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THE OFFICE BOY
Gosh Good} -Good} . . Th^
vjngton News and me won the
Stanlej ■ Trophy again at the
ig Meeting last Satur
eorgta press
*' Calhoun ... And nobody was
a) this P a f>ei to walk up
ipre from The Bank
ltd say I II take it.” .. •
were there and they told the
ion s boy that they
dice Boys office
iuid hardly resist going up and
rabbing the bacon hut didn’t know
rhether they had the authority or
They vrere mighty nice about
Iffering to carry ■ us up with them,
Ltd, if ve had only known, the
Ljngton News would have been
U reprc- nied—if only by the Of
sce Boy s office boy.
just as you had iigured, this
L the Office Boy writing the
Lmierbox not week-But he will
this
hack next week, so let's just
f Just before the
hr best we can . . .
Bov left for his trip to Colo
Jfftce Boss, he told me I
ado with The
iSd been Piected his office boy ...
just how it . is
nma t tells you . . .
School days - those golden rule
•vs—were brought back into real
(j'lor ‘ 'he pupils when of Major they Robert held a
linn week
reunion He gave them their
is ... and threat
wons. asked questions
ed to use t he paddle if they were
n it back f,f
ot good.— Just like was
years ago when he was their
v .
Leal teacher . . . school is
; and— sure enough go
jug to begin at the regular time . . .
One of the youngster s in school here
,aid 'his morning, "Aw shucks, 1
didn't see what they wanted to go
and say school was not going to
didn’t mean it 1 ,
they ...
And us grown folks are so happy
ww the wav things have turned
eut. Mr Ficquett and Mr. Hawkins
sud their school boards have done
a fine job . . . Dr.
Wf are so glad to h;ar that
Travu is much better . . . Allic
Louise his daughter, tells us he is
now on the road to recovery . . •
[Good going. Doctor . . . We are still
Doping Mr. Fowler will soon W bet
*“ ter ln and U wilt be ° out again soon . . •
The Dr. Greenes , have returnea r „r„ rnpd
from an extended tour of the West
including Hollywood where they vis
bed Jane Withers . . former At -
.
isnta youngster who reached star
don Betty Greene, who made
. .
the trip with her parents, proudly
May, a photograph made with
Jane , . And she has .he personal
autograph of her young movie
friend. . .
Everybody is talking about war
tow and no matter how very hard
I try Well, I just must talk
, . .
about it 100 . . . We are all inter
ested in the welfare of our people
and the people of other lands . .
American's are first interested in
Americans' but we are also inter
Med in .hose who are not so for
itnate . Those who have
who think of nothing but the power
they may attain by taking what oth
ers mav have . . And those who are
not powerful enough in body to re
sist the strength of an aggressor . . .
And thwe who reach out a helping
hand to save Ihe;.. from this certain
disaster. , . .
With (his great threat of war, we
Americans, who can say what we
think and do what as we wish and
worship the God of ottr choice, say
are not interested because we do
not want war , . . but we are, be
catse we a •sincere in our hope for
peace , . . not only for ourselves . . .
but for oihers—May war be even
ianher from us 1har we have ever
dareri hope , . . The last war was
fttonjh and should be enough for
othprs. But. as I close I see war right
here Tnp Bosses son, W'ho is doin
thp bossin until the boss comes, i~
liesriin right this way and too )ate
to be . ,
SWF.EPIN - UP.
Covington Prayer
Service This Week
Br Hopkins, who was scheduled
load North Covington prayer se’r
"re Thursday night, has requested
that the meeting be postponed in
mher that, more Covington
can a,ten d the Union Tent
!T'. r lr ' e ")at is being held on
'unon High School grounds
Hopewell People
building Manse
l1P Hopewell
}l!Th »'■' building a five-room
manse including basement
a large
™° u Bh fot two
,inn rooms. The founda
fnr the “ r
rock ,n d °
tifieation will be a part of the beau
Thp ° r ihe building
lights church has hem wired for
recently and th? Hopewell
are enjoying them
»uth, very
(Eotoinnton I\’fins
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POLANDMOBILIZES MOKE TROOPS
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Covington News Wins The HalM. Stanley
WOULD LIMITS
NEWS OH CRISIS
FROM EBROPE
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Britain and France Plan New
Troop Movement If War
Breaks.
UNITED STATES MXKES >
AN EFFORT TO KEEP
NATION IN CLEAR
Italy Wires U. S. Cooperation
In The Drive For
Peace.
