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Cotton Mar ket:
Following was ruling
prices here yesterday:
Middling, 14 7-8 cts.
Good mid. 15 cts.
VOL. i 1. NO. 9
[oldest association
in STATE OF GEORGIA
executive committee met
IN THIS CITY LAST WEEK.
[stone Mountain Association is Recently One of
the Oldest in the State.
Reduced to Eighteen Churches. Im
,
[portan Business Attended to.
The historic old Stone Mountain
baptist [o Association has extending been reduced from
eighteen churches
peoatur to Social Circle on the Geor¬
gia Itlanta. railroad, with one (Sharon) committee above of
The executive
(he old body held its first session a
L w days ago at Conyers, and though
the new Atlanta has taken out all of
[,he largest churches, this association
kill grow in the number of churches
the accession of many country
thurches on either side of it.
The present executive committee'is
foinposed of Revs. I. G. Walker, J.
M. Waller, Walker Combs, E. R. Pen
Heton and Messrs. B. F. Tucker, G.
p. Wells and T. N. Skelton.
Among the important measures
adopted at this first meeting was a
plan looking to the religious inter¬
ests of the six mill settlements wlth
in its borders, and the Rev. Joe Win
imrn of Covington was spoken of as
the man to take charge of this work.
The eighteen churches were ap¬
portioned the following amounts for
missions and benevolences and were
isked to raise them by the end of the
association year, September 1910:
Antioch (DeKalb county) 30.00
L’larkston 46.00
Conyers 500.00
Covington, First 585.00
Decatur 535.00
Indian Creek 82.00
[nglesidq 32.00
Lithonia 330.00
Macedonia (Newton county) 50.00
Jovington, Second, 27.00
Rockdale (Rockdale county) 125.00
Stone Mountain 120.00
Sharon (above Atlanta) 105.00
Salem (Rockdale comity) 50.00
Social Circle 500.00
Social Hill (Walton county) 24.00
Sylvester (DeKalb county) 30.00
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FIRST NATIONAL NANK
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 Nations
Covington, Georgia.
@1915 @gfiimgfim Mm
county convicts
WORKING STREETS.
CHIRTING STREET LEADING
TO GEORGIA DEPOT.
Superintendent Farmer Has His Squad
of Convicts Busy on the Streets of
This City and is Doing Some Splen¬
did Work.
The convict camp has been moved
to the regular quarters in this city
and the Superintendent, Mr. S. V.
Farmer, lias the entire force at work
qon the streets of the city, and if
his beginning is an indication as to
the grade of work is an index, the
streets of this city will be in first
class condition by the time he finishes.
On the street leading to the Geor¬
gia depot chirt is being used, which
will put this much traveled thorough¬
fare in better condition than it lias
been for a long time. Chirt will also
be used around the city school build
ing, tlie mud being almost impassible
for the teachers and pupils in bad
weather. The street committee from
the city council is in charge of the
work, and that they will do the best
possible is the opinion of all citizens.
To put the streets in good order
will require the convicts something
like a month, but we do not know
whether the commissioners will allow
them to remain here that long.
Services at School Auditorium.
Until a new furnace can be in¬
stalled, the Presbyterians will hold
Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., and di¬
vine services at 11 a.m., at the school
Auditorium, beginning Sunday. A
cordial welcome to all. No night ser¬
vices.
Willow Springs 27.00
TOTAL, $3,138.00
A general meeting planned for
the fifth Sunday in May, the program
being placed in the hands of a spe¬
cial committee which is to name the
place and speakers. All restrictions
as to the number of delegates from
eacli church was removed.
The Sunday School Convention goes
to Covington July 8-10.
MEMOMVIMIMQMGM’IM'OMRMITEEBMlMlEiMA; FEEMIBXRY 9, TSIBMMM MMM
LIVINGSTON DENIES
WATSON’S CHARGES
DENIES CHARGE OF AIDING
CANNON AS CHARGED.
Congressman Livingston Says He Was
Never Drunk in His Life, and Says
Howard is Scattering Jeffersonian
in which Charge is Made by Watson
Congressman L. F. Livingston has
emphatically denied the charge made
that he has ever helped Cannon and
that he hasever been drunk. The fol¬
lowing special apearod in the Atlanta
Constitution of last Thursday, written
by John Corrigan, Jr.:
Washington, Feb. 2.—Colonel Liv¬
ingston announced this afternoon that
within a few days he would issue a
statement replying to the attack upon
him in the las issue of Watson’s
Weekly Jeffersonian. In that issue
Representative Livingston was charg¬
ed with favoring the trust by his at¬
titude toward the tariff bill. Advert¬
ing to the charge that, he was intoxi-.
cated on March 1 last, Colonel Living¬
ston said today he had never been in¬
toxicated in his life.
Today he made a statement charg¬
ing that William Schley Howard had
sent out thirty-five mail sacks full of
last week’s issue of the Jeffersonian
in the fifth district. He said:
“I have learned this from reliable
sources. Today I received a letter
from Rockdale county stating that
four sacks of these papers had been
sent to that county.
