NO PLANS FOR ROAI) WORK
VS YET FOR YfiAR-1951
Atlanta. Ga„ Jan. 19.—In a state •
nunt issued by the state highway de¬
partment it is pointed out that there
can he no definite announcement as t ■
lb.- highway i-finalruction program ft
iiu‘ twelve months beginning July i
i t) :*l because of the fact that eongrew
has not vet taken final action on the
McArthur bill, which carries the ap¬
propriation of federal funds for roa<
purposes. Many inquiries are behn
jveivod by the department as to the
program for the next fiscal year, Irj
until the national legislative bodv
ia -es de, isive action on the McArthur,
measure highway construction plan >
must be held in abeyance, says the
d> 'lartment.
The bill in question appropriates
Sl0h.000.000 in federal aid to be dis
ivibuted to the several states under
good roads act. As original!,
drawn., the measure provides $100,©On -
nnt) annually lor a period of five years,
but in its present form, only one years
appropriation is provided. The highway
construction program for the present
fiscal year has yet more than tiv ■
months to run and as congress takes
the necessary action' in providing ad¬
ditional federal aid funds, the new
program »will be perfected, it is an¬
nounced.
Special emphasis is being laid by the
department on the enunciation of
policy as contained in the recent ac
dress of W. It. Neel, state highway
engineer, before the Georgia Automo
iiile Association and given cordial *P
nroval bj' Governor-elect Thomas IV.
Hardwick. The department's statement
rails attention to the fact that in its
work for the completion of the state
highway system, the underlying prin
cipal is the opening up of the entire
astern to serve the whole state, rath
< • than the construction of small stivt
ches of theoretically correct road
isolated spots.
"The first consideration is that the
v.: of. state shall have'transportation
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Master Willie Ramsey, agen 4, and j
little Miss Pinkie Fowler, aged 3. llv-!
imr over in Clarke county decided to I
(■‘.•lebrate the former’s hirthdav Thurs-i
bay (ii last week by running away and j
wiling married,. They were neighbors
and had been teased since babyhood
j Tn.it being sweethearts and that when
they were grown would get .married
L Kiwi led y w, .uld hast*
matters and skipped out and made 1 r
th preacher's house. Their absenc,
W£ discovered and the frantic parents
began to search for the missing chi!
th'cn. They were found just as th
,
were entering the gate to the preach
eTs home.
When they revealed their purpose
the hearts of the parents relaxed and
the contemplated punishment for run¬
ning away was forgotten. The little
tots were very much disappointed
that they did not succeed in getting
married.—Minder News.
DEATH OF C. L. STANTON
C. L. Stanton, age 53, a widely
and beloved citizen of Newborn. Ga..
who had been in ill health for several
years, passed quietly away early Wed-1
nesday morning, January 12th.
Besides his mother, Mrs. L. R,
Stanton, he is survived by his wife
who was Miss Mary Zeta McCrary, of
Geneva; one daughter, Airs. Lloyd and
three sons, C. J. Stanton, of Columbus,
lb H. and Rudolph Stanton, of New¬
born, seven grand children; three bro¬
thers, E. O. of Austin, Texas; G. N. of
Atlanta; P. F. of Crawfordville; three
sisters, Mrs. It. G. Franklin of New¬
born; Mrs. H. R. Niblack of Hascleton,
and Mrs. C. A. McClellon of Atlanta.
Funeral services were conducted at
his home by his pastor, Rev. N. S.
Martin, of Newborn Methodist church.
His remains were laid to rest in the
family burying grounds near Pine
Grove, beside his first wife who was
Miss Celestia Virginia Patrick, moth¬
er of his four children.
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CO VI hOTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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A check fc
prize, vviis
era division - ! n - no i.‘,
(dross, and lr •.carded to ->:
Porter, care it H-’ ksonville chap
t(,-r of the Red (’
Mr. Porter in
Hoffman. Mis-; ,(e
E. Mudge from
Beach, Fla. The.'
were carried on b\
Mr. -Porter brought Mi a !
Miss Bradby ashore ; h .
been swept loo feet beyond the break¬
ers in water 15 to IS feet deep. Hr
then secured a life-boat, launched i.
single-handed and rescued Mr. Mudge.
Captain W. ,1. Shubert, president .of
the Jacksonville Red Cross Life Sav¬
ing Corps, reported to national head¬
quarters of the Red Cross that Mi.
Porter’s single-handed rescue was th-
best piece of life-saving work perform¬
ed by anj' member of the corps in it-’
seven years' existence.
