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\OLUME XCVIII. Federal” U^non^stablished in 1829 Milledgeville, Ga., Thursday, September 29, 1927.
Consolidated in 1872
Number 6.
grid lid is off
FRIDAY SEP. 30
Lanier Poets in Opening Battle
With Cadets for First Football
Game of The Season.
Macon's Lanier Hi school team
will come to Milledgeville Friday to
form th«- opposition to Slap Rentz
Cadet eleven in the opening game of
the 1927 gridiron season on Daven
port field at 4:00 o'clock.
Weather conditions favorable, the
greatest opening day crowd ever as-
m nibleJ will witness the opening bat
tle. Hundreds of Maconites will come
to Milledgeville oj, train and in cars
V witness their hopefuls do battle
eith the cadet*. People here who
haw -.witched the. progress of the
moulding of a machine by Slap Rentz
are anxious to determine the real
worth of the cadets. The stage is all
s«t for the greatest prep classic ever
witnessed by the Milledgeville peo
ple.
Keen rivalry between the two
schools will add color to the enebun-
tt-r and much interewt to the battle.
Several hundred students are ex-
fre before noon to
r the
:tory.
The Lanier team headed by Coach
Juke Zrllars are coming primed for
victory. They have been pointing for
this game all season and according
to reports are set on edge for the
G. M. C. game.
Coach Rentz has developed a great
machine this year, according to pre-
season dope. The acid test will be
given Friday. Meeting their greatest
rival and the first game of the sea-
»n will test the real strength of
lie team.
The following line-up will face the
visitors Friday:
Powell and Cantrell ends.
Tur.nctl and Joxdati tackles.
Chandler and Stovall guards.
(’apt. Patterson, center.
Freeman quarterback.
and Woolfolk halves.
Gro'
< full.
Officers Elected for
Red Cross Chapter
The Baldwin County Chapter •£
in«. American Red Cross held its an
nual election at the city hall last
Friday afternoon, and named Mrs.
1’. M. Rogers chairman of the or
ganization for the coming year.
Mi:’s Hoffman, of the National
headquarters, was in the city and
assisted in the organization of the
chapter for the coming y« presid
ing during the session.
\ nrious activities of the Red Cross
work were discussed and plans were
made for the annual roll call on No
vember 11th Misses May Asbury nad
Sarah Allen were named Roll Call
chairmen and will direct this work.
The following officers were elect
ed:
Chairman—D. M. Rogers. %
V-Chairman—Mis* Manie Jones.
Treasurer—Mr. L. C. Hall.
Secretary—Mrs. D. F. Montgom-
«ry.
Chairman Junior Red Cross—Miss
Agnes Stembridge.
( hairman Home Service—Mrs. K.
McMillan.
Chairman Publicity—J. N. Moore.
Executive Committee—Dr. T. M.
I, Rev. F. H. Harding, Col. Erwin
S *’I*y. Dr. Sam Anderson, Misses
hmes Stembridge, Cecile Humph-
rit • Mrs. Kenneth McMillan and J.
-V Moore.
•*ev. G. I. Hiller, of Lakeland, Fla.,
present at the meeting and talk-
n the Red Cross work and gave
fu Kgestiona for conducting the drive.
New System to
Be Used Oct. 12
Recei
i Elect
The Australian ballot system as
adopted by the grand jury under a
special law passed by the legislature
in 1924 will be used for the first
time in tbit* county on Wednesday,
October 12th, when a Tax Receiver
will be elected.
Judge Stembridge is preparing to
have the necessary booths built at
the different precincts as required by
the law. The voter will enter the
booths after'receiving a ticket from
the manager and will vote, not leav
ing or conversing with anyone until
they have marked their ticket pt.u
cast their vote. No person will be
allowed within ten feet of the booth
except those in the act of or voting.
The new system became effective
following its adoption of a second
grand jury las£ July. Under the law,
two grand juries must give it their
approval before it becume active in
the county.
