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PAGE EIGHT.
EVANGELISTIC SERVICES AT
THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
.
Prominent Minister and Singer Here
To Assist in The Services.
The series of meeting that were to
begin at the Baptist church Wednes¬
day evening, July 10th, will begin
next Sunday, July 7th, at 11 o’clock,
a. ni. The pastor has received a mes¬
sage from Evangelist Raleigh Wright
since announcement was made from
the pulpit Sunday morning, making
the change in date.
As Dr. Wright is well known in
Covington, it is not necessary to say
REV. RALEIGH WRIGHT,
Who will conduct the Evangelistic
services at First Baptist Church.
that he is a very forceful speaker.
He always commands large audiences
and meets with great success in his
work. One great secret of his pow¬
er is his belief in the Bible as the
Woid of God. He preaches the Bi¬
ble and presents its great teachings
in a clear and forceful manner. The
fact that be has been for so long a
time in the employ of the home mis¬
sion board of the Southern Baptist
Convention shows something of the
esteem in which he is held by the
Baptists of the South.
Mr. M J. Babbitt, who has been
assisting Dr. Wright in his work for
months, in leading the singing, will
be with him here to conduct the mu
MR. M. J. BABITT,
Who will conduct the Song Service
at the First Baptist Church.
sic. We confidently expect that this
will be one of the most attractive
feature? of the services. All who
can sing and are willing to help in
this way are invited to join the spe¬
cial chorus that will be under Mr.
Babbitt's direction.
Let all those Christians who really
desire a deep spiritual awakening
pray earnestly for the manifestation
ot God’s power in these services.
There will be services daily next
week at 8 o’clock in the morning and
at 8 o’clock at night. During the hot
weather the early hour has been
found to he much better both on the
speaker and on the people.
Come to the very first service next
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Dr.
Wright will preach at 8 in the even¬
ing, also.
M. P. JACKSON, Pastor.
COHEN PUTS ON HIS
ANNUAL SUMMER SALE.
He Announces That He Will Sell The
Goods Right Down at the Bottom.
Mr. Wolf Cohen, one of the leading
merchants of the city, announces in
today's issue of The News that he
will put on a gigantic sale of all the
seasonable goods at his store for ten
days, beginning on Friday, July 5th.
Mr. Cohen puts on a big sale every
summer and the people of the coun¬
ty all take the occasion as an event
of the season. He puts the price
down as low as it can be carried
and gives Ms patrons the opportunity
of buying at prices very unusual in a
town the size of Covington.
See his advertisement on another
page and visit his store during the
Ton Day Sale.
OLD-TIME SINGERS MEET
AT MOUNT MARIA CHURCH.
Many Leading “Fos Sa La” Singers
Gather For All-Day Singing.
Last (Sunday was the scene of one
of the most enjoyable days recently
spent by the prominent singers of the
‘‘old-time-way” at Mt. Maria church,
in the eastern portion of the county.
Many of the prominent leaders of the
Fos sa las were present and all took
part in the singing. Besides the peo¬
ple ot the county, many visitors at¬
tended and aided in the songs.
DR. EDWIN P. HALL DELIV
TWO LECTURES HERE.
Lecturer With National Reputation
Lectured at Christian Church.
Dr. Edwin P. Hall, a lecturer of
wide reputation, and one of the most
interesting talkers now on the plat¬
form, gave two very entertaining lec¬
tures at the Christian Church in
this city on Sunday afternoon and on
Monday night.
This is Dr. Hall’s second visit to
our city and quite a number of citi¬
zens were present to hear him on
this occasion.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY
MOVE INTO NEW QUARTERS.
Mr. D. A. Thompson Has Erected an
Office for The Company’s Use.
The Postal Telegraph company has
notified its local manager, Mr. W. S.
Scruggs, that telegraph rates from
Covington, Ga., to a number of points
wi'l be reduced from forty cents to
thirty cents for ten word messages,
and the rate for all words in excess
of ten reduced from three cents to
two cents each.
