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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
VOl~ 2:
No. 46.
Established October 12, 1901.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1922.
$1.50 A YEAR.
OPENS WITH
fair attendance
Opening Exercises Take Place
Wednesday Morning. Pros
pects Favorable for 1922-23
i Term.
The
tlie O
rung of the 1928-23 term of
gia Military College took
\\ ilnesflay morning with a fair
enroll 111- nt of students coming here
Irom various sections of Georgia.
The opening exercises were presid
ed over by Judge John T. Allen, pres
ent ot the board of truste-'. A large
attfbdarae of visitors was had and
Biucli interest was manifest^ in the
welfare of the college by all those
present.
judge Alien addressed the students
and members of the faculty apd offer
„,l assurance that the people of Mil-
ledgeville were deeply Interested in
,l, e welfare and progress of the Insti
tution The address by Judge Allen
was followed by one delivered by Pres
ident J. N. Haddock. Col. Haddock
told of how hopeful he was that this
would be one of the most successful
terms In the history of the college, de-
daring that It was his purpose to em
ploy every means of making the cadet
(eel at home and afford them.opportu-
jlty to achieve success In their
tiudles.
Talks were made at the opening ex-
M. Lipham, Rev. T. G. Watts, Rev.
Carl Minor, of Amerlcus, and Dr. J.'L.
Beeson acting president of the Geor
gia State College for Women, each
addressing themselves as being high
ly Interested in seeing the institu
tion accomplish splendid results dur
ing the 1922-13 term
Following thtj opening exercises the
itudent body was organized and every
thing for getting down R> business
iss arranged in short order.
!ST CONSUMES
6,277^000 BALES
1909, $ilO2,l52;00O
linage in 1921 Greatest,
Bug Doing Most of It.
Apartment of Agriculture Issues Es
timates for .1922.
LOSS IN 1909-21, $3,102,152,000
pair,age in 1921 is Greatest, Little Bub
Doing Most of It.
VICTIM DEAD
AFTER FIVE MONTHS
Suit for $60,000 Filed Against City
By and Mrs. J. H. Holloway
William Llovd Fisher is Thir^-v - 'vueys Allen and Pottle
Victim of Accident Five Furnish City With Copy of
Months Ago. Suit Based on Injuries Sus
tained by Mrs. Holloway.
Copy of damage suit by Mr. and
M. H. Holloway aainst the city of \lil-
Jedgeville was furnished the city of-
Macon, Sept. 4.—The final chapter
tn the career of William Lloyd Fisher,
aviator who died at the Macon Hos
pital Friday morning at 5:40 o’clock,
was colsed yesterday afternoon with
the funeral service at Hart’s chapel, j flc,als Th »rs<lay afternoon for injuries
interment following in.the American ! 3UStained by Mrs - Hollowa y Ju, y 4th
Legion plot at Riverside cemetery.
Rev. Grady D. Feagan, pastpr of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church, officiated.
For five months, Fisher, the victim
of burns sustained when a plane which
he was piloting crashed in the rail
road - yards near Central City Park,
killing two passengers, fought death,
and was on the road to recovery when
he lost heart and on account of in
tense pain refused to allow surgeons
to dress his wounds where new skin
had been grafted from hip wife and
volunteers to expedite his recovery. ’
The funeral was arranged for three
of this year when she was caught oo
neath an overturned automobile on
West Hancock street at a point a
short distance beyond the Central of
Georgia railroad.
Mrs. Holloway is asking damage in
the sum of $50,000, while Mr. Hollo
way is filing .claim for damage in the
sum of $10,009. The claims for dam
age by Mr. and Mrs. Holloway are in
the shape of a joint suit and are bas
ed on the allegation that each have
been damaged to the amount of -i ich
sum through the neglect of the city
of Mllledgeville in having failed to
o’clock yesterday afternoon and long I baVe the street at the point where the
accident occurred in such shape as
nfight not have subjected them tef such
injuries as they reeived.
Copy of the .damage suits was filed
ledgeville by Allen & PottleETAOIN
with the mayor and city council of
Milledgeville by Allen & Potle, attors-.
neys for the plaintiff*. The suit wllF
not come up for "hearing before the
Jahuary term of the Baldwin Superior
court.
