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VOL. V. NO. 9
INTEREST .NCREASES IN THE GREAT
COVINGTON NEWS VOTING CONTEST
lominations Coming In Fast. Work Hard
And Win The $10.00 in Gold.
Plenty of Time to Enter.
i-HtS $400 PIANO IS WORTH THE
WORK THAT IT WILL TAKE
TO GET IT. GET ALL YOUR
FRIENDS TO HELP YOU.
Judging from the interest that has
sen manifested in the great Prize
feting contest so far, there is going
be a great scramble for the $10
gold that will ba given to the con¬
stant having the largest, number
votes on Feb. 27th, The special
is worth winning, and the con¬
its realize the fact.
That the contest is a success is an
ssured fact. There has never been
contest In this locality where more
better prizes have been offered, or
rhere there was more strict adher
ace, justice and equity to all par¬
ticipants. The News desires to em
jasize the point that every contes
lt will be afforded an absolute fair
The names, of the judges of the
ntest will be announced soon.
»ar in mind the merchants who are
vtng coupons with every dollar pur
When you trade at these
es be sure and ask for coupons,
very one little piece of paper bear-
25 Votes may win for some friend
yours the beautiful $400 Obey
yer & Son. Grand Plano.
■ff Get your friends to subscribe for
The News. For each one year new
| subscription you will receive 600
ites; renewals for one year, 500 votes
each one year back subscription,
votes.
here are already a iarg list of
testants, but there is opportunity
nominate others. Fill out the
mlnating blank and send it to this
I Klee. Also cut out the free vote
upon and cast it for your favorite,
i order that every contestant may
Illy understand the votes of this
on test the News wishes to state that
lecontestant having the largest num
»r of votes during the contest will
a awarded the piano as first prize,
HE PUT OFF
STARTING A
BANK ACCOUNT
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DON’T wait to start a bank
account. Don’t put it off, but
start today; and then you’ll
have something to look for¬
ward to—something to de¬
pend upon—something work¬
ing for you.
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We are Steadily Growing-Coma and 6row With us.
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the one having the next largest num¬
ber of votes will have first choice of
the other prizes. The third largest
will have her choice of the remaining
prizes, and so on until the prizes have
been distributed.
Use the free coupon in this issue.
If you know of any lady who has not
been nominated whom you think
would make a good race use the
nominating blank in this issue and
send her name to this office or .bring
it in person and it will be entered.
Any lady can enter, married or
single. This is a popular voting
contest—not necessarily a "young
lady" voting contest. Read the
rules and regulations on another
page and govern yourself according¬
ly. Some one is going to receive
these prizes and you can help de¬
cide who it will be.
First count in contest will be on
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1913 at which tiim
$10 in gold will be awarded to the
contestant receiving the largest num¬
ber of votes.
These are the names of the con¬
testants who have been nominated.
They are authorized to accept money
for subscriptions to the News and 1e
give a receipt therefor.
Get busy and vote for your choice.
The contest will be conducted square-
1> and no partiality will be shown to
anyone. Do it now and ' elp some
one reap the benefits of this liberal
offer.
The nominations so far made are
as follows:
Miss Pearl Vining, City.
Miss Mary Thompson, City.
Miss Rosalie Marbut, Almon.
Miss Ophelia Hays, Hayston.
Miss Nina Brooks, Porterdale.
Miss Lais Cowan, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Katie Belle Burnett, Almon.
Miss Grace Parks, City R.F.D.
Miss Dessa McLoy, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Jessie King, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Mary B. Thompson, Porterdak
Miss Ruth Boyd, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Pearl Gardner, Porterdale, rfd.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, Feb. 5, 1913.
Miss Robbie Gardner, Porterdale,rfd
Miss Frances Avery, Porterdale, rfd
Miss Ruby Cole, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Lucile Shaddox, Porterdale,rfd
Miss Ruth Cowan, Porterdale, rfd.
Mis® Florrie Aiken, City, rfd.
Mis® Sarah Griffin, City, rfd.
Miss Maggie Mask, City, rfd.
Miss Ruth Reynolds, City, rfd.
Miss Iver Yancey, City rfd.
