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PAGE EIGHT.
NEWBORN NEWS NOTES.
Gathered by our Special Correspondent
Mrs. W. B. R. Pennington, of Cov¬
ington, has been visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gay.
Mrs. J. N. Stanton spent the day
Monday with her daughter, Mrs. Ru¬
fus Franklin, of Mansfield.
Miss Eugenia Davis, of Monticelo,
has been the guest of Mr_ and Mrs.
George Davis for some days.
Miss Mattie Fannie Cook, of the
Pine Grove community, spent the day
Sunday with the Misses Speir.
.Misses Mary and Nell Speer spent
last Sunday in the Pine Grove com¬
munity visiting Miss Della Robertson.
Mr. G T. Chandler is away from
home visiting friends and relatives
in the northeastern portion of the
state.
Mrs R. L. Christopher, of LaiGrange,
is spending the month at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R, C.
Patrick.
Miss C. B. Patrick is spending
the month with Miss Ruby Denny of
Bowman who was a visitor here last
summer.
Dr. Roy Murrelle, who recently
graduated from the Atlanta Dental
college, has located permanently at
Rutledge.
Miss Gene Carter, a popular mem¬
ber of Newborn’s youngre set, is
spending two weeks with friends in
Jonesboro.
Miss Mellie Pitts, who was elected
a delegate to the recent P' ilathea
Coonvention, has returned home after
a week’s absence.
Recent guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Olin Pitts were Miss Belle
Sassnett, of Hapeville, and Mrs. R.
L. Eubanks of Atlanta.
An attractive visitor of last week
was Miss Ruby Harwell, of Hayston,
who spent some days as the guest of
Miss Hattie Holcomb.e
Mrs. E. B. Nelson and young son,
Robert, accompanied Mr. Nelson to
Eatonton this week, attending the
Oxford District Conference.
Misses Mary Mitchell and Mary
Epps, who have been visiting the
Gate City, have returned home, to
the delight of a host of friends.
The funeral of the young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barker oc
cured last Monday at the old Slack
cemetery some four miles from here.
Mrs. G. W. H. Murrelle and daugh¬
ter, Miss Mary, recently spent two
weeks in the home of Mrs. Murrelle’s
father, Mr. Blassingame, of near Mon¬
roe.
Mrs. Rufus Smith and daughter,
Miss Mattie, of near Monticello, have
been guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Loyd during the recent
week.
Prof. J. W. Bagby of Montezuma,
N. €.. (the newly elected principal of
the Newborn High School, is expect¬
ed to pay a visit to this section in
August.
Another picnic was given among
the younger set on Wednesday in
honor of Miss Marguerite Porter, of
Social Circle, and other out of town
visitors.
Revival meetings are to begin at
the Methoidst church here on the
third Sunday in July. Dr. W. G. Cro
ley, of Oxford, is to assist the pastor
in the preaching.
Splendid progress is being made in
the erection of the new street lights
for our city. It will be only a short
while till we shall have a miniature
White Way all our own.
Mr. DeWitt Loyd, a recent student
of the State University, has gone to
For" Valley with a great number of
other university students tto engage
in packing Elberta peaches.
Mr. and Mrs. John Gay, with their
three children, Misses Eppie, Eloise
and Master Olin, of Atlanta, have
been spending some days with rela¬
tives Mrs. Mary Gay and Mr. and Mrs.
Olin Pitts.
Misses May Pitts and Mary Mitch¬
ell left Monday morning for Madison,
where they will be for some weeks
visiting. While there they will at¬
tend the house party given by Miss
Adrian TurnelL
Among those of our people who
have been sick recently, we mention
Mrs. R. C. Patrick and Mrs. Gene
Speer, both of whom have been ill
since our last letter. Mr. J. A. Al¬
len, whose health has been improving
somewhat during recent months, has
also been in feeble health again dur¬
ing recent weeks. All of these are
doing better now.
Several of our people are this week
in Eatonton attending the annual ses¬
sion of the Oxford District Conference
Among those who are gone are Revs.