As Poland called up 500,000 more
reserve troops to offset concentra
lion of German forces in Slovakia,
negotiations went forward between
Britain and Germany for some l*ind
of settlement to prevent war.
The German government was said
io have indicated some willingness
Wednesday to negotiate directly
with Poland, as requested by Franc?,
but reports state that Hitler will in
^ lst on the surrender of Dansig and
the Polish Corridor. Very little hope
is held for a setthment between
these two countries however Lai
announcements were that Hitler had
informed Poland that he expected
them to release Danzig within 24
hours.
The United States Government
took action Monday on shipping by
bolding * German, French and Brit
>-sh vessels , for inspection . by the
customs. The officials of the liner
Bremen issued numerous com
plaints, but the U. S. investigators
continued a detailed search of every
part of the ship It was announced
that this was being done as a meas
ure of preventing the United State
f r0 becoming caught in a war
should there be war. Officials be
lieve that foreign countries will at
tempt to store hidden guns and mu
nitions for war use.
A wire from Italy to Presiden
Roosevelt in reply to his recent mes
sage to the King requesting that
he do all he could for peace was re
ceived Wednesday. Premier Musso-
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a untie reply^ to 0 j 1 c J ld {or pPaC 1
He expressed appreciation to Pres
ident Roosevelt for his interest and
assistance in the fight for peace.
All Americans in the European
Countries have been instructed
return to America or to neutral soil
while there is still time. Thousands
of Americans have eeded the ad
vice of the U. S. and are crowding
all ships leaving these European
countries
Home Coming at
Gum Creek Church
There will be a Home coming pro
gram held at the Gum Creek church
Saturday. September 2nd. The pro
gram will begin at 10:30 A. M. and
M r J- O. Martin, fotmet State
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School Superintendent will be the
principal speaker for the day.
The Covington Mill quartet will
present a musical program and
there will be a basket dinner served
on grounds at 1:00 P M. The pub
lie is cordially invited
Over 500 Respond to Altar Call
at “Old Time” Tent Revival Here
An estimated crowd of 2.000
ple at the Sunday night services at
t he Union Tent ran the total at
tendance for Rev. Love B. Harrell's
"old time’’ revival meeting into the
largest ever to turn out for a revival
in this section in the last 25 years,
Over 500 have hit the sawdust
trail in response to altar calls since
the revival started a week ago last
.
Sunday night. The revival will conic
! to * close Sunday night and Rev
Harrell will use “Ye must be born
again,’’ as his closing test. It will
mark the third Sunday night set
,„d should rui. ,he «...
tendance for the revival into the
largest ever to attend in Newton
[county,
Last night Rev Harrell spoke to
•he largest werk-nichf crowd whtci
scheoi
Georgia Enterprise, Est. 1864.
The Covington Star, Est 1874
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Major R. J. Guinn, center, of Atlanta, called the roll of the
pupils he taught 50 years ago at a school near Salem Campground.
Twenty-five attended the first class reunion. They are, seated
left to right. E. B. Plunkett, of Porteidale; J. L. Elliott, of Cov
ington; Mrs. Mnttie Bo.vd Elliott, of Atlanta and Washington;
William S. Elliott, of Canton; Major Guinn; Mrs. Nora Stowers
Womack. Miss Donie Vandegriff, of Covington; Mrs. Corinne Ram
sey Hollingsworth, of Covington; Mrs. Willie W. Watson, of Cov-
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»! STATE Nil
Increased Aid to Deserving
Young People Is
Aim.
Plans for th? National Youth Ad
t.his area and
j throughout the coming .he fiscal entire year state will during
ftb0(Jt increased a id to deserving
j students to enable them to attend
high school and college and an ex
j pansion .of resident and local
projects it was announced today by
State Administrator D. B. Lassetei.
Results of a tabulation just re
leased show that during the last fis
cal year approximately Jol.OOO went
to Newton county youth in the form
of wages on work projects, exclus
ive of those receiving student aid
The average wage of the young peo
p1p workin g on local projects and
those assigned to resident projects
$16.50 All these youths were be
was and 24 inclus
iween tlV * School 18
ive. out of and unemployed,
Their need had been Certified
local authorities
NYA projects in Georgia include
construction of schools,
tv centers, •mneries vocational
« recreation facilities, re
buildings, . rerreation 1
pair tivities. of public and build J ,
raliiy bx cities. i hoo , ,
His subject was “Jesus Pass
e th By.” Tonight he will preach on
|he su bject, “Last chance.”