The afternoon of July 4th last, Mr.
and Mrs. Holloway were caught be
neath an, overturned Buick touring
caf when they attempted to turn out
of West Hancock gtret o Tift street
They had been out during the after
noon dn a pleasure ride following a
fither heavy rainfall earlier in tne
day and the street having a clay sur
face that had become muddy and slick
caused ’the automobile to plunge down
an embankment.
Following the accident in which she
was sd seriously injured, Mrs. Hollo
way was taken to the Hall-Little San-
itorium where she remained' until
t . about two weeks ago. 'For two or
Will be Cast-itt Alt Preeinete uw»*.w«»(»k*. leawi that she
would pass away at any time' add so
far she has not been able to be up.
This is probably the largest damage
before that hour friends and strangers
gathered at the funeral directors on
Mulberry street until the little chapel
was filled, the foyer crowded and men
lined the sidewalk to pay a last trib
ute to a former member of the Twen
ty fifth Royal Fljrjng Corps.
The Joe N, Neel post of the Ameri
can iLegion, the Buqtlng-McWilliains
post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
their auxiliaries and others sent
wreaths and garlands of flowers which
banked the casket in the little chapel.
Masons and Shriners of Macdn were
also represented.
M. M. Skinner, brother-in-law of the
aviator, was the only relative who
came to Macon for the funeral. Mr.
Skinner arrived from Cleveland, O.
MUCH INTEREST IN
PRIMARY WEDNESDAY
Indications Are a Large Vote
in Countv.
lot.
Women to Bal-
I Washington, Sept, 3.—The boll wee-
ill, destroyer of potential wealth in
lotion and bugaboo of the cotton
■rower, had u record year and did it-
plf proud in the fields of the South
;»t year by preventing production of
7,000 bales of cotton, which with
seed that would have been gin-
led, was worth $610,341,000, based on
(arm prices of December 1, last.
A careful study of the damages to
totton hy the boll weevil' and other
Uses has just been concluded by the
fepartment cjf Agriculture whose re
ran shows that during the thirteen
lears, i*u p.^i, the hypothical value
II the prevented production of cotton
pnt all causes totaled $1 1,473,599,000.
ff•hat amount the boll weevil dam-
‘ amounted to $3,102,152,000. The
f-rm value of cotton including Beed,
roduced in those thirteen years ag
itated «15,646,523,000, or an average
Mi $l.203.57s.700 a year.
1 Actual j reduction of cotton In those
Jiirteeii years aggregated 159,648,000
lairs while damage from all sources
pegat.-d 11)9,434,000 bales, of which
boll weevil Is credited with pre-
|*nting production of 28,776,000 bales,
ft* Potential production of cotton In
Tntted States for those years,
Itrtfore, aggregated 269,082,000 bales
[»n average of 20,698.615 yearly while
‘ reduction of the crops because of
P na Re from all sources averaged
JAW.OOO bales annually and the boll
Hi's average toll, 2,213,538 bal
parly.
Record Loss in 1921
point or loss in production
P°“8h all causes 1921 was a record
Tin- estimated potential pro
ltU °n aggregated 18,666,000 bales
"ted production being 10.712,00*
lor which the boll weevil was
*0°nsii . for 6,277,000 bales. The
F Ual Production was 7,954,1000 bales,
’■'•nted production, therefore far
actual crop and the wee-
I reduction equal to 79 per
P () i Ih- actual crop.
On account of the unusual manifest
interest in the outcome of the pri
mary to be held Wednesday of next
week it is expected that almost every
registered voter in Baldwin county
will go to the pollscand east their bal
lots. • , '
The interest in the county commis
sioners race overshadows any other
though it is generality conceded that
quite a contest will be put on in be
half of certain candidates making
races for state house offices. How
ever, according to the present out
look. there will not be much interest
in the gubernatorial race as was
shown two years ago.
At a meeting of the Baldwin county
Democratic Executive Committee held
Saturday rules governing the bold
ing of thq election were laid down. It
was decided by members of the com
mittee to close the polls at all pre !
cincts in the county at the same time.
The holding open for ballots will
last until six oclock in the afternoon
4n ,all the precincts in the county and
until the polls are closed no count
ing of the ballots will be commenced.
