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Entered as seeond-.class matter De¬
cember 3, 1908, at tlie post office at
Covington, 1879. Ga., under the Act of
March 3,
COVINGTON, GA. October 20, 1909
Hard work is the panacea for many
ills of the disgruntled loafer.
Cotton continues to rise and the
grin on the farmers face continues to
broaden.
Atlanta had a man whose face a
horse sat upon. What will Atlanta
spring next?
Anyway, those “Mary Jane” dresses
the ladies are now wearing look
mighty comfortable.
Those hail stoues last Thursday af¬
ternoon were almost as large as some
of the knocks you hear about Cov¬
ington.
The automobile is possibly the com¬
ing mode of riding on country roads,
but there is no such thing as “The
Passing of the Horse.”
Those planters who came to the
city one day last week to buy them¬
selves some cotton, put some pepper
in the market all right.
Deacon John D. Rockefeller says
that “the greatest happiness is in
serving others.” He hasn’t yet stip¬
ulated the price, however.
Those sign boards to be placed at
the mile posts for the automobile run
from Savannah to Atlanta would be a
good thing to leave up all the time.
The Dawson News is really an up
to-the-minute we ekly newspaper.
The editorial and mechanical make
up of that bright paper is a credit to
the fourth estate.
It is said that Mr. Taft is an ardent
advocate of southern made cotton
products. He also said before the
election that he favored a revision
downward in the tariff.
That miniature airship flying out of
the show window in Atlanta last
week during the storm looks like that
city isn’t as dry as the prohibition
law would lead you to believe.
If several more of the planters of
the county should decide to buy
themselves some cotton and come to
this city to get it, wouldn’t there be
some ginger in the market, though?
Even Wilbur Wright with his high
flying cannot keep up with the rise in
prices on the necessaries of life. It
is to be earnestly hoped that Mr.
Taft will never breathe the word tar¬
iff again.
That this section is in a prosperous
condition is evidenced by the rapid
increase in real estate values all over
the county. In fact you never hear
of a man selling land cheaper than he
bought it.
The polar climate has different ef¬
fects upon different people. In Cook
it had the effect of mellowing his dis¬
position, while in Peary it made a
bad-tempered, aggressive and over¬
bearing man.
We have heard several men state
that some of the hail stones which
fell last week were as large as a hen
egg. We would like to see a hen that
lays as large eggs as one of those
stones which struck us!
It is generally conceded that this
is the time for the election of a dem¬
ocratic president, and here is one
paper that would like mighty well to
see some good southern man a resi¬
dent of the White House.
Don’t let any newspaper or indivi¬
dual give you the impression that
your registration is “automatic”
when you pay your takes under the
new registration law, for you are
obliged to register and take the vo¬
ter’s oath in person. And under this
law the proper time to register for
1910 is when you pay your taxes this
fall, though the registration books
will be kept open until six months
before the election. Under the ruling
of the Attorney General, no registra¬
tion prior to the opening of the tax
books is valid for next year.—Cedar
town Standard.
THAT REGISTRATION LAW.
It seems that the question as to the
proper manner in which a citizen
must register himself if he desires to
vote, just won’t down. It has been
the cause of quite a good deal of dis¬
cussion and hedging by different pa¬
pers all over the state, some of them
claiming that the payment of taxes
caused an “automatic registration”
of his name in the voter’s book, there¬
by giving him his franchise in the
election. This is, according to the
law itself, not true.
No man who has not taken the oath
in person and signed his name to the
oath after he has taken it will be al¬
lowed to vote, and if any of our peo¬
ple fail to do this they will surely not
be allowed to vote in the next general
election, it makes no difference if he
has paid all his taxes to state, county
and city. The new law is confusing
anyway and the fact that some of the
papers are claiming automatic regis¬
tration gag and other equally as fool¬
ish interpretations of the law, are
either doing it for some peanut poli¬
tician or they nave some rotten polit¬
ical scheme that they want to pull off
next year. It is up to the citizens to
figure out just what is at the bottom
of it.
