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.LDGEVILLE NEWS
milledgeville. ga.
OF BRIDGE WORKS
TRAIN HITS AUTO
Kastman.—His automobile demo!
filled by a Southern railway passen
ger train, known as the "Joe Brown,"
W. B. McLeod received injuries on
Monday morning which physicians
say will prove fatal. McLeod was
alone in his car and apparently did
not see the train approaching.
AGED 15, HE MADE AND
OPERATED HIS OWN STILL
Mrs. Blanche Kstubrook lloetding.
who Is known among the men of the
John A. Roebllng’s Sons company at
Trenton, N. J., ns the “Lady Boss."
Mrs. Roebling has joined the ranks of
(Socially prominent women who have
gone into business, but instead of
choosing what is generally considered
as a “feminine" line of trade she chose
the wire business and has become fa
miliar with both technical and busi
ness details. Previous to her marriage
to Karl Gustavus Koebllng she was
prominent in social circles as the
daughter of Henry Dodge Kstabrook
of Tnrrytown, N. V. Since her elec
tion to the hoard of directors of the
Koebllng company she has devoted al
most tier entlre’time to business, drop
ping out of social life. Col. Washing
ton A. Koebllng, founder of the busi
ness, was best known ns the builder of
the Brooklyn bridge.
Notice to Teachers
Tile list of books for the ID"'
Bead ng Course may be obtain 3d from
til? office of the County School Su
perintondenb. Teachers 'desiring to
renew their certificates by examina
t'on shruld get this list at onco. The
examination will be given August 4
and 5. P. N. BIVINS, C. S. S.
r.-26,8tc
Clinton, Iowa.—Mount Carroll. 111.,
■ar iiere, claims to have the young
est illicit liquor maker in captivity.
The distiller, 15 years old, is al
leged to have made a practice of
stealing the rhubarb during the da.,
and converting it into wine at n.gh
with a homemade contrivance.
SIX HELD ON PROHI CHARGES
SELDOM TRAVEL;
OFTEN MIGRATE
Mennonites Ever Seeking Haven
Where They Can Follow Reli
gious Beliefs in Peace.
Moultrie.—County Policemen Stew
art and Cobb Mon.lav arrested six ai
leged violators of the prohiblticp law
It was a case of "fifty-fifty," half o.
the accused being white men and the
other half negroes.
GEORGIA
IS SECOND
IN MARINE
RECRUITS
Georgia ranked second in the Unit
od States for the number of enlist
ments recorded tor May Li the nia
tine corps, according to a standing o
stales issued by headquarters of the
corps at Washington, received 1 by
Captain George Bower, U. S. M. C
recruiting officer at room 510, post
office building, Atlanta. New York
was the only state to enlist more
men during May than Georgia, ai
ording to the report, the eastern
state being only seven ahead of
Georgia.
COMMUNITY HOUSE
Waycross.—Waycross and War.
o nty are to have a comm, nit;
ouse for women. The building. £
one-story structure, is owned by thf
county and has been turned over tc
immunity workers by the count;
commission. Work looking toward
Vnutifying of the house and grounds
began last Monday.
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Wo laundry collars Tor
■hninett L. Barnes.
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Athens.—A total of 45 University
f Georgia students will attend sum
mer reserve officers training camps
his summer, it was learned here la
Monday. The infantry students will
go to Camp McClellan, Ala., and the
Inter Transport Corps students t
IGanta, where the training will b
arried on at the Georg'a School of
Technology.
Cm.ersity of Georgia officers will
bo static ned at both of the two
amps mentioned.
TlFTON'S GALA DAY
Tifton.—At a bus.ne3s men’s meet
ing last Friday afternoon July 4 wa
fixed as the date for Tifton's gala
day and county-wide festival. A bar
becue will be given, a program of
amusements arranged and all of Tif
tons neighbors invited In. Commit
tees were named to look alter all nec
tssary arrangements
STORK, OLD JOY BIRD,
MAKES THIRTY-THIRD
VISIT—"DADDY” IS 84
in
FOR RENT—Furnished room with
connecting bath; desirably located,
lentleman preferred. Phone 195.
