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THE MILLEDGEYILLE NEWS.
VOL. IX. NO. 3.
MILLEDGEYILLE, GA., FRIDAY, Oct. 15. 1909.
$1 .CO Per Annum
Superior Court is
Just Two Weeks Off'
| County Election For
ON GEQHCfA ROAD School Commissioner
STREET PAVING
Much Business To Be Transacted Al
Adjourned Term And Preparations
How Being Made.
Long Fight For Two And Hall Cent
Bates Wen By Old Reliable and
Goes Into Fltcct soon
There will be a lot of business coming I Time and again, on different pretexts,
up befo.e Baldwin county superior I tJee'Georgia railroad has been urging
court, which convenes here the First j T i K ht to ask as much for carrying
Monday in November, two weeks from passengers as the Central and other
next Monday. Some of the most im- jmads in the territory ar.d last Friday
portant cases in the history of the the railroad commission granted it the
county will be tried ami probably some |.privilege of charging two and half
of them will consume a day or more ' cents per mile after the first of Novem-
VIII Cc Held Next Thursday And
Much Interest Miiniicsled In
tvery Locality Over Outcome
each.
In addition to the important eases
minor affairs will come up for consider
ation. The jury list has already been
printed and appears in today's Ness.
her.
The fight was won despite the fact
that from time to time (every move
possible had been presented in -att effort
to thwart the plans of the great
Other preparations for holding cocrt i coporation, which virtually has the
are also about completed, including ! right of eminent domain and has mil-
serving summons to some of the wvt- hons of dollars worth of property in
nesses. Georgia upon which it pays ,n» taxes.
• -«— Milledgeville folk wifi pay a higher
METHODIST PARSONAGE'
NEARLY COMPLETED LOCAL MASONS WILL
ATTEND GRANOt.ODGE
Three candidates for the position of
county school commissioner of Baldwin
county are now on the home stretch for
the place and the election accurs next
Thursday, October 21. It will be (he
first election to held in Georgia under
the new state law requiring candi
dates to go before the people as well
as before an examining board.
Messrs. Grover Bloodworth, N. FL
Bullard and t)r. E. A. Tigner are con
testants for the place and they all have
friends who declare that each will be
elected. Everybody concedes that the
election will be close, but nowdays it
is almost impossible to forecast the re
sult of political affairs.
All regular polling places will he
opened *11 day and quite a heavy vote
is exported. The *fd registration list,
•with additions df newly qualified voters
will be listed.
Rev. Ford McKee Will More la And
Occupy New Bonding licit Week.
The new Methodist parsaaage. recently
started here i* near completion and Lev.
Ford McRee, the present pastor of the
Methodist will tneve in and eenapy the
new building sometime daring the mix')
week.
The parsonage in being erected -on
the same lot that was parchaeea ito
build the new church on.
HANSON AGAIN HEADS
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA.
At a meeting of the stockholders <*f
r^he Central of Georgiu railroad, in Sav
annah Monday, Maj. J. F. Hanson was
J^jarrr . 1 ■ the road, /.he
Central of Gcorr'*" ’ ■'•now the pro[ferty
of the Illinois Ce.itral and it is expected
tWat many i...table improvements will
be made soon, among them being an
•extensen to some gu’f port, giving the
big system an outlet to the great
water highway to the far east when the
Panama canal is completed.
Dr. George B. Ease Is Generalissimo
And Will be Promoted. Other
Masons Going From Mllledgedvllle.
The annual oonventim of the Grand
Lodge of Geoqgia Mason* will be held
in Macao Oct. SB, 27 and 28, and many
Masons from Milledgorillc will fee pre
sent. The local lodge of Masons is one
of tho strongest ia the state of Georgia
and it owns considerable property.
Much interest is felt oa the annual
convention and Dr. Geo. D. Case is
generalissimo. He will be promoted
at the coming meeting.
Thomas Jeffries, of Atlaata, is head
of the Grand Lodge and W. H. OToli-
hin, of Macon is Grand Recorder.
After the Mjcon meeting in; nj «1
the delegates will go to Savannah to
attend tiie Genera! Chapter Meeting
of the United States.
Mayor Bell to Assist
Dedicatio8,at Augusta
Mayer Miller SL Bell, Grand Inner
Guard<id the iK.ief P., of Georgia, has
feoen inserted to ‘lie present at the dedi-
cuMon-hf the new castle hall of the
Knight* of Pythias at Augusta next
Wednesday and ihs ia trying to make
pdane-so as to .be shle to attend.
