THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 9, 1919
Report of the condition of
The First National Bank
At Covington, Ga., at the close of business January 2, 1919:
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Resources: Liabilities:
Loans and discounts, j- $ 257,932.78 Capital stock, - $ 50,000.00
Overdrafts, secured, * 36,367.63 Surplus and profits. - - 16,832.89
Overdrafts, unsecured, - 578.45 Circulation, - - 39,000.00
Stocks and bonds, - 79,0(3.73 Dividend, unpaid, - - 8.00
Furniture and fixtures, - 4,240.58 Cashier’s checks, - - 3,580.35
Real estate, 586.25 Bills payable, - - - 19,750.00
Due from U. S. Treasury, 1,000.00 Rediscounts. - - 15,098.55
Cash on hand and in banks 111,817.79 DEPOSITS, - - - - 347,317.44
Total, 3491,387.23 Total, - - - - $491,587.23
Officers: Directors:
N. /. Anderson, President, N. 7u Anderson, C. C. Brooks,
W. B. B. Pennington, vice-president, A. J. Belcher, J. J. Clack,
R. E. Stephenson, vice-president, H. L. Hitchcock, M. Levin,
H. L. Hitchcock, Cashier. W. B. R. Penningion, C. R. Rogers,
James C. Anderson, AssT Cashier. W. R. Roberts, R. E. Stephenson.
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WINTER GOODS. THIS MEANS THAT WHEN YOU
COME TO US AND BUY FIFTEEN DOLLARS’
WORTH FOR TEN DOLLARS THAT YOU SAVE
FIVE DOLLARS OF REAL MONEY.
BEGAUSE-ALL THE YEAR ROUND WE GIVE
YOU FULL VALUE FOR THE MONEY YOU SPEND
IN OUR STORE.
IT WILL PAY YOU WELL TO COME IN RIGHT
NOW ATtD RIG CUT THE WHOLE FAMILY WITH
EVERYTHING THEY NEED.
COME IN.
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Phone 299. - * ’ mdim Govington. Ga.
Switzerland’* Gipsies.
Just 500, years ago, writes a corre¬
spondent of the Neue Zureher Zeitung,
our forefathers in the city on the Lira
mat had a new experience. A motley
army of people came into Switzerland
from the east and camped just out¬
side the walls of Zurich for t*o weeks.
They numbered some 14,000 persons,
men, women and children. These
swarthy wayfarers, according to an
old chronicle, wore commonly known
as gipsies or heathens. They said
they had been driven out of Egypt.
Their clothing was miserable, but they
wore many ornaments of gold and sil¬
ver, maintained perfect order and dis¬
cipline, and paid punctually for all
they ate and drank. After seven
years’ wanderings they are said to
have returned to their original home.
This was the first appearance of gip¬
sies in Switzerland.
Air Mail Expense.
The first report of the comparative
cost of the operation HUd maintenance
of the United States air mail service
shows that the airplanes used in tills
service have broken all records for
economy of gas consumption.
The total of all operating expenses
of nine airplanes, covering flights ag¬
gregating 7.284 miles, was $8,0.92. The
total consumption of gas, representing
318 hours and 8 minutes in flying, was
1,877 gallons, which is $32.50 an hour,
something more than 50 cents a mile.
The total cost of gas was $405 in fly¬
ing 7,234 miles.
Daylight Saving Worked Well.
In the United Kingdom during the
four and a half months that daylight
saving was practiced In 1910 it is
claimed that the saving in gas alone
conserved 260,000 tons of coal. Th 1
expenses to consumers were reduced
by $2,375,000. Electric light compan¬
ies reported a reduction of about 20
per cent.
Tn France fuel used for illuminat¬
ing purposes was 30 per cent less af¬
ter the daylight saving program was
adopted.
In Germany the Berlin municipal
gas works reported in May and .Tune
of 1010 a decrease of 508.500 cubic
meters,, in spite of rhe fact that 18,
000 new gas meters had been installed
during the previous six months.
In Self-Defense.
A negro soldier at one of the can¬
tonments insisted that he wanted to
take out the full limit of insurance.
$10,000. One of the white soldiers re¬
monstrated with lilin. telling him It
would he-- foolish to pay on so much,
for he was likely to lie shot in the
trenches. To fids the negro answered:
“Huh. I reckon I knows what I’se
doin’. I’se doin’ this In self-defense.
You all don’t' s’pose that Uncle Sam Is
gwlne to put a $10,000 man iu the first
line trenches, does yah?"
Tnree Years’ Drought.
It has always been thought that
Australia had the unenviable credit of
suffering from the longest drought.
However, the Gilbert and Ellice
islands are .sweltering under a drought
that has now lasted nearly three years.
It is said that the very heat which
rises from the parched land ascends
sufficiently high to vaporize showprs
long before they can reach the earth.
The last long drought which the
Islands experienced was some thirty
years ago, when the mortality was
very high owing to the fact that there
was then no systematized method of
storing water.
Two Rare Bibles.
Among the recent additions to the
Daniel B. Dyer museum, Kansas, is a
cabinet of rare old books and liter¬
ary curiosities. Resting side by side
are two Bibles, one, the first complete
folio and royal quarto edition of the
Bible printed in the United States
in the year 1791 In Worcester, Mass.,
by Isaiah Thomas, and the other, a
copy of the smallest edition of the
Holy Bible In the world. The little
volume contains both the Old and New j
Testaments. There are 876 pages in j
it. The space required to hold the (
large volume beside It would hold 835 i
of the little ones.
