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MANSFIELD NEWS
Mis Frances Franklin, who is in
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. n g at Wesley Memorial Hospital,
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s],ending her vacation at home.
M) Raymond Lunsford returned to
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l u .„it Saturday morning.
\ v ,. ;n e glad that Miss Callie Smith
new improving after a recent illness.
Mr an d Mrs. Carter Franklin are
siting Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Franklin.
Miss May Campbell returned home
Hday after a visit to Miss Eloise Ma
a t Social Circle.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hays are visit
ng the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Hays.
Misses Josephine Franklin and Lillian
L s returned Saturday from Mont
mery, Ala.
^Mis. R. T. Curry, of Atlanta, spent
week-end with Mrs. A. E. Coogler.
|W o regret to see Mr. Jim Epps and
mily leave our town to make Atlanta
'eir home in the future.
Mrs. C. E. Hardman left Saturday to
nit her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Pope, at
| eatur. the
Mi . and Mrs. E L. Pope announce
th of a daughter Saturday, July 14.
I Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Biggers, of Social
‘reie, were visitors here Sunday after
^Miss W
Clara Mae Hays returned from
;mmer sc hool Saturday.
Misses Chloe Adams, of Newborn,
(I Ella Mae. of Washington, D. C..
lr ( . visitors here Friday afternoon.
r. T. F. Hardman returned to New
leans Friday. He was accompanied
Macon by his wife.
[Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adams were vie¬
ws here Sunday.
jllr. |d and Mrs. Erwin Epps and Mr.
Mrs. E. L. Peek, of Atlanta, were
iitors here for the week-end.
btr. Hugh Aiken, of Covington, is
L :on seen in our midst.
pn. and Mrs. Knight motored to At
lita Thursday.
jib .1. M Edens and daughters were
L hors here Monday afternoon
[Mrs. J. H. Roquemore is in Atlanta.
NKFORD’S INCOME TAX HILL
BEING DEBATED BY SENATE
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Atlanta, July 19.—The bill of Repre
tative '3ussey, proposing an amend
nt to the state tax equalization law
her than its repeal, was introduced
the House today. The measure was
erred to the ways and means oom
ttee. In the senate debate on Lank
'd s income tax measure was started,
is bill would provide an income tax
ad valorem tax expenditures. The
thor vigorously defended his mea
re, asserting the state should not
olish the ad valorem system of taxa
n until it had been learned how
Th would lie received from the in¬
tax method.
cCORD SHIPS TWO
CARLOADS OF LUMBER
The local lumber concern, McCord
mber Company, shipped two carloads
lumber to Monroe this week. This
J <ibiT is to be used in the construction
the Walton County Cotton Mill,
h is always good to note a local en
hiise doing business on a big scale.
TURN iY,E OVER
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><Soi rmes
'imagines ha's
ne lyineti remiiimc.
1th <aine " ulk ing up the path
m pet dinosaurus. “Hubby,”
ihfT p, w, stfuliy
^ Y t et “shinny up that
gf ’ I1U ‘ the gold and purple
,)n die mp bough. ‘Eve,
fc.lu for
«fall "ay up there? Why,'
At. am1 hr ” at < my—” “Never mind
*<? in ‘'" ll s *'inny! I’m going
-'"(I \ to a l
0(11) ( ar, party tills after
:)l ',,,..2 i l Y to shmv class
i some
semiR f Uck ' up hens! ” And
m Y Xample for aU
took chance tirae ’
tie). n 8 and Shinnied
1 itnes-Dispatch. up.
THE COVI NEWS
GUILTY OF MURDER
OF HER FOSTER SON
Mason, Mich., July 18.—Mrs. Emma
Kopple, 59-year old Lansing woman,
this afternoon was found guilty of the
murder of her foster son, Hairy Brill,
by a jury in circuit court here. The
boy died of poisoning May 13th. It was
charged that Mrs. Kopple conspired
Avith James Shannon, a roomer, at her
home to kill the hoy in order to collect
$1,300 insurance money on the lad’s
life.
The jury, which deliberated 50 min
utes before reaching a verdict, was,
composed of ten men and two women.
In charging the jury as to its duty, |
Judge Leland W. Carr said that inas¬
much as only circumstantial evidence
was involved in the case there cou id be
but one verdict returned— guilty or
not guilty.
