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Officers : rjtffiL life* Directors :
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S. P. THOMPSON, S. P. THOMPSON, President
OR. J. T. GIBSON,’ Pbysiean
President P. W. GODFREY, Merchant Broker
C. A. SOCKWELL, with Newton Countv
Oil Mill *
11. 11. FOWLER, R. R. FOWLER, of Fowler Bros., Merchants
Vice President N. S. TURNER, President Mill Covington Cotton
R. S. FRANKLIN, of F. H. & R. S. Franklin
C. S. THOMPSON, Merchants
JNO. L. STEPHENSON, of Stephenson &
Cashier Callaway
F. E. HEARD, of Heard, White & Co.,
Merchants
J. E. PHILIPS O. S. PORTER, Agt. Bibb Manufacturing
Co., Porterdale
Assistant Cashier R. W. MILNER, Attorney at Law
C. S. THOMPSON, Cashier
(C, S. 1 honipson Building, Home of Bank of Covington.)
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
BANK
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Of Covington, Georgia, at the Close of Business May 15, 1909.
RESOURCES LIABILITIES
Loans, [Discounts and Demand]____________________________________________ $209,809.79 % Capita!------------------------------------------------------------------------ $100,000.00
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured,________________________________________ 727.33 \ Undivided Profits, (Net,)___________________________________________________ 7 ^2
V H f Dividends Unpaid,________________________________________________________
Furniture and Fixtures,________________________________________________________ 3,833.65 % %§jT $ 52 00
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks______________________________________ 68,373.70 Deposits----------------------------------- 150,252.05
cj— Bills Payable------------------------------------------------
TOTAL......- $282,744.47 25,000, 00
- - - TOTAL .........$282,744.47
Capital Increased January Deposits 1,1908 May 15, 1908, |95,824.41 Deposits May 15,1909, $150,252.05
with no Undivided Profits-$8,000 in dividends paid Stockholders since Capital was Increased
Oldest, Largest and Strongest Bank in Newton County.
SOCIAL CIRCLE IS
HIT A HARD LICK.
Editor Ross of The Winder News
Says Our Sister City Is a
Dead One.
Editor Ross, of the Winder News,
in writing up an automobile trip made
by him from that city to Rutledge hit
Social Circle a pretty hard rap about
the quietude and sleepiness of that
city. He gives Monroe a good boost
and says it is one of the livest towns
in the state. In speaking of Social
Circle he says:
“At Monroe we were thrilled by
the hum of the saw 7 and the ring
of the hammer and at Social Cir¬
cle the only music to reach our
ears was the grinding of the
wheels of the automobile as it
When dug its w T ay through the sand.
merchants and business
men haven’t ginger enough to
support and keep alive a local
newspaper, the town is a dead
one.”
Editor Ross is on the right line when
he says a town whose merchants and
business men fail to keep up a news¬
paper is a dead one. We have seen
several towns where a paper was al¬
lowed to die for lack of support and
the towns always present that sleepy,
tired expression which generally
comes with malaria or some other
disease.
Social Circle is a cracking good
town as a rule and why they xvofit
support a newspaper has always been
a puzzle to us. If they had a good
live paper there to tell of her advant¬
ages and progress a vast amount of
good could be accomplished.
'truly, we hope she will get a news¬
paper some day.
Paper Which is Waterproof.
In Japau there Is a paper made which
Is impervious to water, being made of
bamboo fibers and eucalyptus mixed
with the fibers of the gampi and some
other shrubs. The fibers are first torn
apart, made dry. cleaned and scraped,
boiled In a weak lye and thoroughly
washed in water, after which they are
beaten and then mixed with certain
roots made Into a viscous state. A
solution containing resin, caoutchouc
and camphor is also added. A sort of
pulp is thus formed and then made
into sheets, which are run through a
calendering machine heated to various
temperatures. The result is that a
paper is produced which Is exceedingly
tough, light and which may be washed
The Japanese use it for leather imita¬
tions and India rubber.—Pathfinder.
ARAGO’S NOSE.
It Was Enormous In Size, but It Was
Safely Anchored.
Emmanu*4 Arngo. the French politi¬
cian, was a nephew of the noted as¬
tronomer and was considered a hand¬
some man, although his nose was ex¬
tremely conspicuous. At one time he
was traveling by train to Versailles
when a child who was in the same car
and who had watched Arago for some
time with dilated eyes began to cry
In vain did the child's mother en¬
deavor to calm the perturbed juvenile.
The poor mother was in despair, and
as the shrieks grew more and more
piercing Arago felt bound to interfere
and see what he could do. He said to
the child:
“What ails you. my dear?"
Thus addressed, the child sobbed
out, “Take off your nose.”
Arago looked at the mother, who
grew very confused and said:
“Ah, monsieur, excuse me—excuse
my son.”
“But. tnadame,” said Arago. "what
does he mean?”
The mother then explained that she
had during the carnival taken her
child to see a number of persons in
masks and with false noses and he
had become so excited that b® could
thing of nothing else.
“By an unfortunate occurrence,” she
added, “we got into the same carriage
as you. who no doubt for some good
reason are prolonging the carnival
But you see what a deplorable result
lias followed. Let me then beg of you
to have pity on a poor mother and
take off your nose."
“But, madame," said Arago, stupe¬
fied.
“A little more and my child will
have convulsions," shrieked the moth¬
er. “Take off your false nose.”
“But, madame.” said Arago in de¬
spair. “that is Impossible. This is not
a false nose, but my own!”
