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THIS MAN SAYS HE
FLIRTED WITH GRAVE
JELL OFF UNTIL HE ONLY
WEIGHED SEVENTY POUNDS.
TAKES TANLAC AND GAINS
TWENTY-ONE POUNDS
“I’ll tell you the truth; if I knew
tins Tanlac was not going to be sold
any more 1 would buy every bottle on
that counter over there before I left
here tonight,” said W. A. Spitzer, at
I'atton-Pope’s Durg Store, Birmingham,
recently. Mr. Spitzer is a well-known
painter employed! by the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railway company, and
resides at 910 South Sixty-eighth
street, Birmingham.
“Before I began taking it 1 only
weighed 135 pounds. Today I got on
the scales and tipped them at 156—a
gain of 21 pounds—and more than 1
ever weighed in my life. That’s ex¬
actly what four bottles of Tanlac did
for me. Just look at this belt 1 1 hau
to let it up four inches, and it is still
tight on me.
“About seven years ago I commenced
having stomach trouble, and it kept
getting worse until 1 began having at
tacks of acute indigestion. When these
attacks came on me I would just swell
up like a mule with the colic, and got
as limp as a rag. My breath would get
short, and my pulse so weak, I was
afraid my heart would stop beating.
The stomach pump had to be used
every time, as this was the only thing
that would relieve me. Finally my
kidneys went hack on me, and I don't
believe I was out of pain night or day
for four long years, and I actually got
so weak I could hardly stand on m>
feet—much less work. I was Riding
away fast, and got down to where 1
only weighed 70 pounds. I was almost
a walking skeleton, and 1 tell you 1
was flirting with the grave, and guess
I would have been in it if It hadn’t
been for Tanlac. For four years 1
couldn’t hit a lick of work. I guess )
was as near dead as any map you evei
saw to he alive. But, look at me now
I am strong and as well now as I ever
was in my life, and can do as big a
day's work as any man.
“Yes. sir, if ever a mortal man has
been through the rub I am the man.
I have paid out, I guess, not less than
$2,500 in’ the past six or seven years
for doctors’ hills and medicines, and
have bought enough medicine from
drug stores in Birmingham to own an
interest in one of them, and I was
lucky not to have had an understaker’s
hill to wind it all up.
“I have been a painter all my life,
nnd have had painters colic several
times, so guess that had a lot to do
with my condition. Anyway, there
seemed to be nothing that would
straighten me out. Every time I heard
of a new medicine I would get it. 1
read of Tanlac one day, and that’s one
time I hit it right. That’s what saved
me. Why, Tanlac just raised me right
out of my grave. I can now eat any¬
thing, and actually I eat so much I get
ashamed of myself. My landlady said
the other day she would have to raise
my board. I told her, though, she
must remember that for four years
she made money off of me, and that 1
was only making up for lost time Why,
seven or eight biscuits at a meal don’t
satisfy me now, but I just quit at that
for fear I will overdo matters, but
everything tastes so good to me now!
And sleep! why, I never would wake
up if they didn’t come in and shake
me. I haven’t a pain about me now.”
Tanlac is sold by The City Phar¬
macy, in Covington, Ga.; by Johnson’s
Pharmacy in Mansfield, Ga.; by J. T.
& J. W. Pitts, in Newborn, Ga.; by H.
I. Weaver & Co., in Porterdale, Ga.;
by C. C. Estes at Covington, Ga. R.
F. P. No. 4.; by Hitchcock & Camp¬
bell, Mansfield, Ga„ R. F, D.—Adv.
When you put an advertisement on
a circular, it has the chance of the
waste basket, the garbage can. the gut
tre, the street and any number of other
places before it gets into the home.
When the newspaper is used, your ad¬
vertisement goes direct to the people
who buy the paper.—Griffin News.
FOR SALE CHEAP— Good horse
and buggy. W. D. Travis, Covington,
Ga.—Adv.
FOR SALE —Baby chicks. Incuba¬
tor hatched. Good breeds. 10c each.
MRS. J. W. BEAM, Oxford, Ga.
FOR SALE—Fine Jersey Bull, one
year old. See Haygood Evans, Ox¬
ford, Ga. 6-15, 2.
Express mule and horse hides to
Athens Hide Company, Athens, Ga.
