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Ifft week your Office Boy said
there was no place like home . . .
and this week I say and loving
friends for no sooner than I
.
had arived the Boss came in and
said Look what Hattie Sara
Nunnallv. of Oxford sent to you and
t» we. ■ i will just have to see
Hattie Sara s garden one of these
days for there was the lovliest
display of vegetables you ever saw.
Thanks to you for a most delicious
dinner there were silvery white
onions long tender string beans
that looked like they had stepped
right out. of Hasting's Catalog . . .
beautiful red beets . . perfect
cucumbers and squash
the gourd kind that were yellow
,rd looked good enough to eat as
they were and the most de
licious potatoes and then today
in comes some more beans out of
Hasting's Catalog you know.
the kind they make pictures of but
I can't grow this time they
came from the farm of our dear
friend Mr. Robert Fowler, Sr. . .
and they were not only prize
winners but yum yum
you should have tasted them
all cooked up with a ham bone . . .
I m afraid I'm getting spoiled . . .
somebody will have to keep this
up for I won't be able to eat shipped
vegetables after this and the
next thing that happened
somebody said There's a flower
out there in the yard somebody sent
you we didn't know where to
put it so we just stuck it down until,
you got back wc knew we'd
have to move it anyway and
farm program.
Payments under the 1937 farm
program are long over due. All we
can tell you is that all the contracts
, from this county have been forward
ed to the Athens office. They cet
tified them to the Disbursing office
on June 16th. The Disbursing office
is supposed to be about five day :
behind the Athens office. Still two
weeks have passed and we have no
checks,
The letter also stated that ap
plications for the subsidy payments
were ready to be taken. This week
we received r letter from Athens
stating that the recent amendments
passed by congress nullified all the
blanks that had been printed and
that it was necessary to reprint ail
application blanks. They hoped to
have them by July 15th and stated
that it would be possible to begin
payments of the subsidy payments
by September they Jioped but that
j it might be October,
You will remember that the sub
si( jy payment will be made on 65
p^ cent 0 / the base for tlK farm
in 1937 This means that a farm
which had a base of 10 acres at 200
pounds per acre would draw subsidy
on 6 1-2 acres at 200 pounds or
1300 pounds of cotton The price
would be the difference between
the average of the ten spot markets
on the day the cotton was sold and
•" cents not to exceed 3 cents per
p 0 und. If the cotton produced was
no (, so j d prior to June 30. 1938 then
the difference in the 10 markets
and 12 cents on that date will be
taken as a basis. This means that
subsidy will be paid on cotton be
ing held by the farmer and on cot
ton on which he borrowed from the j
Government. We have no blanks on
which to make applications on cot
ton not sold but presume they will
be sent us shortly. We will keep
you advised through this column, j
The third payment is $1.00 per
bale on the cotton that was plowed
up on an option basis in 1933 You
w jp re member that vou received a
certificate titled "Participation Trust
certificate." A great many farmer
in this coun ty sold those certificates.
Look tnrough your papers and if
y 0U Lave a "Participation Trust Cer
tificate" Form No. 0-5-1 then this
certificate can be redeemed at $ 1.00
p er bale. The paper is a dark brown
co ] or and j S 3 1 2 inches wide and
about 14 inches long You should
have filed it with your 1933 Plowup
Papers.
There seems to be quite a bit of
money in the offing but none on
the barrel head
Boll weevil reports are prevalent
so is grass This is going to be an
expensive crop through this section.
We hope the buyers will have that
in mind this fall.
HONOR ROLL
;
1 The followin g People have been
P laCeci on our Honor Roll for either
subscribing to the News or renew
ing their subscription,
MISS BILLIE MOORE
MR. CLAUD COOK
MISS MARY HAYS
1 JOWN T. DOBBS
MRS. A S. HOPKINF !
