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The Wise Advertiser
Never Whispers-— ,
He Shouts.
LUME 11, NUMBER 9.
E RENOWNED MICE
COMING TO NEWTON
tist of National Reputation
i Planning to Pay This
Section a Visit—Prom¬
an Interesting Time.
re Edditur:—
"he Grand Mogul wus jus'
ormin’ me tonight that I am
Ipay the people of Newton
nty a visit, which I am
fectly willing to do, as I
|ce it a practice Tell to never the folks pay
■•thing else.
m there to be on the look
for me, as I'm planning to
e ’em by surprise, the way
-t of you folks take nearly
rything that you git. Teft
that there is some class
that chap, “Mickie,” who is
'ing their number in advance
jhirs arrival from data com
d by friends of hp’n who’ve
it in for such of them as
’t patronize your newspaper,
ne thing I want when I git
n there is plenty of room to
out of the way in if any of
fellows try to make it too
for me. You know that I
i’t brieve much in taxes,
11 pox and woman’® suffrage
I’m hell on free lunch and
rer speech, as some of ’em
find out before I complete
biziness wished on me be
Big Bolss.
ill try and let you and the
know when to expect me,
Swill make it point to arrive
time as I like to slip up
:me guys jus’ to hear what
are saying about me.
of ’em have already benn
png, ‘who is Mickie?””
them to wait and see; the
way to find out.
fours for a hot time here and
a pleasant time hereafter.
“MICKIE.”
||I News T t affords the editor of The
genuine pleasure to
ince the coming to Newton
nty of the great and only
ickie,” a national character,
nd doubt the mos celebra
t and extensively known Ar-
1 in his peculiar line,
at “Mickie” will create a
tion in this favored com¬
ity there can be no doubt,
e arrives like a whirl-wind
stirs up the dust while in
n at any place that he may
to visit; that’s “Mickie’s”
of advancing on a town,
j£i body in Newton county has
the pleasure of meeting
distinguished personage,
ington jand the invitation
he ms at last on his way to
ride-open to everybody,
will be a pleasure to have
kie" with us notwithstand
that he is frequently di¬
in his operations. The
s will talk about “Mickie”
he will recaprocate to the
of hi® recognized ability,
he News feels that it has
, en. extremly fortunat in
cing the original “Mickie”
visit Covington, for he has
gements in practically ev
State in the Union this year,
;4 atch year. The Covington
News
further information and
ouncements concerning
unique individual, the
’horn the people of this sec
have never seen, as “Mick
has never passed this way
ore and may never do
in. Look for“Mickie.”
The Editor.
Piper-Lowe.
[iss Corinne Piper,
Tr. and Mrs. Alex. S.
Mr. O. C. Lowe were
in marriage at the
the bride’s parents
-t at 8:00 o’clock
evening, Rev. Mr.
near Oxford performing
ionv. Mr. and Mrs.
a large circle of
wish them well as
m home. housekeeping " in
m
ie comig soon.
CcumfltOtt
»«■ «- J-»
COUNTY BOARD OF TRADE
Expresses The Opinion That
Nothing is More Essential
to Progress of a Town.
The News appreciates the
subjoined communication from
Dr.N. J. Boswell, of Manfield,
in indorsement of a County
Board of Trade:
Mansfield, Ga. Feb. 27.—
Editor Covington News:—
I abhor jseeing my name in
print, but cannot refrain from
Indorsing your efforts to se¬
cure or organize a Board of
Trade for Newton county.
There is nothing more essen¬
tial to the progress of a town
or county than an active Board
of Trade. This county needs
iust such a board right now.
Any thing to boost Newton
county. Hope you will take
the necessary steps to get it
organized.
N. J. Boswell.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Standard quality dress ging¬
hams at 25 cents a yard at
Pennington’s.
W. G. McNelly, of Atlanta,
spent Tuesday night in Coving¬
ton. Mr. McNelly was for a
number of years in the news¬
paper business and is an hon¬
orary life member of the Geor
?ia Press Association.
Bargains for everybody in
waistte at Pennington’s. Some
as high as $10.00. Beauties.
