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which the
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|tv Covington and tell News each did person not that be
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Kingdom work and
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Newton County for the pro
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and knowing that it is
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though the Editor might
a right to vote, personally,
ihe particular candidate in
ity, County, or State election
he will not strive through
R paper to influence YOU to
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tor by each candidate. The
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Volume 76
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CONVENTION DRAFTS ROOSEVELT
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News Entertained At Luncheon
Convention Nominates
President Roosevelt
“By Acclamation
Not One Vote Cast Against
President By the
Delegates,
|,, WHEN IRISH EYES
ARE SMILING’’ SUNG
AFTER FINAL VOTE
The First Time In History
Unanimous Vote Been
Given Candidate.
The Democratic National Con
j vent ion last night drafted Presi
: dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt
| for a precedent breaking third
! term. The nomination came from
the first slate called and was
I tnade by Senator Lister Hill in
be half of the State of Alabama
Other nominees placed before
the convention for consideration
were James A - Fadp y' Postmaster
General and Chairman of the
Democratic Rarty, Millard E. Tyd
ings, of Maryland, and Vice-Pres
ident John Nance Garner.
Following the nomination by
Senator Hill, a vast demonstra
tion broke out on the floor of the
Chicago Stadium, where the con
vention is assembled. It was more
than thirty minutes before Chair
man Barkley, presiding officer,
could restore order.
As the roll call continued State
after state pledged their support to
President Roosevelt. Farley’s nom
ination came after Arkansas
ed the floor to Senator
Rom work, free of any
|e, They are grateful to God’s
iters who strive to let His
shine through our paper.
By distinguished guests were
pt at the luncheon We were
red with the present of Mr.
Nixon and Mr Ike Robinson
ill Newton County loves them
seir interest in the welfare of
bwn and Countv Dr. S. L.
k beloved Physician, and
r of the City , Mr. Abe
the‘’Sweetheart’ 1 of Newton
p fintendent ■ ■ • Mr. Ficquett, County
of Schools, who
Iseant much to the County
(fti faithful service . . . Mr.
I M McMullen, County Agent,
fitly aids the farmers but
peaches Bchool one of the finest Sun
classes in the city . . .
F- Grady Benton Sheriff . . .
he ’s just one of the Office
secret loves . for Office
are not supposed to love
boys . .. but Mr Benton is
% a fine sheriff ... but he
lon t seem to us to ever be
rted with the “Law” at
...
not many of us are scared
•r in because his fine per
t' - has won his way into the
> °f all who know him
distinguished . . .
f the guests came in
time . . first Mr. and
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Poured ab e are correspondents, friends and employees gath- respondents of the paper. The luncheon was attended by Mayor S. ens; Mrs. Gilis, Wright Adams, and Mr. Howington, a special news operation during past years. Talks were also made bv Mrs. DenmJ^^B
F-Und the of Covington, County Officials C. O. Nixon, Isaac Robert- representative of Time Magazine. Correspondents attended from all C. 0. Nixon, Ike Robertson, A. L. Loyd, W. G. Benton. E L.
“get " e board as they attended the annual Covington L. Waites, parts of the county. quett, T, L. McMullin and Thomas Hay. Each correspondent and
ti eethe given this W. G. Benton, E. L. Ficquett and A. L. Loyd. County Agent T. Editor Publisher of The Covington News employee then called to few words Mrs. E. G
year at the Delaney Hotel. son, Belmont Dennis, and was upon say a
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Glass, of Virginia, made the
ination speech.
The Massachusetts
split and on the second roll call
of States the vote was challenged
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Real weie count po e for m Massachusetts lx 1 ua v * e 21% °,
votes for Roosevelt and 12% votes
for Farley. Several other States
divided but the greater majority
of the States and Territories out
side of the United States gave
their full support to Roosevelt.
Following the President’s nomi
nation State after State second
ed the nomination with Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida and Gov
emor Lehman of New York mak
ing strong speeches in behalf of
the President- «
The second roll call, when the
votes were cast and counted, was
delayed, due to the many frac
tional votes that were cast and
due also to the delay in
the delegation from several states
Following the roll call Hep
Sam Rayburn, of the Texas dele
gation, recalled their votes for
John Nance Garner, at his request
and cast them for President Roose
I velt.
Taking a cue from the Texas
j delegation Postmaster that General the
j : Farley made a motion the rules and
I convention suspend
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt was given a wide margin over
all others last night when the Democratic National Convention again
nominated him a^ candidate for President of these Unded States.
RETURNED 61
GRAND JURY
Appreciation Expressed for
Cooperation of County
Officials.
The f ° 11 ” wl " g g ^ n ® ial p ^ esent '
ments of the Grand Jury Newton
Superior Court, for the July teim
was officially announced W ednes
day. The presentments were
signed by the foreman Mi. w VI. S.
Cook, Clerk W . L Hooper and
Asst Clerk A. M Bennett.