Manager Scruggs will soon have his
newo ffice, which is being built by Mr.
D. A. Thompson, and which will be
thoroughly equipped with new board
and furnishings, and he will be pre
pe ’ec to serve the public with the
fastest service obtainable.
Terrell-Bolles.
Tne marriage of Miss Madge Ter¬
rell, formerly of Covington, but now
of Miama, Fla, and Mr. George Char¬
les Bolles, of Miama, was a brilliant
beautiful social event taking
place last month at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Ghaille. in that city.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. W. W. Fanis, D. D., pastor of
the Presbyterian church, assisted by
Rev. John A. Wray, pastor of the
Baptist church. Mr and Mrs. Bolles
will make their home in Miami, where
they begin house-keeping at once in
the Chester apartment house.
Death of An Infant.
Coley, the infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Young, died at the home
of its parents on June 5th. He was
a bright child and the pride of his
young parents life. . The interment
took place at Corinth church, Rev.
1. L. Harris conducting the funeral.
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
By virtue of an order from the
Corrt of Ordinary of Newton county,
will he sold, at public outcry, on the
First Tuesday in August, 1912, ait the
court, house door in said county, be¬
tween the legal hours of sale, Five
Shares of Stock in the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company, of
the par value of One Hundred Dollars
each. Terms of sale—CASH.
GEO. T. WELLS, Executor
Of the estate of J. W. Anderson.
Something Hubby Didn’t Know.
Miss Elsie de Wolfe, “America’s
best dressed woman,” was talking
about the draped skirts of the new
fashions.
“I heard an Easter anecdote the
other day about these new skirts,” she
said.
“A young wife, at the Marlborough
Blenheim at Atlantic City, appeared
before her husband in a draped suit
of cream colored cloth, ready for the
boardwalk’s Easter parade.
“‘How do I look, George?’ she said,
“ ‘Fine.’
“ ‘But tell me, George, does my skirt
hang even all around?’
“‘Yes,’ said George, after a closs
look. ‘Yes, quite even.’
“‘Oh, dear!’ said she, 'then I’ll hav«
to go upstairs again. These new
draped skirts, you know, don’t hang
right if they hang even.’"
Woman Doctors in Siberia.
A number of Influential Siberians
are petitioning the Ministry of Educa,
tion in St. Petersburg to allow women
to be admitted to the medical faculty
in the University of Tobolsk. The pe¬
titioners point out that there is a
wide field for women doctors in Si¬
beria, where it is often difficult for
settlers to get medical aid.
There are many Mohammedans in
the country, and it is explained that
only women doctors can come to their
help in illness, as they do not permit
men to see their wives and daughters.
Many women have entered the medical
profession In' Russia proper, and
there are a great many women prac¬
ticing dentistry, a department of surg¬
ery which does not seem to have at
tractions for the English woman.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1912.
AT BIRTHPLACE OF DICKENS
Almost a Shrine, Where Many of the
Hurrying Crowds Pause to
Do Reverence.
A great signboard partly covers the
little house where Charles Dickens
was born. “Charles Dickens’ Birth¬
place,” It says, and all the hurrying
world entering old Portsmouth pauses
to look at it. The street, Commercial
read, might be a street In any large
rny, and the house is no alien edifice
in the vista of ugliness. A hundred
years ago the traffic may have been
quieter and the flowers In the front
gardens not quite so dusty—a century
leads us back such a very long road.
In the spring of 1812 we picture Mrs.
