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THE COVINGTON NEWS
For Newton County and Her People.
)U’ME NUMBER 13.
KEN INDUSTRY offers
11 If inducements
various homes in to*n and
are repeatedly reminded of
lunty. ' ve
possibilities of the “little
paying
lie hen”- of
[luring an incredibly short space
eertain minister has reaped :t
. I
>t’ golden shekels from a lim
' ves! Rocks.
number of Royal
littk house wife over oh Emory
.
is rejoicing in a yard riotous
(■eet, feathered tribe ranging all the
ith the e biddies to lucious
b from fluffy
jphe king friers. fair is
lawn of a mansion en
lured [uiers. by a brood of sprightly young
The envy and admiration of
Wrs. [fore
and more people are turning
chickens as a financial salvation,
less as a pastime.
Liy; [rhe following from thrifty an exchange farmer is
Ask any you
let, and he will tell you that his
rken and egg crop have paid him
,er of late than any other crop
fced on the farm; and some of them
|l tell you that they don't kuow what
ly would have done for ready cash
for their hens.
If you are in any way inclined to
libt the value of a hen, just read
Is honest confession of a writer in
Breeder’s Gazette, who says: ‘The
|i has made all that I have. She
paid for my farm— made my living,
II educated two of my girls in college.
1 were cleaned out any day all I
jiild juld ask for to get on my feet again
be 200 hens.
(’hut's pretty strong tribute to the
but when we consider that five
[six hens will lay a bushel of corn
Iwek—at the present ration between
rs and corn —the tribute does not
|>ear too strong. Anyway, the per
who wrot it is speaking from ex¬
igence. And this same writer goes
to say:
the hen Will help many a person
Ir tlie tight places this year and
lild help more. For the food eon
|ii"l and i ai .' bestowed on them, we
lew of nothing that will give ^he
finer as good revenue as J00 good
its.
(HE ALARM SOUNDS TWICE
WITHIN WEEK
|\boiu !i o’eloek Saturday night .an
Inn of fire was sounded when Cov
pin's Potato Curing house near the
|orgia depot was discovered burn
A small blaze was issuing up
|’d from beneath the floor. The time
j intervention averted what might
| e been a serious conflagration.
r n Monday after noon at ti o’clock
pther alarm aroused the citizens to
i-i'est and action. The Covington
It k t o. was reported in danger, but
|n the l,! p fire h. was McCord, located in the coal
| and was qulek
lextinguished.
I'lNK |VT PKI IN NK THE THE SCUPPERNONG
EARLY’ SPRING
fundamental principle which holds
1 "nh most of our horticultural
i’* f S 1 i* almost that any fruit which is con¬
""lively by the producer
I l, a < hes a high stage of develop
r Thus far this has been true of
s,, u"pernong, and other
,Pf muscadine
‘ S ' Cons <"tuently for
ies a long time
ot grapes, native to the
f ' " ,Uf kiven no particular study,
f, ' lln leason that they would
F puriy r' Verly spring. if 'A.t in the late winter
the past ten or twelve
L Ud years,
' es of ,hese grapes at the
' 1 p Xpei ' ime nt Station
., have shown
T ” e Pruned if the l»uning
aon tal1 of
th e year about the
I L r „. thtl first >ight frost. If the
.
|,IUnt ‘ d much earlier than
th
r "’"'
liatim t, U 1 the unnatural de
. tr
r ■ <lela y p r d until mid-winter «*
spi, or
ng the vines will be injured
, a rr hWdinS l tUrn “ as the
° warm This is
X’ialh ' IS evident where -
it becomes neo
C' t0 eut lar ge canes.
Wed" M ' ( ‘ SUlts the vi
; nes should be
n , WS ^ 10
■n lev , TouTk to 12 feet a
0 feGt aPart in the
Ly d row
" traif *ed on trellises sim
, (1 Way tho
fcpe i„ common bunch
ail " d an( t Pruned regularly
that ii ‘ ' l " Uner
klo of Ia 'ge vines will
m N . necp n ssa
{S r y. The renewal sys
is S °
jtnong apPl ‘ cable to the scup
•,» to , the Concord
grape.
h' * Stuckey, Director.
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[nag Kienee H , s ; in wages'nmd\xu P d wh,le ai , n (° r s t ate
Frit, * h cars Eivl! given Preference. aot essential, men
■ue or call tL S'.'