YOUNG GIRL IS SLOWLY
LOSING HER FINGER UPS
Coggansville, Ga., .Tan. 15.—Berner
Godard.. th< eight-year-old daught. «
n f Mr. and Mrs. \V. H. Godard, of this
section, is affected with a strung-■:
malady which is baffling the skill of
the l>est physicians.
Some months ago, her fingers be¬
came sore hut the application of a
healing ointment recommended by a
prominent physician healed the sor,
p ut in a short time they again beeam
ao ro when the ends of her fingers In¬
ean i decay and despite every thing
-..hat an be dorse, she has lost nearly
fl p 0 'hr finger tips on both hands,
tr. feet are being closely watched
ar 'they may become affected va
,
• me "t rip’. The ■-} lbl s i v
little she tnder the ooti
ill-kr nvn physician.
\KDIN< .3 2D
DEGREE MASO:
Publisher and President-Elect Given
Twelve-Hour Initiation
Marion >hio. Ilf
son on the night ■
end of a twelve u/Mon
runny participate*
t'kils of the order
United Shat- *,
Starting a isltr Mas i
President-Fleet v raised through
the other tw-nt Hie degrees at ;
continuous .-ittiiq He was the thin
chief executive ;< rave! through the
];. Ta r ( , lasoncy before the
Scioto Valley ( -istc-ry, James A
Garfield and W i th AlcKinley ha
ing been gi\ their thirty-second 4
grecs -here.
At the conclusion of the ceremon'
Mr. Harding was presented with a M;<
sonic ring given by' ihc thirty-secon<
degree Masons of Marion.
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HUSBAND AND
WIFE HAVE
EXPERIENCE
MIL AND MRS. HENRY HOWEN
STINE WRITE INTERESTING
LETTER TO TIIEIR
FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howenstino,
living on R. it. No. 2. South Whatley,
Ind., cannot help but think that other
people could be helped as they have
been. They write:
“W$ think Dr. Richards’ Remedies
the best that we have ever used. We
are thankful for a medicine like Da
Richards’ Stomach, Liver, Kidney and
Blood Remedy. My husband has tak¬
en Dr. Richards’ medicine for over n
'ear wonderfully. I have commenced
taking it now and I fee! a great dif- J
ference in my health. We are wall
pleased with Dr. Richards’ Remedies
and think they would help many oth¬
ers if they would try them and keep
using them for some time.”
Dr. Richards’ Stomach, Liver, Kid¬
ney and Blood Remedy is guaranteed j
for rheumatism, appendicitis and all
•stomach, liver, kidney and blood dis¬
orders. It is an excellent reconstruc¬
tive tonic and system regulator. .'
y back Dr. Richards’ complete link* |
f rem> idles are sold w celusiveiy in i
kn¬ ingt on by The City J Tiarmacy and)
ead ling druggists every where, r )on’t \
ail * to get a bottle of t his wdiitU ?rful [
net i icin' 3 today. You v. 111 thank ur.
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!' InJut
:e Vade In
CBS.
’hi in the Streets
- Qki St. Mar¬
t-Fields.
In’s-i'i i-tlie-Flelds — always
y.--i war years, and now,
midnight shelter for people
London streets—was a ha
e ot die mothers who had
di- t.:nr towns to attend the
■ n -tuory of the unknown
A, and to soldiers who ofh
; have tramped the streets,
r in she Manchester Guard
•'■to it idtilght they began to i
conic. I a tho light of the flickering i
•.di ■ u the white altar and the 1
° n !ao , wW . te ceiling .
one saw . two . or three
< <ir - v.l women sitting in the pews
‘ > c.ud two three :
' • • or men on
■
and wondered whether it :
ih while keeping the church
' two policewomen in atteml
- |
“ for so few wanderers. But the
A heavy breathing, so loud in j
■die silence, did not come from them,
nor was the lad in khaki who lay |
w in i! e bottom of a pew, his head j
vesting on a hassock, responsible.
Tiptoeing down the long aisle to the
end, where a man knelt in prayer be
f re the 'wreath of palms entwined
with crimson ribbon, which was to go
i"> ;i cenotaph, one found that there
were sleepers on the seats of nearly
every pew. Occasionally they wak
w‘l and peered sleepily over the back
of the pews as a newcomer entered.
Then Urey sank to rest again, while
tlw Lunger, after a few hesitant rnin
uitys sitting bolt upright as if at a serv
■ !"• ip- red from sight and soon
was fast asleep.