The first ffie '
complete edition of
“Book of Books” printed In English ,
was by Miles Coverdale. It was pro¬
duced iu 1535, while the first com¬
plete translation into old English was
by Wycliffe in the year 1382.
Apache Scouts Now in France.
The Apache scouts mentioned with
credit by General Pershing because j
of their good work on the Marne are 1
by no means green in the business. I
They are, v begin with, descendants j
of scouts who took part in the cam¬
paign against the famous Chief Gero
nimo, in which the present command- i
er in chief of the American expedi- ■
tionary force In France, as a second [
lieutenant, saw his first service. In j
the second place, they received par¬
tial training in the hunt for Villa and
the rillas general In 1916. chasing General of Pershing, Mexican guer- it is j
needless to say, does not permit his !
Apaches to descend to German meth¬
ods of warfare.
Amusement of Airmen.
Airmen off duty in France, accord¬
ing to Capt. William Butler of Omaha,
amnse themselves in American ways.
“Baseball takes the spare time of a
lot of the fellows,” he says. “And
we’ve had some cracking good boxing
bouts recently—ten and twelve-round
matches that would make any bunch
of fans go- wild. In the evening, the
boys can go Into a erfe. The cafes
aren’t of the rough So~L. and really
cultured people gather there.”
A little town in SENEGAL.
I hear the music throbbing down the
lanes of Afric rain:
The Afric spring is breaking, down la
Senegal again.
O little town in Senegal, amid the clus¬
tered gums.
Where are your sturdy village lads, who
one time danced to drums?
At Soissons. by a fountain wall, they
sang their melodies;
And some now lie in Flemish fields, be¬
side the northern seas;
And some tonight are camped and still.
along the Marne and Aisne;
And some are dreaming of the palms
that bend in Afric rain.
The music of the barracks half awakes
them from their dream;
They smile and sink back sleepily along
the Flemish stream.
They dream the baoba's white buds have
opened overnight;
They dream they see the solemn cranes
that bask in morning light.
T hear the great drums beating in the
square across the plain.
Where are the tillers of the soil, the gal¬
lants’ loyal train?
O little town in Senegal, amid the white
bud trees.
At Soissons. 1n Picardy, went north th*
last of these!
—Will Thompson in Everybody’s.
Soldier Priests.
A dozen clergymen of the Church
of England were seen in London the
other day unloading an army motor
lorry. They were of all ages from
about twenty to fifty, and they had
taken off their coats to the job both
literally and metaphorically. They
looked queer, in their snowy white
shirt sleeves and well-laundered "dog
collars,” handling the great bales of
army stores. Inquiry elicited the
fact that they had just been sworn in
as soldiers, and had not yet had their
khaki uniforms served out to them.
Judging by the way they handled the
goods, and their obvious enjoyment
of their first “fatigue duty,” one
formed the opinion that they, too, are
“the goods.”
Thrilling Escape.
While the French aviator. M. Ser
gent, was flying over Douaumont in
March, 1936. he was attacked by four
Taubes. The machine gun duel was
brief. The French machine was struck
by hundreds of bullets. Sergent's left
arm was Injured and hung helpless.
The next moment his observer was kill¬
ed and—here comes the unexpected—
his body fell and was pinned between
the leaves. The position was critical.
The airplane was listing dangerously,
the petrol tank was pierced and the pe¬
trol was running out. With his oue
sound hand Sergent disengaged bis
dead comrade. Then he dived down
vertically, resuming a normal position
within about 800 feet from the ground.
—Wide World Magazine.
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! MESSAGES SHOT FROM GUNS
Novel Method by Which Communica¬
tions Are Transmitted From th©
Trenches to Headquarter*.
The transmission of messages, ob¬
servations or directions from the first
line trenches to the headquarters of the
regimental or brigade commanders be¬
hind the lines Is always difficult and
attended with great risk, says a re¬
cent article in Popular Science Month¬
ly. Of course connection by telephone
is maintained whenever possible,
Sometimes telephone and telegraph
wires are shot away. Besides, the en¬
emy may have tapped the wires and
may be able to hear every word
spoken. *
The Germans on the west front have
used several ingenious methods for
i overcoming these difficulties. The ob¬
servers in the observation trenches in
front of the first line inclose their
messages in a cylindrical metal box
and shoot it by means of a grenade
thrower or a mine thrower to the rear
of the lines. The accompanying dia¬
gram clearly shows the construction
of the projectile used. To the box con
METAL BOX
CONTAINING
messages
^CYLINDER
REO SIGNAL
LIGHT CHAROB
POWDER
CARTRIDGE
tainlng the message a red-fire cartrid t*
Is attached, which- Is ignited by the
explosion of the sending charge, and by
its vivid glare plainly marks the spot
where the box with the message
dropped. The grenade thrower, at an
elevation of 32 degrees, sends the box
to a maximum distance of 600 yards.
NOTICE TO LIGHT, WATER
AND POWER CONSUMERS
Unless rendered bill for light,
power and water is paid on or before
the 10th of each month, failure of
compliance will be regarded as au
indication that a discontinuation of
service is desired and connections
will be closed on the following day.
O. P. GREEN,
Superintendent,
