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VOL. VH NO. 2.
TICKET handeo us
FOR THE COUNCIL
THESE men have agreed to
serve, so we are informed
BV a delegation of citizens
OF THE CITY.
The following ticket has been hand
(,,1 us for the three members of the ci
tY eoU11 ciL to he elected the third Mon¬
day in December to take the place of
Messrs. .!. T. Swann, R. A. Norris and
tV Cohen, whose times expire and they
Ivill not offer for re-election.
The three men’s names were handed
ns | 1V a delegation of citizens and is
comiiosed of the following: Messrs. W.
A .Adams. II. L». Terrell and F. E.
Heard. Their announcement is au¬
thorized by the citizens bringing in
their names.
The three me mentioned are all good,
conservative business men and would
no doubt make the city three good of¬
ficials.
Xo other announcements are in for
members of the council, though a num
her of prominent men have been men¬
tioned.
If Col, ('. C. King and Mr. T. G. Cal¬
laway decide to allow the use of their
names for re-election to t lie school
hoard it is not likely that they will be
opposed.
MRS. R. J .TERRELL DIED
AT FLOTILLA THURSDAY.
Mrs. It. .J. Terrell, mother of Mr. H.
1). Terrell of Covington died at her
home in Florida last Thursday, after
an illness of short duration. The fu¬
neral and interment took place at Flo¬
rida Friday.
Mrs. Terrell was well know and lov¬
ed by a large number of people of
Newton county. She is survived by
four sons and one daughter and other
relatives. The sons are Messrs. J. W.
Terrell, of Flovilla; H. D. Terrell of
Covington; It. \V. Terrell of Tifton and
\. J. Terrell of Atlanta and Min. K. J.
Camming of Flovilla.
CITY TAX NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that
City Taxes must be paid at once,
or executions will be issued.
By order of the Council
Dec. 7th, 1914.
K. E. EVERITT, Mayor,
T. J. SHIELDS, Clerk.
COVINGTON, GA.
-apital & Surplus $60,000.00
J residen N. Z. Anderson
Dies., E. W. Fowler, W. B.
R. Pennington.
'ash'er p. j. Rogers
Ptff cent. Interest on Time
Deposits.
A TRIP ’ROUND THE EARTH
Is Started by a Single Step.
The Building of a Sky Scraper
BANK By Laying the First Brick
IS ORGANIZED
under AND THE STARTING
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laws § By the Deposit
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
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SUPERIOR COURT
JURORS FOR JAN.
grand and traverse jurors
THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN FOR
THE JANUARY TERM OF NEW¬
TON SUPERIOR COURT.
The following have been drawn for
the January term of Newton Superior
Court as Grand Jurors.
A. J. Stanton. N. P. Sinith
N. P. Potts F. M. Oliver
It. E. Everitt C. M. Gay
Wi P. Odum J. S. Chestnut
W. B. Livingston 1>. A. Thompson J
1>. B. Crowell P. T. Dyer
F. Ozburn W. G. Biggers
It. A. Norris T. G. Aiken
J. W. F. Park J. Rog. Cowan
T. W. Heard E. E. Lunsford
J. J. Kitchens D. T. Stone
E. W. Adams It. H. Cowan
W. L. Gibson I). M. Gibbs
J. P. Longshore E. XV. Fowler
Leonidas Loyd I. N. Vaughn
The following are the Traverse Jn
rors for this term of court:
J. M. Potts C. D. Terrell
.T. T. Morgan H. I). Bush
W. C, Pope B. F. Reed
E. H. Mobley H. G. Smith
It. L. Middlebrook H. H. Skinner
J. E. Phillips C. T. Lunmius
E. M. Pi]K*r J. L. Skinner
W. II. Lamb W. A. Skinner
O. I*. Owens N. Steadliain
A. T. Peek C. C. Brooks
A. S. Murray It. L. Brown
H. B. McDonald J. S. McCord
W. H. Odum E. o. Aiken
It. O. Usher C. E. Sullivan
J. F. Henderson J. It. McCord
I. N. Smith G. M. Mitchell
H. B. Thacker H. D. Terrell
J. B. Terrell W. G. Hays
RURAL SCHOOLS TO HAVE
TEN DAYS CHRISTMAS.