Immediately upon receiving the ver¬
dict, Judge Carr sentenced Mrs. Kopple
to life imprisonment at hard labor in
the Detroit house of correction. Mrs.
Kopple tonight continued to declare her
innocence.
GOVERNMENT FILES PETITION
AGAINST HARVESTER CO.
The Harvester Company’s attitude in
regard to the petition just filed against
it by the government in the United
States district court at St. Paul. Minn.,
is set forth in a statement by Alexander
Legge, president of the company which
has been received by Mr. F. P. Johnson,
Atlanta, Georgia. Mr Legge’s statement
says:
“This petition is a continuation of
the suit brought against us eleven
years ago. Upon the hearing of that
case, held more than nine years ago,
the Harvester Company has acquitted
boih by ttic findings of the court and
by the attorney general’s admission, of
any wrongful dealings or unfair prac¬
tices toward customers or competitors,
but, to insure the fullest competition,
a decree was entered in 1918 requiring
the company to sell to competitors cer¬
tain complete lines of harvesting mach¬
inery, and to limit it sales representa¬
tion to a single dealer in any one town.
“That decree further provided that at
the end of a test period which ha> now
expired, the government might ask the
court to determin whether or not the
free competition contemplated by the
Sherman law exists in the farm imple¬
ment industry. This step the govern¬
ment has now taken.
“As we understand it, the sole issue
raised by the present petition relates
to competitive conditions with respect
to harvesting machines only. It does
not charge the company with unduly
raising the price of harvesting machin¬
ery to the grave injury of the American
farmer, as was charged in 1912, but it
does charge that the company has been
unduly depressing the price of harvest¬
ing machinery, particularly since 1920,
to the injury of its competitors.
Without attempting to argue our
case at this time, it seems fair to say
that the unfortunate condition in which
manufacturers of harvesting machines,
and in fact of all other farm imple¬
ments, find themselves, is due to the
serious business depression that af¬
fected the entire country beginning in
the fall of 1920.
“During the last few years the whole
farm implement industry has been in
an abnormal and distressing situation
which direcly reflects the situation of
the farmer. High costs of labor, ma¬
terial and transportation have burden¬
ed it with high manufacturing costs,
while on the other hand low prices for j
agricultural products have left the
farmer unable to buy his normal and
needed requirements of farming mach¬
inery.
“We are confident that the hearing
on the present petition will clearly show
that the Harvester Company is not in
any way responsible for these condi¬
tions in the farm implement industry.
Prices of harvesting machinery are the
result of vigorous competition, exactly
the kind of competition which the Sher¬
man law was enacted to preserve, and
are fairly comparable with the prices
of other implements which the govern¬
ment concedes were fixed hy normal
competition.”
COWS FOR SALE
I have several cows, fresh in, which
I will sell or trade for other cows—
dry cows or yearlings.
J. J. STEELE, Covington R. F. D. 1.
lt-p.
Lime is a disinfectant when used
about the home in damp places. It does
away with bad odors, too. Keep a sup¬
ply of slaked lime for use at regular
intervals. Dust hog and chicken houses
wtth lime aftdr cleaning them out.
Keep a supply of lime in the privy,
and use it at least once daily. An ordi¬
nary dipper is good to apply it with in
the privy.—The Progressive Farmer.
For Newton Cou
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
MUSCLE SHOALS MAY
YET GO TO HENRY FOR!
Atlanta, Ga. July 19.— The “F
for President” movement, which
pears to be spreading over the co
try, may have the effect of creati
a “Third Party/’ inasmuch as
Ford does not appear to be especia
strong in the advocacy of the pr
ciples of either of the old parties, ai
it alone may have the effect of hast¬
ing and strengthening the moveme
now somewhat lagging, to turn t
Muscle Shoals project over to the
tomobile magnate, is the opinion
a number of Atlanta business in
who have discussed the subject tod;
This latter appears to be more like!
it is asserted by prominent itidustri
leaders.
