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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., June 2, 1909
Perhaps air ships will eventually
solve the good roads problem.
Anna Held has saved a million dol¬
lars and will retire. Her name is ap¬
propriate.
A great deal more attention is paid
to thoroughbred stock in this county
than ever before.
The people of this county had rather
do without their “grub” than to
stomach the negro firemen.
They say that Carrie Nation will
raise game chickens. If they resem¬
ble their owner they will be game all
right.
Newton county has spent thousands
of dollars within the past ten years on
her roads and still they are not up to
the standard.
They say that blind tigers all along
the line of the Georgia railroad have
been as dry as powder houses since
the strike begun.
If Covington had the pull-together
spirit displayed by our sister city,
Mansfield, it would be second to no
town in the country.
They are trying to prove that Co¬
lumbus did not discover America.
Anyhow, we blame old Christopher
for all this tariff mess.
Give the new Board of Trade a lit¬
tle help. It is folly to hold something
against the new one that you had
against the old organization.
There seems to be a diversity of
opinion between the people of the
county and the board of commission¬
ers about the good roads question.
The Farmers Union has done more
for the good of the farmer than all
the newspaper preaching that has
been done during the past fifty years.
Next comes the called meeting of
the directors of the Board of Trade
for next week. It is rumored that it
will be resuscitated and new officers
elected.
The News will have the most con¬
venient printing establishment in the
state when we get into our new
building. We already have the
equipment.
The system of road building which
has been used in this county for the
past several years is evidently wrong.
It is very expensive and the work is
not of a permanent nature.
With frying size chickens bringing
thirty-five and forty cents each and
eggs at twenty cents per dozen, it
would lead one to believe that there
would be a nice profit in a well kept
poultry yard.
One of the several reasons why men
stay away from church is them dad
blamed things women wear on their
heads. It’s no pleasure to hear a man
talk unless you can see him.—Yonah
Land Enterprise.
The people of Georgia are certainly
up against it good and hard. Flour
has advanced two dollars per barrel
and corn bread will give them pella¬
gra, which illustrates that old saying
“between the devil and the deep blue
sea.”
The Atlanta Georgian was the first
paper to denounce the action of Mr.
Scott, the manager of the Georgia
railroad, in his action on the strike
last week. When it comes to fearless
journalism the editor of the Georgian
is right there with the goods.
Girl babies are all right, but what’s
the use of overdoing the thing? About
75 per cent of all the new babies re¬
ported to have arrived in Twiggs
county during the past twelve months
have been girls, and it begins to look
like we will nave to import a few boy
babies from the foundling asylums.
All we have said in favor of diversified
crops seems to have gone unheeded.
Let the mayor and council, the county
officials and the grand jury look into
this baby matter. The situation is in¬
deed moat alarming.—Twiggs County
Citizen.
OF GRAVE CONCERN.
The strike on the Georgia railroad
has been of untold cost and inconve¬
nience to the people all alongthe line,
but it would be an easy matter to en¬
joy thes# little experiences and hard¬
ships with a grace and manner equal
to the character of the citizens, were
it not for the fact that the manager
of the road, T. K, Scott, came out ir.
a spirit of defiance and manned the
engines pulling the mail trains over
the road, which begun last Friday,
with negro firemen. His attitude is
one of but-headedness and shows con¬
clusively that he has no respect eithei
for himself or the wishes of the people
served by the railroad.
The mail trains are perfectly nuetra)
and he had the privilege of placing
white men on the engines as firemen,
but instead he preferred the negro.
Why did he do this? There can be
but one answer. He gets the black
men for a few paltry cents per day
cheaper than he can the white men,
and for this measley difference he sets
himself up as a criterion and a man
who believes it is his duty (?) to at
once teach the men of Georgia that a
negro has the same standing with him
as a white man. This spirit shown by
him is disgusting and coming right at
this particular time when resentment
is already at fever heat, he is unnec¬
essarily bringing about feeling be¬
tween the two races best to keep
down.
We are perfectly frank in this mat¬
ter and insist that Mr. Scott’s action
is, to say the least of it, despicable
to the people of this county. They
naturally resented the action of Mr.
Scott at first when he declined to
grant the request of the white men to
not promote the negro firemen ahead
of them, and when he so persistently
refuseftSto submit the differences to
arbitration, this also had a tendency
to arouse their passion, but when it
comes to using the negroes on trains
supposed to be neutral it is like a slap
in the faces of all who sympathize
with the striking firemen.
