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VOLUME 13, NUMBER 6.
FARM BUREAU AGITATORS
ARE PLANNING PROGRAM
National Figures Present
District Representatives
Meeting At Athens
Renewed and active
has seized the Farm Bureau
ganiation movement. The in¬
terest this time is resulting
an activity which will mean
consolidation of the
farmers and their interests. Pre¬
vious attempts to organize
Bureaus in Georgia were of only
limited success because the ad¬
vantages of such organization
were never felt as recently.
Representatives of the twelve
Georgia districts are in session
in Athens this week arranging
a program of work that will car¬
ry the news of the Farm Bureau
to every farmer in the state.
Ex-Congressman Lever, co-au¬
thor of the Smith-Lever Act,
and now Director of the Federal
Farm Loan Bank,.is meeting
with the district representatives
and giving the farmer organiza¬
tion a big boost. J. W. Cover
dale, secretary of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, is Geor¬ be¬
fore the meeting to tell the
gia men what the Bureaus have
done for farmers in other states,
and assist in organizing the
Georgia farmers.
At present twenty-seven coun¬
ties in the state have organized
Farm Bureaus with a total mem¬
bership of 4,870. There are
plavs in the Athens meeting to
increase the Georgia member¬
ship to 40,000 in 1921. The na
tional organization, that is, the
American Farm Bureau Federa¬
tion, represents 31 states, a to¬
tal of over 1,000 counties, and
has a membership of 1,500,000
farmers. Those who know best
predict that big business is go¬
ing to listen when these 1,500,
000 farmers begin to speak.
Marketing of farm products
w ill be the biggest topic coming
up for discussion at the Athens
meeting. Plans for having the
Farm Bureau solve the farmers
buying and selling problems wiil
be the big thing that our dis¬
trict representative will bring
back from the meeting. Club
buying and club selling have
been the big advantage arising
in those counties which have or¬
ganized Bureaus.
Mr. J.B. Reeves, representing
this district will return with
plans for Bureau organization
in this district, and the county
agents will assist in carrying
°ut the program of organization
in each county. The organiza¬
tion move in Newton will begin
shortly, and it is expected that
it shall be met with pleasing in¬
terest. County Agent J. K.
buck already has on hand litera¬
ture showing what Farm Bureau
organization is doing and will
I he advice coming to us is
tn j at every farmer should begin
acquainting himself with this
powerful farmer organization.
PASSENGER TRAIN
PERFORMANCE, DEC. 1921
December, Reports for the month of
central 1920, show that the
of Georgia Railway op¬
iated 2,940 passenger trains
over the entire system of 1,924
™ lies of line. Of this^ number
per cent arrived at destina
„ ^ Dme; 96 per cent made
1 a fu 'trough e \ ime train over received the railroad. from
nection an hour late arrived
li counted es i inati0n as making an hour its late in
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tn P^sen^er trains for
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TO THE GOOD LADIES
WE ARE GRATEFUL
Last week when three repre¬
sentative ladies of this city en¬
tered the News office, the editor
met with a surprise that will
ever remain fresh with him
throughout this mortal life.
Very often ladies of the town
bring in various notices of the
woman’s affairs for publication,
and at first we thought it was
the same routine of business,
but that was not the case this
time.
The first lady to speak, said,
“In appreciation of the paper
since you have been here, and
the kindness you have shown
us, on behalf of the Womans
Club, I present you with this
check.” And then the represen¬
tative of the W. C. T. U. in like
manner presented a check, and
also the U. D. C. and the D. A.
R. was represented, and as soon
as we could get our mind to¬
gether it was discovered that we
were $20.00 better off than be¬
fore they came.
For the co-operation we have
given the women of the city in
their excellent pursuits, toward
the welfare of the town as well
as giving publicity to their meet¬
ings, etc., there was no charge,
and they knew it—it was not a
gift from a charitable stand¬
point; it-was not done in an ef¬
fort to get this paper to further
some scheme that might have
the disapproval of some who do
not believe in their suffrage.
They were prompted to show
their friendship for the paper
because it had been and is
friendly to them and their work.
There are many papers that
never have time to publish any¬
thing for the women?
The News has from time to
time, published considerable for
the ladies of this city and was
glad to do it, of course using our
judgment as to the space we
could spare.
Thanking each society or club
for the “five spots” and assuring
each that it has come in mighty
handy. Also that the spirit of
it all has made us feel under
many new obligations to the
dear women of the city.
OUTLOOK FOR BETTER
TIMES IS FAVORABLE
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 25.—“Some
people cannot seem to get
through their heads what a rich
and wonderful country this is
a nd still continue to howl calam¬
ity,” according to Randolph
Rose, former Georgian, now the
head of two large businesses in
New York City. Here are just
a few brief facts, Mr. Rose says,
to show that the situation is on
the mend.
