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Middling, 9 3-4 cents
Good mid- 9 scents
VOL. I- NO. 19
hSTER SERVICES AT
>LL THE CHURCHES:
fecial Programs Were Interestingly
Rendered At Different Places
of Worship.
fcnecial Easter services were held
t))e different churches of the city
indav in commemoration of the re¬
jection of Jesus, and all of them
unusually bright and said to
, re best held by the
ive been the ever
mrches. All were largely attended.
Re v. John B. Gordon preached a
forceful sermon at the Presby
rian church and the music by the
,oir was very good.
At the Baptist church Rev. E. R.
mdleton held the attention of the
mgregation with one of the best
noons ever delivered from the pul
t of that church, and the music
,ere was also very enjoyably ren
fred. church Sunday
At the Methodist
glit, the services were unusually
being prepared specially for
istcr. The program for the servic e
as arranged by Mrs. J. E. Phillips,
iss Carrie Beck Davis and Miss
imie White, and the different exer¬
ts were said to have been the best
rer rendered in this city. It is cer
(inly a gratifying sight to see the
inday School children take an in¬
rest in this phase of the work and
[e services Sunday night is an evi¬
nce of the Sunday School work in
lis city.
geviva! Services at Methodist Church.
Revival services were begun at the
ethodist church Sunday morning by
le pastor, Rev. II. M. Quillian. The
(rvices are in progress each day at
30 and in the evening at 7:30, and
fil continue throughout the week
ne possibly into next week, an
junvement will be made Sunday as
the .fete for closing.
Miss ba'e Mulkey, the talented sin
?r from X, igusta, will be in the city
bursday afu-rnoon and will assist in
ie song service during the remainder
] she services.
Mr. Quillian is doing much to make
le ing meeting a success and the begin
is very encouraging to him as
ell as all the good people here.
The word NATIONAL is and will always be a synonym
of SAFE 1 Y when it is attached to the name of a hank.
‘"Government Supervision’"
Means much to a depositor and you can bet that Uncle Sam
ioy/s into the affairs of a NATIONAL BANK.
SA1 FA Well, we have our entire capital stock invested in
ll pitch States Bonds. Guess Uncle Sam will take care of
iWv woiyt he?
Think About Those Figures
Capital Stock, ^ $40,000.00
All invested In United States Bonds bear¬
ing interest.
Surplus and Profits, March 29, ’09 $ 2,958.26
Less every expense; you can figure the
price per share.
Coans and Discounts, March 29, ’09 $75,559.76
We have no doubtful paper and NEVER
COST ONE DOLLAR through bad or
mismanaged loans.
Here you have it—FACTS AND FIGURES-stronger
than words.
Safety Is The First Consideration
H opening a bank account well the first in any other
as as
transaction.
^ 0r ° are conveniently ptness in Banking, located—offer and wish every up-to-date do business facility with
rorn we to
you.
First National Bank
Covington, Georgia.
Couinnton
MAYOR SMITH
HOLDS MATINEE.
Had Six Offenders Up For Their
Medicine in Fines Ranging
From $5.00 to $75.00.
Mayor Chas. G. Smith held a very
interesting police matinee in the
council chamber Monday morning. It
was particularly interesting for the
city as fines for the offenders were
nearly all street work sentences and
the culprits will assist Street Over¬
seer Clark in putting the streets back
into good condition.
There were six to come up for treat¬
ment and the first was Sardy Clark,
charged with violating section 69 of
the cify code, which makes it unlaw¬
ful to disturb the citizenship. Sardy
said he was guilty and the Mayor
fined him $5.00 with the privilege of
serving ten days on the streets. He
Mayor Smith, Who is Dishing Out
The Fines
took the privilege.
The next one up was Bennie Gill,
charged with the same offense, at the
same time. Gill said he wasn’t guilty
but Chief Bohanan said he was and
the Mayor gave him a lecture with
a fine of f 10 or fifteen days on the
streets. He is doing duty with a pick
and spade.
Next came Joe Earle and Tom
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, APRIL 14 , 1909.
BETTER ROADS FOR
NEWTON COUNTY.
President Rural Letter Carrier’s
Association Endorses Grand
Jury’s Recommendation.
Editor The News: At last old
Newton seems in a fair way to have an
improved system of roads.
The doubling of our working force
ought to insure twice the amount of
work. The recommendation of the
grand jury for a $25,000.00 bond issue
is a wise one.
If they are issued and the amount
judiciously spent upon our roads we
can issue more. What we need now
is co-operation. The authorities in
charge of the improvement of our
roads must merit the confidence of
the people. Our people must co¬
operate with the authorities for the
improvement of our roads.
In order that every citizen of our
county may imitate their example, I
want to call attention to a commend¬
able spirit that some of our people
display. They seem to take pride in
the public roads. They will fill up
holes in the road near them, turn the
water off the road where it gets pond¬
ed up, and other things that benefit
the roads, thereby benefitting them¬
selves and the public generally.
