Newton County GaArchives News.....SOMEWHAT PERSONAL, TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY, IN AND AROUND THE CITY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU. June 11, 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 18, 2006, 8:34 am The Georgia Enterprise June 11, 1891 SOMEWHAT PERSONAL ~Messrs. JOHN AND JAMES PORTER, of Porterdale, are spending this week in Brunswick. ~Col. WM. S. UPSHAW, of Atlanta, spent part of Saturday and Sunday with friends in Covington. ~Mr. and Mrs. C. E. COOK spent several days recently with relatives in Lithonia. ~Mr. DANIEL J. WINGARD and family of Atlanta, will make their home at Porterdale. ~Miss MARY PORTER returned form school at Salem, N. C., last week, and is looking exceedingly well. ~Mrs. WILSON L. DAVIS, of Rocky Plains district, has been quite sick for more than a week past. ~Mr. JEFF D. STEWART, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, has been visiting friends and relatives here this week. ~Hon. BOYKIN WRIGHT and wife, of Augusta, Ga., are visiting Covington and Oxford this week as the guests of their father, Mr. FRANKLIN WRIGHT. ~Miss MATTIE HAYGOOD has been elected assistant-principal of one of the public schools in Atlanta with a salary of $600. She will probably accept the position. ~Mr. E. O. LEE and Mrs. A. B. SIMMS have treated their residences to new coats of paint. Many other improvements can be seen all along Floyd Street. ~Mr. WM. M. ANDERSON will assist on the Crawford Herald for a few days. We wish friend WILLIE a delightful time during his stay in Oglethorpe County. ~Miss EFFIE THOMPSON, of Genaca, S. C., and Miss C. E. WATKINS, of Oglethorpe County, are attending Emory College as the guests of Miss Mattie Haygood, of Covington. ~The Social Circle Sentry pays this deserved compliment to one of our fellow- citizens: “Judge CAPERS DICKSON, of Covington, one of the most talented lawyers in the state, was here on professional business Thursday.” ~Rev. W. H. MCMEEN received the offer of a call on Monday to the Pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church of Meridian. This is one of the most rapidly growing cities in the state of Mississippi. ~Mrs. THOMAS CAMP, of Atlanta, spent Thursday with friends and dear ones here. This pleasant lady can always depend on receiving a cordial and sincere welcome when ever she comes to see her many friends and acquaintances here. TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY ~For Sale- Corner lot on Floyd and East Street 100 x 110, near public square. Very reasonable and on easy terms. See Col. MIDDLEBROOK or HAWKINS. ~The Musical Advocate, published in Macon, and edited by Rev. J. W. BURKE and Prof. H. M. MCINTOSH, is gaining friends and favor with every issue. ~Chairman ANDERSON, of the county commissioners has issued an order prohibiting the loaning of the court house chairs to schools, societies or individuals. The chairman is right, and the order is a good one. ~Messrs. PEEK & HOWELL use the finest sugar and best of Jersey mild for their ice cream and milk shakes. Everything is neat and new in their establishment, on east side of the public square, in Pace corner building. Ice, sherbet, soda water, etc. Orders promptly filled and prices reasonable. Call and see them. ~Many men in Newton are opposed to legislators straining themselves and trying to find some way to appropriate $100,000 to the World’s Fair in Chicago. If the legislature is determined to do anything on this line, let it present the question to the people so they can vote on it as an “amendment to the constitution.” IN AND AROUND THE CITY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU. ~MCKAY-BENNETT telegraph company will open an office in Covington. Mr. SCRUGGS, of Midway, has been tendered the position of operator. ~Dr. W. E. RIVERS and son, formerly of Covington, were thrown from a buggy in Augusta the other day and badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. ~Thursday night, June 18th, the 3rd quarterly meeting of the Covington Charge, Methodist Church, will be held. A full attendance is desired as important Church business will be transacted. ~If Newton County desires a special road law, notice of the same must be published. The legislature meets on the 1st Wednesday in July and the bill should be ready to be introduced early in the session, else it will not become a law. We give such notice in this issue. Now let the right sort of a bill be drawn and given to our representative, Hon. H. L. GRAVES, or let him frame the bill himself. ~Sunday morning services for the Children’s Day were held at the Bethany Presbyterian Church. The house was beautifully decorated, some of the decorations and plants having been specially ordered from Florida. Addresses were made by Col. L. F. LIVINGSTON and Rev. W. H. MCMEEN. The Church was crowded to its utmost capacity and the collection, which was for foreign missions, amounted to $55.00. A very large congregation was present also at the night services. ~Oxford has been alive with beautiful women and handsome men this week, attending the commencement exercises of Emory College. These exercises were more brilliant this year than ever before in the history of the institution. The endowment fund has about been secured and the college will increase in popularity and usefulness as it has never done before. President CANDLER has proven beyond all question to be the right man in the right place. His heart is in his work and he never takes time to rest when the welfare of old Emory is at stake. ~Prof. H. A. SCOMP had the misfortune to lose his residence in Oxford by fire on Tuesday morning about 1 o’clock. Only two trunks were saved from the building. Prof. SCOMP had one of the most complete collections in Georgia of papers, rare articles and curiosities from foreign lands, and his library was one of the finest in the South. The cause of the fire is not definitely known. This good man and his family are left homeless, but not friendless, for there are men and women, here and elsewhere, who sympathize with them in the great loss they have sustained, and if necessary that sympathy will reach far beyond any idle words. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/somewhat2010gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.6 Kb