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Entered as second-class matter De¬
cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, March Ga., under the Act of
3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., March 17, 1909
We would like very much to see a
harness and saddle factory located in
this city.
There is some talk of trying to get
the cot ton stalk pulp factory to locate
a branch here.
In the News you get the news while
it is news—not after it has been pub¬
lished a long time.
If factories were gone after in a
whole-hearted and systematic manner
we would get them.
Won’t Covington be a hummer when
she gets her water works and sewer¬
age systems installed?
The sleepy ones around Covington
are beginning to wake up to their
advantages and take on new life.
That’s all a mistake about there
being u lot of people in this city who
are dead and just don’t know it.
You don’t need to send out of Cov¬
ington for anything. You can get
the best right here for a lowor price.
About the only thing throughout
the country the papers have missed
as regards Taft is the size shoe he
wears.
Covington is dry all right, hut it
was awful slushy last week, with the
ditching machine raising cain all
around.
We hope to see the present Grand
Jury reiterate its recommendation for
publishing the reports of the Com¬
missioners.
Yes we have some people in this
city who don’t think we should have
as low freight rates as Griffin and
other towns.
Madison wants to get the Covington
accomodation train to Atlanta ex¬
tended to that city, and the Advertiser
is going after it right.
The present Grand Jury is composed
of Newton county’s most conservative
and intellegent citizens and they are
doing their work well.
Covington has the best surrounding
territory of any town in the state.
This fact alone emphathizes the con¬
ditions that should prevail here.
At this season the Easter bonnet
stands as a menace to the male sex,
but they have a consolation this year
as there is not so much to it after all.
Evidently Lon Scott, he of that
Conyers Pree Press, is satisfied with
freight rates in that city the same as
he is with what business houses she
now has.
The red pages in this issue of the
News is a new departure in printing
for this city, they being the first
ever produced here. We have the
machinery to do the same class print¬
ing as any plant in the state.
The Newton County Oil Mills has
had a splendid run this season, and
at no time could they supply the de¬
mand for their product. This is the
case with all the manufacturing en¬
terprises here, and would he the case
with others if established here.
There is a mistaken idea in some
sections of the county that the new
special license in this city prevents
the farmers from selling their produce
here unless they pay the tax.
is a mistake, as they can sell
they raise on their farms here the
same as they ever could.
The Christian Index says that
is one church in Georgia which
a gambling scheme to raise money.
It states that the members place
five dollar gold piece in a cake
sell slices, after which the slices
cut and the fortunate (?) one gets
gold. The article is finished with
remark that they next look for
one of the churches start a
game to raise their cash.
we can’t believe that religion will
reach the low ebb of which the
speaks.
INVESTIGATION WANTED.
The recent liberation of
Bell from the asylum has
that institution into the limelight, and
from what we can gather from the
different papers throughout the state
a strong effort will be made to have
an investigation of the condition of
affairs there and the way in which it
is managed. Mr. Bell was liberated
after having been confined for three
years, the judge ruliug that his incar¬
ceration was illegal and that he con¬
sidered him a sane man. It appears
to us that there is something rotten
somewhere and this year would be a
mighty good time to straighten things
out. We realize that there are some
mighty good men as the trustees of
this asylum, but then it is no impos¬
sible for them and especially those
living at a distance, to know all the
little things that happen there. A.
good, strong investigation would at
least relieve the minds of the state
from believing there is something
wrong and if there is not it would
certainly not reflect on the officers,
but would come as an endorsement of
their methods, if things are not what
they are reported to be.
While our sympathy is with Bell
we believe his stay of three years
will have a tendency to make the
officials more careful in future even if
there is no investigation.
KNOCKING.
Of all the sneaking, detestable things
to contend with in a town is the con¬
tinual knocker and griper, who just
won’t look at the bright side of life
and who is always ready to turn his
little hose on anything and everything
that comes up, especially when it is
of a public nature. A fellow, of course,
will not like everything that comes
up, but he could at least keep his
head closed and let those people who
do enjoy it have pleasure of doing so
without t he criticism of some habitual
knocker and numbskull who hasn’t
enough common horse sense to know
that his desires will not coincide with
those of the majority of intelligent
people. We say this, not from a per¬
sonal nature, hut for the good of the
town and the community in which we
live.
Several things have been proposed
for this city, but why did never ma
teralize? There is but one answer—
the knocker. Same is
ing every day. People want to come
here and when they come to look the
ground over hear someone knocking
some enterprise or a neighbor, and
what happens then? They go some¬
where else to find a location, why?—
knocking. When some citizen has
some plan by which something can he
accomplished for the city and doesn’t
get it recognized, why is it?—knock¬
ing. And so it goes. Ypu never know
what can be accomplished until you
try, and then when you do and get
knocked and criticized by people who
never amount to a hill of horseradish,
you don’t feel like encountering the
same thing t wice.
Help get those things that really
make the town and community better,
and if they fail to fit into your own
way of doing it, just keep right quiet
and sec what is really in the other
fellow—give him a chance.
