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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., February 17,1909.
If you don’t want to pull for Cov¬
ington, get behind and push.
When you get ready to knock al¬
ways remember that the knocking of
some men is a boost.
George Bell may be crazy butitwill
take a long time to make the people
of the state believe it.
We sympathize with the Pacific
coast in her race problems. We are
up against one here in old Georgia,
too.
If you don’t believe real estate val¬
ues are good in Covington, just try to
buy a piece of property anywhere in
the city.
From a sanitary standpoint Coving¬
ton will be right up to the minute
when she gets her sewerage system
completed.
An exchange tersely sums up the
good roads situation as follows:
“Good roads lead to good towns from
good farms.”
Roosevelt has again butted in where
he has no business. He is trying to
interfere with the Japanese problem
in California.
Any man with a thimble full of
sense can see the advantages of a
Board of Trade if he will investigate
it thoroughly.
With Valentine day, Washington’s
birthday and Ash Wednesday all in
this month, the bankers will have an
easy time of it.
The Madison Advertiser says that
the Farmers Union will establish a
guano factory and warehouse in that
city in the near future.
If you want your advertising to
reach the most readers in Newton
county place it in a paper that has
the circulation— The News.
Evidently Lon Scott, of the Conyers
Free Press, has been burnt. He is
urging the people of that city not to
do business with strangers.
We appreciate the news items given
us for this issue of the paper. You
can aid us wonderfully in making
your paper the brightest in the state.
A friend asked us the other day if
we wouldn’t wear out our material
running sixteen hours a day. That’s
just what we are trying to do—wear
it out.
The many improvements going on
in all parts of the city are a jpghty
good sign that the people bem^e in
Covington and the value of property
all right.
* Thomas E. Watson has tendered
his services to Geo. H. Bell in his ef¬
fort to get out of the state asylum at
Milledgeville. Now look out for the
fur to fly.
It is up to the merchants of this
city to go after the business this year.
There is a lot of trade which could be
brought here if it is gone after in the
right way.
If your business is not represented
in the columns of The News it should
be. We have the largest paid in ad¬
vance circulation of any paper pub¬
lished in Newton county.
While the Japanese are considered
citizens of the United States after they
have been here the required length
of time, they will always be an alien
race in this country.
The full report of the country life
commission to congress is on another
page of todays’ paper. It is very in¬
teresting reading and is of vital im¬
portance to all American citizens.
The people of the South and espe¬
cially of South Carolina are justly
grateful to Senator Tillman for hold¬
ing up the appointment of Crum, the
negro collector at Charleston. He is
trying to get a white man appointed
for the place.
GET MORE FACTORIES.
Covington needs more manufactur¬
ing enterprises. This sentence has
been used until it is almost worn to a
frazzle, but it is still a fact and one
that we would impress on the people
of Covington and also on the minds of
men living outside our borders who
have capital to invest. The enter¬
prises of this class already in opera¬
tion here do a splendid business
and pay good dividends every year to
the promoters and stockholders.
That is the strongest argument w r e
can put up to get new factories.
When a man is looking for an invest¬
ment he wants facts and figures. The
reports of the different mills and en¬
terprises here will show him a balance
on the right side of the books. You
might pump hot air into him all day
but the thing that counts is the money
end of it. We believe if men with
capital could be induced to investi¬
gate conditions here we would have
no trouble in making Covington a
manufacturing center.
There is one way to interest capital
in a city and that is to show the men
possessing it the advantages. This
end of it is up to the people of the
city. If we sit down and let moss ac¬
cumulate all over our backs we will
never get anything. The enterprises
here were not obtained by the moss
process. If we will stand together,
co-operate, whoop up the advantages
we have, give the facts to the outside
world, and give outside capital the
opportunity to invest here we can put
Covington on the map in big car-box
letters. That’s the way it should be.
We know this is the best town in the
south for any kind of enterprise, but
we haven’tgotthecashto build them.
