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Cotton Market:
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday .
Middling- U c ts -
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VOL-1 NO.
ightning strikes
several houses,
j est Rain and Thunder Storm
ar( Coving
f the Season Strikes
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tonSunday Afternoon
The hardest rain fall Covington has
W V „ years foil Sunday afternoon,at
t five o’clock. The cloud which
■° n came up very
, v ery dark one
jddenly,*and thunder-storm. with it a heavy rain
„d struck the new house
Lightning Conyers street by
erected on and did consid
' Anderson,
V z.
-able-damage, knocking a large hole
both sides of the building and tear
Ollt 0116 0 f the big veranda col
g which shivered to splinters
pin,, was
Pan Mobley had stopped in the
lilding to keep out of the rain and
ie pi a ee struck was only a few feet
iStant- He was badly shocked and
that tji m e has been
pable to hear well. His injury is
ot thought serious, however, and he
Lects to be all right within a few
ays. of Major John B.
the residence
a™ was also struck and consider
jbly ! damaged. done Possibly by lightning the strang
ted feak ever oc
at that place. It seems
cbolt struck the electric light line
:dpassed into the house where the
eter was completely demolished,
then passed on up stairs where
Jit into a bed room and drilled a
-'e about an inch in
■?ough the bed clothing,
ul a pair of pants. The remarkable
Trt of it was that the bedding did
feignite and that the hole was cut
-rough so smoothly and even. The
it then passed over to a dresser in
e room where it totally demolished
e miri-ow and a book which was on
e bureau. There was no other place
i the piece of furniture showing a
rat eh.
Among til-- other places struck
the same time were the res¬
ellers of Messrs W. 0. Burt, A. I).
Bailor, Mrs. S. J. Echols and the
Mway church. The damage to
ese were small and no one was in
U
The storm only last ed
e a half hour’ but was terriffic
'the entire time.
There Are a Few People in Every
Locality Who Are Getting
Ahead in the World
They are better off than they were a year or more ago ; they
are spending less than they earn, in other words I HE\
ARE SAVING SOMETHING some way. There are
ollicrs in the same locality who are falling behind. I his is
sometimes due to misfortune, but more often to lack of the
proper care in spending their money.
NoMatter What Date is Stamped
On It, A Dollar Is Not Old
Enough to Take Care
of Itself.
W "? no * -1° business on a sale basis and be one of tile “get
Aeadr BRING YOUR DOLLARS TO US FOR
t KEEPING. When you make y6ur first deposit we
pto^-ent you with a deposit book and check book, these are
y°urs without cost to you ; the check with which you pay
' 0ur acc ount is receipt for it and always have record
a we a
la 0386 you fail to be properly credited—in other, words
bank account with us guarantees you safety to your funds
dhout cost to you.
^ Vou Wish to Succeed Deposit
Your Money With The
First National Bank
Covington, Georgia.
V_-
CENSUS SUPRRVI
SORS APPOINETD,
Hon. Alonzo Brand Made Super¬
visor for Fifth District. He
Will Make Good One.
President Taft Saturday made the
appointments of the different census
supervisors for the state of Georgia,
and who appointed is Hon. Alonzo M. Brandi
at present Mayor of Lithonia,
as the head man for the Fifth Con¬
gressional district. Mr. Brand is a
very popular man all over the district
and his friends are congratulating
him over his appointment.
It is said that there was a strong
fight made to put a republican in.this
office, but Mr. Taft stated that there
would be no politics allowed in this
departmant and made the appoint¬
ment of a democrat. He also stated
that if any man connected with the
census department engaged in politics
he would be immediately discharged
from the service.
Following are the appointments
made in the district s throughout the
state :
First district, Francis Xavier Doug¬
lass; second, Eugene Leigli Rainey;
third, George Ernest Rickey; fifth,
Alonzo M. Brand; sixth, Charles Ak
erman; seventh, Louis Hanley Craw¬
ford; eighth, Willis Beauregard Ad¬
ams; ninth, T. R. Allen; tenth, Jos¬
eph N. Lee; eleventh,' Alexander P.
Perham, Sr. „
Operated On For Appendicitis
Mr. J. W. Carr, formerly of this
city, but now of Philadelphia, was
operated on in that city on the eight
of this month for appendicitis, from
which he has been suffering for some
time. Just before we go to press we
learn through relatives that he is re¬
covering nicely and that he will be
able to be out again in a few weeks.
Mr. Carr has many friends in this
city and county who regret very much
to learn of-his attack of appendicitis
but are very glad to know that he is
improving.
YOUNG’S WHITE LEGHORNS.—
75 March hatched pullets for sale.
J. C. Mills, Porterdale, Ga.—tf.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 18, 1909
REV. E. R. PENDLETON
AT BLUE RIDGE GAMP
He Writes Enthusiastically About
the Georgia Baptist’s Encamp¬
ment at that Place.
Blue Ridge, Ga., August 12, 1909.
Editors Covington News:
Blue Ridge has been for two weeks
the Meeca of Georgia Baptists, but,
as many could not make the pilgrim¬
age, a word about the doings of the
Assembly may be in order.
