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23,
lass of 1940,
A Salute To You
Bv Jop Wilson
Superintendent, Teachers,
lr. Friends: Contrary to the
nK and only at
lom in such cases, client,
request of tny noble
of ’40. have I called you to
s iler departure, to
er. before receive her
her will and
Hread io tell you the unusual
dances that await the Doctor my
„ t but be calm:
ready to revive all faint
ere he cannot attend
ones. but. and
iany. Here is my secret
it well.
consultation of doctors of
it learning was called togeth
have announced that to
Ihev 24, the class
it, Ffidav, May
|0 will be no more.
|v client wishes me to state
I owing to a lightness in the
I caused by its gradual and swell
[ the last fo ur y ears a
lines.' in the heart and other
thoughts , , , of ,
n < caused by
King, such as the things she
I she “ives to you, hoping that
* I 8 not believe that it is
may cannot keep these
m L because she
that she is so generous in
Kg them to you. Will.
K. The
the Class of ’40, being about
Kave Kn this sound sphere, mind, in full memory pos
of a
Best Wishes and
Congratulations
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GINN MOTOR CO.
hone 280 Covington, Ga.
BEST WISHES
to the
GRADUATES
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McELROY’S
RESTAURANT
TO THE 1940 NEWTON COUNTY
GRADUATES
“A Word To The Wise Is Sufficient”
Come out to the ALCOVE when you’re out for a big
time. We have a big hardwood dance floor and a chef
that’s really good. We have free picnic grounds and,
most important of all, a desire to get and hold your
Patronage through quality of service.
Under the new management the ALCOVE has been
greatly improved. We feature a novel attraction in the
Green Room, just the place to have a private dinner
w kh friends, classmates, or club brothers or sisters. Or
use this picturesque of next j
setting as the scene your
aiternoon tea or bridge party. We appreciate your
support in the past and solicit your continued patronage.
THE ALCOVE
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly in the State)
and understanding, do make and
publish this, our last will and
testament, hereby revoking and
making void all former wills by
us at any time heretofore made.
We do dispose of the same as
follows:
Item 1. Marie Alexander wills
her desire to argue with teach
ers to Lois Mize.
Item 2. Ruby Gray sends to
Doris Polk, wth best wishes, her
geometric figures.
Item 3. W. C. Bales wills his
ability of reaching magazines, all
types, to James Cowar.
Item 4. Sara Veal said if it is
possible to do so, she will leave
her loud voice with George Ram
sey, Jr.
Item 5. Martha Chafin
her giggling to Kemina Stokes,
to use it in the right time.
Item 6. For Delores Bowden,
Mary'Chafin leaves her flirting
ability, provided that she will
stick to the handsome boys.
Item 7. Letitia Hollingsworth
wills her title of being 1 te on all
occasions to George Ramsey, Jr.
Item 8. Vlary King wills her
ability of good reading to Edward
Cofer, hoping that he wifi have
success with it.
Item 9. Ruby Steadham glad
ly departs her ability to work
Geometry to Edward Cofer.
Item 10. Lynda Wilson gladly
leaves her ability at being a good
sport to Lois Mize.
Item 11. Pie Almand wills her
ability of digging up family trees
Faculty of The Livingston School
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In the above picture are members of the faculty of the Livingston School System. They are as
follows (front row): Miss Mary Ellen Corry, Mrs. John Hardeman, Miss Julia Walker, Miss Sue Thomp
son, Mr. C. M. Giles. 'Second row): Mrs. C. S Hardwick, Mrs. W. L. Cowan, Miss Elizabeth Pat
terson, Miss Alberta Wilson, Mrs. L. W. New. Miss Lurline Thompson is not in picture.
manufacturei', for a firm of an
tique dealers. I call that pretty
wormy.
Sara Moss, the card declares that
you will be the writer of big game
stories to go with rugs and mount
ed heads, supplied to wealthy but
unsuccessful sportsmen.
Miss Pie Almand will make a
large fortune as the inventor of a
collapsible kitchenette which can
be carried around in the pocket,
slid under the bed, or will shut
up like an accordian and hang
upon the wall.
Ah! Mary King follows a crim
inal career eh! The card declares
that she will be engaged by the
government to finger print every
body whether guilty or not guilty.
