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HAT FOR ANNUAL CKRItTMAi
OFFER1N6 '
Sunday. December 25. has been d»3
ignated bv the North Georgia confer
anl .h. South Episcopal G.or*. church, |
of the Methodist
South *' LUin ' as the day • for making the an- j
mial Christmas offet'ing for the chan
tv work at Wesley Memorial Hospital,! !
the , oi . ,, these „ con „
which is property e ■,
onces It is expected that on that day
the offering will he taken in the church-1
cs and Sunday schools of Georgia Meth-1
odism. The funds raised through this i
offering will be used to take care of, I
the needy sick at Wesley Memorial j
Hospital. i
The report of the Board of Trustees
for the vear ending October 31, 1921 ,1
shows that . . during , . the .. _____ year, 131 ,,, p ,
t u nts were treated entirely without j
charge, and a large number at only a 1
part of the cost. These patients came
■ from every section of Georgia. The of¬
fering taken in 1920 was n'>t sufficient
to pay the cost incurred in taking care
of these patients. Because of depress¬
ing 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 rap¬
idly nearing completion and will he oc¬
cupied during 1922. Occupying these
buildings with increased facilities will
enable the hospital to take oars of
more charity patients and will make
necessary the providing of more ftnan
eial 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 Madison i
sin doesn’t need any more—can’t stand
any more. We have been "touched” on
all sides recently by bankrupts, fly-by
nights, crooked big sale experts until
we are thoroughly sore.—Madisonian.
i i
i i GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS
i Among the prettiest and most practical thing for Christ¬
a propriate mas gifts and can appreciated. be found in our Drug Store. Always ap¬
Ti This year when you can’t afford to give diamonds, then
a you will find a variety of inexpensive gifts at our store.
i FOUNTAIN PENS
b For lady gentlemen. We have them in plain, also gold
n and silver or mountings, and prices range from $2.50 up.
a We Pens. have Give just one gotten of these a stock as they of the are new sure Wahl to please. and Parker
n
a FINE CANDIES
We have the finest dine of sweets ever carried by us.
You will find in our line most beautiful boxes of delici¬
8 ous candies of the following brands: Wiley’s, Norris,
and Whitman. There is no better.
a FINE STATIONERY
8 Our large, and beautiful line of box stationery will at¬
a tract your attention. The various styles, color and artis¬
Ti tic friend. make-up will enable you to make a selection for any
a
Ti CHRISTMAS CARDS
B You Cards. can Our scatter line sunshine is complete, this and year artistic by sending in Greeting- detail.
Ti EVERSHARP PENCILS in gold and silver every makes a de¬
B them sirable is gift to see for them. anyone at a small cost. To appreciate
Ti
B TOILET ARTICLES
Ti We have taken f special pains in our toilet articles depart¬ beat
B ment this year. This line of toilet goods cannot be 1
Ti in the city. It doesn’t matter what you want, ask for it 8
—it’s here.
B City Pharmacy 9
Ti 81
B THE POPULAR DRUG STORE
Ti 8
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTur*, ukoruia
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mu VH CHESTS.WILL PROTECT:
WOOL CLOTHING FROM MOTHS
__
chests made of red cedar heartwood
are effective, if in good condition and
ThS'S^'ffi
bv the United States Department of
Agriculture. That is, provided proper
precautions are taken first to beat,
brush, and. if possible, sun all articles
before they are placed in chests.
Since It is the odor of red cedar that
young )no th worms, special care
be taken to prevent undue es
™pe °f the aroma from the chests.
Chests at all times should remain tight
] y c i 0 sed except when clothing is being
removed or placed in them, and this
procedure should be accomplished
ulckly
Clothes moths during their growth
through different stages known
as the adult or moth miller, the worm
or i arv a i and the pupa stages. It is only
the larva or worm that damages fab
The moth miller merely lays the
eggg f rom W hioh the worms hatch. Ce
dar chests do not kill the moth miller,
«Sgs. or pupae. Neither Neither do they
kill the larvae or worms after they have
become one half to full grown.
Cedar chests, it has been found, do
kill young worms. Practically all moth
worms hatching within the chests die
within one or two weeks after hatch¬
ing, and a surprisingly large number
die within two or three days. Of the
worms hatching within cedar chests,
from (he 2,074 eggs recorded in
imental work, none were found alive
one month from the date the eggs were
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
•’•'it conveniences, next to F. E. Heard,
?30.0tt per month,
52-4e 19 A. THOMPSON,
WANTED—To buy an attractive, de¬
sirable lot, close in. Bee
51-tf J. A. VAUGHN.
Stick to the farm, young man, ami
its wealth will stick to you.
The young man who is too good
work in time becomes the old man
who can’t get work. But the lesson
seldom learned until loo late.
