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H0P CANDLER THE
jET HOI)IST CHURCH SUNDAY.
y 1( ,p Warren A. Candler, of At
)' will deliver a sermon at the
fcodist church in this city next
uj morning. Everybody invited
RATION of UNITED STATES
■ ^108. INCREASE 14.9 P. C
Uington, Q IX <4> Oc4 11—The
0 f the United States (continen.
. ffas aiviouncedi today by the
bureau at 105,683,108, shofing
Increase of 14.9 ped cent over the
» of 1910.
VF1 CLAIMS THE
SHOH|S AND DRY GOODS.
( Buiek ear brought in the other
| that had the keg of “moonshine”
contained s«ven pairs of new shoes
air ladies, ranging in size from 6
Also several pairs of children’s
rwear. size 0 to 12 years. Don’t
ilk at once, but tbe sheriff is
a them for the owner.
GATES TO STATE
CONVENTION
>n the State Convention meets in
on October 25th, the following
'tes from this county will be pres
Last week the names of the del¬
iver!* given, tind since then Gov
Iwt Hardwick ha s suggested
e delegates to the convention be
jtjffs:
It Pennington, A. S. Hopkins
ick, C D Ramsey, with F. A
on, E. A. Ellis, N. H Piper
. E. Lightfoot.
[AND LIQUOR CAPTURED.
Thursday night county officers
xon and B. L. Johnson took in
g Bnick ear and a keg of moon
unr containing 20 gallons of
its. The car was owned by
Fears and Willie Brown, color
got away, while Charlie Smith
fortunate in making his get.
til was brought back with Che
(The car was took over by a
n who had sold it and held
age as security.
paid [in was poured out on the
front of the court house,
ja k short time all was left was
D SMITH WINS HIS GAME
siderablt amount of interest
jernl 1 on the world’s series of
now being staged between
n, in the National, and Cleve
th e American league. More
ly were fans of this section
,«1 in yesterday’s game when
made known that “our own
Smith,” the prid e of Maris.
a„ was slated to twirl for the
X Smith came out of the game
Ml* on,” so to speak, winning
eluh by a score of 2 to 1. He
the heavy hitting Speakerites
/lee rits, while the Indians, un
>e pitchers—Caldwell, Mails-and
"ere rapped for six bingles.
is th e second time Smith has
in the word’s series. On hi«
’tempt, in 1916, against the
Red Sox. he lost his game after
alurnt fourteen or sixteen innings
considered one of the best south
nrnler “the big top.”—Monticello
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as
** Fatty Arbuekle
in “The
and Buster Keaton his
1 1" a sreat
comedy
'w>k. Friday and Saturday,
22 >19 Regular
prices.
^ Bush
(to in, i<, Cim
•' 1 ” M ‘>it at the speaking <>f
P ’ Harding,
republican nomi
" ’"'”*idencY
of the United
CoOTuatoii Netna
For Newton and Her
NEWTON COUNTY AT
FAIRS
Exhibits from the Girl’s and
man s Club of Newton county to
sent to Southeastern Fair, State
and Southern Exposition Fair at
gusta.
The following exhibits have
called for from this county to be
to the Southeastern Fair:
County Exhibit, Girl’s Club Work.
Special Peach Exhibit, Inez
Sitecial Fig Exhibit.
George.
Special Fig Exhibit, Lizzie
Home Demonstration Work, Class
and 2.
Class 1, Exhibit of Butter to h
b.v e
Leguin Home Demonstration Club.
( lass 2, Exhibit of Green Vegeta
to be sent by Hays District Woman’s
Club.
To the Georgia State Fair at Macon:
Fig Exhibit, Ethel Gibson.
Honip Demonstration Work, 1 and 2.
For the Augusta Fair:
General Garden Work, Neva Lassi¬
ter.
Peach Exhibit, Christine George.
Other Fine Exhibits To Go.
The Corn Club Boys of the county
will have an exhibit of 100 ears grown
on their club acre at the Southeastern
Fair and each county club will com¬
pete for prizes.
The Pig Club will send five good
pigs to Atlanta and we are expecting
them to win several prizes. Morgan
Elliot will carry two, James Ramsey.
