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Mammoth Sale of Choice and Valuable Building
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A SALE BEGINS
OVERLOOK PARK Friday, May 21st,
Covington, Ga. And Continues Until all
LOTS ABE SOLD.
Property will be divided into nice large lots of equal size, with 50-foot streets. Watch for the full page advertisement i in
this paper describing fully everything regarding this sale.
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SpBCIdl Notice ^ Lots Under the fairest at Conditions ^ O’clock, possible. we will The give only away requirement Absolutely is FREE that when Ten
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* ie rece * ves the free lot he must put building material on that Lot by Tuesday, May 18. It must be new
Lumber, shingles or any legitimate material required for building a house, and must consist of two or
more two=horse wagon loads.
Laui party receiving a Free Lot is required to keep this building material on lot and build a house on same lot within twelve months. House must not be less than 3-rooms and cannot be sold to
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nC ^ r ° ° f rente< ^ to a ne 8 r °- Deeds will be made to these lots when house is completed. This is a great opportunity and simply that expect to build and improve Overlook Park
be done. Every lot means we up as
fast as it can sold on May 21st will bear the condition that it can never be transferred to a negro. So be on hand at the greatest Land sale Middle Georgia ever had. A sale
inducted m a c ^ ean > legitimate business way, designed to benefit everybody and to develop desirable improvements. We pride ourselves on the fact that we do not misrepresent a single thing.
^ mean to do even more than we advertise. Watch for the page add to follow this and read our circulars carefully.
Starr, Adams & White
IE0R6IA ROAD ASKS
REDUCTION AGAIN
pees Claim Revenue Lacks $ 290 ,*
|000 Of Equalling The Rental
That They Are Paying.
* or the third time, Friday morn
h the Georgia Railroad company
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c represented rtinrao- ,1 K before i*.-. _ __ it.. the railroad _ _ t
amission on a petition for
jthority from to increase its passenger
>es 2 1-4 cents to 2 1-2 cents,
rice has the commission refused
pant that authority. Its furth
jaction N on went is problematic. into executive Thecom- session
brtly before noon to consider the
her. The odds aie in favor of
ither refusal.
’■iday morning's hearing was
Usual, in that only one side of
imatter the railway’s side — was
isented. No announcement had
^ F. 1 0llt care ^ t0 the public the for proposed all who
6 oppose
lncreas e to appear before the
omission. It was a hearing set
t\n at request of T. K. Scott,
r a! manager of the road, who
beared in person before the com¬
mon last week and asked that
r be allowed to argue for a
.
lining 11 uig that of it the had case, not with
closed. been already
,ce
,! U *o -' Pomsistent lailroad effort being made
1 company
i, (nority . -"“‘wau for company to to get get
Imore higher passenger fares
revenue revolves around
p is one ot the most unique
°" s ^oad con
ln ra history.
the , hearing,
[; as represented Friday, the rail
V \Tn General by Major J.
S ' Manager T.
P ,’. ,ene fal Passenger Agent
/J?,' lackson, and one or two
? of the road Th ey
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lL c a,In already published
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the road’s revenues
Vlvl . cental ’?? short of $600,000 of Paying which the
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e >eorgia Railroad
com
ed 8 ’ / e eral yearS ag °
tonav ' during - a specified
andfiTV of,, 0 the Geor
S ia Pail*
!he e Property^ C ° mpany< owners
;'icatio dai | a th f y based their
n •,? sllort and in
it, thev Sa ‘‘ d that - the ' basing
pany i s up a & ainst it” It
tnav md , r US
h Per' v , ? * f ° r the contract lease of - the so
» withm ' ’ 1 regard to what
the
road earns under the leasing com¬
pany’s management. The repre¬
sentatives of the lessees further
claimed that they have made ex¬
tensive improvements on the
property and its present value is
nearly double what it was when
they took it over. They are en¬
titled to more returns on their in¬
vestment, they claimed.
Georgia railroad stock was re¬
cently quoted at 256. It once stood
at 280. It is considered a 10 per
cent stock, gilt edged. But that is
the stock of the road itself-—of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking com¬
pany, which in addition to its $600,
000 annual rental from the lessees
has further the handsome income
from its bank in Augusta. The
Georgia Railroad and Banking
company, according to best au¬
thorities, is lying in a bed of roses.
