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DAY FOK ANNUAL CHRISTMAS*
OFFERING '
Sunday, December 25, has been dqs
ignated by the North Georgia confer
cnee and the South Georgia conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, as the day for making the
nual Christmas offering for the ehari
tv work at Wesley Memorial Hospital,
which ...... is the property . of _ these ,, confer- .
ences. It is expected that on that day
the offering will be taken in the church
en and Sunday schools of Georgia Meth
odism. The funds ‘raised through this
offering will be used to take care of
the needy r sick at Wesley Memorial
Hospital.
The report of the Board of Trustees
for the year ending October 31. 192!.
shows that during the year, 131 pa
Bents were treated entirely without
charge, and a large number at only a
part of the cost. These patients came
from every section of Georgia. The of
fenng . . taken , m . 1920 was not sufficient _. .
to pay the cost incurred in taking care
of these patients. Because of depress
big financial conditions, it is expected
that a larger number than usual will
apply to the , hospital ------ . , for . free -------------- treatment ,
during the next year.
The new building of Wesley Memo¬
rial hospital, located at Emory Univer¬
sity. are among the finest hospital
buildings in the South. These are rail
idly nearing completion and will be oc¬
cupied during 1922. Occupying these
buildings with increased facilities will
enable the hospital to take care of
more charity patients and will make
necessary the providing of more finan¬
cial support than in the past in order
that the helpless sick may not need¬
lessly suffer.
An exchange says more personal
touch is what we need. The Madisoni¬
an doesn’t need any more—can't stand
any more. We have been “touched" on
ali sides recently by bankrupts, fly-by
nights, crooked big sale experts until
we are thoroughly sore.—Madisonian.
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0 GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS
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9 Among the prettiest and most practical thing for Christ¬
0 propriate mas gifts and can appreciated. be found in our Drug Store. Always ap¬
9 This year when you can’t afford to give diamonds, then
0 you will find a variety of inexpensive gifts at our store.
9 FOUNTAIN PENS
0 For lady gentlemen. We have them in plain, also gold
9 and silver or mountings, and prices range from $2.50 up.
0 We Pens. have Give just one gotten of these a stock as they of the are new sure Wahl to please. and Parker
9
0 FINE CANDIES
9 We have the finest line of sweets ever carried by us.
6 You ous candies will find of in the our following line most beautiful brands: Wiley’s, boxes of Norris, delici¬
9 and Whitman. There is no better.
S FINE STATIONERY
0 Our large, and beautiful line of box stationery will at¬
a tract your attention. The various styles, color and artis¬
9 tic friend. make-up will enable you to make a selection for any
0
9 CHRISTMAS CARDS
0 You Cards. can Our scatter line sunshine is complete, this and year artistic by sending in Greeting- detail.
9 EVERSHARP PENCILS in gold and silver every makes a de¬
0 them sirable is gift to see for them. anyone at a small cost. To appreciate
9
0 TOILET ARTICLES
9 We have taken special pains in our toilet articles depart¬
0 ment in the this city. year. It doesn’t This line matter of toilet what goods you want, cannot ask be for beat it
9 —it’s here.
0 City Pharmacy
9
s THE POPULAR DRUG STORE
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTuin, utunuiA
CEDAR CHESTS WILL PROTECT
* WOOL CLOTHING FROM MOTHS
_
Chests made of red cedar heartwood
are effective, if in good condition and
So^^hes'lnoths. ‘iVlias'been'cmni
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. That is, provided proper
| precautions are taken first to articles beat,
brush an( ] i i£ possible, sun all
1 before they are placed in chests.
I Since it is the odor of red cedar that
j y 0Un g- n ioth worms, special care
. should be taken to prevent undue es
cape of the aroma from the chests.
Chests at all times should remain tight¬
• ly C ] Dse <j except when clothing is being
1 removed or placed in them, and this
proceduii should be accomplished
quickly. their growth
Clothes moths during
pass through different stages known
as the adult or moth miller, the worm
or j. lrva and the pupa stages. It is only
,
the larva or worm that damages fab¬
rics. The moth miller merely lays the
eggs from which the worms hatch. Ce¬
dar chests do not kill the moth miller,
its eggs, or pupae. Neither do they
kill the 1 larvae or worms after they have
become one-half to full grown.
| Cedar chests, it has been found, moth do
kill voung worms. Practically all
^ hatc . hing within the chests die
within one or two weeks after hatch
mg. and a surprisingly large number
die within two or three days. Of the
worms hatching within cedar chests,
j from the 2.074 eggs recorded in exper-1
imental work, none were found alive!
one month from the date the eggs were J
placed in theshests.
Since cedar chests kill only the very
young worms, it is of great importance
that clothing be brushed and eaten be¬
fore it is placed in them. If this is thor¬
oughly done, the older resistant worms
are removed and many of the eggs and
young worms are killed.
