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If, Kins'.............
I;, Martin...........
■), Ballard............
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IL. Hitchcock.........
P'. Milner.............
I, Cailaway...........
R. Webb..............
It. if, huh...............
Smith..............
IE. I Savage............
B. Milner............
In Cohen..............
■ H. Adams............
|G, Callaway..........
I A. Thompson..........
■ink Reagan...........
■ 8. Dorman............
|C. Brook-.............
II. I Elliott.............
Ik NY. Godfrey........
Waites...........
K A Norris.............
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Pritchett...........
pC. N. Hendrix.......
II Levin................
W Cato................
■ I 1L Eftfws............
S, Wilson.............
■ I P. Thompson.........
C, Em .............
■. S. Scruggs...........
I. W. St. John...........
■ I S Mobley____
C. Wright...........
■ ■C. Steadnmn..........
If I Seiffel...............
T. Thomas...........
I 6. Hall..............
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I E Lunsford..........
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F. Park...........
Kaplan...............
S. Ramsey........
it. Harwell......
[H. Cook.......
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t A M. Callaway......
Dt Hardman...........
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Covington
GOVERNMENT Tfl HELP
FIGURE INCOME TAX
Government Official Will |{«. Seilt t<)
Aid in Figuring Income Tax and
in Making Returns.
Aon won’t have to figure out your
income tax ail by yourself hereafter.
Tile government is going to send out
men to heli, you. It will 1 K > up to you
to hunt up these men, who will |„. -on,
into every county seat town, and some
>ther towns besides, p, meet the people.
Postmasters, bunkers and newspapers
•vi 1 1 be able to tell you when the gov
•rnment s income tax man will he
iround and where to find him. He will
answer your questions, swear you to
he return, take your money and re
move the wrinkles from your brow.
Returns for 1917 must be made be
ween January 1 and March 1, This.
"The government recognizes,” t'ollec
or of Internal Revenue Blalock says,
that many persons experience a good
leal of difficulty in tilling out income
ux forms. It recognizes too. that tax
»ayers resident at points where collect
r'.s officers are not easily accessible
ind it hard to get proper instruction in
be law. Next year, when every mar
vied iierson, living with wife or hus
niiid and having a net iueome of $2 JHm.
ibd every unmarried person not the
head of a family and having a net in
ome of $1,UOO for the year 1!»17 must
■nake return of income on the form
proscribed, thei* will be hundreds in ev
ry community seeking light on tlie
aw, and help in executing their re
urns. My own and every other col
ection district in the nation w ill be di
• i«lcd into districts, with tlie county as
.he unit, and a government olhccr in
ornied in tine income tax assigned to
•aeh district. He will sjiend hardly
css than h w eek in each county, and in
ome counties a longer time, very likely
n the court house ar the county seat
.own. In towns where there are col¬
ector’s branch offices, lie will be there
and in other cities possibly at the city
mil. My office will in due time advi
(ostmastors and bankers and send out
notices to the newspapers stating when
he officer will be in each county. It
will he unnecessary for prospective tux
payers to ask my office for forms on
which to make returns. The officers
who visit their county will have them
"It may he Stated as a matter of
general information that ‘net income
is the remainder after subtracting ex
ponses from gross income. Personal
family or living expense is not expense
in tiie meaning of the law, the exemp¬
tion being allowed to cover such expen¬
ses.
"The new exemptions of $ 1 . 00(1 and
$2,000 will add tens of thousands to
the number of income taxpayers in this
district, inasmuch ns practically every
farmer, merchant, tradesman, profes¬
sional man. and salary worker and a
great many wage workers will lie re¬
quired to make return and pay tax.
The law makes it the duty of the tax
oa.ver to seek out the collector. Many
people assume that if an income fa -
form is not sent, or a government offi
cor does not call, they are relieved from
making report. This is decidedly an
error. It is the other way round. I he
taxpayer has to go the government
and if ho doesn’t within time prescribed
he is a violator of the law, and the
government will go to him with its
penalties.
V. A. Harper................ -*'"
A. S. McGarity.............. - 50
Henry Odum................ ' *’ Ml
.T. NY. Wright............... 100
A. A. Hyatt................. 100
IV Bohannon................
S. D. Haynie................ 1
,T. C. Cochrane..............
Miss Mary Carter...........
Henry Gaither.............. 1 ° a
E. P. Carr.................. 1l nh ;
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Mrs. A. M. Travis...........
