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CHAI SIR
Local... County ... Slate
Bv THE OFFICE BOY
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'Jap waiting right there, with his
hand out waiting.
Well, it was an awful lot of
fun, turning a crank and letting 1
’ our bed down all made up bin
1 had to put it up several times
•nd down again, for every time
Id get it up, Id remember 1
•ft my nightie in the other bag
oi something . . . and you pulled
down a little door and there
came the lavertory right out of
>he wall to wash up in, with
plenty of hot and cold water . .
and then you just sloshed it
light hack into the wall, water
and all . . . that was not too
complex for we had one like it i
in a - small stateroom on the boat
. . , but there were an awful
lot of buttons on the wall ... 1
bad a Jot of fun turning the heat
on and turning the Air Cohdi
iinning unit off. Turning the fan
on to see if it would work . . . the
only trouble I got into was snap
ping my curtain back the next I
morning. The porter was stand- i
ing right there laughing at me
The first one snapped beauti- 1
fully, but I was trying to snap '
the other into the bell for the
Porter and it was ringing at :
the other end of the car every , 1
time 1 pushed the curtain snap
into it. I just couldn't go to sleep '
early that night . . . scheming I,
gl
I
for In*' cast linyi buildings thAf
ar® ifreng weather-defiant,
then • nothing like umber ....
Wkgn yeu'fi going to build, see
ui. W* stock western fir, south
ern Ytllew pine, end carry a com
plate line 91 all other building
meteriels.
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LUMBER CO.
N. EMORY et GA. DEPOT
PHONE 3412
G. I. Resale
P«y Hlh 6.1. $2175 for his equity, end then easy
monthly payments of $46.11 cover everything, including
your taxes and insurance. This comfortable home has three
bedrooms. Also included is an attractive building lot fac
ing on Hillcrest. See this property today at 1117 Odum
St., then call me for on appointment to inspect the in
terior.
GEORGE PORTER MacMAHON
(REAL ESTATE
205 BANK BLOG. PHONES 2916 and 7400
Announcement
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o balanced ration for Poultry, Dairy Cows,
and Hogs.
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Phone 3832 — Hub Junction
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how we could all have such ‘
rooms in our houses and then all :
t e guests would have to make
up their own beds 01 not get
'up at all if they did not. Leav. i
ng New Orleans, we crossed the
mighty Mississippi ten miles i
west on the New Orleans Public i
Beit Railroad Bridge. The bridge
’is 4.4 miles long- and extends ;
3.524 feet across the river. At
Avondale, with an altitude of on- j
' lv 4 feet w ere the Southern Paci
fic yards and Southern Export
Oil Company tanks and offices,
, and on the right the Old
i Mississippi River lei ee. Boutee, ।
La. was the next town with an
altitude of 8 ft and it centers !
a small farming community. In
this area we saw many cypress '
' trees, and water hyacinths in full .
blossom which was a pretty pic- ;
* ture, along with other tropical
plants in the swamps and low’- ‘
lands. Most of the. larger trees
were festooned with Spanish |
Moss The next town was Alle-h
mancle (which in french means:
the Germans). It is a quaint old
settlement founded in colonial |
days. It stands on the banks of
Des Allemands Bayou, whose
waters empty into Barataria Bay, {
an inlet of the Gulf, one time':
haunt of Jean Lafitte and his I
pirate crew. Main industries here I
are trapping and the packing of j
sea food. When you reach the :
next town of Lafourche you are
well into the famed “Sugar
Bowl’’ of Louisiana. Sugar mills
dot the skyline and here and (
there you catch glimpses of
planters’ homes, embowered in
beautiful magnolia trees, built to
face the bayous which were the
only highways before the advent .
of the railroad. In the center of (
a sugar-produc' >g section, we
pass the town of Schriever, head
quarters of a Farm Security Ad
ministration resettlement project. 1
Several fine old plantation homes •
catch your eye. as a reminder ,
of the yesteryear. And. Boys and :
girls listen! Just six miles from ।
here the train passes the Chaca
houla Sw amp abounding in all:
kinds of fur-bearing animals, '
making it a profitable resort for
trappers . . . but there are some :
of them you would not like to
. meet if you were alone with only
a sling shot. Morgan Citvis a lit-
■ tie higher with an altitude of 14 ;
feet, and situated on Berwick I
Bav. a widenine of Atchafalava :
Ddy, d WIUCIIUIg VI AlUldiaidYd ।
I River (Indian for Long River) I,
which is one of the great outlets ■
■of the Mississippi. Numerous
bayous, weaving through fields
of sugar cane, almost surround
this city, which is a commercial
fishing center and headquarters
for fur trders. During the War
Between the States, gunboats
were a common sight in the bay ,
and spectacular battles were, 1
fought in the surrounding area. [
Franklin, the next town is only |.
