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the milledgeville news
VOLUME 1*. NUMBER 17.
Established October 12, 1901.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL ATTtND
RE-UNION IN CHATTANOOGA NEXT WEEK
M1LLEDGEV /*£, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 19,1921
$1.50 • Year
Handsome Sum Has Been Pro
vided For The Old Heroes
Of the Sixties To Make
Trip This Year.
WILL MAKE DEPARTURE .
NEXT MONDAY MORNING
Special
Passenger Coach Will
Be Provided For all Mem
bers of Camp Dan B. San
ford and Sons.
Tin- remaining number of Confed
erate veterans of Baldwin county
have the assurance that the lack of
f um ls will not prevent them from at
tending the re-union to he held in
Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Thursday of next week.
Tuesday morning of this week the
son of 1S9.0-0 had been*- raised here
to defray th,e expenses of the Veterans
on their annual trip this year and it
is an assured fact that the old heroes
will not find it necessary to go into
their pockets for funds during their
three days stcy in Chattanooga. The
expenses of the Veterans will be borne
by their puniors going and coming
and the good people of Chattanooga
are lraving no stones unturned in the
matter of providing all sorts of amuse
ments and entertainments for the
follows of Lee and Jackson
The members of Camp Dan B.
Sanford will assemble in Milledgeville
early next Monday morning prepara
tory to making their departure for
Chattanooga. Before going to
MR. R L CALDWELL TO
.. BE WITH THE NEWS
Superintendent of Composing Room
Of Leading Florida Weekly Will
Arrive in Milledgeville Last of Week
To Commence Dutiee Here.
Mr. R. L. Caldwell, for the past
several years superintendent of the
:ompo:.lng room of the Gadsden
County Times, Quincey, Fla., and re
cognized as the loading weekly news
paper in the state of Florida, has ac
cepted it position with The MlUedge-
vilie News.
Mr. Caldwell is reputed as b°ing a
man of unusual ability in the handling
of the mechanical department of a
newspaper and printing establish
ment. He has had wide experience
in every phase of the mechanical end
cf the printing business, and is a
linotype operator and pressman of
the better class.
I/eaving Florida Saturday after
noon Mr. Caldwell expects to arrive
in Milledgeville in plenty of time to
••eminence hi3 work here next Mon-
lay morning
MR. FRANK ECHOLS
INSTANTLY KILLED
Well Known Young Man of
Stevens Pottery Meets Sud
den Death in Auto Accident
Sunday
Mr. Frak Echols, one of the most
widely known and popular young men
in Baldwin cotnty, was the victim
of an automobile accident Sunday af
ternoon about l o’clock.
The tragedy took place about eight
miles south of Perry. Young Echols
was driving an almost brand new
Dodge car and at the time he was
accompanied by Parish Mercer and
Thomas Lawson, of Macon.
The two young men accompanying
Mr. Echols were seriously injured
when they were thrown from the
automobile. Parish Mfctrcer fius-i
tnined broken upper and lower jaws
and racticallt ail of his lower teeth
weer knocked out. Lawson suffered
sonsidered Injuries about the head.
Cause of Accident Unknown
j Ju:t how the accident oeeured pro
bably ecu never be explained. The
HARRIS MUST HANG
SAYS HIGH COURT
Negro Sentenced to Hang for
Killing Wife Should go to
The Gallows, Opinion Su
preme Judge.
Genie Harris, who was tried and
given a death sentence at the Janu
ary term of the Baldwin Superior
court for the murder of his wife in
July of last year should go to the gal
lows according to a decision handed
down by the Supreme court of Geor
gia hurt Friday.
Harris tvas sentenced by Judge Ja-s
B. Park to hang the 25th of last Feb
niary. Following the trial and con
viction, Attorneys D. S. Sanford and
T, D. Luther, appointed by the court
to defend the negro, announced that
they would take the ease to the Su
preme court in appealing for a new
trial for the negro. It was nearly
nine months after the conviction of
Harris by the Baldwin county jury
j before the case was finally taken up
by the Soprcnt for disposition.
At the time of the trial in January.
