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A j ie i it.s public school closes Friday
aiter a evry successful years work,
ine commencement exercises begin
i j.,,...’ evening at eight, o clock with a
musical recital by Mrs. J. L. Callaway
win oe preached Sunday at the usual
Hour at the Methodist church by Rev.
„oilji a. Gordon.
On Monday evening at eight o’clock
tin.* graduation class will present
Goldsmiths classic, “She Stoops to
Conquer.” Some excellent dramatic
talent has been discovered and develop¬
ed in tins class and the play promises
to i„> quite a success. On account of
the very heavy expenses incident to
the renting of costumes it will be nec¬
essary to charge a nominal admittion
y e e of ten or fifteen cents to this per¬
formance.
FOREST ADAIR IS THE
MOST TALKED OF MEN
Atlanta, Ga. In all parts of the
United States the hospitality of Atlanta
and Georgia and the South is being
lauded to the skies by Shriners who
have returned home after attending
the national convention here.
It may interview given to their
home papers, copies of which they
have forewarded to Atlanta, they de
dare that Forrest Adair is the great¬
est man in the world and Atlanta the
greatest city in the universe.
They have praise for the southern
hospitality, the Georgia cooking, the
beautiful Georgia girls infact their
enthusiam is all-eruUraced and knows
no bounds.
The good old Empire State of the
South has never before in its history
received such valuable nation-wide
"advertising” as it is getting from
these 30,000 Shriners, every one of
whome went away a “booster.
Figures show by tile way, that they
came in generous frhino of mind, and
that they spent $3,000,000 in Georgia
during the three or four days of their
-day within the state’s limits.
Mr. Adair the man who brought the
gathering to Atlanta, and who was
directelyin charge of thearrengements
ascribes tbe wonderful success of the
convention to the “Atlanta Spirit..”
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MRS. LIVINGSTON
DIED MONDAY
WIFE OF THE LATE CONGRESS
MAN L. F. LIVINGSTON DIED AT
IIEK HOME IN THE WESTERN
PART OF THE COUNTY
Mrs. Leon F. Livingston, wife of th
late Congressman L. F. Livingston,
died at her home in the western pait
of the county Monday morning at
ut uaaq pm pnq aqy qoop.o .uioj
very good health for sometime, but her
doaUh was unexpected. She was
eighty-eight years old.
Mrs. Livingston was born in Newton
(county and had lived here all her life.
She was a member of Bethany Presby¬
terian church near her home and was
a devoted member. The funeral was
held from there Tuesday afternoon at
three o’clock and the interment took
place in the family burying ground.
The surviving children of Mrs. Liv¬
ingston are Airs. J. W. King of West
Newton, Robert Livingston of Washing
ton, D. C., Messrs. Will and G. Q.
Livingston of West Newton, and one
sister, Miss Griffin.
The News with the friends of the
family sympathize with them In this
hour of grief.
DIFFERENCE IN COUNTY
UNIT AND MAJORITY VOTE.
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Atlanta, May. For the benefit of
Georgia voters who do not clearly uu
del-stand the difference between
county unit plan and the popular ma¬
jority plan of primary elections, the
following explanation is given, in view
of the wide discussion throughout the
state on the respective merits of the
two, and the possibility that the state
executive committee may change the
county unit system to the popular ma¬
jority.
The county unit plan means that
each county votes within itself as a
unit, and that the candidate winning
tbe election in that county shall send
twice as many delegates to the state
convention as the county has legisla¬
tive membership, and that this con¬
vention shall nominate the candidat
receiving a majority of all the dele¬
gate votes.
In the popular majority plan it is
purely a question of state-wide popu
lar vote. The candidate who gets the
most votes wins.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA May 20, 1914.
DR. C. E. OOWMAN
DIEO SATURDAY
j BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LATE
DEAN OF THEOLOGICAL DE¬
j PARTMENT OF EMORY COLLEGE
WHO DIED IN OXFORD SATUR¬
DAY.