Let the people of Covington get to¬
gether and go after those things that
go to make a city important in a
whole-hearted, systematic manner
and there will be nothing that cannot
be accomplished. Got the right spirit
in your bones and go after the enter¬
prises—they count.
If there is a citizen who feels it in¬
cumbent on him to sit down and
pump cold water, we want to ask him
right now to either “go way back and
sit down” or move to some other
place, for there is no room for him in
Covington.
A NEW BAPTIST CHURCH.
It is now a positive fact that Cov¬
ington is to have a new Baptist church,
the contract having already been
placed for the construction. It will
be a thoroughly modern structure
with all the conveniences of an edi¬
fice representing Christianity and the
equipment, especially as regards the
Sunday School rooms will make the
work of the teachers more compre¬
hensive and effective. Much of the
praise for securing this church is due
to the pastor, Rev. E.R. Pendleton, he
having been very earnest in his ef¬
forts to complete the work. Howev¬
er, it would have been impossible for
him to accomplish his purpose had
not the members of this church been
so loyal to their faith, to their church
and to their pastor. They have gone
to work to build this church and they
are doing it right.
While this place of worship is be¬
ing built by the Baptists, its effect
will be felt by people of all denomi¬
nations and will be pointed to with
pride by every citizen of the city to
strangers within our gates. The News
believes in progress in church work
the same as in any thing else and con¬
gratulates every person w’hohas made
this church a certainty.
The statements of the different
banks of the county published in this
issue of The News show that the
financial stringency has about lost its
grip in this section.
If the appointment of Crum as col¬
lector at Charleston can be held off
a little while we will have the oppor¬
tunity of seeing just what Mr. Taft’s
great promises to the south amount
to.
We are not disposed to criticise the
judgement of any state jurist but that
decision of the court of appeals that a
man can work on Sunday in this state
provided he does not follow his regu¬
lar occupation looks a little foxy to
us.
The price of cotton is up around the
10-cent mark again. It usually goes
up after the bulk of the crop is out of
the hands of the producer. It w ill be
a good piece of business when the
Farmers Union can control the situa
t on, giving the price to the farmer
instead of the manufacturer.
Tresspass Notice.
Notice is hereby given prohibiting
fishing any party or parties from hunting,
or otherwise tresspassing on
my lands. This Feb. 6, 1909.
Mrs. L. 0. Richards.
Notice.
To intensive farmers, I have a few
of those fine five lock, big boll cotton
seed to sell yet. Will make enough
more than any cotton, I know to pay
for seeding land at $1.00 per bushel
and pay for 200 lbs. guano per acre.
W. C. SALTER,
Covington, Ga.. R. F. D. 1, box 52.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
NEWTON COUNTY PROSPEROUS.
Never before in the history of this
grand old county of Newton has there
been as much prosperity as there is at
the present time. The farmers, while
crops were not as good last year as
could be desired, and the price was
not as good as it was several years
before, are better contented and have
a better start for the coming year
than they have ever had before.
They are going right along with the
preparation of the year’s crop and are
using more improved methods and
more intelligence in their business.
This is one of the most hopeful signs
for southern planters, as that, like
anything else, has a high standard
and the farmers are coming more and
more to realize the benefit and profit
of a systematic conduction of their
farms.
Several years ago such a thing as
breaking land with a three-horse plow
w r as unheard of and when a few star¬
ted to use the deep ploughing they
were told that it would ruin their
land. Now there is no question about
the deep turning and the intensified
methods being the best and most
profitable.
Not only is the farmer in a prosper¬
ous condition, but the men in other
professions and businesses are more
thoroughly fixed than in a long time.
The panic for the past two years has
had a tendency to make men in all
lines more economical and industrious,
and now that the country is prosper¬
ing and the confidence of the business
world has been restored they are in
better position than ever to handle
their business in a thoroughly safe
manner.
The condition of the county affairs
is also better than usual and improve¬
ments, road work and bridges are be¬
ing repaired and built, using 9teel for
the bridges instead of the old wooden
ones. And Covington, the county
site of old Newton is making more
progress and using her advantages
better to further the individual inter¬
ests of her citizens than has been ac¬
complished in the past twenty years.
