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lUOtt VOOAEXOX Milledfeville, Ga., Anfsit 8, 1929 Consolidated in 1S71 Number 51 iarion alien FACES BIG TASK tmber cf Committee of Five to IVork out Appropriation! for All State Institutions. METHODIST TO GATHER THIS P. M. Get-togethei Thy memLers of the Milledgeville Methodist church will assemble this afternoon a* half-past five o’clock (BTmrnoNS here ask muck c w - for “ . I Thera (have been no invitation public hearings regarding approprl- Bent out / but a „ „ e mbers of the ,.r she \arious institutions cburc jj an d congregation arc invited ' ,me ‘° a C P* e * , C " -f 1 * * r iOnd expected to be present. There n to n commi ee o Jive to -1 'should be several hundred to attend, A ,.ik ou a «i ue to P r ** as w ju b e a pleasant social gath- tht* house or action ear y j er | n(f> Entertainment will be pro- ... . vided for the children. Marion Allen was named a ...... ... . . , , . The ludies of the church are pre- , m k.. r of the sub-committee to! . .. , paring to serve a bountiful picnic ... th« appropriations for the * . ... ; . . ., . . dinner which wil lbe spread on itut on- througnout the -tate. , , * »■„, Riven the bill “"“"f under the tree. i;, increase the ealarie. of thol A from the J Boar ' 1 of ,f the State Trainin ,.! SU.»-ard s has been appomted to furn- ;„i hv a committee. Col. Allen lemonade, thore wdl In. a i(d m a special wire to the Dn-I !uff ' c,cnl '•““"‘“V » f rttltMh- Rtcolder this morning. First Cotton Bale Of Season Expected To Come in Today Picking of Fleecy Staple Begun in County. Gins Ready for Operation. Big Crop Eipected at Fields Begin to Turn White With Cotton i ing beverage. >f the Legislature wing near a close, Col. Allen s a -trenuous task in gaining full tmt-nt for the Institutions here possibility of securing the full ant asked was strengthened when to decide on appropriation, al- •h passage of revenue bills suffi- t ;n meet the needs will be neces- before the money 'can be allot- RESBYTERIANS to call PASTOR NEXT SUNDAY Con,recall Btv. A G. Harris, of Senocca, S. C., Khed at the Presbyterian church this city Sunday morning tninr. Mr. Harris has a strong Tonality and his sermons made endid impression upon his hearers, he is an eloquent and scholarly ngregational meeting of the will be held next Sunday : at eleven o'clock, at which he Pulpit Committee will end a minister, and it is ex- t call will be extended. I£V. w. A. RAY DIES SUDDENLY IN FLORIDA JUDGE DELAYS PAVING HEARING CONGRESSMAN TO GET FIRST BALE REPORTS STATE Congressman Carl Vinson will gin the first bale of cotton of the season, reports reaching this city indicate. The bale will be ginned Thursday at Chandler Bros. Gin it is stated. Other farmers are picking cot ton and are hoping to get a bale here Friday if po.-sible. Mr. John Shinnolster and Mr. Ed Hooten are working for the hon or also. The cotton buyers and warehouse men are expecting the first bale of )he new crop of cotton to be market ed in Miliegdeville this week. Reports are that there are eral farmers in Baldwin county, who are picking the fleecy Btaple de termined that they will get to market with the first bale, and that they will win the honor and extra price that is always paid for the first bale. From these reports it is stated by those who are keeping in touch with tne progress made that the 1929 br.le of cotton will be marketed either today (Thursday) or Friday Boulder Marking Location First M. E. Church to be Placed Inscription on Grantite Monument Decided Upon and Order Placed by United Daughters of Confederacy. Brilliant Exercises to Mark Unveiling GRAND OFFICER TO LECTURE HERE nk W. Baker, Grand Secretary of te Grand Lodye, to Speak Here Auguat 20th Frank W. Baker, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, will speak here August 20th, giving an illustrated lecture dealing with the history of Masonry, it was .announc ed at a meeting Tuesday night. All Masons and their wives have been invited to hear the Grand Lodge officer on his visit here. Masons in this and surrounding counties have been urged to hear Mr. Baker. Mr. W. H. Buumgurtel, Worship ful Master, stated that the largest gathering of Masons ir several years was expected to be present at the meeting on the 20th. G.S.C. TEACHERS GRANTED LEAVE Spend Year