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CORRESPONDENTS GOLD WATCH CONTEST
BEGINS WEDNESDAY, JDNE 9th. FIVE
DOLLARS IN GOLD THE SECOND PRIZE,
The News Appreciates Its Correspondents and
Will Present One of Them with a Hand¬
some Gold Watch on the First Day
Of September of This Year.
As we stated in the last issue of The
News we are going to put on a cor¬
respondents Contest for a handsome
twenty-five year case Gold Watch, the
contest beginning today, June 9th.
Every correspondent sending a news
letter to this paper every week from
now until the first day of September
is eligible to the contest, and will
stand an equal showing in winning it.
It is our plan to be perfectly fair and
treat all our correspondents alike and
were it possible we would make them
all a present just like the one we will
present to the winner.
Our desire in this contest is first to
create a little enthusiasm among our
correspondents in every district in
sending in their letters on time and
giving us the news each week. The
watch we are going to use in the con¬
test was purchased from Mr. E. H.
Mobley who carries as neat a line of
watches and jewelry as there is in the
city. It is a ladies size, fitted w T ith
the Drueber-Hampden works and is
incased in a twentv-five year case.
It will last the successful carrespon
dent a life time and is well worth the
time it will take to compete for it.
The rules of the contest are not
stringent and any of our writers will
stand a good show to win.
Beginning with this issue of The
News and continuing through the is¬
sue of August 25, there will be found
a dated coupon good for ten votes for
a correspondent at any place. The
winner in the contest will be announc¬
ed in our issue of September 1st.
These coupons will be good for the
week in which the paper is issued.
For every new paid in advance sub¬
scription, or a renewal for one year
100 votes will be given. For a six
months subscription, either new or
renewal, 50 votes will be given. For
a three months subscription, either
new or renewal, 25 votes wil be given.
The person voting the coupon in the
paper must sign it and be a subscri¬
ber to The News. He can vote for
either correspondent he desires. There
is no charge for voting, neither will
there be votes sold, except where
they are given with subscriptions.
Every correspondent of this paper has
scores of friends in her community as
well as in other parts of the county
and they will be glad to send in the
votes for their favorite. The corre¬
spondents may collect up the votes
from their friends, but on each cou¬
pon there must be signed the name of
a subscriber of this paper.
The only rule imposed upon the cor¬
respondent is that they must write
a news letter to this paper every week
until the first of September and the
letter must reach this office not later
than Tuesday at twelve o’clock. If
for any reason a correspondent could
not send a letter any week during the
contest, votes will not be good for
that correspondent for that week.
We will offer ten votes each week to
correspondents getting their letters to
the Covington postoffice between Sat¬
urday at noon and Monday at noon.
This contest is made principally fqr
promptness on the part of the corre¬
spondents, and this offer of ten votes
each week is merely to get the mat¬
ter up for the paper Tuesday.
Each week we will publish a Bulle¬
tin giving the number of votes secur¬
ed for the three leading correspon¬
dents, and other information which
will be of interest to the contestant.
We want all our correspondents to
enter this contest and work to win.
It will be well worth your while and
you w'ill also be giving the people of
your community what they need—
representation in the colums of the
leading paper of the county—your
paper, The Covington News.
Five Dollars in Gold will be given
to the contestant getting the second
largest number of votes.
Education And Missions. A Wrong
Conception.
Judging from the difficulties en¬
countered in raising funds for Minis¬
terial Education at Mercer and the
Seminary and for the equipment and
endow’ment of our Baptist academies,
there must be a wrong conception
among the Baptist of Georgia as to
the relation of Missions and Christian
Education. With comparative ease
our churches have made advances
from year to year in their contribu¬
tions for state Missions. The needs
in Georgia call for still larger offer¬
ings, but our contributions for Minis¬
terial Education have not increased
in proportion to the growing needs of
this department of our work.
Somehow, our churches look at the
matter of contributions for the equip¬
ment of our Baptist academies as
something entirely different from giv¬
ing to Missions. Why they should
divorce Missions and Christian Edu¬
cation in Georgia, and give increased
support to their union in Home and
Foreign Missions, we do not under¬
stand.
Some of the very best work being
done by our Foreign board is accom¬
plished by its schools. This is the
testimony os the best men the Board
has on the foreign field. It was the
the conviction of its secretary, Dr.
Wfllingham, after a personal inspec¬
tion of the w T ork being done. Distin¬
guished Baptist, with no artificial
connection with the board, after see¬
ing the splendid w T ork of these
schools, give it their unqualified en¬
dorsement. Those who are laboring
in the schools on the foreign field are
doing as real mission work as those
who are striving to lead the heathen
to faith in Christ Jesus. Our Foreign
Board does not have a department of
Education, to which contributions
are to be made. When our churches
give to Foreign Missions, they give
for the support of evangelistic work
and Christian Education alike. This
is as it ought to be.