The Baaed of Education met in regu¬
lar session Monday and among other
things set the date for the closing of
the rural sehols for the Clirismas hol¬
idays. The schools will close on the
2.‘!rd of Decern her and begin work on
te 4th of January.
An effort is being made by the Board
and the Superintendent to have the
schools reach the highest standard of
excellence this term. Miss Parrish.
State School Sui>ervisor, will make a
comparison of the school systems of
Georgia next spring and it is hoped
that Newton can take the lead as us¬
ual.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA Dec. 9, 1914.
The Trey O’ Hearts
A Novelized Version of the Motion Picture Drama of the Same Name
Produced by the Universal Film Co.
Copyright, 1914, by Louis Joseph Vance
CHAPTER I.
The Message of the Rose.
Lapped deep In the leather-bound
luxury of an ample lounge-chair,
walled apart from the world by the
venerable solitude of the library of
London’s most exclusive club, Mr.
Alan Law sprawled (largely on the
nape of his neck) and, squinting dis¬
contentedly down his nose, admitted
that he was exhaustively bored.
Now the chair filled so gracelessly
stood by an open window, some twen¬
ty feet below which lay a sizable
walled garden, an old English garden
in full flower. And through the win¬
dow, now and then, a half-hearted
breeze wafted gusts of warm air,
sauve and enervating with the heavy
fragrance of English roses.
Mr. Law drank deep o.f it, and In
spite of his spiritual unrest, sighed
slightly and shut his eyes.
An unspoken word troubled the
depth of his consciousness, so that
old memories stirred and struggled to
its surface. The word was “Rose,”
and for the time seemed to be
name neither of a woman nor of a
flower, but oddly of both, as though
the two things were one. His mental
vision, bridging the gap of a year, con¬
jured up the vision of a lithe, sweet
silhouette in white, with red roses
at her belt, posed on a terrace of the
Riviera again? * the burning Mediter¬
ranean blue.
Mr. Law was dully conscious that
he ought to he sorry abcfut something.
But he was really very drowsy indeed:
and so, drinking deep of wine-scent
of roses, he fell gently asleep.
The clock was striking four when
he awoke: and before closing his
eyes he had noticed that its hands
indicated ten minutes to four. So he
could not have slept very long.
For some few seconds Alan did not
move, but rested as he was, incredu¬
lously regarding a rose which had ma
terlalized mysteriously upon the little
table at his elbow. He was quite sure
it had not been there when he closed
his eyes, and almost as sure that it
was not real.
And in that instant of awakening
the magic fragrance of the rose-garden
seemed to be even more strong and
cloying sweet than ever.
Then he put out a gingerly hand
and discovered that it was real beyond
all question. A warm red rose, fresh
plucked, drops of water trembling and
sparkling like tiny diamonds on the
velvet of its fleshy petals. And when
impulsively he took it by the stem, he
discovered a most indisputable thorn
—which did service for the traditional
pinch.
Convinced that he wasn’t dreaming,
Alan transferred the rose to his sound
hand, and meditatively sucked his
With Red Roses at Her Belt.
thumb. Then he jumped up from the
chair and glared suspiciously round
the room. It was true that a prac¬
tical joke in that solemn atmosphere
were a thing unthinkable; still, there
was the rose.
There was no one but himself in
the library. fled
Perplexed to exasperation, Alan
the club, only pausing on the way out
to annex the envelope he found ad¬
dressed to him in the letter-rack.
It was a blank white envelope of
good quality, the address typewritten,
the stamp English, and bore a Lon¬
don postmark half illegible.
Alan tore the envelope open in ab¬
sent-minded fashion—and started as
If stung. The enclosure was a sam¬
playing card—a trey of hearts!
As for Alan Law, he wandered
homeward in a state of stupefaction.
He could read quite well the message
of the rose. He would not soon for¬
get that year-old parting with his
Rose of the Riviera: “You say you
love me but may not marry me—and
we must part. Then promise this,
that if ever you change your mind,
you’ll send for me.” And her prom¬
ise:. “I will send you a rose.”
But the year had lapsed with never
a sign from her, so that he had grown
accustomed to the unflattering belief
that she had forgotten him.