MTFNDANCF
IN BALDWIN S SCHOOLS
car to catapault.
Tlie young men were on route from
Macon to Cordele, for a day’s outing
leaving here hero about noon. It
was 1 o'clock in the afternoon when
According to Superintendent of ( the car turned over
Schools P. N Bivins, there are more j Among the first toj-each the ncem-
t | 10 students registered in the rural schoo s <,f t e accident were Dr. M. Pric« and
.jjietli'
»f Georgia Railroad at 11:40 o’clock.' 1110 10131 “ ,,luur ul aluuc,,lB which the accident oeeured. sHiey
517 Student-, Are Enrolled in The
Rural Schools of County, With Mid
way, Cooperville and Union Point
Leading in Numbers.
to Superintendent of
Harris confessed to tlie killing of ills |
car was a brand new Dodge and the wife, though he put up a plea of self ]
National Highway at the point defense. Following tlie killing of (
where the accident oeeured is straight his wife tee negro man boarded a 01
and smooth, with the exception or train out of Miltedgoville and after recelve diplomas Wednesday evening
a shallow ditch, and the ditch is not the elapse of several months he was of thic weak, came out of the wreck
considered deep enotegh to cause a arrested In Cleveland, Ohio, and wIth a ' >rokuu arcl and les ' Sho 13
Au lU AGGIUENT IS
FAlALlUAX KERRY
Misses Ruby Hoover And
Gertrude Ham Still inCriti-
cal Condition as Result
Saturday’s Tragedy.
Owe of the most horrible automo
bile accidents ever taking olaco in
Baldwin tcounty happened Saturday
afternoon when a big Cadillac tour
ing plunged down a steap embank
ment on the avenue leading out from
Milledgeville to the state sanitarium
anti erried with it seven persons.
Mr. A. B. Berry, wfoo was Iriving
tha high powered machine, was doad
when reached within a couple of ntin
utes after the catastrophe. His
neck was literally broken and his
body was otherwise mangled.
Misses Ruby Hbover and Gerth.
lude aihm, nursesi at the state sani
tarium suffered serious injuries by
be pinned beneath the automobile. It
is raid that Miss Ham was taken
from beneath the car after it had
landed in a stream of water some
thirty feet from the peak of the ele
vated road.
Mins Mabel McDonald, a member
the-class of graduate nurses to
■aid to be rapidly recuperating from
Jj.he injuries received.
I The other three occupants of the
'automobile woo Misnos Susan Hyde,
brci ght back to this county to face a
legal trial.
it. is the pui pose of Attorneys
B&uford and Luther to go to the Gov.
with an appeal for executive and Cora BInford, an.l Mr L. W
train, which leaves over the Central in rialAvrin county this year than last. ( p im i Hodges, of Hpnderreoo
I The total a mber of students al. which the accident oeeured.
ready enrolled in the rural public i oun( j Echols’ lifeless form on * the
schools is 617. Midway school tak- ground near the overturned machine.
tka taa4 ovw tha rag alar public Merer and Lawson were lylm
| schools, while Cooperville and TTnionI v.y, both helpless.
amor with an appeal for *x
clemency, since the Supremo court Grant,
:-?s upheld tlie sentence given the nurse
negro by Judge Park, of the Oemul-, Benford is in training to become
go? bench. Should the Governor ( nurse. Mr. Grant is a
the sanitarium. Neither
Miss Hyde is a graduate
t the sanitarium and Miss
they will be served delicious sand
wiches and refreshments by the la
dies of II E. Lee Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Veterans win have provld
for them a special pasrenger conch
to take them straight to Chattanooga.
Leaving litre at 11:40 they will arrive
in Chattanooga at S:30 Monday night.
They v ill he met at the station in the
hospital Tennessee city by a special
delegation to assign them to the homes
of thoso so willingly volunteering to
ent rtain the members of Camp Dan
B. Sanford.
in Atlanta the Veterans from Bald
win will be met at the terminal by
a committee . ended by Mr, Darden
Aslimy. This committee will serve
tlie old heroes .sandwich.s and hot
coffee during their shoit stay tn the
capital city.
