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COVINGTON, GA., OCTOBER 3, 191Q,
THE PUCKERLESS PERSIMMON.
It is reported the agricultural de¬
partment is engaged in an- effort to
take the pucker out of the persim¬
mon, says the Ohio State Journal.
What a fool purpose that is! The
pucker is notice to the holder of a
persimmon that it is not fit to eat,
for he may eat what he wouldn’t, if
the pucker is taken, out.
Our good Mother Nature has ar¬
ranged this business in the wisest
manner. When the persimmon is
about to become fit to eat, she sends
her lively little errand boy, Jack
Frost, among the persimmon trees,
to pull out the puckers, and so quiet¬
ly and completely does he accom¬
plish this little mission, that one
can pick up a persimmon, after he
has visited it and eat it with as much
joy as if it was a little ambrosia
from the table of the gods.
Like persimmons? Well, we would
say so. They have a sweetness dif¬
ferent from that of any other fruit; a
modest sweetness, bestowed by the
dew, when the whipporwiil sang in
the moonlight and the night wind
came out of the valley to pet it. It is
nature’s ownest child, and whoever
loves nature must love the persim¬
mon, after Jack Frost has taken the
pucker out, but not long after.
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
The state election will be hel l ou
October 5 and the e’e it.’, \ i for con¬
gressmen on Tuesday iftef the first
Monday in November.
Every democrat should be realy
to go to the polls on both of these
election days and cast his ballot fer
the nominees of the different prima¬
ries held this year.
It is the duty of every person who
participated in the primaries to pro¬
tect the nominees with his vote.
One cannot escape censure if he does
not do this.
We hear that some will remain at
home. This is wrong. No man should
do that, but should go to the polls
and vote. Refusing to support .the
nominees by staying at home is not
as bad as voting against the nomi¬
nees, but it is wrong nevertheless.
r The state election is bait a few
days off and the national election but
a little more than a month off. Don't
let the date escape your attention.
Maike it a point to be on hand and
cast your ballot.
lit is not only your duty to do this
but it ought to be your pleasure.
You fought and lost, and ought to
take your medicine gracefully.—Dub¬
lin Dispatch.
EVERY TOWN HAS SOMETHING.
No one is more vitally interested
In the prosperity of his community
than the retail merchant, says an
exchange. To enjoy a large trade
and a paying business requires a
prosperous community. This is true
in all branches of business. The
prosperity of a place is due very
largely to the enterprise and judg¬
ment of its citizens, and especially
the business portion. A community,
like a bank, must have a reputation
to gain prominence and hold the con¬
fidence and patronage of those upon
whom it depends for prosperity.
This confidence can be increased
by legitimate advertising. We are
unable to think of any better meth
od of advertising a place than for
each citizen to be posted on the
points of advantage and excellence
enjoyed by the commuinity. Every
place has its good points, and these
are the ones that should be carefully
studied and given prominence. It
is not necessary to exaggerate, nor
is it advisable to constantly exercise
a grandiose spirit, but a plain mat¬
ter of fact statement of the advan¬
tages of a place will have a benefi¬
cial effect When your customers
complain about the town, show them
in what respects their city of adop¬
tion surpasses other places where
they might live. In other words, en¬
courage an optimistic spirit and dis¬
courage the pessimist.
Notwithstanding predictions to
contrary, the merchants are making
good collections, business is taking
on activity not expected some
ago. Our merchants are pullipg
yekr for trade whiah has heretofore
been going else where.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1910.
AUSTRIANS INVEST IN A
GEORGIA ENTERPRISE*
The Georgia and Alabama Indus¬
trial Index published at Columbus,
Ga., says in its regular weekly issue:
“Among the interesting industrial
notes of the week, is the plan of Aus¬
trian investors to develope a barrel
stave industry in Crisp county Geor¬
gia. An Austrian who bought a
white oak timber track in that coun¬
ty has associated with him, in its de
velopement, a fellow-countryman
who has been similarly engaged in
Alabama. An interesting feature of
the Crisp county enterprise is that
all the employes will be Austrians.
It is stated that there is a ready
market for the staves in European
countries, as well as in the United
States, and that this new enterprise
will fill both domestic and foreign
orders.
“Notable among the real estate
transactions of the week was the pur¬
chase of a Birmingham, Ala., office
building by a bank for ($1,000,000)
one million dollars. A half-million
dollar real estate company which will
specialize in farm lands, was incor¬
porated at Atlanta, Ga. A $50,000
real estate sale is reported for Augus¬
ta, Ga., and a $56,000 sale for Sumter
county, Georgia.
“To a Birmingham, Ala., plant was
awarded the contract for manufactu¬
ring 1,000 tons of cast iron water pipe
for a city in Montana. A big steam¬
ship line inaugurated a service to
Brunswick, Ga., and the first boat of
the new line to arrive was greeted
with considerable ceremony by the
people of that city. A large stock
farm is to be established near Mont¬
gomery, Ala., $50,000 being invested
in the enterprise and only the finest
blooded stock to be raised.”
THE SWORN TESTIMONY.
