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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
VOL. 21. NO. <2. —«——<*«
Established October 12, 1901. MILLEDGEVILLE, GA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 11, 1922.
$1.50 A YEAR.
historical society
leader visits here
J)r. Walter M. Lee, Corres
ponding Secretary of Sou
thern Baptist Historical So
ciety, Spending Week With
Brother, Dr. L. W. Lee.
Dr. Walter M. Lee, corresponding
secretary of the Southern Baptist His
torical Society, arrived n Mliledgeville
this week to be the gue-.it of his
brother, Or. Lott W. Lee, for several
days.
For several years Dr. Lee has been
pastor of the Cochran Baptist church
anil owing to his unusual activities lit
connection with the Southern BapUst
Convention he is especially well
known throughout the South. Hr. has
secured the organ'zaton of Baptist
historical societies in practically all
the Southern states and is particular
ly interested in procuring and preset-v
ug historical sources of religious lifo
in the South.
Recognizng Milledgeville a3 an his
toric center, Dr. Lee is of the opinion
that ther e are in the garrets cf this
city valuable diaries, biogrgaphles and
old rcligous historical publications
which should be placed in the archives
of the historical society he represents,
iluring his stay here he is particularly
anxious to obtain all the old litera
ture pertaining to the Baptist denom
ination in Georgia.
Dr. Lee preached to the congrega
tion of the Baptist church, of Green
wood, S. C., last Sunday and on his
return decided to stop over In Mil-
ledgegviile to spend the week hers
with his brother.
WINS 12-HOUR FIGHT
AGAINST SNAKE BITE
NOrCROSS, Ga., Aug. 8.—After be
ing unconscious nearly twelve hours
from a rattle snake bite inflicted late
Saturday, T'ink Nesbit,-» farmer; will
Tt-cover, acordlng to the statement
Monday of physicians.
Nesbit, who was bitten while work
ing on his farm across the river from
Norcross, was brought here Saturday
night for medical treatment. Doc
tors Guthrie and Cochran treated Nes
bit Saturday night, the victim remain
ing unconscious all night, and Dr.
F. C. Nesbit, of Atlanta, a nephew of
the injured man, arrived early Sunday
to assist in the fight for Nesbit’s life.
The reptile’s venom became absorb
ed in Nesbit’s system liefor e a doctor
could he reached, it. was said.
The snake was four and a half feet
long and hadi four rattles.
SEPTEMBER I3TH
SET FOR
ACCEDE TO REQUEST rTflO 0 C
OF MANY CiTlull's ■* -***••• run *• *■
RALLY COMPLETED
DR. O. F. MORAN AND ME88R8. G.
^C. MeKINLEY AND O. M. ENNI8
TO MAKE RACE FOR COUNTY
COMMISSIONER.
A mass meeting composed of prob
ably more than one hundred well-
known citizens of Baldwin county was
held in the court house Friday morn-
’ing to arrive at a conclusion as to
three men well fitted to fill places on
the Baldwin county board of roads
and revenues.
Committees from various militia dis
tricts of”the county appointed to as-
irisrtain from the people of the vari
ous districts their choice as to who
..should make the race were reported
and a summing up of the whole situa
tion was discussed. Judging from gen
eral expression gathered the district
committeemen reported the names of
Dr. o. F. Moran, Mr. G. C. McKinley
and Mr. O. M. Ennis.
When the three names were suggest-
< d a vote was taken of those attend
ing the mass meeting. While all those
present failed to rise and give ex
pression, only one in the audience rose
and opposed the names of the three
men proposed to make the race.
After so nearly unanimously favor
ing the idea of having Dr. Moran and
Messrs. i.McKinley and Ennis make
the race a committe was appointed to
notify the proposed candidates of th’e
action of the mass meeting. All three
of the men, acceding to the wishes of
so many people of the county, gave
consent of the use of their names as
candidates.
DIXIE FLYER HITS AUTO,
WOMAN IS KILLED
TLFTON, Aug. 7—The Dixie Fly
er, southbound, at 5 o’clock Sunday
afternoon, struck an automobile at
the grade crosiflng at Tunnel Hill. Mrs.