The polls in Milledgeville precincts
will open at seven o’clock In the morn
ing. while in the country precincts
they #11 not open before nine o clock.
suit that has been filed against the
clly of rtnfedgeville in mere than two
score years.
DR.-1. I. STONE DIES
AT ASHEVILLE, N. C.
FORMER MILLEDGEVILLE PHYSI-
—CIAN SUCCUMBS AFTER BRIEF
-ILLNESS. . SON OF MRS. R. G.
STONE OF THIS CITY. '
Dr. J. J. Stone, at one time asso
ciated with Dr. H. D. Allen, of this
city, died Friday hi Ashyille, N. C.
Dr. Stone had fer a number of years
iractlced medicine in Hawkinsville. He
was In Ashviile on a visit 1?t the time
of Ills death. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. R. G. Stone, two sisters,
Mrs. It. C. Swint and‘Miss Ruth Stone,
of Milledgeville, and one brother, Dr.
R. G. Stone, Jr., of Trenton, N.J.
The deceased was a native of Linton,
Hancock county. During the years he
resided in Hawkinsville he won many
friends and throughout all middle
Georgia he was. held in the highest
esteem by hundred:; of acquaintances.
Dr. Stone was" a member of one oi
the best known and moat highly re
spected families in this section of the
Rate and tho ani.ouncer.ent of his
death was received as a shock by his
nany friends. '
BALDWIN SCHOOLS ; STATE TAX DIGEST
OPEN MONDAY WEEK SHOWS DECREASE
Teachers Have Been Secured j State Will Face Loss of $45,-
For all Schools and Plans 000 if All Ad Valorem
Are Comoleted for Opening
September l’8th.
FIVE SEEK ELECTION IN
' WASHINGTON COUNTY
There are five * candidates in the
■ace for,representative from Washing
ton county for the primary to be helfc
he 13th of this month.
Washington county furnishes two
members, of the Georgia legislature,
therefore two of Lite five men in the
races this year will be eleetd. Those
who have announced themselves at
candidates include T. I». Hawkins, and
J. K. Hyman, incumbents, and C. H
Pritchard, Chas; Miriam Wail and Jeff
V.\ JVlarren.
ENNIS WILL BE IN
SPEAKERS CONTEST
Representative J. H. Ennis, who will
be re-nomiuated announces that. he
will be a candidate for speaker of the
House of Representatives when the
next General Assembly meets ii» June
of next year.
In the primary next Wednesday Rep
resentative Ennis, will be named for
the third time a member of tlie Lower
House of the Georgia law-making body
ih representative from Baldwin coun
ty. Also, he has served one term as
tate senator from this senatorial dis
trict. 1
Mr. Ennis has been given the as
surance of support from a large per
ent of the representatives of the
state in his contest for speaker of the
House and it is generally conceded
that*he is one of the most popular
members of the Georgia law-making
body.
NOTICE OF J. F. MILLER’S
^ CANDIDACY
I am a candidate for re-election to
the office of County Commissioner,
under the rules governing democratic
primaries in this State. The election
will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 13.
U elected 1 will give my best efforts
to the performance, of the duties of
the office, and Y tll at all times work
for what 1 think Is the best inters
of the people, keeping foremost in m>
mind the economical administration
of the affairs of the county. I will
appreciate your vote and consider
your support a personal favor
j, F. MILLER
TWO CANDIDATES IN
SENATORIAL RACE
JAMES L. KELLY AND W. R.
HODGES -ARE CONTESTANTS
FOR SEAT IN UPPER HOUSE OF
GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN PRI
MARY OF NEXT WEDNESDAY.
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' - - Call 127-J for Informa-
reasonable
tlon.
There will be two candidates for
the state senate from this senatorial
district in the primary of next Wed
nesday, Messrs. W. R. Hodges and
James L.-Kelly, both of Washington
county.
This is Washington county’s time
for furnishing the senator from this
senatorial district, which embraces
Baldwin, Washington and Hancock
counlies. *lt is the rule that the sen
ntoriul candidates shall come from
one county at jhe same election.
At present the senator from tilts dis
trict resides in Hancock county, while
the next .will come from Washington
county. Two years from now It will
k= Baldwin county’s time to elect a
presentatlve in the upper house.
