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Thursday, March 1, IW2
News Notes From
StarrsviHe
BY MRS W. L. BARBER
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Saville of
Norfolk, Virginia, were the dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs A. C.
Ewing on Thursday.
Mrs D. B. Dixon, Mrs J. E.
Mann and Mrs. J. H. Anderson
spent Friday in Atlanta.
Mrs Joe Parr Davis and child
ren of Perry were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ewing for
several days last week.
Mrs. Charles Pope of Rome
visited her parents, the M. D Mc-
Rae’s, last week.
Mrs. Mildred Pope of Atlanta
spent Wednesday at her home
here.
Mrs C. C. Epps is visiting Mrs.
Roy Epps and Miss Frances Epps
in Milledgeville for several weeks.
Mr and Mrs. Hildreth Kenerly
and Scott of Smyrna were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Kenerly and Tommy, Wednesday
night and Thursday.
Mr and Mrs. J. H. Anderson
visited relatives in Athens, Sun
day.
Mrs. L. H. Cook Sr. has returned
after spending several weeks in
Atlanta and Columbus with rela
tives.
Mrs. G H. Mutimer, Mrs. S. B
Barber. Mrs. Lula Ogletree and
Mrs. Rosa Lena Ogletree visited
Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Greer in
Athens, Sunday.
sr Thelma Towns of Charles
ton, S. C. has moved into her new
home and will be a permanent re
sident here in the fall.
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News Notes From
North
Covington
By Mrs. Jaek Gibbs, Sr.
May I come in for a few minutes
this morning? Do hope everyone
is enjoying good health.
We missed you at church but
hope you can come next time.
Attendance was fair but we
would always like to have more.
To our shutins we send best
wishes and hope you will soon be
out
We are unhappy to report Ron
ald Martin the son of the late Allen
Martin and Mrs. Margie Martin
is in Newton County Hospital hav
ing been burned in as accident.
Hurry and get well, Ronald.
Mrs Truel Wells and Brenda
and Mrs. Olin Fincher visited
Mrs. Dean Savage and Mrs. Mutt
Savage of Starrsville, Tuesday of
last week.
Mrs. Sam Martin spent Friday
and Friday night with Mrs. L. E.
King Jr. in Atlanta.
Miss Anne Smith and Miss Mil
dred Bowen of Atlanta were week
end guests of Mr. and Mrs Joel
Bowen.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilson
visited Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kirk
patrick, Sunday.
Mrs. J. A. Allgood spent Sunday
with Mr and Mrs. Rom Stowe in
Porterdale.
Archie McCullough and Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Kitchens and Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Gibbs of Social
Circle visited Mr. and Mrs. Doug
Digby, Sunday.
Mrs. Jimmy Hester accom-
panied by Mrs. Louise Hester and
Mrs. June Broach of Monroe
visited Haney Broach in Athens
Hospital, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Swam of
Athens. The George Cochran Fam
ily of Bainbridge. Mr. and Mrs. E.
G Lassiter and Mrs. C. L. Butler
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. H. Lawson, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Glenn Digby of
Macon made "pop calls” on rela
tives here, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. H E. McCart has returned
home after spending last week
with Mrs. E Z. Carter in Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Burnham
of McDonough were visitors of
the T. S. Granger family, Friday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mann of
Monticello spent Friday with Mrs.
Olin Fincher
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Johnson and
Mrs. W. S. Anglin enjoyed Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. John D. Haw
kins and family in Decatur.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Livingstone
of Avondale are the proud parents
of a baby girl, Nancy Carol, born
Wednesday, February 21 at Craw
ford Long Hospital. Mrs. Living
stone was the former Carol Kit
chens. daughter of the Bernard
Kitchens.
Mrs. Dilmus Hay. Mrs. Joe
Kirkus and son of Conyers and
Mrs. Truel Wells and Brenda of
Salem spent Monday with Mrs.
Olin Fincher.
Mrs. Eloise Martin spent several
days last week with Mrs. Earl
Wilson, who has been on the ‘shut
in” list.