•t r-*women kept, unobtrusive
■' V .vre they saw a man sleep
’ th-y woke him, remind
■ .•
•*e must lie on the seat,
shirtsleeves was told to
;; the man who for a
; I dk regarded the order
’• mts and who had rolled
. '-ad to leave the church.
• of the shelter is slight,
bn obeyed.
t T a young woman from
in, carrying a heavy
.! Hia* all day she had
in Tit lodgings. No one
ooause of the baby,
r <S policeman had
she sat there hold
T Trs moved un
.1 >. had come to
i •, and a po
coat, made
' >■' preternat
Then the
re of shelter
■.’hen the vvait
■ - would be¬
en
j v , glanced around
bn! were evidently
: < to’ their fa
91 : it the night
-i are simple. Peo
i make use of the
le m L. In case of emer
it may be allowed.
vheat and Cakes.
ii U ;h there is great satisfac
Ki breaking of five crop records
nitetl States this year, many
lean must heave a sigh as he
au the buckwheat crop has
ceded the production of 1866.
t this season it is 8,000,000
below the top yield of that
V, ho does not know that the de
the buckwheat cake as the
; of a hearty breakfast is the
csiiise of the falling off?
The buckwheat 1 cake was once an
American institution. It followed the
pioneer from the Atlantic coast into
tin? depths of the Middle West. Its
a!!T-s were home-made sausages and
sir. r-house syrup. It held the lines
from early November until the sap be¬
gun to run in the spring. Then there
followed plentiful doses of sulphur
and mola: es to rid the blood of im¬
purities supposed to be the result of
buckwheat’s heating qualities. But
who cared? Wasn’t the kind of cakes
that mother used to bake on the soap¬
stone griddle worth even such a price?
—Providence Journal.
Catch Salmon at Sea.
Fishing for salmon is prohibited at
ti e present time in nearly all the
rivers of .Alaska and altogether in the
>i tbo.istci'n part of the territory.
Meanwhile the fishery goes on; hut
it is a marine fishery. The salmon
are - fit on their feeding grounds
out at sea with purse seines; gill nets,
floating trang and fivh lines.
Trollii for salmon is great sport
is n icularly fine' off the straits
* dii Fuea.
■ T v, very many of the
r 1 at sea are not yet
That they should be tak
y : mature means few
’ rfi rs to spawn in
it helps to make the
f;:;ure of the fishery
y on Farms.
rs in the United
or 5Jl per cent,
jf’d, accordin.g to
uros. More than
on itiese farni-c
g folk constitute
►opuiaviou of
j r:, ■ .-R IN
S’ isUcr Concer:dog tfit Casualties
Am0 0 Flyers Art* Something
of a Revelation.
The pTiflane is the fastest ma¬
chine asan has vet built, but fast as
t is. it has not yet caught up with
is reputation for danger. That repu
::Jon v as acquired when the plane
vas in its infancy, when xuan was just
beginning to master the air, and in
the mint! of the average rnan it has
not yet been downed.
The British air ministry collected
statistics on all commercial flying In ;
that country for the last seven months
of 1010. The results amazed even
pilots and engineers who long had re
•• .riled the risk in flying as negligible.
The figures covered 25,000 flights by 1
403 machines of a total time in the
air of 8,868 hours, during which time !
51X1,000 miles were traveled. In all ;
this flying in good weather and bad, |
one passenger was killed in every |
16.666 passenger hours in the air. To
put j t differently, a single passenger
might expect to fly about 1,180.000
miles—47 times around the world—
before becoming the victim of a fatal
crash. That sounds utterly absurd
to the landsman, yet the British gov
ernment stands back of the figures.
The pilots who tested experimeut
al planes did stunt flying and ran
other unnecessary risks, showed 48
deaths per 1,000 hours,
Coining nearer home, figures com¬
piled by the Post Office department
show to the end of last year 405,000
miles flown with a loss of three pi¬
lots. These pilots, of course, ran
many risks, for they carried the mail
through itun, snow and fog that Wind¬
ed them.
Even in training pilots the figures
are exceedingly low. From the be¬
ginning of the war until the end of
1918, 17,690 men learned to fly in
the United States air service. One
man was killed in every 2.310 hours,
or one to about every 150,000 miles.
With these positive proofs of avia¬
tion's safety before us. American air¬
plane inanufa'cturrers are going ahead
building planes, confident that the
realization soon will come every
where that man can take care of him
self as surely in the realm of the
birds as in the realm of the fishes.—
New York World.