We would dislike very much to see
aqy of the white citizens of this
county disfranchised on account of
this new law, and we are warning
you again to register now—do it your¬
self. No tax collector has the right
to place your name on the registra¬
tion list. The law specifically states
that you must do this in person, and
it also stipulates that the tax collec¬
tor will violate the law if he places
the name of any man on the book.
That is one part of the law that can¬
not be evaded, no matter how much
they try to twist around to meet their
own ^personal interpretation. We
urge the citizens of this county to not
allow any individual or newspaper to
pull the wool over their eyes about
this automatic registration game. It
is a fake, pure and simple, and if you
do not attend to your registration
yourself, you cannot vote next year
no matter how good a man you are or
how badly you want to see your fav¬
orite candidate win.
TAKE THE OATH YOURSELF
AND SIGH YOUR NAME TO THE
REGISTRATION LIST.
BE OPTIMISTIC.
There is more room for the people
of this county and city to be optimis¬
tic than for a number of years. The
panic and short cotton crops of the
past few years dealt Covington a very
hard blow, but now with a fairly good
crop of cotton selling at upwards of
thirteen cents per pound, more corn
and grain in the barns than for years,
and with hogs and other products of
the farms plentiful, there is indeed
good reason for the feeling prevalent
among the business meu and the citi¬
zens generally that good times are
ahead of us for another year.
Notwithstanding the fact that this
has been an unusually hard pe¬
riod in Covington’s history she has
done more in real progress than ever
before. More homes have been
within the year than for the five pre¬
ceding ones; more money has been
turned loose in public service
than has ever before been spent;
manufacturing enterprises are
regarded as an important factor in
the progress and growth of the city
and there is generally a spirit of
tle and push among our people.
latter is something heretofore a very
rare thing in this section, the
being content to let things take
course and abide by the results,
now almost every business man in the
city is exerting himself and using
capital in an endeavor to bring
business here and to create more
among the already numerous popula¬
tion.
All things being considered,
ington and Newton county is decid¬
edly in better condition than she
been for years, and the
feeling is truly getting into the bones
of those who have been discouraged
for the past several years.
Not only is this feeling
among the business men of the city,
but it extends to all parts of the
county. The farmers are using much
more judgment in the production and
marketing of their products, and
growing more of those things
brought from other states. The
sequence is that the land values
increasing at a rapid rate and
in the rural sections of the county
fn demand and are bringing
prices than even the most
booster ever dreamed of a few
ago.
Taken as a w hole, every one of
should feel jubilant over the
for this county and city, and we
should all get the boosting habit and
keep it.
A dream at once so pleasant and
enjoyable came to the writer of this
paragraph the other night. In
somniloquent condition we came
the office and found that the city had
placed a large sewer in front of the
News office and "smoothed over the
deep gully there. Some things are
indeed strange, but in this instance
we ate too much meat for supper.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
NEED ORGANIZING.
The Covington fire department
needs organization. This is the opin¬
ion of nearly every citizen in the city.
The three companies need instruction
and the placing of the men compos
ing them into the places they are best
fitted for.
The question came up a few days
as to where the headquarters of the
department should be located, and
various places have been suggested.
The council voted to .purchase the
Clark Banking Company building but
the people of the city generally don’t
think it will be wise to spend $3,000
for a place to put two thousand dol¬
lars worth of equipment. The county
commissioners offered the city a lot
in the rear of the court house free to
place a building for the department,
but it has not been decided yet what
will be done. It has also been sug¬
gested that the companies be
scattered, and that the citizens of the
different sections of the city would
give houses for the keeping of the
aparatus.
This plan does not seem practical
to us, as we believe for the conven¬
ience of the firemen and for the bet¬
ter protection of the property of the
city that it should all be kept togeth¬
er, so that the hose can all be well
dreaned after they are used and where
there is always enough men either at
hand or near by to man all the equip¬
ment the city now has, which is
enough.
It isn’t so'much a matter of a place
for the department or new equipment
the department needs now, but a
through organization of the compa¬
nies and men, with every single man
in the entire department so instructed
that he will know just where to take
hold when there is a fire. This is the
important thing, for without system
in most cases there is more loss caus¬
ed by confusion and a flood of water
than by the fire itself.
It is right square up to those in au¬
thority to give the fire department of
the city thorough organization with
enough system to insure protection to
the property of the city.
