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ICotton Market:
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday:
Middling, 9 cents
Good mid. 9 1-8 cents
L NO. 16
IEWT0N county may issue
$20,000 OF ROAD BONDS.
brand Jury in Session Last Week Recoin
mends That This Step Be Taken in
Order to Make Permanent Road
Improvements.
In keeping with the progress of the
j U11 t.y and the improvements now
Bing made in the public roads of this
flinty, the grand Jury last week
w k this phase of the county’s affairs
, a nd after going into it thoroughly
line to the conclusion that effective
nd permanent work could not be
one with the money provided and
;ate in their general presentments
iat if it becomes advisable the county
hould issue at least $25,000 worth of
nmds, the proceeds to be used on the
hililie roads of the county. As
binds now the public road work costs
Lmuch land or more than the county can
with the present tax returns and
Jhen the state convicts are put chain- on the
xpense of keeping the county
ang will materially increase, hence
he recommendation.
This recommendation is practically
n endorsement of the law created
ist year giving each county in the
tate the right to issue bonds for pub¬
ic road improvement, and, we believe,
rill meet the approval of every citizen
n the county who has the welfare of
he people at heart. With the funds
lerived from the issue of the bonds,
>ven at the lowest amount of the
ecommendation the roads of Newton
Kiunty could he made as good or bet
er than any county in the state, and
vould be a permanent improvement.
In talking to the Solicitor last week,
le stated that to his certain knowledge
DeKalb county had paid for road
vork $24,000 a year for twenty-years
md that if there was ten miles of
jood road in the county at this time
le didn’t know where they were,
this amount paid by DeKalb county
would, in the length of time she has
>een paying it, have paid for a
thoroughly modern system of roads
and they would have been permanent.
WHAT DO YOU CARE
About the size capital of your bank, whether $40,000.00
or $40,000,000.00 if you know your funds are safe and you
can get accommodations when needed ?
The First National Bank
OFFERS YOU SAFETY.
^ e are under the direct supervision of the United States
Government and obliged to be safe. OUR POLICY IS to
be conservative, yet progressive, to meet every request of our
patrons that is in keeping with sound banking principles, at¬
tentiveness to our business and courteous treatment to every
one,
CAN YOU ASK MORE?
Cur officers and directors are among the most progressive
and conservative business men of this locality and they keep
in touch with the banks’ business.
“UNION IS STRENGTH.”
OFFICERS:
f ■ ° 7 ‘‘ BENTON, ANDERSON, Vice Pres. C. C. ROBINSON, STEPHENSON, Vice Cashier Pres.
• Pres. R. E.
DIRECTORS:
* • ( ‘- ROBINSON ANDERSON
E. O. LEE N. Z.
w ” BROOKS J. Z. JOHNSON L. O. BENTON
K. PENNINGTON C. R. ROGERS A. J. BELCHER
" STEp HENSON H. B. ANDERSON
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e are not too large for you and you are neither too large
r ' ° ^mall for us. We invite your business.
First National Bank
Covington, Georgia.
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As it is she has paid for them but
hasn’t got them. This is just what
Newton county has been doing for
years, and while the roads here are
even better than in some sections,
they could be greatly improved if the
funds were in hand. Ordinary road
work only lasts until a hard rain and
then they have to be worked over.
Some permanent improvements should
be made every year, and should the
people of this county decide to issue
bonds for this work, we would soon
have roads that would cost us very
little to keep them up.
We want the people to think about
this recommendation of the grand
jury and let’s all get together and
have the best roads in the state.
Dr. Robinson is County Physician.
At a meeting of the County Com¬
missioners held in the court house here
one day last week, Dr. Luke Robin¬
son, one of the city’s best physicians
and the county’s most popular men,
was appointed county physician for
the year 1909.
The appointment was made upon a
competitive bid for the county’s medi¬
cal work ,and Dr. Robinson making the
lowest bid he was named for that posi¬
tion. We understand that notice was
sent out for bids for thiswork and that
a number of them were turned in to
the commissioners.
Dr. Robinson having made prepara¬
tions for taking a Polyclinical course
at Polyclinic college, Chicago, within
the next month, has made arrange¬
ments with Dr. Wm. D. Travis, for¬
mer county physician, to act in his
capacity during his absence.
All kinds of Spring and Summer
Dress Materials at C. C. Robinson's.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 24 1909.
HOLD-OP ON THE
STREETS OF CITY.
Negroes Placed Gun in Mr. Seigel’s
Face and Told Him to
“Hand* Up.”
