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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEW5
VOLUME 1*. NUMBER 17. Established October 12, 1901.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY MORNING, August 24 1921
$1.50 a Year
$1,570 SUBSCRIBED CHAMBER COMMERCE JARNAGIN SPEAKS
AT FIRST MEETING AFTER ORGANIZATION HERE SATURDAY
AUTO PASSENGER
SERVICE TO DUBLIN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TO OPEN SEPT. 21
LEANS AND FATS TO
CROSS BATS AUG. 31
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SixtyTwo Merchants Sub
scribe And Six Farmers
i Contribute to Fund At
Thursday Meeting.
COMMITTEES IS NAMED
TO SOLICIT MEMBERS
Systematic Campaign Will be
Waged To Completely
Raise Finances Necessary
For Permanent Work.
There probably never was a more
enthusiastic meeting o£ fanners and
business men of Baldwin county than
the one held at the court hau.se Thurs.
day afternoon by the Baldwin County
Chamber of Commerce,
There was in the neighborhood of
two hundred men present at this
meeting. The greater per cent, of the
attendance was composed of business
men of Millo.lgeville, though there
were several perminent farmers scat,
tered through the atfuier.ee.
I mini .‘diately after tlie meeting was
called tu older by President Miller S.
liell the question of membership was
brought up. At the organization meet,
ing hell August 11th it was decided
to make an assessment of $25.00 of all
merchants members of the urgani/a
tion and $"'.00 of all farmers.
Winn it was announced that the
meeting was open to receiving mem
bers rixty.two merchants and i\ for.
men. rapidly (signified their desire to
come in and financially back up the
chamber of commerce. Within ,.bout
fifteen minutes the sum of $1,579 had
been subscribed.
This meeting was on j filled wit i
life from ctert to finish and it was the
opinion of all present that the audicuro
was composed almost entirely of .. n
determined to got behind the move
ment intended to bring about a r< lief
of the present iepressing condition. It
is thi‘ oojcct of the chamber of com
merce members to secure in 51 Pledge,
ville r lar lioadqr.rrters and to em
ploy ; d i etary for the purpose of j
looking after the interest of the organ !
izutien e tnblished for tho peopl • as '
a whcle. every dry .in the week.
Pour committees were appointed to j
secire additional members of the '
chamber of commerce. These coin,
mittet a-, to bn divided up to .over
four separate and distinct sections.
Mi'. T II. Clark was appointed to
solid members in that section of Mill.
dg'c\!ii,> east of Wayne street and
north of Hancock street.
Most irs. B. G. Glass, .f. 1- Sibley,
t'r., an l Ii. 11. Moorre were named to
-nek members from Wayne itreet east
and II mock st"ect south, Krwin Sib-
ln.v, .los. a. Moore and A. J. Carr from
Wayne street west and Hancock st.
eolith. C. II. Whitfield. L H. Andrews
an d J, E. Kidd from Wayne St. west
ami Hancock street north.
Farmers throughout the county will
also be asked to join the chamber of
commerce and it is likely that com
mittees will be named to look after
this feeti re of the work yet to be com
pleted.
The following is a list of those
already having ertorod their names
as members of the organization.
Farmers entering for memberships
are Mercers. Walter Green, J. W. Scott,
K - S- Vinson. J. L. Sibley. Sr., M. R.
Tucker, W. W, Moran, .1. Ik Malpass.
F. A'nnis and Word Hooten, at
$.i.oo each.
The following are tho merchants and
professional men who Joined.
A - 1>. Niabet $ 25.00
Gen. ip, Tnnnello .1 25.00
Phandler Bron, 25.00
Fowier.Kloinister Coal Co. 1— 100 00
■Ino. wi trrvtchlnson 25.00
Butts Farmers Offer To Sell
Their Cotton at 25c an Acre
One Bale to Thirty Acres Is No Un.
common Instance—Fruit, Grain,
Poultry and Livestock Growing
Popular.
Jackson, Ga., Aug. 23 They are
doing a new kind of “heading" in
cotton in the far flung fields of Dixie
At least that’s true in this Imiiif.
diate section, wflich has heretofore
been the heart of the cotton belt of
Georgia.