T. C CASTLEBERRY !
GOV, E. D. RIVERS
JOHN J. MAN GUM
OH, ME . Oh MY
what do you think it was! A gar
denia and Mrs, Switzer you
certainly found your way
into my heart with the gardenia
that's my weakness and
you didn't even know it The
Boss says it takes an awful lot to
make some people happy and
he marvels a! the joy and happiness
my thoughtful friends bring to me
. . . but isn't it, after all just being
loved and being rememered. and
the little things people THINK to
do for your happiness . . .
keeps this old world of ours going
.. Im so grateful to all my friends
for the joy they are to me
Last week eve b 6 en a member of
the Children of the Confederacy
since I was a little shavert I went
to the Convention because some
body had to drive the ladies . .
there 1 met Mrs. William Morgan
Holzenbeck of Winder, a new Di
rector, and a very fine one. She
organized her chapter in Winder
and is doing such fine work. We
parted and when I got home and
read the papers I found that Cap
tain William Holzenbeck. Jr., her
young son. had been killed in an
air crash in San Francisco Bay
How my heart went out to her
I went to that funeral ; and there
, . .
I found Father, brothers and Mother
smiling thru their tears
was God's wil] they were
uving to say, "Thy Will Be Done
iaw\ yet there he was wrapped in
the flag of his country Hi’
room mate came with him
.'cnt by the Government . . as
handsome chap as you ever saw
there was pain in his face .
a comrade had been called .
Morgan graduated from Winder
High School with high honors
from Georgia Tech with High Hon
ors everywhere he went he
went to the top Dr. Brittain
of Georgia Tech, was there, he told
ot how when a job needed to be
done well Morgan was called
. . .
when the testing time came lor
this huge sea plane „ Mo, * a "
was called . out . m . piloting . that
plane he did not fail he soared
upward . for the Great Pilot
of Us all needed Morgan
.
j has gone to fill that place
t was a beautiful tribute
. .
‘ i,e 1 see a le -sson for all
, l)0
,,n ^ s This boy wrote
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■us mother a letter each day
. .
hf> sent her a souvenir from each
country he flew to she re
cci'fd the message of his crash
. . .
in the same afternoon mail there
r «me a package, a souvenir, and a
"'ter the next day a letter
a! d the next and then on Wednes
da\ still another letter and he
hac * been dead since Sunday * n
' 'etter he told her of the flight
be would make That Mother
never forgotten one day
. . ,
n ' messages came even after he
Wa s gone and they will ever
,ins * n ber heart. His fine character
and ever thoughtfulness of the one
"mo gave him life, made for him a
p,ace in the hearts and lives of all
"ho knew him Morgan will live
on Are you remembering that
that aged Father each day?
Do they know you are well and
i,a PP,y. are you remembering friends,
laved ones? Are you making life
wthwhlie fo. others? Then START
r ODAY And
fore T know it .
w 1 be tears I'm
SWELPIN UP
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COVINGTON MILL TO GO ON FULL TIME
Agricultural
News Given By
County Agent
Announces Early Reopening
Of Canning Plant at
Oxford.
OVERDUE PAYMENTS
FOR 1937 PROGRAM
EXPECTED DAILY
Discusses Basis on Which
Subsidies Will Be
Figured.
Plans are about complete for op
eration of the canning plant at
Oxford. It is expected that a man
ager will be placed on the job July
1st. It will probably require about
two days to get the equipment clean
ed and ready for work so we think
the plant will be ready for steady
operation after Monday of next
week. But do not carry produce to
the plant until you have seen the
manager and made an engagement
We hope the people will use this
plant to process and save for winter
use their surplus vegetables.
We have recently had a copy of
a letter shown us written by Con
gressman Owens giving farmers an
outline of payments they may expect
in the near future under the 1938
Georgia Enterprise, Est 1864.
The Covington Star, Kst. 1874.
Officers of Covington Woman's Club And View of Library of Newton County
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Officers of the Covington Woman's Club are shown here grouped
in front of a bronze plaque in honor of Miss Charles Camp Porter,
who served as the first librarian of the Covington Public Library.
The Woman's Club built and maintains the library. Seated are Mrs. R.
H. Patterson, fine arts committee chairman, holding R. H. Patterson.
Jr . club mascot, on her lap. and Mrs. J. E. Hutchins, corresponding
secretary. Stand, left to right, are Mrs. R. R. Fowler, Sr., scrap book
Mr. R, L. Meador
Attends Reunion
Of Blue and Grey
Newt M County One „ . . .
<> n * Living
Vetgran Now in
Gettysburg.
