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ICING II MANSfii__
IS UIRGELY ATTENOE
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■ans sation Being Formed for Organi¬ .
of a County Conven-
1 tion. Interesting Letter
from Vice-President.
lOur first Newton county sing
for 1918 convened with Cur
il church at Mansfield, last
inday evening. There was a
r ge attendance, among whom
jre some of the best singers of
ie country.
1 Jasper county was represented
some of its best and most en
msiastic singers, Prof. J. D.
me, President E. T. Malone,
Clements and wife. Jasper
>unty is fast making a reputa
|cn as a singing county due to
ie untiring efforts and activity
those parties in the promotion
their Convention.
We were giad to have with us
brother Jack L. Patterson, odi
)r of The Covington News, an
|vangelistic singer of some note, con-1
^ho was a new asset to our
[ention [is support and in promises the future. to give us j
We are glad to note the
Ihusiasm Trst manifested in this, our!
meeting for this year. We
ire thankful that, after a year
If idleness, and when it seemed
that interest in singing had been
lost, there is found the faithful
Few who are still willing to rally
to the cause and bear the colors
pf singing to the front.
Newton county has as good
talent for singing as any count.
that I know of and there is n
reason why it should not be b
the front ranks with the best
land most advanced counties of
[the [people State of the in singing, county, and and especi- if th.
lally the Christian people who ar
[affiliated with the churches and
Sunday schools would wake u;
to a full and just realization and
j appreciation singing of what the county, real gospel the
means to
| '••Vmrelies, the homes and indi¬
viduals, they would encourage
and give their support to the
Newton county singing conven
(>on, it wouldn’t be long before
Newton county would be one of
the foremost counties of the
State in singing, with one of the
greatest conventions.
Dr. Frank Crane says: '‘Not
the least reason why the church
is losing its hold upon the mass¬
es is that congregations have
ceased to sing. A company of
worshipers who hire their music
to be performed before them is
already dead. There can be nc
civic conscience, no clean politics
or firm organizations of the peo¬
ple without music as a basis.
Those who cannot sing together
cannot act together for high
spiritual and political ends. The
whole populace should be taught
what true music is. The only
way to accomplish this is to
cause the children continually to
hear, to sing and to perform up¬
on highest instruments, music of the
has quality. A nation that
no deep-hearted songs, a
nation that cannot and will not
•sing, can be no organic thing, it
is hut loose dust. The most ter¬
trait of the laborers of the
Tnited States is not their vio¬
lence nor their drink, but the
I act that they do not sing at
their meetings. Cultured and
well-to-do people have a tenden
cv *° Perversion and idle mis
chiei . because there is no music
in them. Our people are edu¬
cated to have music made AT
them, not to make music them¬
selves, a fatal, deadly mistake.
The great object of our sing¬
ing convention is to stimulate
ringing and create the habit ol
ringing together. People should
•acquire a musical education and
learn to love and make music,
ecause God has put into music
>uch unseen power for the bene¬
fit of man and the glory of His
^on. r from that its the throne Devil cannot stop shake its
nor
vweeet, refrain.
Music makes life worth while
3.5, HEB ” «Emmi ’ Mm ‘ %
REPRESENTATIVES
SELECTED FOR CONTEST
Meeting Will Be Held in High
School Auditorium Monday
Night.
The preliminary contest in
music, recitation and declama¬
tion will be held in the school au¬
ditorium Monday night, April 1,
at eight o clock, i bis contest
will be held to select represents
tives of the Covington school tc
represent us in the coming Dis
trict Meet to be held here Apri;
the 18th andl9th.
i hose contesting for places in
music are: Misses Effie McGari
tv, Eugenia Thompson, Helen
Meador, Thelma Hennessee and
Ora Upshaw.
The contestants in recitation
are: Misses Josephine Franklin
Pearly Taylor, Pauline Gaither
Frances Turner and Ora Up¬
shaw.
In declamation the contestant?
are: Messrs. Joseph Gary, Jack
Davis, Coy Swann, James White
and Perry Evans Lunsford.
FIVE 00110 BARN srffiL'Sl
RPQTRnYFn ULUmUlLU RY Ul illlL PIRf"
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Other Buildings Were Menaces.,
Last Thursday Night, but
w cre Sav f by f m ”*•
partment.
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Fire of unknown prigin a
8:15 o’clock on Thursday night
of last week destroyed a cattl
barn, the property of Evans
Lunsford, and five fine Hereford
cows at an aggregate loss of
about $1,500 with insurance to
cover only $300 of that amount.
