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cember 3, 1908, at the post office at
Covington, Ga., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
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COVINGTON, GA., APRIL 10, 1912.
If we read the signs correctly, one
Teddy Roosevelt will not receive the
republican presidential nomination.
If these spring days keep .up long,
the sentiment of “the man and the
hoe’’ will be a stern reality in this
immediate section.
It is said that meat from the pack¬
ing companies is higher than it has
been for years. The government is
investigating the meat trusts.
Considering the extreme weather of
the winter we have just passed, the
roads of the county compare favora¬
bly with those of any other section
of the state.
The paving now being done on the
sidewalks of the city is making of
them regular boulevards, and the con¬
tractor is receiving congratulations
on their appearance.
The candidates 'or county offices
have just three more weeks to cam¬
paign, and unless we are mistaken,
there will be some pepper sprinkled
around during that period.
£ Many of our citizens are contem¬
plating t K e purchase of an automobile
for the summer—likewise many oth¬
ers of us are wishing we were able
to contemplate the same thing.
Notwitstanding the fact that the
weather was rather chilly Sunday, a
good many of the ladies of Covington
were out, decorated with the soft lin¬
gerie of summer, a new hat and cold
chills creeping over them.
The new train on the Central is
bringing quite a bit of extra trade to
this' city, and the merchants are all
giving their new patrons the lowest
prices possible. They appreciate the
new trade and intend to merit it.
Up in Rockdale they have already
held their county primary, and some
of the defeated candidates are as¬
serting that “dirty” methods were
used against them. Too bad that our
sister county can’t have clean politics
like Newton, isn’t it?
There seems to he more interest in
the presidential primary than in the
one for the selection of county offi¬
cers. Only two candidates seem to
be in the running for president in
the Georgia prmary, Underwood and
Wilson. Both sides are putting up an
aggressive fight.
Wouldn’t we have good roads sure
enough if all the people living on
them would keep the little holes and
bumps filled and cut off. It
not take but a few minutes to
almost any stretch of road in
county a pleasure to travel over
t] e ruts were filled. Then too,
■would show the authorities that
had the co-operation of the
instead of' a knock..
A newspaper man can say nice
and pleasant things about a man and
his whole family for two years and
never hear a word from them, and
then in one short week, by some
hook or crok, get in a seeming un¬
charitable phrase and get blowed
higher than Guilderoy’s Kite, and in¬
cur their life time enmity. This is
one of the secret pleasures of the
business.—Exchange.
This -is the time of the year when
the average man hunts up the seed
catalogues, selects his special brand
of each kind of seed he wants to
plant, gets up early in the morning,
and works a while before breakfast
getting his garden in shape to plant;
talks crop rotation and soil conserva¬
tion with his next door neighbor;
gets corns on his hands and sand in
his shoes; plants a portion of the
seed he bought and pours the bal
ance in the trash barrel; brags of
how his garden is coming on; and of
the wonderful vegetables he is going
to have in a few weeks; gets up a
few mornings early and makes a pre¬
tense of working Ms garden until he
forgets it and allows the grass and
W’eeds to get such a start on him
that he cannot get up the necessary
energy to tackle them, and then buys
his vegetables from any one that has
them for sale.—Dublin Courier Dis
patch.
Advertise in the News.
HAVE THEY ALL GONE DAFT.
One mail a few days since rough!
us about twenty columns of matter
from state and national candidates
and institutional concerns accompa¬
nied by, not polite requests, but rath¬
er direct demands that we let the
same appear in “next issue” of our
paper. Most of them also demanded
copies of the paper containing the
matter. By express the same day
came six columns of stuff in plate
matter, which by the tone of the let¬
ter that came wit’ it we were gra¬
ciously granted the privilege of using.
This is almost a daily or weekly
occurrence and it forces us to ask
the question which heads this article.
There are two affirmative answers to
this question—both the senders of
this stuff and the publishers who ac¬
cede to these demands have gone
daft.
It nettles us to think that the news¬
paper fraternity has fallen into such
disrepute that the public would deign
to make such unreasonable requests,
mucl less demands, upon it. Really
we are ashamed to say that we be¬
long to a calling that has not made
any better impression upon the pub¬
lic for being conducted upon busi¬
ness principles and have in it so
many who do not realize or who are
derelect in their duties to their sub¬
scribing patrons.
