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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. December, 1 1909.
SHOULD NOT BE FACTIONAL.
A newspaper, to be what its name
implies, should do more than publish
the news happenings and items of in¬
terest to its readers. It has a place
to All and to fill it well it must at
times say things and direct attention
to conditions of a public nature which
appear at a casual glance as if it were
taking sides with a faction in the af¬
fairs affecting vitally the people who
look to their paper to give them facts
and opinions of a public nature. Gen¬
erally speaking, it is not good business
policy on the part of any local news¬
paper to enter into a subject over
which there is a division of opinion
among local people, but recently the
News has taken a decided stand on
some things which we believed to be
right, and we have published some
facts and figures which looked as if
we were taking a factional view to a
few of the citizens. Such was not
the case, however, as we were doing
what we felt that we were called up¬
on to do, and while we dislike to cross
any man’s official opinion about the
administration of his duties, we firm¬
ly believe we were right and we be¬
lieve that the people are with us.
In the stand the News took with
reference to the purchase of the site
for the fire department headquarters
it is the conservative estimate of peo¬
ple having no interest whatever in
the matter that fully nine-tenths of
the citizens of the city were backing
us. A permanent injunction was
granted last week restraining the city
from purchasing the property under
consideration.
The fire department location is not
settled and it is likely that it will re
main just as it is until another coun¬
cil is elected on the third Monday in
this month.
There is another thing closely con¬
nected with the fire department that
we feel that the public should be tak
en into the confidence of those in au¬
thority and given the information
they desire. This time we have ref
erence to the Water Board of the City
of Covington. Last year the people
voted a sixty thousand dollar bond
issue to be used in defraying the ex¬
pense of installing a water and sewer
system for the city and the work has
been finished. Although the people
of the city have asked for a state¬
ment from the gentlemen composing
this body showing the financial con
dition of that branch of the city’s af¬
fairs, they are still in the dark as to
the cost of the systems and other de¬
tails they desire.
This is a thing very close to the
hearts of the people, as they feel that
they have taken this thing on their
shoulders and while they appreciate
the work done by those having the
construction in charge they feel that
they are entitled to a statement as to
the details and we firmly believe they
should have it. We appreciate the
fact that there are some people in the
city who are opposed to a published
showing of anything about the city’s
financial condition, but at the same
time their opinion in no way changes
the belief of the News that the thing
to do which will please the majority
of the people is to give them in a pub -
lie statement the facts of the differ¬
ent branches of the city.
It is rumored that the city council
would like to see a statement from
the Water Board, but we do not know
whether a request has yet been made
for a report to be submitted to them.
Certainly it is time something should
be done, and if the officials of that
board refuse to give the ciiy council
and the citizens a statement, then it
is up to the mayor to demand it and
have the books audited. The News
does not believe that any gentleman
on the board would use anything but
his best judgment in the administra¬
tion of the affairs under his duty, but
we do feel that the people have a
right to know about these things and
that it is up to them to give them the
facts in a public report.
Gentlemen, it is a part of your duty
to let your fellow citizens get a glimpse
should give it to them without hesi
tation.
> ou happen to meet one of our
citizens in the late afternoon, wearing
an old suit of clothes and an express
ion as if he had been evading a hot;
pursuit for for seven seven days, don’t get j
alarmed. He has probably just re¬
turned from a search for an elusive
.icle—partridge !
A BOOSTING BUNCH.
The advantages of an organized
body of progressive men in this city
are greater today than they have ever
been. It makes no difference wheth¬
er you named the body a Board of
Trade, Chamber of Commerce or a
Boosting Bunch, they have more
material to work from, a stronger
backing and a more thoroughly en¬
terprising citizenship to help put Cov¬
ington to the front than any place we
know of.
Other cities have such organizations
and you can often see where public
enterprises have been taken up and
fostered by them, giving valuable as¬
sistance to any advantage their re¬
spective cities starts out to get. The
new train on the Georgia Railroad is
due largely to the concerted action of
the Boards of Trade at Monroe and
the other towns affected by the new
schedule. To reach out and secure
enterprises of any nature, whether
manufacturing of public service an
organized body of hustling business
men can generally swing a deal that
would be impossible if handled by the
people of a city generally.
This city is confronted with the
question of another train on the Cen¬
tral railroad running into this city.
Will she get it ? Is there any con¬
certed action on th9 part of the busi¬
ness men of this city in an effort to
get it ? Could she get it if there was
a strong organization here represent¬
ing the business interests as well as
the citizens ? These are questions of
a great deal of importance at this
time and the business interests of the
city should begin to think about un¬
iting in their efforts to get this and
other things which continually pre¬
sent themselves to any town. She is
in a position, with her many superior
advantages, her good school, ideal
climate, hospitable citizens, public
conveniences, manfacturing interests
and a score or more things and condi¬
tions which strongly appeal to the
people of other sections who are
looking for a place to locate their
homes. With Covington, this is the
place the steam begins to go against
the wheels. WE KNOW these things
are better than most towns, but does
THE OTHER FELLOW KNOW
THEM ?
