such portions of all said existing public roads
as will be covered by water by the reservoir of
said Central Georgia Power Company, or such
portions thereof as will be rendered unnecessary
by the above described alterations or changes in
the location of the same, including all of the
present bridges, the locations of which will be
changed by said alterations, to be discontinued
upon the completion and opening for travel of
the sections of said roads so altered or changed
and the new bridges to be constructed across said
streams, the discontinuance of said portions of
the existing roads and of said present bridges be¬
ing incidental to said alterations or changes in
location of said roads and bridges as above de¬
scribed and set forth.
Now, if no good cause be shown to the contrary
by persons interested in the above stated matters,
an order will be grantedby the Board of Commis¬
sioners of Roads and Revenues of said Newton
county, at the office of said Board, on and after
the 19th day of January, 1906, finally granting
said alterations.
By order of said Board of Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues, in open session, this 10th
day of December, 1908.
Attest:
J. Z. JOHNSON, Chairman.
G. D. HEARD, Clerk of said Board.
A true extract lrom the minutes of a meeting
of said Board held this 10th day of December 1908
G. D. HEARD,
Clerk of said Board.
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Parker’s grocery store.—tf.
J. M. DEARING.
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ai 'd Notaries Public. The printing on
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