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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, March Ga., under the Act of
3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., May 19, 1909
No, Geraldine, it wasn’t in Cov¬
ington News that you saw that mis¬
take. t
A boost for your home town is the
same thing a9 whooping up your own
business.
Councilman Echols’ plan to get the
road from this city to Atlanta is a
corker and will eventually be a win¬
ner.
Where is the proposition that Cov¬
ington was grown some years ago?
Like all other “knocks” it has re¬
treated.
During the present year Covington
will have made greater strides in pro¬
gress than she has done during the
past decade.
Wouldn’t a board of trade have a
good lot of advertising matter now,
with the big water and sewerage sys¬
tem so near completed?
The best way in the world to revive
a dead business is to whoop it up
good and strong regardless of con¬
ditions and everything else.
We sincerely hope the next legis¬
lature will take some action about
the muzzle law for dogs. That is one
of the livest questions this summer.
The new tariff legislation has costf
the government quite a bunch of cash
already but that is nothing compared
to what it will cost the people during
the next four years.
It is stated on good authoryity that
Georgia produces only five per cent,
of the mules she uses. However, we
are not informed as to whether that
includes the long-eared variety.
A number of the citizens from this
county will attend the inaugural ex¬
ercises of Governor Joseph M. Brown
next month, and we understand that
some of them will wear the Jeans
suits.
Hon. Pope Brown, of Hawkinsville,
has been named as State Treasurer to
succeed Hon. R. E. Park, deceased.
Mr. Brown is well known to the peo¬
ple of the state and will make a good
official.
It is sometimes amusing to the very
highest degree to see someone make
broad assertions about what they have
and especially so when you happen to
know the exact conditions and possi¬
bilities.
We understand that the Board of
(
Trade Covington once had will be re¬
vived and if nothing else is done they
will spend the sixty-odd dollars they
have in the treasury, as it is doing no
good where it is.
The president has been given a
train of private cars, an automoble
garage and other minor accessories to
a good time while he is the chief ex¬
ecutive. With this lay-out he ought
to have a good time, by all means.
The Dublin Courier-Dispatch is tak¬
ing an active stand against ladie9
wearing big hats in church. The
Courier i9 getting on dangerous
ground if the ladies of that city think
as much of their hats as they do here.
An exchange says that the demand
for whisky glasses has decreased so
within the past twelve months that it
has caused several glass factories to
close. While the glass factories are
closing the jug trade is picking up in
# Georgia.
Some papers claim that they are
read by people who take no other
paper, when if the public knew just
exactly how hard it was to get the
management of these same papers to
discontinue a subscription when it is
requested, they probably would know
why this paper in particular is read at
all.
No place in Georgia offers the ad¬
vantages and possibilities for home- :
seekers as this city and county now •
has. hi An ideal climate, the best peo
pie Pi in the south and all the public '
improvements, in good schools, churches
nd i 'hat everything it really should to make be is home-life J
what New¬
ton tc county offers prospective citizens, i
MORE WOULD BE BETTER.
The county commissioners have had
their clerk make another report of
the disbursements of the county funds
and thi 9 report appeared in the last
issue of our contemporary, to which
the contract was let. It also appears
in todays issue of The News. This is
the second of the reports issued by the
county commissioners, and is interest¬
ing to the citizens of the county gen¬
erally. The people of the county are
not altogether satisfied, however, with
the report as they say that what they
want to know is the financial con¬
dition of affairs of the county and not
merely a statement of the amounts
paid to different parties for bills ren¬
dered.
According to the two reports issued
you can only see the disbursements
as no record is made as to the indebt¬
edness of the county, the amount of
cash on hand or what the income is.
It is as important to knoW the source
of revenue and amount of money on
hand than it is to see what it is spent
for, and we believe, as we have
always done that the people have a
right to know and it should be sub¬
mitted to them in the form of a report
either monthly or quarterly, as suits
the convenience of the officers. Of
course it would mean a little more
work to prepare the reports but as
we understand it the county has just
started with a new and modern sys¬
tem of books and that being true it
would be an easy matter to bring the
books to a balance, showing the in¬
come, indebtedness, amount of money
on hand and other minor details.
This should be done, as it would have
a tendency to cause the citizens to
feel more interest in the progress of
the county and keep them posted as
to the financial conditions at all
times.
Gentlemen, let us have a complete
report instead of a record of disburse¬
ments.
GEORGIA'S FEE SYSTEM.
Much is being said about Georgia’s
old fee system at present, and the
sentiment is growing strong in favor
of its abolishment, and the time is
fast advancing when all public offi¬
cials will be put on salaries.
Already several of the counties in
which the larger cities are located
have taken steps to do away with this
system and the grand juries have de¬
nounced it as iniquitious, and the ad¬
visability of its abolishment is becom¬
ing a live question.
The fee system has served its time
and should be abolished. When the
state was young, the counties poor
and sparely settled and the cities and
towns little more than wide places in
the road the fee system was the only
correct method, but now there are
very few officials who render service
commensurate with the fees they re¬
ceive.