10 feet above sea level and the [.
entire country west to Lafayette ,
you find to be a sugar district, i,
On tho bank the Bayou Teche. ।
| Franklin is one of the oldest L
i suywr towns, founded in 1880. It h
is the seat of St. Mary Parish.!.
Jeanerette is 19 ft. altitude and [ (
its chief products are sugar, pep- j
per and pecans. From Jeanerette ,
Io New Iberia, the land on the ,
। west side of the Bayou Teche (
lis known as Prairie auLarge, f
and the railroad follows the high ;
south bank of the Bayou through (
. canefields as far as you can see. (
The forests of live oaks festooned ।
with Spanish moss and beautiful i
Veterans Day
(Coniir. rd hem page 1)
j among all people, t h ere was re
; -oicmg among the victors, and
even among the vanquished there
; was at least a relief that the
carnage, killing and devastation
lof war had been brought to an
' end.
The people of the world hoped
for a world at peace. Thereafter.
■ ihis nation, bv act of Congress,
; by acts of the various State Leg
lislatures and bv Presidential and
State proclamations set aside No
vember 11th of each year as
Armistice Day to celebrate and
end of World War I, the war
which we had hoped bad been
fought to preserve and maintain
good will among men and peace
among nations.
For twenty-three years the
celebration of Armistice Day was
celebrated by this country and
by the American people at peace;
but less than a month after the
23rd celebration of Armistice
Day in 1941, this nation and the
American people, through no
fault on our part, were plunged
into a great World War. Four
years later, because of the mili
tary and industrial strength of
this nation, and because of the
plantation homes is a section my
room mate and I used to love
driving through in the ear. New
Iberia is 21 feet and stands on
the bank of .his same bayou
locale of much Teche country
literature, including Longfellow's
“Evangeline.'’ Ihe town w r as in
corporated m 1839, and it is said
that fully eighty percent of the
people are descendents of the
Acadians, known locally by the
colloquial term “Cajuns.’’ A
branch line runs from New Iberia
9-12 miles south to Avery Is
land, famous bird sanctuary
where fens of thousands of egrets
make their homes. During nest
ling season (April to June) you
can look right into the nests as
you drive along the road in the
car as we used to do. Several
hundred American egrets come
every evening to roost. They
seem to come from nowhere as
(they sweep out of the sky with
dangling legs to find a suitable
place to alight on the bare boughs
of the cypress trees. Here they
: preen themselves, opening up
their marvelous plumes, continu
ously uttering low cries and
moving about from limb to limb
as new arrivals crowd them oft
their perches. Ducks. geese,
ibises, herons and all kinds of
shore birds and numerous spe
cies of land birds make this pre
serve their home. On Avery
j Island is the famous Tabasco
I Sauce factory. The red peppers
are grown in the surrounding
country. Four years after plant
ing the finished product is ready
for market. Peppers are harvest
ed in the fall and cured in salt
brine for three years. Only then '
are they mixed with vinegar and :
prepared for bottling. Avery Is
land is actually not an island. It
is one of a Chain of salt domes
which once stood out in the Gulf
of Mexico, but the area between [
•he mainland and the former is- !
land has been filled by sediment j
carried down by the Mississippi.
On Jefferson Island, a short dis
tance away, sulphur is mined.
