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This morning your Office Boy s
is heavy . listening to
Heart le heartrending . . of Britain
cry
but the alarming part most
. . headlines say:
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"HITLER AWAITS U. S.
tions” • The Nazi high corn
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mand' s understood by our Mili
Experts to have made all
tary plans for the long
necessary invasion some weeks
awaited held off for reasons
back, but
that have not been apparent to
war observers. According to en
tirely responsible British infor
nation, in ordering the delay,
Hitler may have been guided by
two main considerations—one
having a bearing on the American
political situation and the other
^ with the element of sur
dealing strategy. Over
n tse in military
and above this, of course he must
have felt that his preparations
were not complete enough to of
f r assurance of success; other
e struck much
vise he would have
sooner. Obviously the political
, c gle revolves around the Nazi
preference of seeing Wendell L.
Wiilkie. the Republican nominee.
win the presidential election over
President Roosevelt, whose out
spoken denunciation of the dicta
tor governments and acts of sym
pathy for the hard pressed British
have long made him a target of
German hatred, On the second
point—military strategy—military
experts are now beginning to see
*here an attempted invasion of
the British Isles might have a bet
ter chance to succeed under ad
verse weather conditions in No
vember than before the foggy sea
son sets in during September. It
is known that Hitler is hoping
against hope that Wiilkie will be
elected . . . Roosevelt will not
stand for Hitler tactics . . . Hitler
some of us may fool ourselves into
believing, will be satisfied when,
and if he crushes Britain . . .
but my friends . . . Hitler is power
mad . . . He is the man who
wants to rule the world. . . . He is
the man who is responsible for
millions of deaths . • . mass mur
der of women and children . . .
just for power! H,e has taught
German boys that he is “All
Powerful'’ . . . their life is worth
nothing if it is given for Hitler
... poor German boys with the
same souls in their bodies as even
you and I have, have been led to
believe, trained from infancy to
believe that only Hitler matters
... What Price Glory! We sat
«nd cried out when Britain and
the other nations let Russia crush
Finland . ■ . We were tearing our
they did nothing
seemingly to prevent Finland’s
downfall. We don't want to go to
war! That is definite! Yet there
are many things we can do to help
the British people The Newton
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County Red Cross, Mr. Abe Loyd,
chairman, is doing a wonderful
Mrk, >' et w e are not giving Mr.
Tyd all the money he needs .-.
Fhe .
Women of the County are
assisting him by knitting and sew
ln * ■ • there is where you, wo
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hien of Newton county, can help.
It is hoped that every woman who
sew, crochet or knit, will join
lhe Hed Cross Knitting and Sew
ng Club of Newton county we
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Pe to have a sewing room soon
• Guess the Office Boy is feel
n ? bad this morning for we
')y . . .
:ea almost have murder in
icart, our
we’ve prayed that God
"ightfind I Hi s way into the hearts
these Dictators whose hearts
e?0 tllled with greed for
so filled power
• • with ego that nothing
"afters . • human being
• are no
ore than a forest being cut down
r blown up . surely if this
lfhce .
Boy had a million planes
* could C ,° ntro1 this
s many manv t morning and
ons shells we
unk we would find . . .
!l Settle our way over
the argument It
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no u7, V but or lf the we U sit - S id ' t0 *y by
nd let H tler tak
ext ' !? to 'e Britain, his
’ Is take the
-a, :' That Amer
n • ■ is a known fact
“ yet lik e France and the . • .
Entries other
-'<* in ■ • there is so much
our hearts that w cannot
* the enormity pn e
„ of
e can't the thing
see . . .
’ en * our women and chil
leil inning around crazy from
shock • tr ying to find
a ce to go a
Js band . • we can't see our
s. ■’ uee * bear ts and
nw n 4 n ^ Sby sons
er Cy! Hitler ’s guns!