But the Georgia railroad company
has the thorns apparently, accord¬
ing to the claims of its representa¬
tives before the railroad commission
F'riday. There is a distinction
with a wide difference. Therein is
the unique condition refered to.
Those who argued before the com¬
mission, Friday, were representing
the lessees. The lessees are con¬
tent.
Arid it is to the lessors that the
state of Georgia is responsible for a
reasonable return on their invest¬
ment. The state is not responsible
to lessees. If the contract made
by lessees calls for a certain rental
which they find it hard to pay, the
state feels for them a kindly
sympathy; but that is all.
Such in short, is the situation.
The leasing company’s repre¬
sentatives, Friday, pressed the
commission for that body reasons
in refusing to grant former petitions
for the increase. The commission,
following precedent, had to decline
to give them. Its order was suffi¬
cient, without any whys. 1 he
precedent followed by the com¬
mission has held that if reasons are
given, the reasons themselves
invite attack which should be di¬
rected against the action. The
Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Ramsey Building Home.
Mr. W. S. Ramsey, Newton coun¬
ty’s popular tax collector, is building
a nice little home out on Floyd street
and when completed will be one of
the prettiest on that street.
Mr. Ramsey recently sold his home
on Washington street and bought out
on Floyd where he is now building.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
A HOTEL DINNER.
The Husband Ordered It, and His Wife
Criticised It.
On the midnight train ride from
town, where he and his wife had been
entertaining one of his best patients
at dinner and the theater, the subur¬
ban doctor spoke bitterly:
“What a dinner! And It cost $15.
The cooking in these big hotels Is atro¬
cious. They smear sauces over every- j
thing. I suppose it is to hide poor ma¬
terials."
“It isn’t the fault of the cooking that
our dinner was a failure. It was its
selection that doomed it.”
“What was the matter with the se¬
lection?”
“You should not have done the or¬
dering. You have your meals chosen
for you almost every day in the year.
It is the women of people in our cir¬
cumstances who ought to arrange the
menus at restaurants. Look what you
ordered! Bisque of lobster—a soup
with a body of thick white sauce.
Sweetbreads—cooked, as usual, with a
cream dressing. Virginia ham with
champagne sauce—a brown sauce as
thick as molasses. Then for dessert
you took a chance on pudding Reine
Victoria—candied fruit and lady fin¬
gers swimming ln soft custard.”
“Well, how is a fellow to know?
Lobster soup, sweetbreads, Virginia
ham and pudding Reine Victoria—it
sounds fine.”
“But a woman knows that It is a
wretched combination of splendid
dishes. It is the woman’s dull duty
to choose menus for 3G5 days In the
year. She learns a good deal about
selection. Yet when a sum of money,
equal to a week’s food expenses. Is to
he squandered on one dinner at a
hotel it is the man who seizes the
menu and tries to look capable. He
makes a failure frequently, as you did
tonight. It would order have fifteen been dollar a pleas- din- j
ure for me to a
ner _ a change from manipulating din¬
ner for four on $1. But men feel too
important in a restaurant to submit
the menu to their wives for assist¬
ance.”—Exchange.
Menu of an African Hunting Party.
In addition to the groceries and can¬
ned provisions carried in their outfits
the hunters in East Africa depend for
fresh provisions on their guns. Water
buck, zebra and elephant are said to
be tough eating and are mostly par¬
taken of by the native porters, who
keep elephant meat till it is quite high
and gamy. Eland tastes like the best
American beef: orynx. impala and all
gazelles are edible and tender, but the
delicacies of the East African Protecto¬
rate are the kllpsprUger and the dik
dik gazelles. Hartbeest is hard except
the prime cut along the backbone. An
ordinary meal on safari consists of
marrow soup, dikdik cutlets, roast
guinea fowl, curried venison and corn
flower pudding, with Jam, washed
down with tea or coffee
Big Values In F urniture
1-3 Off in Price on All Bed Room Suits
It is the policy of this Store not to have any dull season,
and to bring about this end the trading public will have a
rare opportunity to purchase Bed Boom Suits at prices
never before offered in this market. The stock is large
and well selected, ranging in quality from a cheap oak to
a fine mahogany suit.
Just Think What the Reduction Means
A $150.00 Suit for $100.00
A 100.00 Suit for 65.00
A 75.00 Suit for 50.00
A 50.00 Suit for 34.00
A 30.00 Suit for 20.00
A 24.00 Suit for 16.00
Every Suit marked in plain figures.
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V embalmer.
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