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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA. October 6, 1009
COVINGTON BAPTISTS.
There is nothing more conducive to
civilization and the moral atmosphere
of a community or city than churches.
This expression is an old one but nev¬
ertheless it has lost none of its truth¬
fulness or expressiveness by having
been so often used. This article is
not intended as a sermon, but simply
a commendation of the spirit of pro¬
gressiveness of the Baptists of this
city who have been so industrious in
securing funds and building the pret¬
tiest and most expensive house of
worship ever constructed in this city.
Progressiveness in church work is as
commendable as in any business in
the city, and the fact that these good
people have shown this spirit certain¬
ly is deserving of the praise of the
entire citizenship of Covington, both
Christians and outsiders.
It is another old phrase that a com¬
munity is seen through the doors of
its churches and school houses. What,
then, would impress you more than to
see this city through the doors of its
splendid church houses, and especial¬
ly the one now being erected by the
Baptists ? It is certainly an imposing
structure, an ornament to the city,
and a monument to the efforts of a
people who know no failure and whose
religion is paramount in their lives.
This fact is appreciated by the people
of this city, who have, w T e understand,
been very liberal with their contribu¬
tions making this commendable un¬
dertaking possible. It will cost com¬
pleted something like $13,000, which
does not include the cost of the fur¬
nishings and pews which will cost fif¬
teen hundred or two thousand more.
The amount for the building has al¬
ready been pledged and the work is be¬
ing pushed along rapidly, with the
prospect of being ready for worship
in a couple of months.
Not being members of this church
and not knowing just how the mem¬
bership feels about it, we don’t know
just what their plans are for raising
the necessary amount for the furnish¬
ings of the church. However, we
feel that this part of the subscriptions
should come from men who are not
members of the several churches of
the county. It is nothing but right
that they should help with this cause
for they are never called on to con¬
tribute to the up-keep of the differ¬
ent churches and should be willing to
do something for a cause that helps
them more than any other thing.
Newton county has some mighty
good, whole-souled and moral men
who are not Christians and who make
no pretense of religion. Neighbors,
now is the time for us to do some¬
thing for the good of the city and
county and we ought to do it. Let’s
get together and raise this amount
and make the Baptists a present of it
for their furnishings of this handsome
church. Because we are not as good
as we ought to be is no reason why
our money should be tainted, and we
would be doing something that is the
only possible means of sustaining
what we all strive so hard to make of
ourselves—good citizens.
The Piano Contest goes merrily on.
“You’ll fall in love with Macon,”
says the Telegraph. The writer did
fall in love with a Macon girl once,
and married her, and have lived“hap
pily everly afterward.”
When the airship begins to carry
freight it will be a menace to high
tariff with Canada. There will be no
way to guard against “wild-catting”
the goods across the border.
The North Georgia Citizen very
tersely says, “Get on a plank yon can
stand on—then bark.” Now that’s
what we call sensible advice, and is
applicable to all kinds of politics.
A ‘ Taft Democrat” has been ap¬
pointed postmaster at Richmond.
But what is a “Taft Democrat” and
why is a “Taft Democrat?”—Law
renceville News-Herald; Likewise,
“Why is a chicken ?”
Under a recent ruling of the sup¬
reme court of Tennessee, whiskey
dealers may ship all the whiskey and
beer they want to into this state.
The law prohibiting the sale of intox¬
icants in that state is construed as
conflicting with the interstate com¬
merce act, hence the ruling.
MISLEADING
We notice in a number of newspa¬
pers of the state that the wrong con¬
struction is being placed upon the
new registration law of this state.
This error is partly due to an editorial
of the Atlanta Journal of a recent
date stating that “by the very pay¬
ment of his taxes becomes a register¬
ed voter.” The editorial referred to,
also stated that if the tax collector
did his duty when he received the
taxes from a citizen he was required
to place the name of the tax payer
on the registration book.
Whether the Journal published this
editorial for any particular purpose
or not, the fact remains that it com¬
mitted an error tending to confuse
the people about the law. We find
no part of the new law where it re¬
fers to the registration of voters as
being automatic with the paying of
taxes. The law regarding this phase
of the election was printed in a re¬
cent issue of the News, and was cor¬
rect.
The new law states specifically that
the tax collector will be guilty of a
misdemeanor if he places a voters
name on the registration book him¬
self. It states that he is required to
place the voter under oath and after
he has qualified for registration he
MUST SIGN HIS OWN NAME WITH
HIS OWN HAND. Does that look
like there is anything in the assertion
that the fact that a man has paid his
taxes gives him his franchise? We
hardly think so, and if the voters of
this county allow' themselves to be¬
come hoodwnnked by statements of
that kind he will as surely not vote
in the next election as if he had paid
no taxes during his life.
The law may be a good one. We
want to see it worked before we com¬
mit ourselves. But w’e do know that
the citizens of this county should
comply with the law' by taking the
oath themselves and signing their
names to the blank if they desire
their franchise to which they have a
right.