And now the sign had come—but
what the deuce did the trey of hearts
mean ?
When morning came, London had
lost Alan Law. No man of his ac¬
quaintance—nor any woman—had re¬
ceived the least warning of his dis¬
appearance. He was simply and suf¬
ficiently removed from Ehglish ken..
CHAPTER II.
The Sign of the Three.
Out-of-doors, high brazen noon, a
day in spring, the clamorous life of
New York running as fluent as quick¬
silver through its brilliant streets.
Within doors, neither sound nor sun¬
beam disturbed a perennial quiet that
was yet not peace.
The room was like a wide, deep
well of night, the haunt of’teeming
shadows and sinister silences.
Little, indeed, was visible beyond
the lonely shape that brooded over
it, the figure of an old man motion¬
less in a great, leather-bound chair.
His hair -was as white as his heart
was black. The rack of his bones,
eh' led in a thick black dressing
gown with waist-cord of crimson silk,
; from the thighs down was covered by
a black woollen rug. He stared un
blinkingly at nothing: a man seven
! eighths dead, completely paralyzed
but for his head and his left arm.
Presently a faint clicking signal dis¬
turbed the stillness. Seneca Trine put
forth his left hand and touched one
of a row of crimson buttons embedded
in the desk. Something else clicked
—this time a latch. There was the
faintest possible noise of a closing
door, and a smallish man stole noise¬
lessly into the light, paused beside the
desk and waited respectfully for leave
to speak.
“Well?”
“A telegram, sir—from England.”
“Give it me!”
The old man seized the sheet of yel¬
low paper, scanned it hungrily, and
crushed it in his tremulous claw with
a gesture of uncontrollable emotion.
“Send my daughter Judith here!”
Two minutes later a young woman
in street dress was admitted to the
chamber of shadow’s.
“You sent for me, father?”
“Sit down.”
She found and placed a chair at the
desk, and obediently settled herself
in it.
“Judith—tell me—what day is this?”
“My-birthday. I am twenty-one.”
“And your sister’s birthday: Rose,
too, is twenty-one.”
“Yes.”
“You could have forgotten that,” the
old man pursued almost mockingly.
“Do you really dislike your twin-sister
so intensely?”
The girl’s voice trembled. “You
know,” she said, “we have nothing in
common—beyond parentage and this
abominable resemblance. Our natures
differ as light from darkness.”
“And which would you say was—
light?”
“Hardly my own: I’m no hypocrite.
Rose is everything that they tell me
my mother was, while I”—the girl
smiled strangely—“I think—I am more
your daughter than my mother’s.”
A nod of the white head confirmed
the suggestion. “It is true. I have
watched you closely, Judith, perhaps
more closely than even you knew.
Before I was brought to this”—the
wasted hand made a significant ges¬
ture—“I was a man of strong pas¬
sions. Your mother never loved, but
rather feared me. And Rose is the
mirror of her mother’s nature, gentle,
j unselfish, sympathetic. But you, Ju¬
dith. you are like a second self to
me.”
An accent of profound satisfaction
informed his voice. The girl waited
in a silence that was tensely expect¬
ant.
"Then, to if on this service your of birthday that I j
were ask a you j
might injuriously affect the happiness j
of your sister—?”
The girl laughed briefly: “Only
h tinned Page Five. I
THE CAUSE OF THE
EUROPEAN WAR
M. R. ELLINGTON SETS FORTH
HIS VIEWS OF THE CAUSE OF
EUROPEAN WAR. GIVES SOME
HISTORICAL FACTS.
The immediate cause of the present
European war was Servias refusal to
comply with the demands of Austria,
which were to humilating as to be¬
yond the possibility of acceptance by
and self respecting nation. Austria
claimed that the Servian subjects in
Servia were parties to the plot that re¬
sulted in in assassination of the Aus¬
trian crown prince and his wife in Aus¬
tria. Austria demanded that these
conspirators should be punished along
with the assassin. Servia willingly
agred to investigate and if any of her
subjects were found guilty to punish
tbelli. Austria, however, added the in¬
sulting insinuation that the Servian
courts could not be trusted to try the
suspects and demanded the privilege of
sending Austrian judges to officiate
at tile trials of those accused of con¬
spiracy in Servia, a self respecting na¬
tion refused to sumbit to such a hu¬
miliating sacrifice of national rights
and idgnity and thereupon Austria de¬
clared war.
