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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, March Ga., under the Act of
3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., June 23, 1909
What became of that muzzle ordi¬
nance for dogs Covington once had?
Conservatism is one of the greatest
things in the world, but it can be car¬
ried too far some times.
A number of our citizens are kick¬
ing at what they claim is an excessive
rate for water and sewer connection.
The worst is about to happen. Con¬
gress will get through with the tariff
business sometime during the pres¬
ent year.
It is said that there are ten poor
men in the senate. It takes that kind
to make a country poorer than the
proverbial church mouse.
Those smooth, graveled driveways
and the great flare of electric lights
(?) at the Academy Spring Park is
something unique to say the least of it.
With airships selling for seven
thousand five hundred dollars, it is
very probable that the newspaper
men will sometimes get above some
people.
Of all the freaks we have heard of
being perpetrated upon the human
mind, the latest is the taking of a lit¬
tle Christian science at five dollars
per week.
That barbecue and good roads con¬
vention would be a winner all right.
We have no doubt but that it would
be attended by almost everybody in
the county.
Water works and sewerage, a new
school auditorium and a handsome
Baptist church all to be placed to the
credit of the present year. That isn’t
bad for progress, is it?
The next improvement in line with
the ideas of ,a majority of the mem¬
bers of the city council is to pave the
public square. Wouldn’t it be a beau¬
ty if it were asphalted?
We would like to see Newton’s
representative place a feather in his
cap by introducing a dog muzzle law.
lie would certainly receive the grati¬
tude of the people of the state.
William J. Bryan will be in the race
for the United States senate from
Nebraska next year. Here’s hoping
he will not meet with the same fate
he encountered in his three races for
the presidency.
All that punk about tariff rates is
leading a great many American peo¬
ple to wish that all the members of
congress and the United States sen¬
ate were safely corralled in that great
and only Gatun dam.
The editors of The Covington
News, the people’s paper, appreciate
the words of praise given it by the
great, big-hearted people of the coun¬
ty. Without their co-operation it
would be a dead issue.
Of all the pusilanimous rot we have
ever heard of the divorce trial of Mrs.
Howard Gould takes the cake. Such
actions by America’s rich is in some
instances the cause of dissatisfaction
and separation among the poorer
people.
We notice that one of our exchanges
states in great big capital letters that
everything in its columns was fresh.
In that same issue there were a num¬
ber of articles clipped from some ag¬
ricultural paper, the age of which is
not known.
The News, though a young paper,
has the largest paid-in-advance circu¬
lation of any paper ever issued in the
fifth congressional district, outside of
Atlanta. It is read by more people
perhaps every week than any other
paper is read in a month.
The Farmers Union in devising the
scheme for a chain of warehouses, is
laying plans for one of the most far
reaching and commendable under¬
takings ever attempted by an organ¬
ization of people. They are getting
at the bottom of the problem with
which the farmer has to cope, and
with the proper methods they must
surely win out.
A GIFT TO POSTERITY.
Some one of our exchanges recently
published a paragraph to the effect
that good roads would be a very fine
thing to hand down to posperity, and
there is enough thought contained in
that one sentence to fill a whole page
of a newspaper. Did you ever stop
to think that if our forefathers had
had the FORETHOUGHT to hand
down roads fifty years ago equal to
the ones we now have, and if the
present generation had accomplished
as much as they have, this county
would have thoroughfare equal in
smoothness to the Georgia and Cen¬
tral railroad’s road bed? This seems
like a wild statement, but when you
figure out just what roads have cost
the county during the past fifty years
you will see that the expense has been
enormous and while much has been
done in the way of improvement,
practically no grading has been done
and the consequence is that we have
fairly good roads with a number of
heavy grades over which it is in some
instances a practice of cruelty to ani¬
mals to haul anything like a load
over them.
The road question has been a prob¬
lem with the authorities since time
memorial. Work is done on all of
them but before the road force can
get back to them they are generally
in an almost impassable condi¬
tion, with deep holes, washes, rocks,
bumps and every thing else imagina¬
ble all along, and quite frequently the
bad places are so close together it is
impossible to travel over them in a
faster gait than a walk. Suppose we
hand down to posterity these same
hills and washed out places in our
roads, would it be keeping apace with
the age of progress we now live in?
We hardly think so. It has been the
theme of thinking men during all past
ages to leave the world and conditions
regulating the lives of the future gen¬
eration better than they found it, and
there are right here in old Newton
county a large majority of people who
believe this road question should be
settled at the very earliest date pos¬
sible with better highways for them¬
selves and for the next generation.
Of course the people, or the county,
for that matter, is not able to go
ahead and spend something like a
hundred thousand dollars building
roads for our descendants to get the
benefit of if the amount is to be raised
by special taxation or public subscrip¬
tion. There are a lot of people who
oppose good roads on this ground.
