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0000$ N °ALOty c °n>fti*nc. a "** en, ° n veni eat volume xcvn i* d . e , Pa i Union Established in 1829 southern Recorder " 1819 Milledgeville, Ga., Thursday, July 28, 1927. Consolidated in 1872 Number 49. S. C. HEAD SOLONSREPORT THREE SEEK W.M.U.TOMEET RESIGNS POST PRISON VISIT MAYOR’S OFFICE !i Health Causes Act of Dr Suhrie., Jo'nt Committee Senate and House Bass, Alford and Pennington En- Ifiissioaory Rally of Washington "■FRIENDSHIP hi t Trustees Make No Annouce- tnen! As To Sucessor, Commend Employes. Find the Farm in Er.ceiient Shape. er Mayor : Race. No Candi dates for Aldermen. Association io Be Held. Pro gram fas Seen Aranged. THEG.S.C.W S.S. WORKERS TO BE CROWDED TO HOLD MEETING Hundred of Applicants Will Be Baldwin County Convention To Be Turned Away on Account of Held at Bethel Church on Lack 0? Dosminiory Room. August the 1 Oih. Suhru »ncy of the 1 for Wom following the the late Dr. M. state Prison id< red his rcsignu- To Trustees to be- eported I „f the fci ■ in August, having stitute. t* in June during ! Th „ prt it season. His Re- understood was irotracted illness,. The joint committee of the state | K. E representatives, Ro >’ s f inspection to where ear here, made niai an leir report to the law makers com- the Mu tending Judge Dunaway* and other prlmar mployos for the excellent condition The «.f the Washi 1 and buildings at 1 •dgeviile in th • ctober 25th. s came follow- lhe Executive setting the date the First District 1 Asoclatlon will Rally with Frind- rch on Friday h committee took -occasion to daily commend Judge Dunaway the many improvements that I have been made since he became or the election in < M. E. Pc I i.S ! embe ia now recuperating head of the prison farm. The other * n cil >' affairs "**• N- ' lnd b » employ,* «.re alto CO, Suhrie who has* operations recently, as formerly professor College and formal *n ut New York Uni- poMition he held when G. S. C. W. Presiden- the board of aldermen of the City d has been aligned and Interested tuber of years. immended for Mr. Alford is an-ex-alderman haring the past they play in making the served und- r the Bell administration, penal system in such u high rate of Mr. Bass is a prominent business mur efficiency. - * I and baa been active in the political The report showed that the’ farm I *Ue of the city, had shown a greater yield in the j Ca *“- J - H - Knnla - incumbent, has past few years, 40,000 pounds of ,,ot made h,s ‘"tention know: pork and 10,000 pounds of beef had August 5th. This District is com posed of <*ii:ht Churches with uu or ganization in seven of the Churches. The following Churches will be repre sented: Milledgeville, Midway, Black Springs, I) jvereaux. Island Creek. Beulah. Friendship and Harmony. Mrs. L. C. Wall, Secretary 1st Dls- . in. the pr .-uhrie was elected Pres- he ived ■ im-nt of educators of nat- minence. Dr. Suhrie served <*n the faculty of G. S. C. :a of the department of v -d •efore going to New York a close personal friend of . Porks. he Board of Trustees of the Col- haw mode no unnouncement as hat action will be taken and who I*- elected as Dr. Suhric’s suc- ur. Dr. J. L. Beeson, it is undcr- d will continue as acting presi- l until the board cun make their -ion. The trustees will meet next k it \- understood. DOORS CLOSED AT 1 STATE SANITARIUM uiacd Patient* Confined in Building Made for Three Thous and Six Hundred Patients. At t meeting of the board of trus tee# of the State Sanitarium on Thursday the following resolutions *** unanimously adopted. The grave situation of the Sani tarium in respect of room to accom- nudute its steadily growing populu- ti<n being under consideration, the following rcsoution was offered, and after full discussion, was unanimous- been produced and consumed on the farm the past year; 1,000 peach trees were planted during the year und many pecan tries added to the already productive grove. The buildings for both male and female und the hospital were in ex cellent repair stated the committee and the sanitary conditions were very noticeable. The committee urged the erection of a new water system for the farm, the present plant being wholly in adequate to supply water for the 1,000 men and 1,000 animals on the farm. The personal of the prison are the most outstanding men the prison commhsion has ever had directing the institution. Judge Dunaway, su perintendent; Capt. J. M. Burke, warden of the male prison, and Capt. Smith ,of the fer.tal~ camp, are all competent and well qualified men to bring Georgia’s state prison to the highest standard of efficiency and Binion, Messrs Jon Huthchin?on and L. D. Smith aldermen whose terms ex pire buYe not announced their inten- tiono leaving this field without candi dates It is believed that other candidates will enter the field before the en trance time closes. 