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. * I. E COVINGTON NEWS
For Newton County and Her People.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 20.
big sum for
ROAD
0KK THAN HALF MILLION DOL
\RS turned over to the
i HIGHWAY COM¬
STATE
MISSION.
More than half a million
477 35 to be. exact—has been
'Jed ),v . the state of fund Georgia during
he federal aid road
,
ths of February and March.
llon
goes to reimburse the state
iuin have been
lh( various counties that
.
•onstructing modern roads as a part
the state highway system. Not
„ f
u«ties engaged in road work
lh> , ( . 0 aid, for
u'tu ipated in this federal
^, .
me instances highway projects
,. n and are being built by
.
funds alone. The refund from the
a l government applies only to
r ,
jects constructed with federal aid.
Announcement to this . effect
made recently by the state
department, which at the same
gave out u statement in explanation
of the method of handling federal aid
refunds.
Of the $550,477.35 received from tin
federal government, says the depart¬
ment statement, “the counties have
been paid $520,9’7.70, while the state
jhas retained $29,539.65 to cover
,.,„t of engineering, as^ provided by
tate highway law.”
■The counties participating in
ederal aid refund for the months
February and March are: Baker, Brook
Vrroll. Chatham, Cherokee, Chattoo
a Cobb, Oook. Dade, Decatur. Dooly.
Dougherty. Douglas. Earl, Elbert.
nanuel, Evans, Floyd. Franklin,
y, Glynn. Haralson. Hancock.
on. Jefferson. Laurens. Lowndes.
ion, itchell, Monroe. Montgomery,
[organ. Newton. Paulding.
andolph, Rabun, Richmond.
tevens, Towns. Thomas, Troup.
jii. Walker. Wheeler, Wilcox, and
Tikes.
0 INVESTIGATE
THE
ational Farmers’ Union Wants
gress to ‘‘Determine What’s Wrong
With Agriculture.”
Washington, April 20.—Congress
ged in a resolution adopted
the National Farmers’ Union
nventkm here to appoint a joint
amission to ‘‘determine what
ong with Agriculture" and to
'islation to “correct the
1 established evils."
he farmers have been branded
,e been accused of taking or
ng to take measures which
u 't in a dangerously
ntity of available products,
t the country was entitled to
tacts and that congress was
agency equipped “to
truth.”
n the other hand, it charged
burners had been
ln;n iT1 the matter of credit
isportation and that they had
‘‘ ,I 10 se » their'products below
nf Production while residents
r ‘ties had been compelled to
11 s *x times for their food
hm which the producers
‘‘culture stands in a unique
4'gie position John
ei of the Pennsylvania
ge told the convention, with
H labor either side
'coking after their own
! tarmers he added, should
her. , h,
ucuuy >,f Agriculture
h ’ van °us
*' Obstructive steps to
build
urbanization to protect and
agriculture.
sm c ession resolutions
the appointment of
" r< b°rt on the losses
of
■ UU| tlu amount of credit
“ m in comparison
‘ndustries and also on’ the
<t..d discriminations
^ T ‘-iive
concern*.
’ 11 ,r bters' union
■ need, their national si.
‘ a ' ,< *30,000,000 invested
v ' ! ' ' °rganizations
l which did
business volume last year
T'OO.OOO. "When you
trade and chambers of
U 't 'arm
he continued, ‘its
l ° ' h " fanners,-We
*' f °r that crowd.”
se ntati\ Upshaw,
of
i,,0rt the resolution
ressirm f..!. , ° orn mission
ie to
situation.
AUTO THIEVES
VISIT COVINGTON
PENNINGTON CAR STOLEN SUN¬
DAY NIGHT FROM IN FRONT
OF METHODIST CHURCH
While attending service at the First
Methodist church Sunday evening, Mr.
W. B. K. Pennington had the misfor¬
tune to lose his car by theft.
The automobile was left in front,
among a number of others, but was
not locked.