“Impossible, impossible!” cried the
agonized lady.
“Touch it.” said Arago.
The lady gave a puli at Arngo’s
nose, but it did not come off in her
hand, as she had expected.
"A thousand pardons,” she said, “but
pray—oh. pray, hide it with your hat.”
So Arago continued his Journey with
his nose in his hat. and the child’s
screams gradually subsided Arago
himself used to tell the story with
much glee.
How She Traveled.
“How did the queen of Sheba travel
when she went to see Solomon?" asked
i Sunday school teacher.
No one ventured to answer.
“Could she have gone by foe rail¬
way ?”
“Yes’m,” said a little girl.
“Indeed! Well, we would like to
know how you found this out."
“In the second verse." responded the
child, “it says she came with a great
train.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
ROLE OF THE C0C0ANUT.
The Staff of Life to the Natives of
Sea Washed Island.
It is more than a coincidence that
the tree which furnishes a greater
amount of available material to man
than any other in the vast kingdom of
vegetables is the first to spring up on
the bare rocks of the newly arisen
coral reef. The oocoanut, so formed
that it may have floated halfway across
the Pacific, is thus universally distrib¬
uted throughout tropical islands.
It thrives best near the sea, seldom
penetrating far into the interior, its
hard shell is a coat of mail for the em¬
bryo plant, enabling it to stand hard
usage for a protracted period and
locking up securely the precious life
in miniature.
The fibrous husk which pnvplops it
and is seldom seen on the market on
account of the greatly increased bulk
breaks the jar which would be inevi¬
table should the hard nut fall unpro¬
tected from the tali tree to the ground
sixty or ninety feet below.
Such a blow would scarcely fail to
break the shell, occasioning the loss of
the nourishing milk so necessary to
the germ. The outer husk not only
breaks the jar of a fall, but buoys it
up on the water, while the tough outer
cuticle is waterproof.
Thus is the tree which offers to man
almost in the raw state all bis neces¬
sities freely scattered where the warm
seas and their borders offer a footing,
and from it the humble native secures
sugar, milk, butter, wine, vinegar, oil,
candles, soap. cups, ladles, cordage,
matting, thatch for roof and material
for raiment, combining food, clothing
and shelter in a single gift, continually
making waste places habitable.—New
Age.
What Ma Said.
A gentleman and his son were walk
ing down a street the other day. As
they passed by the eye hospital the
son said:
“What is that place, dad?"
“That, my sou," he replied, “is the
ophthalmic hospital.”
“What’s that for?” the little fellow
Inquired.
“Why," the father said, "that Is for
people who suffer with their eyes."
“Why don’t you go there?" he asked
his dad.
“1 don't have any trouble with my
eyes. Why should I go there?”
The son then answered:
“I heard ma tell the next door nptgh
bor that you were nearly blind last
night”
Now his ma won't let him go out
with hfs father any more.—London Tit
Bits.
He Struggles In Vain.
The cynical bachelor rises to remark
that when a girl makes up hpr mind
to marry a struggling young man all
his struggles are useless -Philadelphia
Record.
A BASHFUL LOVER.
The Professor Was a Shy Wooer, but
Finally Got the Lady.
Dr. Haldane, at one time a professor
of St. Andrews university, was a very
shy man. This latter failing prevented
him from asking any lady to become
his wife until he was well advanced
in life.
However, he plucked up courage one
day, redecorated his house and went
to call on tlie object of his affections.
The lady, seeing the doctor’s embar¬
rassment, opened tire. "Weel. doctor,
hae ye got through a’ your papering
and painting yet? I'm told your new
carpets are just beautifu'. They say
the pattern o’ the dining room chairs
is just quite out o’ the way In short,
that everything aboot the house is just
perfect.”
Here was a providential opening he
was not such a goose as to overlook
He advanced his chair, sidled toward
her, simpering the while, raided his
eyes furtively to her face and said,
with a gentle inflection of his voice
which uo ear hut a willfully deaf one
could have misinterpreted: "Na, na.
Miss Jane, it’s no quite perfect It
cauna’ be quite that so long as there’s
one thing wanting!”
“And what can that he?" asked the
Imperturbable spinster.
Utterly thrown on his beam cuds by
her willful blindness to his meaning
the poor doctor beat a hasty retreat,
drew back his chair from its danger¬
ous proximity, caught up his hat and
in tones of blighted hope gasped forth
his declaration In these words: “Eh.
dear, eh! Well I’m sure.’ J’he thing
wanting Ls a-a—a-sideboard."
However, she married him after all,
—London Answers.
The Fightinq Maoris.
Some JV>0 Maoris were shut up In In
trenctm-.ents at a place called Ornkaw
Wittiout food except a few raw pota
toes, without water, pounded at by ar
tiiiery and under a hail of rifle bullets
and hand grenades, unsuccessfully as¬
saulted no less than flv e times, they
held out for three days, completely
surrounded. General Cameron hu¬
manely sent a flag of truce, inviting
them to surrender honorably. To this
they made the pver famous reply:
"Enough! We fight right on forever!"
Then the general offered to let the wo¬
men come cut, and the answer was.
“The women will fight as we" At
length on the afternoon of the third
day the garrison In a body charged at
quick inarch right through the English
lines, fairly Jumping over the headr of
the men of the Fortieth regiment as
they lay behind a bank Half of them
fell: the remainder got clear away
The earthworks and the victory re
mained with us. but the glorv was
theirs "-“The I.on g White Cloud.” bv
W P Reeves.
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