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THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919
HANSON SIX’
Why Should Georgia Pooplo Pay Big Profits mi High
Freights on Thoir Automobiles From Northern
Companies Whin They
CAN NOW GET A BETTER CAR
FOR THE MONEY AT HOME?
Practically 90 per cent of the make-up of the majority of
the automobiles come from Southern States, is freighted to the
North, put together, and then freighted back.
THE HANSON MOTOR CO., of Atlanta, Ga., saves to
the owner over $100.00 in freight on each car, is able to give
quick service in parts, and furnish the best that can be bought
of each item that goes into the make-up:
45 H. P. Red Seal Mo or, 6 cylinder, all valves closed.
Stromberg Carburetor, Delco Electric System, Prest-O*
Lite Battery.
Timken Bearings and Axles.
High carbon pressed steel Frame, Crome Vanadium Steel
Springs, (non breakable.)
Borg and Beck Dry disk clutch with easy pedal opera¬
tion. Hotchkiss drive.
Genuine grain leather upholstery, plate glass lights in
rear curtain, with side back curtain and wind shield.
AH for $1685.
See one perform to be satisfied.
—FOR SALE BY—
N, Z. & James G. Anderson
Agents
The car of Durability. Beauty of Workmanship,
makes it the Ideal ear for service or pleasure.
Inquire of any REO owner as to the results he
has obtained from his ear. I will be satisfied
with his verdiet.
1 also handle REO trueks; this is a truck that
will satisfy the most skeptical; in fact it is the
truck that upholds its’ name, REO
interested in a GOOD AUTOMOBILE or
TRUCK, see
s R. SMITH, MANSFIELD, GA
Agent For Newton County.
^ I ED— -500 new subscribers to The Covington
SHERIFF SALES.
Georgia, Newton County.
Will be sold before the Court
door, in said county, at public out¬
cry on the First Tuesday i n August,
1919, within the legal hours of sale,
the following described property, to
wit: One S-passenger Ford autorno
bile, touring ca<r, 1917 mo del. Said
property levied on by virtue of a
mortgage fi fa issued from the Supe¬
rior Court of said county in favor 01
Norris Hardware Co., vs. C. R Anglin
This July 7, 1919.
S. M HAY.
Shefiff Newton County, Gv.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
To the Superior Court of aaid County;
The petition of Mrs. Lilia P. Smith,
Ivye H. Smith and J. Lt-mar Smith, of
said county and State, shows to the
eourt as follows:
1. Petitioners, together with their
associates, desire to be incorporated
under the name and style of GEO. T.
SMITH COMPANY for a period of
twenty years, with the right to re¬
new sudd charter at the expiration of
said time.
KING & JOHNSON,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
I, O. O. Nixon, Clerk of the Supe¬
rior Court of said county, do hereby
certify that the foregoiug is a true
and comet copy of the application
for the amendment of the charter of
H. I. Weaver & Company to the name
of Porterdale Mercantile Company ts
the same appears of file in this office.
Witness my official signature £.aid
seal of said court, this 3rd day of
July, 1919.
C. O. NIXON,
Clerk Sup’r. Ct., Newton County, Ga.
NOTICE, BRIDGE CONTRACTORS.
Notice Is hereby given that bids
will be received on the 7th day of
August, 10 o’clock, A.M., at public out.
cry, at the bridge site,, known as Wa¬
ter’s bridge, a line bridge between New¬
ton and Jasper counties, on Aloovy
river, Cor finishing and erecting new
steel joists, on said bridge for its en¬
tire length of six hundred tod forty
seven feet and six inches, (647.5.) 16
foot roadway; also for removing the
old wood floor and erecting new
floor and nailing joists Lumber
be furnished by the counties, deliver
ed at the bridg site.
Stid materials and work to be done
in accordance with plans and specif!
cations on file in the County Commis¬
sioner’s office at Covington and Monfci
eello, Georgia.
Payments to he made as follows:
Seventy-five per cent of contract price
ta delirvery of steel material at the
bridge site, and the balance of 25 per
cent upon completion and acceptance
of work. Payment to be made in
cash or warrant including interest at
the legal rate if not paid when war¬
rant is issued. The contractor will
be required to give bond for the faith¬
ful performance of the contract, but
no seven-year maintenance bond will
be required.
