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Cotton Market:
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday:
Middling, 14 3-8 cts.
Good mid. 14 1-2 cts.
VOL. 11. NO. 8
UTILE BERA JOHN
SON IS KILLED.
ATTEMPT TO GET ON
WAGON WAS THE CAUSE.
While on His Way From School He
Met His Father and Wanted to Ride
in Wagon—Mules Jump Causing
Him to Fall Under Wheels.
Little Bera Johnson, the nine year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Will John¬
son, who live just south of the city
limits, was almost instantly killed
Thurssday afternoon by being run
over by a two-horse wagon heavily
loaded with lumber.
The little fellow had just left the
school here on his way home when lie
met his father who was bringing a
load of lumber to the city, whereupon
he asked his father if he might ride
back to town with him. His father
readily assented and started to help
the boy into the wagon when the
mules made a jump, causing his hand
to slip and the litlte fellow went
down under the wagon, the wheels
passing over the lower part of his
chest and stomach. His father rush¬
ed him to the office of Dr. Luke Rob¬
inson in the Star building where Dr.
Robinson and Dr. Anderson did all
possible to save him, but the shock
was too much for him and he died in
a few minutes.
The parents are grief stricken over
the sad death of their little son, es¬
pecially the father, who feels the ac¬
cident keenly as he blames himself
partially for it. They have the sym¬
pathy of the entire community in thei
loss.
New Safe in Bank of Covington.
A handsome new burglar and fire¬
proof safe of the latest model has
just been installed at the Bank of
Covington to take the place of the
one previously used by them. The
new safe is the product of the How¬
ard Safe and Vault Co., of Atlanta,
and is built of the best quality of
Manganese steel, equipped with trip
pie time locks and other late devices.
The Bank is being congratulated on
this new adjunct to their business.
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.
@fljys @mimgim Mm
GENTRY TO SE
LECT SEED CORN.
WILL BE HERE ON FEBRUARY
EIGHTH FOR THAT PURPOSE.
He Requests All Farmers to Come In
And Bring With Them Twelve of
Their Best Ears of Corn and He
Will Select Best for Planting.
Mr. E. Gentry, State Agent of the
Demonstration Work of the United
States Government, will be in the
city on February 8th for the purpose
of selecting the planting corn for the
farmers of this county. The meeting
will be held at the court house and
all the farmers in the county who de¬
sire to better their conditions, and
raise the standard of the product of
the field, are urged to attend and
bring with them twelve ears of the
best corn they have. Mr. Gentry will
examine it and select therefrom the
kind best adapted to this soil and
which will produce the largest yield.
His work is one which should appeal
strongly to the scientific planter in
Newton county, as it has been thor¬
oughly demonsrtated that to produce
a high quality of anything care must
be exercised in the selection of the
seed planted.
Mr. Gentry is thoroughly familiar
with the work he is doing and will
render the farmers of this county
much assistance if they will let him.
Remember the date, February 8th,
and come in with your corn.
Postmaster Bush Reappointed.
Postmaster H. D. Bush, of the post
office in this city, received his ap¬
pointment for another four years Sat¬
urday morning. Mr. Bush has been
postmaster here for a number of year
and this time he was reappointed to
the position without opposition. Dur¬
ing his administration he has made
an excellent official and few patrons
of the office here find grounds for
any kick in the distribution of the
daily mails that come into our little
city. His record with the department
is clean and the appointment is made
upon the splendid condition in which
the office here is kept.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 2.
LIVINGSTON SCHOOL
HAS RECORD YEAR.
SYNOPSIS OF WORK GIVEN
BY PROFESSOR
During Year 1909 This School Made
Rapid Strides In All Grades and in
General Tone of Work There in
Beautifying Their School Grounds.
In the last issue of the School and
Home, a periodical published in the
interest of Georgia schools at Atlan¬
ta, we find the following report of
the work done last year at Livings¬
ton school, nine miles from this city.
The report was given them by Prof.
J. O. Martin, who was superintendent
of the school at that time, and it
shows the high degree of work being
done out there. The article is an
interesting one and should be read
by all who have the schools of this
county at heart.
Livingston School is a consolidated
school nine miles from a railroad.
The people are prosperous, religious
and high-toned. They keep their chil¬
dren in school until they have com¬
pleted the prescribed course, then
they are usually sent away for higher
education. During this term, out of
an enrollment of one hundred and
three pupils, fifty-one were in the
seventh, eighth and ninth grades. An
unusual situation, when it is remem¬
bered that only a small per cent, of
the rural children in Georgia com¬
plete the seventh grade work, to say
nothing of higher work. But some
improvement was made during this
term, which has stimulated them to
greater efforts.
The school building, with four big
class rooms and three repository
rooms, is located in a three-acre
grove facing a road, with a two-acre
ball ground on opposite side.- This
grove, for the most part, had been
“thinned out,” and with the stumps,
brush, rocks, brambles and under¬
growth left there it presented, some¬
what, an unsightly appearance. The
building needed repairs and renova¬
tion, so it was decided at the begin¬
ning of the term, October 26th, to
“wager general war and campaign for
work,” in addition to the routine
school course.