The new law mukes the voting
very simple and does away with the
confusion generally found at polls.
The voting is absolutely secret and
it is impossible to determine how
you have voted.
MP >S GEORGE MILTON NOW
MAKING HOME IN ATLANTA
•Iia. George F. Milton, formerly
k Abbie Crawford and one of Ike
uh’s most distinguished women,
moved her home from Chatta-
Ka to Atlanta. Her friends here
Wl11 ,e arn this news with interest.
•Mrs. Milton has been a prominent
fik ’ ure >n political circle* in Tennee-
'' during the last democratic con
ation "he was a national commit-
tlt * w °man and seconded the nomi-
n *;'°n of Mr. lfcAdoo.
' Irs ' Milton will he at home at 5
Hoad,
te r October
1st
TEXAS COMPANY OPEN NEW
$10,000.00 SERVICE STATION
Modern Building on Hancock and
Liberty Sts., Opens Saturday.
The recently completed $10,000
filling and service station erected by
the Texas Company will open on
next Saturday morning, under the
management of Messrs; John and Joe
Massey, offering a complete service
to auto owners.
The new station has been .erected
on the corner of Liberty and Han
cock streets on the D. W. Brown lot,
recently purchased by them. It is
built of red brick and concrete, and
one of the most attractive spots
the city.
The many nek’ devices that have
been installed in the station for the
convenience of thc.guto. owpers are
automatic air pumps, electric doping
machines and on air raised platform
for the doping of cars. This new ma
chine raises the car off the ground
where the man working on it can get
under it and thoroughly go over it.
Thera are three gas pumps and a |
modern wash pit.
A modern ladies’ rest
in the building.
Messrs. John and Joe Massey
sons of Mr. H. A. Massey, the Texas
agent in this city, and will operate
the station, giving a complete uuto
Baldwin County Fair Opens
Week of October 10th.-15th.
Exkibitt of All Cud Will Be on Display. The Best Fair Ever Predicted
By Directors. Krans Carnival Co. to Furnish Amusement.
The gates of the Baldwin County
Fair will swing open to the public
Monday, October 10th, for a six
days’ exhibition of agricultural prod
ucts, handicraft of infinite variety,
canning club work, poiltry display
and livestock exhibits.
The directors who have the man
agement of the fair are confident
that the exhibits of various kind will
equal those ever dinplayed at n coun
ty fair in this section of the state.
There will be individual exhibit:;
community exhibits and club exhib
its of the greatest variety, and great
care and attention will be given to
their arrangement.
There will be special days and
special features, which will be of the
greatest interest to the crowds, which
are expected to attend.
The Kraus Carnival Company will
be on the grounds to furnish amuse
ment. This company has a large num
ber of the attractions, which are
characteristic of all carnival com
panies, as it has sixteen different va
rieties of games of chance, six shows,
four riding devices, and four enting
places.
The exhibitors are expected to
commence the urrangement of their
exhibits so that the fair will get in
full blast the first day.
SOUR CREAM SALE
GIVE BIG PROFITS
Month of August Gives Big Yield.
September Finds Active
Market.
Increased revenue is being shown
monthly from the sale of sour cream
through the co-operative market
tablished here last' March by Agent
E. A. Nesmith, and dairying i* rap
idly becoming an important, enter
prise in the county.
During August a return of $800
was made to thirty-one shippers of
sour cream through the cream
tion here. A number of farmers
shipping sour cream independent and
it is believed that the totfl amount
will double the above amount.
The abundance of pastntnge of
grasses and clovers that grow natur
ally make this county unusually
adapted for dairying, stated Agent
Nesmith.
The demand for dairy cows
grown and the feed crops planted
necessarily increased. The hay crop
will exceed that of previous years
was the opinion of farmer* in
county.
d also
Mrs. John Barton, a former resi
dent of this city, died ut her honn
m .Macon Monday morning. The re
mains were brought to this city and
carried to the Jos. A. Moore's
dertuking parlors, where the funeral
services were held Tuesday. Dr. C.