The location is all that could be de¬
sired, with rolling and timbered
grounds, well watered by springs and
streams, ensconsed in the very lap of
the Blue Ridge mount ains, a half mile
from the railway station. ’Bus lines
at five cents a passenger make hourly
trips. On the grounds are a splendid
auditorium, seating a thousand peo¬
ple, or more if necessary, and a splen¬
did restaurant building, conducted
this year by one of Durand’s men in
most approved style at nominal rates,
no profits being expected.
The remainder of the grounds is
subdivided into lots and driveways.
Lots are being sold at fifty to one
hundred dollars each, to people who
will build cottages or bring tents.
Madison, Monticello, Washington,
Monroe, Covington and Newton coun¬
ty are represented. The Covington
party is established in tents two hun¬
dred yards from the restaurant and
about a quarter of a mile from a
splendid mineral spring which has
proven a line and improving physic
for Mr. Branham Anderson, and the
rest of us as well. Jim Estes, of New¬
ton, was on the winning side in the
Mercer debate and gracefully received
the Lovejoy cup for his fraternity.
The program is on the Chautauqua
plan and includes the ablest lectures,
musical talent, etc., that can be
commanded.
Living is on a most economical
scale within the reach of almost any
one who can get away from home for
the time, and no hum of a mosquito
or “honk” of an automobile, or rush¬
ing tide of business breaks upon the
untrammeled spirit. Mountain ponies
can be secured at the stables upon
which all who desire may climb the
loftiest peaks, or visit the fishing
grounds several miles distant. A
morning ride of four miles took some
of our party this week out over a
grand mountain road before the fog
settled or the sun rose, and gave us a
beautiful view of valleys and vistas
over which hung the low fog and
above which the king of the day broke
with golden splendor, giving a view
of nature denied to all save those who
climb. Returning by ten o’clock we
enjoyed a fish fry from our morning
catch, and an appetite so keen that
we felt the full joy of living.
From one peak can be seen the
ranges in four states. Truly, no mis¬
take has been made in locating the
assembly grounds, and it is hoped
that many hundreds of Baptists will
find it a retreat during the hot season
in future years.
As to our sleeping in a tent—no, it
does not rain in, under, or leak thru.
We are lulled to slumbers by the hoot
of the owl and the song of the katy¬
did, and truly sleep could not be any
sweeter or more refreshing even on
ocean billows.
We hope to return by September
first, greatly strengthened for better
work, and if any one who is tempted
to begrudge the vacation to tired
brains and nerves, could see how
much our little party is enjoying this
touch of nature, surely he would with
unselfish impulse “rejoice with those
who rejoice.”
E. R. Pendleton.
SOME THINGS THE
LEGISLATURE DID
Session of This Year Noted For
The Lack of General Bills
Of Importance.
The session of the Georgia Legisla¬
ture which adjourned last Wednesday
is noted for the lack of the passage of
bills of importance. A number of
trivial matters came up and received
a lot of hot air argument but the scar¬
city of something really beneficial to
the people of the st ate has been per
cepible from the start.
Among the general bills which suc¬
ceeded in passing both houses are the
following:
To elect county school commission¬
ers by the people. osteopathy.
To create a board of
To require fire insurance companies
SCHOOL RALLY AT
MIXON AUGUST 27.
People of That Section Are Ar¬
ranging Splendid Program.
Several Good Speakers.
We have been requested to announce
that there will be held at the Mixon
school on August 27th, a big school
rally, at which time there will be a
splendid program rendered and many
prominent speakers will deliver ad¬
dresses to the people, among who will
be the State School Commissioner,
County School Commissioner, mem¬
bers of the Board of Education and
others.
An interesting program all the way
through will lie prepared before the
date fixed and all who attend are as¬
sured of a day worth spending.
Every citizen in the county is in¬
vited to attend and bring baskets, as
dinner will be served on the grounds.
The school at that place is probably
the best known in the state, for a
country school, as it was one among
the first to put in force the consolidated
plan, carrying the children to and
from school. This fact has given it
quite a great deal of advertising.
Go down and spend the day with
the good people of that section on the
twenty-seventh. You will have a
pleasant time and never regret having
gone. They know how to treat you
nice down there.
Makp A Bonus.
It is up to the merchants of this
city to get together and offer a liberal
premium for the farmer marketing
the first bale of new cotton in Cov¬
ington. This is what a number of
other towns are doing, and it shows
that you want the farmers to bring
their cotton here. In fact it helps a
lot to get advertised as a towu appre¬
ciating the planters trade enough to
pay them something for it.
Goods bought from us delivered any¬
where in the city, or at the Covington
Mill. Parker’s Grocery .Store.—tf.
FOR SALE.—A good farm near
Oxford. Easy terms. R. E. Everitt.
MR, HAMMOND ON
THE ROAD SITUATION.
Takes Issue With Some Bond
Enthusiasts, Offers His Plans
as the Solution.