Saturday night R*v. Harrell will
preach on the much discussed sub
jeot. The sin ngainst the Hoi}
Ghost.’’
The singing, under the direction
of Henry Mullins, is forceful and at
tracting wide attention. An eight
piece Bovs’ Brass band accompan
ies the music
The Union tent is located on the
Covington School grounds and the
S"«vU. , 0 „ ..
1 Rev.
Aftei
Harrell will begin a two-weeks re
vival at Rutledge. Ga . sorting Or
,ober 1st. H? invites Newton county
’iple to come to the Rutledge ser
viers.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, ^ rn *i. 1939. 5c SINGLE COPY
"ofsale,”
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Porterdale Club
Votes in Officers
N. J. Piper Elected President
Of Night Hawks
For Year.
The Night Hawks Club, of P 01 -
terdale met at 10:00 A. M. Monday.
August 28,h. and immediately went
into the annual election of officers
for the ensuing year. After all bal
lots had been counted the following
results were tabulated
President. Mr. N. J. Piper
Vice president. Mr. Joe Wilson.
Secretary, Mr. N. C. Baker.
Treasurer. Mr. D. L. Panain.
Reording secretary, Mr. Neal
Wheeler.
Council: Messrs. Jim Savage. Le
roy Bailey, Bart Davis. Hayden
Christian and Marvin Polk.
In the first tabulation of votes
Mr. Lewis Caldwell was elected coun
cilman. but after he had signified
that he could not serve, Mr. Polk
was elected in his stead. All newly
elected officers made brief talks In
which they thanked the members
for the honor bestowed on them and
promised their very best efforts
throughout their term of office. ”he
Treasurer read the report for the
vear 1938-39 and amongst the high
ii-hts of the report was the expend
e of f to ...... io 1 it* for «ick member"
Alco numerous other . bpr payments navmen tc +o w
Sick and afflicted and other charit
able work that is highlv commend
able. The outgoing President then
made a short talk in which he
thanked 7 . . ‘ member- """L for their
altv throughout ? Dast F - vear and
sai dthat in hlS 0f>1 ' ^ Njgh(
Hawks Club was ^ dub in
p or t er dale.”
tOltr SQliare 0 /'U.u Illy
V
Installs ' Officers
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The annual election i of officers for
the ensuing year for the
square Club was held on Monday
j ht, August 21st and the foliow
n g eiected: A
j n g named were
vice president Mr Charlie Bowen.
President. Mr. Harold S. Gates
Secretary. Mr. Edd Chestnutt.
Treasurer Mr. Henry Berry
Recording secretary. Mr
3. «.«. Perkins. R.
Council „ ... Mps , r , ' * R
J. Cason °- * ' p j T
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ar N -t Bob Plunkptt
Th s? officers will take office on
Monday night. September 4th.
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ington. Back row, left to right, are J. M. Hollingsworth, of Salem:
R. E\ Kirkland, of Salem; . A. Waldrop, of Conyers; D. R. Plunkett,
of Covington; Mrs. R. E. Kirkland, of Covington; Mrs. Paul Harde
man. of Covington; Mrs. Otis Hardeman, of Covington; Mrs. Lee
man Smith, of Covington: Mrs. Cary Plunkett, of Conyers; Mrs.
Lizzie Davis Henry, of Cov ington: Mrs. Florence Smith Loyd, of
Covington. Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd Allmand, of Atlanta, was not
in the picture.—Photo Courtesy Atlanta Constitution.
—
ULlSCHOOLS IN
Chapel Exercise* Will Begin
At 9 O’clock At AH
Schools.
Final reports received from
schools throughout Newton County
slate that everything is in readi
ness for the formal opening exer
ci.-es which will begin at 9 o'clock,
In Covington. Superintendent C.
E. Hawkins announced Tuesday that
opening exercises would be held at
the new school gymnasium with a
specially prepared program. Dr. M.
D. Collins. State Superintendent of
Schools, will be the principal speak
er at these exercises. Mr. Hawkins
al.-o announced that all first graders
are instructed to bring no material
on opening day. A charge of $1.25 for ;
each first grade student will carry
them through the fall term, he said.
At Porterdale. Miss Maude King
superintendent of the school, an
nounced Tuesday that approximate
iv 750 students had already regis
tered there. Tire High School now
has the full number of grades re
quired and has been placed on the
accredited list. Numerous new sub
iects are being offered and will
prove of great practical value to
students.