There are hundreds of towns with
half the advantages Covington has
grow and become large and impor¬
tant centers, due largely to the fact
that the interests were always repre¬
sented by a live, hustling, organized
body of men. Should such an organ¬
ization be perfected and put into op¬
eration here and the population in¬
crease be greater, property values
would also increase in proportion,
business would be better, and every
citizen within the corporate limits
would be benefitted by their work.
We want to see such an organiza¬
tion here and believe there are a lot
of others in the city who feel as we
do. Do you ?
THE PRESENT MAYOR.
It is not the policy of The News to
make a statement or to pitch bouquets
at a citizen or a public official unless
we firmly believe he is deserving of
public praise. In the matter of the
city’s administration, however, we
feel that the present mayor, Hon.
Chas. G. Smith, deserves the com¬
mendation of the entire citizenship
for his unswerving determination to
give the city a good, clean record
during the year just closing.
While a young man, Mr. Smith
made the race last December on the
platform that if he was elected he
would be guided by the desire of the
people in any important matter and
that he would use his best efforts in
the city’s behalf. All those who have
kept up with his record during the
year know' that he has done just this,
although at times the fight was a hard
one for him and he had to make
enemies to do what he considered his
duty and for the best interests of his
constituency.
The work falling on the shoulders
of the present administration this year
has been the hardest of any at any
previous time. First, because the city
has had more business to attend to,
and second, because the work was new
to all of us. The installation of the
water and sewer system was in itself
a huge undertaking, and there were
numerous details, such as drafting
suitable ordinances to cover this ad¬
ditional branch of affairs which made
the year a very busy one.
Taken as a whole, the service ren¬
dered by Mr. Smith has been entirely
satisfactory to the larger number of
citizens and it is with pleasure that
his many friends anticipate the idea
of his offer for re-election. He has
made the best man for the place this
year, and we beleive that if elected to
will be even better. Whether he has
opposition or not is of little conse
quence, as his friends who elected
him last year are more numerous and
loyal than they were last year and
there will be little likelihood of his
being defeated.
The News tips its hat to the mayor
of 1909 with the admission that he
has made a mayor any town should j
be proud of! I
THE COVINGTON NEWS
SOME THINGS TO BE DONE BY
SOUTHERN CONGRESSMEN.
The following article written by
Hon. L. L. Middlebrook, of this city,
appeared in a recent issue of the At¬
lanta Constitution and contains a lot
of sound advice to Congresmen of the
Southern States:
Advocate federal aid for public
highways.
Favor public buildings in the smaller
cities, and free mail delivery in all
towns and villages.
Insist upon a revision of the tariff
in the interest of the consumers and
producers. Let luxuries bear the
highest duty; then the burden would
fall upon those able to pay high rate.
Favor postal savings banks, so that
the laboring man and the small capi¬
talists might find an attractive mode
of laying up something for the tradi¬
tional rainy day. This safe and con¬
venient method would put thousands
of dollars in circulation, now hoarded
up to the detrement of general busi¬
ness, as every dollar that is kept from
circulating is like taking blood from a
living being, and in proportion, as it
is much or little, affects the health
of the individual, or destroys the pow¬
er of commerce. It is well known
that a great many laboring people
will not put their money in banks, for
for fear of law suits or trouble in get¬
ting it out on demand.
Favor the construction of water¬
ways as a safeguard against unjust
rates by the railroads. Georgia is in¬
deed fortunate in her rivers. Great
corporations are now constructing
hon. l. l. middlebrook.
dams and making immense reservoirs.
If the government would construct
locks all along these rivers we would
have waterways to the sea from the
interior and to many points in Geor¬
gia. The Ocmulgee is navigable to
Macon, and by damning the river up
there and constructing the proper
locks, the channel could be deepened
above, so as to make a canal up that
river, and the Yellow river, in the
same way to Covington. Thus we
would have water competition from
Covington to the sea, and freight
rates to Brunswick and Savannah
would be regulated accordingly. Sup¬
pose, by this method, the farmers of
middle Georgia could save $1 per bale
on cotton; it would make enough
money to pay his entire state and
county taxes. The same thing could
done on the Chattahoochee from Co¬
lumbus to Atlanta, and other streams
treated the same way. These locks
could be so constructed as not to in¬
terfere with the water power privi¬
leges, and would be a great step in
the solution of freight rates.
Georgia is destined to be the great¬
est manufacturing state in the union,
and we ought to do everything possi¬
ble to get the greatest facilities for
transporting our products to the mar¬
kets of the world. We have more
living streams of water in middle
Georgia, and the healthiest climate of
any other section of the country com¬
prising the same amount of territory.
These natural advantages will be util¬
ized some day; why not in our time?
And last, but not least, every south¬
ern congressman, who claims to be a
democrat, should act and vote in con¬
gress so as to inspire the rank and file
of the party with confidence in the
platform and principles of the party,
and not discredit our leaders. If the
party is ever to be restored to power,
and I believe it will in the next presi¬
dential election, democrats in congress
should begin at the next session to
advocate such policies as the people
expect from the party, and by pre¬
senting a united front on honest de¬
mands we can win.
