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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
THE COVINGTON NEWS
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the Postoffiee at Covington, Georgia, as mail matter of
the Secon - ' ”lass.
A. BELMONT DENNIS _Editor and Publisher
W THOMAS HAY-- ______Advertising Manager
LEON FLOWERS-- Mechanical Superintendent
TOM KINNEY_____ ________Sports Editor
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Official Organ of Newton County and The
City of Covington.
Easter Sunrise Services To Be Broadcast.
The entire county is urgently requested , to . , be present x
on the public square Easter Sunday morning to participate
in a Sunrise Easter Morning Service.
All the churches of the community and throughout
the county are co-operating and it is expected there will
be a large crowd to gather to pay homage to our King and
in an appropriate manner observe Resurrection Morn.
Arrangements have been made to broadcast the serv
i« through the Blue Ribbon network of the National
Broadcasting Company through W AGA, the Atlanta Jour
nal Blue Ribbon station.
A committee from the Kiwanis club made the trip to
Atlanta to arrange for the broadcast and definite assur
ance has just been received that it will be put on the air.
The services are to be held from 7:30 to 8 o'clock and
will be broadcast over the radio.
We urge the citizens of this comm unity to ♦ attend n i as
a very attractive program has been arranged and they will
not only benefit by the services, but will also enjoy the
program of music which has been arranged to broadcast.
Boy Scout Week in Newton County.
Beginning next Monday Boy Scout Week will be
celebrated in Newton County. All citizens ol this county
should join in this observance of a cause so vital to the
youth of our county. this
Too much praise cannot be heaped upon move
ment It has been of inestimable benefit to the youth of
our ♦ nation since its founding. It has changed the life and
pVrspecttve of , every youth ,, With .... which „ r u:„v, t Vioc has come nr ,mo in i.i
contact. That change has always wrought for the better,
cleaner, purer life.
principles of clean living, _ religion, ...
It inculcalos in
tegrity, honesty and morality into the lives of the boys
it touches. If more boys could be brought under its in
fluence the tendency to crime among our youth would be
on the downgrade instead of the upgrade.
A noted Juvenile Court Judge in one of our larger
cities recently stated out of the 1100 cases he has tried
among the youth of that city, that there was not a boy
who had had 1he training of a Boy Scout.
Dr. James Barker, noted lecturer, who recently spoke
in Covington, stated he had recently visited three different
convict camps where approximately 5,000 prisoners were
kept and that he had failed to find a single prisoner who
had been a Boy Scout.
We could cite hundreds of such testimonials but we
feel they are entirely unnecessary as we all know the
splendid work which this fine organization is doing in
our own county. Scout
There are 200 Scouts and cubs in active Boy
troops in Newton county and we should all join in help
ing them observe Boy Scout Week. According to a recent
poll taken, it was revealed that 3 out of every 4 boys de
sired to be Scouts. The only sad part about that is that
troop membership is limited as the professional staff is
small and it is only by the help of some 1,200 volunteer
workers that the work is able to continue.
We wish to convey to each and every one engaged in
this work from the highest official to the humblest cub
our sincere admiration for the part they are playing in
raising the standard of the youth of our country.
It is a noble work and one which should receive the
full co-operation of every citizen in our county. Amer
ica's future lies in its youth and as long as its youth have
any connection with Boy Scout troops we can view the fu
ture with a feeling of pride and security.
Statement of City of Covington.
i Elsewhere in this issue of our paper there is carried
’ a full page advertisement showing the income, expenses
and expenditures of the City of Covington in detail.
Councilman W. C. MeGahee, chairman of the Finance
\j Committee, is of the opinion that the citizens of our city
: should be informed and kept informed of the financial af
fairs as far as the city is concerned. Mayor S. L. \\ aites
! and the other councilmen concur in this and have ordered
this statement be published each year that our citizens
i may be better informed of the financial condition of the
I city. council
We heartily commend this step taken by and
believe the entire city • ill commend them for this action.
