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Milled, exile, G>., May 13. \»M
Consolidated ia 1*7*
Number 40
lome-coming Ex-students BALDWIN ROAD
G. M. C. Important Event PAVING STARTED
G. S. S. NURSES
GRADUATE 23RD.
Jrrangtments Being .lade to Make
[l 4 Gret Occasion for Visitors
Alumni to Organize
| eUR " HONORED expected
r-niing of the ex-stud-
i-, (; -orgia Military College
and 4th is growing in
(ll .th in Milledgeville nnd
ut the State.
tier
\ , m . t ;. «.f the local ex-studenta
1,1 ■ • • . court house Tuesday
n .| .t .. ro was a full discussion
i,take the home-coming a
A program of entertain-
perfected. All cx-
«! : ! he registered as quick-
, , i after their arrival in
, tv Dr. M. F. Stembridge. of
r,.,, • committee, will be at
Baldwin Hotel, to assign the
i ir homes. He is anx-
v people of Milledgeville
: r ! . :I county, who will pro-
, !n for the visitor* Monday
r,t. let him know at once.
U rvi,’ the ex-students will at-
,i the elocution contest in the
t Impel: at one o’clock a ban
>: v. : hr held on the campus,
med :■ !y afterward*, the ex-stud
. v i assemble in the chape!
tre this will be talks, music, and
fiTB'ation of an Alumni Associr.-
u perfected.
V. ; "!*» o’clock the competitive
v.:!! !e witnessed after which
will he taken for an auto.
FATHER MORROW
10 YEARS HERE
Rev. T. J- Morrow Concludes Ten
Years As Priest of Catholic
Church in This Cily
Highway Department Begins Lay- Eight to Receive Diplomas Fron
ing Base on Route to Macon Training School Dr. Flynn to
Haddock-Gray Onen Make Address
CRAY-MACON ROAD FINISHED BRANTLY DELIVERS DIPLOMAS
University of Georgia Dean
Addresses Students G.S.C.W.
SANITARIUM HAS
PAID EMPLOYEES
Dr. Stephens Discusses Educational
Problems in State at Chapel
Exercises Today
DOCTORS ACADEMY SPONSORS
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN GA.
Reverend T. J. Morrow, Priest of
the Sacred Heart Catholic church,
concluded ten years of service to
the Middle Georgia Missions on lait
Sunday, und forty-three years in the
ministry.
Father Morrow n.s ne is affection
ately known by ad sects and creed-,
came here from Atlanta after having
spent fifteen years in Georgia. He
had served as Chaplain of the Fed
eral Prison and had been ir. charge
of several Georgia Missions.
His Mis-ion here has covered 8>-
000 square miles and he has served
his people faithfully. He has en
deared himself to the people and the
entire city joins in felicitations to
the aged minister.
His work here hah been felt
throughout the city and although
his health has been declining for
several years he hns carried on most
remarkably. -
Father Morrow enters upon anoth
er vear of work here with the best
A long section of the Baldwin
county highway leading to Macon
was plowed up this week for the lay
ing of the chert and gravel base in
preparation to the paving of this
fiction of the Macon-Millcdgeville
state highway section.
The Gity-Macon section of the
food was finished and opened to
traffic this week and the Gray-Had
deck section wm announced oper
for a few weeks, before being clo-
cd for the top surfacing work to b<
wishes of all people.
Highway superintendent Edwards
has finished the grud'ng work of the
Baldwin section and the highway de
partment will go through with the
base nnd foundation work.
The supplies are being shipped to
the State Farm depot and will be
hauled from that point. The entire
summer will be necessary to finish
the foundation work, the supervisor
of the road stated and although we
are pushing the work to a rapid
finish, little hope for three dry
months is entertained.