Anyhow, the hail failed to hammer
down the prices of real estate values
in this city and county.
A leading New York paper recent¬
ly drew a contrast with the southern
statesmen of a half century ago and
those of the present. Among other
things it said that the present con¬
gressmen were merely in it for the
pay now. The north’s attitude to
the south some forty-odd years ago,
during what was called the recon¬
struction period, had much to do
with sentiment of southern men, we
admit, but taken all in all, they are a
great deal better bunch than the ag¬
gregation from that section, notwith¬
standing the north’s dragging down
proclivity.
The Compass.
The Chinese seem to have used the
compass or its equivalent at a very
early date to guide them in their jour¬
neys across the vast plains of Tartary.
They made little images, whose arms,
moved by a freely suspended magnet,
pointed continually toward the pole.
An apparatus of this kind was pre¬
sented to ambassadors from Cochin
China to guide them in their home¬
ward journey some 1,100 years before
our era. The knowledge thus pos¬
sessed seems to have gradually trav¬
eled westward by means of the Arabs,
though it was fully 2,000 years after¬
ward before it was fairly applied
among the peoples of westeru Europe.
—New York American.
The Truth at Last.
“Oh, doctor, is it very dangerous to
swallow cement?”
“Very dangerous indeed.”
“And gutta percha, doctor?”
“Very serious.”
“And porcelain—oh, doctor, is it very
poisonous?”
“Excuse me, madam; have you at¬
tempted suicide?”
“No; I’ve swallowed one of my false
teeth.”—Rearson's Weekly.
Tax Assessment
For 1909.
Office Board Com., Aug. 18, ’09.
The state authorities having levied
a tax of five (5) mills on the taxable
property of the State for state pur¬
poses, the County Commissioners have
this day levied 4.80 mills for county
purposes to be divided as follows :
For General county fund, 90 per
cent.
For Jury fund, 6 percent.
For Pauper fund, 4 per cent.
For Bridge Fund, 1 mill,
For Road fund, 2 mills on all taxa¬
ble property.
That the same be collected by Tax
Collector and paid over to County
Treasurer as the law directs.
J. Z. Johnson,
Chairman Board Commissioners.
NEW COTTON BUYERS.
One day last week two of the pro¬
gressive farmers of the county came
into town with the express purpose of
buying cotton. One of thegentlemen
was Mr. R. L. Middlebrook of Starrs
ville, the other was Mr. Robert Bal¬
lard of the southern section of the
county. Mr. Middlebrook arrived in
the city Thursday morning and when
the first wagons of cotton came into
town he went out to sample them and
make an offer for the staple.
In talking to a News man that af¬
ternoon Mr. Middlebrook stated that
one of the local buyers told him that
if he did not go into the market he
thought it was possible for him to buy
a hundred bales cheaper from one of
the local buyers. Mr. Middlebrook
did not make a bid on the first cotton
to come in, but was told later that
the local buyers could not sell him the
cotton. He then went into the mar¬
ket to get the cotton and the price
paid by him was right square up to
the market. Mr. Middlebrook said
that he was the only man who bought
cotton in Covington that day as his
bids were always the highest. Mr.
Ballard was also in the market and
between them all the market was
pushed up to the top notch.
The fact that these gentlemen came
here to buy cotton put a good deal of
ginger into the market and kept
things lively all the time they were
here. Mr. Ballard stated to a News
man that he would be in the market
all the season and would pay the top
notch for the staple.
The local buyers, Messrs. N. S. Tur¬
ner and L. D. Adams, are also keep¬
ing the price up to the top and it
looks like now that Covington will
pay the highest price for cotton this
fall of any town within a radius of
fifty miles.
Let the good work go on. The far¬
mers deserve a good price for their
labor this year, and with so many
buyers in the field all wanting to buy
cotton, the people of this county may
rest assured that they will get all it is
worth if they bring it here for market.
Libei For Divorce.
Georgia, Newton County:
Horace Dobbs | Suit for divorce,
vs ) in NewtonSupe
Florida Dobbs Court, Septem¬
ber term, 1909.
