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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
VOL' 21 '
No. BO.
Established October 12, 1901.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY,
Sllfll EARLY. WORK HARD
The Significance of Pride and Advertising in The News*
w . i Subscription Drive.
™
HALF million extra votes
CAN NOW BE WON WITH EASE
Hotheads do not always win but cold feet invariably lose, and anybody
Starting anything: it pays to. start in with ENTHUSIASM. Enthusiasm and
ibelief is one's own ability to win out in any project is contagious. If yo\i
believe in yourself, then you can convince others in your belief.
“ADVERTISE” •
Ducks lay the largest eggs, but ducks are a drug on the market. Who
goes in and orders a dozen duck eggs? But the hen—ah, the hen Is differ
ent • The hen ADVERTISES. That’s the difference between the duck and are embraced is especially atractive
the hen. When the hen lays an egg she advrtiss that fact all over the farm.
About the only business that seems to thive without advertising is bootlegging.
WHOLE SECTION Of 1 - '
LOTS TO BE SOLD
OCT. 12, JM*. f
indpO ?. -uL
#1.60 A YEAR.
THIEF SETS
FREE TRIP ONLY
Capt. J. H. Ennis To Offer
Scores of Lots on Ennis
Heights In Sale to Ee Put
On In November.
Particulariy on account* of the se
rious need of homes in Milledgeville
at this time Capt. J. H. Ennis has con
cluded to put on sale all th 8 build
ing lots embraced in Ennis Heights,
situated less than two blocks from j place, Alexander Smith, negro per-
Jefferson street. i ter, has nothing to his credit except
Colonial Theater Porter Com-
mits Burglary and Is Taken
From Train at Covington
Tuesday.
After having committed buiglary
and taken from the cash drawer of
the Colonial TheaUr the .turn of $17
and a quantity of cigarettes that were
stored in the lobby of the amusement
The saje of these lots will take place I the ability to truthfully sny that he
during th e month of November, ac-Hgot a round-trip to Covington and back
cording to present plans of Capt En j without putting out any hard earned
nis. The section in which these lo’s money.
Smith had been working at the Co-
“Prlde”
But what w e are driving at is this—
if YOUR name is in the contest yon
naturally want to make the best show
ing possible. You have a certain
amount of pride—we all have—and
want to HEAD THE LIST. Besides
there are four prizes rnnging from $.70
to $705 in value that await the four
host workers in the race. This is a sub
scription contest pure and simple. The
News just wants to put this paper in
EVERY HOME in the county, and es
pecially the trade territory about
Milledgeville. It will circulate in
goodly portions of the neighboring
counties before the campaign ends.
his content is ajitraight, legitimate
business enterprise, in which the man
agement of The News ventuerd $1,000
in prizes, and GUARANTEED EVERY
BODY THAT TAKES DART and fails
k win a cash commission for efforts
put forth. Nothing could be fairer
than this. The News offers these
prizes, takes ail the risks, and guar
antees YOU SOMETHING.
Can Get Tan Today
I,et every candidate whose name is
in the race, and whd wants a prize
take their receipt book in hand and
call on nearby friends and neighbors
and try to get ten subscriptions. That
is fifteen ($17) dollars in,business. It
gives your nomination a value of 100,-
000 more votes. It also gives you ONE
Opportunity Coupon, good for 100,000
Kstra Votes, and also gives you 50,000
votes on the regular schedule That
shoots your total up to 300,000 votes.
NOW WOULDN’T THAT LOOK BET
TER AND BE MORE ENCOURAGING
TO YOUR FRIENDS, than to see you
stalliug along with a mere 50,000 votes
opposite your name? LETS TRY!
Maybe you won’t get the ten subscrip
tions today, but NOTHING CAN BE
ACOMPUSHED WITHOUT *A START
and the START is about HALF THE
BATTLE. If you don’t get the ten sub
scriptions today, maybe you will fin
lah out the ten tomorrow—so TRY
That s till we ask—Try, and a fair trial
make you an enthusiastic worker,
and an enthusiastic worker will see
)ou a happy winner.
Win Cash October 17th.