The plows have gone several miles
west of the State Farm and the first
loads-of the base will lVe poured this
Eight nurses will receive their
diplomas this evening (Thursday)
when the graduating exercises of tho
Georgia State Sanitarium Nurses
Training School will be held in the
Assembly Hull at the hospital at
eight-thirty.
i Dr. R. C. Swint, Superintendent,
| will preside at the exercises and pre-
:v. nl Dr. J. Ormc Flynn, pastor of the
Ponca di* Lton Avenue Presbyterian
church of Atlanta, who will make
the principal addre.-s of the occasion.
Judge John T. B*antlcy, Chair
man of the Board of Trustees will
deliver the diplomas to the gradu-
ates, and Dr. Stone, of Augusta, al-
• n a member of the board will deliver
the class pin*.
After the graduating exercises, a
dance will be held in the e.ssmbly
room.
Mrs. H. S. Jones, Superintendent
of Nurses has announced the gradu
ates a, follows: Misses Helen Elton
both Blackwell, Mary Hazel Key.
! Gladys McCorkle, Samantha Ren
j froc, Frankie Oese Resscau, Orcla
Smith, Elva Louise Veal. Susie Mae
I Wade.
the
e old colonial home, of
Ferguson, where there
•iformal reception. In
i reception will he held
C. campus.
he another meeting o?
i-students held at the
next Monday night at
at which time all corn-
make their final re-
TWENTY-THREE GRADUATES
AT PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL
J
[ Ne
tde to Be Held Fridr.y |
, Fssrri.es Thursday j
l Week
G. M. C. Session to Close With
Interesting Commencement
CrM. C. GRADES
TO PRESENT PLAY
„ MVM . Annual Tern Will Be
Brought to A Close Jane 4;h.
Home-Coir : ng of Ex-students
The Peabody High School Junior
The"sonTor^taTi, DEAN SANFORD ON PROGRAM
•nmposed of Misses Dorothy Mont- |
rnmerv. Alma Sima, Ruth Wilson, | The fiftieth annual cbmmenci-
| EX-STUPENTS G. M. C. TO
MEET MONDAY NIGHT
n.l Arrangements to Be Made for
T'rr Reunion to Be Held June
3rd and 4th
Mi ft. II. Wootten, President of
- l«cal alumni of G. M. C., has
•1M a meeting of all of the ex-
’id<Tt. of the college for next Mon-
iv tight, at 8:30 o’clock.
■'•■meeting it is expected that
• ngements will he perfeci-
the great home-coming of
c ■ • idents on June 3rd and 4th.
r. TV tm announces that from
r . re will be a
" v iUr of the ex-students at
Geraldine Reid. Harriett Campbell,
Hilda Ansley, Elizabeth Skinner,
Jewell Ivey, Florence Gheesling.
Eunice Chandler. May Moore. Sarah
Hitchcock, Rfcbie Hitchcock, Hazel
Bivins, Clara Holloway, Alice Jack
son. I)osie Robert*. Dorothy Harri
son, Ruby McMillan. Hilda Renfroe,
Melissa Pettigrew, Caroline Enni?
and Caroline Humphrey.
The class day exercises will he
held Thursday, May 28th. These
exercises will consist of reading the
class history, prophecy, valedictory
tongs, etc., and will be full of irter-
cut.
The
Ml pi;
t be «
college should lend his
- --operation in making this
o the history of Milledge-
locnl ex-student should b
c urt house next Monday
8:30 o’clock.
rr iuating exercises
the evening of Jum
ne the address will
II. F. Harding,
will
JOHN MONTGOMERY COM
PLETES FLYING SCHOOL
nd Be
Thii
,f the Georgia Military Col
lege will be marked by a most inter
esting program.
On Wednesday evening May 29th.
There will be an entertainment by
the children of the grades.
Thursday evening. May 31st, Tin
Annual Band Concert will take place
at 8:30 o’clock.
Friday, May 31st, the Senior Play
will be rendered.
Sunday, June 2nd. the Bnccnlnur-’-
f.te Sermon wlil be preached by Dr
A. M. Pierce.
In the afternoon at five o’clock
there will It n Drew Parade aw'
Band Concert.