FOXY FLEECE.
A week or two ago The News pub¬
lished an editorial about the bale of
cotton brought to this city from Rock¬
dale county, it being the first brought
to Covington this season. We stated
that the gentleman bringing it here
was very aggressive and for that rea¬
son the buyer here would not make a
bid on it.
In a recent issue of the Conyers
Free Press there appeared an article
signed by the gentleman who brought
the cotton here, saying that the Cov¬
ington paper was altogether wrong
and that for no reason w'hatever the
buyers here refused to sample the
bale. There were several men around
the w'agon who state that he made
the remark that it was no use to sam¬
ple the bale, as he was going to auc¬
tion it off. It is all very nice for the
gentleman from Rockdale to indulge
his fancy for card w'riting and the lit¬
tle sheet from Conyers taking up the
matter.
But ihe funny part was they failed
to cover their tracks. The incident at
once aroused the suspicion of the bus¬
iness men of the city who thought it
looked just a little foxy. A quiet in¬
vestigation was made and the fact has
come to light, so we are informed by
a reliable merchant and cotton buyer
of this city, that the same bale of cot¬
ton brought to this city sold to a local
buyer at Conyers the day before for
15 cents a pound. The buyer knew
he had a loss of $15.00 on the bale and
as Covington hadn’t yet received her
first bale decided that the best w r ay to
get out of it would be to quietly ship
it into this city and get a fancy price
for it. It just happened, though, that
the business men of this city had two
good eyes each and were not asleep,
either. The bale drifted back to Con¬
yers and was shipped from that point.
These facts cap what seemed to be
a bad break for Covington, and the
joke is on Conyers, after all. Sympa¬
thies extended.
The water melon season is entirely
past and the time for rotten politics
is almost here.
It is said that dull months are for
dull people. That being the case
there is nothing doing in the dull line
in this city.
Speak to People When You Meet Them
Do you speak to people w T hen you
meet them? We mean by this, do
you make it a habit to speak to all
whom you meet regardless of their
station in life? If you don’t you
should acquire the habit at once.
People in this world, regardless of
their standing and surroundings, so¬
cially and otherwise, like to be rec¬
ognized. It costs nothing to offer a
hearty “good morning” or “good
evening” to all whom we meet. When
we do this w r e make an investment
which costs us nothing, but which
may bring us valuable returns. By
this act of courtesy the child becomes
attached to you; the young man or
woman enjoys meeting you; the old
feel that their age is getting the res¬
THE COVINGTON NEWS
A FLOOD OF PROSPERITY.
We have been stating all the time
that Georgia and especially this par¬
ticular section was in a prosperous
condition and that before the present
season was over the farmers of this
state would receive a vast amount of
cash from the marketing of their crop.
The present high prices of cotton
substantiate these claims and there
are men of the state who are watch¬
ing the conditions closely who pre¬
dict that a flood of prosperity is com¬
ing. The New York Commercial has
the following to say about Georgia:
“In a newspaper interview sent
out from Atlanta, it is predicted
by President Harvie Jordan, of
the Southern Cotton Association,
that more than $100,000,000 in cash
will be distributed among the peo¬
ple of Georgia during the next six
months through the marketing of
their cotton crop. The South,
and Georgia in particular, he says
“is being lifted by a great flood
of “Everybody prosperity.”
knows it. But the
story will bear frequent repetition.
But cotton doesn’t do it all, by
any means, in Georgia. Her man¬
ufactures—including those of cot¬
ton, of course—now aggregate
more than $150,000,000 in value
every year; enough, as her enter¬
prising promoters like to point out,
to buy each the whole three states
of Delaware, Nevada and Arizona
at their assessed valuations! Her
naval stores and lumber indus¬
tries, her vastly diversified agri¬
cultural products—not forgetting
to particularize as to her superb
peaches—her marbles, granites
and clays, her coal and iron, her
kaolin, bauzxite and magnesium,
her gold and and other metals—all
these, more contribute enor¬
mously to the cash revenues of
her people; while her water pow¬
ers and waterways and railroads
side are continually' attracting out¬
capital in great volume for
the almost development unlimited of the state’s
natural resour¬
ces ; and with the result that
Georgia’s per capita wealth has
increased more than 100 per cent
during the last forty years along
with an attendant increase in the
population of fully 125 per cent.
The assessed value of the taxable
property in Georgia reached the
impressive total of $700,000,000 for
the year 1908, although the assess¬
ments represents only about 60
per cent of the properties’ actual
value. Today the actual wealth
of the state, including taxed and
untaxed property, is undoubtedly
around $1,500,000,000. What a
pity that Henry W. Grady, who
foresaw and predicted all this 30
years ago, could not have lived to
sense it today in its physical act¬
uality.
“Cotton is still “king” down in
Georgia. pendent But she is no more de¬
on it in this year of grace
1909 than Kentucky is dependent
on whisky, or Vermont on maple
sugar, or Maine on tourists and
summer boarders.”
