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OFFICIAL ORGAN NEWTON
TY AND CITY OF COVINGTON, GA.
FOR THIS WEEK.
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COVINGTON, GA., JULY 28, 1915.
Why don’t someone bring in some
watermelons on subscription?
Covington is up against the fastest
team in the state this week.
Wonder if ic e would be any cheaper
if I he city operated a plant?
W e claim the Chicago disaster is
the greatest since the Titanic went
down.
Why is it that pretty silk hose hang¬
ing in show-windows doesn’t interest
men ?
After drinking a lot of ice water, the
editors have about gotten over their
trip to Brunswick and other points of
interest.
Mr. McCart, who killed a Mr. Smith
forty-five years ago, will he tried for
hjs life this week in Newton’s Superior
Court.
Ernest ramp has gotten to the place
where one page won’t hold his spark¬
ling editorials and comments, had two
pages last week.
If the officials of the Eastland steam,
er are proven negligent in that terible
disaster, they certainly ought to be
dealt with by the law.
We received our first issue of the
Telfair Enterprise this week. It is
edited by J. Kelly Simmons and is one
of the best weeklies in the state.
Remember our offer for a year’s sub.
scription to the News for the largest
watermelon is still open. Haven’t re¬
ceived a single one yet.
“United States solemnly warns Ger¬
many never again to violate American
rights,” reads a headline. This is get¬
ting to be a Cablegram controversy,
isn’t it?
Wonder if Oliver Bloodworth lias
worn out his one pair of silk socks
yet. Said in Eastman that he only had
one^ pair and that was the pair that
W. G. Sutlive of the Savannah Press
gave him.
And now Covington can build an ice
plant if they so desire. Th e bill al¬
lowed the city to construct one has
been passed, but we do not think the
people of the town want the city to go
in the ice business.
Don’t se e how a town can get along
without a good ball team, and Coving
ton is fortunate enough to have one
of the best and the people of the town
are enjoying the good games played
by the local team.
The Grand .Tury of this term of
court did not make any regular pres¬
entments. They handled the jail and a
few other eases and adjourned. The
July and January Grand Juries do not
investigate the county affairs.
We believe that the majority of the
people of the state agree with Gover¬
nor Harris’ intention of pardoning
Stripling, who is now at the state farm,
a nervous wreck. We believe that he
has paid his debt to society and the
state.
“If you want to fight, go to Germany
—If you want to talk about war, go to
h—1,” says Cranston Williams on the
Greensboro Herald-Journal, while the
old man was some where near Hel ena
on the rpess trip at the time be was
writing the paragraph.
Ben F. Perry, until recently editor
of the Jonesboro Enterprise has sold
his paper there and has gon e to East¬
man to start the publication of the
Dodge County Herald, which suspend¬
ed publication a few weeks ago. Mr.
Perry is a very clever man, but he has
on** of the best newspaper men in the
state as his opponent, Claud Methvm,
end the town is hardly large enough
for two papers
It looks from the number in jail and
the number of true bills found by tae
Grand Jury last week that the morals
of the county ar e getting worse in¬
stead of better.
Lots of politicians are talking Joe
Brown for United States Senator and
Hugh Dorsey for Governor. Dorsey to
run next year and Brown to run
against Tom Hardwick in 1918. Long
tim P off to plan a race.
The twenty-four page trade addition
of the Winder News was a corker, and
the editor and printers deserve much
credit for their work. Bet a lot of
editors would trade hte good time they
had on the press trip for the receipts
realized from this splendid addition.
The paving being done by the city
tins summer will add much to the
town. In a few days you can walk
from town to the city limits on River’s
Hill. Nothing adds more to a town
than a paved side walk and Covington
now has several miles of paved walks.
We hear many remarks about the
new highway that is being finished by
Commissioner Meado r and Superinten¬
dent ITensler between Covington and
Vlmon. This is a piece of road that
has needed working sometime and one
*»f the best jobs that »as ever been
done in the county is being completed
on this road.