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'"hnuous '! Can Ver * that we 3oin wil1 in one
'ound a the me world! ' ring
\ to ° that Why can’t we
ed Hitler we do not need to
Presidents’"^^ ’5 . , . by
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not belie this time. we
Jrely nobnH" v WC WiU b
, nobody ’ ’ • ut
ian Se in W j]] v ote for a
ch time of threatened
as the war.
,0 "'n before world has never
mS ™ ^ ou have ma4
lsta kes in ln the selection
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o fice as Senator from this coun
ty. —
In the race for Solicitor General
fo rthe Stone Mountain circuit, the
incumbent, Roy Leathers, was
leading late Wednesday night by a
narrow margin. He is opposed by
Pierre Howard, son of William
Schley Howard, Mr. Leathers
was leading by 309 votes receiv
ing 3,150 votes to Howard’s 2,-
841 in uncomplete returns from
the three counties.
Judge James C- Davis was re
elected to the office of Judge of
the Stone Mountain circuit with
out opposition. Judge Davis has
served for the past several terms.
A. Sidney Camp, Congressman
from this district, was re-elected
to office without opposition. He
was elected last year to serve the
unexpired term o the late Con
gressman Owen.
Col. R. M. Tuck received a ma
jority of the votes for Chairman
of the uNewton County Executive
Committee.
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who was elected Wednesday by a
substantial margin as Represen
tative to serve in the General
Assembly from Newton Qount.v.
He will take office on January 1st.
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Volume 76
TALMADGE ELECTED GOVERNOR
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Thomas Callaway, Jr. Wins Representative Race ! If, :
Wins Race Over Mrs.
Wismer In Unofficial
Returns From County
Mrs. Wismer Takes Only
One Precinct; Callaway
Takes Fourteen.
R. PAT CAMPBELL
ELECTED SENATOR
WITH NO OPPOSITION
Roy Leathers Leading in
Race for Solicitor
General.
Thomas Callaway, Jr., candidate
for the legislature from Newton
County, was elected in Wednes
day’s primary by a wide margin
over his one opponent, Mrs. A. J.
Wismer.
Mr. Callaway took all but one
of Newton County’s 15 precincts
heard from with only two more
still to be received. Mrs. Wismer
took Hays District by a margin of
28-7. Callaway received the
greater part of his strength from
Cedar Shoals and Covington. In
Cedar Shoals, he received 435
votes to 60 and in Covington, he
received 476 to 132. The final un
official count for the 15 precincts
are 1,536 to 396 Precincts not
heard from were Gaithers and Le
guinn.
R. Pat Campbell was elected
Senator for the 34th District with
out opposition. This district in
cludes Newton. Rockdale and De
kalb Counties, Mr. Campbell
served for several terms as repre
sentative prior to announcing his
candidacy for the Senate. Pat is
the first Senator to serve Newton
County since the death of his
father about six years ago. The
late Mr. Robert Campbell died in
OwgU CnWrpriM. BK IM4.
Th* Covington Star, bt 1174.
Senator
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who was elected, without oppo
sition, Senator to serve Newton
county and the 34th District in
the State Democratic Primary held
Wednesday.
HEWS GIVEN Blf
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Local Farmers Harvest Best
Hay Crop in History
of County. ,
We believe Newton county
farmers are harvesting the b®s‘
hay crop in their history, O' !
course the increased tonnage
gratifying but another phase o'
. the hay program is even mo ■
gratifying and that is, the care be
ing used in harvest and storage of
to increase the feeding value o'
the crop. The hay balers of the
county are working double time
This means the hay will not be
left around stack poles to damage.
The American Legion is making
plans for the largest Fair in the
history of the county, A new
feature of the fair this fall will be
a horse show. A track is under
construction and it is expected
that some of the best horses in
this section of Georgia will be
exhibited. Any person owning a
horse that rides or jumps is urged
to exhibit in this show. In addi
tion to the riding and jumping
horses there will be several
animals trained for tricks that will
give excellent performances for
horse lovers.
