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HI910 CENSUS.
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the city many of the citizens
the matter up and are protest
in their opinion this amount
f that short, and that it is
consderably make re-count.
fflt the city to a
o that he feels
Mayor Smith says
Covington has grown more than
[ire has encountered, a
w and that he
umber of people who state positive
• m they were not included in
■'census. No blame is attached to
Enumerator, but some of famil- them
ate that possible he was not
i, with the city and that somewhere
here is an error.
The city authorities are being urge
make another count of noses and
just how much of an error there
[k L Since the 1900 census built was and taken
Covington mill has a
Limber |w of houses used for residences
inside the city limits giving Cov
ngton there a large number to go on
tie census. Besides that there has
[been fully a hundred residences erect
and are now occupied which were
sot here ten years ago. When all
lese things are taken into consider
ition it does seem that we should
it# increased more than this paltry
wit in that length of time, and it
i: the consensus of opinion that we
sve.
Just to see how te people felt
nit the matter the editors of the
News have talked to a number of
ie leading citizens of the city and
illowing is what each of the ones
et has to say:
N, S. Turner: “While I do not
ibt the honesty of the census man,
fee I came to Covington I can count
we than the increase given us in
apulation, and know that fully one
tath of this is added in that por¬
tion of the Covington Mill, which is
U annex of the city, and has been
(Continued on Page 7.)
YOUR
SAVINGS
The earning period of a man’s life is
his season of plenty-his harvest time
L is then, if ever that he must lay
stores for Life’s Winter. You-
what are YOU doing with the
proceeds of your harvest?
Uo you waste it all, or
are you wisely SAY¬
ING A PART?
are Pertinent QUESTINONS-not IMPERTNENT
Hank us help you to save. Make this
your “Granary” and keep
safe the golden results of
your industry.
Covington, Ga.
SI)C Covington
FORMER CITIZEN
WANTS THE
HE ALSO SENDS CLIPPING
MUSCOGEE PAPER ABOUT NO¬
TORIETY OF COVINGTON'S
MAYOR.
The News is just in receipt of
following letter from Capt.
Boye, formerly of this city, but
of Greely, Colorado, which speaks
itself:
“We don’t wish to be without
Nows as we all feel an interest
the affairs in Covington.
find clipping from one of the
gee papers during Xmas
Your mayor seems to have
some notoriety abroad. Have been
Greely for the last 9 mouths.
we go again will want your paper
follow us there. All well,
you a happy and prosperous
Year.”
The clipping about ovington’s
or also follows:
“The liberality of magistrates
Youngtown, Mo., and Nashville, Tenn
in cutting rates for performing
riage ceremonies during the
has been eclipsed by the mayor
Covington, Ga., who today issued
card offering not only to perform
service free, but also to furnish
license free of charge on Christmas
day.”
Veterans Take Notice.
We are requested by the ladies of
the U. D. C., to announce that the
crosses of honor will be delivered to
the Confederate soldiers of this coun¬
ty on Jan. 19, at the College Audito¬
rium.
Sheriff Maddox Goes After Negro.
Deputy Sheriff T. F. Maddox went
down to Dublin one day last week
and brought back to Covington Mack
Williams, charged with cheating and
swindling. Mack was a former resi¬
dent of the city but left between
suns not long since, and the reports
have it that he “done everybody he
could,” hence his arrest in Dublin
last week. He is now resting behind
the bars of Newton's improved home
for these characters.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JAN. 1!, 1911
NEW ROAD WORK TO
BE PUSHED
New Board of Commissioners Held Two
sions Last Week and Transacted Lot of
Important Business.—New Road in
Again for Part of Discussion.
The newly elected board of coun¬
ty commissioners held two meetings
last week and a number of important
matters came up for consideration,
besides the regular routine of admin
.sternig the oath to the new members
Mr. E. L. Almand, who served the
county so efficiently last year and
only one of the old. hoard to be re¬
elected, was made the chairman of
the 1911 board, and has assumed the
duties pertaining to that part of the
work.
Messrs. F. D. Ballard and W. H.
Pickett were appointed as a commit¬
tee to look after the pauper farm dur¬
ing the year, and Messrs. Ballard,
Pickett and Holmes were appointed
as a committee to accept bids for the
erection of bridges at Allen’s bridge
and Conley’s Creek. These bridges
are to be completed at the expense
of the Central Power Co.
The date for holding the monthly
meetings was changed from the first
Tuesday in each month to the second
Monday. The change was deemed ad¬
visable for several reasons and will
>reet with the approval of the citt
zens all over the county.
Messrs. Almand and Boggus were
appointed as a special committee to
meet with a committee from Rock¬
dale county at Haynes’ Creek, and
perfect arrangements to build a bridge
at that place jointly.
A resolution was passed requiring
all road overseers from each district
to make a complete report before the
next meeting of all machinery, tools,
lumber and other articles belonging
to the county and which is now in
their possession.
