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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
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Official Organ of Newton County and the
CITY OF COVINGTON
WEEKLY BIBLE QUOTATION
“For it is better, if the will of God should so will
that ye suffer for well-doing rather than evil-doing.’
—I Peter 8:17.
If a woman really was made of a man’s rib, what became
of his backbone?
It is an easy matter nowadays to recognize the dry state.
The people still use corncob stoppers.
Times must be improving since we heard a few days ago
of a man having his pockets picked.
In a lot of instances repentance seems a change of heart
when it’s merely the condition of the liver.
Difference of opinion does more to improve conditions
throughout the world than any other human agency.
The poor girl has one advantage. When she is led to the
altar she knows the man is doing it because he wants her.
Blessed is the housewife who is poor. She doesn’t have
to sit and suffer while a hired girl makes a mess of things.
Wall Street wants to know why people are still afraid of
stocks. Well, Brother, it takes a long time to get a new shirt.
No Vacant Store in the City
Every store building in Covington is now occupied and
this speaks well for business conditions in the city. The
demand for store buildings has been so acute that E. W.
Fowler is constructing a building in the rear of White’s,
which has been rented before construction is completed.
There is also a great demand for houses in the city. As
far as could be ascertained there is not an unoccupied house
in the city. Several apartment houses have been recently
completed and they have been rented long before completion.
The Waites’ apartments, which will be finished this month,
are rented. i
All this speaks well for the best small city on the Georgia
railroad, or we might say, all of Georgia, and not be taking in
too much territory.
With the paving of all the principal streets in the city
now under way, there will not be a small city in Georgia
which can compare with our own city.
However, one of the greatest assets Covington has is
in the personality of its citizens. We believe we can state,
without fear of contradiction, no city in Georgia has such a
fine type of citizenry and we should be justly proud of this
distinction.
Working together, pulling together in anything for the
betterment of Covington is tse slogan o fall civic, social and
religious organizations of the city. As long as this spirit
prevails, and we hope it will always continue, there is no limit
to the growth of our fair city.
A New Slant on the Cotton Program
We were talking’ to Mr. E. L. Ficquett, our Superintend
ent of county schools, and he remarked the attendance at the
county schools is better this year than ever before.
Naturally we were delighted with this state of affairs
and we asked Mr. Ficquett to what he could attribute this
remarkable condition and without hesitation he gave us a
new angle on the Cotton program.
He stated he believed the increased attendance was due
to the restriction of cotton acreage. He said formerly a large
percentage of the children had to remain out of school to as
sist in gathering the large cotton crop. Now, with the limited
cotton crop, they can gather it without, interfering with their
school duties.
We confess there are some angles of President Roose
velt’s recovery program which we have never been able to
exactly endorse, but there are so many angles from which to
figure the benefit derived from some of his reforms we can
not help but believe what errors he has made are made with
an idea of helping others. Some are made through the advice
of others and do not turn out as expected.
Any man who does anything makes mistakes and we
are willing to hang on to what we have until we can see
something better.
Emory at Oxford Fall Season Opens
The official opening of the fall term of Emory Junior
College was held Tuesday with the largest freshman class in
the history of the Junior college.
Great optimism was expressed by everyone who attended
and the future is bright indeed for this splendid institution.
With its splendid faculty and natural advantages, its splendid
buildings and equipment, Emory at Oxford deserves better
support by the entire state.
Covington citizens should: take more of a personal inter
est in the personnel of the college. More social activities
should include the student body. Great benefit to the city
would be derived if the citizens of Covington should take a
more personal interest in its students.
How To Help Yourself
The place to spend your money is where you make it.
Then you reap a double benefit, and your neighbor is bene
fitted. If you'll visit the stores in Covington you will be sur
prised at the vast amount of dependable merchandise being
carried in stock. No matter what you want you can most
generally find it here. Those who go out of the home town
to shop are only fooling themselves; it will not take them
long to wake up to the fact that they can shop as economically
here. The local merchant deserves your first consideration.
