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VOL. VIII, NO 49.
MISS CLARK HURT IH
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
COVINGTON GIRL WAS IN CAR
WHEN MR. FIELDING SMITH
WAS KILLED NEAR AT¬
LANTA SUNDAY.
Miss May Bello Clark was painfully
but not seriously injured in an automo¬
bile accident near Atlanta Sunday
morning. Mr. Fielding Smith, of At¬
lanta, who was driving, was killed.
The party was returning from the
country home of Judge S. C. Atkinson,
and the ear skidded into the culvert
under the Marietta ear line, on the
Marietta road, about nine miles from
Atlanta.
MLss Clark was sent to the Davis
Fisher hospital and Mrs. W. C. Clark,
her mother, went to Atlanta, on the
early train Sunday morning to be with
her.
From Monday’s Constitution, we take
Miss Clark's story of the accident and
the way in which she sought help, as
follows:
Ran For Aid, Though Injured.
In an effort to bring aid to her
friends who were pinned beneath the
ill-fated machine, Miss May Belle
Clark, of Covington, who was riding in
the tonneau of the machine, ran over
half a mile to awaken residents along¬
side the road, and finally fainted when
she had notified several people.
Her act in notifying residents of
this section of the Marietta road, de¬
spite her own injuries, probablj
brought aid to Miss Nell Waldo and
Ernest Schoen in time to save their
lives.
Tells Storj' To Mother.
This is the story as related by Miss
Clark to her mother, Mrs. W. C. Clark:
“I realized that we might all he kill¬
ed the moment I saw Fielding had
mistaken the culvert. I had no time
to scream or give any warning. We
hit the culvert uprights underneath
the bridge, and glanced off to the
other side against the concrete wall
The top of the automobile being up
probably saved us from being killed. 1
remember nothing more for some time.
“Finally I awoke. I didn’t seem
hurt. All I remember is hearing the
groans of Nell Waldo. Mr. Smith
was motionless; so were Mr. Brooks
and Mr. Schoen. I realized they were
either dead or unconscious. Enable to
aid Nell, as she was out of my reach, I
climbed over Mr. Brooks’ unconscious
body, opened the side door of the car.
and got out. When I got into the road
I hurried back towards some farm
houses, knocked oil the doors, and told
them of the plight of my friends in the
ear below their homes. They all hur¬
ried to the scene of the tragedy. I kept
on, not realizing my condition. I didn’t
seem to be hurt, and could feel no
pain."
Miss Clark fainted at the front door
of one of the farm houses, at which
she stopped. Later Miss O'Koof© and
other friends brought her to the city
to hospital in the Grady hospital ain
balance. Miss Waldo and others were
in the same ear.
Miss Clark, has a bruised nose: a
bruise over her right eye; a lacerated
check and other bruises about her head
and IxhIv.
Miss Clark is a talented artist. She
graduated in art at Brenau and later
studied for a year in Paris. She had
recently accepted an offer from Vogue
Publishing company to design covers
for Vogue. The large dining hall at
Brenan and the tea room of Davison
Paxon-Stokes company were recently
decorated by Miss Clark.
WILSON HONOR ROLL
HAS NEW NAMES NOW.
We give below a supplemental list of
names of contributors to the Woodrow
Wilson campaign fund.
These are the names received since
the last list was published:
W. B. Livingston ..............$1iOO
R. A. Hamilton ................ 100
J. O. Lummns .................LOO
R. I. Weaver................... 1 00
p. W. Skelton ................. 100
W. S. Marbut .................. 100
R. W. Campbell ................ 1.00
S. R Ellington ................. 100
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NEXT WEEK FOR SELF
DENIAL A N D PRAYER
Methodist Church Has Arranged Pro¬
gram fro Each Afternoon at 3
O'clock as Given Below.
I never prayed sincerely and earn¬
estly for anything but it came at some
time; no matter at how distant a day,
somehow, in some shai>e, probably the
.asc I wold have devised, it came.—
Adorniram Judsou.
Program.
MONDAY.
Devotional: “The Growing Way”
(Ps. lxxxiv. 7).
Leaflet “Financing the Kingdom—
Greatness of the Kingdom,’’ Miss Du
>ree, Deaconess from Porterdale, will
talk.
Topic: “Financing the Kingdomtaoi
Topic: “Reasons for Prominence of
Latin America.”
