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VOL. II. NO. 33
CROPS IN NEWTON
ARE FAIRLY GOOD.
SOME SECTIONS HAVE HAD TOO
MUCH RAIN AND CROPS HAVE
BEEN POORLY WORKED.
- Last Friday afternoon one of the
editors of the News had a very pleas¬
ant trip to the southern section of the
county, through the kindness of Capt.
H. D. Terrell and his son Mr. Clarence
Terrell, accompanied by Mr. Jack
Summers, in Capt. Terrell’s big auto¬
mobile.
We made the trip of about forty
miles in the county without a hitch,
and in this distance we saw a large
quantity of the farming lands of that
portion of the county. During our
trip we made several stops, and from
what we know of the farming con¬
ditions it appears to us that the con¬
stant rains of the last three weeks
have very seriously damaged crops in
this county.
t'otton, especially on grey lands, is
the sorriest we have had in many
years, while bottom corn is, generally
almost a total failure.
Corn on the uplands is looking as
well, or better than the oldest inhabi¬
tant has seen, owing to the continuous
rains, and is in such a stage now that
anything like a drouth would damage
it very seriously.
Cotton on red and mulatto lands, is
at least 200 per cent better than on
the grey, but even this will not yield
anything like a full crop. While the
stalk is of fair size it is poorly fruited
owing to the wet weather and the
failue to put forth lateral roots as
should, without which fruitage cannot
he expected. By' examining this cot¬
ton it will be seen that there are very
few roots, except the tap root, which
feeds the stalk.
The wheat and oat crops this year
were unusually fine.
Prof. J. C. Upshaw’ and family
leave sometime in August, for Cov¬
ington, where they will make their
future home.—Walton Tribune.
FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON,
White Plymouth Rock eggs, fifteen
for one dollar. Brown Leghorn
eggs, fifteen for seventy-five ets.
L. D. KING, City.—tf.
The ENDERS’
w DOLLAR
SAFETY
The Blades aro RAZOR
made of Highest Gives a Clean
Grade Norwegian Smooth Shave
Cutlery Steel, Carefully Without
Ground and Highly Pulling or
Tampered, Scraping
Holder and Seven Blades*
put up in a nn
Leather Case .... 0l>UU
EXTRA BLADES, FIVE FOR A QUARTER
We have the ordinary strop razors
h°m $1.00 to $3.00 and the $5.00 safeties.
We recommend to you the
As the hest Safety Kazor on the market at
any price and you can bring it hack at any
time within 30 days if you feel like you
can part with it.
Stephenson Hdwe. Store.
Phone 16
CouinntOH Mow I
FRIENDo < c COL.
LIVINGS ! MEET.
COLONEL LIVINGSTON’S FRIENDS
HELD ENTHUSIASTIC MEET¬
ING IN WALTON COUNTY.
A large number of friends and sup¬
porters of Congressman L. F. Livings¬
ton formed an enthusiastic meeting
in his behalf at the court house
Wednesday night.
• Mr. E. P. Nowell, Sr., was elected
chairman of this meeting and Mr. E.
M. Williams Secretary.
A central campaign committee con¬
sisting of twenty-one prominent
Livingston men was named, and seven
of this committee were selected to
formulate a special campaign com¬
mittee, consisting of five active Liv¬
ingston men in each district of the
county. These committees will im¬
mediately go to work in behalf of
Congressman Livingston, whose
friends confidently express the belief
that the county will give him a good
majority this time.
The meeting Wednesday night was
open to all and the Livingston men
were glad of the opportunity of ex¬
pressing their loyalty to their able
and venerable congressman.
The friends of Col. Livingston state
that his visit to the county this week
has greatly strengthened him, and
that many who opposed him in the
last election are his ardent supporters
this time. A resolution was adopted
requesting the chairmain to arrange
for several public addresses in the
interest of Col. Livingston to be de¬
livered in different sections of the
county.
