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thf omrr boy
Pf
i, the On ice Boy tries to bring
little Sunshine and Cheer
ou a this morning
his feeble way saddened the . .
is heart is so over
illness of his beloved
srious Mr. Cliff Nixon, that
eishboi find cheer of any
t is hard to quite ill
ind. Mr Nixon, is . . .
ed ones lingGi near by . . . there
> v crisis our pray
ill soon be a ...
are that if it is the will of
rs Physician, he may , be
h Great friends and family
jared to his
om hearts go out to them
, . they stand
, sympathy r.s pray -
rfully by.
took the Boss to Savannah
i to the Georgia Press Meeting
I' we did not much want to go
because since the last meet
, of the most
g we had lost two
jued members in death . . . Mr.
d Mrs. William G. Sutlive, of
vannah Savannah would not
.
the same . , and truly it is
e first time I ever went to Sav
„ah and did not have a good
Our thoughts were filled
,
th memor e cf merry lltlJe
lilt Bittern” as he was lovingly
own to the newspaper world,
d that fine wife . . . but as we
tered the city . . . beautiful and
|storic Savannah . . . with its age
t oaks ■ another sadness came
•.
I we have read of the terrible
m there.. .. but you can never
■am of the damage wrought
:re until you see huge Oaks
rooted . they seemed like
ing \w creatures . . . lying wounded
. . M those trees still stand
i in so many instances had the
is [.limbs twisted and torn from them
were still piled in the
ts . , . leaves whipped from
of the lovely azelias lor
ich Savannah is noted . . .
ivtful Boneventure Cemetery
neck! Yes, our hearts ached!
ke were huge pieces of tin
Lsted and torn all in the streets,
roofs of buildings . and then
top of all that . or maybe
that is ivhat made the Boss
went to bed . had one
or five times and then called
utother. . . and it finally took
retty nurse to get him smiling
l ... so we did not have a
time! We were glad to get
e safely where the Boss could
comfortable in his own bed
■ But, there was much joy in
< (ting old friends among Edi
... there was warmth and
It understanding of love in
handclasp of Kirk and John
ive not a word was spok
pat father of theirs they had
so recently, and we so
but there was just a message
tr Led v»rv cn,,!. “
[, each hands of u, ' ' what nlJ in
- then heart
pCROSS KNUTiNG
you joined? Well you are
■ . vou do not know how
lt? Well that is fine
L °uis D. Bolton, a Nation
®irman is instructor for the
Stoo Knitting Club of which
Charles King is Chairman
uet in touch with them it
'ant to do your part for your
..... a ^l patriotic women
ave a part in this. Mrs.
on ff >r many months has
p Covington
women to knit .
.
given unstintingly of her
Jna «f her money to buy
’ ’ • Mrs. Charles King
hei b >' organizing the
. ln 11 D Cross
i ■■Mrs. King Knitting
Covington is Chairman
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r ganization . C. but
for Counti’ 6 ^
our fv
Uawom an joining m kn t
^ brought ci U the b here, Red but Cross it
TUI Mr. iC v
Get Abe tnn.hUl Lovri i? Chair
m
M 1 CS m wantT ai
fv K • • •
I That little Kav 3 Poh u „
lots 16 '’Ions „ tlmo t - ? g, a11 :
of jov ve
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laugntcr ’
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Patterson of t» fu p e
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"3 m Dalton Wh
llle Smith's She has
«i hardly ; U ? ‘ n the
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0ua a "d Grandma couldn’t blame"
J y and aUyo?^ Grand a
just ,-i.cd
^9 v p ! ' been called 0
luri over
on “Kay’s
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ann 0 , al[ ^ dainty
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“ty blue canopy
spread hand
totinued dainty uress
on Page 5.)
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Moriah ivr ian th. f'h
I George B Godard
F the Mt Moriah Chu,.
r CC ng eh
h and even ing
orn^ loc ber the' 3 ' 8 A WU1 a nd 5.