What I want to see is our represen¬
tatives fighting unwise and un-Ameri¬
can republican policies; not figuring
for popularity with republican states¬
men, but contending for democratic
serve J***- tion. - ~~
If the party is only to send a few
men to congress, and never elect a
president, then we had better re
organize.
—Barred Plymouth Rocks, Wm. El¬
lery Bright Strain, the kind that will
please. Eggs, fl.00 for 15.—The Dairy
Farm, W. P. or Henry Odom. tf
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold before the Court House
door, in the city of Covington, during
the legal hours of sale, on the First
Tuesday in December, 1909, the fol¬
lowing described property, to-wit:
Fifty acres cotton in field, two bales
lent cotton and about 30 bushels cot¬
ton seed, said property levied on as
the property of Albert Wood, with a
distress warrant issued from the Jus¬
tice Court and returnable to the City W.
Court of Covington in favor of E.
Ragsdale, against said Albert Wood.
This Oct. 18th, 1909.
Also at same time and place two 2
horse wagons, Thimble Skin, known
as the Old Hickory make and one
gray horse mule about 9 or 10 years
old, said property levied on as the
property of L. L. Martin with a fi. fa.
issued from the City Court of Coving¬
ton in favor of the Atlanta Oil and
Fertilizer Co., against said L. L. Mar¬
tin.
This Oct. 26th, 1909.
S. M. HAY, Sheriff.
For Leave to Sell.
Georgia— Newton County:
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has applied to the real Or¬
dinary For Leave to Sell the
estate, belonging to the estate of Ada
R. Salter, for the purpose of pay¬
ment of debts and distribution. Said
application will be heard at the regu¬
lar term of Newton Court of Ordin¬
ary to be held on the first Monday in
December next.
This Nov. 1st, 1909.
W. C. Salter, Sr.,
Administrator of the estate of Ada
R. Salter, deceased.
Road Notice.
The Commissioners appointed to
examine as to the public utility of the
road leading from Harrison Orris
house to Hill Cooper’s house, a dis¬
tance of about one mile, report same
to be a public utility, and recommend
that said road be opened. Same will
be passed upon at the next regular
meeting of the Board of County Com¬
missioners to be held on the First
Tuesday in December, 1909. If no
legal objections, same will be estab¬
lished.
J. Z. Johnson, Chairman.
G. D. Heard, Clerk.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
GEORGIA Newton County.
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of said county passed on
the 1st day November, 1909, will be
sold before the court house door in the
city of Covington, to the highest bid¬
der, between the legal hours of sale
on the first Tuesday in December the
following real estate belonging to the
estate of Bryant Osborn deceased, to
wit: One hundred acres of land,
more or less, situated in Oxford dis¬
trict, said county and state, bounded
East by F. H. Branham, South by
Mr. Stone, West by Mrs. Eva Calla¬
way, North by lands of S. P. Thomp¬
son and the Peek Place. Sold for the
tion purpose of paying debts and distribu
among the heirs at law.
Terms of sale Cash.
S. P. Thompson,
Administrator of Bryant Osborn.
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
divorce. answer 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,
Libel For Divorce.
Georgia, Newton County:
Horace Dobbs i Suit for divorce,
vs /■ in Newton Supe
Flonda . 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
divorce. answer 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.
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Money
In every community there is enough
money in hiding to start a respectable
bank. This money is not only liable to
be lost by theft or fire, hut it is placed
where it does not bring in any income
to the holder, neither is it of any use to
the public,
Deposit the “dead” money with us. Then it will get in¬
to circulation, and be of some benefit to yourself and also to
the community.
The more money there is in circulation, the cheaper the
rate of interest; the easier it is to borrow, and the more
prosperous the general conditions.
Bank of Newton County
Covington, Georgia..
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Dr. A. S. HOPKINS, Dentist
Nitrous Oxide Gas Administered.
Have installed a Jameson casting machine for casting
gold inlays. These inlays and enamel fillings are especially
indicated in frail teeth where crowns are not wanted and
discoloration is objectionable.
All kinds of dental work done in a painstaking and very
careful manner.
Night calls answered from residence near Georgia depot,
second house on left toward Oxford.
Office 8 and 10 Star Bldg. Covington, Ga.
Office Phone 216 Residence Pnone 200-L.
In My New Location.
I am now in my new headquarters in
the Hurst stables, rear of Court House.
If you are in need of a good horse or mule I can sell you a good one
for the right price. I can take care of my friends horses and mules
when in town and will be glad to have them stop with me.
W. W. CHILDS, Covington, Ga.
Seed Oats For Sale.
Seed Oats and Seed Wheat. Appier Oats, the Old
Rust Proof and Texas Red Rust Proof Oats raised in Georgia,
price is 75 cts. and $ 1.00 per pushel, depending on the kind
quantity, delivered in Covington. All seed are caretully fanned
recleaned.
L. W. JARMAN, Porterdale, Ga.