There can only be two possible solu¬
tions to Mr. Scott’s action. He is
either so mercenary as to turn his
back on his own race, the Anglo
Saxon for a few cent per day, or he
is trying to ruin the Georgia railroad
property in order that the stock may
be so reduced as to freeze out the
small stockholders. We do not at¬
tempt to uncover his motives, but
say in all frankness that in justice to
the people who make his job possible
he should come out and uncover his
hand.
THE AUTOMOBILE WAY.
During the strike on the Georgia
railroad for the past week or two it
has been demonstrated that the auto¬
mobile will in a few years be used to
a very much greater extent in the
business world than they are at the
present. All the Atlanta papers have
been sending out the regular editions
to the towns along the line of the rail¬
road and they have been reaching
their destination in almost every case
before the time they usually arrive on
the trains.
On account of the roads however a
good many break-downs occurred in
different counties and considerable
inconveniene was suffered on the
part of the machine operators. This
brings up to mind the plan of the At¬
lanta Journal to connect Atlanta and
New York with a modern automobile
highway, and so arouse enthusiasm
as will eventually put all the roads in
the state in the best of condition.
In this county last week a mass
meeting was held for the purpose of
devising ways and means to have
Newton get into the contest and with
the assistance of Walton and Rock¬
dale secure a permanent and smooth
road from here to Atlanta, giving
those who have machines or wagons
and buggies the opportunity to take
this trip without the necessity of feel¬
ing as if something might happen to
them should they undertake it. At
this meeting, which was a large one,
a vote was taken directing the com¬
missioners to co-operate with the
other counties and secure this enter¬
prise if possible. It is not our inten¬
tion to endeavor to read the minds of
the commissioners in regard to it, but
it is rumored on the streets that they
will do nothing as they do not favor
the plan and prefer working the roads
in the same old way they have been
worked so long. We are not clair¬
voyants and as they are very reticent
about “speaking out in meetin’ ” on
the road question we are not in posi¬
tion to say what will be the outcome
of the meeting.
The majority of the people of the
county seem to think, and most of
them strongly believe, that if this road
was built it would stimulate everyone
to improve all the roads in the coun¬
ty. Other counties are adopting new
plans and are building permanent
roadways—roads that will require but
little expense in future to keep them
up. There will never be a more pro¬
pitious time for this county to begin
to build permanent roads, and the
people are realizing it as they have
never done before. They think the
commissioners should take up the re¬
quest made by the citizens at the
mass meeting and at least give some
reason why it is not plausible.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
We Heard It Said—
That Mr. Scott of the Georgia road
has caused a lot of trouble for a man
of his calibre.
That the city charter will be chang¬
ed in order that the water board can
make a report.
That-rats have killed a thousand
dollars w'orth of chickens in this
county this year.
That we would have something in
this column about the strike “but we
don’t know 7 w T hat to say.”
That the “Gympson” w 7 eed and dog
fennel are getting to be “aw r ful” high
on some of our “public” streets.
That John Echols is the most en¬
thusiastic good roads advocate in the
state, Atlanta Journal not excepted.
That Mayor Smith is of the opinion
that a city with “two heads” can’t
accomplish everything they under¬
take.
That everybody in the county is in
favor of the automobile good roads
route coming this w r ay except New
ton’s commissioners.
That a reduction in Covington’s
freight rates w 7 ould be a mighty good
inducement to bring new manufactur¬
ing industries to our city.
That the explosion you heard last
Wednesday about the city council
“getting together” for a special pur
pose was only a blank cartridge.
That when it rains our citizens see
the advantages good roads give to a
community, and they are fast lending
their efforts to the better roads move¬
ment.
That if Newton would get into the
good roads contest proposed by the
Atlanta Journal it would be the foun¬
dation for better roads in every eec
tion of the county.
That the city council is one charter¬
ed body and the water board is an¬
other chartered body and that these
two bodies can’t always agree on some
things that come before them.
That a few of Covington’s merchants
have woke up to the fact that lower
freight rates would mean lower prices
to their customers—and more custo¬
mers—and they are going after the
rates with determination.
That there are some few people in
Covington who are actually so afraid
that they are going to perish to death
they won’t grasp any kind of an op¬
portunity for the betterment of the
localities in which they live.
That the city council and the water
board are “a little at outs” in the
matter of placing fines upon the con¬
tractors of the sewerage system for
violating an ordinance against “dy¬
namiting within the city limits with¬
out sufficient logging down.”
THE STRIKE.
The strike on the Georgia railroad
seems to have a tendency to draw the
color line tighter in this state than
anything that has happened in a long
time. The manager of the road will
have much to answer for in the re¬
sponsibility he has assumed. His at¬
titude is one of deep disgust to the
people of this section and has reached
such proportions as will long be felt
in Middle Georgia.
