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Plans by Walker & Chase, Architects, Atlanta.
The schoolhouse shown in the above cut and built by the Milstead Manu
cturing Company, near Conyers, Ga., for the benefit of their employees, is
interesting example of progress in the practical education of children and
n idea expressed in the phrase, “Making the Schoolhouse
also of the the
Social Center.” 1 brary,
This school has four class rooms, a a room for the cooking class, a
b0VS ’ workshop and an auditorium sealing 3Q0, arranged for lectures, theat¬
ricals, motion pictures, etc. The building is modern in design and arrange¬
ment and has modern plumbing, heat.ng, ventilating, lighting and fire pro¬
tection systems. The cost, including the equipment and furnishings, was
{ 10 , 000 .
It is interesting to note that in connection with this school there is a
garden tract provided, which is subdivided into individual plots for the hoys
an d girls and is irrigated from a tank on the schoolhouse roof. It is proposed
to give practical and scientific instruction in the planting, growth and care
of garden products and to stimulate interest in the same by prizes ler the
most successful gardens. The pupils, of course, keep the products grown on
their own plots.
The plan of incorporating an auditorium in the school building for the
pleasure and profit of the whole community, is an idea that may be of va'in¬
to many small towns. In such an auditorium the local debating society may
hold its public debates; the amateur theatrical club give its dramatic produc¬
tions; Christmas and other holiday celebrations may be held therein, and
it is available for lectures and political addresses. A moving picture program
may be inaugurated once a week or oftener and, with proper supervision
in respect to the selection of subjects, should prove of educational value
as well as of relaxation and entertainment. In these views one may see
wonderful sights the world over, beautiful places of nature and the triumphs
of art and invention. One may see far away cities and countries and their
people at work and at play. The mind is broadened and quickened by sights
which only travel could otherwise supply.
Why should not most country towns enjoy equal advantages with this mill
town and provide a schoolhouse where the children may have modern
school facilities, a place also where the entire neighborhood may meet
for mutual enjoyment and improvement?
Value of the Annual Farm
Conferences In the Year of
The Agricultural Crisis
Pres. Andrew M. Soule, Georgia State College of Agriculture
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Breeders’ Association will be held
January 16, the annual meeting of the
Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Asso¬
ciation on January 18-19, the annual
meeting of the Georgia Horticultural
Society on January 19-20 and the an¬
nual meeting of the Georgia Apple
Growers’ Association on January 21.
All are to be held at the College of
Agricutlure at Athens. These meet¬
ings follow immediately after the
short courses, thus affording short
course students an opportunity of at¬
tending these splendid meetings with¬
out the usual cost.
Special railroad rates have been ob¬
tained for these meetings as well as
for the short course. Those who at¬
tend should be sure to ask for the spe
cial rates.
The program for these meetings will
b« rich with valuable information
Practical men who iiave dealt with
and met their various problems ir.
Georgia will appear on the program
Authorities of nation-wide reputation
'dll come with their special messages.
Special efforts are being made to pre¬
TIMELY SPRAYING OF
apples and peaches
J ' w. Firor, Georgia State Col. of Agr
Time and labor can be saved by so
timing the spraying of peaches and
apples as to control or destroy several
fungus trouble and an insect at one
operation. Nearly all orchards are in
tested with the San Jose scale. This
necessitates at least one spraying dur.
Ing the dormant season when the or
chard is slightly infested and two
6 P r a>ings w 'ien badly infested. Even
''■ en no scale has been observed in
e c ' lcl 'ard during the past season, it
.
m 3 visa ble to make a spring spray
s /, erve t0 also ,P re to vent clean infestation. the It will and
up trees
i e 'ent such injurious fungus trou
c, as the curl of the peach and scab
ot ‘he apple.
L A<): * infection of the apple
j. ,alu ' s Place during the week or
ayS p ' Pvious To the opening of the
bmj A thorough spraying with lime
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end^H e stnu le “ on 8tren at ’hat gth of time the is solution recom
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TtIK COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JWT'RY 2<\ 1915.
sent at the meetings at the first of the
year, programs of unusual merit, ow¬
ing to the crisis in agriculture which
the state is facing.
Make up your mind that you will
attend tie ten days’ short course and
stay for the farmers’ conferences !
With such information and inspira¬
tion obtained at the beginning of the
year, as will be available at these
meetings, the work of the twelve
months will be more profitable and
pleasant. What better place can one
go in Georgia to get the desired in¬
formation for varying the farm pro¬
gram from cotton to a profitable di¬
versification, than to the short courses
and the farm conferences at the State
College?