To Florida Dobbs:
You are hereby notified to be and
appear at the next March term of
Newton Superior Court, to be held on
the Third Monday in March, 1910, to
answer plaintiff’s action for a total
divorce. Witness the Honorable L.
S. Roan, Judge of said Court. This
15th day of October, 1909.
Jno B. Davis, Clerk.
Libel For Divorce.
Georgia, Newton County:
Dora Hannah 1 Suit for divorce,
vs ) in Newton Supe
John Hannah Court, Septem¬
ber term, 1909.
To John Hannah:
You are hereby notified to be and
appear at the next March term of
Newton Superior Court, to be held on
the Third Monday in March, 1910, to
answer divorce. plaintiff’s action for a total
Witness the Honorable L.
S. Roan, Judge of said Court. This
15th day of October, 1909.
Jno. B. Davis, Clerk,
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Newton County:
By virtue of an order granted to us
by the Honorable Court of Ordinary
of Newton County, on the First Mon¬
day in September, 1909, there will be
sold before the Court House door in
the city of Covington, on the First
Tuesday the in November next, within
legal hours of sale, the following
real estate, to-wit:
An undivided one-ninth interest in
Two Hundred and ' Seventeen (217)
Acres of land, more or less, lying in
Beersheba District, Henry County,
Georgia, and bounded as follows:
West by lands of J A. Presson and
J. A. McDonald; South by lands of
S. T. McDonald; East by South Riv¬
er; North by lands of W. T. Stroud
and T. J. Stewart.
Also an undivided one-half interest
in two town lots in the city of Cov¬
ington, towit: Being lots Nos. 5 and
6 in Block D., of Covington Heights,
as shown per plat in the Clerk’s office.
Said lands being sold as the prop¬
erty of the estate of William McDon¬
ald, late of said county, deceased.
Sold for the purpose of paying debts
and distribution among the heirs.
Terms of sale cash.
This the 4th day of October, 1909.
S. P. Thompson,
E. W. Fowler,
Administrators of the Estate of Wil¬
liam McDonald, Deceased.
Notice.
Office Board Covington, Ga., Oct. 5, 1909.
A petition County for' Commissioners:
Public Roads in
Downs district, beginning at Livings¬
ton School House and running by res
! idence of W. B. Livingston and L. F.
Livingston and intersect Oak Hill
road near residence of Charley Ogle
tree. A committee appointed to ex¬
amine and report as to public utility,
have reported that said road is of pub¬
lic utility, and recommend that same
be made public road. If there is no
reason shown to the contrary, same
I will be made public road Nov. 2nd,
j 1909.
J. Z. Johnson, Chairman.
G. D. Heard, Clerk.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA— Newton County:
To the Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of Chas. G. Smith, N.
Z. Anderson and J. C. Knox, all of
said State and County, respectfully
shows:
1. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors to be
incorporated and made a body politic
under the name and style of THE
REALTY & ABSTRACT COMPANY
for the period principal of twenty office years. of said Com¬
2. The
pany shall be in the City of Coving¬
ton, State and County aforesaid, but
petitioners desire the right to estab¬
lish branch offices within this state or
elsewhere, whenever the holders of a
majority of the stock may so deter¬
mine.
3. The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and its
shareholders.
4. The business to be carried on by
said corporation is to act as a real
estate broker, in making sales of real
estate and to charge therefor com¬
missions to be agreed upon; to make
loans on real estate, either with its
own funds or with it funds belonging to
others for whom may be acting as
agent; to make abstracts of title to
real estate, and to charge therefor
such fee as may be agreed on; to rent
property either for itself or other
parties, and to collect rent for same
and to charge a commission for mak¬
ing such collection; to build and con¬
struct houses for rent or for sale, and
to otherwise improve real estate either
for itself or as agent for other parties;
and to engage in, do and perform all
other work, as may be incidental in
doing a real estate business, and to
charge adequate compensation there¬
for.
5. The capital stock of said corpor¬
ation shall be One Thousand Dollars
($1000.00) with the privilege of in¬
creasing the same to the sum of Ten
Thonsand Dollars ($10,000) by a ma¬
jority vote of the stockholders, said
stock to be divided into shares of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each. Ten
per cent of the amount of capital to
be employed by Petitioners them has been ac¬
tually paid in. desire the
right to have the subscriptions to
said capital stock paid in money or
property to be taken at a fair val¬
uation.
