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|)oiTiiiiii RATTLE
BY MARY LANE
Hello folks. Now that school!
sessions are in full swing, those!
seniors are really going places, es- j
pecially that Roy Carter who is a
one man school all by himself. At
present he has been elected class;
president, editor-in-chief of the i
paper andcaptain of the school pa
trol. Congrate, Captain-Editor
President Carter. (They say teach-
1 er even makes him be first in
line!) These New Yorkers really Also! |
get around don’t they? . . .
congrats to Scoop Statham, new
vice-president and Eloise Chap- .„,|
man, Sec. and Treas Pst
A secret—One nominee for the 1
vice-presidency told us that she
withdrew from the race because j
invited to attend these services. ;
Mr. and Mrs." H. H. Nolan and I
! Mrs. Claudia Nolan spent Friday
in Atlanta.
Mr and Mrs R. P. Boyd spent
the week-end in Atlanta and Dal-;
tor.. 1
Messrs. James E. Thompson
Stewart Thompson and Ben Har- ,
vey,visited Mi. D. O. Thompson
in Atlanta Sunday afternoon.
Miss Ruby Steadham spent the j
week-end with her sister Mis.
Robert Cook. '
Mrs. O, C. Cole of Atlanta visit- |
ed in our community the past |
week-end. |
Messrs. Edgar Thacker and j
Bobby Randall of Decatur, spent
the week-end with Mr. Ray
i Thacker.
Miss Mary Harvey had as her
guest Sunday afternoon Miss Le
na Frances Rosser of Atlanta.
Mr. Ictus Stokes of CCC camp
at Cartersville spent the week-end
here with relatives
Mr. and Mrs J H Steadham of
Porterdale were recent visitors of
Mr and Mrs Herschel Stpkes
Misses Idalia and Emma Smith
of Porterdale visited Mr and Mrs
V Sm!t V™ Pa t l v ^ ee k 'f nd
w* Mr and Mrs Fred 0 Stokes mo
tored to Atlanta Wednesday even
ing
Mrs Florence Johnson and fam
ily visited Mr Johnson at Macon
hospital Sunday Mr Johnson re- ;
eently underwent . operation.:
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His condition was serious at , first;
but his many friends will be glad
to learn he is improving.
We regret to learn oi the illness
of Mr. H. H. Nolan . We wish for
him a speedy decoverj.
Misses Alma and Lucy Chesttut
visited Mrs. J. O. Black Wednes
day afternoon.
Mrs. Lillian Rosser of Oiy was
a recent visitor of her sister, Mrs.
W. B. Harvey.
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'resident and Manager
DeSoto, Savannah, Ga
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rinnah Beach, Ga.
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Cmt to Coast Drivers Everywhere
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STAKE THEIR LIVES ON
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Make every road a safer road. Drive
<=n ie-skidded U. S. Royal Masters,
(ires that every test shows and
erm rgency experience proves will
)' in stop SMART
■ car a measurably shorter di»
N eon any kind of road, dry. matching the beauty
wet or
of the new cars in
*00 ARE INVITED TO CONVINCE ’merica s Finest Salom
toURSEU IN « Fttl DEMONSTRATION
°vington s Service Station
nt * Ginn Motor Company
COVINGTON. GEORGIA
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'(L’lPtBrt CflWiw Anv WmVI v In tha State,
she knew she didn't stand a chance
with that Statham boy. What a
pity «om« of the jig brr,«d minded
politicians in the state's elections
didn't, have the same forethought! 1
• . . Speaking of elections reminds !
us one Jun '°r Bowden. He
< l'^ n ^ think very much of a eer
^ a ' n oan{ Bdate running in the pri
maries or he thought a good deal
of h ‘m one, w e haven’t been able
dec 'Pher which. But he had
him a11 decorated with that Hitler
^* u ' r and mus tache and Heil-so and
so writte n underneath on the card
■ • • The Y sa y °ne Amos Payne and
Beedie Merritt made their Porter
when dale dates and why wa,k h0 ™e don't from know where, J
we ...
