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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
VOL. 22, No. 52.
autos collide
ON HANCOCK ST.
Established October 12, 1901. MILLEDGEVILLE, GA., FWDAV, DEC. 15 1922.
WOMENS COLLEGE
TO CLOSE 21ST.
\Y. L. Robinson and an Employee Hundreds of Students Will Leave
cf Allen’s Sanitarium Escape Milledgeville on Special Trains
Without Serious Injuries or) to Spend Holidays at Home
Machine Damage. . With Parents.
Early Wednesday afternoon a seri- I The Georgia State College for Wo-
OuS automobile wreck was barely j men will close it$, doors for the
av'erted when W. L. Robinson, a trav- | Christmas holidays .next Thursday,
cling salesman for a Gainesville lum- December 21st.
ber concern, and an employee of Al
ien’s Sanitarium experienced a head-
on collission at the intersection of
Hancock and Clark streets.
Mr. Robinson, who was driving a
Ford roadster, was in the act of turn
ing from Hancock street into Clark
street when the wreck occurred. The
driver of the Allen truck was driving
East on' Hancock street when he dash
ed into the Ford roadster.
It appeared that it was the opinion
of the truck driver that Mr. Robinson
had in mind turning out South Clark
street from Hancock street and on
this account the two men became con
fused. The driver of the truck dashed
front of the Ford machine, the
Preparations have already been
made for special trains and extra pas
senger coaches for the accommodation
of the hundreds of students attend
ing the college. One special train
equipped for the accommodation of
practically five hundred students will
be operated over the Central of Geor
gia Railroad to Macon, from which
point the young ladies will take trains
over various railroads running into
all sections of the state.
During the day following the clos
ing of the college, all passenger trains
eoming into Milledgeville will be pro
vided with extra coaches in order , to
provide comfortable accommodations
ior the college girls. Practically all
ELECT NEW HEAD | COMMISSIONERS
FOR S ANITARIUM TO BE GIVEN OATH
\t Meeting of Board of Trustees
to be Held in January, a Suc
cessor to Late Dr. Jones Will
be Named.
truck plunging into a tree between | the students will go to their homes to
the sidewalk and the Btreet. The S j )ent ] the holidays.
driver of the truck was knocked
breathless by being thrown against
the steering wheel of the machine,
though he soon recovered from the
shock.
The fenders, headlights and radiat
or of the Ford roadster driven by Mr.
Robinson was considerably damaged
as a result of the collision.
Court Action In
Savannah Begun
Civil and Criminal Proceedings
by Both Sides Underway—
Number of Arrests Have Been
Made.
The Georgia Military College closed
for the holidays this week and already
all the students have departed for
their homes to spend the Christmas
season.
WIDOWS AND CHILDREN
LOSE IN STOCK FRAUDS
Savannah, Ga., Dec, 14.—Judge P.
\V. Meldrim late today ruled that he
is qualified to sit in the election hear
ing, following the signing by his
sister-in-law, Mrs. S. B. C. Morgan,
•f a waiver relinquishing all interest
in the cases. Mrs. Morgan was one of
the defeatpd candidate^ lor alderman {
on tbe administration ticket, which is
being protested as to Mayor Stewart
and nominees for council.
The petition for a rule nisi man
damus was then offered and Judge
Meldrim declined this afternoon to
issue such rule, but announced that
he would declare his decision as to
whether he will or not issue a rule
-Monday morning.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10.—Litigation
in the Savannah mayoralty situation
was started today. Attorneys for J.
M. Rogers, defeated candidate, filed
a petition for mandamus against the
Democratic Executive Committee, in
connection with alleged illegal voting
in the municipal primary of Tuesday.
A rule nis' was also petitioned for,
to bring the defendants into court to
show cause why the mandamus should
not be granted. The committee has
adjourned sine die. The action also
Wshington, D. C.—Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty has completed plans
and issued orders for speedy prose
cution in the federal courts of hun
dreds of alleged swindlers who are
charged with “plundering the homes
of the ^oor” of nearly $150,000,000
through fraudulent use of the Uni
ted States mails, it was learned offi
cially at the department of justice
recently.
Particular attention will .s given to
posttil fragcl cases, as evidence gath
ered shows that a majority of the cas
es represent th6 victimizing of wid
ows, find children.
