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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA. September 15,1909
Edward H. Harriman, the great
railroad king, is dead, but the trains
will run just the same.
Remember the mctto of the mail
order house: “Unto this earth a
Sucker is born each minute.”
The sanitary inspector has been
gett'ng in some good work in the rear
of the stores for the past week.
The Dawson News is one of the
brightest and best papers in the state.
It. is a credit to the fourth estate.
It has been freely suggested that
the recent rot at the state asylum was
caused by insufficient appropriations.
It seems from all accounts if good
roads had been built, it would have
been a great deal easier to get to the
north pole.
We wonder if by placing Lincoln’s
head on the smallest coin of the realm
the government was seeking to cheap¬
en his memory.
The advertisers in The News repre¬
sent the most progressive business
men in Newton county. Look them
over and see if we are not right.
It now develops that the two discov¬
erers of the north pole are both deal¬
ers in hot air, notwithstanding the
cold climate of that vast region.
It is said that the Sahara desert
can’t touch the drought now on in
Birmingham. The fact is being la¬
mented by a great many people of
that section.
It is strange why some people will
make claims and boasts which can¬
not be substantiated, and which show
on their face that veracity has been
tampered with.
Members of the Farmers Union,
now is the time to stand shoulder to
shoulder. There never was a better
time to get what your crop is worth
than right NOW.
This is the year of 15-cent cotton,
and although the crop is short our
farmer friends will get the price com¬
mensurate with their labors in pro¬
ducing the king of all products.
The Poultry Show to be held here
beginning on the first Tuesday in De¬
cember will do much toward arousing
interest in an industry heretofore
paid but very littie attention to.
Only the weather has license to
make wet towns in the state of Ala¬
bama.—Constitution.
And the legislature there will no
doubt try to legislate “agin” that.
The people should not forget that it
was the home merchant who has been
helping them all through hard times.
Now that you have something to
spend, patronize your home merchant.
We have been repeatedly urged to
disen ter the “Heard It Said” column
once run in this paper. Being here
to please as many of our readers as
possible, it makes its re-appearance.
Peary and Cook are both hurrying
back to America to contest their dis¬
covery of the North Pole. Dollars to
gooseberries the argument will be
hotter than the climate where the
pole is situated.
The Cook-Peary-North-Pole episode
has given the papers a lot to write
about for the past ten days. They
should make up a jack-pot and give
these explorers for helping then, out
ill the off-season.
If Covington should pull off a real
live Baby Show there are a number
of benedicts in the city who would be
eligible to the place of judge, and
t ley could make the prize awards
with impartiality, too.
In several of the counties candi
dates have already begun to announce
for the election next year. In this
neck of the woods the boys get
enough of the running when they
“fait till next year to get started.
A WONDERFUL AGE.
This is a remarkable age in which
we live, and at the rate we are now
going it would seem that before the
present century closes there will be
little left undone and the pace will
have to slow down from having noth¬
ing to do.
During the past quarter of a cen¬
tury many things have been accom¬
plished, which in past ages seemed
but an idle dream. First of all the
great discoveries came the telegraph
and telephone. Before their arrival
all lines of business and commerce
were necessarily conducted in a slow
manner, details having to be made by
mail or in person.
The horseless carriage then eatne to
take the place of horses, and today
in every corner of the world the
chug-chug of a machine can be heard.
That they have come to stay and
proven their worth is evidenced by
the rapidly increasing numbers and
various uses for which t hey are placed.
In Germany they have a number of
tremendous horse-power cars encased
in steel and fitted up with machine
guns to be used by her army in case
of war. It is stated that in the lar¬
ger cities commercial activity is in¬
creased a hundred per cent, by the
use of machines. Besides their use
in business, a great many are in use
all over the country by pleasure seek¬
ers.
The next and most important of all
the inventions is the aeroplane, or
flying machine. Ten years ago the
announcement that a man had as¬
cended in the air in a machine weigh¬
ing several hundred pounds, without
the use of gas, would have been look¬
ed at askance. Today the flying ma¬
chine is a certainty and notan exper¬
iment. At Rheims, France, last week
there were no less than one hundred
machines in the races there, and re¬
ports state that it was the most' sen¬
sational sight of the century to see
the big machines circling and hover¬
ing over the earth. Several of the
more daring of the aeronauts flew
more than one hundred miles, their
machines at all times being under
perfect control. At their present rate
of improvement it will be but a little
while until it will be a common sight
to see them flying overhead.
In all the achievements of impor¬
tance above referred to it is certainly
gratifying to know that all these
things have been accomplished by
the busy brain and hand of the pluck¬
iest and grittiest people in the world
—Americans. In the flying machine
line Covington is represented by pos¬
sibly the best specimen of all. We
refer to the inventions of Messrs.
