Newton County GaArchives News.....Here and There, Town And County, Wise and Otherwise, Somewhat Personal, In and Around the City April 23, 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 November 16, 2006, 7:30 pm The Georgia Enterprise April 23, 1891 HERE AND THERE ~On or about the first day of May, Mr. S. N. STALLINGS will move his stock of goods to the corner store, one door below C. E. COOK’S, where a welcome will await all friends and customers. When in his own house again he will continue to sell the best of goods at the lowest possible prices, and if you want nice things cheap it will pay you to call on him at his present stand, on the east side of the public square, below Pitt’s Hotel. TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY ~A picnic on Yellow River is being arranged for Saturday. ~Doctor CANDLER will preach at the Methodist Church here Sunday. ~Mr. JOHN C. FLOWERS has returned from a month’s sojourn in Tennessee. ~Presiding Elder R. J. BIGHAM will preach at the Methodist Church here Thursday night. Everybody invited. ~Capt. SMITH, the fruit tree man from Jackson County, spent a day or two here recently. ~Mrs. R. W. BIGHAM is slowly recovering from a serious spell of sickness, which will be good news to her many friends in Georgia. ~Messrs. Walter Scruggs and Harry Levy will go into a general mercantile business, in the brick store, near the depot, at an early day. Success to these live young men. ~Mr. and Mrs. FRANKLIN WRIGHT are visiting relatives in Savannah, while their daughter, Miss JANIE is spending some time with dear ones in Augusta. ~Mr. TURNER HORTON, one our oldest citizens, is in feeble health. He is about 77 years old and has been one of the most respected men in the county. We hope he will be spared to his people for many years. ~During this week interesting religious services have been held at the Methodist Church, morning and night. Good sermons have been preached by Rev. HOWARD CRUMLEY, who has had charge of the services by invitation of the Pastor, Rev. R. J. BIGHAM. ~The Mayor held two sessions of his court Saturday and put fines on violators of the city laws to the amount of near fifty dollars. The laws of this city must be observed or those who violate them will surely be made to suffer. The Mayor and Council, the Marshals and all good citizens are determined to have the laws enforced to the letter. ~Saturday afternoon, April 25, at 5 o’clock, the graves of the Confederate will be decorated with flowers and appropriate services will be held at the Cemetery. Let everybody make it a point to attend this decoration. The memory of our gallant dead grows brighter and dearer as the years come and go. WISE AND OTHERWISE ~FROM A GRATEFUL HEART, I thank the good people of Covington and Newton County for enabling me to keep house so soon after having been burned out. I lost very near everything I had except my life, and Judge WOODSON did lose his, and I would have shared the same fate had it not been for my good wife. Wake up, ye Bachelors, and provide for yourselves a help-mate while you have life. I have lived in this town for 56 years and now I expect to stay here until the end of life. Thanking again and again all who helped me in my hour of need, I am truly and gratefully yours, JNO. R. DAVIS. ~On the afternoon of April 15th a heavy hail and rain storm visited Covington. Hail fell thick and fast for nearly half an hour, cutting the tender leaves from trees and badly damaging garden vegetation. The rain came down in torrents, flooding the streets in all parts of the city. Dried Indian Creek left its banks and the face of the earth seemed covered with water. A calf that was tied out to graze, near the creek, was drowned before it could be moved. Lightning struck the barn at Dr. J. J. DEARING’S home place, and set it on fire. The flame and smoke filled the building, but by hard work the barn was saved. It appears that the hail and rain was heavier here than at any other point in the county. ~Capt. S. H. STARR, Dr. J. C. ANDERSON, Sergt. R. W. BAGBY and Dr. E. H. YANCEY, of Newton County, gallant members of the old 3rd Ga. Regiment, are enjoying the hospitalities of the Hawkins Zouaves in New York City this week. They spent a while in Savannah Friday and were well treated by citizens and ex- soldiers there. The News notes the presence of one of the party thus: “Prominent among the veterans was the tall figure of Sergt. R. W. BAGBY, whose missing