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JOB l*H.
A lALTl.
VII NO II
library contract
CLOSED ON MONDAY
Will BE \ BEAUTIFUL BUILD
|>(; OCCUPYING LOT WHERE
oi I) library now stands—
M( ,(OKI> CONTRACTOR.
Tll( . ( .„iit!' ; ( Cor (lie building of the
\. in*rto,. I’ublie Library was let
( V the Woman’s Clul>
jjundav morning by
,’f Covington to J. R. McCord and will
cii4 approximately $2,700.00.
Tlie i,milling will be 32x05 feet and
wilt |„, built of faced red brick. This
kind 0 f brick is very pretty as well
expensive and the building when
, )5 of the prettiest
completed will be one
(alibiing* in Covington. There will he
large room where tlie books' will
‘ „ne club
k kept and any business of the
,
)vl H i,e transacted. Another room will
I use a fur a ladies rest room and
1( ,
tbe third will he a small room, ot
kitchenette to be used when the dub
entertains at the elnb rooms.
Tbe contract was awarded to Mi.
.1 k. McCord, one of the leading con
tnob.rs «.f the city and he says he
ttill gbe them the best possible for
t l„. mump that will Im invested.
The Woman's Club of Covington
I, worked hard to give the people of
as building.
( ton* a prety library
Tbev have held bazaais, entertain¬
ments and various other things have
been done by them to raise the
amount needed. They are to lie com¬
manded h.\ the people of tlie town
for their efforts to give die city a
convenient and eonitortable.
GEORGIA GO TO SUNDAY
SCHOOL I) \Y” FEB. 14, 1915.
The Georgia Sunday School Asso
iation lias requested everybody in
eorgia to go to Sunday school next
tinday.
Nesvlnii county is tt gold star county
i the Georgia association,
bet us further raise our standard
nd efficiency by having the largest
?r cent of our population at Sunday
•Imol next Sunday of any county in
io state.
• vili thank every Sunday School
morinlenden! in the county to send
i‘ a card stating how many attend-
1 their Sunday school on that day.
L. D. KING. •
IV’) \cw ton Co.. S. S. Association.
FOR SALE
oik> goad delivery wagon for stile,
I'niqilete with top. Apply to J. L.
Harris. Covington. Ga., Route 3. Box
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ff COVINGTON, GA. DOLLARS OF
Capital & Surplus $60,000.00 .INTEREST
Presiden N. Z. Anderson rv,
pV- Pres.. E. W. Fowler, W. B.
It. Pennington.
pCasIver P. J. Rogers ©
g' i-v. cent. Interest on Time
Deposits. \\
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TAYLOR TENDERED
A FEDERAL JOB
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HAS BEEN APPOINTED SPECIAL
AGENT FOR THE GOVERNMENT
FOR FEW MONTHS—HEAD'
QUARTERS IN NEW YORK.
It. F. Taylor, editor of the Coving¬
ton News, was last week appoint d
as Special Agent of the Federal
Government, the position lasting for
a few months and carrying him away
from Covington for a greater part of
the time until June the 30th.
The position that Mr. Taylor takes
is special work under the census de¬
partment of which W. ,T. Harris is
bead. Tlie work is the gathering of
statistics from manufacturers concern¬
ing capital, persons employed, wages
and salaries paid, cost of materials,
value of products, and details in re¬
gard to tlie character of machinery
and power from all manufacturers
in the different districts. Mr. Tay¬
lor has been assigned to New York
territory, with headquarters in New
York city and will leave for there via
Washington sometime within the next
two weeks to take up the work.
In tlie absence of the editor, Col.
it. W. Milner and Col. A. L. Loyd will
handle the writing of the paper, and
Mr. A. S. Adams, who has been with
tlie News for nearly two years will
have cliartge of the business of the
office. No other change will he made
and this is a temporary arrangement
during the absence of Mr. Taylor.
Mr. Taylor’s friends are congratu¬
lating him upon this appointment as
he knew nothing about it whatever
until Congressman rb J. Tribble noti¬
fied him that he had been selected for
tlie place. When Hon. Geo. Adams,
former Senator and Representative
from l’utnan county in another Geor¬
gia man to receive a like appointment
and lie is assigned to New York ter¬
ritory.
TAX BOOKS FOR 1915
OPENED FEBRUARY 1
Yon can now give in your state
and county taxes for this year. The
1 looks were aliened for receiving
taxes on February the 1st, by J. F.
Lunsford. Tax Receiver of Newton
e< unity.
Tax Collector W. S. Ramsey says
that there is quite a number who
have not paid their taxes for 1914.
and that he will be compelled to issue
executions against these delinquents
if they are not paid this week.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA Feb. 10, 1915.
