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Entered as second-class matter De¬
cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA., September 8,1909
Dr. Cook says he placed Old Glory
on the tip end of the earth.
Chinese Puzzle—Just what substance
is a Knocker composed of ?
Transportation via the airship plan
doesn’t now seem to be such a far oil
mode after all.
We suppose Dr. Frederick Cook,
who discovered the North Pole, was
at one time a resident of Atlanta.
Pellagra is one of the many new
diseases that ordinary, poor people
can have. And most anybody can
spell it, too.
The Newton County Good Roads
Club has started an active campaign
in every district leading to the im¬
provement of our highways.
Like the airship, telephone, rail¬
roads, and the wireless telegraph
were all toys at first. But their use¬
fulness could not be supplanted.
With a poultry show for December
and a live stock exhibit for Novem¬
ber, it would seem that Newton coun¬
ty is moving right along in industrial
lines.
A Missouri woman seeks a divorce
from her husband because he preaches
too long. She could at least do like
some people in Covington—sleep
awhile.
Our subscribers appreciate the fact
that we believe in using our space to
give them the news and that we never
fill up our front page with “Blowing
our own horn.”
While Georgia is spending so much
money every year in building homes
for the friendless, for the insane and
for the incurables, she should at least
provide some place in which to corral
her knockers.
Envious explorers are now disclaim¬
ing the fact that Dr. Cook actually
went to the north pole. They also
claim that he violated “polar ethics.”
Anyhow, he did more than any of
them ever did.
All sorts of things are being patent¬
ed in this country. Nashville has
just patented an odorless drunk. We
venture the assertion that one of that
description would make a man “see
sights,” however.
That lone train robber who held up
a fast express train in Pennsylvania
the other night was game even if he
did make the mistake of carrying off
a sack of the new Lincoln pennies in¬
stead of the sacks containing the
gold.
There is said to be a counterfeit
$500 bill in circulation, and the Atlan¬
ta Constitution excitedly calls on its
readers to search their roll. Nothing
doing here. We wouldn’t know
whether it was counterfeit or not,
eveu if .... by chance to get
any we were ”
our , hands ,
on one.
When you hear a man say that the
reason the newspapers are working
for good roads lies in the fact that
they are bought up by the automobile
factories, you can make a safe bet
that he doesn’t want good roads, and
is using that argument to prejudice
the farmer—the very man who will
reap the most benefit from modern
highways.
A collar has just come out which
will effectively keep a rooster from
crowing. Think of a rooster without
the privilege of crowing? He would
present about the same appearance
as a henpecked husband.
_, The „ Rome _ inbune that . there
says
are no papers in the state owned by
the railroads, and gives as their rea
son that the roads can always find a
more profitable investment. The
Tribune spoke a parable then.
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The American people are forcibly
reminded of that new song, “Some
body Lied,” when Harriman said he
judged men by the size of their head,
Until right recently he has judged
them by the size of their purse.
The first bale of new cotton brought
this city came into town last Wednes¬
day afternoon, and was brought by
Mr. Joe McDonald, of Rockdale coun¬
ty. This bale of cotton was not mar¬
keted here, however. When the gen¬
tleman drove up in front of the Court
house and the local buyers went out
to get a sample, he told them they
had better get their sights up high as
no average price would buy it. His
attitude was very aggressive and for
that reason the buyers left the bale
uucut and refused to make a bid on it.
The buyers here buy cotton on its
merit and not under the supervision
of anyone. The gentleman carried
his cotton back home and later, we j
understand, took it to Conyers. In
that city they have a way of auction- |
ing off the first bale, and as Mi. Me
Donald had been accustomed to tins
procedure he could not understand
how it was that this cit\ conducted
her affairs on a business basis. j
Editor Eon bcott, of the ( onjeis
Free Press, who is always popping off |
hot air, had the following criticism to
to make of the incident:
“Mr. Joe McDonald sent the first,
bale to Covington Wednesday, and
the cotton buyers there would not even
make a bid on it, and he brought it
back home. Well, well, for a town
like Covington to get thus caught is
too bad. Our businessmen have nev¬
er been thus caught, and this town is
and has always been a good place to
buy goods and to sell farm produce.”
