Newspaper Page Text
following was ruling
iric eS here yesterday:
riddling- 12 1-2 CtS
od m id. 12 5-8 ct .^
,
VOL- L N0 * 41
IfUDSOME NEWTON SHULZ COUNTY PIANO GIRL WILL BE GIVEN
11 BY THE NEWS.
of the Handsomest Instru¬
ments Sold Is to Be Used in
Q rea t Popularity Contest.
J 350 PIANO WITHOUT AGENT
isthe Time to Get In the Contest
lW This Premium. No
j Secure All.
Money Needed. Open to
L | The greatest subscription contest
introduced by a newspaper in
L Leaders county is now being placed before this
of The News. For
Lest we have purchased a hand¬
le Schulz Piano, which city, is sold by
L r, E. Everitt, of this for the
Lb Tgive price of $350.00, and we are going
[ it to some young lady in New
n county as a presenton the twenty
ond of December. The contest be
Isb Tntinue today, September 22nd, December and will
until five o’clock,
Lentieth.
I latest There is no complicated rules to this
Lty and any one living in this
i married or unmarried) is elig
lie lending to enter, without the necessity of
one five cent piece. Our
|iii for conducting it is simple. We
111 issue with each annual subscrip
In the The News a coupon good for
i, and for each six months subscrip
|on a coupon for 50 votes. The per
ln paving the subscription may vote
rany one of his acquaintances he
|ires, or may hold the coupon
1 vote it at any time during the
Inlest he wants to.
|A book will be kept in this office
i when a vote is cast the name of
eone receiving the vote will be en
ked. the person voting it and the
■te with the number of votes. The
kpon will then be placed in a sealed
■lot box to remain until the close
lthe contest. At that time the book
ithe box will be turned over to a
mmittee of three prominent citizens
Ithe county and they will consol i
Itethevote and announce the suc
(nful contestant. We do this so
tevery one will be treated fair and
artially and that there will be no
Ability of a mistake,
there could be a number of reasons
pgned to us for making a present
SELLING COTTON?
WHEN YOU SELL YOUR COT
ION AND GET YOUR CHECK
Bring it right here to us and de¬
posit it, no matter what bank it is
ou ’ we collect it free of charge,
place the money to your credit,
Rive you a hauk book and check
hook ii you hav’nt one, then you
cau us c it just as well as if you
had the money in your pocket or
hotter, because the man with a
( hock book always has the change
ail( l stands no chance of losing his
money.
The n when you have paid your indebtness, if you
^ V< ^°^ Five left
the ars or Thousand Dollars it is in
3 ^ aCC ^° U cou kt possibly have it.
\n * ^ mis bank is operated in full
plian ' ecause corn¬
f Phonal laws; employees arebond
ed f our
Loth ' ta ,thful ^scharge of their duties and we carry
i '^ and - burglar insurance.
Wh * n in town Make the First
Phonal come to see us.
v " Ur headquarters every time you come.
first National Bank
* °vington, Georgia.
®)c Coi'inoton
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1909.
of the handsome piano to someone,
but our reason is a good one. We
now have the largest list of subscrib¬
ers of any paper every before pub¬
lished in this county, but we are not
satisfied. There is no reason why a
paper published in this city should
not have a circulation like that held
by the papers in the cities. Believ¬
ing this we are going to increase our
subscription list to five thousand by
Christmas day, and are using this
method for getting the extra sub¬
scribers.
As we said before there is no com¬
plicated lot of rules to this contest and
we want to get all our lady friends to
enter. To get started we have decid¬
ed to give to begin with 200 votes
each to the first five entering the con¬
test. Ask some one of your friends
to vote for you when he pays his sub¬
scription to the Ndws and your name
will be placed on the contestants list
with an equal opportunity with any¬
one else for securing this valuable
premium. The Piano is worth every
cent of the purchase price, $350.00,
and will be well worth a little time
among your friends. It is now on
display at the furniture store of Mr.