On October 17th, 4 p. m„ The News
"ill award two cash prizes. Nothing
'ike being a winner EARLY in the
fame. $10 goes to the person turning
in the most cash subscription business
U P to 4 p. m., Tuesday, Oct. 17th, since
Ike beginning of the campaign; $5 to
tti» one turning in second most. WIN
EARiLY, and WIN OFTEN, and win
the Ford Car November 10th.
Half Million Votes.
This contest will be divided into
fct\cral periods and from September
•ath to October 17th at 4 tp. m., will
ke known as “Opportuniy Period."
There is a real inducement for yeu to
fet an early start for during "Oppor
tunity Period” a real worker can se
cure 500,000 extra votes with a little
effort. There will be given to each
c*odliate an "Opportunity Coupon”
for 100,000 extra votes every
•hue the candidate turns in subscrip-
tion business amounting to $9.00. This
"mount is only six one-year subscrip
tions to THE NEWS. Both new, and
fcnewalg of old subscriptions count.
0n >y five of these big "Opportunity
1 oupotig" will be given to any one
andidate. But you want to be Sure
llrt Bet your full five. In computing
ness count for as many votes as dur-
“Opportunity Period" ending!
Tuesday, October 17th.
Regular Voting Schedule.
On payment of $1.50 5.000 votes
On payment of $3.00 15.000 votes
On payment of $4.50 27.000 votes
On payment of $G.00 35.000 votes
On payment of $7.50 47.000 votes
On payment of $9.00 57.000 votes
On payment of $10.70... 65.000 votes
On payment of $12.00... 75.000 votes
On payment of $13.70... 87.000 votes
On payment of $15.00... 100,000 votes
SOW THE GRAIN
CROP EARLY
(By L. E. SWAIN, County Agent.)
Where the rainfall has been ample
to enable the land to be plowed, no
further time should be lost in sowing
the small grain crop. In the absence
)f a grain drill the land sholld be plow
ed and smoothed and the grain cut in
with a disc harrow. Late plantings
are largely responsible for the poor
yields in the South, therefore, it is
very important to sow the oat crop
early. Where no fertilizer la used at
the time of planting, the grain should
be top dressed with an application of
nitrate of soda the latter part of Feb
ruary or first of March. Noi farm of
an consequence should omit the small
grain, crop from its schedule. Espe-
cially is the crop important at this
time on account of the partial failure
of tli e coni crop. The small grain
crop fits in nicely with a definite rota
tion on every farm, and is the means
to the end of building up the land in
fertility because of the fact that a
legume can be planted after the grain
is harvested.
Undoubtedly our acreage planted to
cotton will be materially increased an
other year, as assuredly it should be,
but w e must never again fall into the
error of depending solely on cotton for
a livelihood. Every farmer should raise
Uis own pork and a surplus to sell.
We are learning to market our live-
tock co-operatively, and there should
be no difficulty in disposing of what
surplus we raise in this manner at the
highest market price. The grain land
furnishes an additional area for graz
ing in the early spring and after har-
est, and the hogs will aprpeciate the
residue in the fields. Hogs do wonder
fully well grazing on oat stubble and
it will pay any farmer to leave some
of the grain uncut for them. This is
probably the first grain crop on the
farm schedule which the hogs will
have access to, after which they can
be turned on the early peas and pea
nuts, before the corn and velvet bean
fields are open.
System is required In farming as in
any other successful business, and I
would not consider any system of
farming safe which did not include
the small grain crop in the schedule.
U<to
"orth of business, a two-year
•subscription counts the sums as two
Pne-year subscriptions; a three-year
‘ubsi ripHon counts the sar.'.e ns three
"De-year subscriptions, etc.; in other
"onls, when you.turn in enough sub-
"ription business so that the cash
payment is equivalent to $9.00 you
f't one "Opportunity Coupon.’’ At no
"fiii-r time during the whole contest — -
"I" *9.00 in cash subscription bust- all the people of the community
for the building of new homes and it lonial Theater several months. Hav
is the hope of Capt. Ennis that epough ing become quite familiar with the
buyers will participate in the sale of
result In the building upof an unusu
ally attractive residential section In
Milledgeville.
