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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 A "RED ASH” JELL1C0 owier- lemister oal oiiipanu 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.” J