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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1920.
UNION-RECORDER
YOUNG WHITE WOMEN
PASSED BOGUS CHECKS
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lowing: That about seven o’clock Mr.
and Mrs. R. B. Campbell and Mr. and
Mrs. D. F. Kiley of Savannah, had
registered at the Baldwin Hotel.
That they had come to Milledgeville
from Augusta in a Buick automobile
bearing a South Carolina tag. After
a bounteous supper, which was serv
ed in their rooms, the women starred
on their trading tour in the business
section of the city, the men remain
ing in their rooms.
Warrants were taken out against
Mrs. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs.
Kiley. Campbell was never located
by the police, evidently having left
the city at an early moment as pos
sible. Kiley was placed in jail and
the women held at the Inn Hotel,
under special guard, where they were
kept until Monday afternoon, when
they were carried before Judge D. S. | con
ELKS HOLD THEIR
MEMORIAL EXERCISES
(Continued from Fir*t Page.)
LUNATIC GUI? THROAT
OF FIR. R. H. HARPiR
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Conn and Mrs. Conn.
Closing Ceremonies,
Lodge and Audience
(Air: Auld Lang Syne.)
Great Ruler of the Universe
All seeing and benign.
Look down upon and bless our work
And be all glory Thine
And let this be our siyn, O Elks,
And let this be our sign.
The Golden Rule our Motto true,
For days of “Auld Lang Syne.”
Benediction Dr. J. C. Wilkinson
W. P. STEVENS DIES AT MACON
AFTER LONG ILLNESS FRIDAY
Attacked by Man, Who Had Es
caped From Sanitarium. ' Well
Known Citizen is Severely
Wounded.
Mr. Robert H. Harper, one of Bald
win county’s well known citizens,
was badly wounded Tuesday after
noon by having his throat severely
cut by a knife in the hands of J. E.
Kensey, an escaped lunatic from the
State Sanitarium.
The affair took place near Meri
wether. located nine miles from Mill-
edgeville. After he had been wound
ed, Mr. Harper overpowered Kensey,
William Parks Stevens, for more J -ook the weapon from him and placed
than thirty years a resident of Ma-1 him * n automobile and brought
retired manufacturer of clay
Sanford, who fixed the bond for the < products and widely known citizen,
women at $75 each, and the bond for; dii’tl Friday afternoon at his home
the man at $1*0. A brother of Kiley j at 727 Orange street, Macon, after
arrived in Milledgeville on Monday | an illness of several days of pneu-
morning from ’Savannah. Arrange- monia. The funeral » services were
ments were made with Mr. R. S. Al
ford to sign the bonds and the parties
left the city on the first train.
The happening created a great
deal of sensation in the city.
The parties left the cty without
refunding the cash obtained.
NEGRO HUNTER FIRES ON
A PARTY OF CHILDREN
(Sparta Ishmaelite.)
The twelve-year-old sop of Mr.
and Mrs. Scroggins, who resides one
mile south of Devereux, and three
negro boys who were riding with
him on a wagon to the boys home
were shot with a shotgun Saturday
afternoon by a seventeen-year-old
negro boy who was hunting near the
road on which the boys were making
their way.
All four of the boys were hit with
the birdshot. The white boy was
painfully and seriously shot in the
face and it is* feared that his eyesight
may be affected.
A posse of Devereux citizens went
in pursuit of the negro who escaped
in the rain to the Oconee river swamp
and he has not been captured yet,
though Sheriff Hightower is keeping
a sharp lookout for him. When the
news of the shooting reached Sparta
Messrs. I. J. Lovejoy, F. R. Boisky,
Rosser Smith and Jack Graves went
to Devereux where they joined the
posse of citizens that was organized
there. Sheriff Hightower did not ac
company the posse because he was
not in the county.
As the Ishmaelite goes to press
with this issue the culprit has not
been apprehended.
$180.00 WORTH OF
STAMPS ARF SOLD
The committee recently appoints
by the Kiwanis Club to sell anti
tuberculosis seals, made a canvas of a
portion of the city Tuesday. They
|net with a 1 early response on ;)•»
part-of our citizens and sold $180.00
worth of stamps and bonds. The
committee did not finish their canvas,
and will take up the work again at
an early date. The fund derived
from the sale of these stamps is to
be us id in fighting and aiding ill
stamping out this dreaded disease.
held from the home Saturday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by
Dr. T. D. Ellis, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist Church, and Bishop
W. N. Ainsworth. Interment was in
Riverside cemetery.
During the last days of his illness
members of the family of Mr. Stev
ens were at the bedside. Several
times changes for the better in the
condition of the patient gave hopes
that the illness would not be fatal;
hut the health of Mr. Stevens has not
been good for some time prior to this
illness.
Mr. Stevens was born in Baldwin
county on March 31, 1901, the son of
Henry and Matilda Stevens. He was
reared at Stevens Pottery, and soon
went into business with his father
under the firm name of H. Stevens
Sons Co., manufacturers of sewer
pipes and other clay products. The
plant was the pioneer of its kind in
Georgia ,and’ Mr. Stevens might be
called one of the fathers of the in
dustry in this section.
In 1888 Mr. Stevens moved to Ma
con and established the firm of H
Stevens Sons, of which he was pres!
dent, and began the manufacture of
sower pipe in this city. He con
tinued the business of manufacturing
clay produhts until four or five years
ago when he retired from active busi
ness. and sold his interest in the firm.
