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Cotton Market: Following was ruling prices here yesterday: Middling, 14 7-8 cts. Good mid, 15 cts. VOL. 1J. NO. 2 MERCHANTS READY FOR BIG TRADE. ALMOST EVERY STORE IN CITY IN HOLIDAY DRESS. Never in the History of this Section Has there Been Such An Elabo¬ rate Display of Things Needed During the Holiday Season. Nearly all the merchants of this city have been busy for the past sev¬ eral weeks getting their new goods in and making preparations for a big trade during the Christmas season. They all have nice and complete lines of holiday goods and a look at their different places of business is sim¬ ply a treat. It can be truthfully said that this year there is absolutely no necessity of going elsewhere to make your pur¬ chases as the merchants here have everything imaginable for Christmas presents for family, friends and neigh bors, and the prices they have at¬ tached to them is a great deal less than those of the same articles sold in the larger cities. Before this week is out the rush will start and it will be wise for all who can to make their purchases as early as possible, thus avoiding the rush and scramble which generally goes with the Christ¬ mas season. It is due the home merchant that you at least go and look at their stock. Unless you are chroically fas¬ tidious you will be sur to find some¬ thing at their stores to please you, and you should spend your money at home. The merchant in Atlanta does not give a happy hurrah about you, except for your dollar, while the hom< man is right here to help you at any time he can. Look at the Christmas displays at the different stores in this city, and you will see that they have just any¬ thing you want. Adair Brothers Sale Continues. On another page of today’s issue of The News will be found the page ad¬ vertisement of Adair Bros., in which they are offering some mighty good bargains in goods handled by them. They advertise that this is the last call as they are positively going out of business, and that they are going Regular Annual Meeting Of the stockholders of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK is called for the Second Tuesday, the 14th day of January 1910. The meeting will he called to order promptly at 10 o’clock at the offices ol First National Bank Covington, Georgia. @193 @mingmm Mm CAROLINA COMBINE AMUSEMENT CO. CARNIVAL PLAYING HERE FOR BENEFIT OF BAND. This is Said to Be Cleanest Carnival Making the Smaller Towns. |t Has Seven Attractions and Will Give 15 Per Cent to the Band. The Carolina Combination Amuse¬ ment Company, carrying a show with seven attractions, is playing a weeks' engagement on the vacant lot in rear of the jail in this city, and under a contract with the city officials fifteen per cent of the gross receipts of the entire week will be given to the band organized in this city by Prof. D. N. Baldwin last week. The new band is composed of some eighteen or twenty of the most progressive young men of the city and under the instruction of Prof. Baldwin it will be but a short while till Covington can furnish her own music. The carnival company playing here this week is said to be one of the cleanest and best on the road. They come to this city from Madison they having just finished a week’s engage¬ ment in that city. In speaking of the shows the Madison Advertiser in its last issue had the following to say: “Besides these two attractions this week we have had the Carolina Com¬ bination Amusement Company, who are holding forth day and night on the vacant lot next to the farmers union warehouse. This carnival is a good one and should be patronized by all • our people. Those who are with the carnival are exceedingly clever and conduct themselves with all the propriety any one could wish. They have had hard luck on account of the blizard which raged the first of the week, but it seems Friday and Sat¬ urday promise to be pretty days and we hope there will be a good crowd at the shows. to sell the goods regardless of former price or cost. Their sale has been in progress for several days and they have given the people a square deal and good bar¬ gains for their