Flying Squirrels.
Along in April, if you are walking
through a heav; j«ie> ■ of woods and
you tap tentatively upon the trunk of
a hollow tree because you see a prom¬
ising looking hole higher up, then,
once out of about 892 times you will
see one or more curious little heads
peering down at you. You will have
found a family of flying squirrels, says
a writer in the Christian Science Mon¬
itor.
You will be apt to notice that the
Jitiie rascals above have unusually
large eyes and you will perhaps be
surprised at the- number of inhabit¬
ants which will continue to emerge
from that hole upon continued tap¬
ping (sometimes there will be eight
or nine) ; but particularly you will be
delighted by the wonderful lightness
and gracefulness of the jumping flights
they will make to rise nearby tree
trunks. Of course they land at a low¬
er level than the spot from which they
jump, yet by repeating the process
they are in no time dis ribUted to the
four compass points and out 'of your
range of observation. If, however,
the young are very small they may be
caught and you can examine their silky
fur and the little walls which they
spread with their feet when they vol¬
plane.
Famous St. Andrews.
Ask •any man lawn on outdoor games
what St. Andrews is famous for and
he will reply, without hesitation:
“Golf.” The sago -who said that the
Scots were brought up on porridge and
theology is some) fines tDo; ght to have
only partially stated the case, as he
slid nothing about the ‘‘royal and an¬
cient game.” The coastal towns of
Fifeshire are indeed famous for their
golf courses, but the Mecca of all
those who “run aboot wi’ a bag o’
sticks after a wee bit ba’” is certainly
the royal burgh of St. Andrews. Fife¬
shire was once described as “a beg¬
gar’s .mantle fringed with gold.” but
most people think it was the big golf¬
ing centers, and not the seaport towns
hem selves, which were thought to be
the golden fringe. However, golf at¬
tracted visitors, and visitors mean
more trade, but it is interesting to
hear that -trade is being improved also
by the export of iron golf heads to
the United States. This will all help
to get the exchange value of the “baw¬
bee” back to normal. The Scots some¬
times think of other things than “golf.”
Making American Synthetic Camphor.
Camphor is now being manufactured
synthetically from turpentine. This
step has been made in order to sup¬
ply the American market with the
aromatic substance. The majority of
camphor is imported from Japan. It
is used in medicine, in the making of
celluloid, which is a combination of
camphor and guncotton. The Depart¬
ment of Agriculture has established
a camphor farm in Florida and is
producing a very good grade of the
substance.
Malicious Joy.
“John 1”
“Well, my dear?”
“Last night burglars r jibed the Jib¬
way apartment next dynr. They stole
84 in money and Grade Jibway's uku¬
lele. You’d better go over and ex¬
tend your sympathy.”
‘Td rather i t. my dear. I'ra
afraid I couldn't keep my face
straight”—Birmingham Age-IIerald.
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To Order
New Tailed
Books Arrivl
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manship Gu
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“We are correspondents of * the ChickaiRangA
Trust Company who are willing to lend money on a
sirable farms at 7 per cent plus commission; io r to
run five, seven or ten years. .If you are going to a a I
any money it wiil pay you to investigate this propo¬
sition at once/’
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tar Oeh., Thorough Trie! a Detroit, ^
Kan Endorses Pe-ru-na
The following letter written “PE-RU-NA has done wonders
from Detroit, Michigan is no snap and to-me is worth its weight in
judgment expressed on the merits gold. I shall continue to use ■
of Fe-ru-na, the well- PE-RU-NA as long as
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known catarrh remedy, I live and recommend g
3 but rather a mature, to my friends who are |fi
sober opinion formed troubledwith catarrh.”
after a full year’s trial. Nothing can be more H
This is the way Mr. convincing than an en- j
Michael Fako of 906 dorsement of this na- p
East Palmer Avenue, ture from an actual A
in the Michigan Metro¬ user. There are many L.t
polis, writes: PE-RU-NA “After people in every com¬
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about one year will say ence, in using Pe-ru-na,
I have found it a very has been identical with
good medicine for ca¬ Mr. Fako’s. It is the
tarrh. * It has helped standby for coughs,
me a great deal and I colds, catarrh, stomach
am very well satisfied I have and bowel disorders and all ca¬
gained in weight, eat and sleep tarrhal conditions,
well, better my bowels are regular and Put up in both tablet and liquid
color in my face. form. Sold kvkrywiitke.
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