That P!e*V~
Lon. at The News 0..
NO. 29
national holiday
TO BE OBSERVED
Lwton Eb«ate.-stores COUNTY people in cov. WILL
r^GTON TO CLOSG.-EX- oak HILL.
E RCISES at
“jSSUt* of Newton counity are
watloM Holloas
P [r'sectional lns Kefore. There was a time
. south
pride kept the
L?time Lbrating this holiday, and South but
is P^- North
t now celebrating other the memory Revo
rwastoington and the
fcier'Sm * their of Covington stores in order have
Kr to close a^hatrne
clerks uill Lave
[‘toy LIU the holiday. told barbecufe Several and or
will
S.V i largest Hill. celebration For the part will
Lairs at oak Newton
the people ot
have been gathering togeth
lty Tabanackle to observe the
t the for twenty
Col Lon Livingston,
congressman from this dte
years responsible for the establish
was Fourth of JJuly
of the Oak Hill
nation. He felt that the peo
were narrowing their patriotism
etting their natural anomosity for
north keep them from celebrating
sion. thousands
. past several years
e have gathered at Oak Hill
exercises. The present out
iicates that the attendance
x will be larger than ever,
gram follows:
.. m. Song—Coronation,
r—Rev. M. B. Sams.
-Jesus, Lover of My Soul,
une Address—Olin Hooper,
nse—Carlyle Davie.
-How Firm a Foundation,
and recitations by the follow
t.
idress—Dr. J. W. Quillian.
loxology.
sion one and one-half hours
irth of July Address —Judge J.
nt, Griffin, Ga.
sic.
merous Readings—Miss Daisy
Directress of Expression, Me-
1 College; .Miss Lucy Pace, Jack
Ga„ T. G. Hicks, Oak Hill, Ga.
j Get our prices on Job Printing.
Even A Dog Saves
Why Don’t You
start k BANK
ACCOUNT
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tv
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a ac¬
count?
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1 ls a natural instinct with living
Clea h° does every
son to ; e w something not perish with a sea=
save for a time of need.
aving is one natural instinct which every
ne ihd follow. Civilization provides
. 6 , an k’ a better place for saving that na
has ever provided. Why don’t you
! account today?
™ST NATIONAL BANK.
J , -""I Growiig-Ctmia
and Grow With us.
Cooinaton
MR. TOM BRYANS'
DIED SATURDAY.
HAD BEEN ILL FOR THE PAST
SEVERAL WEEKS AND HIS
DEATH WAS NOT UN¬
EXPECTED.
Mr. Tom Bryane, a brother of Mrs.
R. W. Huson died at her home here
Saturday morning after an illness of
several months. He had been .serious
ly ill for the past three weeks with
a stomach, trouble.
Mr. Bryans home was in Conyers and
lie was on a visit here. He was
taken violently ill soon after his arri¬
val here to visit his sister and was
never veil enough since the attack
to make the trip back home. He
was! fifty-two years old and leaves a
wife and one daughter, Miss Allene
both of Conyers Mr. Bryans was a
Mason and was buried with Masonic
honors by the Conyers lodge. He hac
many fi lends in Covington and New¬
ton county where he had 1 vvisited on
many occasions.
His remains' were carried to Con¬
yers Sunday morning and the funeral
took place there at ten o’clock at
ihe Methodist church,' Rev. Kelly, th*
pastor preaching his funeral and the
Masons taking charge of the body for
interment.
NOTICE.
Owners of Cattle wishing to cross
the ’ine into Newton county will
please give ten days notice to the
undersigned,
HENRY ODUM,
State Inspector Newton County.
Going to Sell Buggies.
Mr. E Almand, of Social Circle, is
carrying an advertisement in this Is¬
sue of The News. Mr. Almand says
that he is going to sell more buggies,
wagons and harness in the next nine¬
ty days than anybody in this section
or the state. Mr. Almand is formerly
of this county, being president of the
Almand Supply Company, of Mansfiel
He is a live wire in business and wll
no doubt sell theg oods in this sale.
