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i u s m tttxm \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. r l V: 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-