Herrin & Curtis, of New York. At
Rheims, France, last week, their ma¬
chine captured the biggest prize. Mr.
Herrin was for many years a native
of this city.
On top of all this two Americans
have found the North Pole, to which
end many expeditions have been
made.
As we said before, it will not be
long until the pace will have to slow
up, for if there is any other discov¬
eries to be made, one of the indomi¬
table Americans will make it—and
we guess that will be to talk to Mars.
SHOULD REGISTER.
Every citizen of Newton county
should take the first opportunity of
registering, if you want to vote in the
elections next Spring.
Under the new law a voter must
register six months pryor to the elec¬
tion, if he is allowed his’franchise.
In this county there are several
hundred people who are not yet on
the registration books. Unless they
do this in plenty of time before an
election, the disfranchisement law
will have the effect of disfranchising
more white men than the negroes, for
whom the law was intended.
Heretofore it has been the custom
for voters to have their names regis¬
tered by anyone coming to town, but
under the law now in force, they must
go personally before the tax collector
and make oath to the questions asked,
to all of which the voter must sign.
It is rather different from- the old
way and it will be a good thing for
all to register as soon as possible,
avoiding the risk of being disfran¬
chised.
LOCAL TAX ELECTION.
County School Commissioner Foster
states that the required per eentage
of voters have signed the petition for
Holding a local to. election for the
rUra th » CO " nt f.' *" d
*" , Potability the election will be
held on the thirtieth of November. It
is the purpose of the Board of Educa
tion, in the event the election carries,
to i engthen the school term, increase
salarie9 o{ teachers where necessary,
and give the 9choo]8 more thorough
equipment. Under the present svs
tern and with the funds now in hand
it is impossible to keep the schools up
to where the best educational advan
tages can be had.
Under the new local law the raise
in taxes will be very small, and we
are reliably informed will be only 20
cents on the hundred dollars.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
WE HEARD IT SAID
That this column should never have
been discontinued.
That the News is getting to be like
one of the family.
That the Are companies of this city
would make excellent street sprink¬
lers.
That several things are likely to de¬
velop real soon in the congressional
race.
That the past two years have been
real hard ones, but, oh, you pros¬
perity !
That some of the surface closets are
still to be found around the public
square.
That Covington is a pretty dry vil¬
lage since the recent raids on the
blind tigers.
That we are going to get our head
cracked if certain men’s names get
into this column.
That the man who makes the direst
threat is the least hamiful of all.
That the new Baptist church is tak¬
ing on a handsome appearance as it is
nearing completion.
That the merchants should buy a
street springier and the city operate
it around the square.
That Rob Boyd is going to make the
county a mighty good man as warden
of the convict camp.
That Covington is the best town on
the map, notwithstanding Conyers,
Atlanta and a few other villages.
That the definition of a man who
sends his money off to some mail or¬
der house is an “undesirable citizen.”
That Miles Turner and Courtney
Brooks built Covington a pretty good
system of water works and sewerage.
That Fire Chief Turner is beginning
to exercise his authority and is going
to make Covington a mighty good
officer.
That the editors of this paper are
too aggressive when it conies to pub¬
lishing facts and espousing the cause
of the people.
That after all Covington has not yet
presented the man who has met or
is acquainted with either of the North
Pole discoverers.
IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE.
It is contended and ruled by able
jurists all over the state that ignor¬
ance is no excuse for a man violating
the law. The presumption is that
every person knows the law. This
presumption is absurd and works a
great hardship on the people of Geor¬
gia as there are thousands of little
misdemeanor laws sometimes not pub¬
lished for months after their passage
and are in a number of cases never
seen by the majority of the people.
Laws passed by the legislature
should be immediately placed before
the people in such form that all may
understand and abide by them. We
venture the assertion that there is not
j a dozen men in the county who know
even the text of the law creating the
City Court of Covington, and that is
a local law, too.
There are some several hundred laws
| i on been the statute by books that have never
seen as many men as it took
to pass them.
All law is supposed to be founded
on justice, but it certainly does not
look right to place a man on trial for
violating a law he knows absolutely
nothing about and has not had the
opportunity of learning.
WEALTH MAKES INNOCENCE.
The fact that Governor Brown last
week declined to use clemency in the
ease of Mr. Mitchell, convicted in
Way cross of attempting to criminally
assault a young lady at that place
sometime ago, is one instance where
a man’s money and influence had lit¬
tle or nothing to do with the dispen¬
sation of justice. The governor’s
position is being favorably comment¬
ed on by a large number of the think¬
ing citizens of the state. It is all but
too common a thing for a man to
commit almost any crime in the cate¬
gory, it makes no difference how
heinous or brutal, and either receive
a pardon, or commutation of sentence,
if he has enough money and influence
to whip the devil around the stump
with every little technicality the law
is so full of. The rich people of this
nation, with a few poss’b? * excep¬
tions, never get what is coming to
them for their crimes when they com¬
mit them. This is rather strong, but
true. Vast amounts of labor, time,
brains and millions of the people’s
money goes every year in an endeav
I or to convict some wealthy man guilty
of crime. But in almost every in¬
stance it is a useless task.
