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®br (Cmnugtuu Smua Published Every Wednesday. OFFICIAL ORGAN NEWTON CO. Lon. L. Flowers & Edwin Taylor, Editors and Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year................................................$1.00 Six Months................................................50c Three Months......................................25c Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. 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. When about to Purchase a Plow weigh every v You of . fact well course want to secure the plow that will wear th« longest, is the easiest to handle ih. nm-*—* .. . 11 Vn* first-class in every CHILIJ respeqP ranc “ THE OLIVER umlred ^requirements and while! plenty large called chilled Plily J and been number hT glgy and The Best That Gift You Car OLIVER. forced Theoi* to OLI Uon PlO’ prepared deliver your We are to Christmas Pictures Genuine Oliver Chilled Plow of our Promptly regardless of weather and Repairs for Sale by wearin s J. R. STEPHENSON, “ P "” 8 j a hot dissapoint Come in and ht make m’t get We will not you. fjust re- Covingt 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.. k 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.