It looks like he of the “big stick”
will be the next president of the Un¬
ited States, provided the republicans
elect the next one.
The Chattanooga booze houses are
again flooding the country with their
advertisements and solicitations to
order wet goods from them.
Some people are so conceited and
full of self aggrandisement that they
are simply blind to the sneers and
ridicule their presence excites.
The Constitution’s scout party will
miss a mighty good thing by not com¬
ing through Newton county with their
course from Atlanta to Augusta.
Hon. Seab Wright is trying to pro¬
duce a drouth in Chicago, but he is
not trying to drink up all the booze.
He is working with the prohibi¬
tionists.
G. R. Hutchins, of Polk county, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy in
the prison commission caused by the
death of Judge Joseph Turner, of
Eatonton.
John D. Rockefeller’s plan to “make
sure of heaven” is somewhat of a
puzzle to him. It is not quoted on
the stock exchange, neither can he
corner it.
Then He Ran.
Office Boy—Miss Keyes, please let
me look at your face!
Miss Keyes—What for?
Office Boy—Why, the boss said some
of the paint was scratched off his
typewriter. I didn’t know whether he
meant you or the machine.
pect due.
Did you ever meet and pass a per¬
son without receiving the least rec¬
ognition from him or her? Did you
ever meet one who gave you a cheer¬
ful “good morning?” Of course you
have. Now, which of these did you
naturally admire most, and which
did you have a tendency to detest
and to consider as a haughty and
selfish person? The answer is evi¬
dent so plain that there is no neces¬
sity’of giving it here. Now, other
people are by you as you are by them
and it is your duty and to your ad¬
vantage to shape your acts by
rule of ‘ ‘do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.”—Dixon
(Ky.) Journal.
Notice.
Well, we are at it again, making
those same good oyster stews like we
made so many last season. Try one
when in town and wanting something
to eat and then jou need not be
afraid of acute indigestion from eat¬
ing your dinner in town.— Pfrkers
Place.
FOR RENT—From 3 to 6 rooms in
desirable residence on Monticello
street. Apply to this office.—tf
—Horses and mules bought aud sold
every day in the year. If you want
to buy, sell or trade, I will try to ac¬
comodate you.—A. S. McGarity. tf
- FOR RENT—One or two rooms,
furnished or unfurnished. Electric
lights, city water, bath room privi¬
leges. Convenient to meals.—Apply
to A. H. Foster, or ’phone 254. tf
—Horses and mules bought and sold
every day in the year. If you want
to buy, sell or trade, I will try to ac¬
comodate you.—A. S. McGarity. tf
Dry Pine Wood delivered anywhere
in town. Apply to S. A. Brown. 4t
Oysters, we sell oysters, receiving
them daily from one of the largest
oyster dealers in the south, whose
house has for fifty years been build¬
ing a reputation by giving the best
there are to the trade. We will sell
these extra standard oysters at same
price as last season, 35c per quart.—
Parkers Place.
—The Stationery and Novelty Co.,
have been designated by Huyler &
Co., of New York to handle their con¬
fectioneries in this section. They will
receive their first shipment about Oct.
1st.
Notice.
Venable Bros, bave re-opened their
store and all parties indebted to them
are requested to come in and settle at
once.
Watches and Clocks
Repaired.
I am prepared to repair your
Watches and Clocks and can fix
them so they will run, for less mon¬
ey than my competitors and guar¬
antee all my work. When you are
ready for your work give me a
trial.
J. SIEGEL
At Dr. J. A. Wrights Drug Store.
A PRETTY LINE OF JEWELRY
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i Over Cohen’s Store.
Your Patronage Solicited. ^
Covington - - Georgia f
The Greatest Discovery That Was Made
- It Took Many Centuries To
Discover the North Pole
But the wide-a-wake people of New¬
ton county have discovered that M.
Levin’s is the cheapest place in Cov¬
ington to buy their Dry Goods, Cloth¬
ing, Furnishings, Shoes and Millinery
Our Prices Are Right.
Our entire stock was purchased
when prices were low and before the
advance. We are going to give our
customers and friends the advantage
of the low prices.
Give us a call, we are ready to show
and give you low prices.
Mrs. Harper invites all the ladies to
her Millinery Opening which has
been placed for
Friday & Saturday Oct. 1, 2.
M. LEVIN
Covington, - - Georgia-
< * In my New Quarters
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4 Having moved into new quarters in *
« rear » r r of or court com i house. nuuse. I i am am now now better better \
prepared than fit friends *
traveling public ever to my and !
>2 the up with a neat team t
for pleasure or business trips. Give *
me
a trial on your next trip. |
WOOD AlKEbT I I
PHONE 92.
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4 Spot Cash! One Price! Big Values!
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»: New Goods arriving every few days.
| We to follow. have added many new lines and more
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| bought more goods from us you have not
| tried us. We refer you to our customers.
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Yours very truly,
u. I I 1 Riii ulll tin HU* Covington, Georgia.
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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.