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* sta r t at 7 attendee ' 4 s 8 e ? Ing ser
Urged to
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Volume 76
ADVERTISING TROPHY IS AWARDED THE NEWS I
t
And Schools Will l (
! Awarded Sam Wilkes
j Trophy For The Best
Displayed Advertising
Also Awarded Third
For Best Religious
Editorial.
TAKES THIRD PLACE
IN BEST PICTURES
CONTEST OF PAPERS
Management of News Trying
To Give Best Paper
In South.
The Covington News was
honored this year by the
Press Association for
work in three different phases
Newspaper work.
The News received the
Wilkes Trophy for the best
played advertising of any paper
Georgia. The prize was
for setting the example in
workmanship, in the get-up
various ads, liberal use of
space, pleasing type
tions combined with careful
work. Second place in this
test was awarded the Cobb
ty Times, at Marieta. Third
was awarded The Douglas Enter
prise. Honorary mention was
en the Bulloch Herald, The
ton News and the Bartow
The Covington News also
ceived third place in the best
ligious editorial contest.
News carried the editorial
spring urging a return to
church in these fast moving times
The News also received
place in the use of local
contest, sponsored by the
University School of Journalism
^ f ' ‘ 1
a ton " al News, e for Best 2, 6 0 V n ^
appearance, was awarded to
Bulloch Herald. Other
awarded were the Sutlive
to ‘"e Cobb County Times,
j | iams Tlophy ,°
^Prise, . Bankston k Trophy to
ro11 Free Press, Shope Trophy
, Sandersville Progress, Dean
hy to Camilla Enterprise.
Judges of the contests were
posed of two State Press
ciation Managers -
Doyle L. Buckles, of
Bruce McCoy, of Louisiana.
During the past eight years,
management of the
News has endeavored to
this the best and most
weekly newspaper in
Every effort has been e>
to give the readers full
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C<Ul(li(lclt€ HllSfH HOWCH Ullt
! rx Due to LacK t j f Campaign o • C J
*-****-»»■ or Jr ^
I lack of funds to con -1 .
Citing the
" nue h,s cam < > » i < n ' Hu8h H° we
ernor in the coming primary, with s;
. last , e Su da * H
drew from the race "
Howell's withdrawal was made m
! 3 broadside announcement re
leased to the press the later part
of last week '
Howell’s withdrawal leaves only
three contestants out of the ori
I ginal field of fivC ’ former Gover '
”° r EUgCne Talnaadge f ,
’
~ ’ 31 'aif^NI*^thenl
•‘ , aWyer -
Braswell Deen, former r director a f
of the State Department of Puo
lie Welfare, was the first gub
ernatorial aspirant to fall by the
wayside. Deen stepped out of
the race because of the Hatch B.IL
proh,biting those employees paid
in part with Federal funds from
1 taking active part in political
campaigns. He later resigned
P° Rt t0 run for Congress in the
h District, seeking
to nil «* PO„ made vacant b y
the death of the late Ben Gibbs,
In a press interview last Friday
afternoon Howell stated that he
had not revealed his plans to any
other candidate and did not ven
ture to say who w uld be bene
^ ^ W Wi Lhdrawal. Inabil
I ity to li his rm r ;n was
the only reason that he gave tor
Cieu
rhe i» 11
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Donation* Made for Putting
New Roof on Church
Building.
A crowd that filled the Church
building to capacity assembled at
Mt Tabor Church last Sunday far
the annual homecoming. A large
number of former residents and
past pastors of the Church wer* j
on hand,
Music for the gathering was un
der the supervision of Thomas Al
mon, who was assisted by the Shi
loah Choir. They rendered sev
eral musical numbers.
The featured speaker for the oc
cassicn was Miss Layona Glenn,
J e ! r Y a n U Si ° na 4 y
the Methodist Church in Brazil.