R. Jenkins, pastor of the Mulberry
Street Methodist church of Macon,
officiating. The interment was in the
city cemetery.
Mrs. Barton was a rt r.ident of Mil
ledgeville a long number of years.
She was a sister of Richmond Brown
and Mrs. J. T. Radney, of Hardwick.
A FORMER MILLEDGEVILLE
RESIDENT DIES IN S. CAROLINA
The friends of Mr. Gale Haynes
will regret to learn of the death of
Mrs. Haynes at the General Hospital
in Spartanburg on last Tuesday, fol
lowing a lingering illneha.
Mr. Haynes was the engineer of
the Harwood-Beebe Construction
Co., in charge of the paving here.
While in Milledgeville they made
their home in the Dumas apartment
Jefferson street, and made many
friends. .
GINS SLOWING DOWN.
Friday and Saturday. Favorable G. M. C. caddta
liter conditions have enabled the bant them,
mem to tetter ttefr M$nTv*»~ “
aijr
Rev. G. I. Hiller, of Lakeland,
Fla., who was in the city, visiting
Mr. Frank Bone, attended the n
ing of the Kiwanis Club the past
Friday evening, and wan given ar
thusiastic rac3p^ion. Mr Hiller was
rector of St. Stephens Episcopal
church here when the Kiwanis Club
was organized and was a charter
member. He filled the office of pres
ident and secretary, and was one of
the liveest members of the club.
At the meeting Friday night he
expressed pleasure at being in Mil
ledgeville. and meeting with the
members of the Kiwanis club. He
then urg-'d that the club take an ac
tive interest in nfeintaining a Red
Cross organization.
NEW PROFESSOR AT G. M. C.
Prof. A. I. Buchanan has been
added to the teaching force of G.
M. C.. and is expected to report at
the college Friday. He will have
charge of the boys of the eighth
grade. Prof. Buchanan is an expe
rienced teacher, and comes highly
recommended as an instructor.
HARRIS HALL IS
MANUFACTURER
HiD Chemical Company It a New
Tampa Enterprise. Tom Kennan
Secretary and Treasurer.
The accomplishment of two for
mer Milledgeville men were told
Sunday in the Tampa Times in an
announcement of the opening of a
new $50,0uJ manufacturing enter
prise, making Skeeterine, a poison
for mosquitoes and other insects,
with L. Harris Hall, the originator,
vice president, and Tom Kennan sec
retary and treasurer.
The formula is the result of years
of study and experiment of Harris
Hall, former owner of Hall’s Phar
macy and a resident of this city for
a long number of years. Mr. Hall
has been in the drug business since
early manhood, having started in the
store of M| Lode rick J« nes, and
later owned his own store here, hav
ing worked a number of years in
Macon. Since tearing Milledgeville
he has been in Tampa with a drug
firm there.
Tom Kennan has had many years
experience as an office mam
sale* manager and lived here many
years. He will be connected with
the new firm as secretary and treas-
People here learn of the racccsi
of these young men with pleasuri
and will watch the growth of the
concern with interest.
Skeeterine is said to he a deadly
insecticide and abaolute death to in
sects. This is the first of a number
of products that will be manufactur
ed by the Hall Chemical Corpora-
Managers Named
For City Election
Australian Ballot System to Ba Used
In City Election'. The Poll. Will
Open at 7 O’Cloch.
Chairman B. T. Dumas, of the city
democratic executive committee, an
nounced the managers for the com
ing city primary following a meet
ing of the committee last Friday.
The following managers | and
clerks were named:
C. L. Moore, J. P., W. F. Little
and J. A. Mayfield, freeholders, and
Emmett Moran and Dawson Wilson
clerks.
The polls will be open at seven
o’clock and will clo*e at six, was the
decision of the committee.
Under the new law the Australian
ballot system will be used for the
first time >n a city election. The com
mittee is planning the erection of
the necessary booths to make the
election legal. The new method of
voting Ic new to the people of this
county and under separate heading
we are publishing instructions taken
from the code.