Another feature of the county
fair this fall will be an exhibit of
pets. Every person who owns a
pet of any kind will be given
space to show and appropriate
prizes will be offered, Pets that
have been trained to do tricks
will be featured
It looked for a while as if all
the lespedeza in the county would
be cut for hay but recently we
have talked with several farmers
who are saving seed patches. We
are glad some seed will be saved
in our county as we must get
away from buying all of our
planting seed on our farms. Bur
ton Skinner, who lives in the
Starrsville section says he wil)
save seed from over 20 acres. J
B. Spears, in the Mansfield sec-l
tion will harvest seed from 150
acres and he says all the seed
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he harvests will be used on his
farm. This is real soil building, j
A large number of farmers will
seed Austrian Winter Peas this fall
with the expectation of receiving
pay for them under the AAA. Now
let’s be sure and seed according !■
AAA requirements. The first r
quirement is that 30 pounds of
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Unofficial Results of Democratic Primary Election
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NAME OF CANDIDATE l w 2 Newborn Mansfield Starrsville Gaithers Brewers Leguinn Stancells c o
Oxford o Downs Almon - <
Town O a E .a « a h Hays Rocky Cedar – n O > o H Eh
Abit Nix ___________________________ — J01 15! I 16 ! 11! 34! 171 6: ! 2 1 2 5 37 5 8 259
Columbus Roberts______ — 267! 60| 5j 10: 41; 33| 5| 18! 9 1 14 11 1151| 6J 45! 685
Eugene Talmadge ____________ - 236j 49| 35| 17! 24! 661 14| 24! 29 | 391 41 1305! 46! 20! 945
Jesse S. Hall .
_............... - 128! 26| 10| 20 30, 69 13 28 ! 331 29! |316 301 18: 750
John B. Wilson ________________ - 478, 991 25 31| 44, 631 18 13 I 241 28 179; 231 5411079
Pat Avery _______________________ 57 i 9j 6| 6 4| 4 2| ! 4 I 9! 51 | 52| 6| 3! 167
George B. Hamilton___________ _ 347| 711 15| 43, 24:106 24! 21 i 20] 11 1197! 22! 50j 951
Tom Wisdom .................. - 205 44| 14 5| 45! 23| 5| , 16 ; 26| 40, |240! 27) 21! 711
Ellis G- Arnall________________ _ 616 126; 39 53! 74il34| | 41 | 50] 56; I502| 57; 73! 1821
Downing Musgrove .
________________ ... 300| 55! 18! 22| 39 91| 15| I 33 21! 32 12201 141 30| 890
Homer C. Parker________________ — 306 69) 19) 28! 37j 41| 16] 8 1 35 241 275 421 44 944
M. D. Collins __________________ — 407 97 25| 31 45 89j 30 25 ! 321 46) 1450; 341 65|1376
Allen Harvey Chappell___________________ C. Cutts_____________________ .... 204' 29 13! 21 3lj 46| 2 I 14 I 241 10, | 46! 22! 8j 470
D. Smith__________________ _ 266 36 | 28 28; 64 27 28 36 238, 20 19 790
H. _. 126! 20, 9 22 35 ! 3 I 12 111 1106 18! 19: 381
Jud P. Wilhoit _____________________ ____ 215| 69) 15! 141 26! 34. 30 IT, I 15! 9; 11501 18) 351 641
Walter R. McDonald____________ 616 1251 39 51| 711134 41 55 57 i 1502| 571 73jl821
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Ben T. Huiet ___________________________ _ 616 126 i 52 75 132 41! ; 541 571 |502] 57| 7411786
James Doss Cook ________________ 22! 3! 11 6 | i i 1 16 I 8; 58
James I. Hicks ______________________ _ 239! 7| I 15| 47 65! 7| I 24, 111 24 | 80, 16| 91 544
Arthur D. Jones________________ 21| 6 1 | | 12 20: II I 51 1! I 94 2| 4| 166