Mayas' Bell is .one of the leading
Pysbhiane of the state and is in line for
poamotiun to GtawJ Chancellor. The
K.ofP. awe stirupg in Augusta and
they have a realty company among their
own members, owning the new building
which they will dedicate next Wednes
day, Oct. 2*.
m;
G. M. C. Players
Club Re-Organized
e. s. mm won Foa
CITY COUNCIL PLACE
It is at present estimated that the
main block of Wayne Street will be
completed within the next fifteen days,
or by the first of November at the
out side, and as to just what step will
then be taken towards further im
provements pf the streets is yet to he
decided by the board of Aldermen.
The pavement on Hancock Street,
which has been completed for some
time, is proving very satisfactory and
of course Win kes a great addition to
the good appearance of the City.
Bank Deposits Broke
All Records Monday
a to
Over Hall-Million Mark Reached
And People Appear To Be In
Most Prosp jons ConSlIlun.
President M. l\. Parks is
lift on Trip Around World
Tuesday night President !h. M.
Parks, ot the Georgia Normal and
Industrial College left Milledgeville on
a trip around the world. After five
yearn of incessant labor for the great
institution, which he has succeeded in
making one of the best in the coutry,
Mr. Parks has decided to take a few
months off from his work and as this is
the most opportune time for him to do
ao he is away on the journey.
His trip will be full of interest, going
with a painty of friends, and he will
cross the Atlantic ocean, the Medi-
teranlan Sea, the Red Sea, Arabian Sea,
the Bay of Bengal, the Indian ocean
and the Pacific ocean. He will visit
metres of onuntrie^, among them being
the Maderialslai^’, Spain. Italy, Egypt,
AraouL, Inina, CiyIon. Uurmah. Siam,
The Strait Settlements, Java, Borneo,
the Philltpinef glands, China, Japan, and
Hawaii and xaeturn via San Francisco
after Christman.
On the voyage, he expects to go south
of the Equator on the trip to Java.
When he sails from New York next
Saturday morning, he will start east
ward and not stop traveling until he
reachea Milledgeville. *
All his friends wish him a splendid
trip r.tvl t! ey will be glad to see him
hack heme again.
Not since Milledgeville has been a
city of commercial importance has it
reached such a high standard in the
way of wealth as it now enjoys. The
farmers of the surrounding territory,
together with business houses put
money in the banks here at such a
rapid rate Monday till records in the
wav of deposits were smashed.
The Milledgeville Banking Co. had
considerably more than $200,000 ^on
deposit at the close of business Monday.
The Merchants and Farmers Bank
and the Exchange Bank followed closely
behind and the total figures mounted
way over tho half-million figure.
Desoite the fact that there is so
much money here now business houses
declare there appears to he but little
trading. However, this speaks well
for the sut rounding community for
they must bo growing their own sup
plies. Latter business will pick up
rapidly and a fine trade will be en
joyed.
PLANS A HOSPITAL
Improvemenl At Stale Farm Will He
Made By Building Tuberculosis
Wnril For Diseased Prisoners.
Plans for building a hospital for
prisoners at the state farm afflicted witfr
the great white plague are being for
mulated by the prison commission this
week. Several members of the com
mission visited here and made a study
of location and Dr. Atkinson was sent,
to Augusta to inspect the county tu
berculosis camp there and assist with
the plans.
Richmond county has the finest es
tablishment; of its kind in the south
and it is quite certain that the hospital
here will be planned along the same
lines. Tho state farm i nd the state
sanitarium are botli in need of tuber
culosis hospitals and both institutionn
will probably succeed in getting them
within a year.
Baptist Meeting Closed
Last Sunday Night
Antomobile Made Trip
Back By Milledgeville
Tte EaST ItaiE
WHY
They Will, Present Many Splen-
| did Plays During Tho Coming
Winter And Now at Work.
In the special city primary held yest
erday to decioe the tie for council be
tween Mr. RoyS. Alford and Capt. Geo.
W. Caraker the vote stood 118 for Alford
and 10C for Caraker. The race was
quite interesting and the result will be
learned with interest over the county.
The new hoard of aldermen will be
composed of M. A. McCraw, J. E. Kidd,
R. L. Wall, S. B. Fowler, J. C. Me-
Auliffe and Roy S. Alford.
First Play of Season at
Gpera House Tonight
You should buy It
is because it is
i on SALE
. I Thoroughly gentle, three years old,
wl 1 bay horse colt. Will sell for cash or
credit. Apply to L. C. HALL.
