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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
COVINGTON, GA. December, 8 1909.
The mail order booze houses and the
Southern Express Company are both
doing a land office business in this
section.
The city election is only a few day*
off and had you thought of who will
make the best men for the council
for another year?
Trade with your home merchant
during the holidays. He has made
preparations for your patronage and
will appreciate it.
And now they have found out that
there is something dirty about the
New York Cotton Exchange. W»
knew it all the time !
New citizens are coming into town
almost every day. It is up to the
jieople to give them the glad hand
and make them feel at home from
the start. *
Yesterday was a good day with the
merchants of this city. In fact, First
Tuesday is always a good day, and
especially so when it is the one in
December.
The municipal pot is sizzling nicely,
with the election only a matter of a
few days off. Getting good men to
make the race for the different offices
has been somewhat of a problem.
All the papers on our exchange ta¬
ble show that the public is coming
more and more to see the value x>i
printers ink, and the boys are all do¬
ing a good advertising business this
fall.
In this issue of the News we had to
refuse several large advertisements
because we could not carry them
without crowding out a lot of local
reading matter, and we wont do that
for any of them!
The stores of Covington have all
made preparation for a good holiday
trade and they all have a nice line of
presents and holiday goods. No use
to send to some other place for your
Christmas shopping.
When the holidays are over it is up
to Brother Pendleton of the Macon
Telegraph, to start some other re¬
search about the horned snake. Plen¬
ty of people will agree with him
about it then and, perhaps, some of
the boys may vouch for one of the
reptiles with two horns !
The News wants to see the next
mayor of Covington place the finan¬
cial end of the city’s affairs on a bus¬
iness basis. When contracts are to
be let for anything needed by the
city, call for bids. Competition is
t he life of trade, and because it is the
city’s affairs is no reason why the
same rule should not apply.
Don’t forget to kiss that dollar
goodbye before you send it off to
some distant mail order house for a
Christmas present for some of your
friends. You will never see it again,
but if you spend it with your local
merchant who has a large line of
these things, you will not only get a
far superior article but you will be
helping your friends, your town and
your community.
The bazaar the ladies are now hold¬
ing for the purpose of erecting a hand¬
some library building should be liber¬
ally patronized by the people of this
city. Such a building as they have
planned will be an ornament to the
city r ancj the benefits to be derived
from a library are inestimable. Go
out to the ladies sale and make pur¬
chases from them. They are work¬
ing hard to give you something nice
in return for your patronage.
Editor Snow, of the Enterprise con¬
tinues in feeble health and has the
sympathy of the entire community.
Mr. Snow has a host of friends here
who regret exceedingly to miss him
from his business and hope that in
the course of a very few days he will
be able to return in his usual health.
The Enterprise and the job depart¬
ment connected therewith is being
ably looked after by his wife and son
during his absence. The News ap¬
preciates the fact that the absence of
the editor of any paper is a serious
drawback, and our sympathies go out
to Brother Snow in his misfortunes.
THE NEW TRAIN.
The new proposed schedule on the
Central of Georgia Railway is being
freely discussed by the people all
along the line and they are all, prac¬
tically to a man hearty in favor of
putting it on. At this city and all the
towns in the county petitions have al¬
ready been filed with the mayor of
Covington to the Central to give us the
new train, and on Thursday of last
week a committee composed of Mayor
Smith, Councilman John H. Echols,
and Mr. L. L. Flowers, one of the edi¬
tors of the News, made a trip down
to Eatonton, the proposed terminus of
the train, to interview the mayor and
Board of Trade, newspapers and citi¬
zens about endorsing the plan.
The encouragement accorded them
at that place was very encouraging,
they being assured of the hearty sup¬
port of the Board of Trade, the news¬
papers and the citizens generally.
They only encountered one man who
did not get enthused over it and he
gave as his reason for being lukewarm
that he did not think that the train
would pay the railroad. He said that
at one time—years ago—he had been
treasurer for the old M. G. & A. rail¬
road and that there were then some
trains running which did not pay. If«
also stated that the train now in op¬
eration from Eatonton to Macon did
not pay a dividend.
Taken altogether, though, the peo¬
ple of that section want the new train
and are going to use their influence
with the railroad to get them to put It
on. There is no doubt about it being
a good thing for Eatonton, as she now
has only one train a day from the
West and it cuts her off from a good
deal of traffic she would get if the
schedule was convenient enough to in¬
duce people to go there. At first
there was a slight feeling among the
merchants there that if the train was
put on some of their best trade would
go to Atlanta. After looking Into the
matter, however, they came to the
conclusion that it would not hurt
them as they were so far away that a
man who wanted a suit of clothes
would not spend the required railroad
fare to go to the Gate City to make
his purchases.
At all the towns down the line en
thuslasm is high for the new sched¬
ule and it is highly probable that be¬
fore another week the petitions will
be completed and that the matter will
be submitted to the proper authorities
of the railroad with the request for
the train. Those who are working
for it claim that they have a strong
argument to set up for it, in that it
will not require the railroad to get
more rolling stock or to use any more
equipment than they already operate.