Sara Skinner should be a re- ■
P° rter instead of a nurse. She, 1
rclly U» new,, How .bo,I,
Bloise ^ Sara? Chapman . . . FLASH: really They make say
can
*bose machines in the sewing room
go to town! . . . The new drug
store boy is Arnold Duckworth by
name, Speed Rye and thought. not Donald Which Duck as j
re
minds us—Caniverous Correction
—Miss Rye informs us that her
bracelet is one of the “anemic”
strawberries (white) on one gol
den chain instead of "Snowdrops"
as we stated last week. Well,
anyway, it looked like snowdrops
aren’t very well ac
quainted with the new costume
■j ewe ] r y i We’ll let the cannibal
girls in Africa have our part of
it . . Example of a cold blooded
creature . . . We wouldn’t mur- !
dc anybody, understand-but we
walked most all the way to Cov
j n gton and back Sat. afternoon
W Hh our sweater on and it felt
good, too! . . . The Rev. Cloud gave
us a short lift feeling sympathetic
an( j emotional no doubt, probably
thinking we were destitute for j
lack of fund:, and was having to
"hot-foot” it to town (but sure
enough we did have 21c) and had
already passed up two rides back
and we were’t walking because j
we had to but because we wanted
to. So if you and your chauffeur
pass by in your limousine and see
us wa i king on the side we won’t j
ex P ect y° u to stop or throw pen
nies out the window because real
j y we’re enjoying it! . . . CHECK...
Jack Wheeler has been getting let
te rs from Detroit. DOUBLE
CHECK. How do we know? . . .
\y e go t one from her, too! . . •
Margie Cook had on such a loud; ,
dress other day Harold Rollins
wanted to know if she didn’t have
0 n Jacob’s coat instead! . . . Guess
A nn C. and Christine P. of the Ox
f ord vicinity are pretty lonesome
since Bo and Lyda checked out! i
, , . Miss Pennell looked so pretty
j n the choir Sunday morning;
Smitty couldn’t keep his eyes off
her long enough to bow his head
for prayer. Sh-h. How do we
know? We had ours bowed! . • •)
Rocky Plains two or three times a
week now. Couldn’t be Mary Har
vey, or could it? . . . Wonder how
Red Cole likes Allen’s 5c and 10c
store’s new candy girl? , . . Scoop
Statham went to church Sunday
night and when he entered the
door the congregation began sing
ing “Glory Hallelujah!” ... Say
what’s this Stewart Pick-Ups bus
iness? Someone trying to steal
your show, Pickoutman? . . . The
next thing that pops up will prob
ably be Porcupine Prattle . .. Per
sonal to the Pickoutman , . .
Thanks a million for those en
couraging words. Maybe you do
and maybe you don’t know how
much they helped a person’s feel
ings . . . SITES OF THE WEAK
. . . Helen Almond—buying her
college wardrobe at the five and ;
ten Saturday after . . . Ernest ;
Bennett—answering ris eorrespon- |
dense at a drug store table . . .
ACADEMY AWARD STORY . . .
A certain Covington salesman was
trying to sell our mother on some |
of his products when the conver
sation by some mysterious reason
ran into the newspaper line. The
salesman at the moment forget
ting his sales gag proceeded to
inquire of our mother if she knew
the girl who wrote Porterdale
Prattle, where she lived, how;
much he liked it, etc. etc. . . .
On and on he went and when he
did let up his face must have been
pretty red when he found out he
was talking to the Prattler’s moth
er! ... We didn’ see the nice gen
tleman, but if he’s among our
readers this week we’d like to
thank him for the nice compli
ments. We guess he knows who;
he is, we don’t But if we find out
we promise to put him on our
Xmas list as soon as we get to be j
the office boy! . . .
So long folks. No matter how,
smart you think you are, you will 1
never know as much as you don't j
know • . .
“It matters not how strait the I
gate,
How charged with punish-;
ments the scroll.
You are the master of your!
Fate,
You are the Captain of your|
Soul!”
—Which is each individual’s re- j
sponsibility—Let us all be worthy!
of that responsibility and not have i
cause to regret the way we have
“mastered our fates and guided
our souls!”
FLASH LANE.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
— NEWS FROM—
FAIRVIEW
M MRS. L. D. RAY
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Mi - and Mrs. Olin Womac spent
Sunday atternoon with Mr
Mrs. O. R. womac.
lss a! ^ Mai tin of Oxford,
the last week-end with Miss
01 ls Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Bentley en
tertained friends and relatives
from Atlanta Sunday.
Mr. L. C. Rollins of Almon, spent
Sunday night with Mr, and Mrs.
Willie Womac.
..XHuSS Mr d M Lly » T M £' , 23 ,
Mrs. Cornelius Patrick and son
Bobby, of Covington.
Mrs, H. J .Britt and Miss Ethel
ene v ' s B ed Mr, and Mrs. Frank
Watson at Porterdale.
