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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS.
VOL. ;v I 1 1 . NO. 28.
M LLEDGEVILLE, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 10 1909.
$1.00 Per Annum
BIG REDUCTION TO BE MADE IN
MILLEDGEVILLE TAXES THIS TEAR
Mayer Bell States That Property Holders Will Have to Donate Less Money
This Year to The City.
News that will be of general interest
to everybody in Milledfreville is the
authoritative statement from Mayor
Miller S. Beil that the city tax rate will
be greatly decreased from what it was
last year. It was necessary to impose
an extraordinary rate at that time in
order to make good an accumulated de
ficiency in one of the deyartments of
the city goverment, but this has been
wiped out now and besides this over
half the indebtedness on the new city
hall has been paid otf.
The inauguration of the convict sys
tem on the city’s streets will obviate
the necessity for heavy expenditures on
this score and it is calculated that better
results will be achieved l.y the convicts
than by. free labor. While extensive
improvements of material nature will
be continued it seems that the people
will feel the burden of taxation lightly
as compiled with last year. This will
no doubt add greatly to the valuation of
Milledgeville real estate and in a short
time the city’s income will still bo up to
the record breaking standard of last
year.
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HI UPHOLDS WOMEN Here Unit Week
WM. A. McAdoo, Millionaire President Great Ceow.ls Expected Every Day
ol Hudson Terminal Company, j And All Preparations Are Complete
Provides tor Women Passengers For The Gala Occasion.
PRES. REYNOLDS TO
HE Tilt SPEAKER
He Will Deliver Commencement Ad
dress at Greeiii shorn tllijh
School This Year.
President Wm. E. Reynolds, of the
Georgia Military College hero, will
make the commencement address at
Greenesboro High School this year. He
will take for a subject: “The education-
al awakening in the south.’’ Those who
know Prof. Reynolds realize that he is
well acquainted with the conditions in
the educational world and his address
on this occasion will no doubt be one of
much value to those who are so for
tunate as to be present at the com
mencement exercise of the school.
STATE FARM COTTON
WAS SOLD WEDNESDAY
Mr. N. B. Ellison, a well known local
cotton buyer, purchased the last
year cotton crop of the state farm Wed
nesday, Tho output was about 475
bales and it classed strict middling for
9 5-8 cents per pound. The transact
ion involved the expenditure of approx
imately $2:!,0 | )0 and was one of the larg
est deals to be made in the state for
sometime.
CONVICTS WORKING
ON CITY STREETS
Preparations tor Paving Wayne Will
Soon bo Made and They Are now
Busy Making Improvements.
Strenuous efforts on the part of May
or Bell and the county commissioners
has resulted in the city of Milledgeville
securing fifteen convicts to improve the
city’s thoroughfares and within u com
paratively short time there will be a
notable difference in appearances here.
The convicts came the first of the week
and were immediately put to work
opening up streets in West End where
a new residence section will soon be
thrown open to the public.
The first work to be done in tne cen
tral oortim of the city will be to grade
and excavate Wayne street and pave
it with cobble stones and gravel. Ar
rangements are already under way for
this work to Btart and it will not be long
before it it commenced.
Call C. E. Greene for pure Groceries.
Sand For Sale
I will deliver good, clean, white sand
on short notice for yards, walks or
cemetery squares. Phone 272-
Itobt. H. McComb.
Repairing, engraving ami optical work
i promptly done. We will fix you up
right- DIXON WILLIAMS
I The Jeweler,
Wm. A. McAdoo, who was born here
and is well known to many local citizens,
is showing the streak of southern
blood in his make-up by providing sep
arate cars for ladies. Ths following
concerning him will no doubt be read
with much interest here:
Mr. William A. McAdoo has won the
plaudits of all New York, especially fpf
the women there, by his latest innovat
ion on his subway—attaching a trailer
to each train for the exclusive use of
women, in the endeavor to protect them
ir. that they are not strong enough to
fight their way through the crowds of
men into thecareduring the rush hours.
President McAdoo has also installed
side doors upon his great subway, and
for this, too the metropolitan journals
are complimenting him.
Mr. McAdoo is a Georgian, from the
Milledgdville section.
