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BOVERNMENT PUNT
TO MAKE NOTROGEN
SENATORS SEEK TO SECURE ACT
OF CONGRESS PROVIDING FOR
ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH
A PLANT.
Atlanta, Ga., May 1.—It is confident¬
ly believed by fertilizer men in Atlanta
that by the end of twelve months a
plant to produce nitrogen from the air
and the shipment of potash through
the Panama Canal from the Pacific
Coast in great quantities at cheap rates
will both be in operation.
Three southern senators have active¬
ly supported the erection by the govern¬
ment of nitrogen plant to produce ni¬
tric acid, absolutely necessary in case
of war and, when not needed for this
purpose to furnish raw material for
the nitrogen used for fertilizers. They
were Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and
Senator Oscar Underwood, of Alabama.
It is proposed to erect one or more
nitrogen plants to extract nitrogen
from the air and be prepared to make
nitric acid without importing salt peter
from Chili in case of war. As the plants
will be needed but little for this pur¬
pose in times of peace, it is proposed
when they are not engaged in war, to
utilize the product for commercial fer¬
tilizers.
In connection with the investigation
upon this subject before the committee
on agriculture, Senator Hoke Smith
developed fully the raw material in
this country out of which potash can
be made.
There are a number of beds in the
west that may be used for this purpose,
but the thing especially brought to the
attention of the committee was the
great quantity of “kelp”, a sea weed
growing from Alaska to Southern Cal¬
ifornia, extending out about three miles
from the coast.
When dried 25 per cent of this weed
consists of potash salts, and the secre¬
tary of agriculture is arranging for a
government plant on the Pacific Coast
to test out commercially the separation
of the dried kelp from the Potash salts
in the sea weed called “kelp.” The
neccessity for the separation is to re¬
duce the freight on the transportation
from the Pacific Coast to the Eastern
Coast.
OBSERVEOJN OXFORD
Last Wednesday, Memorial Day,
was fitly observed by the people
of Oxford as well as the students.
In the afternoon all assembled in
front of the chapel and went from
there to the old Confederate cemetery,
weher so many of those who died while
they were being cared for as wounded
in the two society halls, lie buried.
The exercises at the cemetery were
opened with “America” sung by every¬
body present, followed by "The Bonnie
Blue Flag,” sung by the Palmer Instir
tute pupils. J. H. Wilson, president
of the Senior class, next spoke on “The
Confederate Soldier,” an entertaining
and well presented talk. A quartette
composed of Professor Goodyear, G.
H. Boyd, Sumner, and Rainey sang
“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.”
Then Mr. George Stone, one of the old¬
est citizens of Oxford and a graduate
of Emory in the class of 1875, made
the speech for the occasion on “Rem¬
iniscences,” recalling the scenes in
Oxford “during the war” when, as a
boy, he passed through these experi¬
ences.
After the formal exercises flowers
were spread on the graves of the dead,
both the known and those who rest
beneath the grass unknown.—Emory
Weekly.
KEEPING UP TO THE MARK.
“Spring fever” is not always a joke.
If you feel dull and sluggish, tired and
worn out, suffer from backache or
weak back, rheumatism, sore muscles,
stiff joints or other indication of kid¬
ney trouble, it will pay you to investi¬
gate Foley Kidney Pills. They are
highly recommended as prompt and
efficient aids to health. For sale by
C. C. Brooks.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
All persons holding demands against
the estate of Andrew Sims ,late of
said county, deceased, are hereby no¬
tified to render same to undersigned
in terms of the law. All persons owing
said estate are notified to make im¬
mediate payment.
This April 18, 1916.
5-25, 6) J. L. STEPHENSON.
Admr. estate of Andrew Sims, de¬
ceased.
PURE BRED SUNBEAM COTTON
SEED $1.00 per bushel. L. W. Jar¬
man, Porterdale, Ga.-*-Adv. tf.
TEACHING AGRICULTURE
IN RURAL SCHOOLS
People were slow in recognizing
the importance of agriculture as a
school subject. When we stop to
think how great our dependence must
always be on products of the farm,
and as our population increases, the
necessity becomes still greater for
scientific agriculture to make the
most from every acre used for any
purpose, we must see that agriculture
in our schools has come to stay and
to be increasing in its demands.
Teachers Needed.
The sudden impetus given quite re¬
cently to popular education in agri¬
culture has found very few teachers
prepared and thousands unprepared
to meet the situation. Laws have
been passed requiring the teaching of
agriculture as a common school sub¬
ject, and teachers have been required
to take examinations in it, yet op¬
portunities to prepare have been
meager. Since the only way to reach
the masses of the people with the
newer agriculture is through the
medium of the public schools, teach¬
ers must prepare and the people must
support the movement. This moans
teachers in high schools as well as
in elementary schools. It means that
more rural high schools must be de¬
veloped, and more one-teacher schools
must adapt to the new order.
Government Aid.
The United States Government
gave the greatest stimulus to agricul¬
ture through various acts and appro¬
priations establishing Agricultural
Colleges. This government is now
interested in extending the work to
the public schools. The Smith-Lever
Bill will extend greatly the extension
work already begun through club
agencies, and farm and home econo¬
mics demonstrators. The pending
bill in Congress, Smith-Hughes Bill,
will go further and add new features.