Mrs. Willie Womac visited her
mother, Mrs. L. C. Rollins, Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. T ,C : Ray called
to see Mr. and Mrs. Sam Regan
Sunday.
Mr. Frank Dooley of Mansfield
called to see Mr. Tom Mason on
Monday.
Bev Hardy of Atlanta preached
Thursday night at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Bentley, A
l ar Be crowd attended and enjoyed
a wonderful sermon,
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Regan spent
Sunday with Mr- and Mrs. J. J.
McCullough of Porterdale.
Prayer meeting will be at the
Almon Baptist church next Sun
da y afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Everybody is invited to attend,
We wou ld like to congratulate Bo
for singing his solo so beautifully,
we are certainly going to miss Bo
and Lyda in the choir on Sunday
morning and we’re expecting some
of you other boys to take their
places. Please cooperate with
Miss Pennell when she asks you
to sing with us and at least pre
tend you ar(* honored instead of
act i ng as if you had been insu lted
. . . We were reading aout one of
the debutantes of Atlanta society
who gave her definition of an
ideal man but it didn't make much
sense to us. Says she: “My ver
sion of an ideal man is one who
is interested in everything.” May
be that’s Miss Indell’s version but
j t certainly isn’t ours. We know
lots ot things we wouldn ' t wam
our ideal man lo be interested in
—especially blondes, and besides,
jf we bad to make a formal bow to
society we wouldn’t want to get
into j t anyway! . . . MORE PRAT
q>LE , . . Harry Ray has been seen
rushing Teeny Barnett lately . . .<
Jackson Wheeler is to
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X Letter 1 roni Our Congressman
My Dear Constituents:
We passed the Burke-Wads
l |ast^Saturday ^ni gh^ bv^a *vote
Act
o{ 2 63 to 149. The bill as passed
by tbe House differed in some
respects from the Senate Bill,
mainly because of the Fish A
mendinent adopted in the House
which deferred the draft for 60
days. Because of these differ
ences a Conference Committee
composed of members from both
Senate and House was appointed
to reconcile these differences if
possible. This Conference Com
mittee made its report to the
Senate yesterday morning. The
conferees struck the Fish Amend-*
ment, agreed that the age limits
should be 21 to 35 inclusive, de
ferred the training of benafide
students who have entered college
for the 1940-1941 session, and
modified both Senate and House
provisions relative to the drafting
of recalcitrant industry in the re
armament program. The Senate
debated this conference until late
last night, and finally rejected
the conference report, sending it
back to a new Conference Com
mittee, which will report to them
this morning at eleven o’clock. If
the Senate accepts the new con
ference report, it will then come
over to the House and if we ac
cept it the Bill then will be passed.
We hope to finish it today.
The senate rejected the confer
ence report because of its modifi
cation of the Russell-Overton
amendment to draft recalcitrant
industry, and struck the penalty
clause from same In simple
words, the Russell-Overton amend
ment provided the government
with a means of dealing with any
who might be like that very small
pencentage of manufacturers in
the last war who sought to gouge
the government by extorting un
warranted profits. There were
manufacturers who were making
parts of armament that were ab
solutely necessary. A very few!
of them simply said to the gov
ernment, “I will not make any j
parts for you,” or “I will not make i
them until you pay me an exhorb- |
itant price.” In the last war the
Government had to pay. Under
the Russell-Overton amendment
the Government can say to these
manufacturrs, “We need the parts,
we want you to make them, we
are willing to pay you a price that
will insure you a fair profit.” If
the manufacturer then refuses,
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE—Five burner new per
fection oil stove, only one year
old, just like new. Apply at News
Office. t/A8c
FOR SALE—Seed oats; Hastings'
hundred bushel and Tuirif; the
two best oats of the Southern I
plantar, 75c bu. In new’ five bu.
bags. O. W. Porter, Covington,
Georgia 2ts5
FOR SALE: One 1938 Model Ply
mouth, in good condition, prac
tically new tires, will sell at a
sacrifice, see, W. L. McCUL
LOUGH, PC^TERDALE, GA.
FOR SALE—1,000 glass jugs with
screw tops in cases. NeHl Bot
tling Company, Covington, Ga.
LOST—Three black shoals, got |
out of pen Saturday. Reward,
D. T. Dobbs, Almon, Ga. itpsl9
poR RENT — Two unf urnished
rooms with private bath. Phone
cc it!*
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FOR SALE — Two vacant lots —
One mile east of center of city,
facing paving 107 feet—dimen
sions 125 x 165 x 147 x 105x107.