Sherman Waldrop, of Rossvlllo, was
Killed, Mrs. R. Hamilton, her
mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stud
dern, all of Roseville, were injured,
none seriously.
The body of Mrs. Waldrop was
brought here and prepared for burial.
Mr. WaldTup said a high embank
ment hid the aproaching train.
How About This Ticket?
No better men and women can be
found in Milledgeville to entrust the
management and successful running
of the Georgia Military College than
the followering: •
Judge John T. Allen, C. F. Barrett,
Mrs. R. B. Moore, Mrs. J. D. Howard
Clias. H. Whitfield, Otto M. Conn and
Harry Bone.
Plans for Holding Baldwin
County Sunday Schools
Convention Have Been Ful
ly Arranged.
The program for the Baldwin
County Sunday School convention to
be held Wednesday of next week,
August 16th, has been completed.
The convention will be held at
Pleasant Grove church and all the
delegates will be expected to arrive
by or before the hour of ten o’clock.
At least two well known State Sun
day School workers will be present
at this gathering and Mr. J. F. Miller
president of the assiciatlou is mak
ing an extraordinary effort to arouse
unusual interest in the approaching
annual event.
The program as will be carried out
at the convention is given in full be
low.
PROGRAM
The following program will be car
ried out:
Theme “Forward in Religious
education.”
Morning Session
10:15 Period of Worship Songs
Scripture reading* and prayer. By
Rev. L. W. Browder.
10:35 How the home can co-op
erate with the Sunday School. 'Ey
Col. M. E. Sibley
10:55 Practical Plans for work
with young people. By Mrs. W. L.
Blankinship, Sunday School Special
ist of Atlanta.
11:25 Period of business. Secur
ing the records. Appointment of
committees.
11:45 Forward in religious edu
cation. By Miss Myra Batchelder,
Atlanta, Children’s Division Super
intendent, Georgia Sunday School
Ass’n.
12:15 Miscellaneous business..
12:30 Adjournment for dinner.
BASKET DINNER AT CHURCH
1:45 Period of worship, Songs,
Scripture reading and prayer. By
J. F. McCluny.
2:00 Building up the Adult
Bible Class. By Col. J. D. Howard.
G. N. & I, C. NAME
HAS BEEN CHANGED
Georgia State College for Wo
men is Substitute Name for
Popular Milledgeville Ed-
ucatinal Institution.
DR. M. M. PARKS SPEAKS
AT DEKALB MEETING
NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF 8TATE
8CHOOL 8Y8TEM MAKE8 FIRST
PUBLIC DELIVERANCE SINCE
TAKING OVER 8TATE OFFICE.
The name of the Georgia Normal &
Industrial College has been changed 1
to the Georgia State College for Wo
men, a bill to this effect having been
passed two weeks ago by the Georgia
legislature and signed Wednesday
morning by Governor Thos. W. Hard-
'Ajick.
The purpose of the bill In changing
the nameof the popular Milledgeville
institution was that of clearing up an
inference as embraced in the former
name as to the nature of the work car
ried on by the college. The bill was
intro j iced by Representative J. H. En
nis and the proposed measure went
through without any serious difficulty
whatever.
The Georgia State College for Wo
men was established more than thirty
years ago and the school has ,madi
greater progress probably than any
other educational Institution In the
south. The graduating class has In
creased during the last twenty years
around two thousand per cent.
For more than ten years this college
has annually been forced to turn down
applications of many glTls who have
sought admission to the instil) tlon,
evidencing Its popularity throughout
Georgia.
,2:30 A forward moving school. By
Miss Myra Batchelder.
2:55 Song.
3:00 The forward looking teach
er. By Mrs. W. L. Blankinship.
3:30 Period of business. Re
ports of County officers. Reports of
Committe8. Place of next meeting.
Recognition of school for largest at
tendance.
3:45 Shall we go forward? Brief
talks by everybody.
4:10 Adjournment.
Everybody is invited and request
ed tft bring a basket.
Another Selection.
