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We have just received a solid carload of the famous High Point Organs and for the next few days are going to sell
them at reduced prices in order to place them in the homes of the people of this city and county.
There is Absolutely No Better Organ on the Market than the High Point
In workmanship, finish and the excellent tone. It is truly a pleasure to hear tne music made on this Instrument, and
we want to show it to you. These organs carry a binding ten-year GUARANTEE on every one sold and we are here to
make good the guarantee of the manufacturer and also add our personal guarantee. We have got the greatest bargain
offer in a high-grade organ ever given the people and want you to look at them.
Besides the car of organs we have had to arrive a solid car of Furniture, which makes our stock the most complete
in the city, and we are now in a better position than ever to accommadate you in installments or carry account over.
We have Bed Room Suits, Single Pieces of Suits, Matrasses, Iron Beds, Tables, Carpets, Rugs, and just anything
you want in house furnishings. It will pay you to see this stock of Organs, and High-grade Furniture before you place
your order. We can give you the best values for a little less than any one else. Let us prove this fact to you.
VENABLE BROTHERS
The Live Furniture Merchants Covington, Georgia
Lost Power of The Church.
There is no denying that the church
in many localities does not stand for
all it should stand for—doesn’t repre¬
sent in all of its saving grace and re¬
deeming influences what it does in
many other places—the original
church of Christ filled with the power
of God.
That we fall short of the ideal is not
a mystery unsolved. The reasons are
as obvious as they are numerous.
First, we are not insisting upon the
maintenance of our church vows.
I f 1 were called upon today to sound
the key note of warning to the hosts
of God, I would join the Apostle in
exclaiming: “Wherefore come ye out
from among them and be ye separate,
saith the Lord.”
Friends, we want separation from
the world; and then we w r ant to keep
our vows and live the separate life.
Its a fact to be deplored that in the
midst of trying times, when the op¬
portunity of a life time comes for us
to do work for Jesus in our own
homes, or in our own church, we find
ourselves embarrassed, incapable, and
unfit for the Master’s service. Listen:
Too many times this is because of the
life lived in the world without; because
we have suffered ourselves to be in¬
duced to join the world in its sin and
and its shame, instead of having ex¬
erted a wholesome influence to redeem
the world from such a life.
When we were converted and joined
the church, we felt that we had pow
er; that we would never more care
for the world: and had the church al¬
ways insisted on that kind of life, it
would have power, too.
How about it today, brother? I shall
always remember when and where I
first experienced a charge of heart.
It was in an old country church and
they were singing some old song, the
chorus of which is:
“I will arise and go to Jesus,
He will embrace me in His arms.”
I was happy then. Perhaps you
have had a similar experience. Are
you happy now?
Again there is the greed for gain.
“The love of money is the root of all
evil.” I know’ of no other evil that
wields such pow’erful influence over
the lives of men to dwarf their spirit¬
ual grow’th and destroy their spiritual
life.
A man may be getting his money
honestly, and yet it be the
cause of his loss of power.
It’s the constant desire for
and more that does the
work.
Finally we mention our failure
pray. Everything else will fail
unless we are a people of prayer. We
should always pray and never grow
faint. The prime reason for the un¬
bounded success of every Christian
life of which we have any knowledge,
is the just recognition and proper
comprehension of the importance of
prayer.
Let us go dowrn upon our knees with
clean hearts and connect with God’s
Holy Spirit by prayer and the power¬
house of heaven will furnish us life
and the world will be constrained to
hear the voice of God.
The Lord help the pulpit and pew to
endued with power.—Baptist Helper.
Alcova News.
We are having a lot of rain, and the
farmers are getting badly behind with
their crops.
Mrs. Tom Swords and Mrs. J. D.
McCart visited Mrs. J. F. Nash one
day last week.
Misses Nellie and Cleo Harper spent
Saturday and Sunday with their
cousin, Miss Eddie May Harper, of
Walnutgrove.
Mrs. J. F. Aaron and daughter, Miss
Nina Aaron, and Miss Exia Dillard,
of Social Circle, were the welcome
guests of Miss Kate Nash Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pannell and
little daughter, Nellie, W’ere the guests
j of his parents Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Pan¬
ned Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harper and
family of Walnutgrove, visited Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Nash Sunday.