He is a part of your town. He has done everything to meet
your wants. He does his share to make your town a good
town to live in. His profits are spent here in your town.
And his success means the town’s success. You help yourself
when you buy at home!
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
: Sunday School Lesson t
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Isaiah Portrays the Suffering
Servant.
Golden Text—“With his
we are healed.”—Isaiah 53:5.
“Who hath believed our
sage ? and to whom hath tne arm
Jehovah been revealed?”
speakers appear to be the
of Israel now in captivity,
who, looking back upon their for
mer attitude toward the Servant,
see how deaf and blind they
By “our message” they mean not
message they gave to others,
the message they had
about the Servant.
"He was despised and
of men; a man of sorrows, and
quainted with grief: and as one
from whom men hide their face he
was despised; and we esteemed him
not.”
The Servant of God has often
been presented in this unlovely and
despised aspect to his contempo
raries, especially to those who are
opposing him.
He is counted as a fanatic and
crank, a revolutionist and danger
ous man, and every ugly and ven
omous epithet is hurled at him.
Moses was charged by the Is
raelites with having led them out
into the wilderness to starve them
to death, Paul was derided for his
mean physical appearance, Socra
tes was twitted for his ungainlv
body and ugly face, and when Lin
coln had gone to Washington as
President a prominent editor
thought it proper to say that
scientists did not need to go to
the forests of Africa to find the ape
ancestor of man, they could find
him in the White House.
It is easy when we do not like
man to find some defect or de
in him at which to aim
shafts of our ridicule and ven
and the more eminent he is
the more we dislike him and even
viiiify him.
7116 su P reme instance of such
treatment is Jesus Christ. The
saddest record of him is that “he
came unto his own, and his own
received him not.”
We are next given a picture of
the Suffering Servant and this pro
phetic portrait reproduces the his
toric Christ so closely that it would
seem that it had been drawn from
life or that the account had been
written after the events described.
Every word of the description,
every line and color in the portrait
is saturated with suffering find
sacrifice.
“Borne our griefs,” "carried our
sorrows,” wounded for our trans
gressions,” “bruised for our ini
quities,” “chastisement of our
peace,” “with his stripes we' are
healed,” “laid on his the iniquity
of us all”—the prophet hunts for
every phrase and word to iterate
and reiterate the vicarious suffer
ings of our Saviour.
Every servant of God fulfils in
OXFORD NEWS
Miss Dorothy Williams, of Stone
Mountain, was the week-end guest
of Misses Mildred and Mary Al
mand.
Mrs. Jack Hays, of Madison, vis
ited Mrs. Pete Manning, Saturday
evening.
Miss Lenora Weldon, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Weldon.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Bryant and
son, Miss lone Allen and Mr. Al
Goodson, of Atlanta, were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel
Ray, Sunday.
Mr. Billy Kitchens, of Monroe,
spent Sunday with his grand-par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kitchens.
Mr. and Mrs. Hulon Forrester
and son, Hulon, Jr., were guests of
Mrs. Forrester’s sister, Mrs. Miller,
in Atlanta, Sunday.
Miss Helen Worsham, of Social
Circle, spent the week-end as guest
of Miss Lucile Calvert.
Mrs. Glenn Arnold and Mrs.
Glenn Arnold, Jr., Mrs. L. L. John
son and Miss Lenora Weldon, all
of Atlanta, spent Saturday with
Mrs. J. O. Weldon.
Mr. and Mrs. P. O. Floyd were
dinner guests of their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Floyd, Friday after
noon.
Mrs. S. M. Forrester, of
Grove, is spending several days
with her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Hulon Forrester.
Dr. and Mrs. Wallace Rogers
spent Monday in Atlanta.
Mrs. Tom Byrd and Mr. Harold
Byrd spent Sunday in Atlanta.
