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Mammoth Sale of Choice and Valuable Building I T 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. V* SpBCIdl Notice ^ Lots Under the fairest at Conditions ^ O’clock, possible. we will The give only away requirement Absolutely is FREE that when Ten . * 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 a 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 O--- —--- - » 1 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 - lL c a,In already published > the road’s revenues Vlvl . cental ’?? short of $600,000 of Paying which the , - 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. EVERITT. Our UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT is the best in the city—having the only licensed V embalmer. -