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LEGUIN NEWS.
Mr. Tobit Henderson, spent Sunday
at his home in Mansfield.
Miss Nelle Wright is visiting Mrs.
P. H. Franklin, at Eudora.
Mrs. Charlie Lassiter and children
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W.
T. Austin.
Misses Ilene and Dessa Ivey, of
Covington, spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Misses Alice and Bessie
Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs_ Mark Pennington and
children, were guests Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Mabry, at Starrsville
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Franklin, Mrs.
Harwell and Mrs. Potts, of Majnsfield,
spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs.
Althea Wright and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heard and
Miss Hyda Heard, of Covington, were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. W.
M. Heard.
Mr. and Mrs. Pelya Austin, of Cov¬
ington, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Austin.
Miss Leila Wright spent part of
last week with relatives in Coving¬
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. “Tink” Harwell, of
Covington, visited Mr. and Mre. W.
M. Heard Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Austin and
family, of Salem, were guests Satur¬
day night and Sunday of relatives.
Mr. Hugh White, of Covington, is
spending this week with his daughter,
Mrs. Althea Wright.
Mrs. Ike Meadors and children, of
Covington, spent Tuesday with Mrs.
Lumsden.
LIBERTY NEWS.
Several from here attended preach¬
ing at Porterdale Sunday.
Miss Clao Piper and little brother,
Bernard, of Covington, are spending
this week here with their grand-pa¬
rents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Piper.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hilley, of
Pace, spent Saturday night and Sun¬
day with the latter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Moore.
Mr. J. T. Wicks, of Covington,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C.
M. Wicks.
Miss Ethel Piper has returned
home after spending several days
wit 1 friends and relatives in Atlanta.
Mrs. Douglas Rumble and little
daughter, Exa Wylene, of Oxford are
spending a few days here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Woodruff,
Quarterly meeting .was held here
Saturday and all who were present
enjoyed the day.
Mr. L. O. Woodruff, assistant cash¬
ier cf the Bank of Jeffersonville, is
spending a few days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Woodruff.
Messrs Howard and Cohen Piper,
and two llittle sons, Ralph and N. J.,
of Covington, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Piper.
Mr. Ben Hicks Woodruff, who has
been attending the Tech, has return¬
ed home to spend the summer with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Wood
ruff.
Mr. "and Mrs. W. Cohen and son,
Nathan, and daughter Evelyne, and
M sses Bremam and Berry and Mr.
Louis Zeitland all spent a short while
Friday afternoon at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. N. H. Piper.
HIGH POINT NEWS.
Rev. Samuel King filled his regu¬
lar appointment here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Bernard Loyd, of
Wes + Newton, visited Mr. J. A. Grant
and family Saturday night and Sundry;
Mr. and Mrs.Green Loyd visited the
latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Packer, Sunday.
Miss Liddia Mae King, of near
Worthville, was a visitor here Satur¬
day and Sunday.
Rev. Griffin McMicheail was a wel¬
come visitor of Mr and Mrs. Frank
Poison and family Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Cagle and children vis¬
ited Mrs. Annig Canup Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Darby are all
smiles over the arival of a fine baby
boy.
Sunday School is on a boom at Aus¬
tin ChapeL Nothing like a good Sun¬
day School in a community.
Miss Lartrelle Meadors, of Coving¬
ton, was the guest of Miss Tempie
Lewis and Olenda Taylor recently.
Mr. Frank Canup and family visit¬
ed the former’s mother, Mrs. Annie
Canup Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Moss visited her daugh¬
ter, Mrs. Frank McCart, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Reynolds vis¬
ited Mr. John Parker’s family Satur¬
day night and Sunday.
Miss Addie Mae Rogers visited Mrs.
J. B. Salter a short while Sunday af¬
ternoon.
FREE TRIAL PACKAGE OF CON
key’s Lice Powder and big 80-page
poultry book for one week only at
Dr. J. A. Wright’s.—4t.
NOTICE, TAX PAYERS.
The State and County Tax Books
for 1912 will close on July 1st. Those
who have failed to give in, would do
well to attend to this matter at once,
as it is necessary that all returns are
in by that time.
J. F. LUNSFORD,
Tax Rec*r. Newton County.
dictionary makers at fault
Notable Blunders, With Ele¬
c„ me Efforts at Wit, Have
phantine Put on Record.