Coming as this does from that pa¬
per it makes the people of this county
get tickled up their sleeves. He nev¬
er fails to make a swipe at Covington
and Newton county, and this is but
another occasion where his envy gets
the better of his judgment.
LOOKING FORWARD.
The merchants and business men of
the city are making great preparations
and are looking forward with enthu¬
siasm to the prospects of a splendid
business season the coming fall and
winter.
In every store there has been some
improvement made to accommodate
the rural friends who come to the city
and all merchants have used then
shrewdest judgment in buying their
stocks of goods. An air of interest
and hope is prevalent in all the stores
and business places, and that fact in
itself will make the bright side of
commercial activity loom up in large
proportions from the cavalcade of dull
months just passed.
In the dry goods establishments new
goods are already arriving and the
large amount of freight being received
over both the railroads indicate that
the merchants have great confidence
in the cotton crop and the price the
fieecy staple will bring. In a few
more weeks cotton will begin to come I
in and then you will see Covington
and Newton county at the best.
When the farmer begins to bring in
his products and pay his obligations
there is always a happy smile
on the face of the business man
and the wage earner and professional
men will reap the reward for their
year of work.
If you haven’t got the hopeful
smile, get it.
Medical Fakirs Barred From Mails.
The patent medicine man is in
trouble. True to the old adage, his
troubles are coming not singly but in
battallions. It has not been long
since he was shown in his true colors
by the magazines of the country who
proved that his cure-alls were com¬
posed to a large extent of colored wa¬
ter and cheap whiskey.
He made threats of libel suits but
his little bluff availed him nothing.
He was in a position to know the
truth of the magazine articles.
Now his crowning affliction has
i come in the decided action of the gov
ernment , which , . , has , denied , . , the of .
use
! the ,, mails ... to some of ... the more llag- ,.
I rant frauds, and which has others of
j j t , his great and opulent brotherhood of
q Uac k a under investigation,
A certain little city in Georgia was
g rea tly astonished a few years ago
when it was shown that the nickels
spent for a certain soft drink at the
founts in one year equalled in amount
to the sums expended by all the
churches of the city for all purposes
during the same period.
If someone would give us the sum
of money that goes every y ear from
our own town into the pockets of the
patent medicine fakirs, we are confi
dent that its figures would prove a
distinct surprise to all. The govern
ment is by r this movement rendering
a valuable service to the more igno
i rant class of people who the
our are
best customers of those public bene
factors who crowd into one bottle,
selling for one dollar, cures for all the
ills that flesh is heir to, from tooth
ache to tuberculosis.
! The man who is sick enough to need
medicine is generally sick enough to
consult a physician; and the man who
i 8 sick at all had better, if he values
his health, steer clear of the concoc
tions which create more ills than they j
I cure.—Conyers Times. I
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Up to the time of going to press
night Atlanta had not suggested
of her able citizens as American
to the North Pole.—Amerieus
The reunion of Confederate Vete
of Georgia will be held in Athens
the 28th and 29th of September,
parade will occur on the 29th and
big circus will be in the city at the
time. Athens is making great
for the reunion.—Ex.
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Harriman, the multi-millionaire rail
magnate, has built a three mil
dollar dwelling hoU8e . what
You won’t catch us
three million dollars of our
y j n a i 10 use to live in.
The women who were once mem¬
of the Order of the Garter in En
. , the ,, garter , then- ,, .
wore on arms
Augusta Herald says the millions
women in this country who are
of the order wear the insig
elsewhere.—Amerieus Times-Re¬
corder.
If “advice is a cheap commodity
when delivered by the fairly success¬
ful, then it must be a hundred times
“cheaper” than zero when given by
one who has never accomplished any¬
thing by his own efforts.—Oconee
Enterprise.