T. M. Elliott, S. M. Holcombe and J.
T. Pitts and Messrs. E. B. Nelson
and H. G. Smith. Other delegates
from the Newborn charge who will
Eo axe Messrs. R. A. Rakes, A. C.
Belcher and Duffy Digby.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.
Last Monday evening was devoted
to the interests of the Tallulah Falls
Conservation Association. There gath¬
ered at the school house an audience
to hear the address of Miss Wenona
Bell on the subject, and also to en¬
joy the music of the Misses Carter.
All these ladies were from Gainesville
and impressed the people of this sec¬
tion with their earnestness in the
work +v >ey were engaged in. While
’ ere they claimed to have received
unusual encouragement in the enter¬
prise.
Josh Oshkosh, of Oskaloosa, our
esteemed friend and fellow citizen,
took great interest in the New’s
story of last week regarding the rare
half dollar in the possession of an¬
other citizen. Josh says as for him¬
self, most any half dollar is a rare
one for him. He hopes to be able
to see another one before very much
longer. The last one he saw certain¬
ly looked good, he says. The man
who owned the half dollar was good
enough to let Josh hold it in his
hands for a while.
One observation to be made among
the farmers this year is that more
forage crops ae being sown than in
many years. The wet spring and
high prices of stock feed may yet
prove to be a blessing in disguise to
our southern agriculturists, if it
should lead to our having corn crib
and hay rack in our own barns rath¬
er than in the middle west. We have
bought our corn and hay from those
farmers out there now so long that
the biggest half of them ride in au¬
tomobiles and use gas engines to
plow with, while our people ride in
$50 buggies and pull the plow line
over a jarhead.
Mr. W. E. Stowe, of this place, has
a half-dollar that is some older than
the one spoken of in the last week’s
paper. He has a half-dollar made in
1807, which is two years earlier than
the one of last week. Mr. Stowe’s
half-dollar is smooth edged with the
words “United States of America,
1807, Half Dollar,” engraved on the
edge instead of milling. This coin
has the thirteen stars arrayed about
the head of the woman, while the
words ‘“United States of Amerca”and
E Pluribus Unum are stamped on the
raised bars just over the eagle, which
has the American shield or escutcheon
for its breast, and carries in its tal¬
ons an olive twig and arrows. Be¬
neath the eagle are the letters, “50
C.” Mr. Stowe also has a dime piece
which is quite rare. This dime was
made in 1820. The dime has wording
and eagle and woman’s head similar
to the half dollar mentioned above.
Also Mr, Stowe has in his possession
a very valuable $10 bill which has
connected with it the extremely in¬
teresting story of how the American
eagle was made into a jackass in the
hands of a mad Englishman. We will
write of that next week.
Josh Oshkosh, from Oskaloosa, was
talking to the writer of these notes a
few days ago when his attention was
called to some fishing parties around
here. This reminded Josh of a fish¬
ing experience he had fifty years ago,
and which he related for us. We giv
it in his own words: “Some fifty
years ago, on a summer day, I was
out with my bow and arrow hunting
for deer. There was a plenty of
deer then, and we still used the bow
and arrow to hunt with. While walk¬
ing along a river bank I spied a deer
across the river. I drew my bow to
shoot, and the arrow was true to my
aim, for it pierced the deer’s heart
and went through his body and stuck
into a tree beyond. 1 had to swim
that river to get my venison meat.
As I swam across the stream a fish
got into my open shirt bosom. I
kept him in there, and when I
crawled out on the opposite bank and
carried the fish with me, he was
such a Large one that the river sank
two feet. I first killed the fish and
gave attention to the deer afterwards.
