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there lots of things to
bout termstance . . .
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[e at last bad rain . . . rain
L e rain until the grass has
r gardens and
F the crops
I real n ews comes with an
iter fvcm Mrs. Gray . . .
foster sister of the
arming Mis. Rollon and
|ouse, , f Burge Plantation,
Lfield. Georgia . . . Mrs.
written such interesting
from war torn England
, | iave passed them on to
h the permission of Mes
Bolton and Moorehouse:
|e was written in May . . .
t. Hope you do not mind if
you both at once. I’ve
slow poke in writing you
i please lorgive me. Days
| so quickly and as I week have
roman just once a
, other one was called up,
days I'm busy digging
Where it come s from I
;now. The Covington pa
B today. 1 enjoy reading
s from down your way,
ne feel as if I weren’t
far away, and I always
grocery store ads, and
a all the things I'd like to
and buy. I feel rather
;ed when I see my letters
They certainly aren 11
to ,u'd caii literary spell
because I write them
you.
sorry you were women
i alter our last big blitz,
have it hot that night and
go to bed until five in
ping. We stood on the :
fi and on watching the
tning and listening to the
■wrung down. There were
il ft: in streets nearby and we
of incendries in the
Lt [bv they were put out
the soldiers and the;
| [fire in the street. Everyone I
watch that night.
[ vi a® out for awhile and
lot home just before the
Ige was done in the main
Lance sal by the dining
t until midnight.. I play
pies with her, but she
Ipset. Its a w'onder the
bns of our houses stand up
constant rocking, at least
| b.® seems la rock when th«
land, just as it does in
bquake. Several of our
I ■'.ere h.t and lots oi
but as I’ve .said before, its
p bid a blessing in disguise,
house* that should
bn pulled dew'n before,
lm\ its hard for the poor
I in them, but perhaps
B have something better
Lack lo after this is all
b shops are looking more
lew, with the window's in
It mosi of them have had
If covered over, and 3
jamount fenge things of glass put in
happen. One
B be all knocked down
laps the one next door
ply have a scratch. lt
eem possible and 1 sup
in be explained by those
trstand blasting"
A a very sad “task” to
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:ation held at
ty Line Sun • 1
a* Ite History of Church
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pi audience was on hand
lay for the dedication
p of the County Line
Church. The "new mod
fiirp replaces the church
that was destroyed by
8rch, 1939.
°Sram opened w'ith
1 by Rev. H. M. Can
Wpd by the recognition
^ present. W. C. Woods
erk, then read the com
erv of the 116-year-old
F ,<r which the Jackson
» a sneriai m „ s ;»,i
Rev dedicatory I I winborn Z
the eompletiof of fe mon "ser
t
*t dinners were spread
rounds The afternoon
rr !^- M. Uverette and
^orge en by the recognition
rrr* 6, A talk
" die church, k on the
if n irch ip '
nveri r-*.”; h „
"W„«
»« 'hr Community."
s f 'lowed by brief talks
s v -*tor s after which
l ] dedication was held,
hy the singing o f a hymn
"“nediction,
•■lding committee, J. W
'• ^airman, R. W. War
J Stokes, W. D. Stokes
- k Woods, church clerk,
expressed their apnre
: th e many di f *>, nt in
"ho have aid in re-
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Patriotic Gathering At u ucTSal em n Tomorrow
Record Breaking Crowd Legion Aux.
Expected To Be On Hand iTo Organize
For An All Day Program AW VS Unit
Parts Of Program To Be
Broadcast Direct From
Camp Grounds
Z TO OPEN
WITH U. RAISING
CEREMONY AT P:30
Bishop Arthur Moore *Vill
Deliver Principal
Address
The largest crowd ever to at
‘ end a Fourth of July patriotic
meeting at Salem Camp Ground is
expected tomorrow for the ull
d ay’s program beginning at 9:30
o’clock in the morning.
Bishop Arthur Moore will ae
tivei ' ' h f principal address and
will speak with first-hand know
ledge on conditions in the world
loda y. having just returned rom
a trip to China and the far east,
Bishop Moore ba.s spoken in this
section on numerous occasions
and his messages always meet
w) *h wide approval.
In view' of the present world
unrest a record-breaking crowd
is expected to fill the Camp ,
Grounds. The speaker will be
introduced by Louie D. Newton,
pastor of the Druid Hills .Baptist
Church in Atlanta.
