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It THE OFFICE BOY
wew what wonderful
OU Boy has at the
the Office
Conventions ... well, we are
lied now that the. State Con
Non w ,jH be held this year at
in August . . . next to
’DU Boy has
Convention the Office
most fun reading each Editor's
during the week . . . you see
sr weekly but
like you own . . .
it on you . ■ : we send our
L a vt
to each editor in the State
,r sends
turn each Editor us
in
aper so it is like unto a
. .
ly letter from each Editor . . .
to »p end long Sunday af
ive
reading every weekly pa
In the State . this week we
i fd that Mae West was mar
headline married to Tom
so the men still have
in Mae West but it happened
» M,SB \Ve Ann found M ** that 7 over e8t ° in f
...
Georgia the Red Cross Life
n
t and Swimming Classes
begin next week . . that's
and it tells us that they
J wonderful swimming pool
eir youngsters as well as us
„ who love to paddle around
hot days our community
list *s much faith in our
[ people . . ■ and yet when we
iem hanging around the Drug
, pr street corners we criti
them in? to art of getting busy
ving teem a* fine play
s and swimming pools as
towns nave for their yun^
L !ne Federal g),’e.r
.
might iw'p us with it . .
|ou theught of that? Well,
lavor and members of the
Bl w; f iine'diy beseech you
after this cause, the Offi e
tank r jo wimming too!
,y Williams, genial Editor of
•fpnsboro Herald Journal, :
Life should be full of zip
java. There’s a zipper on ev
you can think about.’’
trey . . them there gadgets
laken a little zip out of us
[the two occasion* we remember
Gol-Darn thing didn't
,. Ye*, and in one of the
age, we picked up this
How about riding to
’’ we asked our friend Grady
, as we overtook him out
|th Main Street. “Look here.
lout that story of your set
it a thousand or more pota
its on the afternoon before
idling the governor said it
iing In rain?” we asked of
uitinuert on pace seven)
P. A. Will Make
vey Of Civic
ups In City
Will Be Used In
irdinating National
Defen»e Work
patriotic and other or
on? of Newton County will
negated this week re\a
the part they play in Ci
e(er| se.
w °rk i s oeing undertaken
tequesi of Mayor Fiorella
of New York, Civilian
! Administrator, by the
i Records Survey and the
ni ty Serves Division of
11 he the work of the Sur
nbta in a listing of officials
I 1 m sanization, the num
Dn members, and such other
as will allow the va
than gamzations to be
d in the part they may
the vast National Defense
1 no.y under wav in the
Staets *
|o scope of the assign
be ?i fn lo civilian or
n ns is n t known at this
ut clubs and groups will
,r ' check of
i np or more
' of activities. T.t c ul
1 * ’’Shting jte saving, Air protee
I n and other fields
one by similar groups
I [fr A" England. It is ex
hie listing of exist-
8 ar >d groups will be the
P in carrying out the
ol the Civilian De
fssri
m a form will be
erit ’an Legion, Kiwan.s club!
8nf t othei ,ervi«
, Girl
r t
hii,, ! h !T,f rWram k
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Volume 77 The Georgia Covington star Est 1874
Enterprise Est 1864
! ELECTRICAL ❖ BLACKOUT ENDS FOR COVINGTON
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Crowd Attenas r? ■ : eeting At Salem
“Must Play
Our Part”
Moore Says
(<No Nationa , Po ,. y
Three Year, Ago”
Bishop _. Say*
RELIGIOUS DECLINE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
WORLD CONDITIONS
Score* Spread Lunches On
Ground, Of Historic
‘‘Old Salem”
Rugged support? of hand-hewn
°®k, which have sustained for
nearly six score years the open
air pavilion of historic Salem
Camp Ground, near here resound
ed last Friday to words haling
America before its ancient altar
as a back-slider in world attains
that “alter 20 terrible years of 1S
olationism must perform its duty
toward a sorely stricken demo
cratic ideal.’’
Bishop Arthur J. Moore, of the
Methodist church, a native Geor
gian whose circuit for years
ranged from Czecho-Slovakia
through the Orient, charged the
nation to recapture the sense of
duty it evidenced in World Wai
days but lost, he sternly asserted,
in reaction in 1920
While the operations f indus
trial plant, in surrounding coun
ties kept many a . a record
breaking crowd vr umbered in
the Aiboi on hp Ground
t0 hear Bishop Moore and t,
spiritual Cit I vt t’ '•* Ate klC IilUSlC.
The day was —in sharp con
trast with July 4 of last year.
The sun was shining but the cool
ing breeze blew, scattering the
dust from swiL-ma* ing auiomn
biles and providing comfort for
those seated in the Arbor, while
last year excessive rains fell,
making the roads impassable, and
frreins t : ’» ing to be helo
in the gymnasium of the Covins
ton n.^ii ocuoui.
A chorus oi 'amen,” which fre
quently punctuated the Independ
ence Day sermon to a typically
colorful camp meetin’ throng,
swelled through the shiugle
roofed structure as he declared
“If democracy ever disappears
from the spiritual world it will
not long remain alive in the sec
ular world We must play our
part m the present struggle.