Pete Jones and Lewis Jarman one
each.
Thursday, October 21st is Club Day
at th e Southeastern and all club mem¬
bers will lie admitted at a reduced
ra to.
Be sure to look up our corn and pig
cluli exhibit in Atlanta.
The county exhibit at the Macon
Fair will he in charge of the follow
ing: Mr. F. S Lunsford, W S Avery.
Boyce Harvey, Brice Thompson, Doc
Hargrove, Miss Woffle Floyd and J
K Luck.
If anyone lias anything they want
to send along with this exhibit, see
one of the above parties. They leave
for tlie Fair? Tuesday, October 26.
Mr. Luck says “we are expecting to
carry a very creditable exhibit to
Macon and we of course want as many
as possible from this county to see it.
If in Macon be sure to look up our
exhibits.”
SENDING OUT CARDS.
The News Is sending out cards giv¬
ing the statement of your subscription
account with this i«i>er. Some of our
subscribers nre paid ahead, hut we are
sending out this statement to let you
know just how you stand, and also to
give von the opportunity of taking
on another year or two at our present
rate of $1 50. On and after Decmber
1. 1920, the subscription price will be
$2.50. If your card shows you are
behind, come in. pay up and let us add
a year or more at the old rate. Do it
NOW.
CITY TAX ORDINANCE
FOR THE YEAR
For the supiiort of the City of Cov
ington for the year 1920, to defray
ordinary and contingent
thereof, it is ordained by the
and Council as follows:
General Purposes.
Sec. 1. A tax of thirty-seven and
half (37 1-2) cents on every one
dred dollars value of real estate,
in trad e and all other property
in that may at the time be taxable
the laws of Georgia.
Sec. 2. For the support of
schools, seventy-five (75) cents
each one hundred dollars value of
the property enumerated in the
going section.
See. 3. For the payment of
on outstanding bonds and to provide
sinking fund for the retirement
bonds, a tax of forty-five cents
each one hundred, dollars valu e of
property' enumerated in Section 1
this ordinance.
Passed at called meeting of
October 12. 1920.
HENRY ODUM.
T. J. SHIELDS,
Clerk.
For Sale
SEED WHEAT—Pure, prize
ning Rlu ( , Stem seed wheat, $3.00
bushel: $2 90 tier bushel in 10
lots. Also Trap’s Prolific wheat
price. Graves & Reeves. Rt. 4.
ton. Ga.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1920.
PRIZES FOR GIRLS CLUB WORK
For the line exhibits put on display
at tlie Newton County Fair last week
there wer e many prizes awarded, and
among the most notable was the ex¬
hibits of the “Girls Clubs” of the
county. Below we give the names of
Hie winners and prizes:
1st prize for canning club work of
$25.00 went to Brick Store District.
Second prize of $15.0 Oweut to High
Point.
Best all around record for individual
club work: Christine George and
Ethel Gibson tied for 1st prize Second
prize went to Ruth Hind.
Tomato Exhibit: Viola Moore 1st;
Fannie Hitchcock 2nd : HutIi Osborne
3rd:, $3.50; Lorine Moore 4th. $3.00
General Garden Exhibit: Vallie
Eberhardt 1st; Neva Lassiter 2nd.
Peach Exhibit; Inez Lassiter 1st;
Ethel Gibson 2nd.
Fig Exhibit: Christine George 1st;
Florrie Akin 2nd.
Gift Package: Neva Lassiter 1st,
$ 10 . 00 .
Sewing Exhibit; Mabel Bohanon ;
Mattie Akin 2nd. ■ •
Advanced Sewing. Ethel Gibson 1st:
Christine George 2nd.
Junior Club Work: J. P. Jolly 1st;
Nettie R Moore 2nd
Other prizes winners who are to be
commended for the excellent showing
they made are as follows:
Carrie Bell Parker. $2.00.
Daisey Bell Bowen, $2.00.
Vera Penn, $2.00.
Mary Ruth Brooks, $2.00.
Thelma Few, $2.00.
