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THE MILLEDGEYILLE NEWS.
VOL. IX. NO. 21.
M1LLEDGEVILL.E, GA., FFUDAY, March. 4, 1910.
$1.00 Per Annum
City and County to Unite in ths Corn Contest Grows in Pplariif ■
Construction oi Hidii River Road And Many Prizes Arp Added to list
People From Across the River Will be Able lo Come lo City at Any Time
Regardless ol High Water.
The city of Milledgeville will soon be
accessible to people from over the river
at all times. The city and county au
thorities have virtually united in a plan
to construct a high water roadway that'
will make the passage to Milledgeville
safe and possiblel at all times. The I
policy and the project how under way
has been advocated strongly by The
News from time to time and on one oc
casion a mass meeting of citizens was
called for the purpose of devising plans
for the elimination of the troub le. i
Now the problem has been solved'
without entailing special cost and an
elevated roadbed will be made from the
foot of the river bridge to the hill
coming into the city and the work w.ll
probably bo finished in a remarkably
short time.
There is no doubt but that the action
of the city and countv officials will meet
with the approval and commendation
of the general public, not only over the
river, but in Milledgeville and through
out Baldwin county.
Hon. Carl Vinson
WiTCH LOST.
Monday morning, down town, a gold
watch, carved case, with diamond on
one side. G. N. & 1. C. lob attached.
Finder please return for rewind.
Miss Fannie May Crawford,
Lamur llall.
We.sell reliable'gooda at reasonable
■HHEBHB&SnKflHKHnKBSSHBH
Y E S ! |
YES!
YES!
There are some people
in Milledgeville who are
not using—
“Diiis Gem”
coal. Good people
too—and that’s the reason
we keep on advertising.]
"Our coal makes warm
friends.”
Representative From This Coun
ty and Candidate For
Re-election
powier
lemister
noai
uomDanu
NEW BUSINESS LOTS
OPENED TO PUBLIC
Mr. T. L. McComb Decides lo Sell
Business Lots From Old Hotel And
Residence Properly.
News that will bo of inlerost and im
portance to almost every business man
in the city is the information that Mr.
T. L. McComb has decided to allow bus
iness lots to be sold from the old Mc
Combs hotel property and also some
lots from his residence property. For
many years he his studiously refrained
fiom accepting any offers for sale, but
the progress of Milledgeville has pushed
him from the position cf refusing of
fers and lie is now in line for a greater
Milledgeville.
There will be approximately fifteen
lots offered for sale and there is no
doubt but that they will be in great de
mand and further that they will rapid
ly increase in value over the price at
which they will sell. Mr. McComb in
consenting for this division sale of bis
property believes that such a step will
mean bigger and better things for the
city and this is what he desires as a re
sult. The plan ot the sale has not yet
been made public, but it is presumed it
will be announced later.
Phone 152.
Notice ol iMssolutiou.
Notice is hereby given that ths firm
of Hargrove ar.d Co. heretofore en
gaged in the grocery business in the
1 city of Milledgeville Georgia, on Han-
j cock Street, is this day dissolved by
j mutual consent Mrs J. B. Fair retiring
therefrom.
' The business will be conducted at the
same place by W. L. Hargrove and
! W. L. Bossee who will settle all
, firm liabilities and receipt for all
. debts due to the firm.
Tnis March 1st 1910.
W. L. Hargrove
Mrs. J. B. Fair.
Bjsnl il Efricnllun Will Help Pro
gressive Movement oi Ilia News
And The Cera Club Will Make
liood. Mr. W. A. Cook Writes
on Subjec?.
The corn chow for Milledgeville is an
assured success and next fall contest
ants from far and near will exhibic
sepcimens of their products hero in'
effort to win the prizes. The Milledge-
villo News has already succeeded in
raising a neat sum for the prizes and
hasn’t hardly started, so to speak.
Samuel Eyans, Suns & Co., have Burned
to furnish their big warehouse for the
exhibits and Mr. Warren Edvards has
agreed to devote his time to arranging
and placing the displays. The Milledge-
ville News is handling the correspon
dence and attending to details of the
show and standing incidental expenses
attached thereto.
The Hoard of Education plans coming
forward and donating $50.00 to help in
the good work by proviuiding the prizes
for the children. Farm club in dif
ferent sections of lha county plan to
have local contests. The movement is
taking like wild fire, in addition to
the prizes which may be won here there
is g chance for the stato fair prizes.
his. cahl vinson
Relying on Record lie Asks For
Re-Election.