Mr. Alex Berry was at home one
day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gibbs spent Sun¬
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nash.
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Reynolds have
had a very sick baby, but w’e are glad
to know that it is better now.
Miss Dossia Bradley, of Jersey,
spent Tuesday night with her friend,
Miss Lucile Swords.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Nash have both
been very id for the past week, but
we hope for them a speedy recovery.
Master Willie Prichett, of Social
Circle, spent Sunday with his cousins,
Masters Robert and Neal Nash.
Mr. Jim Berry spent Saturday night
with friends in Covington.
We are having a new bridge glad put up
at Alcova now, and will be when
it is finished, as it has st >pped a lot
of passing and-also it has stopped and a
lot of the school children our
school is email.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
In Memoriam.
Died at his home near Mansfield,
Newton county, Ga., March 3, 1909,
Mr. John Walker Robertson, in the
63rd year of his age. Thus one by
one the gallant old Confederates are
gathering home. He was one of the
knightly men of the old South. He
was justly proud of his war record.
Having entered the service of his
country before he was eighteen, he
served gallantly until he was captured
in Jan. 64, and carried to Camp Doug¬
las where he remained until May 65.
He was an enthusiastic veteran at¬
tending all the reunions since their
organization, serving on the staff of
Gen. Gid Morris. The esteem in
which he was held by the people
could well be calculated by the vast
concourse of people that gathered at
the burial, to pay their respects to the
gallant and beloved man. His camp,
the Jefferson-Lamar of Covington,
attended in a body, the old soldiers
acting as pall-bearers, the floral dec¬
orations were profuse and beautiful.
Almofi News.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice spent last
Wednesday and Thursday with rela¬
tives and friends at Oak Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Dobbs were
guests of Mr. J. T. Rice and family at
| Hawkinsville Sunday.
Mr. Jesse Yancey spent Sunday
with Messrs. Sam and Fred Rice, at
Hawkinsville.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice visited Mr.
M. W. Brown’s family at Fairview
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ramsey spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rice.
Mr. P. L. Sudduth and family spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Over
| ton at Hawkinsville.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith were
guests Sunday of Mr. M. W. Brown
and family.
Mr. Clarence Brown visited Mr. O.
P. Smith and family last Sunday.
Prof. McCulloughs and family were
guests Sunday of Dr. and Mrs. S. W.
Everett.
Notice.
I hereby give notice to all persons
concerned that Harvey Ellis is under
no contract with any one, he being a
minor child, and contract would not
stand without my consent.
, 4t. J. C. ELLIS.
“Hair In The Butter.”
The other day I found hidden away
in an innocent looking biscuit a
strand of hair. This little strand
brought back to my conscious mind
memories of my youth that 1 had ap¬
parently forgotten, and immediately
this little poem was brought back to
“Pass the butter, gentle Mabel,
Shove it lightly through the air;
In the corner of the dish, love,
You will find a nut-brown hair.
“What fond memories it awakens
Of the days ere we were wed,
When upon my good coat collar,
Oft was laid your little head.
“Lovingly I stroked those tresses,
In the happy days gone by;
Now I find them every meal time
In the butter and the pie.”
Speaking about youthful days, is it
not pleasant to go back to that period
and gaze anew upon scenes long since
past and gone? There were then
some times of sorrow, some heart
breaks were experienced, but the hap¬
piest moments of one’s life were life
there.
The first time some little girl put
her tresting hand in yours and de¬
clared you her knight sent a thrill
through your veins that can never
come again. You then and there
made a vow to love her and her only,
and if you have ever gone back on
that vow, you deserved all the torture
I of the dammed.
When you find a hair in the butter,
take it out with a laugh and kiss her
from whosehead it fell. It may be
slightly tinged with gry, but her love
j for you has never wavered. Her heart
is just as true as of old, and if yours
is not, you are just a brute, that is
all.
_WANTED Each week, one thous¬
and dozen eggs, for which we will pay
cash money—The Harrison Co.
For Sale.
Will be sold before the Court
House door in the city of Coving
ton on the first Tuesday in April
next, to the highest 3 good mules
belonging to the county.
J. Z. JOHNSON, Chairman.
SALE: Weather Board¬
ing and Framing.
