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man VOLUME XCVII ..Federal Union Established in 1829 bouthern Reco.-der ” 1819 Millcdgcvillc. Ga., March 17. 1927. Number 31. PROMINENT MAN DIED THURSDAY JOHN CONN. PRESIDENT OF EX CHANGE BANK AND HEAD OF GROCERY FIRM DIES AT HIS HOME. BRIEF ILLNESS. Mr John Conn died at his home in this city Thursday morning, March 17th. about 3 o'clock, after a brief illness H's passing takes away from Millcdgeville one of its most inflnen- tial citizens and prominent business men A citizen who held the respect and confidence of the people among whom his entire life has been spent, . business man who was careful, painstaking, honest and fair in all his dealings and whose word was his bond. His passing has caused univer sal sorrow, us it is realized our city has suffered a great loss. Mr. Conn was the oldest son of the late Capt. W. T. Conn, and a scion of a family who have for gen erations filled an important place in the social, church, fraternal and bus iness life of Millcdgeville. He was a member of the first graduating class of G. M. C. and a graduate of Em ory college at Oxford. After finish ing at the latter institution he re turned home and went to work in the grocery store of his father as a clerk, and learned the business thor oughly. He soon became a partner, and in a few years the business was changed from a retail to a whole sale store, and he later became sole owner, having an extensive trade. When the Exchange Bank was estab lished he became a large stockholder and was named President of the insti tution, which post he held at the time of his death. He was a sucessful busi ness man and owned considerable property in the business section. He was prominent in the Masonic Frat ernity, being an active Knight Temp lar and Shriner. For several years he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Masonic property in this city. A few years ago he retired from the board of Trustees of the Georgia Mil itary College, having served on this body for along number of years. For a time he was a steward and trustee f the Methodist church, which he had been affiliated with since early childhood. He has never asked any political preferment but at one time was elected an Alderman. He resign- this office after serving only a short Mr. Conn would have been sixty- two years of age next month. In early manhood he married Miss Hat tie Powell, who died a few years later. By this marriage he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Richard Binion. Ho leaves a widow, who before her marriage was Miss Mae Farmer, and a son, John Conn, Jr. He is also sur vived by three half brothers and four half sisters. They are Messrs Thomas, Otto, and Charlie Conn; Mrs. S. H. Bryan of Asheville, N. C.; Mrs. L. L. Griner, (if Fitzgerad; Mrs. Thomas Morton of Gray; and Mrs. Russell Bone of this City. Daring Thursday a large numb* of people have called by the resi- d“nce to express their sorrow and ; > in path y to those who have been be reaved. The funeral will be held at the residence at four o’clock Friday afternoon, and by a proclamation by ayor J. H. hnnis, during the hour the stores Will be closed and all bust- A NOTED ARTIST ! EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF RAILROAD BAND BOARD DELAYS HERE NEXT WEEK FRANK SHERIDAN OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC OR CHESTRA TO GIVF RECITAL FRIDAY NIGHT, MARCH 25TH. Frank Sheridan, of the Mannes Music School and a memDer of the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, will give a recital or. Friday evening March, 25th during the convention of the State Federation of Music Clubs that convene here next Wed nesday. Mr. Sheridan is a noted Piano Art ist Soloist and is considered one of the finest musicians in America. He is here at the expense of the Cable Piano Company and the Mason and Hamlin Company, who are also furnishing two Grand pianos for the Mrs. Baily, State President of the Federation, when told of the coming of Mr. Sheridan, stated that she was thoroughly pleased and that the del egates would hear one of the finest artists in the country. Mr. Sheridan wil give his concert n the College Auditorium at 8:30 ’clock on Friday evening. MUSIC CLUBS TO CONVENE ON 23RD TO GIVE CONCERT PROMINENT VISITORS HERE NEXT TUESDAY NIGHl To Be Served. Guest. The Plantagenet Commar.dery of Milledgeville have completed plans for the annual inspection on next Tuesday evening when they will have reir guests the most prominent Knight Templars