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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,15 1909.
1909 has been a crackerjack, but
oh, you 1910.
You may hang our Christmas pres¬
ent up on the floor. Our socks have
boles in them.
It is said that a photograph is a
dumb liar. It seldom tells the truth
about a girl’s looks.
From the present outlook the year
ot 1910 will be filled with plenty, pol¬
itics and prosperity.
Give the new administration all the
help you can during their erms of of¬
fice. They will need it.
Leave out the booze and your hap¬
piness will be greater during Christ¬
mas and that of your family too.
From the amount of grain sown
this winter, it looks as if we are
to have another year of prosperity.
If you and your neighbor are at
"outs,” the most appropriate Christ¬
mas present you could give would be
an apology.
The Southern Express Company is
doing a rushing business this week,
it is not all Chrismtas presents they
are handling, either.
With her increased population, su¬
perior advantages and high class peo¬
ple, Covington will enter the year
1910 better equipped as a city than
ever before.
The Elberton Star thinks that the
egg trust should be handled with care
for it might get broken, and as all
trusts are "rotten,” there might be
disagreeable consequences.
More money is now on deposit in
the banks of this county than was
ever in them at one time. The bank¬
ing institutions of Newton county are
excelled by none in the South.
An exchange headed a certain news
item this way: "Got it in the neck.”
The story told of a hanging. A sim¬
ilar story in the same paper had the
head: “Fell from scaffold and broke
his neck.”
A dispatch states that money is
getting loose and easy to obtain at
Savannah. That’s putting money in
the same class with liquid refresh¬
ments. if we get it straight from that
city.
Atlanta is again* in the limelight,
with a stink in the management of
her city stockade. The superintend¬
ent and one of the guards have been
indicted by the grand jury and sus¬
pended from service.
An exchange wants to know which
has the greatest ring of prosperity,
the honk of the auto horn or the
grunt of a hog? We refer this ques¬
tion to the editor of the Butts Coun¬
ty Progress. We don’t have hogs in
Griffin.—Griffin Herald.
Getting a full ticket for municipal
officers of Covington was on the
principal as was involved in hunting
the good men in Sodom. This city
has plenty of good men but they do
not seem to take well to the knock¬
ing generally put up to the mayor
and council.
Some people run for office simply
because- they want the honor and
revenue to be derived from the same.
But in telling you they want it, they
nearly all begin with the old stereo¬
typed phrase of "at the solicitation
of my friends, I am a candidate, etc.”
Truly, Baron Munchausen left many
apt followers.
Married her father's chauffer; sep¬
arated in a few hours and kept hid¬
den by her mother; obtained a di¬
vorce at 10 o’clock; remarried at two
of the same day and departed im¬
mediately on another honeymoon, is
the romantic career of Miss Sylvie
Speer, whose father is a capitalist.
Her elopement with the chauffer a
year ago created quite a sensation in
Atlanta social circles. Her rapid-fire
changes would furnish an excellent
plot for a dime novel.
GOODBYE, 1909.
With this issue THE NEWS bids
farewell to the year of 1909, it’s
issue welcoming that of 1910. In
looking backward over the year just
closing mingled feelings of joy and
sadness fill us—joy in the fact
we are still permitted to be of
vice to our friends, sadness from
fact that we, like all other
have had our sorrows.
From a standpoint of public
est, this has been a remarkable
for Covington and Newton County.
In our city more of a substantial
ture has been accomplished than
any other equal period in her
ry, and with it all there is at this
time a more prevalent inclination
the part of our people to feel
touch of prosperity than has ever
fore been displayed in the observa¬
tion of the writer.