Her childhood was spent in the
Mt. Tabor vicinity. Miss Glenn
spoke at the morning services.
Donations were made by those
present for use in putting a new
roof on the church building. Those
willing to give to the fund came
j to the front of the church and
placed the donations on a table.
| Following the morning services
basket lunches were spread on the
grounds surrounding the church,
A feature of the afternobn ser
vices was the reading of the min
utes of the organization meet mg
Th, meetm, was
; was reorganized following the War
the States
From these minutes, a list of
names of those present at the re
organization was read. The Im
j ing descendants of those persons
who were present at last Sun
day's meeting were aksed to stand.
A Urge n-mber of children,
grand-childien and gieat-grand
1 children stood as the roll was
; called.
j Following the roll call, all those
assembled were asked to stand in
j memory of those who took a part
in the reorganization of the
' church.
. leaving the race.
sunday W 'suporters oTthT C |h™e
rrr Howell votes. q
The Talmadge backers predict- ,
ed that the former governor would ,
carry all of the State’s 159 Coun
ties pointing out the fact that
Howell and Talmadge were form
er political allies and that Howell
votes in the 19' 1 campaign came
from Talmadge men. '
° n the ° ther ha " d ' members of
. ,
sa ,'? 1 '
more than «ny other other candidate candidate |
would g t
from arguments HoweU were s that Mr. Howell ^eir
suporters had turned against Gov-,
ernor Talmadge for alleged in
gratitude to Mi .Howell end that
they would not go back: to him.
n n<s °
made claims ° , n . riath
“
They too cited Talmadges treat
ment of Mr. Howell. Howell broke.
with Talmadge in 1936 when the
! later supported Charla,
for the governor s post.
j In spite of this latest develop
ment on Georgia s political front,
all three candidates, remaining in
the race entered the last stage
of the race and planned to make
their final drives with a series of
sperr'n-s scheduled for practically
every day.
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940
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Here at Hastings and St. Leonards, in Sussex, England, I* where William the Conqueror landed almost
000 years ago in a successful conquest—a conquest that Chancellor Hitler of Germany hopes to repeat. This
mecca of British sea lovers again shudders under another attack from the east, as the biggest aerial fleets
of all time are launched against the Britkah isles. Each day hordes of German airplanes darken the sky.
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\gricultuval Xotcs
By County Ayent
Recently we have heard
farmers say that Newton
, ,
armeis aie aixesting e ai es
and best hay crop in their
tor y .We only hope that
the beginning as one pro
duct jg ag esent ‘ j a j on the farm
for livestock production , as is good
hay, Good hay crops are general
jy i e g ume crops. They improve
the soil fertility by addition of
nitiogen and then the dense grow
ing crops if left undisturbed dur
ing the winter even after the hay
is hai vested will greatly reduce
erosion and thus improves the
soil.
Last week we were up to see the
herd of H. G. and Foy El
lington. The cattle were in excel
lent condition and the young steers
that are still with their mothers
looked like Texas steers. It was
very interesting to watch the graz
ing habits of this herd. They are
in an excellent bermuda grass
pasture but two areas of this pa-
Lire had been fertilized and seed
ed to lespedeza. The cattle grazed
continuously on these two fertiliz
ed areas and hardly go into the
unfertilized section. We all know
that turney salad grown on poor
land is not and strong while that
grown on fertile soil is tender and
sweet. It may be that fertilizer
has the same effect on grass for
r t W h , 1 co°tton hl f owTng e
field o f gr after
Crimson Clover. It looked good
r Ipfiyttlf>Y Orintr rttlSUltnl R
ln Atlanta
ducted - *. ^ this ... afternoon at 4 o.o n
n . dock for Mrs . S . M. Holcomb,
f Ne wton County
and mother Qf Sam Holcomb
{ f ™ ponniv Demitv
ic e S conducted
Newborn Methodist
Holcomb was well known
Newton County having lived
for a long number of years.