Prayer: That every woman in our
Church may be a worshiper, a worker,
a giver.
TUESDAY.
Mrs. Jno. B. Davis.
Religious Needs of Latin America.
Devotional: “The Unselfish Way”
(Mark viii. 34)
Leaflet : “Giving a Soul Function.”
Topic: “Religious Needs of Latin
Amercan Immigrant.”
Prayer: For missionaries working
among Latin Americans.
WEDNESDAY.
Mrs. T. G. Barnes.
Social Needs of Latin America.
Devotional: "The Heroic Way” Acts
vl. 15)
Leaflet: “Giving an Act of Worship”
Topic. “Position of Women in Latin
America.”
Topic: "The Settlement Our Oppor¬
tunity.”
Prayer: For work and workers
among Orientals.
THURSDAY.
Young Peoples’ Society.
Educational Needs of Latin America.
Devotonal: “The Fruitful Way”
(Matt. vii. 20; Ex. v. 14)
Leaflet : “Giving—Methods.”
Topic: “Education in Latin Amer¬
ica.”
Topic: “The School Our Opportunity
among Latin Americans.”
Prayer: For volunteers and for our
Training School.
FRIDAY.
Juveniles.
Our Objectives.
Devotional: “The Conquering Way.”
(Heb. xii. 2; Ex. v. Id)
Leaflet: “Giving—A More Excel¬
lent Way.”
Topic: “The School in Rio."
Topic: “Holding Institute.”
Prayer: That the favor of God may
rest upon the new school in Rio.
For students and teachers in Hold¬
ing Institute.
You are cordially invited to attend
the special week of prayer services of
the Missionary Society, at the Meth¬
odist church, November 5-11, Ibid, at
3 o’clock each afternoon.
W. C. T. U. NOTES.
Slanderous reports have been sent
broadcast over the United States by
the liquor interest that Prohibition has
Injured the business of Atlanta and
Savannah and that Georgia is suffer¬
ing from the enforcement of this law.
Letters from California have been
received asking for the truth of the
published statements that business of
all kinds was stagnant In Savannah
and Atlanta, that stores were vacant,
and merchants on the verge of bank¬
ruptcy, and the public schools of At¬
lanta had been compelled to close for
want of funds to run them.
These statements ar e false in every
resiiect. The beneficial effects of the
enforcement of the law was apparent
from the very first. They are evident
in every branch of industry. Many
prominent men who were at first op¬
posed to the principle of prohibi¬
ts now admit that it is doing great
good.
Our negro laborers and our mechanics
do better work. They put in more
time, earn more money, spend it for
food and clothing and better homes, in¬
stead of drink, and renting agent col¬
lect rents better.
In Savannah the re Is a firm that has
built up a large cash business with
the negroes. Previous to Many 1st.
they sold from 7,000 to 8.000 dollars
worth of bottled liquors to them each
month. The firm naturally felt that
the loss of this large business would
be disastrous. But this has been the
result. Their customers have more
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, November 2, 1916.
WIRELESS AMATEURS
GET WILSON MESSAGE
MR. CHARLES WILLIAMS RE¬
CEIVED PRESIDENT’S WIRE¬
LESS NEARLY AN HOUR
BEFORE TECH STATION.
At ten o’clock sharp on the night of
October 27th an official message from
President Wilson was sent out broad¬
cast from Davenport, Iowa, to all the
radio amateurs of the United States.
Each amateur, as he received the mes¬
sage, relayed it, and in this manner it
was received by every amateur in the
country. The object of the experiment
was to show how radio amateurs might
be of service to the nation in time of
war.
The message was received at the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
station, operated by Chas. H. Williams,
at 10:05 o’clock from a station farther
north than the station which first sent
the message. This was 45 minutes
earlier than the time at which it was
received by the Georgia Tech station.
The message reads as follows:
“Neither seek the favor nor the dis¬
pleasure of that small alien element
amongst us, which puts loyalty to a
foreign power before loyalty to the
United States.”
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
On November I6th the government
station at Charleston, S. C., is going
to send broadcast, under the direction
of the Navy Department, a test message
for amateurs; and all those who send
in a correct copy of the message to the
Navy Department will he placed upon
a roll from which appointments will he
made to naval stations. All the ama
eurs are waiting expectantly for this
message.