Working for Higher Degrees, Dr. Beeson Announces. Six on Leave of Absence NEW FACULTY NOT ANNOUNCED I Marking *he spot where the first The McNeil Marble -rks, who Order for Hearing Postponed Un-1 Methodist church was erected in Mil- have the order for the boulder, have til August 19th, at Request of I * e dg«''ille, granite boulder will be! been instructed to go forward with City It is Understood | placed by the members of the United, the work of completing thi placed by the members of the United, the work of Daughters of the Confederacy at an sr.d delivery CASE CONTESTS PAVING COSTS £ ' erection of the monument in chnrge. JudRO James B. Park ordered the Thl , boll | d ,, r „ solid Kranit( . a , al)| hearing ..r the demurrer filed in the „. ul b( . simi]ar thc m „ unmcnt tbat case of the city against Jefferson | now stam |, „„ tbc G M „ ,. an , pu . •tret property owner, contesting the C ommemorati.,|r the one hundredth legality of peeing o.«.-mcnt>, post- anniveraary of , ht . visil „ f L . lFay . poned until August 13th it wn, leant- ct „ t0 lhi , cily whlch „„ crected by the Daughters of the American Six members of the faculty of the Georgia State College for Women granted one year’s leave of absence to devote the time working for high er degrese. Dr. J. L. Beeson an nounced this week prior to naming the faculty for the coming year. Miss Lilias Myrick ^ead of the Chemistry department, succeeding Dr. Beeson, will go to the University of Minnesota, where she will work for her doctor’s degree. She will re sume h»r post in the fall of 1930. Miss Eloise Green is spending two years at Johns Hopkins University ■and wil lreceive a doctors degree at the end of that time to return to the college as one of the department Mis? Mamie Pngett, Mis- Gussie Tnbb and Miss Estel! - Adams a 'ill spend next year at Columbia Uni versity working toward a Masters degree and Mis sBlanchc Tail will ! study at Peabody in Nashville, doing Service Commission Witholds An- work leading to her Mastei* degree, swer to Appeal Made bv Middle Forty member, of the faculty hove studyed during this summer at Co- DOGS WILL BE INOCULATED NEXT MONDAY AUG. 12TH City Marshall Thigpen has issued an order that nil dogs in the city be brought to the city hall next Monday to be inoculated. NODECISIONON POWER RATE YET Georgia Towns ed here today. A hearing of the demurrer filed i Revolution. David Ferguson, expected late this' onth. Complete plans for the un :iliac- exercise, are Win* delayed fO EE MORE INVESTIGATIONS pon the advice of the Marble Com- i the boulder will be puny as shipped. Notables in the Methodist church are being invited here and the leading Bishops of the church will make the principal address. High officers in the U. D. C. will also be invited to the exercises, Mrs. R. B. Moore, President of thc Robert Lee by the city in .answer to illegality j Mrs. David Ferguson, as chairman proceedings filed by property own- 0 f the committee to erect thc menu-] Chapter, stated, ers on Jefferson had been set for j merit, stated that the following in-1 Rev. J. F. Y.arbrougi lev. W. A. Wray, pastor of the krton Baptist church, died sud- djr in Florida Tuesday night with atuiok of acute indigestion. Mr. i* well known here, having •tticd Miss Ethel Cnrnklw, the - rest daughter of the late Capt. M. Cai-aker and a sister of Mr? T. Whilden. The funeral will in Elberton Saturday. EGRO BADLY CUT BY HIS FATHER-IN-LAW No decision has been given by th Public Service Commissi peal made last April by more than a dozen Georgia towns for a reduc- thc commercial power rate more time being necessary for in vestigation the commission declared in a communication to Col. Erwin Sibley this week. The lower rate was asked for by Friday. Augu.