THE LADY WHO WILL SPEAK HEBE NEXT TUESDAY
MRS. MARY HARRIS ARMOUR
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour will
in Covington at the court house
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock
will make one of her famous
She will lie in Oxford Wednesday
ternoon foilowiug at the Allen
ial church at 4 p. m.
Mrs. Armour is a very
woman and you will be
as well as lie instructed when
go out to hear her. The
Tennessean has the following to
about her in an editorial:
“Probable not since the days
Francis Willard, the great founder
the W. C. T. U.. has there
a woman of such inborn eloquence and
power to sway the multidudes, with
the mighty two-edged sword of
as Mrs. Mary Harris Armour. Her
DR. YV. D. TRAVIS IS
HEAD OF COUNTY BOARD
At a meting of the Newton County
Board of Health held last week, Dr.
W. D. Travis was elected president;
County School Sujierintendent G. C.
Adams, secretary and I. W. Meador,
County Commissioner, treasmer.
This board is a new one created
by the legislature in 1914 and they
will have charge of the health and
sanitation of the people of the coun¬
ty and of th^ school children in
tlie county. The county school super¬
intendent) and the county commis¬
sioner are members by virtue of
respective offices and the physician
is recommended by the Grand Jury.
Dr. Travis was selected by the Jury
in their January term. They will
also have charge of any
diseases that might be prevalent
the county.
“PINK LADY” MINSTRELS
WAS BIG
“The Pink Lady Minstrels,” at
auditorium last Friday night
tlie auspices of the local U. D.
was a success In every way,
tlie size of the house.
This was one of the best plays
produced by local talent in
and the ladies taking part in
minstrel, vaudeville and music
the beet. The six ladies dressed
negro women were the best
of tlie evening, or causing
laughter and the singing by a
ber of ladies was exceptionally
Taken as a whole it was a most
able evening and deserved a
house, though a nice sum was
to tlie credit of the U. D. C.
BIG BUILDING FOR REVIVAL
Atlanta,Ga—A great wooden
ture is rising on Peachtree street
governor’s mansion, which will
nearly 5.000 persons. It is to
there a month and then be torn
down The unusual expese is
undertaken by local religious
preparatory to the coming of the
Chapman-Alexander revival,
will open on February 14,
Wilbur J. Chapman, the
evangelist who will lead these
ings. will remain for the big
Bible Conference, which will
March 19, at the Baptist
He is said to lie the most
pulpit orator of today, and his
ship will draw thousands to
hible conference. Dr. Len G.
ton. who has just resigned his
charge in London, on account of
health, is expected to arrive in
for the conference, too. and if
health permits, will take a
part In the work A number of
noted religious leaders are coming.
i burning satire and sparkling wit, her
i mighty grasp of truth, her perfectably
| natural and unaffected way of pre
! renting it, born of desperate earnest¬
ness, her magnetic iiersonality, and
above all her absolute faith in God
makes her one of the most powerful
factors on the American continent in
j the overthrow of tlie liquor traffic.”
| The Atlanta Constitution says:
I “Mrs. Armour is widely known
| throughout tlie United States as a
; temperance lecturer of undoubted
oratorical powers. She has the knack
of forceful expression and a loving
piece of humor that catches and holds
j tlie attention of her audience. She at¬
tracts by her humorous gift the anti
nrohibitionists as well as the ardent
j temperance worker.
NEGRO BURGLAR WHO
ROBBED STORE CAUGHT
** Three negroes, Byrum Curry, Lon
Jones and another negro by the name
of Chappel were arrested Saturday
afternoon and Sunday by Sheriff
Hay and his deputies. Curry was
arrested in Covington Saturday after
; noon and he confessed to breaking
j in weeks the store of Smith implicated Brothers the several other
i ago, and
j the goods until last week they be
! negroes.
j T‘ e negroes had kept quiet about
j gan to get rid of some pocket knives
; and other things stolen from the
store. A search warrant was . taken
| for one of the negroes and in his
i } house was found quite a quantity of
cloth and other items stolen. The
negroes are still in jail and will he
held until tbe March term of the
court.
HOW HE HELPED
TO KILL HIS TOWN
Atlanta, Ga,—Tlie exjierience of an
Iowa farmer who describes how lit'
helped put his own town out of busi¬
ness b\ pHtrnniz/ln.g mail order houses
has been attracting the attention of
several large papers. Hans Gnrlms. a
German, wrote tlie article in question.
He said, in part:
"Tlie first year l was farming tin*
home merchant helped carry me
through, sold me supplies on credit,
and accomodated me until 1 was able
to buy a forty-acre place of my own.
then the mail order houses began
sending me catalogues and sending
salesmen to see me.
“I begau sending my orders to the
mail order houses, and as this took
ready money, I let the home merchants
wait on their accounts. We had a nice
little town, with live merchants and
a good school and were growing rapid¬
ly. It looked like a fine place to live.
