The Covington news. (Covington, Ga.) 1908-current, June 29, 1922, Image 3
SQUIRE EDGEGATE — — Tantrum Was ,j» jitw- Word for Timothy BY LOUIS RICH ARD 5 y WhlL* T/)OtE on To TH OfroltEO MOVE. CO*- fi)ND • / REFUSED 5/AiPj.y ny LH Aly 61 HL 5 To £lF kv£N WORK- ST T T^/YTT?UA1 -pz.fi) PORTER, I D vv/)^ .O 5-cjyD Ti^OTHy- he Ml? 3uRN5\ tvHEHj f/4 Yvh 1 7 h voesht T the r*H*E.OF matter m. OH WiTH you/^ w £) A) TlRU/rt T H' Ct)R- you WHE/V THt CcMST()QlEL Ra I YOU <O.A)rY\C. UF* HE Hf>>D HO BiJS'AfESS I \a £)OUSl.C> HifA shouted A,~r /vie To pp.vf I TO f)MD I k/^5 /mot ;4g$£o§ OFFICE^ A)T ^RESPOMsr&Lt. Tor yvHQ r H ~TH ' OF / E.tPLfyn I'LL ] / H .•> A"A A) i D ■ TO TO 1 k —„ / p 1 — —_j TH*>T 7,^---- T= j , l r5 ouiP C E; Inter-nat’l Cartoon Co., N. Y. UMMARY OF STATE HAPPENINGS Americus. — Mrs. Jack Raben, aged 19, bride of last Christmas eve, suicided ith carbolic acid at her home near ains Thursday evening. A note to her husband blames family [pleasantness, but not him. They lived ■ar his parents. Atlanta.— A downtown realty deal, in¬ lying a cash price of $220,000, was isummated when a five-story building s sold by former senator Hoke Smith J. D. Robinson and J. R. Mobley. The measures 100 x 137 feet, fhe property was bought as an in¬ dent, according to the purchasers, e building is occupied by concerns Iding long time leases. Columbus.—Lingering between life d death for thirty-four hours, S. L. ith, suflering with a neck broken in 70 places, was in a desperate condi -n at the city hospital this morning an ree o’clock. An operation was performed yester y afternoon, but there appeared to be tie chance for his recovery at an early ur this morning. A remarkable fea re in connection with the injury of r. Smith, whose neck was broken nday afternoon when he dived into a eek, is that he has remained conscious actically all of the time since the ae ent. He has been able to talk at times was stated. Following the operation it was stated at although Mr. Smith’s body was ill paralyzed, he would not remain a ralytie if he lived. Mr. Smith, a farmer living in the rthern section of Muscogee county, ed into a creek near double churches nday afternoon. Due to the fact that e water was very shallow, his head uck the sand, and his neck was bro n. He was rushed immediately to the y hospital here. Sparta.—Four hundred bales of cot- 1 , valued at $400,000, and the rear an- 1 of the Hancock warehouse were de oyed by fire tonight. A heavy rain <3 an automatic sprinkler spstem en ed the fire department to keep the nies confined to the annex, he origin of the fire is not known, e loss is covered by insurance. Washington.—Dr. J. G. Saggus, for fly of Tyrone, Wilkes county, but the last several months a resident Harlem, Ga., gave himself up to offi 8 in Washington Monday’ night after kroner’s j ur y had returned a verdict r 8 ing him with the murder of his mer wife, who died last November, 4 of Mr. Charles W. Wilbanks, a ighbor, "ho died in February of this r He is now confined in the Wilkes nt > jail pending further investiga h of the case. ifton.—Mr. Florence Pearman, who ralM a farm three miles west of U * a ’ brou sht the Gazette Saturday mess of fine Porto Rico sweet po °* 8- ^ r Pearman has about ‘ an acre potatoes on his farm, and says he een eat *ng potatoes for two weeks. e are as many three In * 01 as potatoes the hills. artersviUe. George Gaddis, Jr., son " rlfT and Mrs- George Gaddis, died " edn esday. While playing uth the yard Monday afternoon he ned t0 stick a nail into his foot. It aat Pam him severely, and little [ Uelu °* th e incident beyond giv it 1 homa treatment. -rr°- 1 Slighter, Mr8 ’ M - B ’ Dixon, 38, Mrs. Padrik, 18, were HQ glaj*, • " 40 aut omobile m 0 ana J between ’s )0Ver late toda y- Th « daugh h, 8 ar,d has , been arrested and ta some other county jail for safe p tonight 39 1,3arned 1, from count y offl- 16 b ° dies ot the st* persons 0 »er '" ed Passe ^ f tm W ! ,en n chashed a Central int0 of Geor their ‘ - obil * at Lora ne twelve miles from f , Wer hfadav uriHi in a local cemetery ‘ 0fflcia,s here had failed to receive any word from Nicholsville, Ky., believed to have been the home of the victims. Tifton.