BORSEY UPSETS HUY
VERDICTS OF JURIES
Executive who Critcized Others
is Following Their Ex¬
ample, as Was
Expected.
Atlanta, Ga., April 3.—'Those
who mistakenly sui posed that
ixecutJ\c c-miemv would be
written out of the constitution
of Georgia when Hugh Dorsey
became Governor were very
much mistaken. Although he
took the position in his cam¬
paign that the clemency peroga
tive should not be abused, Gov¬
ernor Dorsey has not hesitate
to exercise it whenever he saw
lit, and as often as he saw fit.
His policy in this respect
throws an interesting light
this question which has been
so much agitated in Georgia
recent years. Executive
ency is almost as old as the law
itself. It is a foundation stone
for our form of government. To
tempt to take it away or weaken
it would weaken the whole gov¬
ernmental structure. Governors
have always exercised it in their
discretion and always will, so
long as government in this cour.
try continues to be an estab¬
lished fact.
Governor Dorsey has issued
numerous paroles, commutations
and respites and some pardons.
Recently when he respited a ne¬
gro in Taliaferro county who
was sentenced to be hanged, a
mob organized and lynched the
negro. The governor promptly
offered a reward of $500 for the
arrest of any member of the mob
and would have called the sheriff
to acocunt if he had authority to
do so.
Wesleyan Glee Club to
Be Here Thursday Night.
The Wesleyan Glee Club, of
Wesleyan College, Macon, will
make its second visit to Coving¬
ton Thursday evening of this
week and will doubtless be greet
ed by a large audience at the
High School Auditorium.
The musical critics who have
heard the program say that it is
unusually well rounded,
ing songs by the club, solos, in
terpretations and readings.
The club under the direction of
Mr. Billings, a noted English vo¬
calist, is composed of about thir¬
ty beautiful girls, the sight of
whom is worth more than the
price of admission.
It is never too late to join the
Covington Chapter of the Ameri¬
can Red Cross Society. The Red
Cross is doing a wonderful work
for the United States soldiers in
France and the local
should have the unanimous sup
port of the people of this city
and section. The News will be
glad to publish Red Cross news
from any worker in the county.
MONDAY at the LYRIC THEATRE
HERE’S A RECOMMENDATION THAT MEANS A LOT Adolph Zukor
By Margaret E. Sangster, in the Christian Herald. presents
“The Some Blue people—many Bird.” Everybody people, should know know the story it. And of Maeterlinck’s now that the MAETERLINCK’S
producers of Artcraft Pictures have put the story into a perfect “The Blue Bird”
picture, there is no reason why everyone should not know it.
The Christian Herald does not often feel that it can heartily
endorse a film, for many film stories are, regrettably, not the sort
of thing that one could take one’s small, or older, son or daughter
to see. But “The Blue Bird” is the sort of film that holds a lesson
worth learning. It is the kind of film that few people have
dreamed of producing—an idealistic picture made real by splendid An ARTCRAFT Picture
acting and remarkable photography.
Several points stand out from the story—stand out by sheer
ing beauty to in through the tombs, graveyard of word one the can door and to perfectly action. see and the walk dead understand When in frightened arise—when the children why silence, folk they go fear at tiptoe past twelve death. the fearfully o’clock yawn¬ But, A Mighty Spectacle of Happiness!
when suddenly the graves burst forth into blossoms and the roses A Thousand Smiles! A Thousand Sobs!
and lilies grow fragrantly all about, one sees the Easter story re¬
told in a marvelous way. For the little boy, astounded, asks—
“Where are the dead?” and the girl-child with a triumphant smile
upon The her moving face answers—“There picture has come are to no stay—come dead!” to stay with its A Thousand Beautiful Scenes!
unlimited possibilities for good or for evil. And “The Blue Bird”
is the sort of picture that cannot fail to do unlimited good. It will A photodrama that will put courage into
be a delight to children, but only the grown-ups can read their lives new
into the search for Happiness. It will be a dream, a fairy-tale America’s hearts, dark
come life, told true, poetically, to your boy but or none girl; the but less to truly. you it will be the meaning of the sort of a play that lifts
pictures. “The Blue We hope Bird” for is more a milestone pictures of in the the same production sort. of motion thoughts into sunshine.
COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, lvio
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
Every person in Newton coun¬
ty should attend the patriotic
rally in Covington next Satur¬
day. It will be a great day in
the history of this city and coun¬
ty
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boswell and
son. Clifford, of Penfield, were in
Covington last Sunday, guests ol
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Robertson.
Deputy Sheriff J. C. Nixon
went to Camp Gordon Tuesday
to carry two negro selectmen
who failed to report Sunday in
response to the order to entrain.
O. F. Adair, of Atlanta, a
mer well known citizen,
mingling with Covington
Wednesday.
L. P. Loyd has opend a
vulcanizing plant in
an interesting announcement
which appears elsewhere in
News this week.
Attorneys J. F. Rogers and
C. King, of the Covington
in Conyers this week, the latter
being associated with Attorney
Green Johnson, of Monticello,
and Hon. J. H. McCalla, of Con-!
yers in the defense of Bill Crow
ell, who was placed on trial Wed
nesday afternoon for the murder
of Deputy Sheriff Will S. Chris
tian last September, whom he
killed while resisting arrest.
A gratifying increase was no¬
ted in the sale of War Savings
Stamps last week. Prof. G. C.
Adams, chairman, has an appeal
in The News this week which de¬
serves the careful consideration
of the citizenry.
The Sergeant Newton Chapter
of the Daughters of the Ameri¬
can Revolution will hold an im¬
portant meeting with Mrs. T. H.
Jack, of Oxford, at 3 oclock Wed¬
nesday afternoon, April 10th, at
which a full attendance of the
membership is desired.
The land sold at Sheriff’s sale
last Tuesday was bought in by
interested persons for the
amount involved.
WANTED—two hundred new
subscribers to read the Coving¬
ton News. Help us make this
one 0 f the very best county pa
pers [ n Georgia. Let The News
do your job printing.
rhthek ido (broughtpwshrdlrd
Clinton Newton, advance rep
resen tat ive of Sun Brothers’cir
j cus, was in the city last Friday
I completing arrangements for
two performances to be given by
that popular show in Covington
on April 12th. Advertising car
No. 1, in charge of Tom Drans
field, was in the Central of Geor¬
gia yards here Saturday, on
which day the town was deco¬
rated with gorgeous advertising
matter telling of the rare treats
I in store for all who attend the
! circus.
j The Read News every carefully advertisement and then in
i trade with the loyal, progressive
j merchants who are supporting
j j their local paper, which and is Newton doing
more for Covington
1 county than any other medium.
NEWTON COUNTY HOYS NOW IN THE SERVICE:
Continued from Page One. Raleigh Hight.
Will Roseberry.
William Thompson. James Cason.
Robert Fincher. Lee Farrow.
George Plunkett. Owen Gibson.
Tom Moss. Mote.
Charlie Amerson. Wilbur
In Last Lot. Ascar Lee Johnson.
Joseph Ellington. Garfield Henderson.
Harvey Palmer. John Swann.
Eli Treadwell. Albert Glover.
Swann Smith. Willie Johnson.
Oscar Shaw. Jack Smith.
Harold King. Virgil Brown.
Henry P. Christian. Alfred Hicklen.
Tom Stewart. Willie Reynolds.
Fred Stokes. Roy Bass.
Charles Mathis. Grover Jenkins.
Willie Osburn. Clarence Davis.
Fred Perry. John Stokes.
William Greer. Mart Johnson.
Sherod Smith. Walter Barnes.
Frank Hollingsworth Greer. Gid Bagby.
Sterling Potts.
Barney Mitcham. Eugene Henderson.
James Ralph Thompson. Joel Currington.
Claude Eugene Roquemore. Emory Willis.
Moody Egbert Smith. Leo Adams.
Wilson Morris Riggers. John Terrell.
Joseph Guy Rogers. Fred Campbell.
Tilden Ellington. Troy Thompson.
Joseph Fred Cranford.
Millard M. Kinnett. Leroy Middlebrooks.
Joseph F. Plunkett. Robert Gaither.
