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COMMERCIAL AND
JOB PRINTING
A SPECIALTY.
VOL. VII NO 30.
fJONTICELLO WINS
FIRST OF
COVINGTON TAKES THE
BY SCOKE OF 17 TO 5
GAME PROMISES TO BE
OF THE SERIES.
Tlif first game of the series of
to bo flayed this year by the
ton baseball team was played
afternoon on the local grounds and
wu ld nut wish to see a bette r game.
It was more of a pitchers
team reached first base in the
h single man on the
s j x innings, as Collier, the
pitcher, had the local hoys going.
eighteen men faced him in those
innings, tmt in the lucky seventh. Cov
ington scored her first run. Up
the last half of the ninth
that time Montieello had scored
runs on three hits. Montieello
another in the eighth and in the
half of the ninth Covington tied
score. The game lasted through 11
Innings and Montieello won by
sco re of I to (i.
We might add that we gave
a trot for their money. Battle pitch
ed a great game for Covington and
local hoys played good ball.
The second game was won by
local hoys in n walk, il being a one
sided game from the first inning, and
was e al delbuvpmrietaoinshr
was called by umpire Turner in
eighth inning, the score being 1i7
5 in favor of Covington.
Todavs game promises to he
best of the series with Collier
for Montieello and Gheesling to.
iagton. It will he rem inhered
Collier played in the Southern Least.,
and is what you might call a profes
sional baseball player, while
is one of the best amateur
in this section of the state. A
crowd is expected out this afternoon
to see the last game of the series.
That the people of Covington ap
preoiate our hoy's efforts to give them
good hall games was evidenced yes
terdny by the business men closing
j their places and attending the game,
j The sate receipts for the first two
| games was good and there is no rea
son why Covington should not have
j the best amatuer team in the state.
FIRST COTTON BLOOM
Mr. Grady Adams of near Mansfield
ll'rmight the first cotton bloom to tli
IM-w.s office Monday morning. It was
l f " ni "l °l"‘ u by him on the 18th.
COVINGTON, GA.
Capital & Surplus $60,000.00 What
President N. Z. Anderson
V • Pres., E. W. Fowler, W. B.
R. Pennington. will
Cashier C T- Aiken, p. J. Rogers your
Ass’nt Cashier
** P l ‘ l le nt. Interest on Time
Deposits. harvest be?
And what will you do if
it is a failure? Provide
against that misfortune
now by putting all the mon¬
S A. IK ey in the bank you can.
'* ORGANIZED
ChTKM AND Always think of your har¬
'^©j^LLED BY vest—at seed time—and
bank against the future.
PV
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
310 Steadily Growing-Come and Grow Witn Us.
Commiton
jCOBB AND BRYAN
AND NEW YORK
HOW NEW YORK IS PLEASED
WITH THE RESIGNATION OF
BRYAT - WILLIAMS SUGGESTS
j THAT HE GO TO MEXICO
• By Cranston Williams.)
Well, in his own statement the la
niente<1 William Jennings Bryan, thrice
i ''undulate
' a for president
and once an
I imposition on the American peop'e in
I the caparity of scretary of state, says
he is greate r th a» the president of the
j * ' ited States. In other words, as a
subordinate official to the president.
| i-t.ian believed his ideals and wonder¬
ful wage of “cure-all” was much more
desirable than Wilson’s action—which
; 1,f| s received the approval of the na
i Hon. 1 his is a general summing up
j of Bryan's grandstand move in quit
t'm- the white house official family.
fi° news of the great tradegy reach¬
ed New Vork Tuesday- afternoon in
l-me to catch the late extras and set
11"' baseball results in the back ground,
‘"'d even with Ty Cobb’s Starring in
New Yokr. Everywhere Bryan’s move
was featured, and “if you have any
tears to shed prepare to shed them
now." was met with a general relief
of satisfaction.
New York always greets the latest
deve’opments in the world war and the
national crisis with feverish anxiety,
hut remarkable was the effect of the
Nebraskan’s resignation, it being re¬
markable that there was no effect oth¬
er than a general population drawing a
new breath, with the atmosphere much
more da l ifted.