Baldwin Democratic Execu-
t i v e Committee Holds
Meeting Saturday and Ar
ranges for Election.
The date for holding the Baldwin
county primary was set for Septem
ber 13th at a meeting of the Demo
cratic executive committee held Sat
urday morning.
The primary eletcion embraces
nominations for county representa
tive and county commissioners. The
date for holdinging the primary is the
isame as thet of the state.
Candidates for represenative were
assessed $25.00 and county commis
sioner candidates were assessed $10.-
'•0. Superior court and congression
al candidates were also assessed for
the entrance of candidates for these
office's. An assesment of $25.00 each
were made.
The rules formulated by the execu
tive committee state that the polls In
the country precincts of the county
tug and close at 3 o’clock In the
afternoon, while the polls in Milledge-
villo will open at 7 o’clock In the morn
ing and close nt G o’clock in the after
noon.
I submit the following names as sub
stantial citizens of our city for the
trusteeship of the Georgia Military
College, believing any seven of the ten
named would answer every require
ment and administer the affairs ofHhe
College satisfactorily to all concerned,
Mrs. J. D. Howard,- Mrs. J. L. Bee
son, Miss Nora Ennis, T. M. Hall,
W. J. Chandler, Frank Bone, L. N. Jor
dan, D. W. Brown, J. F. Miller, Roy
Baisden, Jr.
QUALIFIED VOTER.
And Still Another List
The following ticket for trustees
of Georgia Military College is here
by offered to be voted at the election
to be held August 22nd.
Jno. T. Allen, C. F. Barrett, Jno.
Conn, R. B. Moore, J. H. Ennis, W. L.
Ritchie, C. H. Whitfield.
(Signed) COLLEGE PATRON.
HAPPENINGS IN MILLEDGEVILLLE
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Friday morning, April 25th, an au
tomobile was driven on the streets of
Milledgeville and a great throng gath
ered to review the strange looking
horseless vehicle.
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The Milledgeville Lodge of Elks was
organized with the following charter
members:
Judge John T. Allen, Dr. J. Harris.
Chappell, Judge Rufus W. Roberts
Captain Walter Payne; Dr. J. G. Cro-
ley, G. G. Reid, Julius A. Horne, Judge
E. R. Hine3, J. C. Whitaker, Geo. W.
Cooper, C. H. Troutman. S. W. Thorn
ton, R. W. Hatcher, C. \V. Robson, B.
I. Fraley, Adolph Joseph, John M. Ed
wards, C: E, Prosser, J. E. Pottle, W.
H. Hunter, Dr. N. P. Walker, T. R.
Thornton, H. S. Jones, Dr. J. W. Mob
ley, R. L. Day, L. H. Andrews, M. A.
McCraw, C. L. Moore, C. P. Shell, T. L.
McComb, Geo ( C. Smith, L.S. Fowler
and Hugh T. Cline.
Monday, May 25, Mr. Marshall
Bland’s morse broke loose from a
hitching post at Midway and demolish
ed his buggy.
If you want a new Buick car
get your rder in now. I have
several orders now and ths
first come si first served.
W. T. GARRARD, JR.,
i Packards and Buicks.
Keep Six Inches Apart,
Is Decree on Beach
LONG BEACH, N. Y. Aug 7.—
Beach police carried tape measures
Sunday Instead of clubs.
Week-end Johnny no longer can bo
on proplnqultous terms with his
sweetie when he takes her a-bathlng.
Stay six inches apart, whether in the
sen or in the sand, John Tracy, Chief
ef Pillce, had decreed.
But there are compl cations. For
example, there are the man and his
wife who may touch each other in the
surf. There are strong men who leap
into the sea to save a woman In dis
tress. When these questions come
lp there is apt to be trouble.
The Iking Beach police ruled a few
weeks ago that both sexes rauBt wear
skirts to the'r bathing suits.
Mr. Mark Johnson announces his
andidacy for state school commission
er. ,
near Binghampton, N. Y. when a coach
in which he was liding turned over
jjiid he was thrown down an embank
ment by a pair of frightened horses.