A lake seen from the train four
miles west of New Iberia is
Spanish Lake. Just before reach- :
ing Broussard ... the Sunset j
Limited on which we were rid- '
ing passes a large sugar refinery :
here. Broussard is an old town '
named for a french Captain by
one of his descendants when the
town was established after the
war between the States. The re
gion hereabouts is called the
Attakapa country, from the In
dians who originally occupied it,
of whom a very few remain near
Grand Lake. They were nearly
annihilated by neighboring tribes,
notably the Choctaws, at a battle
about three miles east of Bil
leaud. just before the advent of
the white settlers. Many of their
burial mounds may be seen to
day along the banks of the
Bayou . . . Three miles from here
our train crossed the Vermilion
River near the site of the first
settlement in this region. Located
at the head of navigation, it was
a trading post under the succes
sive names of Little Manchac,
Pinhook, Vermilionville. and fin
ally LaFayette , . . Here you find
sugar cane, rice cotton and corn
as chief crops , . . and herds of
cattle fatten upon the grassy
prairie. French is still the lan
quage of Lafayette, and the old
french customs still prevail . . .
I will have to leave you at this
place until next week. My room
mate and I had a wonderful time
here trying to find directions of
French speaking people many
years ago ... I just want you
to know there is no place like
Covington in all the world even
tho we lived in the “Cajan"
country for two years when we
were first married ... so next
week I will continue our journey
to Los Angeles ... but the nicest
part was our return home . . .
and seeing all of you . . . and
taking my broom in hand to do
some real . . .
“SWEEPIN' UP."]
THE COVINGTON NEWS
guidance and direction of Al-'
: mighty God, at a h®avy cost of
। American lives, victory for our
I cause was won.
Perhaps because the war in
Europe ended in April and the
: war in the Pacific ended in Sep- j
tember, no particular victory day
vas ever set for the celebration
:of the end of World War 11.
Again, we dreamed of a World
i at peace, but less, than five years I
after the end of World War 11,
. our nation and our people again :
: found ourselves engaged in what ।
some people termed a po'ice ac-!
:tion in Korea, but which is more;
realksticallv described as the
Korean War.
i By act of Congress, November
11 is no longer called Armistice
Day. but is now termed Veterans
Day. Wherever citizens gather
today, yesterday or the day be
fore, to honor our American vet
erans. we do so to salute our fel
low Americans who have evem
plified highest tradition of citi
zenship by wearing the uniform
: of our country in time of war in
defense of America and the
j American Way-of-Life.
Today, as the war clouds seem
to gather across two seas, this
is not a time for celebration, but
is truly a time for solemn re
flection and rededication to those
principles of Americanism which
we honor and which we cherish.
America devoutly yearns for
peace. If we could have peace —
lasting peace founded upon jus
tice and honor — we could liter
ally surge forward in every field
of constructive endeavor, and
surpass anything we have here
; tofore achieved. Our unparallel
dd standard of living is steadily
mounting. Our economy is ap
proaching the S4OO billion mark
in gross national product.
About 65 million Americans
' have jobs today — more than
ever before in our history. Dis
posable personal income that can i
ibe spent over the counter for'
whatever we wish to buy stands
at a record $277 billion a year,
j Except for the farm segment.
: our economy Ls very strong. If
j we could enjoy the fruits of true I
peace, there would be no height j
iof prosperity to which America ।
i could not rise, for we have it
; within us to attain any goal. Wei
j could have more schools, more
’ I hospitals, more highways and)
facilities for recreation — more
of everything that contributes to
a fuller and better life. Above
■ all, we could have tranquility
I jof mind.
i However, the peace we so
[ earnestly seek will not come as
. a result of wishful thinking. Our
I prosperity, the precious freedoms
that have made it possible, and
even our very existence are men
aced by the communist conspir
।: acy. In this critical hour, our
hope for peace is being kept a
| live only by the most dedicated
statesmanship, which must be
supported by the sturdy and self
less determination of the Ameri
can people, and military forces
! fully capable of protecting the
j Nation against the armed might
[of the ruthless and implacable
communist enemy.
No matter how many tawdry
smiles and tinsel promises may
[ emanate from the Kremlin, we
must not allow ourselves to fall
| into the fatal trap of believing
that the Soviet Union has turned
away from its purpose to estab
lish a world communist dictator
ship. Although it has shifted its
tactices to some extent as a re
sult of the build-up of collective
[strength in the Free World, we
[ must not be deceived into the
: belief that it has abandoned the
[ basic principles of Lenin. We re
[ member how Hitler in “Mein
■ • Kampf” revealed his intentions'
: |to a disbelieving world and later ;
proved his frankness with fire'
: and steel.
• | We in America must dedicate j
ourselves to the proposition that
we can and will preserve the
■ strength and power of American
people. I wish that I could hold
: out some hope that we could re.