During the past few days, work
men of the Southern Bell Tele
phone Company have been work
ing busily placing telephone lines
into the Camp in order that to
morrow's program might go to
thousands of radio listeners
through the facilities of an At
lanta Station. The light of w'ay
for the telephone line was voted
by the Board of Trustees, in the
form of a resolution, at a recent
meeting.
The program will open with a
flag raising ceremony, directed by j
Major Sidney Cox of the Salva- !
tion Army. The Salvation Army
Band will provide music and pat
riotic song,# will be sung by the
singers of the Twelve County
Singing Convention. The singing
and musical part of the program
will continue until about 11
o’clock.
Basket dinners will be served
on the grounds and the program
of activities will continue through
out the remainder of the day.
Other events added to the sche
dule of summer activities include
an assembly for a group of young
people from Augusta on the
Camp Ground for a week's stay
beginning next Monday and a
similar gathering for a group
from Carroll County on July 14.
The Augusta group will be un
der the guidance of Dr. L. M.
Twiggs of Augusta, while the
Carroll County group will be di
rected by Rev. Zack Hayes
second in a series of
monthly sermons was held at
Camp Ground last Sunday after
at three o'clock. with the
noon of the
Rev. Pearce Harris, pastor
First Methodist Church of At
preaching the sermon.
Music for the meeting was
prov ided in the form of singing
b v the Newton County Singing
Convention under the direction ot
R j|| Cox of Covington. month
This was the second
, "!' .cached bv Rev. Har
y serm Ground this
ri ‘ ^er TheTrst ramD
Ld wa* deliver
ZZn !fowd 25 section. drew a Music large
‘ Rom this provided
t l°; r he i t sermon was
Club under the a, leade. ship ' ^ '
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The m 0 nth i V e nS
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1 L. Stephenson, who has b(en
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acting postmaster at
Post Office since the
ton CjUaw...
of sumed the the lateen announced this
on July 1 it w8fi
week. Stephenson's appointment
Mr. the Senate sev
j was co nfirmed by waited
week® ago but he un
eral fisc- 1 year he
til t*e end of the
i entering on his nev. duties.
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MAJOR SIUNKV \. COX
Major Cox of the Atlanta Sal
ation Army will have charge of
.he flag-raising ceremony at the
Salem Camp Ground meeting to
morrow'. The program w'ill open
at 9:30 o’clock in the morning with
music provided by the Salvation
Army Band and the Twelve Coun
ty Singing onvention. Parts of
the program will be broadcast.
Many Attractions
Found In Army
Says Oxford Boy
Writes That Boys In The _
Camps Receive Good
Treatment
Life in the United States Army
is not so bad for New'ton County
men w'ho have been called by
the local Selective Board, if the
experiences of Ralph L. Martin.
from Oxford, is typical.
Mr. Martin, who entered the
service on April 5 and who is
stationed mith a Signal Carps at
Fort Monmouth, N. J.. along with
several other Newton County se
lectees, is high in his praise of
the treatment accorded the new
recruits and of the manv faeiii
tie® provided for recreational ac
tivities.
In a recent letter to Belmont
Dennis, editor of the News, Mr.
Martin said that he believed that
first hand information from some
one in the armed forces might be
of value to boys from the County
who might be ordered to report
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Cotton Is Of Vital Importance To U. S.
^ Yf)U k noW: How many
s depend directly upon
for a living? Whet - oese
, jve? why cotton pre
v j des employment for so large a
nl m , , In w h a t ways i is W
P 01,an m lives"’ How
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^Tv^t "extile th fibers
r lhe ndu try’
^ some cf more im
p °f^of e0 tton seed? How
cotton farms com
those of othe tyT ?
To what extent the South is de
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penden upon
a the re concerned peoplc ^ JiJh withJhe the’welfare of
these persons engaged m grov® ng.
handUng and processing th»
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er. .re entered in th. Wlowm.
artjcle repr inted in full from the
5ooU -Round the World With
Cotton , » published by the United
Cotto ® ^ Unjted
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State. There T J» no other agricul
• , wh|rh
many °American citizens depend
i is''true that corn, wheat, and
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Mr*. Homer Cook, Auxiliary
Head, Names Committee
Member*
Newton County Post No. 32 of
the American Legion and mem
bers of the recently organized
Auxiliary met Tuesday night foi
the monthly meeting. A chi*
supper was served to those at
tendir, g
Principal feature of the join'
program was a talk by Mrs. G
W. Crickmay, of Athens, direc
tor of the Fourth Corps Area, who
spoke on the A - W " v - S - and
showed a film depicting the work
0 { t be W. V. S. in England.