Back of this are various underlying
historical causes, consisting of interna
national jealousies and distrust grow¬
ing out of nations that were very fond
of land grabbing acts, and ambitions
of certain countries, which have Eu¬
rope in a state of nervous tension, suie
porting enormous and ruinous military
establishments for the last forty or
more years.
Since the Franeo-Prussian war of
INTO, in winch Germany took from
France tilt* two Rhine Provinces, Al¬
sace and Lorraine, both nations have
been preparing to fight for posses
of this rich territory which is. till in¬
habited by people of French nationali¬
ty and sympathies I( is generally con¬
ceded that France would never rest
until she had attempted to recover her
lost territory.
Austria and Itrtssia have, for many
years, entertained a mutual jealousy
and distrust concerning the ultimate
destiny of the small Balkan C-eui: tries
and principalities that have sprung in¬
to existence from the disintegrated
fragments of European Turkey. A few
years ago during a civil struggle
among the Balkans, Austria forcibly
annexed Bosina adn Herzegovina, two
small provinces inhabit).i by pec,* ; of
tlie Servian race, who naturally would
have preferred joining .Servia. Inter¬
national intrigue was the inevitable
STRENGTH s
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It doesn’t pay to take chances
—particularly so in the method
you handle your money.
Yet if you don’t utilize the
safeguards of the CHECKING
ACCOUNTS you ARE taking
chances every time you pay a
bill, carry money on your per¬
son, secrete it about the house,
etc.
Follow the lead of the shrewd¬
est business men and keep your
funds on deposit here subject to
your draft.
The most searching examina¬
tion of our last statement and
of the characters of our officers
will but serve to convince you
that this is a strong, safe insti¬
tution to bank with.
liV.V.VA
BANK OF COVINGTON
CAPITAL* 1QQ.DQD. PROFITS <15 000
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS—
MENTION THE NEWS, i
$1 A Year In Advance.
H. D. BUSH BUYS
THE TAYLOR STOCK
FORMER POSTMASTER IS NOW A
GROCERY MAN. HAS TAKEN
CHARGE AND WILL CARRY A
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES.
Mr. H. I). Bush, former imstmaater
at Covington has purchased the gro¬
cery stock and meat market of G. G.
Taylor and has taken charge of the
business.
Mr. Bush says that it is his inten¬
tion to carry everything in the fancy
and family grocery line that the trade
demands. He will also keep fresh
meats-and produce.
Mr. Bush left the postoffice at the
expiration of his term in July. He
had served the people as postmaster
for the past sixteen or seventeen or
seventeen years and if there was ever
a man lost, la* lias been since lie left
his old position, and says that he was
"just bleeged" to do something besides
fanning.
I It* owns and runs a good farm and
he thought that, he would go out and
plow, pick cotton and do other inciden¬
tal jobs on the farm and rest up a bit.
He tried. He can’t pick cotton and he
can’t plow. He lais not told us so but
if he could lie would never have “left
the farm.” Furthermore we do not be¬
lieve that he can do anything on a
farm—unless, perhaps the buying of
guano, provisions, etc, and sell the cot¬
ton in tlie fall—for if he had made a
success of picking cotton he would he
right there yet
Anyway Bush is a clever
lots of friends and will no doubt do a
good business. Go to see him.
result of the situaton and < esily drift¬
ed into war.
So Austria and Germany, each fear¬
ing war for tlie possession of their an¬
nexed territories, formed an alliance,
which Italy was later induced to join,
known as tlie Triple Alliance. To off¬
set this Triple Alliance, France and
Russia formed a defensive agreement,
which after Great Britain joined them
became known as the Triple Entente.
With the six great powers thus ar¬
rayed, Europe has long been a should¬
ering volcano with the rumblings of
threatened war ever audible until at
last, it Has suddenly burst forth in a
fierce eruption that already involve*
most of Europe and threatens to spread
over much of eastern Asia.
M. R. ELLINGTON,
