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Milledgeville, Ga., February 2$, 1929
Consolidated in 1872
Number 28
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PETITION FILED
FOLLOWING LEW
H | Wall and C. F. Fowler File
Petition !o Show Illegality When
City Levies on Property to
jj. e t Paving Obligation
y I. Wall nn|t C. F. Fowl, took
today vo stop the City’s iction
a levy that has been made o’ their
; fv the pavitlR blig*-
onfl tfcst have been assessed ninst
tte pmporty- The property r ton
W is beiosr advertised up a
Marshal's sale to satisfy the past duo
piyw nt« on paving fronting on Jcf-
ietfon street
ontentions made by Mr. Wall
and Mr. Fowler are that the assr-
are j r excess to the actual cost
if the paring fronting their property
they have tendered the city a
/vir,. which they thirfk is a just price
T * caae i* £ought on
the jr>und thait that the city has
juadc excessive charges.
Mr. Wall declared today that he
.expected to expose the paving issue
« put over in the city during
the past two years ■ nd would show
that the propery holders had been
sed far more ♦ha'* th** n«»ving
actually cost. Mr. Wall made his
chances against the city in the peti-
filed to stop the levy proceed-
Judge Hammond, Augusta at
torney. has been retained by Mr
Wall and Mr. Fowler a»*'t filed the
papers to stop the le J h
made.
The city vas paved by the baby
bond plar) under an act passed by
the Legislature, which permitted the
paving to be kid with the cost be
ing assessed against the property
b- rdcring the paving, and a bond be-
: issued against the property a9
--rity. The city was divided into
forty-rig*-: zoinos -and the cost of the
pvvin - < { the different zones was
prorated among the property hold-
made iee0mi|
to ihe front footage.
OCONEE RISING
RAPIDLY TODAY
Floods Waters Spread Over Sur
rounding Territory Following
36 Hour Rain That Began
Early Tuesday
SCHOOL TEACHERS WILL BE
PAID PROMPTLY
The C once River continues to rise
rapidly lis afternoon, Wednesday,
with cations that the stream
: would » 'o the high water mark bo-
[ fore to... rrow morning as rains con
tinue through this section. The
j measurement this morning showed
• 26 feet v "th a rain fall of 3.25 inches
! for the st twenty-four hours when
ation was made early this
Fishi. Creek was ."howing a
steady r a this afternoon and the
road at ti.e bridge on Wayne street
loading to the State Sanitarium had
been washed away and the main
artery of traffic to the State Institu
tion had been blocked. The high
waters at the creek had not reached
the high point but the steady rise
indicates that this point will be
reached.
A bridge on the highway to Macor.,
had ben reported washed away and
it was impossible to reach Macon
over the highways this afternoon.
The train schedules into the city had
been hampered today and wash outs
were reported along the lirie but all
trains had rcched the city this after-
The roads throughout the county
were in an almost impassable state
tonight and washouts had pratically
stopped all highway transportation.
The City Waterworks were still
high a:<d dry this afternoon and the
flood preventions that were taken
following the- high water last fall
seemed to have with stood the Fish
ing Creek high water.
Rain continues to fall late this af
ternoon and damage increased with
streams in all parts of the county on
a rampage The floods of Inst fall
that isolated Milledgeville for two
days are expected to be duplicated
all hopes for clear weather fade.
. Made Arran
Sspl. Bivi ui i,as nisai „
with MUtedfrevQle Banking Co.
to Finance Schools of County
ScW.l Superintendent Bivins ha
snnrmred that the school teachers
°f Baldwin county will be paid
promptly. He states that he has
arrangements with the Mil-
crcville Banking Co. to finance
* H 'hooIs until the appropriations
’* P ai ‘l by the State.
Sop* rintendent Bivirt* has found
1 P° 5i ible, during his term of office
* a*' 11 ' 0 .''* meet the payment of the
* chm of the schools of hte county
"Riptly at the end of the month. He
5 kept the finances of the schools
a high standard.
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:h sum
the ah#*
re of the i
church •
J. WELLS AUTOMOBILE
STOLEN MONDAY NIGHT
F «ad Stuck iu Tt,. Mud on W*.h-
i Street Tuc.d.y Morning
" automobile of Prof. 4 J. J.
