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Entered as second-class matter De¬
cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., May 26, 1909
Get after that Board of Trade and
lets get the ball started to rolling.
We wonder just what it cost to have
all those wild animals corralled in
Africa for Roosevelt to slaughter.
And now they say the sugar trust
robs the American people of $50,000,
000 every year. It is not as sweet as
the name would indicate.
The Covington News has the lar¬
gest circulation of any paper ever
published in this county. We can
back this assertion with proof.
The convicts are now at work in
the southern part of the county and
from all reports from that section the
work being done by them is excel¬
lent.
A monument has been erected to
the memory of Adam. His descend¬
ants all over the country are glad to
learn that his memory is still a live
issue.
It came to pass that either barber
poles or ni-beer would have to leave
Atlanta, as men found the poles too
convenient to lean on. The barber
poles went.
H. H. Rogers one of the Standard
Oil Millionaires, died suddenly the
other day. Now look out for the price
of oil to advance about a cent a gal
Ion to defray the funeral expenses.
The ladies composing the Library
Association are deserving of the
credit and praise of the entire citizen¬
ship of the city. Their cause is a
noble one. Our hats are off to them.
Madison has passed an automobile
ordinance regulating the speed of the
operators. This is a good law and
should meet with the approval of her
citizens. Covington needs such an
ordinance.
A Texas man has discovered a bean
which if several are chewed up will
produce the same feeling as a good
old drunk. It is not likely that he
will compete with the Covington ar¬
ticle called “white lightning.”
A Bible conference has just been
snccessfully held at Macon and
Augusta Herald says that it was very
much needed there to counteract
of the yarns the Macon News
been telling about the population
of the Mound City.
The man who told Congress to
go to hell had a wonderfully cor¬
rect insight into the eternal fitness
of things.—Americus Recorder.
If Congress were to take his
and go there, we bet dollars to
bait they would be confronted by
sign on the gate, reading, “the
Must be Raised.”
As an evidence of the change
Southern womanhood that is
pleasing, Tom Watson refers to
sight of ladies in railroad
with heads thrown back, bottles
their lips, gurgling down the
soft drinks. The picture is one,
insists, that would never have
seen in the South before the
Americus Times-Recorder.
That proposition offered by
Scott, of the Georgia Railroad, to
people of Madison, Rutledge and
cial Circle for the extension of
accommodation train from this
to Madison is worthy of the
of an intelligent people. He told
that if they would help him get
passenger rate increased at the
ing before the Railroad
he would “consider” their request.
The appointment by President
of Henry G. Connor, an old-line
ocrat, as United States Judge for
eastern circuit of South Carolina,
proving that he expects to adhere
the desire of Southern men to
democrats as their officers. The
ocrats throughout the country
ciate this appointment and
that in Mr. Taft the south will
better treatment as to
than they have ever received at
hands of the republican party. As
as breaking up the Solid South is
cerned, however, there is about
much likelihood of it as there is
Georgia going republican.
GOOD ROADS A CERTAINTY.
Never before in the history of the
state has there been such a tidal wave
of good roads enthusiasm as there is
at the present time. People from all
sections of the state are getting inter¬
ested in bettering the highways
through the rural sections and before
another decade has passed roads in
every nook and corner of this great
commonwealth will have undergone
the modern road-building operation.
This is as it should be. Too little fore¬
thought and work has been done on
the ro-ds in the south. The farmer is
the man who gets the brunt of the bad
roads and to him we all owe our live¬
lihood. He is the backbone of all
prosperty, business and social organi¬
zations. Without his trips into the
towns for his supplies and the sale of
his products we would all be in the
bankrupt courts in a very little while,
and for this reason if no other the
business men and people in ad the
different walks of life should be advo¬
cates of good roads.
As it is now a farmer can haul just
about half the load which could be
carried with the same team if the
roads were put into condition they
should be. Not only is this true in
Newton county but statistics tell us it
is true in nearly every county in the
state. The big newspapers are lending
their space and energy in an effort to
so arouse enthusiasm as to produce
results and they are gaining more
than at any time within the past gen¬
eration the support of the citizens
generally, the ultimate end of which
will be a determination to place Geor¬
gia in the front ranks of modern roads.
The Atlanta Journal has inaugurate d
a contest for building roads in their
Atlanta-New York automobile high¬
way and the different counties through
which they pass will have at least one
good stretch of roads over which it
will be a pleasure to pass. The Con¬
stitution has also begun a contest in
road building, connecting every coun¬
ty seat in the state, with a modern
road leading to Atlanta. This is com¬
mendable in the Constitution and will
have the support of the people*
With the leading papers in the good
roads column, the county officials
taking more active interest and the
people backing them all up there will
be roads in Georgia before long that
will be a long distance ahead of the
old Indian trails which have been in
use so long.