Mr. Carr was returning with a party of
Boveral from a reception at Bainbridge,
N. Y.
July 31 whiskey was voted out of
Baldwin county by a vote of 488
against the intoxicants as against 193
favoring a continuance of the operat
ing of saloons.
Friday evening, August 2nd, Mr. J.
R. l^iwrence and Miss Pearl Lumas
were united in marriage under the
Green street arch entrance to the cam
pus of the Georgia Military College.
(
Tuesday, July 12, Joseph Ewalt was
pardoned from the penitentiary. Ewalt
was serving a sentence for the killing
of a young man by the name of Hemp
hill In July, 1896.
Mr. J. O. Wall ami Mr. M. A. Walker
:eturned from a stay of several days
In Texas.
Mr. J. D. Erwin was appointed
V.gent In Milledgeville for the South
ern Express Co.
Tho postofflee in Milledgeville
raised to Becond class.
was
The mnrriage of.Miss Annie Brooks,
of this city, and Mr. Homer Massey, of
Columbus, was solemnized at the home
of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
II. Brooks, Sunday morning, April 26.
\Yu Ting Fang, minister to tho Unit
ed States, delivered the commence
ment Bermon at the Georgia Military
College.
Mr. A. J. Carr was slightly injured
Tuesday morning, May 6th, the an
nual convention of the Georgia W. C.
T. U. was held in Milledgeville, the
sessions having been held in the Bap
tist church.
The annual patriotic educational and
religious rally of Rock Chapel commu
nity was held Thursday at the Rock
Chapel Camp Ground with Congress
man W. D. Upshaw acting as mflstor
of ceremonies. When Congressman
Upshaw was Introduced by the Metho
dist pastor, Rev. J. W. Twiggs, as the
master of ceremonies, tho large audi
ence gave him an ovation, rising to
their feet and cheering repeatedly.
The program carried out was as fol
lows: Welcome by Miss Ragsdale;
response to the welcome, Col. J. N.
Sparling, of Decatur; address on the
value of education, by Dr. Elam F.
Dempsey, secretary of Education in
North Georgia conference; sermon of
the day by Dr. W. H. Faust, pastor of
die Cordon Street Baptist church, At
lanta. t
Then camo the basket dinner and
business was luid aside until 2:15
o’clock.
Dr. M. M. Parks, inewly appointed
State Superintendent of Schools, was
then introduced and spoke on tho lm
portunce of tho common school work,
urging support for the secondary sys
tem. This was the second public deliv
erance of this well known educator
since he assumed Jits new relation. His
remarks wore very impressive and
were recelyed with applause by his
hundreds of hearers.
- t.uke G. Johnson then spoke for
several minutes on better citizenship.
Prof. Mobley, h venerable Confederate
veteran of Decatur closed the program
with a very felicitous brief, impromp
tu address, at the conclusion of which
the benediction was pronounced by Dr.
Dempsey.
CAPT. BOWDEN’BEEN
ASSIGNEDJO G.M.C.
Native Tennessean Will be
Commandant at Local Mil
itary College to Succeed
Capt. R. G. Cousley.
The followering dispatch sent out
from Washington Wednesday morning
will be read' with a great deal of
interest by the people of Milledgeville
und this section.
Capt. Edwin T. Bowden, now with
the 18th Infantry, at Camp Bix, N. J.
was today assigned as instructor for
'the Georgia Military College at
Milledgeville, Gu^iccording to a com
munication from tile Adjutant Gen
eral to Senator Harris, of G>'.rgia,
who has been handling the matter
for tho school authorities.
Capt. llowden was appointed In tho
regular Army from Tennense during
the World War,, and tho Adjutant Gen
oral says that his .ecord shows rimt
he is pualifled for this dctr.'l and it
is hoped that his services will he sat
isfactory in every respect to the col.
Vgo authorities. He will succeed
Capt. R. O. Cousley who has been at
G. M. C. for. several years.
Capt. Bowden is now on duty at the,
cummer training camp at Camp Dix
as an instructor, and will roport to
Milledgeville as soon as he finished
the summer work.