arm, lost at the battle of Spotsylvania while bearing aloft the colors of the regiment, did not detract from his manly appearance. He is still color-bearer of the regiment.” The delegation, some twenty in number, reached New York by steamer Monday and were taken in hand by their hosts, since which time, we are quite sure, they have been generously treated and well entertained. SOMEWHAT PERSONAL ~Col. C. T. BUNCH, of the Atlanta Journal, spent one evening with friends here recently. ~Col. LIVINGSTON spent Monday in town and left on the evening train for Lexington, where he made a fine Alliance speech on Tuesday. ~Col. EMMETT WOMACK has presented his charming daughter, Miss NELLIE, with a very fine horse which she handles well, besides being very graceful in the saddle. ~Mr. JOHN CHAPMAN spent part of Saturday in the eastern section of the county and says the farmers are busy rushing farm work. Everybody in that part of the county had “a move on them,” said JOHN. ~Mr. J. F. MCCORD caught a large stump-tail moccasin snake in the Academy branch Saturday and sent it to the Michigan museum to keep company with the king snake sent there last month. ~Mr. GUS CARROLL, of the Central Railroad, and brother of Messrs. J. W. and J. H. CARROLL, has been on a visit to relatives and friends here. He is making his home in Columbus, has married a most excellent lady, who came along to meet her new kin people and keep “Bubber” from “flying around” too lively with the girls during his sojourn in this bailiwick. ~Miss MAUD LEE and Miss LEILA GLASS have been visiting Atlanta as the guests of Mrs. STEPHEN GLASS and Mrs. Dr. J. W. NELMS. Before they return to Covington they will probably visit Chattanooga, Tenn., and Midway, Ala., being in the latter city early in May. We wish them a most enjoyable time during their absence from loved ones here. ~Speaking of our friend and former fellow-citizen, the Henry County Weekly Times tells us that last Sunday evening Rev. JOHN E. ROSSER delivered, at the Methodist Church, his first sermon before a McDonough congregation. His sermon on this occasion was well received by our people, and showed the preacher to be an earnest, forcible and logical reasoned. A large attendance greeted him. ~Mr. A. S. FRANKLIN, so well and favorably known to the people of Middle Georgia, took charge of the Covington Male Academy last Monday morning. He has spent almost his entire life in Newton County, is an educated and cultured gentleman, who will do all in his power to keep up the school and make it an honor and an ornament to this community. Mrs. V. C. CAMP will continue to have charge of the small boys, having given the best of satisfaction in that department. Mrs. D. A. THOMPSON, who has done so much for the school, has been assigned to an important department in the College, or Girls High School. IN AND AROUND THE CITY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU ~A fourteen pound carp was caught in the river at Porterdale the other day by Mr. JOHN PHILLIPS. ~Mr. JOHN C. GIBBS is building an elegant home for Major CARUTHERS, at Jug Tavern. Friend JOHN is one of the finest wood workmen in this country. ~It is reported that the city council will probably enact a law against minors smoking cigarettes in our town or on our public streets. ~The stone wall, near the iron bridge, on Railroad Street, fell during the rain and hail storm last week. It will require considerable work and cash to rebuild this wall. ~The county commissioners have ordered that Mr. ADDISON HARPER be turned out of the pauper home, on account of his repeated dissipation and disinclination to obey the orders of Manager SMITH. ~On Friday night, May 22, our Masonic Brethren will have work in the Masters Degree, and all Masons in good standing are cordially invited to attend. Several brethren from abroad expect to be present. ~Miss GENNIE FOX, of Warren, Ohio, who has been visiting relatives in Georgia, will be the guest of Miss GENIE DEARING this week. Miss FOX has a finely trained voice and will sing at the Presbyterian Church next Sunday night. ~Divine service at the Presbyterian Church next Sunday. In the morning the Rev. J. K. SMITH, the new Pastor of the Barnett Presbyterian Church, of Atlanta, will preach. At night the Rev. W. H. MCMEEN will preach on the subject “How to Study the Bible.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/hereandt1974gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.3 Kb