Approximately 500 cases were said
to be in the hands of the United
States attorney throughout the coun
try for consideration of “institution of
criminal proceedings, and for further
action.” Nearly 000 persons have
been arrested or indicted. These cases
represent a total loss to the public
through postal swindles of $140,011,-
231.
According to government records,
3,582 cases are distributed among 15
divisions of the department of justice
as follows:
Atlanta 180, Austin. Tex. 416, Bos
ton 133, Chicago 38 ', Cincvnati 302,
Denver 76, Kansas City 223, New
York 723, Philadelphia 218, St. Louis
114, St. Paul 80, San Francisco 1,071,
Spokane 61 and Washington 201.
The federal court in the northern
district of Illinois leads with 45 cases
pending, the northern district of
Texas is second with 42, and the south
ern district of New York is third with
38. Nebraska is credited with 24 cas
es, and the western district of Penn-
At the regular monthly meeting of
he board of trustees of the Georgia
tate sanitarium to be held in Janu-
iry, a permanent superintendent of
he institution will be named.
Since the death of Dr. L. M. Jones,
Dr. N. P. Walker has been serving
as acting superintendent of the sani
tarium. In point of service Dr.
Walker is the oldest physician now
employed on the staff of the sani
tarium and following the death of Dr.
Jones he was named acting superin
tendent of the institution by the
board of trustees.
It is understood that the names of
several prominent physicians are be
ing suggested as prospective succes
sors to the late Dr. L. M. Jones,
though nothing of an authentic nature
has been given out as to who will ( be
elected to the superintendency of the
sanitarium.
GOVERNORS END
SESSIONS WITH
DEBATE ON KLAN
Sixteen State Executives Accept
Harding's Invitation — Gov
ernor Alien of Kansas Strong
ly Criticizes K. K. K.
Washington, Dec. 16.—Governors of
sixteen States have accepted Presi
dent Harding’s invitation to lunch
with him next Monday and discuss
prohibition enforcement.
SAYS COTTON IS
THE MONEY CROP
Dr. O. F. Moran and Messrs. G.
C. McKinley and O. M. Ennis
to be Sworn in Next Monday
M eek. All New Members.
President of Central Railroad
Holds That Common Sense and
Hard Work Will Produce
Fleecy Staple Prolitably.
Next Monday week Dr. O. F. Moran
and Messrs. G. C. McKinley and O.
M. Ennis will be sworn in as mem
bers of the Baldwin board of roads
and revenues, succeeding Messrs. J. F.
Miller T. B. Coxwell and F. E. Wat
son.
The board of county commissioners
composed of three members will un
dergo a complete change after the
first of January as the outcome of
ihe, primary held in September. The
first meeting of the new board will
be held next Tuesday week, January
2r»d and at this time the affairs of
Ihi' county will be placed into the
hands of the elected members.
‘PPLES RETAIL III
IE
vYz4 York City Takes Ten Thous
and Barrels A Day, Or Sixty
'thousand Barrels A ll’eek Dur-
7 he Season.
is directed against thirty-four man-1 sylvania with 19.
agers in the election. ^ | The biggest number of large stock
Judge Peter W. Meldrim heard I swindling cases has been filed in the
arguments this afternoon in Superior
Court as to his qualificatit n to pro
ceed further with hearings. He is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. S. B. C. Mor
gan, a defeated aldermanic candidate.
Up to a late hour he had not. announc
ed his decision.
The civil proceedings of today were
rivaled in general interest by the
institution of criminal action by both
sides, with the arrest of a score of
voters and workers.
John H. Monroe, for years chief of
the Savannah Fire Department, and
John J. Garrity, formerly of the de
partment, were arrested at the in-
stance of Solicitor General Walter C.
Hartridge, who had warrants issued
1 barging them with the purchasing of
votes. They were placed under bonds
of $1,000 each, standing security for
each other’s appearance in court for
trial.
Docket Dozens of Cases.
Dozens of cases were docketed on
the charge -of illegal voting. Among
this list are two women. H. Em
mett Wilson, law partner of Rogers,
is charged with opening ballots in
the box of which he was a manager.
Warrants were issued for his arrest
late this afterneon. A warrant was
^lso issued for Thomas Cooley, a
Rogers box, manager, charging him
"ith opening ballots.