Truly, old Newton is right there with
the goods when it comes to prosperity
and there is no reason why 1909 should
not be the banner year in her history.
Comic Valentines.
Sunday was valentine day, the signifi¬
cance of which is know T n to all people
of ordinary intelligence. It is also a
day on which many unthinking, or
cowardly, or still worse, those without
any feeling at all, vent a spleen on
those whom they happen to dislike on
account of real or imaginary grievance.
Sometimes such procedure is no doubt
the result of malicious mischief, a by¬
product of a somewiiat depraved na¬
ture. We would suggest that those peo¬
ple who are in the habit of sending
comic valentines try just one time to
not. It will be one of the best decis¬
ions ever made.
These so-called comic valentines are
anything else in the world but comic.
They are grotesque, vulgar exaggera¬
tions, and have the appearance of be¬
ing done with a bucket of cheap ink,
a cheaper artist, and applied to the
paper by the use of a lime brush and
a little energy.
We have actually seen children at
the age when they become sensitive
andself conscious, almost heart-broken
at receiving through the mails one of
these supposed “comics.” They can
not help but take them seriously, and
as the “comics” frequently exaggerate
some little imperfection of the one re¬
ceiving them their effect is doubly
cruel. The person sending a comic
valentine is, generaly speaking, of the
lame elements as the one who sends
anonymous letters, and who sees only
the faults of others, while his own im¬
perfections stand out as prominently
as the wart on his sweetheart’s nose.
—North Georgia Citizen.
City Court Jurors.
The following named persons were
drawn to serve as jurors at the March
term 1909, City Court of Covington.
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.
FOR SALE OR RENT:—Two brick
store rooms on Clark street, near pub¬
lic square. Apply to Everitt’s Furni¬
ture Store.
WINTER LAYING SINGLE
COMB WHITE LEGHORN
EGGS for Hatching.
$1.00 For Fifteen Eggs,
WICK PORTER, j
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Porterdale, Georgia. :
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NOBLE WORK.
The movement by the ladies of the
Woman’s Club in raising money to
aid some poor boy in securing an ed¬
ucation at the Perry school is one
that is considered the most appro¬
priate and commendable undertakings
ever accomplished by the ladies of
this city. It is no more than is to be
expected of Covington’s women,
however, as they are always sympa¬
thetic and willing to assist any meri¬
torious object, and their untiring ef¬
forts and sacrifices are the most lova¬
ble tributes to their womanhood.
In some sections of the state there
are innumerable boys whose condi¬
tion is such that it is impossible for
them to secure the education suffic¬
ient to make them good men and cit¬
izens. Last year the Perry school had
a great many more applicants for ad¬
mission that could not be accepted
owing to the fact that they did not
have enough money to put them in.
This fact w r as made known to the peo¬
ple of the state and the ladies of this
city will raise a goodly amount to go
to this school in order that more can
be admitted.
They have adopted what is called
the Flag Tag day for the 22nd of this
month and the ladies will be around
to see the gentlemen of the city and
incidentally put a tag on them rang¬
ing in price from a few cents up. It
is worth three times the price of the
tags they will pin on you to have
them come to see you, and we don’t
think there is a man in the city who
will not pay the price, especially
when it will serve a double purpose,
that of showing the ladies that you
appreciate their noble work and that
you will have the satisfaction of
knowing that you are aiding a worthy
cause.
Let them tag you and “pay the
price.”
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold at the Court House door in New¬
ton County, Ga., on the First Tuesday in March
1909, within the legal hours of sale for cash,
the following property, to-wit:
One bay mare about 8 years old, named Mollie.
Said property levied on with a mortgage fi fa is¬
sued from the City Court of Covington in favor of
D. A. Thompson against Alex Banks. Said prop¬
erty levied on as the property of Alex Banks.
This Jan. 28, 1909.