Recalling the words of Woodrow
Wilson to Clemenceau that Amer
ica wanted “only ground to bury
j fs pjpafj anc j peace in the world,”
the speaker insisted:
“We are in all of this trouble
largely because this country gave
up its idealism, and religion de
dined in the world,
He reviewed the scene after
the World War.
“Something happened to Amer
ica in 1920. The idealism of
of Woodrow Wilson was repudi
ated, and the hands that should
have cherished the spirit ot de
mocracy and brotherhood stab be.
it in the back. There was the
selfish cry of ‘America for Amei
icans. For 20 terrible years of
nationa! selfishness we shut oui
eyes and stopped out ears, Thus.
until three years ago w e 1-fad no
foreign policy. occas
He told of returning on
ion from the Orient to protest
against this country's selling to
Japan gasoline and steel with
which to murder Chinese child
! ’ e R wall,
"Bui we found a stone
(Continued on page seven)
j Plan HOMPCOMin(J
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—----. preparations tor the ,
Plans and
annual nomecoming Sunday at
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l As in Sill previous years the Home
i coming be held on the firs.
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vnox r!„«. both of Atlanta.
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Camp Ground is shown just after the morning serv
ices came to an end. During the noon hour the ma
jority of the visitors had lunch on the ground and
strolled about the historic site renewing old friend
ships and making new ones.
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A record-breaking crowd turned out last Friday to hear Bishop Arthur Many families brought their lunches and spread them during the lunch
Moore give the annual Fourth of July sermon at Salem Camp Ground in New- interval, remaining throughout the day for the entire program. Among the
ton County. Bishop Moore is shown in the pulpit, following the services shak- youngest who remained to enjoy fried chicken after the Bishop’s sermon, were
ing the hand of Mrs. William J. McGee. Major Robert J. Guinn, President of Betty Jane, 3. and Jerry Ben Demsey, 5, children of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Demsey,
the Camp Ground, is on the extrerrye left and Dr. Louie D. Newton, who in- of Route 1, Conyers. The Fourth of July meeting at Salem each year is awaited
troduced the speaker is shown in the background. eagerly by both children and adults.
Annual Meeting Of Snapping Shoals
Corporation Will Be Held July 25th
Bank of Covington
Issues Statement
E xcf J),?Tit Conditions Shown
In P-m-dtr. Exceeding
$1,000,000
More than $1,000,000 is now
deposit in the Bank of Cov
;n? ton and Trust Company, ac
.....
cording to a statement of the in
stitution’s condition at the close
of business on June 30
The excellent condition of the
banking house is reflected in the
statement which lists the resources
he finn as $1,319,251.98 divia
ed as follows
Loans and Discounts, $393,710.
^ Unjtpd States Government Sc
™ rii
Jf at ’ other
^" Cash due from
a2JL
r,»:s d ^ »• .rs %mjx
aided Proliia.
posits fF }! M ^ ’
total of S' Jl«l’*■
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
A veteran of many Salem Meetings is E. F. Ham
mond, 89-year-old Almon resident, who is shown
walking with Mrs. W. L. Moss, of Leguin. Mr. Ham
rrrond, like many others in this section, began attend
ing gatherings at "Old Salem’’ while still a young
man. This is the seventy-second year that he has been
present.
Agricultural News
Given By Newton
Co. Farm Agent
Demonstration Of Hay
Harvesting Methods To
Be Given
On Friday, July 18th, there will
be a demonstration held to show
the proper method of harvesting
i kudzu haj T The demonstration will
.
be on (he farm of Walter Barnett
and will be u nder the supervision
o{ Mr j p Knight local Soil
Conservation Technician The
demonstration will begin for white
farmers at 8:30 in the morning and !
at 2:30 in the afternoon for colored
farmers. Since there is quite an
j acre age of this crop in the county
! that will come into hay produc
; tion will prove of much
tional value to our farmers. Make 1
i your plans to attend.
stration Agent, will present nira.
women and 4-H Club girls in a
ss
Club girls. At the same time the
local merchants of Ihe county will
hare on display cotton goods that
1 .Continued On Pag. Seven,
Officer, For Coming Year
Will Be Elected By
Members
The annual meeting of the
Snapping Snoals Electric Member
ship Corporation will be held in
the Covington School Gymnas
ium at 2:30 P. M.. Friday, July
25.
All members are urged to be
present at this meeting ...... for at that
time officers will make reports
on the conditicn of the Company
^ew officers will also be elected
for the coming year.
Plans are being made to have
several guest speakers who will
discuss problems of interest to
lnemb of the Corporation. .
ers
person attending the meeting.
| The Snapping Shoals Corpora
tz
^
eouhi.e. These Ime, m mr
in, I.ISO members. Plans are be
in g made lo add an additional
. ™ -«« - .be near Mure.
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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941
A typical scene at any Salem Meeting is the group
above eating their dinners from one of the tables on
the grounds. Many are the good things that are
placed on ihe tables, following the morning services,
when the lunch baskets are unpacked. Many, how
ever, preferred to take lunch iri the modern hotel on
the Grounds.