—Mr. Henry D. Webb loaded a car of watermelons Wednesday, which he sold for $250 on the track. The mel¬ ons weighed from 25 to 44 pounds, av¬ eraging 28 pounds. There were 1,012 melons in the car. Athe*s.—Graduation of 202 yoking men and women Wednesday at noon closed the 122nd commencement of the University of Georgia. Macon.—Pleading guilty to a charge of forging $2,145 worth of orders on the American Railway Express Company, E. B. Powers was sentenced Thursday to serve ten years in the penitentiary. Powers, whose home is at Union City, Tenn., would obtain blank orders from the express stations, officers said, and fill them out himself. Monroe.—The first cotton bloom of the season was brought to the Tribune office Wednesday afternoon by Mr. E. L. Shepherd, of Good Hope. Atlanta.—Lester Fields, a negro, is at the Grand Hospital in a critical condi¬ tion as the result of an attempt by his wife to burn him alive, and physicians are doubtful as to his recovery. It is stated that Fields, who lives at 50 Roach street, and his wife were quar¬ reling and during the argument she is said to have thrown gasoline on him, to which she touched a match. His cloth¬ ing caught fire and he suffered severe burns from his waist to his neck. The police are searching for his wife, whose name is said to be Maggie Fields. Athens.—Because Thomas J. Sassar, of Savannah, a student at the Univer¬ sity of Georgia, underwent a transfu¬ sion operation, Mrs. D. E. McGregor, an Athenian, will live. The operation was performed at the Athens General Saturday afternoon and was successful. Sasser was one of nine uni¬ versity students who volunteered for the operation. He was feeling “fit as a fiddle", he said, after the operation. Talbotton.—Major Lee Coart was de¬ nied a new trial after a sensational hearing, Friday, June 23rd, in Columbus Dublin.—Warrants have been sworn against F. M. Hancock, a member of the police force of Dublin, charging him changing the figures on his auto¬ mobile license tag in a manner to give it the appearance of a 1922 tag instead of a 1921 tag, by J. W. Beauchamp, the motor vehicle license inspector of Geor¬ gia. One warrant charged him with op¬ erating a motor vehicle without a li¬ cense, and the other with driving a car with a counterfeit license tag. Cartersville.—The degree of Doctor of Literature was conferred on Mrs. W. H. Felton, of this city, by the state uni¬ versity. While passing through Atlanta en route to Athens, Mrs. Felton was signally honored. Columbus.—A solid carload of butter was shipped on June 15th to New York from Union Springs and Columbus, in the opinion of Jesse F. Jackson, general agricultural agent of the Central of Georgia system, this is the first solid car of butter originating on the system. The shipment consisted of 16,400 pounds of butter, which was made in two cream eries established within the last four months at the cities named. Milledgeville.— Prof. J. N. Haddock at a meeting of the board of trustees of the Georgia Military College, held last Friday morning, was elected president that institution for the year 1922-23. Prof. Haddock comes to Milledgeville from Carrolton, where he has been Su¬ perintendent of the schools for the past two years. Hapeville.—Miriam, the five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Walter McGee, of 10 Fulton avenue, was run over by a wagon in front of the residence Tues¬ day morning about ten o’clock and died about an hour later of injuries. It was aaid that she was thrown off the wheel THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVluuiw., „«„tGlA Bible Thoughts for This Week Sunday. WAY TO LIFE: — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to wafk humbly with thy God?