“If Mr. Watson and Mr. Howard
wish to manipulate my district in that
kind of way, all 1 wish to do is to
bring it to the notice of the people
of my district.
“Within the next few days I will
have a statement prepared from the
official records of congress, showing
that neither myself nor any other
member of the Georgia delegation was
in any way responsible for the pas¬
sage of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill;
that on the re-organization of the
special session of congress in March
last I voted against Mr. Cannon for
speaker and voted against, the Cannon
rules being adopted for the new con¬
gress. I also objected to the Clark
resolution because it conceded to Mr.
Cannon the right to appoint the ways
and means committee and other com¬
mittees.
“It seems to me that our people in
the south should now see how clearly
we were justified in not tying on to
the republican insurgents. They went
back on us almost to a man afew
days ago when they had given their
pledge to support our nominees for
places on the Ballinger-Pinchot in
vestigating committee. They are now
pledgiug themselves not to interfere
with Cannon or the rules, but to lay
low and support the administration
program.
“We must either have a democratic
representation rect the evils strong seek enough to correct to cor¬
we or
they will go uncorrected. We can¬
not rely upon republican insurgents.
“As to the charge that I was drunk
on March 15 last, I have never been
intoxicated a single day in my whole
life.”
After the foregoing statement was
published Mr. Howard said: “As to
what Mr. Watson says about Colonel
Livingston’s public or private record,
I have nothing to say, only that it is
up to Colonel Livingston and Mr.
Watson to fight it out, and may God
pity the hindmost.
“If Mr. Watson wants to send out
a hundred thousand copies of his pa¬
per I could have no influence with
him, one way or the other. I am run¬
ning my own campaign and the state¬
ments I make I will prove.”
Mr. Howard has intimated that
somebody violated a postal law by
giving out the information about the
number of sacks which went through
the mails. He insists that the Colo
nel has affiliated with the Republican
party, and that among other things,
during the rules fight he went up to
Speaker Cannon and putting his arm
around him said: "Joe, I have gotten
you another vote on the next ballot.”
The first real warm features of the
campaign for congress in this district
will begin sometime soon when the
stump-speaking opens up. Mr. How¬
ard is scheduled tor a speech at Mon¬
roe -the latter part of the month,
which will begin the campaign in
earnest. It is expected that as soon
as congress adjourns Col. Livingston
will also inaugurate an active cam
paign.
ITINERANT COLLEGE
OF AGRICULTUE.
INTERESTING PROGRAM HAS
BEEN PLANNED FOR SCHOOL
Itenerant Agricultural School Which
Is Scheduled for February 17th,
18th and 19th Will Give Much Val¬
uable Information to Farmers.
The State College of Agriculture
Is holding this year a three days
school in each Congressional district
of the state. As tlve result of the
activity and enterprise of local coun¬
ty authorities and citizens of Newton
county, the school for the fifth dis¬
trict has been located at Covington.
The people of the town and county
should consider themselves fortunate
for having secured this meeting. The
meeting will be held in the court
house at Covington next week, Feb¬
ruary 17th, 18th and 19th and the
program which will be executed un¬
der the direction of the Department
Agricultural Extension of the State
College of Agriculture is as follows:
Thursda, February, 17th.
9:30 a. m.—Invocation.
9:45 a. m.—Address of Welcome.
10:30 a. m.—Sources of Plant Food.
11:15 a. m.—Feeding Farm Animals
12:00 m.—Dinner.
1:15 p. m.—Cotton Selection.
2:00 p. in.—Breeds of Live Stock
and Relative Adaptibility.
2:45 p. m.—Dr. Richardson will com
duct free clinic. Bring the sick ani¬
mals.
8:00 p. m.—“The State and the
Farmer.”—Hon. T. ,G. Hudson.
8:45 p. m.—How to Stop the Leaks
the Farm. Illustrated.
Friday, 'February 18th.
9:30 a. m.—Invocation.
9:45 a. m.—Manures, Perservatlon
uses.
10:30 a. in.—Feeding Farm Animals,
1’ -15 a. m.—Corn Selection.
12:00 in.—Dinner.
1:15 p. m.—Buying and Mixing Fer¬
tilizers
2:00 p. in.—Trucking and Garden
Crop.
2:45 p. in.—Dairying—Sanitary Milk
Production, Demonstration of Separa¬
ting and Testing.
8:00 p. m.—Injurious Insects and
Plant Diseases.—Prof. E. L. Worsham
8:45 p. m.—Agricultural Organiza¬
tion. Illustrated.
Saurday, February 19th.
9:30 a. m.—Invocation.
9:45 a. m—Tillage and Tillage Im¬
plements.
10:30 a. m.—Feeding Farm AnimalH
11:15 a. m.—The ‘Farmer’s Orchard.
12:00 in.—Dinner.
1:15 p. m.—Pruning and Spraying
Demonstration.
2:00 p. m.—Building Barns, Silos,
Hog Houses, tc.
2:e45 p. in—Soil Fertility and Crop
Rotation.
3:30 p. m.—Question Box.
