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01)p (Emtinglmt Npuib Publithed Every W(doc(day. OFFICIAL ORGAN NEV7TON CO. Lon. L. Flowers & Edwin Taylor, Editors and Publishers. All legal advertisements positively must be paiu for in advance. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year................................. $1.00 Six Months 50c Three Months 25c Advertising? Rates Furnished on Application. Entered as second-class matter De¬ cember 3, 1908, at the post office at Covington, Ga., under the Act of March 3, 1879. COVINGTON, GA., January 27, 1909. The new occupation tax by the city council is the theme of quite a good deal of comment. A good board of trade made Mil ledgeville what she is today, one of the best towns in the state. The chief executive chair of the nation will have as its occupant for the first time in history a judge. No, Gentle Annie, Congress failed to appropriate $2,000,000 to E. H. Harriman on Czar Roosevelt’s recom¬ mendation. Orders haven’t yet been placed for the plate glass windows and marble floor for the auditorium at Academy Spring Park. If you are not in favor of the Board of Trade keep your little hammer hid. Progressive people don’t like to hear it knocking. Roosevelt didn’t have to go to Africa to find something fearless and un¬ tamed. Tillman gave him all that was coming to him. While money matters will be rather tight this year, the prospect of a good crop is making everything very hope¬ ful for the next season. The longer Covington waits to organ¬ ize a board of trade the longer she will be in bringing the trade here that naturally belongs to her. If a place is good enough for you to live in, the merchants who do business in that place generally have articles good enough for your use. We are truly sorry for Atlanta. Madison got the Dairyman’s Conven¬ tion this year and from appearances Athens will get it next year. We have had a number of inquires as when the new steel bridge will be placed over the Alcova river where McGuirts bridge now stands. We want to see Covington have a live board of trade. The business of the city could be increased 40 per cent if the trade could be brought here. Any article manufactured by home people should always be used in pref¬ erence to the one manufactured some place else and sent here to be sold. After the fourth of March the secret service of the government will grow tame. The next president won’t need to track down our honored officials. A proposition is on foot to get a federal building in Covington. There will be no trouble in getting the lot if Uncle Sam will give us the building. Life is too short to listen to calamity howlers and chronic gripers. It has been our observation that this class is the one who never amount to much. Notwithstanding the fact that Cov¬ ington has a few citizens who continue to. use their little hammer she is mak¬ ing greater progress this year than ever before. Home raised supplies for the farmer and home merchants for those things which can be procured here is the greatest thing we can do to build up Covington and Newton county. Now that Tennessee has passed the prohibition law to take effect July 1st, Florida is laughing up her sleeve. Several cities in the latter state are building more business houses to ac¬ commodate the boose dispensers. The Macon Telegraph has discover a new desease in Georgia and has named it Taftitis. Said disease seems to have struck several sections in the state a pretty hard lick, but we are glad to say that old Newton is immune. COVINGTON THE LOSER. During the past few weeks we have 1 had a fact impressed very forcibly about the trade conditions in this' county and especially in some sec tions where the trade naturally belongs , to this city but goes to other towns. 1 Right in the beginning, however, we are not disposed to criticise our busi ness men or fftr that matter anyone concerned about the reason of the other towns getting the trade. We believe there is a solution to the mat¬ ter and want to see our citizens go after the business in a more effective way than they have ever done before. Hence this article. There is one thing conductive to bringing people a distance to a place to trade and that is better roads than the other places have and other is to give the people better val ues for their money in the various commodities and necessities they have to purchase. The other thing is to advertise both these facts and im¬ press the citizens of the different sec¬ tions that you will treat them right, give them their money’s worth and do everything to make their visit to this city both pleasant and profitable to them. Not until there is concerted action by the business men can the trade from all sections be brought here. In the western part of the county