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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 16, 1909
The News leads. Others follew.
Roosevelt continues to shoot day¬
light through darkest Africa.
The mercantile house without print¬
ers’ ink is like a ship without a sail.
There are two things a person
should never borrow—trouble and the
local newspaper.
There is nothing which would be
more appropriate to hand down to
posterity than good roads.
Germany is lining up with the peo¬
ple of the United States in kicking
against the tariff measure.
Build up terraces and prevent washed
out places in land should be the motto
of every farmer in the county.
The season is at hand when the city
fathers should enact the muzzle law'
for dogs and then have it enforced.
The fee system is as much of a
stench in the public nostrils as the
old convict lease system used to be.
The News has no selfish motive in
being an advocate of good roads. We
have neither an automobile or a horse.
The blackberry crop in this section
is fairly good and the printers are be¬
ginning to fatten up and be real
“sassy.”
The assertion is made by some of
the congressmen that Win. J. Bryan
has no right to say who is a democrat
and who is not.
The people of the county are begin¬
ning to more and more breed better
stock and cattle. This is a step in
the right direction.
We have an automobile line from
this city to the edge of Jasper county
and within the present year it will be
that way all over the county.
From the way the farmers have
been going after grass for the past
week it looks like there will be some¬
thing doing in the city this fall.
If the business men of this city
would get right in line with progress
NOW, there is a large amount of
trade which could be turned here for
the coming winter. Will we LINE
UP?
A resurrection of Covington’s
Board of Trade was spoken of some
weeks ago, and as W'e have heard
nothing else from it w r e suppose
that decomposition had already set
in.
The aeronauts are having more
troubles than the farmer with bad
roads. In some sections where they
sail over, the people are taking pot
shots at them, insisting that they
“light.”
The last issue of the News carried
more columns of local news matter
from our correspondents all over the
county than has ever before been
handled by any paper in the county.
It is our purpose to make the News
a veritable looking glass for county
news.
A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says,
“a chip has been discovered in a po¬
tato patch at Lindale that had a
growth of hair on one side of it. The
grow'th is on one side of a small pine
chip and is about two inches long.
It is of a very dark hue slightly
touched with gray.” This is not the
first blockhead which has been un¬
earthed in Georgia recently.—Winder
Weekly News.
The News will be in its new quar¬
ters within the next three weeks and
when we get moved several new
machines will be added to take care
of the large amount of commercial
printing w’e are turning out. We will
then have the best and most
thoroughly modern plant in the state,
out side of the cities. Our motto of
delivering a job when it is promised
is making us new customers every
week. We believe strongly in qual
ity of goods and punctuality above
everything else.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Several days ago we had occasion
to go down in the southern section of
the county and on the way back we
encountered a gentleman down by
the side of the road building a rock
wall along the road line to keep his
field from washing up. The wall
that he was building was not the kind
generally seen in washout places on
farms, but he was putting in a
foundation like a building. We were
impressed with the manner in
which this gentleman keeps his
farm lands up. There was not a
washed place on the whole plantation
and the terraces were all well kept
up, not a weed being visable on any
of them.
How many farmers in this county
do you find w’ho take any interest in
their lands except to plant a crop
and work the very life out of the soil,
never doing anything to build it up
and make the “lean streaks” pay?
The average planter is lacking in that
particular and some of them are just
beginning to see the futility of plant¬
ing heavily in cotton and letting the
sprouts, grass and weeds push them
back farther and farther every year,
in some cases they have “backed off”
for a number of yards from the roads
and terraces. The manner in which
the above gentleman takes care of
his land is a good example for a great
many farmers in Newton county.
In talking to him he stated that he
makes it a rule to be busy all the
time on his farms. When it is too wet
to run his plows he goes over his ter¬
races, builds them up in low places,
cuts down the weeds and tries to
keep his lands—every bit of it—in a
good working condition. It is an
inspiration to go over his farm,
everything looks so smooth and nice.
The gentleman referred to above is
Mr. W. B. Smith, and he and his
brother are considered the best far¬
mers in their settlement. Every year
they make enough from their lands
and labor to buy more acres, and
when they get a piece of dirt it im
medately begins to improve and to
gradually increase its productiveness.
The News tips its hat to these hust¬
ling young farmers and commends
their method of soil treatment to
those planters in the county w'liose
bank accounts are on the wrong side
of the ledger when the settling time
comes.
A GOOD PLAN SUGGESTED.
Mr. E. L. Almand, one of the coun¬
ty commissioners, was in the city one
day last week and in talking of the
work on the roads to the editors of
this paper, stated that he has a plan
for keeping up the roads and making
them first-class in every way, which
he will bring up before the commis¬
sioners at their next regular meeting.
His plan is to let the regular road
gang go right on all the time«building
roads like the one leading through
the southern part of the county, and
instead of taking them off every few
days to repair bad places at different
parts of the county, place one of the
guards with three or four trusty con¬
victs and let him go from place to
place, all over the county and fill in
holes, repair bridges and other defects.
