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PORTERDALE WINS FROM NORMAN TEAM, Pitcher’s Battle From Beginning, With Moore Leading Nor¬ man in Strike-Outs. In one of the prettiest games of the season, the Porterdale Baseball Team defeated the craek Norman Team from Ola by a score of 2 to 1. It was decidedly one of the fastest games ever played at Porterdale. The game was a pitchers battle between I. K. Norman, of the Ola team and L. C. Moore, the young pitcher of the Por t rlale team. Moore fanned 13 men and gave up only 3 hits. Norman fanned 11 men and gave up 7 hits. The Porterdale team has won 9 out of 12 games played and is growing decidedly stronger now than ever before. Below will be found the summary of the game. PORTERDA LE. r h e Miller, e f, 0 0 1 Earnst, 2nd b, 0 0 0 Amerson, 1st b. .. 1 2 0 Stone, ss, 0 1 1 Finley, rf, 1 1 0 Moore, p..... 0 2 0 Huff, 3rd b, 0 0 1 I). Stewart, c, 0 1 0 B. Stewart, If, 0 0 1 — — TOTALS 2 3 NORMAN TEAM r h e H. Turner, of, 0 0 0 W. Turner, 2nd b, 0 0 0 O. Sewell, e, 1 0 1 Willard, 3rd b, 0 0 0 Duke, rf, 0 2 0 P. Turner, as, 0 0 0 I. J£. Norman, p, 0 0 0 A. C. Norman lb 0 0 1 Johnson, If, 0 1 0 — — — TOTALS, 1 3 2 Struck out by Moore, 13, by Nor man, 11. Umpire, Stillwell. Laying The Corner Stone. Yes, I attended the laying of the corner stone of the new Baptist church now being Erected in Covington. It’s a little strange to say, but this was my first trip to the laying of a corner stone. It is said that the wise man gathers from every event he witnesses and treasures up the experience of the past to guide him for the future. I had some disposition to learn the origin of corner stones and their uses. There was a failure on the part of the speaker, Rev. J. M. Brittain, who was for some years pastor of the Baptist church here, to meet the occasion, he being sick and unable to attend. Quite a disappointment, and which necessi¬ tated the calling on the present pas¬ tor, the Rev. Mr. Pendleton, who made a good substitute, and seems to be leaning in the right direction. Pendleton’s views in regard to cor¬ ner stones was that they were of Catholic origin, but by further inves¬ tigation I was informed that the his tory went back to the second Temple of Solomon and that the Masons placed it under tho north east corner of that temple. So this antidates the Catholics, if true. It, I think, is a good custom for the preservation of records, etc. A WOKL) ABOUT CHURCHES. Sir John Pierpoint, of New York City, took the trouble to get out a book showing the expenditures for churches in the world and advanced the idea that the amount was exces¬ sive, running into figures past enum¬ eration, but from my observation the more the better. They speak for themselves in any land and their want can easily be felt. They bring light and Christian unity and solem¬ nity of purpose among the masses; so let them be built in every land both fine and common, till every nook and corner shall have had their light. Horace Greely in years of the past went to Texas and on return was asked about their needs and he said they needed one thousand school ma’ams end one hundred thousand window panes. There is a clause in the book that says, “lam the light of the world,” and the most effective method of get¬ ting that light to the masses is schools a id churches, both fine and common. Truly, B. F. Camp. "Jonas, did you beat that rug accord¬ in’ to orders?” ‘‘No, S’manthy; I just didn’t.” “Didn’t? What’s the reason. I'd like to know?’’ “’Cause, S’manthy, when 1 got it out on the line there an’ saw how frittered an’ feeble it was I didn’t have the heart to lambaste it. I know 1 have a shortage of viriues, S’manthy, but I want you to know that respect for old age isn’t one of ’em.”—Boston Courier. Going to Law. The man who goes to law for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction gen¬ erally gets so many other things that he forgets all about the satisfaction if there is any in it for him.—Chicago "Let Us Reason Together.” j — (Continued from first page.) ______I date thirty-eight convicts on account of the new change in the convict sys¬ tem ; three times as many as she ever handled before. Therefore with three times as many convicts to care for, it will cost the county at the very low¬ est possible figure twenty thousand dollars per annum to care for and build any kind of roads with this number of convicts. So if you please, let twenty thous¬ and dollars be the basis from which we shall make our calculation. Then say that it will cost $2,500,00 per mile to build permanent road, with the twenty thousand dollars you have to ; spend on roads you can only build eight miles of road per annum. This biings us row to the main question which we are to decide, viz: Do we want this county to build these roads at once, or get them by piece¬ meal, when one way will cost practi¬ cally as much as the other? If there is no economy in waiting, why not have these good roads now, and let us enjoy their benefits? How can we build them now and have but little or no increase in taxation? If you are going to spend $20,000 every year any way, on the patch work and temporary work, why not raise enough money at one time to accomplish some material good? You can vote an issue of One Hun¬ dred Thousand Dollars of bonds, pay¬ able twenty years from date, these bonds can be easily sold at par bear¬ ing five per cent, interest. The inter¬ est on these bonds will amount to five thousand dollars per annum; create a sinking