about two-thirds of the busi¬ ness goes to Conyers. This naturally belongs to Covington and can be brought back here with the proper encouragement. In the eastern part of the county the trade goes to Social Circle. This trade also belongs to this city by rights. The question is, Why does it go to these other towns? This is a matter of vital importance to the people of Covington and for that reason something should be done. In our opinion there is only one so lution and that is in a real live Board of Trade, composed of the most pro gressive business men of the city who will go in it to further the interests of the city generally and take these matters up with the determination to bring about not only this important change but also the other advantages of the city should be shown to the outside. We know this is the best town in the state, but the thing is to make the fellow living in other places believe it too. THE MIXON MAGAZINE. The beginning of the publication of the Mixon Magazine by the principal and pupils of the Mixon school is an¬ other step along progressive educa¬ tional lines and will meet with the success >t deserves. The magazine started its circulation with 250 copies and will be increased from time to time as there are a number of the people out in that section who have not as yet subscribed. The financial part of the publication will be raised with a few advertisements from the business men of this and adjoining cities, and should be liberally patron¬ ized because the paper will be read and because it will assist the educa¬ tional movement in this county as well as in that immediate neighbor¬ hood. We commend it to the people of the county and wish for it much success. COVINGTON’S LADIES. On another page of this issue of the paper will be found an article relative to the proposition of the different iadies’ clubs of the city to the city council, offering to plant flowers and otherwise make the park at the academy spring beautiful and inviting to the citizens when the hot days come. As we have said before, there is no town with a finer or more intel¬ lectual lot of women than Covington and this is“ just another instance where they are trying to do some¬ thing to make life pleasant to the people generally. The city officials accepted the very generous offer and extended thanks for the same. Covington should feel more than proud of her superior women. The negroes in some parts of the state think that by the passing of the disfranchisement act they will be ex¬ empt from paying taxes, as the new lawtakes their voting privilege’away. This is not the case, for they will all have to pay their taxes the same as they have always done. City /■»., /, Court . Jurors. i i The following named persons were drawn to serve as jurors at the March term , 1909, City Court of Covington, „ I j This Jan. 9, 1909. S. R Thompson, C. A. Sockwell, ; E. W. Adams, D. J. Thompson, Jr. C. D. Terrell, Evans Lunsford, R. F. Jackson, F. D. Biggers, W. N. Blake, W. C. Bently, W. J. Cook, Woodie Piper, S. J. Mask, J. D. Boyd, L. A. Patrick, E. L. King, E. B. Carr, J. W. Robinson. miDc OR SALE ..„„ OR n RENT: .. ,, XTrn Two bnck | ; store rooms on Clark street, near pub lie Sfinaro ^ An„lv 1 P ^ m 8 Furni- eg • ■ tore Store. ’ THE COVINGTON NEWS GOOD ROADS. Tho address of Hon. William F. Eve, of Augusta, before the Southeastern Good Roads Convention in Atlanta recently, attracted a great deal of at tention. Judge Eve is a “good roads builder.” He has given much of his time to good roads construction and it is known that the roads of Rich¬ mond county, of which he is county commissioner, are among the best in the south. Judge Eve in part said: Mr. President and Gentlemen “I wouid not hesitate to recom¬ mend the issuing of bonds for road improvement, whenever or wherever necessary. What I desire to im press on you is to organize and corn mence work, it matters not how small the beginning. “The most important thing to be doneinthe commencement is to select for your roads superintendent a sober industrious, intelligent and practical man—one who understands working hands, and who can obtain results from their labor. Highway construc¬ tion does not, like a railroad, require the skill of an engineer, although oc¬ casionally it may be necessary in obtaining a proper grade for the draining, to employ one. Few coun¬ ties, especially in rural districts can afford the luxury of an engineer. Their limited means can more profit¬ ably invested in equipment and labor upon the roads. “In selecting labor for roads I would suggest that convict labor if you can obtain it, as the cheapest’and most certain for this work. You will get more and better work from them than you will from the class of free labor hire. The per capita per diem cost of convict