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THE GOVINGTDn iiLHVO . : p
COVINGTON, GA.
Official Organ of Newton County
and the City of Covington.
Published every Thursday by the
News Publishing Company.
RALPH MEEKS, . . . President.
W. E. LIGHTFOOT, - EditorAlgr
Entered as second class mail matter
December 2, 1908, at the Post Office
at Covington, Ga„, under the act of
March 3, 1879,
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
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Three Months, (in advance) . .75
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
The petition of L. W. Jarman, J. B.
Reeves, C. 1>. Gibson, M. G. Turner
and J. T. Swann, of said county, shows
.o the court as follows:
1. Petitioners, together with their
associates desire to be incorporated
under the name of Sweet Potato Cur¬
ing Company for a period of twenty
years, with the right to renew said
charter at the expiration of said time
2. The object of said corporation is
pecuniary gain and to carry on and
maintain a curing plant and storage
house for sweet potatoes and other
’arm products in the City of Cwing
ton, Georgia, which said place shall he
he location of its principal office, but
petitioners desire the right to es¬
tablish branch offices within this State
>r elsewhere, whenever the holders of
a majority of the stock may so de¬
mine, and to this end, to cure and
store sweet potatoes and other farm
products, and to charge therefor, to
my and sell swec„ potatoes and other
farm prvJi;'.r», to own a plant or
plants ard real estate as may be necos
sary in onnection with its business, to
make contracts, borrow money, loan
money, sue «nd be sued to liar* ■, (
ise a << union seal, aud all other act
that nnv he necessary or beueli- ial ii
(lie operation of its business as a cor
poration.
3. The principal place of business
of said corporation will be in tin
City of Covington, Georgia.
4. The capital stock of said corpor
ation shall be Five Thousand dallars
divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each, ten per cent, of which
said live thousand dollars has actually
been paid in; but petitioners desire tin
right to increase said capital stock to
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars by a
najority vote of the stock holders
.vhenever they may so desire.
5. Petitioners desire that said cor
poration may have the right to elect a
board of directors, president, vice pres¬
ident, secretary and treasurer, by a
vote of its stock holders, and to have
and make all proper and necessary by¬
laws, rules and regulations that are
ecesssary and may be proper for the
carrying on of said business.
G. They also ask authority for said
corporation to wind up its affairs
liquidate and discontinue its business
at any time it may so determine to do
by a vote of two-thirds of its stock
outstanding at the time.
Wherefore, petitioners file this their
petition in the office of the Clerk o !
Newton Superior Court, and pray that
after the same has been advertised as
required by law, that the Court by
proper order grant this tlieir petition.
KING & JOHNSON.
Attorneys for Petitioners
Filed in office this Gth day of
1920. C. 0.*NIXON,
Clerk Superior Court, Newton Coun
ty, Georgia.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Office of Clerk of Superior Court of
Newton County.
I, C. 0„ Nixon, Clerk of the Su¬
perior Court of Newton County, Geor
gia, hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the appli¬
cation for charter, as the same ap¬
pears of file in this office. This Gth
Gay of July, 1920.
C. O. NIXON,
Clerk Superior Court, Newton Co
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FEW ENTER “DISMAL SWAMP”
Forbidding flegion in Virginia and
North Carolina Extends No Hos¬
pitable Hand to Visitors.
The name “Dismal Swamp” Is a by¬
word everywhere, and a legend has
grown up around It of a dreary, boggy,
unknown region of snakes and dark,
damp thickets, where runaway slaves
fled for refuge. This region is bill
little better known today than it was
when George Washington himself laid
out a route through it.
The swamp is old historically. The
first settlers at Norfolk and the region
round about knew of it as a wild, Im¬
passable bit of country full of game and
of valuable timber—cypress, so good
for making shingles; Juniper, black
gum and beech. In 1728 Col. Byrd,
while trying to establish the boundary
line between Virginia and North Caro¬
lina, ran a survey across It, working
with the greatest difficulty and mak¬
ing only a mile a day through the
thick growth. He it was who named
It the Dismal swamp.