THE BEST coal
“Dixie W
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Milledgeville folk will learn
genuine pleasure, no doubt, from this
I exclusive announcement in The News
[ that the G. M. C. Players Club has been
j reorganized and is already working on a
new play. The club made quite a repu-
| tation locally last winter in several
j meritorious productions. Not a few
among the home people were good
enough to say that the playing of these
amateurs was up to the work of pro
fessional actors.
The club has some lost of its bright
est members. These will be greatly
missed from the cast of future per
formances; by none more than the play
ers. A Nucleus for^a strong company
has been left, however, and the public
need have no misgivings as to the char
acter of rhe productions to be offered
this winter.
The first play will be a laughable
three-act farce comedy by Charles
Townsend, a playwright and actor of
national reputation. The books are in
hand and the worn of re-hearsing will! Reynolds,
soon begin. The cast numbers are The public will
Misses Helen Maxwell, Katie Cline,
A Young Ladies’ Junior Phitathea
Class was [organized at the Baptis?
Church October 3rd, and the following
officers were elected:
Miss Alma Chandler, President.
“ Pauline Maxwell, V. President.
“ Mary D. Coombs, V. President.
“ Clara Lee Cone. Secretary & Treas.
“ Ladye Green, Ass’t, “ “
Penelope Coates, Class Reporter.
Mr. J. T. Jackson, Teacher.
P^ant Napier’s genu
ine appler seed oats.
For sale by Horne
Andrews Commission
Co.
characters, the staging of the play will
be in charge of President Wm. E.
be kept informed
j about the progress of the preparation,
Messrs. Ebea Reynolds, Joseph Duke the date of performance, and all other
and Leo Joseph. The training of the details of interest.
Human Hearts, one of the most
stable plays on the American stage,
will he presented at the opera house to
night. The play will be the first ever
put on here by a large thettrical nyndi
cate. Klaw and Iirlanger will put on
the play by the same noted troupe that
presents it in all southern cities.
The Milledgevilleville News will fur
nish the programs for the opera house
during the coming season and after the
first play the printed program will be up
to the standard of those in large cities.
Of course, the play tonight will be full
in evej-y detail ar.d it will Lea treat to
the public.
After passing through this city on
the way to Atlanta last Wednesday the
pathfinding auto traveled back by MU-
lodgeville last Friday and remained
over until Saturday afternoon. Friday
morning the party were taken out by
Mr. Sam Evans and Mr. J. L. Siblev
and shown the country around here.
The old capital route has been select
ed for the big auto run to he made on
Nov. 8, next and it is expected that
fully 50 autos will stop here that night
while on the way to Atlanta. A recep
tion will be planned for the crowd
later.
Services Discontinued With Nine
New Members by Letter, But
None by Experience,
The annual J protracted meeting at
the Baptist church here, which had
been in session for or.e week, closed
Sunday pight last with nine new mem
bers by letter, though non# by exper
ience, However it is realized that the
meeting proved very beneficial.
Rev. J. D Winchester, of Atlanta,
who assisted the Rastor during the
week, put up his sermons in a very able •
manner.
:
Plant Napier’s fyenir-'
ine aopler seed oats.
For sale by Horne—
Andrews Commission
Co.
Prices in Sterling Silver.
New Subscribers Coming
in Rapidly For The News
Since the First Thursday in August
The Milledgeville News has put on 53
new subscribers. This is a good record,
we think, and feel a little bit proud oi
the fact. Of course, scores of old
subscribers have also favored us with
renewals.
We will appreciate the attention of
others to this matter. It takes quite
a sum to keep up the outstanding sub-
scription account and if 600 of our sub-
scriberi will contribute a dollar for
their subscription it will be highly
appreciated and at the same time it
would not be missed by the average
subscriber. Come to see us when in
the city.
The “Chantilly”
W e quote prices below of
the most popular Gorham pat
tern made—the “(ihanlilly.”
For sets of six:—Teas $1.00,
$5.00 and $0.00.
Desserts spoon ■ m d forks $0.00,
extra weight $10.50.
Table spoons and forks $10.00,
extra weights $15.00.
Dessert knives $10.00, table
knives $12.00.
We also carry a full
line of the “Butter-
cup” and the “Cam
bridge” patterns: we
will sell other sets at
a discount.
£
DIXON WILLIAMS, JEWELER.
“It is all right if you buy it from Williams.”
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