. [duce the tremendous annual ex
' penditures which the Congress of I
- i the United States now appropri-1
'ates to our defense establishment.
■ However, I can not hold out,
within the foreseeable future,
i any real hope that we can risk
| a major reduction in our Army, |
I Navy and Air Force or the re. I
; search and development program '
which is tied into each branch j
, of our Armed Services.
Unfortunately, the enemies of,
America, who are also the ene- i
mies of our way-of-life, seem to '
' understand only one language;
I and that is the language of
[Strength. In order to preserve an
: America at peace and to bring
• about the reasonable assurance of
a World at peace, we must rely
on the strength of our nation.
In these perilous times, wa!
must constantly move from
strength to strength. We can not
risk moving from strength to
weakness.
I wish I could give you some
assurance that we could have a
downward revision of our selec-;
tive service requirements. I wish |
I could tell you that in the fore- :
seeable future it would not be ;
necessary to draft men into mili
tary service. That, however, I
can not do. If we are to keep an
America at peace, we must pre- I
j serve our military strength and.
Church Dedication
(Continu'd from page 1)
tor .Mills furnished the mater
ials and hired Charlie Cousins
and Bud Hopkins to build it.
Both the Methodist and Baptist
used this building for their wor
ship services and maintained a
union Sunday School. Preaching
services for the Methodist church
were conducted by theological
students from Emotv College at
Oxford, Georgia. The name of
the first one of these student
preachers who conducted a ser
vice at the new church building
was S. T. Hendrix. Rev. Duvall
conducted the first Methodist
revival at Covington Mills. A
present member of the Covington
Mills Methodist Church, Mi’s.
Lilia Blair, living here now was
received into the church during
this revival.
Bibles for the church building
were donated by a salesman who
conducted business with Coving
ton Mills. The number of bibles
and the name of this person is
unknown.
On a night in the month of
June 1905, Jess Piper was con
ducting a singing class in this
building when a heavy storm
cloud began to form in the sky.
He dismissed the class to enable
the pupils to return to their
homes before the rains came.
Hardly had the people arrived
at their homes before a bolt of
lightning struck ihe church, and
it was burned to the ground.
The only article saved from the
contents of the church was a
bible which had been taken
home earlier by Jim Worsham
who was a Sunday School teach
er. The bible has been preserv.
convince the world that while
we want peace that we are going
to maintain a state of prepared
ness in both material and man
power, so that no aggressor force
will ever dar commence a war
against the United States.
It is essential that we always
remember that the same God
which gave us life gave us liber
ty at the same time. What is
even more important is that we
remember that Goff grants liber
ty only to those who love it and
who are always ready to guard it
and defend it.
The ultimate measure of the
effectiveness of our defense is
the spiritual strength and sta
bility of the people of the Amer
-1 lean community. We must have
1 the patience to stand firm for as
Jong as we are menaced by the
communist conspiracy. The great
ediface of our civilization, which
has been centuries in the build
ing, could be utterly destroyed in
a few short hours if we became
heedless of our responsibility to
maintain our moral, spiritual and
physical defenses with unremitt
ing zeal.
We are heeding the words of a
great President, Theodore Roose
velt. who urged the Nation to be
as “A strong man with a swmrd
girded upon his thigh w£o
preaches peace, not from ignoble
motives, not from fear or dis
trust of his own powers, but from
a deep sense of moral obliga
tions.”
We have that deep sense of
moral obligation. If war should
come, it will not be of our choos
ing. We stand before the world
with clean hands and a clea”
conscience. We stand clothed in
strength, which we must match
with unshakable determination.
Our strength and our determina
tion must he know to the whole
world, so that there will never
be in the future any occasion
I !
| for a miscalculation on the part j
। of our potential aggressor, either 1
as to our willingness to fight for 1
I what we believe to be right, or ;
jas to our ability to muster the
strength to win.
You and I as Americans must
go forth with renewed courage,
hope and inspiration to meet the
challenge of a changing world
We need to so live that our daily
lives will truly exemplify that
I American courage of four centur- '
ies of Americans who by their .
lives have kept up the install- 1
ments on our contract with free
dom. j
Let me close with the wori i
spoken by the corporation coun
i sei of the city of London to its •
| early English colonists who in ‘
I 1607 left England to found on ’
I the North American continent '
the first permanent English set
J Dement, which has growm into I
the greatest nation in the history I
of the world. These words were: !
