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Cotton Market:
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday:
Middling, 10 5-8 cts
Good mid. 10 A-4 cts
\OL. 1. NO. 28
"THE FETE OF
FLOWER LAND."
Xhis Charming Little Operetta
Will Be Rendered By Local
Talent Friday Night.
One of the most charming plays of
the season will be given at the Opera
House Friday night under the au¬
spices of the Library Association, it
being “The Fete of Flower Land.”
Th e Scenes throughout are replete
with the most pleasing effects and the
little tots who are the representatives
of the different flowers are truly won¬
derful in their respective parts. The
training of the children has been un¬
der the guiding hand of Mrs. James
E. Phillips, than whom there is not a
more capable and talented young wo¬
men in the city. She has devoted
quite a good deal of care and atten¬
tion to this play and to say that it
will be a success will only be to em¬
phasize what her undertakings are at
all times. Her work in training the
children in the schools here is nota¬
ble and for this entertainment she
has made unusual progress.
The play is given for the benefit of
the library and should be well attend¬
ed. Everyone who goes out will be
well pleased and will regret to see the
curtain drop on the last act. Res¬
erved seats will be on sale at the
Bank of Covington Thursday morning
and the prices are 15, 25 and 35c.
The following ia the program as it
will be rendered Friday night:
Snowdrops—Sara Fowler, Clyde
Adams, Sara Milner, Elizabeth Flow¬
ers, Mabel Fincher.
Violets—Ruth Taylor, Pearl Taylor,
Fletcher Lou Lunsford, Mamie Vining,
Ruth Wells, Fannie Mae Henderson,
Thelma Fowler.
For-get-me-not — Charlie Burton
Hawk.
Daisies—Elizabeth Reeves, Louise
Whitehead, Aileen Simmons, Eliza¬
beth Wiilingham, Annie Mae Biggers.
Lilies—Mary Frances Sockwell,
Helen Smith, Constance Pendleton,
Ethel Williams, Pauline Gaither, Ev¬
elyn Cohen.
Roses—Ina Rogers, Martha Ander¬
son, Ruth Speer, Marion Speer, Helen
Meadows, Laura Gaither, Dorothy
Ftster.
Buttercups— Lucy Wooten, Walter
is the one whose officers and directors
are known to you as having been
successful in managing their own
affairs, and are therefore in a position
to handle the affairs of a public
Institution.
1 he officers and directors of our
hank have been successful which is a
sufficient guarantee of their fitness to
m anage the affairs of our bank.
OFFICERS:
j'’ A ANDERSON, Pres. C. C. ROBINSON, Vice-Pres.
L ' 0. BENTON, Vice-Pres. R. E. STEPHENSON, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
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‘ R. E. STEPHENSON,
W. B. R. PENNINGTON.
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Principals.
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BALL GAME FOR
NEXT SATURDAY.
The Covington Team Will Hitch
Up With the Porterdale
Aggregation.
The first game of ball of the season
will be played between Covington and
Poterdale at the ball park Saturday
afternoon, and from all appearances
it will be a fast game from start to
finish.
lhe line up of the Covington crowd
is a strong one and the Porterdale
bunch are said to have as good an
ameteur team as there is in Middle
Georgia. They have been practicing
for quite a while and under the train¬
ing of Mr. I. K. Norman are now
ready to hang up with any team look¬
ing for a good game and willing to
stand a neat defeat. They play ball
for the fun there is in it and the game
scheduled for Saturday afternoon will
be well worth going out to see.
The Covington team is composed of
Messrs. Wm. Roberts, Grady Clay,
Red Rhodes, Chess Stanton, Sherrod
Smith, I. K. Norman, Buss Lee, Car¬
ter Franklin and Harry Davis.
The line up for Porterdale was not
sent in time for publication, but it is
said to be a good one.
The Covington fans are all talking
of the prospect of a good game for
Saturday and the rooters will be out
in full force.
FOR SALE—Fine Homer Pigeons.
$1.00 per pair J. M. Aaron. tf.
Stephenson, Ruth Wells, Eugene Lee.
Poppies—Eugenia Guinn, James
Lester, Caroline Wooten, Fred Bush,
Lucy White, Jim Wells, Frank Jor¬
dan, Dorothy Lee.
Sweet Peas—Annie White, Eloise
Cooper, Sadie Mae Pickett, Martha
Speer, Janie Gaither, Lucy Bush Mu¬
sette Cook, Winnie Perry, Grace
Whitehead, Florence Maggie Perry,
Annie Belle Robinson, Nellie Perry.
Fairy—Mary Brown Anderson.
Fire-Flies — James White, Coy
Swann, William Aiken, James Car¬
ter Anderson.
Act I.—The Fairies Call.
Act II.—Easter.
Act III.—Summer.
Piano—Mi’s. T. G. Callaway.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JUNE 16, 1909.
JOURNAL-HERALD’S SCOUT CARS
PASSED JJOVINCTON MONDAY.
Cars Were Met at Conyers by Mr. N. S.
Turner, In His Big White Steamer and
Were Escorted to this City and
Then On to Social Circle.