This new form of trading has to do
with yields for tho 1921 season, in
Hknry county, just over the Butts
county line, one neighbor, A. P. Pat-
icrson, sold to another neighbor. Lon
Norman, the yield on thirty.five aces
of cotton for 400 pounds of seed cot
ton. This is a bona fide instance of
'm il weovil damage in Middle G-.or.
gia. Other farmers in the same
neighborhood are offering to sell th 'i.
ot ton for 25 cents per acre
In Butts county two farmers came
inso to trailing on the basis of one
bale of lint cotton for fifty arcros of
-otton in the field. O. E. Smith,
well known and reputable citizen, of
lured to swap neighbor, Andrew
1: inlin, fifty acres of cotton for one
500 pound bale. After looking the
■otton over Mr. Hamlin decided he
would get the worst of the deal and
ref need to trail 1 .
Fruit and Grain Planted.
Instances of or.e bale to twenty and
thirty acres of land are frequent.
This is the second year that the boll
weevil hit this county. The pest
ns made a thorough and complete
job of destruction and it is confident
ly believed the yield in Butts eo
this season will not be ovur 4.0001
hales, as compared with 11,751 in
1920 anil 15,000 in 1919.
Il'ealiziiig that they are facing a
-otton famine, so far as this particu
lar section is concerned, farmers are
bi ginning to turn to other crops and
other industries. This Fall and Wln-
ti r between 75,000 and 10",000 poach
; ices will be planted. A grain crop
•hat will top all previous records will
. be put in. Dairying is being taken
: up on a largo scale. Hogs and poul
try wfll be grown in quantities to
justify shipment to outside markets.
All id all t..e farmers of this coun.
;v arc bidding fart well to cotton as
a money crop.
Milladgov'ille Bunking Co 100,00
I. F. Bell 25.00
F, 03 Bono _ 25.00
13. Boll 25.00
L. II. Andrews 25.00
Coca Cola Bottling Co _L—u- 100.00
,T. L Sibley & Son 25.00
Ilorne.Andrews Com. Co. 100.00
R. I!. Moore 25.00
E. R. ILines - — 25.00
Central Ga. Guano Co. -j 100.00
.1. '(’. Cooper 25.00
Culver Sz Kidd. Inc. 25.00
Culver & Kidd, Drug Co. 25.00
.1. T. King 25.00
Dixon Williams 25.00
A. J. Carr Company 109.00
Joseph E. Pottle 25.00
Bon Carso 25.00
W. T. Garrard, Sr. 25.00
Wallace Butts 25.00
Dr Richard Binlon 25.00
John Holloway 26.00
J. F. Bell. Jr. — ’25.00
H. E. McAiullffe - 25.00
J. At Horne — 25.00
It W. Hatcher 50.00
Prof. Nash 25.00
Marlon Whitfield *5.00
C. E. Bonnor --j— 25.00
J T. Kink 25.00
Erwin Sibley 2.1.00
Jos. A. Moore 25,00
E. R Bns-. j 25.00
T. D. Li ther 25.00
$5.00 In Gold
For 4 Largest Turnips
Grown From C. and K’s
PRIZE TURNIP SEED
On 26th November.
CULVER & KIDD DRUG CO.
“Of Course” Phones 224 and 240
Well Known Live Stock Man
From College of Agricul
ture To Make Address At
3 o’Clock In Afternoon.
By L. E Swain, County Agent
On Saturday, 3:00 p, m. September
3rd, at the Court House in Mllledge-
vlllo. Prof. Milton P. Jurnr.gin. of
Athens, will give a lecture on the
subject of growing live stock In the
south.
This is a subject of paramount im
portance jt st at this time, and every
farmer in Baldwin County should
make it his business to come to hear
Prof. Jarnagin.. Each banker and
business nran in tho county should
become interested In the matter.
Cows and hogs on every farm should
he the slogan for the future, and if
the business man and banker will
get behind the proposition with the
necessary insistence this consumma
tion can be accomplished.