labor for ^the last six months including superintendence, guarding, feeding, clothing, etc., in Richmond county was 45 cents, You need not fear to use them in road work. Thirty years experience in using misdemeanor convicts, and five years use of felony convict upon the roads of Richmond county, de¬ monstrates that no danger may be apprehended. The legislature of Georgia at its last session recognizing the importance of good roads and yielding to a popular demand, passed an act placing all the convicts on the public roads of the various counties of the states. This I regard as one of the most important and beneficial pieces of legislation enacted for years. Having organized and equipped your roads force, you should consider well the location of your roads. It is true that on a level, a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, but this is not true in a hilly country. Take a ball and cut it in half and you will find that it is the same distance over the highest point of the half ball as half the circumfer¬ ence of thp base. As the weakest link determines the strength of the chain, the heavest grade'regulates the load a team or engine jean carry over the roads. If a horse can pull on a level road 1,000 pounds, he can pull only half that amount on a grade of four feet in a hundred feet, or one fourth that amount on a road that has a rise of ten in a hundred. The cost, therefore, to the farmer, is twice as much to market his prduct over a road having a four per cent. grade US over a level road and four times as much on one that has a rise of ten feet. “Too much consideration cannot be given to the proper route and to the location of your roads. Having loca¬ ted your roads to the best advantage aud secured the least possible grade attention should then be dirrected to the drainage. In locating roads, you should keep in view the two essentials of good roads:—easy grades and good drainage. “Water is recoginized as the great¬ est enemy to good roads, especially earth or clay roads. Roads should be so crowned as to prevent water stand¬ ing upon or passing over them. They should be provided with side drains, so as to recieve the water falling upon their surface and remove it quickly, so as to prevent absorption. Under drain¬ age should provided when ever nec¬ essary. A small pipe or drain, with a good fall will carry off a greater quani ty of water, and more rapidly, than a much larger drain with a slight fall. Therefore, much labor and expense can be saved by securing a proper grade for your ditches. In construct ing your side ditches make them flar ing—that is,smaller at the bottom, The side next to the road should be given a decided slope or incline to pre vent caving. All across drains should : be uc built vuuu of or brick, uuuft, stone sl-uiik ur or vitrified v.iiiriiitui pipe.—Augusta ma mo. AiDua Chronicle. vmvmn.ir. -—— | For manv years the press of the north has been very caustic in its criticisms of _ the . south . about trials of men who j were guilty of murder and of the lynch- I ings we have had. Recently there have been two trials in the north of men who there was no doubt as to their guilt and they were liberated, practically under the ‘unwritten law.’ This is another time when we can ex¬ claim “Consistency, oh, consistency, thou art a jewel”. By special arrangements we have a limited number of subscriptions to the Atlanta ... . ^ Daily and Sunday , I Journal which we are offering with The Cov , ingtom News for one year for $ 5 . 00 I . SCORES ROOSEVELT’S ACTION. The Macon Telegraph is always one of the plainest speaking papers in the south and stands up for Democracy and square dealing in public life. In an editorial in a recent issue of that paper PresidentRoosevelt was handled with gloves off in the prosecution in¬ stigated by him of the New York World. Below we give part of the editorial, which is one of the most caustic and at the same time truthful we have yet seen: It is a flagrant abuse of the en¬ tire theory of our lajvs and free institutions. The Constitution gaurentees ' the citizens the right the when accused of crime to have nature of his crime specially stated and be confronted b> his accuser. And here is the President of the United States professedly for pros¬ lese ecuting a private citizen majeste, a crime unknown to our laws end unstated in the subpoenas and invoking the power of the courts to compel witnesses to testify to anything they know and may be asked concerning his con¬ duct with or without relaveney to the violation of any law. Such an inquisitorial proceeding jurisdic¬ is unheard of outside the tion of the Czar of Russia. Economy. Economy is always admirable. A Cheyenne hatter, though, was disgust¬ ed the other day with the economical spirit of a visitor to his shop. The visitor, a tall man with gray hair, entered with a soft felt hat, wrapped In paper, in his hand. “How much will it cost,” he said, “to dye this hat gray to match my hair?” “About a dollar,” the hatter an¬ swered. . The tall man wrapped the hat up again. “I won’t pay it,” he said. “I can get my hair dyed to match the hat for a quarter.”