Each bidder must file a certified
check for $500.00 before time of bid¬
ding as a guarantee that he or they
will enter into contract and give bond
as above mentioned should their bid
be accepted. The right is reserved
to reject any and all bids.
I. W. MEADORS,
Commissioner of Newton County, Ga.
M. BENTON, Chairman,
- W. A. MERCER,
J. L. HARDY,
Commisioners of Roads and Revenues
of Jasper County, Ga.
NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Notice is hereby given that a bill
will be introduced duriug the present
session of the General Assembly of
Georgia changing the time of holding
the election of Mayor and members of
Council of the town of Mansfield from
tlq. second Monday in January to th*
second Monday in December, the offi
oers to assume their duties on the first
of January following. July 8 , 1919.
E. W. ADAMS, Representative.
NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGISLATION.
Acting upo n a recommendation
adopte by the grand jury at the Jan
xiary Term of the Superior
Court of Newton County, a bill will be
introduced during the present session
of the General Assembly of Georgia
increasing the salary of the Treasurer
of Newton county from $600.00 tc
$800.00 a year.
E. W. ADAMS, Representative
FOR SALE—Several desirable
houses and lots and well im¬
proved small farms. Dr. J. A.
WRIGHT.—5-8-tf.
2 . The object of said corporation is
pecuniary gain, and to carry on and
maintain a general wholesale and re¬
tail drug business, together with such
incidental and usual wares, merchan¬
dise and soft drinks as carried and
dispensed by drug stores.
3. The principal place of business
shall be located in the City of Coving¬
ton. Georgia, where its principal office
is to be located, but the petitioners
desire the right to establish branch
LARS, divided into shares of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS each, all of
which said capital stock has been ac¬
tually paid in, but the petitioners de¬
sire the right to increase said capital
stock to Twenty Thousand Dollars by
a majority' vote of the stock holders
when they so desire.
6 . Petitioners desire th£t said cor¬
poration have the right to elect a Board
of Directors by a vote of its stock
holders; to elect a President, Vice
offiees within the State or elsewhere,
whenever the holders of a majority
of the stock holders may so determine.
4. Petitioner^ desire the right to
buy and sell medicines, toilet articles,
candies, soft drinks, wares and mer¬
chandise of all kinds that *Te usual
end ordinarily carried by drug stores
to make contracts, borrow money, loan
money, sue and be sued, and to do any
and all acts that may he necessary in
the operation of said business.
5. The capital stock of said corpo
rt tion shall be SIX THOUSAND DOL
President, Secretary and Treasurer,
and to have and make aU proper and
necessary by-laws, rules and regula¬
tions proper and for the carrying on
of said business, and also to have and
use a common seal.
7. They also ask authority for said
incorporation to wind up its affairs,
liquidate and discontinue its business
at any time it may detremine to do so
by a vote of two-ahirds of its stock
out standing at the time.
Whereas, petitioners tile this their
petition in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Newton county,
; ud pray that after the same has
been advertised as required by law,
that the Court by proper order grant
this petition.
KING & JOHNSON,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Filed in office. tills 2nd day of July.
1919. C. O. NIXON,
Clerk Sup’r. C’t. Newton County, Ga.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Office of Clerk of Superior Court of
Newton County:
I. C. O. Nixon. Clerk of the Superior
Court of Newton County, hereby certi¬
fy that the foregoing is a 1 true and cor¬
rect copy of the application for char¬
ter, as thi? same appears of file in this
office. This 2nd day of July. 1919.
C. O: NIJON.
Clerk Superior Court
Notice of Local legislation.
Town of Newborn, County of New¬
ton. State of Georgia
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC—A
bill will be introduced during this
session of the General Assembly to
amend the charter of the Town of
Newborn, to provide for the regis¬
tration of voters, etc.
This July 1, 1919.
.1. O. STANTON. Mayor.
L. P. DUKE. Town Clerk.
.Votive of Local Legislation.