For several years it has been prac
tically impossible for one to rent a de
sirable medium-sized residence in Mil
ledgeville and it is generally con-
cededd that the city has but little
chance to expand and grow under srch
circumstances. Many outsiders have
surroundings of the place, ho decided
Monday night to take advantage of
so much knowledge he had gained.
With an instrument suitable for such
work, ho went to the back of the the
ater building and successfully pryed
open the door to the basement and
quietly made bis way through to the
front of the place and commenced his
rascality.
The first thing Alexander went after
sought opportunity of moving their | v , a8 Ulu ' ash (lrawer of the theator .
families to Milledgeville, though the
city has undergone but little growth
ni this manner on account cf the fact
homes have not been available to
those expressing a desir,, to become
residents here.
According to general expression, the
sertion / of lots to be offered in the
Ennis sale is especially desirable for
building up a new residential section
and that those participating in the sale
will b e making a worth-while invest
ment.
Th e sale will be extensively adver
tised two or three weeks in advance
and it is expected a number of pros
pec-live purchasers from other sections
of the State will be here when the oc
casion takes place.
PRIMARY RE HELD
OH NEXT TUESDAY
Effort Will Be Made To Have
Full Vote Cast In Special
Primary for United States
1 Senator.
All the voting precincts in Baldwin
county will be open next Tuesday,
October 17th, for the polling of votes
in the special primary to be held for
the electing of a United States sena
tor to succeed th e late Thomas E.
Watson, and for the nominating of a
pension commissioner to succeed the
late Pensioner Commissioner J. W.
Lindsey.
The precinctsyn the rural sections
of th Q county will be opened at S
o’clock in the morning and close at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. The polls
in Milledgeville will be opened at 7
o’clock in the morning and closed
, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon.
Whiia compartively littl e interest
i# felt in the primary next Tuesday,
on account of the fact only two offices
are to be ballotted upon, the friends of
the candidates in the race are urging
that a full vote be cast in deciding
Baldwin county’s choice of the men
to fill the important offices.
MRS. J. D. WILLIS BEEN
NAMED POSTMISTRESS
Mrs. Willis’ apopintment as post
mistress was confirmed by the Senate
about a month ago. She Is a young
woman of educational training and
possesses coniderable business expe
rience, fitting her exceedingly well ti
take up the new duties imposed upon
PROF. A. L FUNK HEADS
UNION POINT SCHOOL
Prof. Aaron L. Funk, a graduate of
the Illinois State Normal University,
has been elected principal of the
Union Point Juinor High School to
sccceed Mr. Ralph Moran, the latter
having resigned the place to accept a
responsible position with Swift & Com
pany.
Prof. Funk has had several years of
successful experience in high school
work and he comes to the Union Point
Junior school highly recommended.
With the coming of Prof. Funk to
Union Point is giving Baldwin county
junior high school a total of three col
lege graduates.
County Superintendent Bivins takes
the position that Buldwla county-
schools are entitled to as good teach
ers as can be had and he says tl> at
, selected
without fear or favor.
Here lie took pains to take into pos
session all the change he could un
cover. From the cash drawer he went
uboiit loading up with just about all
the cigarettes h e could carry out un
der his arms, though during the ram
bling period he did not altogether over-
loolcthe fact that he had a sweet tooth
as it was discovered two or three niae
boxeB of candy were checked up short
the morning following the theft. !
When the picture house was opened
Tuesday morning and discovery df
the robbery was made. Mr. L. Halaf is,
the proprietor of the place, sought to
make inquiry of Alexander. However,
it was sooh^ learned that Alexander
tame up Just about as short as the
pieces of coin of the realm.
Telegrams to authorities in cities to
be reached by morning trains leaving
out ef Milledgeville were immediately
up.M gat. Quite soon R wo repryrte^i
that the negro- had been taken from
the Central of Georgia train that pass
es here a t 8:30 A. M. after it had
reached Covington.
After receiving a message from the
sheriff of Newton county. Deputy
Sheriff Burke and Mr. Balafas left for
Covington to bring back and lodge th u
■negro In the Baldwin county jail.
