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>tGE TWELVE
v4 Letter From Our Ltuigressmaii
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> Capitol Hill,
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f * i Washington, D.
\u. November 9,
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' ;b’'> e„ Dear Constituents:
: :
. ''After a wonderful visit with my
r < 'nilv -and friends in our district,
’ J Srrived back in Washington last
: , ) 'jilt. Our automobile trip up was
■ fy pleasant, the crisp autumn
: I'pshine : being such as to invite
■
I 1 , /sure driving. We found the tem
(’» yl'rature here point, last but night the rround
1 freezing sun
. j ^ f ine today has tempered it.
1 j All the members are discussing
; K i f *, *e election, the Democrats being
• high glee over their splendid
: !■ Vtory, and the Republicans not
| ; *uld \ly disappointed because they
: j 5 not elect Mr. Willkie, but
'ey are grieving over the loss of
.* jve-al seats in the House of Rep-
14There resentatives. several Republicans
; are
l mose offices are located on the
! VP floor as mine here in the
I I ‘ } ld House Office Building, and
I ’’ £ ost of them were defeated. The
; ' ,i /embers seem to take their de
",4at K in better spirit than do the
t5 cretaries and stenographers,
1 >me of whom shed tears over the
'■J®>ming *>n. departure from Washing
l I':
C “ Representative McDowell, Re
i ] Publican,
i from the 31st Pennsyl
: 1 ■ £ ania District, whose office is next
! oor to mine, was defeated by
C Samuel A. Weiss, Democrat. Rep
^esentative Frank O. Horton, Re
:r ^ublican. the only Representative
'rom Wyoming, whose office is
! Crimediatelv across the hall from
, Dine, was defeated by John J.
: bclntyre. Democrat. Represent
’ *tive Bruce Barton, Republican, of
"Jew York, whose office is also
tear mine, ran for the Senate and
< defeated by Senator Mead,
vas a
democrat.
' The Congressional Elections
seem to give tire Democrats a net
i Jain of seven seats in Congress,
$ there will be 267 Democrats,
i i ,62 Republicans, 3 Progressives, 1
t tidependent, 1 Farm-Laborite,
ind 1 American Laborite in the
? Seventy-Seventh Congress. The
pemocrats will have a clear ma
jority of 99 votes. Some of the
|. 7 iany changes of interest are as
i «'el lows:
.
r- I The Democrats captured all six
;
yf the Congressional seats in the
State of Connecticut, and the one
beat in Delaware.
1 In Indiana the Democrats lost
■ bne seat, that of Representative
I,, Crowe, a Democrat of much force.
In Illinois the Democrats lost
/ 11 |b'ix seats, and gained one in Massa
ichusetts., and one in Michigan
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MOTOR CO.
PHONE 15 COVINGTON, GA.
(Largest Coverage Any Weekly m the State)
IHORl r ERDALE
|Ul LEE
BY MARY LANE
Hello folks. This week we’re go
ing to let you in on a little court
room scene that we hope you’ll en
joy. A little one minute play that
we dished up, in keeping with the
gay holiday season. It goes some
thing lik- this—(and we hope
Shakespeare doesn’t “turn over in
his grave.”)
ONE MINUTE PLAYLET
Title: Where were you on the
night of Oct. 31st?
Characters: Judge—People of
Newton County.
Chief (Eye) Witness—Chief Po
lice Potts.
Dffendents—About 25 different
parties.
Chaperon—“Duna” Crowell.
Court Reporter—“Flash” Lane.
The Villian- “Squawk” Grant.
Minors: The Marathon Runner
Izzie B. The “Bean-konker”
Bette B. The Gate-swinger—
Huddy B.
An Extra—Harvey.
Motto:—“I ain’t seen nuthin’,
don’t know nuthin’, ain’t been no
where.”
Curtain— Court Will Now Come
to Order.
Judge—“Where were you on the
night of Oct. 31st?”
Defendents—“In bed asleep,
you’ honor.”
Judge—“Why were you in bed
asleep?”
Defendents—“Bepause we were
sleepy, your honor.”
Judge—“Why were you sleepy?”
Defendents—“Because we hadn’t
slept since the night before, your
honor.”
Judge—“Order in the court! I
demand sensible answers to my
questions. Is it true that you
wrecked your neighbor’s property
on the night of October 31st?
Defendents—“Yes-s, your hon
or.”