This action is in line with an agitation which is being en
ergetically championed all the state by the ,, „ ,
over
Finding Movement and places our city on record as being
willing and eager to give all the facts to the voters
Covington. this statement and
We urge our citizens to study ac
quaint themselves tvith conditions now prevailing and they
vill take a more active interest in the affairs of our city.
J V o-operation Among Merchants Essential.
Covington is fortunate in having such a splendid
umber of merchants who have co-operated with each
ther in possible and while they be in ,
every way may
etition with each other their competition has been keen
ut friendly.
This is indeed a laudable spirit and an indication of
e pride our merchants have in our fine city. They each
rive for business but allow the other merchants the same
lMlege the> enjoj.
4 Several years ago they agreed on closing . hours and ,
tve found by earlier closing they did not lose any
, 'Bs and gave their employees an opportunity to
me of the pleasures in life. Instead of remaining open
,L il six and seven in the week days and until
Saturdays, they agreed to close at 5 o'clock in
(Our Advertisers Are Assured of Result* >
1 afternoon during week days and nine o’clock on Saturdays
and have educated the buying public to these hours.
Since the opening of a new store recently in our city
all of the stores have had to remain open until six o’clock
thereby depriving almost a hundred people of an hour a
day due to the fact that the new store refuses to co-operate
with the other merchants on the closing hours.
The store is a member of a chain of stores which may
remain open in the other cities until this hour, but we be
lieve everyone should bow to the will of the majority and
when a chain store does move into a city it should respect
the wishes of the other merchants established there and
adopt the slogan of one of our big industries and be “a
citizen wherever we serve.”
We trust the members of this firm will see the fine
spirit of the other merchants and co-operate accordingly
that the clerks in the others stores will not be penalized. ;
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Sunday School Lesson
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. TRIUMPH OVER DEATH
Lesson: Matthew 27:57 to 28 : 15 .
j Golden from the Text: dead, Now and is become Christ ris
en the
firstfruit of them that slept.—l
Cor. 15:20.
Sensational news accompanied
with bewilderment and unbelief
threw the disciples into wild ex
j
j esus . The body had pre _
paicri for burial by Joseph of Ar
jmathea and sepulchre Nicodemus and laid
in ® new hewn in rock,
, Stave closed with
was a
k *great stone and sealed by the Jew
: ish authorities, who had reasons
I Thlre iHv *-S *uic (Tful „
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ri n t Saturday t and I Sun to
There was a difference in that '
grave, and in the morning of the!
third day an event occurred that
has transformed all succeeding
th^U^column ol
the Christian faith on which it all
rests.
If this be thrown down, the
whole structure falls into ruins,
If this in a certified fact, the whole j
gospel is established. No resur
rection means no divine Christ,
but a risen Jesus means a mighty
Saviour>
No one saw Jesus rise, but many
saw mm r j se n. The gospel narra
fives pour around this fact a blaze
of light such as illuminates no
other supernatural event in the
Bible. central Inspiration place has buttressed set it in its [
and it :
with many infallible proofs so that |
j it stands on rock.
Five different appearances of
| the risen Christ on the day of the
resurrection are recorded: first, to
Mary Magdalene early in the
morning near the sepulchre; sec
ond, to the other women soon af
i* r J n . th ° ^ SB ™ ^'toe , pl ^ e ’ third ’
tw wayto Em
maus in the afternoon . fifth> t0
the asse mbled disciples, except
Thomas, in an upper room in Je
rusaiem in the evening. Six later
recorded, , , ,
appearances are making
eleven in all.
The morning opens with the
faithful women, who were last at
the cross, first at the tomb.
They had “bought spices, that
j they might anoint him." This lov
j ing act has immense value as
showing the state of mind of these
women and of all the disciples
after the crucifixion. They be
lieved that Jesus was dead and
J S uderly be
wildcredi sc er ed and crushed
and SU p posed that all was over.
The same state of mind is also
revealed in their question, “Who
shall rill U-S away the stone from
the door of the tomb? Behind
that stone lay, as they believed,
the dead body of their Lord and
they felt that they were stopped
by its massive obstruction.
However, when the women
came in sight of the tomb they
saw the stone had been rolled
away. An earthquake Matthevv
e s us, had shaken it loose and
left the rocky Jaws of the tomb
standing open for the risen Je
Sli “And «> a' 0!0U entering ®. -into ‘ the , tomb. ,
the ysaw a young man in a white
robe; and they were amazed.” The
women were afrighted, as men of
the stoutest nerves would have
been, and the white-robed mes
senger said to them, “Be not am
azed: ye seek Jesus, the Naza
rene, who hath been crucified: he
is risen; he is not here: behold the
place where they laid him!”
"Fear not” was the first note
of the angel’s song at announcing
the birth of Jesus, and this is the
keynote of the gospel all the way
through to the final shout in beav
en.
“Why seek ye the living among
i the dead?” these women were
asked. Unwittingly they classed
( be living Christ among the dead,
and may we not do the same yet?
When we think if him as solely a
historical person we forget and
m’ 8 * his living reality and pres
ence; and the faith that reduces
I I him to the level of humanity puts
him back in the grove among the
dead
“He is risen; he is not
was the triumphant reason
why that tomb was empty. What
became of that body, if Jesus did
not rise? The story of the resur*
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rection soon threw the priests in
to a panic, and they could have
they saw a young man in a white
produced the pody over which
they had set their own guard if
it was still in that sealed tomb.
But the grave was empty because
its temporary occupant was risen,
“Remember how he spake unto
-He Tfrton' ’
Hjs death wa g no unforeseen ca _
lamity that fell upon him and cut
short his work, but it was a part
0 f his purpose and was built into
his plan even before the founda
tion of the world.
The women received a message,
"Go, tell his disciples and Peter.”!
Having received the good news;
they immediately began to tell !
others,
Peter and James and John and
a11 the eieven believed the story
*bese women was some hallu
cination of their excited minds, j
“idle talk,” “the wild talk of sick
delirium,” as the Greek word j
means.
An inventor of such a story
would never have put into it the
unbelief of these disciples in the
resurrection, but would rather
have represented them as being
unanimous and enthusiastic be
lievers from the beginning. The!
fact that they d j S b e iieved it and:
scoffed at it shows they had no
thought of such an event and
were in no state of mind to see
visions or to be easily deceived or
persuaded. They stood out stout
ly against it and were convinced
only by incontestable facts. Thom
as held out for eight days and his
unbelief collapsed only when he
could thrust his hands into the
very print of the wounds of
Christ,
so the unbelief of these disci
pies sets their conversion in the
light of strong proof and confirms
our faith.
Among the faithful women who
in that early morning came into
the garden where was the tomb
of Jesus was Mary Magdalene. We
find her standing outside “at the
tomb weeping.” And when asked,
„ wh weepest thou? she saith un _
to them, Because they have taken
away my Lord, and I know not
where they have laid him” (John).
Her faith was not able to ride
the storm which she supposed
ended in an utter wreck. She was
weeping over what she thought was
a piece of infinite mischief in
God’s world. All her passionate
faith and love and hope had been
swept into confusion by this tra
gic disaster. Yet God was shaping
all these events into a triumphant
victory that shall fill eternity with
its blessing and song.
Do we not trouble ourselves
witll much unnecessary distre ss
and often shed tears over our own
imaginings? Are we not living m
God>s worId anfl Is p e not caus
a]1 things to work together for
our d? Ig not the grave itself
but the green m0U ntam top of a
fat new world?
^ Qur bUndfid and unbe .
u . hearts but Know the truth
about ^ dead> Qur tears , vould
seem to be as mislakcn and base .
5egs as the lears o{ M Magda .
]en0 at the empty tomb of her
Lord when her Lord himself was
jugt at her side and would
enU reveal himsel{ t0 her .
Frisky Farm Freak
Born in Carroll
This ain’t no bull. George Mar
low, Carrollton, has a week-old
heifer calf with three hind feet.
The calf, whose daddy is a Here
ford and whose mother is from
Jersey, has a two-way stretch rear
left leg. Mr. Marlow would like to
see Mr. Ripley.