The presentments as diawn fol
low- -
We, the Grand Jury tor the July
term 1940, Newton Superior Court,
have carefully considered all
Criminal matters tnat have been
brought before us. as will appear
in our indictments
We wish to thank Judge James
C. Davis for his informative
charge and hearty co-operation.
We wish to thank our Solicitor,
C. Leathers, for his cap-
, a bi e and efficient aid m the mat
i ler c brought to rtur Mention.
-\y e w j s h to thank Bailiff J. R.
; Dob b s for his efficient and prompt
be ] p j n our work during this
week
e re commend that $10.00 be
p a jfj for publishing these present
rnen f s j n The Covington News.
Bwct*!* submitted,
j w W. c S. COOK COOK, Foreman Foreman
j w l, HOOPER, Clerk,
M B ennetT Asst Clerk,
’
The within and , „
sentment* received m open court
and ordeied lecord
ordered that .
ther s p
ments be published as recom- _
mended
: This July 17, 1940.
JAMES C. DAVIS
Judge Supr. Cts St. Mtn. Ct.
j By the Court:
| ROY LEATHERS
! Solicitor General.
Pi£yy£ HoWCU'd Is
Candidate For
J Solicitor-General
; Pierre Howard, son of William
Schly Howard, announces this
! week in the’ columns of the News, elf
for Solicitor-General of this
euit. Full details of Mr. Howard s
: Announcement may be found in
I this issue.
KtpiilTUf ” iii IP If iH V *BjiPSOS '
,Si*t*Ti*Pl m mLittS m 4 €*li*fpTil 14S–
Rotar F Club of
lost—then won—felt better, and
enjoyed a delightful barbecue
along with the Rotarians of Mon
r „^-who firs, won-ihen lost.
** all came about slightly over
some bright
member originated the idea of
letting Monroe pay for a big fine
old time southerrf barbecue with
all the trimmings. The member
ship of the Covington club ehal
lenged the Monroe Rotary Club to
an attendance contest for a six
weeks period. The Monroe group
accepted and then the fun was on
—or was it?
First week and Covington with
one absent, but Monroe had some
absent—maybe. Se<*>nd week,
absent, but nothing to get alarmed
about, but better go to work.
Third week and 100 per cent at
tendance and that feeling of se
curity returns. Fourth week and
one absent and Monroe ahead by
2 points, and things get more in
feresting. Fifth week and one
absent. This one absent business
is getting mightly regular. Sixth
week and one absent and Monroe
still slightly over 2 points ahead,
They, the local club, then ac
cepted a challenge from the Mon
roe club to play a game of soft
ball. They had nothing else to
Agricultural
News Given by
County Agent
Plowing of Corn In Wet
Season Proves Big
Problem.
To plow or not to plow is the
problem many farmers in the
county are discussing with a great
deal of interest. It looks now as
if the weather will settle this
without an argument. In our
opinion, corn that is beginning to
tassel and will be making ears
during the next week or so should
be let. alone. It is reasonable to
expect that hot dr.y weather will
follow' the long w'et spell we:
have had. If this should be the !
case then to plow all the feed I
roots might prove disastrous to
the corn just at the time it was
trying to make grain, Then we
have seen cotton that deep
plowing might have the same ef
fect. On the other hand we have
seen some cotton that must have
some of the grass killed or it
will get all the fertilizer.
Grain that was cut with a
der and left in the field is sprout
ing and the tops of the shocks are
green with this young grain. Not
very many farmers in the county
have grain in this condition, but
at that we expect that 20,000
bushels of grain in the county are
affected. We were talking with
an Oconee county farmer who
said he had 3.000 bushels in the
field all ruined. This is a heavy
Already 40,000 pounds of
trian Winter Peas have been
quested by farmers of New ten
county ,mder the AAA Grant; nf
Aid program. This program must
be brought to a close shortly
! shipment can be made. If
ward ,0 take ad.anta^e of this ■
pM ’ glam a en 0 1 ln ^ e la e j'
J'ZZ^Z thel pullets ”
against chicken pox or sorehead.
This is a wise thing for a poul
tryman to do. The fowls should
be vaccinated at 1% to 2 pounds,
,j one at t b j s s j ze the reaction
is not very severe and the pul
j ets w jjj he completly over the
treatment by the time they are
ready to lay. If you are interest
ed, we would we glad to tell you
how the vaccination is done and
put you in touch with sources of.
vaccine. .
Lespedeza is looking good after i
the heavy rains and it seems now hayl j
as if we will get some good
yields. We were in heavy the country shower | j
this week during a
of rain and happened to be pass-;
ing a large field, one half of
which was seeded to peas and the
other one-half seeded to lespedeza.
The water coming out of the pea
side of the field was red with mud
while that coming from the les
pedeza field was very clear. This
simply means the lespedeza was;
so thickly matted on the soil that;
the small rich particles of soil 1
were strained out of the water be- j
(Continued on Page Twelve)
anyway. The Rotary Club!
then thought of their motto.