fund of Five Thousand Dollars per annum for the retirement of these bonds when due; place the sinking fund on time deposit in a safe bank paying four per cent, interest on the ! deposits; the interest on this sinking fund in twenty years will amount to about Forty Five Thousand Dollars compounded; therefore instead of your interest amounting to five per cent, on the whole bond issue, it will be only a little more than two and. one half per cent. Take the other ten thousand dollars that you are to have in hand, and keep the other roads in the county, while these per¬ manent roads are being built, in pass¬ able repair, feed and clothe convicts and care for the other necessary cur ! rent expenses of the county. This one hundred thousand dollars properly expended will build eighty miles of permanent good road thirty feet wide, that will be as good when your children are old men as it was the day it was built. Take some prominent point in the county as the hub, and build in each direction from that point, along the mostly traveled roads from ten to fif¬ teen miles, and extend these roads from time to time as you retire the present indebtedness until the entire county has a perfect system of roads. With this amount of money the chaingang can be supplemented with free labor, and during the summer months after the crops are layed by, the farmers of the county can be given employment in hauling rock and dirt from grades to fills, and dur¬ ing the winter months when road j work is practically suspended they can haul and cord rock along the pro¬ posed line of road for the crushers; or if you like a competent engineer can be secured by several surrounding counties, and he can furnish plans and specifications and let part of the roads by contract, requiring bond T)f the contractor for the acceptable ful¬ fillment of the same. The only loss to the county under this order of procedure is the interest on the bonded debt which we have already seen is a little more than two and one half per cent during the life of the bonds. In return for this loss you get an increase in taxable values of from two to five dollars per acre for every acre of land one of these roads penetrate; you save the wear and tear on your vehicles; the life and vitality of your live stock; time in going to and from markets, making two loads then where you make only one now. 4n the last ten years we have al¬ ready expended $125,000 on roads, and it only takes a winter’s rain and freezes to convince you of the folly of the present s\ stem of roads in the county, and that this money has al¬ most been uselessly expended. Don’t you think men of Newton county that we ought to get together on a sound business basis and quit wasting our money on temporary road work, and go to building roads, sure enough roads, good roads and perma¬ nent roads. Put an end to the great ! injustice being done future genera¬ tions, and by exemplarlry business be a blessing to our children instead of a burden. Just ask yourself this question. If you were going to build a mill dam, would you build one that would wash away with every rain, or would you build a good one, a permanent one that would stand against a deluge? Why of course you would build the permanent dam, and why? Because you know it would be a foolish expen ture of time and money to build the temporary one, and the great econo- THE COVINGTON NEWS No Singing at Red Oak This Year. We are requested to state that the usual annual singing held at Red Oak church, in Brewers district, will not be held this year. This is probably the first time in fifteen years that there has been no annual singing held at this place, and many who kave been in the habit of attending there gatherings will be disappointed to know that the singing has been called off for this year. NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLATION. A Bill will be introduced at the i present term of the legislators to authorize Newton County to issue $100,000.00 bonds for Road pur¬ poses. Also to create a bond com¬ mission. And order an election for same. Let me do your laundry work. I have the Troy Steam Laundry, and will do it as cheep asa.iy body. I will do up any thing from a circus tent to a pocket handerchief. Leave order atMcGarity’s stable Phone 167-L. HARRY AIKEN. Local Taxation in Morgan. (Continued from first page.) a month longer in the spring and one month in the fall the attendance would have been larger, but I am gratified by the following comparison: SCHOOL CENSUS FOR THE YEARS. White Colored Total 1903 1398 3691 • 5089 1908 1442 3655 5097 From the foregoing it will be seen that our entire school population has increased only eight pupils in five years; that the white population has increased in number 44 pupils, and that the colored population has de creassd 36 pupils in five years. Now I beg to call your attention to the enrollment and attendance durii g these five years, to-wit: ENROLLMENT. YEAR TERM WHITE COLORED TOTAL 1903 6 mo. 1157 2274 2431 1904 5 4 4 2017 2145 3352 1905 5 « t 1285 2339 3624 1906 5 4 4 1253 2356 3609 1907 5 < < 1334 2476 3810 1908 7 t ( 1402 2827 4229 ATTENDANCE. YEAR TERM WHITE COLORED TOTAL 1903 6 mo. 715 1378 2093 1904 5 i 4 717 938 1700 1905 5 4 ( 740 1166 1905 1906 5 i 4 801 1156 1957 1907 5 4 4 800 1236 2036 1908 7 4 i 752 1217 1970 A careful inspection of the above will disclose a constant increase in enrollment of white children from 1903 to 1908 inclusive, except a very slight decrease in 1006. The same is