Tom Linder ___________________________ ... 108! 19 I | 12! 7 31 ! 5 | 17! 18 |130; 30: 33! 382
Hamilton Ralls_________________ ._ 175 69 35 4 28 19 i 10 | 12: 9 (117| 7| 9! 494
Guy Stone___________________ 43! 21! I 1 2! 2 I 11! 4| 36 j 2! 101 132
George Y. Harrell _________________ 631 18, | 8 13 23, : 3 I 9 3 55! 11| 13| 219
Royal K. Mann_______________________ 2901 53 22| 9! 71| ; 34 1 28 44| |274 31! 18! 874
L. T. Mitchell___________________ 29! 6 I 11 2; 2| i 4! 2 ! ! 27! 4! 41 81
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Arlie D. Tucker__________________ 811 13 5' 34; 81 : 1 ! I “51 1| 1 51! 7! 31! 237
W. P. (Bill) White__________ 136 30 12 241 1 I 7| 4! \ 82t 11 7| 304
Charles S. Reid _______________ .. 617 126 | 53! 75!134| 41 ! 57' 571 |503! 57| 74!1794
Charles S. Reid_________________ 617|126 53 75 134 41 I 57! 57 [503, 57| 74(1794
Warren Grice ______________________ ... 319 58 21! 43! 51 ' 4, | 26 28 13131 34! 23| 920
T. Grady Head ___________£__ .. 288 65 i 32 32 80 37 i 30! 28! : 1831 23| 41! 839
B. C. Gardner ______________ ... 616,126 i 53 77 134 i 41: 1 56: 571 I503| 57! 74 1792
Hugh MacIntyre_____________ ________.1________ 616 126 | 53 771134 41 I 57! 57! ;503( 57| 74(1792
I. H. Sutton _ 6161126! | 52| 77(134 1 41, ! 57( 57) 503! 571 7411794
A. Sidney -Camp_____________ _ 616 1261 1 53 77 134 41 I 57| 57! 15031 57 j 7411793
James C. Davis_______________ .. 617:126! 1 531 77T33; 1 1 41 1 561 571 1503! 571 7411794
Pierre Howard ________________ .. 247! 40; 13! 18| 14| 26j 71 9| | 12> : 27} 31! 1337 26 161 823
Roy Leathers _________________________ .. 355 87 25 35: 61 !108 27| 38 29 1 301 26! 1159 31| 5711068
R. P. Campbell _________________________ 611 120j 53! 731133 | 3l| i | 41| | 54j 561 1503 571 74:1775
Thomas G- Callaway. Jr.____1___ j 476 100 35 28 621 90 71 | 35 50 51) 3f!435 44! 58(1536
■T ,- s. Katherine Harwell Wismer I 132 23 4 25 12 43 28 15) * 5 4 6 10! 601 13! 16| 396
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Singings to Be ‘Held in Other
Sections of the
State.
One of the greatest Homecom- ,
ings ever held at Hayston was
tending.
A singing was held in connec
tion with the homecoming and
guests attended from approxi
mately six counties. The singing
was under the direction of the
Newton County Singing Conven
tion
Led by Bill Cox, the ent, |
group sang old songs with muen
enthusiasm. The Presbyterian
church in that community, where
the Homecoming was held, was)
not large enough to take care of
the crowd attending- The pro
gram opened at 10:30 o'clock and
closed for “dinner on the ground”
at noon. The singing was resum
ed in the afternoon. The Cov
ington Mills quartet and the local
Covington quartet gave several
special selections.
Two other singing conventions
will be held in the near future
in this section. Th e76th annual
High Falls Singing Convention
will be held at Bethel in Henry
county on Friday. September 13.
with four counties being repre
sented. This convention is known
as the Four County Group and is
under the direction of Bill Cox,l
of this city. Counties represented
are New ton, Henry, Butts and
Jasper.
The twelve county convention:
will be held at the DeKalb court-j
house on Sunday, September 15th *
The affair will begin at 10 o’clock;
and continue throughout the day.
