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UNION RECORDER. M1LLEDGEVILLE, CA^ AUGUST 30 1*20
UNION RECORDER
Zat.red at' Pet Office, Milledge-
villa, as ucoad-dau nail aiattar.
Published Wvvhly on Thursday
at Milladtavilla, Ga.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
c Year. $1.80
Months .78
I OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928
ion. Thos W. Hardwick
a clarion call to the
A1 Smith sounded a clear and
rhenslvc call in his speech of
epta
The church that does not make
itself felt for good, i» not measuring
up to its opportunities, nor to the
purpose for which it was established.
To have lie
ticket.
party.
hintent the W. C.
» state that they
the Republican
i the prohibition
(Commerce New.)
The time is coming, sooner or later
when it will be necessary to have
some r Iditional legislation for the
protection of our highways and short
lines of railroads, or else heavily
loaded trucks will so deplete the
freight business of the short lines
of railways that they will be forced
to go into bankruptcy or be thrown
•n to the discard for want of busi-
SALAMAGUNDI OF LOCAL NEWS
AND HAPPENINGS
Every year there are quite a num
ber of young women, who leave Mil-
ledgeville nad go out to teach school
in Georgia and other states. The time
for the opening of the schools is
near at hand, and they will soon be
going. Some of these young women
have spent the vacation season at
home, and some have been studying
at various colleges. The teachers
that go from Milledgeville are num-
ncss. Already, we are told, that bored among the best prepared and
heavy steel trucks, with a capacity to most efficient. All of them are
carry thirty bales of cotton across graduates of the G. S. C. W.
the state, are being manufactured
and will soon be ready for service Monday, Sept, the 3rd, will he
and that these trucks will offer a rate Labor Day, and the hanks will be
equal to, if not lower than that of closed. Then- will be no delivery of
the railroad. At the present rate of rural mail, the city carriers will make
increase of business given trucks and one delivery, and holiday hour.* will
the corresponding decrease of busi- be observed at the postoffice.
ness given the railroads, it must be j
evident, that the short line railroads i A number of Milledgeville and
must either have protection or be Baldwin county citizens went down
forced out of buxines*. There are to Sandersville Saturday to hear ‘Ion.
those who are rejoiced to know, lhat Thos W. Hardwick's - speech. They
The opening of the fall seasun is.
at hand. Saturday will be the first
day of September.
The State Democratic primary will
be held one week from next Wednes
day.
Mr. F. G. Pope has put on a bus
line between this city and Dublin.
The bus passes through Sandersville
and Tennille and WrigMsvflle. It
leaves Dublin at 9:30 A. M. and
reaches Milledgeville at 12:00 o’clock.
It starts from the Baldwin Hotel on
(return trip to Dublin at 2:30 o’clock
|P. M. The fair from Milledgeville
to Dublin is 82.80.
The traveling public
be sure and patronize
Busses.
ur R*d to
he
They leave the Bali,:,
Hotel. They are Buicks.
FOR RENT—TIU i-.idcnc. So-j,t
Wayae Stmt o,po.it. L. D. Smity,
Slora, root *25.00 par noath. p„.
»■*•« Sapt 15th. L. S. F„„.
the railroads hav
may be well for the public that the;
have, but if trucks are to be givei
the business that formerly went t
railroads, and if that change will lx
ic interest of the people general
ly. then the time hay come, when th<
public
of h
hut Mr. Hardwick has lo.-t nor
is fire and eloquence. Mr. Hari
is easily numbered among tl
stump speakers in
try.
The women of Georgia are not
going to forget that the Democratic
party was the party of their father.*'
end mothers, and was a friend during
the bitter days of recortstruction,
when th- Republican party made
their live*, unbearable.