Sh * ." survived by
of . h er immediate family and ot ti
re , atives _ M rs. Holcomb died
the home of her daughter in
, anta _
Thg Nfiws extends sympathy
^ survivors o{ Mrs Holcomb
fhg t - me of their bereav ement.
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At AlOIl rw ’ L'hlllCll ml »
^ r _ v j va i service will begin
“' ht Z ” n ,STm Church nex £v.
mhnsrtn will conduct the
ing services.
Sunday School services will
held Sunday morning at 10:30
m. The public is cordially
ed to attend these services and
worship with the members of
church.
for a bale to the acre and no top
dresser had been applied. In an
other field we saw a volunteer
; s t an( i of Ciimson Clover growing
j n a good growth of cowpeas. It
seems that the Ellington’s
learned how to get the most out
I of winte r legumes. When in that
section stop by and go into these
clover fields and talk to Foy
Grady about the system used.
ty It farmers seems now will that seed Newton the largest, Coun-j
acreage to winter legumes that!
they have ever seeded. Already
over 65,000 pounds of Austrian
winter peas have been ordered
and the Crimson Clover acreage
j will be increased. This means
an increase in corn yield for next
year.
Several farmers have told us
they intend to seed a few acres i
to hnrley this fall. We think.
this a wise thing to do. Barley,
is equal to corn in feed and fat
tuning value for mules, hogs and
steers. It may be seeded in the
fall and grows during the winter
and thus protects the soil from!
winter erosion and then it pro
duces a grain crop during the
early spring when the winter rains
are still in the soil. Harvesting
can be done by means of bindeis
or combines. The yield is much
larger than corn and thus more
grain can be produced per acre
than with corn and row cultiva
tion is eliminated. We belive a
large acreage of ■ oats should be
seeded to take care of the main
g a in q f erne ts on the /K arm
and n d then then a small n acreage of bar
fatten out the hogs. This
Woul dreduee the corn acreage to
mat enough inr meal purpoaw
farm. T Think , • , it , over and make
some plans to suit your own farm,
D1 “ lailS AnnOUllCed A 1
Ffir ^ f V V f«mn taiHp
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; Plains were being made this
week f or ^ be organization “ of a
Son of Confede ate Veteran’s
c in Covington. All men and
boys sixteen years of age or old
who are descendants of Vet-
4iranft o( the War betwen the
I States are eligible for member
They we ^ to be onf
of the charter members of the
Camp.
Interested persons should get in
touch with Mr. W. T. Hay at the
Covintong News office where they
can obtain the necessary blanks
and information. This should he
done within the next week in or
der to get the organization start
in tirrfe to take part in the con
vention to be held in Milledge
ville
The full program for this con
j vention is carried in this weeks
t U. D. C. Column.
All-Day Program Attended
By Many from
Covington.
The members of Alcovv Station
Methodist church, with theii
friends and well wishers, observed
Home-Coming Day last. celebration Sunday,)
reported to be the first
of the kind held there in many
years, if ever before.
People, began to assemble
around ten o'clock. Many from
the immediate community and:
from points the more remote, were ;
on hand at early hour-and gave
something like a half hc*ir or;
three quarters to exchanging,
greetings and words of happy
welcome.
Shortly before 11 o’clock the
people assembled in the church,
which was made very attractive;
with many vases of summer blos
soms
The exercises opened with the I
singing of the Doxology, Mr. Dew
ey Hamby leading, and another
song familiar and inspiring to
j eV eryone. The editor of The church, Wal
ton News, pastor of the
reac [ Scriptures, and the open
j ng p ra yer was delivered by Prof,
L ew j s Caldwell, of Covington,
once a teacher in the Monroe pub
, ic sc h 0 ols, Mr. and Mrs. Mell
Simons sang a wonderful duet,
other songs, Mr. Hamby and Mr.