The meeting adjourned to meet
again Thursday night, July 28.—Wal¬
ton Tribune.
Goes to Social Circle.
..Mr. Amos Cook, who for several
years held an important position with
the Covington Light and Water
plant, left the city last week fo>
Social Circle, where he goes to accept
a good position with the Light plant
in that city. Mr. Cook is quite well
known to the people of this section
as an experienced electrician, and no
doubt will demonstrate Instability
in this line to the people of Social
Circle. The News joins liisj^many
friends in wishing hiin^much ^success
in his new field.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY 27, J9J0.
NO WORK, NO PAY
FOR THE SOLONS
COMMITTEE MAKES ARRANGE¬
MENTS TO HAVE ROLL CALL¬
ED EVERY MORNING.
No work—no pay.
That is a proposition whien may
not appeal very strongly to members
of the house of representatives, but
it may become necessary to enforce
that provision of the house rules, if
members persisit in endangering the
transaction of business by absenting
themselves from the house without
leave.
Following instructions of the com¬
mittee on rules, Speakes Holder
Thursday morning had Clerk Boi
feuillet read to the house the rules,
which state that the roll shall be
called each morning unless three
fourths of the house decides that it
shall not be called; that members
who absent themselves without leave,
shall have their names recorded in
the journal and read out each day pin
the house, and that members guilty
of absenting themselves without
leave, shall have their per diem
taken from them for each day of such
absence.
In the past this rule has not been
enforced. At a meeting Wednesday
the rules committee decided that
something must be done to secure
the attendance of members, and for
that reason the speaker was instruct¬
ed to have the rule read to the house.
The committee also decided that
each morning some member of the
committee should object to dispen¬
sing with the roll call, thus putting
the members on record.
The first enforcement of this decis¬
ion was made Thursday when Mr.
Hardeman of Jefferson, a member of
the committee, objected to disposing
with the roll call.
For the further information of the
house and to put the members on
notice that the rules are being tight
ened up, the rules committee re¬
quested the speaker to have
read the rule which authorizes
the speaker to compel the attend¬
ance of members when it is nec¬
essary to take such action for the
purpose of securing a quorum.
The rule regarding privileges of the
floor was also read. The speaker
then instructed the doorkeepers to
break up conferences which are fre¬
quently held in the rear of the hall,
stating that members who sit near
the rear have made complaint that
they are frequently unable to keep
up with what the house is doing by
the constant buzz of conversation.
This summary action on the part
of the rules committee was made ab¬
solutely necessary by reason of the
fact that on several occasions the
house has been in extreme danger of
not securing a quorum for the pur¬
pose of transacting important busi¬
ness, due to the fact that such a
great proportion of the memberships
absents itself from the house, On a
number of occasions the call of the
roll has revealed the fact that any¬
where from 25 to 60 members have
been absent without leave.
I order that important busines
may not be left unfinished when the
end of the session arrives, the rules
committee recommended Thursday
that beginning Thursday afternoon
the house hold afternoon sessions
from 3 to 5 o’clock, until the
special appropriation bills and the
bills involving constitutional amend¬
ments are disposed of. This recom¬
mendation was adopted by a vote
87 to 20.
Many People Here Saturday.
The fact that the farmers of the
county have about caught up with
their work on the farms caused the
streets of the city to look more like
themselves Saturday than they have
done before in some time. There
was a good crowd here all day, and
notwithstanding the fact that there
has been a good deal said recently
about slyrt crops, the farmer boys
were all in good spirits and seemed
to feel very hopeful as to the out¬
come of their labors. Trade was
generally pretty good aud the mer¬
chants too were wearing a pleasant
smile.
Mayor Smith at Monroe.
The Tribune office had a pleasant
call Tuesday from Hon. Charles G.
Smith of Covington, for many years
editor of the Covington Entei prise
and now mayor of that city.—Wal¬
ton Tribune.