WHY I SHILL VOTE
FOR PRESIOENT WILSON
By GEORGE MIDDLETON.
(Noted Playwright and Son-in-law of
Senator LaFollette.)
Though I am not a Democrat, I shall
vote for Wilson. No other President
since Lincoln has been confronted with
such international problems. Any other
course than he has pursued might
have drawn us into war. He has been
patient and persistent in the pursuit
of peace. And he has kept the peace.
We must judge him by that supreme 1
achievement, and credit cannot be
taken from him by his opponents who
so easily criticise—after the event.
We are not crossing a stream but a
torrent, and I see only dangers in
swapping horses now. Because Wilson
through years of anguish, is more ac¬
quainted than Hughes with all the
cross-currents of our foreign relations,
he should lie re-elected. It is no time
to experiment with even an houest
amatuer in foreign affairs. The prob¬
lems whch will confront the world af¬
ter the war will he monumental and to
Wilson should lie given the opportunity
of trying to bring some order out of
the chaos. I am convinced that he is
so genuinely a lover of peace, that he
will follow up rigorously the clauses
which lie had inserted in the naval ap
propriatlon hill, giving him the power
to work towards international disarm
ment through a world tribunal.
Much as I respect Hughes as a man
he goes before the couptry without an
issue. He is merely a critic. He has
shown no constructive alternatives.
And above all he carries no conviction
in his speeches that had he been presi¬
dent. taking other methods than Wil¬
son. he would have kept the country
out of war. Nor can he detract one
lota from the record of progressive
legislation enacted under the present
administration. I cannot support a
supposition. I shall vote for a man
who has stood the gaff.
money to spend, and instead of a loss
of $8,000. the sales of groceries, meats,
and other necessaries have increased
so enormously, that the total amount
of sales Is approximately $12,t»00 per
month, more than ever before.
This level headed man who six
months ago honestly believed that the
enforcement of prohibition would ruin
business now says, “the saloon must
never come hack into Savannah again.”
MRS. A. M. TRAVIS, Press Supt
MR. L. S. SMITH SAYS
HIE BEffER FI
FARMER OF STANSELL’S DIS¬
TRICT SAYS FARMERS OF NEW¬
TON WANT AN ANNUAL
COUNTY FAIR.
Mr. L. S. Smith, of Stansell’s district,
was an interested visitor to the Fair
here Thursday. While in the city he
made The News an appreciate! visit.
Mr. Smith has a splendid farm about
five miles west of Covington and is a
farmer of the progressive kind. He
usually makes a good crop of cotton
but makes everything els© necessary
for the sustenance of himself and ills
stock.
He told us of one brood sow which
he owns and has made a remarkable
record. Since January the 20th, he
has sold $51 worth of pigs from this
one sow and at the low price of $3
each, and has three on hand which he
Is fattening for his own meat.
He raises all his own meat. He told
us that he is just using his last syrup
and will now make up enough to last
another year.
Mr. Smith asked the question, “Why
can’t Newton county have a real coun¬
ty fair?”
"She has everything to show,” he
continued. “Cattle is but one of the
many fine things produced in Newton
county.”
Farmers are anxious to have a
county fair and anxious to bring some
thing to exhibit. If the Covington
people will take as much Interest in a
fair as the farmers of the county fee 1
in one, we can have as successful a
fair as any county is having."
Then he told of a field of volunteer
Fulghum oats he had this year. They
grew as high as his chin and would
make a fine exhibit at any fair.
BORGLUM HIS BEGUN
WORK ON MEMORIIL
Machinery Has Been Placed, Steel
Cables Stretched to Support Plat
Forms for Workmen.
First steps have been taken by Gut
zon Borglum. who is to have charge
of the seultural work on Stone Moun¬
tain commemorating the Confederacy,
for the beginning of this Immense
monument.
An engine has been Imbedded 5n
the rock at the top of the mountain
with a large winding drum contain¬
ing many yards of heavy iron wire.
This wire runs from the top down
the steep side, on which the figures
of leaders and soldiers of the Con¬
federacy will be carved, and eorries
with it several pulleys.
Interlacing wires have been firmly
fastened to the rock by steel posts for
a considerable distance down the side.
They also carry pulleys to he used
for the hanging platforms from which
the sculptor will work.
