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The Covington News
Is read by more Newton
County People than any
other paper p ublished......
VOL. JL NO. 35
newton county man
Sims THINGS UP.
attacks GRAND jury and
other officials and
CREATES SENSATION.
Rev. Allen C. Shuler, formerly of
ttis county, in which he was a school
teacher and afterwards entered the
Baptht ministry, hut who is now pas.
tor of the Baptist church at New
bern, S. C., has created quite a sen¬
sation in that city by attacking the
grand jury, city officials and com¬
missioners for allowing blind tigers
to operate. article appeared
The following news
in the Atlanta Georgian of Friday
about the affair:
•'Rev. A. C. Shuler, formerly pastor
of the Western Heights Baptist
church, but now pastor of the Baptist
Tabernacle in Newbern, N. 'C., who
has arrived in Atlanta for a month’s
vacation, lias just emerged from a
heated fight against the grand jury
aud other officials in Newbern that
has stirred that whole section.
"The former Atlantan’s attack was
directed mainly against the grand jury
the court auid the county commission¬
ers for their alleged sympathy with
blind tigers. Mr. Shuler, armed with
evidence against the liquor sellers and
backed by some of the best people in
Newbern, denounced the grand jurors
and the courts from his pulpit aud
created an intense sensation.
“As a result of this attack the
minister was served with a summons
to appear before the grand jury and
tell what he knew concerning blind
tigers, and was escorted into the
presence of that body by an officer.
There the minister sprung another
sensation by producing his evidence,
some of it being the testimony of
prominent citizens. The showing
made by Mr. Shuler developed a
vigorous campaign against the liquor
sellers and law breakers.
“Mr. Shuler arrived in Atlanta on
Wednesday night and expects to
spend the whole of his vacation in
this city and other points in this
state.”
Patronize those who advertise in
The News. They want your rtade.
Mr. Farmer
You have done about all the work
you can in your crop, aud now for Re¬
pairing, Building and general improve¬
ments about the farm.
We are stocked brimming full, of
just the very things you should have
and we want the business.
(*ive us a trial on whatever goods
you may have to buy this month, how
over small the purchase may be, and
you will see why our trade is constant¬
ly increasing. Respectfully,
Stephenson Hdwe. Store.
Phone 16
@313 @mmgfim NEW
GOOD \ lTV PASSED
BY „ "ISLATURE,
NEWSPAPERS CANNOT NOW USE
THE NAMES OF RAPE VIC¬
TIMS.—SPLENDID LAW.
One of the best laws passed by
the present session of the Georgia
legislature was that passed last Fri¬
day to prohibit the publication of
the names of rape victims in this
state. This law is one of the mo^t
humane and commendable we have
known the legislature to pass this or
for that matter the past several leg¬
islatures, in that it in a measure pro¬
tects the modesty of our women folk,
and will keep their good name from
the sensation loving newspapers who
play up these articles for all they
are worth, regardless of the mortifi¬
cation and shame to which it subjects
the unfortunate women who are taken
advantage of by a burly (brute.
Another thing this legislature has
went down on record for is the fact
that they are standing by the law
enacted placing a tax of one dollar on
dogs. A strong effort was mode to
repeal it and much discussion was in¬
dulged in as to the right of the law
but when: the vote was taken the
bill to repeal it was killed, and the
owners of dogs, whether good, pedi¬
greed or just common “nigger dogs,”
will have to turn over their dollar
for the privilege; and it is a good
law, too, in that it gives the state
something like one hundred thousand
dollars to help pay her teachers.
Legislative Candidates to Speak.
We are requested to announce that
the candidates for the Legislature
from this county, Messrs. J. C. Knox,
W. IS. Marbut, A. H. Foster and J. C.
Morgan, will address thevoters at the
following places during the coming
week: Wednesday afternoon, Aug.
10, at 3 p. m., at Rocky Plains;
Thursday night, Aug. 11, at Starrs
ville; Friday night in Gum Creek, at
Flint Hill school house; Saturday
uight in Brick Store, at school house.
The prospects for a good crop are
better in this county than they were
two or three weeks ago.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 19)0.
(COMMUNICATED)
IN THE RACE FOR THE
from Coweta
It will be of interest to our people
to note that Al. H. Foster, who was
born and reared among us, has an¬
nounced himself as a candidate for
Representative of Newton county,
and we feel sure that we will be more
and pleasingly interested when the
final count comes and Foster is elect¬
ed, for he has too much energy and
“push” backed up by real merit, to
be defeated.
Mr. Foster ljas a record which the
people of Coweta county are justly
proud of. He was born in the north¬
ern part of Merriwether county, about
four miles west of Hai'hlson in 1876,
and attended his first school in a
cabin on his fathers’s farm, taught
by Miss Olivia Strickland. Later he
attended school at Haralson during
the leisure months and followed the
plow in the busy work season.