The News believes in giving a fair
deal and the best service to all con
cerned, and we don’t believe that the
public get it under the present con¬
ditions. Let’s get in the line of ad¬
vancement and at least try and assist
Georgia to rid herself of this system.
WORTHY OF PRAISE.
It is an old saying that “a city is
seen through its school house doors”
and in this connection Covington can
boast of one of the best graded
schools in the state. If our commun¬
ity is seen through the doors of the
Covington High School, certainly a
good impression should go out.
During the present year a great
deal has been done by the people of
the city for the good of the school
and beginning with next season a
good faculty and more commodious
quarters will be on hand to pass into
another year of progress and work.
The faculty which has had charge of
the school this year has been an un¬
usually good one and they have all
been very enthusiastic and pains-tak¬
ing in their duties. The work they
have accomplished will be felt many
years from the present time and its
effect on the intellect of the com¬
munity is untold.
Truly, Covington should be proud
her school and the people are mak¬
it one of the best in the country.
Sorry For This Preacher.
We note that a preacher whose
was so poor that he gave 1 up
pastorate a year ago, recently
a newspaper and has
active charge of it. In our
a country newspaper
is no health resort. We have
it to make invalids of strong
There is more real work in
average country newspaper
in a month than the average
does in a year. But the
expounder of Scriptures
has become a disseminator of
and views may know how to
himself and secure competent
We hope so. It
us to hear of a preacher
himself to death.---Cuth
Enterprise.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
We Heard It Said—
That a “City Code” is an unknown
article in Covington.
That the “knocker” has about
knocked himself out of Covington.
That a man dosen’t always do his
duty when he does something he
wants to do.
That when there is two ways of
looking at a thing it might help mat¬
ters to shut one eye.
That the street car company has a
perpetual franchise through the
streets of Covington.
That some newspaper men in New¬
ton county don’t really know Joe
Brown’s picture when they see it.
That when the people want the
facts about the happenings they go
to the Covington News for them.
That it takes a hundred cents to
make a dollar, but it takes more than
a dollar’s worth of sense to make a
man.
That a Board of Trade (if we had
it) would certainly be a builder for
Covington at her stage of advance¬
ment.
That if Covington is good enough
for you to live in it surely is good
enough and big enough for you to
boost.
That men whQ refuse to pay their
honest debts will drop a coin in the
church collection box and think that
they are good.
That the city council and the street
car company have agreed on every
point in the question except that per¬
petual franchise.
That the City of Covington has
passed several ordinances since the
year 1890 that should be put in the
form of a pamphlet.
That at the present rate of advance¬
ment and progress, automobiles will
soon be as common in Covington as
ox-wagons used to be.
That quite a number of our people
are interested in the outcome of that
perpetual franchise which the street
ear company claims to have.
That it is the consensus of opinion
that the Commissioners should join in
the effort to get the automobile line
with New York and Atlanta.
That there are tools enough left
laying out in the fields of some New¬
ton farms to make half the cotton
that is planted in the county each
year.
That the Clerk of the Commission¬
ers is actually furnishing a monthly
statement of the county’s disburse¬
ments to one of the county papers for
publication.
That even many of Joe Brown’s
ardent supporters in this county re¬
gret the unaccountable error made
by our contemporary in trying to give
an account of the inauguration.
That from what one would observe
riding along the road in some parts
of the county there is considerable
money being wasted each year by the
farmers in Newton by farm tools be¬
ing left in the fields to take the weath¬
er until they are needed for the next
crop planting.
EFFORT MADE FOR GOOD ROADS.
Mr. John Echols, member of the
city council and one of the most pub¬
lic-spirited and progressive men of
the county, made a trip to Atlanta on
Tuesday of last week and made an
effort to get the Atlanta Journal’s au¬
tomobile route from New York to At¬
lanta so changed as to bring Newton
county for a stretch of the road. His
idea is for Newton, Walton and Rock¬
dale to combine with each other and
build a thoroughly modern roadway
from some given point in Walton
county through Newton and Rockdale
to the capital of the state. It is one
of the most plausable undertakings
for better roads ever introduced in
this county and the people as a whole
are with Mr. Echols in his effort to
get the route changed. As it now
stands the route doesn’t touch this
county but goes in from Loganville to
Atlanta. If the idea of Mr. Fchols is
carried out it will give Newton county
at least one good stretch of modern
road and at the same time demonstrate
the good roads question to the satis¬
faction of everybody, thereby creating
enough enthusiasm for better roads to
get a bond issue through and event¬
ually get this county the best roads
in the state.
Mr. Echols deserves credit for hav¬
ing started this idea and The News is
right with him in this good work.
Teacher’s Examination.
The next regular Teachers’ Exami¬
nation will be held June 18th and 19th.
Questions on Theory and Practice of
Teaching will be based largely on
Dutton’s School Management and
Dinmore’s Teaching a District School.
