The Covington news. (Covington, Ga.) 1908-current, July 03, 1912, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8
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.