’ Kington HaV9 21 Star
PENSIONERS MAY GET
WHEN TAXES ARE PAID
Atlanta, C,u. When all taxes
Georgia for the year 1921 h .vo to™
the State ,vill have a, ,a„ accoX reaeh
v.l a firm fiaaaviaf
to Governor Hardwick, who in a state
tnent declared that after paying all
appropriation for 1921, a balance of
almost a million dollars will have been
left in the treasury.
Governor Hardwick said that ap¬
proximately. $1,750,000 was yet to be
paid into the State by the county tfix
collectors, and that the only appro¬
priation for 1921 to be met was about
$1,000,000 toward the school fund.
There is at presents $350,000 in the
treasury, he said.
“If all the taxes were paid at once,
the State would he in a most comfort¬
able financial condition," the governor
sail. On a surplus of three-quarters
<>f a million dollars, together with
what the gasoline tax will bring in
quarterly, we can run very nieey un¬
til taxes are due again next year.
“The taxes are a little slow in com
ing iu, of course. In years before,
most of them have been paid before
this time, hut I am sure they will have
been paid before April 20th, which is
the last day.”
There is one thing that worries me”,
the governor said, “that is the pay¬
ment of (hi? $600,000 due the pension¬
ers this month. Of course, this is not
a 1921 debt, and for that reason I have
given orders that the School funds are
to lie paid first.
“1 think, however, that when we
have received all of the tax money 1
can take care of the pensioners, too.”
PASTURE SPECIALIST VISITS
NEWTON COUNTY
U'ui'f. Paul Tabor, Pasture Special¬
ist from Ga. State College of Agricul¬
ture, and representing the interest of
the Georgia Railroad, was in Coving¬
ton and surrounding sections Tuesday
inspecting the prospective pastures of
N.-wton County.
Several prominent farmers have be¬
come interested in the proposition of
the Gu. Railroad, as outlined in tho
News. March 2nd. ’
Prof. Tabor visited the following;
Evans Lunsford, O. \V. Porter, C. A.
Soekwell, .1. R. Reeves.
It is.evident that the pasture prop¬
osition offered the farms along the
Ga. Railroad by W. Wickersham, Gen¬
eral Manager is being received with
much favor and appreciation. Dur¬
ing those hard times it is a good thing
to do.
All who desire to participate in this,
will do well to communicate at once
with County Agent, J. K. Luck.
GENIAL GEORGE WATSON ILL
Friends will read with regret the
illness of Mr. George Watson, one of
Covington's genial and efficient offic¬
ers.
It is hoped that Mr. Watson will
Si mu be restored to perfect health.
SMALLPOX PREVENTION
We have certain seasons in which
particular diseases seem to thrive
ter than at others. We are now, Feb¬
ruary, entering the smallpox season.
For the next few months, this dis¬
figuring and often serious disease will
flourish among those who have not
taken the precaution of being vaccin¬
ated. There is no danger when proper
precaution is used, not the least, and
it is as nearly perfect protection as
anything known to science. The writ¬
er has been vaccinated fifteen or
twenty times; had the vaccination to
take twice; the other times no dis¬
comfort at all. I have been exposed
to smallpox; have handled smallpox
many times without the least fear.
Vaccination does protect and all
should take advantage of this wonder¬
ful discovery. The State Board of
Health has a contract with the manu¬
facturer for its supply, and can send
it at six cents a point. You may be
exposed within the next few weeks,
and will need this protection. Have
your physician vaccinate you; it is
the safe course. Beware of so-called
chicken pox. Often the severest cases
of smallpox will develop from one so
mild that the patient does not go to
bed.
Diphtheria deaths are due to failure
to administer antitoxin; to insufficient
Antitoxin, or delayed Antitoxin treat¬
ment. The Antitoxin is harmless.
CITIZENS IMPROVE RESIDENCES
Several homes have been enhanced
by new roofs and coats of fresh paint,
among which are noticeable, those of
Mr. Robt. Trippe. Mr. J. H. Wood, Mr.
Y\\ H Pickett Sr. and Mr. O. W. Flow
p rs.
j Their example te worthy of emula
! tion.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 9 1922
WELL KNOYVN CITIZEN
PASSES AT
Thf ""“ S H ° me ' U8C<1
, “ “ ^ "“''
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Mr Barnes had been ill for
Ho was born in Jasper county
resided at the old homestead until
years ago, when he moved to
His wife was Miss Althea
who preceded him only a few months.
