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ELECTED
Three New Members of the City Coun¬
cil and Two Members of School
Board Fleeted—Good Men.
There was no race in the election
of the two members of the school
board. Col. C. C. King’s time expired
a ml he did not offer for re-election.
T. G. Callaway offered for re-election
.mil he with Henry Odum were
as tin ■ two members.
There was some opposition develop¬
ed in the race for council.
afternoon, when the copy of the tick¬
ers were turned over to the printer,
it contained the names'of five
for council. Messrs. W. A. Adams, J.
IV. Black. P. W. Godfrey, F. !!. Heard
and A. Sockwell were on tlie ticket.
Taler oil in (lie afternoon Howard
MilIdlebrook announced for the eoun
cil imiking six in the race for the three
places.
Messrs. F. E. Heard, \Y. A. Adams
mill C. A. Sockwell were elected to
tin* Council mid Messrs. T. G. Calla¬
way mid Henry Odum to the School
Hoard.
The above live men, the two for the
city school board and the three for
('<! mncil are liv e of the best citizens In
Covington, and they with the
members of the council and of the
school hoard, who held over assures
the city of mi excellent administration
for 1915.
Below is the total vote as [lolled :
FOR COUNCIL
\V. A. Adams ...........
J. W.
P. W. Godfrey .... ... (52
F. E. Heard ..... ____120
Howard Miildlebvook ....
(’. A. Sockwell ......... 7(i
FOR SCHOOL BOARD
T. G. Callaway ......... 150
Henry Odum ............... 145
DW UPSHAW WINS FIRST
IN SOPHOMORE DEBATE
Mr. Dan 1 pshaw, who is attending
die 1 Diversity of Georgia, won the
lirst place of the Sophomore class in a
debate held at the University of
Georgia last week. Young Upshaw
made a mark in the public schools
,l( Te fffi'I his friends are glad to know
"f bis success at the University, The
subject debated was: ‘‘Resolved.
That livestock raising affords better
substitute for cotton during tin* pres
rut crisis than cereals.” Mr. Upshaw
took tlie negative side.
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INTERESTING PAPER
ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Christmas Is the Time to Celebrate
the liirtli of Christ, Who Came
to Bring Peace to All the
World.
The Christmas lioldays are almost
lie re again and with the near ap
proach of the season comes thoughts
of what the season means to us, and
what it should mean.
At this time we are supposed to.
celebrate tlie birth of the Christ child,
who came to bring peace on earth and
good will to man. • *
The wise men of the Fast, guided
by the star, brought gifts and laid
them at the feet of the Babe of Beth¬
lehem. Let us follow their example
and make our gifts to him whose
birth we celebrate at this season. ‘’But
you say, “how can we give gifts to
this King of Heaven and earth—He
to w hom angels bow and do homage?”
Let the Christ answer you:
“I was an hungried and ye gave me
drink. I was a stranger and ye took
me in; naked Land ye clothed me; I
was sick and ye visited me; I was in
prison and ye came unto me. • •
Then the righteous shall answer
bim, saying; “Lord when saw w r e
tliee an hungried and fed thee; or
! thirsty and gave the drink; when
saw we thee a stranger and took thee
in? And the king shall answer and
say unto them; Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these;
my brethren ye have done it unto me. ••
What a wonderful opportunity we
have before us just now. There are
I hungry and naked, and sick at our
very doors and shall we turn a deaf
ear to their cries, or close our eyes
i css we see their misery? Let Christ
speak to us again:
“When th u lnaketh a dinner or a
supper, call not thy friends or thy
braf! iren; neither thy kinsman or thy
rich neighbor, lest they also bid thee
again and a recompense made thee—
But when thou makest a feast call the
poor, the maimed, the lamed, the
blind. And thou shall he blessed for
they can not recompense thee, for thou
sliait be recompensed at the resurrec¬
tion of the just.”
Is not our-Christmas giving largely
to those from whom we exp-ect gifts
in return. Should we not rather give
loving words and tender thoughts to
our friends and loved ones, but unite
with them in giving material tilings
| to relieve the suffering of God's poor
and in blessing them, be Happy aDd
blessed. C. W. A.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA Dec. 23, 1914.