Tenant House Burns.
A four room tenant house on th*
plantation of Mr. Ed Martin was de¬
stroyed by fire Thursday afternoon.
The house was occupied by a negro
tenant of Mr. Martin and caught from
the sotve flue. Practically all of the
house furnishings were saved.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, July 2, 19J3.
PROMINENT EDUCATORS
IN NE WSPAP ER SCRAP
“I Have No Malice in My Heart Even
Towards Those Whose Views are
Not Mine” says Dr. Melton
'Enrollment of 259 the lowest at
Emery within last few years.” With
the caption above, the Consti¬
tution published Sunday, June 15, the
following letter from President Joe.
E. IDickey, of Emory College, and the
editorial statement appended to his
letter.
Editor Constitution; In your issue
of June 11, under the caption of “In¬
tercollegiate Sports Banned by One
Vote,” your correspondent states that
“The attendance at the college has
dropped from over 300 to slightly over
200 within the past few years.”
The facts are as follows;
Enrolment for 1907-1908 .... 265
Enrollment for 1908-1909 .... 270
Enrollment for 1909-1910 .... 313
Enrollment for 1910-1911 .... 297
Enrollment for 1911-1912 .... 259
Enrollment for 1912-1913.....267
The following statement, I presume,
will cover the “last few years.” Your
correspondent in Oxford had every
opportunity of knowing the truth
The information was easily accessible
to him. There has not been any time
“within the last few years" when the
enrollment has been slightly over 200,
It is hard to understand, therefore,
how there can be but one of two ex¬
planations; namely, either stupidity
or malice
JAMES E. DICKEY,
President Emory College.
Oxford, Ga., June 14, 1913.
The Constitution gladly gives pub¬
lication to the above communication
from President James E. Dickey, of
Emory College. The report referred
to was taken at the Constitution
office over the long distance tele¬
phone, and the error as corrected by
Dr. Dickey was evidently due to some
misunderstanding on the part of the
editor receiving the report.
The Constitution having explained
that their Oxford correspondent was
not responsible for the statement to
which President Dickey objected, the
Newton county readers of The Const!
tution, watched their paper, through¬
out the week believing that the se
x-ious charge of “stupidity or malice”
would be withdrawn. The charge
was not withdrawn, and no statement
explanation, or apology appeared.
On Sunday, June 22, The Constitu¬
tion carried the following letter from
Dr. Melton, with the editorial state¬
ment following it:
Dr. Melton Replies to Dr. Dickey’s
Charge of “Stupidity or Malice”
Editor Constitution; The students
of Emory college, and a few other
people, know that I am the local cor¬
respondent of the Constitution. W here
I first heard of (Dr. Dickey’s charge
of “either stupidity or malice,” 1
thought perhaps he was striking in
the dark. Later, I remembered hav¬
ing telephoned him during commen¬
cement for information for The Con
stituiton.
What I did do was to phone The
Constitution the result of the vote of
the trustees on the subject, intercol¬
legiate athletics. The reference to the
attendance, not the “enrollment,” was
supplied by someone familiar with the
letter sent out, some weeks before,
by the students’ Committee. Extracts
form that letter concerning the num¬
ber of students in the college at the
time were published in both The Con¬
stitution and the Journal, unchaleng«c
If I am stupid, it probably grows
out of the fact that I believe in a lim¬
ited amount of intercollegiate ath¬
letics, with proper faculty surveillance
would help Emory college.
As for malice, if I am acquainted
with my own heart, I haven’t a bit of
it, not even toward those w-hose
views differ from mine.
As for Emory college, there is no
greater school in southern Methodism
It is my deliberate opinion that no
Sacrad Harp Singing.
The Ocmulgee Sacred Harp Musi¬
cal Association .will hold its next an¬
nual session hre on the 12th and 13th
of July at the School Auditorium.