This bill, or one like it, will sooner or
later pass into law Communities
ready to avail themselves will be the
first to receive aid. County boards
county superintendents, and local
boards should not sleep over their op
portunities. The teachers must be
prepared, as a first step, and com
munity sentiment must be stirred to
put things in shape. The greates'
help in all this will be prepared teach
ers whose enthusiasm for the work
will increase with their preparation
Institutes Not Sufficient.
Only a small portion of our teach¬
ers can come from our Agricultural
College graduates. These are quick¬
ly taken for various leading purposes.
The great number of teachers al¬
ready in active service, as well as
prospective teachers, must he reach¬
ed. The teachers' institute can do
only a very little in this. The most
serviceable agency is the Summer
school. Summer schools have rapid¬
ly sprung up in every State until
these have taken the place of the old
Institute which now takes Its proper
place as a teachers' meeting with the
Superintendent for directions In local
work.
New Courses for Rural Schoo's.
The coming session of the Georgia
Summer School for teachers has plan¬
ned in advance of any other school
to offer valuable courses for rural
teachers. These have in mind high
school teachers, elementary teachers,
even those in charge of one-teacher
schools. In the one-teacher school,
the best agency to use is the boys’
and girls’ club. There is literature
for this to be had from the United
States Department of Agricutlure
the State College of Agriculture, and
other sources. This literature is
mostly in the shape of bulletins, some
of which are adapted for use in the
schools, some are not. There are
extension workers, agents of the
State College in connection with the
United States Government, who may
be called upon to aid teachers. The
teachers can organize the boys and
the girls into clubs. Corn Clubs, Can¬
ning Clubs, Home Economics Clubs,
Pig Clubs, Poultry Clubs, and Four
Crop Clubs. The beginning is simple
and the work will gradually grow.
The literature and plans are discuss¬
ed at club meetings in school, and
the work is done mainly at home
under life conditions. Boys and girla
are soon in the way of money mat¬
ing as well as of scientific education,
and new life is thus put into the
monotony of the old school.
A full course giving instructions to
teachers all about this club work will
be given In the Summer School under
the directions of State Managers
Prof. J. Phil Campbell, Miss Mary
Creswell, and other leading extension
workers. There will be a course in
Home Economics for Rural Schools,
considering conditions where there is
little or no equipment.
Men’s Spring and Sum¬
mer tailoring books have
arrived and the same
big values as we offer
you in other lines fit
styles quality workman¬
ship fully guaranteed
come and see them.
J. I. GUINN.
Then for the further education of
teachers in the fundamentals of ag¬
riculture so they may become profi¬
cient in this work, may broaden It
where schools consolidate, and may
become teachers of Agriculture In
high school positions, courses are of¬
fered In General High School Agri¬
culture, Floriculture and Gardening,
Soils and Fertility, Field Crops, Ani¬
mal Husbandry, and Farm Mechanics.
These courses will be given by Prof¬
essors In the College of Agriculture
which insures their prime quality.
These make a rich feast spread for
the rural teachers, and even the city
teachers need tp partake freely. The
Summer School wants to gather in
many teachers from every county and
town in Georgia so that these may go
back to form centers of radiation.
The teachers should be interested in
getting to these courses, and, above
all, the superintendents and boards
should be interested in sending teach¬
ers. This is one way to get agricul¬
ture In schools.
SIMMONS GROCERY COMPANY.
BIG TIME AT STONE MOUN¬
TAIN, GA., 2ND. SATUR¬
DAY IN MAY, 1916.
Will sell return tickets Almon
to Stone Mountain, 50c whole,
25c half fares. Using trains
No. 11 and 12, leaving Almon
5:54 a. m-; return 7:49 p m., on
May 13th, 1916.
C. E. YOUNG,
Ticket Agent.
TELLS WHAT SHF THINKS.
Anna Hawn. Cedar Grove, Mo.,
writse: “We think Foley Cathartic
Tablets are the best liver pill we ever
hold of, as they do not nauseate or
gripe, but act freely on the liver.”
Recommended for constipation, bloat¬
ing, sour stomach, gas or stomach, bad
breath, clogged or irregular bowel ac¬
tion. For sale by C. C. Brooks.
NOTICE DEBTORS AND CRED¬
ITORS.
All persons owing the estate of Mrs.
Mary E. Avery, late of said county,
deceased, are requested to make im¬
mediate payment. And all persons
holding demands against said estate
are hereby required to render said de¬
mands in terms of the law.
This April 24, 1916.
S. H. AVERY and
H. H. MABRY.
6-1, 6) Administrators.
LAME BACK.
Lame back is usually due to rheuma¬
tism of the muscles of the back. Hard
working people are most likely to suf¬
fer from it. Relief may be had by
massaging the back with Chamber¬
lain’s Liniment two or three times a
day. Try it. For sale by all dealers.
NOTICE.
This is to notify my friends and
patrons that I .will move my office to
the Anderson building, over Dr.
Wright’s Drug Store on May the 1st.