At the age of nineteen he had
stood the teacher’s examination,
made first grade license, and left his
plow Saturday afternoon, after hav¬
ing laid by his crop, and pulled out
Monday morning to begin his career
as a school master, having been
elected to a rural school in Fayette
county. He conducted this school to
the entire satisfaction of his patrons.
The next year he taught a rural
school at Hutchinson’s Academy.
His work there was very successful
and his patrons insisted on his teach¬
ing the school again, but he felt the
need of higher education, and deter-
OFFICIAL TICKET
FOR PRIMARY.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
IS IN RECEIPT OF THE
TICKET TO BE VOTED.
The County Executive Committee
has received from the State Commit¬
tee the official form of ballot to be
voted in the primary election of Au¬
gust 23rd, and for the information of
the voters of the county we publish
it below as it will appear on the
ticket:
For Governor
(Vote for One)
JOSEPH M. BROWN
HOKE SMITH
EDWARD H. WALKER.
For Secretary of State
PHIL COOK
For Comptroller-General
WILLIAM A. WRIGHT
For State Treasurer
(Vote for One)
PEYTON M. HAWES
W. J. SPSE'i
For Attorney-General
(Vote for One)
THOMAS S. FELDER
HEWLETTE A. HALL
For Commissioner of Agriculture
T. G. HUDSON
For State School Commissioner
(Vote for One)
M. L. BRITTAIN
B. M. ZETTLER
For Pension Commissioner
JOHN W. LINDSAY
For Prison Commission
(Vote for One)
R. E. DAVIDSON
G. R. HUTCHENS
For Chief Justice Supreme Court,
Full Term
WILLIAM H. FISH
For Associate Justice Supreme Court,
Full Term
MARCUS W. BECK
Judge Court of Appeals,
Full Term
ARTHUR G. POWELL
For Railroad Commissioner, Full
Term, Beginning December 1, 1911
(Vote for One)
,T. A. PERRY
O. B. STEVENS
For Railroad Commissioner, Unex
pirde Term Ending December 1, 1911
C. M. CANDLER
For Railroad Commissioner for
Full Term, Beginning
- December 1, 1911
C. M. CANDLER
mined to go to College. He had
up his studies all the while he was
teaching, and by rigid economy,
saved sufficient funds to pay his
penses one year in college. He
tered Emory college at Oxford
1896, passing a satisfactory examina¬
tion, which placed him in the Soph
more class. On account of
ent funds, he expected to drop out
college the first year and teach to
cure funds to return to college,
through Bishop Candler, who
then President of Emory, he
granted a loan, whereby he was ena¬
bled to complete his course
dropping out.
Upon completion of his course
Emory in 1899, he was elected to
Chair of Latin in the Florida Confer¬
ence College at Leesburg, Fla. He
held this position two years, resign¬
ing of his own accord to accept a po¬
sition as teaeher in the Boy’s High
School of Atlanta, Ga. Later while
principal of Jonesboro High School,
he was elected County School Com¬
missioner of Clayton county. He left
Clayton county in 1904, to accept the
Superintendency of the Covington
Public School. In 1907 he was elect¬
ed C. S. C. of Newton county.
With his keen intellect, his broad
education, and his varied experi¬
ence, guided by a true, manly princi¬
ple, he is peculiarly fitted for the po¬
sition to which he aspires.
DROUTH IN TEXAS IN¬
JURES COTTON CROP.
VERY SMALL YIELD IS PROMISED
— IN OTHER SECTIONS IM
PROVEMENT IS NOTED.
Memphis, Tenn. August 7.—The
following cotton crop summary will
he published by the Commereial-Ap
pea 1 tomorro w:
“Telegraphic replies from Texas
correspondents at 6 o’clock last night
indicated that no rain of conse¬
quence fell in that state during the
week, save in the Red river valley.
As a result, the cotton crop, except a
small area which has received rain,
has been deteriorated, in most in¬
stances very sharply, as the limit of
the plant’s endurance had been
reached a week previous. In south¬
ern and western Texas, ten days ad¬
ditional drouth, means a very small
yield of cotton. Bolls are opening
rapidly and prematurely. Generous
rains fell throughout Oklahoma, and
although cotton suffered severely for
a few days just prior to the rains be¬
cause of high temperatures ard hot
winds, the situation has been reliev¬
ed, and it is believed that the crop
will very quickly recuperate.
In other sections of the belt some
improvement took place. The crop
has been laid by clean and the plant
has begnn to form squares and bloom
freely. Grown bolls are not numer¬
ous however, aud the crop appears to
have regained but little of its late¬
ness. The frost date will have an
important bearing on the outturn.