She will have a staff of assist
ants including Nellie King, Ruby
Steadham and several of the 10th
g de b u °y s and , girls . , ,, Her
lence as a popula '' and much fol
,
! iy ^ £ r o
fw such suen du duties.
Ra ^ will be employed by the
University of Georgia to deter
™ n f «ie I Q. of incoming stu
de " te ' 1 wonder if the I. Q. means
mitiative and querulousness of
ea J St fwart P™spect. destmed to be the ori
glnator . of
; a short course in church
| housekeeping for sextons. That’s
good - 1 h °P e invents some
thmg to insure the best of venti
: lation.
n Dons • will u be the maker of sil
houette portraits of sturdy and
ans ociatic looking ancestors
^u Aha. n( ! U ^ This e u aUX is Ricb the ' future of
our
gentle, lady-like Johnie Hooper,
bls e ’ J find, designing is destined to spend
pink, green and
ort ’hid bathrooms for movie stars
I oertainly hope after they see
the bathrooms they do not prove
| to be shooting stars,
j Marie is to conduct a corres
| P°ndence tening delicacies course in for the Tea non-fat
Room
| proprietors. I bet while she's per
J | fecting shed the silhouettes of her
rons be consuming amazing
quantities of chocolates, creams
and pastries, herself,
Fortune has in it for Ray his
fate is to spend the years ahead
installing radios in electric re
frigerators, for he has a theory
that foods chilled to the tune of
proper wave lengths will promote
harmony in the human system
when devoured, and prove the
means of combating ptomaine
poisonings of all kinds.
Sara Veal is destined to be the
county librarian in a remote sec
tion of the Rocky Mountains
where very few people are on the
level.
W. C. will eventually become
Secretary of the U. S. Navy.
Martha promises to be a great
literary light and will eventually
succeed in writing criticisms of
new movies for “Life.”
Well, well, listen to this, will
you! Joe will spend his life rais
ing ostriches to supply the talkies
with chorus costumes, I wonder if
the wearers of the fine plumage
will hide their heads and imagine.
they are simply out of sight.
Sybil is to become very rich
through the invention of a silencer
for back-seat drivers, which Check i
will manufacture for distribution
by Sears. Roebuck and Co.
Ruby Gray is to become inter
nationally known as the designer j
of stuffed animals for nursery'
population.
Mary Fleming is to run a un*
ique gift shop carrying suitable
goods for presents for people yon j
dislike.
Georgia is to become a designei |
of frocks for school and office
wear, which can be darned in
one second, with a nose pow'der- j
ing device thrown in for good
measure. The benefaction is to i
save mankind from having to
wait for the ladies to get ready.
Mary Chafin will be selected i
as the special Ivory Soap carver
for the Queen of Roumania.
Lynda is to become a famous
lecturer over the radio on Cata
ract Bridge.
Georgia 4-H club members are
eligible to compete for 32 free j
trips to the National 4-H Club!
Congress csholarships and this $2,400 in in contests college |
' year j
\ on farm, home, and crops account- j
tng projects. !
and posing like Hedy Lamarr, to
Kathryn Fisher.
Item 12. Ray Steadham wills
his beautiful curly locks to Ed
ward Treadwell.
Item 13. Georgia Armistead
gives her love for a chair beside
the windo\, to Doris Polk.
Item 14. Mary L. Fleming. Ray
Steadham and Clyde Weldon give
their procrastination to Carl
Standard.
Item 15. Charles Stewart Ches
nut wills his ability of dancing
to James Cowan. James, be sure
to specialize in the chicken dance.
Item 16. Sybil Kelly wills her
poetic ability to Edward Tread
well.
Item 17. Nellie King leaves
her cheerful disposition to Doris
Polk.
Item 1C Doris Hicks will de
part with her cosmetics if Kath
ryn Fisher will use them only be
fore talking to Boyce Lee Re yv
n0 dS ’
Item 10 19. Sara c M Moss wills „ . her,
ability as a beautician to Carl,
Standard.
Item 20. Johnie Hooper wills
ail of those cut-up desks in the,
Senior room to Frank Christian.:
provided that he keeps a sharp
knife.
Item 21. I. myself, Joseph Wil
son. leave my ability to help get
ads for the Senior play to the
entire Junior Class.
To the Class of ’41, from the
Class of ’40, we leave the privi
lege of taking refuge behind
George Washington and Franklin
D. Roosevelt, provided they are
able to find out how it is done
1 and also the privilege not to line
up after Christmas, which was
willed to us by the Seniors of ’39.