DEMANDING ATTENTION.
We often hear some one remark
that anything of public interest will
demand the attention of people living
at a distance, but we have never be¬
fore realized how much attention a
town could demand until Covington
began making so many and effective
improvements for her citizens and for
prospective home seekers. Ten years
ago this city had very few public en¬
terprises. It is true that she had a
horse ear line and a few good, strong
supply stores, but tlias was the
sum total of her progress. The growth
in public spirit and progress has been
remarkable from any point of view.
She now has allthos** conveniences of
the larger cities and the cost of living
here is not so very much higher than
it was at that time. We remember
when the plan of having electric lights
was first suggested quite a number of
the citizens were very much opposed
to it, saying that their taxes would be
too high. Today if the light plant was
for any reason discarded, a howl would
go up that would reverberate through
the entire city. Every other enter¬
prise has had its hard knocks at the
start hut when the improvements are
put into operation our people are the
most appreciative of any in the state,
and they always lend their assistance
in “keeping the hall rolling”—after it
is started.
Perhaps their are some who will tire
of our exploitation of this city’s ad¬
vantages and conveniences, but we
realize there is no better place in the
south to live, no better class of peo¬
ple to deal with and no fairer lot of
ladies (we are both married) and when
you combine these fact, we just can't
resist the desire to tell other people
about it.
Truly Covington is forging her way
to the front ranks faster than she has
ever done before and has the other
towns skinned “three whoops and a
holler.’’
NEWS
EVERY DAY FACTS.
The preacher who poses as a witness
for Christ, a teacher of the Gospel,
and who “has eyes to see and sees
not; ears to hear and hears not,” and
who fails to uphold righteousnesss
and condemn sin, has “denied the
faith and is worse than an infidel.”
The public teacher, it matters not
in what capacity he may teach, who
takes advantage of the opportunity to
shape the lives of individuals and the
destiny of nations and who negligent¬
ly inculcates wrong ideals and dwarfs
a life in which there are unmeasured
possibilities, is an impostor, a false
teacher, and bequeaths to future gen¬
erations a harvest of sin undreamed of.
Therefore the churches which we
humbly serve as pastor, and the
Helper as an agency in carrying on
our work, will always be found, so far
as our part is concerned in the matter
is concerned, fighting for .the right
against the wrong.
With all due respect for the public
teachers and their work in our various
communities twenty and forty years
ago, and frankly confessing that we
are not a “know-all” (never expect
to be) we say that it doesn’t take a
philosopher to recognize the fact we
are face to face with a variety of
conditions, existing evils in our social
civic and religious activities, which
should not exist. The very life of
these things is an impassable gulf be¬
tween ourselves and the realization of
greater possibilities. Then the ques¬
tion naturally arises “What are some
of these evils and how are we to over¬
come them?”
First, there are the evils of the
home life. We begin with the home
life because the home is the great life
giving source, the fountain of life,
which the church and the state of
future generations must rely for their
life and usefulness. Our homes are
not all they should be, not all they
could be. In how many oj our homes
are there family altars? We venture
the assertion that in many of our
homes there would be a confusion
were the father to call the children
together for family prayer.
How many of our parents indulge
in idle gossip, talk about everybody
from the preacher down to the wash¬
woman in the presence of the chil¬
dren?
How many of them today are spar¬
ing the rod and spoiling the child?
How many of them keep cards and
as “necessary fur¬
niture,” and by the presence of these
things shape the life and ideals of the
children for the service of the Devil?
How many of them by this indif¬
ferent lives are slowly but surely fos¬
tering in the hearts of their children
a growing contempt for things that
are good and helpful?
How many of our good people (?)
are suffering the lives of their boys
and girls to be influenced, their pros¬
pects for future usefulness destroyed,
by the life of some man or woman
who is a public nuisance and who
would get his just deserts if he were
barred from the association of Chris¬
tian people.
Elevate the moral and religious
tone of the homes of our land
and the next generation will be a gen¬
eration of higher ideals, nobler im¬
pulses, better capaciated to serve the
church and the state, and make hap¬
py homes for themselves and
posterity.
In the next place there are certain
evils which grow out of our social and
business life that need to be eliminated
if \> t would have one of the
towns or communities in the most fer¬
tile and favored section of the
First we want to pull for our town
community, or pull out of it.
We have never had any
with the sour-f aeed growler who
a mountain out of a mole hill and
seems to think that everybody
ers included are wrong and going
the had except himself.
Grumblers, kickers, strife-producers,
public nuisances that should be
for their very existence.
“An idle brain is the devils
shop,” a true saying indeed, the
of which finds expression in the
of too many people.
And too in many communities,
towns more especially, there is a
position on the part of many
members to be forever aud
fussing and fighting each other.
forget the divine injunction to
in love, even as Christ has loved us”
and seem to be most delighted
engaged in an attack on some
or sister in the church. The truth is
Nobody is right except themselves(?).
There has been enough hot-air ex¬
plosions and infernal gossip carried on
by chureh people to have redeemed
many communities, had the time, en
ergy and anxiety lost in thus engaging
ourselves been devoted to the service
of God.