An effort will be made to have
C'ery member Of CamK.Uan It. Sun.
foi'd attend the re.union. Tnere has
h en offered by a firm in Caattan-
°°K a a prize of $100 for the largest
numbs r of veterans from any one
l:| i p attending the re union this
year
At 1 he Presbyterian Church
and
luer r
i' 1 aching services 11:30 a. i
' !'■ nv Note the change in
for the evening service,
starting Gospel preaching at all
Special music both morn-
eevvic
lag
the
"iiing, wit.) special orchestra at
'oning service. Everybody cor-
diully iuvited.
Special Bible Class:
16:15 in the cjyirch auditorium
tlie
are
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' Point "onw up strong in numlvcr. i
I Tlie Increased number of students i
hiir year over last year is attributa
ble, it is believed, to the work of tha
school attendance officer empowered
to demand that all children of public
school age he enrolled as students,
provided there be no valid excuse for
l>:irents to keep their children out
cf reboot.
The report.! made out by the vari
ous texokers of the county for
week ending Friday, Oct. 14th
: follows:
Midway School
Cooperville Schoo!
Union Point
Scot tt boro —
Meriwether
Mt. Pleasant
Sal m
Camp Creek "4
Black Springs 27
Union Hill 24
Pine Grove 24
Harmony 1R
Hopewell 47
Watson * 47
Snead s
Humphries 1
Parents and guardians with suffi
cient reasons to keep children out ol
school are red ested to call upon the
county board of education to obtain
Dgel excuses in the msttor. Those
failing to meet this requirement are
subject to prosecution and the school
enforcement law applies to every
child In Baldwin county
fail to commute the sentence the case,
will probably be carried to the United
Stales Supreme court in appeallnf
for a new trial.
After ull the court procedures
lir; Pierre on«” Potif Hwdgoa’ picked’t u *'-- 0 'L«-•nirinterfeve.u-e with the da-
near-
PIANO FOR SALE
_ We have near Milledgeville af tlie
M “ n ’- S Bible OasS will study the pjano slightly used and partly paid
1 r ""'l of Presbyterians. This is your' fol . which we will sell to party willing
opportunity to leurn those things' t0 complete tlie remaining monthly
about the Presbyterian Church, its 'payments. Send name nud address
Meed, and part that creed has played
in h' tory, which you have been want-
up Parrish Mercer and carried lvtm
to the Macon Hospital, while Lawson
was placed in J. \V. Hodge's car.
following to the same institution.
Echols Veteran of A. E. F.
Frank Echols was well known In
Moccn. He spent most of his week
ends here, before and fter the World
War. He war a son of Mr. and Mrs
A, B. Echols, vice president and
treasurer of Stevens Brothers, at Ste
vens Pottery.
During the World War Frank
Echols was a lieutenant In the 31st
division, but he was transferred from
tin t division to tho Seventh Division
and saw one year's service in France.
He was attached to Company A. 64th
Infantry, and was discharged in Au
gust, 1919.
Comping back to hia home lie re
sumed lrs position as secretary and
sssistant general manager of the big
pottery plant of Stevens Brothers.
Besides his parents he Is survived
by four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ivey,
and Misses Ellen, Martha and Emily
Echols.
Echols Inexperienced Driver.
Frank Echol’s father was in Macon
at tho time for the accident, but re
timed to Stevens Pottery late In the
afternoon and did not hear of the af
fair until after lie reached home.
The body was taken to Perry where
it was prepared for burial.
Body Brought to'Macon,
The body of young Echols arrived
in Macon at 10 o’clock Sunday, night,
being carried through the country
from Perry in an automobile, truck. It
was shipped to Stevens Pottery
where
elsSon of the OcnuBgete Superior*
court Harris will be resentenetd to
ho fcung.
ln K to know all your life.
^ r| t'S others with you.
Gome and
for full Information.
CABLE PIANO COMPANY,
155 Cotton Avenge.
Macon, Georgia. 10-19-2te
“Of c
n’u-se
DID YOU KNOW?