Quick response and effective
work of the fire department pre¬
vented the destruction of adja¬
cent buildings, but the flames
were so far advanced as to be
unquenchable.
A large crowd assembled a
the fire soon after the sounding
of the alarm, many of whom ten¬
dered all possible assistance to
Die fire department.
and the history of music is the
history of the world. It is the
history of men, of families, of
communities? of nations and of
all peoples. Every country and
race has its music. It is the
common language of the race.
It is the bond of nationhood, and
when music is forgotten the race
disintegrates and the nation dis¬
solves.
When music dies out of the
home the family scatters, and
when it is hushed in a communi¬
ty, whether the community be a
busy village, a thriving town or
■a hustling city, the hum and
whirl of common activity lose
their inspirations and their for¬
ces wander and their energies
wane.
Let’s have our Annual Con¬
vention this year and renew' our
affiliations with the adjoining
counties in our convention work.
The annual convention held at
a particular place will not expect
nor allow this particular com¬
munity to entertain and feed
the entire convention but will
supported by the entire member
ship of the county. This will
remove the great burden hereto¬
fore placed upon the home of the
convention to furnish food for
the rest of the county as well as
representatives from other con¬
ventions.
By co-operating in this way it
will not be a burden upon any
one and can be made a grand
success, an occasion that will be
a great social uplift to any com¬
munity. and I am sure that when
this plan is tried that, instead
the convention home* ......................... seeking a home,
the will seek the
t j on
Who will be the first to ask
the fourth Sunday in August
Don’t all speak at once.
Very truly
J. W. Henderson, V. P.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918
IHClIiS URGED TO
SHE THEIR
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Householders Are to Use Not to
Exceed Total of 11-2 pounds
Per Week to the
Person.
To effect the needed saving of
v/fieat we are wholly dependent
1 «f» the ,, vc,luntary , , assistance . , oi ,
American people, and we ask
that the following rules shall be
observed:
\ Householders to use not tc
exceed a total of 1 1-2 pounds
per week of wheat products pe)
person. This means not mort
than 1 3-4 pound of Victory
bread containing the required
per centage of substitutes anc
one-half pound of cooking flour
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals
all combined.
2. Public eating houses anc
clubs to observe two wheatless
days per week, Monday and
Wednesday," as at present. In
a€ ^^ on thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal,
an aggregate of breadstuffs.
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies.
cakes, wheat breakfast cereals,
containing a total of more than
2 of » wheat , , flour. ~ No , T
ounces
wheat products to be served un
less specially ordered. No public
eating establishments not to buy
more than G pounds of wheat
products for each ninety meals
served, thus conforming with
the limitations requested of the
householders.
3. Retailers to sell not more
than one-eight of a barrel of
flour to any town customer at
any one time and not more than
one-quarter of a barrel to any
customer at any one time, and in
no case to sell wheat products
without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and
grocers to reduce the volume of
Victory bread sold by delivery oi
the three-quarter pound loai
where 1 pound w r as sold before
and corresponding proportions in
other weights. We also ask
bakers not to increase the
amount of their wheat flour pur¬
chases beyond 70 per cent of the
average monthly amount pur
chased in the four months prior
to March 1.
5. Manufacturers using wheat
products for nonfood purposes
should cease such use entirely.
G. There is no limit upon the
use of other cereals, t’Uurs, and
meals, com, barley, buckwheat,
potato flour etc.
Food Administrator.
COURT ADJOURNED FRIDAY
AFTER FIVE DAYS’ TERM
The spring term of Newton
superior court adjourned Friday
morning of last week, after be¬
ing in session four days, during
which much or il business was
disposed and a number of crimi
j ml cases tried.
Judge Charles W. Smith, of
the Stone Mountain cirucit, pre
sided and Solicitor General
M Napier and Reporter Nichols
were in attendance. One night
session was held in order that
the term might be shortened and
the farmers allowed to return to
their work. .
MANSFIELD BOY GETS
ON THE ROLL OF HONOR
Anderson Lunsford, of
i Mansfield High School, has won
i an honorable position on
Thrift and Savings Stamps roll
of »>•
which is a mighty encouraging
i example for his friends to emu
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iSELEGIMEN 10
TOR GORDON MONDAY
Seven White Men and Forty-Two
Negroes Included in Call.
The Latter Leave
Saturday.
the Newton County Exami¬
nation and Exemption Board has
received orders to select seven
men for entrainment for Camp
Gordon on April 2nd, and forty
-wo negroes for entrainment for
Camp Funston, at Fort Riley,
Kansas, on March 29th.
