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OHOSTS AND HAINT’S"!
• nu belie'r in 'um? Here I sit in
big bouse all alone and it's
quiet took all the family
South Georgia and they all
cept me n the Boss n Billie . .
left Sadie and told her to get
here and give this house a
Spring Cleaning while we had
clear ol folks but Sadie
a Ghost and she sells out .
when she got on the outside she
manage to lock the house . . .
and all up tight ... but Gene
left to dig the ground up good
deep in the rose garden . . she
him of what she heard . so that
meant disaster to the rose bed . .
in one little sacred corner were some
v e ry precious geraniums . pre
cious to me because they came from
the loving old home and gardens of
a very precious friend who always
called this old Office Boy his Sweet
heart- Mi J. W. Peek Gene could
not keep his eyes from the house so
one of the geraniums was missing
this morning Oscar finally came for
Gene to go to the Office and happy
was he but before going he
made Oscar listen and Oscar's
report I* that he heard "IT" walk
ing around up stairs . . then it
slowly crept down the steps and
right out into plain view on the
back porch and started dancing . .
Oscar says as they sailed down the
street his hair was standing straight
on his head! And I'm here aione
waitin up for the ghosts trying to
chatter to you . . The first thought
was of a *tory Mrs. Corrie Wright
tdls ot the man who was shot by
Sherman's men in front of my
. and of the nan in Confederate
Uniform who was hid up our living
room chimney while Sherman's men
searched the house . . . they did not
find that wounded Confederate vet
eran do you suppose he is stil!
here- Maybe it was ghosts or haint's
[that kept me awake all night last
night but I'm tollin' you iw
[hain | t could snore like that!
hast week I came near
fired Th» Boss read this col
nmn and saw wha. I said about
pudiey Glass' Column in the Geor-,
nan being delicious when he had
nmething to write about ...
L (here ut ,hen is absolutely wh?n the nothing tlme comes to write. that
bout Glaw I want you write to know whole that Dud- co1 {
F can one -
Inin in the most entertaining man
fcr you have ever seen about
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I'olute Ignt y rom nothing. the gods! "It is Well, the !
IT th0Ught U was tpmble • ' ' but
| Was m '/T y and 1 Stm SWCk t0
■ and Herbert Porter ... The
»mr of the Georgian-American
■ Je ’ itsomuch ™ m his that paper he putting framed big it
Hud lines over it “Dudley Glass”
col.mn 'Is Just Delicious. ” But.
^ °' ln g on ews. Cov- _
r, f TJ Sl i the Credit are f ° eV r ™ !
1 ,P n °u OI . vemem-,
Ihow'h [How the Boss r all propped up on
P»’s in bed too ill to live and
i couldn t .seem to make a die of
put out a 32 page edition of
News the next week our
ved Bill Biffem” of the Sa
nah Evening Press comes back
I the statement that he sees
[Office Boy is .still getting out a
Covington News . a 32 page
on with the editor sick in bed
the Boss and I called it even
this but today Dudley
P Fticle makes up i n full ... he cuts |
praising his column from
paper pastes it on a piece
™Per and underneath says,
nk you! To the Best-Looking
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Ie Covington News
WISHES VOL
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Bishop Candler
Will be Honored
At 01 d
He Ha* Preached for Fifty
Year* At Salem
Camp
WELL KNOWN FIGURES
WILL TAKE PART ON
PROGRAM THIS
Crowd* Expected From AH
Parts Of The
State
Bishop Warren A- Candler, who
* or fifty years has preached the
morning sermon at “Old Salem”
camp ground on the second Sun
day in August, this year will be
honored by four Protestant de
nominations and the Salvation
j Army at the opening services r
1 August 14.
i This year he will not preach, bu
instead will be on the rostrum a*
the centra i f igure in a special se,
vice arranged to honor his great
ness as a preacher and church
statesman.