These cases, and others to follow,
"ill be heard in Judge Freeman’s
Municipal Court.
A third phase of the day’s proceed
ings is neither civil ar criminal, nor
classes! as legal action. This morn-
paper carried an advertisement
western district of Missouri. Nebraska
is second and the northern district of
New York third.
According to officials of the depart
ment of justice stock promoters have
been most successful in the southern
district of New York, the northern
district of Texas, the northern district
of Ohio and the eastern and western
districts of Pennsylvania.
requesting all persons who are reg
istered and who did not for any rea
son vote in the primary to furnish
their names and addresses to the
Rogers headquarters. Two leaders
of that faction, with a force of
clerks, have been making list today
of all the voters who cast their bal
lots Tuesday, there being duplicate
fists available in the courthouse, aside
from the sealed boxes containing bal
lots and lists. One box by mistake,
it is said, had been sealed with both
lists inside, and a court order will
he necessary before the clerk of court
will open that box.
than 600
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Dec. 16.—The fourteenth annual con
vention of Governors ended today
with a spirited discussion of the Ku
Klux Klan.
Many of the executives then pre
pared to leave for Washington to ac
cept President Harding's invitation to
discuss prohibition enforcement with
hhn at luncheon Monday.
An executive committee consisting
of Governors Cox, of Massachusetts;
Hardee, of Florida, and McCray, of
Indiana, was elected.
Former Governor Townsend, of Del
aware, was re-elected treasurer, and
Miles C. Riley, of Madison, Wis., sec
retary. Governor McCray invited the
Governors to confer next year in In
diana, suggesting French Lick Springs
Selection of the next meeting place
was left to the executive committee.
The Ku Klux Klan discussion came
after an address in which GScnwr
Allen, of Kansas, declared the or
ganization was doomed to die and ex- ]
pressed hope that the attempt of the
attorney general of Kansas to oust
the Klan from that State on the
ground that it was operating without
a charter would be successful.
K Ian’s Reaction to Disorder.
In response to a decision by
Governor Allen of incidents which he
argued supported his assertion that
the Klan was flouting the law, Gov
ernor Morrison, of North Carolina,
said that although the organization
aroused religious feeling, he did not
believe it was responsible for vio
lence in his State. He asked Gover
nor Allen whether the Klan ever had
endorsed manifestations of lawless
ness or had done anything to stop
them.
Governor Allen replied that every
member of the organization believed
he was doing noble work. When law
lessness developed, he said, the Klan
would disavow it and then £ive $50
to a "loose-mouther preacher who
would thank God for the Klan.” H«
said he was ashamed that the Boy
Scouts in St. Louis had not rejected
a gift of $15,000 from the Klan, so
that “they could claim 100 per cent
Americanization."
Governor Olcott, of Oregon, asked
if Kansas had sent troops to suppress
the Klan during the railroad strike.
Mr. Allen replied that he was ready
to do so, but that such action did not
become necessary.
Governor Olcott then asked what
means Governor Allen thought would
'Che retail price of apples in the
0(^1 market remains at forty cents
tfozen and some of the choicest
arietics occasionally retail at six-
y cents a dozen which is high cou
riering the prices that prevail in
she northern markets. 'The crop
1 is year is larger than usual and
he wholesale price has been lower-
d considerably in the east, but this
s not having much effect on the
•mth, as the transportation charges
Loep the prices about as high as
hey were last year. The New
York Tunes states that prices in
.hat city have been cut in half. It
■ays:
“Wholesale prices in the. New
'’ork market are half what they
fere last year. Consumers can
uiy the best fancy Baldwins, one
d the best all-round apples in flu;
at $3.jyj lu Si*
Last year at this time (be .price
■ as $7.25 to $7.10 a barrel, nancy
Greenings, the favorite cooking ap-
>Ie in New York, is quoted a lit-
le higher at $5.25 to $5.50 a bar
'd- but Ben Davis is only $2.50 to
?3 a barrel.
“Northern Spys, one of the best
apples that comes to the New ’Shark
market for table or cooking use,
are $4 to $0 a barrel; the famous
•snow apples, one of the most de-
licious fruits that man ever tasted
are only $4 to $5.50 a barrel and
A inter Banana apples, common on
the peddlers' stands all over the
ity are selling at wholesale at $5
o $6.50 a barrel.