Judge—“Is it true that you up
set garbage cans, pulled electric
switches, put chains and swings
in the streets, moved signboards,
soaped windows, let air out of tires
and burned up Mrs. Cook’s fish
pool?”
Defendentsi—“‘No, your honor.”
Chief (Eye) Witness—“I object
your honor. It is not true. They did
these things. 1 saw them with my
flashlight."
Judge—“What have you to say
for yourself?”
Defendents—“We mean we did
all these- things except burn up
the fish pool.”
Judge—"Harumph! Who is the
red head?”
Defendents—“Squawk” Grant,
the villian.”
Judge—“What were YOU doing
on the night of Oct. 31st?”
The Villian—-“I was in bed sick.
Your honor.”
Judge—“How sick?”
The Villian—“Sick enough to
net know what I was doing.”
Chief (Eye) Witness—“You see
your honor. Red suffers attacks of
amnesia. We do not hold him re
sponsible for what he does.”
Judge—“Piffle! We are not get
ting anywhere. Let’s have a report
from the chaperon.”
Duna—“I beg to report your
honor, the actions of these de
fendents were quite satisfactory.
Let them go on the grounds of
having been under good supervi
sion.”
Judge—“I sentence the defen
dents—taking into consideration
the mercy appealed for by the
chaperon, one Duna Crowell—to
never go out and do such pranks
again—except on the night of Oct.
31st of each year. My wife is giv
ing a bridge party and 1 am going
home so I can leave. Case dismiss
ed! Show them out, Harvey!”
(Addition to last week’s column)
Hello Folks. Your Porterdale
Prattler reporting. Yes, we’re
back again. We’re sure the upright
citizens of Newton County must
have found gratifying relief last
week when they turned the pages
of the News and found the Por
i terdale Prattle missing. Now that
your breathing spell is over c.nd
due to the fact that you probably
came to the (favorable) conclu
sion that we had skipped the
country (except we would like to
stay in the U. S. A. right now.)
we’re going to pop up and pester
you again for exactly the 26th
time since last May. To those of
you (if any) who missed the col
umn, we suppose explanations are
in order and properly forthcoming.
It wasn't because we couldn’t get
a guest columnist that the old
column was missing because we
have Scoop Statham reserved for
that task WHEN and IF. And we
didn’t play a Tom Kinney trick
and try to have all our teeth yank
ed out either (that’s no valid ex
cuse, anyway!) but we did do our
J bit for Uncle Sam and gave him
our space in the News so he could
tell the boys their draft numbers.
(The boys say they feel like pri
soners with their “number,:.”) We
love Uncle Sam and are always
willing to give leeway to him and
the national program. And while
we’re lavishing affections on good
ole U. S. A. (we’re going to get
sentimental as the Office Bov) and
The Democrats lost two in Missou
ri. The two Congressmen who were
most outspoken against the draft,
and who expressed themselves as
being in sympathy with the Ger
man and Axis powers were both
defeated.
Representative Thorkelson, Re
publican, of Montana, was defeat
ed by Miss Jeanette Rankin, a Re
publican, who was formerly a
Member of the House, and the
first woman to be elected to Con
gress. Representative John C.
Schafer, of Wisconsin, was defeat
ed by a Democrat.
Tennessee will have six Dem
ocrats, two Republicans, and one
Independent in the next Congress,
Representative Joe Byrns, of Nash
ville. having been defeated by J.
P. Priest, an Independent.
Everything will be in fine con
dition for the unhampered work
of the next Congress, and the
Country is promising great coop
eration to the President.
Since ’ely,
A. SIDNEY CAMP, M, C.
—NEWS FROM—
ROCKY
PLAINS
By MISS IRENE HARVEY
Regular church services will be
held at the County Line Baptist
church on Sunday, November 17,
at 11:00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M.
Rev. G. W. Hulme, pastor, will
preach at both services. Sunday
School at 10:00 A. M. Classes for
all ages.
B. Y. P. U. meets at 7:00 P. M.
You are cordially invited to at
tend these services.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Martin had
as their guests Thursday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Jonah Bishop of Por
ter dale.
Misses Grace and Alice Stewart
recently visited relatives in Port,
erdale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hearn and
Miss Robbie Harvey of Decatur.
Miss Lillie Mae Upchurch of At
lanta and Mr. T. J. Stewart re
cently visited Mrs. Josie Harvey.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wicks and
sons, Marvin and Lewis of At
lanta, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. P.
Boyd the latter part of last week.