Thfi stock market become feverish
over the action but they are not of
sufficient import to effect the genera!
barometer. You know the stock mar
’kets thrive on excitement and their
, life is thoroughly artificial. The New
York papers have depicted Bryan in
j the cartoons to such a humorous de¬
gree that Happy Hooligan deserves a
new dress suit. Suddenly Dr. Dern
Uerg has become a favorite son in com
parison with the jieerless leade,. and
they both might do well to hoard the
first skiff to the land where the kaiser
slill reigns as God's viee-regent.
New York is delighted that the debt
! contracted at the Baltimore convention
has been paid. President Wilson has
not only paid dearly for the support
i i t the late secretary, but it se-uns
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, June 23, 1915.
FARMER” AGREES WITH
“TAXPAYER.”
Takes a Shot at Our Poor System and Says
1 hat We Are Not at War.
Covington News:
1 am in full accord with the pro.
test of the tax payer in your columns.
He says he “has to work all the time”
to pay salaried officers, etc. We
in the same boat and propose that
state’s appropriations be cut down
her income and that we should not al¬
low the State Treasury looted of all
and then forced to float
bonds to satisfy the greed of salaried
men and the fanatical cry fn r greater
appropriations for the public schools,
Did it never occur to you tax payers,
who follow the plow, that you could ed.
ucate your own children for far less
money than you are being taxeu *Oi
that purpose? Yet you could.
Did you ever study the question of
compulsory education and do you know
that that stroke of the Legislature
fixed on the freeman of this ittate the
shackles of the most abject slavery?
God gave you your children and made
it your bound duty to govern and man¬
age them. Do you propose to allow
them, by your vote, to belong to the
state and resign the guardianship of
them to the state and allow the suit*
to Cornell you to send them always
and every year to school, even though
you know they should he trained by
their parents at home to various kinds
of regular work and business?
Didi you eve r stop to think bow
the father and mother, especially on
the farm, could work enough to feed
and clothe all the family and keep the
children in school? Could you do this?
Did you not know that the German
Kaiser owns all the children and they
must obey him and belong to him in¬
stead of thei r parents? This system
of state education originated in des¬
potic Prussia and the people there be¬
long to the Emporer. They show in
their debased and enslaved condition
the terrors of slavery, the woes of tax
burdens, the poverty that results from
slavery and in the awful slaughter of
war; they are satisfied at the mere
word of the Kaiser, without knowing
why they are fighting, having no will
in the matter.
Are you, free Georgians, going to
-esign your rights to your children
and give them indeed to the state,
after your fathers fought to give you
and your posterity freedom? Do you
prefer slavery to freedom ?
If you wish each son to be forced
as if (he coarc«-venire" his ae
count
Th e Chautauqua platform has now
received the entire time of their cir¬
cuit rider, and Carrie Nation can se
core an additima' hatchet. Tiu man
who cannot be crucified on a ctoss
other than a campaign of selfishness,
and who has crowned his ownself with
thorns, has “retired” to private life.
The New York Telegram has referred
to him as “deader than Rameses. and
Rameses has been dead some time.
Although no announcement has been
made of any such plan, a very desir¬
able function of Mr. Bryan to exercise
would be the new president of Mexico.
He could have free reign with his
“peace propaganda.” and receive his
niche in the Hall of Fame, alongside
d1az and Huerta.