6. Petitioners desire the right to
sue and be sued, to plead and be im¬
pleaded, to have and use a common
seal; to make all necessary by-laws
and regulations, and to do all other
things that may be necessary for the
successful carrying on of said busi¬
ness, including the right to buy, hold
and sell real estate and personal
property suitable to the purposes of
the corporation, and to execute notes
and bonds as evidence of indebted¬
ness incurred or which may be incur¬
red in the conduct of the* affairs of
the corporation, and to secure the
same by mortgage, security deed or
other form of lien under existing
laws.
7. They desire for said incorpora¬
tion the power and authority to apply
for, and accept amendments to either
charter of either form and substance
by a vote of the majority of its stock
outstanding at the time. They also
ask authority for said incorporation
to wind up its affairs, liquidate and
discontinue its business at any time
it may determine to do so by a vote
of two-thirds of its stock outstanding
at the time.
tion 8. They desire for said incorpora¬
the right of renewal when and
as provided by the laws of Georgia,
and that it have all such other rights,
powers, incident privileges and immunities as
are to like corporations or
permissible under the laws of Georgia.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be
incorporated under the name and
style as aforesaid with the powers,
privileges and immunities herein set
forth and as are now or may hereafter
be, allowed a corporation of similar
character under the laws of Georgia.
Middlebrook, Rogers & Knox,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Filed in office, this 5th day of Octo¬
ber, 1909.
JNO. B. DAVIS, Clerk.
GEORGIA— Newton County
I, John B. Davis, Clerk of the Sup¬
erior Court of said County, do here¬
by certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the application
for charter of THE REALTY & AB¬
STRACT COMPANY, as the same
appears on file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal sf said Court, this 5th day of
October, 1909.
JNO. B. DAVIS, Clerk
Superior Court, Newton County, Ga.
Commissioner’s Sale.
rior Agreeable to an order of the Supe¬
Court of Newton county, granted
at the September term, 1909, of said
court, there will be sold before the
Court House door in the city of Cov¬
ington to the highest bidder, between
the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday lowing in November, 1909, the fol¬
described property: “All that
tract or parcpl of land, lying and be¬
ing in the county of Newton, in the
Ninth district, originally Henry coun¬
ty, the being in the incorporate limits of
city of Covington, and bounded
as follows: On the North by public
road leading from River’s hill to Geor¬
gia Railroad in direction of Almon;
on the East by West street; on the
South by lands now owned by Mrs.
N. F. Palmer, formerly by Carroll;
and on the West by lands now owned
by Newton county, used as a convict
camp, formerly the Dunlap land, hav¬
ing a front on West street of 300 feet
and extending back 200 feet, more or
less. Said property sold for cost, or
deferred payments to suit buyer and
to the best interest of the estate, and
for the purpose of partition between
Mrs. Laura F. Slocum and W. C. Slo¬
cum, widow and son of H. V Slocum,
deceased, they being the owners of
the entire undivided interest in said
property. Said property to be given
possession to the buyer Jan. 1st, 19It),
L. C. Smith being the tenant now in
possession.
This 2nd day of October, 1009.
R. R. Fowler,
Jno. L. Stephenson,
S. P. Thompson,
Commissioners.
Miss Myrtle Piper spent Friday as
the guest of Miss Ethel Piper.
Executor’s Sale
By virtue Newt on County- I
of Ordinary of an order -t,. ^ Coun
term, 1909, granted at ihc vMll1^1
before of said court be 4l
the court house to°the s
best, ot,v of bidder Covington between UfuXJft the SJ? 8 8t Km' a «* »d|
Mto i ,
ber on a.e Lw
longing next, the following real ^ Vei »
to the estate of P b e
deeeased, to-wit- u ' c °ffee
oil by the Mrs. North P. by J H V,n u,1(! East! ed
D «',?