Monday, June 3rd, th n re will be a
Declamation Content at ten o’clock
r t one o’clock a bnnqrnt for the ox-
tudents: In the afternoon r •"'•et-
ing of the cx-student c will be held in
the chapel, and an Alumni Associi -
n formed:
Competitive Drills will be held; at
PrOO o’clock 5" th.. evening the Jun-
Fcnds Delayed by Shortage of
State Funds Received Last Week
and All Employees Paid
HOSPITAL WORK CONTINUES
Money necessary to pay employees
of the State Sanitarium was received
week by Mr. Homer Bivins and
all checks have been issued for the
May payroll. •
Despite the fact that the payroll
was five days late, the delay was ‘
unavoidable and beyond the control j
of the officers at the Institution. I
Erronenous reports went out that
Milledgeville merchants were impati
ent nnd demanding payment of ac
counts due them by the Institution
employres. The merchants hew.*
understood the matter and co-ope
rated in every way with the Sani
tarium authorities.
Work on the hospital at the Sani
tarium continues and rapid progress
is being made. State funds have not
been available but the Sanitarium
Trustees have arranged to have the
work financed. Erc-ction of the L.
M. Jones building was began early
in the year and although bad weath
er has hampered progress, the build
ing work is going forward rapidly.
It is being built of concrete, tile and
steel and will be veneered with
brick. The new building occupies
a central location on the hospital
grounds.
The payment of the employees w.i,
days Into, the 12th of each
An addrets upon graduuti* study
in the South was made Wednesday
morning by Doctor Roswell Powell
Stephens, dean of the graduate
school of the University of Georgia,
in the auditorium of the Milledge
ville Georgia State College for Wo
men, before an assembled audience
of faculty and students. The speak
er was the guest of the college for
the day and of the local branch of
the Doctors’ Aacndemy. Members
of the Academy occupied ■ :tr or
the platform. Doctor Daniels as
president of the Academy presided.
Doctor J. L. Beeson thanked the
speaker for his presence and mo«-
Doctor Beeson has recently
been elected president of the Aca
demy for the ensuing year. Mrs.
Hel**n Longino sang the Last Ro«o
of Sumer by request. At the close
of the address Georgiu Land was
sung by Mr.*-. Hines, the composer,
and Mrs. Longino and Miss Hallie
Smith, with Miss Jenkins ns accomp
anist.
Doctor Stephens in brief said:
"During the past few years there
has been an industrial and education
al awakening in the South. Today
all the colleges in Georgia, Without
any special effort, hove more stud
ents than they nr** equipped to
handle properly. Such a situation is
general throughout the South. A
generation has arisen that is demand
ing that its own shall give it the
same advantages offered by the
in iitutions in other states.
With the exception of Willi*
month being the usual <V< for say-: • , « . „
urctf be-! md M:,r - V ' l olU 'l - 11
i little was i
rr.ent. This delay has
'X
Im-
Hi Jcnks Circes College Audi
torinm Wednesday Evening,
May 29th
The children of the grades of the
G eorgia Military College will in their
primal entertainment on Wednesday
ov’ ning of next week present H’
.Te iks Circus.
A large number of the children
will take part in this entertainment,
end it will be filled with interesting
feature- from opening to close. The
children have been trained by the
teachers and each of them will play
heir part well.
The people of Milledgeville always
rrcet the children with large audi-
-ncos, and on next Wednesday c
ng it can he expected that the
cto auditorium will be filled ti
rapacity.
The following is the program
Opening number—Concert hy
M. C. First Grade Band.
2. Rally and Si ot the circus.
?. Introduction by proprfetoi
"1SH0P MIKELL STRESSES NEED
OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION I Carolines were established. These
— — 'three institutions which opened to
Episcopal Bishop in Sermon Sunday L-tudent? within the ten year period
to Largo Congregation Urges ^ 1795-1805 probably determined the
Teaching of Bible and Religion {prevailing type of our American in
stitutions. Other state institutions
followed.