FARMERS’ UNION
IN CONVENTION.
CABINISS ELECTED NEW HEAD
STORMY SESSION ENDS IN
PEACE.
The Farmers’ Union Convention
held at Union City, Ga., last week
was largely attended by the members
from all parts of the country, and se
eral important changes were made in
the executive staff. Mr. L. W. Jar¬
man, of this county, figured conspicu¬
ously in the convention and was one
of the leaders in the election of Mr.
Cabiniss, the new president of the
order. The Atlanta Constitution gave
the following interesting account of
the convention, which we publish in
full:
Lee Vndicated, '
A Farmrse’ Union convention, un¬
der the organic law, is executive, to
the points of being harmetically seal¬
ed. What the newspaper man gets
out of it is pried ou wtith dynamite,
reconstructed from wireless,built up
by a course of logic that resides neith
er on land or sea. The facts told in
this story were gleaned impartially
from all sources and checked as ac¬
curately as the circumstances permit¬
ted.
For months Lee has been under the
fire of Watson. It is useless to enu¬
merate the charges. They go into
such circumstantial detail as to inter¬
est only the membership of this big
aggregation of Georgia farmers.
For months also there has been a
steady interchange of volleys between
Watson and Lee in the Weekly Jef¬
fersonian and in the Farmers’ Union
News, edited by R. F. Duckworth.
Duckworth is former state president
of the organization. Aside from that
he holds no office at present and is
simply a routine member. But Wat¬
son has also been firing on Duckworth.
Lee was placed on trial Thursday
morning—and vindicated. Vindicated
with a string tied fco it.
The Trojani Horse.
The Watsonwing went into the con¬
vention headed by Delegate Jarman,
of Newton. That is, Jarman W’as the
nominal head. The real head was
Major Charles MacGregor, bosom
friend of the sage of McDuffie, and
a fighting man of parts and reputa¬
tion. On the side were "Blue Fred’’
Wimberly, whose name every good
old populist in Georgia remembers,
and whom it is likely, remembers
Mr.Watson in his prayer along with
the Deity.
This morning the clash came. The
cause was an attempt to censure Mr.
Lee for revoking the charter of the
county organization of Cofee county,
which had been red-hot for Watson,
and which, it is charged, had violated
the organic law by criticising an
"officer in good standing,” meaning
Lee, of course, in the public prints.
Lee revoked the charter last January.
He handed the same lemon to a lo¬
cal chapter at Enterprise, in Tattnall
county.
Should Lee be upheld? Was his
curse cnstitutinoal? Or should lie
be rebuked?
Oratory Plus Bitterness.
These were the issues round which
w’aged on the floor of the convention
this morning a battle that made the
war-scarred old fighters sit up and
take notice. From the outside one
could hear voices raised in high dis¬
pute, constant interruption, vehem¬
ence of utterance that w T as occasion¬
ally stilled by the determined whack
of the chairman's gavel. The latter,
be it said, was C. S. Barrett, national
president, who was chosen by both
sides as umpire because of his recog¬
nized fairness, impartiality and ex¬
cellent ability.
If a newspaper man; edged up too
close to the auditorium, which was
buried in a clump of woods near the
town, a stalwart marshal swung a
billie and announced he was after
"bears.” The members wanted pro¬
tection. They got it.
Vindication.
After the members had exhausted
rhetoric and themselves, they got
down to the resolution stage.
The resolution that finally passed
gave Lee credit for good faith—but
restored the county and the local
that was suspended to good fellow¬
ship. “without prejudice to the pres¬
ident's authority or intentions.
No other charges were brought up
against President Lee.
Contrary to anticipatory rumor,
none were brought against Mr. Duck¬
worth. It was shown that the letter
(Ceallnutd on Paqo Eight.)
TAX VALUES ARE
STILL INCREASING.
RETURNS SHOW SEVERAL IMPOR
TANT FACTS REGARDING
TAX VALUATIONS.