LADIES' SHOP TO BE OPENED
IN THE CITY OCTOBER 1st
Mrs. Babb Ait. V Coy to Open
Roady-to-Woor Store in Octob>
The Dixie Shoppe, under the i
agement of Mrs. Jerome Babb and
Mi*s Cora McCoy, will op<n at ar
early date in the Ohltnan baild
ing, handling • complete line of
ladies’ wearing apparel and piece
goods.
Mifc. Babb has been with the Lee’
department t*ore, and has many
years’ experience in this business.
Miss McCoy comes here from Savan
nah, where she hak been employed
in a department stote.
The store has been remodeled and
an attractive line of ladies’ ready
to-wear will be offered for »le. The
new store is next to R. H. Woottcn 1
book store.
ALL DAY SUNDAY SCHOOL
MEETING ON NEXT SUNDAY
Mrs. C. C. Sutton, president of the
Baldwin County Sunday School Au
tomation, has called a meeting of the
association next Sunday, October 2,
at Oak. Grove church.
An all day Sunday school ral)> 1"
the purpose of the meeting. Schools
from every church and denomina
tion will have representative* at the
ting. Prof. W. T. Wynn and Col.
Erwin Sibley are the principal speak-
>n the program.
The gins throughout Baldwin
county ar# slowing down, due to the ---— - --
fact that th. cotton I. nearly all out »» ™
‘The church should endorse that
which is good and condemn that
which is evil, G. M. C. will play La
nier Friday afternoon, every person
in Milledgeville should be there,”
are the words of Rev. John F. Yar
brough from the Methodirt pulpit
last Sunday.
Football wlil be formerly ushered
in tomorrow (Friday) afternoon,
when the G. M. C. cadets meet the
Lanier Hi achool eleven of Macon.
The Macon boys are coming here
with a backing of some five hundred
•Mhc Mda wn, run just tic *unc. The, arc of the
They refused to play G. M. C. on
any otter date than the opening
date, thinking they hud an advantage
because they have been practicing
several weeks longer. They refuse
to accept any other officials than
thowe that live in Macon. Not that
we doubt the efficiency of the Ma-
can officials, but Lanier is anxious
for every advantage possible. ,
The boast of the Macon team is
a challenge to the loyalty of every
Milledgeville cittsca. dkn Macon put
more people in Davenport field Fri
day than MiUodgevilie, and Macon
is 3$ miles away? Can Macon come
over here and show ns that they are
stronger for Lanier than we are for
G. M. C.? .Can Lanier come to Mil
ledgeville and show ns up?
Year loyalty he teen challenged.
Go to Davenpoft leld Friday and
stood teeh of Condi Moots and hie
MR. PAUL ELLIOT DIED IN
ATLANTA LAST TUESDAY
Mr. Paul Elliott died at the Geor
gia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta on
Tuesday evening about 7 o’clock, af
ter a protracted illness.
About a month ago Mr. Elliott
married Mrs. Bertha McMillan Da
venport, of this city, and the news
of his death was heard with regret
by many people in this city, and
their sympathy goes out to Mrs. El
liott in her sorrow.
The funeral services were conduct
ed at the home in Atlanta by Rev.
George B. Thompson, pastor of the
Milledgeville Presbyterian church,
and the remains carried to Mans
field, where they were interred.
The burial services were in charge
of the minister of the Baptist church
at that place.
The burial services were attended
by a number of people from this
city,'among them being Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth McMillan, Mrs. Robert Mc
Millan, Mrs. J. 11. McMillan and oth
er members of the family of the late
Mr. J. W. McMillan, and Messrs. L.
C. H|I1, A. C. McKinley, W. L.
Ritchie and L. H. Andrew::, CoJ. Er-
Sibley and Misses Louise Al
bert and Bertie Stembridge.
JUDGE HEARS
THE
Mujr Witness Introduced in Rail
road Case at Hearing Moadty-
Argnment Wednesday Hi Sparta.
