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Cotton Market: Following was ruling prices here yesterday . Middling- U c ts - Good mid* 1 ~ L*4 ct *»- VOL-1 NO. ightning strikes several houses, j est Rain and Thunder Storm ar( Coving f the Season Strikes 0 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. M OS T ANY BANK Can handle your business after a fashion, when times are good and money easy. When times are hard and money tight you feel the need of a business connection with a Big, Strong and Reliable Bank Do your banking business and make your credit good with the strongest Bank in Newton County The Bank of Covington Covington, Ga.