Grady Waters, president, will be
in charge. 1
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Jeon Cohen Back :
From Buying Trip
Leon Cohen, manager and pro
prietor of the W. Cohen Corn
pany, returned last week from an
extended where trip to he the purchased northern ]
markets
latest fashions for fall and winter.
The new stock of merchandise is
arriving daily. I
U.D.C. Meeting
Date Changed
The Covington Chapter of the
U. D. C. will meet on the fourth
Tuesday of this month at the home
of Mrs. J - C. Upshaw. The reg
ular meeting day is the third
Tuesday.
The change this month was
made this year to enable the or
ganization's members to attend
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will b September 16.
All Daughters and Sons are
urged to attend the Miiledgeville
meeting
Annual Meeting
Stone Mountain
S. S. Association
To Be Held at Salem Camp
Ground, on Sunday,
Sept. 29th.
The yearly meeting of the
Mountain Baptist Sunday School
Association will be held on Sun
day, September 29th, at Salem
Camp Ground.
This will be an all-day meeting
with picnic dinner served at noon.
All those attending are expected
to bring baskets and the dinner
will be spread under the historic
oaks of Salem.
The business and religious
services will be held in the ‘‘tent ’
through the courtesy of the trus
tees of Salem. A large crowd is
ex Pected to attend. Last year’s
service was so successful that it
was de °i ded to hold a similar one
this year.
An interesting program has
been arranged and those attend
in £ are assured of inspirational
messages from noted speakers as
we!1 as the fin e fellowship of
their co-workers.
The officers of the association
are A. L. McDonald of Lithonia,
president; Belmont Dennis, Cov
in Ston. Vice-president; Mrs Bel
mont Dennis, secretary.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
The third quarterly confer
ence wag Wednesday evening
at the Methodist church with
Rev T - M. Sullivan, Distri
Superintendent, presiding.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1940
I Newton County
Fair Will Be
Open on Oct. 14
Horse Racing Will Be One
Qf Features This
Plans for the Newton County
fair continued to go forward this
The big Legion Fair catalogue
will be the most complete ever
published and will contain a list
of the many prizes offered as well
as advertisements from various
public spirited citizens and busi
ness houses. The catalogue will
probably go to press next week.
The fair this year will be held
the week of October 14th, with a
number of new features- Horse
racing will be one of the leading
entertainments on the new racing
track now bein 2 constructed on
the grounds. A high class car
nival show has been booked and
a wide array of rides and shows
will be brought here
.
The American Legion was very
successful last year with the “test"
made to see whether the people
wanted a Legion sponsored fair.
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MRS. KATHRYN II. WISMER
who was defeated in Wednesday!
Primary election in her race for
Representative of Newton Count}
in the General Assembly.
already undertaken have been
highly successful and the new
plans are expected to be equally
profitable.
Bascom Anthony
To Preach Here
Revival services wil! begin at
the First Methodist chrurch in
Covington Sunday morning at
11:00 o’clock. Dr. Bascom An
thony will do the preaching.
The services will begin each
evening during the week at eight
o’clock and at eleven o’clock on
Sunday morning. Evening serv
ices will begin at eight o’clock.
Dr. Anthony is coming to Cov
ington on the invitation of the
Board of Stewards of the church
and a special invitation is ex
tended the public to attend.
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S *: 1
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
Se SINGLE COPY
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Former Governor Has
Exceptional Strength I ,
In
Every Section of State
Governor
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EUGENE TALMADGE
candidate for Governor of Geor
gia. who was elected by a wide
margin in t he Democratic Pri
mary election held .Wednesday.
Governor Talmadge will take of
fice on January 1st
TO Hi PROGRAM
Meeting of'Executive Boarc
Held in Athens on
Sept. 5.
Three additional projects will
Newton County Voters Giv
Talmadge Majority -
Of Precincts
ABIT NIX CONCEDES I,|
DEFEAT TO STRONG |
TALMADGE FORCE
Roberts Trails by More Tha
Thirty Thousand Vote#
At Midnight.