$3.00 each. Wool, Tallow, Wax and
Cow Hides at highest wholesale prices.
Good weights.—Adv. 8-24-12.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1916.
MR. MOSS’S DIARY AS
KEPT DURING
‘This Is As I Saw It. It May Be Different
As Others Saw It’’ He Says of 3d.
Regiment, Company H.
BEGINNING WITH THE YEAR 186 1
\
1861. s ’ S I **
September.
1st. The men returned from over the Sound to camps. Col. Shaw arrived
with part of his regiment, the 2d Regiment North Carolina Troops.
22,-23, 24. Taken up in drilling on Batteries and Magazine. 8 men from Com¬
pany H. on Battery.
25th. Target Shooting on at Pork Point Battery.
26, 27. I was sick with fever.
28th. Went to hospital tent with chills and fever. Major Lee was sent to
Portsmouth after our money but did not get it.
29th. General inspection of arms.
30th. Preparing to take a cruise toward Hateras.
October.
1st. The Steamers, Curlew, Roily, and Jenny Luska started towards
Hateras and captured a small steamer, Fannie, with 2 Rifle Guns, the
one of them the Little Sawyer. The Fannie was on her way to Chicka
maeomico Island, where the 20th Indiana Regiment was, but few escaped
from the steamer. She was captured in 27 shots, mostly from the Curlew,
with 1056 overcoats and a lot of saddles and bridles and blankets. The
Yanks went below after raising She white flag and were helping them¬
selves to liquors and champagne. Baskets were broken open and they
were having a good time when our men boarded her.
2d. The steamers returned to the camps with their prize and all hands
went to chopping wood for the boats; we had found out that the 20th
Indiana Regiment was there on Chiekamaeomico Island and the steamer
did not have time to go to the wood yard after wood. We took a man’s
fence from around his crop and cut the rails for wood to fire up the
steamer.
3d. All was in readiness to go aboard in the evening, all that was able
of the Regiment and a portion of Col. Pasmore’s North Carolina Troops
went aboard. It was a jolly crowd and a jolly time, some on barges and
some on schooners, all in high spirits to meet the 20th Indiana Regiment
on the Island at Chiekamaeomico.
ith. About 1 o’clock in the morning of the 4th they got off and left me
and Hal Lee to take care of camps. I had more watches and pocket
books than I could take care of and a trunk with instructions that, if
they were captured, 1 was to take them to Kagshead and go to Norfolk.
The troops arrived at the Island at 7 1-2 o’clock in the morning. With 2
brass howitzers, the first tire put them to flight. Leaving their camps,
ammunition, and all camp equipage, all strewn around promiscuously,
and their breakfast on the fire, they broke for Fort Hateras. Had the
North Carolinians been successful in landing, none of them would have
got away, but, owing to shallow water, they did not land their men. The
3d Georgia pursued them, some say 27 miles. They went near the land
battery at Hateras but were compelled to fall back in good order, as
there were but few who went that far. Some gave out and could not
keep up, some were left with the howitzers. They dragged them some
distance, the sand was too deep, they gave up trying to follow, they left
one piece until the next day. The 3d Georgia camped that night about,
promiscuously scattered like sheep. They took 55 prisoners.
5th. The Steamer Monticello shelled them on their retreat back to our
boats. The steamer threw, so Col. Wright said, 441 shells before our boys
got out of range. Joseph A. Rice was left or volunteered to look after
one of the Athen Guards who had given out and was missing. Most of
the steamers and other vessels left for Roanoke Island and some of the
Regiment. One of the Regiment died from being exhausted. The boys
all got back in the night}, tpeir feet sore and blistered, and their limbs
sore from the long race in the sand.
7th. The boys lying around sleeping and some writing home to parents
.
and friends about their first adventure with the Yanks.
8th. Col. Wright sent the howitzer to Norfolk to have a wheel made for
it; also sent about 85 prisoners, them that were captured on the S|teamer
Fannie and at Chiekamaeomico Island. Dr. Scoggins started for home.
There was a division of captured blankets.
9th. Joseph A. Rice got back from Chiekamaeomico. Rain and wind in
abundance. Rice got his man from Athens Guard who had been left.
10, 11, 12. Some drilling and great many down with the chills and fever.