The Georgia legislature have finish¬
ed more than half their term and netti¬
ng of any great importance has been
passed. W P would like to see them
pass a bill to have bi-ennila sessions
of that body and save some cost. A
large number of local hills have been
passed, but no measures of any Im¬
portance.
“ • C' ■ o • i. n • -'4} a • n • r. an %>:; •
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NOT SHOT BUT KICKED.
Guess Editor George Rucker has
made good his threat to shoot Ed¬
itor Jim Williams with ihat 100
proof “mountain dew” by this time.
—Covington News.
We didn’t get down to Eastman,
and therefore we didn’t get to
shoot Uncle Jim in the mouth with
our big gun, “Made in Old Ken¬
tucky.” But we’ll bet our red silk
sox (both for the same foot) that
he got kicked in the mouth by the
Buffalo.—Alpharetta Free Press
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Know When We Have Enough.
Hate to say it but Ernest Camp
is a quitter, along with Macon
Telegraph Venus and a few others.
They went to Eastman but jump¬
ed the game there and did not
go to Prunswidk a*id For nan-?
din. Fla. Was the game too fast
for you to play?—Covington News.
Venus had his wife along, and
besides, he had to get hack to
Macon and go to writing para¬
graphs, cause George Long said
the job was too swift for him.
As for us. we had taken a bath
th e week before and couldn’t af¬
ford another just at that time,
and we had to come on and help
Oliver Bloodwrth run the Legisla¬
ture a day or two. Things was
getting unmanageable. — Walton
Tribune.
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BANRS HIS MONEY.
When a fellow walks up and
says. “Hold right still and let me
feel in your pockets— 1 won’t st» a!
your money” we kinder doubt him.
—Alpharetta Free Press.
Now, if a fellow was to tell us
that we wouldn’t doubt him in the
least—give him half he could find.
—Covington News.
An editor that has millions that
away always banks it, but a lit tie
fellow like us, who totes it all in
his jeans, can’t afford to have
pickpockets hanging around.—Al¬
pharetta Free Press.
We’ve been cursed for everything
else since we started in th e newspaper
business, but this is the first time any¬
body ever dared curse us for having
plenty of money.
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“There is something in a name.
A man named Whiskey is in n
court scrape fo r beating up a
neighbor.” says a contemporary,
not always; a man named Drink
water was arrested in a Georgia
town for being drunk.—Dawson
News.
Y r es, and we know a man who’s
name is Loveless and he is the most
devoted husband ever lived.
THE COVINGTON NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915.
Ain’t This Awful?
We’re home again from Eastman—
From Eastman down in Dodge,
Wher e Wooten, Methvin, Milner
And other princes lodge.
We’ve eaten of their chicken,
Broiled and fried and baked and
stewed,
And we’ve seen Claud e Methvin’s six
teen snakes,
Blue and and pink rainbow lined.
W e have also been to Brunswick,
And we never will forget
How liquid was the ocean
And how very salt and wet.
But now we’r e back home again—
Woefully short of cash—
Back to the same old grind again—
To the same old beans and hash.
—DeKalb New Era.
You might have added another
spasm, Callahan.
On our trip to the Press Convention,
W e visited Helena and McRae;
And we certainly increased our di¬
mention
Between thes e two cities—Midway.
Then aecross the country about eight
miles,
We visited Jay Bird Springs;
And the country editors were all smiles
When they heard the Jay Birds sing.
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When a man’s religion becomes
so acute that lie frowns on a cir¬
cus o r a baseball game something
ought to be done for him.—Dawson
News.
You’re right. Ought to send him to
Germany, or some place like that.
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If we could think of as many
things to say as Editors Jim Wil¬
liams, Johnie Spencer and Ernest
Camp, we would be some thinker.
—Covington News.
Some things are said thought¬
lessly.—Greensboro Herald-Jour¬
nal.
If IT If
EVERYTHING WAS LOVELY.
The editors who have been
throwing bouquets at each otu .
through their editorial columns,
can pin them on each other’s coat
this week. Also the ones who have
been scrapping through their col¬
umns can scrap it out according to
Hoyle.—Covington News.