We wrjte about these things, not
because the communities into which
the Helper goes are worse off in this
respect than many other communities,
hut because in these communities,
which we love and want to help, there
is room, as elsewhere, for the decided
improvement. We
may never reach our ideal in
this life, or be able to make perfectly
ideal conditions; yet we can by ap¬
plication of our own energies and
obedience to the law of God, attain
nobler and holier things and maintain
a higher standard of life and service.
—A. C. Schuler, in Baptist
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
For Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has applied to A. D. Meador. Ordinary of said
county, For Peave To Sell the land belonging to
the estate of Henry McDaniel, late of said coun¬
ty, deceased, for the payment of debts and dis¬
tribution among the legatees, said application
will be heard at the regular term of the Court of
Ordinary for said county to be held on the first
Monday in April next.
This: March 1st, 1909.
S. D. McDaniel.
Executor of the Estate ot Henry McDaniel,
Deceased.
Citation.
GEORGIA. Newton County :
Mrs. Bessie Sain, having made application for
Twelve Months Support, out of the estate of Jas.
P. Sain and appraisers, duly appointed to set
apart, same having filed their returns, all persons
concernad are hereby required to show cause be¬
fore the court of Ordinary, of said County, on
the first Monday in April next, why said appli¬
cation should not be granted.
This March 1st, 1909.
A. D, MEADOR, Ordinary.
For Administrator.
GEORGIA, Newton County :
Mrs. Bessie Sain, having made application to
have J, J. Corley appointed permanent adminis¬
trator upon the estate of Jas. P. Sain; late of said
county, notice is hereby given that said applica¬
tion will be heard at the regular term of the
Court of Ordinary, to be held in and for said
county on the first Monday in April next.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
March 1st, 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Notice To Debtors And Creditors.
All persons having claims against the estate of
H. H. Armstrong, late of said county, deceased,
are hereby notified to render in such claims for
payment within the time prescribed by law.
And all persons indebted to said estate are requir¬
ed to make immediate payment.
This, February, 1, 1909.
JESSE P. ARMSTRONG, Executor.
Administrator’s sale.
GEORGIA. Newton County.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the
last will and testament of Mark Poison deceased,
will be sold before the court house door in the
city of Covington, at public outcry, to the highest
and best bidder, between the legal Incurs of sale-,
on the first Tuseday, in April, 1909, the following
real estate belonging to the estate of Mark Poi¬
son deceased to-wit. One hundred and thirty
seven acres of land known as the Mark Poison
place,, in said county, being the place on which
he resided at the time of his death; bounded on
the north by H. C. Hyatt; east by Henry Hyatt;
south by W. G. Turner and West by Owens and
Aluiaud. Sold for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution and division among the legates
under the will of Mark Poison. Terms cash.
This land is rented out and the purchaser will
get the rent for the year 1909. Possession given
immedialely subject to the rights of the tenant.
March 9, 1909.
JOHNATHAN FOLSCN
Administrator debonis non with the win an¬
nexed of Mark Poison deceased.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
By virtue of an order granted at the March
Term 1909 of the Ordinary's Court of Newton
County, there will be sold on the first Tuesday in
April, 1909. within the legal hours of sale, on the
premises in the town of Mansfield, the following
described property to-wit;
Bounded by W. E. Harwell and others, S. 45 E.
1036; Second Ave., N. 59 and three:eights, E. 392;
N. 30 W. 208; W. C. Benton, N. 50 and three-eights
E. 316; N. 28, W. 78; W. N. Blake N. 59 and three
eights K- 2. 62; R. G. Franklin, S. 28, E.78; N. 59
and three-eights, 105; N23 W. 78; R. G. Eranklin
and A. I.- Gaither, N. 59 three-eights, E 347; A.
B. Thompson N. 30 and one-fourth, w. 645j ft: S.
62 and-fourth, W. 17; N. 33 and one-fourth W.
Mansfield lumber Co., S. 71 and one-half W.
742 ft: N. 52 and one-aight, W. 29 6;F. M. Hodgins
S. 34 and three-fourth W. 196; S. 38 and one-eight,
W. 530; S. 32 and one-half W. 201 to rock.
Said property belonging to the estate of the
late H. H. Ariutsrong deceased. This property
has been divided into town lots, and will be sold
to the higest bidder as sub-divided.
A platt of this property and the subdivision of
the same into lots can be seen at J. C. Harwell's
store in the town of Mansfield. Terms of sale
made known on the date of sale.
JESSE P. ARMSTRONG,
Executor Estate H. H. Armstrong deseased.
NOTICE.
Agreement between W. C. Salter,
Sr., and undersigned;
“This is to certify that we, the un¬
dersigned, waive all claims to the
wages of our son, Harvie, and give
him sole right to make trades and
collect his wages.
This 2nd day of October, 1908.
4t. Mr. J. C. Ellis. (L. S.)
Mrs. Manda Ellis. (L. S.)
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also a nice line of Stationery,
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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.
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