NEWS FROM THE
CAPITAL OF GEORGIA
A Few Notes and Suggestions From
Atlanta Correspondents—Good
Advice Given in These Para¬
graphs.
Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 21.—The Spugs
are working hard in Atlanta this
Christmas to break up the foolish cus¬
tom of giving something f 1* 1 mt is no
good to a person you don’t cure a
hang for, just because that person is
liable to give you something you don’t
want and make you feel sorry Christ¬
mas was invented.
The Spugs are really the society-for
the Prevention of Useless Giving, and
they are pretty well organized, It is
believed that their work will mean
fewer carpet slippers, for father and
fewer pin cushions for another, and a
lot Jess of those mysterious articles on
sale at Christmas time and for w hich
nobody can discover a use.
But the Spugs are not against real
Christmas gifts. They urge that ev¬
erybody cut out the merely perfunc¬
tory giving and give where it will do
some real good.
The growth of the. parcels post sys¬
tem and the failure of the government
to adjust its rates of payment to the
railroads for transporting the addi¬
tional weight have worked a heavy
hardship on Southern railroads, ac
cording to officials.
When the parcels post was establish- j
eil no provision was made to pay for
transportation and all the roads car¬
ried the traffic for nothing for the first
six months. In 1913 the mails in the
Middle Atlantic States were weighed,
and the mail pay on these roads was
increased. Last spring the mails were
weighed in the far West, and they got
an increased payment. But the mails
have not been weighed in the South
yet, while weights elsewhere show that
a proper increase in pay would be 20
to 25 per cent. The roads are appeal¬
ing to Congress that mails be weighed
everywhere once a year and the roads’
paid for the annual increase in vol¬
ume of traffic carried.
Governor John M. Slaton, though
feeling the Christmas spirit as much
as any man, cannot reconcile with iiis
duty the practice of granting indis¬
criminate “Christmas pardons” to
state convicts.
“When pardoning power is an of¬
ficial duty and not a private matter,”
he says, ”1 have no more right to free
a prisoner because it is Christmas day
than 1 have to siiend the state's mon¬
ey on Christmas charities.”
”1 should like to see every man hap
P.v on Christmas day, not only lie
cause it is Christinas, but it is my
birthday as well: but I have no right
to open the doors of the prisons.”
’jhe governor is being heseigthl with
demands for Christmas pardons. His
desk is Mucked high with letters and
he has hosts of callers, But he niere
ly refers them to the fact that the
fourth Thursday and Friday in each
month are set apart for the hearing of
pardon applications.
The first detailed announcement of
the cotton loan plan for the $135,000,
000 loan fund has reached members of
the Georgia Bankers' association, and
the loan will soon be in active opera
tion.
Local committees will be named by
the state committees. All loans shall
bear six per cent interest, Each loan
shall be evidenced by a note in ap¬
proved form and secured by properly
warehoused and insured cotton on a
basis of six cents jicr pound for niid
dling. Cotton collateral must be pre
vided to give a margin of twenty per
cent above tlie face value of the loan.
All applications for loans must be
made l>efore February L 1915. and all
mature a year from that date, Indi
viduals will apply for loans through
their local committees.
For another year at least Forrest
Adair, the leading figure in Southern
Shrinedom, will serve as [wtentate of
Yaarab Temple of Atlanta, He ny as
re-elected this week, the vote being
made unanimous, Plans weie im
mediately set onfoot for sending a big
delegation to tlie Seattle convention.
Forrest Adair is the man who
brought the Shriners c< invention to
Atlanta last smnnier and who worked
night and day for weeks to insure its
success. Naturally he could have any
thing lie desired at the hands of the
Atlanta Shriners.
Note A suggestion for a Christmas
editorial from a well known i>ai>er:
Suppose we cut down our useless
[iresents this Christmas, which is a
SEMI
Printers Want a Rest—Also a Few
Subscription Dollars With Which
To Enjoy the Holidays.
Christmas day coming between this
and our nest publication day, and as
customary, we will issue no paper next
week.