Prof. Guy Tur-.cr Hicks. Luke Johnson.
Raymond A. Aaron. George Willis.
Clemmie Zinnarnon.
James P. Wiison. Otto Weaver.
Charlie McHenry Walton. Charlie Clarke. •
Curtis Butner Johnson. Chestnut Clark.
Wilson Stephens Thompson. Jesse Hartfield.
Richard Ashby. Willie Rutledge.
Richard Rakestraw. Charlie McGinnis.
John Peterson. Homer Nelson.
George Johnson. Freddie Freeman.
Roy Fretwell. Charles Freeman.
Joe Armour.
Willie Green Banks. Cleveland Big Boll
Walter Simms. Seed. $1.50 per bushel.
Jim Thomas. M. G. Turner.
FARM DEMONSTRATOR
INTERVIEWS PLANTER
Improved Methods Have Been
Productive of Wonderful
Results. A Lesson for
Every Farmer.
1 had an opportunity of talk¬
ing to one of largest farmers in
the county one day last week. 1
am not permitted to publish his
name. His method of farming
on a large scale is entirely suc¬
cessful and the way he manages
his tenants is so satisfactory
that he has one hundred appli¬
cants each year to farm with
him. Of course he cannot sup¬
ply all of these, but it gives him
a choice that enables him to have
only the best men on his farm.
lie requires that each tenant
work not less than 20 acres to
the horse, but the man may work
more under certain circum¬
stances. Eight of this must be
in corn, and half of this corn will
worked. Every tenant is re¬
quired to have a cow, for this
farmer knows that a cow pro
vides abundant cheap, nutritious
food, and families which have a
C ow are visited less often by doc
tors. At every house is an or
chard, and this orchard gets its
regular attention. Every tenani
has a garden, potato patch, ana
may have an acre of sorghum.
The owner of the land furnishes
teams to haul the sorghum cane
to the mill and there makes it up
for the tenant, then getting one
third of the sorghum made for
his work in raising the crop.
Every tenant may sow some
hay crop to provide roughage for
his cow, etc., if he will follow this
with grain in the fall.
Two to two and one-half tons
of proper fertilizer are used to
the horse.
One of the striking features ol
the above farm is the attention
given the tenant. He is provid¬
ed with home necessities,
with things such as orchards,
which go to make farm life desir¬
able.
Of course there are numbers
of similar farms in Newton coun¬
ty, and the one above cited is
merely an instance. We are
glad to see these kinds of farms
in our county, for they nelp to
make it one of the best in the
State.
H. W. Bingham,
County Agent.
A. L. Gaither, of Milledgeville,
paid The News office a very
pleasant call last Friday. Mr.
Gaither was en route to Stone
Mountain to visit his sister, Mrs.
S. G. Griffin.
W. B. R. Pennington has ac¬
cepted the agency for the Oak¬
land motor car in Newton county
and has an interesting announce¬
ment in this issue of The News.
DUROC JERSEY PIGS eight
and ten weeks old. $10.00 each.
M. G. Turner.
THE WESLEYAN
GLEE _ __ CLUB
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Thursday Evening 8:15
ADMISSION 50 CENTS
Tickets on Sale at City Pharmacy
A regular comma
Fleece Lodge No «
F. & A. M., will be
held Friday even¬
8 ing, M. April 5th, at
P.
The Entered Apprentice Degree
will be conferred. All duly
qualified brethren are cordially
invited to attend.
By order of
J. B. Peebles, W. M.
John W. Peek, Sec.
The streets of Covington will
be thronged with patriotic men,
women and children next Satur¬
day, April 6. The invitation ia
wide open to everybody.
COVINGTON,
Friday, April 12
Show Grounds at
Shepherd’s Field
Coming Again And
All New
Sun Bros’
WORLD’S WORLD’S PROGRESSIVE PROCF
Shows (INC)
ALLIED TRAINED WILD
TOURNEY
The World's Wonders At
- Your Door -
B IGGER RIGHTER ETTER
NOTE TO THE PUBLIC:
THIS SHOW IS FREE FROM
ERY SEMBLANCE OF GRAFT.
2-PERFORMANCES DAILY-2
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