Really there was very little gradu
ate work done in the United States
up to the passage of the Morrill Act
in 1862 and the founding of John
(Continued on back page)
The Right Revcrened H. J. Mikell.
Episcopal Bidiop of the Atlanta
Diocese, spoke to a large congrega
tion at St. Stephens church Sunday
morning, stressing the need of reli
gious education.
Bishop Mikell came here on his an
nual visit to the local parish to ad
minister the rights of confirmation
to n class of five. In his surmon
that proceeded the confirmation - i er-
viees, he through the life of Christ,
from birth to death, drew lessons of
life.
NANCY HART CHAPTER HOLDS
INTERESTING MEETING
of Am
for 111: .Te
Week
of Mr.
Montgomery, «nn
F. Montgomery,
»t Thursday from
1 Flying School in Atlanta and
,-cd hi- licrn.-e as a Pilot
R E LAMAR IN CITY—DR. CHAS
| H HERTY COMING TO RE-UNION
K. Lamar of Philadelphia}
11 •• city today. He is the
• of the late Mr. and
1 ’ ;: itl N. Lamar, and is a nn-
’ ’I city.
I.utnar is new District Pass-
’•t of the Seaboard Air-
• d with headquarters in
" in the city, called at the
Mr. R. H. Wootten, who
-t the time, and left him
• thet Dr. Chas. H. Herty.
•ing to come to the G. M.
•.mii.n in June. This announce-
be received with great
by the people of the city.
trip to
Dr.
Stembridge desires for
know any ex-student of
’ C.. who will be at the re-un-
June 3rd and 4th, to report
? m ' e to him at once. Thig is
I y necessary so that all of
~ > be provided with homes.
Mr. Montgomery made
Tallahassee, Fla., Sunday where he
will fly pasengera during this week.
He has not definitely decided the
nrvic" that he will enter, but is
now cr mected with n air passenger
r. Montgome
ol about or.e
made n splendid
entered the
ago and ha.-
•d as a pilot.
REV . J. F. YARBROUGH TO
PPEACH AT DEVEREAUX
Rev. J. F. Yarbrough will preach
the commencement sermon of t e
Dei'ereaux school Sunday. ^
Mi*. Yarbrough is well known -o
the people of Devercaux. having
eondueU'd revival •erviees there the
‘part summer. He will be gretted
with a Urge audience.
Rev. W. A- Maxwell, pmtor of
the Devereaux McthocHst ^'h^'h,
will fill the pulpit of the Milledge
ville Method‘ot church at the Sun-
, frequent visitor to the city.
Sam’s welcome
Pageant.) Clou
ntic r.nd Aerial
pu Animals.
•rn Dkriil*—Harmon
itunt'r.
Promenade nnd nr
e cx-students will be held.
Tuesday, June Uth. Graduniing | N’ntii
"ITr \ Exercises end Bneentaureate Addi-w | »■
„ “ ll.vDr S. V. Snnford; Competitive. ..
the HitVI, pr . Hii s( p M , . ! 8 -
The session that will be brongnt! Band.
lo n close hns been n mo.t successful # Side Shows.
'.ne. nnd -the Commencement season j 10. Ensemble.^
»'°ntinti f c^It^n, bv '-lit ED ATH0N KNOCKED
UNCONSCIOUS BY BASEBALL
••ting meetii-g of the
! Nancy Hart Chapter of the D. A. R.
iwr^ held at the Mansion Tuesday
i afternon, wiht Mrs. J. L. BeeM>n und
Mr*. K. W. Hatcher a; hostesses.
