Newton County GaArchives News.....WINTON ITEMS, NEWBORN LOCALS, SOMEWHAT PERSONAL, TOWN AND COUNTY, April 16, 1891
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The Georgia Enterprise April 16, 1891
WINTON ITEMS

~The freeze has come and gone and a little fruit is left.

~Cotton planting is now in order and everybody is busy over this way.

~The Brick Store Alliance should take on new life and hold regular meetings 
with full attendance.

~Rev. Dr. Moore, of Oxford, gave us a fine sermon on the first Sunday. He will 
preach again at Mt. Pleasant on the first Sunday in May.

~The day school at Winton is progressing finely and the boys and girls learning 
rapidly.

~Our people will plant more corn this spring than they did last, and will adopt 
what is called diversified farming. They will try to live at home, raise their 
own supplies and endeavor to be independent as in the years that have gone.
JOSEPH

NEWBORN LOCALS

~Mr. L. P. DUKE has just finished painting his house.

~Dr. PORTER will begin work on his new store house at an early day.

~Mr. JOE FREEMAN is having some improvements done on his residence.

~Messrs. W. P. TAYLOR and J. W. WILLIAMS have their hands full trying to keep 
up with the carpenter work here.

~Mr. JOE FREEMAN has a young man living with him that can cut, split and put up 
three and a half cords of wood per day.
Truly, P. T.

SOMEWHAT PERSONAL

~Mr. W. M. POTTS, of Rocky Plains, is progressing nicely at commercial college 
in Atlanta.

~Mr. W. H. WELLS is back from Lexington. His wife and baby boy will return in 
May or June.

~Mr. R. M. EVERITT will lead the prayer meeting at Methodist Church Sunday 
afternoon.

~Mr. M. C. DAVIS has been chosen a delegate from Newton County to the State 
Alliance Convention, which will meet in August.

~Miss NELLIE SUMMERS will spend this month in Athens, and we hope she may have 
an enjoyable time during her sojourn in the Classic City.

~The Pastor, T. J. SWANSON, will preach at the Baptist Church in Covington next 
Sunday morning and night. Everybody invited.

~Miss LIZZIE LEE, of Alabama, a most excellent young lady, and daughter of 
Major A. H. LEE, is assisting her father in the Covington post office.

~Rev. HOWARD CRUMLEY will preach at the Methodist Church next Sunday morning. 
Dr. CANDLER will occupy this pulpit the Sunday after.

~Messrs. SIDNEY COOK and SAMUEL MCCART caught several nice fish on set hooks 
Friday night among the number was a blue cat weighing 28 lbs. Monday they 
caught a 20 pounder.

~Mr. JOHN C. AIKEN and wife, of Snapping Shoals, have been making their home in 
Atlanta for the past month. and are well pleased and will make that city their 
home. We dislike to have these good people leave our county, but trust they may 
be prosperous in their new home.

~Presiding Elder R. J. BIGHAM delivered an earnest and forcible sermon on “The 
Liquor Traffic in Newton County,” at the Methodist Church Sunday. At the close 
of the sermon about $200.00 was raised for the cause of foreign missions. The 
day was lovely and the Church was well filled with people.

~Messrs. R. W. BAGBY, S. H. STARR, J. C. ANDERSON, E. H. YANCEY AND A. C. 
MCCALLA, will leave today to attend the reunion of the Hawkins Zouaves, in New 
York City. They will be joined by other members of the 3rd Ga., Regiment. May 
they all have a glorious time during their absence form home.

~On Friday last Dr. E. H. RICHARDSON, of Atlanta, who has had the benefit of 
the medical schools in Paris, Vienna and London, was called to consult with Dr. 
A. C. PERRY on the case of Mrs. R. W. BIGHAM, of Covington, who has been 
seriously sick for some time past. Dr. RICHARDSON approved of the mode of 
treatment by Dr. PERRY. Rev. R. W. BIGHAM and family appreciates, far more than 
words can express, the kind and tender attention given Mrs. BIGHAM during and 
even before her illness. The Doctors desire that their patient be kept quiet 
and not disturbed by too many visitors, as she is yet in a very critical 
condition.

TOWN AND COUNTY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY

~Mrs. D. W. SPENCE is visiting relatives in Monroe.

~Mr. JOEL KITCHENS caught a 4 ½ lb. white shad, at Indian Fishery, Monday. Mr. 
JOSIAH MCCORD bought it for 65 cents.

~A thief entered the saloon of Messrs. DENNARD & WARREN Saturday night and 
stole several dollars from the cash drawer, besides taking a lot of case goods.


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