Lespedeza will produce for
harvest, and, if handled properly,
will reseed itself.
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HAPPYVALE ALASKA PINK CANDY EASTER
SALMON 2 CANS 1-LB. 27c EGGS * piacd a
1 cot 61 '
CARNATION OR PET , v onF 11
MILK 8 SMALL 4 TALL 25c 12ic ■
LB. Uel ; at
CANS CANS (
LARGE SIZ—28-30 TO LB
MAXWELL HOUSE ■om
COFFEE 24ic FACTORY PACKED (IN PAP( ■fi
LB. CAN th s
FULL PACKED SUGAR [i<
TOMATOES 4 No. CANS 2 25c 25c 5 LB. BAG i° lb. BA t v
GOLD DOLLAR PREPARED
MUSTARD QUART JAR 10c GIANT OCTAGON ikind iif
: STANDARD CATSUP TOMATO 3 14-OZ. 25c SOAP he er. P * (
3 GIANT 10c love
BOTS. BARS
ARM – HAMMER FOR FINE THINGS USE excess
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SODA 3 12-OZ. 10c RINSO CjO I for *
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CANS LARGE SIZE i ange
REGULAR 5 CENT LIBERTY BELL SALTED SODA [well
MATCHES 2 5c CRACKERS 2 LB. 15 4 the
BOXES BOX
TABLE ARMOUR’S STAR
SALT 2 24-OZ. 5c MILK 8 SMALL CANS OR
PKGS. 4 TAL CANS
LUX OR LIFEBUOY N. B. C. PREMIUM
SOAP 3 BARS 17c FLAKES LB. BOX
CAMAY MIRACLE WHIP SALAD
SOAP 3 bars 17c I DRESSING PINT
Fresh Grade A Newton County MERITA lOd .
EGGS dozen 19c BUTTER CRACKERS r°c z
Maybelle MERITA
OLEO LB._ 10c GRAHAM CRACKERSaoxlOt
Sm 24-oz. pkgs. 15c RITZ CRACKERS LB. BOX
Colonial Potted
Meat, 3 cans 10c
Black
Pepper, 8-oz. can . 10c
Kingan’s Corned Beef
Hash, 16-oz. can 15c
PURE LARD
2 Lb. Ctn. 4 Lb. Ctn. 8 Lb. Ctn.
15c 29c 58c
PRODUCE
DEPARTMENT
u. s. NO. 1 IRISH
POTATOES
10 FOR LBS. 27c
Fancy Yellow
Onions, 3 lbs.
Canadian Ruta
Bagas, 4 lbs.
Fancy Swete Juicy Fla.
Oranges, 2 doz. 25c
Fancy Yates
Apples, dozen
Fancy Kiln Cured
Yams, 5 lbs.. C-n
Fancy Florida
Grapefruit, 3 for 12c
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THE MARKET OF LOW PRICE AND HIGH QUALITY
BEEF i
POT ROAST lb.
FANCY LEAN
PORK CHOPSlb o
CENTER CUT
CURED HAM LB iK
FRESH SHOULDER
PORK ROAST LB. X
ROBERSON’S PURE
PORK SAUSAGE „ ..... 20t wl
FRESH SLICED
PORK STEAK LB 15c
DRY SALT THICK
FAT BACK lb
DRY SALT
STREAK O’ LEAN „__________ 7c
BEEF
CHUCK ROAST LB. o
Choice—Any Cut
STEAKS, lb. 28c
Fr^sh Ground
BEEF, lb. ----15c
Kinffan’s Reliable Sliced
BACON, lb. _____20c
Kingan’s English Cure
BACON, lb._______25c
Ga. Sliced Rind Off
BACON, lb --------- 18c
Smoke Strip
BACON, lb. -----1 214c
FRESH DRESSED HENS and FRYERS
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Ga. Tenderized
HAMS, lb.
Fresh 10
MULLET, lb. c
Fresh Red Fin lb----–
CROAKERS,
FVfvcIi lb----15c
MACKEREL,
Fresh Stew 25c
OYSTERS, pint ____
Fresh Select 35
OYSTERS, pint____ c