Dr. Charles Edward Dowrnan, dean
of the theolgical department of Emory
College siuee its fouudatiou in 1911
died late Saturday afteruoou from
pneumonia and complication after a
short illness. He had returned Mon
day afternoon from a visit to Okla
homa City Okla., where he attended
some of the session of the Genera
Conference of the Methodist Episcopa
Church South, Which is now in session
His conditions became very serious
Saturday morning, and although slight
hope was entertained for his recovery
it was thought he would have survived
the disease had not complications set
in.
I)r. Dowmau was a power in South
ern Methodism and for almost forty
years he had been actively connected
with the church and its schools. He
graduated from Emory in 1873 with
the degree of bachelor of art , and
received his master’s degre in 1876
The honorary degree of doctor of div
"
inity . .. was confered „ on him in 1897
by the authorities of the college.
Immediately after Dr. Dowmau’s
graduation from Embry he entered
the ministry and has served in the
■ c.n-g.a and Florida conference. Hi
last pastorate was at Gainesville, Ga
He was president of Emory from 1898
to 190”, but previous to this office he
had beeu adjunct professor of lan
guages. In the latter eighties he
mathematics Weslyan —
taught at
male College. Macon, Ga.
I)r. Dowman has been a member of
three general conferences of the church
they being in the year 18S2, 1884, 1898.
The honored servant of the church
and his people, both in the ministry
and education, was born in Footscray,
Kent, England, on August 28, 1849.
When he was but five years old he
came to the United States and a few
years later entered Emory College as
a student and from that time has been
directly connected with the college.
lie was married to Miss Julia Ro
bina Muuroe, of Quincy, Fla., on Feb
nary 27, 1878, and is survived by his
wife. His only living child is Dr. C.
E. Dowtaan, Jr., a prominent surgeon
of Birmingham* Ala. A sfon-in-law,
Prof. J. P. Hanner, Is professor of
modern language in Emory College. j
No death in Oxford in late years
has so shocked the people and the
students of the college. It was gen
erally known that he was suffering
from a slight attack of lagiippe, but
it was only until Friday night that
became desperately ill.
Universally loved by a large con
course of friends throughout the
church, a keen sympathy goes out to
the church and college in the severe
and irreparable loss of Dr. Dowman. 1
In respect to his memory the two
concluding games in Emory’s baseball
schedule have been postponed. The
officials of the Emory track team
have called off the meet with Alercer
UniversRy which was to have beei
held Alonday afternoon in Alacon.
The funeral of Dr . Dowman wa
Church held from Monday the afternoon Allen at Memoria 4 o'clock, j
and was conducted by Rev. J. W.
Quillian,, presiding elder of the Ox¬
ford District, assisted by Rev. O. L.
Kelley, the resident pastor.
The interments took place in I
the Oxford Cemetary. The pallbear
ers were Dr. John F. Bonnell. Prof.
M. T. Peed. Prof. II. H. Stone, Dr.
H. Johnson, Dr. E. K. Turner, Dr.
W. F. Melton, all members of the
Emory College faoulity. Thehonorary
pallbearers will be Prof. G. I’. Shing
ler. Prof. J. B. Peebles, Dr. C. E. Boyd,
Dr. W. R. Jones, Prof. Douglas Rumble,
Prof. N. A. Goodyear, Prof. J. G. Stipe,
Prof. 1. E. McKellar, L. C. Gray, Hay
good Evans, Judge Capers
Judge ,T. T. Branham, F. M. Means,
D. T. Stone, Dr. Evans, and the mem
hers of Epsilon Chapter of the Kappa
Alpha fraternity of which Dr. Dowman
was a charter member of the Einory
chapter.
The pall of sadness has fallen over
REV. LOGAN ON
COMING REVIVAL
SETS FORTH HIS VIEWS ON THE
COMING MEETINGS AND ASKS
THE OTHER MINISTERS TO
OUTLINE THEIR PLANS.