The physician for the convict camp
will be elected at the next regular
meeting in February. This year a
camp physician was appointed and
he had charge of the jail too, but
since there has been several cases
of small pox developed in the county
he has been assisted by Dr. Travis.
1+ is not understood now whether
there will be two physicians appoint¬
ed next month or not, but supposedly,
there will be only one. At the next
meeting road overseers for the dif¬
ferent districts of the county will also
be appointed.
The matter of the new road begun
some time ago leading south of the
city came up for attention. After the
road was started sometime in Decem¬
ber an injunction was filed by Messrs
R. W. Ballard and Joe Meador on the
giound that it would damage their
property, and that the amount, $500,
offered as pay by the county for
something over two acres was not
sufficient to reimburse them. Judge
Roan refused to grant a permanent
injunction, but because of technicali¬
ties in procedure granted a temporary
injunction. The board, in order to
avoid any further trouble rescinded
all farmer action on the matter which
pertained to either part of the land
under injunction, and have proceded
from the start with all the papers
filed in such manner that future trou¬
ble will be avoided. It is the be¬
lief that the road, which has been
completed with the exception of the
short space on these lands, will be
commenced again and will be finished
and in use sometime during the month
of March. The necessary notices to
reopen the matter appears in another
place in today’s issue of The News.
special committee was appointed
by the board at the meeting Tuesday
to go down and investigate the con¬
ditions thoroughly and make a report
as to whether or not in their opinion
the new road would be of public ser¬
vice. The committee was composed
of Messrs. S. P. Thompson, R. R. Fow
and W. H. Ivey, and their report
was as follows:
“We, your committee, report that
we have investingated said matter,
end having found that said road will
be of public utility, have laid and
marked the same conformably to law,
as fully described in a plat of said
road of file in your office, and recom¬
mend that the same be granted.
“This the 6th day of January,
1911.
“S. P. THOMPSON,
“R. R. FOWLER,
* “W. H. IVEY.”
A motion was made by the board
we have investigated said matter,
of the county’s financial affaire be
published in The News, beginning
with the first of January. It was
passed to issue the regular semi-an¬
nual statement for the last half of
1910, and this report will be publish¬
ed as soon as all the outstanding
warrants are brought in.
It was also passed that a special
report of the December
be compiled and published in the
which will be done within a short
time.
The report that Commissioner W.
II. Pickett would resign was killed
at the meeting Friday when he stated
that while he had intended to resign,
he had decided to serve, and would
give the office his best efforts.
Most important at both meetings
was the discussion about the new
road, and while the matter has been
temporarily held up, it is firmly be
l.eved that it will work out all right
and that the road will be completed
within a short time. It is said by
the wise ones that when the time
comes for faking a vote on the mat¬
ter that there will be not over one
dissenting vote.
Col. A. H. Foster was re-elected to
the place of clerk of the board, and
will during the present year keep
the records up to his usual efficient
methods. Col. Foster has changed
the system of keeping up with the
financial and other matters of the
county, and at all times his books are
open to the inspection of the people.
Besides being accessible they are easi¬
ly understood and anyone can see
just how the county stands. The sal¬
ary of the clerk of the board is
twenty-five dollars per month,notwith¬
standing the fact that a recent grand
jury recommended that he be paid
fifty. The work is worth every cent
of the latter amount.
Death of Mrs. Martha Flowers,
News was received in the city last
wtek announcing the death of Mrs.
Martha Flowers, mother of Mr. John
C. Flowers, of this city. In Satur¬
day’s issue of the Tampa Tribune,
the following notice appeared:
“Mrs. Martha Flowers died yester¬
day afternoon at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. W. P. Link, in Hyde
I ark Place. Mrs. Flowers was eighty
f< ur years of age and succumbed to
a long illness. Other surviving chil¬
dren are Mrs. Wallace Simpson, of
Tampa; Mrs. Mary Read, of Bartow;
Mrs. M. F. Kirkpatrick, of Barnes
ville, Ga.; Mr. J. C. Flowers, of Cov¬
ington, Ga.; Mr. H. C. Flowers, of
Winchester, Ky.; Mr. R. H. Flowers,
of Richmond, Ky.; and Mr. W. H.
Flowers, of Eagle Lake, Fla.
“The funeral was held at Bartow.”
COHEN’S BIG SALE.
The big cost sale inaugurated by
the popular dry goods house of W.
Cohen is attracting large crowds, and
as others are told of the rare bar¬
gains being secured the crowds in¬
crease in numbers.
The sale began Tuesday but the
w T eather kept many away the first
few days. With the moderate wea¬
ther and the coming of the bright
days the people began to come, and
the sale now promises to be one of
the most successful ever conducted
by this store.
The page advertisement on our
last page telling of this sale will
prove full of interest to our readers,
for it tells you just what you can buy
and at what price, and the large
line of customers of this store have
long since learned to depend on their
goods being just as represented.