The wives of the farmers will find
the meetings interesting and profita¬
ble. The meetings of the horticultu¬
ral society have afways been well at¬
tended by women. Should the women
come while the girls’ course is being
conducted, they will be greatly inter¬
ested in the canning, domestic science
and poultry work in which they are in¬
structed.
gallons of the commercial lime-sul¬
phur to 50 gallons of water. Reduce
' the strength to 2 or 3 gallons to the
50 of water after the buds show pink.
The spores of the leaf curl fungus
live over the winter on the branches
and twigs of the peach tree and be¬
come active during the two or three
weeks before the buds open. During
this time, by making the winter spray¬
ing with lime-sulphur solution (com¬
mercial lime-sulphur 5 gallons to 50 of
water), the scale will be combatted
and the leaf curl prevented. This
spraying must be timed accurately
and made thoroughly to get the best
results. Misible oils will not take the
place of the lime-sulphur solution, al¬
though they will destroy the scale.
Bordeaux mixture used at the time
above mentioned is very effective
against the scab, but is not effective
against scale.
During the spring of 1914 serious
damage was done to the blossoms and
young twigs of peach trees by the
brown rot fungus. Tltis disease does
greatest injury to the fruit, but aiso
takes its toll from the health of twigs.
The infection takes place at blos¬
soming time and if the second sprn>
ing is delayed until the buffs swell
lime-sulphur will kill the spores.
ENP'J?H female porters.
Muscular Women Carry Heavy Loads
In Covent Garden Market.
Visitors t«> Coven Garden market
the -iivat flower market of London
will limi that in addition to much flora
beauty there is a wholesome, muscului
athletic womanhood that is good to
look upon to he found among the worn
eu porters. The flowers that are sold
in huge quantities in this market are
bought hv retail flower dealers, to
whose vans the flowers must be deliv
ered in the surrounding streets. The
work of carrying is <£tie largely by
women, and the Coveiu Garden worn
an porter is one of London's character
studies.
These women, who carry loads ol
flowers on their heads, are bardwork
ing. conscientious workers As a rule,
their hours are from 5 to U in tin
morning—not long perhaps, but during
that time the women do what tnighl
well be considered o good day’s work
It is not light work, as a woman por
ter frequently carries two dozen large
pots of plants on her head over a dis
tance of several hundred yards. Light
and heavy loads may or may not come
alternately, but all are accepted cheer
fully The payment, as a rule, is ade
quate. but depends upon the generosity
ot the temporary employer.
Tile powers of endurance* these wom¬
en possess are quite remarkable, and
■ be work agrees with them. One wom¬
an recently pointed with pride to her
daughter, a girl of twenty, with cheeks
glowing with health and muscles that
w ould do credit to any system of phys¬
ical culture. The girl had been deli¬
cate. but a few weeks' work in the
flower market caused a decided im
provement. which increased as time
went on.
A somewhat odd recognition of their
work is received annually by these
(lower porters in the shape of a shawl
and two aprons each, a gift from the
Duchess of Be dford.—London Mirror
i Another Way Out.
j Walter Damrosch, the musical con¬
ductor. played iu Ins youth in a noted
orchestra. He wore, as is the way
with musicians, long hair and unusual
Iv bushy besides.
A thin haired violinist seated behind
Mr Damrosch in the orchestra used
to take exception to the young man's
coiffure. He said one day;
“Look here, Damrosch. Why don't
you get your hair cut? Then maybe
I could see the conductor.”
Mr Damrosch answered calmly over
nis shoulder:
“Why don’t you learn to play better?
Then you'd sit iu front of me.
Painfully Particular.
"If you refuse me this time,” he
said. “1 shall never ask you to be my
wife again.”
"Oh. please,” replied the girl from
Boston, “try to use better English. 1
never have been your wife. Why
should you ask me to be your wife
again?”—Chicago Herald.
FAMOUS OLD TROTTERS.
Many of Them Were Mere Drudges Be¬
fore They Attained Fame.
It is a remarkable fact that many of
the most famous horses of the trotting
turf years ago were uot appreciated
until after they had arrived at ma¬
turity. With a great many the trot
ting quality was discovered by acci¬
dent.
It is on record that Flora Tempi*
was once sold for $13, and the grea:
mare ITineess, dam of Happy Medi¬
um, brought her breeder about $40
Taeony pulled a stage and Mack like¬
wise. Abdallah would have been made
to haul a fish cart had not his lof*
spirit rebeled at the Indignity. Billy
Button was used as a runner to force
the pace of Beralto. Goldsmith Maid
was once sold for $100, and the dam
of Ethan Allen was sold at the age of
ten for $35
Dutchman worked in a brick yard, so
did old Columbus, and Andrew Jack
son was foaled in one. Charley B. was
used to haul stone up from a quarry
by derrick and pulley. Godolphin Ara
bian drew a watering cart in the
streets of Paris. Justin Morgan was
long a wheel horse in Vermont. The
granddam of Monbars did farm drudg¬
ery. The dam of Billy Button hauled
garden truck to market and pulled a
milk wagon alternately. Gifford Mor
gan drew slabs from a sawmill and
was at one time sold for $100.
