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COVINGTON, GA., May 28, 1909
A MINISTER OF FORCE.
Rev. J. D. Chapman, of Valdosta,
who has been assisting Rev. E. R.
Pendleton in the series of revival ser¬
vices at the Baptist church, is one of
the most forceful ministers in the
Baptist pulpit of Georgia today. His
sermons during last week aroused an
unusual amount of interest and feel¬
ing, and were considered by every
one who heard him to be the most
practical and comprehensive argu¬
ments in the cause of Christianity
ever heard in this city. His sermons
all have to do with the common evils
and temptations of the people in all
walks of life and the manner in which
he handled his subjects showed a vast
amount of intellectual thought and
study along the lines of existing evils
and the remedy and the promise of
God to help those who need His aid
and honestly want it.
Large crowds greeted him at all
the services and it seems to be the
concensus of opinion among them all
that his work here will mean an in¬
estimable amount of good to those
who were fortunate enough to hear
him, and especially to the younger
element.
Those paved streets around the pub¬
lic square may not be so very distant
as you might think.
Yes, Geraldine, you will always find
a lot of men who will gladly take any
advantage of you they can.
Atlanta is in her glory this week.
She is pulling off one of the biggest
music festivals in the history of the
south.
Poor Abdul Hamid was driven from
the throne in Turkey and they only
allowed him to carry along eleven
women from his harem. ’Tis very
sad.
The man who said sometime ago
that Covington was a dead town has
been run over by the rush of progress
and at present he is nursing his griev¬
ances alone.
It now transpires that they are pop¬
ping it to Guyt McClendon good and
strong for not now being so much in
favor of “refawn” as he once thought
himself to be.
Roosevelt’s statement that he would
only kill one speciman of each animal
in south Africa was knocked into a
cocked hat the other day. Reports
have come back that he killed three
lipns one day last week and his son,
Kermett had killed one.
The question “What is a Democrat”
has been going the rounds, and we
want to ask some of our contempora¬
ries whether the Georgia Congress¬
men who voted with the Republicans
to keep the old tariff on lumber and
wood pulp are true Democrats, or
whether the ones who voted straight
with the party to take the tariff off,
are the real dyed-in-the-wool article?
It seems that Marietta is also hav¬
ing an ice fight between their local
factory and the representatives of an
Atlanta plant. The Courier of that
city gets in a shot that the local fac¬
tory has their printing done in Atlan¬
ta and has never given that paper an
advertisement, while the representa¬
tives of the Atlanta firm have their
work done at the Courier office. Cov¬
ington has some enterprises doing the
same way—having their printing done
in other towns.
Periodically in this good old town
we have a spasm of dog fright. Vicious
dogs on the streets bite two or three
or four chilpren, and then there fol¬
lows a lot of talk about hydrophia
and the annihilation of the worthless
curs. Old dog laws are dug up and
studied and new and very drastic dog
law r s are proposed. That sort of thing
runs along for two or three weeks or a
month, and then w T e drop the subjects
and forget all about it until it comes
the time for the next spasm. Mean¬
while the dogs, suffering no inconve¬
nience whatever by reason of the agi¬
tation, continue to prowl the streets
without muzzles, without license
badges and without any of the en¬
cumbrances named in “the statutes
made and provided.” It is now pret¬
ty nearly time for us to have another
dog spasm. The warm season is ap¬
proaching.—Middle Georgia Farmer.
UP TO NEWTON.
That the people of this county are
awake to the advantages of good roads
goes without argument and the oppor¬
tunity was never better than at pres¬
ent for having a thoroughly modern
roadway in part of the county.
A short while ago the Atlanta Jour¬
nal made the announcement that that
paper together with the New York
Herald would offer prizes ranging up
as high as $1000 to the county having
the best stretch of road between the
Herald office in New York and the
Journal office in Atlanta. It is pro¬
posed by these two papers to build an
automobile road between the two
cities and to stimulate road building
they are offering the prizes to the
counties along the proposed route.
