Newton County GaArchives News.....WISE AND OTHERWISE, SOMEWHAT PERSONAL, IN AND AROUND THE CITY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU, April 30, 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, 7:38 pm The Georgia Enterprise April 30, 1891 WISE AND OTHERWISE ~Uncle MARK ROGERS, one of the most industrious old colored men in the county has the black Spanish game chickens. He has one of the most active 3 year old roosters, of this stock, that we have seen for a long time. The other day we saw a mongrel young rooster get after Mark’s game and run it all over a field, being unable to catch the game because of its get up and get wide awake activity. ~It is said that the minister of the Presbyterian Church looked embarrassed last Sunday when he discovered that a good brother had accidentally exchanged an alliance hat for his ministerial derby. It was also amusing at the Methodist Church Sunday evening when a 10 year old boy went to sleep and rolled off the bench falling heavily to the floor while the preacher was in the most serious part of a regular revival sermon. ~Memorial services were held here Saturday afternoon last at 5 o’clock. Every grave in the Soldiers Cemetery was decorated with spring’s sweetest flowers. Owing to it being a very busy time in town it was impractical for the merchants to close their stores and in consequence there was not as many men present as otherwise there would have been. The ladies, however, were out in force and furnished flowers in abundance. The Memorial Association was disappointed in securing an orator for the occasion, as the gentleman selected did not appear, but there was patriotic eloquence in every flower brought to deck the last resting place of these fallen braves. After the decoration Rev. R. W. Bigham delivered an appropriate prayer and then the people returned to their homes with the assurance that in honoring the memory of our heroic dead they had also honored themselves. ~The Conyers Banner comments in this style on our city ordinance prohibiting females from entering liquor saloons: “If it is wrong for women to enter these places, why is it not wrong for men? We fail to see how such a law can be enforced.” As to the evil of bar rooms, no argument is necessary. As to the inference that what custom or law permit’s a man to do, that a woman should also be allowed the same privilege, is a little more than we care to accept as wise doctrine. Men do a thousand things that women do not do, cannot do, and should not be allowed to do, if they could. A man can doe many things and go to many places without injuring his name or character, which if done by a woman would ruin her in this world and almost damn her in the next. The woman who has a desire to hang around a bar room is the very kind of a creature that should be kept out of it. As to the enforcement of this law, that will be done to the very letter, even if the Banner does fail to see how it can be done. SOMEWHAT PERSONAL ~Miss LOUDIE and LOTTIE HENDRICK have returned from a three months visit to relatives in Texas. ~Mrs. MARY STEADMAN left on Tuesday to spend a month with her daughter, Mrs. SANFORD, in Macon. ~Prof. J. H. RICHARDS delivered an able address before Cedar Shoals Alliance last Sunday. ~Judge JNO. P. HARRIS has moved in his new home on Railroad Street. Good Luck to our friend. ~Rev. Mr. MCCALLA is said to have preached a most excellent sermon at Hopewell Church last Sunday. ~Mrs. THOMAS WEAVER, and sister, Mrs. AGNEW have returned from a pleasant visit to relatives in Savannah. ~Mr. RICHARD L. DAVIS, of Monticello, spent a day or two recently with friends and loved ones here. ~Mr. P. W. WARREN, who has been very sick for some time past, is getting well again. ~Prof. J. M. RADFORD, wife and daughter, of Jersey, spent Sunday in Covington as the guests of Captain and Mrs. G. D. HEARD. ~Efforts are being made to establish a post office at or near Alcova Station to be known as “Alcova,” with Mr. H. D. HIGHT as postmaster. ~Mr. JOHN C. FLOWERS returned to Tennessee Monday and will continue to sell one of the best patent fence ever introduced. ~Mr. W. H. EVANS came up from Augusta Saturday night and spent a day or two with his family and friends here. ~Capt. J. P. TILLEY, of Conyers, was here Friday. He is enthusiastic in his advocacy for the Covington oil mill and guano factory. ~Mr. GEO. T. WELLS has opened a writing school in Music Hall. His terms are low and he should meet with a large and liberal patronage. ~Messrs. T. J. SHIELDS and J. T. CORLEY, JR., will open and operate a laundry, near Railroad Street, at an early day. ~Dr. W. A. CANDLER delivered a most powerful sermon at the Methodist Church here Sunday, while Rev. J. K. SMITH preached an eloquent sermon at the Presbyterian Church. ~Deputy Sheriff WRIGHT is getting absent minded in his mature years. He went home on foot Friday and forgot his horse that he had rode up town that day. ~Messrs. R. W. BAGBY, J. C. ANDERSON, S. H. STARR and E. H. YANCEY returned from the New York reunion Saturday. All report the biggest kind of a time. ~Mrs. J. W. BLACK, of Oak Hill district, has a Brown Leghorn hen that has laid an egg a day every day for eight months, with the exception of one day only. ~Mr. HOUSTON A. JONES left on Monday for Arkansas and other western states, where he will visit friends and relatives. He will return to Covington in the early fall. ~Mr. L. S. BORDERS and family have moved to one of Mr. A. N. HAYS new cottages on Monticello Street. Mr. CHARLIE BANKS and family will occupy the other one. IN AND AROUND THE CITY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT INTEREST YOU. ~The first session of the new county court, Judge DICKSON presiding, will probably be held in Covington on the first Wednesday in June. ~Mr. C. E. COOK will erect a neat residence on the lot adjoining the Baptist Church and fronting on College Avenue. The lumber is on hand and work has been commenced. ~Mr. JAMES F. PEEK, JR., in co-partnership with an Oxford gentleman, will open and ice cream saloon in the old Pace corner store early in May. They will keep ice on hand for sale during the summer. ~Rev. W. H. MCMEEN, was invited to deliver the address at the Sabbath school celebration on Friday, at Oxford, but declined to do so on account of the severe cold from which he has been suffering for some weeks. ~Mrs. I. A. STANTON, of Brick Store district, had ripe strawberries from her vines on Friday last. Rather early for this delicious fruit, considering the lateness of the spring and the past severity of the weather. ~Our farmers and all others who own stock should try and save an abundance of hay this summer. We will publish an interesting address on hay culture by Judge JOHN P. HARRIS, in our next issue. ~Elder F. M. MCLEROY, of Oconee County, will preach as follows: Shoal Creek, Newton County, Thursday, April 30. Harris Spring, Friday, May 1st. Holly Spring, Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd. Beulah, Monday 4th. Gum Creek, Tuesday, 5th. Everybody cordially invited to attend these services. ~If a dummy line is run to Porterdale pleasure boats will be put on Yellow River and a bath house and swimming pool opened for the public. That the line will be built in the near future, we are quite sure, for in the language of our friend, Dr. JOE A. WRIGHT, “old Newton has got a hump on her and will get there on industries and improvements.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/wiseando1977gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 8.0 Kb