Later surveys and government maps
show that the wilderness contains
about 800 square miles of wood and
water lying in a tract twenty miles
wide and forty-five long, and extending
twenty miles into Virginia and twenty
five Into North Carolina. The soil is
a sort of rich black vegetable mould,
dry and caky at some seasons, and sat¬
urated with water at others.
The whole region Is like a huge
sponge, alternately dry and wet, and
as the swamp level, euHously enough,
is twenty feet above tidewater, It Is
the source of many rivers and
streams.
There are deer in the woods, but
it is the wild cattle that give the best
snfcirt. The ancestors of these “reed
fed” cattle, as they ai-e called, strayed
in from the fields and took up their
abode in the swamp. The result Is a
race of small, active, wild cattle, the
flesh of which Is a delicious combina¬
tion of the qualities of wild game and
tame animals.
There is a chance that before many
years the greater part of the swamp
will be redeemed from its present
wildness Into civilized farm land, but
It will be many years before the bear
and wild cattle aod moccasin snakes
disappear from tfi&tr refuges, and be¬
fore the rare plants and birds that
still draw botanists and ornithologists
from all parts of the country will be
found only In museum show cases.
GoJng Into Debt to Sava.
One of our advertisers frequently
uses this slogan in his appeals for
business: Go Into debt to save. It
is excellent advice. Many people have
such a horror of debt that they do not
differentiate between kinds of debt,
but try to avoid them all. Debts in¬
curring for running expenses mean
living beyond one’s Income and, while
sometimes necessary In emergencies,
are deplorable and not to be contract¬
ed except In cases of dire necessity.
But going Into debt for the purpose
of making conservative Investments Is
a wise policy, Is the belief of the Ohio
State Journal.
Such debts get a man started right
and provide him with that very impor¬
tant aid In saving, a positive and defi¬
nite incentive. If he buys a bond,
paying part down and binding himself
to pay the balance In specified Install¬
ments at regular Intervals, be Is not
likely to go back on his agreement.
Under such an arrangement he is more
likely to save a certain sum each
month than if he were merely trying
to save it under no obligation to any¬
one but himself. It helps him stick
to a good habit. Going Into debt to
save Is a step toward Independence.
Pharaoh’s Throne in Philadelphia.
Part of the palace to which the
Pharoh Merneptah summoned Moses
and Aaron to order the Israelites out
of Egypt more than 8,000 years ago Is
to become a permanent exhibit of the
University of Pennsylvania, in Phila¬
delphia.
The palace was discovered under
the sands of centuries by Dr. Clar¬
ence S. Fisher, world famous arche¬
ologist, who has Just returned after
six years In the field for the Univer
sity museum. It was located at the
site of ancient Memphis, not far from
the mouth of the Nile.
The sections of the palace obtained
include the raised dais on which stood
Merneptah’s throne, with the steps at
the sides and a ramp In front, on
which, in all probability, the two
patriarchs of the Old Testament stood
after the plagues and heard the order
to lead their people from bondage.
Wireless for Shipwrecked.
However well equipped with wire¬
less a ship may be, an accident that
results In its sinking puts an end to
its distress signals, and may not even
allow time to begin them, leaving its
hurriedly manned lifeboats without
any means of communication with
each other or with a rescue ship. An
eastern inventor has designed a sim¬
ple and compact radio system intend¬
ed as permanent equipment for one
or more lifeboats on each vessel, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
wireless apparatus, used for both
telegraphing and telephoning, is in¬
closed in a water-tight box at the
stern, and grounded through a metal
plate on the bottom of the boat. To
shut out ‘extraneous sounds and add
to the sensitiveness of the set. the
operator is equipped with a helmet
containing the telephone receivers.
Costly Bridal Veils.
Two bridal veils were recently sold
in San Francisco at $700 each. They
were procured from Limerick, Ireland,
and are three yards long and three
yards wide, of Limerick Irish lace.
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
IN 00 r*
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Many and Varied Accidents Be¬
fall Humanity.
Flies of Insurance Companies Are
Full of Cases Where Injuries Have
Been the Result of Most
Trivial Happenings.