“Service Above Self,” and decided
IS f 0 D ut the t ’cue on – the way Xo.JZ ’cues
j put ™
j were invited and committees!
named. These committees did a
j grand job and served one of the:
best barbecues ever to be placed
; before a group of Georgians—who
j know cue when they see it.
Covington did enjoy the barbe
cue too, because they won the
softball game by a score of 6 to 2
—They lost and they won . . .
And everybody was happy . . .
“And a good time was had by
all.”
HOpPWCll RcVlVCll
10 Begin r> ’ Jllly 11^4 J4
Rev. J. H. McFerrin, of Tucker,
will assist Rev. T. P. Horger
with the revival at Hopewell
Presbyterian Church, it was an-j
nounced this week,
The revival meeting will begin
Wednesday evening, July 24 and
will continue through Sunday
evening, July 28. Services will
be held twice each day. The
morning services will begin at 11
o’clock a. m., and the evening
services will begin at 8 o’clock i
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX T6 CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5c SINGLE COPY
City - County Officials
Take Part On Program
Held At Delaney Hotel
P. T. A. TO STAGE
SUMMER CLINIC
Tuesday. July 30, at ten
, l° cR the Covington P.-T.
0 c n - m ->
hold a most important
summer round-up clinic,
children entering school in
September will be given, free of
through the P.-l. A. clinic,
smallpox vaccination and diptheria
serum.
If there were any parents who
were missed in the summer check
up, they are asked to make every
effort to be at the school
promptly on the above date.
ents of children entering school
for the first time this fall are
urged to bring their children to
this clinic as the vaccination is
compulsory before any child may
enter school,
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Crusade Will Include
Leadinj» Methodist
Churches.
Newton County’s tirst Youth
Crusade Caravan will begin in
Covington Monday, July 29th.
with four leading
Churches taking active part.
The Youth Crusade will last one
week and all young people of the
Methodist Church as well as all
other denominations are invited
and urged to attend, i he crusade
will be held at the Covington
First Methodist Cbuich ui:b
Allen Memorial Church, Oxford,
and the Julia A. Porter Metho
dist Church Porterdale, taking
active part. The Crusade is for all
young people between the ages of
15 and 23. A small charge will .be
made for books.
Officials of the movement in
(Continued on Page Twelve)
Sister OT Ml'S. S. L.
Waites Passes
The many friends of Mrs. S. L.
Waites deeply regret to learn of
the death of her sister, Mrs.
Hern, of Nashville, Tenn., who
died last Wednesday at her home
Mrs. Waites left the city imme
diately for Nashville, where she
remained until yesterday. She
turned to the city last night.
NUMBER 28
Bad Weather Condition*
Keep Many From
Attending. tl
ENTERTAINING MUSIC
PROVIDED BY SMITH
FAMILY OF COV. MILL
Copy of News Nine Year*
Old Compared With a
Current Issue.
In spite of bad weather and
muddy roads, nearly forty cor
respondents and employees cf the
Covington News turned out last
Sa urday for the luncheon given
for them mat the Delaney Hotel.
The grou P sang one vers « of
America ^Rowing to the open invocation the meeting, by and Mr.
Abe Loyd, A. B. Dennis, publisher
of the News, welcomed those pres
ent
After the singing eJ another
song, a delightful luncheon plate
was served and heartily enjoyed
by all present. Mr. Abe Loyd
then introduced Abit Nix, candi
date for governor, as well as Mrs.
Nix, Mrs. Gillis and Wright
Adams.
Due to conflicting engagements,
Mr. Nix and his party left fol
lowing a short talk by candidate
Following Mr. Nix’s talk the
group was entertained by the
"Smith Family,” of Covington
Mills, accompanied at the piano
by Mrs. M. S. Penick. This group,
composed of Lois Smith, Wallace
Smith, Louise Yancey and J. L.
Smith, rendered several vocal
j numbers that were greatly en
joyed by members of the audience.
Mrs. A. B. Dennis, known to
I correspondents and News em
ployees as “The Office Boy,’*
j was introduced by Publisher Den
nis. She gave a brief summary
of the progress of the News dur
j j n g tbe p as j several years and
exhibited a copy of the News that
| was p^j^ted over eight years ago.
g| le expressed her appreciation for
).] le eo-operation during the
p ast y ears that has gone far in
j making the News an excellent
j newspaper.
W. Thomas Hay. assistant to
the publisher, was then intro
! duced and gave an explanation of
the functioning of the correspond
ents and offered suggestions as to
how the news content of the pa
per might be improved.
The following city and county
officials were each introduced
and each expressed appreciation
for the Covington News and the
work that it is doing to improve
Newton County,
T. L. McMullan, county agent;
W. G. Benton, sheriff; C. O.
Nixon, clerk of Newton coumy
superior court; Ike Robertson
(Continued on Page Twelve)