Dr. Bascom Anthony, of the
South Georgia Conference will
pay tribute in behalf of the Meth
odists; Dr Louie D. Newton, ol
the Druid Hills Baptist Church
in behalf of the Baptists; Dean
Raimundo De Ovies, of St- Philip's
i Cathedral, in behalf of Episcopa
lianSp and Charles D Montgomery, ;
, ayman of the Centra , Presbyt
vian church, in behalf of the Pres.
byterians . Brigadier E- R. Holz. ol
the Salvation Army will pay the
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tribute of that organization .
Salem Camp ^ which „
near Covington> was established
in 1928 which makes it no years
this year Meetings have been
held there every year since except
for a break during the War Be _
tween the States, and during the
iast hall eentury the outstanding
even each second Sunday in
August has been Bishop Cand)er . ?
se rmon; some of the greatest of
his career having been delivered
at the historic camp ground.
„ The great affection in which
Bish Candler is held through .
out thjg area , and the fact that
special honor is going to be paid
him on this occasion, we believe
will bring together the largest
concourse a { people that has ever
assembled on this historic ground,”
- aid Major Robert J. Guinn, chair
man 0 f the arrangements com.
mittee
The meeting will start Tuesday
August 9. and close Sunday,
gust 21. The first four days will
be devoted to young people's
classes, but the climax will be
the celebration in the bishop’s
honor. Brigadier Holz will have
charge of all services as managing
director.
Improvements are being made
at the camp ground and all those
who plan to attend are urged 6 to
. . other .. members , _ .
join on
July r , „„ 26. to . clean , the .. grounds , and ,
make . preparations for the
opening
,, two tents , , have , . been erected . .
on
the , grounds , during , . the past ,
v sev
eral , months and , other general , >m ■
provements have been made
Among those attend.ng from Cov
ington are C. D- Ramsey, Sr., and
family. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey
have attended regularly for many
years and take an active part in
the activities there
Large crowds are expected this
year from Conyers and other see
tions of Rockdale County, Atlanta.
Fulton County, Dekalb County,
Newton County, Henry and Jas
per Counties and from all sec
tions of the state.
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Kiwams , Club to
HnlH f Their 1' H U negiliur Rpnnlnr
Meeting Thursday
The local Kiwanis club held its
regular weekly meeting last Thurs
day afternoon at the DeLanev Hotel
Clarence Meadors, vice-president
presided over the meeting in the
absence of President Jack Potter.
who was ill.
Rev. Walker Combs, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, had charge
of the program. He introduced Mr.
Bob Guinn and Major General
Holtz, both of Atlanta, who made
[short talks.
The regular meeting will be held
Thursday noon at the DeLanev Ho
j j tel to attend, and all the members are urged
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HOMECOMING ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th PLANNED I e
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Probable Speakers at Newton County Celebration , August 19.
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^ e '® n candidates are expected to take active part on August 19 in the Newton County Celebration and Homecoming which
be held on the public square in Covington- Each candidate will be extended every courtesy and will receive a cordial welcome- A
mittee will act impartially handling the details of the meeting. J O. Porter. Agent of Bibb Manufacturing Company at Porterdale will
the Porterdale Band to Covington to furnish music for the celebration. An amateur contest and other SDeciai entertainments will be
featured for the day.
Land Owners in
Newton Give
Right - of - Way
! Misunderstanding: .... Over The
Purchase of The
Land.
A number of Covington citizens
have received replvs from letter
writben bv ’ them an t ort to cneck
° n the P assiblities . of the D >al Tele
phone System m Covington.
These letters have been turned over
tc the News representative and a
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officials in other cities follow. These
letters received were in reply to
letters written out of the state.
_______„ Mayor George _ P. T Haslam. r , of ^ Pied- .
; mont. Ala, .. states. ,.... After using our
; new installation of , dial ... telephone . , ,
system . for a month ... or more, we wish . ,
to . say that we are more than pleased
with the operation of this new svs
M H is such a decided advanlage
over old ringing type telephones. The
ha# bepn ded con .
