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ALMON NEWS.
Aliuou was full of visitors Saturday
and Sunday attending the general•eet
ing which was a great success and we
trust that much good was done.
Our farmers are crowded with work
now. Wheat and oats are ready to har¬
vest and the grass is trying to take the
cotton and corn.
Mr. and Mrs. Butler Rogers of Cov¬
ington were guests Saturday of Mr.
and Mrs. P. B. Crowell.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Rawlins had as
their guests Sunday, Mr. Hugh Berry
and Miss May Granger of Atlanta, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Berry of Princeton.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Summers of
Rockdale were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Young.
Rev. Samuel Bryant and family were
the guests Saturday and Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Milligan.
We are sorry to hear of the illness
of Mrs. Sallie Crowell. May she soon
recover.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Berry of Atlan¬
ta were visitors here Sunday, guests
of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. c. W
Berry.
Pr. and Mrs. R. P. Archer were the
guests Sunday of Pr. and Mrs. S. W.
Everitt.
Mrs. Janie Stephens and Mrs. Ellen
Freeman of the Covington Mills were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs Mar¬
shall Edward:':.
Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Hammond of
Fairview were visiting their parents
here Sunday.
Mr. Miles Brown of Roekdali was
visiting relatives here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. Tom Capes had the misfortune
to get his fine cow killed hy lightening
one day last week.
Mrs. W. J. Young continues very ill.
Mrs. L. M. Sherwood has been in At¬
lanta the past week.
Mr. Boh Coggins attended preaching
here Sunday.
Mrs. P. Fincher of Covington was
the guest of relatives here Sunday.
It is now up to the Prison Commis¬
sion and Governor Slaton to say who
shall have the arm of the law thrown
around the thousands of innocent and
helpless girls of Georgia, or a crimnal.
DIXIE NEWS.
Miss Mollie Rakestraw is on the sick
list this week. We hope that she will
soon lie well again.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lunsford and
Mrs. R. A. Lunsford spent a day or
two of last week in Atlanta.
Misses Mary Lizzie and Rosiland
Adams are spending several days in
Madison attending commencement ex¬
ercises. They are guests of Miss Lou¬
ise Few.
Miss Lillian Riggers who lias keen
teaching at Cochran has returned home
to spend the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. James Harwell, Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Harwell of Mansfield,
and Mr. and Mrs. Wilhu r Harwell of
Covington were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Adams Sunday.
Onr community was saddened last
Friday morning when the news came
of the death of Mrs. E. W. C. Hobbs.
She had been in feeble health for some
time, though her death came as a sur¬
prise to he r many friends here and in
other parts of the county. She was a
loving wife and a devoted mother and
the sympathy of the comunity goes to
he r bereaved family. She leaves a hus¬
band, three daughters, Misses Weston.
Nora and Allene and two sons, Robert
and Lucius, besides many friends to
mourn he r death. The interment took
place at Starrsville. Rev. Trammel and
Rev. Lynn conducted the services.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Katie T. Wilson vs Pleas Wil¬
son. Libel for divorce in Newton Su¬
perior Court. September term. 1910.
The verdict for total divorce granted
the 22nd day of September, 1911 l
Notice is hereby given to all con¬
cerned that on the 10th day of May
1915, I filed with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of said county of New¬
ton. State of Georgia, my petition ad¬
dressed to said Court, returnable to tht
next term thereof, to he held on tne
Third Monday in July, 1915, for the
removal of the disabilities resting upon
under the verdict in the above stated
case hy reason of my intermarriage
with Mrs. Katie T. Wilson, which ap¬
plication will be heard at the July tei
1915, of said court, which commences
on the Third Monday in July, 1915.
This 10th day of May, 1915.
5.1£ PLEAS WILSON
Rogers & Knox, Attorney for petitioner
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A Seventy-Year-Old Couple
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KNOW THY COUNTRY
II—Railroads
In discussing the commercial
achievements of this great age, we
shall approach the subject as the
historian chronicling events. This se¬
ries will endeavor to record in writ¬
ing the supremacy of American men
and industries in the world’s affairs
and perptuate an appreciation of our
marvelous industrial achievements by
presenting simple facts, figures and
comparisons that are overpowering in
their convictions.
America holds her proud place
among the nations of the earth today
on account of her supremacy in trans¬
portation facilities. The mighty minds
of the age are engaged in the prob¬
lems of transportation, and the great¬
est men in the history of the world’s
commerce are at the head of the
transportation systems of the United
States.
In the discussion of transportation,
let us consider separately our Rail¬
ways, Telegraph and Telephones, Ex¬
press, Public Highways, Steamships,
Street Railways, Interurban and other
forms of transportation, and this ar¬
ticle will deal with railways.
The United States has the largest
mileage, the best service, the cheap¬
est rates, pays labor the highest
wages, and we have the most efficient¬
ly managed of the railways of the
world. They stand as a monument to
the native genius of our marvelous
builders, and most of the railroads in
foreign countries have been built
under American orders.