When the deer was skinned and ready
to be moved, I reached up to get
my arrow that was stuck in the trunk
of a dead tree. When I pulled the
arrow out of the tree I saw wild
v oney begin to run down. Not want¬
ing to lose the honey I reached
around to get a chunk to stop the
hole, when I picked up a full grown
rabbit. I threw the rabbit away in a
hurry, for the honey was running out
fast. I afterwards looked where I
threw the rabbit and found that when
I flung it away it had fallen in a
bunch of partridges and killed eleven
of them. I got buckets to catch the
honey and gathered six gallons of
that. I then cut open the fish to
clean it, when lo, and behold when
I opened its insides, I found thirteen
acres of hurt wood in there.” Josh
Oshkosh says the hunting was good
in those days, for he knows, as he
was on the grounds. A move is on
foot to put Josh in either the Ho
mossassa Fishing Club of the Anna
nias Club.
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Miss Clara Belle Adams and Messrs
Tom and Oliver Adams, of Coving¬
ton, are expected to come to New¬
born Thursday afternoon and take
prominent parts in the Philathea en¬
tertainment to be given that evening
at the church.
A Ujolly house party has been in
progress in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. T. Williams during the past week.
Young ladies present ait the party are
Misses Ruby Williams, of Eatonton;
Etheline Grant and Frances Montgom¬
ery, of Milledgeville.
Miss Mary Speir, so well and popu¬
larly known in Newton county, has
been retained as art teacher here for
another year. Those who are familial
with the excellence of Miss Speir s
art work are glad to have her as in¬
structor for another season.
A party consisting of Mrs. N. P.
Smith, Mrs. F. R. Porter, and Misses
Bessie Smith and Marguerite Porter
recently visited Dr. and Mrs. Lee Por
ter, at Rutledge. The party had the
misfortune to be water bound on ac¬
count of the heavy rains of the time.
Mr. Will Porter on last Friday gave
Lis valuable assistance to the Monti¬
cello baseball club in the game with
Madison. Several gaimes are sched¬
uled with other nearby teams in the
near future. Those on schedule are
with Monroe, Madison, Social Circle
and Monticello.
The services of gospel song at the
Methodist church Sunday night was
a complete success in every way, and
was greatly enjoyed by a large con¬
gregation of people. The pastor an¬
nounced that on another occasion a
similar song service would be held,
when only those songs over one hun¬
dred years old would be sung.
The following interested and inter¬
esting young men have been visitors
in our town during the last severail
days: Messrs. Perry Hays, of Mans¬
field, Walter Jones, of Starrsville;
Nat Trout, of Pennington, Wilbur J.
Harwell of Covington; Hugh Adams,
of Dixie; Joe Irby, of Covington, and
Lamar Pennington, of Milledgeville.
A picnic on Monday was enjoyed by
a large number of young people. The
affair was given in honor of several
visiting young ladies, Misses Ethelene
Grant and Frances Montgomery, of
Milledgeville, Ruby Harwell, of Hays¬
ton, and Robie Carter, of Gainesville.
Barbecued chickens and Brunswick
stew was the main bill of fare, to¬
gether with huge quantities of lemon¬
ade.
Social life has been in a whirl for
the past ten day. Some party or pic¬
nic has been on hand evry day, while
a social social gathering has been en¬
joyed each night. During the week
just passed social gatherings were
held at the following places; Monday
night at Mr. C T. Williams’ home;
Tuesday night at Mr. E. B. Nelsons’
home; Thursday night at the home
of Mr. G. M. Mitchell, and on Friday
night ait the home of Mr. J. W. Pitts.
During next week the entire town
will engage in mastering a new song
took that has just been purchased.
The new book has a big number of
entirely new songs in it, and the de¬
termination has been reached to mas¬
ter them all at once. So a week will
be devoted to the work. Prof. R. A.
Flakes, from Morgan county, has been
employed to assist in the undertak¬
ing. The already good music of the
town will no doubt be greatly im¬
proved.
A splendid entertainment is an¬
nounced for Thursday night of this
week, to be given by the members
of the Philathea class. Much inter¬
est is being given the work, and pro¬
mise is made for a rare treat for
those who may attend. Several of
our returned college girls will be en¬
listed in the rendering of the pro¬
gram. The Philathea Class here is
an unusually large one for this size
community, and is doing a great deal
of good.