Been
Dr. Johnson perpetrated many jokes
his dictionary, but among his most
• “us
blunders was his definition of
pastern” as “the knee of a horse.”
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The dictionary makers often took
^rpsion to make their definitions hit
? hdr enemies. Wesley defined “Meth
as “one that liveth according to
“he method laid defined down oats in the “a Bible." grain
Ur Johnson as
which in England is generally given
to horses, but in Scotland supports
the people.” He defined "pensioner"
1S “a slave of state, hired by a sti¬
,
pend to obey his master,” which defi¬
nition was made much of by the doc¬
tor's enemies when he himself was
awarded a pension.
Bailey’s dictionary defined the Lo
riot or Golden Oriole as “a bird that,
being looked upon by one who has the
yellow jaundice, cures the person and
dies himself.” Fenning, who was the
next dictionary maker, was afraid of
this, and merely said “Loriot, a kind
of bird.” But one of the best bits of
misinformation was given in the dic¬
tionary of Edward Philips, who in
one place declared that “a gallon is
a measure containing two quarts” and
in another place declared “a quaver
is a measure of time in music, being
the half of a crochet, as a crochet is
the half of a quaver," which leaves
the subject as clear as mud.
SALVAGE SHOT FROM THE SEA
Seamen on English Coast Earn Money
by Selling Old Projectiles
to the Admiralty.
Shot picking is the "art” of retriev¬
ing shot and shell from the bottom of
the sea. In order to practice this
profession nowadays a man must be
in possession of a boat, plenty of cour¬
age and a license.
Target practice is carried on almost
every day at Portsmouth, England,
and the admiralty are willing to pay
a good price for shells which are re¬
covered from sand banks and shallow
water.
Shot pickers go out to sea in boats,
watch the firing intently while it is in
progress, and then, as soon as the last
shot has settled in the water, dis¬
perse in various directions in order
to discover the shells.
These are located by means of a
long line "weighted with lead, which
has a small buoy fixed at one end.
This end is thrown overboard, and the
boat is rowed slowTy in a semicircle.
The weighted line drags over the
sand beneath the water and catches
against any shell that is projecting
above the sand. A thin, firm pole is
then lowered, so that it makes a clean
line from the shot to the side of the
boat, and, while this is held in place
by one man, a pick is thrust down by
another to draw the projecting shot
from the sand beneath the water.
The Sliding Seat.
A sliding stroke was adopted by Eng¬
lish oarsmen long before movable
seats, but upon what the Americans
called the “buckskin and butter” plan.
Newcastle scullers used to slide on a
long, highly polished thwart by the
free use of grease or soap, their row¬
ing trousqys being strapped at the seat
with wash leather. This device was
introduced to the Thames by Robert
Chambers when he sculled a match
with Harry Kelly in 1865, and was
used by the Tyne crew when they
rowed St. John, New Brunswick, In
In 1871 the Tyne crew, who had
gained a knowledge of the movable
seat during their visit to America,
used sliding seats at Newcastle; and
they were fitted to the coxswainless
jour neat in the which Atlanta the London of Rowing New club
ln 1iG2. crew, York,
After the success of the new
airangement at Henley, sliding seats
'' ere adopted by both universities for
the varsity boat race of 1873.
The Drunken Parliamen
There was a Scotch pa
once which would not have cai
°n<3 glance at the Ten
(Scotch) bill which has just i
llrd appearance in the house
mons. The first parliameni
®. e * ln Scotland after the res
of Charles n. had not the lea
'ngs after temperance refc
acquired the name of “the
!i Parliament,” in fact, and live
8 station. Scott in his
h a Grandfather” gives e
en the Scottish parliam
e members were in ii
under the influence many
of wine, a
j 0 ,® !f f ore a ? tha e the n once royal obligee
Odiddleton) Middi comir
ave was too intoxicate
Properly in the chair.”
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.
CORNISH MOUNTAIN NEWS.
Mr. Onie Shelinut and his sister of
Youth called on Mr. and Mrs. John
C, Lee Sunday P. M. Mr. Shelinut
is Evangelist for Cornish Mountain
Union Sunday School Association and
he delivered a fine lecture to the Cor¬
nish Mountain Sunday School last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Henderson spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Powell Blasingame.
Misses Ruth and Leona Brown have
returned home after a pleasant visit
to relatives in Lithonia.