Fueral and interment took place
Old Prospect church, in Jasper
where he had served long and
fully.
Rev. D. Cherry conducted the
vice.
An appropriate musical program
rendered under the direction of Mr.
W. Henderson.
The pall bearers were the sons,
in law and grandsons of the
They were T. G. Barnes, Dublin;
Barnes, Manslield; James Clack
Starrsville; J. H. Wood,
Clifton Belcher Starrsville.
Mr. Barnes is survived by the foil
ing sons: Thos. G. and E. T., his
er are: Mesdames W. 1*’. Jordan
Chas. H. Jordan, of Monticello.
Belcher, Starrsville, and J. H. Wood,
Covington.
ers are: Mesdames W. F. Jordan
Monticello, Clifton Belcher.
and J. H. Wood of Covington.
Mrs. Hugh Barnes and children
their homes with •Mr. Barnes.
The sisters are; Mrs. R. I. Weaver
Covington and Mrs. J. L. G. Woods
Monticello.
WIN A PRIZE IN
THE NEWS CONTEST
$7.50 In Cash To Be Given Away Free
In Unique Spelling Contest
On pages 4 and 5 of this issue of the News ap¬
pears a set of the most attractive and unique ad¬
vertisements ever published in this city.
In each and every advertisement on these pages
is a word which has been purposely mis-spelled.
To the person submitting at this office before
3:00 o’clock Monday afternoon, March 13, the first
correct and neatest list of all these mis-spelled
words, spelled correctly, together with the name
of the advertiser in whose advertisement the error
appears, will be presented with $5.00 by the Cov¬
ington News.
The second nearest correct person will receive
$2.50.
The winners in the contest will be announced
in next week’s News.
All the firms represented are high class, reliable
business men and their stores are replete with the
best the market afford.
Thse pages was promoted by Frank S. Gribble,
a newspaper man, who makes a specialty of this
class of advertising.
PULL TOGETHER
Community interest requires that we all pull together. We cannot
make our municipality bigger or better by pulling apart. We must
get together and formulate plans for mutual welfare. If our city
needs any public improvement let’s work for it. If we feel that we
need more industries to give employment to our people let s try and
gi t them, either by local subscription to capital stock in some worthy
enterprise or by inducing some industry to locate its plant within our
corporate limits. If we need better street*, better sidewalks, better
lights, or better sewers, better wat«*r supply or a public park, a library
or a monument, let’s work together and pull together in the interest
of the common welfare.
WALKED AROUND WORLD TO
CLAIM $10,000
Poughkeepsie.—Franz Emanuel Wett
berg passed through here on the way
to New York, where he will visit City
Hall to meet a man named Olsen, front
whom he will claim a hot of $10,000
made in 19r4. that he could walk a
round the world.
The traveler left Albany on January
15, 1914 and returned to Albany
week, completing the entire trip. Al¬
though 63 years of age he says that
he enjoyed the trip. He has
from seven European kings.
Wett berg ran into the war while
Europe and enlisted in the
White Guards and was commended,
says, for gallant service, receiving
decoration.
1 JOINT PRESS MEETING AT
SATURDAY
The ouwttrty meetlns ot the
', ■>'«•« Pro™ Atociatto rtU to
Saturday. March .1,
Members of the Ninth District Press
Association have been invited and the
' occasion promises interest
rare and en
' joymerit.
Pres. Ernest Camp of the Eighth has
arragned a program replete with time¬
ly themes. The meeting will be called
to order at 10:30 Saturday morning
by Ernest £amp of the Walton Tribune,
the president of the Eighth district
association. (
After invocation by Rev. J. H. Webb,
of the First Baptist church of Monroe,
welcome addresses will be made, first
on behalf of the Urjiversiey, by Chan¬
cellor Barrow; next, on behalf of the
city by Mayor George C. Thomas and
i for the Chamber of Commerce by Jul
| ian S. Goetehius, the president of that
^orgr/iization. Rush Buqton, of the
| welcomes Lavonia Times, for the will editors. respond to these
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE
WELL ATTENDED
A series of meetings have been in
progress at the Presbyterian church,
this week. Elders and deacons have
assisted' Rev. C. B. Tomb at the var¬
ious services. Special music has been
a season of refreshing.
