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VOLUME XCVH
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Milledgeville, Ca., Thursday, August II, 1927.
Consolidated in 1872
Number 51
iheaustralian
BALLOT SYSTEM
Has Been Recommended by Two
Consecutive Grand Juries and
Will Become Operative.
>j*Ij Australian ballot system is
now effective in Baldwin county. The
act provides that the law shall be-
» onu . operative in a county when it
recommended by two consecutive
'rar.d juries of such county. This
has been done in Baldwin as the
prand juries sitting: at the January
. im l July terms of Baldwin county
The ac‘ provides for a secret and
private ballot at all elections held in
the state; to make it the duty of
certain -iflicials to provide rooms,
booth, r inclosures at certain poll*
jng place.-, and to protect the secrecy
and purity of the ballot; to provide
for the furnishing of official ballots
for all elections general and primary,
provide regulations for the con-
duct of all elections, imposing cer
tain duties upon the managers and
clerks; t<> make provision for the as
sistance of disabled and illeterate
voters; to provide penalties of this
act by voters, electors, managers,
clerks or other officials; to make it
un!awful for any election official to
,-olicit votes, or to prepare any bal
lot different from instructions given
by the voter or to give out informa
tion concerning elections while the
election is in progress, to make pro
visions preventing any publisher,
printer or other person engaged to
print ballots from furnishing any
likeness or form there of to any per
son other than as provided in this
art. and to provide penalties for
lation of the same; to provide <
pensation for the official charged
with the duty of carrying, this i
into effect and for other purposes.
COMMITTEE O.K.
G. S. S. FUNDS
FnJ of $580,010 fo
Improvement,. Dr. Swirt With
Trustees Effort Committee.
The house appropriations commit
tee placed their approval
State Sanitarium bill Tuesday, in
creasing their maintenance to $1,-
200,000 and giving an additional
fund of $580,000 for improvements.
Dr. R. C. Swint and the Board of
Trustees of the Sanitarium appeared
before the committee on Tuesday
and made their request for the
essary money. The committee
unanimous in their approval of the
bill. There were twenty-nine of the
committee present and all of them
voted in favor of sending the bill to
the house as written.
Eighty thousand dollars of the ad
ditional fund will be used in improv
ing the water plant and the $500,000
will go to building funds and other
improvements of the institution.
Dr. Swint stated that he was very
favorably impressed with the recep
tion given the Sanitarium requests
and that the members of legislature
generally were very friendly toward,
the institution's needs.
J. T. GHEESLING PURCHASES
MEAT MARKET ON WAYNE
The J. T. Gheesling Dry Goods
Co., la?t week purchased the msat
market of Jack Davis and will oper-
ste the business, having employed an
expert meat cutter.
During the patt year the J. T.
Gheesling Co., composed of Messrs.
Gheesling, Babb and Gholson, have
opened an additional dry goods store
Wayne street and the purchase of
the meat market was another part of
their expansion program.
We expect to operate a grocery
store in connection with the market,
*U»ted Mr. Gheesling, and wish to
L.-.-ure our customers that we will
fcivc real service.
Jack Davis will remain in the e
P% of the new concern, buying c
tie arid running the slaughter pen.
•The Gheesling company has made
niany expansions since its organiza
tion and have other plans toward
the development and growth of their
UK. ANDERSON ENTERS
THE ALDERMANIC RACE
Public Hullk Law,
of Factional Alicn.ont.
^ r - Som Anderson has announced
•' candidacy for alderman in the
'Onur^ cUy election and makes a
i .iirt ..atement in this i«Aio ofc
th ' L'""u Uccorder.
. r - Anderson stresses the need
' «rood health laws and pledges his
'* ‘ rt * to bring about certain re-
Be also makes the statement
‘j 31 • 1 ii’ free of any factional
‘‘■'Lirr.ent an d “ making the race on
,J * ! merits and qualifications and
d. ,endent upon any other aid.
e ‘lares that he will leave the
' J the factional lines are drawn
-n , 11 becomes necessary to align
•ovh any 5^ Q f raen tQ income elect-
J,r - Anderson has rendered the
and county invaluable service
health commissioner and is a
Jj'kng man thoroughly qualified to
the office.