There are about 16,000 lum
ber mills in the 12 Southern
Pine states, reports Extension
Forestry Marketing Specialist
H. O. Baxter.
THE COVINGTON NEWS
PALMER STONE
II
Mrs. Berrs s
Fourth Grade
The week beginning Febru
ary 19, was a very eventful
one. On Monday night our PTA
met. The program was on
Founders Day. The eighth
grade gave it. We enjoyed it.
Mr. Burson’s lectures of the lo
cal Scout activities were fun.
We could pick out our friends
in the pictures.
On Tuesday our class listen- ;
ed while the first American as
tranaut was rocketed into
space. We are still reading and
watching as John Glenn talks,
receives medals and is honor
ed by everyone.
Then came Thursday and
George Washington’s birthday.
We tried to imagine what he
would have thought of this
space age.
Oh, Yes! Rickie Livingston
had a part in all this excite
ment. His birthday was Feb
ruary 23.
John Glenn
by Jackie Howard
Mr. John Glenn was recent
ly sent into outer space. Sure
ly everyone noticed that by
now. Mr. Glenn was sent into
space to take pictures. Mr.
Glenn was in space four hours
and 30 minutes. He was in the
Capsule nine hours and 30 min
utes all together.
Our First Man in Space
By Billy Reagin
Ten, nine, eight — the count
down went on. Then "Fire” and
John Glenn went zooming up.
As we listened the class was
very quiet. At last he was in
orbit. Around he went —
through night and day. He saw
three sunsets as he circled the
globe. I am glad we didn’t
know how much danger he was
in. We didn’t have regular
classes btrt when the bell rang
for dismissal we went home,
feeling like we’d been piloting
that rocket too.
John Glenn’s Flight
by Teresa Ellington
Tuesday, our whole room lis
tened to the radio over the
loud speaker. It was so ex
citing! I held my breath when
they were counting down. I
sure was glad he got back
okay. I never thought he could
have done it. I wonder if he
had a good trip. But I don’t
think I would have liked it
myself! Do you?
The Rocket Ride
by Kay Henderson
The rocket started off in a
hurry. Palmer - Stone heard
all of it. Our man’s name was
John Glenn. He went around
the earth two tunes and asked
if he could go around again.
So of course he went around it
again. He took pictures of the
earth. When he came down he
got stuck in the rocket. He was
proud of himself. Some people
baked a cake that weighted
1,000 pounds.
George Washington
by Gay Bankston
When George Washington
was a boy his father bought him
an ax. The next day he want
ed to try out his ax so he
went ouside to try it out, he
went to the cherry tree and
chopped it down. When h i $
father saw that the cherry tree
had been chopped down he
went to see George and said,
“Did you chop down the cherry
tree?” George knew he couldn’t
tell a lie so he told his father
the truth and his father could
always depend on George to
tell the truth. When he was big
enough to go to the army he
went. He led the army when
they had to fight. George was
very brave, he helped our
country a lot and after the wai
they made him president. So
he was the first president we
'ever had.
George Washington
bv Susan Neely
1 George Washington^ was our
. first president, in 1789. His
I birthday is February 22 Wash
ington was commander or
I American Armies in 17™-
Washington led the fight for
j freedom. He was a great nw
i He was born in Virginia. He
I was a surveyor. Washington
i fought in the French and In
! dian War. The French w ere
driven out of the Ohio m l 1 i».
I He lived as a farmer at Mount
: Vernon in 1759. Washington
I died at Mount Vernon on De
cember 14. 1799. At George
i Washington’s funeral service it
I was said of him: “He was first
in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts of his country
men”.
George Washington
by Pattie Kinnett
George Washington was our
first president. We read that
the story erf the cherry tree was
most likely not true George | <
Washington married Martha I
Curtis. He was chosen as our Ji
leader of the war in 1776. '
George died with a bad disease
we call the flu He lived on a L
big plantation. He rode out over ]
the grounds and caught a real (
bad cold. That is why he died. (
The men that fought the war ,
were glad that they had him. .