, ;derablv and is one of the bl?gp , t
improveme nts our town has had '
j s Temp]e mavor of Sumrall
Miss statps .. After using the dial
System for sometime. I am pleased
to advise that we are well satisfied
We wouldn't trade back.’ 1
George P. Wood, of Moss Point
Miss, states. “I cannot refrain from
writing to say how well pleased I am
with the new dial system. I have
yet to see a single person who does
not feel that it was one of our big
gest improvements. My mother who
' is eighty years old had no difficulty
in iearning the operation. It is not
difficult to anyone
The result of the poll in Covington
lor and against the service will be
announced within a few weeks. The
Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the move
ment in this vicinity.
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C–stleberry-Rainey defeated Cov
ington Mills, 3-1 Wednesday after
noon in a softball league game. Lefty
Johnson was on the mound for the
winners and yielded six hits while
Edward Rowe, the lasing pitcher
or Covington Mills, w’as touched for
t . only four safties.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938 5 Cent* Per Single Copy
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Snapping Shoals Electric
Membership Corporation To
Hold Meeting at Court House
The annual meeting of the Snap
ping Shoals Electric Membership
Corporation will be held at the
Newton County Court. House in
this cit ? at 2 o'clock. Wednesday.
July 27 accordin « Mr
D Brightwell, Government repre
se ntative of the line.
The meeting will be held to
directors; to authorize the borrow
in £ of money for new lines; to au
thorize execution and delivery of
notes or bond ' s; to transact a11 bus '
iness. Members are urged to attend
and take active part in the election
of their officers and in making plans
for the future of the corporation
Boy Bitten By
Black Widow
Narrowly Escapes Death,
According to Local
Physician.
Holland Tuck, well known Almon
boy, was recovering today from the
bite of a Black Widow Spider Tues
day evening at the home of his
rents. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Tuck
According to his brother. Harry,
the bov walked around in the “back
yard of the home Tuesday evening
and a short time afterward com- j
plained of feeling bad and went to
be d. About ten minutes after going
to bed. Holland began suffering se
vere pain in his abdomen and nis
brother rushed to a phone and called
ft Covington physician who rushed
to the scene,
The physician set to work itnmed
lately and worked untiringly until
aft*r midnight when Holland began
to ' m P I0ve Mr and Mrs. luck sat
up all night with the boy and watch
ed over him closely through Wed
nesday. Today, he is recovering rap
idly and should be out again soon,
This is one of the first Black
Widow Spider bites reported in this :
fn sometime. The physician!
that time was the main thing 1
in of this kind and all ’
cases persons
bitten should call a doctor immed-,
lately.
Members from all counties in which
the lines or the new project lines
run will be eligible to take part.
The official notice as drawn bv
Mr. T. L. McMullen. President, will
be mailed out today to all eligible
members. The notice reads as fol
lows:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a
special meeting of the members of;
Snapping Shoals Electric Member
ship Corporation :hereinafter called
"Corporation 'in lieu of the
annual meeting thereof for the year
1938. will be held at the Newton
County Courthouse, at Covington,
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Federal Workers
Praise Ike Hay
Completes Third Term Head
Federal Business
Association
The Atlanta Federal Business
Association, an organization com
posed of department heads of the
Federal government in the At
lanta area, elected officers for the
new fiscal year at its quarterly
mee ting on Tuesday. Ike Hay
Fjrst Assistant United states ‘ At
torn< “y. who has just completed
his third one-year term as Presi
dent of the association, voluntarily
retired from the presidency. O E
Myers, District Manager U. g
Civil Service Commission, was
elected to succeed him
A laudatory resolution was
unanimously adopted by the as
sociation praising Mr. Hay for his
services to the organization The
resolution, in part, said, “He has
served the association efficiently,
with complete devotion to duty
and always with the best interests
of the organization at heart . • •
and the Atlanta Federal Business
Association goes on record as ex
tending to him its thanks for the
services which he has rendered
and its best wishes for his future,
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Candidate for Congress
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County Agent
Discusses Farm
Problems Here I
Recent Rains A Held to The
Crops In This I
Area
The recent rains are fine and we
expect the corn crop of the county !
