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JOB POINTING < S>~‘\LTY.
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I VOL- V“ NO. 34-
mST GAMES TO
IE PLAYED HERE
MONTICELLO COMES TODAY. TO
MORROW AND FRIDAY STONE
U1 ('OMES. WASHINGTON TO
COME NSXT WEEK
And still "'e win. Of the four games
piayed last ' veek we took the four in
a row.
Wednesday the Monticello team was
tip and we won the game by a score of
S to Gheesling pitched for Coving
toll and struck out five men. Collier
for Monticello struck out eight. The
1(X . a l hoys made on e error and Monti
( , e llo three. It was a good game. Inu¬
tile attendance was small.
Thursday Covington went to Monroe
flIH l took the gam e by a score of 2 to
1 Perryman for Monroe struck out
fire men and Hawkins for Covington
jtniek out nine Covington mad 1 five
error and Monroe two.
Friday Monroe <-am ( » here an | t.n
largest crowd that lias eve r witnessed
a baseball game here was out and they
irere rewarded with an excellent game.
Hunt pitched for Covington and struck
(l nt twelve men. Sassnett for Mon me
struck out three. Each team made six
eiTors Tli P score was 6 to 5 in favor
of Covington.
Today Monticello comes here f<>r a
tame and we hope that a good crowd
nil! lie out to see th e game. Last Wed¬
nesday the smallest crowd of the sea
sen witnessed the gam P with this same
team and it was one of the liest of the
season. With the stores closed we do
aotsee why this should not he the host
day in the week. Com,, out to-day for
to keep a good team and a winning one
yowl attendance is necessary .
Thursday and Friday th e fast Stone
Mountain team comes here fo r two
tames and they should by* good ones.
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of
i next week Washington comes. Wash¬
ington ha s been winning everything in
that section of the state and Covington
has been taking them all here. Tbes
tames should lie some of tile best of
the season and the largest crowd of
1 the season is expected to witness them.
The success of the hall team depends
entirely on the support it receives and
the people here hav P shown the proper
spirit this year. If the attendance con¬
tinues to h ( , good at each game on the
local ground baseball " 111 he continued
through the remainder of the summer
ami we believe that the people win ,o
toml. Come out this afternoon for there
is nothing else to do and y on can see
; a Rood gam e today.
"KB&rTSBt
COVINGTON, GA.
Ca Pj‘al & Surplus $60,000.00 A Check Book
1 resident N. Z. Anderson \
C Pres., E. W. Fowler, W. B. A check hook does not burn
a
B. Pennington. hole in youj- pocket like actual
Ush>er P. J. Uop,ers money. Singing your name to a
C r. Aiken, Ass’nt Cashier chek makes think. You do
you
0 P ei cent. Interest on Time not spend a check as readidl.v or
Deposits. as carelessly as you spend ready
cash. An account at our bank
would tend to restrict your
spending. Try an account with
us and pay all your bills with
checks. We will gladly give you
a check book. If you will try
this for on e year you will lie
surprised at the money you will
save and you may then smile at
BANKl all your troubles. Make your ac-
AIT 12 ED couut grow at the bank. It is
AND recording your history and tell¬
’TILLED by ing a truthful story of your
success. Open an account with
us today. Drop a little into the
bank every week and its rapid
growth will surprise you.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
w Steadily Browing—Coins and Grow Witn Us.
WE Mammal Mm
THIRD BIST. S, S,
MEETS SUNDAY
WILL HE HELD AT LOVEJOY ON
SUNDAY JULY THE 25th. AT 2:30
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM HAS
BEEN arranged.
The meeting of the Third District
Sunday School Association of Newton
county w in be held at Lovejoy church
on Sunday July the 25th at 2:30 P.
M. The regular Sunday School les¬
son will he conducted by Mr. L. D.
King.
Reports from th e Sunday Schools of
the district.
Talk—Facing the facts, L. D. King.
Origin, Growth and Development of
tlie Sunday School—J. C. Upshaw.
Talk. Dedication of the Temple—Mr.
0. D. Gibson.
I alk by Mrs. A. E. Coogler on Pri¬
mary Work.
Chorister—Mr. Edwards of Lovejoy.
T in- following schools are embraced
n this disrtict and will be expected to
send delegations: Alcovey, Asutin’s
<'lia"el, Covington Methodist. Baptist.
Presbvterian Mills High Point, Love
iiv. Red Oak, Stewart. Newton Facto¬
ry Everybody is cordially invited to
come.