Waxes
JOHNSON’S Dves and
Paints
Are Carried Bv
CULVER & KIDD DRUG CO.
PFcjus 224 and 240
We^ Fumigate Your House For 75c a Room.
WOMAN’S CLUB TO
MEET NEXT SAT.
INTERESTING PROGRAM SCHEDUL
ED FOR OCCASION—HEALTH
TALKS WILL BE MADE BY
PHYSICIANS
The regular monthly meeting of
the Milledgeville Woman's Club will
be held next Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock in the auditorium of the Geor
gia Military College.
An unusually interesting program
It a a been arranged for this meeting.
Mrs. Dixon Williams, president of the
Club, has given out the following in.
foimation relative to tee procedures
of the afternoon.
''It is hoped that every club woman
will lie present at the meeting to be
Held Friday afternoon, as the program
to b8 rendered is one of vital impor
tance to the community.
Dr. H. D. Allen. Jr., is to tell the
ehysical fitness and unfitness of our
school children, as lie finds it. W <•
are going to be placed face to face
a ith conditions that could be better
ed—conditions that ought to he bet
tered.
Dr. T. D. Walker, Jr.. of Macon,
will tell r. s just what they are doing
tn Macon schools to improve condi
tions. His message will be such an
important one we are making this an
open meeting and we lire Issuing invl
the* funeral was held Tuesday | tattons to anyone who wishes to
10 o’clock from the res!- hear this learned physician."
morn i nj
donee.
There was no Inquest ordered by
Coroner A. B. Schilling, of Houston
county, he holding that there were
several eye-witnesses to the accident
The scene of the accident, it was
stated, was one mile from Henderson,
and eight miles from Perry. There
are r.'veral homes near that point and
s veral uutomobilists were neniliy at
the time. In fact, the car in which
the three yuan men were riding wasg
m t by another automobile <■*
time the accident took place.
The funeral was attended by one
of the largest assemblages ever Ink
ing place in the vicinity of Stevens
Pottery. The Morris-Little Post
American Legion officiated at the
services, while tlie funeral was con
ducted by Rev. L. W. Browder. A
firing squad from the Georgia MilHnry
College was present in respect to the
deceased former student of the in
stlti’tion.
There wore between one hundred
and two hundred people from Mill
idgeville to attend the funeral, evl-
tl 'tiring the fact that the young man
was held in tlie highest esteem by a
large number of friends in tills com
munity. Many expressions of tuny.
Jiathv have been effortd the bearer.v-
ed members of the family by friends
throughout this section and the loss of
ti e life cf Prank Echols has cast a
gloom about the sourroun lings of
Ills scores of warm friends.
patient at
of those
three occupants of te machine wore
injured to any considerable extent.
The accident took place about four
o'clock in tee afternoon. Most of
tho occupants of tho cat: were ret
fug to tho sanitarium from Milledge
ville. Misses lloovor and Item
wore taken into the automobile at
tho store of Mrs. E. F. Bloodworth
on the avenue to the sanitarium.
These two young ladies 'had riden
hardly three hundred yards before
they found themselves plunging down
the embankment at a speed that
might be calculated to produce d :a !'
nine times out of ten.
At the time of t.:c accident it i'■
s. id that Mr. Berry was undertaking
to drive by an automobile driven b>
Mrs. J. T. Hollis. According to
those who witnessed the tragedy the
big Cadillac touring car was going at
a rate something like sixty miles
per hour when it suddenly leaped
down the long embankment.
When tie ear bad reached its des
tination it was bottom ipwards with
tho front turned in an exact opposite
direction to which the machine was
headed while under tho control of
Mr. Berry, who was at the steering
wheel. The automobile was al
most completely demolished, even to
the body and back of the seats, to
eay nothing of the top.
During the day Sunday there were
thousands of people to visit the place
of the great tragedy. Viewing th
indentions into the bank by the fall
ing automobile and tlyi condition of
the machine itself spectators expres:-
ed wonder to themselves how th-re
ppened to be any survivors of the
catastrophe. The roadway Js an
elevatiou practically equal to tlie
height of an ordinary two story house
and the embankments is much sttup-
er than the roof of a common resi
dence.
