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THE MILLEDGEYILLE NEWS.
VOl. V I 1 1 . NO. 37.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 11. 1909.
$1.09 Per Annum
COMMISSIONERS GF COUNTIES TO
HOLD ROAD MEETING VERT SOON
Chairman McKinley, ui Baldwin coun
ty, And Judge Eve ui Richmond
Formulating Plan Fur Auyusla
Highway.
Monday Mr. Guy C. McKinley and
Judge Wm. F. Eve, of Richmond county
met and discussed the construction of a
splendid road from here to Atlanta and
they decided to call a meeting of the
commissioners of Baldwin, Hancock,
Warren. McDuffie, Columbia and Rich
mond counties within the near future.
The meeting will be held at Sparta or
Warrenton at a date to be selected Inf
er.
The route will be the old Milledgeville
road which is already well established
between here and Augusta. Judge Eve
stated he would gravel the entire 19
miles in Richmond county and this is
almost one-fourth the distance. Judge
Eve is also in favor of having the big
road from Atlanta to Augusta to conic
by here and there peems to be no doubt
now but that Milledgeville is in line to
receive some of the good things she so
richly deserves.
1EPRESENTATIVE CAUL HU ID (i. N. I i. COMMENCEMENT WAS
El
Increased Pay Fur Ssnllarlum Em
ployes, Division of School Fund
And Memorial to Congress.
Savannah Antuist Tells in Morning
News Wha! Prospects Are For Road
From Here to Augusta.
BALDWIN COUNTY TO
HAVE RURAL PHONES
A —
Movement Under Way May Result In
Great Advantage to Formers
i A J ' Around Be CUy.
A work which will bo very beneficial
to Baldwin county farmer* and others
living in the rural districts has just been
stated here by the owners of the local
telephone exchange. The movement is
one looking toward the establishment
of community phone exchanges, all
lines leading to the central exchanges
here-
The system has been installed in
Hancock and great advantage is derived
from the phones as it saves much travel
and is splendid in an emrgencv. The
President Frank C. Battey, of the
Savannah automobile club came over to
Milledgeville this week from Augus
taking the old Milledgeville road from
here to Augusta. He was well pleased
with I he prospect and concerning the
road he hail the following to say in the
Savannah morning News.
“With Mrs, Battey 1 left Augusta for
Milledgeville. 1 found the roads be
tween those two places good, bad and
indifferent. Some parts were very fine,
some were inexcusably bad. The Mil
ledgeville road out of Augusta shows
some very fine places. Further out it
is not nearly so good. We found the
roads through the corner of Columbia
countv fair to poor; through McDuffie
county about the same. We found ex
cellent roads through part of Warren
county, and very bud roads in another
part. In Hancock county it was the
same, but better on the average than
in Warren county. In Baldwin .county
they are building splendid roads, and
seem to be very energetically at work
I on that line.
“In the main through that region
there is either too much clay or too
much sand. There are too many bad
bridges over ditches and small streams,
nearly [always accompanied by bad
bumpy places on either side of the
ditches. There must be, in order to
have fine roads in this middle belt, the
proper mixture of the sand and clay.
Clay must be put in sandy spots and
properly mixed,and gravel or sand must
be put on the clay hills and slopes
which are slippery enough to skate a
hog, let alone an automobile.
If the wishes of representative Carl i
Vinson, of Baldwin county, are carried ;
out Milledgeville will benefit materially |
through an increased aj propriation tor
the sanitarium and the divison of thu
state school fund will.be accomplished
Mi. Vinson in discussing these important |
questions had the following to say. I
"I hope to convince the Legislature
that the State has in the very inade
quately supported the Sanitarium. It
is important for the State to make a
increase in the annual appropriation for
its support. The sums uppropiiated for
wages should be increased at least 20
per cent. The increased cost of the
necessaries of life and the value and
importance of the service rendered,
makes the increase of the wages of the
employes imperative and I s Kill app a-
before the appropriation committe and
urge the general appropriation bill carry
this increase and I believe that the
committee will see the justice of the I
demand. But should 1 fail to get the
committe to take that views 1 will in
sist upon this Increase on the floor of |
the House.
“I ha"', .lready brought this matter! ^ will be learned with regret by many
to the attention of the Chairman of the | ' :l Milledgeville that Miss Sarah Gilman
Board of Trustees and I hopo to have **as resigned her position at the college
that body's support before the com- J t0 accept u placu at the Decatur Or-
mittee. The general appropriation bill Phanage.
wilinotbe reached in the House until the Miss Emma Whatley, who has been
last two weeks of the session and during I connected with the college for 14 years
the early part of the eeaMorrl wilt try j gSk. liiVin umou in umtrimoni-
and present to all the memners reasons a ' ITields, according ,to authentic re
ports.