The pastor is up-to-date and wide
awake endeavoring to give and get
the best results for his congregation.
i MORSE BAIL $50,000; OTHERS
$10,000 EACH
Charles VV. Morse, his three
and eight others were indicted by
FetUral Grand* Jury on charges of
conspiracy in connection with alleged
ship fraud gave bonds for their
pearance for trial.
Bond in the cases of eleven of
defendants was set at $10,000 each
United States Attorney Peyton Gordon.
Charles W. Morse was required to
nish a bond of $50,000 for pis
ance. All the men obtained surety.
There is more available cash
in the country than many people
Judicious advertising will bring it
The firm who puts attractive
before the people never fails to
the business
"
$1.50 Per Year in Advance
GUYTON GEORGIA ON THE MAP
Certain young men, sons of promin¬
ent Guyton families have been appris¬
ed of the fact that their actions, while
under the influence of contraband
whiskey were objectionable to the
tovvnsiieople and had to be eliminated
if they desired to remain welcome res¬
idents of that place.
With the characteristic direct action
of a rural community the people of
Guyton, through resolutions passed at
a mass meeting last Wednesday, solved
one of the most knotty problems in the
town's history. The offenders art the
sons of prominent Guyton men who
have worked hard in the interest of
Guyton and enjoy the esteem of their
fellow citizens.
The whole trouble seemed to be that
•ome young men, numbering about
eight, with two ringleaders, it is un¬
derstood, had been partaking rather
freely of liquor, moonshine and other
wijg>, recently and through their drunk¬
en actions had become offensive in the
eyes of the law-abiding citizens of the
town.
Most of the carousing was done at
night. Guyton employs only a day
marshal and the “young bucks" had
the place to themselves in the evening.
They raced motor cars up and down
the streets, it is stated, were very
noisy and free in the use of language.
They naturaly became very offensive.
The offenders are not without friends
among the community. On one oc¬
casion the town marshal, called upon
a citizen to help him in the arrest of
an alleged rowdy young man found his
against the man who would not help
request refused. A case was made
the official in making the arrest. He
was subsequently fined by the mayor.
A mass meeting was held at which
a free and general discussion about
the existing conditions. Resolutions
were adopted that in no uncertain man¬
ner indicate the temper of the people.
Perhaj4s the most important reso¬
lution pased is that which creates a
committee of ten women and as many
men who will, if necessary, call upon
the young men whose conduct has been
objectionable and inform them to mend
their ways or get out of Guyton.
Another resolution was adopted in
which it was resolved that if found nec
essary the citizens will request the
mayor and counoilmen to ask the fed¬
eral government to send a prohibition
agent to take charge of the local sit¬
uation.
The mass meeting and the events
leading up to it are the chief topics
of conversation iri Guyton. On every
hand one hears various aspects of th<
matter being discussed. It has l>een
many a day since an occurrence has
created the general interest,the action
of the citizens here.
John D. Knight, ex-mayor of the
little town, said,the young men of
Guyton are not half as bad as they
were painted. The alleged rowdism
is confined to a half dozen young men
and they are not rowdies, in the us
ually accepted term. They are ordin¬
ary, healthy, normal, well raised boys.
They may make a little more noise
sometimes than some older folks think
they should make. But they are not
criminals nor are they criminally in¬
clined.
“1 did't happen to be at home when
the now celebrated mass meeting was
held. Had 1 been at home I would
have been at the meeting, too. It was
attended by good folks and my friends
and 1 haven't a word to say against
them for .wanting to take up matters
of interest to themselves and others
in a meeting such as was held. Some
of our citizens have been in favor of
‘big slick' methods when it would have
been Ix-tter to use persuasion.
EASTER ON THE WAY
Ash Wednesday, March 1st heralded
the approach of Easter.
Forty days will now be observed with
several demonstrations.
The Lenten Season is a beautiful
custom, sacred with self denial and
Christian influence.
The whole world looks forward to
Easter, as the awakening of spring¬
time. when nature is revived and hearts
can look through nature up to nat
tire’s God.
MISS POWELL HOSTESS
The Girl’s Club of North Covington
met with Miss Nellie Powell on Mon¬
day evening.
Music and light refreshments added
diversions.
