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federal Union Established in 1829
Southern Recorder " 181tf
Milledgeville, Ga., January 10, 1929
Consolidated in 1871
Number 21
VOULIM XCIX
Rumor Says Milledgeville- DR. ALLEN ADDS G.S.C. GIRLS
Gray Road to Be Paved NEW BUILDING TO HEAR OPERA
COURT CONVENES
ONNEXTMONDAY
G»a Docket Will Conjume Fint
Week. Criminal Carer to Be
Tried Will Depend on
Grand Jury
Superior Court will convene next
Monday at ten o’clock. Jurors and
witnesses have been summoned, and
everything is in readiness for thz
approaching session.
judge Jas. B. Park will preside.
and a4 soon us the court and grand
jury are organized will deliver his
'•barge.
The first week will be taken up
with the civil docket, which contains
a large number of cases. The crim
inal docket will be called the second
week, and the number of cases to be
tried will depend upon the work of
the grand jury. There arc three pris
oners in the Jail charged with murder.
Solicitor Joe Duke will be in at
tendance the opening day, and dur
ing the first week will assist the
rrnnd jury in their work.
Unofficial Report. Coming Hcrc jH ^ fm WoaieB| Special Train to Carry Yonnj
Tuwday Say High, y Depart- j uJ Opened Thir 1 Women t. Macon Saturday
Week. All Improvements
for Acute Psychosis
ment Extends Contract for
Macon Rond Paving
Evening. Citizens to Ac
company Them
Sheriff Election Called For
Friday, February the First
Three Candidates Announce to Fill) MCW f IVlf fl HR
Vacant by Death of Sheriff S. L. U ' /LUD
Terry. Judge Stembridge
Makes Call for Election
STOCKHOLDERS
M.&F.BANKMET
Organized for New Year By Elec
tion of Officers. Splendid
Record Made Daring Years
of Operation
The annual meeting the stockhold
ers of the Merchants & Farmers
Bank was held Wednesday aftcr-
Ths Merchants & Farmers Bank
was the second bank organized in Mil
ledgeville, and has u capital stock of
580,000 and a surplus of $80,000.
Ttc present Directors are’J. T. Allen,
ii. I). Allen, M. H. Allen, J. F. Bell,
J. L Beeson, L. N. Callaway, John
T. Day, L. C. Hall. Dr. H. D. Allen,
Jr., Judge John T. Allen is President,
L. C. llall, Vice-President and
Cashier; John T. Day, Vice-President
and Assistant Cashier; Cason Black,
bookkeeper and Collector.
During the years since it was or
ganized the bank has ranked high
among the financial institution in this
section. It has been conservatively
managed and directed, and has had
a steady growth in the confidence of
thj people. The business done the
past year showed an increase.
According to an authentic rumor
that reached this city Tuesday the
S ate Highway Department extended
the contract to the constructing com
pany now paving the Gray to Macon
r.d to include the section of the cupj ,
md from Gray to Milledgeville, the
urk to begin as soon as the section
>w under construction is completed.
The Highway Department has
made no official announcement of
the contract that was closed Monday,
but the report comes from reliable
sources and is of sufficient authenicy
to be accepted. While the official
of another construction company
gave out the information, he denied
the right to use his name in connect
ion with the story, stating his com
pany was making an effort to get
the Milledgeville to Louisville
tract that would be let at an early
date.
The Highway Department plans to
pave from Macon to Augusta via
Louisville at an early date and it is
reasonably certain that the deal from
Milledgeville to Gray has been closed,
while the Highway Department has
given out no statement.
hospital
THE OLDEST BANK
NAMES OFFICIALS
Stockholders of The Milledgeville
Banking Contpanv Organize for
New Year. Mr. M. S. Bell
President
The i
tnnua? meeting of the stock-
holders of th.- Milledgeville Banking
Company was held Wednesday after-
noon of last week and elected offic-
* ,f * for the new year.
.’tiller S. Boll wu chosen President
'’ I E. E. Bell, ceil J. E. Kidd. Vice.
