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SHOWN AT ALCOVY’S HOMECOMING Service are L-R, Front row:
Mesdames Johnny Mann, S. S. Teacher; C. E. Arnold and Howard
Davenport stewards; W. M. Mclntosh, eldest active member; Miss
Mildred McDaniel and Mrs. Emory Bruce, stewards; Background:
Howard Davenport, Trustee; Mrs. Lynn Arnold, teacher; Lynn Ar-
I News Notes From
By Miss Irene Harvey £
“I tell you, nay; but, except
ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish, Luke 13:3.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Delton Cain and
Susan of Atlanta were weekend
guests of Mrs. R. E. Chesnut
and Gary.
»♦ » »
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Stewart
were dinner guests Friday of Miss
Martha Jane Stewart, Mrs. Lillie
Chesnut and brothers at Snapping
Shoals.
♦* ♦ *
Miss Faye Ellington Is visit
ing in Daytona Beach, Florida.
** * *
We are sorry to hear that Ira
L. Wheeler has been a patient
in Newton County Hospital for
several days. Our best wishes
to Mr. Wheeler for an early and
complete recovery.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thacker,
Ronnie and Linda were Sunday
dinner guests of Mrs. Ola H.
Thacker, Misses Robbie and Irene
Harvey. Visitors In the after-
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noon were Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Hearn of Decatur, Miss Neatla
Liles of Raleigh, North Carolina
and Ralph Dorsette, Jr. of At
lanta.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Delton Caln and Susan
of Atlanta and Gary Chesnut visit
ed Mrs. C. E. Chesnut and Mr.
J. W. Chesnut Saturday after
noon.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. R. L. Ellington spent Sun
day night with Mr. and Mrs. Ru
fus Garrett on Old Covington
Highway.
*♦ ♦ ♦
The friends of Miss Gladys
Stone of Porterdale are sorry to
hear of her misfortune in a fall
Monday of last week and broke
her hip. She Is at Grady Hos
pital and doing as well as can
be expected. Miss Stone Is form
erly of our community. Our
best wishes go out to her for a
speedy recovery.
** ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Stewart
had as their dinner guests Sun
day, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Butler,
Gina and Russell and a niece,
Miss Barnle of Griffin, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Crumbly of Kellytown.
Mrs. John Weldon was a visitor
in the afternoon.
** * *
Mrs. C. B. Burnham, Mrs. Ola
H. Thacker, Misses Robbie and
Irene Harvey with Mrs. R. E.
Avery of Covington attended the
miscellaneous shower given for
Miss Marcia Potts at Red Oak
Church annex Saturday evening.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stewart
Senior Citizens
Met On Wednesday
The senior Citizens met Wed
nesday, July 23, at the Woman’s
Club Building, with the Pilot Fin
ance Committee Chairman, Mrs.
Edna Weigel and committee mem
bers, Mrs. Jack Allen, Mrs. Neal
Banks and Miss Carolyn Camp
bell In charge of the program.
Mrs. Weigel welcomed every
one and extended Birthday Greet
ings to Mrs. Hugh S. Adams,
Mrs. A. M. Butler, Miss Louise
Skelton and Mrs. Gladys Marks.
Mrs. Weigel introduced Mr.
Ben Banks, who gave the devo
tional, and Mr. Ray Reece, Mana
ger of the Covington Southern
Bell Telephone Company, who
showed a film entitled “Beyond
All Barriers”. The group tho
roughly enjoyed the program.
Following the program, re
fresh ments were served by the
committee.
nold S. S. Supt.; C. D. Arnold, steward; Rev. Charles Thomas, guest
speaker; Rev. Mell Simon, pastor; P. M. Mclhtosh, Adm. Board
Chairman; Mrs. Mclntosh, church secretary and treasurer; and Reu
ben Houseworth, Lay Leader.
visited Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Ogletree Sunday afternoon in
Griffin.