President Wilson today stands high¬
er in the estimation of the Aemrican
people than at any other time in his
career. Being unknown in politics be¬
fore his administration as governor
of New Jersey, his meteoric race for
the presidency gave rise to many ex¬
pectations as to his ability and capac¬
ity. There is no longer any room for
doubt. His error in choosing his pre¬
mier has been rectified. Rising hourly
into the great portals of fame which
were swung open to admit such char¬
acters as Washington and Lincoln, he
has occupied with dignitw the highest
political gift within the power of
America and her pen"'
A recent acquisition to the American
baseball league Is a well known
Georgian. Key Perryman. His
on the Polo grounds, with the
Louis “Browns” battling the New
“Yankees” was made Saturday
noon. when he went into the past
as “relief’ pitcher. By the way he
.to serve so many years in the army
as they do have to do in the Mon¬
archies of Europe, where they are
made “cannon fodder?” Then give
them to the state with compulsory edu.
cation, for if you resign them and their
guardianship to the state you are pav¬
ing the way to Monarchy and no longer
j have the indpendence of the free Rep¬
ublic that J 7 ou r brave ancestors gave
j you at the cost of their blood.
i Did you ever stop to reflect that
j God gave you your children and that
j you love them far better than those
j who are after the salaries do? If
you think somebody else will care for
them better than you do without being
paid terribly for their trouble, then
you can give them to the state and vote
for compulsory education and thus re¬
sign the rights of freedom and the
glories of the once free republic.
’ of Revolutionary sires
Defendants
j preserve your liberties and send only
men pledged to preserve your liberties
and to reduce the awful taxes that
must soon weigh us to the earth. Send
men to forever down the compulsory
education. Send representative legis¬
lators and congressmen to take off the
unreasonable taxes and make us free
again..
What is the matter, good citiens, we
ar e not at war. we didn’t use to have
to pay such taxes, we used to live
in the “Land of the Free and the Home
of the Brave” We liked that better,
didn’t you? We used to he very hap¬
py and every man had enough and
every man rested “under his own vine
and fig tree” and none dared to make
him afraid. What is the matter. I
say? The people were better and hap¬
pier with a little tax and lots of peo¬
ple were accused to giving in too much
property. They were proud of their
honest income then and made the val¬
uation a little too high—so their
neighbors said. How is it that these
same people are being accused of un¬
der-valuing their property?
Now, like “Tax Fayer”, T have
j kpoken and wish all the farmers like to
give their views as to which they
best, high tax or low tax; compulsory
education or not, for according to the
way our government was set up it be¬
longed to the peon’c ami it is the neo¬
pie’s business and rights and duty to
speak out right now and say what shall
be done. FARMER.
PICNIC AT LAST.
The Sunday School of the Baptist
church will have their picnic at
Grant’s Park. Atlanta, next Friday,
June 25th. The very low rates on the
railroad, seventy-five cents for the
round trip, ought to induce a good
many people besides our Sunday
School to take the trip to Atlanta.
Arrangements have been made for ev¬
ery member of our Sunday School to
go whether lie feels he can afford it °r
not. Gome to the church on Friday
morning by 4 :45 o’clock and get youi
ticket, if you have not already obtain¬
ed it from Mr. Norman at N. S. Tur¬
ner’s office on Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Norman exacts to have some of
the tickets there at that time. The
train will leave the Georgia Railroad
station at 5:44 Friday morning. Get
on hoard and with us.
H. W. WILLIAMS, Pastor.
GO TO THE BALL GAME THIS
AFTERNOON AND CARRY YOUR
HORN.
in portions of four out of the last five
games. His record reads peculiar, hav¬
ing been in 16 games, won 2, lost 1.
with a percentage of .667.
Perryman was a star at Emory Col¬
lege. and played with Atlanta last
year. Although his first trip to the
majors he is going good. In the com¬
pany of a Georgian and Emory friend,
we saw “Perry” go to the mound and,
after the game joined the St. Louis
team The Georgian enjoys the unique
heighth of i>eing the lowest of four of
the SL Louis pitchers, and “Perry” is
6 feet 3 1-2 inches his ownself. As
“Perry’s” guest we will journey to the
Polo grounds for a double-header Mon¬
day afternoon, and the Georgian will
i likely work in one of the two
CELEBRATION AT
OAK HILL JULY 5
THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL
CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD
THIS YEAR ON THE THIRD OF
JULY-GOOD PROGRAM.
Tile twent.v-nin.fh annual celebra¬
tion that is to he held at Oak Hill this
year promises to be one of the best, if
not the best that has ever been held
at that place. An excellent program
is arranged for the day a record break¬
ing crowd is expected to be on hand.