Few merchants in Covington have
succeeded the past few years as have
Mr. and Mrs. Cohen. Not that they
sell their goods high, but they buy
in large quanities and at close prices
and sell their goods themselves, thus
giving their customers the advantage
of a very close price. The stock
carried is a large and complete one,
consisting of merchandise of the
highest quality, and all guaranteed
to be just as represented.
Read the big ad on our last page
get in line andfollow the crowds to
the big sale at W. Cohen’s.
FOR NEW FERTILE FARM LANDS
in healthy and mild climate, write
Colquitt County Land Co., Moul¬
trie, Ga.
GEORGIA TO HAVE
12 CONGRESSMEN
UNDER PLAN OUTLINED NEWTON
COUNTY WILL HEAD THE
NEW TWEUFTH CON¬
GRESSIONAL DIST.
The 1910 census will in all proba¬
bility give Georgia one more Congress¬
man than she now has. This will
make twelve representatives and dis
tiicts instead of eleven, as is now in
lorce, which will form the basis of
the new apportionment.
That basis, it now appears, will be
made such as will increase the pres¬
ent membership of the lower house
of congress from 391 to 433 members.
This will give Georgia twelve mem¬
bers of the lower house instead of
eleven, as at present.
The basis upon which this appor¬
tionment will be made is one congress¬
man for approximately every 211,500
persons.
Georgia’s New District.
The addition of one congressman
will make it necessary to redistrict
Georgia, and the question is how this
can best be done with the least dis¬
turbance of the present arrangement.
A simple and, apparently, satisfac¬
tory method of bringing about this
re-appointment is suggested by Hon.
Charles L. Davis, of Warm Springs,
who proposes to form the new twelfth
district from parts of the fifth, sixth
and eighth districts, and in such a
manner as to make very slight
changes In the other districts of the
state as they now stand.
“I regard this as a fair and well
balanced arrangement,” Mr. Davis
said in speaking of it, “and one which
will not break up or interfere with
the present arrangement any more
than is necessary to bring about an
equal distribution of populaton. It
will not, likewise, interfere to any
extent with the regularity in geogra¬
phical lines, and the communication
of the counties thus placed together.”
The New Arrangement.
The proposed arrangement of the
counties of the state in twelve dis¬
tricts is given below with the popu¬
lation of each county and of each dis¬
trict according to the 1910 census fig¬
ures.
It will be apparent from the totals
that each of the proposed new district
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After counting out the cash for your
monthly bills and then finding your cash
don’t balance. And it’s all unnecessary
too. If you had an account at this bank
you could simply make out checks for
your bills and balance your account at lei¬
sure. The checks would be receipts too,
so you wouldn’t have no bother about
them either.
The Bank of Covington*
Covington OieoT i..
CAPITAL $I00,000.0<
We Invite Your Patronages
YOUR BUSINESS
Is known by the Stationery
you 6end out. Is Yours the
kind which will inspire confi¬
dence in the receiver?
$1. A Year In Advance.
MRS. NELLIE COOK
DIED SATURDAY.
HAD BEEN ILL FOR ONLY DAY OR
TWO.—DEATH WAS SHOCK TO
ALL WHO KNEW HER—
INTERMENT MONDAY.
Mrs. Nellie Cook, one of the best
known and loved women of the coun¬
ty, died at her home in this city
Saturday morning after an illness of
only one day. Her health had been
good up to within a short time bet
tore her death and it came as a
shock to the entire community.
Mrs. Cook had a host of friends
and was known to all as one of the
most tender hearted and sympathetic
ladies of the city. She leaves five
children, Mr. Claude Cook and Miss
Lizzie Cook, of Atlanta, Mr. Sam
Cook, of the Teeh school, Atlanta;
Mr. Joe Cook of Pittsburg and Mrs.
B. H. Guinn of near Oxford, besides
a large circle of relatives.
The funeral took place at the Bap¬
tist church Monday morning, after
which the remains were interred at
the family burying ground north of
Oxford.
will have considerable population In
excess of the proposed basis of appor¬
tionment. For example, the smallest
district in population under the new
arrangement will be the second with
213,074, and they run from that up to
221,268 In the eleventh. The popula¬
tions of all the proposed new districts
is, therefore, about as even as could
he made In any possible apportion¬
ment of the state.
As a suggestion merely, the propos¬
ed plan is an interesting one, and it
will no doubt be closely studied by
members of the legislature and others
interested.
The proposed plan of Mr. Davis will
take Newton county from the Fifth
district and place it in the new Twelfth
The Fifth district will be compos¬
ed of Fulton, DeKalb and Campbell.
In the Twelfth district he has placed
the following counties with the popu¬
lation as given by the recent census:
Walton, 25,393; Morgan, 19,717;
Rockdale, 8,916; Newton, 18,49; Hen¬
ry, 19,927; Jasper, 16,52; Butts, 13,-
625; Monroe, 20,450; Upson, 10,757;
Pike, 19,495; Spalding, 19,751;Clayton,
10,453; Fayette, 10,966. Total, 214,441.
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