money. If you need anything in their line see them. COVINGTON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 15, 1909. POULTRY SHOW WAS A BIG SUCCESS. A LARGE NUMBER OF CHICKENS WERE EXHIBITED. Mr. Loren Brown, of Belmont Farm, Was The Judge, and He.Stated That the Exhibits Were as Good As He Had S. ;n Anywhere. The Poultry Show held in this city last week was the best of its kind ever held in this section, both as to numbers of entry and in the excel¬ lence of the fowls placed on exhi¬ bition. From every section of the county came entries and several birds were placed on exhibition here from Con¬ yers and Atlanta. Without an ex¬ ception they were all good and il¬ lustrates the standard to which the thoroughbred fowls may be brought up. Out of all the breeds on ilis play, however, the Rhode Island Reds were the most popular, there being something like sixty of this variety entered. Most prominent among the breeders of this variety in this coun¬ ty are Messrs. W. L. Gibson, I). 1). Towers, J.M.Aaron, Dr. J. A. Wright and J. E. Taylor. They all had a number of their birds entered and they made as fine a showing as you see at the big shows. Judge Brown paid the boys a very high compliment on the excellence to which this breed of chickens has attained here. A number of the other breeds are deserving of 'especial mention, they all being simply fine. In fact better than you often see at the Atlanta shows. Mr. Brown stated that the show held here equalled a number which had been held in the larger cities, and says he believes the boys here intend to breed the very best in their several breeds. He judged the fowls here for the show and without an exception his awards of the rib¬ bons met with the hearty approval of all the breeders having exhibits here'. Judge Brown also gave the boys som valuable information on the different methods and matings to produce the best results and altogether his trip to this ciy will be of inestimable ben¬ efit to our citizens interested In this industry. Following is the list of awards of the ribbons, In full: Rhode Island Reds:—Cock, 1st, J. E. Taylor. Cockerel, 1st L. Sain, 2nd, W. L. Gibson, 3rd, W. L. Gib¬ son. Pullet, 1st, D. D. Towers, 2nd Mrs. Henderson, 3rd D. 1). Towers. Hen, 1st C. H. Hammeran, 2nd C. H. Hammeran, 3rd C. H. Hammeran. Pen, 1st W. L. Gibson, 2nd Dr. J. A. Wright, 3rd Miss Murphy. Barred Plymouth Rocks:—Cock, 1st Avon Indian Farm, 2nd, H. B. Gaith¬ er. Cockerel, 1st, Avon Indian Farm, 2nd, R. O. Sams. Hen, 1st, H. B. Gaither, 2nd, Avon Indian Farm. Pullet, 1st, Avon Indian Farm, 2nd, R. O. Sams. Pen, 1st Avon Indian Farm. White Plymouth Rocks:—Pen, 1st, J. W. King. White Wyandottes:—Cock, 1st, J. J. Owens. Cockerel, 1st, J. J. Ow ens. Hen, 1st, J. J. Owens. Pullet, 1st, J. J. Owens. 2nd, J. J. Owens. White Leghorns:—Pen, 1st, Bob Hudson. Cockerel, 1st, Ernest Peek. Columbian Wyandottes.— Cockerel, Geo. T. Smith. Pullet, 1st, Geo. T. Smith; 2nd, Geo. T. Smith. Butter Cups.—Cockerel, 1st, J. T. Elliott. Pullet, 1st, J. T. Elliott. Silver Spangled Hamburgs.—Cock¬ erel, 1st, G. Giles. 2nd, G. Giles. Black Minorcas.—Cock, 1st, H. B. Gaither; 2nd, Johnson. Hen, 1st, H. B. Gaither, 2nd, C. A. Franklin, 3rd, C. A. Franklin. Cockerel, 1st, C. A. Franklin, 2nd, Johnson. Brown Leghorns:—Cock, 1st, L. D. King. Hen, 1st, L. D. King,, 2nd, L. D. King. Gray games.-—Coc k, 1st, Perry Luns ford, 2nd, C. A. Franklin. Hen, 1st, C. C. Franklin, 2nd, C. A. Franklin. Pen, 1st, Perry Lunsford. Cuban Red Games.—Cockerel, 1st, R. O. Sams. Pullet, 1st, It. O. Sams. Pekin Ducks.—Pair, 1st, J. Huthchins. White Fan Tail Pigeons.— Mrs. J. Edward Hutcins. Cornan Pigeons.—Pair, 1st, J. M. Aaron, 2nd, J. M. Aaron. Homer Pigeons.—Pair, 1st J. M. Aaron. 2nd f J. M. Aaron. Bronze' Jurkeys.— 1st, 2nd, 3rd, F. Ozburn. ^LUMBER FOR SALE—80,000 fee framing, weather boarding and plainer Apply to O. L. Holmes. tf. DATE IS FIXED FOR VETERANS' REUNION AT MOBILE ON APRIL 28, 27 AND 28, NEXT YEAR. General Evans Has Selected Above Dates for Reunion to be Held In That Historical and Hospita¬ ble Southern City. New Orleans, La., December 11.