The same train that now makes the
regular run to Gordon could be used
with the addition only o* another crew
of men to make the run.
It Is proposed that in case the rail
road does not pass favorably on the
matter that it will be carried before
the Railroad Commission and it is be¬
lieved that we will get it, as it is fig¬
ured that the train is needed more
than the one just put on on the Geor¬
gia Railroad.
A TOWN THAT DOES THINGS.
“At Covington, where the people
started out to organize a $100,000 cot¬
ton mill, the subscriptions came in so
readily that it was decided to have
the capital stock of the new corpora¬
tion $150,000 instead, and before long
the first brick will be laid for a build¬
ing where cotton blankets will be
made on a large scale.”
This is a current news item going
the rounds of the press. It is a cap¬
ital advertising for the little Georgia
city whose enterprise and wide-awak
edness it abundantly testifies. Wher¬
ever it it is printed it carries the new s
of a people who are on the alert and
quick to avail themselves of the op¬
portunity to develop their city. Every
body to w hom it is read feels a thrill
of interest in Covington, finds a desire
awakened in him to visit a town that
has the get up to do big things with¬
out making much furore over them
until they’ are accomplished. Cov¬
ington is decidedly on the map when
such news items as this are^'going the
rounds about it.
Covington is a small city compared
with Americus. It is safe to say its
aggregate wealth is small compared
with that, of this city. The number of
its citizens having large means is
more limited than in Americus. It
has no greater opportunities as a cot¬
ton manufacturing point than Ameri¬
cus has and it has no reason to be¬
lieve it will achieve success in an in¬
dustrial way than this city has. But
there is this difference. Covington is
a town that is doing things. Shall
we say it, w»e hesitate to do so and
yet we feel that the blunt truth may
serve to make us bestir ourselves, j
Americus is place that is doing '
a not
things in the industrial way.
It is true we have done a lot of
talking. It is doubtful if there has
been more cotton mill talk in any
city in Georgia than there has been
in Americus in the past year or two.
But talk doesn’t build factories, no
matter how essential it may be to
awaken the preliminary interest. But
after the talk there has been a death
of action. We certainly are not in a
position to sing with Tennyson,
“Words, idle words, I know' not what
they mean.” We certainly do know
what*the mean so far as a cotton mill
is concerned.
Covington, little Covington, not in
THE COVINGTON NEWS
OUR BIRTHDAY.
The Covington News has had a
birthday! With this issue we begin
our second year on the sea of journal¬
ism in this city, and it is with a par¬
donable degree of pleasure that we
point to the things which the News
has advocated and the place we have
won In the hearts of our many read¬
ers.
Of course, we have made during
the year just closed, some enemies in
the city and county, but in every in¬
stance where we have advocated
some measure which we believed to
be right, it was not our intention to
io any way damage the reputation or
cast a slur on the public record of any
man and if we have done so it was
due to the fact that it was forced on
us and we did it to make our position
clear. We have advocated many
things for the good of the people, and
in almost every case we have won
out. In the matter of the publication
of the county reports we feel that
we were of service, as we advocated
it from the first issue, and now there
is a published report each month of
the disbursements of the county’s
funds. We also advocated public re¬
ports of the city’s affairs, and during
the year there have been several pub¬
lished in the local papers. Numerous
other public questions have been
dealt with by the News, and in most
of the times we have been right. No
paper ever published fails to get on
the wrong side at times, and we are
not immune. There have been times
when it was almost an impossibility
for us to make up our minds which
was the right thing to do, but we have
always and will always continue to
take a stand where we conscientious¬
ly believe the right is, and if we fail
or get the wrong idea, we are open to
conviction and will always do Justice
where we advocate the wrong meas¬
ure.
We never like to make rash prom¬
ises, but we are going to give you a
better paper and more for your money
than you have ever got before in this
country. What we have done this
year will give you some idea of what
we expect to do during the coming
year. We are better prepared to issue
a better paper, and (not boasting) we
have plenty of ejiergy to give it to
you.
Our business this year has been
very flattering, and we want to pub¬
licly express our appreciation and
thanks for it. A paper can not suc¬
ceed without the support of the peo¬
ple, and the fact that it has been ac¬
corded us makes us feel like putting
more steam to the wheel and giving
our readers all there is in us. We
feel proud of the fact that we have
succeeded in building up the largest
circulation ever held by a newspaper
in this county, and that we have car¬
ried more columns of reading matter
and more columns of purely local ad¬
vertising than any paper has ever
done before. We are going to merit
a continuance of your patronage and
will always use our best efforts to
give your full value for your money.
Again we thank you for your sup¬
port and will use our best efforts to
give you a good, clean paper another
year.
The season is almost here for Santa
Claus and the mail order booze houses
to get busy.
More capital and more local enter¬
prises should be the slogan for the
citizens of Covington for 1910.
