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iibble and dies
hNOGK PENSION BILL
CONGRESSMEN attack
- hE SHERWOOD PENSION
—branded as cam
CaMPAIGN contribution.
i WASHINGTON, I). C.—Representa
' Tribble, of Georgia,
gamuel J..
Matin Dies, of Texas*, both d o
rats, vigorously attacked the She>
pension bill in the house Sat
y Mr. Dies denounced the bill
W1 attempted campaign couiribu
of nearly $50,000,000. He declar
itliere was cowardly in both par¬
as advocates of the measure fear
vote against the bill because
e possible effect on the election.
Tribble said the south had cou¬
rted to Union soldiers’ pensions
nut protest in the past but that
(time had come for a 1 ’ sections
ie country to object to further
ases. “A democratic house cut
spenses $18,000,” said Mr. Trib
“and now proposes to add near
( 60 , 000,000 to the pension rolls."
speakers protested against
the veterans of the civil war
than they asked for.
think decapitation for a good
cowardly statesmen here would
republic good,” declared Mr.
He told the members to go
to their districts and tell their
uents that legislation is a
'of buncomb.”
body’s got to be brave
to risk his hide to stop some
e nefarious'* legislation that is
passed an this country,” he ad
[president Taft is the man, and
cides to veto the Sherwood hill,
[‘more strength to his arm.”
IS BOILED
IN TUB OF SYRUP.
Son of W. P. Lightfoot, of
Inaha, Meets Horrible
Death.
the 3-year old son of Mr. and
P. Lightfoot, living near Tif
net a horrible death Thursday
CLAERANCE SALE
will sell 50 Rhode Island Cockerels
|nd Pullets at secrifice prices. Call
Ind see them and I will make you a
[rice you eau afford to buy.
DR. J, A. WRIGHT, Druggist
Covington, Ga.
Blankets
are complete in the Blanket line.
The winter is upon us, and you will need
^ankets. You must buy. If you must,
not buy them right? Prices / 5 c to
^•50 per pair
I. C. SWANN CO.
GEORGSA USED 200,000
more TONS THAN EVER.
early a Million and a Quarter Tons
of Guano Was Put in the Ground
The Past Season.
An indication of the intensive
ierUlizaton system employed through¬
out Georgia during the past season,
A iea luore commercial fertilizer
, was
u * u this state than before
ever
m its history, ma y be had from the
fertilizer bulletin, which is being
mailed out by the department of agri¬
culture.
According to the figures it con¬
tains Georgia planters used 1,202,722
tons of commercial fertilizer during
Past season as against 1,030,690 tons
the preceding season, an increase
0i 100,000 tons. The sale of cotton
seed meal, from which farmers se¬
cured their nitrogen for mixing com¬
mercial fertilizers at home, showed a
nealthy increase, too. Th*e figures
for the past season were 19,748 tons
as against 103,302 tons for the pre¬
ceding season. This bulletin shows
the analysis* of every brand of fertili¬
zer sold in Georgia, with the name
and place of manufacture.
ihe outlook for the coming season 1
is that the acreage cultivated will
not be increased, but the crops will
be diversified and even more fertili¬
zer used per acre in 1912 than this
year, which was a banner year.
Georgia is probably next to South
Carolina in the amount of commer¬
cial fertilizers used per acre, which
accounts for the fact that during the
past ten years Georgia has risen
from tenth to fourth place in agri¬
cultural wealth and importance.
.
Why not pay your subscription.
afternoon.
Mr. Lightfoot was away from home
and Mrs. Lightfoot had just taken off
a boiling of syrup and had left it to
cool in a large -tub while she cleaned
bottles to put it in.
Unnoticed the little child, who was
bringing the bottles to its mother,
fell into the tub, which contained 12
gallons of boiling hot syrup, -and was
■scalded so badly that be died within
five hours despite the frantic efforts
of the family *and the hastily sum¬
moned physician to give relief.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, ‘WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911.
‘
TURNER HANGED
IN OPERA HOUSE.
Execution Changed From Jail Yard
Through Fear of Race
Trouble.
JACKSON, GA.—Will Turner, a ne¬
gro preacher, was banged an King’s
opera house here Frida; for killing
Jesse Singley -near Indian Springs,
Ga., August 26. The hanging was- to
have taken place in -the jail yard but
fear of a largo crowd which might at¬
tempt race trouble caused the change
in plans. Only a few newspaper men
and officers and relatives of the -man
were present.