Except in Texas, there is no com¬
plaint of shedding, but partly be¬
cause the plant has not reached the
stage where shedding is to be expect¬
ed. General rains during the com¬
ing week, would help the crop in the
Mississippi valley and the Atlantic
states. Without rain, the plauters
will become appreheusive. Except
in Texas, where the opening is pre
mature, little or no cotton is suffici¬
ently advanced to expect *open bolls
for some'weeks, although one or two
bales have appeared in extreme
southern Georgia.”
For Railroad Commissioner for
Unexpired Term, Ending
December 1, 1913
(Vote for One)
JOSEPH F. GRAY
E. B. HORNADY
For Congressman for Fifth District
(Vote for One)
• W. S. HOWARD
L. F. LIVINGSTON
For Representative
(Vote for One)
A. H. FOSTER
J. C. KNOX
W. S. (MARBUT
J. C. MORGAN
For County School Commissioner
(Vote for One)
J. O. MARTIN
V. S. WILLIAMS
CAMP MEETING
BEGINS FRIDAY.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR
BIG CROWD AND SPIRIT¬
UAL .FEAST.
The annual eanipmeeting held at
Salem each year, will begin its series
of meetings on Friday of this week
and continue for one week. Every¬
thing at Salem has been put in readi¬
ness for the services and the large
crowd who always attend will be well
taken care of and the meetings will
be unusually good.
Dr. James E. Dickey, president of
Emory college, will preach Sunday at
11 o’clock, and that his- sermon will
be enjoyed and richly filled with spir¬
itual good is an acceded fact.
The following ministers will he on
hand and will assist in the meeting:
Rev. Sterling P. Wiggins, of Mil
ledgeville; Rev. R. M. Dixon, of
Monticello; Rev. W. H. Cooper of
Covington; and Rev. H. F. Branham,
of Conyers, Everybody invited to go
to these services.
The hotel there this year has been
so arranged as to accommodate both
men and women, which will make St
pleasanter for those who desire to go
out for more than one srevice.
The Fifth District A. & M. School.
Our District A. & M. school will
open its fall term September 7th.
The prospects are good for a large
attendance this fall.
The corps of teachers are well
equipped for t.heiir respective duties.
They will give careful attention to
the needs of every student.
Those who contemplate entering an
advised to.write G. C. Adams, princi¬
pal, Monroe, Ga., for catalog and in¬
formation.
The principal will Ibe at Covington,
office of the County School Commis¬
sioner, during the forenoon of August
15th to confer with any who may wish
to attend this school.
Many of our boys and girls need
the training given at this school, and
we trust that a large number will
meet Prof. Adams on the date men
tioned and arrange to go the next
term. Tuition, lights, fuel, laundry
and rooms are free, and board is very
low.
Like a
Sailor
Just
Home
From a long voyage is the way some
men spend their money. They would
not do it if they had an account at
The Bank of Covington. A cheek
book dosn’t burn holes in pockets like
cash and besides a man with a bank
account gets a feeling of pride in see¬
ing how big a balance he can keep.
TRY IT.
The Bank of Covington.
Covington Georgia
CAPITAL - - $100,000.00
We Invite Your Patronage.
Flowers & T aylor
Do more Commercial Job
Printing than all other
county print-shops. Why}
$1. A Year In Advance.
PROTRACTED SER
VICES TO CLOSE.
THE BAPTIST MEETNG CLOSES
FRIDAY NIGHT OF THE
PRESENT WEEK.
To date there have been seventeen
new accessions to the First Baptist
church, fourteen by profession, and
three by letter, and several have
made profession who have signified
their intention to unite with other
churches, while two or three more
are ready to unite as soon as letters
from other churches can arrive.
There will be others still to unite af¬
ter the meeting is over. Dr. Buch
holz closes his engagement here Fri¬
day night to go to the largest coun¬
try church in Georgia, nea r Arheus.
The interest his la en susl./ucl for
three weeks and the remaining ser¬
vices will almost surely be more large
ly attended than the preceding ones.
Baptism has been administered on
four occasions.
On next Sunday the new members
who hvae been baptized and those
who have received their letters will
be formally welcomed into the fellow¬
ship of the church.
Sunday will also be the last day
the pastor will be with his people
before his vacation which will be
spent at Blue Ridge, and in the North
Carolina mountains near Highlands.
Returning to Covington, he will
preach the last two Sundays in
September before leaving for Ms new
field, which will be decided upon by
that time.
Pastorium Furnishings to be Sold.
The things in the Baptist Pastori¬
um will be sold out atpractically your
own price, as we wish to avoid pack¬
ing up anything. The standing fur¬
niture has been sold in bulk. There
remains art squares, shades, por
tlerres, cooking stove (No. 7.), cot¬
ton mattresses, oil heater, scuttles,
utensils, &c., &c. I would sell L. C.
Smith typewriter ($112.50 model)
for $75.00. If interested call at once.
EUGENE R. PENDLETON,
Baptist Pastor, Covgington, Ga.—tf.
Several new members have been
added to the nfJNof the First Baptist
church during the meeting.