I’’ Weals, with the follotvinc biter
•E. E. Bn,.. E. EL Bell, M. S
F E - Efine, I). W. Brown, B. t.
F ‘“ley end J. E. Kidd.
Immediately after the adjournment
ef .he meeting- of the stockholder, the
’-•rtrtors went into session and elect-
"1 the following officers: Cashiel
r S* Hell; Assistant Cashier,
R. Beil: Bookkeeper, E. J
rstor; Clerk and Collector, Com-
J htubbs; Assistant to the President,
I lrmi.tr
; V “* WiUie Reims: Assistant Book-
hreptr, MU E. Mathew,.
The report mode to the noci.
’bowed tha- the year 1928 had
’ most successful, and that the
eWTtlnga of the bank had cxceed-
.,*? 0.000 the previous most
«sfu| year. The rei , u i ar annual
eialJ; ° f 16 P " Wnt h ’ d **
to ’ alul B amount carried
he surplus fund. The stockhold-
tk C .T'” ,d ‘heir appreciate
^T^tk 0 , f ‘ h ' b »" k “ 'lain*
TWO NEGROES
ARRESTED HERE
Bunco Game Stopped by MiBedfe
ville Police Last Thursday
Dublin Officers Come Here
Warrants for Men
The opening of
building for women patients at
Allen’s Tr.valid Home has been an
nounced this week, the building oc-
,outh of Dr. Allen’s
residence and being a three sto»*y
structure.
The building will be given entire
ly to women patients, the announce
ment stated. The new structure is
the mos modern type of hospital
building and is equipped for the
treatment of the more acute psycho
sis. Fifty private rooms, hydrothe
rapy, sun parlors and rooms for
diversional occupations are all in
cluded in the building. The hydro
therapy rooms are completely equip
ped and contain the most detailed
methods of treatment.
Allen’s Invalid Home was estab-
One thousand young Georgia Wo
men with their faculty and friends of
Milledgeville will pack into the mng-
nificicnt city auditorium in Macon
Saturday evening to hear the delight
of music lovers, “Lucia do Lammet
moor.
Dr. J. L. Bec.-on has arranged for
a special train to take the students
to Macon Saturday afternoon and re
turn Saturday night Milledgevile
citizens have been invited to go whh
them, being given advantage of a
low round trip rate of $1.10. Dr.
Beeson has also secured n block of
opera scats and is plucing them
sale to the citizens here also,
opera seats are sold for 76c.
tickets are c
fice, Mr. L. S. Fowler.
colorful opera will bo
Following the call of an election
to fill the unexpired term of Sheriff
S. L. Terry by the Ordinary, Judge
W. H. Stembridge, thro- candidates
threw their bats into tie ring and
politics from now until February 1st,
the date set for the election, will be
a principle topic.
Boland II. Lawrence, W. T. Lundy
and W. J. Hnynie have announce
themselves as candidates for the fot
year term left vacant by Sheriff
Terry’s death. Sheriff Terry
elected last fall for four years and
would have taken the oath January
1st The election on the first day of
j February will fill this four year term.
Haynic, Chief of Millcdge-
lisht-d in 1890 and hn» httd tt pro-1 given during the entire week Unit the
gretuive growth. Dr. H. D. Alien, S,n Carlo Company i, playing in
the founder, is now being assisted by Macon then the opera Saturday even-
his two sons, Dr. Edwin Allen and
Dr. H. D. Allen, Jr. Miss Floride
Allen is also connected with the hos
pital as dietician.
The hospital now has 190 private
rooms and is open to both male and
female patients.
i » *u x> _» ville police, has been connected with
sale ut the Bursars -| ^ Milledgeville Police Department
several years. Roland H. Lawrcnc
is a successful farmer. His father
was Chief of Millcdgevill© Police for
many yeras. W. T. Lundy was c
nectod with the Sheriffs office
Prohibition enforcement officer s
erul years ago and is now a Con
stable.