These men will not be finally
accepted by the local board until
the morning of entrainment and
white farmers in this call will be
deferred to the foot of Class 4.
The seven white men will be
selected from the following reg
istrants:
White for Camp Gordon.
Order
No.
47 J. T. Ellington.
150 Harvey L. Palmer.
163 Reynolds Smith.
172 Eli Henry Treadwell.
177 William Hewell.
234 Swann Smith..
241 W. L. Mote.
Alternates:—
243 W. S. Jordon.
289 W. S. Chestnutt.
394 G. L. Edwards.
597 Walker Few.
Homer Mealer.
Negroes for Funston.
227 Oscar Lee Johnson.
277 Garfield Henderson.
293 Lonnie Edwards.
532 John Thomas Swann.
533 Albert Glover.
542 June Smith.
543 Willie Johnson.
544 Jack Smith.,
547 Virgil Brown.
548 Alfred Hicklen.
568 Willie Reynolds.
589 Roy Frazier Bass.
595 Grover Cleveland Jenkins.
300 Clarence Davis.
302 Mart Johnson.
605 Walter Barnes.
521 Gid Bagby.
339 Sterling Potts.
643 Eugene Henderson.
347 Willie Tuggle. I
654 Joel F. Currington.
655 Emory Willis.
662 Leo Adams.
673 John B. Terrell.
685 Fred Campbell.
687 Troy Thompson.
693 Fred Crawford.
694 Leroy Middlebrooks.
714 Robert Gaither.
725 Johnny Stokes.
126 Charlie Edwards.
745 Luke Johnson.
748 George Willis.
749 Robert Goodman.
764 Clemmie Zinnamon.
784 Otto Weaver.
786 Willie Pitts.
797 Charlie Clark.
803 Chestnutt Clark.
804 Jesse Hartfield.
805 Willie Lee Rutledge.
806 Charlie McGinnis.
815 Homer Nelson.
818 Freddie Freeman.
819 Jesse Kinney.
822 Buddie Banks.
838 Tom Digby.
838 Qharlie Freeman.
853 Booker W. Adams.
854 Horace Bennett.
858 Jimmie Lee Goolsby,
859 Mosell Smith,
865 Otto Kennedy.
; 908 Goerge Roseberrv.
1 930 Elisha Shaw,
912 Harvey Jackson,
! James Sawyer,
j 956 Jesse '^ F Houston, ^‘
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i 966 William IT. Anderson.
Wilhe^Reed.
1 099 Sidney Durden.
1007 Hub H. Henderson.
1013 Joe K. Kelly.
1020 Jesse Lunsford.
] Grover, Camp.
“g iZnieGm.
1059 Fred Wright.
(Continued on next column)
CHANGED !" TO FIRST SUNDAY
Sunday School Recently Organ¬
ized with C. M. Wicks Super¬
intendent.
Rev. W. A. Woodruff, pastor
of the Porterdale-Liberty charge
of the Oxford district, announces
that the regular day for holding
the monthly service at Liberty
has been changed from the
fourth to the first Sunday.
A Sunday School has been or¬
ganized at Liberty with C. M.
Wicks as superintendent. The
hour of convention is 10 o’clock
in the forenoon and everybody is
invited to attend.
The church building has re¬
cently been recovered and other¬
wise improved and a fresh coat
ot paint will be applied in the
near future.
01*1 KILL
BE HELBJPBSL 18ISI
Will Be a Great J)ay in the His¬
tory of Covington, Bringing
Hundreds of Vistiors to
This City.
Dr. J. S. Stewart, president
of the State High School Asso¬
ciation, gives out dates for the
High School Meets for 1918,
the winners in these District
meets to contest in Athens the
second week in June for the
State championship.
The Eighth District meet will
be held in Covington, with Prof.
| J. H Purks. president, April 18th
and 19 th. Covington, to be
sure, will make every effort to
royally entertain all the boys
and the girls that shall come.
The Fifth District meet will
be held in Conyers, May 2nd and
3rd, and a great time is expected
there. Superintendent J. H.
Walker of the Fifth-District A.
& M. College is president of th:s
district and it is needless to say
that he will see that everything
is carred out in order. The stu¬
dents of the A. & M. will take
part in this meet and it is pre¬
dicted that, as usual, they will
bear away some of the honors.