The Commerce News fears that un¬
der the law making county school
commissioners elective a “few will
be elected to the important office who
cannot solve a simple problem in sin¬
gle rule of three, and know nothing
and care less about how schools should
be conducted.” Expect the News
could find some of that sort already
on the job.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Another Way.
There are several ways of throwing
bricks at your “esteemed contempo¬
rary. This is one employed by the
Clay Center Times:
Was the editor of “Black and White”
looking toward Clay Center when he
wrote the following:
“When the editor of a certain coun¬
try newspaper is in a hurry, he doesn’t
waste words by saying ‘itrained’. He
simply writes:
“After many days of arid desication
the vapory captains marshalled their
thundering hosts and poured out upon
scorching humanity and thethorough
ty incinerated vegetation a few inches
at l ua pluvialis.”—The Kansas City
Journal,
Oklahoma is kicking against some
of the federal laws which allow whis
key to be shipped into a dry state,
If she wins out it will affect a num¬
ber of the other states having prohi¬
bition. She also claims that it is not
right to allow the use of the mails for
whiskey advertising.
CIRCUSES.
The Old and the New and the Great¬
est Drawing Card.
Before the one ring days and going
back a few centuries the circus was
represented in the person of a mounte¬
bank, a thin visaged, clean shaven
man who hitched his trapeze to the
sturdy limb of a village oak and did
feats to the ill concealed amazement
of a people who respected God some¬
what. but the devil and his black
magic a great deal more.
A long and high jump this—from
mouutebank to modern hippodrome,
from a man who lived under his hat
to a tented city which houses as many
as 25.000 people in one day and regu¬
larly furnishes food, shelter and trans¬
portation for 1,200 more, to say noth¬
ing of a hospital, a postoffice and a
commissary where one can purchase
almost anything from a postage stamp
to a suit of overalls.
The big show today is as Highly spe
cialized and deviously organized as is
our greatest business institution. Its
maintenance costs a thousand dollars
an hour. Yes, it's a long jump from
the mountebank; but. after all. things
haven’t changed so much in some
ways.
A man who was ruuning a trick
pony and dog show last year added a
“thriller” to his program in the way
of a dangerous flying trapeze act. To
the delight of his pockets, but the in¬
tense disgust of his trainer’s soul, the
door receipts almost doubled. He had
two men at the door one night who
asked the outgoing crowds which part
of the show they liked best—the trick
aa imals or the acrobats. They answer
e( j as ono< “The acrobats!”
Danger—danger to other human
lives and limbs—that's the drawing
card, after all, excepting only the chil
dren who are too young to he gory
minded an< * ^ nt i mos ^ delight in
!. l \ e "' „rownups likf tin
_ WilIiam A1Ieu JoLnston ln Harper**
Weekly
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FOR SALE—Two farms near Coy
iugton. W. B. Shepherd.—tt.
In an audience composed mostly of
of the Farmers’ Union, one
the speakers recently expressed the
friendship between the farmer
the newspaper in the following:
‘As a rule the farmer has no firmer
than the press. The home pa¬
is distinctly the farmer’s own
supported directly and indi¬
by farmers, who compose the
of the subscription list of
printer and largely for what the
merchant advertises.
brother, let us not forget our
Let us see that our subscrip¬
is paid a year in advance. We
do it.
“The man or the paper that fights
battle can have my support. An¬
other thing, the merchants advertis
are the ones that make it possi¬
ble for us to get a good local paper.
The man or local firm that is too pen¬
urious to advertise and help the local
press has no right to the farmer’s
patronage.
“I promise hereafter to go to the
live advertiser, and the man who does
his share in supporting the local press,
thus contributing to my support,
rather than buy of a man who pro¬
poses to take all and give nothing
back. If farmers as a class would
support their friends, the other fel¬
low would soon go out of business.”
—Hartwell Sun.
