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Commencing Monday The Harrison Company Will run a Bargain Sale one week
February 8th, • • » • • showing different lines at Special Prices
You have heard this before. Yes, but listen. If we do not satisfy you the first day that we mean business and that it will
pay you to attend these sales you have the privilege of non-attendance the balance of the week.
See the line we put on sale Monday. You will wonder how we can do it.
Don’t forget theday==Monday, February 8, 1909.
But here is a feature that will doubtless hold your attention. We will contribute ten per cent, of all cash sales made during the week to
the Sunday Schools of the city, equally divided between the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian. A strict account will be kept of all
cash sales and an honest return made of the ten per cent, to the Sunday Schools as above stated. We have fully decided on this plan for
one week and if we live
Will Carry Out Our Part
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF CITY OF
COVINGTON FOR THE YEAR 1908.
GENERAL FUND.
Received from Geo. T. Smith, Treasurer, . $ 2 092 99
Received from Sundry Sources, .... 20 00
General expenses not otherwise given, $ 3 165 39
Receipts from Fines,..... 928 05
Receipts from Licenses, ... . . 319 94
STREET ACCOUNT.
Total expenditures, ... ... 2 606 33
Received from Street Tax, .... 366 50
Received from Sundry Sources, 510 04
Received from City Taxes, .... 415 47
Received from Sale of Dog Tags, 128 00
Received from Sale of Cemetery Lots, 132 00
Paid for Work on Cemeteries and Parks, 34 32
Paid Four School Bonds,..... 2 000 00
Paid City School Expenses, .... 3 834 77
Paid Money Borrowed, .... 18 136 82
Paid Interest on Bonds and Borrowed Money, 3 122 96
Money Borrowed,...... 10 975 00
ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.
Total Expenditures for 1908,..... 6 211 88
Total Receipts for 1908,...... 6 307 74
BALANCE ON HAND...... 83 26
$39 195 73 $39 195 73
W. T. MILNER,
Clerk City of Covington, Ga., for 1908.
AUDITORIUM ANNEX
WORK PROGRESSING.
Planning Now to Add Another
Story to it And Make Room
for Gymnasium.
Mr. Chas. A. Clark, the contractor
for the building of the annex to the
auditorium at the school building, was
in Atlanta yesterday figuring with an
architect on the cost of adding another
story to the building, using the floor
that was first intended for the audito¬
rium hall for a gymnasium and plac¬
ing the large hall on the top, or to be
more precise, the third floor. This
will be a very great improvement over
the original plans and will give the
faculty more room for teaching and
will also give the school one of the
finest rooms for a gymnasium in this
section. A gymnasium is an almost
necessary adjunct to a first-class
school and the gentlemen having this
work in charge say that this is an as¬
sured fact and that the other story
will be added.
The original plans for the annex
call for a building 40x80 feet with a
granite wall ten feet high. The base¬
ment will be a regular floor with the
auditorium on the second floor but if
the other story is added it will add
greatly to the appearance and useful¬
ness of the building.
Mr. Clark has been making good
time on the job and has all the out¬
side walls up about ten feet all round.
Work was stopped yesterday, how¬
ever, until it is decided what steps
will be taken in regard to the other
story. Mr. Clark states that the work
will be completed by April first and
with him building it the people may
expect one of the best pieces of work
that is possible to put up, as nothing
but the very best materials are being
used throughout.
Going To New York.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Cohen will leave
on the 10th for New York, w’here
they go in search of bargains for
their customers and friends of this
section.
LIGHT PLANT ON
A PAYING BASIS.
Although There is Talk of Discard¬
ing This Enterprise, Will
Continue in Use.
During the past few days there has
been quite a good deal of discussion
as to the advisability of the city dis¬
carding their electric power plant and
contracting with the Central Georgia
PowerCo., for the lightingof the city.
With the fact that the plant here is
paying as nearly as can be ascertain¬
ed, about six hundred dollars per
year and represents an investment of
something like thirty thousand dol¬
lars, the people as a whole almost dis¬
courage the plan.