Mr. Watson Kitchens spent Sunday
with his friend Mr. Homer Wiley at
Jersey.
Mr.^Qeorgia Broadnax and family
of College Park were visitors at the
home of Mr. Tom Harris Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Allgood visited
their parents Mr. and Mrs. Billie Wi¬
ley Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Dingier spent
Sunday with their parents Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Knight near Monroe.
Rev. Forester of Hoschton, conduct¬
ed Odd Fellows Memorial services at
Jersey Sunday P. M.
Mrs. Sim Harris and family left last
Friday to return to their home in Ty¬
ler Texas.
Mr. Harris is a Georgia boy, but has
been living out West for a number of
years.
Some from our comunity wish to be
on hand at the all-day singing at
Macedonia next 5th Sunday.
The Threshmen are quite busy just
at this season.
Crops are growing.
Miss Edna Dingier is spending the
week with ^er grand-parenst, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Knight.
Mrs. Parks Harris was hostess at
a Spend the day party last Wednes¬
day. Those who enjoyed the hospi¬
tality were Mrs. John C. Lee, Mrs.
J Pat Richards of Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs. Sim Harris and two children of
Tyler Texas.
Elder R. L. Cook and Mr. and Mrs.
Cager Pace were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Rasey Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Forrester of
Walnut Grove, Mr. W. O. Eason and
family were visitors at the home of
Mr. R. I. Allgood Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Lee visited Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Lee last Sunday.
STARRSVILLE NEWS,
Mr. C. C. Epps, Sr., of Milledgeville
is visiting relatives here.
Miss Ruby Hodge, of Shady Dale,
is the guest of Mrs. C. C. Epps.
Miss Stella Cowan, of Covington,
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
aunt, Mrs. H. H. Evans.
Mr. John J. Corley, of Covington,
spent Sunday with his brother, Mr.
W. T. Corley.
Miss Myrtis Morgan returned Sat¬
urday from a visit to relatives in Ox¬
ford.
Miss Minnie Harwell, of Atlanta,
visited relatives here last week.
Mr. W. T. Corley was in Covington
Saturday.
Mr. Otha Jones, of Porterdale, spent
Sunday with home-folks.
Tne young people were delightfully
entertained at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Wright last Wednesday
evening.
REMOVAL NOTICE.
I have moved from the Court Hous
to office in Star Building heretofore
occupied by Dr. T. U. Smith.
A. H. FOSTER, Att’y.
Statement of the condition of the
PEOPLE, S BANK
Located at Mansfield, Ga., at the clot %
of business, May 31, 1912.
RESOURCES:
Demand Loans....... $ 1 462 00
Time Loans......... 56 771 18
Overdrafts, unsecured, .. 1 905 07
Banking house......... 1 743 48
Furniture aind fixtures, .. 1 483 25
Due from banks and bank¬
ers in this state..... 8 276 42
Due from banks and bank¬
ers in other states, .. 1 747 85
Currency....... 15 00
Gold,........ 130 00
Silver, nickels, etc. 246 06
Cash items...... 49 16 440 22
TOTAL,............$73 829 47
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in, .. $15 000 00
Surplus fund......... 3 000 00
Undivided profits, less cur¬
rent expenses, interest
and taxes paid..... 1 647 13
Individual deposits subject
to check,........ 18 563 83
Time certificates....... 8 118 51
Bills payable, including time
certificates representing
borrowed money, .. 27 500 00
TOTAL.............$73 829 47
State of Georgia, Newton County.
Before me came L H. Franklin,
cashier of the People’s Bank, who,
being duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is a true con¬
dition of said bank as shown by the
books of file in said bank.
L. H. FRANKLIN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 14th day of June, 1912.
B. D. JOHNSTON,
C. N. P., Newton Co.
REPORTER IS A HISTORIAN
No Other Is 80 True, and Few Are 80
Entertaining and 80
Useful.
A police reporter, indeed (or a pen¬
ny-a-liner, as he is sometimes, with
too much levity, styled), is the truest
historian of his age. And, as no other
histories are half so true, so few are
nearly so entertaining, or so use¬
ful, either, as those which he Indites;
there only have we the manners of
the time caught “living as they rise”—
served up, as It were, piping hot—and
human nature naturally delineated;
everywhere else it is dressed up, var¬
nished over, idealized, perhaps, or oth¬
erwise so metamorphosed or mysti¬
fied as hardly to be recognized for the
same thing that one is accustomed
to see and have to do with In its orig¬
inal condition of flesh and blood. Nay,
your penny-a-liner is not the great¬
est of historians merely, but the most
penetrating of philosophers, going to
the root of the matter, and the most
Instructive of poets and dramatists,
not only “high actions and high pas¬
sions best describing,” but low ones
quite as well. All this he is by rea¬
son of the matter-of-fact spirit in
which he works.