— The formal order fixing the date of the 1910 reunion of the Confederate Veterans for April 26, and the place. Mobile, was issued tonight by Gener¬ al Evans and published by bis adju¬ tant, General Mickle. It says: Headquarters United Confederate Vet¬ erans, New Orleans, La., Decem¬ ber 11, 1909. General Orders No. 22. I. The General commanding an¬ nounces that, according to the cus tom heretofore in force, which leaves the general commanding and the de¬ partment commander the fixiug of th date of the reunion, the* twentieth annual reunion of the United Confed¬ erate Veterans will be held In the city of Mobile, Alabama, on April 26, 27 and 28, 1910, Tuesday, Wednes¬ day and Thursday respectively, those days having been named by our host as satisfactory. For sentimental and practical rea¬ sons Mobile possesses peculiar claims as a reunion city. Her geographical position in the center of our territory her beautiful bay her delightful and invigorating climate, the charming weather which usually prevails at the time of year when the reunion is to be held, her numerous palatial ho¬ tels, restaurants, and private board¬ ing houses, are arguments for the practical side; while the many eveuts In her history connected with the war, around which the hearts of the old soldiers ever linger with fond¬ ness, represent the sentimental view. Within the borders of the States of Alabama was born “the storm cra¬ dled nation that fell." and In the adjacent city of Montgomery is to be found the first capital of the Con¬ federate States of America, and the first home of its only president. On the beautiful bay of Mobile Hie greatest naval battle of the wax - took place: for many weary months a handful of men and boys, under the command of General D. H. Maury, numbering about 9.000, held in check and delayed the advance of General Canby’s 45,000 trained soldiers; at her very doors, ulmoBt within the county, was fought the last great battle of the conflict; in the north end of the county, In the village of Citronelle, the last army of the C. S. A. west of the Mississippi, was sur¬ rendered and the curtain fell on the great drama; in Mobile was construe ted, by a Mobile man, the first and only sub-marine boat that performed the duty required of It; here rest the ashes of Gen. Bragg, Gen Gladden, Father Kyan and the great naval com rnander, Raphael Semmes. These are some of the historic events which will add to the pleasure of the old soldiers who will come to the reunion. Then the men of Mo¬ bile, second to none in patriotic fer vor, promise to give their best efforts to promote the enjoyment of those whom It will be a delight to enter¬ tain; while the ladles of the city, famed all over the world for their great hospitality and wondrous beau¬ ty and loveliness, have determined that no reunion ever held or to be held shall compare to this in the magnitude or duration of the enjoy¬ ment that will be given to the heroes tf the sixties who will come to par¬ take of their hospitality. With such plans laid the veterans are likely to have a most enjoyable time, and the general commanding earnestly urges all to come who can possibly do so, to take part in these three days of festivity. II. The General commanding an¬ nounces with much pleasure, at the request of its most energetic presi¬ dent, Mrs. M. J. Behan, that the Con¬ federate Southern Memorial Associa¬ tion will hold its meeting at the same time. III. The general commanding sin¬ cerely hopes that the press of the entire country will endeavor to stir j up Interest in the coming meeting,! and to this end he requests that these orders be published, and edi¬ torial comment made thereon. CLEMENT A. EVANS, General Commanding. Official: W%n. E. MICKLE. Adjutant Gen. Chief of Staff. $1. A Year In Advance. FARMERS UNION ELECTS OFFICERS. T. J. SPEER, JR., IS MADE LECTURER. He Urges Farmers to Diversify Their Crops and Not Plant All in Cot¬ ton. He also Believes In Stand¬ ing for Uprightness. The Covington News: — As the Farmers Union of this coun¬ met on December 11th, and elected new officers for the year of 1910, It fell to my lot to be selected as the for this county, and also, the chairman of the Agricultural de¬ and I am still in the