“Lastly and chiefly, the way to |
prosper and achieve good sue- [
cess is to make ourselves all of j
one mind for the good of our ’
I country, our families, our com- I
munities and ourselves, and to I
serve and fear God, the Giver of;
all goodness; for every planta I
tian which our Heavenly Father i
hath not planted shall be rooted !
out and shall perish on the vim/'
Those words were good advice !
'to early Americans nearly four :
। hundred years ago. They might
■ indeed serve again as good ad- !
I vice to you and me as we seek !
to hold fast to those things which i
are good and to preserve and j
[pass on to those who follow u«
a greater America , than that j
(Which we now know and enjoy, j
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,»d Dy tne cnurch and is now in '
possession of Calvary Baptist'
Church of Covingtrfn Mills. ;
After the church building was
burned, sen-ices were held in
various homes until the year j
1906 when a new frame building ;
was erected at the corner of
Mill and Wheat Streets to serve
the community as both .school
house and church building.
Preaching services were still be
ing conducted by students from
Emory’ College.
It might be stated here that
during this time preaching ser- |
vices were conducted on Sun- j
day mornings and nights, and!
the Sunday School was held on
Sunday afternoons. Here are the
names of some of those students
from Emory College: Clyde
Campbell, Charles Lipham. Irby
Henderson. Rumble and Moore.
In the year 1909. Covington
Mills Methodist Church was on a
circuit with Mansfield, Concord.
Gaithers, 1 zejoy and Red Oak.
During this year, the church was
served by Edward George Mac
kay. who was a student at Emory !
College. (Dr. Mackay, served
several years as superintendent of
the Decatur-Oxford District to
' which the Covington Mills Meth
: odist Church belongs.) Member
[ ship in the church at this time i
numbered forty-two members.
: During the year sixteen others
were enrolled in the church by
profession of faith and letters. I
It must be assumed that the years ■
of 1910 and 1911 were minister j
ed by students from Emory.
During the period from 1912
through 1916 the church was ,
ministered by A. E. Caldwell, W.
Millican. R. G. Smith and J. G.
1 Logan. James William Oscar Mc-
Kibben was tbe pastor for 1917
and 1918: during these years the.
church was a member of Newton
Circuit.
Following World War I. the
mill officials decided that a new
building was needed to house
the school and churches. There
fore. a brick building was erect
ed at a site on Mill and Church
Streets. The home of tne mill
I I superintendent was located on
■ this site, and had to be moved
across Church Street. Services
i were begun in the new building
during the year of 1919. The first
song in this building was “Lift*
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Him Up” led by G. TV Chambers
who was the pastor from Nov.
1918 through Nov. 1919
Rev. Chambers was followed
by Julian Roper who maintained
the pastorate from Nov. 1919 to
1920. J. W. Tumblin was pastor
for the years of 1920. 1921 and
part of 1922. During the year of
1922-23, John Joel Marvin Mize
served the Methodist Churches
of Covington Mills and Porter
dale.
The church was then served
from 1923 through part of 1930
by James Knox Kelley and
James Foster Young. They serv
ed both Covington Mills and
Milstead, and the parsonage was
located at Milstead.
Covington Hills "Methodist
Church was again associated with
Newton Circuit in 1930, and it
may be recorded here that it has
remained a member of this circuit
to the present time. L. P. Huck-
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’ aby and Kober William Stone
; were pastors in I*3o through part
of 1933.
' During 1933 Rev. Stone was
given another appointment in
order that John Belk Godfrey
' could come and serve Newton
Circuit while he furthered his
education at Emory Junior Col
lege. During his stay here, a pa?-
isonage was erected on Floyd
I Street by the member churches
of Newton Circuit. Godfrey stay-
led until 1937.
Pastors who hav. served the
church and the da*es of them
ministry beginning with the year
1937 are as follows; W. B. Mills,
1937-38 Arthur Kinsey, 1938-40;
•H. Frank Barfield. 1940-41; M. R.
Sams, 1941-44: Clifton Freeman,
1944-45; J. W. Eberhardt, 1945-48
r. id Albert Joiner, 1948-37; John
B. Collier, 1951-53; lyilliam P.
and Albert Joiner, 1948-51; John
Kev.