in Georgia. Emminent Sir John P. Weisiger; Rt. Emminent Sir Perry L. Black- shear, Past Grand Commander of Georgia, of Atlanta; Emminent Sir Chas. S. Wood, of Savannah, Grand Recorder of the Grand Commandery of Georgia; Emminent Sir Josiah Clark. Grand Treasurer of the Grand Commandery of Georgia, of Augus ts Past Commander Long of Atlan- t; and Robert L. Coling, of Atlanta, ill J>e the prominent guest attend ing the inspection. At seven o’clock a dinner will be rved the guest and members of the Commandery, which will be followed by the inspection and work in the Temple degree. DEATH OF MRS. HARD1E Mrs. H. E. Hardie died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ben Morrison North Jefferson street this morn ing. after a long illness. She is sur vived by her husband, one son, and daughters, Mrs. Morrison, and Charles Fowler. Mrs. Hardie a member of the Baptist Church and her lif® was one of service to her 200 Delegates to Arrive In City on Wednesday. First Meeting Wednes day Night. Noted Wo men To Attend. Delegates from all parts oi Geor gia will arrive in Milledgeville on Wednesday afternoon and evening for the opening session of the Eighth Annual Convention of the Federated Music Clubs of Georgia, which will convene at the Methodist church at 8 o'clock, Mrs. W. P. Bailey, of Sa vannah, Ga., President of the asso ciation presiding. Addresses of welcome will be de livered by Mrs. E. R. Hines, Miss Fannie Virginia McClure, Capt. J. H. Ennis, Dr. E. T. Holmes and Dr. J. L. Beeson. At the conclusion of the brief opening session, the Mil ledgeville Music Club artists will give a concert in the College Audi torium. The remairder of the week has been filled and a most busy ses sion is promised. Business sessions will be held in the morning hours, while the evenings will be given over to musical programs, featuring the G. S. C. W. Glee Club, G. M Band, Sapio of New Yorw and Bea trice Horsburg of the G. S. C. W faculty. Noted Georgia Artists and a noted pianists of Boston. The delegates will be met at trains by members of the music clubs, the Kiwanis club and city of ficials, and will be shown to the idences in the city where they will be entertained. Miss Fannis Virginia McClure, president of the Senior Club, of this city has been chairman of the pro gram of arrangements for the con vention and has everything in readi ness. The convention here is expect ed to be the largest and most suc cessful ever held in the state. Mrs. Edgar Stillman Kelly, Nation al president, and Mrs. Cora Cox Lu cas, president of the Southeastern states will attend the convention and will address the delegates. Many other interesting speakers are on the lecture program, among them are Prof. George H. Webber, of the G. S. C. W. faculty, and Prof. Bailey, instructor of pipe organ at Wesleyan and orgai ist of Christ Episcopal church of Macon. The pv.olic has been invited to all the evening entertainments and mu sical programs, while the morning and business sessions are closed the delegates. CLINE TENNILLE ERECTING HOUSE ON ENNIS HEIGHTS Mr. Cline Tennille will begin this week the erection of a modern seven residence on the peak of the Ennis Heights and will complete the house within a few months. The Ennis property is in the north- st section of the city and is one of the highest points near the city, mak ing it an ideal residential section. The stork will arrive Friday after noon at 3:30 with the base ball son for 1927, when the G. M. C. 1 will meet the 10th A. & M. nin ihe local diamond. Coach Slap Rentz has had about thirty candidates galloping around Davenport Field for the past weeks and is rapidly whipping them into shape for the coming grind. Milledgeville fans are eager foi the crack of the willow and to feel the scorching rays of Old Sol ir bleocher section. MR. J. A. CASH DIED ON WED NESDAY AT Cm' HOSPITAL Black Spri Mr. Church Thu Cash died at the City Hospital Wednesday, March 16th, shortly after 12 o’clock. Mr. Cash was carried to the City Hospital Saturday, suffering with pneumonia and an acute attack of appendicitis, an immediate operation found necessary. He rallied from the operation, but pneumonia contin ued to baffle medical treatment, and experienced nursing, until his vital ity gave way, and he yielded to grim reaper. Rev. J. F. McCluney conducted the funeral services at Black Spring church, Thursday afternoon, in presence of a large gathering of the friends and acquaintances of’the deceased. The burial was at the c« etery at the church. John Andrew