C. W. McClure, head of the chain
ten cent stores bearing his name,
recognized as the original Ford-f
Muscle Shoals and Ford-for-Preside
man in the south. Mr. McClure w|
one of the originators of the moveme;
to put Mr. Ford in charge of the
Alabama plant and he also wrote
Ford seven years ago urging him
run for President on a third par
ticket. Regardless of what Mr. Foi
may have said or thought, it is evide
according to Mr. McClure, as well
many Georgia editors who have co
men ted on presidential possibilites, th;
a great many people in the South a
West have petitioned him to run fi
President.
Mr. Ford wrote Mr. McClure sev
years ago that he was not a Candida
for the president and, and as Mr. Me
Clure points out, the auto magnate has!
not yet permitted the use of his name,
hut the recurrance of these overtures
in number and frequency have im¬
pressed Mr. Ford. The Detroit manu¬
facturer. it is asserted in many quart¬
ers, would he less than human if this
were not so.
The question already is being asked
here if the “Ford for President move is
not a cleverly organized plan to force
favorable action for Ford’s Muscle
Shoals hid, by making Mr. Ford a pres
iedntial possibility, with the threat
that his candidacy will cause confusion
in the ranks of the two major parties.;
ilie plan may be to force' Republican i
action in favor of giving Ford Muscle!
Shoals to keep him and his friends;
Ford Muscle 0 Shoals it . will ...
If gets >
much , to the , South, „ ... it .. is . pointed . . , [ |
mean
uut hue. I
SPECIAL CARS FOR
LIQUOR RUNNERS
Chicago, July 19.—Rum running
along the Florida coast has developed
into such a flourishing industry that
some Florida auto dealers sell cars
specially built to transport liquor, fur¬
nish a negro chauffer and guarantee
safe delivery anywhere, The Chicago
Daily News declared today in the sec¬
ond of a series of copyrighted articles
describing rum running along the At¬
lantic seaboard.
The writer, who with a bootlegger
named Terry, investigated rum run¬
ning along the Florida Coast, de¬
clared he had been approached by such
an auto dealer who believed the news¬
paper man to be a bootlegger and de¬
scribed transportation methods partic¬
ularly a negro driver.
CALCIUM ARSENATE
One of the most important times to
dust cotton for control of boll weevils
is from now until the close of the sea
son. If you have not your supply of
calcium arsenate now is the time to
get it from the Georgia State Board of
Entomology at 16c per pound delivered
in 200-lb. containers. The Board has a
supply now on hand in Atlanta and will
ship out Immediately upon receipt of
check for the same.
Experiments have shown that late
dusting is absolutely essential to save
the cotton crop. The Board has only
a limited amount of calcium arsenate
and does not expect to secure a new
contract for this season.
All calcium arsenate sold by the
State Board of Entomology is analyzed
hefore shipment and is guaranteed to
meet the requirements of the State and
Federal Law. It is first class and high
grade in every respect.
STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY
By Ira W. Williams, State Ento¬
mologist.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the people of Cov¬
ington for their kindness and sweet ex¬
pressions of sympathy during the ill¬
ness and death of our precious baby.
Also extend our thanks and apprecia
| tion for the beautiful floral offerings.
Mr. and Mrs. S. C| Chestnut and
family.
The weather man makes only one
guess a day—the doctor a dozen.
ness. She will be ready to meet us wi ? 'h
outstretched when arrive , in
arms we
Heaven, our home.
Little Mary Belle was born October
23, 1922, and died July 11, 1923. She
was laid to rest in Hopewell cemetery
July 12th at 11 o’clock.
She is survived by her parents and
two brothers, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Chesnut and Samuel, Jr. and John
Chesnut.
SIGN YOUR NAME
From time to time there come to our
office items of news and other commu¬
nications which would be very much
appreciated and gladly used if we only
knew who sent them in, but, not know¬
ing the author, we cannot publish them.
It is not necessary that your name
should appear in the paper, signed to
these items, but it is necessary that we
know who sent them. Sign your name.
TO BE INDEPENDENT
A penny saved is not only a penny
earned, but if properly invested it will
soon earn another penny. It would be
a fine thing for the south if every pupil
were required to start a savings ac¬
count, even if the child had only a
quarter to start with. It is the practice
of thrift and saving, started early in
life that will help make adult South¬
erners independent. A friend of mine
sent me a circular the other day which
admirable illustrates this point, and I
give it herewith:
“The teacher in the economy class
asked his pupils how best to save $300.