The Atlanta Journal’s pathfinding
cars for the route to be u?ed in the
great Atlanta-New York automobile
highway, stopped in this city a short
while Monday morning and talked
good roads situation over to a number
of our citizens. The party was met
here by the chairman and one mem¬
ber of the board of county commis¬
sioners, the good roads committee
composed of N. S. Turner, J. H.
Echols and C. C. Brooks, the mayor
of the city, and a number of good
roads enthusiasts from all parts of
the county.
There never was a time in the his¬
tory of the city and county has there
been so much enthusiasm manifested
in good roads, and from all parts of
the county comes the cry for better
and more permanent highways. Of
course this automobile highway is
merely a drop in the bucket compared
with what all roads in this and other
counties will be within a few years,
but it is believed by the majority of
people of the county that it will act
as a stimulant in so arousing public
sentiment that the road question w’ill
be settled once for all, with a bond
issue and a system of public roads in
Newton no county can surpass.
Mr. Cohen, the manager of the
scout party from Atlanta, stated to a
citizen of the city that the best roads
traversed by them in the state were
found between this city and Conyers.
He stated that as he judged from the
condition of the roads that they were
naturally good and that very little
work of a permanent nature had been
done on them. He said that with
very little expense they could be put
in the very best of condition and that
the outlay would be a permanent one.
Much of the credit of the scout
party coming this way is due to the
efforts of Mr. John Echols, one of the
most enthusiastic good roads advo¬
cates in the state. He made a trip to
Atlanta a few weeks ago to talk the
matter over with the Journal people
and secured their promise to consider
Newton in the making of a route. Mr.
Echols has worked hard to get them
to come this way, and he and Mr. N.
S. Turner are working to get the
county to take some definite action as
to whether they will build the stretch
THE CORRESPONDENTS
CONTEST IS BOOMING.
Nearly Every District in the Coun¬
ty is Represented and Votes
Are Coming in Lively.
The Covington News’ correspon¬
dents contest inuagurated last week
in which we offer a gold watch as a
first prize and a five dollar gold piece
as second prize is meeting with en
thiastic co-operation among our
writers. During the past week we
received a large batch of votes for the
different correspondents, every one
on the list being represented in the
voting.
On the first issue in July we are
going to publish a list of the corres¬
pondents who are in the lead and give
the number of votes received by each
up to that date. After that we will
issue each week an article showing
the number of votes the three leading
writers have.
This contest is perfectly fair and
every subscriber to The News should
cast a vote for the correspondent he
would like to see win the prizes.
There is no charge for voting and a
coupon will be in every issue of the
paper from now until September 1st.
Fill it out and mail to us so that it
will reach us on the specified date.
Help your correspondent in your dis¬
trict by voting for her.
TO FARMERS.
You will possibly need a few
more sacks of Guano for late corn,
pease or something, we can deliver
some goods yet from Covington,
Starrsville or Mansfield.
T. C. Swann Co.
of roads between Walton and Rock¬
dale counties required to get the
route. It is highly probable that in
the event the route is made for this
county the commissioners will build a
permanent road over this part of the
county. There are obstacles to he
overcome in this movement, however,
the same as in everything else of a
permanent nature, and there are some
who oppose it on the ground that it
would be showing partiality to one
part of the county if a good road was
built. This seems to us as a very
flimsy point to oppose anything on.
It is a matter of impossibility to build
permanent roads all over the county
at once and there will necessarily
have to be some road as a, starting
point. It is simply a question as to
which road is built first. We believe
it would be well to build this one from
the fact that Newton county would
stand a very good show of capturing
one of tiie big prizes which would
materially assist in paying the cost of
construction.
The people of the county are in¬
sistent for good and permanent roads
and it seems that this would be a
mighty good time for the commis¬
sioners to ‘‘take the bits between
their teeth” and build them. The re¬
commendation of the last grand jury
that road bonds be issued, would,
with good campaigning, be carried.
The members of the scouting party
were loud in their praise of this route
and of the excellent natural advan¬
tages this county has to start with in
building of good roads. This fact
alone should stimulate us to build
good roads, if for no other reason
than that it would give our rural citi¬
zens a better highway to haul their
products over when they get ready
to sell.
The Journal’s party was composed
of four gentlemen from New York
and four from Atlanta. Mr. Jack
Cohen, well known to a number of
our citizens, was at the head of the
party and favors the route through
this county.
The News wants an expression
from every section and every citizen
of the county on “Good Roads” and
if you are interested in good high¬
ways for Newton county let us have
an article for publication.
Miss Lucy Bush Entertains.
Miss Lucy Bush, the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bush,
is entertasning a number of her
friends this week at a house party.
Miss Bush has arranged a delightful
entertainment for the invited guests
at her lovely home on Church street
to night. Many other delightful oc¬
casions have been planned for the
week. Among the invited guests are:
Misses Laura Wilson, Clara Murrelle
and Annie Lois Stowe, of Newborn,
Miss Mary Russell, of Winder, Miss
Maggie Perry, of Covington.
Mr. John Henderson Dead.