They could get over several miles per
day and keep the roads all over the
county in fairly good condition until
the gang had finished the work on all
the roads.
This plan strikes us as being a very
good one, in that it will keep the bad
places in good fix all the time without
the necessity of having the whole
camp moved to do a little temporary
W'ork. If this plan is adopted the
road gang will get to put in all their
time on grading and building of the
public roads and by the end of the
year every road in the county will
have been so constructed that it will
require less than half the time to go
over them next year. Of course in
some sections the roads cannot be as
good as the new roads being built and
the people become restless and think
they are being slighted, but when you
look at it from the point of having
passable roads all the time and never
have permanent ones, it seems that it
would be eminently better to have
bad ones for a short while with the
knowledge that your turn will come
next and that when it does come you
will have the best roads you ever had.
Mr. Almand states that his plan has
been successfully used in several
counties and in almost every case it
has proven to be just what was need¬
ed. He will put it before the commis¬
sioners next month and it will be
looked into and it is highly probable
that it will be carried into effect.
The ranks of the Confederate Vet¬
erans are thinning rapidly as was
seen at the reunion at Memphis last
week.
They say your aunt Carrie Nation
is going to grow cabbages. It is sup¬
posed that they will be a different
vaiety from the ones thrown at her
while she was “wielding the hatchet,”
On Sunday morning a minister’s
wife saw her son chasing the hens
with a stick. She went to the door
to investigate and heard him say:
“I’ll teach you to lay eggs at a min¬
ister’s house on Sunday morning!”—
Exchange.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
THE JONE’S SIDING SPIRIT.
Not long ago we read an account of
a meeting which took place between
two men who were traveling and by
chance met in Europe. The spirit
shown in the conversation between i
these two gentlemen struck us with :
such force with the idea of putting
your home town first in everything
that we reproduce it. It ran some¬
thing like this:
“I am from Jone’s Siding,” said one
of the gentlemen. “And I,” said the
other throwing out his chest, “am
from Chicago.”
“Seems to me I’ve heard of that
place. About how far is it from Jone’s
Siding?”
The Jone’s Siding spirit is the kind
that builds a town. This man con¬
sidered his home town the finest place
in the world. If there are many more
like him Jone’s Siding will some day
be Jhe most hustling city in that sec¬
tion of the state.
He is the kind of man who spends
his money at home, who patronizes
home industries, talks up his home
town and helps to build it up. He is
a desirable citizen.
The mail order houses couldn’t do
business with him unless they were
located in his own town, for he knows
that, so far as he is concerned, Jone’s
Siding is the center of the earth.
Let us get together on the Jone’s
Siding spirit and make things boom
for our town. Every letter that is
post-marked Covington should be an
advertisement for the town, even love
letters, for we want the right kind of
people to come here and live with us.
Let’s advertise ourselves, our home
industries and our educational advan¬
tages and good propects as strong as
possible.
The first step is to get the Jone’s
Siding spirit; the second is the or¬
ganization of a real live Board of
Trade, and the third is co-operation
and a pull together spirit by progres¬
sive citizens. Each citizen should ask
himself this question: “How much of
the Jone’s Siding spirit have I shown
today?”
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD STRIKE.
During the strike on the Georgia
railroad three weeks ago this paper
stated that we believed the blame
should be fastened on the shoulders
of Manager Scott. Since several
things have happened and still there
is no settlement, we are more firmly
convinced of the accurateness of that
statement. The bone of contention
between the railroad and the strikers
is the negro, and Mr. Scott holds the
bone. Judging from his action in the
plan of arbitration he is endeavoring
to hold his own against public senti¬
ment, white labor and everything
else. In speaking of the strike the
Middle Georgia Farmer sums up the
situation as follows:
“Manager Scott, of the Georgia
railroad, according to all the facts
that have been brought out dur¬
ing the strike of his firemen, is a
stubborn hot-headed crank; he
seems to care little for the suffer¬
ing, loss, trouble, inconvenience,
etc., that he brings to others in
his efforts to carry a point, the
wisdom of which point is serious¬
ly denied or doubted by most
Georgians and Southerners, lie
is precipitating unnecessary and
unjustifiably a race feeling and
conflict which cannot be otherwise
than harmful to everybody alike.
Under this statement of. facts—
and we believe they are facts—we
seriously doubt Mr. Scott’s being
a desirable citizen in Georgia.
We feel sure that the interests of
the Georgia railroad, its patrons,
and the state could be better pro¬
tected in other hands.”
It pays to buy the best. I breed
exclusively S. C. R. I. Reds, from
prize pens. Eggs, $2.00 for 15.
J. W. HENDERSON
Mansfield, Ga.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all par¬
ties concerned not to hire or harbor
Frank Banks, lie being under con¬
tract with me for the year of 1909.
This, June 1st, 1909.
NELSON JONES.