Mrs. Eula Stanley is spending aev-
*| al tf ay* Of this week in Atlanta,
pending the wholesale millinery
. ay * »nd selecting her fall and
■nter hat*. by
BLUES TO GO TO TARGET
RANGE ON AUGUST 29TH
Barbecue a ad Target Practice to
Feature Days Outiag. Fancy Drill.
The Baldwin Blues will go to the
target range on Monday August 29
for their annual target practice and
barbecue it was announced at their
drill Monday night by Capt. H. B.
Ennis.
New targets and range house
have been completed in the past few
weeks and Capt. Ennis expects to
get excellent results from the day'i
odting. The ^company will march
over in the early morning firing
the two and three 1 hundred yard
ranges before the noon hour when
barbecue dinner will be served. The
company will have several guest
the dinner.
In the afternoon a fancy exhibi
tion drill will be staged in the bus
iness section by a picked squad. The
squad met the Barnesville picked
squad at camp and ran them a close
competition for honors. It is a splen
didly drilled outfit and will stage
drill that will be worth seeing.
H—k.
The Boys Cotton and Corn Clubs
of Baldwin county are represented
at Camp Wilkins, Athens, this week
by Gresham Torrance, Allen Knowles,
Pearl Chandler, Robert Pearson, Mod-
ison H. Montgomery, Holland Pearce
and Albert Lee. They left the city
Monday morning, accompanied by
Farm Agent Nesmith. They will be
given instruction on many important
subjects while at the camp.
Mr. E. E. Bell and Mr. Miller R.
Bell left today for New York, where
they will spend the next ten days
or two weeks purchasing the dry
goods and ladies’ ready-to-wear for
the fall and winter trade.
Mr. E. E. Bell has been to New
York perhaps as many times a» any
merchant in the state, visiting the
markets twice each year. He is rec
ognized by the wholesalers as a most
experienced dry goods merchant. He
knows the dry goods business from
bottom to top and is a careful buyer.
STATE FARM OFFICIALS HAVE
SALARY INCREASE GIVEN
The senate last Monday voted an
increase to the State Farm officials
Superintendent, $2,500; warden,
$1,800; bookkeeper, $1,500. These
increases can be made or not at the
discretion of the Prison Commission.
DEATH OF AN AGED NEGRO.
Charles Bryant, perhaps the oldest
.legro in Baldwin county, died at
Stevena Pottery. Sunday. His exact
age isn’t known, it is certain that he
waa over one hundred yean of age
OIL MILL UNDER
NEW MANAGEMT
Enterprise Hu Opened Far Seiut
And Wifi Give Emplnyueat to
About One Hudred Foflti.
The Milledgeville Oil Mills has
been reorganized and opened for the
season.
Mr. T. C. Robinson, of Livonia,
has been named as manager. He is
an experienced oil mill man, hav’ing
been connected with the Southern
Oil Cotton Co., of that place.
Mr. P. E. Williams, who was with
the mills the past year, will be cash
ier. He recently accepted a position
as bookkeeper of John Conn Co.,
wholsale grocers, but the owners of
the mills, knowing his worth, made
him a flattering offer to return to
them again. He has accepted the of
fer, and will give up his present po
sition within the next week or two.
The superintendent will be Mr.
Fred Strickland, who comes from the
Empire Cotton Oil Co., of Cordele.
He is an experienced and well qual
ified man for his potation.
Mr. C. E. Smith will continue with
the mill, filling the same position he
has held in the past. He is well known
in the city, as an encrgtic, hustling
young man.
The mill will give employment to
about one hundred people, making
Us payroll add to the financial busi
ness life of the city.
FIRST COTTON
HERETUESDAY
W. H. Stine. Grows First Bole,
Weighed SIC Pooods, sod
Sold at 19*4 Certs.
TOLL OF WEEVIL
IS QUITE HEAVY
Reports from all sections of Bald
win county are quite unfavorable
for the cotton crop, as seasons have
been adverse to its production this
year.