1 in the morning and Miss Selui pies work, will have charge of the Devotional. Mrs. T. Church. The'Georgia State Coll* men will b_- filled to i when it open for its 192": jn September. In the jtccrptar.ee o which is now,in pregrers that the n ixtee Wo- The Baldwin County Sunday School Conv.nlion »;il be held ut s- ion | the Bethel Methodist church, Wed- ce of students | ,,eaday » August 10th, accordirg to agrees it U> found ! on announcement by Mrs, Bf B. An- npplications are j derson, president of the County Sun- rhea only ubnut j (j n y School Association. leeting is for Sunday School ' Slipt’ri :id vlBltc The Colonial Theatre, under the management of Mr. M. L. Curry, has become one of Milledgeville’s best assets. The type of pictures ! MELON MOVEMENT CONTIN- AUXILLIARY PUNNING ARMISTICE PROGRAM 11. Parade »o be Feature The American Legion Auxllliary ara setting their plans for a big I Armistice Day program, expecting to j make the day one of the most color- i fill Milledgeville has ever had. Committees have been appointed and details are being perfected to . make the celebration greater than ever before. The parade will be one of the features of the day. according to the premature plans. Every or- \ gunization is expected to take part in this event. Several speakers for Uie occasion 1 are being considered. No bint was I given as to who would fill this part of the program. Wht-i s, the Georgia State I today taxed with the that are being shown ara above the average for a town of Milledgeville’s size. Mr. Curry shows the latest picture” and always has an attract- Crowds are visiting the theatre chident insane patients with | nightly and people from neighboring other patients, furloughed with i towns are making Milledg. ville their : -<* return within twelve months, j center of amusemcn s. UES IN BALDWIN COUNTY The movement of watermelons in the county has continued through the week, large shipments being made from Coopersville, Ivey and vicinity. Many raisers have been content to sell their melons at the | local market and the fruit has been plentiful for the past few weeks. Whei thiir heavy over-crowd- FUNERAL SERVICES OF MR. !,IL ’ become exceedingly dangerous 1 R. J. BOAZ HERE FRIDAY the life and health of the patients, j and - riously impedes the medical j The remains of Mr. James R. Boaz, A " r k tor their restoration to mental 1 accompanied by Major Ora Bundy ‘ and, i reached Milledgeville Friday evening II hereas, this situation continues jon the Central of Georgia railroad !o grow in gravity because of the J train. •Reading demand for admission, and : The funeral services were held at co , n '“ n nt increase in population, the reference of Mr. and Mrs. Otto j •• I present prospect for reli:f, J M. Conn Saturday morning, at 'll I tner-i , r .. t 1 o'clock. Rev. J. F. Yarbrough offi- :-••d. First, that the Board of ; ciatinp. The remains were buried in n the discharge of the re- the city cemetery the pall bearers be- y resting upon it for the i ing: Ur. Richard Binion, Messrs, act of this institution, and j L C. Hall, J. C. Ingram, L. S. Fow- 1 hat 5,000 patients consti- ler, Louis Flemister and K. B. Moore, per line beyond which it Mr. Boaz died suddenly Sunday does now authorize und 'morning near Ogan, Utah. He "was perintendent that when th? eldest son of the late Mr. B. G. The m- n acreage has increased each year m Baldwin and u nice prof it is expected from the crop thi*. sea son. The large melons are the only ones showing profit this year. tretch of highwa The road when cc of the best in is being gone over, it pie ted will be one the state. Many being •-leminutcd cr of indent patients has . to decline to receive except as vacancies I then in his disretion, ns to be restricted to •*ble cases. That tha ordinariey of the ikewise informed. n • That the daily press be 1 °f this action, number of patients received sanitarium on Thursday ran '•‘I number to 5,000 even. fC| ON AUXILLIARY TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY nierican Legion Auxllliary teet next Tuesday at the of Mrs. George Carpenter lock, every member is urg- inuny Important Boaz. and the brother of Mrs. Otto M. Conn, and of Mr. B. G. Boaz of Moss Point. Miss. The sympathy of our people have gone out to Mrs. Conn in her be- I rcavement. JAY TO ARRIVE HERE MONDAY. To Remodel Finney Store end Open Dry Goods House Here Soon. Mr. Harry Jay, operator of dry goods stores in Gainesville, Eaton- ton and Greensboro, will arrive here Monday to take over the lean? of the Finney store to make prepara- and many of the tions for the opening of a business “wuy with here within the next few weeks. ' The rapid progress of highway Mr. Jay will remodel the store and .development under the present Com- purehas? n n w stock of mcrchan- imlssloners bus been marked. disa. The Milledgeville 3tore will be the fourth .store of Mr. Jay is oper- JULIUS HOLT GOING TO TECH, ating. Mrs. B. L. Prosser, Friendship Response, Miss Manie Jones. Milledgeville. Reports of Presidents. Special Music. Mesituge—District Secretary. Announcements. Hymn. Jesus Calls Us. Rev. Fulgbuni. Pastor Friend ship Church. Afternoon Devotional, led by Representative from Beulah Church. i’pecial Music—Hardwick Church. How worthwhile is Young People's work. Miss Katie Shivers, Black Springs. Special Music. Devereuux Cliurcb. I Denioimtartion—Milledgeville Sun- j beam Band. Demonstration. Hardwick Y. W. A. . Play. Cindy’s Chance.