** * *
Edgar Thacker of Salem and
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Burnham
were visitors Monday evening of
Mrs. Ola H. Thacker and Miss
Irene Harvey.
♦♦ * ♦
Mrs. Riley Stewart and Mrs.
John Weldon motored to Mans
field Thursday morning where
they visited Mr. and Mrs. Ewell
Lunsford.
** * *
Rev. H. L. Smith of Winter
Haven, Florida, the visiting mini
ster of the Hopewell Presbyter
ian revival last week, was the
night guest of Rev. and Mrs.
Wayne Dickson and Carla. He
and Rev. and Mrs. Dickson and
Carla were entertained with din
ner and supper by the various
members of the church.
♦* ♦ *
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thacker,
Ronnie and Linda visited Mr. and
Mrs. George Cochran Sunday
afternoon.
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Recent visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Stubbs were
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Washington,
Clnday and Debbie of Morrow,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Clark of
Atlanta, Mrs. Clara Smith, Mrs.
E. A. Holmes and Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Stubbs.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Parker
and Mr. and Mrs. Few Parker
visited Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Campbell at Hilltop Nursing
Home near Forsyth Sunday morn
ing.
** * *
Last week’s visitors of Mrs.
John Jones were Mrs. Charles
Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Cunningham, Sherrie and Scott
all of Decatur and J. B. Patrick
of Eatonton.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Parker,
Cindy and Jeff were supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Parker
Sunday night.
«♦ * ♦
Mrs. Pauline Johnson visited
Mrs. Franklin Parker and child
ren Thursday night.
♦♦ ♦ *
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Thompson the past week were
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blackstock
and children, Fred Lassiter of
Covington, Mrs. John Jones, Mrs.
Archie Cunningham, Sherrie and
Scott, Mrs. Charles Haynes of
Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Aiken and Troy Stubbs.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Parker
visited Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Bailey, Sunday afternoon.
** * *
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Carrington
of Decatur spent the weekend
with Mrs. W. C. Johnson and
Mrs. Clara Smith and attended
Homecoming at Lovejoy Method
ist Church on Sunday.
** ♦ ♦
Get well wishes go to John
Aiken who was a patient at New
ton County Hospital last week
and had a tonsillectomy and all
others that are ill at home and in
hospitals. Sincere sympathy is
extended to those who have lost
their loved ones.
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God. G. W. Wlsemalr.
** * *
Mrs. Paul Harwell spent from
Thursday to Sunday at home af
ter spending some time with Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Nix. Mr. Nix
continues ill in a hospital. We wish
him an early recovery.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jones are
spending a few days In Florida
this week.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Rev. and Mrs. John Durham
and children of Dayton, Ohio are
visiting their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Barron Davis.
♦♦ * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Thomp
son celebrated their wedding
anniversary by camping from Th
ursday to Sunday at Indian Sp
rings.
** * *
Ralph Johnson and Mrs. E. W.
Mills of Columbus and Mrs. Ru
fus Curtis of Winter Haven, Flo
rida are visiting Rev. and Mrs.
Ralph Burton and Robby this week.
♦♦ ♦ ♦
Sieryl and Tommy TTiompson,
Jr. spent from Thursday to Sun
day with their grandmother, Mrs.
R. C. Thompson of Porterdale.
♦* » ♦
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Binford
visited Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ro
quermore and Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Hays of Mansfield Sunday after
noon.
'** ♦ *
Mrs. Doyle Smith has meved
into her new home. Mrs. Cros
son Berry, Jr. is spending some
time with her.
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August 12th except on Tuesday,
August sth., Mr. Evan Jordan,
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be in the office.
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contact Mr. Jordan on Tuesday,
August sth., in the Covington
Office or may contact the At
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Atlanta, Ga., Telephone 525-5501.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Homecoming Launches Alcovy Revival
Alcovy Methodist Church’s an
nual revival was launched Sunday
with observance of a memorable
Homecoming, which assembled
some 125 members and friends
for the significant day of spirit
ual enrichment and fellowship.