Mr. John Henderson, one of the
oldest citizens of Oxford, died at his
home in that city last Saturday morn¬
ing after a short illness. He was one
of the most substantial citizens of the
county and held the esteem and re¬
spect of the people generally. At the
time of his death he was a mail car¬
rier on one of the rural routes lead¬
ing out from Oxford and his pleasant
words and happy disposition will be
missed by all the patrons of that
route. He leaves a number of rela¬
tives besides a number of friends to
mourn his death.
The funeral occurred Sunday after¬
noon at Oxford.
K. of P. Elects Officers.
The following officers were elected
by the Knights of Pythias for the en¬
suing term at their last regular meet¬
ing, held on Monday night:
J. L. Callaway, C. C.
J. O. Bradshaw, V. C.
T. G. Callaway, Prelate.
J. C. Weaver,‘M. of W.
W. A. Heard, M. of F.
Ben Still, I. G.
J. W. Harwell, O. G.
R. R. Fowler, K. of R. & S.
Meeting held 1st and 3rd Monday
nights in each month.
SELF EXAMINATION
FOR TEACHERS.
Former Newton County Teacher
Says Common Schools Are
Imposed on Every Year.
Mr. Editors: Please print this
“Self Examination for Prospective
Teachers,” taken from “Dinsmore’s
Teaching a Distinct School,” one of
the books on Theory and Practice of
teaching, which the Georgia teachers
are required to read before taking the
State examination June 18-19.
The common school people of Geor¬
gia are imposed upon every year by
hundreds of so-called teachers—some
of them mere girls and boys—who en¬
ter the profession for the money there
is in it. This is an outrage which
should be stopped.
If every board of trustees were to
require an examination of this kind
and employ no one who could not
pass it, we would have fewer teachers
and better ones. J. O. Martin:
SELF EXAMINATION.
1. Is my character such as to justi¬
fy me in choosing the profession of
teaching? Are my habits of life fit to
be an example for those who would
be my pupils? Do I intend to keep
myself from all vices that contami¬
nate? Do I love righteousness and
prefer to associate with righteous
people?
2. What is my motive in desiring
to teach? Is it money or personal
preferment, or any other selfish end?
Have I a strong desire to do good and
a reasonable belief that I shall he able
to excel in the profession? Am I wil¬
ling to sacrifice something in the way
of money for a work which is infinite¬
ly more important?
3. Am I apt to teach ? Have I the
qualities of an instructor? Does it
come natural to me to demonstrate,
to explain difficulties, to disseminate
knowledge ? Do I delight in direct¬
ing the minds and energies of chil¬
dren ? And a born teacher ? Shall I
be happier in the school-room giving
instruction than in any other work I
could choose ? Remembering the
saying that everyone should be able
to find his happiness in his work,
shall I be able to do this in teaching ?
4. Do I love children, not theoret-
Money
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The
Bank of Covington
Covington, Ga.
Capital $100,000.oo
To Depositors:
We offer the best security with liberal
rates of interest on time deposits and
saving accounts.
To Borrowers:
We furnish the “needful” at all times
on personal or real estate security at
cheapest rates and on easy terms.
If Your
Stationery ing bears and Print¬
it is backed our imprint
by our
guarantee to give you
satisfaction. We are
here to please YOU.
$1. A Year In Advance.
MRS. MARION MOSS
HAS PASSED AWAY
Was Perhaps One of The Oldest
Women In Newton County
Funeral Held Monday.
Mrs. Marion Moss, perhaps one of
the oldest people in this section of
the state, died at her home in this
city Sunday at an advanced age.
She has been known to the people of
Covington for the past fifty years,
and she and her husband were among
the first settlers in this city and
county. Mr. Moss preceded her to
the grave some five or six years. He
was for a long time proprietor of the
old mill just below town and was
known to all the old people as well
as the young ones.
There was perhaps never in the
history of the city one who held the
respect and confidence of the people
as a whole as did Mr. Marion Moss
and his estimable wife. They were
always ready to render aid and assis¬
tance to all in distress and Mrs. Moss
particularly had the love and esteem
of the entire city. She was the
mother of Rev. Frank Moss.
The funeral occurred Monday after¬
noon and was largely attended by the
people of the city.
ically, but means toil and self-sacri¬
fice ? Am I willing to devote my
time to helping my pupils, to live for
them ? Am I willing to unite with
other teachers in doing everything
possible to raise the standards of the
professions and to make the schools
better ?
If any young aspirant can answer
to his own satisfaction such self im¬
posed questions as the above, he may
be justified in choosing the profession
of teaching, or otherwise, he would
better select some other vocation.”
Actually and practically? Not nice
ones only, but children of all sorts?
Do I love them with a desire to make
them better, with a love that sees
semething interesting in every child,
good even in the worst and the need
of culture and developement in the
best? Do I see in the child the
materials for life work? Is the pres¬
ence of children distasteful in any
way? Should I feel relieved when
school closes and dread the time of
its re-opening as some teachers cer¬
tainly do?
5. Do I understand that teaching
is not a “soft snap.”