In New York, cotton goods are
fimer with a gradually growing
demand. A Manchester dis¬
patch says, “Recently the Feder¬
ation of master spinners decided
to extend short time in the
mill spinning Egyptian Cotton to
a fortnight instead of a month
and in the meantime to take a
ballot on future action.”
Chicago reports that tlie
men’s clothing industry there is
on 66 2-3 per cent basis of nor¬
mal production, as against 50
per cent a short while ago. In
Toledo the number of unemploy¬
ed is being steadily reduced. A
week ago it was 27,000—now it
is under 15,000.
The general stock of money in
the United States $8,372,959,004
or about $412,000,000 larger
than a year ago. New Orleans
expects a reduction in the Feder¬
al Reserve Bank discount rate.
The Grain market, particulai*
ly Wheat, has shown surprising
strength in the last week main¬
ly due to the large purchases
by Germany.
MR. HICKS BEING
TREATED IN ATLANTA
Mr. Spence Hicks, a popular
young man of Covington who is
suffering with facial paralysis,
is making daily visits to Atlan¬
ta where he is receiving chiro¬
practic treatment from Dr. Heiz
man. Mr. Hicks reports some
improvement.
Covington friends are wishing
him a complete recovery.
HARDING, ON WAY
TO MIAMI, WORKS ON
HIS MESSAGE
Fort Pierce, Fla., Jan. 26.—
Preliminary work on President¬
elect Harding’s inaugural mes¬
sage has been started aboard
the houseboat Victoria, it was
learned here today.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa,
and Fall, of New Mexico, are
understood to be preparing
memoranda to be used by Mr.
Harding when he starts to
write his address. Several ex¬
tended conferences have been
held between the three regard¬
ing the material to be used in
the address.
Senator Cummings is working
on data dealing with the 'trans¬
portation problem, and Senator
Fall on foreign relations and
Mexico. Henry P. Fletcher, for¬
mer ambassador to Mexico, who
is also aboard, is assisting. Cabi¬
net talk is for the most part
barred during the cruise.
Mr. Harding is heading down
the coast on a fast schedule to¬
day, lured by the prospect of
good fishing off Miami. He
hopes to reach Palm Beach to¬
night, but a stop here today for
a few holes of golf made it
doubtful if he would reach there
before tomorrow. The Victoria
left Vero at daybreak today, ar¬
riving here two hours later.
Harry M. Daugherty and Sen¬
ator Fall plan to leave the party
at Miami and return to Wash¬
ington.
The president-elect is being
supplied with more fish than he
can eat as he cruises through
the fishing grounds on the beau¬
tiful Indian river. Fishermen
frequently halt the Victoria and
toss a prize fish aboard for
Harding as they pull up.
NEW EXPRESS COMPANY
TO OPERATE IN SOUTH
Southeastern Express Company
Will Begin Operation
March 1.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 20.—
Competitive express service in
the southeastern territory from
the decision of the Southern
Railway System and the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad to turn the
express business on their lines
over to the Southeastern Ex¬
press Company on March 1.
The Southeastern was recently
organized under Alabama laws
for the purpose of conducting an
express business in the South.
It will have a capital of $1,000,
000.00, owned by Southern men.
It will have headpuarters in At¬
lanta, and be managed by men
who have spent their lives in the
express business in the South.
John B. Hockaday, formerly
vice-president and general man¬
ager of the old Southern Express
Company with which he served
over forty years, will be pres¬
ident of the Southeastern.
Over the Southern and. the
Mobile & Ohio, the Southeastern
will operate on ten thousand
miles of railroad, including the
whole territory south of the Po¬
tomac and Ohio and east of the
Mississippi, and will also operate
into St. Louis over both lines
and into Baltimore over the
boats of the Chesepeake Steam¬
ship Company, connecting with
the Southern at Richmond and
Norfolk.
BURGLARS ENTER
J. H. ARNOLD’S STORE
Parties entering the J. H. Ar¬
nold store, near the Georgia
Railway Station, Tuesday night
escaped with groceries and dry
goods valued at $75.00. The
burglars entered the store
through the front door, and
left through a back window.
Mr. Arnold did not discover
his loss till Wednesday Morning.
There is no clue as to who the
burglars were, but it is thought
that they are local men.
The foe of life is not work,
but worry. Few are worked to
death.
For Newton County and Her People.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921.
HARDWICK LOOKING
INTO FINANCIAL AF¬
FAIRS OF STATE
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 22.—Gov¬
ernor-elect Hardwick has held a
conference Wright with Comptroller
General and Secretary
of State McLendon with regard
to the financial affairs of the
State. His object was to famil¬
iarize himself with the subject
as a basis for the preparation
of the financial features of his
inaugural address.