Cash was born Breman, Ga., forty-two years ago, and grew to manhood there. He came to this city in 1908, and en gaged in the furniture business, for a time. He then went to Macon and resided in that city and Bibb county, until 1919, when he returned and has since made his home in this county and city. He engaged in farming for a year or two until an accident three or four years ago cost him one of his limbs, and he then commenced .the operation of a saw mill. Mr. Cash was one of Baldwin county’s well-known citizens, and w’as energetic, honest and reliable. He was a member and a deacon of the Black Spring Baptist church, and superintendent of the Sunday school. He was held in the highest confidence by all who knew him, as th$y recognized that he wbb striving .> vatk in the path of Christian living, sustained by a faith in Him “whom to know a right is life ever lasting.” Mr. Cash is survived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Adah Hooten; several brothers and sisters and other relatives. GEORGIA RAILROAD ORGANI ZATION OF AUGUSTA AND ATLANTA TO GIVE JOINT CON CERT SATURDAY NIGHT. The Georgia Railroad Band, of Augusta, one of the finest musical organizations in the state, with the orchestra of the central office in At lanta, will give a concert at the Col lege Auditorium on Saturday evening as a part of the Lyceum season of G. S. C. W. An added attraction with the band will be the appearance of Chester Wickersham Kitchens, grandson fo Charles A. Wickersham, general manager of the Georgia Railroad and president of the A. &. W. P. Rail road. \oung Kitchens is a talented musician and will give an original act as a part of the concert. The band will feature forty mu sicians, while the orchestra has a personnel of twenty members. Both of these organizations are considered unusually fine and will uttract a large audience. THE ELKS BUILDING WILL BE COMPLETED THIS WEEK OFFICERS MAKE BIG STILL CLEAN-UP THIS WEEK Three Bij Stills Captured. Tw Raid. Five Men Jailed Which Credit the City. The Elks building is nearing com pletion as the finishing painting touches are being put on. The building is a splendid three- story structure, and is a credit ot the city, being by far superior to the one destroyed by fire. On the first floor are three store rooms, or.e of which will be occupied by the Adams Electric Co., and one by the Postal Telegraph Co. The second floor will be used as club rooms by the lodge. From these rooms a comfortable balcony will extend sev eral feet over the sidewalk. The top floor will be a comtr- iious lodge room, where will he refurnished with paraphernalia and furniture. The Elks Home in MfUsdfC^Qe will be among the best in the state. CountyPoliceman J. T. Terry and officers Smith and Broom in raids last Friday and Tuesday of this week made a big clean-up of stills in county, capturing three moonshine factories and with them five opera tors, three.of them white men. Saturday morning the officers went into a section near Meriwether and captured a 40 gallon still with 180 gallcns of beer. The still was ii operation when the officers arivei and Jean Myrick, Jr., and Willi- Huff were brought back and put ii jail. In the afternoon, a still was found about a mile off the Eatonton high way near Merriwether. The still in full fling and th-ee white n Howard Dubose, Tom Avery, Marshall Bryant were captured, sixty gallon steamer was destroyed with 180 gallons of beer and 2 Ions of whiskey. On Tuesday the officers went the river and found a still on the old Treanor place, back of the target range. A negro man was guarding the place when the officers arrived and was arrested and brought back here. On the return to the city the officers had a wreck and it was eral hours before they could return to their find and when they did they destroyed the 75 gallon copper still 11 sixty gallon barrels of beer and a small keg of whiskey. The oper ators learned of the officers first vis it while they were bringing the negro here and did not come in as had been expected. PRES. EECTION DR. BEESON SERVICES EXTEND ED UNTIL SUCCESSOR NAM ED. SEVERAL CONSIDERED AS DR. PARKS’ SUCCESSOR. Although they met last Saturday in Atlanta to elect a president of the Georgia State College for Wo- succeeding the late Dr. M. M. Parks, the board of directors of the local institution adjourned after a four hour session without naming a head of the school, continuing the services of Dr. J. L. Beeson, who is w acting president until July 1st. Eve'ry member of the board was