Representative Carl Vinson, of this
county, writes the following notice in
his imhouncement for re-election.
To the White Voters of Baldwin Co
I take this occasion to announce to
the people of the county my candidacy
for the Lower House of the’Ueneral As
sembly at the coming Democratic Pri
mary.
I wish also to avail myself of this op
portunity to thank the people for the
trust alkeady reposed in me, and to
expriuAhe hope that my public service
has bA true to tliat trust.
Upcm public questions 1 occupy the
same position now that 1 did two years
ago, and I will continue to nre.'s tlv.'so
measures looking to the reforms then
advocated by me, and to- the best in
tercet of the people. ,
1 rely upon my record in the present
Legislature as a reason for your sup
port. IT has been my purpose, and 1
believe my public acts evidence the
sincerity of that purpose, to aid es
pecially the laboring and the agricul
tural interests of the County und State
The children’s prizes are eligible for , I am zerving my first term, and I wish
the $500 prizes also at the state fair, j to call your attention to the fact that I
for the $150 prizes from the agricultural; have procured provision inserted in the
department of the stato^niversity and
ulso stand a chance for a free trip to
to Washington.
And then, all this ccsts nothing Id
the farmer.} and their children.,
except energy in unbuilding tl$
county and community whore
tried and pays back many timet it
The following is a partial list of donors
up to this time and the fund
ing:
Mr. Warren Edwards
The Milledgeville News 5
Horne-Andrewa Commission Co. 6
Farmers Warehouse Co 6
Culver*Kidd ... 5
Dixon Williams 2
Chandler Bros , 2
Joe & Henry Wootten ,2
Frtd Iluug Shoo Co 2
Barnes* Richter.... 2
Goodman & Wootten 2
Mr. T. II. Caraker 1
Mr. C E. Greene 1
Mr. W. H. Leonard .....1
Dr. E. A. Tigner j
•’owler Flemistor Coal Co. fi
Milledgeville Oil Mills 8
Culver & Kidd, (Special) 10
Board of Education, (Probably) 50
Carl Vinson 5
A. J. Carr Co 5
General Appropriation Bill giving t
the fupport of the public institutions of
this county a sum more than one hun
dred thousand ($101^000) dollars great
er th$n hat ever been Appropriated for
t support. The total appropriations
se institutions for 1910 boing
it is'j^^he^
onoriL Darieg
is incroaa*i Rni ' procured the passage <
™ul* or lh ' ^‘ration ol
•>vfr’*TO> VTe* form.ixiory,
r, erection of cwd dui.'.'i.
During the last session 1 introduced
f bills pro
of the races at
and lor the
* ’*
coninlishinenc of that purpose and
the care of the sick.
Jn conformity with a promise
made you two years ago, 1 support* d
and aido.1 in the passage of a bill
through the house, providing for tit
payment of pensons to the widows of
the Confederate Soldiers who were
married Bin to ths war, un i pensons for
confederate veterans owning less than
$1,500 worth of property.
I also introduced a bill which is now
pending before the Committee on Edu
cation requiting the County Boards of
Education to appropriate tho schools
funds to the education of tho races in
proportion to the taxable propety re
turned by each race, and 1 expect to
use my influence to force this bill to
C. II Bonner 2 Anal passage at the coming S333on of
It. H. McComb 1
Bloodworth & Bloodworth 2 50
Thir makes a total of $150, which is
the Legislature.
I also introduced a resolution and pro
cured its passage through the House
not sucli a bad showing for a start. The rejuesting Georgia Senitirs and ConJ
interest und enthusiasm is worth ten j gressmen to a d in the pissage of legi.-J
times as much land the ultimate good
that may come of the movement is be
yond estimate. Mr. V/. A. Cook, one
of the leading farmers of the county
ar.d a valued subscriber writes us as
follows:
Editor Milled} eyille News:—
You cannot know with what keen
lation that would prohibit speculative
dealing in the country's great agricul
tural products. 1 shall, if elected, sup
port such legislation, as in my opinion
conserves the best interest of the State
and its people. I believe that our un
developed natural ro3ouces ought to be
dev sloped and made available as wealth
ttVVfVt/ itYsWict • f
To the Public 1
SF
We t)e^ to announce that we have succeeded »»;
Mr. J. N. J ackson in Electrical Contracting Si
business. «£
*\De 9\)t&YEY(\Us ^lll YOork
executed by us to be done in First class manner
and to stand the closest inspection.