All maintenance appropria¬
tions for the calendar year 1921
were made by the legislature
in 1919, and one of the ques¬
tions concerning the governor
elect is whether the State’s ac¬
tual collected revenue in 1921
will be sufficient to pay the ap¬
propriations. The incoming leg¬
islature, which takes office with
the incoming governor on the
fourth Wednesday in June, will
make maintenance appropria¬
tions for 1922 and 1923, and
these appropriations will be
passed upon by the new gover¬
nor.
All of these and other con¬
sideration are being carefully
studied by Mr. Hardwick in the
preparation for the duties he
will assume when he is inaugu¬
rated. He hopes to be able dur¬
ing his administration to meet
the problems of economic read¬
justment and at the same time
to keep the departments ad in¬
stitutions of the state on an ade¬
quate basis.
CALLS GRAIN DEALING
NOTHING BUT GAMBLE
Washington, Jan. 25.—Com¬
paring the Chicago board of
trade with Monte Carlo and the
old Louisiana lottery, Clifford
Thorne representing the Ameri¬
can Farm Federation bureau, re¬
commended to house committee
today regulatory legislation to
government dealings in cotton
and grain futures.
Mr. Thorne said more than 99
per cent of grain transactions on
the board of trade involved
gambling, and that in one year
fifty-one times the actual
amount of grain received was
sold and three times the world’s
production.
“The Chicago board of trade
has become the greatest specu¬
lative institution on the face of
the earth,” Thorne declared.
YOUNG GEORGIA MOTHER
IS TWELVE YEARS OLD
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26.—More
children are born in Georgia to
mothers in their twenty-third
year than at any other time, the
percentage being 6.12, according
to certain relative statistics com¬
piled by the State Board of
Health. It is shown by these
figures that 22.54 per cent of
births are by mothers between
20 and 23 years old. The fig¬
ures were compiled among 10,-
418 white females in which
births occurred in the months of
June, July and August, 1920.
These families averaged 3.5
children each, including all
births during that period to the
month named. The youngest
mother on record was 12 years
old.
VISITED HERE SUNDAY
Mr. George D. Rabun, pleas¬
antly remembered as a former
teacher in the High school here,
was in Covington Sunday.
Mr. Rabun is now traveling
salesman for the Nachod Signal
Co., and the Cheatham Electric
Device Co., working out of the
Louisville, Kentucky offices.
Many Covington friends are
wishing Mr. Rabun success.
NEGRO CUTS HIS WIFE
James Casper (colored) was
arrested Wednesday afternoon
after he had cut his wife about
the abdomen and on the arm by
Sheriff Johnson.
The fracus occurred at the
house of Mamie Mayfield, living
in what is known as Harris'
Town. Casper attempted to es¬
cape and succeeded evading po¬
liceman Bohanon. The cause of
the fracus is unknown.
Casper will have a commit¬
ment trial before Justice Car
roll this afternoon.
LYRIC PUTTING ON
EXTRA GOOD PICTURES
Editor News;
The local Theatre owned and
managed by Mr. Brandenburg,
is trying itself in giving the pub
lie pictures that are equal to
those shown in the larger cities.
The pictures of late have been
especially good, and the fact
that this show house has not
resorted to cheap pictures as_the
majority of movie houses over
the state have done on account
of the recent dull wave over the
country, has given this city a
theatre that is far above the
average.
The pictures are of such a
class that will meet with the ap¬
proval of the most particular
class of people. There is some¬
thing good or educational in all
of them, and at that there is
something shown on the various
show nights that will please
those who like a little fun in the
way of wholesome comedy.
Covington is not different from
other places in many respects,
and we have reference to the
fact that there are, I un¬
derstand, one or two men in this
place that are (for no just
cause) desirous of so crippling
this institution, that to finally
close its doors would be inevi¬
table.
Our aims should be to “Live
and Let Live,” and attend to our
own business, and let the other
fellow do the same, so long as
nothing is attached to said busi¬
ness that is disreputable. When
a public proposition that con¬
cerns us all, becomes obnoxious
to our town let us all share in its
condemnation. If you don’t
like some official of the
gia Railroad, you don’t have to
ride—stay off, but don’t put a
cross tie on the track, for there
are others who will ride, even
without asking you.
I have no reason to believe
that our picture show will be
run out of our midst in the near
future, but this petty jealousy
(as it looks) is not the right
spirit.
J. D. H
CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION
The Southern Cattlemen’s
Association will hold its Ninth
Annual Meeting in Columbia,
S. C., February 1-2-3, 1921—
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs¬
day.
Tuesday—There will be a sale
of forty Angus Cattle.
Wednesday—20 head of Here¬
ford Cattle will be sold.
Thursday—40 head of Short¬
horn Cattle will be sold.