Leonard Thompson leading, were
sung during the morning hour and;
a particularly pleasing feature
was a quartet number by the chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gibbs,
with Mrs. Gibbs at the piano.
The address of welcome was de
livered by Mr. Mell Simons. He
gave a wonderful assurance of
welcome to everyone, and warmed
the hearts of the people to a day
of spiritual as well as social re-j
freshing. To this gracious address
of welcome Prof. Lewis Caldwell, ^
of Covington, gave the response,;
(Cintinued on page 5.)
Local Kiwanians
Celebrate Ladies y
Night at Alcove
Large Percentage of Club
Members and Wives
Take Part.
The Covington Kiwanis
staged a ‘ Ladies Night” last
Thursday night at the Alcove, un
der the capable supervision
Kiwanian Frank Williams. A
total of 55 Kiwanians and their
wives turned out for the special
occassion and special guests
ent made the grand total 69.
The program for the
included a fine barbecue supper
and fine exhibitions of boxing,
skating and dancing. Following
the planned program many eou
Pies continued with an impromptu
dance.
In place of the regular lunch
eon meeting, a round table
cussion was held at the Delaney
Hotel with seven members pres
ent. A total of 75.5 per cent of
the Club's members took part in
the days activities with only
eleven members failing to be
Present at one or the other func
tions.
Stone Mountain Baptist Group
Convenes Here September 4th
The First Baptist Church, of)
Covington, will be host to the
101st annual session of the Stone
Mountain Baptist Association on
Wednesday and Thursday, Sep
tember 4th and 5th.
Every effort is being made oy
the members of the Church to give
the visitors a cordial welcome and
to make their stay in Covington
most pleasant. The general pub
lie is cordially invited to attend
every session of the Association
gathering.
The PW f\T TZ"
morning at 10 o clock vuth e de:
^ oUonal ^ Re ^ '
^.^o^locfkxUb foflowing at
JJder the
Lexers of business: Call for Church
Adoption of Order of
Business, Application for Mem
bership. Recognition of New
Pastors, and Recognition of Visi
tors.
At 10:40, with the Rev. J. VV.
Lietch presiding, the following
committee, B. T. U. report made
by M iss Mildred Plunkett, W. M
U report made by Mrs. J. A.
Bruce and the Home Missions re
port by R. F Smith. Following:
these committee reports new com-;
mittee appointments will be
The introductory sermon will be
preached by Rev. Homer C. John-i
son, beginning at 11:30 a. m.
Wednesday afternoon’s program
opens with a praise service
1 ducted by Rev. Bryon Kennerly
This service will be followed
the following .sports
Report on Hospital by R. M.
Tuck, Report on Religious Litera -
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S I I
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE ';j
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AND PROSPERITY i'
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5 c SINGLE COPY
School Superintendents i
Announce Faculties I
For The Year
ture, Rev. T. C. Burrell; Report
on Christian Education, T. E.
R a wlins; Report on Orphans
Home, I. B. Goddard; Report on
Christian Citizenship. E. T. Hull;'
Report on Co-operative program,
J. G. Bryant; and the Report on
Stewardship, by Rev. C. C. Sin- ;
gleton. Following these reports (
the Wednesday session will be
brought to a close,
Rev. J. W. King will open the)
Thursday meeting by conducting;
the morning worship service at It)
The Clerk will then read ,
the minutes of the previous day s j■
sesslon - Re ' r ; JJ: Lyda then
bfa 1 report of Evlngeh’sm made I
^Miscellaneous Rev G W Hulme be taken up| 1
a t 11:20 o’clock after which a
Missionary sermon will be preach
ed by Rev. A. D. Howard. Fol
lowing this the Association ;
sermon
wili ad j ourn for lunch. ;
T be afternoon services will op
en with a Testimony Service con
duc ted by Rev. C. P. Gresham. give!
Rev . J. W. Combs will then
those gathered and inspirational
message followed by a talk, Spir
itual Condition of the Churches.”!
by w. C. Woods,
A digest of Letters and Changes Buice.l j
w in be given by Rev. D. T.