Mrs. J. B. Martin visited rel
atives at Porterdale Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith had
as their recent guests, Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. Bowers and children,
Joyce and June, Mr. and Mrs.
Aubrey Benton, Misses Idalia and
Emma Smith of Porterdale.
Master Eugene McCart of Snap
ping Shoals spent Monday night
with his aunt, Mrs. E. L. Preston.
Mr. and Mrs. Wick Warren, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Boyd and child
,en, Billy and Betty of Dalton,
spent the week end here with rel
atives.
Miss Ximena Stokes entertained
the B. Y. P. U. of County Line
j with a party on Saturday even
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
j Walter Stokes.
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TURKEY AND BE ASSURED OF CHOICE SELECTION.
R. E. A. Loans Set
Record During
1st 1940 Quarter
Considerably more than half of
the funds available for allotment
to rural electrification projects for
the current fiscal year was allot
ted during the year’s first quarter,
it was revealed in a report from
REA Administrator Harry Slattery
to Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R, Wickard, made public today
Of the $100,000,000 available fo
lending to rural power coop<r:i
tives and other borrowers, $51,783
000 had been allotted by Septemly
30. This quarter set a new high fo
REA allotments, the amount bein
even larger than in the first quart
er of 1939-40, when $140,000,000
was available for lending.
Substantially all of the construc
tion carry-over from the previous
year’s allotments, 14,000 miles, was
completed during the quarter. The
three month period also saw 30
487 miles of new lines energized,
the second highest quarter since
the beginning of the rural elec
trification program
65,000 farms and other rural
consumers were connected to REA
financed system lines during the
three months, bringing the total
number of consumers served to
633,000. On September 30, 1940.
263,653 miles of REA-financed
power lines were in operation, a
mileage “which exceeds the com
bined mileage of the 5 In gest util
ity-holding company systems’’, ac
cording to the report.
During the quarter 47 borrow
ers placed their systems in oper
ation, making a total of 669 oper
ating REA systems, scattered
through 45 States and 2,000 coun
ties.
The report asserted that receipts
of interest and principal on REA
loans set a new high for first
quarter payments. The total, for
the months of July and August
only, was:
Interest Principal
1940 $451,683 $626,699
1939 179,138 264,351
1938 76,212 62,606
As of August 31, 1940, both total
interest and total principal pay
ments by borrowers exceeded the
amounts due at that time; inter
est payments were 9.5 percent larg
er, and principal payments were 17
percent larger than the amounts
due.
Current demands for loans by
rural systems are far in excess
of the funds available, the report
stated. By October 12, 1940, REA
allotments for the year totalled
$60,127,000, yeaving less than $40,
000,000 available for allotment.
Requests in Washington and in
preparation in the field, however,
amounted to more than $96,000,000
o - more than $56,000,000 above the
total funds available. This excess
is still increasing; during July and
August new requests averaged
nearly $3,000,000 a week.
say. “God Bless America” and
three cheers for F. D. R! You know
we don’t exactly like to entertain
the thought of getting older every
day (what woman does?) but the
other day we found ourselves wish
ing we were old enough to cast a
vote for good old F. D. R.! That’s
how much we love the President
and our country—the grandest na
tion of them all!—Let us each bow
our heads in prayer and thank
God that we were born Americans!
“Dear God, don’t forget to Bless,
TYie stars and stripes, and the
American Press!”
With apologies to Daniel White
head Hicky.
We remain,
Yours truly,
Flash Lane
Farm Land
FOR SALE as a unit, or in
racts, 407 acres, near junction
if State Highways Nos. 11 and
2, 5 miles east of Covington
’t5 acres in cultivation, bal
nee woodland. Dwelling, 4
enant houses, good barns and
lecessary outbuildings, all In
rood repair and painted. Easily
Hvided into three tracts, each
with good hard surfaced road
frontage. Attractively priced
!ong term for payment if de
sired.
_
270 acres on Highway 72, 4
miles southwest of Starrsville
135 acres in cotton, corn, grain?
\nd iespedeza, balance in wood
'and. Handsome 10-room dwell
ng, attractive grounds with
rees, shrubbery and flowers
t well kept tenant houses
lams, storehouse and outbuild
: ngs, all in A-l repair an' ;
sainted. A fine country resi
Jence, priced lower than yoi
would expect. Terms if desired
Other farm lands available.
S. G. LAYTON
' “>65 Blossom Columbia
Street S. C.
Brokers’ Cooperation
Welcomed
(Our Advertiser# Are Assured of Results)
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