Twelve young ladies composed the
graduating class of tho Georgia Nor
mal & Industrial Collego.
Saturday, May 24th, Col. Jos. E. Pot
tle mode speeches at Warrenton and
Camak in behalf of the candldacv of
Thos. E. Hardwick, the latter a candi
date for Congress from tho Tenth dis
trict.
WORKMEN’S LAW IS
VITALLY CHANGED
MRS. ANNIE GIBSON
DIED THURSDAY
Widow of the Late judge Park
Gibson succumbs After
Shrt Illness. Funeral Be
Held h riday.
Mrs. Annie Barrington Gibson, wld-o
Mrs. Annie Barrington Gibson, Wld-
iw of the late Judge Park Gibson, pass
ed away at two o’clock Thursday
ral daysinow isthe afnla fultaf dalo
morning, followering an illness of only
a few days.
Mrs Gibson had been in falling
health for several years. However
her condition was not considered un
til Monday evening, when she suf
fered an acute attack and she was tak
en to the hospital. Early Wednesday
it was noted that her condition was
growing weaker and the members
of the family were called to her bed
side.
For more than thirty years Mrs.
Gibson was a resident o? Milledge-
'.lU.'. ' She was six.ty-fivo years of age
and a native of Baldwin county.
Surviving Mrs. Gibson are three
children, Mrs. Homer Bivins, of this
city, Mr, Sneed Gibson, of Miami, Flu.,
and Mr. Conn Gibson, of Athens;
also three brothers, Messers J. E„ J. B.
and Will Barrington, all of this county.
The funeral arrangements had not
been made Thursday evening, though
It is known that interment will bo
in the Milledgeville cemetery.
ATLANTA, A u g r 8.—Important
changes for the benefit of the work
ing men and women subject to tho
workmen’s compensation law are con
tained in a b 11 which passed the
house at the Monday afternoon scs-
rion, virtually without opposition.
The present law provides a waitinc
period of fourteen days fer persons
injured in industry, nnd the bill re-
duces this period to Beven days. That
i3 lo say, under the present law a per 1
ten Injured cannot recover corapen-
sat on up to fourteen days unless dis
abled for more than /our weeks. The
bill reduces the period to seven days.
The present; law -provides a maxi
mum recovery of $12 a week for dis
ablement, and the bill increases the
amount to $15. The present law pro
vides a maximum recovery of $3,00C
for death, and the bill Increases this
umount to $3,286. The present law
provides a minimum recovery for total
permanent disablement of $4,000, and
tile bill increases this amount to $5,-
000,
Representative Guess of DeKnlb in
troduced the bill and presented it tc
the house. It was supported 1 by thf
RECORD BROKEN
'rank Elliott Wins 50-Mile Auto Race
At Cotati. Calif,
COTATI, Calif. Aug. 6.—Frank El
liott set a new world>'s automobiile
record for 50 miles on a board speed
way here today, when he won the Co
tati sprint in 25 minutes, 49 and 72
100 seconds. Elliott made an average
speed of 117 1-2 miles an hour. Tom
my Milton was second and Eddie
Hearne third.
STATE SENATORS
HAVE FIST FIGHT
ATLANTA, Aug. 8.—Senators L. C.
Brown of the fiftieth und Jo e Beu
Jackson of th e twenty-first, camo to
blows on the floor of the Senate Imme
diately after adjournment at 1 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon. Several sharp
blows were exchanged before their
riends separated them.
The argument Was said to have
started while Senator Wohlender
chairman of the constitutional amend
ments committee, was seeking to ob
tain a quorum lor a meeting of that
committee to report out the biennial
sessions bill. A majority of th 0 mem
bers of the upper house had left tho
chamber before the encounter started
NOTICE
The public is hereby notified that
on and after this date no ono will be
nllowed in our pond near Black
Springs, unless by special permis
sion and accompalned by one of the
undersigned,
J. E. Jackson
T. H. Clark
E. B. Jackson
J. T. McMullen
Dr. E. A. Tlgner attended the state
convention of Knights of Pythias at
Valdosta as a delegate from tho Mil-
ledeville lodge.
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