Suspicion points to a couple regis¬
tered at the Flowers House for the
week end. They disappeared, leaving
a worthless check with a local con¬
cern and an unpaid board bill.
Tlie same pair had inquired of Mr.
Paul Walker the location of the Meth¬
odist church on that date. Reports
from Macon and Augusta confirm the
impression that these people are crooks
operating in various towns.
Mr. Pennington’s machine was a
B uick, comparatively new. No clue so
far. has been found. He is offering
$50.00 reward for the apprehension of
the guilty parties.
METEOR SHOWER
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
Macon. April 20.—A meteor, or a
series of meteors that passed over
middle and south Georgia about nine
o’clock this morning, exploding and
showering hot metal as heavy as iron
frightened people in the sections of the
state where the phenomena was visible.
The meteor was seen in Macon. It
exploded over Cordele, and also at
Pitts, some distance east of Cordele,
and also at Albany.
At Pitts, in Wilcox county, more
than a dozen heavy explosions were
heard, then as if a machine gun had
pressed into action, there was a sharp
crackling in the air for several min¬
utes and red-hot metal, some pieces
weighing as much as six pounds began
to fall to the earth. In the wake of the
falling fragments was a trail of black
smoke. The sky was cloudless.
,The majority of the pieces fell in open
fields and so as known no one was
injured.
Pitts. Ga., April 20—Meteors of the
aerolite type that travelled through
the air, apparently in a southwesterly
direction, exploded with such violence
close to the earth here today’ that build¬
ings were shaken.
One negro at work in the field where
a six-pound piece of the red-hot metal
struck, unearthed it and 15 minutes
after it fell it was still too hot to han¬
dle. There was a regular shower of
these aerolites near this town. Many
of these pieces were picked up from
an open field into which most of them
fell and the latest ones were picked
up by citizens and shipped to Atlan¬
ta for analysis.
The explosions here were heard for
ten miles. Farmers telephoned here
to determine the cause of the explos¬
ions. The aerolite, of vivid brightness
was plainly seen in the cloudless
and its trail was visible for two min
utf -' after it had passed.
Hawkinsville, Ga,. April 20.—Rest
dents here believed that an explosion
at high altitude over this city at
o’clock this morning was an airplane,
and that the machine and its pilot
begti destroyed. Pulaski county
combed for the wreckage, but
was found, and it was not until re¬
ports of aerolites in Wicox county. 20
miles south of here, .were received
tonight that the mystery was
UP.
PORTERDALE GIN CLUB
The Club held the regular shoot Fri¬
day. U,ih. with improved interest an 1
marksmanship. We are expecting se'
oral shooters from the Atlanta Gun
Club to meet with us next Friday,
22nd. and we hope all our shooters and
visitors will be ‘present.
Mr. W. B. Bailey carried off
honors of the day by breaking 24 out
of 25, and Dr. Loveless and Mr. O.
W. Porter tied for second place
23 each. Following was was the the scr score:
W. B. Bailey 24 G. G. W. \V. Roge Rogers
J. C. Loveless 23 J. J. A. A. Rainc Rainey
<). W. Porter 23 J. J. L. L. Smith Smith
W. B. Kyser 22 Oscar Mills
H L Hitchcock 22 /Ivy Smith U
L. A. Patrick j. M. Wingate
A. C. Vinning 20 G. W. Andrews
W. C. Frazier 20 D. Weaver
A. J. Kelley 20 Rob. Ballard
Agrest told of the work of the
national Institute of Agriculture,
Rome, with which she is connected.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 1921.
| EFFORT MADE BUILDING FOR
GOVT.
This city may get a government
building. There’s no reason why she
shouldn’t. Plenty of towns smaller
in population and less progressive have
them. The mails passing through the
local post office are very heavy and
a modern building is really a necessity.