FOR RENT
7-room house on Floyd street. Mod¬
ern conveniences, next to F. E. Heard.
$30.00 per month.
52-4c D. A. THOMPSON.
WANTED—To buy an attractive, de¬
sirable lot. close in. See
51-tf J. A. VAUGHN.
Stick to the farm, young man. and
its wealth will stick to you.
The young man who is too good to
work in time becomes the old man
who can't get work. But the lesson is
seldom learned until too late.
The Po.ite Sandpiper.
Among scientists this sandpiper is
known ns Helodroinas Solitarlus, He
(ms a straight, slender bill, with the
upper part grooved over half.its length ;
the outer tail feathers and tail covers
are white, barred with dusky bars; he
is also spotted and barred under his
wings, and measures about seven and
a half inches long. The solitary sand¬
piper breeds up in the northern part
of the United States and with idle
millionaires and swells he goes down
to the Gulf coast to spend the winter.
The sandpiper is a very polite bird.
As soon its lie sees you he will salute
by nodding his head. He seems to be
proud of the markings on the under
tide of his wings, for when he alights
he will hold his long wings stretched
upwards, so that one may see and ad¬
mire the pretty markings before the
wings slowly and gracefully fold upon
tiis back, and he interests himself In the
search of food.—ban Beard in Boys'
Life.
Legend of the Topaz. >
The topaz has been regarded as a
cure for blindness. There is a tale of
the emperor of Rome that, becoming
blind, lie was accustomed to sit in
judgment in a large hall, from which
no ««« "'«* debarred . . . from ,. entering , . a
complaint. One day, the myth goes a
serpent complained that a porcupine
had devoured its ypung and driven it
out of its lair. Caesar ordered the por¬
cupine killed and ttie serpent restored
to iter nest. A few days later an enor¬
mous serpent entered the judgment
hall and before those present had re¬
covered from their fear laid two large
topaz stones on Caesar’s eyes, saying:
“Tims do 1 recompense him who has
rendered justice to me." And, lo! the
emperor’s sight tins restored.
Life is-just what each person makes
it. but some are too lazy to do the
making.
I have lived long enough to know
that it is best to know nothing.—Kip
ling.
WANTED- -Good white corn, shell
ed. Apply HUSON COTTON CO.
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165 *,
-- HURRY
THIS SALE HAS PROVEN A BOON TO THE RICH
AND A BLESSING TO THE POOR AND THOUSANDS
OF PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THESE
WONDERFUL BARGAINS AT THE GREATEST RE¬
DUCED PRICES EVER OFFERED BEFORE.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO MINCE MATTERS OR LIL¬
LY DALLY BUT JUST RIP THEM WIDE OPEN, LET
DOWN THE BARS OF PRICES AND LET YOU LIT¬
ERALLY ROOT, RUMMAGE, ROMP, ROLL, PICK,
AND CHOOSE BARGAINS TO YOUR HEARTS CON¬
TENT, AND YOUR POCKET BOOKS PROFIT.
DON’T CONFUSE THIS SALE WITH THE ORDI¬
NARY SALE FOR THIS IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE
GREATEST STOCK OF CLEAN MERCHANDISE
EVER THROWN ON THE BARGAIN BLOCK IN THIS
SECTION.
EVERYTHING GOES IN THIS SALE AND NOTHING
RESERVED SUCH AS CLOTHING, SHOES, LADIES
COAT SUITS, DRESSES, LADIES COATS, AND HUN
DREDS OF OTRER ARTICLES TOO NUMEROUS TO
MENTION IN THIS LIMITED SPACE.
TAKE NO CHANCE, BRING YOUR OWN TWO EYES,
SEE FOR YOURSELF AND USE YOUR OWN JUDG¬
MENT.
REMEMBER THE PLACE AND LOOK FOR THE
BIG SIGN.
The F amous
COVINGTON GEORGIA.
Are Pity Officials Responsible To Its Citizens In Causing
Disease From Preventable Causes
An in.ei.^ent people must
ate in the great work of eradication
disease, for the right to enjoy
is quite as sacred as that to
property. As a general
our sanitary laws "fire very good
their administration still leaves much
to be desired.
To ignorance and carelessness must
be attributed much of the causation of
disease in the centuries gone by. Out
of the throes of suffering and death
of the myriads who have preceded us
we have obtained a certain enlight
enmentfi which, while not perfect, still
makes it absurd to plead ignorance
and lack of knowledge.
The day is not far distant when it
will be considered a crime for a city
to continue to murder its citizens by
furnishing them an impure water sup¬
ply. Diseases which consign thou¬
sands to the grave leave even worse
results in their wake by passing on
to the children a hopeless poverty,
opening the gate to crime, prostitu¬
tion and mendiedticy. All the au¬
thorities agree that contagions react
on the moral fibre of a community or
people, and contrariwise, where they
live under healthful conditions great
advancement in government, litera¬
ture and science has been made.