—Household Journal. No Burglary. Judge—You are charged with bur¬ glary. How do you plead? Prisoner—Not guilty, boss, an’ I’ll tell yo’ why. In de fust place, de chicken coop doah wazn't eben locked; In de seeon’ place, dar wuz no burglar alarm; in the third place, dar wuz no bulldog, an’, in de fourf place, dar w-as no steel traps. Now, dat ain’t burglary et all, boss; dat’s jes’ simply findin’ chickens, an’ I leabe it toe yo’self.”— Exchange. Not So Here. Every London man should remember that in the ordinary w'ay, if he has reached 3 p. m. without getting mar¬ ried, he is, by a merciful dispensation of ecclesiastical law, safe for that day at any rate —London Funeh. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. SHERIFF SALES. Witt be 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 fur cash, the following property, to wit: All that tractor parcel of laud situated and ly¬ ing and being in Oxford district, G. M. r Newton County, Ga., containing Forty (40) acres, and lx>unf. -d as follows: on the south by J H. Car roll, Wt -t by public road leading from Covington to Wain 'tgrove, 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 Jus. Hrya,lt and levied ° !1 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. Kvans and transferred to D.A. Thompson against W.B. Hay good, 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 : K. T. Hull, guardian of Opal Hull Cow: n hav¬ ing applied to the Court of Ordinary of said coun¬ ty for a discharge from his guardianship of Opal Hull Cowan, this is therefore to cite all persons concerned to show cause why the said R. T. Hull should not be dismissed from liis guardienship of Opal Hull Cowan, and receive the usual letters of dismission. Given under rny 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 F. 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 counts , and show cause, if any they can, why letters of ad¬ ministration with the will annexed, should not be granted to said K. \V. Milner on the estate of F. M. Poison. Witness my official signature this the 5th day of January, 1909. , A. I). MEADOR, Ordinary. CITATION. GEORGIA, Newton County Whereas, E. P. Carr, Executor of the estate of AIfred s - Carlton represents to the Court in his has fully administered. Alfred S. Carlton s es tate, this is therefore to cite ail persons concern ed - he * rs and creditors, to show cause if any they can. why said executor should not he discharged from his executorship, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March 1909. A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary. CITATION. GEORGIA, Newton Cotnty. Mrs. Alice Harvey, having made application for years support out of the estate of W. B. Har¬ vey Sr. and appraisers duly appointed to set Same, having filed their report. All persons con hereby required to show cause before the court of Ordinary of said county on the 1st, Monday in March, next, why said application should not be granted as prayed for this Jan. 18<im A. D. MKADOK, Ordinary. Elegant Clothing for Men Since we have been in business in Covington we have made a reputation for carrying a good, substan¬ tial line of Clothing, and this season’s line surpassss anything we have pre¬ viously had. The quality of the goods, workmanship ig ifjL. ? i and styles that appeal to the men who like to wear neat, snappy clothes are in our stock. Come and take a look at them. After you see them we believe we can do business with you. Heard, White & Company Covington, Georgia. —~ ---------- —— ----------- — HORSES - AND - MULES Do you want to buy, sell or swap or ex¬ change in any way? If so, come to see me when in town. My place is head¬ quarters for all kinds from best down to first Tuesday kind. Prices and terms to suit purchaser. My Motto is Quick Sales and Small Profits. A. S. McGARITY Highest Market Prices Always Paid for Good Mules. NEW BACKET w We appreciate your liberal patronage in past and try to show our appreciation in a sabstantial way by giving you the same Big Cash Val= ues in future. New Goods of the season arriving every few days. J. 1. GUINN, Covington, Ga, Ou 50 cent Offer Expires February First. .•* The Only t White Barber Shop In 0 0 Covington, Georgia. 0 0 Is better | prepared than to the 0 ever serve 0 people of this section, with new equip¬ ment, hot and cold towels, and three good White Barbers to wait on you. Come to see us, always glad F* see You. W. ). GOBER, Proprietor.