What would you think of a mer¬
chant who would upon demand of
some candidate or institution give
away barrels of apples or hams of
meat to influence votes for candi¬
dates he did not know or in whom
he could have no direct interest or
to further the interest of institutions
or concerns that were nothing to
him? The principle is the same in
both instances. Newspaper space is
the publisher’s apples or hams which
he must sell to his subscribers to be
filled with such news matter as the
subscriber pays him for and expect
or to the advertiser to tell the pub¬
lic of his wares. If the publisher
takes that space and gives it to some
other interests than that which pays
him for it he in point of fact defrauds
particularly his subscribers who have
bought all his space which he cannot
sell to legitimate advertising custo¬
mers, for it is space that belongs to
his subscribers to be filled with news
and matter of interest and concern to
them. The editor or publisher who
does such a tiring is unworthy the
name or the confidence, respect or
patronage of the people whom he is
looking to for support and to whom
he looks for patronage that will af¬
ford him a living.
On the other hand those who make
such unreasonable demands should
be held up before the public as dead¬
beats and therefore unworthy of the
confidence and support of the people
whom they are striving to influence
through the columns of the press. We
have been strongly tempted to pub¬
lish each week a list of these togeth¬
er with a warning to our readers that
they will not do to trust. Their flag¬
rant lack of decent propriety and evi¬
dent desire to gain something with¬
out Intending to give anything in re¬
turn therefor impresses that way. The
people ought to be warned against
who such are and shun them with
their votes and patronage.
Let us hope that such practice is
but a fad, and, like all fads, will soon
die out. Those who are practicing it
must soon learn that they cannot
profit by it, and they evidently be¬
long to that class which will
quit a thing when they find it does
not profit them. We shall welcome
the day when they do, for they are
giving us no sm amount of annoy¬
ance and humiliation as above stated
•Oglethorpe Echo.
SURGERY AND JOURNALISM.
If newspaper reporters are to des¬
cribe surgical opeations in detail,
will be necessary * r Mr, Pulitzer’s
school of journalism connected with
Columbia University to provide
thorough course in anatomy and phy-,
siology. A recent newspaper account
of a surgical operation read as fol
llows:
“After administering the anaesthet¬
ic ’ e surgeon removed the back of
the skull and with great care took
out the entire brain, which was plac¬
ed on a piece of linen beside the
head and could be seen to pulsate
with each heart beat of the patient.
The diseased portion was then very
carefully severed from the brain, and
while Dr.--was severing the
diseased section another surgeon was
transplanting the infant’s brain. Af¬
ter transplanting the entire brain
was restored to its proper place and
the section of the skull which had
been cut out was replaced.”
No wonder prudent folk run from
surgical operations when they are led
to suppose that such things are done
as are described above. Even the un¬
instructed layman perceives that the
heart can not continue its functions
afer it is disconnected from the
brain and that when the “entire
brain” is removed life must become
extinct. The well meaning but hasty
reporter evidently leaped to the con¬
clusion that the person operated on
was far more lacking in “brains”
than he was.—Macon Telegraph.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912.
ACTED PROMPTLY.
President Taft sent a message to
congress Wednesday asking that
$500,000 be appropriated for strength¬
ening levees and building new dikes
in the flood districts along the Miss
ippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers, and
within fifteen minutes after it was
read in the house that body passed
a bill making $350,000 available for
that purpose. The bill was rushed
over to the senate, where it also
was passed, and was sent to the pres¬
ident for his signature.
The presidnet sent his message of
appeal to congress after Senators
Foster and Thornton and virtually
the entire Louisiana delegation in
the house had called upon him and
pictured the destruction being work¬
ed by the floods.
The president and congress are to
be commended for the promptness
with which they went to the aid of
distressed and suffering people whose
life and property are in jeopardy.—
Dawson News..
THE BEST CHECK TO CRIME.
“The certainty instead of severity
of punishment will do more than any¬
thing else to end crime in Georgia.”