CORN FOR SALE
If you ate in the market f or local
■town ea* corn, sec or write B. D
bunions, M iledgeville, Ga
We laundry collar's for 3 cents.
Cmmett L. Barnes.
Harlan. Ky.—Arrival of a baby
the home cf lobert Baker, 84 years
old, a dairyman, was announced Mon
day at the same time, it was said
the advent of the newcomer mark
lie thirty-third Mr. Baker stared
the role of daddy.
Mrs. Baker, who is 35, is ills sev
■nth wife. They have been married
fourteen years. The seventh Mn
linker has presented her husband
with eight children.
u No Worms in a Healthy Child ^
All children troubled with Worms have an uo-
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as
rule, there is more or I ess stomach disturbance
GROVE S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given regu
larly for two or three weeks will eurich the blood,
improve thedigestiou.aod actasageneralStrength
cning Tonic to the whole system.e.Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be
In perfect health* Pleasant to take. 60c per bottla
Uncle Sam Declares War on
Pirates Who Get Nation’s Fish
D.
C.—Uncle Sam has
the pirates of the
MEXICO NOW ‘PROMISED LAND’
Interest in the Sect Aroused by Their
Exodus From Canada to Mexico,
Taking With Them $15,000,000
in Goods and Cash.
Washington.—"Invited to Russia and
xempted from taxes and military
service because they could farm, then
banished because some of them estab
lished a communistic colony; obeying
the laws of many lands, but refusing
to take part In making or enforcing
bem; frowning upon science, buttons,
life Insurance and tobacco—such ure
arious branches of the Mennonites,
hose exodus from Canada to Mexico
dds another chapter In the centurles-
ld anabasis of this quaint Had goodly
people.
While geographers nre studying hu
man migrations on tlie basis of eco
nomic determinism, iiere Is a consider-
ible group who defy any such chart
ing, and move about solely upon the
husls of the best opportunity to follow
their religious beliefs." says a bulletin
from tlie Washington headquurters of
the National Geographic society.
"From Holland to Germany, thence
to Moravia, Hungary, Kumunla and in
to Russia—so runs the earlier course
)f Mennonlte wanderings. From the
sleppes of Crimea and the treeless
hanks of the Molochnaiu to Bonhomtne
county In South Dakota was not too
long a trail for the most home-staying
people In the world—so long ns they
are not disturbed. They seldom truvel
Individually. Just before the war a
rip to Washington was offered as an
agricultural prize to 12 young men of
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, one of
the oldest American Mennonlte strong
holds. and of the 12 winners not one
bad been outside bis own county be
fore !
Now nhout 1,500 Mennonites are
leaving Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Washington
declared war
northern seas.
A statement just issued by the de
partment of justice announces that
the justice, commerce and slate de-
partment are uniting to drive from
the seas the fish thieves and pirates
who infest Alaskan fisheries causing
heavy loss to legitimate fishers tt ere.
Three subchasers have been or
dered to zsheries patrol duty ir
Alaskan waters by Secretary uiellon
These craft will hunt down the pi
rates who steal fish from the nets
set by fish canners.
"The depredations of fish pirates
n Alaskan waters have been a ue
dous menace to the fish indrstry for
.bout three years,” said the state
ment of the justice department. "The
protection afforded by the navy de
partment during the war was with
drawn at the armistice, and during
1919, recent reports show, there was
a veritable Bolshevist reign of ter
ror along the Alaskan coast. Em
ployes of fishing companies were ter
rorized, traps were robbed and boats
fired upon."