Every farmer cannot and should
. ot grow watermelons commercially;
it would not he an economic and
sensible practice for alt of thnn to
turn o peach growing for a money
crop. Theda crops are highly per
ishable and when ripe must be mar.
keted quickly, therefore, it is com.
paratlvely easy by over-production to
glut the market. Their very nature
male s the growing of them hazard,
out*. Th- -f crop3 both command
good prices, and there is profit in
them when a limited quantity i«
vlaced upon the market, but we have
all witnessed the watermelon markt
go to pieces this year by the flood of
melon-! vjiii descended upon the
cities and towns of the country. Scv.
oral i hi. s in the North bad to resort
to embargoes to keep the melons out
I until the congestion could be cleaned
up.
Hogs and cattle rre nr t perishable
If the market Is not satisfactory
wmn the farmer gets ready to sell,
livestock can wait. Thav not
r rive to# he sacrificed for freight
charges or less.
Our system of rural credits will
have to be readjusted. Heretofore it
has bat n based entirely on cotton;
now we must turn to something else,
and I know of nothing more substan
tial than livestock. The banker has
his problem to solve as well as - the
fanner; his business is loaning mo.
oey. lie cannot ko* p it tied up in
ids counting 'souse and go on declar
ing dividends to the stockholders.
'Hie quicker lie re-writes Lis finan
cial cede ro far as rural credits are
concerned tire quicker he will have
adjusted liis institution to meet the
changes which are coining in o«r
system of agriculture You can
talk to the farmer all you want to
about the importance ot growing this
and that crop, but unless a way is
provided for his financial assistance,
you might as well haip saved the ef.
fort.
It will not hurt the banker and
business man to hear Prof. Jarnagin
on September 3rd. While this
speaker’s talk will he primarily to
tho farmer on how to manage and
produce live stock economically, and
thVir importance on the farm, yet I
have no doubt that he will deal with
that phase of the situation which re
lates to credits, and how the farmer
and financier can both be benefitted
by ro.otf rutive effort.
i •
Prof. Jarnagin was scheduled to
speak in Millcdgeville on August 4th,
but was unavoidably prevented from
coming, and while lie now is coming
upon the invitation and under the a -s.
pices of the Baldwin County Farm
Bureau, every farmer and citizen of
Milledgeville and Baldwin County is
Invited to come out and hear him.
His subject Is a pertinent one and
s'i'ovild command your attention and
presenee,
FOR SALE-One 1 ♦» Inch Grist Mill
and' one Fairbanks.Morse gasoline
engine, almost good as new. Will
sell cheap or exchange for Ford car.
Address P. O. Box 102, Milledgeville,
Georgia.
SPECIAL UNTIL SEPT. 10. WHOLE
GENUINE FIBER SOLES AND RUB.
BER HEELS PUT ON BY AN EX
PERT. PHONE 373
HARRISON’S SHOE SHOP
Mr. J. W. Gay Commences
Bus Monday On Reg tl
Schedule—Round T i .
Daily.
Bi-
Twenty Seven Teachers Of
rr *unty Have Been Issued
Jedooj . Board Of
Mr. J. \V. Gay, of Vidalia, has com
menced a regular passenger service
hv automobile from Milledgeville to
Dublin, maintaining a regular sche
dule and a round trip each day.
’I'he bus put on by Mr Gay is com
fortably equipped and is capaciated
to take on anil comfortably seat
twenty passengers, , It leaves Dublin
at 7 o’clock in the morning and arrives
In Milledgeville at 11:30, returning
leaving Milledgeville at 2:39 o’clock
and arriving in Dublin at 7 o’clock.
The passenger vehicle is arranged
on the order of a modern street car
and is so equipped to provide the
best of comfort In both summer and
winter, having glass windows at the
ddes and rear end. The mileage
rate over the line is practically equal
to that of the railroads at the present
time.
.Mr, Gay st-.’tos that ho is going ft
establish a regular b.edule tor time
of arrivals and «> i .• al!
towns along tho rou: ■, 3’: !■■ s-ville.
Tonnillo, Wrightnvillc, Loved nm!
• olnts of lesser importance will be
made regular stations.
Passengers coming into Milledge.
ville over the auto passenger line will
have three hours here before a de
parture Is made for Dublin «nd other
taliens along t.t’o lino.
BIS BAND CONCERT
FOR NEXT MONDAY
Eaionton Band And Local
Musicians To Put On En
tertainment Here t-or En
tire Community.