Newton County's only living Con
federate Vetera 1. R. L. Meadoi, and
tmore than sixty other veterans of
Georgia arrived at Gettysburg Wed
nesday to hold a four day celebra
tion with veterans of the Unior
Armies.
Mr, Meador, known to his man?
friends throughout Newton county
as Uncle Rufe. was accompanied
on the trip by J. S. Williams, well
known Oxford citizen and son-in
law of the beloved veteran. They are
expected to return early next week.
Uncle Rufe celebrated his ninety
second birthday last January at his
home in Oxford where he has lived
/or more than fifty years. He is
known to practically every citizen
j n Newton County and has hosts
of friends who will be watching the
activities of the Northern and South
ern soldiers of yesterday with great
interest.
The celebration will probably be
the first -and the last reunion of
the Blue and the Grey and many
of the veterans have the feeling
expressed by General M. Y. Griggs
The meeting is to my mind, a peace
on earth; good wU i toward men
gathering.” All expressed pleasure
over being given the opportunity to
make the trip remaining'
j^,- Williams, the only
veteran of Rockdale countj was
reported in a serious condition Wed
nes day Due to this recent illness,
Mr williams was unable to attend,
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Flower Show
Attracts Many
More Than 200 Exhibits at
Porterdale Flower
Display.
The annual Flower Show, spon
sored by the Woman's Club of Por
terdale. was held Monday evening
of last week in their club rooms at
Porterdale
The exhibits, more than 200 in
number, provided a display as var
ied as it was beautiful, with every
available space occupied by a mass
of color.
The judges. Mrs, Henry Odum
Mrs. B L Trapnell and Mrs. Lint
Smlth found theij - tas k one of ex
trerne difficulty, in choosing be
tween many of the exhibits. The
winners and their .classes follow:
Petunias, first. W. J. Smith; sec
on. Mrs. John Turner; Giant Zin
nias. fn-st, Mrs J. H Reynolds
second. Mrs. Mae Bishop. Knob zin
nias first Miss Jordye Tanner; sec
on, Mrs, Bart Davis. Nasturtium
first. Mrs Louise Lassiter; second
(Continued on Page Twelve)
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938
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This beautiful ivy-covered library, in this city, is the only free library in Newton County, was erected
and is opera t,ed without cost to public treasuries by members of the Covington Woman's Club.
Check Presented
To President
Keith Morgan Thanks Editor
p Qr Cooperation in
Movement
Keith Morgan. Chairman of the
Committee for the celebration
the President’s Birthday, in a letter
to Editor Dennis, of the News, states
that on Tuesday. June 21 President
Roosevelt was presented the Na
tional check for $1,010,00000 to be
given to the Warm Springs Foun
dation He extended his apprecia
tion to Editor Dennis for his efforts
in Newton county.
The letter follows;
June 25th. 1938
Belmont Dennis
Chairman Newton County Committed
Celebration of President's Birthday.
Covington, Ga.
My dear Mr. Chairman
You will be happy to know that
on Tuesday. June 21st, we presented
to President Roosevelt the National i
Check for $ 1 , 010 , 000 . 00 . It was only
through the efforts of people such
as yourself that this was made
possible.
I am enclosing a communication
Irom Basil O'Connor, President of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, outlining the plaas
of the Foundation which will be
most interesting to you.
Again, may I thank you for your
enthusiastic support and generosity,
without which the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis could
not have been founded.
Very sincerely yours.
KEITH MORGAN
Chairma*n.
chairman; Mrs. J. C. Upshaw, parliamentarian; Mrs G. W. Caldwell,
auditor; Mrs. R. M. Mobley, president; Miss Saliie Mae Sockwell, treasur
er; Mrs Hugh King, recording secretary; Mrs Henry Odum, first Vice
President. and Mrs. A. H. David, chairman of the ways and means
committee. Officers not in the picture are Mrs. W. O. Patterson, second
vice-president, and Mrs. Thomas Hay, reporter.