Mr. Ho
the Republican nomi-
rerognizc any differ-
quality of the
peal the segrega-
department, ami j
* ork side
Sheriff Sam Terry has been con
fined to his home on account of n
commission should disabled foot, which has giv- .. him
le jurisdiction over much trouble. No man in Milledge-
the truck and‘bus that it does owrlville is more greatly missed than he
th • railroads. It is manifestly un-jis when he is not able to be out, bc-
fair to force .a railroad to continue cause he iw known and liked by cvery-
operation at a loss and at the same: body in Baldwin county.
time permit the buy and trucks to be-,
come competitors of the roads with | There were a large number of
no one with authority over them.' people on the streets Saturday for
Then too, if we are correctly inform-' everal hours after dark. In these
-‘I* there is a limit to the amount days of automobiles people do not
that a truck may carry over a public
highway, but it must or should be
realized, that when we allow a truck
to curry thirty bales of cotton—
fifteen thousand pounds—over our
highways such heavy traffic will
damaging to the
cannot now believe
HARDMAN
After Governor Hardman took his
oath of office lis Governor and un
dertook to carry out his platform
pledges, he found himself confronted
by a block of Senators fighting him.
One of the leaders of this block w.a*
the Hon Ed Rivers. He with the
rert of them did nil in his power in
their opnosition to Gov. Hardman
that th? day will
the bus and the truck will i
service that will obviate the i
of railroads. If tha: is t
railroads are entitled to tl
fair and just consideration i
the bus and the truck.
p whei
ender ;
ie*s like
and do
Now this nne Mr. Ri-
candidate for Governor, ngi
Hardman, and is c
through the stat • criticising him and
denouncing his administration as a
failure.
The people of Georgia believe in
fair play. Is it fair to Gov. Hard
man to be blamed, criticised and de
nounced by Mr. Rivers, when he him
self is largely responsible for Dr.
Haraman*. failure *o carry out all of
his platform failures?
Hns Gov. Hardman had a fair
chance? He has been Governo** just
tittle
Just
and
right demand that he be give
other term.
The Union Recorder believe
the people of Georgia are goi
he fair to him and give him ai
THE WORKER'S CREED
I believe in the stuff I’m work
ing out, in the firm 1 am working
for. and in my ability to get results.
I believe in working—not weep
ing: in boosting—not knocking; and
in the pleasure of my job.
I believe '.hat man' geta what
he honestly goes after: that one
deed done today is worth two deeds
tomorrow, and that no man is
“down and out" until he has lost
faith in himself.
I belie’
1 :hc work
today,
I am doing, in tomorrow and the
work I hope to do, and in the sure
reward that the future holds.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness,
in generosity, in good cheer, in
friendship, and in honest competi-
hnve to rush back to their homes
the country, to unhitch and feed their
horses before night
This (Thursday) afternoon'Inarks
the end of the afternoon closing of
the stores, and the merchants and
their clerks will enter upon the
“busy season" of the year. The
clerks have enjoyed the half-holiday
that has been given them, during the
The firs' of September falls on
Saturduy this year, and is probable
that most of the moving will not com
mence until Monday. Most of the
houses in Milledgevlile will he filled
as rapidly ns they are vacated.
Dr. J. L. Beeson President of G.
S. C. W. gives nntiee that the Pea
body Practice School will open Sept.
11th, nt 9:00 o’clock A. M.
A number of the children of Mil-
ledgeville go to the practice school,
and the parents are interested in
this* announcement. Dr. Bee-on also
cs that the holiday for the
n will be changed from Mon-
Saturday, but that the college
will continue to be on Mon-
childn
holidn;
Ex
when
of the
and it
Fifteen years
William J. Harris
census’, in the Department of Com
merce. under Woodrow Wilson, he
placed an order segregating the
rac?s and they remained separate for
fifteen years. When the Republican
primary became lively in Ohio a few
month- ago and a negro of that state
told Mr. Hoover that the segregation
system was hur’ing him, he ordered
Mr. J. C.
The
il blacks
•suit is that tht
ork side by suit
* in order to please
an Ohio n-‘gro, just as similar things
were done in Georgia to please Ben
Davis. We inquire again, on “which
side will the Southern white folks
stand?"—Valdoe n Times.