They could not answer, and asked him
to explain. ’Do not spend it’, said the
teacher, and put the follownig state¬
ment on the board;
‘The average man’s income for each
year is about $300 over necessary ex¬
penses. If this amount were invested
each year at six per cent compounded
annually, the following results would
be secured,
$300 for 5 years .......... $ 1792.50
$300 for 10 years .......... $ 4191.60
$300 for 15 years .......... $ 7401.90
$300 for 20 years.......... $11697.90
$300 for 25 years .......... $17446.80
‘From the above table it appears that
any boy who early learns the habit of
thrift and regularly works and saves
his money ought to be well-to-do at the
age of forty-five.’ ’’—The Progressive
Farmer.
FOR RENT.
Five room house on Montieello St.,
at $15.00 per month. See C. C. Brooks
at Brooks Drug Store. tf-c
COVINGTON’S BEAUTIFUL
FLOWER GARDENS
Despite the weather odds, the flow¬
er gardens of Covington have been
beautiful. During the past few weeks
they have been in their prime.
It would seem that every available
space in many of the yards has been
utilized.
Mrs. L. D. Adams has converted her
back yard into a floral paradise, where
fruits, vegetables and flowers abount.
It is a veritable show place.
Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Sams’ miniature
garden is a tropical picture.
Mr. and Mrs W. A. Andrews have
developed their back yard into a thing
of heauty.
All over Covington may be seen such
evidences of thrift and artistic tastes.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
FORMALLY OPENED
Delegates were arriving all day Wed¬
nesday and by evening Covington was
thronged with ministers and laymen
from the various charges.
Rev Guy Pittman’s initial sermon was
an inspiration for the services that are
to follow.
Today (Thursday) and most of Friday
,vill be devoted to business, interspersed
.vith sermons and songs.
OCAL B Y. P. U. HAS
SPLENDID RECORD
The people of Covington are justly
proud of the great things that the
local union of the B. Y. P. U. is ac¬
complishing. It has one of the best
records in the state and is again the
only union in this association that has
met the A-l requirements for the past
[quarter. This is a record to be proud
[of when it is considered that there
re twelve unions in the Stone Moun
ain Asoclation, of wlhioh the local
jnion is a unit. The Covington Union
ms an enrollment of twenty-six, in
ddition to three honorary members,
'he average attendance is twenty-five,
[eluding visitors.
The Christian Index for last week
■arried an article telling of the splen
lid work of the local union and the
Interest manifested bjf all members
A part of this article which was taken
rom the report of the local union to
the State Secretary reads as follows:
Mr. Isaac Hay, President of the
Senior (Union, Covington, tells the fol¬
lowing story under date of June 25:
Attendance, June 17, sixteen; June
*. twenty-eight; aim for July 1, thirty
five. New members, June 24, five;
aim for July 1, eight. Research party
for visiting all non-members planned
for next Thursday night,. Banquet
planned for next week.’
Look especially at the last two items
cited by Mr. Hay. We speak of them
because they are unusual. They are
fine,—you do them!”
The banquet mentioned above was
postponed on account of the absence of
several members from town and will
he held next week. Final plans for the
banquet will be completed tonight. The
attendance aim mentioned above was
greatly eclipsed. 40 being present, and
6 new members were enrolled on July
1, falling short hy two of the aim,
which was 8.
BIG COMEDY COMPANY
HERE WEEK OF JULY 23
The Barnes Comedy Company pre¬
sents an extraordinary attraction for
the people of Covington the week of
iTuly 23.
The performance will be given in
their big tent theatre, located behind
the jail. There will be a concert daily
in front of the tent. At night the enter¬
tainments will consist of songs, dances,
and performances of all kinds, includ¬
ing wire walking, trapeze stunts, train¬
ed animals and black faced comedians.
The program is varied each night, and
the shows are guaranteed by the man¬
agement to produce “a laugh every
minute”.
The public is invited. Admission, 15
and 25 cents.
DEATH OF MRS. J. R. MANN
On Saturday, July 12th, occurred the
death of Mrs. J. R. Mann at the resi¬
dence in Oxford, after a protracted ill¬
ness.