At about nine o’clock Monday night
while Mr. J. Seigel was returning to
his home in the eastern part of the
city he was held up by two negro men
in front of the Baptist church and
with a gun in his face was told to
stand still. The negroes took his hat
off and after looking at him in a scru¬
tinizing manner he was told that they
had made a mistake and that he was
not the man they wanted. They then
told him to make a run for it, which
he did, but after he had gone a few
steps he gave a yell ‘‘murder” and
they immediately caught him and
told him that they didn’t want him to
yell they wanted him to run and that
quick, too. When they again turned
him loose he made a dash that would
have immediately given him a Mara¬
thon prize, had a time-keeper been
present. In his race for safety he
paid no attention whatever to the
ditches of the water and sewerage
system and when he reached his home
he was so full of mud that his family
at first failed to recognize him.
The police were notified but up to
this time no clue has been learned as
to who the perpetrators were. They
did’nt rob Mr. Seigel after they
found he was not the man they were
after. This would lead to believe
that they will make another effort to
hold-up the party they were laying
for and the people had better keep
their eyes open.
This is the first time in the history
of Covington that a hold-up has ever
happened on any of the public street
and especially at this early hour.
Mr. Seigel was badly frightened and
says he does not care to make another
trial in the racing game.
HUNTING SEASON
CLOSED ON 15,
Let Every Citizen See to it That the
Law is Enforced. The Game
Should be Protected.
The bird law went into effect last
Sunday, March 15th, and nowit is un¬
lawful to catch or kill game in Geor¬
gia.
The Sportsmen have greatly enjoyed
the season, though partridges have
been very scarce in thi9 section of the
state.
The law protects doves and other
birds same as it does quail. All the
sportsmen should and we believe do,
favor a close observance of the law
and they see that it is strictly enforced,
and all who break it should be report¬
ed to the grand jury.
The game law is one of the import¬
ant laws of the state that should be
strictly enforced and now for the pres¬
ent time lets see to it that it is rigidly
enforced.
Ditching Machine Finished Work.
The big ditching machine has finish¬
ed all the excavations that can be
done with it and is now being shipped
to Eastpoint where it will be used for
the work there. It was impossible
for the machine to be used on some
of the streets, especially on Railroad
street, on account of the street rail¬
road, and the work there will have to
be done with laborers. While here
it attracted a lot of attention and
interest and w T as the object of a lot of
conjecture.
Notice Royal Arch Masons.
Covington Chapter will meet
in regular convocation next Friday
evening, in the lodge room at
at 7:30. Work in Royal Arch de¬
gree. Take notice companions and
govern yourselves accordingly.
A. S. Hopkins, H. P.
R. R. Fowler, Sec y.
Go to C. C. Robinson’s and buy
a Ready Made Suit or have your
measure taken for a suit to order.
You will find there & beautiful
stock of Strouss & Bros., clothing.
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.
^ J. C. ELLIS.
ENTERTAINMENT BT
LOCAL TALENT.
The Deestrick Skule Was Played
By Library Association to Big
House Last Night.
The ladies composing the Library
Association have been working hard
for the past several weeks getting
ready for the production of that laugh¬
able farce comedy, “The Deestrick
Skule,” which was played by them at
the Opera House last night to a very
large and appreciative audience.
The play was full of life and go from
start to finish and the audience w T as
kept in a good, strong laugh from
beginning to end. Each of the young
ladies and gentlemen deserve praise
for the way in which they rendered
their parts, but special mention should
be made of Messrs. C. A. Harwell and
F. W. Simmons, they putting up their
parts in a most characteristi c repre¬
sentation of the school days of their
boyhood and they proved to those
composing the audience that it was
nothing new to them and that they
had been there before.
This play was put on by the Library
Association to raise funds with which
to provide new books for that insti¬
tution and the cause being a worthy
one the people were very liberal in
their patronage of it. Some time ago
the ladies decided to discontinue the
membership fee in the library and
they find that their efforts to give the
people the benefit of the books is
being highly appreciated.
In the play were Prof, and Mrs. W.
D. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Hawk, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Adams,
Mesdames J. W. Lee, W. T. Milner,
Evans Lunsford, Col. A. H. Foster,
Col. Edgar Gunn, Messrs. C. A. Har¬
well, John M. Wright, C. D. Terrell,
Lester Lee, Mortimer Hays, Dean
Albert, Dave Cook, Simms Heard,
Wilbur Harwell, Will Cook, F. W.
Simmons; Misses Nell Butler, Mary
Carter, Ida Higgins, Susie Lewis and
Anna Keith, and they all rendered
their parts in a very capable and
lively manner. The entertainment,
as a whole, was very much enjoyed
and the people of this city will be im¬
patient for the ladies to put on anoth¬
er one at an early date
The gate receipts were very satis¬
factory and the ladies realized a neat
sum for the library.
JUDGE ROAN FAVORS
WHIPPING POST.
“It Would Go a Long Way Toward
Reforming Young Criminals,”
Says The Judge.
Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone
Mountain circuit, and probably one of
the best known men in the state, and
who presided over the last session of
the Newton Superior court, held here
last week, favors the establishment of
a whipping post for youthful offenders
guilty of crimes involving moral
turpitude.
Judge Roau announced his opinion
in the Fulton county court house
Saturday morning, when he heard the
case of Frank Alexander and Emmett
Shaw, aged 15 and 14, respectively,
charged with stealing $300 from the
house of B. H. Wise. Both of the
boys pleaded guilty and were sent to
the county industrial farm by Judge
Roan.
“A whipping post would go a long
way toward reforming such boys as
you,” said Judge Roan, after hearing
a statement of the case. “It seems it
will have to come to that. What is
to be done with all these young
criminals who come up here to be
sent to the reformatories? It will get
so after a while that the reformatories
won’t hold them. The old whipping
post, not for all offenses, but crimes
of moral turpitude, would be a very
effective reformatory measure, it
seems to me, for young criminals.”
“You appear to me to be perfectly
indifferent to what you have done.
What is to become of a boy who
makes his mother weep, as your
mother is doing, because of his con¬
duct? The whipping post would have
been good for you.”
Rev. W. J. Callahan to Give Lecture.
Rev. W. J. Callahan, noted lec¬
turer, will give his stereoptican il¬
lustrated lecture: ‘Japan,’’ on
Thursday night at ihe Methodist
church in this city. Everybody
! invited. No admission.
LARGE NUMBER OF TRUE RILLS
RETURNED JN ONE DAY’S TIME.
One of the Most Sensational Investigations
in the History of Newton County Was
Held Before Grand Jury
Last Week.
The grand jury which was in session
at the term of Newton Superior court
last week held one of the most sensa¬
tional investigations ever placed on
the records of this county, when they
returned seventy-four true bills in con¬
nection with one of the smoothest
gambling houses ever aperated and de¬
tected in this section of the state. It
came as a surprise to a number of our
citizens and it was learned that the
true bills returned men from Morgan,
Rockdale, Walton, Jasper, and several
other sections the whole county was
worked up to a high degree of excite¬
ment. It is reported that there were
men also from Pulton county and as
soon as their names could be ascer¬
tained warrants would also be issued
for their apprehension and arrest.
We have been unable so far to get
the exact number of bills and the
names of the gentlemen for whom
they were issued but it is positively
stated that there are at the very least
seventy-four. When we asked for
the list we were told that it would be
impossible for us to use it as a number
of them have not been served and
that should they be published some
of them would possibly take the quick
leave of absence.
When it came up for investigation
it was shown that at the home of Mr.
Vance Cooper there had been operated
a gaming house for the past several
months and that there were several
kinds of games played there at all
times and that a considerable amount
of money had changed hands at that
place. It developed during the inves¬
tigation that the house had from" been
liberally patronized by men all
sections of the country for fifty
around and that the trials of the gen¬
tlemen indicted would prove to be a
very sensational one. The investiga-
NOT
An Experiment
WE have passed “the new boot stage.”
WE do not experiment with our business, nor
with your business.
are not incorporated lor the purpose of
financing auxiliary enterprises.
enjoy the distinction of top notch quality
“that time enduring kind.”
WF Ww MmmJ respectfully solicit your banking business
on
the basis of superior strength and experience, and assure
courteous, intelligent treatment and close attention to your
individual wants.
Bank o? Covington
Covington, Georgia.
CAPITAL, - . $100,000
If Your
ing Stationery bears and imprint Print¬
our
it is backed by our
guarantee satisfaction. to give We you
are
here to please YOU.
$1.00 A Year In Advance.
tion was conducted by Col. Wm.
Schley Howard, who had learned
something of the affair and he worked
up the evidence that brought about
the indictments. Mr. Howard is the
solicitor of this judicial circuit and
has, since his election, been very
diligent in his efforts to decrease
gambling and selling whiskey in this
county
During the investigation true bills
were found against Mr. Cooper for
running a gaming house and also for
selling whiskey. It is understood that
the other seventy-three gentlemen are
all prominent citizens of their respect¬
ed sections and that when their names
are learned it will canse quite a great
deal of surprise and sensation in the
immediate neighborhood in which
they live.
In all probability this investigation
will break up to a certain extent,
gambling and whiskey selling in this
section.
With T. C. Swann Co.
The many friends of Mrs. Annie
Wooten will be pleased to learn that
she has accepted a position with the
T. C. Swann Co., where she will have
charge of the ladies dress goods and
dry goods departments. Mrs. Wooten
is well known to the trade of this city,
she having been connected with C. E.
Cook’s store for sometime and while
there she made a host of friends by
her courteous treatment, affable man¬
ner and her desire to have each one
of them get just what they wanted.
We con & ratulate the Swann Co ‘« on
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American Lady Corsets in all
the latest styles at C. C. Robinson’s.