According to physicians at the
state sanitarium, Misses Ham and
Hoover were resting Tuesday as well
as could bo expected. Both ate j
KIWANIANS WILL
ENTERTAIN WIVES
Entertainment Will Take
Place at T Hut of The
Georgia Military College
Thursday Evening.
The members of the Milledgeville.
Kiwanis Club are planning to enter
tain their wives at the “Y* but of
the Georgia Military College Thur. -
day evening. Thoso who happen net
to have wives will be accorded tha
privilege of taking with them the
ladies of their choice, or others.
The hour of the entertainment will
be 8 o'clock. A special program is
being arranged for tlie event, it is
understood.
It is expected that practically every
member will bo nut on this occasion
It Is understood that a supper will
be prepared and that various stunts
will precede and follow the feast.
Attention Veterans and Sons
And Daughters of Veterans
And Their Families
The rd-urthm at Chattanooga
will bo held Oct. 25. 26, and 27
and tho low rate of ono cent a
mllo has been granted by tho
Railroads; to the Veterans, Son i
of Veterans and Daughters of tho
Confederacy and their families.
In order for Sons to take tdvan.
tago of this low rate, ho must, be
a member of Some Camp of 3otu
of Veterans, and . must have a
certificate, signed by the Com
mander of his Camp,
apply to the uuder
The undersigned has these oer
tlficates. and if you contemplate
going to Chattanooga, then apply
to the undersigned at ou.ee.
The Committee at Chattanooga
is doing something that lias ne
ver been done before, and that 1.:
trying to assign homes to Vetoi
ans who are not able to pay their
expenses, before tho Veteran
leave.) IBs home town.
In oidor to do this, any Old
Veteran who entends going
should hand in is name at once,
and have his place assigned, and
he will know whore he is going
to stop when he leaves Milledge.
ville He will be. met at tlie depot
in Chattanooga by guides and this
Guido will escort him immediate
ly to bis home.
It is very necessary that we
ha\e the names of all those in
tending to go, in order that these
names can be forwarded to Chat-
tanooga.
It is intended to leave here
Monday morning Oct. 24, and ar
rive in CUatUnooga Monday night,
tho exact rot te 1ms not yet been
determined, t is will be decided
upon at a meeting of the Veter
ans and Sons to be held later.
The Sons of Veterans and Dough
terr, of tlie Confederacy will pro
vide Railroad faro to all mem
bers of Camp Doios who are tut
able to pay their own fare, and
it is important that these Sol
diers hand in their names at
onCe.
D. S. SAN TORI’
Commander Georgia Division.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish, to extend our heartfelt
appreciation to our many friends in
Spprtn, ,Linton, Mjlledgevjil^ and
Scott, Ga.. tor their many expressions
of sympethy and their niany^kindness-
es extended to us during the recent
illness and death of our dear mother.
May God bless them.
, Mrs. Geo. Gray, Mrs. V. G. Wood,
till suffering very much from inter- c , aude MU(ep> 0 c MiUar D P Mil .
nal injuries sustained in the accident ^ Miller W F. Miller, E. C.
and there still remains some doubt
of tlie recovery.
Mr. Berry is survived by his pur
ci ts. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Berry, of
Milledgeville, his wife and seven
children, two brothers. Isaac Berry,
of Stevens Pottery, and John Berry,
of Utkoland, Fla., four sisters, Mrs.
II. C. Hamrick, of Macon, Mrs W. VV.
Childs, of Stevens Pottery, Mrs. Eva
Pearson, of Stevens Pottery, and Mrs
I. C. Ivey, of Milledgeville.
Tin- fui.t-rnl cf Mr. Berry was held
Miller.
TO CONSUMERS OF ICE
Dollar and Fifty rents cash Making
your ice cost you delivered, seven
and one half cents for ten pounds
ENNIS ICE A FUEL WORKS.
from the residence Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock, the services being con
ducted by Rev Greene, of Gray. In
terment was in the cemetery in Mil
ledgeville.