“Extra fancy Jonathans are sell-
ng by the box at $2.25 to $2.50,
tnd the celebrated Delicious ap-
>11s, which one sees selling on the
ipple stands ;»re only $3 to $3.25
t box. These prices are about
half what they were last year.
‘‘Receipts of apples in New York
tarkets are about twice the quan-
itv of last season, and have been
running up to 400 carloads a week.
What a tremendous volumne this
is ea* only be realized by trans
forming these figures into barrels
at the rate of 150 barrels to the
carload—a total of Go,000 barrels
week, 10,000 Itarrels a day.”
Assorting that it is folly to aban
don cotton, so long as cotton is the
chief money crop of the south, Presi
dent W. A. Winburn, of tho Central
of Georgia Railway, announces the
publication of a pamphlet setting
forth tho experiences of Georgia and
Alabama farmers in fighting the boll
weevil. The pamphlet describes, with
out attempting to say which method
is best, or without recommending one
plan above another, facts and figures
as to the plans of combating the weev
il.
Mr. Winburn says that the best
weapons in the fight against the wee
vil are hard work and common sense,
■which the farmer himself must sup
ply, but that the railroad is Wady to
co-operate by furnishing authentic
information that the farmer may ap- 1
ply or adapt. This is a part of the
program of the Agricultural Depart
ment of the Central of Georgia Rail
way which since 1911 has been making
a study of practical agriculture and
placing the result of its investiga
tions gt the disposal of the farmers
in this territory.
The statement aeknoweldges that
the success of the department’s ef
forts has been due to the fine co-op
eration qf the farmers in Georgia and
Alabama and says there is a gratify
ing absence of hostility between ag
riculture and transportation.
Copies of the boll weevil pamphlet
may be obtained by application to J.
F. Jackscqi, General Agricultural Ag-
DEATH CALLS
MRS. D. W. BROWN
Weil Known and Highly Esteem
ed Milledgeville Woman Pass
ed Away Thursday Night.
Mrs. D. MT. Brown, one of the best
known and universally loved women of
Milledgeville, passed uway at her
hemp here at a late hour Thursday
night, following an illness of several
weeks.
Mrs. Brown’s Joath came ns a dis
tinct shock to her many friends in
Milledgeville and throughout Baldwin
county. While she had been in fail
ing health for several months it was
not considered that her condition was
especially serious until a short time
before she passed away.
For more than a score of years
Mrs. Brown resided in Milledgeville.
She was the Wife of the late Mr. D.
W. Brown, who was at one time one
of the foremost merchants in Mill
edgeville.
The deceased is survived by four
children, Misses Ellen and Lucy Brown
and Messrs. D. W. and Walter Brown,
all of this city.
ent, Savannah, Ga.
R. H. W00TTEN
TO MOVE STORE
Book Store Merchant to Occupy
Store in Ohlman Building
After January. Goodrich to
Move.
CLOTHIERS PICK LIGHT
COLORS LOR SPRING
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 30.—Clothing
manufacturers have seiecte ’ light
colored fabrics for spring suits in
men’s wear and this is considered
the natural response to demand
ror weaves of that.kind, according
iO reports received here. It is pre
dicted here, however, that manu
facturers will be in the market for
darker shades later, as retailers
vvill require the darker shades in
fabrics to balance their stocks.
Wholesalers in the men’s cloth-
ng trade are enjoying an active
fall season .according to reports
from all the big centers of the
clothing manufacturers. The con
sumer, as is the case in many stor
es is buying novelties and-this in
ing. the ,dgn-.„.
nantr'Tof^TJfpiW; tradingWS”
brisk all along the line, reports
.cceived in Atlanta state. One'
nanufacturer in Atlanta has al
ready reported that his road sales
ootten, Well known book store pro
prietor, will oceupy quarter's in the
Ohlman building, now the location of
the dry goods and clothing store o f
Mr. Sam Goodrich.
Mr. Goodrich will move his stock Lvcn have hooked from 25 to
of merchandise to Sandtrsville dur- lper cent of the Spring trade and
ing the last week in December, /is .he tendency is toward higher
soon as the store is made vacant Mr. p r j ces jjj Hie Spring.
Wootten will commence moving his
stock of merchandise and will prob
ably be in business in new quarters
not later than the first of next month.