Governor Hardman i« eminently
correct when he declares that he is
being opn-ed by the same old ma
chine, with a new leader at the helm.
No man in the state did more to ob
struct the governor’s program than
K. I>. Rivers, nnd.it requires a super
lative nerve for Rivers to go befo.„
the people after the spectacle he made
of himself in the senate last
The editor of thiR paper speaks from
personal knowledge and not from
hearsay. He was in the senate cham
ber nearly every day of the session
and saw Rivers in action. We view
ed his studied attempts to thwart
every effort the governor made to
carry out his promises to the people
It Ui unbelieveable that any number
of people would cart their ballots for
Rivers, under the circumstances.—
Walfon Tribune.
The
Mr. Oscar Whilden, formerly of
this city, but now nf New Orleans,
is after Governor Long, of Louisi
ana with a "red-hot stick" for ve
toing a tick eradication bill. He has
I written and published in the papers
of New Orleans, several articles in
eady right now.— which he hns taken the Governor
erely to taric in Friday’s issue of
New Orleans Item one of the lead-
newspapers of that city he has
article of nearly two columns
length is which he says: the dover-
nor is committing a crime of omission
in protecting the health of the chil
dren. He urgex'an educational cam
paign in Louisiana with the pitiless
unlight of publicity that will con
vince he Governor that Louisiana
should have a tick eradication law.
The rainy weather han made an
impossibility to keep the weeds and
grass of the streets and in the lots
of the private residences cut down
and cleaned up. Hence it can hi
pected that there will he breeding
places for mosquitoes in abundance
during these hot days and continued
rains. Everybody should be careful
in keeping their premises free of
| stagnant water. ■»
Williams, editor of the
r>ro IleraM Journal, has our
sympathy on account of the
sudden and unexpected death of his
daughter, Miss Josephine Williams.
She was a bright attractive and popu
lar young lady, and rendered her
father valuable assistance by writing
the society news for his paper.
Gov
Hardm
that ha.*» mainfosted itself in t
Jidacy of Hon. Ed Rivers co
menced when a number of Senati
rganized to block Gov. Hardman
arrying out platform pledges, n
hi« business policies. Surely the peo-
f Gcorgai are not going
such tactics.
BIDS FOR SUPPLIES
The opening of the two colleges
located here are events the people of
our city are looking forward to with
great interest.
Mr. W. H. Minor is the nes;er of
the Milledgeville postoffice. He hns
been connected, there considerably
over a quarter of a century.
The Horne House on the hill was
tned as a hotel Monday night by
rs. J. W. Ivey. It was filled to
capacity.
Protracted services arc being held
at Bethel church this week hy the
astor Rev. J. H. Farr. He is being
R-istcd by Rev. J. F. Yarbrough.
The i
rchants, business men, .and
»ve printing of any kind to
bo done, will remember that the
Union Recorder is prepared to do all
kind of job printing. Patronize home
industries.
session of the Baldwin county
court was held Monday. Two or
three cases were tried by juries.
Judge E. R. Hines presiding, and So
licitor Carlisle Giles representing the
state. -
SCOUT NEWS
Troups 38, of the Boy Scouts of
America was re-organized Tuesday
ight. August 27th. 1928 by Mr. J.
!. Black, the Scout Master. There
•ere a number of the old members
present and a few new members. The
meeting opened with the Scouts at at
tention and repeating the Scout
Oath. The old and new business was
discussed. The patrol leaders and
their assistants were elected. The
patrols were next formed. Mr.
Black and Assistant Scout Master
Roy P. Minor selected their staff.
The meeting was closed by the ncouts
repeating the scout lays in Unison
The officers and the ones present
e as follows:
Roy P. Minor, Assistant Scout
aster: Arthur Crockett. Senior Pa
trol Leader: Carlyle Ingram, Junior
Patrol Leader; Oscie Thnxton, Jr.,
Scribe and Orderly; Marion Allen,
Asst. Patrol Leader 1st; John
Kidd. Patrol Leader 2nd; Ed Heath,
. Patrol Leader 2nd: Eugene
men. Patrol Leader 3rd; William.