A. A. Goins................. 1 ""
W <\ Popp................. ° 00
H. T. Husoti...............
it L. Cowan......-.......... 1 00
.T. C Kitchens.............. . 50
C. Thompson............ 5 00
S. 1 00
E. H. Ledbetter............. 00
F AY Simmons............. 1
Smith..............*** 2 00
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 20, 1917
CHRISTMAS RED CROSS
DRIVE ON IN EARNEST
Lity and County Committees Are at Work
To I reble Membership in One Week.
Show a Service Flag.
I HIS IS A SERVICE THAT ALL ARE ABLE TO DO
The Christmas Red Cross Member I
'Hip campaign lias begun with energy
and enthusiasm.
I be Covington committee chairmen
met at the Covington Library Monday
afternoon at 3 o’clock and organized
for the work here.
Mis. J. (,. Hall was made chairman
of the committee on working among
'He families and she lias completed her
committee with a member in everv sec¬
tion of the city*.
Miss Annie Mae Lester is chairman of
l he commitee of (till Scouts, begin¬
ning Wednesday afternoon, these girls
w ill have booths at the drug slur os, the
Lyric theatre, and other placees, where
hey will receive memberships. This is
a -j,India organization whose members
are (filed w ith the spirit of service and
they will put life into the campaign.
Miss Sadie Mac Cook succeeds Mrs.
Charles Candler as Secretary and she
i-; actively engaged in the campaign
with many duties which she will dis¬
charge in her usual gratifying and sue
eessful way.
Mr. Paul Walker, as treasurer of the
county chapter, is treasurer of the
campaign. He has made a splendid
treasurer, keeping excellent records
and u vouhts and being always ready
to show the condition of the chapter's
treasury.
Professor H. IV Robertson is chair¬
man of the committee of Hoy Scouts.
Their Scoutmaster. Mr. M. O. Boswell,
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT.
Buy NYar Savings Stamps for Christ¬
mas presents. This will lie doing good
in many ways. They will make uiost
appropriate gifts. They will cultivate
a spirit of thrift and saving among the
younger jieople. ’The government needs
the money and more Savings Stamps
we buy the less need will the govern-!
merit have in increase taxes.
One stamp costs* 25 cents. Sixteen j
stamps cost $4.00. Add 12 cents to this j
amount, making a total of $4.12 and ;
the Postmaster will issue a War Sav¬
ings stamp for $5.00, redeemable by j
the government January L 1923. This
hears a little more than 4 per cent in¬
terest compounded quarterly. It is the
best investment yet offered by the
government.
It were so much hotter and more
sensible to give such gifts as NYar Sav¬
ings stamps than to till the home with
foolish and useless trifling tin monkeys,
jumping-jacks, chocolate candy made
of clay and the like'.
Christmas giving is a beautiful cus¬
tom, but it should lie done with the
same degree of judgment that we do
any other good thing.
The 25 cent Thrift Stamps do not
bear am interest. They are intended
for children and people of very small
means. They are meant to encourage
thrift. They are issued so that every
person, little or big, can have a part in
winning the Great War and making
the world safe for all peoples and all
nations.
Let us count it a privilege to do this I
service for our loved ones and our
country. They both will bless us for
the sendee. Let us do it with hearts
of gratitude to Him whose birth we
celebrate at this glad and joyous sea
„ G. C. Adams. Chinn..
'
NYar Savings Committee
Newton County.
AIK. AND MRS W. B. TAPES j
LOSE INFANT SON. a
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Little Frank, the live months old son
■ Al NY B capos died at
in Covington on Wednesday i
their home
morning of lad week at one o’clock.
Their many friends sympathize with
them in their bereavement.
funeral and interment were at
Tlie morning
tVo.t Yiew cemetery Thursday
,1 o’clock. The Rev. NYalker Tombs
,'omlu i h.o ” services
is vp|1 |(V hI , f .,„ u , r :1 nd
Frank
mother.
ill have to be absent during the cam¬
1 he Boy Scouts wil idistribute adver¬
tising matter and place Red Cross ser
vice flags in the homes of the Red
members. The P.oy Scouts are
indispensable ally in such move¬
ments and they* do their work willingly
and well, ever upholding and practicing
their motto of the good turn. Profes¬
sor Robertson is the proper patriot to
jlireet them too, for lie is one of them
|md is ever alert in his aid to every
good work.
The Red Cross services flag is a
most beautiful idea. The Hag bears
one large Red Cross in the center. It
i- to he hung or pasted in the window
ol the home, office, or store. It stands
for one individual member for such
home or office or store. For each ad
ditional memlier of the Red Cross a
small Red Cross, about one inch square,
is pasted on the white ground of the
service flag.