Former Governor Eugene Ta
madge again won for himself tl ,,,
Georgia Governor’s chair as cout i J j j
ty after county cast their vot<
in his favor in yesterday’s primar
election. u
Throughout the entire State tl
trend in Talmadge’s favor w
noted shortly after the first r,
turns started to trickle in. Aft
jumping into the lead early in tl
afternoon the former Govern,
gained county after county to w,
one of the most decisive politic | I
victories in the State’s history.
Columbus Roberts, present Con
missioner of Agriculture, the on
other serious contender for th
gubernatorial post, showed e: I
ceptional strength in some section f
of the State but at no time did ]i;
ever threaten to take the lead
the race. During the entire d; i 1 I,
he trailed Talmadge by about 3( j 1 jj
000 popular votes.
The other gubernatorial cand *
date, Abit Nix, Athens attorne 1 j
from trailed the both start Talmadge of the and election Robexl j i
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turns and while he showed a deJ
nite following in practically i
sections of the State his streng
was not enough to get him with
sight of the coveted goal.
Late yesterday afternoon N
admitted defeat in a brief stat
ment released for publication. Ti
Athens lawyer said: ,‘I fought tl
best fight I could and lost.’* L
extended his thanks to tho
friends who had supported him ! j
his campaign. His total popul i
votes did not exceed 30,000, whi !
his unit votes were approximate': 1 :!
eight.
Talmadge’s popular vote we
over the 100,000 mark at 11:45
m. last night while Commission,,
Roberts trailed with about 60,00
Candidate Roberts had failed
concede defeat at this time. if
Five Georgians announced f.,
the Governor’s post early in tl
political season but only thrr
survived until election day- Bra
well Deen, former Director I
the State Welfare Department w;
the first to fail out of the race dt
to conflicts with the Hatch bi
which part with prohibits Federal employees paid j i
funds from et;i'
gaging in political campaign !
Deen later resigned his post
seek the Congressional seat of tty i
late Ben Gibbs, deceased.
Hugh Howell, who ran in tl
1938 race was forced about twj
weeks ago when he reached tt :
limit of his finances.
Eugene This will be the third time thi j '
Talmadge has served i j '•
the Executive’s seat. In 1932 h
was elected to this high r
be added to the program of the
State Home Demonstration Coun
cil this year in accordance with
the decision of the executive
board, which met in Athens Sep
tember 5th and 6th.
The projects are Rural Housing.
Rural Electrfication and Farm
Organization. Announcement of
the chairmen will be made
shortly.
The executive board studied the
recommendations made during
Farm and Home Week and out
lined the program for 1941. The
county councils will study to be
better informed about land-use
planning. rural housing, rural
electrification, farm tenure, AAA
as related to the councils, and the
greater uses of agricultural pro
ducts. Miss Lurline Collier state
home demonstration agent, urged
the home demonstration clubs to
endeavor to reach more young
people and to assist these young
people to understand the forces
at work in rural life, and to as
sist them to recognize their re
sources, capacities, opportunities
and responsibilities.
The Home Demonstration Coun
cil has made a fine record in the
county under local officials
Much credit is due the Demon
stration Agent, Miss Eddye Ross,
for her efforts to assist the Wo
men of Newton county. Projects
was reelected in 1934. He wsji fi 1
followed into office by the preser
Governor, Ed Rivers. : t /
In Newton County unofficial re i
turns from twelve of the County i i
fifteen precincts gave Talmadg I f
eight precincts with the other fou I
going to Columbus Roberts. Th
total votes for these precincts ar
Talmadge 945, Roberts 685, an<
Nix 259.
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Men's Fellowship
Group to Meet
The Men’s Fellowship Group o
the Covington Presbyteriai
Church will resume their suppe
meetings on Friday night. Sep
tember 20th, at seven o'clock
Dr. Bascom Anthony, prominen
Methodist minisiter, will b« th«
guest speaker.