The three weeks remaining before
the election will find the three men
active. t.
Two negroes, giving their names
as Mariam Green and Evans Gibbs,
were arrested last Thursday by Mil
ledgeville police when they attempt
ed a bunco game on Jim Jackson.
Dublin police came here Saturday
with warrants charging the men with
similar offenses and took them in
custody.
Green canu? to Milledgeville during
the Christmas holidays and formed
an acquaintance with Jim Jackson,
pretending to Jackson that he was
in the market for a house. Thursday
morning the two negroes were on
Wayne street talking when Gibbs
walked up and picked an envelope
off the side walk filled with fake
money and wnr saving stamps. They
showed Jack-on their find and went
down an alley and counted out the
money. They told Jackson they would
divide with him if he would give
them two hundred dollars and they
would all keep their mouths shut
about their find. There was about
nine hundred dollars in the envelope
and Jackson in the trade was to re
ceive three hundred for his two.
Jackson became suspicious and to!d
the police. The trade went on with
the police watching. Just as it was
about to be completed Chief Haynie
and officer Broom walked up and ar
rested them. The envelope contain
ing the money was not found.
Police of neighboring cities were
notified of the arrest and it was be
lieved they were members of a gang
working the scheme in Augusta.
The negrosc admitted their guilt
and in the event the Dublin officials
fa ; l to get evidence enough to con
vict the negroes will be returned
here.
FIRE FRIDAY EVENING BALE OF
COTTON
Firemen were tailed early Friday
evening to the Union Warehouse
where a bale of cotton had enught
fire. The door to the building was
forced open and the cotton bale
brought into the street and drenched
with water. While making a big
smoke, the fire did not become dang.
NAMES OMITTED
In publishing the names of the
contributors to the fund to promote
the cultivation of tobacco in Baldwin
county, the names of Mr. E. E. Bell,
who contributed $50.00, and the Jay
Department Store, $26.00 a
omitted. Mistakes will be made and
we take pleasure in correcting the
omission of these names.
CADETS OPEN
B.B. SCHEDULE
Defeat Sanders ville Athletic Qab.
on Sooth Georgia Trip This
Week-end. Play Douglas
Aggies Next Tuesday Night
Opening the season with a victory
over the Sandersville Athletic Club
Monday night, the G. M. C. cadet
basketball team under Coach Brbe
Florence have started the march that
will lead to the G. I. A. A. champion
ship. similar performances continu
ing.
The cadets showed a real aggresivc
club in trouncing the Sandersville
Five, recent conquerrrs of the fa
mous Vienna Wonder Five. A good
crowd filed into the arena shortly be
fore the hostilities began, despite the
cold, and they were furnished a real
basketball game, the final
ing 20 to 18.
The team will leave Friday for
Montezuma t omeet Maj. Queener’i
Cage Artist and on Saturday will do
battle with the Vienna Five. The
South Georg.a tour this year will be
rather brief in comparison to past
year
Next Tuesday the Douglas Aggie*
will be the guests of the cadets at
the local athletic gym. Hostilities be
gin at eight fifteen and the building
will be comfortably heated. The
athletic officials are giving away j
box of candy at each gam? to stimu
late interest.
Coach Florence and his indooi
team have started on the journey
that will end in March in Macon at
the G. I- A. A. tournament. Monroe,
Lanier, Riverside, Savannah
Gordon will all be m:*t here. Coach
Rentz, head of all uthK,tics at the col-
lege stated the team showed splendid
prospect.; and h? believed Miliedge-
ville would uphold her reputation a:
:he best sports town in the State for J strongest and n
size by attending the games. Miliedge- j this section,
ville always bacKs her teams, Coach 1 The officials
Rentz stated, and with prospects for | creased busines
a championship very bright I believe. year
we will play to record crowds each |
night. FELTON RICE
Critics proclaim the San Carlo
Company, which played Macon last
year, greater than ever before and
great throngs are packing the Macon
auditorium for the shows. Each
night a caravan of music lovers from
Milledgeville are traveling to Mi.con
for the performances.