Hon. Carl Vinson
Kepi'csculal From Baldwin Co.
G. N. I. COLLEGE
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why the employes wages should be in
creased.’’
Mr. Vinson was asked in regard to
his Dosition on the diyison of the school
fund between the races and he said:
“I am investigating that question and
have framed a bill that I will present at
the beginning of the session, which 1
believe is entirely within the right of
the State |to pass under the United
States Constitution, and at the same
time it is perfectly fair to both N|ces.
work is under way around Stevens Pot
tery and at Cooperville it is understood
Mr. Olin Echols is arranging to start i pouring rains, such as 1 drove through
a local exchange. There in no doubt a few days ago. it is almost impossible
but that if the phones are once establish- for an autmobile to stay in the road
ed they will be highly prized. even though equipped with tire chains.
j I would advise any man who want's to
travel in an automobile in the red clay
region not to do it unless, the roads are
Baldwin is doing beautiful work
grading her high clay hills and in dry * n substance provides that each race
weather these are as fine as any boule
vards on earth, but after long, steady,
Miss Maude Gillette goes to Denton,
Texas, to take a place with the state
Normal and Industrial college.
Miss Josephine Marshall resigns to
take a post graduate course in domestic
arts at Columbia college.
Miss Brooksio Stillwell, of Montezu
ma, who graduated this year comes
back here in special work. Miss Belle
Eovvorn and Miss Flora Condor alto
will be with the college next year. Both
■ are gradauates of the past term. Och-
the
m ikb—bm jggar.wujv'. ^
shall bear the expenses of the education I or vacancies will be supplied soon,
of its children. The bill provides that A* t * le teachers not resigning have been
the school fund shall be divided between j r -' e ' octo< ^ ^ or mother term bv
the races in the ratio the taxes paid bv j ( k Jart l Uustess.
the one bears to the taxes 'paid by the ,
"t. . POTATOES BT THE PE.GH
dry or at least partly so.
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will give you the results of its effect '
had It been in operation in the year 1905
(these being the latest a vailable statis- ]
tics) in Baldwin county. There was in
1905, $11,621.50 expended in support of
the public schools in the county and of j
ON YESTERDAY MORN, j “ t:“ ZZZ\
$>3,836.40 The ratio of the white taxes |
to the negroes wan 10,917 to 1 and had I
I the school fund been divided in that j
j prorato, the negro seboo's would |
I have received $985.21 instead of $3,836 -
40 and the white schools would have
received $10,646.39 instead of $7,786.20.
It will be seen that the negro schools
TWO FUNERALS HERE
The unusual occurrence of two funer
als practically at the same time was the
record in Milledgeville yesterday morn
ing. The first was that of Mrs. James
Pritchard, of Macon, which occured at
10:30 o clock. She died of paralysis I
and leave fours children, John, P. and
RAISED DOWN IN HARLEM
The Columbia Sentinel Has The
Following to Say of a Dis
tinguished Citizen of
Harlem.
9
Miss Viola, of Macon, and Mrs. John
Braxlev,of this city. She was 65 years I have receive ' 1 $2,861.19 in excess of
: old and a former resident of Milledge- tfie ‘ r P ro P ortion ate share under the
I ville. I bill I propose and hope to make a law.
j The other funeral was that of Mr. " ^ have made an investigation of the
H. C. Hunnicutt, also formerly of this \ con< htions in most of the other counties
city. He died in Macon at the age of J" the State and find the discrepancy in
50 years, leaving a wife and five chil-' the ma J° rit y of them even larger than
j dren, besides several sisters and broth- 1
j ers living here.
j Harlem’s boss potato raiser send us
■ a specimen of his new crop-aboat the
size of a large size broojn straw. If
I this is a fair sample of his crop he will
probably make “most a peck." We
commend him to the favorable consid
eration of the editor of the Milledgeville
News.
By way of explanation it may be re
lated that some years ago the writer
gained considerable local fame by writ
ing a description of this same potato
grower and the memory of it lingers on.
TIE GREATEST IN ALL IIS iilSTIY
Addross of Ex-Gov. Filtaw Was a
Masterpiocc and Every Fealure
ol Closing Exercises W as
Pleasing.
Beginning with the Junior Ih smennde
last Saturday eve,and ending with the
alumnae reception Tuesday t ight, the
eighteenth commencement of the Geor
gia Normal and Industrial College prov
ed a success throughout. Fifty five
young ladies received their dip lomns as
reward fer their years of untlrii g study
and half a thousand other students
were benelitted by the impressive exer
cises hold each day of the commence
ment.