B. E. Dial, agent for the At¬
lanta Georgian-American, at
Oxford, has been invited to at
the annual convention of live
wire agents, Atlanta, on Febru¬
ary 26-27, which will assemble
men and boys from various
sections of the State.
j A large line of georgette
crene and crepe de chene waists
just received for your approval
at Pennington’!?. Call and see
them first chance.
Randolph Johnston, the hus¬
tler who pushes the Atlanta
Georgian-American in Coving¬
ton, won an invitation to at¬
tend the annual convention ot
live wire agents in Atlanta on
February 26-27th, at the ex¬
pense of the newspaper, which
is a great honor.
0. L. Curry, of Conyers was
mingling' with Covington
friends Tuesday.
Read the attractive an¬
nouncement of the Gailey Dry
Goods Company, Conyers, Ga.,
in this issue of The News.You
can buy it for less at Gailey’s.
All colors in middy blouses
ranging in prices from $1.00 to
$7.50 at Pennington's
J.'T. Swann made a business
trip to Atlanta Tuesday.
Gaines F. Dodson, traveling
representative for the Atlan¬
ta Georgian-American, r-pent
several days in Covington
week in the intercut of the pa¬
per with which he is cnnected.
Get ready for the
tax collector.
The loveliest line of medium
priced ladies’ and
ready-to-wear hats ever
played in Covington. Call
Pennington’s and make your
lection at once.
If you failed to
church last Sunday don’t
peat the neglect of duty
Sunday, even if the weather
not as pleasant as it might
L. F. Boggle, of Oxford
trict, whose celebrated
Orpington’s have been
blue ribbons at many
shows and State
tihnoughaut the South,
a welcome visitor in
Tuesday.
John T. Banks, manager
the Covington telephone
change, spent last Saturday
Sunday iu Griffin, where he
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY' 27, 1919.
UNFAVORABLE WEATHER
WILL REDUCE ACREAGE
Reports From Rural Districts
Has Been Done in Crop
Preparations.
Farmers and other subacrib
ry era to the over production
theory incline towards the
opinion that the recent unfavor
orable weather conditions will
aid materially in the cotton
acreage reducing movement
and a consequent reduction in
the yield next fall.
Report,? for the rural dis¬
tricts of Newton and adjoining
counties indicate that little
work lias been accomplished in
preparation for the crop of 1919
with two months of the year in
,, ,
w 16 '
The people of Newton county
are patriotic, sensible and pro¬
gressive, but so far have mani¬
fested little interest in the va¬
rious agitations being waged
in the interest of the farmers,
being of the opinion that the
Georgia planter is as capable of
directing his own affairs ap are
those who are presuming to ad-,
vise from long distance just
what action should be adopted.
ceived a warm welcome from
his many old friends. Mr.
Banks was connected with the
Griffin exchange for a number
of years as bookkeeper. and
asVistanjt manager.
The Covington News com¬
pletes the family circle in many
of thev wealthiest and most
influential homes in Newton
county. Now is the time to
subscribe or renew your sub¬
scription. The News needs the
money and you need The News.
The Newton County Cami>
of the United Confederate Vet
ans, will hold a meeting on
Tuesday morning of next week
at which a Commander and
other officers will be elected
for the ensuing year. A full
attendance is urged.
The Post Office observed legal
holiday on Saturday of last
week in honor of the birth day
of General George Washington,
the “The Father of his country
who could not tell a lie.”
The News regrets the absence
this week of its rural corre¬
spondents, who. decided to en¬
joy a week’s recess. It is hoped
thatrthev will all return in fine
form next week.
The undefeated basket ball
team of the Covington High
School has an exciting engage¬
ment in Greensboro for Friday
afternoon, where it is proposed
to take the measure of the hus-,
ky Greensboro aggregation.
Judge Brand Writes
About Garden Seed.
Washington, D C., Feb. 20.
Mr. Editor:
By your permission I want to
make this statement:
If any one receiving veget.v
ble seed does not want them l
will appreciate it i 4 ‘ same be
returned to the Post Office
with a request to forward
them back to me.