D c r 0 ™2ZedVpo n
Work At Howard
Many friends in Covington are
welcoming Dr. Kirk Swann. Jr.,
home for a few days vacation, and
congratulating him upon the fine
work he has done at the Medical
College at Harvard
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hp been iven a two
intern ship at one of Boston's
j ea(Ji hospitals Within a few days
hp wiH ]eave to ta ke np his duties
hospital
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I he Covington ^ INeWS
WISHES VOL
A Happy Birthday
June 30th
P. J. GARRISON
JOHNIE KENNERLY
BETTY GORDON
July 3rd
EDWIN MOSS
MRS. J. E. HUTCHENS
A. C. VINING
HUGH HARRIS
THURMAN HENDERSON
July 4th
LOUISE DUNCAN
ROBERT SEALY
WALTER NUNN. JR
July 5th
MARGRETT BRADSHAW
MARTHA PARR
BETTY JOICE THOftfAS
July 6th
MARIAN GEORGE
JACK ALEXANDER
5 Cents Per Single Copy
All Departments Begin
Operation On July 18
Water Pageant
A t Porterdale
Swimming Pool
“King Neptune’s Carnival”
Will Command Interest
July 4th.
"King Neptune's Carnival." a wat
er pageant in three episodes, will
be the i,tem of interest in the cele
bration of the Fourth of July at
Porterdale. The attraction will be
held at the Porterdale swimming
pool during the afternoon.
In the presence of King Neptune
various mermaids and men of th c
sea will compete for prizes which
will be awarded for skill and form
in the underwater kingdom Prize
in the events, which will includ „
contests for age groups in swimming
and diving, will consist of free ad
missions to the pool and athletic
badges.
Speed competitions will be divided
between the American crawl stroke
and a free style contest. Form will
be judged in side-stroke, back
stroke, crawl and back-crawl Un
derwater endurance and floats wi'd
be an added feature. Dives and
stunts wil lcomplete the program of
water activities
Among those who will participate
in the events are: Betty Martin
Mildred Statham. Marjorie Cook
Ruth Davis, Betty Bowden. Doris
Finley, Mary Adams Hilda Mitchell
Inez Finley, Jeannette
Anita Lunsford, Roberta Bailey
Mrs, Frances Couch Mrs
Day.
Jimmie Cason, James Harold
James Tate. Billy Crawell,
Swetman, Fred Daniels, Red
Bill Adams. Herbert Shroshire. Car
roll Adams ohnnie Andrews
Finley, A J. Sellars, Howard Mathis
Charles McGibboney. Joel Anglin
Rav Martin. Neal Wheeler.
Bowen Anderson Kirkus j £
Adams. Marvin McGibboney
Harold Lindsey.
The novel affaii is being awaited
with interest by participants and
the many who will attend as ob
servers.
Covington Mill
Yard Contest
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City Garden Club Officials
Will Judge The
“Grand Yard”
The climax to a four-month's
lawn and flower contest, sponsored
jointly by Covington mills and the
Advance-More club, will take place
Saturday morning at the Covington
mill school house Mr. R O. Arnold.
general manager of the mill, will
present the prizes—four in number.
Officials of the Covington Garden
! club will inspect the yards of the
village Thursday or Friday after
noon and judge the "most beautiful
yard The "most beautiful yard
wins the grand prize Three other
prizes will be awarded for the "most
improved ' yards Tom Kinney and
Ralph Watkins, who graded the
yards four months ago and placed
them in classes kn„wn as A B and
C, will make another survey Thurs
day afternoon. Three equal prizes
w >ll be given
After the prizes have been award
ed at the school house everyone will
be invited bo the bail park where
the First team and the Second team
will play a baseball game There
will not be any admission charge
for the game
It was planned to have a bar
r “
for the Fourth of July but present
business conditions curtailed these
movements.
Mr. Arnold hasn't announced yet
what the prizes will be However he
stated when the contest began, that
if business was good the prizes
would be likewise and vise versa i
The Advance-More club, village;
organization, is to be commended ini
for their wholehearted support
putting over the yard contest Mem- j
bers of the club hauled dirt by the
truck loads for over two weeks lay- 1
ing the foundation for the beam,.
ful yards that now add attractive
ness to the village The Covington
Garden club also cooperated in every
w-ay to make the contest one of the
best Covington mill has ever had.
With the Sick
Over the City
Several Reported to Be Ill •
No Cases Considered
Critical.
Several well known local residents
are on the sick list this week ac
cording to reports received at the
News
Dr Luke Robinson. Sr continue:;
to slowly improve to the delight m
his Covington friends. He is a pa
tient at Emor y University Hospital
m rs. W. D Travis is convalesc
mg following a lengthy and serious
illness.