The general variety of subjects and
important topics that will be discuss¬
ed should make this program of Vital
interest to every farmer and business
man in the community. One of the
features of the Thursday’s program
will be a free clinic held by Dr. Rich¬
and he desires to have many
sick animals on hand for this occa¬
Thursday evening Commission¬
Hudson will lecture on the “Rela¬
tion of the State Department of Agri
ture to the Farmers of Georgia,” af¬
his lecture Prof. Hite will give an
lecture on “How to Stop
Leaks on the Farm." Friday af¬
President Soule will be on
to discuss the fertilizer prob¬
of Georgia.
Ladies are cordially invited to at¬
the Friday afternoon meeting to
the discussion on “Trucking and
Crops" by Prof. Maclaren. In
evening Professor Worsham will
an illustrated lecture on “Agri-j
Organization.” Saturday;
will be two programs, one for j
the farmers as printed above and a
special program for the teachers and j
children with such speakers as
J. M. Pound, Mrs. Wal-|
B. Hill, Professors Minear, Early,;
and Hite. The meetings
Saturday will not Interfere with
another In the least, since there
will be sufficient speakers to execute
programs In good form.
If you want to buy anything or if
you have something to sell, you can ]
profitable results by putting
add In our “special ad. column."
it It doesn’t cost much.
COMMISSIONERS IN
SESSION TWO DAYS
NEW SYSTEM INAUGURATED
FOR KEEPING THE RECORDS
New One-Book Checking System Will
Be used.—Nothing Done About the
New McGuirts Bridge Road.—R. P.
Boyd Recommended Asst. Warden.
The County Commissioners met in
regular session the first Tuesday and
Wednesday following. A large part
of the time was given to routine mat¬
ters, auditing accounts, etc., but there
were also several matters of Impor¬
tance considered.
Prof. R. L. Paine, in behalf of cer¬
tain citizens of Newton county, peti¬
tioned the Board to grant a public
road, beginning on lands of Ii. L.
Paine, at the new road recently fin¬
ished and worked by Walton county
from Social Circle straight, to the
Georgia Railroad, then Immediately
after crossing it, straight to Ale ova
wagon bridge near the Railroad
bridge. Messrs. O. N. Stanton, Jno.
Chatman and Marion Paine were ap¬
pointed as a committee to investi¬
gate and report on same.
Mr. R. P. Boyd was recommended
to the Prison Commission as Deputy
Warden. It was agreed that the dep¬
uty warden and one of the guards di¬
vide the convictB into squads as soon
as practicable for the completion of
the Butler's bridge road and such
other work as may be required.
Final action with reference to the
McGulrt’s bridge road was deferred
until the next meeting.
The Hakes Record Book, the com¬
pletes! and most satisfactory system
of book-keeping for a county yet de¬
vised, was adopted. By means of this
system, in the monthly summaries
will appear the months’ expenses,not
merely under such general headings
as “Road, Fund,” "County Funds,”
etc., but und<¥ suo-heads as well. 1
It is a matter of interest that this
system was devised by W. L. Hakes,
Cluainnan of the Rockdale Board of
County Commissioners.
Look at the label on your paper.
Handing
The Dealer
A Check
1 s the most satisfactory way of settling your account. Even
1 if he forgets to record your payment the check itself is a
■ receipt for the money there is no going back on. If you
would avoid all disputes and misundertandings open an ac¬
count with the BANK OF COVINGTON. It is ever so
much more dignified to pay by check anyway.
The Bank of Covington.
Covington Georgia
CAPITAL $ 100 , 000.00
We ask you to examine our statement
on another page in this issue.
If It Is Printing:
We do it. The kind that
pleases the customers.
Estimates furnished and
work quickly executed.
$1. A Year In Advance.
YOU HAD BETTER
REGISTER AT ONCE
BOOKS CLOSE ON THE FIFTH
DAY OF APRIL THIS YEAR
Although the Time is Short There
Are a Great Many Citizens Who
Have Failed to Comply With New
Election Laws.
Although it is less than two months
until the registration books of the
county will close, it Is a safe esti¬
mate that at this time there are less
than one-third of the white voters of
the county yet registered.
Under the new registration law
the books will close this year on the
fifth day of April, and If the law Is
complied with, failure to register pry
or to that time will most certainly
disfranchise you, it makes no differ¬
ence whether you are a luborer or a
bank president.
The tax collector, before whom
you have to take the obligation, Is
desirous that every citizen of the
county register at once, as lie does
not want a single man disfranchised.
The registration of a votin’ cannot
be done by other than the party In
person, he having to sign his own
hand. The law is altogether differ¬
ent from the old one and to be on
the safe side the people had better
register in plenty time, averting any
misinterpretation of any part of It.
In the Town District, which con¬
tains at a vory conservative estimate
five hundred voters, there Is at pres¬
ent only 258 voters registered and of
this number several are negroes. In
the rural districts the average is u
groat deal less and Mr. Ramsey tells
us that In his opinion fully half of
the citizens in the county have failed
so far to register.
Remember, the last day on which
you can sign the voters book Is the
fifth of April and the time Is short.
If you haven't attended to this very
important feauro of the coming elec¬
tions, better do it now, for there will
likely be some one in the race you
may want to vote against.
Plant an add In the NEWS.