13th. Col. Wright returned from Norfolk. Two or three steamers went
down to the Inlet at Hateras to try their guns or to get the rang and dis¬
tance, but accomplished nothing.
14th. IVo more companies came to us of the new ones which were left at
Portsmouth. Several recruits arrived and some steamers.
15th. Orders to clean up guns and camp for inspection. •
16th. General Hill arived on Roanoke Island.
18. Tremendous rainy days and windy.
Took names for overcoats. Heavy rains at night.
Received our overcoats and S. H. Starr and Alford Ramsey came to
camps to see their sons in Company H. Burial of one of the Burke
Guards according to military rules. A. B. Williams came to camps. He
had been at Portsmouth a long time sick.
(To Be Continued)
WE MAY NOT ALL BE GOOD
But We Are at Beast Clean!
SOFT Our Laundry paves
the way to cleanli¬
WATER ness.
Follow the
NO DAMAGE path to our
door.
SMALL Everthing good when looks it
COST leaves here.
YOU’RE NEXT; People always
come again and
TRY US there’s a mighty good
r-rton.
W. J. G0BER
COVINGTON, GEORGIA AT THE BARBER SHOP
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
. Most small advertisers always
themselves the puestion: “Does it
to advertise?” It is natural for
to ask that question because in
cases they have had no experience
advertising, while in other
their advertising has been mis-directed,
and consequently they did not get
isfactory results. Here is a little item
with an Atlanta date line that offers
come concrete evidence that it pays to
advertise:
Atlanta, Ga., May 23.—Does adver¬
tising pay? Always, and sometimes it
makes a fortune for the man who foots
the bill. An Atlanta soft drink con¬
cern, with its modest capitalization
of $50,000, increased its assets by
$1,370,000 in its last statement, and is
now worth $6,572,647. It has $3,283,
000 in real estate and a $2,924,889 sur¬
plus—all built on advertising. An au¬
tomobile corporation reports increased
sales of over $13,000,000 last year—due
to increased advertising. A cereal
company reports a gain in in gross
earning of $11,356,972, or 67 per cent
increase in two years. Advertising
did it. On the other hand a biscuit
company, which reduced its advertis¬
ing appropriation for last year, show’s
profits shrunk from $731,172 to $422,-
371.
These figures w’ill prove interesting
both to advertisers and non-advertisers.
When a business man stops advertis¬
ing it w'on’t be long until his business
will be “advertised for sale.”—Telfair
Enterprise.
DR. W. C. WRIGHT
DENTIST
The most accurate methods used in
all lines of dentistry. Work that pre¬
sents an artistic appearance and has
lasting qualities. The latest methods
employed. Reasonable prices. Sat¬
isfaction guaranteed. See me about
your dental work.
Office in Anderson Building, over Dr.
Wright’s Drug Store.
Residence Phone No. 87.
Office Phone No. 221.
DR. H. D. PARLIAMENT.
Special attention given to Eye, Ear,
Nose and Throat. Medical and Sur¬
gical. I handle only the best grade
of glasses and guarantee every pair.
No extra charges made for examining
the eyes when glasses are needed,
tf. 9-11 Star Building.
It Goes and Conies Back Too
--The Ford Does Both
The Ford car still sets the pace for a ear which is de¬
pendable and does not sell for a small fortune.
Just $472.60 for a Touring Car, delivered at Covington;
or $422.60 for a Roadster.
We also have tires of the same splendid service and en¬
durance. On TIRES AND SUPPLIES we pay the
freight or express.
And we guarantee the highest grade of repair work.
DRIVE IN—
and let us show your car the
character of our workmanship.
Ford Sales Company
P. J. ROGERS, Manager
, Covington, Georgia
PAGE THREE
SUMMER MONTHS
Summer months is the time for the farmer to finance
his land holdings. THIS summer every farmer who owes
money on his farm ought to arrange for a long time loan.
There never was a better time than right now to secure
money readily and on favorable terms. What the condi¬
tions may be next fall, no one can tell. I have instruc¬
tions to place $100,000 during the next 90 days in farm
loans. Large loans ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 are
wanted, but smaller loans will be quickly handled.
Call on or address—
R. W. MILNER
Attorney
Covington Gporfia
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