I am sorry to have to state that we
have another class of citizens who
seem to begrudge every inch of ground
a road takes up. They will turn all
the waste water from their farms into
the road. They seem to regard the
road as a turn row and will mark it
all over with their plows when turn¬
ing or drag the chasings of their
plows into the road and leave them.
They will clean off the hedges along
side the road and throw the cleanings
together with any loose rocks, into
the ditches on either side of the road,
or finish up a piece of plowing at the
far side of the field and get into the
middle of the road and drag their
plows all the way to the house.
I call attention to these facts be¬
cause we might issue ten times as
many bonds, and have twice as many
men on the roads as we now have
and unless these practices are discon¬
tinued we will never have a good sys¬
tem of public roads—and I feel that it
is only necessary to call attention to
them and that they will be discon¬
tinued.
Let the w T atchword be co-operation
from every section of Newton for
good roads all over our county.
Lemuel D. King.
Fire at Tslbotton.
News was received in the city last
Friday that the home of Mrs. Mat¬
thews, at Talbotton, had burned the
night before, with almost a total loss
of the contents.
Mrs. Matthews is the mother of Mrs.
Clifton S. Lee of this city, and was
at the home of Mrs. Lee at the time
of the fire. Since her stay in Coving¬
ton she has made a host of friends who
deeply sympathize with her in the
loss of her home, which was one of
the old colonial residences of that
place.
—FDR SALE: An extra fine mule,
5 years ojcl. Terms cash or on time.
W. H, Pjekett.—tf.
Bradley, .charged with being drunk
and disorderly. Their case took but!
a few minutes with a revenue fpr the
city of $5 a piece.
The last two to come before the
city recorder were Frank Henderson
and Jim Thornton. It seems that
they went to the home of Jim’s mother
and with the assistance of a hatchet
and clubs proceeded to clean out that
end of darktown. They knocked the
door in and began a rough house right.
The house is just in front of the negro
church and the disorder reached such
a state that it is said services were
postponed in order to stop the fuss.
About the time they were warming
up to he situation right Policeman
Willinham arrived on the scene of
action and with a little “persuation”
landed the two in the city boarding
house. Mayor Smith gave them a
fine of $75 a piece and bound them
over to the City Court on the charge
of assult and battery and disturbing
divine worship. They were given the
privilege of working thirty days on
the streets in lieu of the fine.
Mayor Smith says he is going to
stop the disorder among the negroes
_and white men too—of the citj and
that he believes the best way to do it
is to make them pay for the fun.
We are glad to see him take this stand
as the negroes—and some white folks
—right at this time are getting into
the custsm of raising too much sand
in the city on Saturday night and
Sunday.
HOW THE PENSION
SHOULD BE PAID.
Importance of Paying Pensions to
Only Those Who Are Entitled
to Receive Them.
Following is a letter from Pension
Commissioner J. W. Lindsey to the
Ordinary of this county, in which he
urges the importance of the necessity
of thoroughly ascertaining the facts
about applicants for pensions.
My Friend:
The General Assembly to convene
next June will be expected to enact
such laws as will be necessary to pro¬
vide a pension for that class of Con¬
federate soldiers and widows of Con¬
federate soldiers, authorized by the
Constitutional Amendment ratified by
the people at the last November
election.
In preparing this legislation “the
infirmity and poverty” qualification
that exist in our present law (which
has been so repulsive to the patriotic
pride of so many true Confederates)
will be repealed, and in lieu thereof
will be provided the new Constitu¬
tional qualifications: That is, to pay
a pension to every Confederate sold¬
ier, and the widow of every Confed¬
erate soldier (who were married prior
to the first of January, 1870,) not
worth over fifteen hundred dollars,
who performed a term (to be fixed in
the law) of actual military service in
the army of the Confederate States
or of the organized militia of the
State of Georgia, and who was hon¬
orably discharged therefrom. Also a
provision will be made to pay a pen¬
sion to that class of widows who had
a husband killed in the service—has
since remarried and is now a widow.
The amount of this annual pension is
to be fixed by the law, and what that
amount shall be depends largely upon
the number to be provided for.
My purpose in bringing this matter
to your attention is to urge upon you
importance, for everybody is vi¬
tally interested in the subject, and it
behooves us in some organized way
to secure the cooperation of all good
and taxpayers, county offi¬
and especially the representa¬
and senators in the next Gener¬
Assembly to go to work individually
and collectively by committees or in
way for the best results in eaeh
district, and ascertain just how
ex-Confederate soldiers and
widows of ex-Confederate soldiers are
residing in your county to be
provided for in this new legislation.
