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5 lif (Emringtnn &'puib Published Every Wednesday. OFFICIAL ORGAN NEWTON CO. Lon. L. Flowers & Edwin Taylor, Editors and Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year...............................................$1.00 Six Months................................................50c Three Months........................................25c Advertising Kates Furnished on Application. 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. \ 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 ' \ 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< ? 1 W. J* GOBER, Proprietor.