If any one fails to receive
veed who wants the same I
Will be glad to be advised of
the fact.
Verv tmlv vours.
C. H. BRAND.
TT * n Fntei-tninf.l Al
Mrs. w w.
One of the most delightiul
events of the week was the
regularly monthly meeting of
the United Daughters of the
Confederacy which wus heir* at
the home of Mrs. W. W. Childs,
on Floyd street, where they
were delightf iT# entertained;
One of the mo?t interesting
programs of , ».e v vr was git * n
all of which was in reference
to Georgia Day. A number of
splendid papers were read by
1 he Chapter.
Delieioiu re 4 ’'eslanev.ts
served at tk - concluson of the
program.
COTTON EMBARGO
MAT BE REMOVED
,F A M M° MENT WR,TT E N
t*Psun'ory civil bill
REMAINS
EXPORTS MAY 66 TO WORLD
Repre*ent»tive Bland Offered Amend¬
ment to Lift Embargo On
American Goods
Washington, -Representatives
thf cotton-raising states were sue
oesal'a] in their effortB to write an
'T T , ' . ° Tb , * 1°' . "I? . „ u-, t
t placed r T. by ,he ,° war "T* trade “a board *'
oouon export shipments. The amend
ment, nowever. is nor effective until
after June i . 30. ... The Mil,
tiie amendment, goes to the senate, !
Although designed primarily 1o af
feci cotton shipments, the
applies to all American good, export
ed .o foreign countries. The rnnend
meut Prepared at a confines
? o« hern representatives was offered
IS the House by Representative Bland,
of Georgia, and afterwards amended
nn motion of Representative Steagall,
or Alabama, so that cotton seed and
peaout Oil also , wonW ,, not be , subject
’.o eni tftixo. -
The amendment was offered while
m committee of-the
was e^dering an item of the sundry
evil bill reappropr j atmg for the
trade bpard the imexpended Glance
of appropriating its operation. Con
timuinee of the agency for a part of
cite next fiscal year may be necessary,
it* was said by members of the ap¬
propriation* committee, who framed
■ he sundry civil bill. Funds, it waa
added, also would be necessary for
;he agency to settle Us accounts.
The reappropriation item was ap
uroyed after adoption of the Bland
amendment, which directs that no
part of The appropriation will be
available unless ail emha'rgocs are
li£t*'*L
Japanese clash
WITH AMERICANS
Japanese Claim Cossack Equipment,
But General Graves Is Hold¬
ing It
Vladivostok.—The Japanese staff
here lias requested Colonel Henry D.
Slyer, of the American army, to turn
oyer to the Japanese the arms, horses
and equipment of the Cossack troops
of General Kalmikoff. who mutinied
late in January and surrendered their
arms and horses to the Americans.
A short time ago Major General
William S, Graves, the American
commander, refused a verbal demand
of the Japanese staff that, he (Case
so protect the fifteen hundred revolt-'
ers of Kalmikoff s forces, on the.
ground that Kalraikoffs record was
not good, that he represented ne au¬
thorized authority and that there was
no guaranty that he would nm revive
the reign of terror in the Ussuri
K' Hbarovsk district, which caused
protests to be made by general
Graves to fir-neraal Otani, riie Japa
nese comntander-in-chief.
The Japanese now claim that tht
equipment of these Cossack ’roopr
belongs to them. Ut to this time
General Graves has not been inclined
to concede this claim without assur¬
ances that the ruen when released
will not be the victims cf Kalmikoff’,--.
vengeance.
Conscience Objectors Return Mone-.
Washington.—Nearh ^ all 1 ha con¬
scientious objectors recently released
by the army at Fort Leavenworth
have reitimed the money paid them
on discharge, hold’rg that The scrup¬
le* which prevented them from fight¬
ing also forbade the acceptance of
pay for non-combatant sendee which
relieved a fighter for the front. It wa<
learned ‘hat about $5,000 already had
been returned and remittances still
were coming ~ in.