J. C. UPSHAW, Pres.
Third Division.
REPRESENTATIVE ADAMS SAYS
HANGING IS TOO BRUTAL.
Atlanta, Ga„ July 21 .—The gallows
m«v go and give plac e to an electric
death chair if the representative from
Hail county. Mr. Adams, succeeds in
vetting bis bill past the legislature.
He believes hanging to he brutal and
inhuman and desires that a death chair
be Set either at Milledgeville or Atlan
tu and all condemned prisoners execu¬
ted there. Thebill is in the hands of
a committee for investigating the elec
tric system.
MR. CALVIN HARPER. U. C. V.
GOES TO LAST REWARD.
Mr. Calvin Harper, member of Com¬
pany G Cobh’s Legion died at his home
near Porterdale Sunday night, July 11.
The funeral and interment took place
Tuesday. Mr. Harper was a well
known and higly respected citizen of
the county, where he had resided for
many years. He leaves two boys and
three girls, besides his wife and other
relatives and friends in Newton and
other counties to mounr his death.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, July 21, 1915.
WANT TO CHANGE
PRIMARY LAWS
BILL INTRODUCED WOULD ABOL¬
ISH UNIT SYSTEM AND STATE
CONVENTIONS AND LET BIG¬
GEST VOTE ELECT.
Probably no bill being considered in
the Georgia legislature has excited
more discussion in the past week than
that of Representative Beck of Car
roll county, which provides sweeping
changes in primary elections in Geor
ga. It would have all primaries, for
every office, held on the fourth Wed¬
nesday in August; prohibit any man’s
running in a general election unless he
'vas nominated in the primary: have
the state pay all expenses of such pri¬
maries Limit ail candidates in their
expenses; prohibit the hiring of any
workers and provide that the candidate
receiving the biggest vote he the nomi¬
nee. regarless of a majority. It would
eliminate all county and state eonvenn
tion s and the unit system.
The legislature has passed but few
general bills so far, having consumed
a great deal of time in committee work.
But a small number of drastic measu¬
res have been enforced, and no great
fight is expected except upon th e pri¬
mary bill above mentioned and what¬
ever temperance legislation may come
up at a later date.
The Georgia state Anti-Saloon lea¬
gue is confident of securing the pas¬
sage of Iaw r s which will render locker
clubs and near beer saloons a thing
of th P past, but there is a considerable
opposition to any change in the pres¬
ent statutes.
The desire of The Louisville and
Nashville railroad to build a new line
from Atlanta to Cartersville, compet¬
ing with the state road and joining
the L. & N. there is arousing hot dis¬
cussion nad opposition. It is realized
that with this road built the system,
which now' controls the lease of the
state road, w'ould hav e a formidable
weapon to prevent the state’s receiving
its contemplated increased rental for
its road when the present lease ex¬
pires. in a few years. Steps to prevent
the issuance of a charter probably will
be taken by the legislature .
LYRIC PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY.
The Law of the Open.—Powers.
A Mixed-up Elopement—Nestor.
A Man and his Money—Rex.
THURSDAY.
The Troubadour.—Big Up.
Grand Opening World Only Moving
City.—Victor.
Who Pays?—Complete.
FRIDAY.
The Bombay Baddah.—3 reel Imp.
SATURDAY.
The Doorway of Destruction—Bis.
All in the Same Boat.—Nestor.
Perils of Pauline.
IMPORTANT MEETING TO BE
HELD AT TYBEE ISLAND
A State-Wide meeting for the discus¬
sion of practical phases of the agricul¬
tural development of Georgia will be
held at Tybee Island. Ga.. July 24. at
2:00 p. m., and it is expected that
a large number of prominent bankers,
real estate men. merchants, and, in
fact, representatives of every line of
endeavor will he present.
Governor Harris has been co-operai
ing with the Savannah Board of Trade
in inviting representative men from all
over the state and in addition to an
entertainment and instructive pro
it is expected that there will be
gram, Branch of the
organized a Georgia
Southern Settlement & Development
Organization of Baltimore.
Persons attending this meeting will
be able to avail themselves of sam
mer excursion fares from nearby points
also week-end fares, will make the trip
a most inexpensive one.
BOARDERS WANTED.
WANTED— Boarders. Several nice
boarders, private house, meals at all
hours. WIRIGHT. __
MRS. LEE
automobile no. lost.