R. E. Everitt and he will take pleas¬
ure in showing it to anyone interest¬
ed. Go down and give it a look and
get in the contest and secure it.
Remember, you do not have to spend
a penny.
Read the page advertisement on an¬
other page, in which will be found
full particulars. Tell your friends
about it.
Orphans Day At Brick Store.
Mr. J. T. Elliott, superintendent of
the Sunday school at Brick Store, re¬
quests us to announce that the annual
Orpans Day exercises which are to
be held at the different Sunday schools
in the State on the fourth Sunday in
September, will be postponed at that
Sunday school until the first Sunday
in October. This change is made to
keep from conflicting with the regu¬
lar association at Harris’ Spring,
which takes place on the fourth Sun¬
day.
Everybody is invited to attend the
Orphans Day exercises at Brick Store
on the first Sunday in October, at 3
o’clock.
CONGRESSIONAL RACE
WILL BE SPIRITED,
Ernest Camp, of the Walton Trib¬
une, Believes that Present
Race Will be Warm One.
I* rom all indications the for
race
congress from the fifth congressional
district at the next election will be
an unusually spirited affair. Already
there are two announced candidates
ami there is a probability of two more
entering the lists.
Hon. L. F. Livingston, who has
held this position for a number of
years, will be a candidate for re-elec¬
tion and will have the strongest sup¬
port of influential friends in all sec¬
tions of the district. The friends of
t ol. Livingston take the position that
he is one of the most valuable mem¬
bers of congress from Georgia and
that his retirement at this time would
be a distinct loss to the state.
Hon. Will Schley Howard, of De¬
catur, Solicitor General of the Stone
Mountain district, has already an¬
nounced himself as a candidate for
this position and is lining up his
friends all over the district. Mr.
Howard is a shrewd politician and a
popular man and no doubt will make
a strong race.
For some time Hon. B. M. Black¬
burn, of Atlanta, has been consider¬
ing the matter of making the race for
congress. Mr. Blackburn is one of
the best known public men in the
state and has as many friends to his
credit as any man between Rabun’s
Gap and Tybee Light. We under¬
stand that he is rather loath to oppose
Col. Livingston, as the two men have
been life-long friends, but many
friends of Col. Blackburn are now
bringing strong pressue to bear upon
him to make the race and he now has
the matter under advisement.
Col. Blackbnrn is now executive
secretary to Governor Joseph M.
Brown. He held the same position
with Governor J. M. Terrell, and for
many years was prominently identi¬
fied with newspaper work in Atlanta.
He is a royal gentleman and a loyal
friend and should he decide to make
the race for congress will have strong
support.—Walton Tribune.
DECLARES CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE IS A CRAFT.
Brooklyn Woman Says That Anti
Marriage and Many Other
Things Are Taught.
The following dispatch was sent out
from Brooklyn Sunday and was pub¬
lished iu the Atlanta Journal. Mrs.
Gilbert is very open in her denuncia¬
tion of this spreading sect and says
that most of it is purely a graft and
idolatry:
Mrs. Della M. Gilbert, who as lead¬
er of the Christian Science society of
Brooklyn, caused a eontroversy by
declaring a few months ago that Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy was a practical
prisoner, announced today that she
was about to start a Christian Science
church of her own. She followed the
announcement with a denunciation
of the methods of the existing church.
“Christian Science, as it is promul¬
gated today, stands for graft, idolatry
superstition and anti-marriage,” said
Mrs. Gilbert.
“The principal graft lies,” she con¬
tinued, “in the sale of Mrs. Eddy’s
book, ‘Science and Health.’ A new
and revised edition is issued every
year and every Christian Scientist is
expected to purchase one every year.
“This probably brings in $1,500,000
each year. I myself fail to see why,
if the original book was inspired by
Christ, it is needful to change it at
all, much less annually.