4t. DR. 0. L. HOLMES.
In Hot Water.
“Typographical errors,” said a writ¬
er, “are continually cropping up. I
called for a magazine editor the other
day to lake* him out to luncheon. As
he was getting gratefully into his coat
a man entered.
“‘Do you read your magazine?’ the
man asked.
“ ‘I do,’ replied the editor.
“ ‘Have you read the new number,
the one that came out yesterday?”
“ ‘I have.’
"‘Have you read my poem, “To (la
brlellc,” on page 117?’
“ ‘N-no.’
“ ‘No! Well, In that poem I wrote
the line, ‘‘I love you better than I love
my life.”’
“‘A neat line—neat and well turned,'
said the editor soothingly.
“ ‘And one of the professional humor¬
ists of your composing room set It up
to read, “I love you better than I love
my wife.’ ’’
“ ‘How—er’—
“‘Than my wife—precisely that. And
my wife knows nothing of composing
room comedy, and she thinks the line
was printed exactly as I wrote It.’ ”
Pretty Slow.
Horace L. Moore was lieutenant colo¬
nel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas
cavalry. He could lead men for u long¬
er period without rest on a single ra¬
tion of cheerful good humor than any
other officer. Though not given to
Jokes, he was the reputed author of
as many astonlshers as the great Lin¬
coln.
One time, on the march, he sent an
orderly with a message to an officer at
some distance. Before the man was
out of hearing Moore shouted: “Hey,
orderly! Come hack hur«l"
He came galloping hack, sitting limp¬
ly In the saddle.
Moore dropped his voice and, assum¬
ing a half confidential manner, Inquir¬
ed, “Orderly, In the course of your life
have you ever seen a snail?”
“Yes, sir,” was the astonished repljr
“You met him, then,” replied Moore,
“for you'd never overtake one!”—Kan¬
sas City Journal.
Hit Business Ability.
In the Adirondaeks lives a man too
lazy to work, but evidently of great
business ability. One winter when he
was sitting around smoking his family
\ came so near starvation that some of
his neighbors, who could 111 afford to
help him, took up a collection and
bought for the suffering family a bar¬
rel of flour, a barrel of pork and a
load of wood. They were not consid¬
erate enough to cut the wood, but the
business man knew how to manage.
He hired some of the neighbors who
had not contributed to his donation to
cut the wood and paid them with half
the pork and baif tbs fioitfr-Uppln
cott’*. —"
SOME LARGE ORDERS.
During the past week this office has
turned out several of the largest or¬
ders for printing ever handled by an
office in Covington. One of the or¬
ders referred to was ten thousand full
page size circulars and a thousand
double-page ones, printed in red ink.
Another was for the same quantity of
page circulars, and besides this we
have printed since our last issue three
papers besides this issue, and a large
amount of the regular commercial
printing, such as letter and bill heads,
evelopes and those orders for artistic
printing which cannot be turned out
from any other press in the county.
This is not a boast, but a plain state¬
ment of facts, as we have the very
best equipment and nothing but first
class printers and we started out with
the intention of building up a reputa¬
tion in the production of high-class
printing. We are doing this and
every order we get makes a customer
and in many eases brings work from
other people.
We appreciate this as we want the
business and will assure the public
that we will always handle it in a way
satisfactory to them, and deliver the
orders when they want them—That is
another one of our long suits.' If you
haven’t tried our printing, do it now
and get the best.
FREIGHT RATES.
The Covinoton News is now
studying freight rates, and has
learned that Social Circle has a
lower freight rate than their city,
and what are they going to do
about it. —The Conyers Free
Press.
Not like Brother Scott, The News
will not stand still and say that Cov¬
ington lias all she wants, but we will
put our determination right on this
line and we venture the assertion that
Scott will be sorry when he reads the
results. But we need not give our¬
selves any worry over friend Scott’s
comment orquerries, for all of us know
tnat he is well enough satisfied to sit
still and see Conyers dry up on the
limb.
FOR SALE.—Three room house and
lot. Lot 80x100. Good well water.
Within city limits and known as the
Aaron Purrington place. Will sell at
a bargain
lm. ALBERT PITTS.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair—J M. Aaron. tf.