Our prices will be as reasonable as is consistent ^
for first class work and we hope to receive your jg
patronage. i
HUDSON & HICKS. §
PHONE 330.
interest I read in your issue of Feb. 2P, 1 producing assert.3 of the State. Its
that there was to bs in Baldwin Co. a ! mineral and clay deposits, its forests
real live Co; n Club and to know that ■ and its water powers nee-l development
our merchants and business men are and laws should be passed that will en-
manifesting such unseldsh interest in courage and invito the investment of
the progres3ivene.i3 and betterment of capital in such developments. Invest-
tne "old cl ,-d hopper.” "I feel it in 1 ments of this character will giyo itn
my bones,” thatgreat things will come ! petus to education and to road build-
of thjs movement. When I learned that ing and will largely enhance the value
school children of the Carolinas ma le ‘ and return of agricultural land).
s,
M .
last year, sixty thousand bushels of
com and that the average per acre was
sixty bushels. 1 felt iixe rolling up
my sleeves and shouting at tho too of
mj voice, “Come on boys, we will try
them a round in old Georgia. Let U3
demonstrate to our sister states tho
pos ibilities of Georgia soil, or quit
c ■ die r ourselves farmers, and Georgia
the empire state of the South.”
For the past two years.1 have agitat
ed the question of corn production. Corn
Clubs and prizes for same in Hope-well,
Farmers Union, offering a five dollar
hat, to the successful contestant, un
successful in that 1 tried to interest my
local in an acre of oats without avail.
So you can readily understand wdth
what interest i read the announcement,
and coujd see there was now something
in sight that was tangible flattering as
well. I believe, largely to the credit
of The News, we have at last organized
(Continued on Editorial page.)
I shall also endeavor to procure from
the legislature funds sufficient to place
the Oi 1 C toito! Bulling i.t such con
dition of repair and provide it with such
equipment as will make it possible for
the college to do a greater amount of
good, and also to restore the institution
to its place as a branch of Slate Uni
versity as w*ts contemplated by its
charter.
1 favor an economic administration of
the State affairs and will oppose any
legislation that tends to increase the
taxes that are already burdensome.
I shall from time to time between
now and the primary express rav views
on public questions, on the stump and
in the public press.
Thanking you for the confidence al
ready reposed in me, and trusting you
will favor me with your future consid
eration byaccording me Ija second term
as your representative, I reamain,
Yours very respectfully,
CAUL VINSON. 1
Extensive improvement In Service Promised And Speedy Changes Will be
Made by Proprietors.
The Milledgeville Telephone Company
has changed management., nnd to a cer
tain ownership. Mr. J. T. King, of
Sandersville, who has been connected
with tho Boll system for several years
will have active charge of the company’s
business' here. Extensive improve
ments are planned and it ■ is possible
that the city mav lose its laurels for
having the poorest telephone system in
the state. Mr. King’s experience and
previous satisfaction, coupled with the
fact that expenditures are promise i for
improvement, may change things here
materially.
Mr. W. A. Jennings is president of
the new company and he is an experi
enced telephone man, of Jesup, Geor*
gia.
The telephone company is applying
for leave to issue bonds to the value of
$ 1,000 on the looal plant and a noticei
is given in this issue of Tho Nows to
this effect. Whether it will be allowed
or not is not yot know and the hearing
before the Railroad Commission of
Georgia takes place next Wednesday,
Mrs. M. M. Parks, who has been
q lite sick for saveral weeks was muoh
improved yesterday and her many
friends hope shs will soon bo oit againj
We will display the veiy* Lr. ■ . / j
>
Trimmed Hats and
niilinery Novelties
Wednesday and Thursday, March
9th, and 10th, continuing until
after Easter. You are cordially in
vited. ::::::::::
Misses Kell a Iveu.
130 West Hancock Street, Milledgeville, Ga.
Dew Dollars lor
Dew Ears ol Corw
That’s a prize worth having.
TVaxvt CuVazt’s S^ta\aV SoVAtw T)ex\t
CORN
and receive $ 1 O for the best ten ears grown
from the seed purchased from
CwVcev 5) D\M,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Your corn will be eligible to win ;:ny other prize
offered at the Great Corn Show to he held in
Milledgeville, Ga. next fall.
Our corn is extra select, suitable for this section.
Order now and join the contest for better corn.
PRICES: CASH WITH ORDER.
Half Peck $1.00, Peck $1.50
Half Bushel $2.75, Bushel $5.00
EXPRESS PREPAID.
The judges at Great Corn Show will act as judges
for the award of this prize.
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