Butts, Ass*. Patrol Leader 3rd; Cul-
Kidd. Patrol Leader 4th; Billy
Shealcy, Asst. Patrol Leader 4th;
James Twilly, “Skeet” Whited, Tom
my Stembridge, Louis Brannen. Louis
vood. Jack Ivey, Carl Nelson,
Emmet McCombs, John Henderson,
Eugene Hitchcock, who enlisted in the
Tennille, Clayton Whilhite.
isitors: J. C. Henderson, Ray
mond Wheeler.
FOR SALE
| Desirable Building Lots J
I on the Hill.
| __ _ CALL PHONFS 156 AND 28
L. N. CALLAWAY
FOR FALL
New Showing of Suits, Hats
and Furnishings
IN THIS ADVANCED SHOWING EVERY DETAIL THAT WOULD
MAKE FOR ECONOMY AND QUALITY HAS BEEN REGARDED
Two Pants Suits
$25 to $35
Light Weight Felts
$5 and $7.50
JOHN HOLLOWAY
The Men’s Store
WILLIAM BAUMGARTEL AND
EUGENE HITCHCOCK HOME ON
VACATION FROM U. S. NAVY
Mtf. Bill Bnumgnrtel and Mr.
A. C. Tennille, Lertis Johnson, Bub-
U. S. Navy in Milledgeville shortly I
after completing G. M. C., arrived
home Tuesday to spend ten days va
cation with relatives and friends.
They have completed training and
have been assigned to the Medical
Department of the U. S. Navy. When
their vacation is over they will return
to the Pharmacist’s Mates School at
Portsmouth, Virginia, for an eight
months' course of instruction. Their
many friends welcome them home.
Both are very popular with a large
circle of frigndw here who are always
glad to see them. Both were stud
ent officers at G. M. C., during the
last term and Hitchcock will be re
membered as Captain of Co. “C”,
who won the saber for the best drill
ed company.
SEPTEMBER DAYS
Are School Days
THEY BOTH DEMAND PUNCTUALITY
1ET A WESCLOX BEGIN THE DAY RIGHT
THEY RUN ON TIME—
THEY RING ON TIME—
THEY STAY ON TIME—
Williams & Ritchie
JEWELERS, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Bids will be received Tuesday,
Sept. 4th. at the office of the County
Commissioners at the Court House
for the following supplies:
1500 Lbs. of Bacon, 30 to 35 lbs.
25 Bushels of Meal.
5 Barrels Self-Rising Flour.
100 Lbs. Sugar.
30 Gallons of Syrup.
Prices on Prince Albert and
Schnapps Tobacco.
3 Doz. Hats 7 7 1-2.
3 Doz. heavy work Suspenders.
1 Doz. Aimes Shovel*
1 Doz. 9 lb. Picks.
1-2 Doz. 5 1-2 lb. Axes.
1-2 Doz. kegs CO D Nails.
1 Coil of Rope.
5 Tons Hay.
Good grade of Sweet Feed.
Gasoline and Oils.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
)
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new dormitory at G. S. C. W., and
every effort being made to have it
reday for occupancy by the time the
college opens the 18th of September.
REVIVAL SERVICES START AT
! PLEASANT GROVE SUNDAY
! Rev. J. H. Farr hns announced that
i reiv.al services will commence at
j Pleasant Grove church next Sunday
I and continue through the week. Mr.
I Farr will be assisted by Rev. J. H.
Hall, pastor of the Monticello Metho
dist church, who will preach. He is
an interesting and entertaining
preacher, presenting his sermons
forcefully and convincingly.
The .people of the Pleasant Grove
neighborhood are urged to attend.
FOR RENT
Two 2 Rooms ud Both
Apartment,
la one of the most double
Section, in the City
Phone 3S2-J.
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