<>n Christmas eve. the 24th instant,
place a lighted candle or electric flash¬
light behind the service flag. The
light shines through, reminding of a
most beautiful Christmas spirit and
Christmas service,
The whole nation is now working at
top spoeed in this campaign. If you
are m»t on a committee, you are
in in Mr. Paul NYalker, Treasurer, 0
any of the committee mondiers.
WHAT DOES THIS CHRIST¬
MAS MEAN TO YOU
As Christmas draws nearer we fta'i
sad and have not much of the Christ¬
mas spirit, but ever since war was de¬
clared we have been practicing the
spirit of giving. Mothers and fathers
have given their boys'. Everybody has
given to tlie Red Cross or in some other
way luis liefiied to increase the war
fund.
NVe have agreed to do without so
order that our soldiers and those of the
Allies may be properly fed.
Wlmt are we to gain from all this
giving, a spirit of unselfishness and
of character, for we
that if is the tree on the edge of
forest subject to all kinds of weath¬
that Ls strongest; so it is with our
if we never use our muscles
finally get so weak that they are
no service to us; and a fruit tree
be pruned to make it. boar more
It is an established fact that we
by giving and lose by keeping. In
instance above stated our bodies
by using what we have and thus
are enabled to do more.
As our bodies depend on food for
and we are now having to sub¬
foods for those we formerly
and it is absolutely necessary for
to know exactly what and how to
and how to combine the dif¬
foods.
NNV are using cheese and nuts and
and poultry instead of meat: com
rye, potatoes, rice, and other
instead of wheat; lard, cotton
products, oleomargarine instead of
much butter, and we will find that
are as well nourished as before and
with less expense.
As none of us know all about the i
of the new dishes and each ;
is finding out new ways of prepar- J
and using substitutes, the Georgia j
* College of Agriculture is offering j <
course of ten days to all women of
state which embraces the prepa
of these new dishes, food study, j
vegetable gardening, dairying. |
raising and a few other things. I
This course will lie helpful to every
and the expenses are only
fare, board, and one dollar
fee.
The course is from January 2 to 12.
and you not only help yourself
can carry out the Christmas spirit
passing the new ideas on to others.
Below are a few recipes for some
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
MENTION THE NEWS
$1.50 Per Year In Advance
DRAWN
F OR JAN UARY TERM;
List January of Grand Term and Newton Traverse Superior Jurors for j
Court Given Below.
I
The following named persons were
drawn in open, court to serve as Grand
Jurors at the .January Term 1918, New¬
ton Siqierior Court. This Sept. Its, 1917.
1 A. E. Coogler,
2 J. 'I'. Morgan,
3 It. E. Everitt,
4 E. it. Nelson,
r, J. P>. Speer,
ti J. T. Smith,
7 J. W. Sock well,
"
s P. NY. Carroll.
9 A. S. McGarity,
to J. J. Owens,
11 •I. O. Upshaw,
12 O. A. Sock well,
13 J. S Gardner,
14 O. W. Berry,
15 NVolf Cohen,
10 Win. Boyd,
17 P. B. Hays,
1,8 .T. T. Swann,
19 J. C. Bates.
20 NY. A. Owens,
21 J. D. Boyd, Sr.,
2 ° L. D. Adams,
23 S P. Thompson,
24 IN’. (J. Benton,
25 S. ,U Campbell.
20 E. T. Hull,
27 S. It. Ellington. Sr..
•28 A. 0 Belcher,
29 R. P. Boyd.
30 E. D. Bigger**,.
The following named persons were
drawn in <>i>en court according to law
to serve as Traverse Jurors at the Jan
navy Term 1918, of Newton Superior
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1 •T. L. Roberts.
2 J. R. Henderson,
3 AY. H. Lamb.
4 Carter Robinson
5 NY. E. Harwell,
(i •T. M. Potts,
7 •T. E. Rollins.
.8 M. Levin,
9 ■T. P. Perry,
10 Pearl Harwell.
fil Henry Stone,
12 AN*. R. Roberts.
13 AY. M Poix'.
’ 1 C. A. Poole,
15 A. T. Peek.
Hi E. Ar. Pijier,
17 T. .T. La sen by.
1.8 (>. P. Owens.
19 TV. .T. Berry, j
20 Lester Lee.
21 •T. AA'. Pitts.
oo T>. A. Thompson.
23 M. If. Pennington,
24 AY. P. Odum.
25 R. L. Ivey.
25 AA'. P. Hooper,
27 •T. Coy Hays.