Accident insurance, or insurance
which pays benefits in case of tern
porary disability, Is carried by a great
many people. The claim agent whose
business it is to investigate reported
injuries often meets with amusing in
cidents. The following were furnished
by an agent of a large insurance
company:
“Some captive rattlesnakes /in a
restaurant escaped from a box in
which they were confined and sr
frightened one of the patrons that in
his haste to get out he fell in fronl
of me, and In getting up, came up un
derneath me, tossing me over his
head.”
“I was in bed and dreamed that a
burglar was bending over me. I struck
at him so hard that I was thrown on
the floor with arm extended and broke
my collarbone.”
“Assisting a lady who had an um¬
brella under'her arm, to board a car,
the point of the umbrella was thrust
Into my left eye.”
“I placed an electric fan beside my
bed on a hot night. While asleep I
stuck my foot in it.”
“In a playful mood I kicked at my
wife while barefooted and accidentally
struck her on the knee, thereby
spraining the big toe of my left foot.”
"My arm encircled the neck of a
young lady. I suddenly withdrew It
and the thumb of my left hand came
Id contact with a brooch, penetrating
the thumb almost to the bone.”
“My wife was curling her hair. I
ran against her aud the hair curler
struck my eye.”
“I was embraced by a friend who
playfully said that he could make me
cry—fractured my rib.”
“On a private yacht, I had just had
6 highball, got up, the boat gave a
lurch and I sat down on the glass.”
“Looking for a leak in a natural
gas pipe with a lighted match—ex¬
plosion followed.”
“I missed my train and while walk¬
ing on the country road I fell over a
cow lying in the road. As I fell the
cow got up, striking me and also’ step¬
ping on my foot.”
“Sitting in a chair in a barber shop
and billiard parlor, a ball from a pool
table nearby struck me on the nose,
breaking nose and injuring one eye.”
“I had been talking with another
man. and as I started to walk along
didn’t notice a woman had .pushed a
baby carriage directly in front of me
—fell over it.”
“I was going down the walk in
front of my house when an automobile
wheel which had come off two blocks
away rolled down the hill and struck
me, fracturing both bones of the right
leg.”
"I was riding in an automobile
when it struck a hole in the road,
pausing my teeth to come together
with such force that the lower Jaw
was fractured.”
“I was looking for burglars, and was
accidentally mistaken by one of my
neighbors for the man we were look¬
ing for, and he shot me in the arm.”
Another “Dickens Original."
One by one the little band of re¬
gaining “Dickens originals” are being
gathered to their fathers. The Lon¬
don Morning Post chronicles tlie death
in Strood infirmary of Mrs, Regden,
the Betty lligdeu of “Our Mutual
Friend.” She was one of the lesser
Characters of the great novelist’s cre¬
ation, hut as Gilbert Chesterton so
truly says: “Dickens not only con¬
quered the world; he conquered it
with minor characters. They appear
only for a fragment of time, but they
belong to eternity. We have them
only for an instant (like the young
man with the lumpy forehead, who on¬
ly says ‘Esker’ to Mr. Podsnap’s for¬
eign gentleman), but they have us for¬
ever.” How great Dickens really was
is seen from the fact that not more
than one- or two men have been found
capable of creating oven a single
character in their books of equal vi¬
tality and individuality. Perhaps tlw
two most outstanding instances are
Sherlock Holmes and Captain Kettle.
But where Conan Doyle and Outellffe
H.vne created one famous character of
that disciple Dickens created fifty.
Irish Police Hunt Illegal Stills.
Enormously increased prices of
spirits in Ireland, due to the heavy
taxation on 4liem. have led to the
widespread manufacture of poteen, a
very strong home-made product that
dodges the exciseman. The police
hunt for illegal stills, like ail other
normal police activities, lias been ham¬
pered by the fact that the chief job
of the Irish police has been to protect
themselves from attaek. So the Sinn
Feiners who have taken over ’he task
of punishing thieves have added to
their function the capture of illegal
still.
Dust Rolled Out of the Carpet.