There is a moral obligation to be
intelligent. Ignorance is a vice and
when it results in injury to anyone
it becomes a crime, moral, if not
statutory. There is no excuse in this
day for ignorance of any one in rela¬
tion to the necessity for the purifica¬
tion of all water supplies in cities
where the death rate from water
borne disease is higher than that in
cities having perfectly satisfactory
water.
Responsibility is a word of tremen¬
dous import. Its significance is akia
to trust and these men who are re
spon ible for and high minded in the
conduct of human affairs realize their
liability to tie called to account when
honored with leadership.
There are . men, however, upon
whom responsibility rests lightly, per¬
haps not wilfully but because of cir-
NEWS ADS—MONEY MAKERS.
cumstances beyond their contrcl und
in the management oi their trusts tv*y
become indifferent co the only loo
common signs of inefficiency, whten
ultimately result in retrogression, if
not disaster. *
The purpose of government is to
protect Us citizens, and a government
which fails to shield the people from
infection cannot be truthfully called
either responsible, intelligent or
moral.
The greatest asset of any city tft
town i3 the health of the citizens,
and the officials who secure this in
the highest degree are those who ap
predate the responsibility placed upon
them in this very important matter.
Preventive measures in conserving
the health of the community records
success in direct ratio to the number
of lives saved, and it is pleasing to
note that the statistics of the last cen
tury show an increase of fifteen years
in the average human life. .There Is
reason to hope that, in the future,
this increase may be duplicated in a
considerably shorter time, If earnest
use is made of present day science.
The plain fact Is that not only does
ignorance breed disease but the con¬
verse is almost as true and that dis¬
ease breeds ignorance, immorality
and strife. In the light of the scien
tific work at the present time, disease
in its horrible wholesale form Is con
trollahle if it cannot be entirely elim
inated. This control or elimination Is
possible only when there is an awak¬
ening of the sense of responsibility on
the part of those who have been ele¬
vated to the high places in govern¬
ment. Short sighted humanity fails to
appreciate nature’s gifts until threat-/
ened with their Toss. This is true
even of the greatest of them all, life
itself. It is significant of our failure
to value health.
Now, Mr. Public Official, do you, as
a city official, realize that you, person¬
ally, are responsible for every death
from a water borne disease, which
occurs in your city unless you are
consistently and persistently doing
everything possible to prevent such
death?
fered that the old ropes may )(nf
the strain safely and that
equal to 8 ' ^ V,,
ropes may prove The ar e
placed upon them. that
commended to the merej “ y
In daily ascents 'b ' ^
their
kept safe, and that the' '
the who tru* r h' ^
travelers
Jade Prized in the East.
| In China a siring insignia of of high bead- raab k
I now used as an
! and authority. At one time it is said,
1 no other than a prince of the tv;al
j blood had the right to possess jade m
I India, under pain of death. In t’u*
the jade is termed tin* concentrated!
sence of love. It is an orna
often bestowed upon young girls 'viftti
they come of age. When fashioned^in- T
the form of a butterfly it has a
romantic significance to the Chme>t
because of the pretty legend which re¬
lates that a youth pursuing a butier’i
climbed over the high wall and in»
the garden of a rich mandarin, in¬
stead of being censored or piinishea,
the poor youth's visit led to hi
rtage with the mandarin’s daugk
, liagw lllc .............. symbol of
jj ence £ i le butterfly is the
successful love, and Chinese bride
t iade butterflies to
f“ _ rnnrnt . nrpsen
a news.
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' dc sea W d-h
TrollmR , . un ii dW .
low-flying **
flsh m
air, and then tossing the lH)0Kb ‘
from the air, is a twist t° dI1 ^ I
times to attract the attention' > • 7 ;
lean sportsmen, says Popular dingiWf**
ics Magazine. The first 0/
lug expedition was carried ^
party of Los Angeles s P ort % irap to
flew from the city in . a l ,(i 0 , '/ out
P ol 'nt ul,out V ~ " .The trip of
t0 sea frora the 1,al , !!",'/} |D
- ' m 30 «> '
85 mi,es was ac<wnl 7 fnm i a W'
in s P ,te 01 : Jiade flight W
hanging fog. which /it of the
compass necessary elevation of
3U While feet trolling and abou^ at t n expedition miles from hjJ *
the big thrill the swallo'™
oot shark It swu
when an eigl that one of the
a big macke reeling in.
fishermen
s Safety by PrayerS ;
he'd eve ' s „m
n service is • ^
,e beginning of the 1
sensor / 1 ' the S ' viss ,n "heir.- °f ^ A p-K!
the ,Ie *’ ,mwy ° r
who know they tabe fh ^
im .„ hands when they a-
5fc ieir TO" . h
So I hoy bring lb*
2m and lay them at r, ' e r ,,**
mountains. Old am n
and then lrt
re plied In a heap, ^
the