Singley, a young white man, was
ambushed after trying to settle some
-trouble between hotel bell boys in
w r bich Turner’s two sons were impli¬
cated. Race trouble was narrowly
averted at the time.
The negro confessed to the murder
Wednesday afternoon, saying he fined
all of the shots and denied hi© boys
were guilty, in a statement just be
fore being taken from the jail to the
place of execution, Turner warned
the members of bis race against
whiskey drinking. He was cool and'
collected to the last.
Three sons of Turner are being
held at Atlanta pending -trial for par¬
ticipation An the killing.
THERE ARE MORE ILLICIT
DISTILLERIES NOW.
Commissioner Cabell in Annual Re¬
port Says This is Especially True
of Prohibition States.
WASHINGTON. — “Illicit distiller¬
ies are steadily increasing An the
United States, especially in those
states in which prohibitory laws
have been enacted,” according to
Commissioner Cab-ell of the internal
revenue bureau. During the last fis¬
cal year 2,488 illicit distilleries were
seized and destroyed by the internal
revenue agents, as compared with
1,911 for the previous year.
“The prevalence of this practice
will be better understood,” declared
Mr. Cabell, “when it is recalled that
there were operated last year only
923 registered distilleries in -the en¬
tire United States.”
Illicit distilling, Mr. Cabell adds,
is most -extensively engaged in the
states of Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia.
ALBANY MAY CWN
MUNICIPAL ICE PLANT.
High Prices and Scarcity of Ice In¬
fluence Albany Council Toward
Project.
An Albany dispatch stays: Having
made a brilliant success of munici¬
pal ownership of waterworks and
electric lighting institutions and vot¬
ed bonds for the construction of a
municipal gas plant, which will be
built during the coming year, there
is now a pobability that Albany will
also try the experiment of making
municipal ice.
Members of the city council
charge that the prices which the lo¬
cal manufacturers ask for ice are
too high, and that the service is not
satisfactory. The movement to build
a municipal ice plant is a serious one
and a committee of council has been
appointed to look into such matters
as the cost of an up-to-date plant and
storage facilities. A report to coun¬
cil will be made as soon as the de¬
sired information can be secured.
SOUTHERN BOYS AT
WHITE HOUSE.
The President Compliments The
Little Corn Growers on
Their Work.
WASHINGTON—More than twen¬
ty southern boys who had won prizes
in corn-growing contests last week
heard President Taft talk on the ben¬
efits that would accrue to Dixie
through such work as they were do¬
ing. He declared that ' the lessons
these boys bad laemed were taught
to others, the south would not have
to depend on 15-cent cotton.
Representative Gordon Lee, of
Georgia, told the president that next
year 60,000 southern boys would com¬
pete for the corn prizes.
THE GAZETTE-CHRONICLE
RESUMES PUBLICATION.
After a lapse of -several months,fol¬
lowing the death of Editor J. W.
Chapman, in Augusta, The Washing¬
ton, (Ga.) Gazette-Chronicle will re
sume publication early in January.
Roy S. Barnwell, of that city, will
be the editor in chief and business
manager of the paper, which will be
published weekly. Associated with
Mr. Barnwell in the new- enterprise
will be F. St.- Clair, of Bridgeport,
Ala.; J. H. Fackler and Miss Gilmer,
of Atlanta. The society and local de¬
partments will be conducted by Miss
Elizabeth Ramsey, of Washington.
The first issue of The Gazette-Chron¬
icle will appear under its new man¬
agement on January 9th.
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Christmas Gifts
We have received for the Holidays many
beautiful and attractive as well as useful
household articles which we believe will
make your wife, daughter or some member
of your family the best Christmas Gift to be
found in the city.
We invite you to inspect our line of Chifferobes,
Morris Chairs, Rockers, Pianos, Rugs, Art Squares, be¬
sides almost anything that will be ol use to any lady or
gentleman for a Christmas Gift. We want you to visit
our store and see what we have to suggest for a gift.
T. J. HARWELL
Cash or Credit Furniture and Undertaking
Day Phone 58 Night Phone 60
40 Buns To Close Out
In the Next Sixy Days at a Bargain
Our Stock must be reduced at once. These
Buggies are our best grade. The same we
have been selling for $75.00 cash.
For the next 60 days will sell them for
cash or on time for $65.00
Buy a buggy from us and put $ 10.00 in
your pocket.
Covington Buggy Company
C. BROOKS, Mgr. Covington, Ga.