There has been received by many
of the voters of Morgan county this
week a small pamphlet containing
the sworn testimony in the contest
procedings in Elbert county, institu¬
ted by Tribble and Howard after the
primary in August. This pamphlet
should be read carefully by every vo¬
ter who ieceives one, for in the elec¬
toral vote of Elbert county lies the
only question that has been raised as
to Mr. Howard’s rightful nomination.
This question is exhaustively treated
in the proceedings of these contests,
and every man who wishes to know
the truth about the Elbert county
vote in the primary should read this
pamphlet.
As to the kind of men who heard
this testimony: A leading minister
of the North Georgia Conference, who
has been intimate for eight consecu¬
tive years with Messrs. McAlpin Ar¬
nold and Robert Cauthen,. commis¬
sioners, who heard the testimony,
states that there are not two better
men in Elbert county, that they are
incapable of wilfully perpetrating a
fraud upon anyone. As to the lead¬
ing counsel, we do not suppose there
is a man in Georgia or elsewhere who
would cast a reproach upon the stain¬
less character of Judge Andrew Cobb,
recently of the supreme court bench.
This is the character of the men who
conducted this contest.
Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, of the Sa¬
vannah Press, a man of lofty charac¬
ter and surpassing intelligence and
culture, and who opposed Mr. How¬
ard in the primary, has read the pam¬
phlet and we invite the attention of
our readers to what he says about it
in another place.
There are some good men in our
midst who supported Mr. Tribble in
the primary who have not yet made
up their minds to vote for Mr. How¬
ard in the general election. While in
the light of past events we cannot
regard Mr. Tribble as other than a
bolter—a bolter in the matter of
meeting Mr. Howard on the stump,
a bolter of party rules and regula¬
tions—party committees and conven¬
tions, yet it is not for us to regard
these citizens as independents who
have not yet agreed to support Mr.
Howard. They alone are the keep¬
ers of their consciences—with them
alone rests the responsibility of right
conduct in the matter.
We do say, however, with supreme
confidence in our position, that we
democrats of Morgan county, of the
Eighth district, and of the South,
have set a very high standard of po¬
litical honesty. To set aside or ig¬
nore the action of the party as ex¬
pressed at the ballot box, in com¬
mittee and convention, is to violate a
very serious obligation.
It is time above all other times for
party rule and party regulation.—The
Madisonian.
If the city’s water wagon were used
around the square to little better ad¬
vantage, the dust would not become
so unbearable in the business sec¬
tion.
The people of Monroe are making
an effort to have the Seaboard rail¬
road extended from Loganville to
that city. Now, by all the rules of
the extension game, that railroad is
due to come to Covington, and our
people are letting the grass grow
under their feet by not pulling for it.
THE CONSERVATION CONGRESS.
Repressentatives from every state
in the south gather in Atlanta this
week to take stock of their natural
resources.
Former President Roosevelt, under
whose administration conservation
first assumed the importance of a na¬
tional issue, is to grace the congress
with a brief address. Gifford Pin
chot properly called “father of con¬
servation,” will be the chief speaker.
Other Americans of national and sec¬
tional note will participate in delibe¬
rations which should be fraught with
far reaching importance to the south¬
ern states.
More than any other portion of
America, the south is vitally interest¬
ed in effectual measures of conserva¬
tion. Admittedly, the territory
south of the Potomac and Ohio, and
west of tl* Mississippi rivers, is to
furnish the^ next great empire for
American development.
Rich in fertility of the soil, in abun¬
dance of timber lands, in mineral
wealth and in water power yet un¬
charted, it is doubly incumbent upon
us to proceed scientifically in the ex
pediture and husbanding of the sold
assets upon which our destiny is to be
builded.
The events that operated to retard
development in the southern states
have not been without their blessing.
For here today are the armies of de
velopment knocking at our doo
at the same moment that the voice of
conservation is calling to apply sense
and repression in the spending of
those riches upon which our devel
opemnt depends.
And it should be said that conser¬
vation does not, as many hasty think¬
ers seem to believe, mean locking up,
putting in “cold storage” the ele¬
mental wealth of a people for future
generations.
It means only such methodical and
wise administration or the patrimony
given into our keeping by the Al¬
mighty, that we shall have enough
for ourselves without wasting the
substance of those, that come after.
For after all, we are like those who
merely rent the land—we are custodi¬
ans, authorized to reap harvests as we
go, but enjoined to be scrupulous in
not destoying that native fertility
which is to furnish the chief source of
wealth for our children.
It would indeed be impossible to
find a more accurate estimate of con¬
servation, as its true advocates con¬
sider it, than that it means spending
the interest and not the principal,
treating the principal ,so that it
will return a maximum of interest,
and 'enlarging its dimensions for the
benefit of those into whose hands we
are to deliver it.
Providence has given us the untold
riches of the south, and the south’s
destiny—in entail. Conservation
means preserving the entail un¬
broken.—Atlanta Constitution.
FOR SALE.
150 acres of land, 1 mile from Cov¬
ington and 1 mile from Oxford; 6-room
house, one tenant house and good
out houses. •* 40 acres of original for¬
est laud, 20 acres of good bottom
land and known as the Jake Ander¬
son place. This land lies well and is
convenient to Covington and Oxford
and can be bought at a bargain, and
must be sold at once. Apply to
1m S. A. Brown, Covington, Ga.
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Veterarian
Treatment of Deseases of Animals
Surgery A Specialty
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