We hear every’ day that Mayor
Smith has made a good official during
the year just closing. Our senti¬
ments, exactly.
The chicken show now in progress
show’s what could be done on the line
of a county fair if the people would
get together and start in time.
The News is a year old with this
issue. While young we are still go¬
ing to put up a stiff fight for what we
believe to be right and best for our
people.
—Cut prices on ladies wraps at C.
C. Robinson’s.
our class in any wav as a city’, but
outclassing us in grit and determina¬
tion, started out to raise $100,000 and
speedily raised half as much again.
Americus started out to raise $150,000
for a half million dollar mill, three or
four together subscribed $30,000, and
then the whole movement came to a
sudden stop and nothing has since
been done. Which city, under these
circumstances, is apt to impress the
public most as the home of enterprise
as having a citizenry that puts its
shoulders to the work and pushes it
on to a successful end, without look¬
ing backward and without cessation
of effort.
It is not an agreeable task for the
Times-Recorder to say these things,
but the best friend a city has is not
always the one that contents himself
with saying sugary thiugs and care¬
fully avoiding those that may savor
censure, deserved though it may be.
The best friend a city, or an individ¬
ual has, is the one who tells the truth.
—Americus Times-Recorder.
—Go to C. C. Robinson for cut
prices on dress goods, silks, drygoods,
etc., during his pre-inventory sale.
pf MBBS 3
Buying your fall suit any long
er. Buy now while we have
a good selection and all sizes. We have the the best se¬
lection of Men,s Youths and Boys Clothing, for the Fall
we have ever handled. All We ask is a look and we will
fit you and please you.
isP
Ladies Tailored Suits.
We have just received another shipment of New
Tailored Suits. They are made in the very latest style
long coat effects, linings of first grade satin. We have
them in worsted and serges and in all colors.
The Prices are Right.
The quality is right and the treatment is always right at
m
M. LEVIN COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Fresh Water Spoils Oysters.
Oysters are grown in salt water.
Fresh water wilts them; bloats them;
fades them; and washes out the salty
tang of the sea, which is the oysters’
true charm. Fresh water, even if it
is pure and clean, makes the oysters
8 °ggy. shapeless insipid. Sealshipt
Oysters never touch fresh water. At
the seaside they are packed, solid, in¬
to air-tight containers, which are
sealed. For sale at PARKER’S place.
Call for them. Phone 10-L.
Buy “Just Wright” shoes for men.
They look well, wear well and fit
well. For sale at C. C. Robinson’s.
Dry Pine Wood delivered anywhere
in town. Phone 141-J, or apply to S.
A. BROWN, City.—tf.
FOR SALE—22 Winchester rifle, 16
shot, price $7.50. Is almost new. Can
be seen at News office.
—Buy Selby Shoes for ladies from
C. C. Robinson’s.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia —Newton County:
Under and by virtue of an order
granted by the Court of Ordinary of
said county, will be sold -
before the
Court house door in the city of Cov¬
ington, said state and county, be¬
tween the legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in Jan. 1910, the follow¬
ing described tracts or parcel of land
belonging Salter, to the estate of Ava R.
late of said county, deceased,
to-wit:
Thirty-four and 36-100 acres, known
as the east end of the Flora J. Bor¬
ders place and also 50 acres more or
less, known as the Miuter place.
Also on the Friday following, will be
sold on the premises all the house¬
hold and kitchen furniture, one two
horse wagon, one buggv and one
mule.
Sold for the purpose of paying off
of debts and destributiou among the
heirs of said deceased.
Terms of sale—CASH.
W. C. SALTER,
Administrator of the Estate of Ada P.
Salter.
Libel For Divorce.
Gf.orgia, Newton County:
Dora Hannah 1 Suit for divorce,
vs in New’ton 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 j Suit -for divorce,
vs in Newton Supe
Florida Dobbs ) Court, Septem¬
ber term, 1909.
To Florida Dobbs :
You are hereby notified to be and
appear at the next March term of j
N ewton 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.
New Racket Store
Spot Cash! One Price! Big Values!
Christmas Goods are here and will
1 be on exhibition after December 1 st.
Come early and avoid big rush. 1
have added many new lines and more will
follow. New goods of season arriving
every few days. Yours truly,
J. 1. GUINN, Covington, Ga.
The Best That Gift You Can Give
We are prepared to deliver your
Christmas Pictures
Promptly regardless of weather
W e will not dissapoint you. Come in and let us make your sitting.
The Death Studio, Covington,Qa.
Farmers Real Estate & Investment
Company
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA.
Notice to Enterprising People Middle and North Ga.
If you wish to make an investment that will pay you 30
to 60 per cent, annually, in the garden spot of Georgia, where
you can raise from 10 to 20 bales of cotton to the plow, all the
corn, peanuts, sugar cane, potatoes, peas and more hay than can
be consumed on the farm and where health is perfectly good,
this kind of an investment will suit you.
t or information call on us at our
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home office at Valdosta, Ga.
G. W. ALL BRITTON, Manager.