The Polite Sandpiper,
Amoug sole!)lists this sandpiper is
known as Helodromas Solitarius. He
has a straight, slender bill, with the
upper part grooved over half Its length ;
the outer tail feathers ami tail covers
are white, barred with dusky bars; he
is also spotted and barred under his
wings, and measures about seven and
8 half inches long. The solitary sand¬
piper breeds up iu 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 as he 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 ratty see and ad¬
mire the pretty markings before the
wings slowly and gracefully fold upon
his back, and he interests himself in the
search of food.—Dan 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, he was accustomed, to sit In
judgment in a large ball, from which
no one was debarred from entering a
complaint. One day. the myth goes a
serpent complained that n porcupine
had devoured its -young and driven it
out of irs lair. Caesar ordered the por¬
cupine killed and the serpent restored
to her 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:
“Thus do 1 recompense him who has
rendered justice to me-." Anti, lo! the
emperor’s sight was 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 COTTON CO.
tf HUSON7
1 URRY HURRY
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n
i THIS SALE HAS PROVEN A BOON TO THE RICH
i AND A BLESSING TO THE POOR AND THOUSANDS
n OF PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THESE
i WONDERFUL BARGAINS AT THE GREATEST RE¬
DUCED PRICES EVER OFFERED BEFORE.
i WE ARE NOT GOING TO MINCE MATTERS OR BIL¬
in LY DALLY BUT JUST RIP THEM WIDE OPEN, LET
I ERALLY DOWN THE ROOT, BARS RUMMAGE, OF PRICES ROMP, AND LET YOU PICK, LIT¬
I ROLL,
1 AND CHOOSE BARGAINS TO YOUR HEARTS CON¬
I TENT, AND YOUR POCKET BOOKS PROFIT.
DON’T CONFUSE THIS SALE WITH THE ORDI¬
Ti NARY SALE FOR THIS IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE
Ti GREATEST STOCK OF CLEAN MERCHANDISE
n EVER THROWN ON THE BARGAIN BLOCK IN THIS
SECTION.
n 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
Ti MENTION IN THIS LIMITED SPACE.
TAKE NO CHANCE, BRING YOUR OWN TWO EYES,
SEE FOR YOURSELF AND USE YOUR OWN JUDG
i MENT.
Ti REMEMBER THE PLACE AND LOOK FOR THE
IB BIG SIGN.
K The F amous
I COVINGTON GEORGIA.
Are C'tv Officials Responsible To Its Citizens In Causing
Disease From Preventable Causes
An in ■ i..b?nt people must co-oper¬
ate in the great work of eradication of
disease, for the right to enjoy health
is quite as sacred as that to possess
property. As a general proposition,
our sanitary laws tre \ery good but
their administration still leaves much
to be desired.
To ignorance and carelessness must
be attributed much of the causation oi
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
enmentli 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 mendicancy. 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 I
where the death rate from water;
borne disease is higher than that in i
cities having perfectly satisfactory J
water.
Responsibility is a word of tremen¬
dous import. Its significance is akin
to trust and these men who are re¬
sponsible for and high minded in the
conduct of human affairs realize their
liability to be called .o account when
honored with leadership.
Tlrere are men. however. upon
whom responsibility rests lightly, per¬
haps not wilfully but because of cir¬
NEWS ADS.—MONEY MAKERS.
cumstances beyond their contrc-I he. 1
in the management ot their trusts they
become indifferent to the only too
common signs of inefficiency, whicn
ultimately result in retrogression, if
not disaster.
The purpose of government is to
protect its 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 cUy or
town is the health of the citizens,
and the officials who secure this in
the highest degree are those who ap¬
preciate 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¬
trollable 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 loss. 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? |
Jade Prized in the East.
In China a string of jr.de beads is
now used as an insignia of high rank
and authority. At one time, it is said,
no other than a prince of the royal
blood lmd the right to possess jade in
India, under pain of death. In China
the jade Is termed the concentrated es¬
sence of love. It is an ornament
often bestowed upon young girls when
they come of age. When fashioned in
the form of a butterfly it has a special
romantic significance to the Chinese
because of the pretty legend which re¬
lates that a youth pursuing a butterfly
climbed over the high wall and into
the garden of a rich mandarin. In¬
stead of being censored or punished,
the poor youth’s visit led to his mar¬
riage with the mandarin’s daughter.
Hence the butterfly is the symbol of
successful love, and Chinese bride
grooms present jade butterflies to
their fiancees.
Deep-Sea Trolling.
Trolling for de> p-sea game fish
from tlie gondola of a low-flying dirig¬
ible, locating schools of fish from the
air, and then tossing the hooks to them
from the air, is a twist to angling pas¬
times to attract the attention of Amer¬
ican sportsmen, says Popular Mechan¬
ics Magazine. The first dirigible fish¬
ing expedition was carried out by a
party of Los Angeles sportsmen, wiio
flew from the city in a pony blimp to
a point about 12 miles north and out
to sea, from the harbor. The trip of
35 miles was accomplished in 50 min¬
utes in spite of delays from a low
hanging fog. which made flight by
compass necessary part of the way.
While trolling at an elevation of some
3U feet and about ten miles from land,
the big thrill of the expedition came
when an eight-foot shark swallowed
a big mackerel that one of the flying
fishermen was reeling in.
Enjoins Safety by Prayers.
A solemn service is he'd every sum¬
mer. at the beginning of the climbing
season in the Swiss mountains, among
the guides, many of whom are godly
men, who know they take their lives
In their hands when they ascend the
Alps. So they bring their ropes with
them and lay them at the foot of oDe
of the mountains. Old and new ropes
are piled in a heap, and then they are
blessed by the pastor. Prayer is of
fered that the old ropes may still bear
the strain safely and that the new
ropes may prove equal to all the stress
placed upon them. The guides are
commended to the mercy of God that
In their daily ascents they may be
kept safe, and that they may succor
the travelers who trust in them.
