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3 tton Martel allowing was ruling •ices here yesterday: iddling, 10 cents ood mid. 10 Mcts N0 - 20 ergises for memorial day. Lily jjeen Bright Program Has Arranged. Dr. Melton Will be the Speaker. memorial day exercise will be , and the ; a llv good this appropriate. year, The m is very bter8 of the Confederacy have ,rogram in hand and are doing thing in their power to pay a tribute to the dead whose , s will be decorated, and whose will be brought to the attention • citizens. col¬ \V. G. Melton, of Emory li as been selected to deliver the S 3 and all who hear him will be a treat as he is one of the best ers in the country. Following program in full: embie at court house on Monday 10 on, April 26, at 3 o’clock. lie. ocation, Rev. J. B. Gordon, lie. roduetion of speaker by com¬ er of Jefferson Lamar Camp, lress by Dr. W. G. Melton. sic. towal of Crosses of Honor. •ch to cemetery—Marshal and fes. [eterans. bus of Veterans, lemorial Association, laughters of the Confederacy, layor and council, beret orders. Itizens fcachers generally. and pupils of public school. jfvoration leiiedietion, of graves. Pendletion. Rev. Mr. Easter Egg Hunt. fr*. A. D. Meador gave an Easter hunt to the second and third ties of the public school at her be last Friday afternoon at which re were about fifty young people bent. The grass lot in rear of the |si was used for the hunting ground I about one hundred and fifty eggs le hidden. The little folks enjoyed |occasion It came the very giving much and of the after prize, the |ch was won by Willie Brown. NATIONAL— SAFETY I word NAI IONAL is and will always be a synonym of SAFE1 \ when it is attached to the name of a bank. Government Supervision” ; Means much to a depositor and you can bet that Uncle Sam | looks $A! [ into J the Well, affairs of have a NATIONAL BANK. stock invested in Lmted we our entire capital States Bonds. Guess Uncle Sam will take care of I that, won’t he? Think About Those Figures Capital Stock,.....$40,000.00 All invested in L T nited States Bonds bear¬ ing interest. Surplus and Profits, March 29, *09 $ 2,958.26 every expense; you can figure the price per share. Loans and Discounts, March 29, ’09 $75,559.76 - host Jjfve ONE no doubtful DOLLAR paper through and NEVER bad or mismanaged loans. I ttere you have it-FACTS AND FIGURES-stronger man Words. Safety Is The First Consideration opening a hank account as well as the first in any other ; transaction. w e ar o conveniently located—offer up-to-date facility _ every with r >,n Ptness in Banking, and we wish to do business you. First National Bank Covington, Georgia. Nm ICE PUNT NOW IN OPERATION. They Are Better Prepared To Serve Our Citizens With “Home Man¬ ufactured" Article. The Huson Ice factory has already begun operation for the season and their wagons have started to furnish ice to the citizens of the city. Their plant has been overhauled and this will enable them to give entire satis¬ faction to their customers and have ice at all times to supply the demand. Huson Brothers, who own this en¬ terprise, are home boys. Their plant is a home enterprise, and the home people should patronize home indus¬ try as much as possible. Their pro¬ duct is as good as that put out by any ice plant in the state and their prices are very reasonable. The plant has been in operation several years and has always put up the best grade ice. If you want home enterprises you will have to patronize home enter¬ prise, especially when you can get what you want when you want it. This is not an advertisement, but a plain statement of facts as seen by the proprietors of this paper. We be¬ lieve in patronizing home people and home enterprises in preference to any thing. It is the only way to build a town with backing. Money Unearthed On Streets. Last Monday afternoon while the force of hands were blasting for the water mains on Montieello street, the force of the powder threw out some coin of the realm, which is attracting the attention of the people all over the city and the amount unearthed is reported anywhere from forty-seven pieces to a thousand dollars. In re¬ ality there was one silver dollar found bearing the date of 1802. Whether it was hidden there years ago by some miser or whether it was lost it is not known. From all appearances, how¬ ever, it was lost years ago and the gradual working of that road had cov¬ ered it up several feet. FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons. $1.00 per pair J. M. Aakon. tf. COVINGTON, GEORGIA, APRIL 21, 1909. DECIDEDLY INTERESTING FEATURE FOR OUR REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS The News Has Secured the Services of the International Bible Study Club. Fifty Prizes Including a Handsome Gold Medal and Teachers* Bibles. The News has secured from International Newspaper Bible Club the exclusive right to use service in this county for the year and beginning next week we publish in each issue a list of pertaining to the Sunday School following our date of issue. questions are all good and have endorsement of the ministers of denominations throughout the try. For the answers to these tions we will give a number of prizes, including a very heavy solid medal, a silver medal