A bill will be introduced during this
session of the Legislature to provide
for the Grand Jury of Newtoi County
to appoint live citizens of. th county
to cut Newton county into 4 t Road
Districts. Covington to be e. and
the other districts to be inro four;
also to provide for the election of five
Cocaniisaioners of Roads and Revenues
tor amtr.
9 . w. w+ut
‘The New tdisoo Phonograph'
‘THE PHONOGRAFH WITH
A SOUL.”
The instrument which provides the
greatest variety of enjoyment at the
most moderate outlay is the Phono¬
graph.
As an entertainer and an educator
it lues uo equal. It brings to the home
the voices of the world’s greatest
bands and orchestras. It stirs the
blood with patriotic songs and
marches. It reaches into the innermost
ex-eesses of the soul with noble and in¬
spiring anthems of great choirs and
cathedral chimes. It gladdens the
heart with the frolicsome music at the
day. It tells stories to the children.
It pi o'-ides th? o relied ’a foi the hox •
dance.
So successful has been the process
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ehievemeuts in science and invention,
lecpt/x! us the marvel of the age.
The “NEW EDISON PERIOD CAB¬
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PETITION FOR AMENDMENT
CHARTER.
GEARGIA, Newton County.
To the Superior Court of s aid County;
The petition of H I. Weaver &
Company, a corporation chartered and
organized under the laws of this
State, respectfully shows:
1. That at a meeting of its officers
directors and stockholders held on
the 2nd day of July, 1919, at its prin¬
cipal office in said county, a resolution
wa fl unanimously adopted and duly
entered on the minutes whereby the
name of H. I. Weaver & Company was
recommended to be changed to POR
TERDALE MERCANTILE COM¬
PANY.
Wherefore, petitioner prays:
That its name be changed from “H.
I. Weaver & Company” to Porterdale
Mercantile Company,” and that its
charter as heretofore granted be so
amended in accordance with said res¬
olution, so that “Porterdale Mercan¬
tile Company” shall in all instances
in said charter be substituted for “H.
I. Weaver & Company,” and that this
corporation may henceforth be known
and published, with all of its legal
rights and liabilities, as Porterdale
Mercantile Company.
signed.
So., .with, the “NEW. EDISON"
Phonographs and the “NEW EDISON
Recreations," it is possible for every
home whore high class entertainment
and education by means of a high class
“PHONOGRAM*’. are appreciated,
to possess one of these truly remark¬
able recreations of mind and skill.
FOR SALE BY—
J, W. HENDERSON J
“THE MUSIC MAN”
Mansfield, Ga.—tf.
A. M. Dobbins
Funeral Director and
Licensed Emhalmer
Employed By
Stilwell Furniture Co.
Calls answered any where and
any time.
Day Phone 58
Night Phone 157-W
Music Supplies
The public has never realized
more fully the beneficial influ¬
ence of MUSIC than it is doing
at the present time; and that the
only way to create a music lov¬
ing public and build up a musical
education is to have music in
the home.
There are many people who
want music in their homes, but
don’t know just what to buy or
where to buy it. If you were
sick, you would go to some one
who knew medicine to diagnose
your needs and prescribe the
remedy. You are sick for
music in the home: then go to
W. HENDERSON, “THE MU¬
MAN,” MANSFIELD, GA.,
who will take a special interest
supplying you with the best
correct kind of musical in¬
whether it be a piano,
or phonograph—-or the
best Song Book.
The spiritual condition of our
HOMES. CHURCHES ana
SCHOOLS largely de¬
upon the character of
songs that we sing. The
that we sing are in the
that we buy. So, if we
have the best character
music, we must buv the best
The best criterian to go
in getting a song book is one
and published by a man
has a National reputation
a Gospel Singer and song wri¬
For such a book, I recom¬
“AWAKENING SONGS’
Homer A. Rodeheaver, for
by
J. W HENDERSON,
* THE MUSIC MAN”
MANSFIELD, GA.
FOR SALE—Housm and two-acre lot.
on the Hill, occupied by J.C. Morgan
Price and terms reasonable. MRS.
LARUE LEE M1ZELL, 139 East
North Av*,