This proposed route comes within
twenty-five miles of this city, going
in by Logansville, thence on to the
gate city. As we understand it this
route is only a proposed one and will
be changed in such a manner as to
allow all the counties desiring to enter
the contest an opportunity to do so.
Not only would the route through
Newton county allow our commission¬
ers to enter the contest and get the
road built with the Journal’s money,
but it would give us what we have
always need—a thorougly good road¬
way from here to Atlanta.
We understand that the chairman
of the board of commissioners stated
some time ago that he favored a plan
by which this county could be con¬
nected up with Atlanta with a mod¬
ern road. With his interest in good
roads to go with and the fact that the
people all over the county in favor of
good roads it seems to us that this
would be one of the best things possi¬
ble to do. Have this route come
through Newton county and let the
people see just what it would mean to
have good roads and there would be
no question as to the outcome—good
roads all over the county.
Newton county has plenty convicts
to put the road through without any
additional cost and the fact that the
road would be up to the standard and
would require very little attention in
future would mean a saving, even if
we failed to land the thousand dollars.
If Newton and Walton counties
would pull together for this road
route to be changed it is a ten to one
shot that it could be done.
A MUZZLE LAW.
Covington people as a whole have
the tenderest hearts of any people in
the state, and when there is anything
that comes up for consideration they
are always found on the humane side
of the issue. Knowing this to be true,
we are going to put a fact up to them
and especially to the city fathers, de¬
serving of the attention and thought
of every citizen within her borders.
That which we desire to point out to
them is the necessity of a law requir¬
ing all owners of dogs to place muz¬
zles upon them, and give the police
officers the authority to kill one on
sight when found on the streets with¬
out the muzzle.
The season is fast approaching
when hydrophobia is a common thing
with dogs—and there are none im¬
mune, it makes no difference whether
it is a common nigger dog or a fifty
dollar setter. Every summer there is
almost daily reports of dogs with
rabies biting some child at different
places in the state and in a number of
the cases referred to the bite is fatal.
Did you ever stop to think what it
would mean to you if your little one
should be bitten by a mad dog? The
suffering from rabies is said to be the
most horrible of any.
It is a puzzle to us why Covington
has not had such a law for lo, these
many years. Perhaps the reason is
that some members of the council are
afraid that they will hurt their neigh¬
bors feeling by requiring them to go
to the unneccessary (?) expense of
buying the muzzle. Surely the rea¬
son is not that they never think of
this, one of the most plausable things
that could be done for the protection
of the city’s citizens. Gentlemen, let
us have the muzzle law.
LARGE SUMS FOR EDUCATION.
At least a million dollars more than
the state of Georgia has ever before
claimed credit for spending in the
cause of education will, it is claimed,
be shown by the annual report of
State School Commissioner Pound,
now nearing completion. In former
years the state has been able to claim
credit for less than three million al¬
together. In 1907, $2,850,000 were
shown as spent on education in Geor¬
gia. In 1908 reports, it is claimed,
not less than $3,750,000 will be shown,
and possibly four million or more.
Seven million, it is claimed, how¬
ever, is a conservative estimate of
the annual cost of education in
Ge >rgia. The uncounted millions are
spent in private institutions not un¬
der the authority of the state school
department. To their negligence or
complete failure to report their ex¬
penditures is due the poor showing
the state has been making. A recent
widely-published newspaper story is
given credit for the awakening which
the department hopes will be even
more pronounced when the time
comes for formulating the next an¬
nual report.—Dallas New Era.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
We Heard It Said—
That Dr. Travis had a fine bird dog
killed one day last week.
That an advertising club will make
a good town a better town.
That a town whose citizens have no
public spirit is on its way to the
cemetery.
That “by their fruits ye shall know
them,” but what about the tree with
a dozen different varieties of graft?
That, generally, the fellow who is
continually knocking his home town,
does himself more harm than he does
the tow 7 n.
That a man who just won’t do any¬
thing for the advancement of the
commnnity in which he resides is a
mighty poor citizen.
