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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS.
VOL. VI 1 1. NO. 40.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1909.
$1.00 Per Annum
The State Normal School And The
G. N. & I. C. And What They Are
Doing For The Schools of Georgia.
The State Normal School at Athens,
Co. and the Georgia Normal and In
dustrial College of Milledgeville are
two of the best Normal Schools of our
country. This information about the
■State Normal School is given with the
belief that the readers of The News are
deeply interested in the great work that
not only tbe G. N. & 1. College, but al
so the State Normal School is accom
plishing and the good that is coming to
our State through thesetwo institutions.
The State Noi mal School of Georgia
was established at Athens in 1831, «nd
came in reponse to the need and desire
for teachers in the public schooie of
Georgia. It had its beginning in the
building that was known as Koci; Col
lege, and for the first three years it
was open only during the summer, but
as the state began to realize the great
need for the better equipment <rf teach
ers, arrangements were made for a full
session of nine months. The school has
been steadily growing from that time
and now there are seven lurge brick
buildings and two or tfecoie smaller
wooden ones on the large campus.
Eight years ago there were only nine
teachers in the faculty.winlo now there
are sixteen departmerts, presided over
by twenty-nine of the beet teachers of
the South.
The purpose of the State Normal
School is to educate and train teachers
for the common school «i Georgia, and
the opportunities for academic scholar
ship are among the best tn the state. A
large part of the work is a thorough
reviewing of the comnrn school sub
jects with a view to taaahing them.
This school offers the usual academic
courses with the addition of common
School Music with Choc** work, lntru-
mental Music, Elementary Agriculture,
Domestic Arts and Sciences, Manual
Arts and Physical Culture.
The students may take a four-year
course, taking common school review
work the first year and regular academic
work the next three. Ihose students
who have diplomas from high schools
or colleges can take a two-year elective
course for an elective diploma. In the
senior year the students ate required to
do four periods of practice teaching
each week in the Muscogee Elementary
school. This school has about 130 pupils
with six teachers and eight grades,
covering the whole course of common
school work. The work in this school
is bared upon the experience of the
child and is meant to meet the
needs which arise in his daily life. All
the practice teaching is carried on un
der the observation and supervision of
the best teachers in the school and giver
those students who do this teaching an
experience in teaching by the best and
most approved methods of the present
■dav, and fits them for doing that kind
of work which is most needed to make
the schools of Georgia more nearly
what they should be.
For those teachers who cannot come
lor a whole year, a common school re
view course is offered, which covers the
common school work in four or five
months, giving in addition to the com
mon school studies, two periods a week
of,theory and practice and methods of
teaching.
The religious an 1 social organizations
of the school, the Y. M. C. A. the Y.
W. C. A. the young men's literary
societies, and the young ladies literary
societies,aro great help in all the school
life.
The State Normal School has sent
only 478 graduates, but they have
proved to be some of the best teachers
of the state. This school together
with the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville. cannot supply
the great demand for normal trained
teachers, yet we feel sure that with
their steady growth year by year the
time is not far distant when their in
fluence will be felt in every school in
Georgia.
$35,000 IS WANTED CART. K. R. FOSTER The Demand For Deal Estate [arises
FOR NEW BUILDING died WEDNESDAY New Properly to he OtiereD For Sale
G. N. & I. Culkqe Trustees Will Pe
tition Legislature lu Construct
New Agriculture and Sci
ence Hall.
Was One of Hie Rest Known and High
ly Esteemed Citizens ot City.
Interment at His Old Home.
After a ceaseless struggle covering a
More room is wanted at the G. N. & period of many months Capt. K. It.
i. C. and the trustees will be in Atlanta Foster, one of the best known men in
Grimes Properly Near Georgia Rail
road Depot Will Re Put on Sate
Within The Next Few Weeks.
next week in m effort to induce the
Georgia legislature to appropriate
*33,00U for the erection of a new Agri
culture and Science Hall. They are
Milledgeville, died at his home Wed
nesday afternoon. For a long number
of years Capt. Foster ranked as one of
the leading business men of the city,
quite confident that the money will Jje i coming here from Chattooga county to
MILLEDGEVILLE IS
FORGING AHEAD
given os this school is now recognized
as one of the leading state educational
institutions and preparations will be
made to accommodate 1,000 students as
soon as possible.
President M. M. l’arks, Mayor Miner
S. Hell and Dr. E. A, Tigner are laical
members of the board of trustees stnd
they are determined to make the coll&e
u still greater factor in the educational
affairsof the state.
A MEAN RUBBERY
ON MONDAY NIGHT
Despicable in its every feature, a
robbery, characterized as one of the
lowest in the history of the city, was
committed Monday nig!' just ovei
Fishing creek, and Mrs. Harriett .John
son, age 75 years, living alone in her
little home, had $29.00 stolen from her.