It is currently reported that the
company referred to will in the near
future make a proposition to the city
authorities to furnish light and power
at a specified rate, the contract to
become effective when their plant on
South river is completed, and of
course the city officials will entertain
the proposition but as above stated
we hardly think that they will make
any contract as long as their own
plant is adequate and on a paying
basis. The one advantage that would
come with a contract, that of having
a day current, will in time be put on
with the plant here as soon as there
is enough power consumed to keep up
the expense of operating the plant
through the day, and we understand
that there will be an effort made to
get enough contracts for fans, motors,
etc., to get the day current started
this summer.
Raised Large Lemon.
Mrs. C. A. Clarke of this city has
the record of growing the largest
lemon ever seen in this section, she
having grown three on one bush, one
weighing 2 1-2 pounds and the other
two weighing 2 pounds each. This is
unusual for lemons grown in this sec¬
tion and w r ere the finest spicemens of
this fruit W’e have ever seen. The
flavor of the fruit grown here is the
same as those grown in other states,
and one the size of those growm by
Mrs. Clark will make a whole bucket
of lemonade.
Weather boarding and framing.
4t. Dr. O. L. HoLMes.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
"GEORGIA LAND
AND PEOPLE."
Questions for February Meeting, U.
D. C. Answers Found in
MitchelTs History.
Below will be found a correct list of
the questions to be used at the next
regular meeting of the U. D. C. of
this city handed The News for publi¬
cation by the committee on prepara¬
tion of questions for the meetings.
This meeting will probably be one of
the most interesting held in some¬
time by the chapter and no doubt will
be largely attended. The questions
are devoted entirely to Georgia and
her noble sons and will be studied
with much interest by this, one of her
noblest bodies of ladies. The answers
to these questions will be found in
Mitchell’s history, “Georgia Land
and People,” pages 260-270:
1. At what time did Georgia secede
and become a sovereign state?
2. Who hastened to take the Arse¬
nal at Augusta from Federal control?
3. Who was in charge of Arsenal,
and what did he do when ordered to
leave?
4. Who was ordered out and re¬
ported for duty?
5. How was this matter finally ad¬
justed?
6. Describe the flag raised which
represented the sovereign of Georgia?
7. What episode gave Georgia’s
Governor a great reputation abroad?
8. What elections at the Congress
of seceded states?
9. Where did they meet and what
name was given these states?
10. What is said of Georgia’s most
illustrious sons?
11. What efforts were made for a
peaceful adjustment and with what
result?
12. What was seized at Dahlonega?
13. Who was placed in command of
the U. S. Navy, and what personal
loss did he sustain?
14. Relate the remarkable coinci¬
dence regarding some of this same
property?
15. Where was the first Confederate
flag raised and by whom?
16. For what was the first call for
troops and how many volunteered for
duty?
17. In what way did Lincoln violate
his oath and what insult offered the
South?
18. Wha't city was selected Capital
of the Confederate States?
19. How many regiments had gone
to battle by October 1st?
20. What company was first to offer
for service for the entire war?
21. Give name of one company in
Fannin county?
22. Why were several newspapers
discontinued?
23. What did Southern women do to
show their loyalty?
24. Which was the first Georgia reg
! iment organized for the whole war,
and who was in command?
—Cabbage plants for sale at M. I
Parker’s grocery store.—tf.
J. M. DEARING.
Eggs for Sale
Pure Bronze Turkey Eggs at
$2.00 per nine. Barred Plymouth
Rock at $ 1.00 per fifteen. Also
have a nice lot of hay.
Place orders now, for eggs, for
spring delivery.
R. L. Middlebrook,
Starrsville Ga.
CONVICTS WORKING
ON CITY STREETS.
Hill on West Side of Creek Being
Graded Down and Otherwise
Improved.
The county chaingang force under
the supervision of Councilman Echols
and Superintendent Ves Farmer has
graded down the hill just across Dried
Indian Creek on Washington street
and the work done there has greatly
improved this part of the city’s streets.
On the job w’ere twenty-three convicts
and ten 2-horse wagons and it was a
very interesting sight to see them cut¬
ting down this old eye-sore.