and a of teachers and students Bibles. The International Newspaper Study Club is for the purpose of moting, in an unfettered way the masses, a wider study of the Bible, the basal truths of Christianity, the problems which enter into man’s life. It is composed of those who join a Local Club, and up the simple course herein outlined, barring only ordained clergymen. who have not joined are warmly in¬ vited to do so and to compete for prizes. Persons may join the club at time during the year, but must, course, answer the 52 questions inafter explained, to qualify for prizes, and the back questions may obtained from this office. This paper has secured the right publish the International School Lesson questions by Rev. Dr. Linscott, which have aroused so interest elsewhere, and they will pear weekly. One of these each week is to be answered in ing, and upon these answers prizes are to be awarded. CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST. 1. Each contestant, or his or family, must be a subscriber to paper, in order to qualify for in the International NEWTON COUNTY MAY HOLD BIG FAIR Plans Are Under Consideration for Holding Big Agricultural Exhibition Here. Several of our leading citizens are considering plans for the holding of a big county fair at this place next fall. The mayor has been making a can¬ vass of the business men during the past week and all indications point to the consumation of the plan. There is nothing that would give the county more publicity than a real first-class fair. There is a lot of things grown and raised in Newton county that the majority of the peo¬ ple know absolutely nothing about and it would be interesting to them as well as to a number of people from other sections. The plan is to offer prizes for different farm products grown by the farmers of the county and for the best specimens of cows, hogs, poultry, horses, mules, and in fact everything grown or raised on the farm. There will also be prizes for the ladies for the best cooking, fancy work, sewing and all things that Newton oounty women know so well how to do. Should this fair be held, which in all probability it will, there will be an immense amount of interest shown and the exhibits could not be other¬ wise than the best as that is the only kind in this county. Lets all pull for the fair and make it a success in every detail. If you favor it write an article to the local papers, thus creating interest all over the county. Royal Arch Masons. Covington Chapter, No. 71, R. A. M., will meet in regular convention Friday evening, April 23rd, at i :30. Work in Past Masters degree. Can¬ didates for this degree and regular companions requested to meet with us. A. S. Hopkins, H. P. R. R. Fowler, Secretary. Bible Study Club and this Local Club. 2. Each contestant in this Local Club, must answer each of the written questions, for 52 consecutive weeks, commencing first Sunday in May, and the answers must all be in the posses¬ sion of this paper within two weeks of the close of this period. 3. Each question must be answered separately, and the paper written on one side only. No answer must ex¬ ceed two hundred words in length and may be less. Each answer must have the name and address of the writer at the bottom of the answer. 4. The answers must be delivered to this office, and they will be collated at the close of the contest, and for¬ warded to headquarters for indepen¬ dent examination by competent exam¬ iners. The prizes will then be awarded according to the highest number of marks, won by members of The Inter¬ national Newspaper Bible Study Club, and prizes which may be awarded to members of this Local Club will be given out from this office. THE PRIZE. First Series—A gold medal to each of the first five contestants. Second Series—A silver medal to each of the next five contestants. Third Series—A Teacher’s Bible, price $5.50, to each of the next five contestants. Fourth Series—The book “The Heart of Christianity,” price $1.50 to each of the next thirty-five contestants. Each medal will be suitably en¬ graved, giving the name of the win¬ ner, and for what it is awarded, and in like manner each Eible and book will be inscribed. All who can write, and have ideas, are urged to take up these studies re¬ gardless of the degree of their educa¬ tion, as the paprs are not valued from an educational or literary standpoint, but from the point of view of the cog¬ of their reasoned ideas. News Item. As we go to press we learn that the County Commissioners have decided to publish the quarterly report of the financial afiairs of the county, and it will appear in this week’s issue of our esteemed contemporary on account of a lower l id. The people of the county will learn of this decission of the Commissioners with pleasure, and The News is glad with them. It has been the policy of this paper from its first issue to stand for those things having a tendency to a better method of public affairs and we shall ever be found on what we believe the right side of a question where the people Of Newton county are concerned. The publication of the *report is what we have agitated, but of course we do not take the credit to ourselves for its appearance. “Unde John" Writes Again. Editors Covington