That is the sound verdict of Judge
Robert T. Daniel, of the Flint circuit,
who is now presiding over the crim¬
inal division of the Fulton superior
court.
Continuing, Judge Daniels sounded
warning that should appeal to ev¬
ery thinking Georgian when he de¬
clared that “it is getting to be the
customary instead of the extraordina¬
ry thing for the laws of the state to
be broken. ... It is up to the
judges and courts to break up the in¬
crease in crime.” Had Judge Dan¬
iels supplemented his statement with
the declaration that public sentiment
should co-operate with judges and
courts, he would have completed the
formula for placing the administra¬
tion of law in Georgia upon a re¬
formed basis.
By and large, however, he has
struck the keynote as regards the
checking of crime. Endless delay,
irrelevant technicality, archaic proce¬
dure and imperfect machinery for ap¬
prehending the law breaker, com¬
prise a combination of long odds
against the certainty of the enforce
ment of penalties. If the pistol tot
er, the highwayman, the burglar, the
sneak thief—the gamut of large and
little outlaws—knew, as do their kind
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in England that justice would be vis¬
ited upon them swiftly and unerring¬
ly, there would be a quick diminu¬
tion of the crime rate.
The one gleam is that there is crys
talizdng in Georgia a sentiment for
;udicial reform that will soon force
the general assembly to knock off
the shackles that now handicap so¬
ciety as against the criminal.—Atlan¬
ta Constitution.
LONDON MONEY WILL BE
INVESTED IN SOUTHEAST
The Industrial Index, published at
Columbus, Ga., for the Southeast,
says:
Announcement is made that a com¬
pany organized a short time ago to
develop waterpowers in the Southeast
and furnish electric energy for man¬
ufacturing plants has culminated fi¬
nancial arrangements with a large
banking firm of London and will pro
ceed immediately with initial Invest¬
ments in Alabama that eventually
amount to millions of dollars.
Twenty-six corporations were form¬
ed with minimum capital stocks ag
gregating $1,913,100.
A lumber company formed at Way
cross, Ga., now has a paid-up capital
stock of $1,000,000, and will expend
$50,000 upon woodworking plants.
A contract will be let in a few
by one of the big railway systems for
the construction of a $250,000 passen¬
ger station at Mobile, Ala.
A $200,000 land deal in Florida is
an evidence of one line of activity in
that part of the Southeast.
There are further illustrations of
the great scale upon which develop¬
ment is proceeding in the Southeast.
Some of the items of construction
work to be dne, as reported this
week are:
“Bank and office building, Soperton
Ga.; paving, Brunswick, Ga.; five
story addition to business building,
Macon, Ga.; apartment houses, At¬
lanta and Savannah, Ga.; factory
building, Decatur, Ala.; fraternal
buildings, Dublin and Macon, Ga.; ho¬
tel, Fernandina, Fla.; school building,
Columbus Ga.; churches, Bainbridge,
Hillsboro, Ga., and Uniontown, Geor
giana and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; paving
Rome, Ga.; auditorium, Commerce,
Ga.; steel bridge, Banks county,
Georgia.”
Regular
tion, Golden Fleece
Lodge, No. 6, F. &
y/\ A. M.
1st and 3rd Friday evening in
each month, at 7:30. Duly qualified
brethren invited to meet with us.
A. S. HOPKINS W. M.
J. W. PEEK, Secretary.
Do it now—pay your subscription.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons holding demands agains
the estate of Chas. Reynolds, late j
of said county, deceased, are required
to render the same unto the under¬
signed in terms of law. All persons
owing said estate are hereby called
upon to make immediate payments.
FRED REYNOLDS,
Ad’m’r. Chas. Reynolds, deceased.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
All persons holding demands
against the estate of Annie Clark, lat
of Newton county, deceased, are here
by requested to render same to the
undersigned as prescribed by law. All
persons indebted to saffi estate are
required to make immediate payment
to the undersigned.
C. A. HARWELL, Adm’r.
Annie Clark, deceased.
NOTICE.
All persons are warned not to hire
or harbor Walter Brewer, as he is
under contact with me for the year
1912. ALBERT BREWER,
Covington, Ga., March 30, 1912.—4t.pd
NOTICE.