The teachers outlined the improve¬
ment they saw needed, and then en¬
listed the interest of the children and
co-operation of the patrons. The re¬
sult followed.
The boys brought hoes, axes,picks
and shovels, also wagons and plows
when needed. All hands, including
principal, went to work at noon hours
and on Saturdays.
All the briers, brambles, stumps,
and all undergrowth were first clear¬
ed away. Then a systematized ef¬
fort at grading and terracing was ac¬
complished, which made ready for
planting of flowers. The beds for
the flowers were carefully planned
and well prepared. The patrons hauled
us many loads of rocks which we used
to protect them. Through the aid of
the good ladies of the community we
secured, by actual count, seventeen
hundred flower plants of a great va¬
riety to transplant. We were also
given enough rooted evergreen to bor¬
der two sides of the grounds with a
pretty hedge. These hedges were pro¬
tected as were the beds of flowers.
All the space not used for flowers was
sown in blue grass and bermuda. We
then cleared away the rubbish and
swept the entire grounds, after which
we limed the trees and all the many
rocks we had used around the flow¬
ers and on the terraces. The trus¬
tees then met and decided to put a
nice page wire fence around the en¬
tire grounds to protect what we had
done, and for beauty also.
In the meantime, we had been im¬
proving the house as well. The pat¬
rons had recovered two rooms, pur¬
chased five new heaters, one hun¬
dred and twenty feet of black board,
and painted all the inside walls of the
building and latticed around the pil¬
lows and steps. They
cheerfully to every request, whether
it was labor or money needed.
The pupils and teachers endeavor
ed to make their rooms attractive,
and, in all, one hundred and thirteen
appropriate pictures and framed por¬
traits were placed on the walls. Some
flags—one Georgia flag—and maps
were also purchased. In addition to
these, the pupils, that is the most
them, drew maps and other specimens
(Continued on back page )
HOWARD SAYS MR.
BARTHOLDT LIED.
SAYS BARTHOLDT AND LIV¬
INGSTON KNEW ABOUT RULE
In Reply to Article in News of Last
Week Mr. Howard States Thet
Bratholdt is Republican and Refers
to Livingston as “Demi-republican.”
Editors Covington News:
I know the editors of the Coving¬
ton News will be fair enough to pub¬
lish this statement for me.
In your issue of the 26th instant, I
read with surprise a letter to Mr.
James Gardner, from my old friend,
Col. Livingston, in which he says I
have been circulating some untruth¬
ful statements about him deceiving
the people of Covington and Monroe,
about his getting them a Postoffice
building. This is a man of straw, my
old friend lias built to get himself out
of a hole, and 1 do not. propose to let
liis statements and the statements of
liis Republican friend go unchallenged.
To state that the rule of Commit¬
tee on Public Building and Grounds
is a NEW RULE, is to either admit
gross ignorance on the part of my
good old friend, and his Republican
friend, Bartholdi, or it is a direct
attempt to deceive the people of thess
two communities. I will state the
facts, and the people of Covington can
judge who has “slipped a cog” in
the truth.
About twenty years ago the Com¬
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds made this rule: no public
building would be erected in a town
having less than five thousaud inhab¬
itants; the postal receipts from the
office must be at least TEN THOUS¬
AND DOLLARS per annum, or the
United States Court held its sessions
at regular intervals in the town or
city.
This rule has never been deviated
from but once in that lengtfn of time,
and that was for the town of Blair,
Nebraska. Mr. Mercer, of Nebraska,
was chairman of this committee at
the time, end he had incorporated In
the omnibus bill an appropriation for
this town. This same rule was in
force then, and much discussion took
place over the deviation from the rula
Col. Livingston, you were present du¬
ring this debate, which took place in
the 2d Session of the 55th Congress,
twelve years ago, and you voted yea
on the passage of ibis bill that car¬
ried with it this appropriation for
Blair, Nebraska. For the information
of two Congressmen, 1 most respect¬
fully refer you to Congressional Rec¬
ord, volume 22, pages 1662 and 1663.
Now, Colonel, I beg you and your Re¬
publican friend, Dartholdt, to read
this debate, and see if lliis is a brand
NEW RULE. It is so old that if it
had been a boy child it would have
teen eligible to election to Congress,
and it would have probably acquired
as much knowledge as you and your
Republican friend, Bartholdt.
Now, Mr. Bartholdt, you butted in
down here to help your old side part¬
ner Livingston out. 1 am going to
prove to the people of my district
that you purposely wrote that letter
to mislead them, and help your “Demt
republican” friend Livingston out of
a close hole.
You say, Mr. Bartholdt, that this
is a NEW RULE, and Congressmen
are only informed of it upon inquiry.
I say to you that you are stating an
absolute falsehood when you say it is
a NEW RULE. Have you forgotten
the speech you made on the 5th day
of May, 1908, (nearly two years ago.)