The dam of Flying Morgan was used
to peddle woodenware. The sire of
Karus was worked to a butcher cart,
and it is said that the dam of Black
Hawk also drew a butcher’s cart. The
first authentic account of Canadian
Pilot places him in the hands of a
Yankee peddler iu New Orleans. The
dam of Lady Griswold was used by a
patent medicine vender. The dam of
old Green Mountain Morgan ground
apples in a cider mill—Horseman.
Absurd Beliefs About Hedgehogs.
fn olden days the hedgehog was ac¬
credited with the possession of many
wonderful powers. Pliny and after
him Aelian and others have related
how it would climb apple and tig trees,
shake down the fruit and afterward
fall upon and Impale the fruit on its
spines and carry them off upon its
back. The belief that it i a$ in the
habit of milking cows during the night
is likewise “ v u ry oia ntie.
Oreaon’s First Settlement.
The first settlement In Oregon was
made at Fort Clatsop, near the mouth
of the Colombia river, on the 23d day
of March. 1811 The men comprising
I the group were prospective fur traders
sent to the Pacific coast by John Jacob
Astor. They had sailed from New
York on board the ship Tonquin.
THE TRI-WEEKLY
CONSTITUTION
Its Campaign for Diversified Farming
and Its Special 1915 Offer for
Ku r al Households—Largest
Circulaled Tri-Weekly
in the World.
Diversified farming is now the uni¬
versal topic iu agricultural communi¬
ties of the South. The Atlanta Consti¬
tution lias been a pioneer in this
movement for the past quarter of a
century and is now leading in the
movement which promises so much
for tile South iu 191f>.
The Tri-Weekly Constitution, with
a circulation exceeding 118.000—all
subscriptions cash paid in advance—
announces a series of articles explain¬
ing in detail every step in the grow¬
ing and marketing of the numerous
varieties of foodstuffs which the
Southern farmers are urged to raise
this year. These articles are written
by Professor It. .T. H. DeLoaeh, an ex¬
pert of national reputation, he being
the director of the government ex¬
periment station ir Georgia. Expert
advice on this subject from author¬
ities the country over will be given
through the columns of the Tri-Week¬
ly Constitution. This is a feature of
inestimable value to every farmer.
The Tri-Weekly Constitution is is¬
sued three times a week—Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday—It has be¬
come known as the “farmers’ daily.”
It carries the Associated Press Ser¬
vice. with detailed cablegrams, giving
every movement of the world’s great
war. the latest market reports up to
the minute of going to press, and it
presents a brilliant array, of special
fiction features and special depart¬
ments of particular interest to the
farmer, covering every feature of
farming life. Its poultry department
its department for the women and
children, its agricultural department
and* its other special features alone
give the Tri-Weekly Constitution
special appeal to every Southern fire¬
side.
The cost of the Tri-Weekly Consti¬
tution is but $1.00 per year, with a
premium thrown in free of charge.
During the month of January a spe¬
cial trial subscription is offered—The
Tri-Weekly Constitution being sent to
any address from the date of receipt
of order to May 1, 1015, at a cost of
only 25 cents. Remittances should be
made direct to the Tri-Weekly Consti¬
tution, Atlanta, Ga.
You can get the Covington News, the
Tri-Weekly Constitution and the Sou¬
thern Cultivator all for $1.75 for a
year. If you are a subscriber to any
of the above your subscription will be
renewed for that amount.
Men’s Fall and Win¬
ter tailoring booksTiave
arrived and the same
big values as we offer
you in other lines fit
st vies qua! tv workman
si up fully guaiametx
come and see them.
J. 1. GUINN.
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QV thirst is a
great blessing
if you can get
Chero-Cola. Drink
it from the bottle
through a straw.
Always uniform.
Perfectly delicious^
^ DR/NIC ola
Chero-C
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Chero-Cola Bottling Works.
Covington, Georgia.
PAGE FIY1
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I Dressmaking Parlor
* I have returned to Covington
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me and guarantee satisfaction.
Mrs. Mamie Ridgway
MAGATH BUILDING
Dressmaking Altering Repairing
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SPOT CASH! New goods of season
ONE PRICE! arriving every few
BIG VALUES! days; lines
many are
added, more to follow.
Special Bargains in Men’s Ready
Made Clothing to c lose out this line.
J. I. GUINN
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