“Other folks began patronizing the
mail order houses and giving them
the best of their trade. We used to
make up neighborhood orders and save
freight hills. Gradually our mer¬
chants began to lessen their stocks of
goods, for they found they could not
sell them. One by one they began
moving to other towns. The town
went down, the school fell off. The
hotel is closer! because no traveling
men come The farm which I once
held at $2<K) an acre because it was
near a live town is now worth about
forty dollars an acre That’s how I
bellied to break up my town, and my¬
self with it.”
NEGRO MAN IS
GIVEN BIG FINE
ELI HARRIS HITS WIFE SEVER¬
AL TIMES WITH BIG STICK
AND IS GIVEN FOUR MONTHS
ON STREETS OR $50.00 FINE.
Eli Haris, colored, who has served
a term in tla* asylum at Milledgeville
and has been in trouble hpre before
in tlie courts decided Saturday after¬
noon that he would put his wife out
of business.
It seems from Harris’ statement
that he and his wife - are separated
and the difficulty arose from an ar¬
gument about them. Late Saturday
afternoon the two negroes met at a
negro restaurant on the east side of
the square and after a few words
were passed and lEli struck his wife
several blows with a big hickory stick.
Some said that he hit her five times.
The back of ber head was fractured
from one of the blows and she left
a stream of blood for a block.
At the trial Monday morning,
Mayor Everitt gave the negro a fine
for fighting on the streets of fifty
dollars or four months on the streets
and we understand that a warrant
will l>e issued for him to hold until
the .next term of the Superior Court
in March.
Hub Henderson another negro got
too much whiskey Saturday night and
wanted to tight. He and Will Puck¬
ett had a nice little scrap and tb
Mayor gave him $25.00 and costs or
thirty days for the fighting and $5.00
and costs for being drunk.
Mayor Everitt told those who came
before him Monday that he was go¬
ing to stop this fighting on the streets
in Covington. He[ toldi the$n last
week that he was going to stop the
blind tigers in tlie city also we be¬
lieve that he will do it. The Mayor
is on the right line and the people of
Covington appreciate the work that
he is doii g to rid the city of law¬
lessness.
VALENTINE BOX SUPPER
AT FAIRVIEW SCHOOL
There will be a Valentine box sup¬
per given at Fairview school house
on Saturday evening, February 13th,
beginning at 7 o’clock. “Cupid’s Post
Office’’ will be open for “General De¬
livery” of all Valentines. All patrons
and friends are very cordially invited
to come and take part. A happy j
evening is expected and being planned.
BUY RIGHT!
Buy with a CHEC K and secure a
RECEIPT for every’ eent spent.
Corporations and business houses
r arely, if • ever, pay cash—they pay
via the CHECK BOOK and have a
RECORD and a RECEIPT.
Apply a system and method to your
expenditures and you’ll find that
waste will be eliminated.
Your account is invited.
BANK OF, COVINGTON
CAPITA!.* 100 000 PBOflTS‘15 t)f.C
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS—
MENTION THE NEWS, f
$J A Year In Advance.
“GEORGIA GO TO
SUNDAY SCHOOL DAY”
NEXT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17,
IS THE DAY SET APART BY THE
GEORGIA SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION TO ATTEND.
There has been several “go to
church” Sundays and several
‘prayer Sundays”, but next Sunday is
tlie day set apart by the Georgia
Sunday School Association for the
“go to Sunday School Sunday.”
The work of the Georgia Associa¬
tion in the past few years has been
steady and the per cent of scholars
in tlie Sunday Schools of the state
are increasing rapidly, with the aid
of the comity organizations, of which
Newton county has been one of the
best in the state.
A startling fact in connection witn
the statistics complied by the associa¬
tion is that there is 1,523,601 white
people in the state and that less than
22 per cent attend Sunday school.
The Association is planning for a
great advance work in Georgia and
each one is asked to make an offer¬
ing to the work, all of which will be
used to make more and better Sun¬
day schools in Georgia, so that the
word of God shall he carried by tlie
hands of trained workmen to every
man, woman, boy and girl in the
state.
The Sunday School Convention will
meet at Americus, Ga., April 20, 21,
22, 1915. Every white Sunday
school in the state is requested to
elect three delegates besides pastors
and superintendents who are ex
officio delegates.
Go to Sunday School next Sunday
and carry all the children and let
Newton county have the largest per¬
centage at school of any county in
the entire state.
LUNSFORD YVITHDRAYVS
FROM LUMBER FIRM
Mr. Evans Lunsford, who has been
in tlie lumber business in Covington
for tlie past several years, has sold
ids interest in the business, the
change taking effect on the first of
February. Mr. S. H. Adams takes
over the business, but the firm will
continue to be operated as Lunsford
Adams. The firm was incorporated
about three years afeo, and is still an
incorporated firm. Mr. Lunsford will
devote Ids time to the breeding of
Hereford cattle and to his farms in
the county.