The train will leave here at 6:30
M.. and return immediately after
the opera.
EXCHANGEBANK
NAMES OFFICERS
A Report to Stockholders Shows
Business Increase During Year.
Dividend Paid; Large Amount
Carried to Smphis
Th? stockholders of the Exchange
Bank met Wednesday afternoon,
January 9th. The report made by
President, Mr. Otto M. r’onn, proved
most gratifying b' th? s’ockholders'
ns it showed that the burines^ done
during the year 1928 war. the largest
in the history of the bank: that an
annual dividend of 12 per cent had
b<*en paid on its capital of $100,-
O00.00, and that a substantial sum
hud been carried to its profit nc-
The following Director*-, were
elected: Dr. H. D. Allen. Dr. E. W.
Allen. II. G. Banks. Hnrry G. Bone,
Chn* .1. Conn, Otto M. Conn, A. C.
McKinley, W. L. Ritchie, Julian R.
Stanley and Dixion Williams.
At a meeting of the Director* held
immediately afterwards the follow
ing officer i were nam?d:
Otto M. Conn—President; Dr. II.
D. Allen—Vice-President and Chair
man Board of Directors; H. G. Bank!
Cashier; H. H. Herndon, Bookkeeper
and Teller; Miss Fleta Batemnn.
ELECTS OFFICERS
Newspaper Man Named President
of Lions at Friday Meetini
Mniudpal Play Croud to
to Be First Undertaloni
At the first session of the- newly
organized Lions Club lagt Friday
evening at the Baldwin Hotel, Jerc
Moore, Managing Editor of the Un
ion Recorder, was named the first
President of the club with a full
slate of officers to carry on the work
of the recently organized civic club.
Receiving their charter before the
Cht istmos holidays, th? club delayed
further action until the holiday sea
son had come to an end and the flu
epidemic had begun a decline. The
session Friday was given entirely to
the business of election and mapping
out a slate for the new y-jar’s work.
The club in a letter addressed to the
Kiwanis club assure their brother
organization of their co-operation
and earnest effort to bring about a
greeter civic pride and progressive
development of Milledgeville.
The officers named arc:
Jerc Moore, President.
George S. Carpenter, Chairman of
Board.
L. Curry, Vice-President and
Chairman of Finance Committee
Programs.
Lieut. V. L. Nash, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Maj. George Florence, Lion Tamer.
E. B. Jackson, Director of Activi-
Director of
Th? Exchange Bank was organized
about twenty-five years ago, and its
growth and .advancement has been
steady, it now having a capital stock
of $100,000.00, and surplus and
profits of $100,000.00, giving it the
recognition of being one of th"
ost progressive banks
S. D. STEMBRIDGE WILL ATTEND
LAYMEN’S MEETING
Mr. Sidney D. Stembridge has re
ceived a notice from Dr. Cox, Lay
Leader of the North Georgia Confer
ence, that a meeting of the lay lead
ers and Presiding Elders of the
various districts of the Conference,
will meet at the Hotel Grady on Jan
uary 19th, and 20th, for a Confer
ence. Mr. Stembridge has be?n an
Associate Lay Leader of Oxford
District for several years, and has
become identified with all gathering
of laymen o^ the North Georgia Con
ference. He expects to attend the
meeting in Atlanta.
ATLANTA
NAVAL MEET
Mr. Felton Rio© and Mr. W. H.
Holloway left Sunday afternoon for
Atlanta on business. Mr. Rice is
member of a Naval Examining Board
which convened at 9:00 A. M., Mon
day in the Post Office Building for
the purpose of examining prospective
officers for the U. S. Naval Medical
Corps and to conduct Annual Physi
cal Examinations of all Naval and
Marine officers connected with the
Recruiting activities in Georgia and
Florida. The Board will he in ten
sion until i-bout the 22nd of January.
Mr. Holloway left Atlanta Monday af
ternoon for Baltimore, Maryland, on
business.