________
Scott Nearing Freed Of Sedition
New York.—Scott Nearing, one-time
professor in the University of Pennsyl¬
vania and Toledo university, and a
j Socialist candidate in this city in the
last congressional campaign, was ao
'mhted <* writing by a fed¬
eral jury here.
————
American Dead Placed at 107.441
Washington, Deaths during the
w ar ir t ; e American expeditionar;
forces and among troops in the Unit¬
ed States frem all calces, the war
department announced, numbered
107,444 In the expeditionary forces
the total was 72.051. Of these L'O,
S2S resulted front disease, 4^,768 from
inluries received in battle and 3.354
from all other causes. Deaths from
disease among ’he troops in the Unit¬
ed States totaled 32.737 and from
other causes 1,750, giving a total for
the troops in this country of 34.493.
I
j WAIT FOR “MiCKIE.”
ATLANTANS HONOR
GEORGIA SOLDIERS
IMPRESSIVE services in honor
OF MEN. WHO SERVED U. S.
IN FIGHTING THE HUNS
STATE NEWS Of INTEREST
Brief New* Items Of importance Oath,
•red From All Perte
Of The State
Atlanta.—One of the largest crowds
that ever attended a patriotic demon
BtnUion i n Atlanta packed the audi
loriun, Sunday afternoon (February
23 > ^ WV tribute to the 9,582 Allan
ta ^ ^ wyed ^ ^ ^
fe|u ^ Gq * wlien impres .
. commemorating- .. De
mobilization - of the Service Star Day,”
were held. Enthusiasm was at high
d ^ ^ repreeenting
-, he lekguo (>f natio n S ,” with President
at ,- Qfc lable sur .
. flgures attired ln the uui .
forms of America’s allies. Women
draped ip. the national colors of each
of lhe allied nations took part in the
tableau. The audience stood with un
. 0Terw , hea(L vilUfc thp natfonal au .
them o£ France. Italy, Belgium and
Gmit Brltaln were played . America
was reprfaBented by « C olumbla.” It
, was dimmed that more chan seven
j , hoasand pera0 n« attended the demon
straUon whlle probab!v two thousand
were refused adruitUnce. Several hun
,tl:ed gathered at the auditorium as
flictir before the opening and waited
■for the doors to open.
States To Rule Railroads Now
Atlanta.—Authority of the state puh
lie service commissions has been re
stored, and police powers of the stati
recognized in the operation of rail
roads, by W. P. Hines, director gen
eral of lailroads. Rates, however, re
nrain under federal control. Follow
tng a conference held in Washington,
between the United States railroad
administration and the executive
war service committees of the
association of railway commissioners
Mr. Hines gave out a formal state
raent announcing the new policy of tin
administration. Operations of tha
body will be regulated in the future
so as to be in harmony with the au
thorify of the «ate commissions. Tin
functioning and authority of the r«g
uiative bodies will he restored.
57 Warrantc Charging Distilling
Augusta.—Deputy United Staler
Marshal Perkins has fifty-seven war
rants to execute in Washington
Wilkes, McDuffie and Jefferson c-oun
ties, ail of them charging the iliega
distillation of liquors. It is the j be
lief that this law-breaking is on t
boom in this section of the state. At
arrest made was that, of Ned Peacock
K7 years of age, from Washingtoi
county. His place is about eighteec
miles from Sandersville. It appearr
that he has been arrested on a likr
charge before* but has gotion out o'
trouble because of his age. This time
in default of fofiO bond, he is held ir
Richmond county jail to await action
of the grand jury.
Mrs. Asa G. Candler Dead
Atlanta.—Mrs. Asa G. Candler, wife
of Atlanta’s foremost capitalist anti
former mayor, died at the Candle)
home ir, Druid Hills. She had been il
five years, the last year being con
stantlv confined to her bod Mrs.
Candler was 59 years old and had Jivet
in Atlanta practically all her life. Slit
had been married more than forty
years. Site was the daughter of Georgf
J. Howard of Augusta, formerly i
wholesale druggist of Atlanta. Sht
has five children—Charles H., Wll
William and Walter T. Candler, Asa
G Candler, Jr., and Mrs. Henry Heinz.