Mr. Lewis Milton has just had his
home painted with a coat of white,
and is now having built one or two
additional rooms. Mr. George Davis
has recently had built on to his home
one or two rooms and also a spacious
veranda. Mr. Luke Stanton has late¬
ly rebuilt a negro house on his palce
where it was. burned during the win¬
ter just past. Mr, W. A. Aiken has
about completed the remodeling of
his residence in the western part of
the city.
Threshing wheat and oats is the
prime business of the day at this
writing. Several threshing machines
are touring the country and doing a
good business. However, the yield
of wheat is very unsatisfactory, while
the output of oats is fairly good.
One crop of wheat in mind, made on
eight acres, on which over $200.00
worth of cotton seed had been plow¬
ed under, made a yield of less than 75
bushels. The very wet May with the
consequent heavy rust that followed
are given as the causes of the bod
crop- i
Memory of Dr. P. Willson, Sr.
Whereas God in his divine wisdom
ha seen fit to call our Bro. P. Will
son, Sr., from among us that he might
appear before the Grand Master of
the Universe. Bro. Willson was one
of the oldest members of our lodge
and one of our most active members,
was true to his obligations and de¬
voted to Masonry, He was ever
ready and willing to assist a worthy
brother when in need of help. He
earnestly believed if he lived up to
the teachings of masonry and his ob¬
ligations he would be ready to an¬
swer the summons of the Grand Mas¬
ter of the Universe. Bro. Willson
was made a master mason during the
year of 1870, was elected worshipful
master of the lodge In 1886, and held
that office for a number of years.
Newborn lodge never had a more
faithful master; he was faithful in
his service and was true to his
fellow man.
Therefore, be it Resolved by New¬
born lodge No. 39, F. & A. M.,
First, That in the death of Bro.
Willson masonry lias sustained a
great loss which can only be com¬
pensated in part by perpetrating his
memory and striving with earnestness
to emulate his zeal, enthusiasm and
virtues as a man and mason.
Second, That to his beloved family
we tender our love and sympathy.
Third, That in recognition and ap¬
preciation of liis services in this
lodge and his noble influence in the
counsels of masonry that these reso¬
lutions be recorded by the lodge,
published in the county paper _and
Masonic Herald and a copy be fur¬
nished bis family.
J, T. PITTS,
G. W. H. MURRELL
C. M. GAY, Com.
Newborn, Ga., June 15th, 1912.
Resolutions on Death cf Dr. R. D.
Murrelle.
Whereas it has pleased our Heav¬
enly Father to take from us our be¬
loved brother, Dr R. D. Murrelle,
therefoe, be it,
Resolved, 1st, That Newborn Lodge
No. 39 F. & A. M. has sustained the
loss of one of its most faithful mem¬
bers, whose loss will be greatly felt
in our lodge.
Resolved, 2nd, That the sincere
sympathy oof the members of this
lodge be extended to the family in
this dark hour of bereavement. May
our Heavenly Father comfort and
sustain them in their sorrow.
Resolved, 3rd, That a copy of these
resolutions be sent the family, pub¬
lished in the county paper and Ma¬
sonic Herald and spread on the min¬
utes of the lodge.
J. T. PITTS,
A. J. STANTON,
C. M. GAY, Com.
Newborn, Ga., Mar. 1st, 1912.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
We have opened a Dairy Lunch
service in connection with the Ice
Cream business at our stand, and
appreciate having you call when in
town and need a lunch, we think you
will find here just about what you
want to appease the appetite, and
at a very small expense, and don’t
forget that we are still making Ice
Cream, Milk Shakes and Lemonade
just as good as they can be made.
Always call on us when hungry or
thirsty.
PARKER’S DAIRY LUNCH.
The library will be open during the
summer months from 4:30 to 6 p. m.
ELEANOR HAYS, Librarian,.
Farm Land and Town Property
If you want to buy farming land, town prop¬
erty or any kind of real estate or have any
to sell during the year 1912 1 will be glad
to handle it for you.
I will be glad to have you call and see
me at any time.
■ C. A HARWELL
■ Real Estate Covington, Ga.
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