If you are interested I hope
you will attend. Much valuable
information is to be gathered
at these meetings about cattle¬
raising and I hope you will at¬
tend. Yours truly,
Sam W. Wilkes,
Agricultural Agent, Ga. R.R.
Food From Many Lands.
A miscellaneous line of food prod¬
ucts may be encountered among the
Stores of the foreign quarters of a
great city like New York. There are
the black ripened eggs of the Orient
There are sausages little and sausages
large, stuffed with oat breadstuff by
the Scotch, with butter, lard and what
not by the Italians. There are the
Sun-dried devil-fish from Greece, four
inch spreading figs from Yzmir, the
Jumbo walnuts of Chile and Manchuria
*—so on and so forth.
Rule of the Road.
There is some conflict of opinion
about the rule of the road. In the
X atter of the walking public, the rule
England has always been “keep to
the right.” In France it has always
been “keep to the left,” and those who
have spent the best part of the last
five years on the continent have got
Into the way of keeping to the left
In driving this is reversed, and some
difficulty was experienced by those
who had been brought up upon the old
adage, “When you go left you go right,
and when yon go right you go wrong,”
in driving.—Christian Science Monitor.
Same in Everything.
No matter how carefully you pick
fppies oflj a tree, there’s a fine one
kway up there at the top that you
joissed. In iife, it’s about th’ same
fray.
The Difference.
“A good housewife is very different
oni a good husbandman." “How
>7” “She ’s always sewing tears."
$2.00 Per Year in Advance
NORTH COVINGTON
CLUB ENTERTAINS
The members of the North
Covington Social and Co-opera¬
tive Society, their wives and
friends enjoyed an oyster sup
per in the Masonic Hall Wednes¬
day evening. The Pastors of
the Covington churches were in¬
vited.
The entertainment commit¬
tee consisted of Messrs. Calhoun
Vining, L. P. Loyd, Geo. C. Wat¬
son, V. E. Bouchillon, P. J. Gar¬
rison. The committee’s success
is praiseworthy. Dr. A. S. Hop¬
kins, president of the club was
toastmaster of the evening. Rev.
Walker Combs spoke of the so¬
cial advantages coming from
the society and praised its aims.
Other speakers were Dr. J. R.
Sams, R. P. Lester, and Mrs.
Childs. Each one spoke en¬
thusiastically of- the achieve¬
ments the club has enjoyed.
The total membership of the
club is now fifty-two, and is
characterized as an aggressive
set of men who are awake to
the interests of the city.
Express Company Helps Euro¬
pean Relief.
Among the numerous agen¬
cies throughout the country co¬
operating with Herbert Hoover,
Chairman of the European Re¬
lief Council, in his effort to raise
^33,000,000 by means of a na¬
tional collection for relief of inci¬
pient starvation among 3,5000,
000 in the war-stricken countries /
of* central and eastern Europe
are the American Express Com¬
pany and the American Railway
Express Company.
Through the authorization of
G. C. Taylor, president of both
organizations, “Invisible Guest”
certificates certifying that the
purchaser has salvaged te life
of one or more of the little war
victims, have been placed on sale
at 25,000 of the company’s offi¬
ces throughout the United
States. The cost of saving one
(child until the acute condition
has been relieved by the next
European harvest is $10.00, but
donations of smaller sums are
welcome and a contribution of
only $1.00, under the economical
administration of the Council,
will keep life in a little body for
a month.
The European Relief Council
is an amalgamation of the Am¬
erican Friends Service Commit¬
tee, American Red Cross, Amer¬
ican Relief Administration, Fed¬
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America, Jewish Joint
Distribution Com mit tee,
Knight’s of Columbus, Y.M.C.A.
formed by Mr. Hoover for the
elimination of duplicate effort
in ministering to the starving
children, to the end that the last
penny of every dollar contribu¬
ted might reach a hungry child
in the form of food or medical
service.
“Invisible Guest” certificates
which can be purchased for any
amount from $1.00 up, are on
sale at the local office of the
American Railway Express Com¬
pany.
HIGH PRICE PAID BY
GERMANY FOR COTTON
Temple, Tex., Jan. 25.—An
nouncement the was made today by
Bell county farm bureau
that a shipment of low-grade
cotton to Germany had been
sold at a profit of from $2.50 to
$15 a bale over prices offered in
American markets. The cotton
graded strict low middling and
netted $11.50 per 100 pounds in
Bremen.
TO THE CITIZENS OF COV¬
INGTON;
Before the election for coun¬
cilman, I stated that I would
furnish you with a financial
statement of the cities affairs.
The finance committee of which
I am a member have decided to
have the books audited, and this
is being done now.
The statement referred to will
be printed in this paper later.
Respectfully,
J. N. Gary.
For many a bride-to-be there
also a tried-to-be.