NO IMPEDIMENT.
An Objection to a Wedding Ceremony
That Was Overruled.
A popular politician tells a story
about one of his electioneering cam¬
paigns. He had arrived about noon at
a certain small station. He started out
after dinner for a walk about the vil¬
lage. on the outskirts of which he
came upon a building thronged with
people.
The building was a church, and a
wedding was about to take place. lie
edged his way through the crowd until
he reached a spot where he had a good
view of the bride and bridegroom and
the clergyman who was about to per
form the ceremony.
The church was packed, with the ex¬
ception of a low. dark gallery near the
roof. This was apparently deserted.
The minister proceeded with the
ceremony until he came to the point
where custom required him to pause
and inquire if there was any one pres¬
ent who knew any reason why the
couple should not be made husband
and wife. A hush fell upon the as¬
semblage, and every one waited in
breathless suspense. Something of a
sensation was caused when a voice
came from the upper gal'ery, saying:
“Yes, I do.”
All eyes were turned to the gallery,
where, seated all alone in the gloom,
barely discernible, was a meek looking
little man. with a haggard face and
disheveled hair. After the clergyman
had recovered from his surprise he
said sternly, “State your reason, sir!”
The suspense was turned to merri
ment by the little man's reply:
“I want the girl myself,” he said,—
London Tit-Bits.
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Rest Your Eyes.
The moment you are instinctively in¬
clined to rub the eyes that moment
cease to use them. Also it is time to
give your eyes a rest when you be¬
come sensible of an effort to distin¬
guish. Cold water is about the safest
application for inflamed eyes. Never
sleep so that on awakening the eyes
shall open on the light of a window.
Never read or sew directly in front of
the light of a window, the better light
being that that comes from above or
obliquely or over the left shoulder.
Too much light is an evil, just as Is
scant light. It creates a glare that
pains and confuses the sight.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons indebted to the estate of
J. N. A. Henderson, deceased, late of
said county, are hereby notified to
make immediate payments, and all
creditors of said deceased are hereby
notified to render unto the under¬
signed all demands against said estate
within the terms of the law. This,
August 4, 1909,
F. A. HENDERSON,
Admr. of estate J. N. A. Henderson,
deceased.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons indebted to the estate of A. S. Bell,
late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified
to make immediate payment, and all creditors of
said deceased are hereby notified to render unto
the undersigned all demands against said estate
in terms of the law. July 10. 1909.
JAS. S. GARDNKR.
Executor of A. S. Bell estate,
—We make a specialty of ice cream
milk shakes and lemonade. Parker’s
place.—tf.
Palmer Institute
Oxford, Georgia.
The next session will open Sept. i.
Tickets for tuition, payable monthly in
advance, (‘an be purchased at Mr. B. E.
Dial’s store.
Rates of tuition : 10th grade, $5.00 per month. 7th, 8ht
9th grades, $2.50 per month. 6th grade, $1.75 per month. 5th
grade and fourth grade, $1.50 per month. 2nd and 1st grade
$1.25 per month.
Miss M. E. Stanford, A. B., Principal Misses Bessie M.
Holtzendorff, A. B., Angie Baygood, G. N. & I. C., and Louise
Boyd, Assistants.
City’s Finest Drugstore
SMITHS DRUG STORE
Also a nice Line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
» Nunnally’s Fine Candies Always Fresh.
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Jj We believe the reason you have not
| bought more goods from us you have not
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j Yours very truly,
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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.
Machine Shop Under New Management
Ira Blackstock, Mgr. j
house I and have leased the old Evans machine shop, in the rear short of tiff n a °j^| j
am prepared to do all kinds of repair work on
When your engine, boiler, or any other machinery is out of vv ^ r . I
order, miss the I will fix it for I make you at specialty prices so of reasonable work that you engim can s .jJ I
money. a repair on .
and all kinds of gin machinery. Give next order of rC t’ air ^ I
me your