Congressman Brand has introduced
j a bill for the erection of a public
I building in Covington. This; has beer
I referred to the committee on public
j buildings and grounds, and ordered to
I be printed. The following is the bill:
A BILL
! For- the erection of a public building
at Covington, Ga.
i Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United State
of America in Congress assembled.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be.
and he is hereby authorized and direr
ted to purchase or otherwise procure
a suitable site at Covington. Ga., and
cause to he erected thereon in said
city a convenient and suitable public
building with fireproof vaults and oth
er conveniences, for the use and ac
commodation of the postmaster, posi
office, and for other governmental pm
poses.
Sec. 2. That the secretary of the
Treasury is also authorized and dire,
ted to have plans and specifications
furnished for said building, which an
to be approved by him. and he shall
cause a good and sufficient title for
sue to Vie secured and furnifhed to
the United States. The site selected
must be of sufficient size and so loca¬
ted as to leave the building when com¬
pleted unexposed to danger from fire
by an open space on every side. No
purchase or site nor the plans for the
j building shall be approved by said sec¬
retary which shall involve an expen¬
diture of more than $110,000 for the
entire cost of the building, completed,
including the cost of the site and all
other expenses. The contract for the
purchase of the site shall not be closed
until estimates of the cost of the build
ing, which will furnish suitable and
sufficient accomodations for the trans¬
action of the public business and which
shall not exceed in cost the balance
of said suin after the price of the site
has been deducted from the $119,000.
•hall have been approved by the sec¬
We Ask the Attention
of Every Reader
of This Paper
Today
By J. R. HAMILTON
Fortner Advertising Manager of Wanamaker'a, Philadelphia
t
j
Ninety-six per cent of all the people in the United States j
!
earn less than $2,000 a year. |
Therefore it behooves every one of you to learn to read this 1
paper day by day with two purposes. One, that you may post |
j yourself upon the general news. The other, that you may post
yourself upon the advertising news.
The day is past when anyone can afford to overlook this sec¬
ond feature. It is the road to economy in every home. There
isn’t a day passes when money cannot be saved or when better
goods cannot be bought for the same money simply by following
carefully the advertising news that is published here.
The reason for this is very simple: advertising is the cheap¬
est, quickest and best method of salesmanship that has yet“been
found.
Therefore the most progressive merchants advertise.
And naturally, when you want the cheapest or the best
article of any kind, it is fair to assume that the most progressive
men will have it for sale.
Every shrewd merchant advertises in this paper because
there are*thousands of you readers eager to see his advertising
when it appears.
He knows that you are looking for whatever good merchan
dise news he has to offer. And if any merchant so far discounts
your value to him as not to advertise in the paper you read, you
can equally well afford to discount his value to you.
If any merchant is sc* careless as to overlook the great com¬
bined purchasing value of thousands of you readers every day,
the chances are he is overlooking many a good merchandise value
when it comes his turn to go into the markets and buy.
So learn, not onlv to read the advertising news in this paper
day, but learn also to rely upon it for everything you need
every of living
There isn’t one family that cannot reduce its cost
at any time simply by carefully reading and buying entirely
through the advertising pages of this paper day by day.
{OonvTirhtedJ
CHILDRENS WEEK
APRIL 24-MAY 1
"GIVE MORE THOUGHT TO
CHILDREN”
Does your child go to Sunday
School? tine half of the children in
the i : nited Stales do not. and it is
an effort to reach them and to arouse
in their parents some thought of the
necessity for religious instruction that
Children’s Week will be observed. In
many cities, towns and villages" work¬
ers from churches will go out udring
the u "ek for a house-to-house visiting
enrolling children for Bible instruc¬
tion. and the Sunday Schools them¬
selves will give parades, pageants,
and song festivals to bring in new
members.