Mr. J. O. Weldon spent Friday in
Atlanta as the guest of his daugh
ter, Miss Lenora Weldon.
Mrs. D. A. Rosser and Mrs.
Rosser were dinner guests of Mrs.
W. C. Woods and Mrs. Hue Mabry,
Wednesday.
Mrs. Harold Stephens visited her
sister, Mrs. Briscoe and her mother,
at Stone Mountain, Saturday.
Mr. Ira Williams is spending this
week in Atlanta.
Among those attending the fun
eral at Hopewell Sunday were Mr.
Montgomery
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jordan and
son, Milton, visited Mr. and Mrs
F. F. Bagby, Sunday.
Mr. Eugene Johnson, of Rutledge,
visited Mr. Harold Lawson, Satur
^M^Saud King and Mrs. J. B.
King and son, Jimmie, and Mr.
Bennett Pace, of Atlanta, spent Fri
day night with Mr. and Mrs. C.
P ace
Mrs. M. E. Hitchcock is on an
extended visit with relatives in
lanta.
Mr. Mack Perkins left Sunday
for Birmingham, Ala., where he
will spend the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Adkins,
G. C. Pyron and Mrs. R. T.
son, of Union Point, visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Bonner, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jordan and
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♦ ♦ SNAPSHOTS t
Seldom, except in war times, has
the faith of the American people
in their institutions been more evi
dent than in the observance of
Constitution Day last week in
every nooK and corner of the land
—ooutii, East and West. Equally
significant with the outpouring or
sentiment by the great masses was
the coalition of non-partisan sup
port by Democratic and Repub
lican leaders. In Boston, where
the national celebration was held
some degree this description.
All our blessings have been
[ bought with the blood of former
generations.
Millions have toiled and suffer
ed that we might live. Other men
labored and we are entered into
their labors.
Again the supreme instance of
this vicarious sacrifice are the life
and deatn of Christ,
A11 through his sacrificial minis
try and Uealh ne was bea ring our
gnets and bruised for our iniquity
and cancelling our debt of sin and
guilt and making our peace with
God.
There are deep problems at the
j foot of the cross and mysteries cen
tering in its wounds that surpass
our power of comprehension, but
the broad fact stands out etched
against the sky of Calvary that he
was there atoning for our sin and
opening a way of divine forgive
ness and peace.
The next view in the composite
portrait depicts the humble servant
He was oppressed yet he humbled
himself and did not open his mouth
in an outcry or complain. By un
just judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation who
among them considered that he was
cut off out of the land of the liv
ing for the trnasgression of others
to whom the stroke was due ? And
he was thrust into the grave along
with the wicked, though he had
done no harm, neither was guilt
in his mouth.
It is a great lesson we need to
learn: be patient, humble and quiet,
to bear our cross nor question why.
The world is full of shouting men:
it needs more quiet men who do
not strive nor cry.
The suffering of the Servant shall
not be purposeless and fruitless.
"It pleased Jehovah to bruise him,”
It was not an accident or blind
fate that fell upon Jesus and
crushed him on the cross, but this
was the deep
purpose and will of God.
Therefore it shall not fail of its
purpose, but shall result in length
of days. He shall see of the tra
vail of his soul and shall justify
many and he shall be assigned a
portion of the great and divide the
spoil with the strong.
Christ dropped as a seed into the
soil of the hard Roman world to
perish, but he sprang up in a har
vest that rapidly spread around the
Mediterranean shore and has now
blown its seed around the world.
Charles Lamb once said to
company of distinguished literary „
men, “If Shakespeare were to en
ter into this presence we would all
rise; but if Jesus Christ were to
enter we would all kneel.”
Jesus is even now reigning with
a depth and sweep of power no
sword or pen or human wisdom or
greateness could ever attain and he
will yet be crowned Lord of all.
and Mrs. W. C. Woods, Mrs. Hue
Mabry, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Rosser, Mr!