Almost daily warm showers
practically every section of the ©
ty, a wepther condition altogether
favorable for boll weevil infestation,
the situation as to the damage to the
cotton crop has grown quite serious
within the past two or three weeks.
The same weather conditions that
have aided infestation have prevent
ed farmers from doing anything
much to save their crops. Poison has
been washed from the plants before
it could have any effect in killing the
weevils and the ground has been
kept continually too wet for light
plowing to cover fallen squares and
thereby kill the grubs in them. So
the weevils have had it their own
way with most favorable weather for
their propagation and devasting
work.
They are reported in certain sec
tions and on certain classes of land
worse than in other sections and on
other classes of land.
In all sections of the county and
on all classes of land the pests arc
to be found in alarming numbers and
it is yet to develop how much dam
age they have done and will do.
It is thought by some that future
developments will show greater dam
age than is now apparent- It is fear
ed that, owing to the abundance of
many squares and bolls that
have been punctured by weevils have
lived und now have appearance of
being all right, will later show the
ages of the pests by rotting or
becoming “squshy.” If that should
be the case in addition to the large
percentage of squares and bolls that
have been destroyed outright by the
eevils great will be the disappoint
ment of growers when picking time
There are a few extra early crops
the county upon which a fairly
good crop of bolls developed before
'ils made their appearance and
from which it is confident from a
half to two-thirds of a crop will be
gathered. There arc not very many
of these though, so that the hope of j
the county this year producing slim.
But for the fine promise of other
crops the farmers of the county
would be weighed down with de
spondency over the farming situa
tion at present.
Baldwin’s first bale of cotton of
the season arrived in Milledgeville
Tuesday. The cotton was grown by
W. H. Stinson on the farm of Col.
Joseph E. Pottle and was ginned at
Coopeift ud Ivey’s gin in Coopcr-
ville. .
The bale weighed 516 pounds, and
was bought by Mr. R. E. Long at the
warehouse of Horne-Andrews Com
mission Co. for 19 V4 cents.
The second bale arrived Wednes
day, and was grown by Mr. T. E.
Hawkes, who lives in the southwest
ern part of the county. The second
bale weighed
brought 20 cents per pound.
The first bale this season arrived
a few days before the 1926 bale
came to market. The bale last year
waa sold on August 17th and in 1925
the^ first bale came to Milledgeville
on August 4th.
The cotton, crop haw suffered from
excessive rains and die unusual in
festation of the boll weevil, and It
is understood that the crop will be
short by several hundred bales.
PRISONERS SAW
WAYTOUBERTY
With Aid of Hock Sows, Noted
Criminals Moke Getaway Float
State Priiaa Wednesday.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
HELD AT BF.THEL WEDNESDAY
The Baldwin County Sunday
School Convention, which was held
at Bethel church Wednesday, was
largely attended by Sunday school
workers from all section of the coun
ty, an^ a pleasant and profitable ses
sion was held.
Interesting talks on various Sun
day school topics were made by State
Superintendent Webb, Mrs. I. R.
Rozar, Rev. H. D. Warnock and oth
ers. The morning devotional wob led
by Miss Mary Farr, and the after
noon by Mrs. S. A. Cook.
Superintendent Webb stated that
Baldwin county had rendered the
best report made by any of the as
sociation and Baldwin way made a
Gold Star county.
At the noon hour a splendid din
ner, consisting oi barbecue and most
tempting viands, was served. The fol
lowing officers were elected:
President, Mrs. B. B. Anderson.
Vice President, Wm. Peeler.
Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. I.
L. Barnes.
DitXnct Presidents, Mrs. * R. H.
Harper, Mrs. C. C. Sutton, Mrs. T.
E. Pugh, T. M. Allen and W. D. Mor-
M. Markowitz, Roy Wilson and
Bill Jones, noted criminals, sawed
their way to liberty from the State
Prison Farm, near here, Wednesday
night, making a complete getaway
and the ceaseless search that has
been made through the day was
fruitless, according to prison officials
about noon today.