“What I mean by idolatry is that the
present Christian Scientists worship
Mother Eddy at the Wednesday even¬
ing’s meetings and that the Deity is
much more seldom referred to. Their
theory of ‘animal magnetism’ is the
basis of my charge that superstition
prevails in the church. The idea that
one can harm another pirson by
thought power is buncombe.
“Again I say the church teachings
are against marriage. It is taught
that it is sinful to wed. This is ridic¬
ulous a id in direct defiance of the
laws of nature.
“The new church will, of course,
bar completely such teachings and
practices as those, but will retain the
true and esential parts of the Christ¬
ian Sciencd creed. We have leased
the Plaza music hall at Madison ave¬
nue and 29th street for a year of Sun-
Farmers thinking
FOR
“They Are Getting to be
Missouri,” Said President Bar¬
rett at the Convention.
A point that Charles S.
stressed in his address at the
tion of the Farmers’ Union at
mingham recently was that
are now doing their own thinking.
And the more they think the
their progress will be in
their material condition. The
ians are not finding it so easy
days to lead the farmers in this
that direction. They do not find it so
easy as they once did to play upon
their feelings and use them to promote
their political schemes. The time
when a politician could ingratiate
himself into a farmers’ organization
and lead it in any direction he pleased
is past. There are still some who can
be hypnotized by the honey-tongued
politician, but said Mr. Barrett, “their
number is growing less; they are get¬
ting to be ‘from Missouri’ whenever a
politician comes around with sugar
on his tongue and tears in his voice.
They are coming to demand action
instead of words. And the day can¬
not come too soon for our own good
when every single one of us will abide
by this standard.”
Mr. Barrett related a story of a pol¬
itician who recently, in addressing a
farmers’ meeting, told the farmers
how great they were and how little
their enemies were. He talked for
half an hour flattering them and in¬
sisting that they were the very salt
of the earth. He said nothing in par¬
ticular, but simply tried to make him¬
self solid with them and gain their
confidence. Mr. Barrett said:
“I have related the story because I
believe it illustrates the vital change,
the prophetic courage, that is coming
over the Farmers’ Union. We are
paying Ap" attention to the ranter
and more to the fellow who produces
results, who shows us how to live bet¬
ter, how to handle our crops with less
expenditure, how to better educate
and feed and clothe our wives and
our children. And this, I think, is
progress, the only sort of progress
that is as good this time next year as
it is today, and that will preserve this
organization when you and I and our
friends at home shall be mingling our
dust with the earth.”
INSTITUTE WILL BE HELD
AT PROSPECT CHURCH.
Sunday Schools Will Meet at
That Church October 2—Im¬
portant Discussions.
Mr. T. C. Cowan requests us to an¬
nounce that the Sunday School In¬
stitute will beheld at Prospect church
on the second of October, at which
time many important matters will be
discussed and it is thought that much
good will be the result. All persons
interested in morality and the up¬
building of Christianity are invited to
meet with them.
The subjects up for discussion will
be The Purpose of the Sunday School,
Its Relation to the Church and the
Importance of Sunday Schools in Up¬
building the Church.
The subjects will be handled by
gentlemen who know the good work
of Stfnday Schools and we have no
doubt but that the meeting will be a
very interesting one.
Orphans Day at Methodist Church
Special services will be held at the
Methodist church Sunday morning at
9:45, for the benefit of the Decatur
Orphans Home. Suberintendent Les¬
ter is very anxious for the members
here to make a good showing and re¬
quests each one to come and make a
liberal contribution.
The services will be very interest¬
ing and instructive and the cause
which the offerings will be made
one of the most worthy. There
be songs and recitations by the
ren and a solo by Miss Bessie Ezell.
September 25th is work day for
orphans of all the denominations in
the city, the Baptists sending
funds to the orphans home at
ville, the Methodists to Decatur
the Presbyterians to South Carolina.
day services. The first meeting
be held on Sunday, September 26. I
shall be the leader, and my
will be Mr. Conrod Milliken, the law-
$1. A Year In Advance.