Besides a brother, G. W. Wood and
three sisters, Mrs. Mann is survived by
her husband and the following children:
two sons, Clifford Mann, of Thompson,
and Hughee Mann, of Monroe; five
daughters. Mrs. Mobley, of Rutledge,
Mrs. Henry Dobbs, of Starrsville, Mrs.
John Borders and Mrs. Claude Young,
of Covington, and Miss Fannie Mann.
Mrs. Mann was 68 years of age. She
was a member of the Primitive Baptist
church. Interment was at Corinth
church on Sunday afternoon, Rev. Bob
Cook officiating.
PEANUT ASSOCIATION TO
ELECT DIRECTORS SOON
Albany, Ga., July 16.—With the sign¬
up campaign in middle Georgia nearing
completion in a final climax of intensive
work in Coweta and Meriwether coun¬
ties this week, the €»eqrg|ia Peanut
Growers’ Co-operative Association will
at an early date lay out directors’ dis¬
tricts in that part of the state. Coweta
couny has an unusually large acree je
in peanuts this year, and the field s ir
vlce department has mobilized its for s
there this week to sign these gro s
to co-operative contracts, as well as o
include those across the line in Me.i
wether county, whe trehe reias sallm m
acreage.
The number of directors in middle
Georgia will depend on the number of
acres under contract, and the number
of members in that part of the state,
as it is the plan of the association to
have the districts as nearly equal in
acreage and number of members as pos¬
sible. This, of course, cannot always he
accomplished.
South Georgia has already completed
its election of directors and the perma¬
nent charter of the association has been
applied for, but it is possible at any
time for the directors to increase the
number of districts, and to provide a
new director for each district.
Members of the association in the
counties outside of the territory now
fully organized will elect the new di¬
rectors to be added to the board. Each
district will hold its own election and
name its own director, and each direc¬
tor must be a member of the Peanut
Association. Ballots will be mailed to
each member in a district, containing
the names of two nominees, with a
plank line underneath, on which the
member may write some other name if
neither of those submitted suits him.
The only requirement in substituting a
name is that the name must be that of
a grower who has signed a contract in
that district.
Each district will have an election
manager, with an assistant in each
county of the district. Members will
mail their ballots to the manager, and
he and his assistants will count them
and make returns to the committee or>
elections for the association, and this
committee will declare the results Ra¬
the different districts.
As soon as the elections are complet¬
ed in the new territory, the field service
department will begin the work of set¬
ting up county-wide organizations and
locals in each county that has as many
as ten members. The members will elect
permanent officers to serve their county
wide organizations and locals. No local
can contain more than fifty members,
or less than ten. These locals and coun¬
ty wide organizations will hold frequent
meetings, at which problems of the as¬
sociation and of the communities they
represent will be discussed. They are
expected to furnish the medium of con¬
tact between the members and their as¬
sociation, and to be community centers.
DAN L. GIBSON.
PACE NEWS
Guess the farmers have about run out
of work until it rains. Don’t look like
we are ever going to have any more.
Miss Mez and Master Herman Holi
field spent a few days with Mrs. R. L
Chambers last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gray and littl
■on Franklin spent Saturday night wit
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gray, near Con¬
yers.
Miss Renie Hinton is still unable to be
out. We all miss her in Sunday school.
Hope she will soon be able to come back.
Mrs. Mary Chambers is spending
some time with friends at Worthville.
Mrs. Bertha Hays and children were
sun-riding about Sunday afternoon.
Every body is invited to attend the
singing at the Baptist church on every
third Sunday in every month.
We are sorry to say that Misses Mary
Garner and Misses Clifford Smith ami
Mr. James Treadwell were seen rid¬
ing about.
Master Willie Adams has left home.
We miss him at the singing.
The singing was held at Mrs. Tur¬
ner Worshams’ Saturday night. Every
body had a nice time, but think all the
young boys are losing their interest
in the singing. What’s the matter
boys? Come on and help us out in
the singings. We need you.
The singing class will meet at Mr.
Bob Kirklands Saturday night, July 21.
Everybody is invited to attend thes?
singings. BROWN EYF.S.
We have near Covington, a fine
Piano, slightly used and partly paid for,
which we will sell to party willing to
complete remaining monthly payments.
Send name and address for full inform¬
ation.
CABLE PIANO CO., 82 84 Broad
Street, Atlanta. Georgia.
$1.50 Per Year In Advance