—Micah 6: 8, Monday. GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM: —Whosoever therefore shall hum¬ ble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew 18: 4. Tuesday. NOT MEAT AND DRINK:—For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.—Horn. I 14: 17. Wednesday. | A VERY NEEDFUL PRAYER:— Shew me thy ways, (1 Lord: reach • me thy paths. Let integrity and up- J rightness preserve me: for I wait * on thee.—Psalm 25: 4, 21. J Thursday. ? DEFRAUD NOT:—For this is f the will defraud of God his . brother . . That in no | i man any matter.—1 Thessalonians 4 3, 4. Friday. ? THE WAY TO FREEDOM:—Ye shall know the truth, and the truth | shall make you free.—John 8: 32. T Saturday. | GIVING GETS:—There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and ? there is that withholdeth more than Is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. —Proverbs 11: 24. of the wagon, on which she had climbed while it was standing, and was crushed about the chest by the wheel, ' rear which passed over her body. Lawrenceville.->EQuick gun-play on the part of Deputy Sheriff Howard Gar¬ ner resulted in the death of Ernest Mc¬ Daniel, a young farmer here Wednes¬ day night, according to county officers. McDaniel, it is said, had his gun half drawn to shoot the deputy sheriff, when the latter quickly pulled his revolver and fired, with deadly effect. The shooting is said to have grown out of an attempt on the part of Deputy Sheriff Gardner, S. C. Brown, H. E. Gar¬ ner and Lovic Martin to arrest McDan¬ iel after the men had responded to the call of some camp fire girls encamped near Freeman’s mill, who charged that McDaniel and a companion were dis¬ turbing them. Americus— Oats harvested during the 1 wet weather, which are believed to have heated and caused spontaneous com-, bustion in the loft of a barn on the ! farm of Major Hanesto near Anferlenr, are blamed for a fire which destroyed j ten mules, 36 head of hogs, many chick ens, farm implements, and other prop erty Monday night. The barn was eree-. ted last fall at a cost of $2,500. Insur ance of only $2,000 was carried. Major Hanesley is a well known mule mer¬ chant of Americus, and had only fine animals on his farm. Hall’s Cat:strl:i .a a. -is Those who aie in a “r t. flown" condi¬ tion will notice that anna bothers them much more than when they are in good health. 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T ires EXAMINATION NOTICE The regular State Examination for Teachers will be held at the court house on Friday and Saturday, August 4 and 5. 1922 Reading Course, Primary and General Elementary. 1 Manual for Georgia Teachers—from c oun ty Superintendent. , Kendall and Myrick, “How to Teach 3 Dressier's School Hygiene. 121 Au burn Ave., Atlanta. $1.20. High School and Supervisory. 1 Manual for Georgia Teachers—from County Superintendent. 2 Ropier’s Consolidated School. 121 Auburn Ave., Atlanta. -1.75. 3 Parker, “Methods of Teaching in High Schools.” Ginn and Co., Atlanta. $1.80. Reading Course for Vocational Teach¬ ers. 1 Manual for Georgia Teachers—from County Superintendent. 2 Bulletin No. 1. Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C. Free. 3 Vocational Elucation. by David Shedden. 121 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Ga. $1.70. A six weeks course at any standard Summer School will automatically re new professional or first grade certifi¬ cates just as well as the reading course test, provided the teacher shows her certificate from the summer school au¬ thorities that she has completed three courses in education. , Examination will begin at 8 A. M. Teachers will bring pencils and pads. Examination paper will be furnished. 24-34c G. C. Adams, C. S. S; SPECIAL For Relief Of Pain Quicker and safer than aspirin. Re¬ lieves headache and other pains in¬ stantly. 15 tablets for 25 cent 3 at Geo. Smith's. 28-29 There is no better investment than an advertisement In this paper. Come r TYB ; Where Ocean Breez sBlcif r Iff* J ’ m Excursion Fares via Central <z Georgia Railway THE RIGHT WAY