We do too. But to every 'improve¬
ment of a public nature there is a
way to overcome opposition and ob¬
stacles by so managing the campaign
as to equalize cost and benefit to
people concerned. In this matter
seems to us that the most
method to be used would be to
the recommendation of the last
jury in good faith and work from
basis. That body of men
twenty-four of the most
and conservative men in the county,
and they are all land owners.
pay taxes to keep up the roads
other public improvements, and
their recommendation they
the issuance of road bonds
$25,000.00 as a minimum. Since
plan was suggested and put in
form of a resolution there have
added to that number of
owners several scores of good
advocates who believe the bond
will solve the problem. If we
road bonds we will have to hold
election and it will take a
majority to get the bonds
Frankly, The News does not
that an election for $25,000.00
carry in this county, and in ease it
decided to issue bonds to that
amount it w T ould not be half
to put the roads in a thoroughly
or permanent condition. To do
most good it w T ould take at
seventy-five thousand dollars to
the w T ork. That sounds like a
amount but when you stop to
that the tax rate will be raised but
very little and it will not be a
to any ONE, the wisest policy is
fix them right and be done with
The time of the payment of the
could be made such that the
moving to this county twenty
from now would pay for the
they get from the permanent work
the highways. The burden would
EQUALLY distributed ON ALL
use them and who will use them
after years.
THE LOVINGTON NEWS
I We do not want to take a stand
and advocate a thing which would
place the county or the people in an
embarassing condition but we do
believe that NEWTON COUNTY
IS AS ABLE AS ANY COUNTY IN
GEORGIA TO ISSUE ROAD BONDS
TO THE AMOUNT OF $100,000. We
also believe that it is a duty every
citizen owes to himself and to his
children to do all he can to have this
much needed and sought for im¬
provement made a reality and not a
source of argument and opposition.
In the question of the benefits to
be derived from a bond issue there is
probably more real profit gained
from the expenditures for good roads
than there in anything else in the
power of the people. It is a known
fact that everywhere you see roads
up to a high state of
you also see the best farms in the
country and in most cases more pride
is taken in the condition of the land
than is places having poor roads.
This statement is not wild but is
based on the observation of men who
have made a study of conditions
farms along the lines of good roads.
Another thing about good roads is
the contentment found in the
of the people living in the rural
tricts. They take an interest in
enjoy life, glad they are living
perfectly satisfied to live on the
farms—the best place on God’s
foot stool. Isn’t it reasonable
believe that in a country where
farms are kept up to a high state of
cultivation with
above the average, with a happy
contented people and the best
advantages of any county in
state, that it would be a most
ble and wise thing to BUILD GOOD
ROADS AT ANY' COST? Isn’t
also reasonable to believe that
good roads—the thing producing
enumerated
would be better and all our
be in a more prosperous
These are some of the questions
consideration by the people of
ton county and THERE IS
TIME TO DO IT LIKE NOW1
The time has already overtaken
when the people of the rural
demand better and more
roads. The time has also
when EVERY MAN in the county
should get together and DEMAND a
road bond issue of $100,000 to give
farmer friends the highways they
sire. Farm lands would enhance in
value, which is not a small item
the men who would pay for the
provement, and we dare say that
increase in the price of their
would more than pay for the
bond issue within five years,
the other benefits.
But what we consider the
pressing demand for road
is to hand down to our children
grand children something they
appreciate and help pay for.
could be considered a gift with
string tied to it, but we would
what we want and what
w r ill want—good, smooth roads
out steep grades and bumps.
MEN of Newton county let’s
together and get these roads.
quicker we do it the better we
all feel.
Some people just can’t help
apologizing. Truly, it takes a
and bright man to make an
in good faith.
The great port rate decision
handed down by the railroad
sion Thursday. They declined
grant the request for reduced
from the coast.
No, Geraldine, we fail to see
thing “mysterious” about the
Herald scout cars. They have
appearance of being quite plain
matter of fact.
It is stated by the Madison
tiser that the accommodation
from Buckhead to Atlanta daily is
sure thing. We congratulate the
ple all along the line on securing it.
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Notice is hereby given that
the next meeting of the
Assembly a bill will be
to amend an act entitled an act
amend the charter of the City
Covington authorizing the
and council of said city of
ton to create an electric light
i water board for said city and
' other purposes.
| 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 land of George W. Stone; on the South
by lands ofj. S. Stewart, trustee, and on the
West by lands of 11. 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 land. This June 2, 1909.
S. M. HAY, Sheriff.
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 Win.
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.
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. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
Citation.
GEOKGIh, 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
7tli day of June, 1909.
A. D. MEADOR, Ordinary.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all par¬
ties concerned not to hire or harbor
Frank Banks, he being under con¬
tract with me for the year of 1909.
This, June 1st, 1909.
NELSON JONES.
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PAINT
INSURANCE
Good paint is good insurance. It adds far more than
its cost to the value of a property.
Devoe is in every way the cheapest paint, because it j 3
absolutely uniform and reliable, always full measure,
takes less gallons and wears longest.
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FINCHER-NORRIS HARDWARE GO.
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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, 1909, 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
city for eight days at such times as they may he
notified by the Marshal or Deputy Marshal of
said city.
Passed at regular meeting of the Council, June
4, 1909.
CHAS. G. SMITH. Mayor.
J. J. CORI.EY, Clerk.
Dog Tax Notice.
A tax of One Dollar is due on all Dogs in the I
City of Covington June 1st. A failure to pay this
tax by June 20th will result in a double tai oc |
each dog. The Council proposes to collect this
tax on every dog and puppy in the city limits.
Collars or tags will tse furnished at the office of |
of the City Clerk.
Passed at regular meeting of Council; Jane l ( |
1909. CHAS. G, SMITH, Mayor,
J. J. CORLEY, Clerk.
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