February 22 we celebrate his (
hirthday.
Mrs. Berry and our group
have been talking about George.
Because he was our first pre
sident we seem to think more
or him than other presidents.
We talked about him chopping
down the cherry tree. We sang
a song about him too. When he
was fighting the war, our men
were sure proud of him.
Our First President
by Debbie Garner
George Washington was born
in Virginia. They say the story ,
about the cherry tree is not
true. It teaches us to tell t h e
truth.
When he was a teenager he
surveyed land. Also Washing
ton was our first president. He
could have been a king but he
did not want to. He won the
fight for freedom. He was pre
sident nine years. He wanted to
stop and go back home and
farm.
One day he was walking out
to look at his crops. It was
raining. He got wet and had a
tod cold. They didn’t have
“shots” then so he died.
George Washington
by Martha Jordan
When George was a little
boy he got a hatchet for hi s
birthday. George's daddy had
set out some cherry trees the
day before. The next day
George wanted to try out his
new hatchet. So George went
to the garden where his daddy
had set out the cherry trees.
He cut down one of the cherry
trees then George found out
how sharp his hatchet was. He
went into the house. Later that
day George’s daddy went to
see if the trees had grown any
and there he saw that someone
had cut down one of the trees.
Then he went into the house
and said, "Who has choped
down my cherry tree, and
George could not tell a lie so
he spoke up, “I did it”, said
George. "Why", said his daddy.
“I was trying out my new
hatchet”, said George. "I shall
not punish you”, said to, “You
have told the truth”.
Soon George had his 19th
birthday and his mother and
daddy died. He went to Wash
ington to get a job and there
he joined the army and one
dark night the British were
going to have a party. They
said that they wouldn’t try to
cross the river. But George was
listening to them. So he went
back to his camp and got his
men up and went across the
river and burst in on them, and
won the war. On the way home
there was a hard snow and
some of the men lost their
boots. George pulled his boots
off and gave them to a man.
He wrapped his feet in some
rags. When they got back
George got married to a girl
named Martha Curtis. He be
came President. George Wash
ington was our first president.
Mrs. Knight's
Sixth Grade
February has been a busy
month for our class because we
had so many interesting activi
ties besides our regular sub
jects. During the first of the
month we enjoyed creating ori
ginal Valentines for our bulle
tin board. Our grade mothers
gave us such a nice Valentine
party, and we surely did ap
preciate it. But the most fun
we had was looking at the large
old-fashioned Valentine Mr s.
Knight made for our door. It
was filled with small lacy
hearts, all enclosing pictures of
each of us taken when we were
in the first and second grades.
The whole school enjoyed see
ing how “cute” we were when
we were little!
One of our bulletin boards
was a patriotic one with pic
tures of Lincoln, Washington
and Edison. We made a flag for
it, which we thought was most
effective. Members of our class
presented special programs on
the birthdays of these great
men.
The rainy days this month
gave us a chance to brush up
on our square dancing. We
pusher our desks to the center
of the room and learned circle
dances like, “Oh Johnny”,
“Bingo”, and a new cake walk
to “Dixie”.
Our most exciting day, of
course, was February 20, the
day Col. John Glenn made h i s
historic flight into space. We
began the day with a devotional
of patriotic songs and a prayer
for his success and safety. As
the countdown began we were
breathless with an excitement
and a tension that didn’t let up
until Col. Glenn stepped safe
ly out of the capsule on t h e
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deck of the destroyer Then we:
let out a cheer that almost rais
ed the roof. It was indeed a day
to remember all our lives.
At our class election. Tommy
Aaron was elected president;
Maridel Meyev is our vice-presi
dent; Carol Dobbs is secretary
and Catherine Cowan, treasur
er. These officers are making
some interesting plans for the
class and we're looking forward
to their term of office.
Unanimously we have agreed
that February is our favorite
month, but we won’t mind a bit
if March is a little less exciting
and not quite so full of inter
esting things to do.
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