Crowley;
man. Known as the FaulknerI
Also fifty-five and 9-100 acres, |
mill more place. or less, Also known ninety-five as the aiS si 8nd ^I
quarter acres of land, more l J
adjoining S: lands of G B shnol or e88
less. Known K" as a part of the p f
Sigman Sigman land, and being that y }
mg nearest Brick Store nart y
aeeiira.tfilv ’ anci a, i mor
,
deeded to P. D. and S. F. Coff
Laura A. Hollis. Also h l
and fifty-one one les^L?
at acres, more or
ginning from a corner in Covington Dublin ’ f
Brick Store to
front of the Coffee home
North 32 1-2 West 52 chains and ?
7
road near the'old academybt,tfij
along said road 26 chains and 62 link,
to starting corner. Said land beim
part A. Perry of that by recently H. L. bought Graves, from ?
the same land deeded to being
S. F. Coffee P n amt
property by L. D. Adams Said
desiring is very valuable and person,
to purchase same can go on
the premises and inspect the property
This landis sold for the purpose pay.
HILT dobts and Iftoranmu
_ ■ S. F. C0PPE1
Executrix of P. D. Coffee.
SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold before the Court House
door, in the city of Covington, during
the legal hours of sale, on the First
lowing Tuesday in November, 1909, the fol¬
described property, to-wit:
One house and lot in the city of
Covington, Newton county, Georgia,
and being the lot deeded to Amanda
Choat from R. I. Weaver and R. R.
Fowler, administrators of Ike Brown
estate, and bounded as follows: On
the North Stone Mountain street ; on
the Westby West street; on the South
by lot bought by Amanda Choat from
Jones and Taylor; and on the East by
lot bought from L. L. Middlebrook,
said lob containing one acre, more or ]
less. Said property levied on as the
property of Amanda Choat to satisfy
an execution issued from the Superior
Court of Newton county in favor said of j
the Bank of Covington against
Amanda Choat, upon a rule absolute
for the foreclosure of mortgage on the
above described property. Said prop¬
erty being in the possession of Aman¬
da Choat. All proper papers properly Superior I
recorded in Clerk’s office of
Court of Newton county. Written
notice given said Amanda Ciioat as
required by law. This Oat. 2, 1909.
S. M. Hay, Sheriff,
Also at the same time and described place
will be sold, the following and lot
property, to-wit: One house
in the town of Mansfield. Said house
being a four room house facing Sec- !
ond avenue and surrounded by lands
of Hugh White, J. A. St arr and E. H.
Adams and known as the M. H. Cook
house and lot. Said property levied
on with a 11 fa issued from the City
Court of Covington in favor of Mans¬
field Lumber and Construction com¬
pany against M. H. Cook. Written
notice given as required by law to J.
M. Edens, he being tenant in posses¬
sion. This Oct. 2, 1909. Sheriff.
S. M. Hay,
For Letters of Dismission.
Georgia— Newton County:
Whereas Jonathan Poison, Admin¬
istrator, de bonis non, with t he w
annexed, of Mark Poison, represents
to the Court in his petition duly men
and entered on record that he
fully administered Mark Poisons es¬
tate. This is therefore to cite a per¬
sons concerned, kindred and cm ■;
to show cause, if any they can, .
said Administrator should not he o»
charged from his administration a
receive Letters of Dismission o
1st Monday in November, 1999
A. D. Meador, Ordinary.
For Letters of Dismission.
Georgia— Newton County: j
on record, that they have ■ tate
Luinmu- ,
ministered Miss Lou nj
This is therefore to cite all pw ^
concerned, kindred and cm „.v,v 'said
show cause, if any they not can, beMmcnas ( i i8 charg
administrators should
ed from their administrate ^
ceive letters of dismission <>
Monday in November, 1999
A. D. Meador, Ordma
For Leave to Sell
Georgia — Newton County:
given t , ‘ Quinary ^
Notice is hereby applied to l ^
dersigned has < „
of said county For Leave to » (
land belonging to the esta > ece ased.
Osborn, late of said county, jj^ri
for the payment of debts * ■][ be
bution. Said application term oJ ^
heard at the regular the 1st , v in
of Ordinary on
November, 1909. 1909.
This Get. 5th, ^
Administrator Estate Bn »»
Deceased.