present and they unanimously agreed that the election should be postpon ed until July 1st, at which time a meeting will be held. Some twelve fifteen names were considered by the Hoard, but it was believed best to wait until the full facts could be ob tained about the many persons whose names were considered. The board is thoroughly satisfied with the service rendered by Dr. Beeson, in as much as they were sat isfied with the progress the school is making under his administration. The following names were con- Among those who have been prom inently mentioned for the presidency of the college are Dr. J. L. Beeson, acting president; Dr. John W. Good, head of the English department of Agnes Scott college, and former head of the English department of the Georgia State College for Women; Dr. E. V. Hollis, former president of the Georgia Normal college at States boro; Dr. W. C. Wardlaw, of New York, former member of the faculty of the Georgia State College for Wo men and former superintendent of the Atlanta public schools; Miss Ag- ness Harris, dear, of women at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Ala., a sister of Senator William J. Harris and an alumnae of the Georgia State College for Wo men ; Dr. E. H. Scott, dean and member of the faculty of the Geor gia State College for Women; Dr. R. E. Park, head of the English de partment of the University of Geor gia; Dr. Preston Brooks, of the fac-. ulty of the University of Georgia, and a Dr. Heimiller, of the faculty of the Teachers* College of the Uni versity of Texas. The meeting of the board Satur day was held in the supreme court room at the capitol and every mem ber was present. The members are Justice R. B. Russell, chief justice of the Georgia supreme court, pres ident; Miller Bell, of Milledgeville; Dr. E A. Tigner, of Milledgeville, Judge John B. Hurheson, of Jones boro; Judge W. H. Davis, of Waynes boro; Ernest Camp, of Monroe; T. E. Atkinson, of Newnan, and Dr. Fort E. Land, state school superin tendent and ex-officio member. Dr E. T. Holmes and Mr. R. L. Wall spent Sunday in Macon, where they heard Dr. Jasper Massey, pas tor of the Tremont Temple Baptist church, of Boston, Mass., preach. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Massey were class mates at Mercer University. GA. R. R. BAND HERE SATURDAY NIGHT JUNIOR ORDER HAD SOME PROMINENT VISITORS HERE State Vice Councillor J. F. Ma- oney and State Secretary A. Dwight ease ' vere Present Monday night at •« meeting of the local council of the ■'unior Order of American Mechanics *, WitnesRed th P initiation of a big JT mt0 the order - Vice Councillor :: a,on ey “dressed the order, after lru ' initiation nn.l I. .... initiation and spoke highly of Plenddi progress that was being ' " b y the local council. di ""v was served and a ore made by Secretary Dease, • ••orge Carpenter and Mr. Daw- "ilson. There were about fifty PARKS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PLANS ARE PROGRESSING The Geonria Railroad Band, pic-I March 19th. The band l» compo. d ired above, a ill be here, aponrored of more than forty members and »ill by the Lyceum Committe of the G. be accompanied by the General Oflice C. W. on next Saturday eveninR | Orchestra from Atlanta, which haa about twenty-five muaiciana. Both of proirrama. and their commit perfor- tln*se groups are well known through out the state for their delightful iced In Savannah, Saturday W" Endorsement is being made all over Georgia to the Parks Memorial Hospital being planned by the Alum nae to be erected on the campus to the memory to the late Dr. Parks, work to begin in June. Miss Mary Brooks, President of the Association and Miss Katherine Scott were in Savannah the past week and organized a G. S. C. Club the Port City and assisted in get ting the Memorial drive underway. Mrs. Daisy Stubbs, Mrs. Rachel Shaw Stubbs, Mrs. J. A. Hutton and other prominent Savannah women have taken charge of the drive. A banquet was held at Thunderbolt at Hannons Lodge Saturday evenin and a entusi- astic reception was given the plan as outlined by Miss Brook?. The Atlanta Club has subscribed $15,000., Thomasville, Macon, Moul trie, Grifin, Newborn and other cit ies have organized and are putting over large quotas. The local Alumnae Club met last Friday afternoon and c'mpleted plans for the drive in this county. Mrs. Culver Kidd. President of the Baldwin Club is actively interested to be one of the ; an j j, as the cooperation of all best attractions of the season. the Alumnae in the County.