FALL TERM NEWTON COUNTY SUPERIOR
COURT IN SESSION THIS WEEK.
PHENOMINAL GROWTH OF
THE STATE NORMAL.
School at Athens Now Has an
Attendance of Over Six Hun¬
dred Students.
The State Normal School opened
August 31st, 1909, with 480 pupils in
attendance. The Muscogee Elemen¬
tary School opened the same day with
149. The total attendance at the
State Normal is, therefore 629.
More than one-half of the students
are the children of farmers. One hun¬
dred and forty-seven have had expe¬
rience in teaching. One hundred and
thirty-five are self-supporting. One
hundred and twenty-sight are gradu¬
ates of other colleges and high schools.
Ninety-eight counties are represent¬
ed. Bulloch is the banner oounty,
having 16 students in college. New¬
ton and Walton have 13 each, Musco¬
gee, Gwinnett and. Elbert have 11
each; Grady, Green, Oconee and
Wilkes have 10 each.
Every place in every dormitory is
filled, and students are now overflow¬
ing into the immediate homes.
On November- 1, there will be 29
vacancies in the dormitories, and by
January 1, 1910, there will be 105.
Students who first apply for these
places will be registered for them.
Crowds Attending Court.
When court convened here Monday
morning a large crowd of citizens from
different parts of the enunty and a
few from other counties were in at¬
tendance. It made us feel good to
meet up with our friends of the rural
sections of Newton county and we ap¬
preciate very much the words of en¬
couragement we received from them
about The News being such a good
paper. It makes a fellow feel good to
know that the people appreciate our
efforts.
A number of them have called on
us while in town and we extend a
hearty invitation for them to make
our office their headquarters while iu
the city. Come around and tell us
how you want YOUR PAPER run.
f
More Comfortable
You will be a great deal more comforta¬
ble il you can reconcile yourself to allow
other people to mismanage their own af¬
fairs and do YOUR buiness with
The Old Reliable
Actions speak louder than words and
money does not need a megaphone, but
confidentially we nave it in wholesale quan¬
tities and at reasonable, as well as liberal
terms
See our statement on another page of
this issue.
Yours For A Bounteous Harvest
The Bank of Covington
Covington, Georgia.
CAPITAL $100,000.oo
PIANO FREE
The News is going to
give some lady in this
county a handsome
$350 Schulz piano on
Dec. 22, 1909.
Judge L. S. Roan is Presiding and
His Charge to the Grand Jury
Was Very Concise.
E. W. FOWLER IS FOREMAN
There are No Important Case Up for
Trial and Court Will Adjourn By
End of the Week.
The fall term of Newton Superior
Court convened Monday morning
with Judge Roan on the bench and
Col. Win. Schley Howard in the state’s
box. The organization of the court
occupied the time of nearly all the
forenoon and after dinner the court
got down to business right.
The first thing was the roll call and
organization of the grand jury, which
is composed of the most intelligent
and honorable citizens of the county.
Mr. E. W. Fowler was made the fore¬
man, and no doubt will make a good
one. He is one of the city’s most
progressive and fair-minded men and
there will be no possibility of person¬
al grudges entering into the investi¬
gations of this body under his guid¬
ance.
The charge of Judge Roan to the
grand jury was considered by those
hearing it as being one of the strong¬
est and most clean cut ever deliver¬
ed by him to a jury in this county.
He dwelt at length as to the impor¬
tance of a member of that body, stat¬
ing that our government begun and
ended in the grand jury room. He
said that long before any member of
the jury .was ever drawn to fill a
place or even before they were born
that this grand old county of Newton
was self governing and that her most
honorable citizens had for a hundred
years settled their difficulties and
disputes through this important
channel.
His opinion as to the duties and
transactions of the present grand jury
were so fully gone into and explained
that there was not a man who heard
him but what was impressed with the
of it. He called particular at¬
to the fact that the delibera
(Continued of last page.)