John Dickens, wife of the humble
clerk in the navy pay office, bringing
her baby boy—her first son—to the
small windows for a glimpse of tha
London stage coach bound for the
Portsmouth dockyard. Little did the
tired mother think as she held him
there that his life would one day af
feet some of the passengers on the
coach, the people who walked or rode
in the street, the thousands going
about their business In Portsmouth
and the tens of thousands upon thous
an^i all over the country. Whoever
made so many men laugh and weep as
Dickens? What pen has opened the
doors into as many lives? No heart
has every been closer to the facts ot
human life than that of the beard¬
less boy who shyly winked at his Sam
Weller and sent him forth with laugh
ter that was to blow Into a gale. Od
Weller’s footsteps they come, those
common and yet uncommon types he
drew forth from the bone and sinew
of Great Britain. The boy born in
Commercial road was to be the apos¬
tle of everyday people, and the multi¬
tude of tradesmen he wrote of would
make a trades’ directory.—The
Ladies’ World.
NEVER LACKED FOR SOLDIERS
How Japanese Forethought Supple
mented Military Skill In the Great
Struggle With Russia.
Brig. Gen. Robert K. Evans, says
the Army and Navy Journal, told of
meeting, jusl after the Russo-Japa¬
nese war, a friend who had been a
military attache with Oyama’s army
in the Manchurian campaign, and ar-k
ed him what had been the most strik¬
ing and noteworthy incident that
came to his notice during the war.
His reply was: “Without doubt it was
this: In the battle of Mukden I no¬
ticed a large body of troops on the
Held whose presence I could not ac¬
count for from any Information in my
possession, I rode over and inquired
who they were I was told, ‘These are
the reserves sent from Japan to lake
the places ol the men who will be
killed and wounded in the next great
battle.’ And there they were on the
Held while tie battle was going on.”
This is a me at Instructive incident,
thought General Evans. Here Oyama
lost in a greal battle a certain number
of thousands of men. The next day
they were all replaced by an equal
number of trained, instructed and
disciplined n,en. The army was ae
strong numerically as before the fight.
It had probably gained in efficiency by
the practical experience of the offi¬
cers and men who had been under fire
and still I’emained In ranks.
Turned Joke on Inspector.
This curious incident comes from
Suhr, Switzerland: An inspector of
schools, without any previous warn¬
ing, visited the village school and
found the elderly teacher asleep at
his desk and the children departed,
having apparently taken French leave.
To give the teacher a great surprise
and a bad quarter of an hour, the in¬
spector decided to wait until he
awoke, and seated himself on a bench
In front of the culprit. The hours
passed and the inspector himself
went to sleep The teacher, on awak¬
ening and seeing who was sleeping
before him, quietly left the school for
home. Without entering the school
room the concierge locked up the
school and the slumbering inspector.
Several hours later the concierge
heard a great noise and, arming him¬
self, opened the door, and was greatly
surprised to find the angry Inspector
before bim.
Locked Antlers in Glacier.
Mute evidence of a mortal combat
that may have occurred centuries ago
was revealed to J. K. Magnussen, a'
timber cruiser on the slspes of Mount
Baker, says the Portland Oregonian.
Lying in the lower edge of Roose¬
velt glacier were the crumbling bones
of a buck deer of more than ordinary
size. Digging down into the ice the
cruiser uncovered the remains of a
second animal, the body In an excel¬
lent state of preservation. The ant¬
lers of the animals were tightly in¬
terlocked, showing that the deer had
died in battle.
From the position ot the skeleton
and the body in the glacier, Magnus¬
sen is of the opinion that they had
been carried a long distance doHm the
mountain side. As the glacier flows
only four or five inches a day the bat¬
tle of the bucks may have occurred
centuries ago.
Wily Will.
“Didn’t you think that was a beauti¬
ful girl with me today. Will?”
“What girl, my dearest?"
“Why she was with me when you
met us outside the church.”
“Was there a girl there, dear? I
didn’t notice. I was looking at you.”
And then she loved him all thm
incra
Farm Land and Town
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.
to a
MAKES NIGHT CLERK NERVOUS
Weird 8tor|es Told by Guests in Early
Morning Hours Prove a Lit
tie Disconcerting.