The women learn nursing, air
•aid warden work, make surgical
dressings, work in fields and at
airports, -tudy map reading, drive
■fficial cars and nerform many
other essential services.
The speaker pointed out that it
is better for our women to signify
a preference for the type of work
for which they are best suited
rather than later be compelled to
register for any task assigned to
them as the English women who
did not register were required to
do.
The Auxiliary voted to sponsot
p ed c roS5 . Sewing Project and
to organize a Newton County or V t
ot - |j. e American Women # V ui
tary Services. The Legion Hon e c
1 will be used for the .oik . J
full ommittees for each w'SlI soon
be announced. Mrs. Moody C.
Summers, National Defense chair
man of the Auxiliary will be or
ganizing chairman of the A. W.
V. S. Mrs. Clarence Meadors,
Mrs. I. H. Rainwater and Mrs. H.
W. Durden are the committee for .
the Red Cross Sew'ing. The Aux
iliary wishes to emphasize the
fact that all Newton County
women are urged to participate in
these projects.
Mrs. Homer Cook, president
the Auxiliary, also made the fol
lowing appointments of commit
tee chairmen:
National Defense—Mrs. Moody
C. Summers.
National Publication—Mrs. Har-
1 vey Jones.
Legislature—Mrs. C. E. Haw-*'
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Poppy—Mrs. I. T. Wiley. j
Radio—Mrs. Perino Dearing.
Legion House and Community
Service-Mrs. T. C. Swann.
Rehabilitation-Mrs. J. L. Skin
ne ,.
Education of Orphans of Vete
„an=—Mrs T R Weaver
Child Welfare-Mrs. W. K.
Swann.
Americanism—Mrs. G. f. Sum
r.er.
Junior Activities—Mrs. P. W
v .att.
Music—Mrs. R. M. Tuck
Employment—Mrs. E. S. Rheberg.
hay occupy a larger acreage, but
Cf) y n and hay a re feed crops con-j
sumed largely on the farms where j
tbey are produced, and wheat pro
vides ampioyment for relatively
f peop P P ] e
Apopxrimately . ,o-nnnnn •.■* P p o
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3ub on f ff antl f P ^ 1 This f K popufa J al .
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Qn a.^ooo cotton farms of the
, Southwest there
are more than 10 . 000.000 person.
riepen nep dent on cotton for the great
P ^ ^ income. Cotton
text e manufar turin g in all its
In other work ' P c ", on
ma * lhere
are ^ about pendent 50^ ■ s a ^ di .
upon cotton
the necessities and comfoits ° f
life.
These figures, large as they are ,
do not ° include theji.ny owners
mills and other companies, the
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941
New Rotary Head
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WALTER C. McGAHEE ;
who was installed as President of :
the Covington Rotary Club Tues
day noon, following his election
i n May. Mr. MeGahee is a char
ter member of the club and has
almost 100 percent attendance
s j nce the club's organization. He
succeeds Guy Robinson as Pres
jdent.
MeGahee to
Head Local
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Secretary; Hoke Randall
Treasurer
W. C. MeGahee. well known
Covington business man. W'as in
stalled as President of the Cov
ington Rotary Club Tuesday noon
at ^ the Delaney Hotel w ith Guj
Robinson, past president, pres.d
mg.
Other officers of the club who
were also installed are FI ,
Dudley, Secretary, succeeding . j
Thomas Hay: Hoke Randle. Treas
urer - succeeding George Staui
facher; Directors, Ross Chambers
W. O. Dorough and J. T. McKay.
Past-President C-uy Robinson will
serve as the new vice-president.