Mis® Grace Banks, City rfd.
Miss Jewel Henderson, City, rfd.
Miss Sadie Harper, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Nina Ozburn, City, rfd.
Miss Robertine Belcher, Starrsville.
Miss Frances K. Corley, Starrsville.
Miss Ida Mann, Starrsville.
Miss Ethel Piper, Porterdale.
Miss Lurline Thompson, Port’dale,
Mis® Ida Loyd, Newborn.
Miss Chloe Murrelle, Newborn.
Miss Lillie Aaron, So. Circle, rfd.
Miss Ruth Euke iNewborn.
Miss Alice Thompson, City rfd.
Miss Mary Hicks, Porterdale, rfd.
Mrs. F. P. Harrison, City.
Miss Ella Ruth Hicks, Porterdale.
Mrs. P. L. Hill, City, rfd.
Miss Gracie Parker, City, rfd.
Miss Mellie Pitts, Newborn.
Miss Cora Lord, City, rfd.
Miss Maggie Cowan, Porterdale, rfd
Miss Mamie Reynolds, City, rfd.
Miss Sadie Ruth Beam, Oxford.
Miss Elizabeth Branham, Oxford.
Miss Ruth Hendeson, Oxford.
Miss Eva Boggus, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Irene George, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Mattie Lou Owens, City, rfd.
Miss Nina Bowden, Porterdale, rfd.
Miss Dorothy Lee, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Luna M. Ellingont, Oxford, rfd
Miss Grace Poole, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Annie B. Brooks, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Irene Boetwick, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Annie B. Byrd, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Adele Ellis, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Inez Womack, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Leona Cook, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Ruth Fuller, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Gertrude Hyatt, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Trixie Sockwell, Oxford, rfd.
Miss Jewel Lane, City rfd.
Miss Mary Reagan, City rfd.
Miss Mary Sue Ramsey, City, rfd.
Mis® Fannie Treadwell, City rfd.
Miss Lemma Biggers, Hayston.
Mis® Annie Dobbs, Hayston.
Miss Maggie Simons, City, rfd.
Miss Lois Hays, Hayston.
Miss Myrtle Estes, City rfd.
Miss Rosalind Adams, City, rfd.
Miss Tempie Adams, City rfd.
Miss Katherine Stowe, Newborn.
Miss Sarah Gay, New-born.
Miss Ola Adams, Newborn.
Miss F rnie Fillyaw, City, rfd.
Miss Louise Duke, Newborn.
Miss Carrie Beck Edwards, City,rfd
Miss Olyda Taylor, City, rfd.
Miss Grace Grant, City, rfd.
Miss Ruth Roberts, City, rfd.
Miss Elizabeth Elliott, Mansfield.
Miss Mary Lizzie Cook, Mansfield.
Miss L >7ie Lane, City, rfd.
Miss Myrtis Bagby, Mansfield.
Miss Sa:a;. Adams, So. Circle, rfd.
Miss Luiline Elliott, So. Circle, rfd.
Miss Gene Patrick, So Circle, rfd.
Miss Ellen Aaron, So. Circle, rfd.
Miss Lottie Darnell, City, rfd.
Miss Pauline Nash, City, rfd.
SEVERAL GEORGIA WOMEN
WILL ATTEND INAUGURATION.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4.—Not less than
half a dozen Atlanta women, and
probably a score or more from Geor¬
gia will take part in the spectacular
suffragette parade in Washington on
March 4th, which is going to be a
feature of the Wilson inauguration.
The suffragette movement, which
was regarded as a' joke so far as
Georgia and the southern states were
concerned a few years ago, is unde¬
niably making some headway. —not
much, but some. At least one wom¬
an out of every thousand is already
a convert to the suffragette move¬
ment, but fortunately for plate-glass
windows, mail boxes and public offi¬
cials none of them is yet militant..
ONLY ONE JAIL IN THE STATE
WHICH IS NOW EMPTY.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4, 1913.—Out of
the 146 county jails now standing in
Georgia, 145 harbor jail-birds, and
one cage is empty. The jail which
has the honor of not holding a single
Inmate is in McIntosh county. The
circumstance is so unusual that let¬
ters have been written from the cap¬
ital to McIntosh county officials con¬
gratulating them on the return of the
millineum in their territory.