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cowan,
J. O. Weldon and others.
Mrs. Paul Mayo, of Sandersville,
spent several days last week with
Mrs. Bonnell Stone.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Young, Mrs.
Charlie Stanley and daughters,
Mary, Kate and Frances, of De
catur, spent Wednesday with Mr.
and Mrs. A. D. Harris.
Mr. I. G. Williams spent the
week-end and the first part of this
week with relatives in Atlanta.
Mrs. Ft. F. Harwell entertained
the executive committee of the
Julia Dowman Sunday School class
Thursday afternoon. Plans were
made for the coming year. Delic
ious open-face sandwiches and
punch were served.
Among those from Oxford who
attended the rally at Lovejoy Sun
day were Rev. and Mrs. J. B. God
frey and family; Rev. N. P. Man
ning and son, Peter, Jr.; Mr. Newt
Wise, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Meador
and family.
Mrs. W. R. Branham, Miss Lynn
Branham, Miss Martha Branham,
and Miss Mary Singleton spent Sun
day in Atlanta, the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Virlin Branham.
Miss Mary Almand, accompan
ied by a friend, Miss Dorothy Wil
liams, both of Stone Mountain,
spent the week-end with Miss Al
mand’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
D. Almand.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Woods, and
Mrs. H. H. Mabry attended the
funeral of Mr. Johnnie Stewart, at
Hopewell, Sunday.
Miss Emma-Louise Stone, of At
lanta, spent the week-end with her
mother, Mrs. H. H. Stone.
Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Hind, of
Austell, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. C. D. Almand.
Neuritis and crick-neck relieved
by Diathermia. Painless and cheap,
Dr. Mowry, Covington, Ga.
in famous Faneuil Hall under the
auspices of the National Constitu-|
tion Day Committee, two former
Governors—Ritchie of Maryland
and Kohler, of Wisconsin—joined
in a demand for the same platform original!
for maintenance of the
concepts of democracy. The same
g R Qf unity emanatec i f rom Chi
Q wher( . Governor Lo Wc i en of
lmnois a stalwart Republican,
stood figuratively clasping Governor hands]
on the issue with former
Ely of Massachusetts, a Democrat.
Basically these various celebra
tions were patriotic gatherings of
Americans. The political signifi
cance cannot be disregarded, how
ever. Hints continue to seep from
various sources of an attempt in
the coming year to rush Constitution! through
an amendment of the
to centralize further authority in',
the federal government, q f
not by actual amendment, to seel:
means of circumventing the Con
stitution with various laws, some
which are now on their way to
Ahe Supreme Court for a test.
Like a chronic ailment, the
doubtful constitutionality of sev
eral of the major bills passed by
the last Congress threatens to
plague the Administration with
each recurring attack. When the
starpp of Supreme Court disap
proval was affixed to the NRA,
suspicion was aroused about the
whole New Deal program, from
which, it is now alleged, business
is to enjoy a “breathing spell.”
Trapped by careless thinking in
one important instance, the Ad
ministration now faces the ques
tion of whether the majority of its
sweeping legislative proposals are
within the law of the land.
Hardly a week passes which the
nation does not learn that one or
another of the recent acts of Con
gress must justify its existence
before the highest tribunal. The
Guffey Coal Bill had not absorbed
the ink of the President’s signature
before it was on its way through
the courts. It will be remembered
that this is the bill for which the
President demanded enactment
“however reasonable’ might be
doubts as to its constitutionality
In spite of the fact that the NRA
was held unconstitutional four
months ago, there are still more
than 3,000 persons on its payroll,
or about the same number em
ployed by the entire postoffice de
partment in Washington.
Last February “Snap Shots”
reported: “Secretary Ickes con
tinues to be the Cabinet official
who can’t keep out of trouble.”