I think can be easily done. You
get from the tax digest in your
for 1908 a list of ex-Confeder¬
soldiers as made by your tax re¬
you can get from the pension
in the ordinary’s office a list of
all the pensioners, check out the pen¬
sioners and you will then have a
skeleton list to start with. Canvass
each name thoroughly, you will find
the tax receiver put some on
that should have been left off and left
off some tha^ he should have put on.
Make a corrected list, then ascertain
the company and regiment in which
each man enlisted, and in what regi¬
he served, and who the wit¬
nesses are that each man service are
to be proven. Also canvass the ser¬
vice of the husbands of each widow |
in the same way, and of the time and
w T here, she and he were married, and
of the value of what property of all
kinds that any of them are in the use
and possession of. Do not de pend on
what one may say or claim of him¬
self or herself as to the service in the
army, or of their property or its value
—but ascertain by investigation what
the true facts are of eaeh one, and by
whom it can be proven.
Your activity and vigilance in this
matter will keep the unworthy from
your pension rolls and aid materially
in making these rolls, rolls of honor,
as they are intended to be. Your
failure to be active in this matter may
burden the taxpayers and embarrass
the State with improper claims for
pensions.
The General Assembly will need the
light of correct information on this
subject to legislate intelligently You
can by some effort get it for them,
and please do it. The only sound
basis of all legislation is a full knowl¬
edge of all the facts about the subject
matter for which legislation is sought,
and there is no surer way to guide
legislation into safe channels than by
furnishing them all the facts. So let
me beg you to get together and by
concerted effort in each county fur¬
nish the number to your Representa¬
tives or Ordinary by the 1st of June
next, and I will consolidate them and
place them before the General Assem¬
bly. service, You will and thereby proteetthe do the Pension State a
great fraud.
Roll from the charge of
Respectfully J.'w. requested, Lindsey.
REVEREND ASBURY
COKE MIXON, A. M.
A Living Example of “The Simple
Life,” Illustrated by a Newton
County Citizen.
In this day of apparent greed for
places of prominence or publicity
without due regard always to the fit¬
ness of the candidate to fill such place
it comes as a distinct pleasure to find
one qualified to fill high position, yet
by reason of choice, guided by a de¬
sire to serve his Master and help his
fellows, filling one of little promi¬
nence but of great usefulness. “The
Simple Life” is advocated from the
pulpit and eulogized from the plat¬
form more frequently than practiced
by the hearer or even, we fear, by
the speaker.
This is, unfortunately, a day which
looks to quick and showy results
Rev. Asbury C. Mixon
rather than to good and substantial
ends. What can I get in the line of
greatness, money or display, seems to
be the great question, rather than
what can I do to help the world I
live in?
It takes a man with grit and grace
to be content, day in and day out,
(Continued to page three.)
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An Experiment
WE have passed “the new boot stage.’
WE do not experiment with our business, nor
with your business.
are not incorporated for the purpose of
financing auxiliary enterprises.
enjoy the distinction of top notch quality
“that time enduring kind.”
WE 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 of Covington
Covington, Georgia.
CAPITAL, - - $100,000
If Your
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it i9 backed our imprint by
our
guarantee to give you
satisfaction. We are
here to please YOU.
$1.00 A Year In Advance.
THE CITY CHARTER
NEEDS AMENDING.
The Present Charter of Covington
Allows Fine of $100 But Only
30 Days For Street Work.
Quite a good many of our citizens
have been talking of the advisability
of so amending the charter of Coving¬
ton as to make the street sentences
allowed in keeping with the fines. As
it now stands the mayor and council
can place a fine of one hundred dol¬
lars on a person for violation of some
of the ordinances, but in no case can
the sentence for street work exceed
thirty days. When a negro, and some
white men too, are given the fine of
one hundred dollars or thirty days on
the streets it would be a good salary
for them to work on the streets. The
majority of offenders are not capable
of earning half this amount.
This needed amendment was forcibly
brought to mind Monday morning
when Mayor Smith gave two negroes
fines of seventy-five dollars each and
the street sentence had to be placed
at thirty day9. If the street sentence
had been in keeping with the fine it
would have been sixty days.
This amendment should be made, it
would mean a good deal more street
work for the city and the hardship
where it belongs—on the offender.
Enterprise Changes Hands.
Rev. J. N. Snow, of Macon, has
purchased the printing office of the
Covington Enterprise and will edit
and publish the paper in the future.
Mr. Snow was at one time pastor
of the Methodist church here and has
held the pastorate of several impor¬
tant charges in the North Georgia
Conference. He came to the city a
few days ago and purchased the plant
from Mr. C. R. Hawk, who has been
running the Enterprise for the past
five months. Mr. Snow will do the
editorial work of the paper and Mr.
Hawk will be retained as business
manager.
Mr. Snow stated to a News repor¬
ter that the change would take place
at once and The News extends a cor¬
dial welcome to the new editor with
the wish that his voyage into the
newspaper field in this city will be
both pleasant and profitable.