5 stolen Monday night from
fmr.t of the Joseph A. Moore
Home, where he had left
,, ar : a * *°°n as it was missed
tn locate the car were made,
- eltu * ns 1,0 * ts whereabouts
^ Wound.
* "’ * i° w ever, did not get
!' ut » short distance
• frtom the starting point.
t ' into " raB hington street
, '-avng the paving the car
mud, and they were
abandei
It
, plum f
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• U WEETS NEXT TUES
DAY
W. r”r it
b< • ' • U. wj! meet next
to*"? aftern °on at 4:30 o’clock
1 the tl,e ^ Icn,a Bible class
kb '■ hurch - m™. w
™* *"> the leader.
WILL MEET FRIDAY
mce,in,f
held in L Ch ° r As ' ociat «on
rF ^y .fti? n,mar 801,001
„ _ fall * a [ terno °n at 3:30
the tendane « of the
fourth
build-
'’clock.
‘ members is
Georgia Coaches Show OLDEST OF M. D S. NEW LAW ASKED
Interest In Cadet Game TO HAVE REUNION BY G.S.' BOARD
Coaches Meiire and Thomas to Look Over G. M. C. Eleven in Action
Friday. First Spring Game of Georgia Prep. Broanax
Lines up 29 Team
Coach Johnny Broadnax will in
troduce a new eleven Friday after
noon to Milledgeville fans, which will
be the neuculos of the machine to
carry the G. M. C. hopes in the 1920
pennant: chase in Gridiron circles of
the G. I. A . A. Seated on the G.
M. C. bench will be Coaches Harry
Mchre and Frank Thomas of the
University of Georgia.
The game Friday will introduce
into Georgia prep circles the first
spring game „o be staged in the
Junior association The decision of
Coaches Rents and Broadnax to stage
the game came following a confer
ence with the officials of the school.
Coach Broadnax called the spring
pratice in January and at ~.bat time
determined to close the training sea
son with a game to put the finishing
touches on the cadet Gridiron hope
fuls. Coach Wallace Butts of the
Madison A. & M. team v-ns schedul
ed to furnish the opposition.
The game Friday will be a full
football game with the regular offi
cials and the only difference will be
in the seasons of the year. Coach
Broadnax will present the nudeous
of his next term team, bringing in
to the picture many new faces and
star prospects. The entire backficld
will be of a new personelle with the
exception of Roberson. The line will
have the main spring of last yenr’s
front wall.
Coaches Mehre and Thomas are
down uj look the team over and offer
suggestions to Coach Broadnax, a
former University star. The friend
ly relationship of the two coaching
staffs is most gratifying to the
school authorities and u permanent
connection is expected to grow out of
the meeting Friday. The University
staff will keep in close contact with
future teams Ccach Broadnax hopes
G. M. C. GRAMMAR SCHOOL
CLASS HOLD EXERCISES
Give Appropriate Program on Georg
Washington's Birthday. Have
Other Pupils as Guests
The Overflow Class of the G. M.
M. C. Grammar Grades, composed
of the girls of the sixth and seventh
last Friday afternoon in the seventh
grade room. Among the invited
guests were the seventh grade boys'
clnss aifa the sixth grade boys’ class
their teachers and several of the par
ents. The following numbers made
up the program:
1. Early ;life of Washington—
Agr.cs Baggett
2. George Washington, a poem—
Zelma Franks.
3. Character of Washing 1 -.
Nora Alligood.
4. Columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean—Sung by Jane ^Little, Mable
Alligood, Margaret Brookins, Kath
erine Lockhart
5. The Elucation, and Trainirig
of Washington—Dean Hutchings.
7. Later Life of Washington-
Ruth McDaniels.
8. A Washington Acrostic—Nina
Taylor.
9. America, the Beautiful—Sung
by Martha Thornton, Gladys Combes,
Bcsric Braxley, Ruth Holsenbeck.
10. Our Privilege, A Poem-
Alice McMillan.
11. Some Facts about Washing
ton—Margaret Brookins.
12. What Bounfeuillet says abou 1
Washington—Ruth Holsenbeck.