The federal district attorney
Juneau and the United States mar
shal have been ordtered to co-operat
with the commerce and treasury dc
partment agents in capturing and
punishing “the last of the pirates
whose loot is not gold, but fish. ’
NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION
Georgia, Baldwin County:
It is ordered that Chester Vinson
and all persons concerned show cause
before me at the court house in said
•cunty, at 10 o’clock a.m., on July 9,
1922, why the one black mare horse
about ten years old. the one black
tup buggy and the one sat single
leather harness, recently in the pos
session of Chester Vinson, now in th”
possession of J. T. B rke, arresting
officer, should 1 not be condemned and
sold under the prohibition law cf
Georgia providing for the sale of ve-
'unudu. for Durango, Mexico, and the hides and apparatus used
Hive you lost your appetite?
Do you get so tired with the
day’s duties that you’re unable
to enjoy an evening with
friends or at the movies one*
in a while? Are you losing
your rosy cheeks and your
springy step?
Dr. Miles’ Tonic
was made to restore health to people in your condition. It has been
of permanent benefit to thousands who were afflicted just as you are.
• Why don't you try a bottle? Get in line for better health-
beginning today. .Every Drug Stora carries Dr. Miles’ Medicines.
(
productive loss their going will mean
is only slightly Indicated by the estl-'
mate that they take along with them
some $15,000,000 wqrth of goods, fnrm
Implements and cash.
Schooling Begins at Three Years.
"Compulsory eduentlon requirements,
ineluding the teaehlng of English,
which could easily be adjusted by a
more eompromlsing people, caused the
migration from Canada. In some
hrnnehes of their church every Menno
nlte child must begin bis schooling
when ho Is three yeats old. From
that time until he Is six tlie Bible and
the Mennonlte catechism are used for
fils Instruction. After three years he
takes up the ‘three R’s,’ hut in tlie
more orthodox branches of the church
all science, as such, is frowned upon.
In farming, however, the Mennonites
ure efficient and practical scientists
European countries have profited by
their example, and to them western
Pennsylvania owes much of Its pros
perity.
"There ure various gradations of pol
ley among the various groups, sueli as
Ilutteriuns, the Amish, the Wlslar, the
Defenseless and other branches. All
bold against taking ouths and to non
resistance, which led to their exetnp
tlon from tlie draft without any sueli
stigma as attached to nutny types ot
‘conscientious objectors.' Their like
ness to the (Junkers led William Penn
to Invite them to ids colony where they
first established themselves at Ger
mantown, spreading thence to Lancas
ter, Berks and Rucks counties in Penn
sylvania, and later into Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois.
Have Quaint Dialect.
“In ‘Tlllle,’ Mrs. Fiske disclosed
some of the peculiarities of custom
and dialect of the Pennsylvania Men
nonites. Their adherence to teaching
German In schools Is not so mueli that
they love Hint language ns because
they fear translation would detract
from the literal import of their found
ers’ works. Their detachment from
the world Is shown by tlielr eurlout
use of English. A caller at a Luncns
ter home rang the bell many timet
without answer. Finally a woman op
peared at the door to apologize; ‘Oh
did you bell? It didn't make.’ The
women wear poke bonnets, resembling
those of the Dunkers. Men, womer
and children avoid colors, Jewels ot
any grace of dress that might betoker
vanity.
"Most rigid of all the groups, how
ever, is the Bruederhof, or llutterlur
Brethren, dating buck to Jacob Huter
a martyr of the Sixteenth century, wilt
insisted upon a complete communal or
ganization of congregations. It wat
tills group that had to leave Itiissh
about tlie time of our Civil war fot
evolving a communism which nntlcl
pated that of tlie soviet government ir
many respects. Today they are settler
along tlie James river, in South Da
kota, declining to east h vote or hole
office or patronize a store. Tlie;
forswear dancing, pUy-COlng and tu
bucco. They nre of German descent
came here directly from southern Kgs
sin, and form a law-abiding, prosper
ous, self-sufficient community
‘There are more than 50,(100 Menno
nltcs In tlie United States. Their com
■ minifies are to be found in odd cor
ners of the world where they may fol
low tlie simple teaching of theli
founder, Menno Simons, a Dutch re
former, born the year that Columbui
discovered America."
in
liquor. Tills
transportation of
day of June, 1922.
E. R. HINES,
Judge County Court, B. C., Ga
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