true of the enrollment of the colored schools. The average attendance of whites is but slightly less in 1908 for seven months than in 1907 or 1906 for five months and is larger than all pre¬ vious years.” The above demonstrates that the schools can be operated as success¬ fully for seven months as for five months. F. L. Florence, C. S. C. Morgan County Georgia. FATE OF THE BRAAKE. A Treasure Ship That Lies Buried Off Cape Henlopen. Somewhere in deep water off Cape Henlopen lies over half a million In British gold, and how much more In gold and silver bars and plate and oth¬ er treasures can only be guessed at. In 1798 the British privateer Braake sailed for the west Atlantic bearing enough gold to pay off all the English troops stationed in various parts of the new world. As the soldiers had not been paid in many months the sum was a large one. Whether the captain of the Braake decided to turn pirate or whether he merely was showing excessive zeal in making war on all the enemies of England that lie met on the high seas and intended to turn over his loot to the crown on his return will never be known, but the fact that the Braake took no prisoners and sank every prize goes a long way toward proving the piracy theory. The Braake captured a Spanish merchantman coming up from South American ports laden with rich tribute from the Spanish colonies there, transferred the precious cargo to her own hold and burned "the vessel Another Spanish ship bringing a church service of richly jeweled gold plate to a new world cathedral en¬ countered the privateer and suffered the same fate. The next to fall a vic¬ tim to the Braake's rapacity was a Frenchman carrying silks, spices, bran¬ dy and bars of silver. That, too, was sent to the bottom after it was de¬ spoiled. The Braake was overtaken by a hur¬ ricane when nearing the American coast, was blown far out of her course and sank off Cape Henlopen. Several of the crew escaped in a small boat and reached land. Their tales of the treasure on the sunken ship caused several expeditious to be fitted out the following year, but nothing was brought up save pieces of the anchor chains and a cannon or two. During the last hundred years every effort to raise any part of the treasure has failed. The last attempt was made by Cap¬ tain Charles Adams, who fitted out a ship under the auspices of (he navy department, but was unable to locate j the wreck, which is probably by this time deeply submerged in the ooze and mud of the ocean bed.—New York Press. my would be in building the perma¬ nent dam. The county of Newton is nothing more nor less than a large corpora¬ tion ; each tax payer is a stockholder, | and we are all partners in business ; so let us have a meeting of the stock holders, advise with our partners, get down 1 1 business, quit wasting our time and money,upbuild our county, increase our wealth, happiness and prosperity, and literally carry out by practice the teaching of the wise man: “Therefore whosoeverheareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a ! rock. And the rain decended, and the floods came and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these saying of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand.” On August I 7 th, at 10 o’clock, 1 will sell to the highest bidder, at my old home place, in Newton county, the three fine farms shown in the above plat. This is my old home place sub¬ divided into three convenient and desirable farms. This is some of the most valuable farm lands in Newton county. It is a rich mulatto soil and very productive. It is well situated, being on the new Covington road and the Covington and Lawrenceville road. Has R. F. D. service and there are schools and churches within a short distance. The new Covington road passes thru each of these farms, and teere are other good roads, making it easily accessible from all directions. There is abundant water and timber supply, about 20 per cent, of each farm being in fine original forest. These are selfsustammg farms and the man who is looking for an ideal country home or for a paying land invest¬ ment can’t afford to miss this sale. There are few desirable farms like these on the market today. In fact these would not be for sale but for the fact that I am so far from them as to make it impossible to give them hardly any attention. Terms of Sale I have made the terms easy so that this land will pay for itself. The terms are as follows : 5 per cent, of the price on delivery of bond for title. I will accept a good note for the 5 per cent, due Dec. 1, 1909. Note for 20 per cent, of price due Jan. 1, 1910. “ “ 25 “ “ ......Jan. 1, 1911. “ “ 25 “ “ “ “ “ Jan. I, 1912. “ “ 25 “ “ “ “ “ Jan. 1, 1913. All notes to bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent. Remember this land goes to the highest bidder. Don’t forget the date and place. TUESDAY AUGUST 17 TH For Furtlier information Address F. H. TUCK, Loganville, Ga. NICE FRESH GROCERIES You will always find at my store as nice and fresh Gro ceries as can be found in the city, and when you purchase them from me I make it a point to get them to your home just as quick as it is possible for me to do it. FRESH MEATS I also have in connection with my store a first class Meat Market and can furnish you with the choice kind of Meats you like so well. Giveme an order. I will appreciate it and will try to please you. Cigars aud Tobacco. Cash Paid for Hides. R. F. Wright, Covington, Georgia. Come to the Road Rally August 18,