succeeding Dr. S. L. Waites,
Guy Robinson made a brief talk
extending his appreciation to the
members of the club for their
cooperation and help duiing the
past year. He reviewed the ac
hievement* of the club and dis
cussed the membership and how
its second year New officers were
introduced and were given a round
of applause
the club had progressed during
President MeGahee. just back
from the hospital following a
throat operation, stated that he
pould say very little because of
hi® throat and because he had
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business of which is based on cot
ton, or the hankers who finance
the growing, handling, and man
ufacturing of cotton and the mer
chandising of cotton products. Noi
do they include the millions en
oaspri in retail merchandising in
SS , S ranging from Tenter the
Hhe great city department
store each of which has a large
variety of cotton products on its
^
Among the
-rops grown in the United State®**
cotton is the only ore that canno
be therefore used until cotton it is is unique. process^ This
processing must he carried on m
STto. ft *Zp
with th. .itu.tion .pplyrnl to
corn and the small '.rain#, which
are in usable form for feed on
lhe farm. The cotton farm is the
Tessiog operations unequaled i*
the the ca.c case of anv > othe. import, p
crop of ,>. 399 . 01 ,.
[bales harvested in the
Call 14 For
Duty With
U. S. Army
Call Number Fifteen Is
Second Largest Made
To Date
The Newton County Selective ,
Service Board this week ordered
14 men to report for induction
into the United States Army for
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a year's military training. Six of
those reporting are Negroes. This
makes a total of 87 from the
County who ar» now serving with
the armed forces.
The" Board also announced this
week that—young men from New
ton County registered Tuesday in
-ompliance with Selective Ser
vice regulations. All of thU group
reached their twenty-first birth
days between October 18. 1940
and July 1, 1941.
White draftees who will report
on Julv 11 at 8:30 A. M. at the lo
cal Board headouarters
! Robert Lamar Whittle. Edward
[ Norton Stone, Herbert Cohen.
i Edward Marva Fisher. Andrew
Jackson Huff. Raymond Avery
Moodv. Bill Brownlow
I and Wolby Jack Bonner. These
men will be taken to the ormv
induction Station at Fort Mc
i Pherson.
Negroes, who will report
day.® earlier on July 9 at the
lime and at the same place
Wyatt Camn. Huey nr,.. Bee Po| n r
Leon Columbus Jordan. ay >e<
Shy, Robert Lee Harris and
Herman Nolley.
Four alternates u’ere named to
replace any of the white select
ees who failed to pass the physi
cal examinations required by the
United States Army. These men
^ rj]] hf notifjed should thev be
equired fo report for servicP .
Thev are - stewart Murray,
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Thomas Jefferson T Cooper, „ Her- Uqi .
man ' Barkw'ell Allen and James
Fred , Jones. _
The two Negro alternates nam
ed w’ere: Bennie Clevland Ham
monds and Wavie Wilbon.
This call, number 15, is The
,-econd largest ever made by the
local Selective Service Board.
Call number 14. made during the
month of June w'as the largest
made to date, fifteen men being
called for duty.
Notification received from the
Induction center at Fort McPher
son, Georgia, this week states
that William H. Lawson who was
ordered to report in Call number
5, has been assigned to the Ar
mored Force Replacement Train
, ing Center at Fort Knox, Ky„
and that Edgar H. Jones, who
answered call number 14. has
been assigned to the Infantry
Repinc-ment Training f.-nter at
Camp Wheeler. Ga.
States in 1936, including $141.-
289.000 for seed, yielded a cas
return of $905,682.00(1 to the
grower Dus exceeded the va im
of any other crop grown in . e
Unite® ,®aies excep® corn an ex
needed the comoined value o! he
wheat and tobacco crops of he
country by over $30,000,000.
W hv is cotton so important .’ ,
Gotten is important because it en
ters into the daily life of every
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f^fld it i®« found in e\ei> hfmf n m •
’ mP ”' ^ ^ i ^ menCa S m ° S
Cotton is used more re than than j 000
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havfl nevpr fhough ,
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j h«n did , day cotton m your life several when ways you
not use in
It makes no difference what you
are doing-sleeping, dressing, eat
hying some form of recreation
otton probably enters into the ac
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Ha- vo U thought a*.oi,t
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THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5e SINGLE COPY
Covington Merchants Are
Ready to Redeem Stamps
For U. S. Cotton Goods
July 4th Speaker
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Principal speaker at the Fourth
of July meeting at Salem Camp |
Ground tomorrow will be Bishop I
Arthur Moore. Bishop Moore is
| well known to the people of
section having appeared here
many times. His message this year
, s expected to be exceedingly
tjme | ag b e has j us , returned
^ a {our o{ China and the fal
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Agricultural News
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Farmers Urged To Plant,
Tomato Plants For
Fall Canning
Some " {armers are still confused
ov er the lespedeza situation tm
de| , thg AAA sjnce the drought so
greatly re d uc ed the stand. M'here
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(he p ro d U cer carried out the
specifications and the land seed
ed to lespedeza is not, during the
remainder of the program year,
devoted to a crop other than a
crop which will meet the require
ment s of the provisions relating
to erosion-resisting or soil con
serving crops. This last state
ment is a copy of the latest regu
lations and means that where the
lespedeza was actually seeded ac
cording to the regulation; that it
will count for payment and will
also count on the 20 percent Lime.