An interesting fact, worthy of note
in every county in Georgia, is the
fact that the McIntosh people them¬
selves ascribe the emptiness of their
FARIT ATTENDIN6
THE NATIONAL SHOW
OLDEST MEMBER OF CORN CLUB
IN THE SOUTH IS A NEW¬
TON COUNTY BOY—HE
IS ATTENDING.
County School Superintendent J. O.
Martin, Hugh King, president of the
boys corn club of Newton county; W.
H. Ogletree and his son, Charles Og
letree, the oldest corn club member
in the south, left Monday afternoon
over the Georgia Railroad for Colum¬
bia, S. C., to attend the national corn
show in that city this week.
The corn industry in the South
is increasing materially every year,
and the corn clubs are the prime
li overs in the raising of this profitable
crop in Georgia. Newton county, as
is well known, as the first county in
the South to organize a corn club
among the boys of the rural schools.
In 1905 while Hon. G. C. Adams was
county school commissioner of the
county he organized and held the
first county show in the state or any
of the other states in the South. This
honor has been repeatedly claimed by
men in other sections of Georgia, and
in fact the agricultural college at
Athens, we understand, claims the
distinction. None of them, however,
have the proofs to back their claims
and, in fact, their efforts were made
at a later date. Newton county pos¬
sesses that honor and is proud of it.
Charles Ogletree of the western
part of Newton county was the first
boy to join the corn club organized
by Mr. Adams, and by reason of that
fact is the oldest member of any
corn club in the south. He will very
probably be shown considerale atten¬
tion at the national corn show this
week, as will also each of the other
men from this county who are in at¬
tendance.
At the recent state corn show held
in Atlanta, Newton county’s exhibit,
with its pennants and its historic in¬
formation, attracted more attention
than any other exhibit in the entire
hall.
NEW BAPTIST MINISTER HAS
MOVED TO COVINGTON.
Rev. H. W. Williams, the recently
called Baptist minister to this city,
arrived with his family last week ajnd
are at home at the pastorium. Rev.
Mr. Williams preached at the morninj
service Sunday, and his sermon was
enjoyed by all who heard him.
Sunday evening no services w r ere
held at the other churches of the city
but an union service was held at
the Baptist church for the purpose of
welcoming the new pastor to the city.
The service as very impressive, each
of the ministers extending a most
cordial welcome to Mr. Williams and
his family. A large congregation
was present at this service, notwith¬
standing the fact that it was raining.
The News joins the people of the
entire city in welcoming Rev. Mr.
Williams and his excellent family to
the city, and trusts that his stay with
us will be both pleasant and profit¬
able 3 n his work.
HONOR ROLL FOR ALMON
SCHOOL FOR JANUARY.
The general average of the follow¬
ing pupils for January was above 96.
The highest mark, ninety-six, was
made by Charlie T. Dobbs:
First Grade.—Ruth Burnette, Holly?
McCart, Robert Peek, James Raw¬
lings, Walter Rowland.
Second Grade.—J. T. Dobbs, Jewel
Nelms, Annie Lou Rice.
Third Grade.—Allie Belle Young.
Fourth Grade.—Edd Dobbs, Charlie
Dobbs, Ida Rowland.
Sixth Grade.—Willie Fannie Mar¬
but, Ruby Presley.
Seventh Grade.—Thomas Chap¬
man, Clyde. Young, Cecil Marbut, An¬
dy Dobbs.
Eighth Grade.—Oliver Young.
GET YOUR YARDS CLEANED
FOR THE GARBAGE WAGON
We are authorized to state that the
city’s drays will be at the service
of all citizens who will have their
garbage in barrels or boxes on the
3rd Saturday morning in January and
the 3rd Saturday in February.
MRS. J. E. PHILIPS,
MRS. H. D. TERRELL,
MRS. C. A. SOCKWELL.
jail to the fact that “pistol-toting”
has almost been abolished by giving
every convicted offender, white or
black, the limit of the law on the
chaingang.
FARMER RE-ELECTED
WARDEN OF CAMP.