Musical i utertaiuments are becom
ing unusually popular in MUlodgeville
and partially due to the large audi
ences that hate attended the weekly
concerts given by the local musici
ans. the big brass band from Eaton
ton will be hero next Monday night
1.6 join in a concert that will he given
on the court liouro lawn at b:30
o'clock.
The Milledgeville and Eatonton
hands together will furnish in the
noiJjUborlicod of forty instruments.
W. H. Nash, director of the local
band, will have charge of the program
that isi to be rendered and gveut
music is promised those who are
to take advantage of the opportunity
to be present on the occasion.
A specially attractive feature to
be brought out at the concert Mon
day night will be seven) vocal selec
tions by Misses Janie and Fleota
Ross, daughters of Mr. anil Mrs.
George Ross, of Midway. These
young ladies an* well known as duet
singers and it might he said that
those having never heard their voices
together especially have something
in store worthwhile—O'ch is the ex-
pession of those who know.
Tho concert will be a free one and
everybody in this entire section is
extended an invitation to be present
and help to make tho occasion one
of inspiration to the members of the
two bonds that are to furnish the mu
sic.
REV C. M. LIPHAM AND FAMILY
EXPECTED HOME WEDNESDAY
Rev. C. M. Lipham and family are
expected to arrive in Mlledgf ville
today after being absent from the
city on a thr e weeks vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Lipham and children
have visited Newnan, Atlanta and
Washington, D. slnde leaving Mill-
odgeville, having made the entlc
round in an automobile. In u letter
addressed to The News this week
Dr. Idpham stated that he and his
family had enjoyed a most wonderful
trip from start to finish,
Mr. Lipham will Rrrive in time to
officiate at the Grenade-Long wel.
ding this evening at 4:20 o’clock.
Eduidki'iJJ.i
The p. ibllc ij i osla of Baldwin coun
ty will commence their terms this
year Who 21st. of September, announce
mrnt was made this week by Connty
School Superintendent P. N. Bivins,
On account of the probability of a
lengthening of public school terms
due to a consitutional amendment at
tho last stt.tc election calling for
state wide tax for the extension of
the terms of schools, all teachers of
the county will commence their work
this year about or.e month earlier
than they have heretofore. A con.
clu ion has been rendered by the
County Board of Education that it
will ho better to start the term of
school earlier this year, whether or
not the tern is extended, in or-.; r to
enable the students to get out e.s Her
r the sprring ot next year.
is realized that tho crops, of the
■ ' nty will bo earlier gathered th 1 '
y -:r on account of shorlago of pro.
I a tion and for such reason children
f farmers will bo relear. al fri m th ■
ervico they have ordinarily rendered
'.her parents during the harvesting
enron. This 1 one of tho reasons
advanced for beginning tho school
term earlier thin fall than heretofore,
• nil rhoadd tho state provide f nds
for t’ - e oxt-'nrion cf tho term the
early start will prove necessary for
'• ch account.
Twenty seven persons have boon
awarded cevtlfleates to tench by the
Connty Board of Education, as fol
lows:
Mi's Ros3ie Bussey, Miss Mamie
Torrance, Mbs Lerena Humphries,
Miss Clara Evans, Miss Rutli Wheeler
Miss Lucile Thomas, Miss Mary W.
Brown, Miss Jessie Smith. Miss Loin
Mae Smith, Miss Rosie Cook, Miss
Annabel Webster, Miss Julia Smith,
Miss Annie Clyde Veal, -Miss Clyde
Bivins, Miss O-n Brake, Miss Maekio
T.ou Hughes. Miss Bethel Beck, Miss
Bessie Skinner. Mrs. J. R Watkins,
Mrs. J. D. Willis, Mrs. W. B. Wood,
Mrs. Ida Godfrey, Mrs. Cora 13. Holt,
Mrs W, 13. Hodges and Prof. J. A.
Maddox.
SIX ROOM RESIDENCE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Blaze Discovered Early Friday Morn
ing Completely Wipes Out Building
And All Furniture of R. L. Gibson’s
Family, Occupants.