All persons are warned noit to hire
or harbor Add Christian, white, as
he is under contract with me for
the year 1912.
W . B. TREADWELL,
Covington ,Ga.
Notice.
The Imp. I. O. R. M. Suwanee
Tribe No. 62, meet at their Hall on
every Mst and third Wednesday
sleeps of each month. Qualified mem
bers and visiting brothers are cordiall
Invited.
E. R. GUNN, Sachem.
LOUIS ZETLIN. C. of R.
Notice to Debtors And Creditors.
All persons holding claims against
the estate of Nancy A. Phillipps, de¬
ceased, are hereby notified to render
same to the undersigned in terms of
the law. And .nil persons indebted to
said estate are called upon to make
immediate payment to the adminis¬
trator.
B. M. LEACH.
Admrs. Nancy A. Phillipps, deceased.
Schedule of the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company
Lv Cov. 7:15 am. Lv Depot 7:45 am
Lv Cov. 8:30 am. Lv Depot 9:00 am
Lv Cov.ll:10 am. Lv Depot 11:40 am
Lv Cov. 2:10 pm. Lv Depot 2:20 pm
Lv Cov. 3:50 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lv Cov. 6: pm. Lv Depot 6:45 pm
Lv Cov. 6:55 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lv Cov. 7:30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Covington on time
and will wait at Depot for delayed
trains.
Lv Oxf. 7:10 am. Lv Depot 7:50 am
Lv Oxf. 8:20 am. Lv Depot 9:05 am
Lv Oxf.ll:00 am. Lv Depot 11:45 am
Lv Oxf. 1:55 pm. Lv Depot 2:15 pm
Lv Oxf. 3:45 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lv Oxf. 6:00 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lv Oxf. 7:30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Oxford on time and
will wait at Depot for delayed trains
E. W. FOWLER. President.
The Lyric Theatre has on for to¬
night, Wednesday, and tomorrow nigh
three of the best pictures that has
been presented here for several days.
Cotton Seed, Peas
Improved Dongola
cotton seed at 75c a
bushel, f. o. b. Social
Circle. Whipporwill
peas $2.00 a bushel.
W.P.Sigman Social Circle, Ga.
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When
Looking Around For Meals
Don’t fail to look our way. You will
surely see something at our
RESTAURANT AND LUNCH COUN¬
TER that will satisfy that hungry feel¬
ing. One trial will convince you be¬
yond the shadow of a doubt that the
QUALITY AND QUANTITY
of our meals will stand every test.
COVINGTON CAFE
Petes Noulis Prop. Phone 221.
THE FARMER SOWS WHA^ I
HE EXPECTS TO REAR if Yh„ *
WISH A COMFORTABLE t|.AO_E,PLART OLD •
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MONEY IN
the
BANK
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In 1623, a copy of Shakespeare sold for $3. In 1886 Oliver
Wendeil Holmes was offered this same book for $4,000. But
had $5 been put out at compound interest (4 per cent.) in 1623,
it ould have amounted in 1886 to $ 160,000.
Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank. t
We pay liberal interest consistent with safety.
BANK OF NEWTON COUNTY
Have your Ginnery, engine and*
Boiler, repair work done before
the rush of the season and be
ready to start when the season
opens. Have new Parts made
at the Newton County Machine
Works.
Ail kinds of Blacksmith work. Have
your horses and mules shod at 75c per
round.
Newton County Machine Works
WADE H. HARRISON. COVINGTON, GA.
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ftwf OROJ PlUHS APAK.ov« > -
One or our "hobbies
IS FANCY FRUITS
Pleasing to the Eye, Delicious and Re¬
freshing to the Taste, Nature’s Aids to
Health. Our Fruits are Fresh Daily.
Foreign And Domestic Fruits
We have them all in season. We
take great pride in their selection, the
display and care
C. A. FRANKLIN, Grocer
Phone No. 7 Covington, Ga.
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* THE LYRIC THEATRE j
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* Is the place to spend your spare moments *
* and enjoy them for a very small amount. *
* We buy the best films possible and re
4 member that we have a *
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