In our next issue will be given the
list of the other prize awards.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
We all looked Like This opce, but
Blamed Few of us Will Admit it. A
Baby is Just Grand until he gets This
Way, whereat Friend Father wonders
aloud How Far It is to the Orphan
Asylum. And then he Will go Down
Town and Pester Ills Friends to Death,
Bragging nbout what a Bright Child
he’s the Father of Which.
STEWART NEWS
Mrs. A .Bohanon spent Tuesday with
Mrs Jim Pickett
Mr and Mrs. I. N Vaughn spent Sat¬
urday with Mr and Mrs John Potts
near Rocky Plains
Miss Mable Bohanon spent Sunday
with Miss Mattie Aiken.
Mr. and Mrs Jul e Kitchens, of Le
Guin spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs.
J J Kitchens
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Parker spent
Saturday night and Sunday with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. W B Fincher
Mr and Mrs Royee Vaughn, of Cov¬
ington si>ent Saturday night and Sun¬
day with his parents, Mr and Mrs. I.
N Vaughn
Mr. and Mrs. John Pojie spent Sun¬
day with Mr and Mrs G E Potts
Miss Mary Alice MeadSrs spent tlie
week with her sister. Mrs Troy Stubbs.
Mr. and Mrs Lem Kitchens and
family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs.
W B FinACT
The singing at Red Oak Sunday af¬
ternoon was very much enjoyed by
all present
Mr. and Mrs. T D Heard of Coving¬
ton spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs
S. Pennington
Miss Leila Pope and Miss Eva King
spent Saturday afternoon in Coving¬
ton
Mr. H. S DuVal. of Augusta, repre
sen ting the Southern Railway, passed
through this city Thursday.
CHANGE IN POLICE FORCE;
COUNTY AND CITY
J. C. Nixon who lias tilled the office
of deputy sheriff of Newton county
for nineteen years was recently honor¬
ed with the appointment of County Po¬
lice. Mr. Nixon during this time has
made a splendid officer and this pro¬
motion was made by Solicitor-General
Xapiel and Judgfc Hutcheson on ac¬
count of his good record.
Mr. B L Johnson who has been on
the city Mice force for some time will
fill th P county deputy slieriff-s office
and will no doubt make the county a
good deputy, judging from his services
as city policeman.
The position made vacant by Mr.
fohnson lias been tilled by Mr. \V H
Gaither. The city has made a good
selection in Mr. Gaither for he is
thoroughly reliable, having the city
and its welfare at heart, and believes
in law and order in all thing and is
not afraid to perform the duties re¬
quired.
LARGEST CORN CROP FORECAST
Washington, D. C., Oct. 11—The corn
crop promises to be the largest iu the
history of the country, by more than
5)0.000.000 bushels.
A yield of 3,216,192.000 bushels, eom
Iaired with the previous record produc¬
tion of 3,124,746,000 bushels in 1912, as
the forecast today by th e department
of agriculture from a condition of
S9.1 on October 1st. The yield would
exceed that of last yearbypractically
300,000,000 bushels. Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri will contribute practical¬
ly all tlie increase.
C ALLS FOR ATTENTION
Now is the time to purchase your
fall wearing apparel, and believing
you want the best at the lowest
prices we call your special attention
to the advertisements of Cannon Sup
ply Co., R. L Hicks, Son & Co„ and
E H Moble.v. These Arms have es¬
tablished fV reputation In this county
that is far ahead of th e ordinary, and
if you want something in the dry
goods line you can’t match it at places
not so well known. Their prices are
low and will astonish you. Remem¬
ber them. See their ad in this issue.
WEST END NEWS.
Messrs. IjOU Hardin, C. G. Latham.
Walt Kirkus, Jim Watkins, J. H. and
Clarence Latham motored to Atlanta
Wednesday afternoon, and while there
visited the headquarters of Governor
elect Thomas W. Hardwick.
Mr. J. A. Scott made a business t.lp
to Decatur Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mose ey, Messrs
J .1 Moseley and J. II. Latham made
a business trip to Cov • »i Thursday
Dr and Mrs. A. R. Scott, of Mc¬
Donough, passed through West End
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Maloy spent Sat¬
urday night and Sunday with relatives
at Porterdale
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hull were the
nests of tha former’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Hull, Sunday.