Here’s hoping the good roads fever
will hit this county right between the
eyes and get our roads in the shape
they should be.
THE COLOR LINE.
Some day it will be necessary in
these United States and especially in
the South to draw the color line be¬
tween the whites aud blacks. Every
man who has made a study of politi¬
cal economy and conditions prevail¬
ing in the states having a large popu¬
lation of negroes recognizes and ad¬
mits that this step will ultimately be
taken. The question that puzzles
them however, is just where the color
line will be drawn.
Writers who have endeavored to
show the evils of race-mixing have
had to barely touch the subject;
isters as a rule dare not approach
in the pulpit for the reason that
large per cent, of southern
look with horror at it and do not
it mentioned in the press, the
or any other place. We all
that it exists to an alarming
and that the only way to
any evil is to so arouse public
ment and censure as to make the
petrators look at it from a
and religious viewpoint. This
never be done without the press
pulpit taking an active stand
it and using all the resources
their power to stamp it out.
preachers never touch this
for fear they will step on some
their members toes and get the ire
their employees stirred up. A
who is so cowardly as to be
ragged around by other people
does not possess the manhood to
up for his convictions is unworthy
the title of minister and in
straight English language a
crite of the first water. Yellow
nalism is equally as loathsome,
preachers and press could handle
vital subject in such a manner as
greatly decrease to a certain
this evil which brings a blush to
face of our women and shame to
true men.
There are some who treat this
ject with humor and some who
at it in a very light and
fashion, but any man or woman
can take a walk on the streets of
majority of our southern cities
pass negroes who in every way
the kinky hair are moulded after
same pattern as the white people
who, in fact, have almost the
color, and feel that same pride in
Anglo-Saxon and in his
as he did we believe there is
thing lacking in that part of
cranium set aside for patrotism
race pride. |
We al , admit that there 8 a
tle . that b,nas and when the
>
comes to draw the line, where will
i be drawn?
THE COVINGTON NEWS
We Heard It Said—
That the Poultry Show you heard
them talking about must evidently be
“taking a rest.,’
That Covington’s banking institu¬
tions are among the strongest and
best managed in the state.
That a Merganthaler Linotype ma
chine is not all it takes to make an
up-to-date weekly newspaper.
That some of the County Commis¬
sioners are painfully quiet on the au
tomobile “good road” suggestion.
That from the different sounds of
dog barks that are heard within the
city limits a muzzle.law would be a
mighty safe proposition for Covington.
That a properly prepared bookh t
advertising the advantages offered
home-seekers and manufacturing in¬
dustries would be a mighty good thing
for Covington.
That the city of Covington is badly
in need of an official organ—a medium
through which to place some of the
ordinances passed by the mayor and
council since the year 1897.
That the master plumbers have
quite a job in placing water and sew¬
erage connections in a city that has
no ordinances pertaining to the regu¬
lations and requirements in this phase
of public conveniences.
That when a small cloud rises over
yonder in the heavens and a little
clap of thunder is heard rolling through
the atmosphere, the operators of the
Southern Bell Telephone company
make a rapid exit to other parts and
it is impossible to get any talking
connection until the “clouds roll by.”
A LITTLE PERSONAL.
We know that it isn’t just exactly
right to refer to yourself personally in
a newspaper, but we want to thank
the citizens and business men of the
city for the liberal patronage we are
receiving. It is our intention to give
you a good paper and you are making
it possible by your patronage. We
ask our readers and anyone else in
terested to look at the amount of
local advertising we carry. These
advertising columns are the index to
the merchants in the city who appre¬
ciate your trade and are making a
bid for it through the medium of ad¬
vertising bringing the best results.
The News has carried more advertis
ing than any paper ever published
here. We make no secret or boast of
our circulation. We hand our books
to any man interested showing the
exact number of actual bona-fide,
paid-in-advance subscribers we have
and with the book is also handed
postoffice receipts, showing the num¬
ber of pounds of paper we mail each
week. There is no inflated circula¬
tion here and no hot air about our
subscribers. We appreciate them to
the extent that we like for the mer¬
chants to know the class of readers
we have. We’ve got the biggest act¬
ual list of subscribers ever held by a
newspaper in the county. We can
prove this assertion by actual proof
and don’t ask anybody to just let us
tell them that our paper is read by
people who possibly don’t read any
other paper. We know they appre¬
ciate The News for what it is and
not what we say it is. We
our subscribers for what they are and
what they are helping us make
News.