Witnes*es testified Monday night
before Judge James Park as to the
necessity of the continuance of the
passenger service on the Dummy
line in this city, while the Georgia
Railroad introduced evidence to show
that the service was operated at a
great loss to the railroad in the hear
ing of the injunction of the citizen*
of Hardwick against the Georgia
Railroad to prevent the road taking
off the passenger car on its line
running through this city.
Allen & Pottle, attorneys for the
p .-ntiffs in the case, introduced ev
idence to show ^hat the public de
manded an adequate passenger ser
vice.. Serveral witnessc* from both
Hardwick and Milledgeville were
brought to the stand testifying that
the present passenger car was in
adequate and that an unreliable
schedule was maintained. A great
number of passengers were using the
car now was shown, while it was
the opinion of those testifying that
the number would increase if the
pretense that was being used to com
ply with the l*w was impm-cd
The railroad was reprew.-m.cu -j
Hines A, Carpenter, of this city,* and
Judge Cummings, of .
torney for the Georgia lUffroad.
The evidence showed a* based on %• -.
ores of 1917, there being no records
kept since that time that the line
was operated at a lose and a great
inconvenience to the road.
Judge Park continued the casa un
til Wednesday night of this week,
when the argument* of the ettorneya
were heard in Spara, whore Judge
Park is holding court this week.
At the conclusion of the argument
Judge Park stated that he would
make his decision at an early date
as possible, requesting that he be al
lowed as much time as possible to
consider the testimony and evidence,
1 the law giving him thirty days to
hand dowij hi* decision.
Much interest was manifested by
Milledgeville and Hardwick citizens,
the cofirt roois, being filled with in
terested people.
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The registration books for the
city primary at which a candidati
for mayor and three aldermen will
be elected will close next Wednesday
evening.
k*re are a large number of vo-
|in the city, who have not qual
ified by registering to cast their bal
lot in the primary. This should not
be every citizen who has the fran
chise, both men and women, should
participate in a primary, which is
equivalent to an election, for the
nominees will J>e elected without op
position. - #
Register now so that you will not
be disqualified to cast' your ballot.
Every citizen is interested in the
choke of The men who are to be at
the head of the city government.
Miss Mattio Wall, of Dublin, has
been at the bom* of hie brother, Mr.
Briscoe Wall, the past several days.
Mias Wail is a trained nurse, and
ten to nursa Mm F. M. Cook,
during ter Mat Wnnp.
MRS. M. H. BLAND COMPOSED
NEW CHURCH MUSIC
Mrs. M. H. Bland, organist of St.
Stevens Episcopal church, has writ
ten the imwc for a Te Deum to be
used in the Episcopal church ser-
vic», using the new composition for
the first time last Sunday.
The music is written especially for
female voices and has met with wide
approval from musicians. A *pecial
choir sang the Te Deum Sunday to
the new music and the large congre
gation were favorably impressed
with its pleasing melody.
Mrs. Bland has been organist at
the local church for a long number
of years, and is recognized as one
of the be*t in the state. She has been
prominently identified with local mu-/
sical organizations and is now an of
ficer in the Senior Music Club.
The American Legion Auxiliary
has had charge of the season ticket
sale for G. M. C. for the coming
football :.ea*on. The tickets have been
sold for three dollars, admitting the
purchased to five games, including
the Thanksgiving game. The ladies
of the Legion have canvassed the
town and have sold many tickets.
The season opens tomorrow (Friday*)
when the Lanier Hi school team
comes here, and those deairing, the
tickets can see Mrs. Pearson Berry.
SENIOR MUSIC CLUB WILL
MEET SATURDAY. OCT.. 1 IT
The Senior Music Club will hoM
its first fall meeting at the home of
Mias Elizabeth Ferguson, on Liberty
street, at 4 p. m. Saturday, October
UL This is to bs a very important
business meeting, and all members
are urged to attend. If you have any
friends who are interested in becom
ing members, they are cordially In-