Lost between Covington and my
home. No. 19771. Finder please no¬
tify J. L- Harris, Covington Route 3
ARRESTED AFTER
FORTY-FIVE
W. H. McCART WHO KILLED
ROE SMITH FORTY-FIVE
AGO W AS ARRESTED NE.AR
INGTON LAST SATURDY.
Forty-five years ago this mouth
five miles south east of Covington
cured a killing. W. H. McCart, a
man, killed Monroe, op Dock Smith,
he was known. The killing resulted
from an alleged attack on Mrs.
the mother of the man charged
the murder w-ho is now in the Newiun
county jail. It i s said that Mr. Smith
struck Mrs. McCart a day or tw r o pre¬
vious to the killing. Older citiens
the county who remember the
differ some in the details as it has been
so long, very few remember all
circumstances.
Mr. McCart was arrested Saturday
by Bailiff Neely in the western
of the county, where Mr. McCart had
been flie guest of relatives for several
months and had made frequent visits
to Covington since coining hack
Ga. He has lived o utwest since tm
killing. The Grand Jury in its session
in September 1870 returned a true bill
charging Mr. McCart with murder.
Mr. McCart was visited by a News
man yesterday and he said that he had
no statement to make at present. As
court is in session he wll no doubt he
tried in the court this week.
Mr. McCart is a very clever gentle¬
man and an interesting man in manv
ways He has traveled quite a good
deal and talks interestingly. He is a
minister of the gospel now and though
he has nothing to say in regard to his
case he does not seem the lest bit wor¬
ried and does not look like a man who
fears trial.
LOBBYISTS NOT WANTED IN
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Atlanta.,—Perhaps never before in
the history of the Georgia legislature
have such diligent efforts been
to keep lobbyists off the floor of
house of representatives as
Burwell has made during the present
session. At least not since lobbyists
became a growth upon the body legis¬
lative have the gentry engaged in at¬
tempting to influence tli P making of
law’s found it so difficult to confer
with members of the liou.se. S' a 1 * 1 '
Burwell announced at the beginning
of the session that the rule against
unauthorized persons entering the
lobbies of the house and coming upon
the floor would he strictly enforced.
He told the doorkeepers that if they
could not enforce the rule he wmuld
nut men in their places who could and
would. He announced that persons
desiring to see members of the house
must stop at the door send in their
cards and wait outside until the mem¬
bers had time and inclination to leave
the hall and find out " hat they want¬
ed. Sincp that dav the marble floor of
♦he hall in front of the house of rep¬
resentatives has been under a terriffio
daily strain, but the inside lobbies and
the floor of the l\ous 0 have been so
clear that members can actually move
around without bundling into members
of “The Third House.” as the lobbyists
ar P commonly known.
MR. RICHARD McCORD HAS
LEG BROKEN LAST WEEK.
Mr. Richard McCord, well known
contractor of Covington went over to
West Point last week to make an es¬
timate on a large job there. He left
West Point coming hack home and
some six miles out from West Pornt
he ran into some rough road on his
motorcycle and it turned over with
him. pinning one leg under the xna
chine, breaking one hone in his leg
lust above the ankle and wrenching the
ankle.
An automobile came along in a few
minutes after the accident and carried
Mr. McCord hack to West Point where
the fractured leg was set. He return
(ri honip yesterday and the fractured
limb is doing nicely.
LIBRARY NOTICE.
The library will be opened Saturday
afternoon from 6 to 6:30 for the c,t<
dilation of lawks. Until further notice
it will be opened every Wednesday and
Saturday afternoon at the hours above
stated.
The public is cordially invited to
make the new attractve library bead
quarters for reading. If you are not in
a “literary mood.” drop around and
try to get an inspiration.
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NEWTON SUPERIOR
COURT CONVENES
JUDGE C. W. SMITH ON BENCH
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW¬
TON COUNTY—ABLE CHARGE TO
THE GRAND JURY.
Newton County Superior Court enli¬
vened Monday morning with Judge C.
W. Smith on tlie bench aud Solicitor
General Napier as prosecuting attor¬
ney for the state.
This is Judge Smith’s first court in
this county. He delivered an able
charge to the Grand Jury. He said
of the laws that there were three that
lii^ wanted to lay particular stress
uiKin; those of gambling carrying of
concealed weapons and th e illegal sale
of whiskey. He also called attention
to the sale of cigarettes to minors and
to the gam e laws of the state. In liis
charge to the jury he said that tin
sale of cigarettes and and the giving
of cigarettes to minors had almost be
come obsolete and that the law should
he enforced. He said that all true
sports should see that the game law is
carried out and the hunting of game
out of season and the dynamiting of
streams of fish should lie stopped
Tlie Grand Jury elected Mr. G tj.