—-Milledge-1 ville. Ga s and Y. W. A’s. Discuslon, and recognition -if Pres!-1 dents. The future, following the Muster's This is a hard problem to solve for i: difficult for Dr. Bee -a, acthvr worker * of 3,1 denominations, it is president, and his a.-sistantM to di- »nd all who are interested dine admittance 10 any of the Geor-! ^ rom every school in the county are gla girls, who are applying, but they invited to attend. The convention ate compelled to do o on account of will open at 10:30 in the morning, a trie lack of dormitory rcoom. , basket dinn.r will be serv?d at TIl great .state of Georgia should | noon, und the session will conclude so equip G. S. G. W. that there should j *»t 1 o’clock in the afternoon, not he n single applicant refused a»i- The theme of the convention pro- mittance. j gram is “Measuring Up.” Every di*- cussion, it is believed, will help the Chamber of Commerce j Th"r d Suggests Younger Set ’ Webb, general superintendent Geor gia Sunday School Associatfon, will be one of the speakers on the pro gram. Special recognition will be given to the Sunday School that sends the largest delegation, sixteen years of age and over, to the convention in proportion to the number of miles If “Madam Rurno: nt mayor and aldermen are retire at the three or four of voluntarily going to end of their pres, nt ternm The fact that the present board, inftituted and carried out on exten sive program of street paving, will be n lusting monument to their ad ministration, and they can well af ford to rest on their laurels. We may hold something against them for allowing the "expert” wood choppers to trim our trees to conform to the electric wires, rath er than make the wires conform to our trees, a* “the trees were here first, and it looks pitiful for the trees on one side of the street to have “expert” (treatment, while those on the other side are just as the good Lord made them, but I pre sume all the dead limbs that the “expert” cut off (but left lodged in the trees) fall to the ground, we will forget all about it. cled. Negro Man Shot and Killed His Wife Friday Cmshin Tkn My p.rsonal relation: Robert Simmons, a young negro • man, shot and killed his wife, Mar tha Simmons, last Friday morning at hi«i home on the Did Dave Hill place in the western part of Baldwin county. The weapon used was a thirty-eight calibre pistol, and both bullet:-, struck the woman in the back of her head, causing instant d.ath. At the time of the shooting the man and woman were the only ones in the house, and there were no wit- | nesses. The man’s mother, who liv ed 1 ; to the hou; 1 af- 1 ant with all of the board that I would be delighted to throw them hoquets, if they had not allowed my good friend, George Tunnell, to out point them in the matter of the Dummy, as it is I must give all the bouquets to George for out witting the entire bunch, and in my opinion always getting more than he gave. Elected as a result of an intense factional fight, they were somewhat handicapped to satisfy the demands MACON HIGHWAY TO BE ONE OF BEST INSTATE Baldwin County Section Being Work ed. Gray- Macon Paved. Practically the entire road from Milledgeville to Macon is now being -hanged, the Milledgevilie to Gray ection being straightened, resurfaced and graded, the Macon-Gray section being paved. The Milledgeville to Macon road ; much to prevent any factional cle has been undergoing a series of re- m*nt entering into the election of u pairs for a number of years, short (new board, in part, or complete. ches being repaired at different j Some years ago I suggested the times but ut the present the entire names of some new members for the ter hearing the shots, and found the woman dead. Coroner Newton and the sheriff were notified of the killing and went to the scene, and an inquest was held, the jury returning a cerdict of murder. Immediately after the shooting Simmons left and after the officers ar rived they took up search for him. He was caught near Haddock later in the afternoon, and brought to the of frict.jK or Mcure the co-operation ! cily on ' 1 ' ll " cl '' 1 w i» n - Th - murder of th.ir opponent., but the situation " ,mn » lt:ed lhc dn >' superior is much improved, and