1080 Robert Childs.
1095 Arthur Wyatt.
1097 Charlie Sawyer.
1099 Edd Henderson.
1102 Jesse Davis.
1116 Icesaw Banks.
1117 Columbus Lawrence.
1118 Willie Sawyers.
1127 John P. Hendricks.
1130 Willie Harris.
1140 Gabe Binford.
Called in Order.
The white registrants includ¬
ed in the call will, under the re¬
cent ruling of the War Depart¬
ment, be entitled to extension of
time upon the proper establish¬
ment of the agricultural Maim.
Agricultural exemption does
net apply to thte negroes, how¬
ever, as the 42 selectmen are due
the Govrnment on a former quo¬
ta not contemplated by the ex¬
tension amendment.
The white selectmen will en¬
train for Camp Gordon at 11:29
o’clock on Tuesday morning,
April 2nd.
The 42 negro selectmen will
entrain for Camp Funston, at
Fort Riley, at 11:29 o’clock on
Friday morning, March 29th.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
TO HAVE S. S. ANNEX
Work was commenced Monday
on a commodious Sunday School
annex to the Covington Presby
terian church. Recently adopt
: ed plans vnlemplate interior
j 1 and which, exterior when completed, improvements will
make this building one of
handsomest buildings in the
city.
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS-
MENTION THE NEWS
$1.50 Per Year In Advance
FARM EiWEES H
SE DEFERRED TO END
Government, Upon Proper Show¬
ing, Will Grant Extension to
( lass One Registrants
if they act in time.
Georgia farmers employing
farm hands ■whose names appear
In Class 1 and who are within
the quota for the second draft,
must immediately make affida¬
vits showing their employment
in agriculture, in order to secure
deferred classifications for them,
according to a statement recent¬
ly telegraphed from Washnigton
by Senator Hoke Smith. The
statement is of vital importance
to farmers throughout the State.
It reads as follow's:
“A new draft of 90,000 men
will shortly be called out. The
Provost Marshal General has or¬
dered that men actively, assidu¬
ously and completely engaged in
planting or cultivating a crop,
and w r ho are listed, in Class 1 of
the draft, and are within the
new' quota, should be deferred
until the end of the new quota.
“The local boards, being ju¬
dicial bodies, cannot, however,
defer the call of such men unless
the farmers employing them
support their claims for such de¬
ferred classifications with affi¬
davits. It is therefore of vital
importance that farmers imme¬
diately execute and file such af¬
fidavits with their local boards.
“If farmers whose hands are
affected in this new call fail to
follow this advice, they should
have no cause for complaint if
their men are taken from them.
At this critical time it will be
1 seless and unreasonable to pro¬
test later if they have done noth¬
ing to retain their help.
“Immediate action on the part
of every farmer whose emplo.v
eees are affected is absolutely es¬
sential, and should not be de¬
layed under any circumstances.”
The local exemption and ex¬
amination board has received or¬
ders to defer all farmer regis¬
trants in class one to the foot of
the class in order that they may
complete operations on the plan¬
tation before entraining for
camp.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Jaines C. Anderson spent
Tuesday in Atlanta.
There will be a singing at
Newton Factory next Sunday af¬
ternoon, to which the public is
cordially invited.
Dr. N. Z. Anderson, of Coving¬
ton, and Dr. J. C. Belcher, of
Monticello, are spending a few
days in New’ York City.
Col. J. R. Irwdn, of Conyers,
was in Covington on Friday af
last week and paid The News of¬
fice a very pleasant visit.
Prof. G. W. Crumbley, of Con¬
yers, School Superintendent of
Rockdale county, was mingling
with Covington friends Wednes¬
day.
Dr. George T. Smith and T. G.
Barnes have returned from a
few days’ visit to Washington,
D. C., where they recived a cor¬
dial welcome from their many
friends.
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Reynolds,
of Conyers, w’ere visitors in Cov¬
ington Monday. Mr. Reynolds
is about ninety-one years of age
and v : as for more than forty
years an active member of the
North Georgia conference, in
which he now r holds superannu¬
ate relations.
Mr. N. N. Malcom, of Ty Ty,
Tift county, w r as in Covington
Monday and paid The News of¬
fice a highly appreciated call,
during which he stated that a
small display advertisement in¬
serted in The News resulted in
the sale of $1,000 w-orth of pota¬
to plants in Newffon cour, v.. In
addition he has received many
$rders for potato and cabbage
plants from Mansfield, Rutledge,
Social Circle and other towns
served by this newspaper. Mor¬
al: An ad in The News brings
results. Try it out.