MEDICAL SOCIETY
HERE JIEXT YEAR
Physicians of Jenth District
To Assemble In Milledge-
' ville For Annual Meeting
In 1923.
At the conclusion of the annudf con
vention of the Tenth District Medical
Association held in Augusta Wednes
day it was voted by the members of
the association to convene in Mllledge-
ville in 1923,
The convention held in Augusta was
well attended by Milledgevlll e physi
cians, including Drs. R, C. Swint, J.
I Garrard, IL. R. McCalla, E. W. Al
ii. L Allen, Jr., Bradshaw. It
was following an Invitation issued by
the Milledgeville physicians that the
members of the' ussociutlon voted to
come here for their convention next
year.
There were practically two hundred
physicians in attendance at. the con
vention held in Augusta and it is pro
posed to have an even larger atten
dance in Milledgeville in 1923 A fea
ture of the entertainment program at
the Augusta convention was a spit ndid
barbecue given at Carmichael’s.
Preparations will he made for a
splendid program to be carried out
when the convention meets in Mill
edgeville next year and local physi-
ians will leave nothing undone in the
•matter of making ail provisions for en
tertaining the visitors on the oePa
ston.
FARMERS ARE BUSY
PUTTING IN GRAIN
Owing to her popularity and con- such teachers arc going to b
gehial disposition, many patrons of the
Hardwick postofflee have expressed
themselves as being of the opinion
that Mrs. Willis’ appointment will
,l th th e approval of practically Ribbons and Carbon Papers.
He have a complete assortment of
high grade Milo Brand Typewriter
meet w
312, The Milledgeville News.
Recent Rainfall Comes In
Good Time To Enable Far
mers To Plant Wheat and
Oat Crops.
The farmers of Baldwin county and
this section have commenced to plant
wheat and oat crops since the rainfall
that visited this section the latter part
of the past week and the first part of
this week.
It is predicted that large grain crops
will be planted this fall and while it
was feared for a whil e the ground
would not be moist before late in the
season, the recent rains have cleared
up the situation. It is generaly con
ceded by many leading farmers that
the middle of October is the most ad
vantageous time for planting both
oats and wheat and In all probability
hundreds of acres will be put In these
grains within the next few days.
Owing to boll weevil invasion to this
section during the last two or three
years, farmers hereabouts have com
menced to diversify their crops ex
tensively and the raising of live stock
is becoming an industry of impor
tance in Baldwin and adjoining cou-
aies, judging from the number of cat
tle and hogs that have been put on
sale hero during the last year.
CARD OF THANKS
RETURNS FROM VISIT TO
ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND
mr. j. w. mcmillan is at home
AGAIN AFTiER AN ABSENCE OF
MORE THAN THREE MONTHS
VISITING RELATIVES IN LON
DON AND GLASGOW.
678 BALES COTTON
RECEIVED HERE
Though County Has Least
Acreage of Half Century,
Receipts So Far Greater
Than Last Year’s Yield.
Sine,, the beginning of the present
cotton gathering season the ware
houses in Milledgeville have received
678 bales of the fleecy staple, which
number is more than twenty five per
cent greater than }the entire produc
tion In Baldwin county in 1921.
At the average price in Milledgeville
for cotton since the beginning of the
present ginning season, the value to
the cotton that has been brought to
the warehouses here amount to around
$75,C-'!0.(KI. It is estimated by those
who are accustomed to keeping in
close touch with the situation that
more than half of th e cotton yield
for this year has been gathered and
ginned, though bo record as to how
much Ib held at the home of the pro
ducers is obtainable. %
It is the concensus of opinion that
less than twenty-five per cent of the
acreage planted in cotton in Bald
win county last year is in the same
crop this year. It is estimated that,
the average yield of cotton this year
is at least six times th B yield of last
year.
After being absent from Milledge-
ville since the 28th of June, Mr. J. W.
McMillan returned home Wednesday
evening.