4t. DR. TULLY U. SMITH
SHE TOLD HER NEIGHBOR.
“I told a neighbor whose child had
croup about Foley’s Honey and Tar,”
writes Mrs. Rehkamp, 2404 Herman
st.. Covington, Ky. “When she gave
it a couple of doses she was so pleased
with the change she didn’t know what
to say.” This reliable remedy helps
coughs, colds, croup and whooping
cough. For sale by C. C. Brooks.
Sour StomacN Disease!
Starts
Sour stomach is sometimes
caused by over eating and some¬
times simply by weakened diges¬
tive organs, but whatever the
cause, unless treated in time it
may result in chronic indigestion,
dyspepsia, liver and kidney troub¬
le, rheumatism, neuralgia and
dangerous toxic intestinal condi¬
tions. The established guaran¬
teed remedy is *
Nuxcara acts in a healing man¬
ner on the walls of the stomach
and at the same time stimulates
the flow of to the digestion. juices^which It is are
necessary pre¬
scribed by physicians for all forms
of stomach trouble with remark¬
able success. It has a tonic ef¬
fect on the entire system and
builds up the general health. Nux
eara is an established, reputable
and sure treatment. At all drug¬
gists at 50c and $1 per bottle, and
Is Guaranteed to
positively relieve
THE CITY PHARMACY
Covington Georgia.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1916.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR CONGRESS.
I hereby announce my candidacy for
Congress in tbe Democratic Primary.
Respectfully,
S. J. TRIBBLE.
FOR STATE SENATE.
To the Voters of the Twenty-seventh
Senatorial District of Georgia:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the State Senate from the Twenty
seventh Senatorial District, subject to
the action of the Democratic State
Primary, in which the nomination will
be made. Respectfully,
HUGH H. PRICE.
FOR CONGRESS.
I am a candidate for Congress at the
next election, to represent the Eighth
Congressional District, subject to hte
action of the Democratic Executive
Committtee of said District.
THOMAS J. BROWN.
Colds
should be "nipped in the
bud”, for if allowed to run
unchecked, serious results
may follow. Numerous
cases of consumption, pneu¬
monia, and other fatal dis¬
eases, can be traced back to
a cold. At the first sign of a
cold, protect yourself by
thoroughly cleansing your
system with a few doses of
THEDFORD’S
BLACK
DRAUGHT
the old reliable, vegetable
liver powder.
Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o<
Madison Heights, Va., says:
"I have been using Thed
ford’s Black-Draught for
stomach troubles, indiges¬
tion. and colds, and find it to
be the very best medicine 1
ever used. It makes an old
man feel like a young one.”
Insist on Thedford’s, the
original and genuine. E-67
Prince Albert will
show you the real
road to smoke-joy!
R.J.S&CO.
T^RINCE ALBERT was made to create tobacco
X content where it never existed before! It per¬
mits men to smoke all they want without getting
a sore tongue, without any comeback but real
tobacco enjoyment! The patented process by which
Prince Albert is made (and controlled exclusively
by us) fixes that—and cuts out bite and parch 1
the national joy smoke
comes right to your taste fair and square! And it
will do for you v/hat it has done for thousands of
men—make pipe or cigarette smoking the cheerful
est of your pleasures I
Prince everywhere Albert tobacco is to it be told had in What we tell you about Prince
toppy tint, 10c; red bagt, handtome Sc; tidy pound red Albert is a fact that will prove out
and —and—in half-pound that clatty tin humidors pound to your satisfaction just as quickly
cryttal-glatt tponge-moittener humidor top with that as you lay in a stock and fire-up!
fine keept thape—alwayt the tobacco / in each R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. r%7,^whicb^M ^de* Ares aee’weke
pip« where one aaokW Mere!
GEORGIA IT V V. REUNION, RKIT1VTON. DIVISION BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, SPECIAL ALA. ALA. Ik J
U. r C.
MAY 16. 17,18, 1916.
SPECIAL TRAIN Macon to Birmingham, May 15.
Round trip fares.
Lv. Macon...........9:35 A. M.. .$5.35
Lv- St. Valley.........10:30 A. M.. . 5.85
Lv. Columbus.........1:00 A M. . 3.40
Ar. Birmingham.......6:00 P. M.
The train will stop at other agency stations between Macon
Columbus on flag.
Low round trip fares from other stations.
For further information ask the Ticket Agent.
Central of Georgia Railway
‘THE RIGHT WAY.’
REMEMBER
That we are headquarters for 5 and 10 cent merchandise,
Ladies’ ready-to-wear. Skirts, 50 cents to $3.
Prettiest line of waists and 50 cent middies.
25 cent line of Children’s Combination Suits for sum¬
mer, 2 to 15 years of age.
Ladies and Children’s Hosiery. Lace at your price.
Ladies’ low cut Shoes and Slippers. Ready-to-wear Hats
for Ladies and Children, new lot to arrive this week. See
. *
ours before you buy.
With every 10 cent you spend here you are entitled
to a coupon. With a certain number of these you are en¬
titled to pieces of Rogers Silverware.
Trade with us and get full value for every cent’s
worth you spend with us.
Pennington's Cash Store
Covington, Georgia.