The Rev. Charles Thomas of
Grant Park Methodist Church in
Atlanta, a former pastor, was the
Homecoming speaker.
Services of this week’s revival
will continue through Friday
evening; and the pastor, Rev.
Mell Simons extends a cordial
welcome to the public to attend,
on behalf of the church.
The altar arrangement of
mammoth white chrysanthemums
and gladioli, flanked by brass al
tar candlesticks holding burning
white candles, was placed in me
mory of the late Emory Bruce,
by his wife.
Special music was rendered
by Mrs. Howard Davenport and
Mrs. Bobby Maughon, who sang,
“Holy Quietness”; and Rev. Si
mons cordially welcomed those
present. He is one of Alcovy’s
four sons who have gone into
the ministry.
Rev. Thomas, presented by
Heart Disease Still Leads
Death Causes, Survey Shows
Deaths from heart disease still
tops the list of the number of
Georgians who died In 1968. The
disease took the lives of 14,155
people in the state—almost one
third of the total death count of
41,331 last year.
m 1967, heart disease took the
lives of 12,946 Georgians while
the total deaths from all causes
was 38,448.
These figures were revealed
today in a preliminary report
released by the Biostatistics Ser
vice of the Georgia Department
of Public Health.
Deaths caused by stroke moved
up on the list with 5,828 victims
--replacing cancer as the second
leading killer. Stroke was in the
third place in 1967 with a total of
5,494 deaths. Cancer accounted
for 5,534 deaths in 1968 and
5,519 in 1967.
The outbreak of Influenza in
the late part of 1968 pushed deaths
from influenza and pueumonia
up to the fourth leading cause.
Some 2,002 Georgians died from
influenza and pneumonia in 1968
Americanism On Part-Time
Basis Hit By Gov. Maddox
ATLANTA (GPS)~Gov. Lester
G. Maddox, addressing Ooth
calooga Masonic Lodge No. 154
in Calhoun the other evening, talk
ed proudly of the Apollo 11 moon
landing. And he used the occas
ion to compare what he called
"real Americans’’ and "part
time Americans.’’ Said the gov
ernor:
“Real Americans put as ide
other less Important matters to
fully participate in this event;
the part-time Americans went
about their business, thinking only
of how many dollars they could
make that day.
“Real Americans gave thanks
to their God for the opportunity
to witness such a magnificent
achievement; part-time Ameri
cans mouthed about all the money
that was ‘wasted* on such a
‘Fool’s journey’.’’
Gov. Maddox said this reaction
“is nothing new’’ because “we
see the work and we hear the
rantlngs of these part-time
Americans everyday. They are
good Americans as long as it’s
convenient, but when the going
gets a little rough, they find an
excuse to be disloyal, disres
pectful or disinterested.’’
"You can pull in a hoodlum
from off the street where he
is rioting, looting and burning’’,
Maddox continued in driving
home his point, “and he will let
you know immediately that he is
an American citizen and that he
is entitled to his constitutional
rights.
“But, you pull him In off the
streets and tell him that his
country needs him to fight for
those rights and freedoms which
he screams for, and he will tell
you very quickly that he’s not
mad at anybody, so why should
he fight?
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the pastor, based his message
upon Luke 15, citing the three
parables of something lost and
then found. In pursuing his
subject, the speaker reviewed the
parables of the lost sheep, the
lost coin, and the prodigal son.
Concentrating on the lost coin
parable, Rev. Thomas pointed
out that the coin lost was one
from a headband, worn by a wo
man to proclaim the fact that she
was married; and to her, life
was incomplete without the mis
sing link in her wedding band.
“And,” he continued, “God’s plan
for mankind’s redemption is also
incomplete, so long as there are
lost souls to be brought into the
kingdom. We as His witnesses,
should be diligent in our search
for the lost, that everyone might
be brought into the fold, as was
the lost sheep, although the 90
and 9 were safe”.