For this is hla distinction, that (to
the shame of literature it must be con
feBed) he Is the only description of
man of letters who is not in some sort,
as such, a systematic liar. All other
writers set themselves to embellish,
elevate, refine truth and Nature—
some have gone the length of main¬
taining that this falsification, this ly¬
ing, is the very soul and indispensable
essence of the poetical, in all its
forms; he alone takes down and com¬
municates what he hears and sees
simply as he hears and sees It—
“among the faithless, faithful ones he.”
THIEVES OF PARIS CAUGH1
Extraordinary Collection of Stolen
Property Found In Their Camp
In a Suburb.
The Paris police force made a re¬
markable haul at the suburb of Mon
treuil-sous-Bois. Eighteen men were
arrested, and an enormous heteroge¬
neous stock of stolen properly was
seized. The seizure was made in a
camp of amateurly constructed
houses, which was divided between
two gangs of thieves and apaches.
Most of the members belonged to the
chief band, commonly known as
“Boers,” owing to their houses being
known as “Transvaal City.”
Inquiries made by the police showed
that every Sunday morning the in¬
habitants of “Transvaal City” sold
stolen meat at 4d a pound, and or¬
ganized penny lotteries with prize?
such as clocks, stolen watches, bf
cycles and stores of preserved gro¬
ceries. The police seized a quantity
of harness, saddlery, bicycles, sewing
machines, typewriters, mattresses and
bedding, and in a newly plastered
celling they unearthed jewelry and
watches enough to stock two or three
Jewelers’ shops.
The information on which the police
acted was given by a poor woman
who had been kept in bondage by the
thieves in order to do their cooking
for them. Every one of them could
steal with both audacity and cunning,
but not one could as much as cook a
potato.
Latest In Newspapers.
The “animated newspaper” issued
by a French firm for display in mov¬
ing-picture establishments is said to
be the most costly newspaper issued
from the standpoint of the subscriber,
as one of these reels costs many dol¬
lars. These films are very popular
with a certain class of patrons of the
“movies.” They are edited in much
the same manner as the typical news¬
paper. A corps of operators is kept
ready and the editor is In constant
touch with many sources of news. As
soon as a promising tip reaches him,
the editor sends one, two or as many
men as he thinks necessary for the
purpose. Frequently the three films
are patched together to make one
Complete reel. Correspondents are
maintained at different points, and
these are assigned by telegraph to go
to certain points where their services
may be needed. Mine explosions and
railroad accidents are regarded as par¬
ticularly attractive features, and men
are sent at once to these whenever
they are reasonably accessible. Pic¬
tures of the debris and the work of
removal are always objects of interest
to patrons of the "movies.”
Catch Smelts by the Wagonload.
A great run of smelt is now going
up the Sandy river, the first one in
about eight years. The little fish are
to be seen in a solid column coming
from the Columbia river.
Hundreds of persons, attracted by
the sight, are catching the smelt in
dip nets and buckets and hauling them
away by the wagonload. Farmers are
coming In by the score every day from
every direction and from long dis¬
tances to get a supply of fish for pick¬
ling and smoking.
The run probably will last for sev¬
eral days, and then the season for the
smelt will close until next winter.—
Troutdale correspondence San Francis
00 Chronicle.
Trying to Decide.
“Hear you have a fine baby at your
house.”
“Yep; bouncing boy.”
“Who does he look likeT”
“Well, we haven’t quite decided yet
To tell the truth, none of our relatives
We have on sale a lot of La¬
dies Low Shoes that formerly
sold for 3, 3.50 and 4 dollars.
We do not claim that these
shoes are the very latest in
style, but at the price we are
selling them they are mighty
good bargains.
In this lot are patent, vici,
gun metal and velvet pumps.
LEE BROTHERS
Covington Ga.
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DR. T. U. SMITH, DENTIST
I have moved my Dental Offices to the
Swords building, where I will be glad to
all my friends and customers call.
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