Although disinclined to adopt the
“I told you so” attitude, “Snap
Shots” finds Mr. Ickes still in
trouble in September. He and
Harry Hopkins, PWA Adminis
trator, got into a row about where
the money should be spent on the
gigantic work relief program.
Last reports were that differences
had been settled amicably at
peace meeting called by the Presi
dent at Hyde Park.
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Back out the flivver daughter, see
if the tires are right
With water in the engine, and the
lights all shining bright;
Then P ut Y er Sunday duds on, an’
finger wave yer hair
By Golly, this here family, is a
goin’ to the fair.
Bring out the best canned peaches,
an some °’ mother’s apple jell,
An ’ them thar crochet dresses, that
ye like to do so well.
Then P ick the big bell peppers,
we’ll put the others in the shade,
Where is that Yo-Yo bedspread,
you an yer mother made ?
We’ve got a lot to carry, tie on a
bale o’ hay,
Then git some stalks o’ ribbon cane.!
an fresh eggs laid today.
Tell Ma to wear her store-bought
dress, an’ Jimmy wear his shoes,
An’ the little gals their ribbons, wid
the many rainbow hues.
Make grandpap wear suspenders,
nothin’ too fine to wear,
So tell yer ma to hurry, fer we’re
goin’ to the fair.
An’ pack a market basket, cakes
en biscuit, meats en pies,
An’ if they jedge the comers, I
know we would take a prize.
We work the whole o’ summer, now
we’ll bundle up all care,
Time fer a vacation, AND WE’RE
GOIN’ TO THE FAIR,
son > Milton, and Miss Minette Bag
by, spent Saturday in Covington,
Miss Marguerite Lowe visited
Miss Marie Bonner, Sunday.
Mr - and Mrs - Dew ey Kinnerly,
of Hayston, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ba gby, and Yvonne, of Atlanta,
were s P end the da Y guests of Mr.
and Mra c M ■ Pa ce, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hitchcock
and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Rogers,
of Covington, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Hitchcock visited Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Elliott, Sunday.
Miss Marie Bonner spent Satur
day afternoon with Mrs. C. M.
Pace.
Mr - and Mrs - Jeff ‘ Ba £by, of
Atlanta, and Yvonne, spent Satur
da Y night with Mr. and Mrs. F. F.
Ba J; by -
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Harwell vis
ited Mr. S. G. Lowe and family,
Sunday night.
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Miss Rebecca Wright, of Cov
ington, spent several days last
week with her aunt, Mrs. L. H.
Cook.
Mrs. S. R. Campbell, Jr. ,has
returned to her home in Thomp
son, after a week's visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ben
tno.
Mrs. J. L. Epps, Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Ammons and little daughter,
Mildred, of Atlanta, and Mr and
Mrs. M, D. McRae, of Livingston,
were spend-the-day guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Epps, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Allen and sor, :
Harold, of Eudora, were the guests
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CHARITY—BY THE SPOOLFUL! Pictured here is the Ladies
Aid Society of North Bennington, Vermont, quilting away at quilts
made to order to sell for charity. “How do we charge? Why, so much
for every spool of thread we use,” explains the chairman ( standing)
“And we always use the same thread, for if we Vermont women
know anything about quilts, it’s this: the quilts that have come
down in our families for generations, and have stood up under the
wear of time and washing were sewed with J. 66 P. Coats best 6-cord
thread. We wouldn’t think of using any other.”
Miss Versa Davies spent the
week _ enci w ith her parents at Mc
Donough
Qf Mr and Mrs w H Corley, Jr.,
Sunday.
Mrs. C. W. Wright, of Coving
ton, spent last Thursday with Mr?.
Cook.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Cardell and
little son, Bobbie, of Atlanta, were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Epps, last Wednesday.
Mrs. W. H. Corley spent, last
Sunday afternoon with her mother,
Mrs. Althea Wright, in Covington.
Miss Mary France Robertson
spent the week-end with her par
ents at Pine Grove.