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Entered as second-class matter De¬
cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
All obituary notices, cards of thanks,
and announcements, other than of
a public nature, will be charged
for at the rate of one cent a word
COVINGTON, GA., Oct. 18, 1911.
It is Time to Pay Your Subscription.
This is the season of the year
when we begin to revise our subscrip¬
tion! list tod it is also the time of
the year when the postmaster begins
to gaze at the label on your paper,
preparatory to revising his list.
If you want. The News another year
you must pay for the year you al¬
ready owe. We have carried you for
nearly eleven mouths, and now must
insist that you pay. We need that
dollar which you owe us just the
same as the merchant who has sold
you your supplies, and it is just as
much due. It may look small to
you, but add it together until it
totals 2200 and see if you can real¬
ize hew much we need money. We
shall be glad to have you call in and
see us when you come to town.
One of the best indexes to a dead
business is its lack of advertising.
Protection is all right, in its place;
but there are times when there is a
likelihood of “suffocation by protec¬
tion.” Our special license system,
for instance.
iMany of our citizens want the “lid
lifted” from Covington and try it for
one year with the lid off. Might, be
a good idea. It is screwed down
tight now, all rjght.
And it came to pass that an apple
wagon came into tihe city from afar,
and stopped in the center of the vil¬
lage; but he could not sell his wares,
for lo, there was a license of five
dollars a day upon him, and he went
his way, muchly grieved. Selah.
Somebody has wilfully, diabolically
and with malice aforesight surrepti¬
tiously ‘swiped’ upwards of 20,000
acres of land from Telfair county be¬
tween return time n 1910 a d 1911.
It must be “fetch back," for taxation,
if for no other purpose.—Unadilla
Leader.
Our mothers used to boast that
they didn’t know one card from an¬
other. Shucks. The modern, short¬
stepping, college-stuffed, music-be¬
fuddled display of pretty clothes is
far ahead of that. Why, she doesn’t
know a flat iron from a nut-meg
grater.—Greensboro Herald-Journal.
If the farmers want to hold their
cotton, that is all right and good.
But if you hold it, store it in the
seed. When you carry it to the gin
and then store the ginned product in
the warehouse, the government gets
the bale counted in the “ginners re¬
port” and your holding will not af¬
fect the price a point.
There seems to be developing a
decided feeling against the city tax
rate and also the method of assess¬
ing the taxes. By the time the prop¬
erty owners pay their city taxes, and
the special licenses it makes living
here come high. In fact the senti¬
ment seems to be growing to have
our city make all kinds of liberal in¬
ducements to people to come here,
instead of trying to tax and license
them away.
There are several of the larger in¬
stitutions of learning in the state
whose officials are very condescend¬
ing in allowing the weekly periodi¬
cals of the state to publish a lot of
free write-up dope, and when they
have something of an advertising na¬
ture and for which htey pay, send it
to the daily pa'pers. This is one rag
which doesn’t cater to that kind of
news matter, and the newspaper man
who does fall to their flattering of¬
fers of “news” are the ones who are
generally griping about there being
nothing in the printing business.
After all the ingenuity of Ameri¬
cans had been exhausted in trying to
invent a machine to pick cotton, it
remained for a Tatnall county man
to solve the great problem of the
easy and inexpensive gathering of
the staple. He hitched his old mule
to a sled, made right *o guide be¬
tween two rows, tacked up his um¬
brella and placed his wife on board,
and sailed out into the ocean of
snowy whiteness, and raked in the
stuff without any backaches. We get
this story from the Tattnal Journal,
but are afraid to tell the man’s
name os he might be overwhelmed
with offers for his invention.—Mont¬
gomery Moniter.
THINK IT OVER.
When you go into a meat market
in Covington and buy a pound of
steak did you ever stop to think
that the market man from whom
you buy it pays the city a special
tax of $25? Isn’t it reasonable tliat
he is not the man who pays it after
all, and that when you buy that
pound of steak you are contributing
to that “special?” Think it over.
When you see the street force
working on the streets and filling
UP the same holes they have filled for
the fiftieth time in your recoleotion,
did you ever consider who pays t§ie
cost. Certainly the mayor doesn’t
do it, but^YOU are the man who
every day pays tribute to the cost
of building sorry streets with your
tax money. Think it over.