Mr. W. Mansfield Booze
Now Telephone Manager
The spring carnival will bo held in
| Milledgeville all next week, the Barkoot
Amusement company putting on the
attractions under the auspices of the
Baldwin Blues. Fifteen splendid shows
and five free acts daily, including the
| high dive by Matt Gay will constitute
the attaactions. The Royal Italian
1 Band will make music for the gala
^ week.
j Tho show comas well recommended
j and this week it bus been playing in
j Atlanta. A large portion of the pro-
1 coeds there was given to the boys high
[school club building and it is under-
| stood that they derived some $2,090
‘from the show. The same amount,
prorata, of the proceeds hero will
go to help the Baldwin Blues.
There is no doubt but that hundreds
of visitors will be in Milledgeville every
day and while the country round about
may be quite busy still everybody will
find time to come and Bee the carnival
attractions.'
ISADORE MINDER, INMATE OF THE
PENITENTIARY, TRIED TO SUICIDE
USING SCISSORS, BUT HE FAILED
lsadore Minder, sent to state farm
here ten years ago for killing Andrew
Mahoney in Macon, tried to commit
suicide a tew days qgo he stabbing hinA-
self with a pair of scissors. He inflict
ed several ugly wounds and for some
time his life was despaired of, but now
he seems to be pr grossing nicely.
Minder killed Mahoney with a pair of
scissorB and while he was incarcerated
in the Macon jail awaiting trial he en
deavored to lull himself in ihe same
manner in which he did in the pentitan.
tiary.
Large Sums of Money Represented in
Deals Consummated Here inuring Week
Succeeding Mr. C. W. Richter, who
resigned to enter partnership with Mr,
Emmett L. Barnes in the grocery busi
ness’ Mr. W. Mansfield Booze has been
made active manager of tho M'.Venge-
ville Telephone Co. He was formerly
supervisor of the physical property ol
the concern and he will still retain this
place in addition to his new duties.
The appointment was made by Presi
dent T. L. Parker Thursday. Mr. Booze
is working hard to increase the efficien
cy of the local telephone servic and ex
pects to do much along this line soon.
FIELD DAY AT G. N. I.
COLLEGE MONDAY WEEK
! Guorqla Lasses Will Indulge In Many
Gaines and Contest for Supre
macy In Sports Will be
Star Features.
Chandler Bros
SOLE AGENTS FOE
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MUM WIDOW FLOUR”
t Merry Widow is not only a catchy name, but is
t a patchy article, in the way of a high-grade, self-
* \ rising Hour. Let us tell you about it.
| COFFEE—TEA
1 Gold Medal Coffee and Lipton’s Teas furnish
J the best drink to be had in the city at moderate cost
Fancy Shelf Goods.
We carry a full line of fancy goods and our
prices defy competition on the same grade and
quality.
FEEDS—SEEDS.
If you want the Yjest feed for your domestic an
imals, we have it. We also carry a large line of gar
den and field seed at under prices.
PHONE 52
Chandler Bros.
MILLEDGEVILLE. GA.
Real Estate Will
Be Valuable Here
Intense Interest Manifested In Im
pending sales o! Splendid Pro-
party and Public Investigates.
The large number of financial trans
actions occurring here during the past
week has stimulated interest and ac
tivity in every line of business and a
new era of prosperity is beginning to
dawn in the opinion of most people who
have been studying local conditions.
In this connection real estate always
figures ahead of everything else of a
stable character. In The News today
may be found a plat of one of the most
desirable residence sections of the citv
and it is destined to become very val
uable.
Mr. J. O. Bloodworth has been for
tunate enough to secure this property
so he can ofTei it to the public 11 auction
and this will be done on the first Wed
nesnay in May, next. The plat and de
scription of the property is given so the
public may investigate thoroughly and
be ready to purchase bv the dav set for
the sale. The city has its convicts at
work in that section and it. is univer
sally regarded as a coming locality
where property will increase in value.
With tho coming of new industries,
the widespread interest in the schools
here, the general progressiveness of the
section around the city and in fact all
the forces of nature seem to combine to
make Milledgeville a city of the future
and it will no doubt be a good thing to
get in on the ground floor.