The railroads represent a larger in¬
vestment of capital than any other
branch of human activity. The mile¬
age in the United States exceeds
| KNOW THY COUNTRY |
HI—Telegraph and Telephone
Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great com¬
mercial age and the telegraph and tel¬
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of modern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
tolled for the human race.
They are of American nativity and
while warm from the mind of the in¬
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a net-work of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in its early youth, mas¬
tered the known world and the tele¬
phone has already conquered the
earth’s surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean.
No industry in the history of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever exerted a more powerful
influence upon the civilization of its
day than the Telegraph and Telephone.
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius—invention and organ¬
ization.
The industry was peculiarly fortun¬
ate in having powerful inventive intel¬
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct its organization and
growth. It is the most perfect fruit
of the tree of American industry and
when compared with its European con¬
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
rHE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY, -U SE 2,1915.
the accepted distance from the earth
to the moon. We had in 1911, the
last year in which figures for all
countries are available, on the
earth’s surface, 639,981 miles of rail¬
way divided as follows: United States
241,199, Europe 207,432 and other
countries 191,350. The United States
has 38 per cent of the world’s mileage,
seven per cent of the estimated pop¬
ulation and about five per cent of the
area. The total capital invested in the
railways of the world is $50,000,000,
000, divided as follows: United States
$13,000,000,000 Europe $25,650,000,000
and other countries $11,250,000,000.
Reduced to a mileage basis the cap¬
italization is as follows: The world
$79,000, United States $54,000, Europe
$124,000, and other countries $59,000.
A comparison of rates is equally as
interesting and the United States
takes the lead in economy and serv¬
ice. The average rate per ton per
hundred mile haul is as follows:
United States 76c, Great Britain $2.53,
France $1.44, Germany $1.44, Russia
92c, Austria-Hungary $1.30, Italy $2.30
and Switzerland $2.82.
The average yearly pay of all rail¬
road employes in the principal coun¬
tries is as follows: United States
$757, Germany $392, Italy $345, Aus¬
tria $322, Great Britain $279, France
$260 and Russia $204.
About 30 per cent, or 188,000 miles,
of the railways of the world are
government owned. About half the
railway mileage of Europe is govern¬
ment owned.
A comparison of the economy, in
time and money and the convenience
in travel, will be made in a later
article.
spiring company than the fellowship
of the giant Intellects that constructed
this marvelous industry and a journey
along the pathway of its development,
illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the lightning-flashes of
brilliant minds, will be taken at a very
early date.
A brief statistical review of the in¬
dustry brings out its growth and mag¬
nitude in a most convincing and un
forgetable manner.
The telephone service of the United
States is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest talkers on earth.
We send 60 per cent of our communi¬
cations over the telephone. The world
has about 15,000,000 telephones and of
this number the United States has ap¬
proximately 9,540,000, Europe 4,020,000
and other countries 1,300,000 Accord¬
ing to the latest world telephone cen¬
sus, the total telephone investment is
$1,906,000,000 and of this amount $1,
095.000. 000 was credited to the United
States, $636,000,000 in Europe and
$175,000,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24.600.000. 000 divided as follows: Unit¬
ed States 15,600,000,000; Europe 6,800,
000,000, and other countries 2,200,000,
000. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33,262,000 miles divided as
follows: United States 20,248,000, Eu¬
rope 10,335,000, and other countries
2.679.000. About six per cent of
the world’s population and sixty-one
per cent of the telephone wire mile¬
age is in the United States.
MISSIONARY GLEANINGS
While we arc sending the gospel to
tip heathen should we not adopt
some plan to make our own children
better acquainted with the Bible? The
short time given to its study in Sun¬
day schools is not sufficient, especially
as so many children <to not attend
and those who do usually rush home
without waiting to hea r the sermon,
and so are growing up with little
knowledge of God’s word. Within the
last few years there have been sev¬
eral plans inaugurated in the United
States to make the Bible better
known to the pupils of our public
schools, and the interest manifested
in the plans is remarkable. Church
men and all educators are alike deeply
concerned about providing moral and
religious instruction to the youth of
the nation. It would astonish some
parents to know how little knoledge
of the Bible their children really pos
sess. So few families have family
prayer, the children rarely hear the
Bible read o r read it themselves. If
wo are to have moral, law-abiding
citizens their characters must be built
on the Bible teaching. Not only
home instruction should lie given in
the Bible, but it should be taught in
the public schools, using one of the
five plans adopted by some of the other
states, or originating one of our own.
In foreign lands Bible societies are
selling more Bibles and more portions
of tlie New Testament than ever be¬
fore. and tin* heathens are eagerly
reading them. Will the time come
when they will know more of the
Bible than our children? We are told
“The entrance of Thy word giveth
life: it giveth understanding to the
simple.” Po we not need it in the
training of our children? Should not
their young minds be filled with its
knowledge, so that they can form their
characters by its rules?
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