A six room, residence on South Jef
ferson street and belonging to Mr J.
li. Cox was completely destroyed at
r.n early hour Friday morning.
The fire was discovered between
two and three o’clock in the morning
and had made considerable headway
when first seen. By the time the
firemen reached tho place it kail been
accepted as a foregone consiusion
that nothing more than checking the
tipread of tho flames could be expec
ted.
The residence was occupied by the
family of Mr. R. L, Gibson. Brae
tically all the firrniture went rp in tke
flames.
TOe home nvaa considered to be
worth upward of $3,000, though the
property was proctoctod by only $2,.
990 in insurance. It is understood
that the household effects of Mr.
Gibson were partially covered by in
surance.
Largest Number of Fans to
Turn Out in Many Moons
Will Probably See This In
teresting Contest.
The furnlost ball game ever od
in this town will take place V>. :n«'n
day afternoon, Aug, 21, at fu-i o c.-r-k
on the G. M. C. diamond win i. ’he
Fats will play against the Learn ot
this city. Whispers of thi: hi" e
been going the rounds far ..ux -a
but has now become a loud noise,
Lamar 11am and Dink Johnson will
be the battery for the Fats, with pro
bably Fatty Hall as a short stop—lie
may have to stop short in tho midst
of the game for breath—and for the
Leans, Dick Slembridge will twirl
and West King will stop the balls.
The line up hasn’t been completed
as yet, Ham insisting that he will huv.-
to lmvo at least twenty out fielders
every ten feet apart against tho fence
to stop those three baggers and homo
runs which 'Charles Whitfield and
Miller Bel! will Up off. Henry Wool-
ton is official “scale-leader" ami with
his line of talk cc- ld make Wister
Ritchie mis.', every ball which ciniw
within ten feet of the plate. Did
is counting hard on Wise Allen anil
Charles Davis to outclass Culver Kidd
and Hugh Andrews in the Uuttin
average while' Charles Gibson i . going
to line up against Henry Wootten in
the ‘‘hot air contest.”
Dick Binion and John Hutchinson
and llurris Hull are three more which
Hum i:; counting on to do 3omc “heavy
work" on the Fat side while Druggeut
Boone and Sid Jones—-to say nothing
of Hyman Glass Stubbs and Goodrich
"holding down" anything they might
happen to hit or sit upon. Allen Lit
tle and Leo Jordan will play anything
Ham cays from first to out rido tho
fence and throw the ball over when
some of those heavy hatters like Jim
Ingram, Ed Hines and Leon Callaway
basto the ball. -
Stombrldge says thnt Buston is c.
cutter and can pitch for him any
old day—while Mutt and Jeff (Bill
Garrard and Erwin Si’ley) can boat
any thing he ever saw bunting. Barron
Iliiler everybody knows can "knock
things" going and coming so lie will
probably be put on when there is a
men to bo “brought in.’ Mr. Margan
is in a class all by himself and could
atch any fly ever lilt while it was
still twelve foot from tile ground.
Henry McAuliffe and Bolling Mooio
will probably play to the grand stand
mostly as it is their desire to ‘’make
a hit" with tile ladies more than it is
to hat the ball, Otto Conn and Roy
Alford both good Methodists will pro
bably "say things” that day which
they have never said before—but then
when your side isn't winning, it hi
something permissablo.
You can't afford to miss this game,
these names abovo are only a few
which Ham and Stenibridgo have
looked over as they haven’t had time
to get around us yet—so all you Fats
:,nd Leans—be looking out--they me
“after you". There will he a bevy
of Pretty girls to sell “dopes” and
peanuts and the admission fee will he
what it always is at all the ball games.
Mr, J. L. Sibley who is "grand high
.ilurk-l'.-ty-nnick and manager of all
of l 4 says that it 13 for tho Woman’s
Blub, so everybody liad better get
busy and save a few nickles and dimo’i
to have a good time on that Jay. Be
sure to go early ami avoid the rush,
thero will not be standing room after
three.forty-five.
' Removal Notice
We wish to Announce to our friends and customers that
our place of business will he in the store at present
occupied by Brown-Hargrovo Company after the first of
September.
DOBBS GROCERY CO.
| B. Wilson Mgr. Phone 91