The fundamental principles of our
law is right, but the practice and ad¬
ministration is getting worse all the
time. We have serious doubts if
there is another nation in the world
with just such conditions in the ad¬
ministration of justice. In many oases
a trial is declared void only by the
clerk writing the charges omitting a
“the” or something equally as insig¬
nificant.
JURY LIST.
September Term Newton County
Superior Court.
The following gentlemen have been
drawn to serve as Grand and Traverse
Jurors at the September Term, 1909
of Newton Superior Court:
grand jurors.
W. E. Harwell, P. W. Godfrey,
E. W. Fowler, W. B. Smith,
H. J. Boggus, P. W. Turner,
E. F. Hays, J. J. Carter,
C. D. Ramsey, M. H. Davis,
J. L. Stephenson, C. C. Epps, Jr.,
J. W. Soekwell, R. E. Everitt,
S. A. Brown, D. A.Thompson, Jr,
J. W. Branham, J. O. Adams,
J. C. Harwell, T. T. Sullivan,
F. R. Porter, W. B. Hurst,
G. W. Avery, W. H. Ogletree,
G. I). Almand, W. T. Milner,
W. C. Clark, B. J. Anderson,
J. R. Stephenson, T. G. Callaway,
TRAVERSE JURORS.
Hugh Aiken, W. R. Roberts,
J. J. Corley, W. J. Hays,
C. A. Wander, Woodie Piper,
W.W. Willingham,J. W. Pickett,
E. W. Adams, * J. L. Coggin,
J. B. Ellington, W. N. Dobbs,
C. E. Chestnut, W.B.R.Penington
T. A. Cook, J. Aaron,
C. A. Soekwell, L. L. Johnson,
W. A. Gardner, L. S. Smith,
E. E. Parker, J. T. Elliott,
W. H. Gaither, J. Q. Harvey,
R. W. Campbell, E. N. Dabney,
C. A. Franklin. W. R. Greer,
J. H. Camp, R. I. Mobley,
E. H. Mobley, W. H. Adams,
R. R. Fowler, I). W. Adams,
William Boyd, Wolf Cohen,
YOUNG’S WHITE LEGHORNS.—
75 March hatched pullets for sale.
J. C. Mills, Porterdale, Ga.—tf'
Goods bought from us delivered any
Where in the city, or at the Covington
Mill. Parker’s Grocery Store.—tf.
FOR SALE—A few nice Rhode Is¬
land Reds and White Leghorn Cock¬
erels. C. L. Collum, Porterdale. 4t
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, j
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.
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WE CAlUiY AN IMMENSE STOCK OF
All Sizes One and
In Two
Stock. Horse.
COLUMBUS WAGONS.
These wagons are built of the very best material and are built
to stand rough usage. <J If you are going to buy a wagon and
want the best, come in and let us show you the COLUMBUS.
We are anxious to sell them and if you will give us a look, we’ll sell you the Best Wagon that money
can buy, and guarantee every part of it. We appreciate your patronage.
The Fincher-Norris Hardware Company
Covington, Georgia.
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New Racket Store
Spot Cash! One Price! Big Values’ !
New Goods arriving every few days. |
We have added many new lines and more l
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bought We believe goods the from reason you have have not |
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tried We refer you to customers *
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Yours very truly, l
Guinn, Covington, Georgia, |
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City’s Finest Drugstore *
SMITHS DRUG STORE
Also a nice Line of Stationery,
Cigars and Tobacco.
Nunnally’s Fine Candies Always Fresh.
[Geo. T. Smith ) COVINGTON^ GEORGIA
Machine Shop Under New Management
Ira Blackstock, Mgr.
I have leased the old Evans machine shop, in the rear of the court
house and am prepared to do all kinds of repair work on short notice.
When your engine, boiler, or any other machinery is out of working
order, I will fix it for you at prices so reasonable that you can Hardly
miss the money. I make a specialty of repair work on engines, boilers
and all kinds of gin machinery. Give me your next order of repairing.
GOOD FARM FOR SALE
Consisting of 100 acres, three miles of
Covington, on Montieello road. This land
lies well and two-horse farm open, balance
good timber land. Good pasture and or¬
chard, fine bottom land. One dwelling,
one tenant house and out houses. Will
sell at a bargain if sold at once.
J. T. Brooks, Covington, Ga. Route 1.