Bishop C. K. Nelson, of the Atlanta
diocese of the Episcopal church deliver
ed the baccalaureate sermon Sunday
morning and during his discourse he
made reference to the great work for
upbuilding of human character in every
way that would come from the woi k
being done by the school. The last of
the Y. (V. C. A services wore held Sun
day afternoon and Monday was devot-d
to the general inspection of the work of
the college students which was placed
on display in Chappell Hall.
Tuesday, graduating day, was, of
course, the greatest of all days. The
young ladies taking part in the program
carried out every detail with splendid
success. Gov R. B. Glenn, of Norlli
Curolina and Chancellor David Barrow,
of the University of Georgia, Were the
guests of honor for the dav and Gov.
Glenn delivered the commencement ad
dress.
He eulog'zed the management of tl e
school, spi ke in glowing terms of tl e
work being accomplished there, gave
splendid advice to the young ladies and
from his great store of knowledge I e
LOCAL OiL MILL
The Milledgeville Oil Mills, managed
by Mr. Roy S. Alford, will probably
have a prosperous seuson, judging by
preliminary preparations of the manage
ment. A new cement roof will be put
over the boiler room of the mills within
the nexl fr\> weeks and extensive im
provement;! will be made in other ways.
This will put the local mill in excellent
shape and they will be enabled to handle
their Inisi a ; i:i the mist m > lern way,
paying good prices for the ruw seed to
farmers in this territory,
distributed a wealth of a Iviee to all his
hearers. Ho spoke for an hour and
thirty minuies and during the whole
time he kept his audience keenly inter
ested.
From the critical standpoint it is
doubtful if ever a more impressive ad
dress has ever been delivered at the
college. While it was frequently filled
full of emotional expressions yet. it was
to the point, practical and well taken.
The inflluence of such a talk will go a
long way through life with those who
heard it.
The annual concert Monday evening
was a continuous brillianL performance
and the chapel was crowded with visi
tors who repeatedly applauded the par
ticipants in the event.
Wednesday the last of the crowd of
students left the city and before anoth
er week most of the teachers will be off
an vacation,
President M. M. Parks is already busy
answering applicants for admission to
the college and already preparation for
next season s work is under wav.
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fhere’s a %
Loud Call ?
M
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For buii ling materials of
real quality. Materials that
are waul they are supposed
to be. We are answering
that cull every day and it is
significant that those who
buy once always come here
again when they need more.
•.Don’t you think it a good
scheme to buy your build
ing materials where s o
many experienced builders
get theirs?
Willingham Sash & Door Company i
J 457 THIRD STR^T. . MACON. GA. i
1 Baldwin. Indeel the negro schools
have been receiving about one-fourth of
At Cost
for next 30 days a
Hats. Flowers, a n
Ribbons,
MISS ELLEN FOX
Fruit and vegetables fresh at C. E.
Greene’s.
CUV GARAGE 8 SUPPLY CO.
WILKINSON ST.
Automobiles rented, stored and repaired
Supplies of all kind, including Fiske and
G. Sc J. I ires for autos and mortorcy**
cles, alksizes and styles.
S. H. ARMSTRONG, Gen. Mot.
Jim-
K. ol 1\ Officers
The annual election of officers of
the school fund when in fact they are ( Knights of Pythias held last Monday
entitled to less than one twentieth of it. j night resulted in the election of ail old
“I have also prepared joint House offic-rs except that of Vice Chancellor,
j and Senate resolutions, memorializing, Mr. R- B. Moore, succeeding Prof. J.
I Congress and requesting the delegation M - Walker who left Wednesday for his
Q of Georgia Congressmen to support North Carolina home,
measures looking to the preventing of! Mr. Geo. W. Barr won the watch
j speculative deals in the cotton and grain ( charm for obtaining the most members
exchanges in the United States and to during the recent contest and Mr. F.
—— - m. Gobert was awarded a medal for be-
(ContinueJ on page 4.) ing a member of the order for 3C yeaig.
Kodak
Time!
The pleasures of Kodak
ing ii.ie known only to
those who nave tried it.
,, , ■ . This is the most inviting
season to use them. 1 icm- occasions,the woods, growing crops romp
ing children and animals are at their best in the spring. We have
them ficm $2.00 to $20.00. Portrait attachments fui 60e. Catalogs
upon application.
Ask for “The Kodak on I he Foum.’’
DIXON WILLIAMS
J eweler.
“it is ail right, if you buy it from Williams.”