That the men had outside help
in escaping from the small cells in
which they had been confined for
previous attempts to escape, was cer
tain .arid Judge Dunaway. M. Mark
owitz, who was sent to the prison
pounds and | last fall from Fulton county to serve
a five-year sentence for embezzle
ment made his escape shortly after
his arrival at the prison and was
placed in solitary confinement. Wil
son, a life termer, and Jones, serv
ing a 20-year sentence for robber-
ry, were placed in the cells with
Markowitz on the Fourth of July af-
tre they had made an effort to leave
the farm. The cells in which the
prisoners were confined were the
ones used in the old Maron jail and
were installed in the prison a few
months ago.
Markowitz used a hack saw to cut
the bars to the cell in which he was
locked. He then prized the locks of
the cells in wnich Wilson and Jones
were confined and together they cut
through the steel cage, giving them
liberty to the prison. They then went
went the prison window and saw
ed the bars there and with blankets
pulled themselves over the barbed
wire fence enclosing the men's build
ing.
Prison officials and city officers
believe the secaped men stole the
Hudson sedan of Dr. Scott, which
was taken from his garage during
the night. The automobile of Mr.
Emmett Barnes was stolen but re
turned and the officers think some
person who was familiar with the
escape had gotten the Barnes car
and had used it to bring the men
from the prison to Milledgeville. An
attempt was made to take the auto
mobile of Dr. Binion, but finding
this car locked they abandoned it af
ter rolling it from the garage and
went to Dr. Scott's residence taking
i Prof-
NEGRO WANTED IN MACON
CAPTURED HERE MONDAY
Waltar Hill ImpUcmtod ia Shooting
Scrap# ia Um Bibb City.
NEGROES HELD
P01S0NCHARGE
Prt Prtuk m Water Backrt ef
Milm Camaftaa. Deprty Taf
fy hrcttifmte, the Cue.
Ola and David, negro youths, were
arrested Monday night by Deputy
Sheriff J. T. Terry, following an in
vestigation of the alleged attempt to
poison Misses Em and Carrie Car
rington. at their home near this city.
Misses Carrington had sent the
young negroes to the spring for a
fresh bucket of water and were in
the act of taking a drink of the wa
ter when they found that it contain
ed potash. The negroes admitted to
the officers that they had poured a
can of lye into the bucket, the boy
laying the blame on the young girl
and the girl saying the boy was guil
ty of the charge. Mist* Em Carring
ton had taken a drink of the water
and swallowed a few drops before
she could spit it from her mouth.
Dr. Anderson accompanied the of
ficers to the Carrington home and
examined the water and stated that
it was lye that had been used. He
also treated Miss Carrington for the
burn she had received. Dr. Ander
son stated that there waa sufficient
quantity of the lye in the bucket to
have killed Miss Carrington if she
had swallowed any of the water.
The young negroes are being held
in the Baldwin county jail awaiting
a preliminary hearing.
The two children lived with their
parents in a house in the rear of the
Carrington home, and were employ
ed by the ladies to run errands for
them and do odd jobs about the
house.
Walter Hill, wanted in Macon un-
red charges of drunkenc-ss and im
plicated a shooting affair in the Bibb
city, was captured here Monday
night and turned over to the Macon
police Tuesday.
Hill was chased,by the Macon po
lice after a shooting scrape that took
place in a negro settlement about
tw.. week. .*o, but succeeded In .rated the prison authorities, “and
m.kin* his esc.os. The Mlll.rWiII. ' ^ ^ consUnt gu „ d
his i
The persons who were aiding from
the outside were familiar with the
location of the residences here and
had plotted the maneuvers before
the prisoners arrived.
Judge Dunaway and Capt. Burke
investigating the escape learned that
one of the men had given the guard
who was on duty at the cell a glass
of tea earlier in the evening, that
had been drugged. The guard stated
that he had never slept as sound
his life, and that he was sure there
was something in the tea that made
the aleep sound, as he had had
ble in sleeping for the past few
weeks.
Further investigations showed that
the hole cut in the outside steel cage
had been done several days before
the escape pnd that it had been seal
ed up with soap from the outside.