We invite all who would take part
with us to come. We also ask the
good people of Covington to help en¬
tertain the singers Saturday night.
All that will take one or two people
please let it be known at the Audito¬
rium Saturday before we leave, so
that all will have a place to stay
that night. Or If you prefer let Dr.
college in Georgia Is doing better
work. 1 am not alarmed over the at¬
tendance, or the enrollment, for, with
our present teaching force, in some
departments, we have as many stu¬
dents as we can handle to the best
advantage.
WIGHTMAN F. MELTON,
Professor of English, Emory College.
Attendance Referred To.
In the letter written to The Con¬
stitution by President James E.
Dickey, to which (Dr. Melton refers to
brand the statement that "tae aiiend
ance has dropped within the past few
years from over 300 to slightly over
200,” as based upon either malice or
stupidity, and submitted figures on
the college enrollment running back
to 1907-08.
His figures were as foollows:
Enrollment for 1907-08 .... 265
Enrollment for 1908-09 .... 270
Enrollment for 1909-10 .... 313
Enrollment for 1910-11 .... 297
Enrolment for 1911-12 . ... 259
Enrollment for 1912-13 .... 267
About six weeks before the close
of the past collegiate year the iinter¬
collegiate emomittee of the student
body sent out letters to the trustees
the faculty and all alumni whose ad
aressee were known, in which the
statement was made that the atend
ance at the college at the time was
barely over 200, and as a remedy for
this, a system of intercollegiate ath¬
letics was asked.
It was upon this letter,a copy of
which was mailed to President Dickej
that the statement in the Consiuion
was based. The letter had been pre¬
viously published in the Constitution
and other papers.
The students did not name this
H-e enrollment of the college, but
the actual attendance, and they
that there were at that time 214
in the college, of whom nineteen wer<
n b-freslimen, four post-graduates and
several theological students not in
the regular college classes.
The statement in the Constltuien’s
report about the decrease in number
of the student body was not based
upon the enrollment for the collegiate
year of 1912-13, but upon unchal¬
lenged figures of the actual attend¬
ance at the college near the close of
the year
The Covington News ls a great
friend to the college in our neighbor¬
ing village, and it has the highest re¬
gards for the cultured gentlemen com
posing its faculty. It regrets, how¬
ever, that such a severe charge as
“stupidity or malice,” should have
been made against a newspaper cor¬
respondent, when merely correcting
what was thought to be an error. It
regrets, further, that the charge “was
i ot immediatey withdrawn, when the
editor of the Constitution explained
that the statement objected to was
no'. made by the correspondent.
What The Covington News wants
is more cordial relation between Em¬
ory college and the public schools of
Newton County, and more Newton
county boys in the college.
We are not going into hysterics
over intercollegiate athletics, eibter
on one side or the other, but a clean
intercollegiate game would be better
than the all-Emory football team slip¬
ping off, under hte name of Palmer
Institute, and playing the Monroe
High School while Emory is in ses¬
sion.
Let us all get together and puli for
Emory college. For over three-quar¬
ters of a century it has been in our
midst. Nwton county boys, educated
at Emory College, are to be found
here and there, all over the United
States, occupying positions of prom¬
inence and responsibility in the edu
cational,civil and ecclesiastical world.
S W. Everett know how many you
will take and he will assign them to
homes. The dinner will be a basket
spread, and everybody is expected to
bring a well filled basket. Don’t for¬
get that we want everybody to come
out and help sing the good old songs
of our fathers.
DR. S. Vt EVERETT, Pres
JOHN C. HAYS, Sec.
LOST—RAT TERRIER DOG, BLACK
and has bob tail. Reward if return¬
ed to the Covington Cafe.
HOW TO GET RID
OF THE CATTLE TICK
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TELLS HOW TO GET THESE
PESTS FROM YOUR
PASTURES.