Phosphate or slag applied to such
lespedeza will count the same as
if a stand were secured. So if
you plow up the lespedeza be sure
to seed the land to cowpeas, soy
velvet beans or some such
crop that will still let the lespe
deza count. The best thing to do
is let the lespedeza alone in most
instances as more has come up
since the rains than we think.
it seems to us that boll weevils
are doing more damage right
now than we have seen them do
.since 1922. Where the rains con
tinue and it is too much of a risk
to apply arsenic we would suggest
Peking up the squares Cotton
■« beginning to bloom in the old
hatching quarters for the
m ffrll u s When this first
brood is destroyed by burning
the square* it means the second
^ RrMt , y re(Jufed
With cotton bidding fair to sell at
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Within a very short time the
local AAA office will be issuing
Cotton Stamps. Merchants and
farmers are both anxious to see
| that best advantage. the stamps are Friday used July to the 11.
at 2 o’clock there will be a floor
show held in the American Le
gion Hal! to better acquaint the
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Number 27
Style Show to Display Cotton
Dresses Planned For
July 11
BUSINESS FIRMS IN
CITY OFFERING FULL
LINE COTTON GOODS
85 Percent of Farmers In
County Will Take
Part In Plan
Covington merchants met last
Thursday with County Agent T.
L. McMullan and R. N. Foote,
area supervisor, to discuss plans
for handling the supplementary
cotton stamp program and to
make arrangements for promot
ing interest in the stamp plan.
It is estimated that the plan will
bring between twenty-five and
| forty thousand dollars into the
County, in the form of stamps
that may be used by participat
ing farmers to purchase goods ami
materials made entirely from
America-grown cotton.
Over 80 percent of the farmers
in Newton County have signified
their intentions of taking part in
the program which is designed to
reduce the cotton acreage and at
the same time help in moving the
large surplus.
Representatives from the City's
business establishments stated
that all was in readiness for
the first of the stamps which
expected to* be distributed n
week . Each farmer in the C.H
ty w ho signed up for the
can receive as much a.s -V?.
stamps of 25c denominations^ -s
can use products them for purchasin|
ton from myg
throughout the County. Tf
iness establishments redeem^,
stamps in cash.
A full line of cotton esS
goods, dress materials, wmrk
clothes, sheeting and other ma
terails made from cotton have
been stocked by the local mer
chants. Farmers w'ho receive the
stamps will have a large line ot
practical items to select from
when the y vis it these stores to
make thp ‘i- cotton purchases.
Mis s Eddye Ross. County Horn®
demonstration agent, announcer
at the meeting that a style shov
featuring cotton d’esses and ai
cessories would be held on Jul;
11 . The show will be staged i
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Two Local Youth * n
Get Promotions
training . . lo Be tjiven In
Emergency Service
Program
Two Covington youths, Ruckc
Ginn and E mmett Floyd, both
members of a local Troop of the
Boy Scouts of America, success
fully passed the examinations
necessary to become First Class
Scouts at a monthly meeting of
the Court of Honor held Iasi
Thursday night. Both boys ex
hibited an excellent knowledge ot
Scouting.
The Court of Honor meetings
are held the last Thursday mgb
in each month ,n the MetropoU
tan office. Scout officials sale
this week that they expected *
large number ol Scouts to com*
ore m ^ sr b °z :: r stz
summer months.
It was also announced this week
that Boy Scouts, Senior Scouts
and Scouters from Newton. Jones
Putnam Jasper, Hancock and
Baldwin counties will assemble a
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cello at 8 p. m. Thursday night.
J illy 10, for an Emergency-Ser
vice training program.
E. P. Newhard. chairman of the
Central Georgia Council cominit
tee on health and safety, wil, he
in charge of this introductory
course. Alter receiving training
at the Regional Institute,.. Mr
New-hard h as already conducted
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