Our splendid water and sewer
tems have been completed, adding
one of the greatest comforts and
veniences to the service of the
ple; thenew school annex and audi¬
torium and annex has been finished,
giving Covington superior and
celled facilities for our school; the
$15,000 First Baptist Church will
completed and ready for worship in
a very short time, giving this city
one of the prettiest and most con¬
veniently arranged houses of
in Middle Georgia; the organization!
of a blanket factory has been
completed, and a large number of
modern homes have been built within
the past few months; besides, several
other public enterprises are being
planned. With all these things to Jts
credit, 1909 should feel no embarass
ment in turning over the reins to the
year of 1910.
As for us, we have no complaint to
make. THE NEWS has enjoyed a
splendid business, in fact, better than
any other paper ever before operated
here. We have enjoyed the*»Iittle
part we have played in all the ques¬
tions of public interest, and will en¬
ter the New Year with renewed en¬
ergy in our efforts to make The
NEWS better with each issue. We
appreciate the patronage of all who
have seen fit to extend it to us, and
assure them of prompt attention in
the future.
To all our patrons and readers we
wish a most happy Christmas and a
bountiful New Year—to 1909 we make
our most profound bow.
LIVING COMES HIGH.
A condition now confronting the
American people, affecting them per¬
haps more vitally than any other, is
the high cost of all the necessaries
and commodities of life. Just the ex¬
act cause of advanced prices on these
articles has been for the past sev¬
eral months the source of much com¬
ment and speculation by those who
make a study of economic issues all
over the country, and for the first
time in the nations history during pro
found peace, the president in his reg¬
ular message to the Congress refers
particularly to the high cost of
living.
Various explanations and causes
have been advanced and the presi¬
dent makes the claim that the tariff
is not the cause of top-notch prices,
and that the advanced figures are of
world wide scope. This may be true,
but it seems to us that the tariff—
itself excessive—is paid ultimately by
the consumer and in its nature has a
tendency to suppress the supply of
those commodities going to make up
the necessaries of life.
In the December 1st issue. Brad
street’s gives some interesting data
along this line, and finds from statis¬
tics that at the present time a man
may purchase a pound each of ninety
six commodities at a cost of $9.12,
and in 1896 he could have purchased
the same for $5.70, or nearly half the
cost at the present time. A special
writer on economics has the follow¬
ing to say of this all-important ques¬
tion:
“It will not sound like the opinion
of an optimist when I say that I be¬
lieve we have not yet reached the
crest of the high price era. With
what is generally conceded to be a
state of prosperity, there will without
doubt be a general advance all along
the line in the cost of farm products,
clothing, fuel, and almost everything
tha he ‘ultimate consumer’ must have
As long as the ultimate consumer is
employed he will succeed somehow
in meeitng the demands upon him.
It is pretty certain, however, that
there will be a depression again at
some time, as there was two years
ago. Then will be the time when
the cost of living will be serious, for
wages generally drop and the em¬
ployment gives out before the prices
of commodities decrease. It will not
require a political economist or a doc¬
tor of philosophy to see that. Every
man and every woman knows it. The
only question seems to be the one
which was asked so often during the
fixing of the tariff, namely: ‘Who is
the ultimate consumer?’ That is a
question which I am not going to an¬
swer.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS
THE FREIGHT RATE QUESTION.
It is with a feeling of pleasure that
we notice our contemporary, The En¬
terprise, has taken up the freight rate
question which is of so much impor¬
tance to the people generally of this
city and section. From the first THE
NEWS has contended that the rates
charged to this point were in excess
of those obtaining in numerous cities,
sometimes in small towns of scarcely
any importance, and the fact that oth¬
er people are beginning to look at the
problem in the same light indicates
that in time the matter will receive
the attention of all our people and
that a combined effort will be made
to bring about a satisfactory adjust¬
ment—one that will give Covington
what she deserves, a rate equally as
low as Griffin and a few other towns
we could mention.
Our contemporary intimates ihat
this question has heretofore been
used as a kind of riding plank for
peanut politicians to gallop on during
the campaigns,and when viewed from
a practical and unbiased standpoint,
we are compelled to admit the cor¬
rectness of the editors’ views, so far
as this town is concerned. WE PAY
MORE FREIGHT, PROPORTIONATE
■LY, THAN HALF THE TOWNS IN
GEORGIA, notwithstanding the fact
that we have two railroads, supposed
to be competing lines.