Seal this day, May 24, 1940, by
the Class.
Class Prophecy
By Ruby Steadham
Here I am at last. I’m sorry to
be late, but I have been tiying to
persuade as many as possible to
fill out the questionaires as you
requested. I was finally able to
get them all. Even to the Class
officers, which I didn’t dare to
omit.
Tish was cut out to be a dealer;
and importer of fancy fish for
pools in Aquaria.
Clyde will make a career for
himself as an expert worm hole
THE COVINGTON NEWS
Valedictory
By Doris Hicks
Parents, faculty, friends, class
mates, ladies and gentlemen:
I stand before you with greet
ings from the Class of 1940, of
the Livingston High School. All
the world is fair to us today, for
is it not the gay and festive May
time? The birds and flowers are
doing their best to make us feel
and know that this is a beautiful
world. At this season, if never be
fore, our feelings should overflow
with good fellowship toward all
human kind. We realize that the
Hand of Divinity is a decorative
hand; from the moss-covered dell
to the loftiest mountain top, we
feel the power of beauty.
As if it were not enoueh to find
thp WQrld dresseH j ga) , ‘_’
W(? gre fa . yj tQ outriva] the 2av
ety 0 f nature when we are brought
t0 the ™ in « event our
young graduation Hav \
<>' few'short , v, hours
v « « e “ « body the center of
^ f v ‘' S!0n a ' " Teachers d ne j 8hdors pro
’
**de into the background. Next
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dav * for our few short
: ea ’, s ' bu ‘ now, we loom large
“ the P ubRc *y*; K is certainly
^ fhn ugh ph shortlived ^ tv to ee feel ,ng ’ our a ~
selves persons of Inrst
evei > e y^
T° wat 'd the members of the
h 'gh . school faculty] one and all,
however, there are only thrills of
sadness over the reflection that
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Congratulation a If a l
To You Newton County ? 40 1 i i
Graduates, on Your Splendid i i. I
Achievements During Your Gram- 1 1
mar and High School Life. i
We sincerely trust that you each and every one have during these most im- t
portant formative years formed a fo undation of character and training '
that may lead you on through your co liege years and which will better
equip to lead fuller and useful life in respective 1
you a more your com- i
munities.
You Bet I'm Crowin 1 :
* ; My neighbors kidded me for being fussy about
i." the kind of paint that went on my house. But
the laugh's on them!
THEY RODE ME PLENTY when I gof hepped up over
the new Pee Gee 2-Coat System. "There's nothing
H new in the paint field," they said, "just the old I
fashioned kinds that have to be renewed every
iew years.’' I
I THOUGHT DIFFERENT. I knew the Pee Gee people
were advertising a new kind oi house paint, developed
V by modern chemists in a modern paint laboratory.
I read where they claimed their new 2-Coat System
mm ■>% % jm fM' would outlast average paint jobs 2 to 1. And I figured
■p■■ Ms a company that's been in business right here in
– the South for as long as 73 years wouldn't make
claims they couldn't support.
SO I INSISTED. My painter used Pee Gee and I
mi m got the finest paint job I’ve ever had. Sure I'm crowin’.
m Tve got a right to. Pee Gee Paints are distributed by
~Sur«, crow V—
in i 1 m«<!
Gff* erad got th*
ftafltf paint foh
I hadT’
Norris Hardware Company
Phone 38 Covington, Georgia
(Our Advertiser* Are Assured of Results)
the final parting is near. You
have indeed been our Mentors,
never failing, never deviating in
times of stress and anxiety from
the best method of dealing with
our desires. To this faithfulness
and clearsightedness, we owe our
position upon this platform. Your
many helpful monitions, let me
assure you. in behalf of the class
of 1940, will go with us as we
progress along life’s checkered
pathway, and in the future, as
in the past, always to encourage
and advise, always to cheer and
assist.
Classmates, on occasions of this
kind, grief is always mixed with
joy, fears with laughter, but let
us today keep the sadness as an
undercurrent, bringing to the sur
face jov over a goal won, a moun
tain climbed, a prize gained.
Though great are the joys of be
ing a high school student, no one
I am sure, would wish to remain
one forever. There are other
heights to reach, other battles to
win.