There are four practical methods
that may be employed in the freeing
cattle and pastures of Texas fever
ticks: (1) Picking and brushing' off
the ticks; (2) smearing or spraying
the animals with a disinfecting solu¬
tion; (3)^ dipping the “ticky” animals
in a vat containing' a solution capa¬
ble of killing the ticks without in¬
jury to the cattle; (4) a systematic
pasture rotation whereby the ticks are
eliminated by changing the cattle to
one pasture after another, allowing
the ticks to drop off, and preventing
new ticks from getting on the cat
tie.
In sections where there are large
herds, ranches, dipping or spraying
on a large scale has been successfully
carried out, eibter alone or 4n con¬
junction with pasture rotation while
in other secetions, where the cattle
cn farms consists of only a few
head, hand dressing with arsenical so¬
lution has been found to be the most
practical plan. The methods above
suggested, therefore, apjMy to dffer
ent sections of the country, and the
3tockman or the farmer should select
the one which is best suited ! to his
partcular case.
P-ekng or Brushing off the Ticks.
Where the herd is small the
may be picked off by hand or
off wth a dull knife or
This should be done at least
times a week in order to remove
the large ticks before they
and fall off, as by this system
smaller ticks which at first escape de
tcction will be found before they
fully developed. After removal
ticks should be destroyed,
ty burning. Care should be taken
go over the animals thoroughly,
after once going over they should
be neglected, as ticks may be
up from time to time. If this work
thoroughly done and no tick
to fall off and lay eggs from June
to the end of November, the
will assist in preventing the
tures clean.
Smearng or Spraying.
Sprayng the animals all
thoroughly with Arsenical
will assist in preventing the
from getting upon thhem and destroy
the ticks already on them This
method is practicable when only a
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COTTON NOT KING
IN NEWTON COUNTY
LOCAL FARMERS ARE TURNING
TO OTHER CROPS FOR MON¬
EY MAKERS. COTTON SIDE
ISSUE.
Newton county farmers are begin¬
ning to wake up to the fact that a
farmer cannot make a living selling
cotton at 10 cents When it costs 11
cents to produce it. They are not
running their farms for any philan
phropic purposes, but for personal
gain. As a result of this they are
planting less cotton, every year and
more oats, corn, sorgum, etc. Not
only are they planting other crops but
they are raising their own n^ats and
horses.
Mr. L. W. Jarman who lives in the
western part of the county has finish¬
ed harvesting his oat crop and has
nearly all the crop thrashed. Mr.
Jarman sowed 55 acres in oats last
fall and his yield is something over
three thousand bushels and the en¬
tire crop was sold to the H. IG.
Hastings Seed Company for seed oats
another season. The price paid Mr.
Jarman was something like $2000.00
for the lot. At this rate the oat
crop alone would be worth as much
as the cotton crop and the oat land
can be followed with peas and make
another crop that will be very valua¬
ble. Mr. Jarman is one of the best
farmers in Newton county and one of
the very few that does not depend
cn cotton for his money crop. He
raises cattle, hogs and horses and the
cotton crop with him is a side issue.
He is one of the best known breeders
of Berkshire hogs in the south and
is building a reputation with Perche
i-on horses. He has demonstrated the
fact that a man can make more
money on Newton county land by not
depending on the cotton crop.
■ ♦«
lyric Pioqram.
The management of the Lyric has
billed a programme for the remainder
of this week that is sure to please its
patrons. The feature of the list comes
Friday when a three reel Reliance
finn “The Bawlerout” will be thrown
on the screen.
The programme is:
Wednesday—K. B. Will ’o The
Wisp. (Two reels). Mutual Weekly.
Thursday—American. Calamity An
lie's Trust. Rel. The Woman’s Ha¬
ter’s Deceit. Maj. Not For Mine.
Friday—Reliance. The Bawlerbut
(Three reels.)
Saturday—Keys. New Conductor.
His Chum The Baron. Than. The
Girl Detective’s Ruse. Maj. Whim of
Destiny.