As a result of a conference between
Bros. Gordon, Williams, and myself we
have decided to launch a revival cam¬
paign in Covington begining the 14th,
of June. We have not yet seen Bro.
Suiith, the pastor of North Covington,
but we hope he and his people will
join us in this work.
We are going to do something un¬
heard of in Covington. These meetings
are to be going on at all the different
ehuivhes at the same hour. This
lias *’ e< ‘ 11 successfully tried at
I),aees > ")?>’ may it not prove a
' ‘‘*' s our own town,
" e al 'e to secure no outside help,
' ;av t<» depend on the cooperation
x our own people and the presence of
Auauhtj God. It there is failure the
< a,|M * " 511 lie " *th ourselves and not
" il 11 t,UA D * vIne s P* rit - I can hear
1 sa ' ’ don t you get a
big " reacher from al ’™ad, we hear
you little fellows all the time." That’s
v. here tho trouble lies. We get the big
preacher, he comes, nohoops up the
people, they become hero worshipers 1
; a man instead of servers of God
and members of the Divine Kingdom,
The big man goes, theworked-up steam
evaporates, and our last state is worse
than the first. I mean to east no re
flei ti-m on an evangelist. He rnSiy be
a ( <>f God Rut T do know how casy
. t , g to become worshipers of men and
and bow at the shrine of an e i oqU ent
tongue and a fine physique. If the
g 0S j )f q which we pastors preach to the
people fails to touch thir souls I am
sure the gospel from any other source
will be just as powerless,
()ur towu is lu a fearful condition
spiritually. Interest in the things of
Gie S pi ld t alld the church of God is at
low ebb. I often hear remarks that we
i iaV e as good a moral people as you will
dud m0 st anywhere, but when it comes
to rea i spirituality the thing is “like
angles’ visits, few and far between.”
Gur mora j condition to a very great
ex { ent; results from the religious char
a( q er of our fathers and mothers. We
i iave ibiDed this naturally. We could
get this much from them without any ;
divine process. Alany of us have not
that spiritual integrity of character
which they possessed. Now the quest
i on is what are we going to transmit to
p, ir children? Little, if anything in
the way of Christian character. !
Alany of our leading people, both men
and women, seldom, if ever, attend
church.
Their children never go at all. W hat
are these children to be as a religious
force when they grow up? I do not
bke to be pessimistic, but as I see it,
in the not distant future a «iue of
debauchery and crime is going to .
sweep over Covington and its vicinity,
M religious information people
get they get from thepulpit About all
they read is the daily papers, and
light, trashy literature, none ofwhic-h j
makes pretention towards religious
matters.
We are living in a day when world
liness and amusement are sapping the
foundation of the church as never be¬
fore. We have yielded to outside
attractions till our God-consciousness
is almost obliterated. The following j
paragraph is take from the message of
Dr. William Bradfield, Fraternal Dele¬
gate from the British Conference of
the Wesleyan Methodist Church, to
our General Conference now in session
at Oklahoma City:—
“We are living in an Interesting
world. Never before were there so
many attractive things to think about.
so many beautiful thing to see and to
hear, so many desirable things to do.
And it is these lesser goods of life
that are filling the minds and hearts
of the people to-day till they forget
the supreme good. God’s own boun-J
t ! os seem to blind them to the light of
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the little village of Oxford and the
students of the college are saddened
because of the passing away of oe of
the foremost men in chirch and edu
cation. 1
GEO. W. CRABTREE
ON PRISON REFORM
LECTURED AT PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT TO A
PACKED HOUSE. WRITES CARD
ABOUT NEWTON COUNTY CAMP.
