Newton County GaArchives News.....SOMEWHAT PERSONAL August 1, 1889 ************************************************ 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 August 10, 2005, 7:35 pm The Georgia Enterprise August 1, 1889 ~W. H. Brittain, one of our most industrious and gallant young men, remembered this office with a mammoth watermelon Tuesday. We tip our hat to friend Henry. ~N. C. Lee says if he makes 20 bales of cotton he will open a $2,000 stock of goods this fall. Clint will doubtless make 200 bales and other produce in proportion. ~After an absence of 24 years, Mr. John H. Levy, of Columbus, Ohio, is visiting his brother, Capt. J. M. Levy, of this city. He is a genial jovial gentlemen, and all of us are glad to see him once more. ~Mr. ?. S. Mines was called to the bedside of his sick father in Oglethorpe County, Monday, and this is the reason his tailoring establishment has been closed since that time. ~Messrs. R. W. Bagby, J. C. Anderson, Edmund Horton, S. H. Starr Jr., J. M. Levy, John H. Levy, W. W. Osborn, E. H. Yancey and a few others left for the Third Georgia reunion at Fort Valley Tuesday. ~”How would Hon. L. L. Middlebrooks do to represent the 5th district in the next Congress?” This question is being frequently asked just now, from Douglasville, in Douglas county, to Monroe, in Walton County, and all along the line. ~We regret to learn that Capt. Virgil Boyd, Conductor of the Accommodation train, was robbed in his room in Atlanta Friday night. Five or six hundred dollars, a diamond pin and a fine gold watch and chain were stolen from him while he lingered on a bed of sickness. ~Monday last our friend, Mr. Dolph Norton, presented us with a large basket well filled with extra large and fine pears, peaches, grapes, etc. He also sent a big watermelon. These kind remembrances from true and tried friends renew the energy, warm the heart and make this life more than worth the living. Many thanks, friend Dolph, may health and happiness, peace and plenty ever bless thee and thine. ~Mr. James A. Farmer is working to secure a cotton compress for Covington. He has over half the stock taken by parties from abroad. The railroad will give reduced rates on compressed cotton, so we are told. It will attract to our market cotton from a distance which we have not been in the habit of getting. We estimate that in a few years from now, with the compress in operation, we will receive not less than 30,000 bales of cotton. The future of our town is brighter now than ever before if we will only work and act together. ~ It reminded us of the good old days of yore to meet and clasp the hand of our substantial friend, Dr. Claud C. Cody, of Georgetown, Texas, Friday last. He looks hale and hearty and healthy and we are proud to know that he is popular and prosperous in his new home. Few more solid men can be found in this country than is Dr. Cody. He only remained with us a few days, but met many true friends who were happy to meet him and who will ever have a welcome for him when he comes this way. By zeal and industry, honest and fair dealings to all men, he has rose to prominence in his new home. May the Master continue to bless himself his good wife and two darling little children. ~Mr. Geo. W. Dennard gives the Enterprise a short sketch of his father’s success since he married: “My father lives in Rockdale County, Sheffield district, 5 miles east of Conyers. He has been married 48 years and resides today where he has lived 47 years. He has never bought a bushel of corn nor a pound of meat, nor a sack of flour since he married, and as a general thing pays cash for his guano. He has 40 or 50 head of fine hogs and always has corn for sale. The secret of his success is to raise your produce at home.” If George had half the “get up and get” in him that his father has, he would discontinue to loaf around in the low grounds of single wretchedness. Get married, old man, and send us a big cake. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/somewhat716gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb