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U'UUME.XCVI. &£? MU I? A ™ $$ Miilcdgeville, Ga.. December 31, 1925 t onsolidattd la : I W |LL NOMINATE OFFICERS TO SERVE THE city ensuing YEAR, WEST’OFFICIAL SES. SION FRIDAY MORNING. Tic City Council of MillcdKcvIUe will hold » holiness meeting Thurs- day night. The recently elected members of the Board of! Aldermen, as well na the present members will be in at tendance at this meeting. Naming iffictrs for the ensuing year will be taken up and will be agreed upon. The officers to be named ‘are the chief of police, policemen, clerk and treasurer, street overseer, sexton, keeper of fire engine, chief of fire department, firemen and superintnd- ent of water works. The City Council will meet again Friday morning and Capt. J. H. En nis will be sworn in as mayor for another term of two years, and Mi mot L. H. Andrews, M. E. Pen. nington and S. D. Stcmbridge will be given the oath as Aldermen for a term of four years. The officers nnmininated the night before will then be elected. The report is that there are a num ber of applicants for the office of Chief of Police and policemen. DOYLE DOWNS. OF LAURENS COUNTY MEETS DEATH UN. DER OVERTURNED LUMBER TRUCK IN THIS COUNTY. Doyle Downs, aged 1C years, was killed in .an automobile accident in the northeastern part of the county Tuesday afternoon. .A lumber track which he was driv ing turned over, and he was crushed to death. • The accident occurred in front of the home of the late Mr. Samuel B. Collins. Young Downs was a son' of Mr. *»eo. L. Downs, of Dexter, and was visiting his uncle, Mr. W. F. Downs, who is engaged in the lum ber business in northeast Baldwin. Us remains were carried to Dexter for burial. CAPT. J. H. ENNIS WILL SERVE SECOND TERM AS MAYOR Greensboro, Ga.—Work on State Route No. 15, from Greensboro to Sparta, is expected to commence nt once. The route is complete from Athens to Greensboro. Ij is a link of the Detroit-Jacksonviile highway. A joint meeting of the commis sioners of Greene and Hancock coun_ ties was recently held for the pur- poye of discussing further the pro posed highway route from Greens boro to Sparta. G.S.C.W.WILL 0. L TANNER CENTRAL Offl- HAS RESIGNED CIALStNOTY TEMPERATURE STOOD TEN DE CREES ABOVE ZERO MON- DAY MORNING—WATER PIPES FREEZE AND BURST. THE STUDENT BODY WILL RE- TURN TO CITY ON SPECIAL OVER CENTRAL R. R. AT TWO O’CLOCK IN AFTERNOON The coldest December weather that has been recorded in this sec tion In many yearn swept down out of the northwest Sunday night and on Monday morning, Dec. 28, the temperature registered 10 degrees above xero. • Many of our citizens who failed to realize that the temperature was fall ing rapidly and did not turn off the water Sunday night, found bursted pipes in their homes Monday and there is plenty of work for the plumber* since the weather has be gun to moderate. In many instances -utomobiles werr unable to travel Monday on account of the radiators r ~»*e*fng while the cars were being driven. * The cold wave seemed to hove been general throughout the coun_ try, and In the colder sections sever al deaths are reported from freezing. The temperature remained below freezing all day Monday and through out the night, and Tuesday morning was very little if any higher than it was the previous day. However, during the day. It Legnn to warm up and has continued to do so until the weather is about normal for this season of the year. Capt. J. H. Ennis will on January l>t, lUZCt, enter upon hi* second term os Mayor of the City of Mil. hdgevillc. The members of the Council who will serve with hint are Dr. Richard Binion, Joi» W. Hutch- i'*" n . L. D. Smith, L. H. Andrews, 31. E. Feu nington, and S. D„ Stem- bridge. During the two years of Capt. En- *' administration the city has made advancement and the school bond* which were sold brought the highest "price of any ever offered by the city. There has been much perma nent work done on the street* pre paratory to paving, and over $lil,- 000.00 worth of bonds fell due and thei.- payment had to be met with this year’s lax levy. -Mayor Ennis and his board will rtai t the new year with the determi. nation to give the city the best ad ministration possible and will cany fur ward, a progressive line of work. NEW POWER UNE ENTER5 1RWINTON AS ASSISTANT POSTMASTER ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH AND ED. B. JACKSON AP. POINTED TO SUCCEED HIM. CALL ON SECRETARY OF CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE AND EX PRESS INTEREST IN WORK OF ORGANIZATION HERE. On Wednesday the Miilcdgeville Chamber of Commerce had a visit from Mr. J. 31. 