Mrs. Flora Castle spent Sunday af
trenoon with Mrs. Cassie Cronan.
Mrs, Lizzie King was the guest of
her mother, Mrs. S. J. Henry, Sunday.
Mrs Bessie Kirkus was the guest of
Mrs. Maloy Saturday.
Misses Pauline and Ollie Smith were
the guests of Miss Alline Hu 1 Sunday.
Miss Lucy Latham spent Saturday
afternoon with Mrs. Flora Castle.
Mr. and Mrs. J P Moseley spent last
Thursday in Covington *
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Maloy and lit¬
tle daughter, Alice Louise, of Porter
dale, have been visiting their parents,
in West End.
Mr. Dave Cawthorn, of West End,
has moved to Macon, wher e he will be
employed at the saw mill of his broth¬
er-in- aw .Mr. Jim Cawthome.
GOES TO STARRSVILLE
Miss Woffle Floyd, Home Demonstra¬
tion Agent for Newton eounty and who
lias mad e her home in this city since
taking up her work here, moved this
week to Starrsville. This change does
not in any way interfere with her
work.
The citizens of Covington regret to
see her move, even that far away, not¬
withstanding her office will lie as lie
fore. in the court house.
$1.50 Per Year in Advance.
COMMENDS COUNTY AGENTS
IN CARRYING ON CLUB WORK
Editor The News: ,
Perodlcals and newspapers ar e con¬
stantly discussing the problem of how
to keep the boys and girls on the farm
and while most of the editors agree
that the only way to keep th e young
lieople on the farm is to' make the
farm more attractive and profitable
they fail to state how these things are
to he brought about. In your issu e of
last week you had an excellent and
comprehensive article on the Newton
County Fair in which you laid particu¬
lar stress on the work of the Girl’s
Canning Clubs and the Boys’ Corn,
Potato and Pig Clubs. To my mind
tlier e is nothing that will do more to
stimulate the interest of the boys and
girls in living on the farm and making
farming a business than these excell¬
ent clubs. The training and instrucl
tion given to the club members are
invaluable and give to them an incen¬
tive to better homes and better farms.
The work of Miss Floyd as County
Demonstration Agent and Mr. Luck as
County Agent in the Boys’ and Girl’s
Clubs deserves the commendation of
the peopl e of Newton county. If they
hail done nothing else during the past
year but club work their salaries
would have been earned many times
over because of the interest and en¬
thusiasm given to these young people
to become better farmers and home¬
makers. The exhibit of Mr. Luck’s pig
clubboys was worthy, of a state fair
ad he deserves to be congratulated
on the splendid number and quality of
pigs shown,
Ff the citizens of Newton county
would keep her farm girls and boys on
the farm and make this the finest
agricultural county in Georgia, let
them encourage the club work of the
county agents and in a few years that
farm problems would he solved.
JOHN B. REEVES.
ANOTHER STILL MADE INTO
JUNK HEAP BY OFFICERS
Countj r Police Nixon run across a
“Moonshiner” and his still in the
Rooky Plains district last Saturday
that was owned by Horace Hartchfteld,
colored, and after leaving it a total
wreck, the owner was brought to the
city and placed in jail wher e he awaits
a big line or a sentence to the chain
ga ng.
Spotted.
‘‘T see where an advertiser warns a
man who carried off hfs new overcoat
to return it and no questions will be
asked.”
“Ha! Ha! An old trick. The man
who took the coat might Insert an¬
other advertisement telling the owner
that if he knows so well who got his
coat he’d better come and get it.”
“Not so fast. The man who lost the
coat describes the fellow who took It
as wearing a blue serge suit, tan shoes
and a gray cloth hat. He gives his
height as aho.it 5 feet and 8 inches:
says he has slightly gray hair, is
round-shouldered and has a wart on
his chin, and concludes by giving the
mau’s business address. I guess he’d
better return that coat.”
THE DAIRY COW
ON LOOKS.
The exact and most reliable way of
determining her dairy qualities is to
weigh and test her milk for at least
full milking period.