The whole affair thus far has the
appearance of a number of minatnre
telephone poles reaching toward the
sky from the top and the sid© of the
huge granite mountain. The pulleys
and the wires have not been carried
all the way from the side yet, but
have been extended for some dis¬
tance. Great masses of the granite
have been dislodged from the top by
the workmen in firmly placing their
posts on whose strength will depend
the lives of the men doing the sculp¬
tural work.
The little wooden house in which
the huge metal drum with its winding
of heavy iron wire is encased has at¬
tracted a great deal of attention dur¬
ing the past few days from persons
visiting the mountain.
Mr. Borglum is one of the country’s
greatest sculptors and his work in con¬
nection with this permanent monu¬
ment to the Confederate cause will
make it one of the show places of
th ( . country when completed. It is
expected that the work will take about
two years for completion, as it con¬
templates the cutting of a large room
in the face of the wild rook near the
foot of th© mountain to he used for
the storing of Confederate records.—
DeKalb New Era.
PORTERDILE MOTHERS’
CLUB YEIR’S PROGRIM
Eight Months of Splendid Features
Provided by Splendid Organization
As Published Below'.
November.
Care in confinement—Dr. W. D.
Travis.
Scripture Lesson—Miss Todd.
Reading—Mrs. Sowell.
Refreshments—Mrs. Bob Masque,
Mrs. E. V. Piper, Mrs. Bertie Kirkus.
December.
1. Th© Mother as a Soul Winner—
Rev. Wm. Duncan.
2. Reading—Mrs. Ilooten.
Refreshments—Mrs. Mark Burnham,
Mrs. James Brooks, Mrs. S. W. Tauks
ley.
January’.
1. Pre-natal Effect of Whiskey—
Mrs. Lelln A. Dillard.
Scripture Lesson—Miss Martha Du
Pree.
Reading—Mrs. Norwood.
Refreshments—Mrs. A. G. Lummns,
Mrs. J. D. Baile. Mrs. Lon Spear.
February.
1. Care of the Teeth—Dr. Hopkins.
2. Scripture Lesson—Miss Funder¬
burk.
3. Reading—Mrs. Elijah Bailey.
Refreshments—Mrs. Rooks, Mrs.
Richard Fields, Miss Margaret Davis.
March.
1. The Mother’s Influence—Mr. Ken¬
dall.
2. Reading—Mrs. Carl Day.
Refreshments—Mrs. Rumph, Mrs.
W. H. Lamb, Mrs. Wheeler.
April.
Contagious Diseases—Dr. H. D. Par¬
liament
Scripture Reading—Mrs. Taylor.
Reading—Mrs. Harper.
-
Refreshments—Mrs. S. W. Tanks
ley, Miss Madge Cowan, Mrs. Tom
McGahee.
May.
1. Dress and Morals—Miss DuPree.
Scripture Reading—Mrs. Sowell.
Reading—Miss Pidie Hinton and
Mrs. Wheeler.
Refreshments—Mrs. Bob Masque,
Miss Annie Webb, Miss Smith.
June.
Principles in Home Nursing—Dr.
Travis.
Scripturo Lesson—Mrs. Hinton.
Reading—Mrs. Wes Bailey.
Refreshments—Mrs. Lununus, Mrs.
J. D. Baize, Mrs. James Brooks.
THE MEANING OF “BARACA.”
C. E. Crossland.
There uro a great many people who
do not know the unique origin and the
meaning of the word “Baraca.” Indeed,
there are some Sunday-school workers
to whom this will h e a hit of new in¬
formation. Since the word “Baraca”
Is now a most usual one in the vocabu¬
lary of Sunday-school workers through¬
out the entire world, it will he well
to know how w© came to have it.
In the 20th chapter of 2<1 Chronicles
will be found the story form which
“Baraca" is secured. Briefly it is
this: the kingdom of Judah was threat¬
ened by an army of its enemies. Good
King Jehoshaphat prayed unto Jehova
for deliverance, and the Lord answewl
this prayer by vexing the hosts of the
enemy, so that they fell upon and slew
each other. Thus, when King .Teho
shaphat and his people went from Je¬
rusalem out to the scene of the camp
of the enemy, they found most of
them slain and the remnant fled. They
also found so many jewels and riches
that they were three days gathering
up the spoil.