Mrs. Howard Avery, who ha.s been
quite sick for several weeks, is now
much improved though still indis
posed.
Mrs. T. T. Ford underwent ar.
emergency operation on Wednesday
afternoon at the Huson Memorial
Hospital Last reports received were
that she was resting easily.
z Jissr.sstrjs
spent as a patient in the Atlanta
Veteran's Hospital.
Miss Evelyn Sewell is reported to
have been quite sick at her home
in Oxford.
Dr. Julia Emory, of Oxford and
Mrs Lena Ray, aLso of Oxford are
patients at the Huson Hospital j
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Hrick . Store PI
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Plans are underway for the an-.
nual Brickstore Home Coming which:
will be held at the church in that
(
community the First Sunday clt-' in j
August. Mel Knox, well known
izen of Social Circle afcd forme:
Brickstore resident, will be in charge
of the program.
mis PAPER IS COVINGTONS
INDEX OF CIVIC PRIDE
AND. PROSPERITY
NUMBER 26
Covington Mill Announce*
End of Partial
Inactivity.
BUSINESS REVIVAL
BEING CONSIDERED
WITH CONFIDENCE
Greater Activity in Textile.
Becoming Generally
Apparent.
Of keen delight to all of the em
ployes of Covington Mill as well
as local business men and residents
throughout this section was the not
ice posted Tuesday by the General
Manager. R O. Arnold, of Coving
ton Cotton Mill, of the resumption
of full time operations in all depart
ments of the mill beginning July
18th.
With the announcement, however,
came notice that the scale of pay to
i employes, under the new operating
set-up to be established at the time
would be substantially the same as
the '
scale in force throughout the
mill prior to the final increase which
was granted during the period of
extreme operating activity some
eighteen months ago.
The opportunity to again secure
full time employment has, accord
' ng 10 many of the employes who
expressed themselves, far more than
offset thE losa ° { t he approximate
reduction of 10 per cent in the rate
scale.
The management Is endeavoring
to renew operations on a sound basis
an< ^ * n keeping with the genera.
: reduction in prices of commodities
including textiles.
Local business men ar; displaying
greater confidence than has beer
! theirs for many months past, anc
with excellent reason.
Coinciding with the full time an
uouncement at Covington Mill come!
notice from WPA authorities of in
cr eases in rates of pay to ali Southerr
WPA employees, many of whom are
residents of this county.
Checks from the Government tc
i he farmers of Newton county foi
payments under the 1937 Farm Pro
gram are being expected every day
now. These will probably exceec
*150,000. the bulk of which will gt
immediately into the channels ol
* tradp.
Subsidy payments which shoulc
exceed this amount are anticipatec
within the next few weeks.
There is a progressive increasi
under way in the weekly hours o:
employees in other textile center:
through the community and thi
state. A number of mills have al
ready resumed full time schedule:
and others will doubtless follow
soon.
The general business tone may
be regarded as one of gradual im
provement return without prospects for i j
of boom conditions.
The priced of farm products art j
expected to continue at a moderate !
if not a low level, and the trenc ! j
of other commodities are not expect
ed to increase greatly, but employ
ment should gain consistently.
Kiwanis Holds
Regular Meeting
Rev. M. M. Maxwell Guest
Of Club and Speaks
To Members.
The regular weekly meeting o
the Covington Kiwanis Club wa.
held last Thursday at the DeLane?
hotel, with president J. O. Porte;
present and occupying the chaii
Prof V. Y C Eady led the singini
with Miss Fletcher Lou L unsforr
at the piano.
The meeting was featured by th«i
1
kind in many months. 1
Co'.. A L Loyd had charge o
the program committee and intro
duced Rev M M. Maxwell, forme i 1
pastor of the Covington Method is
church and member of the loca
Kiwanis group and present presid
mg Edier of the Athens-Elberto
District of the North Georgia con
ference.
He reviewed his experiences wit
Kiwanis associates and the oppoi
tunity to again greet old neighbor
and friends He was spending th
week in Oxford as an instructor t
the Young People's Assembly bein I L
held at Emory Junior College
The club was host at the meeting
to several other visitors, includin v
of members.
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