During the noon hour, a boun
tiful basket lunch was served on
picnic tables in the shaded ch
urchyard; and a delightful social
hour ensued.
Reminiscences revealed many
interesting facts In Alcovy’s his-
as compared to 1,546 In 1967.
Because of this Increase, motor
vehicle accidents —long In the
top four—dropped to fifth place
on the list. Motor vehicle ac
cidents took the lives of 1,730
people in 1968 and 1,553 in 1967.
In sixth position, both in 1967
and 1968, were accidental deaths
other than motor vehicles. In
1967 some 1,377 Georgians died
from accidents—mostly around
the home and on the farm-com
pared to an Increase to 1,464
for 1968.
The State Health Department
report also shows that homicides
went up from 617 in 1967 to 700
for last year while suicides in
creased from 455 to 497 in the
same period.
Other statistics released show
that live births for 1968 were
87,322 as compared to 1967’s
total of 86,469. Georgia’s pop
ulation was estimated by the
health department to be 4,568,-
000 on JUly 1, 1968. For the
period ending July 1,1967, the de
partment estimated the pop
ulation at 4,509,000.
“He will burn his draft card
with one hand and hold up a copy
of the BLU of Rights with the
other. He will burn down the
business of a fellow American
with one hand and hold up a peti
tion decrying his lack of oppor
tunity with the other.
“These part-time Americans
love freedom and hate responsi
bility. They , like to receive, but
they detest giving.”
Georgia’s outspoken chief exe
cutive concluded his remarks by
saying:
“I am glad that I will be able
to tell my grandchildren that I
was there at the launching of Apo
llo 11 and that I was aware of the
significance of July 20th to all
Americans and to all the world.”
Tree Stands Vast
U.S. softwood log production
—whence comes lumber and ply
wood for home building—total
ed about 38 billion board feet
last year. This was less than two
per cent of the sawtimber inven
tory of more than two trillion
board feet.
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tory. Mrs. Mattle Lemon Hig
ginbotham, mother of Mrs. Mell
Simons, wife of the pastor, was
the first of the 16 charter mem
bers of the church, when it was
organized in 1886, as Rock Cut
Protestant Methodist Church,
with the Rev. Tom Greer as the
first pastor.
For two years, services were
held in a small schoolhouse near
Alcovy station in winter, and un
der a brush arbor during summer
months. In 1888, the congrega
tion erected Its first building on
land donated by S. D. Hight; and
changed the church’s name to
Alcovy Protestant Methodist Ch
urch. In 1915, the present site
was chosen, and an exchange of
land executed with Owen Stanton,
who donated materials for the
construction of the present build
ing, with the congregation volun
teering their labor for the chur
ch’s erection. It was not until
1939, when Alcovy joined the Nor-
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EHBHBK
Young Sam Morris just “loaned” us a
dime so he could make his weekly
collect call home from summer camp.
His total camp bill will cost his parents
well over two hundred dollars. The cost
of keeping in touch with mom and dad
by telephone: $4.10. As far as the
Morris’ are concerned, that’s a big
bargain.
, your
moneys
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Thursday, July 31, 1969
th Ga. Conference that its name
was changed to Alcovy Episcopal
(Instead of protestant) Methodist
Church. r . .
The beautifully kept church,
which has a spacious brick ad
dition of S. S. rooms, rest rooms,
and other facilities, has during
the past year expanded Its S. S.
program in reactivating an In
termediate Class, taught by Mrs.
Johnny Mann. The fact that
Alcovy’s first charter member s
daughter is now the wife of one
of Alcovy’s own sons, who is
her current pastor, bears testi
mony of the faith the membership
has kept with the founding fath
ers»
Among out of town guests for
the Homecoming were Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Barronton, College
park; M*r. and Mrs. J. O. Smith,
East Point; Mrs. J. S. Eskew,
Miss Peggy Mobley, Mrs. Roy
Studdard, Tampa, Fla.; and Mrs.
Gladys Blade of Atlanta.