Mrs. Johnson is quite deaf and she
was aroused during the night by a <!'»-
assume charge of the stale prison farm
as superinterdent. After he left the
prison farm he entered business here.
His whole life was very exemplary
and he was a steward and trustee in
the Methodist church, of which he was
a faithful and energetic member. His
death is universally deplored in this
city. The funeral services were held
at his homo Thursday morning at 10
o’clock, and the remains were sent to
his old home, Lverly, Gn., for inter
ment.
He leaves four sons and two daugh
ters, the latter living in Texas and Ala
bama. Willi the passing of Capt.
Foster the city loses another of its
valued old citizens who worked for his
community, his neighbors and his God.
Cat Adapts llalililt
Master Albert Blanks, living near
McCombs Mount has a cat which lost
her kitten and kidnapped, or stole a
little rabbit which she nurses with ten-
turbance and she saw two men. pre- derest care. The queer case has at-
i Noi tils money made
B I T the money saved
piles up the hank ac
count for the education
of the children. Huy your
coal NOW under the fa
vorable market condition
and save money.
Goins and Tam
the matter over with us
and we will tell you why
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Judge John T. Allen Says Baldwin
County Is Alive.
The Savannah Morning Newt said
Wednesday:
Optimistic as to the future, very en
couraging as to the present, and in
| that genial manner of his tlmt has won
I for him many staunch friends through
out the state, Judge John T. AlleD of
j Milledgeville, in an interview with u
| representative of the Morning New s
last night, told of the remarkable pro
gress his home town and county has
made. He said the Baldwin county
! commissioners were active in their
Work for good roads. “And the good
ones now enjoyed in the county are go
ing to be made better,’ said he.
•’Since we can’t have a main line
railroad, I think the next best tiling is
the main turnpike of tile state, which
will be from Atlanta to Savannah.
The development which is bound to
come with the agitation throughout
the state cannot be estimated, at this
time. There is no limit to the possibil
ities in store for tbe people of Georgia
with a system of good roads as is now
planned. Baldwin’s argument for the
Savannah-Atlanta road is going to be a
great one —fine roads and a co-opera
tive people a'ong the route.
' “Business conditions generally have
improved considerably. The fall will
undoubtedly give trade in all lines a
boost. The cotton crop is fully as large
as last season, while the corn and wheat
crops are unusually fine.
“The progress of Milledgeville lately
i is such that a handsome city hall has
i been erected,a three-story hotel,sewer
age system installed, a $200,000 electric
light plant built, and the paving of the
j main streets is now under way. With-
! in six months work is to Degin on the
Central Georgia Power Company’s
20,000 horse power hydro-electric and
power plant at Furman shoals, just
above Milledgeville, on the Oconee
river. This plant will be a duplicate of
the one now under construction on the
Ocmulgee above Macon. This plant
sumably white, talcing away her trunk-
The next morning the officials found
it nearby with the contents scettered
around. Nothing was taken except the
money in the trunk. The officials are
quite sure in their own mind as to who
committed the dastardly deed, but they
are unable to obtain sufficient evidence
to warrant an arrest.
F. II. VAUGHAN TO
ENTER MINISTRY
tracted much attention and many are
wondering whether the rabbit will con
tinue to bo a kitten or eventually leave
for rabbit land.
Bowling Parties Row
Quite Popular Rere
So great become the demand for
building lots prices of land has steadily
climbed skyward in and around Mil-
ledgeville. During the last few months
some of the most important real estate
deals in the history of the city have
been male and lots that sold a few
years ago tor four or five hundred dol
lars have changed hands at prices three
to five times the original cost. Blood-
worth and Bloodworch have just purch
ased 35 acres of land near the Georgia
railroad depot, known as the F. G.
Grimes property, and it will he cut up
in building lots and sold at auction to
the general public. This will enable
scores of people to provide themselves
with a home site and if one does not
wish to build at present the property
will be sure to increase rapidly in value
conse iuenl.lv the enhancement will
amount to a great deal more than in
terest on the investment.
Messrs. Bloodworth and Bloodworth
are enterprising young real estate men
and they have already consummated
some of the most important deals of the
year. Their acquaintance with values
lead them to believe that Milledgeville
property is the cheapest in the country j
and as a result they are devoting con- ;
siderable time to the business here’ j
expending a great amount of money in •
developing the city and in aiding '-t.hers
to establish a home for themselves by
providing means and selling houses and
lots on easy terms. Those who con
template buying some property within
the next few months, or weeks, should
watch and wait and investigate the
property which will soon be offered for
Communion Services
Presbyterian Church
Rev. D. W. Brannon returned Wed
nesday evening from a short stay at
Indian Springs to which pluco he went
to recover from an attack of malaria.
Mr. Brannon reports a complete re
covery of lii.s usual vigorous health. Hu
announces that there will be communion
services at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning. After this there will
be usual services held weekly in the
church.