Mr. McMillan has been on an extend
ed visit to relatives and frier ds In
‘Loruiatj, Engtana, aJi Glasgow, and
other cities of Scotlaad. He has been
sway from Milledgeville for a period
of thre and a half months.
This war the fifth visit Mr. McMil
lan has made to Scotland since he left
his native country about sixty years
ago. In 1868 he went to attend the
wedding of his sister and he never
returned again until 1918 he went
back to attend the golden anniversary
of his sister. Since 1918 he has vis
ited in Scotland and England on three
different occasions.
Slnco bis return to Milledgevllle
Mr. McMillun has been the recipient
of many expressions of welcome from
scores of warm friends he has won
during his two score year residence in
this city, or often is it remarked that
Mr. “Mc’s" friends are just as numer
ous as his acquaintances and his ene
mies are entitrely unknown,
MR. OLIN ROBINSON IS
NAMED POSTMASTER
FORMER CLERK IN POSTOFFICE
WILL SUCCEED COL. J. D. HOW-
ARD WHO HAS SERVED A8 POST
MASTER FOR MORE THAN FOUR
YEARS.
Mr. Olin Robinson has been appoint
ed postmaster in Milledgeville to suc
ceed Col. J. D. Howard.
Mr. Robinson goes into office the
first of November, having received his
appointment through the endorsement
of leading Republicans in Washington.
Mr. Robinson was one of the three
men to pass the examination held in
MilladgeviUe several months ago. He
has had several years’ experience bh
a postal clerk, both in Georgia and
in California.
For two or three years Mr. Robin
son held the position of bookkeeper in
the First National Bank in Milledge-
ville. * *
SEE AN INCREASE
IN COTTON CROP
Terrell County Yield To Be
Around 20,000 Bales —
Gins Operate Night and
Day To Take Care of Crop.
Dawson, Ga„ Oct. II.—Conservative
estimates of the total cotton product
tion of Terrell county for 1922 plact
the yield at about 20,000 and soma
give their estlrtlate a little in excess
of the above amount' but at present.
ZO.jifiH lytiea astro-were. Indications
earlier In the year were that the pro
duction would he 17,000 or 18,000, the
weevil having been present It), such
great number but now indications
point to at least 20,000 halos and' prob
ably a few hundred or a thousand In
excess of this amount. Fully 80 peY
cent or a little better of the cotton
hHs already been gathered and ginned
and it is understood a little over half
tlie crop has already been sold.
Cotton is moving rapidly and it is
thought that by the end of the sea
son, very little of the 1922 cotton crop
v ill be left in the warehouses. The
Arts of the past week the warehouse
receplts l the county showed 18,200
hates received, which number is about
3,000 more than the yield last yeatv
when the county produced only be
tween 15,000 and 16,000 bales. Of the
18,290 hales received by the ware-
houses of the county until the first
part of the past week, the warehouses
of Dawson alono hud received 11,019
of the above number. Fields that
stood a mass of white only a few
weeks ago are now almost bare of
the whiteness and before a great while
the farmers will be ridding their fields
of the stalks for auothencop.
The gins of the county, some of
which have had to operate night and
day to take care of the heavy ginning.
ar e now about ready to have gin daya.
the heavy rain being at an end and
will soon b e found idle for the want,
of cotton to gin. The crop opened
much earlier this season than last and
will end somewhat earlier in the year
than the past season, flower,— the
yield will he seveal thousand bales in
excess of the 1921 crop.
The $2.50 In gold given In our ad
contest last week was found by Alvin
Brundage, Western Union messenger
hoy. The money was hid la the clock
at Chandler Bros.’ store. Another
gold piece will be given away next
week. Read the Ads.
We Wish to express a heart full of
thanks to all of our friends who min
istered to and sympathized with us in
our great sorrow.
We have many friends in Salt I-ake
City but we find there are no friends
like the old friends of dear old Mil
ledgeville. May God’s richest bless
ings abide with each of you.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. StevenH.
PLANT
C. & K. Prize Turnip Seed
$5.00 an Gold Giv«*^a for Four Lartfewl
Turnips Kui»ed Front Our Seed
Culver & Kidd Drug Company
-OF COURSE”
Phones 224 and 240