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Notice is hereby given that at
the next meeting of the General
Assembly a bill will be introduced
to amend an act entitled an act to
amend the charter of the City of
Covington authorizing the mayor
and council of said city of Coving¬
ton to create an electric light and
water board for said city and for
other purposes.
Street Tax Notice.
Notice is hereby given that every male inhabi¬
tant of the city of Covington, between the ages of
16 and 50 years, residing in said city at any time
since March 1, 1909t be and is hereby required to
pay a Street Tax of Three Dollars for the year
1909, on or before July 1, 1909, and in default of
payment thereof, to work on the streets of said
1 city for eight days at such times they be
as may
notified by the Marshal or Deputy Marshal of j
said city,
Passed at regular meeting of the Council, June
4. 1909.
CHAS. G. SMITH. Mayor.
J. J. COREEY, Clerk.
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For the next thirty days I offer my entire stock at a
great reduction in every department. I do this because at !
that time I will have to move temporarily in order that my !
present store can be remodeled and I want to move as little J
f as possible. * j
f| I have in stock the prettiest line of Dress Goods. Hats, j
I Shoes, Clothing and Gent’s Furnishings Goods in the city j
t and the prices that will be placed on them during tins great j
f thirty day sale will be the lowest of the low. Come and j
look at the BARGAINS we have for everyone. You will
then see just what Levin means when he says he is going
to unload.
Remember everything in our store has been put under the
price cutting knife and will be sold for about half value. D unng
the time my store is being remodeled 1 will be located somewher
in the city and will let the people know a little later.
| M. LEVIN, Covington, Georgia.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS,
SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold at the Court House door in New¬
ton County, Ga., on the First Tuesday in July
1909, within the legal hours of sale for cash,
the following property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land containing
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 belonging to the estate
of Henry Gaither, deceased ; on the Hast by Hull
street and laud of George W. Stone: on the South
by lands of J. S. Stewart, 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 fevor of Garrett &
Russell, vs. said George W. Stone, issued from
the Superior Court of said county and state on a
Judgment attained therein on the 19th day of
September, 1907. Written notice given the de¬
fendant in said fi fa, George W. W. Stone, he be¬
ing in possession of said laud. This June 2, 1909.
S. M. HAY, Sheriff.
Citation.
GEORGIh, Newton County;
Mrs. Mattie McDonald having made application
to me in due form to have S. P. Thompson and
E. W. Fowler appointed permanent administra¬
tors upon the estate of William McDonald, late
of said county, deceased, notice is hereby given
that said application will be heard at the next
regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said
county, to be held on the first Monday in July
1909.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
7th day of June, 1909.
A. D. MKADOK, Ordinary.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Nfwton County,
N. Z. Anderson having made application to me
in due form to have R. W. Milner, County Ad¬
ministrator, appointed permanent administrator
upon the estate of Mrs. Sallie Anderson, late of
said county, deceased, notice is hereby that said
application will be heard at the next regular
term of the Court of Ordinary for said county, to
be held on the first Monday in July. 1909,
Witness my hand and official signature, this
7th day of June 1909.
A. I). MEADOR, Ordinary.
Citation.
newton court court of ordinary.
At Chambers, June 9, 1909.
The appraisers appointed upon the application
of Mrs. Mattie McDonald, widow of the said Wm.
McDonald, for a 12 months’ support for herself
and minor child, having filed their returns, all
persons concerned are hereby cited to show cause
if any they have, at the next regular July term of
this Court, why said application should not be
granted. A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Dog Tax Notice.
A tax of One Dollar is due on all Dogs in tlie
City of Covington June 1st. A failure to pay this
tax by June 20th will result in a double tax on
each dog. The Council proposes to collect this
tax on every dog and puppy in the city
Collars or tags will lie furnished at the office of
of the City Clerk.
Passed at regular meeting of Council; Jane 4, j
1909- CllAS. G; SMITH, Mayor,
J. J. CORLEY, Clerk.
City Tax Returns.
Notfce is hereby given that the time for making j
Pax Returns to the City of Covington has been •
extended to July 1st, at which time the books
will be closed, Covington, Ga., July 4, 1909.
CHAS. G. SMITH, Mayor.
J. J. CORi.HY, Clerk,
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seasonable. J. L. Mask, Henderson
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New Racket Store
$ New spring and summer goods are here,
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COME AND SEE THEM.
Same big cash values as we have at*
| ways given you. Remember new goods
i \ of the season arriving every few days eashl
| ands marked at the lowest spot
prices. Yours truly,
Ji 1 11 1 Rni Ulll nn illlj Govigtnon, Geop
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NICE FRESH GROCERIES
You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gfo
ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase
them from me 1 make it a point to get them to your home
just as quick as it is possible for me to do it.
FRESH MEATS
Market I also and have in connection with my store a first kind class of MeeJ
can furnish you with the choice
you like so well. Giveme order, I will appreciate ^ a5<
an
will try to please you.
Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for
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Covington, Georgia.
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