HE HAS SERVED THE COUNTY
FOR NUMBER OF YEARS
AND WAS RE-ELECTED
BY COMMISSIONERS.
Mr S. V. Farmer, who has served
the county for the past several years
as warden of the convict camp, was
re-elected to that position Monday by
the board of commissioners of New¬
ton county.
Mr. Farmer’s administration of the
affai-s of his office have been en¬
tirely satisfactory to the board and hi
was warmly commended for the man¬
ner in hich he had handled the men
and the work under his charge. Mr.
W. C. McDonald, of Rockdale; Mr.
H. M. Speer, of Mmsfield; Mr. S. K.
Hensler of Walton were applicants for
the position of warden, but Mr. Far¬
mer was re-elected after a short ses¬
sion of the board.
The board met on Monday morning
and transacted some of its regular
business besides the election of the
warden. They met again today, Tues
day, and elected the assistant warden
and the road overseers for the dif¬
ferent districts of the county, and at¬
tended to the other business of the
county.
Chairman Wm. Boyd stated to one
of the editors of The News Monday
afternoon that the county would not
publish monthly statements of the
finances of the county this year, un¬
less the people demanded it. We do
not know how the majority of the
people feel about the reports being
published, but last year they were ea¬
gerly sought by our readers.
ALMON CLUB WILL RENDER
A PLAY FRIDAY NIGHT.
The membes of the Improvement
Club of Almon wish to announce that
there will be a play entitled "The Ole
Maids’ Club,” in the school building
Friday evening, February 7th. The
play will begin promptly ait 7 o’clock.
Price of admittance will be 15 cents
for adults and 10c for children. Ev¬
eryone cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. W. S Marbut, Pres.,
Miss Mary Dobbs, Seety.
Now Is a mighty good time to pay
that dollar you owe the News.
How Are
You Fix¬
ed For
Depositing your funds in a strong bank.
It not only reduces the risk of loss by fire
and burglary, but increases your credit
standing with the bank. This will in¬
crease the tendency to pay all bills by
check which is a permanent and accurate
record and insures proper payment to
proper persons. This bank gives the
same careful attention to the small de¬
positor as to the largest account on its
books.
The Bank of Covington.
Covington Georgia
CAPITAL - - $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits, $10,ooo.oo
We Invite Your Patronage.
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BARNEY JOHNSON
WENT TO ATLANTA
COVINGTON DAIRYMAN MEETS
“KING BEN," WITH HIS $4000
WALKING CANE AND IS
“SIZED-UP” PROPER.
Our esteemed friend Bonham L.
Johnson, who is conducting a dairy
farm just north of the city, is fre¬
quently being played up as the butt
of a joke, and it invariably terminate?
that the jokes always become known
to his friends. Some years ago he
was on the police f rce here and dur¬
ing that time some friends of his
sprung a huge joke on him; in fact
the joke has stayed with him. It has
something to do with a clock with a
little bird that came out and told off
the time; and even at this time, sev¬
eral years after the episode Barney
is still sensitive about it and if you
value your hide you will not imitate
the "cuckoo” in his presence.
The other day Barney went to At¬
lanta and while there, together with
Dr. Ben Yancey formerly of this city
and Mr. W. G. Biggres of Mansfield,
came in contact with “King Ben.”
Tbe latter is famous all over the
south for his burlesques, his huge
proportions and the $4,000 walking
cane he carries with him; also he
wears a belt worth one thousand dol¬
lars. Barney was examining the cane
and commenting on it when "King
Ben” asked him where he was from.
Now Barney evidently forgot for an
instance who he was talking to, foi*
right hot off the bat he replied, “Man
field.” “King Ben” gave him one
long look and laconically replied: “I
thought so; you do look green as
H—1! ”
Barney is undecided as yet whether
to take the joke as an insult or as
a reflection on the town. But those
who kno “King Ben” know that
the joke is on Barney.
SEVERAL POWER COMPANIES
WANT TO COME HERE.
We understand that more than one
of the big electric power companies
doing business in this section of the
state are seeking contracts with the
city of Covington to furnish it with
electricity for lighting and power pur¬
pose®. So far, however, the city has
made no contract.