For all of us in America church is
a purely voluntary matter—we can
take it or leave it. It is the same with
the Sunday School. There are no tru¬
ant officers to make children attend,
no laws to compel them to learn the
ancient history of the Old Testament,
as they must learn Greek and Roman
history in day school, or u> study the
soul-satisfying lessons to be found in
he life of Christ and the works of his
Apostles. Yet we do not like to think
of our childr- i growing up in igno
ranee of the Bible and its wonderful
truths, and there is no agency to com¬
bat this ignorance, save the Sunday
School.
Year b\ year the Sunday School is
slowly gaining, in spite of Bolshevis¬
tic, atheistic teachings, gaining be¬
cause religion satisfies a spiritual long¬
ing of the human heart That no social¬
istic doctrine can ever hope to meet.
Still there are twelve million children
to reach? Does your child go to Sun¬
day School? If not. why not? what
are your church and community doing
to help others to know the Bible?
These are good questions to ask during
Children's Week.
it pays to advertise. Ask John Wan
ainaker- -he knows.
retary of the treasury: Provided, that
no money appropriated for the pur
post's herein specified shall be availa¬
ble until valid title for the site of said
building shall be vested in the United
States.
$2.00 Per Year in Advance
PROGRAM FOR
MEMORIAL DAY
Date, April 26th, Tuesday.
Luncheon for Veterans, their wives.
Daughters of the Sixties, and minis¬
ters.
Time—12 o’clock.
Place—The Library.
Marshal of the day—Maj. Homer
Cook.
Procession forms 2:30 at Library.
March to cemetery. Decoration of
Prayer, Rev. .1. B. Ficklen.
Procession forms at cemetery, march¬
to Methodist church for exercises.
Processional—Mrs. K. it. Fowler.
Song—Music Club.
Prayer—Rev. J. E. Ellis.
Presentation of prizes to winners in
Essay Contest. Miss Eugenia Stvad
ley, Jack Flowers, Edgar Wood, and
Mamie Lee Scott, by Mrs. W. W.
Childs. President.
Song—Music Club.
Introduction of speaker-—Dr. .J. A.
Sharp. Emory Academy.
Address—Dr. Ashby Jones, Atlanta.
Benediction—Rev. ?). E. Ellis.
CROWD OF GERMANS
ATTACK AMERICANS
•lames K. Tobin.sou and Wife of Chi¬
cago Attacked by Mob Following
Funeral of Empress.
Berlin. April 20.—James E. Tobin
son and his wife, residents of Chicago
were attacked by a crowd of German
men women and children Tuesday as
they sat on the terrace of San Souei
park following the funeral of the for¬
mer empress Augusta Victoria.
The Americans were rescued by a
security policeman and two German
civilians, who locked arms and sur¬
rounded them, accepting a pelting of
sticks, stones and umbrellas in defense
of the couple, until they were able to
escort them to the poice station in E J ots
dam. Here a patrol of extra police¬
men were summoned and dispersed the
crowds.
During the attack the policeman
and the two German civilians were
unable to quiet the crowd, numbers of
which were shouting ’foreigners’,
French people!” Nor could they en¬
tirely shield the Americans. Mr. Tou
inson wa: beaten about the head and
shoulders and his wife received a bruis¬
ed nose, and her hat was torn from
her head, her hair Was pulled and she
was struck on tin- .arms and body by
umbrellas.
Potsdam police headquarters in its
report concerning the case said:
‘The Americans were not to blame,
and they desire that there be no furth¬
er mention J the affair.
“The mob.” said Mr. Tobinson to¬
day, ‘was incited by an old woman
who thought we were French. The
crowd attacked us and chased us from
Sans Souei park to Potsdam. Tr is
my opinion that we would have been
killed except for me policeman and
two German civilians. The police how
ever, did all that was possible. I
can not complain of their conduct and
desire to make no representations to
the German government.
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
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This Sad Scene always gets a Laugh,
because Everyone knows some Poor
Father who Totes the Baby ‘round
Nights and Moans about it Days.
all looked Just Like this Baby once
upon a time. Isn’t it a Wonder that
Poor Father didn’t Sell Us Down the
River?