Our Home Board is engaged in the
work of Christian education. One
has only to inspect the work being
done by these schools in the State
of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennes¬
see and Kentucky to become ardent
supporters of it. This Board, how¬
ever, is giving assissance to only one
school in Georgia at present—
Hiawassee. While the Home Board
has its departments of Mountain
Schools, Evangelism, Church Build¬
ing, etc., contributions are not made
to these several departments as such,
but rather to Home Missions. Con¬
tributors, therefore, to Home Mis¬
sions are giving to Christian Educa¬
tion just as truly as they are giving
to Evangelism, Church Building, etc.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Our gifts are to Home Missions, just
as they ought to be.
The per cent, of illiteracy is just as
low, and the needs are just as great,
in the territories occupied by our
Baptist academies in Georgia as they
are in the territories occupied by the
schools assisted by the Home Board.
Why should our churches, with in¬
creasing liberality, contribute to
Home Missions, knowing that at least
a part of their contributions will go
for the support of schools no w r orse
needed than are our Baptist acade¬
mies in Georgia, and then hesitate to
contribute for the support of our own
schools in our own State? Let it be
clearly understood that this question
is not asked for the purpose of lessen¬
ing interest in the work of the Home
Board. Far from it. We would, on
the contrary, urge increased contri¬
butions to Home Board because of
the splendid work it is doing through
the agency of its schools, but the
question is asked to show the incon¬
sistency of divorcing Missions and
Christian Education in Georgia, and
at the same time fostering their union
in the work of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Georgia Baptists will never do w'hat
they ought to do until they put Chris¬
tian Education on a parity with State
Missions. We have no fight to make
on the existence of our Education
»
Board. On the other hand, we have
tried, and will continue to try, to help
it in every way possible that it may
do its work. Our contention is that
Christian Education is as real mission
work as any work that.is being done
by our Board of Missions. If it is not
then our Christian colleges and acade¬
mies have no denominational right to
exist. If it is, then support them.
These schools ought to be put on a
parity with State Missions.
Here are two questions worthy of
thoughtful consideration, and it is our
purpose to so express them as not to
indicate what is our opinion. Is thei’e
as good reason for the Southern Bap¬
tist Convention, with its seminaries
and schools on the foreign field, and
its seminaries and schools in the home
land, to have a Board of Education to
collect and disburse funds, as there
is for the Georgia Baptist Convention
to have a Board of Education for these
same purposes? If there are reasons
for the union of Christian Education
and Home and Foreign Missions, then
what are the reasons for their divorce¬
ment in the work of State Missions?
Exchange.
Madison Troup Pleased Audience
The rendition of “Because I Love
you,” by the Madison Dramatic Club
at the opera house last Wednesday
night was the most largely attended
of any entertainment of the season.
The players held the attention of the
audience from start to finish and
demonstrated that they had the tal¬
ent and ability to rank right up to
the top on the platform. The play is
an unusually good one and the play¬
ers seemed to fit well into their re¬
spective parts. It would be unjust to
mention any special member of the
club, as the entire aggregation are
stars among the amatuers of the
state. The crowd who attend¬
ed the performance were delighted
and it is highly probable that the
Madison Club will be prevailed on to
come up again in another drama
sometime within the next few weeks.
Everywhere you can hear praises
of the different players, esspecially of
Miss Pou, who had the leading role.
Her acting was superb and she was
ably assisted by all the members.
In speaking of the part of the leading
man one of the Covington young
ladies says that it was perfect up to
the time when he had to kiss the
young lady and at that time he got
frightened. She failed, however,
to state whether it was stage fright
or just the same old diffidence of the
masculine sex.
The Madison Club came here under
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C. A. HARWELL
Leader In
Furniture and Undertaking
Covington, Ga.
the auspices of the fourth circle of
the library association and the ladies
are to the good something like sixty
dollars for the evening.
After the performance was conclud¬
ed a dance was given to the mem¬
bers of the troupe and other visitors
in the city in the hall. An orchestra
from Atlanta funished the music and
it was a most enjoyable climax to an
evening of pleasure.
Teacher’s Examination.
The next regular Teachers’ Exami¬
nation will be held June 18th and 19 th.
Questions on Theory and Practice of
Teaching will be based largely on
Dutton’s School Management and
Dinmore’s Teaching a District School.
A. H. Foster, C. S. C.
i W. J. Higgins SJ
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