“Sometimes the night clerk’s job
has Its drawbacks,” remarked the tall,
thin man behind the desk at the hotel.
“These weird tales that guests will
tell In the still night”—he went on,
“they’re one thing that makes a fellow
wish there were more people around.
“One night about 2 o'clock, a guest
came up to the desk and spent an hour
telling me earnestly about the black
cat that had been sitting on the foot
of his bed. As he talked I noticed the
fellow had a queer look in his eye.
“A black cat’s nothing but a black
cat, but somehow a fellow doesn’t
want to hear much about ’em in the
middle of the night from a nervous
man with a queer look in his eye. This
man said that the cat came in when
the waiter brought his dinner up to
the room. Then the cat took a chair
at the table opposite him, he said, and
tucked a napkin under its chin.
" ‘I asked it if it didn’t want some¬
thing to eat,’ the man added, ‘but it
said it didn’t—politest cat I ever saw.’
“Great line of talk, wasn’t it?
“Then he started in to direct a lot
of men building a skyscrapper there
in the lobby. I couldn’t see the sky
scrapper, but he did. He had a force
of about 400 men hoisting stone and
steel, and he bossed the job.”
WHEN THE STOMACH CALLS
Feeling Which Common Humanity
Knows as Hunger Is Explained
Fully by the Scientist.
The answer looks easy. Any small
boy, schoolboy or other, would say,
“Why, hunger is just wanting some¬
thing to eat and wanting it bad.” But
the doctors find that it isn’t so easy.
It seems, according to an ex-cathe¬
dra utterance in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, that
emptiness of the stomach has nothing
to do with hunger. It is not due
to the secretion of any sort of acid
in the stomach, nor to congestion of
the gastric glands. Professor Cannon,
in this article in the Journal aforesaid,
attributes hunger to contractions of
the stomach’s muscular walls. In the
doctor’s words: "Hunger is normally
the signal that the stomach is con¬
tracted for action; the unpleasantness
of hunger leads to eating; eating
starts gastric secretion, distends the
contracted organ, initiates the move¬
ments of gastric digestion and abol¬
ishes the sensation.” Here’s to the
abolition of the sensation; may there
always be something with which to
“start the gastric secretion!”
Telephones In Indian Homes.
It is a far cry from the old prairie
signal fire of the red man to the elec-t
trie transmitter, but many of the!
rough homes of the Osage Indians
n Oklahoma are equipped with tele¬
phones, and the owners enjoy their
use immensely.
A telephone agent enlisted the in
erest of Chief White Eagle in the
trange little box and wires, and soon
he warrior’s home was connected
Vith "central.” It was some time be
ore his fellow tribesmen gave‘appro¬
val to his recourse to the white man’s
nvention, but finally, perceiving the
ime, travel and trouble saved him
by its use, they filed solemnly into
the telephone headquarters with or¬
ders for installation In their own
homes.
Epworth League Leases a Farm.
Sioux Falls, S. D.—The members of
the Epworth league in the village of
Roswell, Miner county, have leased
twenty-seven acres of land on a farm
near Roswell and will cultivate it this
season for the benefit of the league.
New Racket Store
Spot Cash! One Price! BIG VALUES!
SPECIAL BARGAIN IN CLOTHING
Have few two piece suits blue serge to
close out beautiful goods and I consider
great bargains come before your size
sold.
Yours Very Truly
GUINN
NOTICE
Now is the time to have your
walks laid. I can lay your
short notice at a reasonable
and will guarantee you a first
job in every respect.
I am also making ccrrrnt caps for covering brick walls.
COVING!ON TILE WORKS
Z R. WILSON Mgr.
At Milner’s Lumber Yard.
Model N. Ford
For Sale. Car is in good condition
price reasonable.
WICK PORTER, Porterdale,
Houses For Rent
Two nice 5 room houses
1 4 room house, all con¬
veniences, close in, very
reasonable rent. Apply
D. A. THOMPSON
Covington, Ga.