Editors Covington News:
I am not an especially invited guest,
but since The News is OUR paper, I
hope to be admitted into its columns.
Much has been said concerning good
roads, and we have been reading the
different writers’ views with a great
deal of interest, as it is a question we
are all interested in, and they have
all advanced some good plans, but we
t hink that Messrs. Almand, Ellington
and Pickett have brought out the
most practical plans.
I do not endorse Mr. Pickett’s criti¬
cisms of the honorable board of coun¬
ty commissioners. They may have
made some mistakes. We are sur¬
rounded with circumstances that
make us do things against our better
judgement. Had he been one of the
board and chairman of the board or
the whole board for that matter, we
doubt whether he could have done
any better.
Prof. Stone has taken some lofty
flights, but has returned to the start¬
ing point and now gives us a split-log
machine that we think will do good
work, and if the county has not got
road machines enough we would like
to see them put on trial. We know
that it would be a great saving of axle
grease, to say the least of it.
We fail to see the need of a thirty
foot road bed, except to get past the
automobiles and around the mud holes.
As to the autos, we think they
should be kept off the public high¬
ways, for the wealth can better afford
to do wit hout the pleasures of their
autos than the common people can of
their horses and mules or be forever
in dread of meeting an automobile,
not knowing what will happen. There
are people who have good horses and
mules that will walk to church or stay
at home because of them, but we sup¬
pose there is no remedy FOR US.
Rut as to the thirty-foot road bed,
the county will find that in another
year they will have to buy some mow¬
ing machines to keep the grass cut off
the roads. We think that the honor¬
able board of commissioners have
done the right thing in letting out the
roads to private contractors and we
hope to see the roads put in order at
an early date.
As to issuing bonds, we are not
ready to do anything like that yet,
and the fact that our representative
failed to get the biU introduced in
time for its passage, has saved the
county the expense of an election,
for we have yet to meet a man out¬
side of those who are writing for
bonds, who are in favor of bonds.
Superintendent Farmer was doing
the right thing when he was putting
in sand bed and gravel and chert. His
work on that line hasg ven us the best
roads we have ever had, and we think
that is the best plan at this time,
minus that extra ten feet. We care
nothing for the grades, only make
them firm and we will get over them
all right.
The best argument we have seen
yet and the most helpful toward good
roads was that of Messrs. Jim Park,
Joe Owens, Jim Ellis and others,
when they took their hands and fixed
the bad places near their homes. If
all our citizens would follow their ex¬
ample there would be much improve¬
ment in the condition of the roads.
Very respectfully,
E. P. Hammond.
to pay a license of $200.00 in lieu of
all other fees.
To make February 12 Georgia Day.
The house and senate both concur¬
red with the decision of Ex-Gov.
Smith in the suspension of S. G. Mc¬
Clendon, but refused to take as legal
the appointment of a solicitor of the
city court of Columbus made by him
nine months before the expiration of
his commission and seven months af¬
ter the governor’s term of office ex¬
pired.
Among the other bills carried over
as unfinished business were the com¬
pulsory education bill, the game law,
and the biennial session bill.
The dog tax law was the bone of
contention between the house and t he
senate, but was finally passed making
the tax one dollar on all dogs.
At midnight Wednesday the 1909
session of the legislature passed on to
the pages of history, and we doubt
not that with some of the members
| their children and grand children
I reading it will bring a blush to their
faces.
In New Home
The News is now lo¬
cated in it’s new
quarters o n Pace
street. Come to see
us for good printing.
$1. A Year In Advance.
NO CHANGES MADE
IN PENSION LAWS.
Bill Designed to Increase Number
of Persons Drawing Pensions
is Carried Over.
There will be no change in the pen¬
sion laws of Georgia this year. The
bill introduced at the last term will
go over until the next session as un¬
finished business. This bill was de¬
signed to increase the class of persons
entitled to pensions.
Numerous inquiries have reached
the ordinary’s office about the opera¬
tion of the proposed law and the pros¬
pects of its passage.
The measure was designed to grant
pensions to all Confederate soldiers
having less than $1,500 worth of prop¬
erty and to the widows of Confeder¬
ates who married again prior to 1870,
and who have no more than $1,500
worth of property.
Carl Smith With News Plant.
Mr. Carl Smith, who has long been
recognized as one of the most artistic
job printers in this section of _the
state, has severed his connection with
the Enterprise and is at home to his
friends at this office. When the N k ws
was first started Mr. Smith was with
this paper, but on the first of January
went with the other office. Due to
the fact the News plant contains the
job office formerly run by him, lie
says it is like getting back home.
We are not disposed to boast, or for
that matter to make claims which we
cannot substantiate, but with the un¬
excelled equipment and five first class
job printers, the News plant stands
without an equai in the state, outside
the cities, when it comes to the pro¬
duction of high class and original
printing. The beauty about it, too,
is that you get your order when you
want it, without having to wait for
it to be printed.
Remember Mr. Smith when you
need something nice in printing and
a call over the phone will bring him
to your place. He will give you tiie
BEST WORK coupled up together
with the BEST PRICES.
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