This work has been in progress for
the past week and before they leave
they will raise the road level on both
sides of the creek and straighten the
sidewalks leading therefrom. This
brings up the low r places and by cut¬
ting down the hill will make the street
very much better than -before. The
old foot bridge there will be discarded
and a new iron bridge will be put in
to run alongside the wagon-way.
The present city administration has
already done much for the streets of
the city and at the fate they are go¬
ing they will give Covington the best
streets she has ever had before their
term of office expires. The people as
a whole appreciate and endorse their
plan and will stand by the city in all
the improvements she makes on her
streets.
Miss Henderson Entertains.
Miss Frances Henderson wts the
charming hostess on Thursday after¬
noon to the Young Ladies Club at her
home on Floyd street.
The attractive home w r as made
doubly so by the arrangements of
palms, . hyacinths and pink roses.
Progressive Heart-dice was the game
enjoyed, and Miss Katharine Butler
was the winner of the first prize a set
of Christy pictures. Bisque cream
and cakes were served the guests who
included Misses Sara and Bonner
Simms, Jule Trippe, Eva and Lillian
Stephenson, Katharine Butler, Anna
Keith, Susie Lewis, and Miss Harris,
who are members of the Club and
Misses Flora Carr and Hyda Heard,
Mrs. James Porter, Mrs. Dr, Travis,
Mrs. Robert Trippe, Mrs. P. W. God¬
frey, Mrs. James Phillips, Mrs. Will
Ramey, Mrs. C. A. Franklin, Mrs.
Burt and Mrs. Samuel Greene, of
Kirkwood.
On Saturday afternoon of this week
Miss Dessa Hays will entertain the
Club with a pretty party.
BOAT DWELLERS.
China’s Floating Homes and Their
Low Caste Population.
Stand beside the imperial custom
house at Canton and let the eye range
down the river toward Hongkong. As
far as the sight can reach lie boats,
boats, and again boats. These are no
ordinary craft, mere vessels of trans¬
port plying hither and thither, but the
countless homes of myriad Chinese, in
which millions have been born, lived
and difft They are the dwellings of
the very poor, who live in them practi¬
cally free from rent, taxes and other
burdens of the ordinary citizen.
TheTankia (which means boat dwell¬
ers), as the denizens of these floating
houses are called, form a sort of caste
apart from the rest of the Cantonese.
The shore dwellers regard them as be¬
longing to a lower social order, and in¬
deed they have many customs peculiar
to themselves which mark them as a
separate community. How the swarm¬
ing masses of them contrive to support
existence Is a mystery, but their chief
mode of employment is In carrying
merchandise and passengers from place
to place.—London Lady’s Realm.
Resolutions on the Death of Comrade
Armstrong.
Henry H. Armstrong w r as born Oct.
7, 1839, and died at his home in Mans¬
field Nov. 16th, 1908, aged sixty nine
years, one month, and nine days.
He married a Miss Hamby, who is
now dead, they had four children,
three boys and one girl—all now liv¬
ing.
Comrade Armstrong had been a
member of the Baptist church at
Carmel for many years and has been
a constant member. In 1861 he enlis¬
ted in the Confederate army for six
months and served on the Georgia
coast until his term expired and in
Hot and Cold Drinks
| At SMITHS DRUG STORE
also a nice line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
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SNunnallys Fine Candies Always Fresh.
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Pianos and Organs
Tuned and Repaired.
L. R. HARPER,
LEAVE ORDERS AT
C. A. HARWELL’S furniture store
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.
1862 he enlisted in Company B. 16th
Georgia Battalion of Cavalry and
served with his commander under
Gen. John H. Morgan in all his ma
nuev^rs until after the death of this
great soldier. Then lie served with
his commander until the surrender
when he returned home and became
a farmer and good citizen.
One by one w r e loose our comrades
but we have the proud satisfaction
that they made good citizens as w’ell
as good soldiers, and w r e trust that all
will be well.
Respectfully submitted,
L. L. Middlebrooks. ^
J. W. Robertson. j