The three men have been the
worst prisoners we have ever had, 1
making his escape. The Milledgeville
police have been on the watch out
for the negro and Monday* night
found him in a house in West End.
The Macon police were notified and
Tuesday Chief of Police Ben T. Wat
kins and Chief of Detective Burns,
of the Macon force, came over here
and carried the negro back to Macon.
MRS. HORACE BLIZZARD
DIES IN CITY HOSPITAL
Mrs. Horace Blizzard, of Hancock
county, died at the City Hospital on
Wednesday. The funeral services
held at Friendrtip church on
Thursday morning, Rev. H. D. War-
nock nffialrtiag,
Revival services will begin at the
Cooperville Baptist church next Sat
urday, August 13th, at 8:30 p. m.
eastern time. Rev. J. F. Ray will do
the preaching, and Rev. W. E.
Browne, of Jacksonville, Fla., will
conduct the song service. Services
will begin promptly at 11:80 a. ni.
and 8:30 p. m. You are urged to at
tend.
them.” Jones, who was sent here in
1909 under a 20-year sentence has
made three previous escapes.
The cells in which they were
fined were searched .twice a week
and it was certain that some of the
prisoners were giving assistance to
the men in their escape.
Mr. T. H. Caraker was in the city
Wednestiay, and he received a cordial
welcome from his friends.
He will move his family from At
lanta to Philadelphia the latter part
of this month.
Mr. Caraker holds a responsible
position with the A. and P. Co.,
which takes him into all factions of
the country.
CITY TAX ASSESSORS.
The city tax assessors are in ses
sion, going over the returns of the
taxable property. The board is com
posed of Mann. W. F. Little, J. R-
Staakpt pad Adrian Homo.
NEW FILLING STATION.
A filling station ia being erected
at the forks of the Midway and
f by the Pu-Aa Oil Co.
DR. ANDERSON WARS ON
MOSQUITO BREEDING PLACES
Health C*aaiuwi«r With Saaitary
Officor Active Thi. Week.
Dr. Sam Anderson, health com
missioner of the county has been ac
tive the past week with Sanitary Of
ficer Broom in destroying mosquito
breeding places and oiling stagnant
water caused by the recent rains.
Dr. Anderson and Officer Broom
have made an inspection of the city
and are rigidly enforcing sanitary
laws. Vacant lot» and side streets
have been cleaned of their weeds and
property owners have been required
to clear their places of old tin cans
and other articles that will hold wa
ter furnishing a place for the mos
quito to breed.
Dr. Anderson urges the co-opera
tion of citizens, requesting that they
keep their property free of rubbish
and weeds. All cans Miould have
holes punched in them before being
thrown away, says the doctor, and if
this is done we can have a mosqui-
toeless city.
SPIDER GIVES POISONOUS
BITE TO MR. C. TRAWICK
WoU-Koowe Tooog Mam of Hmocock
Bocomo« Ubcomcmvs Wkom Bit.
Early last Thursday morning Mr.
Clarence Trawick was bitten by a
spider on the nose near the corner
of his right eye, and his system was
seriously poisoned. At the time Mr.
Trawick was going from his home
at Linton to his saw mill driving an
automobile truck loaded with ne
groes. He felt a sting and with, his
hand killed a little black spider,
which had inflicted the bite. Soon
after reaching the mill red wtelps
began to break out all over his body,
and he returned to his home. His ■
father, Mr. Baxter Trawick, brought
him to Dr. Seott'a office in this city
quickly as possible, so aB he could
receive medical attention. By . the
time he reached the office he became
unconscious, and it took heroic ef
fort to restore him to consciousness.
He was given treatment by Dr. Scott
and carried to the City Hospital,
when after spending the day, he had
sufficiently recovered so that he
could be carried home.
SERVICES AT UNION HILL.
Rev. J. H. Farr, assisted by Rev.
W. B. Mills, is conducting revival
services at Union Hill church, ia
Southwest Baldwin this ‘week. Mr.
Mills is pastor of the Midway church
and is an earnest preach** Bis a*r-
i are bring 1
ly by good i