When you boast of your time hon¬
ored, roek-ribbed, dyed-in-the-wool
democracy, did it ever penetrate your
think-tank that “special License tax”
is one of the principal schemes of
“protection” in the Republican doc¬
trine, and that when you sanction
it in your city that you are that much
of a republican? Think it over.
When your business hasn’t 'gone
just exactly straight and you go home
in the evening and “take it out”
on your wife by being cross and
fussy, stop and consider the fact that
you are the biggest ass that the
Lord ever let the light of day fall oh,
and that- if you had a grain of man¬
hood in. your spine you would go out
and find a good smooth wall and butt
your wooden head against it three
times with 500 pounds pressure.
Think it over.
MORE MACHINERY NEEDED.
In discussing the use of machin¬
ery on the farm and its advantages
The Atlanta Constitution said in
part:
“The increased dividends that
flow from the employment of the
latest mechanical devices in agri¬
culture are themselves a sufficient
inducement for the Georgia farmer
to take stock of his methods to the
extent of se ing if he is improving
his opportunities to the furthest in
this regard. But the growing com¬
plexity of the labor problem is, per¬
haps, an even stronger argument, as
the more the farmer relies on machin¬
ery the less he will have to rely
on labor. And a good sower or reap¬
er or power plow has a reputation
for generally keeping its contract,
which is more than can be truthfully
said for many of the laborers upon
whom Georgia farmers are depend¬
ent.”
One of the greatest needs of the
south today is a meohanica’ cotton
picker that will pick cotton satisfac¬
torily under any and All conditions.
The experience of the farmers this
fall shows a crying need for such a
machine. It is now almost impossi¬
ble to get hands with which to pick
the crop that has been grown and un¬
less something is done to relieve the
situation much cotton will be lost in
the fields. A heavy rainstorm just
now would ruin thousands of bales
of cotton ithat are open in the fields
waiting for some one to pick and 1 for
which no pickers are to be had.
A cotton picker that would do the
work of half a dozen hands and do
it satisfactorily would be better 'than
none at all, even if it did require
one or two men to operate it. Such
a machine has been invented but has
not so far come into general use.' It
is still in the experimental stage and
will not work in cotton over a cer¬
tain height. It is not impossible to
build a machine to pick cotton. Twen¬
ty years ago the idea of a cotton pick
ing machine would have been laughed
at, but so many seemingly impossi¬
ble things have been done by tlie in¬
ventor in the last ten years that we
no longer doubt that a cotton picker
is impossible but that it will in time
come into general use and work a
revolution in the present method of
gathering the cotton crop.
There is a fortune awaiting the
man who brings out such a machine
that’ is a success. It will require a
large amount of capital to develop
the invention and put it on the mar¬
ket even after it proves to be prac¬
ticable, but the profits to be gath¬
ered from it will more than offset
the trouble and expense. The time
is ripe and the conditions favorable
and the only thing lack ing is the ma¬
chine.—Dublin Courier Dispatch.
H. M. Stanley, editor of the Dub¬
lin Courier-Dispatch, is a candidate
for the office of Commissioner of
Commerce and Labor. Stanley is a
good, level headed man, and is wor¬
thy of the office which he aspires.
Some people should remember that
they can’t get into the New Jerusa¬
lem by slipping by St. Peter. Stal¬
wart angels will make you jump out
like a hoppergrass and the hell-ducks
in the devil’s front yard will gulp
you down in a jiffy.—Ex.
WHY DO YOU SPEND YOUR MON
ey for inferior tobacco when you
can buy PENN’S CHAMPION from
Fowler Bros. Co., at the same price
the common kind will cost you el¬
sewhere.—S-27-4.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911.
CITIES AND COUNTIES PLAN
EXPENSIVE improvements.
The Georgia and Alabama mdns
tnial Index, published ait Columbus,
Ga., says:
“One of the reasons why Georgia
and Alabama are constantly attract¬
ing increasing mumbens of new citi¬
zens and investors is demonstrated
by the announcement this week of
bond issues aggregating $1,157,300,
either voted or contemplated, for
municipal and county improvements.
“This is a record of but seven days
and clearly illustrates the energetic
substantial public spirit in this sec
t'om.
“The improvements to be made in¬
clude city halls, school buildings,
street paving, concrete sidewalks,
auditoriums, waterworks systems alnd
highways of the best construction in
seven cities and four counties. In
what other section can this record
be equaled?