A. H. Foster, C. 8. C.
—Fine Berkshire male. Service
seasonable. J. L. Mask, Henderson
Mill.—1.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, j
Commissioners’ Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Su¬
perior Court of Newton county, Geor¬
gia, granted March term, 1909, will
be sold, for the purpose of,. partition,
at public outcry on the first Tuesday
in June, 1901), at the court house
in said county, between the legal
hours of sale, a tract of land lying in
Gaither’s District, in said county,
containing and bounded thirty-six acres, the north more by or
less, on
land of J. H. Boyd, Lilia M. Benford,
William G. Boyd, Clara G. Goodman,
Marvin V. Boyd and Ludia H. Boyd;
on the east by land formerly
by E. H. Gay; on the C. south Tuggle,
south-east by land of A.
and on the west by land formerly
owned by Martha Banks; and also
that District tract or parcel of land lying
said and county
seventy-five acres, and bounded
the east by land of Epsie described Gay, on
south by the above tract
land, on the west by lands
owned by Martha Banks and on
north Harwell by lands of the estate of
deceased.
The purchase price of said land
be paid November 1st, 1909.
D. A. Thompson,
John L. Stephenson,
J. F. Henderson.
Commissioners.
May 3, 1909.
SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold at the Court House door iu
ton County, Ga., on the First Tuesday in
1909, within the legal hours of sale for
the following property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
taining Forty-seven (47) acres,
or less, on the north-west side of
Town of Oxford, in Newton county,
Georgia, and bounded as follows:
On the north by lands formerly
longing to the estate of Henry
er, deceased, on the east by
Street and land of George W. Stone,
on the south by lands of J. S. Stew¬
art, trustee, and on the west by lands
of H. H. and W. T. Stone. Said
property levied on as the property
George W. Stone with a fi fa issued
from the Superior Court of said county
and state, in favor of Clark
Co., and transferred to the Bank of
Newton County, against said George
W. Stone. Written notice given
George W. Stone, he being in pos¬
session.
This March 31, 1909.
S. M. Hay, Sheriff.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
T. W. Heard, administrator upon the estate o
J. H. Pope, late of said county deceased hav¬
ing filed his petition for discharge, this is to
cite all persons concerned to show cause against
the granting of this discharge, at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary for said county to
be held on the first Monday in June, 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons having claims against the Estate of
the late Jas. P. Sain are hereby notified to render
the same to me in proper form according to I,aw,
and all persons indebted to said Rotate are here¬
by notified to make settlement as the I.Sw di¬
rects.
J. J. CORI.EY, Administrator
of the Estate of Jas. P. Sain Deceased.
Covington Ga. April 5th 1909
Notice.
All persons are hereby warned not
to hire or harbor Tommy Harrison,
he being a minor and having been
persuaded to leave home.
Mrs. M. J. McGHEE,
Covington, Ga., May 1, 1909.—4t.
—We make a specialty of ice cream
milk shakes and lemonade. Parker’s
place.—tf.
Spring and Summer Clothi n 8
Dont Forget to give M. Levin a call when
you buy your spring or summer suit.
a® He has the Best Clothes at the Lowest
prices, in Serges and Fancy Worsteds, in t|, e
Latest Colors and Patterns. Prices
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$10 to $16.50
Millinery
Stylish Millinery at reasonable prices
Shapes right styles right, colors right. %
will save you money and please you. Also a
a full line of Ladies Dress Goods.
M. LEVIN, Covington, Georgia
Miss China Lee
Was wont to be I
A lady of Supremacy,
Her house so clean
’Twas plainly seen
CHI-NAMEL there
did reign supreme.
We are not Spring Poets, but we can. I
not help but sing the praises of Chi-1
Natnel; a varnish made to walk upon wT\ I
withstand boiling water and thumping I
and scraping will not mar its beautiful I
gloss surface.
Let us convince you. I
Full ^ information on request. ’Ph«| I
or drop us a line and let us satisfy
you that it is the only finish for
\ floors and all other wood work.
We will boil it iu water for yea
or pound it witl\ a hammer ami
will guarantee that what we sell j
you will stand the same test.
FOR SALE ONLY RV #
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monstration at our store, May 20-22.
Fincher-Norris Hardware Ci
Land For Sale
600 Acres Good Laud Lor Sale a!
(§8.25 per Acre. 1-3 Cash.
S. L. G. Bedingfield
Crumps Park, Ga.
For Sale—Cash or Credit.
‘ 150 bushels of the best Whipporwill
Peas for sale cheap, cash or on time.
D. A. THOMPSON.—3t.
—1 am now located at, the Flowers
Hotel and am prepared First-class to do all
kinds of repair work. cab¬
inet work and rebuilding of every
description done by Estelle me at reasonable Glenn.
prices.
Phone No. 73.
It pays to buy the be
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prize pens. Eggs, $2.00 DERSOI
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