! Pricas Reduced For Foodstuffs
| Atlanta— Following the publication
I in ihe papers of a statement from a
number of dairymen covering the ma
jority of their expenses, Mrs. Newton
C. Wing, chairman of the woman’s
committee on milk reduction, looked
into the question of the high cost of
foodstuff# to which a large part of
the increase in the price of milk is
ascribed. She slated that according
| to figures secured from W S. Duncan,
(a leading dealer in grain and other
j feed, the most irtiportant of the foods
used for cow ? have decreased in price
within the past thirty or sfxty days.
Farmer Cleared Of Wife Murder
Thoroasville.—In the case of W. L.
Benton of Grady county, on trial at
Cairo, charged with the murder of^i the
wife by poisoning last summer,
jury brought ia a verdict of ‘ not
guilty.” being out only 35 minute?.
Benton was a well known fanner of
Grady and the ease attracted much
attention.
“Mickie” says that you may
ejcpect him as soon as he ar¬
rives.
An Ad in The News is
Worth Four On
The Fence.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance
GEORGIA DIVIDED INTG
TWENTY TIH ZONES
M. L. Cox, .of Milledgeville, Has
Been Appointed Deputy
Collector in The Eighth.
Will Visit Newton.
Georgia has been divided in¬
to twenty income tax zones,
$ie announcement having re¬
cently been made by Hon. A.
O. Blalock, codec ter of inter¬
nal revnues for the State, who
has already appointed the Dep¬
uty Collectors and assigned
them their districts.
The division of the State in¬
to zones is part of an income
tax drive to make sure that ev¬
ery one makes his returns by
March 15th. Delinquents will
be subect to a heavy fine.
Newton h in Zone No. 8, the
jther counties being Baldwin,
Putnam, Greene, Morgan,
Washington and Hancock. Dep¬
uty Collector M. L. Cox, of
Milledgeville, will visit the
counties for the purpose of re?
ceiving returns, making collec¬
tions and otherwise rendering
assistance to the men and wo¬
men coming within the provis¬
ions of the law.
The News, upon request of
the proper authorities, will an¬
nounce the coming of Deputy
Collector Cox, who will make
headquarters at the CoVington
F’ourt house.
Corlev-Crowley.
The marriage of Miss Eloise
Corley, youngest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Corley, of
Starrsville, and Mr. Weldon
Crowley, of the same place,
was a quiet but interesting
event, taking place at the
home of the bride’s pa¬
rents on Saturday afternoon,
February!5th at 7:00 o’clock,
Rev. T; J. Christian, pgirtor of
th-e First Methodist church of
Covington officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. Corley left
immediately after the ceremo
iv on a motor trip to Atlan
f h.
On their return they com
'menced 'house-keeping at the
borne of Miss Mary Carter, on
Monticello Street, where they
will be pleaded to see their
friends.
Ways To Help Out The
Church Near Your Home.
Here are ten ways to help
the country church of your
community. You can help by
seeing to it—
1. That the church has a
wholetime pastor at a salary
you are not ashamed of.
2. That a twelve-moths-in
the-year Sunday School is
maintained. »
3. That a parsonage is pro¬
vided and furrished.
4. That there is a teacher’s
training class in the Sunday
School.
5. That the church lives up
to its highest possibilities in
the matter of church music.
*6. That the church building
is painted.
7. That the church grounds
are made beautiful with trees,
shrubs, flowers and walks.
8. That tjje church is prop¬
erly heated and lighted.
9. That there is a rest room
for women and children.
10. That hitchig places are
provided for horses so that
they will not gnaw' shade trees.
Any earnest citizen can help
accomplish these things in his
neighboring church and Sunday
School and should count it a
privilege to be able to do so.—
The Progressive Farmer.
Joe Long, a negro serving
a life sentence in the Newton
"ounty chain gang for mur
deserted from the servie
Wednesday night and is being
searched for by the officers,
who hope to capture him in the
near future. Long was a “trus
ty’and enjoyed the confidence
of the Warden and Guards.