The tax returns as shown by the
books of Receiver Lunsford for the
present year shows that we have in¬
creased in tax values to the amount
of $145,885 during this period.
On looking over the book we find
that the total tax returns for the
year 1909 was $4,361,521, against $4,-
507,406 for the year 1910.
The dog tax which is being received
this year for the first time is more
than was expected at first, the num¬
ber being returned 1384.
The amount of cotton returns was
$45,829.
Live stock, $332,783.
Manufactories, $579,900.
Merchandise, total, $235,010.
Banking Capial, $286,600.
Land Values,$13,517.93.
Cash and Noes, $519,737.
Automobiles, $3,380.
City Realty, $854,144.
There are 11 lawyers, 20 doctors
4 dentists in the county.
One of the things which will be the
cause of reflection is the small amount
of cash notes given in for taxation.
A county with as much wealth as
Newton has, surely had more cash
and note® than the above amount
would indicate. The only way we
can see how it happened is that som»
one just simply forgot how much
money and notes tihey had.
Taken ail the way through the re¬
turns this year are satisfactory and
show that values here are gradually
increasing every year, which is a
source of much interest to the peo¬
ple.
When the census is received, tho
population will show a decided in¬
crease also, which coupled with the
increase in taxable values, will place
Newton county way up in the list
of Georgia Counties.
The Baptist pulpit in Monroe
was occupied last Sunday night by
Rev. H. C. Christian, of the Metho¬
dist church, who delivered a slpendid
sermon in the absence of Pastor Rob¬
erts at Covington.—Walton Tribune.
Handing
Out
The
Checks
On the first of the month is a much
more dignified method of paying bills
than counting out the money. Much
quicker, too, and there is no possibil¬
ity of paying out too much. Moral:
Open an account at this bank and
reap all these and other advantages.
The Bank of Covington.
Covington Georgia
CAPITAL - - $100,000.00
=We Invite Your Patronage.
Flowers & Taylor
Do more Commercial Job
Printing than all other
county print-shops. Why?
$1. A Year In Advance.
ENTHUSIASTIC FDR
“UNCLE LON."
WALTON COUNTY WILL SUPPORT
LIVINGSTON IN THE COMING
RACE FOR CONGRESS.
Col. Leonidas F. Livingston repre¬
sentative from the Fifth district of
Georgia in the national halls of Cou
gress, accompanied by his son, Mr.
Robert Livingston, arrived in the city
yesterday from their home in Newton
county, Georgia.
They have purposed to remain
among their Walton friends for a few
days in the interest of Mr. Livingston
candidacy to succeed himself.
Mr. Livingston, as all are aware, is
being opposed by Hon. William Schley
Howard of Decatur, DeKalb, County
Georgia, who is in the county also for
the purpose of making a number of
speeches, dates and places having
been announced in last weeks News.
The friends of Col. Livingston are
quietly at work and are hopeful that,
by his visit and other things favorable
to his candidacy, that Walton will at
the proper time roll up a majority for
him.
There is no question as to Mr. Liv¬
ingstons vigilance and genaral effi¬
ciency and while he is being adjudged
as “aged” etc, he holds that he is in
good health and strong enough to
look after the people of his district
another term.—Walton News.
Holds Court in Monroe.
Judge W. H. Whaley, of the City
Court of Covington, went over to
Monroe Monday to hold the City
Court of Monroe for Judge Stone in
several disqualified cases. This was
an adjjourned term of the court and
lasted two days, during which time
a number of important and hard
fought case® came up before this
court. Judge Whaley was asked to
Monroe to relieve Judge ©tone of
these disqualified cases at the regu¬
lar term of that court, but owing to
the fact that the City Court of Cov¬
ington and the court at Monroe con¬
vene so close together it was Impos¬
sible for him to go at that time, and
the court was postponed until he
could get there.