Beginning with tlie tirst week in
January, however, we will be right
back on the job and expect to put our
best efforts in the publication of the
News during the year 1915.
There is one thing that we want to
mention in connection with this arti¬
cle. and that is in regard to our sub¬
scription list. We have nearly one
thousand subscribers on our lists that
have not paid for their paper this
year. We know that it has been a
hard fall, but these accounts amount
to only one dollar. That is a very small
amount to one man, but to us they rep¬
resent a hard year’s work. We need
it and will appreciate it.
The News may not be open all tlie
time for the remainder of the week,
but if you want any job printing done
call the foreman; if you have any ad¬
vert!.ing for the next issue call the
editor; if you -have any copy for the
next issue call the editor, but if you
want to pay a dollar call anybody
vrom the devil up, and we will be de¬
lighted to come down and write you a
receipt any time, day or night.
We wish all our readers and cus¬
tomers a merry Christmas and a Hap¬
py New Year.
( OTTON GINNED UP TO
DECEMBER FIRST
Below we give a partial report of
cotton ginned by counties in Georgia
for tlie crops of 1914 and 1913, of
counties in this part of the state from
a report from W. J. Harris, director
of Census department of commerce:
County 1914 1913
.....12,362 10,237
Bibb...... ......IB,255 9,198
Butts...... .....14,288 12,970
Clarke .... ......11,435 11,020
Greene ---- ......17,136 If,231
I laneock ....20,090 16,721
Henry ...... ____27,186 24,555
Jasper .. ......24,379 22,554
Joues ...... ......14,304 11,960
Monroe ......21,843 21i,095
Morgan ..... ......27,245 23,747
Newton .... . ......24,156 21,293
Oconee ...... ......16,560 15,775
Bike........ .....24.154 20,695
Putnam..... .....13,325 12,345
Rockdale .... ...... 9,976 9,217
Spalding .... ....17,794 14,719
Upson ...... ......14,117 13,236
Walton...... .....40,716 40,658
PREACHER ASKS HIS FLOCK
NOT TO OVERPAY HIM
I .aGrange, Ga., December 12.—Dr.
C. E. Patillo pastor of the First Meth¬
odist church of West Point, has made
tlie following statement to tlie people
his church:
“The church will, during the follow¬
ing week, consider the fixing of my
salary for the next conference year.
No one is more conversant with the
financial condition of the
good people of this section than I am.
Scarcely a home in this cty that will
not be more or less affected by the
depression. I do not want
a salary that is not in keeping with
conditions now prevailing.
“I should have no respect for my
self to accept a salary which would
have to be paid out of the sacrifices
needs of my people. If there is
to be suffering next year let me bear
part <’f it. and no one will do it
with greater courage and cheerful
•—Atlanta Constitution.
Line-man’s Test Set Lost.
LOST—One lineman test set, with
magneto, Lost between Covington
and Oxford, Reward if returned to
office of Southern Bell Tellephone Co..
Covington. Ga.
lean Christmas, We do not follow the
reformer who would have no Christ
The Yuletide season Ls too much
a season of cheer, of charity and of
happiness to spoil it by selfishness.
But we have been an extravagant. v>eo
pie. An international cataclysm lias
In ought us suddenly face to face with
our extravagances. We w ere not re
sponsible for the war but we were le
spoils ible for the extravagances which
! 1 1 ade the burden so much harder.
We are facing the necessity for an
economical Christmas, It should also
tie a useful Christmas, Useful giving
is wisdom in such a time as that
through which the South is now pass¬
ing.
SWANN TO MAKE
CHANGE IN BUSINESS
Well Known Covington Firm Will Dis¬
continue Credit Business en Jan.
1st and Operate on Strictly
Cash Basis.
T. C. Swann Co., one of the oldest
if not the oldest: supply business in
the county, will discontinue its credit
and supply business beginning Jan. 1st.
The management injtuie tbjsi de¬
cision a short time ago, to take effect
January 1st, and they have notified
their customers. For the past sev¬
eral years this firm has devoted a
large part of its store to dress goods,
trimmings and’ ladies’ ready-to-wear
goods. These departments have prov¬
en so satisfactory they will be in¬
creased,and special attention will be
given these lines as well as men’s
clothing and shoes.
