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Cotton Market.
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday:
Middling, 14 l* 8 cts -
Good mid. 14 1-4 cts.
VOL. 11. NO. 8
CHURCH IN ACTION
AGAINST SALOONS
DR, HOLDERBY delivers an
interesting lecture
Anti-Saloon League is Pioneer in the
Fight for Temperance and Aboli¬
tion of Saloons In Many Southern
States.
Dr. J. N. Holderby, chairman of the
Anti-Saloon League of Georgia, deliv¬
ered a very forceful and interesting
lecture along the lines of prohibition
at the Presbyterian church Sunday
night which was largely attended, no
services being held at either of the
other churches.
Dr. Holderby is a very earnest and
powerful worker and has a wide influ¬
ence for good throughout the state.
The League is making a fight for
some much needed legislation for the
protection and better enforcement of
the present prohibition law, and a
campaign is now being waged by
them with that end in view. Follow¬
ing is the substance of his talk Sun¬
day night and for which the members
of the League are working:
To wage an unrelenting warfare up¬
on the manufacture and sale of near
beer in Georgia.
To resist the action of the Federal
government in allowing the sale of
confiscated liquors in dry states.
To urge the enactment of a law
that will make the holding of a fed¬
eral liquor license prima facia evi¬
dence of guilt in the violation of the
prohibition law.
To urge the election of the next
legislature pledged to the abolition
of the near-beer business and to fur¬
ther perfect the present law as a pro¬
hibition measure.
Doing Business at Conyers.
Charles G.Smith,the handsome and
affable mayor of Covington, was here
trying to close a big real estate deal.
Smith made a fortune running the
Covington Enterprise, and knew just
when to turn loose and let the other
fellow try his hand.—Conyers Free
Press.
You would be surprised at the good
an add in The News would do you.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
IN A NATIONAL BANK YOU HAVE
THE PROTECTTION OF THE UNI¬
TED STATES GOVERNMENT.
We solicit your banking business
on a business basis.
WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO
OUR STATEMENT PUBLISHED ON
ANOTHER PAGE OF THIS PAPER.
First National Bank
Covington, Georgia.
Conington News I
LOCAL ENTERPRISE
ELECTS OFFICERS
MR. C. C. BROOKS WILL HAVE
CHARGE OF BUGGY FACTORY
Mr. John M. Wright Who Held Con¬
trolling Interest Sold His Stock to
Minority Members and New Offi
ceis Were Elected.
The Covington Buggy Co., which
was organized here something like a
year ago has undergone a complete
change in its management and staff
of officers. This change came about
by the transfer by Mr. John M.
Wright, the former president and gen¬
eral manager, to the minority stock¬
holders which is composed of the
most prominent business men in the
county. Mr. Wright has been elec¬
ted secretary of the Beaverdam Man
facuturing Co., at Hartwell, Ga., and
will leave shortly to take up his new
duties there.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Buggy Company was held last
week, at which time the transfer of
the stock was made and election of
officers for the year held. Mr. C. C.
Brooks was elected president and gen
eral manager; Mr. D. A. Thompson,
vice president; Dr. N. Z. Anderson,
secretary. The board of directors is
composed of Messrs. C. C. Brooks,
N. Z. Anderson, D. A. Thompson, E.
L. Almand and Dr. J. T. Gibson.
Mr. Brooks, the new manager, has
taken charge of the business and says
he is going to build as good buggies
as were ever turned out of Covington.
Mr. Brooks is a hustler and we pre¬
dict for the new company a good
business under the guidance of the
new officers.
Three Charters Granted Monday.
Judge L. S. Roan, of the Stone
Mountain circuit, came down from
Atlanta Monday and granted char¬
ters to the following corporations:
Stewart Mercantile Co., of the
southern portion of the county.
Coogler-Wood Co., of Mansfield.
Carter-Nelson Furniture Co of New¬
born.
These firms are headed by some
of Newton’s best and most influen¬
tial citizens and leading business men.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JANUARY 26, \sfc)
COL, LIVINGSTON
REFUTES CHARGES
BEING CIRCULATED
Sends Letter to Mr. James Gard¬
ner of This City, Which is
Explanatory In Itself.
DENIES THAT HE USED
BUILDINGS FOR A RUSE.
States That Rule Which Has Been
Commented On as a Feature With
Which to Fight Him Is a New one
And He Was Unaware of Its Pas¬
sage.—Also That He Will Make Ef¬
fort to Have it Changed and Get
Buildings for His District.
For sometime there has been con¬
siderable comment made on the fact
that the proposed federal building for
this city could not be secured as a
rule was in force so fixing the plac¬
ing of these buildings as to cut out
the smaller towns throughout the
country. Mr. Livingston in a letter
to Mr. James Gardner of this city,
states that he was unaware of the
fact that this new rule existed until
his attenion was called to it a few
days ago. His letter in full follows,
together with, a letter from Mr. Bart
holdt informing him of the new rul¬
ing of the committee:
Washington, D. C. Jan. 22, 1910.