ADJOURNED TERM OF RALD=
WIN CO. SUPERIOR COURT.
State of Georgia, Baldwin County.
Regular July Teim .1909 of Baldwin
Superior Court, having been postponed
by Hon, II. G. Lewis, Judge of said 1
Court, until the First, Monday in No
vember, next; 1 nm HEREBY autho
rized to NOTIFY all Grand or Traverse
Jurors; by publication, that they are
excused until the First Monday in
November, next; therefore govern your
self accordingly.
This the 22nd. day of June, 1909.
Jos. C. Cooper,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
The ladies of Milledgeville have a'
last succumbed to the entrancing pos
sibilities in bowling and now bowling
parties are all the rage. Last week
parties were held Thursday and Friday
night and this week several others were
I held, among them being one Wednes-
l day night at which the following well
| know young folk were present:
Misses Willie Thomas, Mary Borne,
j Emily Adams, Frances Roberts. Marv
Wood, Frances Conn, Sadie Hull, Marie
Sternbridgu’ Margaret Wilson, Addie
Caraker, Henrietta Conn and Rebecca
Little. Messrs. Walter Foote, Norvell
Hardy, Winston Roberts, Henry Brooks,
Marion Allen, Alfrel Ellison, James
Sibley, Emmett Holloway. Guy McKin
ley, Culver Kidd, Edwin Alien and
j Julius Barnes.
Complete line high grade Brussels j Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ricthcr were chap-
Art Squares, Rugs, Mattings. Purch-j crones. Ice cream and other refresh-
The many friends of Mr. Flem DuB.
Vaughan, formerly of this city, will be
interested to know that he has determ
ined upon joining the ministry and will
. take a course in evangelistic work at
I Columbia Theological Seminary this I
| fall. Mr. Vaughan is well known here I
and bis friends wish him great success
in his undertaking. He will be with
! hie mother here until la* leaves to take
I up nis studies. He will be with the
Presbyterian church.
Every Methodist owes it to the new
church l>o come to the Colonial Concert
July 9th.
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“The marriage Question” a song by
the little folks, at the “Colonial Con
cert” is great. Do not fail to hear it.
We will actually sell you a nice Elk
buggy and harness at cost. Purchase
& Sale Co.
sale by the real estate dealers named
in this article, due notice of which willi
appear in The Milledgeville News in«
plenty of time for the general public to>
prepare for the occasion.
% There’s a %
Loud CaSI
£
: S
For bull ling materials of
real quality. Materials that JJ-
aic what they aro supposed Su
to be. We are answering *£,
that call every day and it is JJP 1
significant that those who
buy once always come hero
again when they need more.
Don't you think it a good 5c
scheme to buy your build-
ing materials where s o
many experienced builders m2
get theirs?
ase & Sale Co.
will represent an investment of $3.-
000,000.".
Another indication that business is
better in general is the statemer t
made bv Mr. J. S. Bone, manager of
the Oconee Brick & Tile Company, wl o
accompanied Judge Allen on his visit io
ments were served.
Other parties are scheduled for next
week and the alleys are open for en
gagement at most any time.
Bids Wanted For Hay
i Bids will be received until Monday af
I ternoon, July 6th, for the hay as its
j stands on the campus of the G. N. & I.
Savannah. Mr. Bone is also Interested j College, both front and rear. Success-
in the extensive pottery works ot tl e ful bidder will be expected to cut and
Stevens Bros. Co., near Milledgeville J remove hiy from the grounds during
He said traue in his line was at least the week ending July 10th. Bids will
close Monday afternoon, July 5th.
Leave sealed bids at President’s office,
marked “Bide for Hay."
SPECIAL REWAHD
25 per cent better this year thgn last,
and the prospects are good for an even
better increase during the remainder of
the year. Mr. Allen has been judge of
the City Court of Milledgeville fori
years and is president of the Merchants J Will be paid for return of gentleman’s
& Farmers Bank of that city. He and j engraved silver handle pen knife, mis-
Mr. Bone returned to their homes last placed or lost latter part of last week,
night | MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS.
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Willingham Sash £ Dcor Company if
457 THIRD STREET. - MACON, OA.
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Colonial Concert
« NEW METHODIST CHURCH
Opera House, Friday, July9/08, Mfyin.
Hcstirved Seats 35c: Admission 25c. Children 15c.
A Lot of People
Should wear glasses who don’t.
That is a sale statement to make.
Our experience has been that people do not give the firsl
signs of coming eye troubles the prompt attention they
should.
They seem to put tho matter off as long as possible, anti
it isn’t the right way to do, not by anv means.
We are always ready to attend to the examination of youi
eyes. We have a long list of satisfied customers to our
credit. HOW ABOUT VOLT
DIXON WILLIAMS
Jeweler and Optician
“It is all right if you buy it from Williams."