their volun-' court ■ d - , »"™'<l- The ne K ro will be vary retirement, will no doubt do J I’^ced on trial at the January term of court. hills done trustd-es of G. M. C. Some thought that 1 was only joking, but every one of them hus since been elect d and the improved condition of the affairs of the college testifies to their ability. I wish to suggest three names to selict from tot mayor L. C. Hall, I “,** ** Charles Whitfield and Frank E. Bone, I ’ 8 the first two or well known to all ! of us, but let me say that no man j is growing faster in all that consti tutes valuable citizenship than Frank I HON. FORT E. LAND DEAD. ; Fraley’s Pharmacy for the past year. I E. Bone, if you do not make Him | Hon. Fort E. Land, state nuperin- has resigned his position, and will ; mayor, be sure and make him one of! tendent of schools, died in Atlanta, enter the Technological School in ) the aldermen. Monday afternoon, after an illness 1 September. Mr. Holt graduated 1 Then to fill any vacancies that may of six weeks. Mr. Land was in his j from G. M. C. in 1920, with first | ocur in the board of aldermen, take >nd year two-year term as state : honor, and will enter Tech for the any of these, they arc all young, Dr. E. T. Holmes, president of G. M. C., on Wednesday of last week i delivered, an address before the Ki- wnnis and Woman’s Clubs of War- renton. He spoke of the prosperity, as shrftvn in the diversification of I crops in south Georgia, the principles of the Kiwanis Club, and th? requi- success. The addre-s was heard with the greatest interest. It was interesting and entertaining. Julius Holt, who ha* bee: | Fraley’s Pharmacy for the NEW BUICKS NOW ON DISPLAY. superintendent und his death DR. FLOYD MAKES FINE _ . TALK AT PRAYER MEETING deeply regretted throughout the ' is successed at Fraley’s Pharmacy i state. He was deeply interested in I by Robert Ivey, who graduated from Dr. T. J. Floyd, who is visiting education and was filling hi* office G. M. C. the past year with second his daughter, Mrs. W. T. Wynn, con- 1 w ith ability. He was buried at Cor- j honor, and won the sabre as Capt. ducted prayer meeting at the Metho- I dele Wednesday, diet church Wednesday evening. He. made a most intefesting talk on • FIRST OPEN COTTON. Christian experience and urged hia j j e g«« Scott, Jr., who lives i hearers to be active in bringing men j Trilby neighborhood, brought to the a religious experience. | city today (Thursday) several open Dr. Floyd is nearing his eightieth ) cotton bolls. He has about forty year and ’.>as a Confederate soldier . acres in cotton, and there are a large He remembers passing through Mill- J number of open bolls in the field. edgevillc at the age of sixteen, gojng The cotton is “College No. 1,” from Augusta to Columbus. He is ripe in o Christian life as he hsa walk- the path* of righteousneaa these many ; crly variety. He expects to com- I icals, magazines, etc., send them to ir.cr.cc picking !n about ten days. I Mr. L. C. Hall at the Merchants A Under favorable conditions Mr. j Farmer* Bank, and he will carry Ccctt expacta % bat* to the acre, them to tW kaya. purpose of studying engineering. He 1 progressive and quite capable of handling the affairs of this city to the best advantage—Stewart Woot- ten, George Carpenter, W. L. Mor rison,' Marion Allen, Kenneth Mc Millan, Adrian Horne and ihere arc- other young man in case any of these cannot serve. I do not know how they rtand on any of my pet ordinances, such as allowing the Dummy to our streets for good passenger vice but not for freight trains—a better standard for milk—creating city zones, for various lines of busi- preventing the encroachments of public service corporations on the general public, and the removal of trash from the yards, rather than of company AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADD HAPPINESS. The boys at Training School like to read the Saturday Evening Post and magazines. You can add to their pleasure by furnishing them with thia reading matter. If you have any Saturday Evening Posts, period- Mr. Ralph Simmerson. the local Buick dealer, has received teveral of the new 1928 models of the Buick and has them on display. The new Buick shows many advanced improve ments and is especially attractive in body types and colors. The New Buick, says Mr. Simmerson, is the greatest car yet produced by Buick. There are many marked improve 1 - ments without advanc? in price and Buick again demonstrates that when 3 better automobile is built Buick will build them. The new line of cars has attracted much attention. from the street, but I will take my chances with these boy* I at leaA know that Marion Allen is not go ing to stand much switching from the railroads. Put in this younger set, for* t ir former differences, and let’s ike this old town hum. J. L. SIBLEY, Secretary.