This is a bold and plain
about our circulation but we think
is best to be plain and frank and
assertion that we have the
paid-in-advance list of subscribers
any paper ever published, either
or in the past, in this county can
proven to the satisfaction of
interested.
Northern Australia.
Australia’s huge northern territory
has a tropical, almost an equatorial
climate, and the heat Is very enervat¬
ing to Europeans Its capital. Pal
merston. contains more Chinese than
Caucasians. The former are the rul
lug race and the employers; the whites
are the servile and the employed
Large herds of buffaloes roam about
the silent plains of this enormous ter¬
ritory, which would be a sportsman’s
paradise but for the wild natives, who
are exceptionally fierce and treacher
ous and have killed a number of
hunters who came to hunt the buffa¬
loes.
His Marathon Record.
“Colonel,” asked the beautiful girl,
"did you ever ride a horse ninety miles
In three days?"
“No,” replied the veteran of
wars, “but 1 once ran twenty miles In
about thirty minutes, which. I think,
was going some, considering the fact
that the underbrush was thick, and 1
was Id so much of a hurry that I for
got to throw away a knapsack that
weighed nearly fifty
Record-Hera Id.
Counts Up.
“My dear." he said In n mildly re¬
proachful tone. "1 have no doubt at all
that you are a good bargain hunter
and that you always get really excel
lent bargains, but you get too many of
them.”—Chicago Post
No Reason.
She—I think you might stop smoking
when you beard me say 1 don’t like It
He—That’s no reason. 1 heard you
say you didn’t like to be kissed.-Bos¬
ton Transcript
Spring and Summer
Dont Forget to give M. Levin a call when
you buy your spring or summer suit.
He has the Best Clothes at th>
prices, in Serges and Fancy Worsteds, i n t |, e|
Latest Colors and Patterns. Prices
$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 I
a full line of Ladies Dress Goods.
M. LEVIN, Covington, Georgia.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
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, 1909, at the court house door
in said county, between the legal
hours of sale, a tract of land lying in
Gaither’s District, in said county,
containing thirty-six acres, more by or
less, and bounded on the north
of d ^® 0 7 d \ f ° >rd,
r
Marvin the v east . B oyd by land and L formerly udia H. owned Boyd;
on
by E. H. Gay; on the south and
south-east by land of C. A. Tuggle,
and on the west by land formerly
owned by Martha Banks; and also
that tract or parcel of land lying in
said District and county containing
seventy-five acres, and bounded on
the east by land of Epsie described Gay, on the
south by the above tract of
land, on the west by lands formerly
owned by Martha Banks and on the
north by lands of the estate of James
Harwell deceased.
The purchase price of said land to
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 in New¬
ton County, Ga., on the First Tuesday in June
1909. within the legal hours of sale for cash,
the following property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land con¬
taining Forty-seven (47; acres, more
or less, on the north-west side of the
Town of Oxford, in Newton county,
Georgia, and bounded as follows:
On the north by lands formerly be¬
longing to the estate of Henry Gaith¬
er, deceased, on the east by Hull
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 of
George W. Stone with a fi fa issued
from the Superior Court of said county
and state, in favor of Clark Banking
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
he 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 L,aw.
and all persons indebted to said Estate are here¬
by notified to make settlement as the l,aw di¬
rects.
J. J. CORI.EY, Administrator
of the Estate of Jas. P. Sain Deceased.
Covington Ga. April 5th 1909
Notice.
Prather Dempsey applied to the
Governor, and Prison Commission
of Georgia for pardon or parole at
the June Term, 1909. He was
convicted of voluntary manslaugh
ter at the March Term, 1905 of
Newton Superior Court and sen¬
tenced to fifteen years in the peni¬
tentiary.
3t— Pratlier Dempsey.
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prices.
We
Also a
To the Ladies of
Covington.
We have added a bakery to our
Lunch Counter and Candy Kitchen
and have secured the services of E.
A. Veal, an expert baker of 12 years
experience. Why make cakes when
you can get them from us such as
Angel cake, Pound cake, llaisin
cake, Citron, Silver and Fruit
cakes; cream puffs, chocolate, el’
claire, eocoanut, and macaroons.
Pies of all kinds.
Wedding cakes a specialty.
We are making a special run this
week on Layer Cakes, eocoanut,
chocolate and caramel, 50c each.
J. L. Smith,
Phone 221.
For The News Read THE NKWS
I The Only White Barber Shop in
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\ Covington, Georgia
Is better prepared than ever to serve the |
people of this section, with new equip' j|
ment, hot and cold towels, and three
good White Barbers to wait on y° u *
Come to see us, always glad to see t nU<
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1 W. J* GOBER, Proprietor.