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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. SPECIAL! IOQ.5I bay, yon o tint das, ““ nit or overcoat. 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