Last winter we took the matter up
with the railroad commission through
its then chairman, Mr. S. G. McLen¬
don, who sent us a mass of informa¬
tion (!) —God save the mark—which
would take at least four corporation
lawyers to get heads or tails out of
Since that time we have obtained
what information we could bearing
on the subject and find that our
neighbors’ reference to "politics” is
as applicable as anything we have yet
heard of.
As a last resort to find means for
straightening out the freight rates
at this point we might get the con¬
sent of one of the candidates for
Congress to use his influence with
the “Waterways” committee and get
them to open up Dried Indian creek
to “tidewater,” thus giving us water
competition with our railroads!
DARNING PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
Senator Smoot wants the govern¬
ment to foster the teaching of domes¬
tic science in schools receiving the
government aid, and announced in
Washington recently that he will in¬
troduce a bill providing that each of
the agricultural schools assisted by
the government shall be given an an
ual allowance of $10,000 for domestic
science work.
"There is just as much need that a
woman should be taught how to cook
and sew, make her own hats and
darn her husbands socks, if she has
a husband, or expects to have one, as
there is to teach a man how to farm”
said Senator Smoot.
The men of the country will ap¬
prove of this plan very generally. It
will also have he approval of Marga¬
ret Illington, who recently divorced
one husband and retired from the
stage, that she might annex a new
husband who had money enough to
afford her the luxury of darning his
“hose.” Miss Illington used the word
“hose,” and doubtless she purposes
to limit her needlework to silk or
the very highest class lisle thread
foot covering.
However, if she desires to be tech¬
nically correct in discussing what gen
tlemen wear on their feet, she should
say “half-hose.”
It is rather difficult to understand
why Senator Smoot should feel there
is great necessity for knowledge of
darning among the Mormon women.
Where the number of a man’s wives
range from two to twenty, he certain¬
ly ought to never have holey socks.
There should be at least one natural
born darner, like Miss Illington, in
such an assortment.
Still, the Utah women may be fol¬
lowing in the trail of the Chicago wo¬
man doctor, who has declared that
it is degrading for a woman to sew
buttons on her husbands clothes, and
announced that a woman will never
take her proper position in the world
until she forces her husband to sew
on his own buttons. This particular
lady did not say anything about darn¬
ing. At least her remarks were not
published, but it is just possible that
I they were omitted because of being
unmailable.
Lest the Chicago idea becomes un¬
iversal Senator Smoot’s domestic sci¬
ence appropriations had better be
made with the distinct provision that
the courses are also open to the men.
—Americus Times Recorder.
A Carnegie library for this city
would be something nice, wouldn't
it? If the money now being raised
by the ladies could be supplemented
by the city fathers and your Uncle
Andrew, a library building could be
erected that poserity would be proud
of. Let’s have it.
Pre-Inventory Cut Prices on Cloth¬
ing at C. C. Robinson’s.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
To the Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of J. M. Potts, Alex
Bohannan and J. F. Stubbs of New¬
ton county and state of Georgia, res¬
pectfully shows) :
1. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and sucessors, to be
incorporated and made a body pol¬
itic under the name and style of
STEWART MERCANTILE COMPA
NY for the period of twenty years.
2. The principal offices of said com
pany shall be at Stewart in the said
State and county aforesaid.
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 a general mercan¬
tile business.
5. The capital stock of said cor¬
poration shall be Two Thousand Dol¬
lars with the privilege of increasing
same to the sum of Ten Thousand
Dollars by a majority vote of the
stockholders, said stock to be divid¬
ed into shares of One Hundred ($100)
Dollars each. Ten per cent, of the
amount of capital stock to be em¬
ployed by them has been actually
paid in.