Members of the Rook Club were re¬
ceived by Mrs. Lester Lee in their
fort nightly meeting. Thursday.
A salad course was served.
Mrs. E. O. Lee and Mrs. R. M. Dod¬
son of New York were invited guests.
NOTES OF THE ROYAL MARRIAGE
Princess Mary and Viscount were
wedded according to schedule in West
Minster Abbey, London, with all the
pomp and ceremony fefitting such roy¬
al personages.
More than 5.000 police constables,
1,6000 special police and 2,500 troops
were employed along the line of the
route to and from the Abbey.
One reason for the elaborate police
arrangements for the wedding day of
princes Mary was the report that
reached Scotland Yard that the unem¬
ployed planned to make a demonstra
tion. Not the slightest demonstration
developed, however, the croud proving
to be the best behaved in London’s
istory, although undoubtedly thousands
of the unemployed were present. They
were just as entheusiastic as any.
Midnight found hundreds, men and
women in all sorts of conditions froni
those wrapped in expensive furs to
those wrapped in whatever they could
gather of a night’s discarded newspaper
sitting through, so as to have a fav¬
orable spot during the brief moments
that the bride Princess would be vis¬
ible in passing. Daylight found them
shivering in a bitter wind and rain
and eargerly drinking the hot tea of¬
fered by peddlers.
It was the beloved Queen Mother
Alexandra’s procession that gave the
crowd its first thrill.
For the first time on such an occa¬
sion Princess Mary was designated by
the term "woman by the clergy in the
ceremony at the Abbey. The service
employed was that set forth in the
Book of Common Prayer, with slight
modifications made by the Dean to
avoid some crudities of phrasing oc¬
curring n the standard text.
The “Mary gift has been presented
to her. All the women in the empire
named “Mary chipped in to buy her
highness a present. Forty thousand
dollars were subscribed. Half of this
will be used to buy a string of pearls.
The Princess has ordered that the
rest of it he used in the founding of a
Girl’s Guide Training School.
An interesting incident is disclosed
relating to one of the wedding guests,
•reditisg with having rescued Vis
count Lascelles under shellfire.
The gigantic wedding cake, which
the bride assisted in cutting at Buck¬
ingham Palace after the ceremony was
symbolic of the empire. It contains
wheat from Canada and Australia, cur¬
rants from Tasmania and raisens from
Africa, citron from India, peel from
Malta almonds from the Canaries, spic¬
es from Ceylon, Borneo and Zanzibar,
sugar from the Barbadoes, as well De¬
vonshire eggs and Irish and Ahstral
ian butters.
No great modern scene ever had a
more distinct center than the event
which made London the target of the
world's eyes.
The maginficient decoration, of the
historic Abbey, the impressive solem¬
nity of the marriage service, the bril¬
liance of the most fashionable gather¬
ing seen in England in years, the jew¬
els of the women the gold" spangles of
the men, even of Mr. Lloyd George
himself; the presence of the King and
the.Queen, the happy roar of the sur
ging crouds in the streets—all these,
and even the bridegroom, were but
the background of the world's interest,
for the bride.
So it has been since civilization be¬
gan atuf so it shall be until humanity
begins to dry up. “All the world loves
a bride" is what Shakespeare should
have written. The pageant were it
not for the Mary who took Henry to be
her lawful wedded husband, would have
l>een nothing.
For what, in the minds of the race,
are Kings and Dukes and pearls and
sables as compared with a bride?
VV. M. U. OBSERVING
PRAYER WEEK
«
Home missions are being discussed
by members of the IV. M. U. of the
Baptist church, in their bi-weekly ser
vices this week.
Mrs. Nor well conducted the program
on Monday, and the Girl's Auxiliary
will take part tomorrow, (Friday)
Mrs. McGibony and children will ar¬
rive this week from Greensboro for
a visit to Col. and Mrs. Reuhen M.
Tuck.
Col. Sam W. Wilkes of the Ga.
railroad, was a distinguished visitor,
this week.
Mr. Count D. Gibson was in Atlanta,
Wednesday.
Mr. Emerson Gardner of Emory Un
iversity accompanied Mr. Wm. W.
Aiken, on his home visit, Sunday.
Joe Patrick has returned from a
visit to his grand parents Mr. and Mrs.
Patrick of Morgan county.