Before a large audience at the Pres
byterian shun h Sunday evening, Rev
Geo. W. Crabtree, prison evangelist of
the United Slates, stood to present the
conditions of Georgia prisons as he has
found them in the various counties hs
has visited. Air. Crabtree laid special
emphasns on the dangers arising from
the overcrowded conditions of the ma j
jority of the Georgia camps. He stated
that the spread of tuberculosis was
greatly aided by the foul and unsani¬
tary sleeping quarters of the convits.
lie also pleaded for more leniency on
the part of wardens and guards and
cited the fact that Texas, although
much larger than Georgia in point of
population and area had 3000 less con¬
vits camps and penitentiaries. He
gave as the cause for tills that Texas
wa* more humane in its treatment of
prisoners, thereby checking the in¬
crease of criminals instead of turning
its guard house into schools for crimi¬
nals.
His address aroused deep interest in
the cause he represents. The following
card to the iieople of Covington and
Newton county was written by Air.
Crabtree to set forth his view of the
prison conditions in this county.
As requested I take great pleasure
of making known to you au d the
general public the result of my invest
igations of the prison conditions of
your county. In the first place I find
that the county lias followed suit with
most all the other counties of the state
in buying the inhuman cage for your
unfortuueate prisons. These cages are
20 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 8 feet
high inside the sides are covered with
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canvass flapps and this cuts off all
J hopes of pure air. Sick prisoners and
well ones are confined together, con
sumpion 4s spreading at an alarming
rate among the negroes and they carry
this fearful disease and others, in the
prison with them and by this means
spreads it. Beside this the fact that
human beings are confined in so close
a space is in itself a thing almost un
believeable among a nation of Chris
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. Hiding one’s surplus funds in
•the ground, etc not alon endan¬
gers its safgers its safety but al¬
so works a serious disadvantage
on thecommunity as those funds
are needed for legitimate pur¬
poses by our merchants, farmers
manufacturers.
Deposit, your, money, here
where it will be SAFE, subject
to your check and still aid this
i ommunity in material develop¬
ment.
We direct your attention to
our last statement.
BANK OF COVINGTON
CAP!TAL*100.0DD. PKOF1TS*15.000
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MENTION THE NEWS, j
$i A Year In Advance.
COCO COLA CO.,
GIVES BARBECUE
BGTTLING PLANT AT CONYERS
GIVE GEORGIA BAKBECURE TO
RETAIL MERCHANTS OF FOUR
COUNTIES.—TWO HUNDRED
THERE.
One of the largest barbecues that
has been given m LUis section in the
past several years was enjojed last
i liursuay by two hundred retail mer¬
chants who handle bottle Coco Cola in
lloskdale, Newtou, Henry and DeKalb
counties, by the Cou, ers Coco Cola
Bottling Co.
The meats, pore, anu mutton, were
prepared and cooked by Air. Tom
Green of Mansfield, known the conutry
over as one of the best men that ever
barbecued a shoat Some twelve or
lifteeu carcasses were used and when
everyone had finished there was still
four whole carcasses left that had
not been touched. The stew was deli¬
cious. With the meats and Brunswick
stew, tomatoes, pickles and various
side dishes were served the crowds,
along with plenty of cold drinks for
everyone.
The crowds went there in automo¬
biles, buggiesand on the trains. Those
who went on the trains were carried
out in automobiles to the place, Chris
ian Springs, one mile from Conyers.
The host of the occasion, Mr. Guy
Alexander, tne manager of the Coco
Cola Co., is one of tiiuse rare chara
ters who knows just exactly what to
do and wheu to do it to make a crowd
enjoy themselves. To say that he
succeeded is only a mild way of put¬
ting it. Everybody that went enjoyed
the day to the fulest. Just before the
crowd dispersed iu iheafternoon, every
one of the large gathering took off
their hats and gave three loud cheers
to Guy Alexander and they were some
cheers. Then Tom Green was cheer¬
ed and the happy crowd left for their
homes.
LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN.
2 setter dogs, both black and white
one male and one female. Reward if
return to Robert Vining Covington
Ga.
Calomel! Calomel! get out of the
way and let LIV-VER-LAX do th
work. Ask at the City Pharmacy.