S. M. HAY. Sheriff.
AI.SO at the same time and place, 2 acres of
land on which Bethel Grove church is located,
and bounded by lands of Robt. Daniel on the
North and West: By W. C. Clark on the South,
and by Public Road leading from Covington
Flat Shoals on the East. Said property levied on
with a fi fa issued from the City Court of
ton, in favor of Oliver Henderson against John
Wyatt et als. trustees of Bethel Grove church.
Written notice given John Wyatt, he being in
possession’as required by law. This Feb. 2, 1909.
S. M. HAY, Sheriff.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Newton Cotntv.
Mrs. Alice Harvey, having made application
for years support out of the estate of \V. B.
vey Sr. and appraisers duly appointed to
same, having filed their report. All persons
cerned are hereby required to show cause
the Court of Ordinary of said county on the
Monday in March, next, why said
should not be granted as prayed for this
18,1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Newton County :
Jonathan Poison, a citizen of said State,
applied to me for letters of Administration,
Bonis Non, with the Will annexed, on the
of Mark Poison, late of said County,
This is therefore to cite all and singular
creditors and next of kin of said Mark Poison
be and appear at the March Term, 1909 of
Court of Ordinary of said County, atid show
if any they can why letters of Administration
Bonis Non, with the Will annexed should not
granted to said Jonathan Polscn on the Flstaae
Mark Poison.
Witness my official signature, this 2nd. day
February.1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
Whereas, E. P. Carr, Executor of the estate
Alfred M. Cureton represents to the Court in
petition duly filed, and entered of record, that
has fully administered, Alfred M. Cureton's
tate, thi* is therefore to eite all persons
ed, heirs and creditors, to show cause if any
can, why said executor should not be discharged
from his executorship, and receive letters
dismission on the first Monday in March 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Notice To Debtors And Creditors.
All persons having claims against the estate
H. H. Armstrong, late of said county, deceased,
are hereby notified to render in such claims
payment within the time prescribed by law.
And all persons indebted to said estate are
ed to make immediate payment.
This, February, 1. 1909.
JESSE P. ARMSTRONG, Executor.
Citation.
GEORGIA. Newton County -.
Jesse P. Armstrong, executor of the estate
H. H. Armstrong, late of said County, deceased,
has made application to me for leave to sell the
real estate belonging to said estate, and said ap¬
plication will be heard before me on the first Mon¬
day in March, 1909.
Witness my hand and official seal, this February
1, 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Notice.
I hereby notify all persons to not
he employ under in any contract way Harvey with Ellis, a
is me for thes
year 1909. This Jan. 25, 1909.
______W. jD^SALTER, Sr.— it
—FOR SALE, 40,000 ft. fresh sawed
Mansfield pine lumber cheap. W. C. Hichcock,
Ga. R. F. D. No. 1, Phone
157—2 shorts.
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Resources ‘
:
Loans and Discounts......4.. 3 31241.33}
Overdrafts.................. 4849.28
Banking House 4225.00
Due from Banks and Bankers in State 4569.94
Due from Banks and Bankers in other
States 4677.51
Currency...... 1230.00
Silver, Nickels and Pennies 649.10
i Total 851442.16
STATE OF GEORGIA—Newton County:
Before me came JOE S. McGarity, Cashier, of BANK OF MANSFIELD
who being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true
condition of said Bank, as shown by the books of file in said Bank,
JOE S. McGARITY
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 12th day of Feb., 1909.
A. B. THOMPSON, C. N. P., Newton County Ga.
Hot and Gold Drinks
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NEW RACKET STORE.
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. I. GUINN, Covington, 6a,
NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gro¬
ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase
them from me I make it a point to get them to your home
just as quick as it is possible for me to do it.
FRESH MEATS
I also have in connection with my store a first class Meat
Market and can furnish you with the choice kind of Meats
y° n so we E Giveme an order. I will appreciate it and
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. cash Paid for Hides.
R. F. Wright,
Covington Genmiq
Pianos and Organs
Tuned and Repaired.
L. R. HARPER,
leave orders at
C. A. HARWELL’S FURNITURE STORE
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