Livingston as their foreman and Mr
Clifton Belcher, clerk.
There is quite a number in jail
awaiting tlie action of the Grand Jury
and these cases "ill he taken up first.
Judge Smith has made many friends
in the two days here and is well liked
by the bar as well as tlie people gen
erall.v. He is a lawyer of abilitv and
a very clever gentleman.
MORE CORN AND HOGS IN THE
SOUTH AT REDUCED PRICE
Atlanta, Ga.—That more corn and
hogs are being raised in the south this
year than ever was known before and
that t ,le crop is being made at a in¬
duced expense' of from 25 to 50 per
cent is shown in eports made b.\
service bureau of tin* Southern Slate
Life Insurance Company from the four
states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida
and South Carolina. It. is also shown
that tli e debts of the farmers are not
more than half what they usually ar
“The increase in the corn crop Is
fully 30 per cent,” says the consol Id at
ed report. There are a third mure
hogs than in the past. The cotton
crop has been reduced by about 22 per
cent and the land given over to grain.
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DONT THROn W-V* ^
MONEY AWAY
A distinctly w method
is that of paying d other
expenses with cash—carrying
the funds about on your person,
keeping no consistent record of
expenditures and in some cases
not receiving receipts.
How much bett: r checking ac¬
count way is. Simple exac cor¬
rect and safe—a x ner for ev
ery expenditure a: y r our money
in the bank, safe fr^i all dan
gers in the meanwhile
If you haven’t a chi cking ac¬
count with this instit tion we
would be pleased to tal the sub
jeot over with you
BANK CAPITAL* -MSB OF S * 15,000 ON]
$1 A Year In Advance.
GEORGIA EDITORS
MET IN EASTMAN
I \KGENT MEETING IN HISTORY
Of THE ASSOCIATION—J. C. Mc
AULIM i: IS NEW PRESIDENT
»M U’-G.SS ASSOCIATION.
The l" •.-lily-ninth annual session of
tb, teot'gia Weekly Press Association
(m m elted «it Eastman last week The
: ; '■ 1 1 • *- ' session was held Monday
evenirn.- and the last one Wednesday
morning. They left Eastman at 1
o’clock Wednesday for Brunswick.
The meeting at. Eastman was one of
th f , be-t in the history of the associa¬
ted a«d the largest attended. A bus
ines: session was held Tuesday morn
tog until 11:30 and the members of
the ■ > intion were carried to McRae,
twenty miles distant where a delight
ful barbecue dinner was served. The
The crowd returned by way of Jay
Bird Sprite s, a beautiful resort be
tweeii tlit- two towns, where they stay¬
tv o hours and were served water¬
melon and canteloupes
■ j.....pie »f L'.i.-d'um are n«.ted for
I heir hospitality md they certainly
prow-d it on this o. -anion. The asso
ia! >on was entertained royally in ev¬
way. Tuesday evening Mr. and
Me T. IT. Edwards gov e a reception
in Imnor of the editors and wives at
which some five or six hundred guests
entetarined at tlie beautiful c< 1 -
home.
After a short basine s session Wed¬
morning !n crowd left for
As ( hey passed through
Baxley, one of the li ; 2 ran ns of the
wire “fuss, seine hundred or more
were placed on the train
and were enjoyed b.v the newspaper
Thursday tli ( . association was the
nest of the city of Brunswick for a
fi- at ride to Jekyl and other inter¬
estin'-'! points, A (delightful dinner
v ; erv ',| on th H . boat. Friday the
a c’mtion went for u tri > to Fern
i. I'lev 11 , "hole the.\ spent a
few hours. ’
At the o' 11 of officers, J. O. Me
Auliffe \f>’ ■!'-•> ilk*, was elected
i n deni . ;‘i .1 Harner of * uitimerce.
Li f v -e president: •! K. Kin-airn? of
AMIae. second vice-president: C E.
Botins, of Butler, recording Secretaty:
If. M. Stanley of the Dublin Courier
.d 1, corresponding secretary; J. J.
of Cutlibert, treasurer.
It \\.i the pleasure of the editor - -
X—.vs with his wife to b e enter¬
tained by Mr. and Airs. W. C. Edwards
in 1 Brian and they enjoyed their
stay in' this hospitable home very