Then comes the 26th verse, as fol¬
lows: “And on the fourth day they
assembled themselves in the. valley of
Beraeah; for there they blessed Jeho¬
vah. Therefore the name of that place
was called the valley of Beraeah unto
this day.” The margin translates this
Beraeah as “blessing.”
When Mr. Marshall A. Hudson or¬
ganized his first class for young men.
he wanted a name for it. In carefully
reading his Bible, he eame upon this
word meaning “blessing.” and seized
it for his class. The spelling of the
word was changed slightly, so as to
permit the making of the monogram
design which is so familiar in well-or
ganlzed Sunday-schools today.
Baraca has indeed been a real “bless¬
ing” to thousands, and literary to hun¬
dreds of thousands of young men all
over North America and the world.
It could not hut bless them, when it
has brought them into the Sunday
school and to the Bible and to God.
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WORK FOR WILSON
TWO GREAT WIZARDS, PUTTING
PRINCIPLE ABOVE PARTY, ASK
DEMOCRATIC HEADQUAR¬
TERS FOR INSTRUCTIONS.
By RALPH SMITH.
New York.—Thomas A. Edison and
Hery Ford, ann-in-arm, walked into
the office of Chairman Vance C. Mc¬
Cormick at Democratic National head¬
quarters today. They announced quite
simply that since they are heart and
soul for Woodrow Wilson, they wanted
to find out how they could best direct
their efforts to insure his re-election.
Mr. McCormick has invited them to do
so and took him at his word.
The two wizards went to luncheon
with Chairman McCormick and Secre¬
tary of the Navy Daniels and conferr¬
ed, particularly with regard to methods
of reaching the indepellident voters
of the country.
“Give the people facts,” declared
Mr. Edison, “and it will be a Wilson
landslide. No president ever faced
such problems, no president ever made
such a record of achievements. It is
not alone that Woodrow Wilson has
statesmanship, he has leadership too.
I have always been a Republican, but
I put my country above party. In a
world crisis with the fate of America
in the balance. I would take shame to
myself if I did not put myself behind
a man who has given us peace and hon¬
or, prosperity with justice and prepar¬
edness without militarism.
Mr. Ford was no less emphatic. “Like
Mr. Edison,” he said, “I am a Republi¬
can. But I cannot stay with a party
that puts office seeking first and Amer¬
ica last. President Wilson has saved
the Unted States from the horrors and
desolation of international war. He
has saved us from industrial war. Ills
domestic policies have given new
strength to legitimate enterprises, pro¬
tected the worker, emancipated the
children and destroyed evils that were
sapping the courage of America. He
is a great president. More than that,
he is the greatest American.
“Never were issues so plain. Wood
row Wilson stands for America, for an
undivided allegiance, for equal justice
and for the welfare of the many.
Against him are all the forces of rapac¬
ity, special privilege, eager to get back
their loaded dice, the exploiters of
children and greedy concessionaries.
It is their millions against American¬
ism.”
MR. S. R. ELLINGTON ONE
OF ORIGINAL WII.SON MEN.
Mr. S. R. Ellington, of Oxford dis¬
trict made The News a very welcomed
visit Saturlay.
In making a contribution to the Wil¬
son campaign fund, he remarked: “I
am one of the first. Woodrow Wilson
inen. I was a Wilson man even while
he was governor of New Jersey. I
have a boy who was named Woodrow
Wilson even before Mr. Wilson was
Nominated for president.
“In the presidential primary nearly
nil my neighbors voted against me
when I voted for Wilson. I told them
then that their man would not carry
more tliau three states, but that Wilson
would win the nomination and be elect¬
ed our next president.”
“I have one son named Grover
Cleveland, one named Hoke Smith, and
one named Woodrow Wilson. From
that you can tell what my politics is.”
Mr. Ellington is a splendid gentle¬
man. a progressive farmer, and one of
Newton county’s best citizens.
MR. AND MRS. BUNK
BRADLEY LOSE SON.
The little four year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bunk Bradley died at their
home near Oak Hill Thursday night
at 8 o’clock.
The funeral and interment were at
the Oak Hil tabernacle Friday morn¬
ing at 11 o’clock.
The little boy and his parents have
many friends, who are sympathizing
with the Injrcaved parents in their
loss.