I
GENTLE SPRING.
The trees put on their garb of spring
The beeches and the “willers”
The little bug gets in his hug,
Likewise the caiterpillars.
BOARDS
URGES HARDWICK
ESTABLISHMENT OF TWO COMMIS¬
SIONS TO GOVERN EDUCATIO¬
NAL INSTITUTIONS IS
PROPOSED.
Declaring himself in favor of more
progressive methods in the manage¬
ment of state schools and educational
institutions, Governor-elect Thomas VY.
Hardwick announced Tuesday he would
recommend in his first message to the
general assembly the abolition of all
boards now controlling these institu¬
tions and the establishment of two sep¬
arate eommisions to discharge the func¬
tions of the board.
This sweeping proposal of the gov¬
ernor-elect.if adopted would mean the
abolishing of the trustees of the Uni¬
versity of Georgia. Tech, G. N. 1. €.,
all the agricultural colleges and other
state institutions. In addition to these
there are numbers of other lxiards
connected with the state government,
among which are those of the depart¬
ment of agriculture, industrial com¬
mission and council of national defense.
"My views are in line with the most
progressive thought in connection with
higher education and in keeping with
the proven experience of many states”
Mr. Hardwick explained Tuesday morn¬
ing. ”!t seems to me that a board of
regents for higher education, truly
representative of the state, should be
in a better position to direct the high¬
er educational institutions than a score
or more of boards, each interested on¬
ly in a single instaitution.
Moreover, and equally as important
a single board, will, in my judgment,
be able to effect economies in adminis
tration. and be better able to inform
the governor and the legislature as to
^te needs and requirments of the sever¬
al institutions.
"There has been, as evry one famil¬
iar with th^ facts understands, more
or less conflict between the sevveral
boards and commissions. There have
been jealousies and misunderstandings
which have not helped the institutions.
The lack of co-ordination has been
conspicuous. A single board of regents
will make for co-ordination and oo-on
eration, and certainly will bring great
efficiency.”—Atlanta ('onstilution.
R. I.. HICKS & SONS’ STORE OPENS
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
“The Famous” will in future be the
name of the store formerly owned by
R. L. Hicks & Sons.
Mr. George it. Embry of Atlanta,
is manager.
Doors were opened Wednesday, Ap¬
ril 20th. windows draped’ with latest
models, while activities throughout
showed that Mr. Embrv and his force
were here for business.
Read his advertisement in this is¬
sue. See what famous bargains you
can get at “The Famous Store.”
AND, AT LAST HIS
DREAM CAME TRUE
Salem, Va., April 20.—Albert Dara
eron, 25, descendant of pioneer Vir¬
ginia settlers who works on his uncles
mountainside farm near here from
sun up to sun down at $10 a month,
often dreamed, he said of finding a
treasure and buying a farm of his own.
On the afternoon of April 9th. w'hile
plowing near the font of Brush Moun¬
tain his plow unearthed a peculiar look¬
ing object which attracted his atten¬
tion. Investigation revealed that he
had found a small metal pot wrapped
in buckskin containing gold and silver
coins valued at $14,903. About $13.-'
000 was in gold. $600 in silver and the
balance in paper money so badly dis¬
integrated that the denominations
could not be distinguished. The lat¬
est date on any of the coins was 1823.
Young Dameron. first bewildered,
was fearful that his fortune might, oe
taken from him and kept his discovery
a secret until today when he told his
mother.
“Albert dreamed for a week that
he was going to find a treasure.” de¬
clared Mrs. Dameron. a hardy moun¬
tain woman, ’and now he's gone and
done it.”
Tonight the fortune was still in
Dameron’s keeping with no intention
on his part, he said, of depositing it
in a bank.
WISE lHRD,
One time a spider spun a web
(Oh. he was very wise.)
He spun it just inside a store
That didn’t advertise.