“Dear James:—
“Yours to hand. Thanks for for
the same. You will see from the en¬
closed letter of the chairman of the
committee on Public Buildings that
what Howard said as to my deceiv¬
ing my people is not true. I had Cov¬
ington and Monroe in the last omni¬
bus bill and to cut it down they a
dopted the new rule referred to and
gave me no notice as to why they
were left out. Last month when con¬
gress met the committee met and
for the first time, I learned of the
NEW rule. I and many others are
fighting to have this rule set aside
as it is unfair to smaller growing cit¬
ies. I sh,all continue my effort to
have the rule changed so as to let in
several 'owns in my district and hope
to succeed. Please ask the Covingto
News to publish the enclosed letter
and this letter of mine and the peo¬
ple will see that the rule is a new
one and not even published to the
Congressmen. Again, they will see
that I have no reason to deceive
them. Again they will see that the
charge that I purposely deceived
them, evinced on the part of the
person so charging, a malicious and
reckless disposition to deal with me
and my interest. My efforts in the
behalf of a building in Covington was
for the good citizens of Covington
and the county, and not for votes.
Very truly,
L. F. LIVINGSTON.”
Following is the letter to him un¬
der date of January 22nd, telling of
the new rule:
“Hon. L. F. Livingston, House of
Representatives.
“Dear Sir:—In reply to your inqui¬
ry I desire to say that in the last
Congress when the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds was
considering the public building bill it
was decided that no city having a
population less than five thousand or
postal receipts less than ten thous¬
and dollars per annum should be in¬
cluded in the bill. This was a new
departure and was found necessary
because in former years it had been
the practice to include smaller towns
as there had never been any fixed
rule regarding postal receipts or pop¬
ulation of a town.
“For your further information I
desire to say that at a recent meeting
of the committee it was decided to
adhere to this rule and the committee
must positively decline to consider
any city which does not have a pop¬
ulation of at least five thousand or
| postal receipts of at least ten thous
' and dollars per annum. The Com
! mittee has never officially notified
the membership of the House of the
adoption of this rule but does so up
| on inquiry. Very truly,
RICHARD BARTHOLDT.”
j “P. S.—This is merely a rule of the
| Committee and not based upon any
statute.”
Preaching at Bethany Sunday.
We are requested to announce that
there will be preaching at Bethany
Presbyterian church, in Oak Hill dis¬
trict, next Sunday, the 30th, by Rev.
F. D. Hunt. The public cordially In¬
vited to attend.
COUNCIL HELD A
WARM SESSION
MONDAY
Water and Light Board Shows a
Balance of Over $5,000.00
From the Bond Issue.
CITY COUNCIL HAS MOST
IMPORTANT MEETING HELD.
Financial Statement Shows the City
Affairs to Be In Excellent Condi¬
tion.—Work for Year Outlined and
Discussed.—Convicts Will Put In
Sometime On City Streets.—Chert
Will Be Used at College Grounds.
Will Get Money for Six Per Cent.
A special meeting of the city coun¬
cil was held Monday night in the
council chamber at which time the
members of that body who served
the city last year were extended an
Invitation and the annual statement
of the clerk was submitted.
The meeting was called to order
by Mayor Smith and the session was
opened with Councilmen J. R. Steph¬
enson, R. E. Everitt, R. P. Lester,
John Callaway and J. E. Phillips in
their seats. Councilman Robinson ar¬
rived just after the session opened.
Besides the above there were pres¬
ent ex-Councilmen J. H. Echols and
^A. S. McGarity, Mr. Chas. A. Clark
and representatives of The News.
The clerk, Mr. John J. Corley, ren¬
dered a very clear and concise rec¬
ord of the business transacted dur¬
ing the year 1909, and every detail
of each department was itemized in
such a manner as to make it easily
understood by each man present.
His statement showed that the city
was in first class order financially
and that each department is well able
to take care of itself. It showed the
amount of money received last year
from fines increased $700 over that
of the preceding year. The water
and light board has a balance of up¬
ward of five thousand dollars from
the bond issue for water and sewer¬
age. The electric light plant was
operated during the year at a loss
of $34, and there Is a considerable
amount of coal yet on hand. This
gave the city something like forty
arc lights and twenty-five incandes¬
cent street lights at a total cost of
he above amoun plus the interest on
the outstanding electric light bonds.
After the report of the clerk was
read Mr. J. E. Phillips, chairman of
the finance committee, reported that
he had made an agreement with the
Bank of Covington for that Institu¬
tion to loan the city $10,000 at six
per cent interest. A resolution was
passed accepting the agreement and
authorizing Mr. Phillips to close the
deal. Heretofore the city has paid
eight per cent on the borrowed mon
'ey and this plan will save her the
two per cent difference. Mr. Phillips
was instructed to pay up all out¬
standing notes exceeding six per
cent.