-phe following reports will then be
heard: Report of the Treasurer,
by the Association Clerk; Report
on Nomination, by J. C. Estes; |
Report on S. S. by A. L McDoniel;
Report on Resolutions by Rev. E
L. Crow; and Rep rt on IV: morialsj
by Rev. Charles Stephens.
NUMBER 34
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Enrollment Expected
For Monday’s
Opening. ;i
STATE BOARD OF ED. I
HAS GUARANTEED -
MONTHS’ SALARIES
Ficquett Believes Schools
Will Operate
Full Term.
Tlie public schools in Newton
County and the City of Coving
ton will open Monday morning,
September 2. Last minute prep
arations and repairs are being
mac i e j n aR sc h 0 ol, plants and the
opening.of the 1940-41 term finds
them all in excellent condition,
A large enrollment is expected
in all the school units and it is
expected that several of the
schools will show an increase over
last year's enrollment.
The ^ a t e Board of Education
i’ ec ently authorized payment of
school teachers for the first four
months of the coming term. This
will take care of the payments
untii the incoming Governor takes
over h > s duties in January of next
Tfear.
E. County L. Ficquett School Superintendent the belief t
expressed f
that the schools of the State would
operate a full term this year and
addfed that he believed that the
worst was over regarding the i
length of the terms of schools
in this State. He expressed full
confidence in the ability of tha
legislature to provide the neces
sary funds.
i n an interview with a repre
se ntative of the News today, Sup
erintendent Ficquett gave the fol
lowing list of teachers and prin
cipals for the 1940-41 term. Whil«
it i s extremely likely that a num
ber of changes will be made in
the list, in the main it is an ac
curate list of the County School
teachers. The list follows:
p or tbe Covington Mill School:
j w Nichols, principal, Mrs. T.
c jvj eac | or) Mrs. M. S. Pennick,
anc j Mrs. W. A. Carlton. i
Heard-Mixon School: H. ___ M.
p u m a m, principal, Miss Janie R. t
c orryi Mrs. H. W. Duke, Miss Ag
nes jrj s h erj Miss Elizabeth Har
we i] t Miss Majorie Toole, and one
vacant post.
The Livingston School: C. M.
Giles, principal, Miss Mary E. Cor
ry, Mrs. W. L. Cowan, Mrs. Ina
Hardeman, Mrs. C. S. Hardwick,
Mrs Janie New, Miss Elizabeth
Paterson, Mrs. Joe B. Pitts, Miss
Sue Thompson, Miss Mary Beth
Mainor, and Miss Alberta Wil
son.
Mr. J. W. Richardson is the
principal o. ..iansiield School
with tbe following teachers: MU
R Evans, Miss Ammie Garland.
Miss Sue Hardwick, Mrs. Christine
Harwell, Miss Ruby Lane,
• Cintinued on page 5.)
Mrs. Evans Rites
This Afternoon
Last rites wiU be conducted this
afternoon at 3 0 ’ C lqck for Mrs.
Grjzzie M F Evans 0 f Augusta
and Covington . Mrs. Evans wal
born and reared in Newton Count ^
a circle ° f
"^ nas leie -
During her lifetime she was out
Handmg ( in church activities, hav
joined the church at the age
of nine
Tbe service? lhls . . a{ter „ noon will ...
p e conducted from the Starrsviile
Methodist Church with Rev. Wal
^r Combs, assisted by Rev. O. L.
Vickery ofticiating. Interment
will be in tb? Starrsviile ceme
tery.
Mrs. Evans is survived by two
sons, L. D, Evans, Augusta City
Councilman, and E. C. Evans, of
Mansfield as well as ten grand
children and seven great-grand
children,
r- The ‘ News extends sympathy to
the bearved survivors. Funeral
arrangements are being handleS
by Stauffacher and White Funeral
Home.