If you have, you will find it in Con¬
gressional Record, Volume 42, part 7,
page 6350, and it is as follows, towit:
"Mr. Speaker, in answer to the criti-1
cism of the gentleman from North,
Carolina,(Mr. Small,) I want to make
this emphatic statement, that in NO,
CASE has the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, deviated from
the RULE, which is, that NO CON¬
SIDERATION should be given to a
town having less that TEN THOUS¬
AND DOLLARS POSTAL RECEIPTS.
(Applause) (which woke Col. Living-1
ston up.) Now, Mr. Bartholdt, youj
read that speech, and you read it all,
and then you sit down and write your
friend, Col. Livingston, another letter, I
and in it you tell him, that he has j
gotten you in a mighty close hole. |
Now listen Mr. Bartholdt, if you will
give the Colonel time enough, and
will do what he says, you will admit
that you did not tell one falsehood,
but you toM two, towit: That this
COPELAND SELLS
TO CAR COMPANY.
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
BUYS COPELAND TRANSFER.
With Change Goes Mr. J. B. Cope¬
land to the Car Company as Their
General Manager.—Mr. R. C. Guinn
Still Secretary and Treasurer.
The Covington and Oxford Street
Railway Company last week bought
out the transfer teams of Mr. J. It.
Copeland who has conducted a suc¬
cessful business here for the past
fifteen years. Mr. Copeland, in the
consolidation goes to the car compa¬
ny as general manager and will look
after the interests of that company
in future. Mr. E. W. Fowler is still
president and Mr. It. C. Guinn the
secretary and treasurer.
Tlie street company lias been oper¬
ating dray lines since its organiza¬
tion and their teams have always
been busy. The consolidation with
Mr. Copeland will give them a wider
scope of work and their business for
1910 will show a perceptible increase.
The officers of the company are all
progressive business men and they
are putting new life nnd energy into
Covington's public service corporation
was a NEW RULE and that COL.
LIVINGSTON DID NOT KNOW IT.
Another tiling, Mr. Bartholdt, you
had better save all your campaign
falsehoods for your own District in
Missouri, for WE DEMOCRATS are
going to run you Republicans and De
lni-RepublieanB in your hole this sum¬
mer.
When you tree a coon, and lie hear
the tree crack to fall he will most al¬
ways jump, hut this time he jumped
in the creek. Of course, lie did not
know the creek was there.
Do colonel, you and your Republi¬
can friend, write Jamie another let¬
ter, on another subject on which your
“information” is more thorough. It
will be refreshing after this.
Respectfully,
WILLIAM SCHLjEY HOWARD.
Decatur, Ga., Jan. 26, 1910.
FORWARD
MARCH
Still
we grow and
there is good reason
for our steady and satisfactory
growth. I he fact that we have not
only held our busiaess
with b u all t practic Grow with a # ^bied indicates it
compe growing tition,
that the public mind has not
lost sight of bank: start the that essential make re
q ui rem en t s an account a
bank sound and safe. The
princ i i pies TODAY of banking cons er -
va t v e
that have governed our develop¬
ment in the past
will shape our
future pol
The Bank of
Covington.
Covington
Georgia
CAPITAL $ 100 , 000.00
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If It Is Printing
We do it. The kind that
pleases the customers.
Estimates furnished and
work quickly executed.
—
$1. A Year In Advance.
FARMERS SCHOOL
HERE THIS MONTH
FEBRUARY 18-20 IS DATE
FOR ITENERANT COLLEGE
First Itenerant School for the Fifth
Congressional District Will be Held
Here on Above Dates and Will Give
Farmers Some Valuable Information
The Itenerant Agricultural School,
which will be held here on February
17, 18 and 19, is being enthusiasti¬
cally looked forward to by the pro¬
gressive farmers of this county, and
from present indications it will be
largely attended.
Since it was rirst mentioned here a
number of the more important plan¬
ters of the county have been talking
of the plan and are all heartily in
favor of it, realizing the inestimable
benefits to be derived from the
course of lectures and stereoptican il¬
lustrations which will be handled by
experts in the various phases of suc¬
cessful farming. The lectures will
deal wit'n fertilization and cultivation
principally, although each branch of
agricultural industry will be taken up
and explained thoroughly.
In fertilization the experts from
the State College of Agriculture at
Athens have made a study of the best
soil treatment and from actual experi¬
ments base their information and give
it to the farmers in the most practi¬
cal way.
The shite is having these itenerant
schools hold In one city of each con¬
gressional district this year, with a
view of helping the farmers who are
unable, both financially and on ac¬
count of their families to attend the
college at Athens. It is an honor for
this city and county that the school
for tfcie fifth district is to be held
here, and it is up to the farmers to
lend their co-operation in making it
a successful one.
There is no expense attached to
the school, as it is kept up by the
State. Cornu to the school and learn
o great many things that, every pro¬
gressive farmer should know.
Plant an add in the NEWS.