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COUNCIL PASSES
TAX ORDINANCE
Wholesale Tax on Gasoline increas
ed. Pool Rooms Get Heavy Tax.
Big Tax on Fire Crackers. High
way Express Comes in for Tax
The Cty Council in its first session
of the New Year passed the Tax
Ordinances governing business i
city, several coming in for increases
under the new figures set by the
Council.
Wholesale gasoline opera!
their tax increased to $250.00. This
included all wholesale dealers ship
ping to this city in either ca
drums. Pool rooms had a
S 1,0' 0.00 put on each table, making
the .-ontinuance or the future opera
tion of public pool rooms pratically
an impossibility.
, Retail fireworks dealers were given
a material increase for the rights
to sell fireworks in Milledgeville
the future. A license of $500.00 be
ing churged to sell these goods.
The Highway Express that has
heretofore been operating without
tax will in the future have
SI60.00 to come into the city with
their trucks.
A sum of $40.00 was appropriat
ed by the city for the associated
charities.
The city granted the request of
the Georgiu State College for Women
for a side walk along their property A* a meeting jf the stockholders
on Green Street. Thc*y denied how-1 of the First National held 5 n the
ever the petition for encroachment I offices of the hank Tuesday aftcr-
on Franklin Street by the college,! noon all officers and directors were
stating their inv *mion to improve I re-elected for the New Year,
this street and make a direct right-: The following Directors were
of-way to the Central Railroad. named:
Chief W. J. Haynie w. Riven E. N. Ennis, Joe E. I’otlte, Richard
thirty day leave of absence. I Binitn, J. A. Horne, J. C. Cooper,
George Carpenter,
Roye Work. -* ‘
Dr. M. F. Stembridge, Directi
Conventions.
Conch Johnnie Brodanax, Director
of Membership Committee.
The club has pledged itself to car
ry forward as their first undertak
ing the erection of a municipal pluy
ground for the youth of the city.
They will interest themselves in de-
eloping the young girls and boys
of the city as their major objective.
A membership drive has been start
ed and the club of twenty members
is expected to grow, doubling this
A series of articles issued by Lions
International toward developing the
civic pride and progress of Millodge-
ville will be published each week in
the Union Recorder and the Milledge-
ville Times.
FIRSTNAT10NAL
NAMES OFFICERS
Ail Officeit ami Directors Re-
Elected it Seiiioa Tuesday
Afternoon. Good Year Ended
by Youngest Bank
COLONIAL TO HAVE TWO BIG
PICTURES NEXT WEEK
The Red
I and .Tun W. Hutchinson. The reports
submitted showed the hank h..d done
iplcndid business and that the regu
lar 12 per cent dividends Had been
paid, wi.h a nice sum going to the
surplus.
Week* Bill st Movie The director* at u session following
the election named the following
officers: E. N. Ennis, President; J.
E. Pottle. Vice-President; Jon W.
Hutchinson, Cashier; Miss Ruth Sims.
The Red Dance, Monday and Tues-’ ^ am , George Moore,
day and Variity, Thuraday and Fri- nooklteep , r
day will feature the week’s program
at the Colonial Theatre next week,
Manager Curry announces.
The pictures an the latest para
mount features and have just been
released. Dolores Dc Rio will be the
star .of the picture the early part of
the week and Charles, Buddy Rogers
will be the lead in tbe show the lat
ter part of the weak.
Manager Curry stated that the pie-
turea for the coming weeks will be
the best in the history af the Colonial
and many big features will be an
nounced each week.
The bonk organized eighteen years
ago and has shown a substantial
growth, being Milledgeville’s young
est bank. It has been on? cf the
strong factors in aiding the agricul
tural development of the county.
Messrs Frank Bone, J. R. Norment
and W. S. Jett were named delegates
to the annual council of the Episco
pal church to meet in Macon this
month, representing St. Stephens
church. Messrs E. H. Bohni, Jure
Moore and Lieut Nash were named
alternates.