18. Washington, A Song—The
entire class.
Louise Stallings, famous soprano,
will give a recital next Saturday
evening in the auditorium of the
Georgia State C-olloge for Women
under the auspices of the Lyceum de
partment of the college. Miss Stall
ings is one of the country’s singers
of real merit
A. A. U. W. TO MEET NEXT
MONDAY
The American Association of Uni
versity Women will meet on Monday,
March 4tth at the home of Mrs. M.
M. Parka at 8:00 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
LIFE SENTENCE
GIVEN REEVES
Jury Change; Verdict After New
Trial is Granted. Robert Ross
Convicted of Involuntary
Manslaughter
After Judge James B. Park had
granted Johnny Reeves a rfcw trial
the same jury that returned a first
degree murder verdict last month
recommended that the mercy of the
court be given the man who was
jointly indietd with Luther and Viney
Saulsberry* for the murder of Ed
Thomas, negro barber.
Judge Park-Granted the new trnl
Friday after the jury which convicted
Reeves had signed a petition asking
the mercy of the court and new testi
mony had been introduced by the
ccndemmcd man’s attorney. Col. Er
win Sibley. The same jury was call
ed into the box and retired into the
jury room chaining their verdict.
Reeves had been sentenced to die in
the olectrict chair March 15th. The
jury changed their decision after the
Saulsberrys had been acquitted.
Robert Ross indicted for the mur
der of Green King was convicted of
involuntary manslaughter and his
sentence set at from 10 to 15 years.
Col. Erwin Sibley and Col Frank
Bell represented Ross.
Miss Darnelle Seals, State Sani
tarium nurse, who was tried for
murder, was acquitted.
Cartrelle Houston who went on
trial last Thursday for assult with
intent ot murder was cleared of
here charges.
Judge Park adjourned the Febru
ary adjourned term of the January
term of court last Friday afternoon.
The crowded crimnal docket made
the extra session necessary arid de
spite the added week a number of
cases were carried over to the com
ing July term. All misdemeanor
cases on the court calendar were
turned over to the county court.
JUNIOR ORDER
ENTERTAIN HEAD
Grand Councilor Starnes Starnes
Will Be Guest of Milledgeville
and Hardwick Lodges
Hon. Oscar II. Starnes, General
Coulcillor of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics, will pay the
Milledgeville and Hardwick Lodges
of that order an official visit Thurs
day night.
A joint meeting of the two lodges
will be held in the Milledgeville Lodge
rooms, and an address, discussing the
pr. iciplofl~iTf - TKe*'tfTdor will bo /le-
livered by the General Councillor.
A barbecue dinner will he sen*'
at the Baldwin Hotel during the eve
irg, and a good time is being antici
pated by the members, and guests
from out of town, who will be pros-
Both the Milledgeville and Hard
wick Lodges have strong memberships
-and one of the largest gatherings
the history of the order is expected.
Mr. Starnes is a prominent citi-
| zen of Augusta and has stood high in
fraten|al circles for a number of
years. His visit to the Milledgeville
council will be his first to this city.
EPISCOPALIANS HAVING
SERIES OF SERVICES
ilev. F. H. Hard':.* Rector of St
Stephens Episcopal church has an
nounced the dates for servir dur
ing the Lenten season. On Wed
nesday of each week services will be
held at eight o’clock in the even
ing. Thursday morning at eleven
o’clock the Holy Comunion will be
administered. Ort Friday at 5:30 in
the afternoon a prayer service will be
held and two services on Sunday at
eight and eleven thirty.
Mr. Harding has invited all denomi
nations to attend these services.
D. A. R. Name Milledgeville
Most Historic Spot in Georgia
At the State D. A. R. convention
in Brunswiik next month, a vote will
be taken! on the most historical spot
in Georgia. Each chapter is enter
ing it.« own historic places in order to
have a large number when the time
comes to vote.
The Nancy Hart Chapter sent the
following letter to the chairman of
Historic Spots:
The Nancy Hart chapter enters the
old State Capitol at Milledgeville as
the most historic spot Its erection
was begun in 1804. The Legislature
met in it in 1807. The last Legisla
ture met in 1861.