The deceased was a member of the
Mulberry Street Methodist Church,
and at one time a member of the
board of stewards until he was com
pelled to resign on account of ill
health. He was a constant church
member, and intimate friends de-
lare that he gave constantly to
•haritable institutions without giving
his name to the gifts. The modesty
and unassuming nature of his dona
tions have been praised highly.
Surviving Mr. Stevens are his wife,
three children, Mrs. R. Holmes Ma
son, Mrs. Washington Dessau and
William Parks Stevens, Jr., of Macon;
a brother, J. Henry Stevens, of Stev
ens’ Pottery; three s : sters, Mrs. Eliza
Davir. of Decatur- Mrs. Annie Brew
er, of Milledgeville, and Mrs. Jane
Boone, of Macon.
him to the city, where he was turned
over to the police, who notified the
Sanitarium authorities, who sent af
ter him and carried him back to the
institution. Mr. Harper, weak from
the loss of blood, collapsed a few
minutes after arriving here. His
wounds were dressed by Dr. Binion
and he was removed to his home.
Kensey, who has been confined as
a dangerous inmate of the sanitarium
for more than twenty years, made
his escape Monday afternoon. The
alarm was spread by attendants at
per sighted Kensey wnlking in the METHODIST OFFICIALS chairman of the financ,.
middle of the railroad tracks carry- I ; showed that the nicf „ ° C0T nmittf. P
ing an open umbrella. Mr. Harper ORGANIZE FOR NEW YEAR successful one, and tin' 1 ^ ^**8a
stopped his car and advanced towards I made was a credit to tT ^ recor d
the man. When within hailing dis- The first meeting of the new year J only a small per Cer . e . cllUrt 'h,
night.
The board was organized by the
election of Dr. M. M. Parks, chair
man; Mr. E. E. Bell, treasurer, and
Mr. Gaither Banks, secretary. All
of the members were assigned com
mittee appointments.
The report of Mr. M. S. Bell,
The preacher’s
the same amout as paid'thTll^' 16t
$2,600. Plans were di-cussL ^'
new year. UI °rthe
An oyster supper was served h
number of the ladies of
and' the meeting as a whole
pleasant and profitable one ^ *
tance, lie called and requested the of the Board of Stewards of the bers had failed to
lunatic to come with him. The man i Methodist church was held Tuesday ments.
stopped and Mr. Harper went up to
him. When reaching a distance of
about five feet from where the man
was standing Kensey leaped upon
Mr. Harper, knife in hand.
The blade of the weapon entered
Mr. Harper's throat under the chin
and a wound extending for several
inches on the right side resulted. Mr.
Harper broke the grip of the insane
man from around him and then over
powered him before Mr. Rape could
come to his assistance. The two
men placed the raving man in the
automobile and brought him to Mill-
odgeville.
Kensey is about 45 years of age
and during the long period of con
finement at the institution he has
been regarded as dangerous. It is
said that his home is in Savannah.
°f the
Pay their
Hem.
asses,.
salary
TO ENCOURAGE HCG
RAETNC IN COUNTY
A live Stock Corporation Being
Organized by a Number of Mill
edgeville Business Men to Boos.
The Movement.
A movement is under way among
the institution immediately upon the J several of Milledgeville s prominent
discovery that Kensey was missing j business men to organize a Live Stock
and a thorough search was started. Corporation and a number of shares
J. R. Humphries, a former employe ! have been subscribed,
of the sanitarium and now a fireman ! ^ the intention of the company
on the Macon to Covington passenger i *-° purchase a number of high bred
train, recognized Kensey Tuesday ( bows, which are with pigs and sell
morning walking alongside of the them to a number of farmers in the
railroad tracks going in the direction
of Meriwether. On the arrival of
Humphries’ train at Meriwether, the
fireman reported to the agent about
seeing Kensey. Mr. Harper was
standing by and overheard the re
port.
A few minutes later Mr. Harper
’.eft Meriwether for this city. While
county taking their notes for pay
ment at 8 per cent interest payable
in the fall.
This has been most successfully
tried in many counties throughout
the state and has been most success
ful.
This is one step which will go a
long ways towards meeting the farm-
A. J. CARR CO., Distributors.—Milledgeville, Georgia.
here he secured a better description i n K conditions in Baldwin county as
of the hunted man. He also told >t will encourage the farmers to en-
attendants of the report made by the gnrre in raising hogs on a larger
railroad man. Mr. Harper left Mill- scale.
edgeville for his home shortly after Those at the head of the movement
noon, accompanied by Mrs. J. B. are confident that the stock needed
Stiles and Mr. John Rape. After will he promptly subscribed.
taking Mrs. Stiles, who resides a short
distance from Meriwether, to her Dill pickles, Sweet Mixed Pickles
home, the two men continued on and several years old Country Hams
their journey towards their homes, at
On nearing Meriwether, Mr. Har- Emmett L. Barnes.
Onion Sets of all kinds at lowest
prices. Chandler Bros.
Lime and Cement at
Emmett L. Barnes.
Buy Shockley Apples by the box
$2.85 at. Emmett L. Barnes.
Buy Shockley Apples by the box
$2.86 at Emmett L. Barnes.
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you certainly will need it.
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Cut out this ad., pin it to your suit to
be Cleaned or Dyed, parcel post it to us
and we will discount our charges 10%.
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