will begin to look better. We saw ■
quite a bit of cotton that had been j
1 worked so deeply and thoroughly j
j that it needed a good season to start j
it to growing and put the topdresser
! to work It looks to us as if the
seasons have been just right It wa 1
hot and dry enought to check the
activities of the boll weevil and then j
a good season just before any of i
the crops had ruined from drought,
We-have so many enqu^es regard
ing the Subsidy or 3 cent- payment
on the 1937 crop that we will give
the following information. Any pro
ducer who produced cotton in 1937)
is entitled to the payment provided
he complies with the 1938 program.
The payment is $130,000,000.00 to the
farmers of the cotton belt. So each |
producer will be paid on the same
percentage of his cotton acreage for
1937, The payments will be comput
ed on the pounds of cotton produced
but division of payments to tenants
or operators on a farm will be
divided according to acres so that
each will get payment on the aver
age production of the farm rather
than on a basis of what each actually
produced. The rate of payment will
he 3 cents per pound on all cotton
applied on after September 10. 1937
and on cotton sold before Septem
I ber 10, 1937 the payment will be the
difference between the ten designat
[ ed markets and 12 cents. Application
must be made on the cotton in the
order in which be made it was cotton sold. Pay- not j
menr.s will on
scld as well as Government Loan cot
ton but we do not know just how
that will be handled.
So far the blanks for making ap
plications Have not been received.
As soon as t.re blanks are received
we will advise you through this
column.
Then there is another feature
to this payment that has not been
mentioned i" the publicity that has
been given the prompt payment;
j that the farms is the adjustment before the of application bases on
may be taken. All farms that were
under Worksheets for 1937 have had
bases set to them and approved by
the Athens office. No farm that was
not signed up in 1937 has had a base
approved as yet. The County Corn
; mittee of this county has suggested
bases on such farms and their sug
gested base has been in Athens for
more than a month for approval.
Just don't get your hopes up for
too early payment on the Subsidy
and then your disappointment in
the delay will not be as great. We
just can't see how payments could
be made before late fall or next
spring inspite of all the publicity
we have seen in the daily papers
saying pay ments would begin July
13th. It is July ,H now and no blanks
on hand with which to even ask for
payment
It is expected that actual work on
construction of the REA lines into
I the Hayst ° n community wiU
at the terminal of the present line
t .ear Starrsyille and will serve the
territory around Havston. Brickstore
community and will terminate on the (
lower edge of Pinegrove community !
Over fifty homes will receive ser
vice as sqon as construction is coni
plet;d with 30 other homes as pros
; P ects as consumers.
There will be a Short Course in
Poultn Production held at the Geor
§ia State College of Agriculture dur
ing Farmer's Week which begin
August 9
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ImpPOVP Steadily _
Business conditions in Covington
and Newton County continued to
improve steadily as mill employees J
at the Covington Mills went on full
time Monday. The mills at Porter
dale continue to extend the time of
their employees. Local merchant*
stated they could see a gradual rise
in purchasing power in this area
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Mayors Like New
Dial Telephones
:n Other Cities
Comments of Officials ' * given
t in . ... setters to
eople.
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ple , d,d ... not quitp understand the
story carried last week on the new
Covington-Jackson highway
some understood chat the State
jjighwav ' Deoartment P nnrcha-pH P ^ th» h
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right-of-way for the new road from
land owners along tiie proposed
route.
The fact is that most of the land
owners donated the right-of-way to
the county which must secure the
deeds for the road before the High
way Department can let a contract
for grading or paving
With the exception of a few peo
pie owning land on the new Route
81. everything is in readiness to
let the contract for grading and
improving. Local officials will sub
mit the deeds to the state within
the next several days according to
reports
Much credit and prai.se is due the
landowners who gave ol their P ro R
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county officials who have worked
untiringly to see that the main line
North and South go through Cov
ington and Newton County.