Across Highway from J.. W.
Fowler’s Store. Ideal for store,
apartment, or several houses.
Will accept best cash offer. C.
R. Payton, 873 Cherokee Ave.,
S.E., Atlanta, Ga. c4ts!9
LOST —Black Port Persian, half
grown kitten. Reward, Mrs.
R. A. Norris.
Ch itc
FOR SALE — Hay Mixture con
taining wheat, oats, rye. vetch—
$1.00 Bushel. Benton Brothers.
Mansfield, Ga.
PUBLIC
SALE
All household and kitch
en furniture of Mrs. W.
M. Bigger* at Hayston,
Georgia, will be sold on
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
24th. Everything in the
house will be sold at her
home in Hayston on this
day. Be sure to attend.
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(Our Advertisers Are Assured of
the Governement can take over the
factory and make the parts and
Pa ' V ° Wnel ' S ° f the faCt °'' y 3 fair
rental on th e plant. And those re
calcitrants can be punished for
I obstructing the armament pro
gram in cases where it can be
proven that they deliberately tried
to hold up the Government.
Senator Russell has made a de
[ the Bill and the House and Sen
termined fight for this feature of
ate adopted it by an
j n g vote. r" a r
it will be modified in the final
draft.
On Monday the sub-committee
on Emergency Housing, of which
1 am a member, went down to
Norfolk and Newport News to in
spect and study the Housing prob
lem there. We saw the great ship
building plant of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and^Dry Dock
Company, and it was most en
couraging to note the rapid work
going on there. Nine big ships
are being constructed, one huge
battleship, two airplane carriers,
cruisers, and other vessels. One
will be launched next week and
one the next. This is the largest
shipbuilding company, and they
now have -enough contracts to
last them three years at top
speed. They are now working
12,500 machinists, mechanics and
other workers, but they want to
employ 6000 more, and have no
houses for them to live in. The
personnel manager (who. by the
way, is a Georgian), said he hired
over 800 machinists last week, but
500 left because they could not
find houses to live in. The city
manager, ,city councilmen, and
members of the Chamber of Com
merce all said that every garret
and cellar in a ten mile radius
was filled, and implored us to do
something before winter.
We are now building fifty low
cost one fa mily dwellings, these
to be ready for occupancy next
mont h (they built one house each
day from the beginning). We will
build houses to take care of 1200
families; the people of the city
will build some, and the company
will build some. In this way we
will take care of the situation.
Similar problems exist in Bos
ton, Portsmouth (New Hamp
shire), Corpus Christie (Texas),
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3 Millions Alloted
For Ga. Highways
The Public Roads Administra
tion in Washington has just an
nounced allocation to Georgia of
more than $3,000,000 in federal
| aid highway funds for 1941-42
fiscal year. The money will be
available by December it is said.
’ Th 'must ™tch $2,509,000
se> aM e fedelal aid
, , * esignated for
! r0a s an
| $489,000 secon ar ^ of federal roa s - funds A has total been of
‘ cpf aside ’ for cradp * pmsiBinff*? 8 ’ in
which no state matching is requir
ed.
Construction of 3,100 miles of
access roads to military reserva
tions throughout the country and
| 000 an improvement mifes of important program for 75,
highways
also is planned at a cost of $197,
000,000 of federal moneys.
and Charleston, S. C. All will be
solved.
You may rest assured that this
preparedness program is gaining
speed every day.
Sincerely,
A. SIDNEY AMP.
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Rich's of Atlanta brings to its customers all over the South a
host of new services in the expanded new Store.
• 100,000 additional square feet of space.
• Complete New Store for Men.
• 6 new selling floors.
• Fluorescent lighting throughout.
• New receiving and alteration rooms on the floors they serve.
• New shipping department across Forsyth Street.
• Streamlined modern interiors.
• Aisles broadened, new ones added.
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Fifteen to 20 pounds of clean
seed, or 50 to 50 pounds of seed
in chaff per acre is the recom~
mended rate of seeding for crim
son clover. u
Georgia is the largest state east
of the Mississippi River and con
tains more than a quarter million
farms.
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fancy. Don’t worry about tha
si>eoial quantities required for
sjwial types of baking powder.
With Rumford just use the *
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ipe book. Address: Rumford
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Rumford, Rhode Island.