Field Day at the Georgia Normal and
Industrial college one week from next
Monday will be quit an event of inter
est to those interested in the great work
the college is doing. Man / specia
games will be plaved and it is announc
ed that every ciass will be represented
among the participants for champion
ships in the various contests. Basket
ball, potato races and the sports of
similar nature will ho indulged in freely
by the girls.
Quite a large crowd of people always
go out to witness the struggles among
the lasses and this year will be no ex
ception to the rule, in fact there seems
!o be greater interest manifested than
ever before. The program for tin day
includes nearly all the daylight hours
and there is no .doubt but that a tired,
though happy crowd will dream of the
future after ihe day’s excitement is
over and the stars of night come out to
look down upon the hotly contested bat
tle field where victor and vanquished
will sleep arm and arm in piecs an 1 love
Alnmt $50,000.09 Involved in Soles
Occurring in MilleJgnvIllo Within
the Past Few Days.
Business activity was never more no
table in a local way than it has been
during the past ten days in Milledge
ville. Tuesday tho Caraker estate was
sold at public sale and brought approxi
mately $9,000. Mr. Sam Kramer pur
chased the stock of goods in the store,
Messrs. Kidd and Bell bought 10 negro
tenant houses and 11 acres of land and
Dr. O. L. Wells secured two dwellings.
The stock of the Josepii Staley store
wuh sold Thursday to Messrs. Lyle and
Wallace, of Atlanta and Covington and
brought somewhere between $5,000 and
$0,000. The purchasers will open up
one of the most modern hardware
establishments in Middle Georgia and
they propose to fill every want in their
line. The new firm will no doubt re
ceive a cordial welcome to Milledgeville.
The sale of the cotton grown on the
state farm last year amounted to $23,-
000 and virtually all this money will bo
put in circulation here. Other minor
deals swells tllo total up the neighbor
hood of $60,000 for the week.
INTERESTING GAME OF
BALL LAST MONDAY
Tho second baseball game of the sea
son waif played here Monday between
the Georgia-AIaUama Business college
and G. M. C. aggregations. ,The score
resulted in zero for the visitors while
the local boys piled up the score to 9.
The batteries were:
Martin arid Montgomery for the visit-
o s, Ellison and Reynolds for G. M. C.
GREAT PLAY AT
OPERA HOUSE
MONDAY
Local Dramatic Club Will Repeat “All
A Ml:;!ake" and Many New Feat-'
ures Will be Added tu It.
For the purpose of removing the re
mains of Capt. Beekcom from Smith’a
mount to the city cemetery, the G M.
C. Dramatic Club will present the popu
lar and successful play. “All A Mis
take," at the Milledgeville opera house
and there is no doubt but that a large
crowd will be present to witness the
performance Monday night.
The entire troupe could well be class
ed us experienced players and they will
excel all former efforts. Instead of
band music there will be an excellent
orchestra. A feature of the plav will
be the party of Duught srs of the Amer
ican Revolution alt its ing in colonial
and court dresies. The object of the
play is one u liver.- ally regarded as com
mendable in the highest and will no
doubt receive cordial support at th*
hands of the puLlic.
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THE EASTER PICTURE
“Easter Lillies,” a beautiful p.cture,
I symbolical of EaHter, has been finished
I and is now on exhibition in the show
case of-
MISSES ELLISON.
Quite a crowd witnessed the game,
j The next game will be between G. M.
, C. and Gordon Institute sometime in the
ne ir future.
Sr
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j Mr. A. S. J. Kennedy,of Dovereaux,
was here Friday.
CHAS.C. SMITH GOES
FREE IN ALBANY
Milledgeville Man Wbo Was Arraigned
For Killing Fireman Not Indicted
by Jury.
It will be received here, no doubt,
with much interest, the information
that the grand jury of Doughtery
county Wednesday exonerated Chas. C.
Smith, formerly of this city. He was
up before them on charge of killing
George Sullivan, an Albany fireman,
last summer. The jury reviewed the
evidence brought before them and de
cided he was acted in self defense and
so failed to indict him.
Mr. Smith is the son of L. D. Smith,
Sr. of this city and he has two brothers,
Messrs L. D. and R, G. Smith living
here. He (Jia a nephew of Ordinary
Stembridgc also.
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DIXON WILLIAMS
J eweler.
“It is ail right if you buy it from Williams.”