field to agitate intensified farming. Till¬ of the soil, there is prosperity the farm as long as we rafise our supplies, but when that stops, prosperity stops. Now, brethren, the gruin is sown for the fall. Let ns not stop at that, but let us make ready to sow more in the spring and prepare our corn land, and be sure we have a sufficient amount to raise corn enough to do you and then prepare what land you can for the raw staple. Plant less and pre¬ pare It better, and make more on less land. The time lias come wlnyi we, as farmers, have to learn to raise home supplies or we will have to go bare. Diversify your crops and make.your land better. Save your stable manurt and Bee if you cannot stop so much expense and let it turn over to profit. When this is done at every home in the south you will see things take a change. There 1 h no need of the people of the south making slaves of them¬ selves ami their families to raise the raw material and leave off their home supplies. Brethren, look to your own Inter ests, and to the Interest of your fam¬ ily, and stop working thirteen months lit the year, and try to regenerate yourselves and your children. Live at home amt live Independent. Save your money and gain knowl¬ edge In this life, and be men. That will stand up for the right llilug. Liberty and Justice is our guide in this life. Do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Hold up our Statement of the Condition of The Bank of Covington Located at Covington, Ga., at Close of Business November 16th, 1909. RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts............................ $215 880.41 Demand Loans______ ________ — 12 731.43 Overdrafts, Secured by Cotton — - 32 699.35 Overdrafts, Unsecured ................. 2 662.32 Furniture and Fixtures .. ---------- 3 833.65 Cash on Hand and in Banks —........ 56 218.98 Total................................ $324 026.14 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock Paid in .................... $100 000.00 Undivided Profits (Net)___________________ 6 684.72 Due Unpaid Dividends__________________________ 4.00 Ind'v. Deposits sub. to check $179 360.56 Time Certificates ______________ 37 976.86 217 337.42 Total ................... 1 ____________ . $324 026.14 We solicit your banking business. The Bank of Covington. Covington, Georgia. CAPITAL - - $100,000.00 », 000.00 ■ ■■■■■■ ■ The News is going to give some lady in this county a handsome $350 Schulz piano on Dec. 22, 1909. LADIES BAZAAR A DECIDED SUCCESS. NEAT SUM REALIZED FOR NEW LIBRARY FUND. Work Will Be Commenced as Soon As Plans Are Definitely Decided On for the New Building, which Will Be a Beauty. Th<t bazaar held by the ladies In the Magath building last week was a decided success, both in the amount of salable goods and the profits de¬ rived for the building of the new. library building for which money la now being raised by the Womans Club. The bazaar opened Wednes¬ day morning and continued through¬ out Saturday, with large crowds In attendance nearly all the time. The ladies deserve a great deal of credit for the manner nud energy they use in securing the funds with which to erect this city u modern li¬ brary building aixd the patronage they received at their sale last week was due them by the citizens. They have already bought and paid for the lot and ubout. twelve hundred books and have now started to work to raise the necessary funds to erect a suit¬ able home for the library. We understand that, there are a number of citizens of the city who will make donations to the fund and with the amount raised at the ba¬ zaar last week they have a nice base to work from. Like Winter Weather Here. For several days during the qaat week the weather has been unusually cold and we have heard of a number of nice porkers having been killed. Here In the city a number of water pipes have tr«»/.eH up ami bursted, giving the plumbers a chance to In their bill for Christmas money. The Covington News’ Plano Cob test closes on December 20th. moral character uud live to sustain virtue. Brothers and sisters, stand for uprightness ami justice to fallen humanity. Respectfully yours, T. J. SPEER, JR.