1. Here in 1825 Lafayette was
entertained on the grounds at a mili-
ta»*y dinner and at a supper and ball
in the Old Capitol Building.
2. Here in 1832 was held the
great anti-tariff conversion whe*<e
occured the memorable debate be
tween John Forsyth and John M.
Berrien.
8. Here in 1861 was the
treat debate on secession.
4. Here were held the courts of
Baldwin couitty from 1871 to 1880.
5. Here is now the Georgia Mili
tary College, given Oct. 4, 1879.
Other historic spots in Milledge
ville are:
The Executive Mansion, erected
1838.
The home of John Clark, Revolu
tionary soldier.
The home of Governor D. B. Mitch-
crll, who ended dueling in; Georgia.
Old Fort Wilkinson, site of Creek
Indian treaty in 1882.
Site of home fo Mrs. Nathan C.
Barnette, who successfully concealed
the great seal of the state of Georgia
and the acts of the Legislature in
1864.
Site of Oglethorpe University, and
Thalian Hall, still standing, in which
Sidney Lanier had a room.
SARAH MAY YARBROUGH,
Regent
LEOLA SELMAN BEESON,
Secretary.
Dr. D. H. Allen One of Two Active
Physicians Left in Class of 1879. 1
Will Attend Reunion in
Atlanta
Of the thirty-nine young M. D’s.
to receive their degrees at the At
lanta Medical College fifty years ago.
Dr. H. D. Allen, head of Allen’s In
valid Home, is one of the two that
still remain active in the pratice of
their profession and the two will at
tend a reunion next Moriday in At
lanta.
Four members of the class of 1879
are rtfll living but Dr. Allen and Dr.
II. B. Stewart of Fountain Inn/S. C.,
are the only two who will attend the
reunion at the Henry Grady hotel.
Dr. J. L. Walker of Waycross and
Dr. C. T. Stovall of Vienna, the other
two members of the class cntvnot at
tend due to ill health.
Dr. Allen came back to Baldwin
county after his graduation and be
gan the pratice of medicine. He later
opened the Allen’s Invalid Home
which was the first hospital in. the
South for the treatment of nervous
and mental dcseases. He has
the hospital to a steady and sub-
rtantial growth and today has on
the largest and most outstanding
hospitals in the United States. Al
though having been active for a half
century in his profression he con
tinues in the hospital work and de
votes much time to other business
interests.
Dr. Allen has been a potent factor
in the business, social and civic life
of Baldwin county during his long
career and today keeps in close touch
with civic arid business affairs. His
graduation came shortly after the
war between the states when the At
lanta Medical College was in it
fancy. His first pratice was in the
rural districts of the county, a horse
unH saddle bags, benig his nwinatays
in carrying on his pratice.
Dr. Allen was the principal speak
er at the banquet following the
graduation exercises and has riot
made a public speech since that time,
but he stated that he was slated to be
the principal speaker at the reunion
next week with Dr. Stewart serving
ns Toastmaster.
Steriliation Law for Mental De
fectives is Asked By Sanitarium
Board. Suggest New Sani
tarium to Legislature
CADETS ELECT WHO’S WHO FOR
FOR ANNUAL
Several Milledgeville boys w|*rc
among those hortored recently by the
senior class of G. M. C. in their
choice of the staff of "The 1929 Re
call,’’ annual year book of the local
institution.
Those selected were as follows:
J. Leroy Fincher, of Culloden, Ga.,
Editor-in-Chief; Comer Cherry, of
Dublin, Ga., Business Manager; Ful
ton M. Smith, of Quitman, Gn., Senior
Associate Editor; Lamar Beck, of
Millcdgevlile, Advertising Manager;
John B. Newman, of Orlando. Fla.,
Assistant Advertising Manager;
Duane Wilson, of St. Petersburg,
Fla., Athletic Editor; J. Mercer Jor
dan, of Milledgeville, Military Editor;
Jake G. Howard, of Hepzihah, Ga.,
Activities Editor; and Earl Gunn, of
South Jacksonville, Fla., Feature
Editor.
Miss Dorothy Parks, of Milledge
ville, has been chosen staff sponsor.