First Newton County Cotton
Will Be Distributed at Style Show Fri.
Merchants Will Display
Complete Line Of
Cotton Good*
Newton County’s first cotton
stamps will be distributed temor
row at the American Legion Hall
when farm women and 4-H girls
stage a style show of cotton dres
ses, according to information re
leased by County Agent Tom Mc
Mullan this week.
Miss F.ddye Ross, Home Detn
onstration Agent, will have charge
of the show which will feature
cotton dresses made by farm wo
men and 4-H Club members in
Newton County. Local merchants
will also have on display cotton
goods that may be obtained from
their stores with the cotton
stamps.
Robert N. Foote, area super
visor’ for the Surplus Marketing
Division and E. D. Briscoe, New
ton County AAA administrator
will also be present at the cotton
style show.
It is estimated that the stamv
ss s?
stamps that may be used by p.r
tic,patmg farmers to purchase
goods and mater,ala made e„t,re
I i .Continued on seven,
U. D. C. Will Have (
Tea On July 15th
Plans Made To Celebrate
Birthday Miss Mildred
Rutherford
The Covington Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy will
"elebrate the birthday of Miss
Mildred Rutherford on
luly lSth., at the beautiful
try estate of Mr. and Mrs. L. D
Bolton
Mr Rufus Meadows, lone Con
lederate Veteran of Newton Coun
ty will be an honor guest as will
Mrs. Charles Tillman. State Pres
ident U. D. C. and her State Of
ficers.
The party will be in the form
>f a Silver Tea. the proceeds
vhich will go to the Mildred
Rutherford Foundation Fund:
try member of the U. D. C. is
irged to be present for this party.
vhich will be the last
f the summer
An Executive Board meeting
v ill be he’> at the home of the
President., Mrs Belmom
(Continued On Page Seven)
THIS PAPER IS COVINGTON’S
INDEX TO CIVIC PRIDE
AND PROSPERITY
5e SINGLE COPY
Covington
Now Using
FuIIPower
Week’* Rain Pu»he* Power
Supply In State Above
Normal
MAYOR AND COUNCIL
EXPRESS THANKS
FOR COOPERATION
Steady Downpour Through
out State Increase*
Hydro-Power
Covington's electric power
blackout ended this week when
streetlights, show window's and
other display lights were turned
on and industrial plants in the
County resumed normal operation,
following receipt of word from
power company officials saying
that for the present time danger
of a power shortage was averted.
The two most vitally affected
I industrial consumers in Newton"
County, The Bibb Manufacturing
; Company’s Porterdale Plant and
the Covington Mills, went back to
regular working hours after being
forced to work Sunday and lay
off on other days during the
week.
This change made it necessary
for the merchants of the City to
again change the day for noon’s
closings, returning again to Wed
; nesday, after closing on Thurs
day for two weeks. The lighted
streets and show windows on the
Square brought forth much com
ment from Covingtonians who
had grown accustomed to seeing
the City darkened at night.
In a formal statement Dr. S.
L. Waites thanked the people of
the City and surrounding com
munities for theii hearty coope
ration during the period when
unprecedented drought and heavy
demands by defense industries
(Continued on page seven)
Draft Board Lists
25 Men Who Have
Failed To Report
Anyone Having Information
Should Contact The
Local Board
The Newton County Selective
Service Board this week listed the
names of 13 Newton County men
whose questionnaires were mailed
and have failed to return to the
Board office.
Board official, stated that the
questionnaires had not been re
turned by the Post Office Depart
ment and apparently they had
been received by someone.
Those listed were: Eugene Sam
of
Norwood. Route 1, Oxford, and
O. P. Mabry, Route 5, Covington,
The Negroes were Elio Humphrey.
Route 1, Box 37, Newborn; Ozer
Lee Robinson, Route 1, Covington:
Henry Mitchell, Route 1. Box 3
Oxford; Albert Rakestraw, R. V.
D., Covington: Rufus James Hay*,
Oxford; Willie Boozer, Route 2
Covington; Rev. Joel Lawrence
King, Covington; Willie James
Jackson. Covington: Walter Jame*
Floyd. Route 5, Covington, and
Bellsaw Freeman, Route 4 and
Cole, Covington.
The Board also listed the names
12 men whose questionnaire,
were returned by the Post Office
! Department as having moved and
; no forwarding address.
These men are Willie Barton
Mote. Route 5, Covington; Loren
za M. Morris, Route 2, Covington;
! Asa Candler Buckalew, 44 Ivy
Street, Porterdale; Bernice Barnes.
| . Porterdale: Rufus Parish, Lumber
Uity, Ga., ,T. W. Hearn. Route
' 2, and Willie Charles Bake) Rob
mson Street. Covington
Negroes listed in this group
| were Henry Weaver, 265 Wash
jngton Street. Covington; Clinton
Benjamin, last address, Rutledge;
.James Smith. Starrsville Eddie
j Clarence Covington; Bry S-minie 308 S Lee i .,r- Mayes Stree*
(Continued on Seven)
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