SPELLING CONTEST
$10 CASHTO WINNER
We are all familiar with .tlie old-
fashioned spelling bee that was pepu
ar in the schools not many years ago.
and, In some sections, still is popular
n the uchools and even among the
townspeople, a*l we are also aware
>f the intense interest that prevailed
n the good old days when both sides
had been spelled, down until only twi
pellers remained standing, usually tlie
oest the community could boast.
But there is another kind of spelling
bee that is being waged at this ver;
moment in this community, it is
;ither unique in that it does not
choose sides, the words are not given
out oral, and you are not expected to
spell them in' two seconds. Nor Is It
necessary to elect two curtains and
then go through the routine of choos
ing your spellers.
This spelling contest Is found -in a
louble-page advertisement which ap
pears on the center page of this issue
of The,Milledgeville News. In this
advertisement are found a number of
smaller advertisements jilaced thqje
by the following leading merchants oi
this city:
L. N. Jordan.
B. G. Glass Motor Co.
Southern Dry Goods Co.
E. E. Bell.
Goodrich. v
Biain’s Shoe Shop & Pressing Club.
R. H. Wootten. •
The Baldwin Furniture Co.
The Boaz Shoe Co.
In each of these advertisements
there Is at least one misspelled word.
Read' ' the advertisements carefully,
making notations of* each word you
find misspelled, giving in each instance
the incorrect and the correct spelling
the name of the merchant in whose
advertisement the word occurs, your
name and address. Mall this li
the spelling contest manager of The
Milledgeville News.
These lists will be judged by three
persons who are good spellers, and
who are in no way connected with
The News. AIL lists must reach this
office not later than six o’clock Wed
nesday afternoon, September 13 to be
judged In the contest, as the i/innlng
list with, the names of the winner will
be published in the Issue of Septem
ber 15th.
To the winner of this contest will
be given $10.00 in cash money. In the
event of a tie. the prize will be divided
equally. .„
The opening of the 1922-23 term of
the Baldwin county public schools will
take place next -Monday week, Sep
tember 18th.
Teachers have been elected for all
llie schools of the county and every
thing is now practically- ip readiness
for the beginning of the term As-
cording to present prospects there
will be quite a large enrollment When
the doors afo opened for the begin
ning of the term.
The following are the teachers who
have "been elected to teach in the
:ounty schools the next term:
Junior High Schools.
Cooperville: Prof, J. - A. Maddox,
principal; Miss Eula/Simpson, assist
ant principal; assistants, Mrs. J. R.
Watkins, Mis Mary Vaughn.
Meriwether: Miss Mamie .Icnes,
principal; assistants, Miss Mattie .Mae
Torrance, Miss Annie Clyde Veal.
Midway: Prof. J. F. McClune>\ prin
cipal; Mrs. J. D. Willis, assistant prin
cipal; assistants, Miss ILeoia Newton,
Miss Bessie Adams. I
Union Point: Prof. N. S. Timmons,
principal; Miss Bertha Holt, assistant
principal; assistants, Mrs. W. E.
Hodges, Mrs. Florence Crocker.
Grammar Schools*
Scottsboro: Prof. J. L. Lawrence,
principal; Miss Hattie Richardson, as
sistant.
Salem: Miss Connie Jones, princi
pal; Miss Beulah Brannen, assistant.
Mt. Pleasant; Miss I^orene Hum
phries, principal; Miss Senle Hubbard,
assistant. 1
• Black Springs: Mrs. J. H. Under
wood. ,
0 Camp Creek: Mrs.’ M- L .Weaver.
Harmony:- Prof. A. C. Whitefleld.
Hopewell: Miss Rosie Cook.
Plnegrove: Miss Kittle James.
State Farm: Miss Ruth King.
Union Hill: Miss Iris V^llklnson.
TO THE LADY VOTERS
OFBALDWIN COUNTY
Taxes Are Collected.