For cleaning carpets, vein,' satisfac¬
tory results have been obtained from
a big open-work drum of wood which
IS turned i»> a gasoline engine. The
carpets to be treated are placed in¬
side and the drum turned and after
about 30 minutes of this the carpets
are thoroughly cleaned and are none*
the worse for treatment. The beat¬
ing process is -mnetiines disastrous to
carpets which are well worn, but this
rolling process does them no injury.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
To the Superior Court of said County.
The petition of N. S. Turner, T. C.
Swann and R. C. Henderson, together
with their associates, acting for and
on behalf of the stockholders of Cov¬
ington Mills, aud of Covington Mills,
respectfully shows to the Court:
li. That Covington Mills is a corpo¬
ration heretofore granted on the 21st
day of April, 1920.
2. That the charter of said corpo¬
ration expired by limitation on the 21st
day of April, 1920.
3. That in ignorance of the expira¬
tion of said charter, the offieeft and
agents of said corporation have con¬
tinued its existence as a corporation,
and have continued to execute all the
rights, privileges and franchises grant¬
ed to the said corporation on the 21st
day of April, 1920, by its said charter.
4. That at a meeting of the stock¬
holders of the said corporation held in
the offices of Covington Mills on the
7tli day of July, 1920, the resolution
hereto attached, marked “Exhibit A,”
and made a part of this petition, was
duly passed.
0. That a majority of the stock
at said stockholders’ meeting was rep¬
resented, and the resolution as set in
said “Exhibit A” fot the revival of the
eliarter'of Covington Mills was unani¬
mously passed.
G. That less than five years have
transpired since the date of expiration
of the said charter.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that the
charter of Covington Mills be revived
and extended from the date of expira¬
tion of same, on ApriL21*t, 1920, with
all the powers, rights, privileges and
immunities as set frth in its charter
as granted on the 21st day of April,
1900.
KING & JOHNSON,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
“Exhibit A”
GEORGIA, Newton County.
At a regular meeting of the stock¬
holders of Covington Mills, held in the
office of said corporation on the 7th
day of July, 192U, due notice of said
meeting having been given to all the
stockholders of said corporation aud
of the purpose of said meeting, and a
majority of the stock at said meeting
held on said day being represented by
stockholders, the following resolution
was unanimously passed, to-wit;
“Whereas the charter of Covington
Mills expired on its own limitation on
the 21st day of April, 1920; and,
Whereas, the corporation and of its
executive officers, in ignorance of the
expiration of its charter, has contin¬
ued its existence as a corporation, and
has continued to exercise all the rights,
privileges and franchises granted to it
as a corporation by its said charter of
date April 21st, 1900, by the Superior
Court of Newton County, Georgia ; and,
Whereas, the stockholders in said
corporation desire the revival of its
charter with all the rights, privileges
and franchises as originally granted;
Therefore, be it resolved that Cov¬
ington Mills, through its officers aud
attorneys make application to the Su¬
perior Court of Newton County, Geor¬
gia, for a reviver and extension of its
said charter for a term of twenty (20)
years from the date of its expiration
on the 2let day of April, 1920, with all
its original charter rights, privileges
and franchises.
N. S. TURNER,
President.
J. C. UPSHAW,
Secretary of Stockholders Meeting.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
1, J. O. Upshaw, secretary of the
stockholders’ meeting held in the office
of Covington Mills, in said county, on
the 7th day of July, 1920, hereby certi¬
fy that the above and foregoing reso¬
lution is a true copy of same as passed
it said meeting and as appearing upon
the minutes of said corporation and
of said stockholders’ meeting. This
9th day of July, 1920.
J. C. UPSHAW,
Secretary of Covington Mills and of
(he Stockholders’ Meeting thereof.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this July 9th, 1920.
J. W. HARWELL, C. N. P.
Newton County, Georgia.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
Filed in office, this 9th day of July,
1920. C. O. NIXON,
Clerk Superior Court.
GEORGIA, Newton County.
I, C. O. Nixon, Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, do hereby certify
rh.it the above and foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the application for
'•‘vival and extension of charter of
Covington -Mills as the same appears
on file in this office.
Witness n.y offi. ial signature and the
seal of said Court, this July Gth, 1920.
O O. NIXON,
Clerk Superior Court.
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