; The interior of the Mansion wan
beautiful in its decimal i« is of^
egated flowers. M
At the business meeting reports
dr W T WYNN IN DEMAND
AS SPEAKER ! 1
(KciMi Painful Injury tu An
e hr Being Struck by Ball
Knocked in Grand Stand
The breaking down of religious j
teaching has been th? greatest men
ace to tho welfare of our nation, the
Bishop stated. Th« separation of
church and state was wise and we
fr.lt no eveil influence during th'
first decade of our nation’s hlsto
but today when there is no-religion j
taught in the home, and * no state
maintanied or public school pn teach
religion, the only teaching' 1
receives i the few minuten i
day School. The disregard for law
and the increase in juvinile'rrimcs is
attributed to this laxity in religious
education and fenchfnr. ^ Bishop
Mikell stressed. -
Hir, sermon wa= a master piece in
words and delivered with'an eloqu
ence that gripped the attention of hh= ,
listeners. I« Vic-'-Regent. Mr
Bishop Mikell left early in the nf-|2nd Vice-Regent, M
Atlanta where f«H: Recording Secretary, Mr,. J.
cor _ 1 L. Bec-cn: rorre>pcnJing Secretary,
enn xeacn i
1 the chad “f of the officer,
-. i n Sui. ■ i Mr-. Y. H. Ynrb
li-es
srbri.ugh nnd
J. I. Gnrrurfi, who represented
hapter at the National Conven-
gave intertnjninlf—And in-
th*e accounts of tbe r proceed-
offi^ys-o* ulted
Es follows:
Regent, Mrs. Y. H.’ Yarbrough;
, rMjarrard;
C. P- Craw-
Haddock School*
Dr. W. T. Wynn, "f the G. S. C.
W„ faculty, is in demand as a
speaker at commencement exercises
thih year.
On May 27th Dr. Wynn will de-
liver the address at the eradnntmg
exercises of the Entoutoa High
Scheol and of the school at Haddock
i May 27th.
Dr. Wynn has made a close study
nf the probities "f education and is
the author of an K "flish K™mmar,
which has demanded attention in tlye
educational world.
pleasant speaker, and dis-
yillc Method‘ct church at tt' Sna He U “ plfl ’?" ct h , m jght chose Legion will meet with Mrs. David
^ h ilfcu.n" Bg!Sr ' *'•
Mr. Ed Athon Was painfully in-
ju-M Monday afternoon, while a
•.pectator at the game of baseball be
tween G. M. C. and Georgia Fresh
men. A foul ball Was knocked into
the grand stand, hit the concrete,
and rebounding struck Mr. Athon
just above the eye. He was knock
ed unconscious, and medical aid was
necessary. "His eye was given Ircat-
The eye was not seriously ibjured.
but Mr. Athon was compelled to r -
main at his home a day or two.
■moon to return
c had the Degree of L. L. D. cor
ferred upon him by Oglethorpe Uni
verrity at their graduating exercise:
Sunday evening. ✓
FARMERS CLUB MET SATURDAY
The Farmers Club met ‘Saturday
the home of fir. i. R. Torrance,
Judge B. H. Dunaway, presiding. At
the conclusion of the business meet-
ig, Mr. and Mrs. Torrance, assi-ted
/ their daughters, terved n moat
mpting harbecue dinner, which wa-
Jcr* N. Moore went to Cornelia
[Mr. Jon .Hutchinson; Treasurer
Mrs. Jos E. Pottle; Chaplain. Mrs.
S. A. Cook; Historian. Miss Leila
Lamar; Auditor, Mi s Malta Thom-
MERCHANTS TO CLOSE THURS
DAY AFTERNOONS AFTER
JUNE 13TH
SERVICE STAR LEGION TO MEET
Woodrow Wilson. Service Sta
region will meet with Mrs. Ds
Fergurson , Tuesday afternoon
fiVe o'clock.
merchants of the city have
•d an agreement to close theTr
A heavy rain fell in this aeetion ] places of business Thursday aftei-
Monuay evening, corUnuln, well in- j noon of each week, commencing
to the night The crops were help- June 13th. •
,,l by the rain. Then fallowed quite This enstom hxs been followcdin
fell in the temperature, and It was MllledgovJUc for the past oevekal
n-cssonably coo] Tuesday night and I years, and hn> proven satisfaetory
Wednesday .norning. to the merchants, clerks and pnblic.