The strike is regretable from every
view-point, but especially so from the
race side of the question. It is bad
for a state with as fair a name as
Georgia to have suc*ti a man corralled
within her borders as Mr. T. K. Scott.
For the best interest of the Georgia
railroad Mr. Scott should step down
and give the position he holds to some
gentleman having a little common
sense and honor.
The Game Law.
An effort is going to be made be¬
fore the next legislature to have a
stringent law passed to protect all
kinds of game within the confines of
the State. We are heartily in favor
of such a law and hope it will be
rigidly enforced. Game is rapidly
becoming extinct in this country, as
well as fish. The killing of birds out
of season, is the cause of the bird
extinction and the dynamiting of fish
and seining at all seasons are rapidly
reducing the fish to nil. The dyna¬
miters are getting bold, and openly
break the law. We understand that
some of the good citizens of Ap
palaehee are on the lookout for these
violators and if caught they will cer¬
tainly be reported.—Madison Ad¬
vertiser.
There is much complaint about bus¬
iness being dull among the dealers in
undertaking goods in this county.
He Went Early That Night.
He (calling)—I’m here promptly. Miss
Fannie. She—Yes, Mr. Staylate. He—
I never like to keep people waiting.
She (significantly)—Waiting for you to
come you mean, of course.—Washing¬
ton Post.
No Need of a Bargain.
Beggar—Kind sir. give me a penny
fir my two children Kind Sir—That
asn’t dear, certainly, but 1 don’t think
I’ll take them. 1 have four already at
aorne.—Stray Stories.
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7%; This town has never saw so many peo¬
ple buying varnish at one time as during
the Chi-Namel Demonstration at Fincher
Norris Hardware Store. The Demonstrator
was an expert and showed Chi-Namel to be
m a most remarkable varnish. The average
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varnish turns white when exposed to mois¬
Any Man or Woman ture. Chi-Namel neither turns white nor
can transform a soft wood floor looses any of its gloss when subjected to
into a perfect imitation of a
beautifully floor grained hard wood boiling water. It does not crumble chip
in a few minutes with or
Chi-Namel off when struck a hfcavy blow. Makes a
and the Chi-Namel nice surface for Boors, tables and all kinds
Self-Grainer of wood work in home.
Or an old hard wood floor, furni¬ a
ture, etc., may be made to look like “I
new, with a harder, more durable wish I had known of Chi-Namel be¬
finish than it had originally.
Chi-Namel colors the wood, and var¬
nishes it at the same time, and the sur¬ fore my floors were refillished” was an ex¬
face is so hard that walking or washing
will not remove the gloss.
effect, anyone This newself-grainer exactly to produce like the a beautiful makes most expensive it easy grained for pression often heard among the many ladies
hard Call wood at our floors. store and allow us to demon¬ who attended the Chi-Namel Demonstra¬
strate how easy it is to grain and varnish tion
by this improved system. while Free samples they last at Fincher-Norris Hardware Store.
1 never knew that it was possible for a
varnish t.o stand so much abuse and still be
none the worse for wear. Fincher-Norris
H’dNv. Co., ought to do a good business with
Chi-Namel and the patent graining system.
Fincher-Norris H’d’w. Company
The Holdup Man In Mexico.
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Chicago, and one's life is a great deal
safer. Mexico has her pickpockets
and her sneak thieves, and burglars
are not unknown, hut the holdup man
is an individual with whom the police
are not well acquainted This cannot
be said of Chicago, Kansas City. St
Louis or New York. It may be be¬
cause the criminal element in Mexico
lacks the bravery necessary for fol¬
lowing the holdup’s profession or It
may be because the city is extraordi¬
narily well guarded by police It cer¬
tainly is well guarded by the police;
but it matters not what the reason is.
the fact is that the man who relieves
you of your money in Mexico does so
in the manner calculated to cause vou
the least inconvenience—Mexico Rec¬
ord
There Was a Limit In Liking.
Little Victor bad been naughty and
his father had seen tit to administer a
spanking A few minutes later, when
his papa had left the room and the
little fellow was alone with mamma, he
exclaimed between his sobs. “1 don't
like papa." His mother, of course, told
him that was very wrong and that he
would hare to be punished again if he
talked like that. “Well.’* he added,
looking up quickly. “I like papa all
right, but I don’t like his acts.”—De¬
lineator.
“You know. Elsie, that ‘ferment*
means To work,’” si^d the teacher.
“Now you may write a sentence on
the blackboard containing the word
•ferment.’ ”
After a moment’s thought Elsie
wrote us follows: “In summer I love
to ferment among the flowers In our
earden.”—Chicago News.
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Are Better. ”
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