News: By your permission I ask a little space in The News. We honor and praise tie names of great men and forget the names of pure women. The wise man, Solomon, said that a virtuous woman is of more value than rubies. His priee was too low. I will amend it by saying that you can’t estimate the worth of a good woman. They are worth all the gold in the world with the men thrown in. I thank God we have a multitude of good women. They are the salt of the earth. What would be the character of men if it were not for the pure women. Their influence have saved a lot of men from ruin and disgrace. Take them out ot the world and time would be no mote. Let us honor and respect them, by so doing we will im¬ prove the morals of the young and bring prosperity throughout the coun¬ try and hide a multitude of sin, and save souls from hell. Don’t forget to subscribe for the News. “Uncle John” Roquemore. FOR RENT —Three 5-room cot¬ tages on Thompson avenue, the new and fast coming resident sec¬ tion of the city. Apply to D. A. Thompson.—tf. WILL MEET AT LOCUST GROVE. Dr. Jno. E. White Has Called Meet¬ ing of Georgia Baptists at That Place. Dr. John E. White, president of the Georgia Baptist Board of Educa¬ tion, has called a meeting of the Pas¬ tors, associational executive commit¬ tees and the Baptist citizenship gen enerally to meet at the Locust Grove Institute on April 27. The call goes to the Flint River, South River, Kim¬ ball, Stone Mountain, Central, Cen¬ tennial, Fairburn, Western and Pine Mountain associations. Following is also a letter from the president of the Locust Grove Insti¬ tute in which he urges all who can to meet with them on the above date: Locust Grove, Ga., April 17, ’08 To the Baptists of the Stone Moun¬ tain, South River and Central Asso¬ ciations: The Georgia Baptist Board of Ed¬ ucation has called a meeting of Pastors, Executive Committees, and Baptist citizenship generally, of the nine associations affiliated with Lo¬ cust Grove Institute, for April 27, at Locust Grove. The presence of a large number of the denomination is greatly desired in order that there may be a general discussion of Christian Education, a fall understanding of purposes, and a complete co-operation in plans rela¬ tive to the educational interests of the denomination. The local trustees, faculty 7 and pu¬ pils of Locust Grove Institute, and the people of the town and commun¬ ity, join with the Board of Education in a cordial invitation to this confer¬ ence and urge the presence of all who can come. The Board of Education has pre¬ pared a rich program. The people of Locust Grove promise the best picnic dinner of your lives, and the school will enliven the day with a varied program of college songs and athletic sports. The Baptist ministers of Atlanta, with their families and friends, will attend. A special round-trip rate of $1 from Atlanta has been granted by the Southern Railroad. Take this opportunity to visit your NOT An Experiment WE have passed “the new boot stage.” WE do not experiment with our business, nor with your business. WE are not incorporated for the purpose of financing auxiliary enterprises. enjoy the distinction of top notch quality “that time enduring kind." WF 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 Stationery ing bears and Print¬ it is backed our imprint by our guarantee to give you satisfaction. pliase We are herfe to YOU.' ..... ~ $L00 A Year In Advance. Gin WILL HAVE FIRE PROTECTION, Water Will Be Turned Into Mains by June 1st. Fire Companies WiH be Organized. By the first day of June the water will be turned into the mains on the principal business streets and the fire companies will have been organized. This will mean that the business houses of the city will have the best fire protection of any city in the state. The water pressure here will be some¬ thing like seventy-five pounds and the fire department equipment which was purchased sometime ago is of the very latest and most modern make. The trucks are all ball-bearing, making it an easy matter for the fire-boys to get them to the fires and the hose is of the standard pattern and size, with plenty of it to reach any building in the water limits. Two streams of water can be turned on the blaze with suf¬ ficient force to extinguish a fire in any building in the city. The fire company will be organized as a volunteer service and will be composed of young men of the city who are the most active and who keep the coolest heads during excitement. With these men and the equipment Covington will have something she has always needed—a first-class fire¬ fighting outfit. Mr. B. F. Camp Very III. As we go to press Mr. B. F. Camp, one of the oldest citizens of the city, and a man held in high esteem by the people generally, is critically ill at home in Midway with pneumonia. Mr. Camp had been in unusually good health for a man of his age when he contracted a severe case of pneumo¬ nia. His friends hope to see him able to be out again in a few days. school, examine into its work, and get acquainted with its teachers and pupils. A pleasant and profitable day is planned, and every body has a cordial invitation to enjoy the occasion with us. Fraternally, Claude Gray, President of Locust Grove Institute.