But the cow with a dean cut head
moderate length, with large muz¬
zle and jaws, a neck of good length
not too thick, with sharp withera
deep chest and large middle, with
broad hips, moderately thin thighs
and large udder is pretty likely to
be a good dairy cow. Th e large udder
is the most inqiortant of all. No mat¬
ter how well the cow is bred or what
claims are made for her it is safest to
“pass up” the dairy cow with a ittle
udder the size of a two ( >r three quart
bucket, that is tied in before and be¬
hind. Even in th e young heifers, a
lot of loose skin, and well placed, good
teats, go a long way in foretelling the
development of a large udder. Some
may call it “merely a goob of fat.” but
giv e me the heifer that shows signs of
udder development, above the one that
is smooth and “pretty.” but with no
“show” for an udder.—The Progressive
Farmer.
THE COVINGTON NEWS GOES
TO ET ERY PART OF NEW¬
TON COUNTY WITH A HAP¬
PY WELCOME.
McGARITY & JACKSON MOVE
INTO THEIR NEW QUARTERS
McGarity & Jackson, two of our
prominent and successful busi¬
ness men, dealers In automobiles and
farm mules, moved their place of bus¬
iness this week to their "$ew stone
building faciug or cornering with the
Standard Oil station on Clark street,
and running parallel with Brows
The building has just been completed
is made of the famous Georgia
and is especially arranged for
their business. The back is cut up io
lots for their stock and also one por¬
tion for the storing of feed. The front
a better finish, will be used
the firm's offices, with ample room
the display of some of their auto¬
which is also a part of their
The building is 50x175 feet,
is well made, representing a neat
in cost of construction.
Mil. McGarity has been in business
10 years in this city, being for •
of years located on Hunter
where his business just moved
during which time he has es¬
himself among th e leading
men of this county . Mr.
also, is not new to our citi.
having been here many years and
long after arriving here these two
formed a partnership what
not only recognized as one of our
firms of today, bur is a neces¬
addition to onr county, making it
for you in purchasing a
mules.
FOR SALE. ^
< hie four-row Thomas Grain Drill,
new, having drilled in only
50 acres oats..
W. H. PICKETT,
At Norris Hardware Co’s., store,
Ga.—10-14-tf.
Italian Tragedian’* Art.
Rossi, the Italian tragedian, achieved
a great triumph of manner over mat¬
ter when, dining at a cafe with some
fellow actors, he accepted a wager
that he could so rend the menus as to
bring tears to their eyes. His noble
voice, pathetic at soups, appealing
among fish, frenzied with the roast,
rising to agony at vegetables, sinking
to heart-broken sobs and poignant
whispers in the enumeration of sweets
and fruit, and fading finally at coffee
co a dying sigh, was not to be resisted.
Tears streamed down their cheeks and
Rossi won the wager.
WATCH YOUR DOLLAR ^
The northern mail order houses, or
the northern grafters, are send¬
out books and advertising matter
people all over th e country in an
to make them believe that they
the only bargains to be had in
world
Ther e are many people in the small
and the rural districts who hav*
their good money on these so
bargains, and 90 per cent bave
money. Any garment purchased
th ( . mail from this class of
is an inferior grade, colors out
style, bad shape and never made to
and when you get a mail order
or goods, and go to the
of remodeling, waiting, paying
tax, anil taking the chance of
the whole business, you are do¬
your section, your community, and
all. yourself an injustice. Buy
you can see the goods and get
guarantee that what you pay for Is
tlie amount paid. Sight unseen
is bad.
Tlie City of Covington has several
stores and the line they carry Is
good as can b P found any where
their prices are as reasonable as
places and especially better than
you would have to pay for mail
stuff. Try your home merchant
when you get “stung”, if you ever
then you can resort to the mails
continue to lose.
We know some of the local mer¬
have the latest goods at the
lowest prices from the fact that they
offering them today. There are
some merchants in town that we do
not knov where they have anything
worth while or not, for if they have
it is kept a secret for some reason.
The man who says he has got some¬
thing that you could save on by buying,
is the case this week, through the
of the paper, give him a trial.
Watch your dollar.