The Goodrich store has been con
ducted in Milledgeville since March,
1921, having moved a stock of mar-
•handise hero from Macon. The
Goodrich store is one of the largest
nercantile establishments in Milledge
ville. For many years Mr. Goodrich'
has conducted a mercantile business
in Sandersviile and the stock of goods
to be moved from, here will be added
to the store in Sandersviile.
Here’s a Business
for Milledgeville
It was stated that more . .
registered voters replied to the ad-1 prove most effective in curbing the so-
vertised request to supply thf names ! ciety, and the Kansas executive
to the Rogers headquarters. The he favored filing the names
contnittee will compare these names j befs with State officials and refusing
with the lists of those voting.. ! <0 STaht .harters to the organization.
id
f mem-
Governor Allen commented that in
WANTED Colored family sufficient ' his opinion the Klan was not here
work two-horse farm six , to stay, but he urged that it be kept
in mind that it was a “clever and
force to
m'les from Atlanta. Almost unheard
of opportunity to family that will invisible form of government,
stay on the jog and work and wear j Explains
a broad grip. Apply with refer- j “In Kansas we are seeking to
eeces to R W. Compton, 1508 Can-1 the Klan from the State,
. Allen said. “I note by the press of
lan in Kansas.
xpel
Governor
dlcr Building, Atlanta.
the country that some misapprehen
sion exists as to just what we mean
by expelling the order, and the
thought has been expressed that it
is the intention of the State to drive
out of the State the members of the
Klan.
“This is not at all what the action
before the Supreme Court presup
poses. Under the law of Kansas every
organization doing business within the
State must be chartered. The Ku
Klux Klan has a charter under the
laws of Georgia, and the action now
pending in the Supreme Court of (he
State is for the purpose of securing
a writ forbidding the Klan to do busi
ness hereafter in Kansas.
“The Essence of our opposition to
this organization is not in the fact
that it fights the Catholic Church,
expresses its antipathy to the Jew
or to the negro, hint in the fact that
it does this under the protection of
ti mask and through terrorism and
violence.
"It is incredible that this country
should have passed through hs bap-
tfani of heroic devotion which called
it into action four years ago, only
to sotg back now into this most la
mentable species of disorder.”
Cotton Seed I'ur Sale
GENUINE Cleveland Big Boll
otton seed. One year removed
rom scientflc breeder. But by
est for conditions in Piedmont re-
ion. Demand next year will more
ban equal supply of good seed.
Buy early. Price $1.50 per bushel.
2-I-5t.
C. W. SWAIN.
Norwood' Ga.
GOOD FOR
$6,000 to $12,000 Yearly!
An insurance man in South Carolina,
a farmer in Wisconsin, n butcher in
Minnesota, others all over the IT. S. -
these men wanted to own n real mon-
cy-muklntc business. Elect rik-Maid
Hake Shops gave them their oppor
tunity. Today they and many others
own their own prosperous Electrik-
Maid Hake Shops, without havinvr
known a thinvr about the bakery busi
ness before. You have the same change
ritfht here. A cash business; no
chances; no deliveries; your profits in
the till every night. Everyone who eats
is a customer. Huuness flood all year
round. We supply all equipment and
information.
WRITE OF WIRE TODAY
for full particular
exclusive rights i
Act now to obtain
Milledgeville.
Elcctrik-Made Bake Shops
.121 CEDAR ST. ST. PAUL. MINN.
COLD REMEDIES
SPECIAL THIS WEEK FOR CASH
30c Laxative Bromo Quinine
60c Aspirine
$1.25 Bayer’s Aspirin—5 grain
25c Bayer’s Aspirin—5 grain
46c to 60c Antiphlogistine
30c to 60c Bell’s Pine Tar and Honey
75c Baunie Analgesique Bengue
25c and 50c 666 Chill Tonic
22c
39c
88c
11c
29c aad 49c
22c and 43c
69c
17c and 34c
30c to 60c Cheney’s Expectorant 23c and 44c
35c CalotabB 29c
35 carnl 65c Vicks Salve . 29c and 55c
AND OTHERS
Retail quantities at wholesale prices.
Culver & Kidd Drug Company
OF COURSE
’Phones 224 and 240
MILLEDGEVILLE, - v - GEORGIA
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