G. AA r Hawkins,
.
J. T. Greer.
AV. V. Hmlgins,
A'. A. Harper.
•T. T Brooks.
H. E. Hays.
T, Carl Harwell.
•T. L. Harwell. Jr.
AY. t*. ITardamnn.
MR. S G. DUKE WAS
BURIED AT RED OAK
Mr. ,8. G. Duke died att he residence
of his brother in Atlanta Tuesday of
last week. He was 24 years of age.
The remains were shipjied to Coving¬
ridav morning at 3 o'clock and the
funeral and interment were at Red
Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev.
McKibben conducted the services.
goodies:
Kisses
Put whites - of 3 eggs into a bowl and
to a stiff froth, then pour on 3-4 j
of maple svmp boiled until it j
Beat for 10 minutes then add j
cup of raisins. Drop on greased pa- j
on linking sheet; bake in cool | ?
j j
Tandy
Use either honey, maple syrup, mo- :
or corn syrup. To each cup of j
allow 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil j
until syrup hardens when
into cold water. Pour over
popped eom and mold into
or fancy shapes. Mark features
pcqicom men with melted chocolate.
A joyous Christmas for every one is
wish of the agent.
MARGARET E. BURGE.
Home Demonstration Agent.
DEMONSTRATION AGENT
GIVES THE NEWS READERS
MANY VALUABLE ITEMS
FOR THE FARMERS.
If every farmer in Newton county
will breed .iu>t one good sow now to a
good boar, we will not have a meat
shortage. Then we will have meat to
sell to <fiu* less thrifty neighbors.
There are 5,400,000 less hogs in the
country this year than last. The yield
of corn is over 500,000,000 bushels
above the last five-year average, and
over 500.000,000 above last year’s av¬
erage. What does this mean? Study
ever it. Unless we market this corn
through hogs or other stock it will be
exceedingly cheap. Therefore, breed a
sow and feed the surplus corn to her
Pigs.
Fry the brine method of miring meat
tiiis year instead of the salt method.
The salt method is flue, but the other
is better. Call on your county farm
agent for further information.
Dealers in farm machinery in the
county should attend the short course
at Athens January 2-12. A special
course has been arranged for their
benefit.
If pullets of laying age are not laying
any eggs it is because they are not get¬
ting proper food. Give them some
meat scraps and wheat bran in addition
to their regular feed and see what hap¬
pens. provide a warm and well venti¬
lated roost for them.
Did you see your neighbor’s window
box for starting early vegetables for
• tfie garden. If is fine.
Don’t let the high price of cotton
set'd keep you from saving seed for
next spring’s crop. Save at least one
bushel for each acre to be planted and
then you will be on the *ife side.
Select seed corn now and store it
away to prevent weevil damage. Good
seed corn Is going to be high in price
next year because of tlie poor qualify
of seed in some sections. Have just a
few bushels to sell in the spring.
If you have a small farm for rent, or
wish to rent one. notify H. AV. Bing¬
ham. county agent, at Covington, and
he will take care of you.
Now is the time to buy up a few
bushels of cow peas for seed next
spring. Dealers are buying up seed
now aboue thirty days earlier than in
previous years and the price is going
to be high next year.
Now is the time to spray orchards for
the various diseases and insects.
Before the holidays sit down and
make out a schedule of work for the
months. You will want to get
in readiness’so that yon can
in spring crops without hindrance
AA'hy net send for a .number of farm
to read during the winter
You will learn some good
from them. Remember
"Tlie man who READS is the
who LEADS.”
I would like to call attention to the
lisrlit plant which I recently
in the home of Mr. G. C.
Air. Adams now has electric
all over his house, at a very
cost, and the convenience afford¬
by them can scarcely be measured
dollars and cent*. At this time,
so many of our farmers in New¬
county are prosperous, they should
lighting and water systems.
will civo as much or more pleas¬
than a Ford car. and do not cost
so much. I would like to put in
number <>f these plants during the
months. Call on me and I will
glad to come to your home, give you
estimate of the cost, including the
of tlie bous'o. and then to put in
plant for you without any charges
the work.
A farm help specialist has licen ap¬
for the state of Georgia and
duties of this office will be to assist
In getting labor for next year.
me about this if you are in need of
labor another year.
Tlie state authorities wish to obtain
names and addresses of all breeders
purebred hogs in Georgia, so that
will be in a position to meet the
for purebred stuff this spring.
you are in the registered hog busi¬
kindly let me know at once, so
I may send in your name.
Yours truly.
H ANY BINGHAM,
County Agent