“General construction activity
steadily grows in volume. Some of
the buildings to be erected and other
construction planned, as announced
this week, are:
“Bridges, Glynn, Carlton and
Greene counties, Georgia; church
buildings, Atlanta, Ga., Camp Hill,
Dadeville and Jonesboro, Ala.; city
halls, Bainbridge and Doerun,, Ga.;
court houses, Lee county, Georgia;
depot, Bessemer, Ala.; jail, Monroe¬
ville, Ala.,' fraternal buildings, Alba¬
ny, Ga., $50,000 and Americas, Ga.,
$50,000; road improvement, Etowah,
Perry and Calhoun counties, Alabama
and Greene amd Lee counties, Geor¬
gia; school buildings, Athens, Bairn
brldge, and Sandersville, Ga., and
Monroeville, Ala.; waterworks sys¬
tems, Bainbridge, Bronwood, Chipley
and Doerun, Ga.; sewers, Summer¬
ville, Ala.
THE PISTOL LAW IS
CONSTITUTIONAL.
Georgia's pistol license law is con¬
stitutional.
In a 50-page decision, which con¬
tained a dissenting opinion by Jus¬
tice Atkinson, the supreme court,
with Judge Beck absent, has certi¬
fied the law’s constitutionality to the
court of appeals in the test case of
J. L. Strickland from the city court
of Carrollton.
In no unmistable terms the court
held that the statute was good and
did not conflict with the state’s fun¬
damental law. It was clearly an at¬
tempt to exercise such police powers
as were granted to the state in its
constitution, nothing more.
The case of J. L. Strickland was
appealed from the Carrollton court
to the appellate court several months
ago, and was put up as the tost case
of the license law. Upon its decision
hung the fate of at least a score of
cases, all appealed upon the same
grounds—the lav/’s constitutionality.
The pistol license law requires
that a license rnu^t be secured from
the court of ordinary before a pistol
may be carried and a list of the
registered number of each gun be
kept in the office of the Ordinary.
No Clubbing.
To club or not to club.
That is the question.
As far as the Record is concerned,
we will “cut out” at once and for¬
ever all clubbing arrangements with
daily, weekly, monthly or any other
Ikind of a paper. If we can’t get
subscribers without clubbing we’ll
quit the business. Our reasons are
that the cheap city papers get many
subscribers that the Record and oth¬
er rural weeklies ought to have.
Some fellows, when they get one
paper, they have “more than they
can read,” and will not take the home
paper. We have on our desk a prop¬
osition to insert a big $25.00 ad for a
daily paper announcing our combined
clubbing rate. It will never see day¬
light in our columns. No more club¬
bing for us, and we wish every week¬
ly paper in Georgia would follow suit.
It will be money in their pockets to
“cut it out."—Montezuma Record.
Good for you, brother. The (News
out out the clubbing business a year
ago and find that it works admirably.
Too much advertising for the other
fellow to suit us.
NOTICE.
Being physically unable to attend
to business, I have turned all my
notes over to the First National
Bank, and will be glad for all who
have given me their paper to call at
that place for them. I do this for
the convenience of my patron®.
A. S. McGARITY.
Notice.
The Imp. I. O. R. M. Suwanee
Tribe No. 62, meet at their Hall on
every frdst and third Wednesday
eleeps of each month. Qualified mem
bers and visiting brothers are cordiall
Invited.
E. R. GUNN, Sachem.
LOUIS ZETL1N, C. of R.
FOR RENT.—NICE FOUR ROOM
Cottage, close in, fine shade, good
waiter, very cheap. Apply to J. W.
Anderson. tf
JUST ARRIVED
We have just received quite an assortment of
dress goods and dress trimmings. All the latest
styles in mannish effects of woolen dress jroods
for coat suits. Lighter weaves in silk and Mes
saline for one piece and evening dresses.
The trimming for these, we have in white
beaded bands and Maddahon to match. Also jet
fringe and ornaments. All colors in silk cords
which are so popular at Present.
Space will not allow a description of all we
have in our dress goods and notion line. Wein=
vite you to let us show you, for we are sure we
can please you. y
Remember we carry a full stock of Buster
Brown guaranteed hoisery for Ladies, Men, Boys
and Girls. Call for them and get your money’s
worth., 4 Pairs $1.00, guaranteed to wear four
months.
Heard White &
um
Why Pay
When you can Get it For Less
Money At
T. C. Swann Co.
The Store of Good Values Covington, Ga
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