The administration of J. J.* Brown
iresent commissioner of agriculture
has been the most powerful in the his-
:ory of the department; In that he hus
jsed the office to build the most pow
erful political machine in the state
based entirely ou the interest of
Brown and his ring. The office was
created, and is maintained at an enor-
nous expense to the taxpayers for the
purpose of advancing^ the agr^ultur-
al Interests of our grqat State. Mr
Brown has diverted It to his own
proper use, benefit and behoof; and
aside from partizan politics, the office
might well be abolished for the good
it Is doing the farmers. When a pub
He ntBpiiU ceases to regard his office
as a public trust, and a sacred thing
it conies' time for house cleaning,
you to its laws should have been
Women of Baldwin county, the right
to vote in a government that subjects
yours from the day the government
was created. All manly men rejoice
that you are at last coming Into your
natural rights; and all good m*n are
expecting you to purify political at
mosphere of our- country and State.
You will not bo found wanting.
k CITIZEN.
Actual Figures Show $19,-
000,000 More on Digest
t Than Estimated.
Atlanta, Sept. 5.—If all ad valorem „
taxes on the books aro collected tlie
State will face a loss of Its income
lorn that source for 1923 of $415,-
000.
State Tax Coni mis.-loner H. .1. Full-
o;ght today completed a tabulation
it Ihe total of 1922 ti.'c *fie f.ir^
he State, showing 31,017,468,03d to
.vhtch he has added by additions made
and agreed upon in three counties
aggregating $1377,181, making a total '
m the State digest for 1922 of $1,018,-
845,211, which compares with a total
digest tot last year of $1,102,210,969.
The decrease this year as compared
with last year ip $83,365,755; or a lit
tle more than ^ 1-2 per cent.
The loss in 1921 over tin preceding
year was $19,262,092, oi a decrease of
little under 7 per cent. This year’s
loss, therefor,e is more than ot'c-ha'f
of one per cent on the total digest
greater than the total loss year oyer
1921. #
The combined decrease for 1921 and
1922 is $169,627,847 undlr the total ot
1920. Year before last, however, the
State Tax Commissioner’s office put
an addition on the total digests of the
State of $198,000,000 which leaves at
this time, calculating the drop off in
the last two years, a larger aggregate
.digest than that of 1919.
Mors Than Juno Estimate.
The early part of June ot Ihfs year
Commissioner Fullbright gave to Gov
ernor Hardwick an estimate that this
year's total digests would be one bil
lion dollars, and it was on those fig
ures the calculations were made prior
to the meeting or the Legislature.
The actual figures.now show nearly
$19,000,000 morn on the total digest
than was estimated. *
■ With appropriations made In 1921,
for the years 1922 and 1923, on tho
basis of the estimated revenue at that
time there is some probability /hat
the income at Ihe end of this year
will have shrunk considerably under
what at that time it wbb estimated
tho income from ad valorem taxes
would bring. However, the gasoline
tax and the new special taxes imposed
last year by tho Legislature wOuld
have, fully taken cure of all this de
crease had the Legislature of 1922 paid
any attention whatever to the defects
In the existing general tax law and
made correction ot the conHtiyuU' }na 1
PIANOS TUNED—-Why dont your
children like to practice? Perhaps
your plan • is out of tune. Place yofif
order for tuning with J. L. Hitchcock.
Phone 104-J. References: Georgia
Stale College for Women. ■
NOTICE
The Board-of Education of Baldwin
'County will receive bids oiifthe fol
lowing soutes until Tuesday^ Septem
ber 12. File your bid witii tfie county
school superintendent.
'By order of the Board of Education,
of Baldwin County.
defects covered by the numerous cases
now iu court, in which eight of tho
classifications covered in the general
tax law, are being fought. The gaso
line tax Ih found to be yielding quite
as much as wijh estimated for it. but
the elimination of revenue under tho
general tax aot'from man;/ of the lar
gest Jhticipated sources, through the
State having been enjoined, is result
ing in less revenue from that source
than was expected.^
The defects in the 1921 general tax
act were called to the attention of the
Legislature when that body convened
Jills year—in fact It wus a notorious
incident in the State’s tax question
long before the Legislature-met—but
at no time was the slightest Intention
ever evidenced in the recent session
to in anjiwwWWtouch the problem, ami
no was even offered looking
to %n£ Roire®°n of the defects.
With the State’s total revenue this
year running a little over $9,000,000,
the decrease shown in the digests now
in hand, complete, will mean that
there will be a less total revenue next
year, with the total aggregate appro
priations for the year In excess of that
figure. I •
50c Durham-Duplex Blades
AT
Culver & Kidd Drug Company
"OF COURSE”
Phones 224 and 240