These annual celebrations are held
on the Fourth of July of each year,
and on the third when that day falls
on Sunday, so it has been arranged to
hold the celebration on the third this
year.
This has been a custom of the i>oo
nle of the western part of the coun
ty for more than a quarter of a cen¬
tury to hold these annual meetings and
the(r are ja’fways 'interesting. Each
year the programs are arranged by a
committee that understands what the
people want and this year’s have
spared no pains to vet a good one.
The promoters of the celebration
have also invited the West Newton
1 Hvision of the Newton County Sun¬
day School Association to meet with
them on that date and it is thought
that the invitation will he accepted.
The public is cordially invited to come
out on this date and bring you,, bask¬
ets.
The full program will be published
next week if it is completed by that
time.
TO CELEBRATE JOHN WES¬
LEY’S BIRTHDAY JUNE 28
The Woman’s Auxiliary to the Wes¬
ley Memorial Hospital wil celebrate
the 212th Anniversary of John Wes¬
ley’s birthday on June 28th with the
Annual linen shower fo r the Hospital.
Gifts of linen or cash can be sent to
the Hospital, corner of Auburn Ave¬
nue .and Courtland street, Atlanta,
Georgia, on or before that date.
The hospital is doing a great work
in its charity wards for the unfortu¬
nate throughout the state, regardless of
creeds.
Will you take part in this great
work ?
Respectfully.
WOMAN’S AUXILIARY WESLEY
MEMORAIL HOSPITAL.
MONTICELLO VS. COVINGTON
HERE THIS AFTERNOON. COME!
pays all her bills via the check
book. She knows she has a le¬
gal receipt for every cent spent
and is sure of just where her
money goes.
Why not follow her method
and open an account here to¬
day?
BANK OF, COVINGTON PR0FIT5*15.D01,
i CAPITALHOO.OOO.
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS—
MENTION THE NEWS.
$J A Year In Advance.
“TAXPAYER” BACK
IN ANOTHER CARD
HAS MORE TO SAY ABOUT OUR
SYSTEM OF TAXATION AND
DISCUUES THE DECREASE IN
TAXABLE PROPERTY
To the Covington News and its read¬
ers :
Now we all can see the reason why
our tax was raised ths year, from the
report in The News of June the 9th
they find an estimated shortage of from
one to two hundred thousand dollars
on the digests and they say it is on
stock, and the shortage of cotton on
account of war and niggers not owning
land by the cotton mills at the time
the returns were made. Now you see
there is a few that make thei r own
; meat and bread and don’t have to buy
1
on time and now we have got to make
up that shortage some of ou r officers
can’t afford to lost their fee that comes
out of the taxes. It reminds me of
what I once heard an old darkey
say. He said he was in one of the big¬
gest stores In Covington on e Saturday
night when the bookkeeper was check¬
ing up and the register was $25.00
short and he called every man in the
house and no one could tell where it
was. The darkey said, “Cap, I tell you
what do, jes pick out four or five
good niggers and put $5.00 apiece on
their accounts, dey will pay it and
never know the difference.” Now we
ain’t that way. We can’t help but
notice such unfair things. Now if our
present officers can’t make out with
what they are getting let them get
out and let the other man have it
W. B. FINCHER.
LEGISLATORS HAVE ARRIVED
READY FOR LONG GRIND
Atlanta, June 22.—Practically all the
members of the house and senate have
arrived in Atlanta, and are busy estab¬
lishing their headquarters for the ses¬
sion. Governor Nat E. Harris and
many of the leaders in both branches
are at the Ansley, and it appears that
this hotel will be the political head¬
quarters this year,
- j
CLASS BY HIMSELF.
“Here’s a magazine offers prizes to
ladies for telling how they helped
their husbands make money.”
“If they were telling how they help¬
ed spend money,” snorted her ungal¬
lant husband, “you’d take first prize.”
—Kansas City Journal.