3tallory. General In dustrial Agent; Dr. R. T. Stall, Asst Holidays will end at the Georgia Postmaster Hugh T. Cline has an- State College for Women next Mon- nouheed that Mr. O. L. Tanner, who day, January 4, at half past two > has been asai*tant postmaster since o’clock in the afternoon. • 1918, has resigned* on account of ill “The Brauty Special” will arrive in ! health, and that Mr. Ed. B. Jackson Gen. Industrial Agent, of Savanna^ Miilcdgeville over the Central of j has been appointed to succeed him. and Mr. W. E. Stewart, Asst. General Georgia railroad from Macon at two j Mr. Tanner has been in ill health | Freight Agent, of Macon, air of the o’clock. The students will come fromjfor the past several years and has -Central-of Georgia iMlrojfl, These all sections of the state, with Macnn j been confined to hi* home for some j gentlemen came to express to Rev. as the centra! point. In that city time past. He has been an employee • F. H. Harding, President of the they will board the special for Mil. |at the post office for a long number i Chamber of Commerce, their Interest ^ ~ of years and has rendered faithful;in Milledgc villa and their desire to ledgeville, the G. S. C. W„ and i months of study. The work of the college will be *aken up where It was left off when the Christmas holidays commenced. During the fall session of the col lege, a new class room building was -omoleted and a heating system in stalled. Work on the auditorium building was also carried rapidly forward and ’ ed. the graduating exercises will be held service. He hi*., many friends who . cooperate in its .development, regret that his illness, has compelled j short while ago Mr. Hording went is - JfcA ‘ I V*-- - : - DEATH OF MISS EFFIE HER- 1NCD1NE him to retire from> his position as ! Macon to call on Mr. Stewart and assistant postmaster which he has ; has been in correspondence with otb- filled ably and jvelL ; er nfficenl of the Central Railroad Mr. Jackson hss had charge of the and this ririt was an evidence of the money order department at the post, interest and good will of these rep. office, and is qualifitd to fill the po- ’ resentatives. rition to whleh he has been appoint-, Among other things discussed was the value, as these gentlemen viewed It. of such an organization aa the MlUedgeville Chamber of Commerce, town expected to receive outride The editor of the Union Recorder was renumbered during the holiday* by two of Baldwin county’s best formers. 3Ir. J. H. Stripling brought us a lot of home-made sausat^- and Saturday morning of last week Mr. Olfie Etheridge sent us a box filled to its capacity. We carried It home unci examined its contents, finding spare ribs, backbohe, sausage, crack lings, souse, chittlings, a bag «f water grorr.d m.ul and a sack of pecans. These two treats were ap preciated because they came from friends and Insured «»ur having some thing to eat during the Christmas. SERVICES AT ST. STEPHENS The*. stockade at the county con vict camp has been completed. The plans for the building were drawn by the County Commi doners and it is well adapted for the purpose* for which it wa» constructed, and the convict * of the county will be well housed. It is well heated and venti lated, and shower baths are provided \for the guards and prisoners. - The u>.rk of contracting the building was Hone under the super- Friday the Feast of the Circum cision and also New Year’s Day, will be observed «t ^t. Stephen’s Epi*co- • nl church with a celebration of the Holy Communion at eleven o’clock. All are cordially Invited. F. H. HARDING, Rector. KIWANIS NOTICE Thur-day night. 8 o’clock at the Baldwin Hotel all Kfwanlar.s are ex pected to attend u meitlng and bring their wives or a gnest. F. H. HARDING, Serty. Begin the new year right. Put Hood tires on your, car and forget vour tire troubles until the next New Irwinton, Ga., Dec. 30.—Peril a ps ' what will prove the most important : event that has ever happened to Wilkinson county since the Central railroad was built in this county, that which will make possible un limited expansion of the raining in dustries already in progress ami which Will without "doubt be t*V; means of inducing numbers of oth er like industries t<» locate in this crunty is the arrival of the power Hr.e within the limits of the county which occurred two or three day* ago. The power lines were in a fire | to furnish power to these industries i the Central Georgia Power company to furnish the power from the Jack- •on dam and the Interstate company *•» run a Hr.e through the county '■-nm Mil ledgeville. The Central Conrraa com pan - arrived first and now have their line built from 3!a_ eon almost to the town of Gordon. : Contracts have already been made ;~"th the Pint-tree Paper company at Gordon, one of the larges* pa*vr r dll* in the south, for the irrialln- *'-n of machinery and the use of •H* power to rake the place of the -♦earn plant which has been ip u«e -ince ft was first built. Other plant* *• ill n«e th>« at Gordon. From Cor bin nlan* arp being made to extend th “ Hn«f on to the large mining Plant* at McIntyre and to «*• the power her. h 4end of the nn • V, dlv steam plants. Should the in this building. 