The original firm began business in
1880, as the Swanu-Stewart Co. Later
on T. C. Swann bought the Stewart in¬
terest and it operated for several years
this way. The Swann-Davis Co. then
took charge of the business ,with T.
Q. Swann as the head. It ran this
way until the death of Mr. Davis, and
ized, ope rnitagtihs shrdluhrdluhrdl
the T. C. Swann Company was or¬
ganized in 1908. The company was
organized with T. 0. Swann, Jr., as
president. Mr. Swann is still the
president and Mr. .7. T. Swann man
ager.
This firm Inis long been recognized
as one of the strongest firms in this
section of the country and has re¬
ceived their share of business. Under
their new plan of operation they will
of course he among the leading cash
stores of this section of the state.
BANKS WILL BE CLOSED
TWO DAYS THIS WEEK
The three banks of Covington—the
Bank of Covington, The First Nation¬
al Bank and the Bank of Newton
County—will be closed Friday, De¬
cember the 25th and Saturday, Decem¬
ber the 26tli.
Customers of the banks are request¬
ed to arrange their pay rolls and other
business with the above three banks
by Thursday afternoon, December the
24th.
THANKS THE VOTERS
I desire to thank the people who
voted for me for a member of the
school board, My best efforts will be
given to the work. Respectfully,
HENRY ODUM.
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CHRISTMAS BUYING
The best way to purchase
those gifts is with the Check
Book, for then you have a rec¬
ord and receipt for each expend¬
iture, making it comparatively
easy for the recipient to ex¬
change the gift for something
else, if the present was dupli¬
cated, or something else more
desired.
Do your holiday shopping
via the check book—it means
safety and convenience.
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OFFICERS ELECTED
IN THREE LODGES
The Tivo Masonic lodges and the Roy¬
al Arcanum Have Elected Offi¬
cers for 11)15—Oyster Supper
For Royal Arcanum.
At the last regular meeting of the
Golden Fleece Lodge No. 0, F. and A.
M., officers were elected for 1915.
Officers were elected for Covington
Chapter Royal Arch Mason and for the
Royal Arcanum at their last meetings.
GOLDEN FLEECE F. & A. M.
A. L. Lloyd, W. M.
Geo. T. Smith, S. W.
R. H. Trippe, J. W.
J. \Y. Peek, Secretary.
R. R. Fowler, Treasurer.
C. A. Sockwell, S. I).
11. L. Hitchcock, J. D. ’■ V*.
A. 1). Meador, S. S. *V«A
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S. D. Norton, J. S
C. A. Clarke, Tyler.
ROYAL ARCH OFFICERS
Geo. T .Smith, H. P.
C. A. Sockwell, King. jt.
J. B. Terrell, Scribe. i
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It. It. Fowler, Secretary.
H. L. Hitchcock, Treasurer.
C. A. Harwell, C. of H.
J. S. Peek, R. A. C.
\Y. B. R. Pennington, Sentinel.
It. P. Lester, P. S. f..
II. B. McDonald, M. F. V.
J. ilk Peek, M. S. V.
C. A. Clark, M. T. V.
ROYAL ARCANUM OFFICERS
C. U. Skinner, Representative to
Grand Council.
Geo. T. Smith, Alternate.
J. E. Phillips, Regent.
C. A. Sockwell, Vice Regent.
(’. Ik Skinner, Past Regent.
Geo. T. Smith, Orator.
T. ,T. Shields, Secretary.
J. W. Peek, Collector.
R. R. Fowler, Treasurer.
C. C. Brooks, Chaplain.
R. P. I-ester, Guide.
C. A, Harwell, Warden.
B. Bohanon, Sentry.
\V. S. Ramsey, E. W. Fowler and J.
F. Lunsford, Trustees.
The Royal Arcanum will have aw
oyster supper on Monday night, Dec.
28, and all the members are requested
to come out.
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A. L. LOYD, W. M.
I. W. PEEK, Secy.
GOLDEN FI-EECS
LODGE NO. 6, F. and
A. M., meets every
first and third Friday
night of each month.