6. Petitioners desire the right to
sue and be sued, to plead and be
impleaded, to have and use a com¬
mon 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
business, including the right to buy,
hold, and sell real estate and person¬
al property suitable to the purposes
of the corporation, and to execute
notes and bonds as evidence of in¬
debtedness incurred, in the conduct
of the affairs of the corporation and
to secure the same by mortgage, se¬
curity deed, or other form of lien,
under existing laws.
7. They desire for said corporation
the power and authority to apply for
and accept amendments to its char¬
ter of either form or substance by
a vote of a majority of its stock
outstanding at the time. They also
ask for said corporation to wind up
its affairs, liquidate and discontinue
its business at any time it may de¬
termine to do so by ,a vote of two
thirds of its stock outstanding at the
time.
8. They desire for said incorpora¬
tion the right of renewal when and
as provided by the laws of Georgia,
and that they have all such other
rights, powers, privileges and immuni
ties as are incident to like corpora¬
tions or permissible under the laws
of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid with the powers, priv¬
ileges and immunities as herein set
forth, and as are now, or may here¬
after be, allowed a c corporation of
similar character under the laws of
Georgia.
C. C. KING,
Attorney for Petitioners.
Filed in office this 14th day of De¬
cember, 1909. Jno. B. Davis,
Clerk Superior Court
GEORGIA, Newton County.
I, John B. Davis, Clerk of the Su¬
perior Court of said county, do here¬
by certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the applica¬
tion for charter of Stewart Mercan¬
tile Company as the same appears on
file in this office. Witness my offi¬
cial signature, this 14th day of De¬
cember, 1909.
JNO. B. DAVIS,
Clerk Superior Court Newton Coun¬
ty, Ga.
This, 14th day of December, 1909.
LEGAL ADVERTSIEMENTS.
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 to the estate of Ava R.
Salter, 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 Minter place.
Also on the Friday following, will be
sold on the premises all the house¬
hold and kitchen furniture, one two
horse wagon, one buggy and one
mule.
Sold for the purpose of paying off
of debts and destribution among the
heirs of said deceased.
Terms of sale—CASH.
W. C. SALTER,
Administrator of the Estate of Ada P.
Salter.
Citation.
„ —
Georgia —Newton County:
P. T. Austin having made applica
; tion to require titles to be executed
to him to certain land described in ! I
Bond for titles thereto attached, pur
late porting to be signed by A. S. Bell,
of said county, deceased, the
said application alleging that said
land has been fully paid for, all par¬
ties concerned are hereby notified
that said application will be" heard be¬
fore the Court of Ordinary, to be held
in and for said county on the first
Mondav in January next, 1910.
This "Dec. 7, 1909.
A. D. Meador, Ordinary.
Citation.
Georgia —Newton County:
I
W. D. Weldon, having made appli
i cation before me to be appointed ad¬
ministrator, Cpm Testamento An
nexo, of Nancy J. Aiken, deceased,
this is to cite all persons, both credi¬
tors and next of kin, to show cause,
if any they can, why letters should not
be granted as prayed for, ou the first
Monday in Jauury 1910.
Witness my hand and seal this De
i j cember, 7th, 1907.
A. D. Meador, Ordinary.
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, but 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.
Our Soda Water Trade Has
Increased 50 per cent this year. It is
because our drinks please our custo¬
mers. Have you tried them? Don’t
wait another day. Telephone your or¬
der or call.
C. C. BROOKS
Phone 24 Druggist
4
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.
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BRADSHAW PLUMBING GO.
J. O. Bradshaw, Manager
Experts in all branches of the
Plumbing trade. Full stock of ma¬
terial and repair parts are always in
stock, with a good man to put it in.
Estimates and testimonials furnished
anyone interested, either in or out of
the city. No trouble to help you fig¬
ure out your job. A telephone mes¬
sage will bring our manager to see
you.
BRADSHAW PLUMBING CO.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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