The bouquets and calogne and
toilet water and peppermint draps
that the boys have been throwing
on each other for several months
wasn’t an April shower compared
to the summer downpour of loving
embraces and felicitations and
congratulations and hugging that
took place at Eastman. If there
is anybody on earth that an editor
loves it’s another editor almost,
but not quite, as smart and good
looking as he is.—Alpharetta Free
Press.
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WHAT WE’D DO WITH A GOAT IF
WE HAD ONE.
Nine O Five still flourishes in
some quarters. It’s positively
shameful, too.—Alpharetta Fret*
Press.
Why is it that Editor Rucker
still harps on “Nine O Five?” The
fact that he can so easily distin¬
guish th e Nine O Five from origi¬
nal dope is evidence enough that
he has been, or is now, a star
customer of “905.” — Covington
News.
If we had a billy goat that was
one-fourth hyena and three-fourths
swine, and we should ever eatcu
him eating a yard of that Nine c?
Five stuff, we’d kill him and sell
his flesh to the Jews and tell ’em
they were buying the fat of lambs.
—Alpharetta Free Press.
All of which is a warning to your
printers not to misplace or let the
goats eat up anything otr your desk.
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Covington and Monroe baseball
teams seem to have a contract for
the season. No objections here.—
Walton News.
Well, it’s a cinch that there is m.
objections over here. Any time you
and Ernest Camp think you have a
team that can “mop-up” with us. we’re
ready fur you.
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In a South Georgia town, recent¬
ly, Miss Jane Lemon was joined in
the holy bonds of wedlock to the
Rev. Ebenezer Sweet. A local wit
took this occasion to foist upon an
unsuspecting public the following
stanza:
"How happly the extremes do meet
In Jan e and Ebenezer.
She is no longer sour but Sweet.
And he’s a Lemon squeezer.”
—Macon TelesrraDb
FOOLISH QUESTION NUMBER—
Wonder how many editors took
more than one pair of socks with
them to Eastman this week?—Cov¬
ington News.
Telegraph's shorter made out
like h e had an extra pair in too
trunks, but he dared not open up
and show the boys.
An editor lias two pairs of socks
just after he dies—one pair he had
been wearing for som e weeks, and
the pair his neighbors buy for him
to keep his feet from stiuking too
badly until he can be put under.
This, of course, doesn’t apply to
Uncle Bill Townsend, fo r he wears
no socks at all. hut invests bis
money in gold mines and liberty to
drink milk from ticky cows if lie
wants to.—Alpharetta Free Press.
The ul>ov e comment is evidence en¬
ough that Editor Rucker prints his
front page last because on the front
page of last week’s Free Press lie car
a story about a Mr. Daniel sending him
six whole pairs of good socks. How¬
ever. we think they arrived too late
for the Press Convention, thus it was
that Rucker didn’t show up at Eas.
man.
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Editor Fields Taylor may beat
ns playing ball now and then, but
we’ll give bim a run for his money
when we go on a hunt for the Buf¬
falo.—Walton Tribune.
You may give us a run for our
money when we go on a hunt for
this animal, but after w P find it,
we’ll beat you as easy as Coving¬
ton won the first game from Mon¬
roe.—Covington News.
Why Fields, you couldn’t even
hold a light for “Lit” Stanley —
Walton Tribune.
No, and if you don’t want to get I
“lit”-up, you had better not try to
keep up with “Lit” Stanley.
Mr. A. Whitaker who represent
ed th e Conyers Times denies in¬
dignantly that he bought a small
negro boy and swiped a cat at
Brunswick. He admits that he
met the Chief of Police and on one
of the boat trips loaned the Mayor
of Brunswick a dollar. He is a
mighty good fellow and makes
new friends every year that he
goes.—Covington News.
Thanks, R. F. How much mon¬
ey did you have when you got
home? You remember Dad took
car P of us all on his good looks.—
Conyers Times. .
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