Advertisements for bids will
probabiv be made in the Covington
News within the next sixty days for
the first five or ten miles on the
new highway.
Negroes ' Fined by
J j lid - ,4. ATT F. Foyd •
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Ordinary A. L. Loyd, who serves
judge in all state police patrol
tried his second case during,
past several days Monday a
girl was arrested by thp of
early Monday for driving a i
without a drivers license. A sec
case was made against her es
a negro man, who owned the
Judge Loyd fined each person
and cast. He warned all driv
to use care in permitting others
drive their car as cases would be
when the parties are caught. (
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Porterdale Band To Furni:
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THE MOST PROMINENT soi
CANDIDATES IN STATE ier
EXPECTED TO SPEAI - i
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Amateur and Other Contes! f 1
Planned; Prizes To 4,
Be Given ki
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The success of the Newton Count , 1
Homecoming II J
Celebration was vir 10 '
tvally assured this week upon th b
announcement of a number of mer
chants, business men and official O
that they would cooperate in ever;
possible way. y.
J. O Porter. Agent of the Bibb
Manufacturing Company at Porter*
dale, accepted the invitation to co
operate in the movement and stated
that, the well known Porterdale ?
Band would take part. His letter to rs
Chairman Belmont Dennis, of The
Covington News, follows:
Porterdale. Ga. J
July 19. 1938 ,
Mr, Belmont Dennis,
Covington, Georgia. s
Dear Sir;
Your letter of July 18th has been
called to my attention. We will be
more than glad to furnish the Por
terdale band for this celebration and
the writer will do all possible to
make this day a success in Newton
County.
! Yours Very Truly.
J. O. Porter, Agent
BIBB MANUFACTURING CO
The most prominent and best
known candidates in the political
races in Georgia have accepted in
vitations to speak at the Celebra
tion during the day. Those expected
tc take part are Walter F. George,
Governor E. D. Rivers, Lawrence
S Camp. J. J. Mangham. E. M. Ow
ens, Phillip Moore. Sidney Camp.
Editor Belmont Dennis, of The
News, will preside during the day
assisted by Judge A. L. Loyd, Mayor
S. A. Ginn. Representative R. P.
Campbell. Dr. A.. S. Hopkins. E.
L. Butler. S. M. Hay. Mrs. Belmont
Dennis, E R. Bouchilion. J O Por
te: and numerous other prominent
citizens who will appear on the pro
gram.
Full details have not yet been
worked out and the program for the
day must be delayed. A full schedule
will be announced within the next
several days however, according to
officials. All merchants in Coving
ton will be given an opportunity to
in the movement and will be
to cooperate by displaying
and banners. Each store and
hou.se will be asked to de
their store front with Ameri
Flags for the occasion.
Plans are being made at this time
take care of the great throngs
people expected to visit Coving
for the clebration. E. R. Bouchil
Director of the Traffic and Po
Committee, will be in charge
will probably be assisted by the
Highway Patrol and the Boy
R P. Campbell. Representative
Cbuni '' and a
y0Ung ° C? attorney - wil1
the guests in behalf of th«
and merchants of Coving
Mayor S. A Ginn will extend
official welcome for the city.
All former residents of Newton
are being extended a mo-t
welcome and invitations will
mailed to all known by the com
in charge. The people ot
surrounding county are al o
a most cordial invitation
attend.
One of the most interesting fea
pf the day will be an Amateur
at which time prizes will
given the winners. Other prizes
be offered for various events
the day. Full announcement
be made at the earliest possible
and Cofer
Employees Take
Gossard Course
Bennett and Cofer announced this
that they have two employees
recently completed the course
Atlanta at the Gossard School
corset fitting Mrs. A. M. Bennett
attended the school and invites
patrongae of the ladies.