The Mansfield School will open on
Monday morning . 9 o clock under
the direction of Superintendent
Richardson. A special , , chapel pro
gram has been arranged for open
ing day. At Newborn, Mr. Porter
Henson, of Demorest, Ga . will suc
ceed Mr. Brumbaugh, who goes to
Porterdale At Palmer-Stone, in Ox
ford. Mr. E. A. Edwards will sue
ceed Mr. C. T. Stephens w'ho goes to
Social Circle. At Heard-Mixon, Mr
H M Pulliam will return. At Liv-[
ingston, Mr C. M. Giles will re-;
torn. Miss Frances Robertson will
continue at Starrsville. No successor
has been named at the Covington
Mill for Mr. John Statham
j jfj J\ T eiC Y0\'k
Attending Markets
This week Leon Cohen, manager
of Cohen's Clothing Store, is in
New York attending the new fall
markets Mr Cohen will return to
Covington next week. j
While in New York he will select
a full line of the very laGst fall
styles in elqthes and later will har»
------- -<-olay at his local store on
the Squar*.
Students of 50 Yeaers Ago
Return to Site of
Schooling.
Beneath ihe trees where 50 year:
go they played as school childr n
”5 former pupils of Major R. J.
Guinn, of Atlanta, answered his
roll call at their first Class reunion.
They mingled on the same spot
where stood the weather-beaten,
one-room schoolhouse in which the}
learned the fundamentals of read
ing. writing and arithmetic under
the guidance of Major Guinn. They
paid tribute to their former teach,
er recounted experiences of iheir
early youth and then spread dinner
picnic style, under the trees.
It was a joyous occasion. Time
tContinued on Page Twelve!
Stores to Close
Here Labor Day
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Maj'ority of Merchants Agree
To Close Doors
All Day.
A majority of th’ merchants in
the City of Covington have agreed
to close doors Monday and ail cel
ebrate Labor Dav by not doing any
labor.
Following is the lis* of stores that
have agreed io close ail dav Mon
dav: •
Bank of Covington. Lester and
Smiffh Insurance Agnicy. Fowler
Fertilizer Co Ramsev Furniture
Co.. J. A Harper Barber Shop. Peo
pie's Drug Store. Fred's Depart
ment Store The Toggery Shop. Lo
dpn s T G CanawflV Co.. Vining
Drug Store. The Leader. White's W
Cohen Co Norris Hardware Co
Covington Furniture Co . Diez Bros,
Bell and Fein. Star Fruit Store,
King-Hicks Hardware Co, Consol
idated 5 - 10-25 Cent Store. J. C. Hat
well and Son Funeral Home. Gober
Barber Shop and Beauty parlor.
Western Auto Store Covington
Finance Corp, Piper Hardware Co,
City Pharmacy. Micelle's Beamy
Salon Snapping Shoals Electric
Membership Corp. Covington Auto
i'urd’s Supply Co Bennett-Cofer. Craw
Market. Goodyear Shoe Shop
Birdsey Flour Store. A and P Store
Green Drug Store, Johnson Barber,
1 Shop. McConnell's 5 and 10 Cent j
Store Mrs. Victor William's Beau
»y Shop Amtes and Wattle Beauty
shri •-..V Wa'!s"» Beamy Sho‘\ Car-1
Shoe Shop, Nelson Funeral
Home. 4
TH'S PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Best Typographical
Appearance of Any
Paper in The State
OP CftRTFR COOK
County Agent Writes News
of Farmers Over the
County.
The Georgia Jersey Cattle Cl.tb
has announced a Jersey Production
Show to be held in Marietta at the
fair grounds September 5th and 6th.
All the cows over three years of age
wilt have production records and
cows under that age will be out
cows with records. All bulls .shown
will be out ol ccws who have ex
eeeded the minimum production re
quirements by at least 20 per cent.I
Production shows are not usual in
this section of the country and we 1
feel that this show will be of great 1
to our breeders of purebred
cattle. Each cow will have her
and record of production prominent
ly displayed over her stall as well
as the name of her sire and dam
Last week we went down to see
the corn crop grown by Carter Cook
on his father's farm in the Leguinn j
Section. He has about 50 acres of
bottom corn that looked good for ?0
bushels per acre. He had some up
land corn that was even better and
it is heavily interpianted with vel
vet beans. He plans to put the up
land corn in his silo and use it to
winter his Jersey heifers on. We saw
the heifers and within a year he will
have some nice fresh heifers for thp
market. His purebred Duroc Jersey
hogs were looking fine and the
feeder pigs were ready to begin tak
ing the feeo.