That the merchant who does not
advertise and is always crying “hard
times” and “short sales” is a fit sub¬
ject for a “dead town.”
That the fellow who is constantly
growling about this town being the
“worst ever” has the consent of the!
entire population to “move out.”
That there are few 7 people right here
in Covington who appear to have the
brains of a mule. All they seem to be
able to do is to eat, sleep and kick.
That the time for cleaning up the
garbage accumulated in the streets
and alleys has come and it is now up
to the city fathers to take steps to
this end.
That W'hen there is a chance for
better roads in the eoun some of New¬
ton’s officials just sit still and say,
“Well, its a good movement, but see
what the other fellow 7 thinks of it.”
Two years from now will, in all
probability, see one of the hottest
prohibition fights Georgia has ever
seen. It is up to the prohibitionists
to keep up the fight and circumvent
any move of the booze artists.
Selfish, Ain’t It?
Some small folks in some small
towls give their home printing
houses only work they are obliged
to have the day the order is given
and then kick like a sorrel steer on
the price---Which is usually a third
less for the than they would goods have in Atlanta. to pay j
same
When they want nice work they
fail to consult the home folks, send
off their jobs, wait from a week to
a month for them, and pay cheer¬
fully a fapey price for---a fancy
wrapper around the package.
When a fellow wants something
whooped up he bones the home pa¬
per; when he has a job of print'. ig
that he is willing to allow the typo¬
graphical artist to make a living
profit from—he sends it to Atlanta,
waits patiently for a week or a
month for the job, accepts the At¬
lanta typeblacksmith’s taste as the
real thing, takes the paper-drum¬
mer’s word for the quality of the
stock, pays cash for the job when
delivered, and then goes round to
the printery at home and demands
a free write-up of about ten dollars
worth, inserts an ad, of ten lines at
five cents a line, kicks on note
heads even at ninty-eight cents a
thousand, and then puts the home
man off for three months before he
pays the bill.
And when the fellow dies we’ll
write him an obituary that his wife
and his partner won’t recognize and
then begin with fresh courage to
boom the town to which for a de¬
cade we’ve given our life and
efforts.—Gainesville Herald.
Gum Greek News.
Mrs. L. M. Watson, of Loganville,
is the guest of Mrs. S. R. Ellington.
Mrs. Nonnie White is the guest of
Mrs. W. A. Ellington.
Mr. Ben Tuck was a visitor here
Monday.
Mrs. D. S. Watson visited Mrs. R.
A. Bostwiek, Sunday.
Miss Mattie Ellington visited Mrs.
J. F. Byrd Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Robbie Ellington, of Conyers,
is the attractive guest of Mrs. A. C.
Giles.
Miss Mae Ellington, visited Mrs.
Joshua Ellis, Sunday.
Mr. Sam Cook was a visitor here
Sunday.
Miss Eva Ellis visited Miss Mattie
Ellington, Sunday.
Sorry to note Mrs. A, C. Giles con¬
tinues very ill at her home.
Miss Evia Ellis is the guest of her
grandparents this week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Ellington and
two little sons spent Sunday with Mr .
Berry at Alcovey.
Mr. and Mrs. Portor McColors, of
Loganville spent Saturday with the
latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Ellington.
Mr. Emory Ellis, of Flinthill, spent
Sunday with home folks.
Mr. W. A. Ellington spent Sunday
Spring and Summer CJothi n g
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Millinery
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Shapes right styles right, colors right. We
will save you money and please you. Also a
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Mr. R. A. Bostwiek.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvie Eddleman and
were the guests of Mr. and
Josh Ellis, Sunday.
Mr. R. A. Bostwiek made a business
to Covington Saturday.
Mr. Billie Mitham, of Walnutgrove,
Sunday with Mr. John Byrd’s
Mrs. M. A. Bostwiek spent Friday
with Mrs. S. R. Ellington.
Mrs. William Richardson is with
sister now, Mrs. W. A. Ellington.
Mrs. Callie Roe and baby, of At¬
is spending a week with her
Mrs. Bettie MeWaters.
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