Local boys and girls were also
honored in the recent "Who’s Who at
G. M. C.” contest. Thi« contest
sponsored by tne annual staff, is al
ways an, outstanding feature of the
book.
The final results showed the fol
lowing choices: Best All-Around
Cadet, Alton Barns, of Milledge
ville; Most Popular Cfedet, “Bill”
Force, of Augusta; Produest Cor
poral, Eugene Bran^en, of Milledge
ville; Best Musician, "O.^cie” Thax-
lon, of Milledgeville; Most Conceited
Cadet, “Breezy” Wynn, of Dublin;
Neatest Cadet, Arnold Wals’i, of Ma
con; Prettiest Girl, Agnes Beck, of
Milledgeville; Most Handsome Cadet,
Leo Lilly, of Orlando, Fla.; Best
Athlete, Reese Higdon, of Copper
Hill, Tenn.; Ugliest CadeL "Bill’’
Bryaon, of Birmingham,
Intellectual Cadet,
of Milldgeville;
Susie Butts, of A
Cadet, Herschel
Ford, Ga.; Most
Minor an|i Julia
ledccvUle; and
Harris Thom)
The Board of Trustees of the
Georgia State Sanitarium at their
meeting last Wednesday went on rec
ord as favoring a law making it
mandatory to steralizo all mental de
fectives at the Institution and pass
ed resolutions requesting the Legisla
ture to consider the enactment of
such measures.
Under the proposed law mental de
fectives would be sheared of their
reproduction powers. This resolu
tion also included all the confirmed
crimnal.", now is the state prison. The
operation would be performed by
staff physicians at the Stata Sani
tarium.
The resolution was passed upon by
a full meeting of the board and will
go to the Legislature at the next ses
sion. Kansas and California have
similar laws and hav_« found its ef
fects bencficials. Such a law would
go far to reduce the instance popula
tion and improve future generations
the trustees believe.
The trustees nlso embraced in their
resolution to the Legislature a peti
tion for another Sanitarium to bo
erected another section of the state.
They sited the fact that the Sani
tarium at the present can accomodate
only four thousand potions bu due to
the great number of insane are hav
ing to care for over five thousand.
There are between six and seven
hundred patients out on furlough
that will have to be b. ought back to
the Institution for further treatment
and there are abou seven hundred
insane persoits in the county jails
that are demanding treatment the
resolution outlined. The Sanitarium
is now taking care of the acute cur
able as rapidly _as possible.
Four hundred colored'patients were
recently cared for in the completion
of the new colored building and the
L. M. Jones Phychopathic Hospital
will take care of 250 additional in
mates.
The trustees arc devoting much
time and thought to the state’s larg
est charity and the marked improvc-
mens under the present personelle
have met with high commendation.
Dr. Swint and .his staff are labor
ing L.iceasingly for the best possible
results and the mammoth institution
is far overcrowded for the most
potent benefits.
PICTURE SHOW FOR THE
COLORED PEOPLE
Mr. M. L. Curry has opened a pic
ture show house for the colored peo
ple in Milledgeville. It will be lo
cated ort McIntosh street in the build
ing at the rear of the Inn Hotel. Mr.
Curry has equipped the picturo
house with nice chairs, and made it
comfortable and attractive.
The Women’s Missionary Society
of the Methodist church will meet
Monday afternoon, March 4th, at
four o’clock in the Sunday School
room. An intercstnig program will bo
rendered with Miss Anna Moore
Daughtry and Mrs. Geo S. Roach
taking part. A ful attendance of
members desired.
.MRS. M. M. PARKS, Pres.dent.
Rev. H. D. Warnock, pastor of the
Baptist church in this city, spent
Sunday at Be:-:sie Tift College at For
syth, and preached to the student
body.
Rev. Jas A. Ivey filled the pulpit
at the Baptist church in this city
Sunday morning and evening.
DR. WYNN ATTENDS PRESS
INSTITUTE
Dr. W. T. Wynn, head of the
Department fo Journalism at the
Georgia State College for Women,
spent last Friday and Saturday in
Athens attending a nfeeting of the
Georgia Press and the Institute con
ducted at the Uriiversity of Georgia.
Dr. Wynn instituted the Journalism
department at the college and has
made it one of the most important
courses.