We keep finding farmers who are
interested in doing some pasture ;
work. This is a healthy sign; in the
past when our farmers decided to:
try livestock they made the mistakp
of buying the livestock first. There
seems to be an attitude now of gei-;
ting the feed and pasturage first
This is as it should be. Livestock are
only the means whereby cheap feed
is convened into cash at a good
price. A farmer with surplus of
corn should be able to get more for
his corn if marketed as beef or pork
Put if we buy the animal and them
buy the fet ; about all we are en-!
t-tied to from the enterprise is pay
for giving the feed to the animal
and since farm wages are rathpr low
this practice will not pay very good
dividends. Pasturage is the cheap-;
est feed as the livestock doe= the
fContinued on I ..ge Twelve)
John Statham Is Taken by Death;
High Tribute Paid Him by Friends
After an extended illness at Em
ory University Hospital in Atlanta,
John Statham. 27. well known New
ton county school teacher, sue
cumbed Saturday afternoon at
to a disease that had slowly
his life
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at the
Julia A. Porter Memorial church
Porterdale. A throng of over 600
packed the church and churchyard
to pay final tribute to the man that
“everybody liked.”
Mr. Statham was superintendent
of the Covington Mill school and
was an active teacher up until the
school closed in May of this year
His successor at Covington Mill
schoo’ for this term has not b-en
named yet,
Mr Statham was well known
throughout the county He got his
early schooling at Por, -dale
he graduated at Po-.-rdaie High
school. Hs entered school at
Award Presented News at
The Georgia Press
Association.
TROPHY WILL BE ON
DISPLAY AT OFFICE
OF COVINGTON NEWS
Plant of This Paper One of
Largest In Entire
South.
The Covington News has been
awarded the coveted Hal M. Stan
ley trophy for the best typographic
a ! appearance of any weekly paper
the state of Georgia.
The trophy was presented to the
Georgia Press Association by Hal M
Stanley, popular Executive Secret
tary of the Association, The tro
was given the press association
to be awarded each year to the pa
per having th? best typographical
appearance. This is the .second year
the Covington News has been hon
ored with this beautiful award,
This trophy is in a handsome eas#
of glass and contains two bronzs
plates suitably inscribed and an al
manac printed in 1757 by Benjamin
Franklin. This is the first original
copy printed by “Poor Richard.”
Duhng the past seven years the
management has equipped this plant
so that it is now the largest weekly
plant in Georgia A large rotary
press, the same as used by the At- j f
lanta Daily papers, was recently
added. Later, the management add- 1
ed an engraving plant which is now
in the experimental stage. Previous
ly new linotypes, ludlow, Monotype,
make-up stones and the latest style
type was added.
The Covington News now print*
approximately 140.000 Market Bui- j
letins. a state publication, every two
weeks. The News also publishes two
other large weekly publications as
well as circulars and other jobwork j
for every section of Georgia,
A mailing crew i.« employed and 1
handles the large amount of mater
ial that goes out by regular mail,
parcel post, express and freight,. The
public is invited to inspect th» New*
plant and. at the same time, see the
beautiful Stanley Trooh.v. which was
awarded this paper,
Other newspapers winning awards j
for various activities were as fob
lows: J. R, Honady Rome News
Tribune, for community service: Edd !
Burch. Dalton Citizen, for advertis- j
ing display; Gordon Chapman. San. !
dersville Progress, for best Editorial |
Page; C. A. Meeks. Carroll Frc« # .
Press for best editorial: Jere Moors,
MiiledgevillP Union Recorder, for
religious editorial; Milton Flee -
wood. Cartersville Tribune, best pie- j
tines: Otis Brumby. Cobb County
<Continued on Page Twelve)
at-Ox'ord and later attended Ogle
thorpe Untversit where he received
an A. B. degree He also excelled In
baseball, track, boxing and football.
held the boxing title at the uni
versity for awhile. Later he coached
baseball at Covington Mills.
Mr. Statham had b;en in declin
ing health since the close of the May
term of school. He had been in the
hospital in Atlanta for a month or
more before his death.
Rev. Sweatman pastor of the
Porterdale church, conducted the
funeral services. Interment was in
the Porterdale cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, father
and mother. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Sts
tham: four sisters. Mildred. France.
and Lois Statham. and Mrs, Earl
‘
Austin; three brothers. Gilbert,
Janies and Bill Statham. of Porter*
dale The New- extends sympathy
the bereaved family. Stauffv'-«r
and White Fun-at Home had
charge of the last rnea. f