Mr. Chas. A. Clark went before the
council In reference to the old Bar
her house on Church street, which
was condemned sometime ago as a
nuisance. It appeared from Mr.
Clark’s statement that at the time
the city condemned it, the property
belonged to Mr. S. P. Pickett, who
sold it to him before the last day of
the date for its removal When the
property was transferred to him the
city notified him that it would have
to be removed by January 22nd. Mr.
Clark asked the privilege of appear¬
ing before the council, which request
was granted. He stated to the
council that he expected to improve
the property by remodeling It and
cleaning up the premises thoroughly
offering to give bond for faithful per
formance. He stated, however, tha
owing to the fact that his contracts
now going would require his time up
until the first of the spring, and ask¬
ed that the time be extended. It
was put to a vote and his request
was granted.
The clerk was instructed to read
a letter from the president of the
Newton County Oil Mill, which had
reference to the amount of tax of
that corporation. It appeared from
the letter that the capital stock of
the Oil Mill is $40,000 and that it
was the opinion of the officers that
a corporation had to return its taxes
for the full amount of its stock which
they did. The letter stated that oth¬
er corporaions in the city were allow¬
ed to return their valuations at three
fourtha of their capitalization. Due
PENSION MONEY
IS BEING PAID
ORDINARY MEADOR IS BUSY
PAYING THE OLD VETS.
Newton County Has 128 on Her List
and Received Last Week Vouchers
For $7,660 With Which to Make
Payments to Them.
Newton county received last week
her portion of the pension money
from the State, and Ordinary Meador
is busy giving out the checks to the
Veterans, a number of whom have
already received their amounts for
the entire year of 1910.
There are on the pension list of
this county one hundred and twenty
eight names and the amount received
by the Ordinary for payment to them
last week was $7,660, which will help
the Veterans to buy comfortable cloth¬
ing and supplies during the cold
weat her.
Mr. Meador requests us to urge all
who have not received their checks
to call for them at once as the money
is here waiting for them, and he is
anxious that they receive it now.
The payment received for the pen¬
sions will pay the Veterans their en¬
tire amount for this year,the method
having been changed to annual in¬
stead of quarterly payments as here¬
tofore. The old soldiers prefer to
receive their money all at one time,
stating that it does more good when
it comes in a lump.
to this fact they ask tha' their tax
returns be reduced to $32,000 which,
they state, was the actual value of
the property for luxation. Alter a
short discussion the matter was ta¬
bled for future action.
Tlie matter of the new street run¬
ning parallell with Floyd street to
meet with the new McGuirts bridge
road shortly to be built by the coun¬
ty was taken up and after a discus¬
sion was tabled until the matter is
thoroughly investigaed by the street
committee.
Councilman Robinson, chairman of
the street committee, reported that
the county convicts would be in dur¬
ing the week and would put the iar
ger portion of the streets in first clas
WILL BE HELD
HERE NEXT MONTH
FARMERS GETTING INTERESTED
IN AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.
Live Stock to Have Important Place
in Program of School to be Held
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
February 17th, 18th and 19th.
The interest manifested in live
stock by the farmers of Newton coun¬
ty should cause the work of the Itin¬
erant Agricultural school to be hear¬
tily welcomed and thoroughly enjoyed
by them. The subject of feeding
farm animals, is one of importance
since rations properly mixed and fed
not only mean economy but also en¬
able the animal to more completely
utilize its feed thereby being a much
more efficient machine.
Poor feeding coupled with acci¬
dents lias caused the death of many
valuable animals. Dr. Richardson
from the State College of Agriculture
will hold a free clinic Thursday af¬
ternoon February 17th. He would
like to have assembled on the square
animals which you think are sick and
need treatment.
Sanitary milk production is certain¬
ly needing some attention by farmers
and dairymen of the south. The lec¬
ture on this and the demonstration of
separating and testing should bring
out every- one connected in any way
witli the handling of milk or butter.
For Sale to Highest Bidder.
.J. Will be sold before the court
house door in the city of Covington,
on the First Tuesday in February,
to the highest bidder, the following
property: ^
One three room house and lot; one
five room house and lot; one four
room house and lot, all on \V ash
ington street. Can be bought at a
bargain. J. F. McCORD. tf.
condition. Chirt will be used around
the college.
No other business being before the
body R adjourned after ordering the
publication of the report which will
be found on another page.
FORWARD
MARCH
Still
we grow and
there is good and satisfactory reason
for our steady have
growth. The fact that we not
only held our busiaess
b u t practic Grow with a tition, ally doubled indicates it
with all compe growing
that the public mind has not
lost sight of bank; start the that essential k re
quirements an account and safe. m a The e a
bank sound
princ i pies TODAY of banking cons er
va t i v e
that have governed our develop¬
ment in the past
will shape our
future pol
The Bank oT
Covington.
Covington
Georgia
CAPITAL $100,000.00
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We do it. The kind that
pleases the customers.
Estimates furnished and
work quickly executed.
$1. A Year In Advance.