Let your thoughts dwell for a
moment on that wonderful phrase
of Paul’s: “I press toward the
mark.” How this one thought has
revolutionized the world! Any
thing may come to the girl or boy,
to the man or woman, who is
spurred on and up by this sen
tence. It is not the idle dreamers
that have caused this madly rush
ing world to pause and “take no
tice.” Note the definiteness and
determination in this short sen
tence. The apostle does not say
“now and then,” “When I hap
pen to feel like it,” or “if I am not
too tired,” and so on through the
various quibblings and deviations
so readily falling from the hu
man tongue, but bent and old and
weary, though this frail man was,
when he uttered these words, yet
he still “pressed toward the
mark.” This was the same spirit
which stirred ' roan of Are when
^ led the French soldiers to
glorious victory; it fired the soul
* Abraham Lincoln to guide the
£ of state through the stor ms
wh h threatened to engulI her .
Many ypung peopIe leave high
school full of golden promises, to
u appearances the world is their
oyster, which they are soon to n P -
en. and yet nothing ever happens,
v/hy ig ^ SQ? Ig it n(?t becaus e
th turn hither and thither and
drjft glong without a single mark
toward which they are pressing?
Rp assured it is not only the re _
Ugious ljfe which ig straight and
'narrow, but these two adjectives
are descriptive of every pathway
which leads to success.
There is still another sentence
belonging to this saying of the
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wonderful apostle, which it would
be well to consider, “Forgetting
those things which are behind,”
and this forgetting is very often
an essential part of success. Per
haps you have done great things
during your years of school life,
led your class in scholarship,
written the prize paper of the year
or won a dozen other trophies, but
forget them all, place them in the
past, for if you expect to do great
er things in the future, it must be
“press toward the mark,” never
“Behold the things which I have
done.” The things which you have
done should be incentives to
greater effort. It is always a wise
and healthy thing to try to out
strip ourselves.
And thus, dear classmates,
while at this momentous hour we
are saying to our teachers and to
all our helpers, words of saddest
parting, the utterance of that in
spiring sentence, “Forgetting those
things which are behind, I press
toward the mark,” will gllc’ With
a new and unwonted splendor ev
en that sad word “Farewell.”
Salutatory
By Mary King
Dear friends, teachers, parents,
and schoolmates:
Since our high school careers
began four years ago, we have
worked and played together in this
institution of learning, we have
shared each other’s work, fun,
joys and sorrows; thus forming
ties of friendship which shall never
be broken.
Three years we have seen class
es receive diplomas, wondering if
our time would ever come. Our
time has come toiiight, and it is
my pleasure and privilege to ex
tend to you a warm welcome to
our graduating exercises. We hope
that, for all of us, this may be
BEST WISHES
Graduates! V 1
]
of Newton County ]•
Citizens Finance Co.
T. G. CALLAWAY, JR., Proprietor
EDTTTON
an occasion of pleasure and prof- !
it.
To our parents, relatives and
visitors, it is a joy tp have you
with us tonight. To the county I '
and local board of trustees, we
welcome and wish to express '
you . I
our gratitude for making our |, .
school one of the best. To our j
teachers, we extend to you a hear
ty welcome and take this occas
ion to say “thank you” for your
patienc^ your kindness and your
guidance.
To the Junior Class we offer
our congratulations tipon having
^become the Senior Cln s of ’41.
We wish for you the best things f | i
of life. We commit to you the tra
ditions of our school and extend
sincere wishes that you will seek j
the treasures of kno v ledge. May 1 ,
you unlock the doors-v/hich lead
to the wonders and wealth of I !
highest, happiness and success,' and ;
you, classmates, may vou go for- ■ |
ward to be happy warriors in the
battles of life.
Thus far our lives have been
sheltered and protected. Tonight
the latch string hangs on the out
side. As we leave these halls of
learning we tread separate paths ' t
in the world. We hope that you, )
too, will give us a welcome. ’
Please be patient with us while j
we are learning how to occept re- ;
sponsibility. Lend us a' helping ..
hand when we fall. Mow, as we j ? -
take our places among you, we
hope that our sojourn together will !' j'
be peaceful, profitable and liapp;/
in order that we may together
glorify and honor our Creator and
in order that we may be of ser
vice to our fellow men.
I thank wu. ■
!
Any machine on the farm, or
dinarily turned by hand, can be
operated with a small electric
motor at a cost of about one cent ►
per hour for electricity.