'MERCHANTS HAD SPLENDID j CHRISTMAS TRADE jf£ The days proceeding Christmas recognition from industries and law -re busy ones with the MiUedge- business organizations. As Mr. Mal- Th*. .fontu "in- tt ! viHe merchants and all of them had * ury Vcr F rightly pointed out it gave r H ; ri r- « -plendid trud,. •’"‘"iff" «*Hff »» -"‘My differ. Tuciiduv J" The d.y before Chrirtnw. ... v ‘- w «"■* “• import- Rawlins', Sanitarium clear and cold, and the xtorrff wore cnct " ln Commercial world to ZSKta *«•> p-p* ««u i» tav * *“ ch •» »«*">“«»" «*•«»»» in ill health fb7al '. S ?!, h d b ’‘ n th - "«>“• The HuyinR ff"vi"K toe <" “>■» ■>*, «*>»" there wa. nek She waa l k ^ Too ‘ »•» ""t contaed to an, ,perM ! -"".petition everywhere for larpr IreLta, w.re hlu h. . a Pr line of B o^d,. but the pureha,in lt >» loeare in town^ a 1 „ r ,. u _ p r 5 ‘ J 1 " mot,, : wa, K-neral and ail of the merchant. | P 1 *- »‘< h "» Chamber of Comtnnr, ^ buried at Ld- rt" "'' Had a lante volume of bu-inew. *•* « « Hack number and I, Kno " lK ■" ‘He ' ‘eonld hope for no recornHion from i famil, nurymrrronnd. MRS. CEO. F MILTON ' Hitalne., cencern. which were loakimr 1 Mre F r !” r t."'?! ' 1 '- HAS WRITTEN POEM ; f “- eommunit, cooperation »neh a, : ”■ a r H . j. ' *7 M«b on. F Milton who .pent tbr i-'«««<< » Clwrtre of Com- vilte wnd'a^ 1 n*! hoUday. with her mother, Hr., Anno *•» !»*”•"*< ®"‘ *H»‘ l H«nn«dine. of Clwf<mi> „ turni , d to b „ ho01l . j„ already Chif onranlntTon thringa, the 7, ' T” ^ Atlanta Monday. She wa. ambnr -ommunication, which had op. *'• there Who attended the •»* P*P«™ "t rt. several nieces and nephew A true and loving daughter, sister • and aunt has gone, to rest. ia honor of President W«kL irork Mnw undprtakvn bv this body row Wileon in Atlanu Monday tk.o- affvcrtl.it* to the world the ad- inn, vantages «»f .Miilcdgeville nnd Bald. Mra. Milton he, written a poetic wi " County, had raured people to volume eulitled, “The Enchanted 1 '‘ ‘- “ Ilh t"‘ere,t the rtdrlt'nf iwo::- Switch,'- which in Jiui off the pre-,. r -®' Here and the r rt"niiat!on of its p ,. ” T\. , 1 and pUced on ,ale in Athuna. Th- P'V’P 1 -olor.* pv, s'ewiue line*. tee of the B Y p’u^hdd^ meeting All “"“ 1“!“™ "> K * k Hiehly of It !« hoped that «ueh vommenda- tee of the B. Y. P. U, held a meetm* tt . vo|u „ (i In(| , uw lb<t Mr ^ H;! . Uon of thi, important work for our city will nuke any who may havr been doubtful about the neecrity of JU the regular m.eUn, u f Sunday! «« *"*» X£££*2 Oo-worker,. Mir, Floried .Smith. wh ” r “- ‘H- P»« " '"‘P Have “- o-*anxa«on with their m.pport B. Y. P. li. ELECTS NEW OFFICERS FOR 192s! . at the home of Miu Floride Smilh, , . , ... , tu nominate officer, for the enrnia*f ton wotl “»* "««*• and K. B. Flynn. j l^rfs-. Miss Eiizabtth Stewart. ; -, Vice Pres,, Robert Ivey. Rev Sec., Mips Ilutli Henderson. Trt . Miss Kbzabeth Tucker, j Cor. Sec., Leighton Moore. Pianist, Miss Solathia Ivey. Quiz Loader, Melville Roger*. Chorister. 3ii>N Mildred Bauiagar. teL Gr«»up Captains: Group 1, Miss Mary Everhart. Group U, Johnnie Bass. ar.d Influence that we may all i together for the advancement #»f our city. Co|<| weather and batteries don’t mix. L*t us recharge your battery. Sen-ice with a *mile. j RALPH S1M31ERSON- Texaco Gas and Off makts a sick ; — motor well ai.d a well motor rear to Tha* man can be termed a philov go. More mileage. More power. j opber who find* his joy u; icing dis- RALPH SIMB1ERSON made their butte here left Thursda; j for Sarasota, r Ln„ uht rc- Mr. Hoaen i has accrpted a plumbing contract. ! 31 r. Hogan has been chief of the i fire department for the past several 'years. They have frivnds here ah<> •! egret their departure. GREETINGS With its saving and slaving and grind. We’re too apt to credit successes To the work of our own hands and mind. But we pause at this good-will season To give credit where credit is due, To thankfully say that our progress results From the friendship of such folks as you. WILLIAMS & RITCHIE