-t 9th, by Judge Parkj scription to be carved on the face j ing with the committee on arrange- t* 10 Middle Georgia cities nfUr during the July term of court. The 0 f the boulder had been decided **p-Lmcnts, Mrs. David Ferguson is chair- Cl ; ,n er ®” c ® was 1 U m ' | lor delay in the hearing came at the re-1 on . * ’ J [ man and Mrs. C. P. Crawford, Mrs. «£. * tte,lded tt JW" ijue t of the city, it is understood' j “This marks the original site of. J .L. Bee-on, and Mrs. W. A. Mar*ey The case grows out of action tak-1 the Methodist church erected about are members. ?n by the city in an effort to collect 1 the year 1805. Bishop Aflbury and The site of the first church paving assessments against several ( Bishop McKendree in 1815 held a' center of the present cemetery property owners on Jefferson street c , -ence which James O Andrew, the Jordan mounment. ' boulder who field necessary court proceed- attended. Bishop Capers, Dr. Lovick will be placed on pratica..y tht ings to stop the sale of their prop-1 p,; rce and many others notable fig-j dentical spot where the chu h stood, erty by levy to satisfy the paving j urcs j n Southern Methodism served! The church burial ground indebtedness The property holders | as p a .tors. The daughter of Bishop beginning of the present cemetery alleged over charges and illegality J papers is buried near this spot. In lumbiu, Emory and Peabody. Other members of the faculty are traveling in Europe. Dr. Beeson stated that the new faculty for the coming year would the ap. not jj C announced until later in the month. Several new department heads will come here next year. MRS. J. N. LAYFIELD DIED THURSDAY AFTERNOON One .{ R.ldwin Connie'. Olde. Resident. Fun Aw.,. Funer.l Held Saturday Morning liilledgevfift delegation headed" Mr. Lee N. Jordan. A petition wa? presented from the Milldegeville mer [hants with more than eighty signa ling the lower commercial of the assessments made .against gracious appreciation of thc pioneer their property to pay for the paving.) wor k done by this great church this The case will have important bear- boulder is erected by the Robert E. ing on the entire cost of paving in] Lee Chapter, U. D. C-, 1929.” thc city, it is understood. ' —— _— . I FAREWELL DINNER TO REV. AND MRS. H. D. WARN0CK MRS. HARPER TUCKER PAINFUL- LY INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT - A number of Masons and their Mr.,. Harprr Tucker war painfully P avt ‘ » dinnFr injured Tuesday niuht. when the nerdry evening of last week to Rev automobQc in whieh she wa. ridins »"d Mr- H. D. Wamoek who left with Mrs. John Ray, Miss Annie Thursday mornins for their new Laura Tucker and Miss Nell Sim The city officials and Kiwunis al so joined in the figlit to get th • rate down to that given Macon and At- nnd many l"Bdin K Melhodift are Col. Erwin Sibley, elected at l.uried near the spot where thc t»nwy for the orjtnnisntion, led tne boulder is to -tand. j fiBbt before the eommissAn on April Thc definite duy for thc unveiling; IMh, when u largo delegation wen- • has nut yet been decided upon. ‘he Capitol nnd appeared before th, I service commission asking the Tc CAPT. J. H. ENNIS MAKES ] duction. TRIP TO ATLANTA The lower rate would effect thc i price of power consumed in operating pent several Metric sign?, motor?, and other Ulnnta. Ian?e P OWer consuming appartises. ' a.i Cracker- Col. Sibley stated today that tht colidei with i the Erar.k Gumming, a young negro j highway east of the Oconee River badly cut and stabbed by! Bridge. in-law. Josh Yasser, in the jhe party was returning from rn part of the county Mon- pjjick Spring church, where they had rnooi. Cummings was! been to attend services, and were the Doctors’ offices in this; n ,. ar the store of Mr. Jesse Simmer- ly. and it was found that the knife ] son w hen they were struck by the Forsyth It was a congenial crowd that gath ered around the festive board, and wi pat took of the sumptuous dinner that l a; had.been prepared. ing that he Capt. J. H. Ennis days of the past week Ralph Smith in his land” column in Sunday’s Atlanta commission had advised that more Journal has the following to say fi mo waB necessary to investigate th F> petition nnd no definite time could about Capt. Ennis: Howard Ennis, of Milledgcville, ng the visitors to the Capitol k. and it goes without say ,*n a cordial wcl At thc conclusion of the supper come . . . Mr. hnni Mr. Jos A Moore acted as tonstmast- Atlanta, and while or, and talks were made by Me. (V. L. Ritchie and J. C. Cooper, had businei in the city penetrated one of his lungs. Af-j truck, which was according to the pressing appreciation of the friend- treated he was carried to statement of officres, being driven ship thal had existed botwei without lights by a young aims that he cut Cum- the name*of Bush from ne the latter had snapped a el ep. Mrs. Tucker’s nose was broken, and ‘he received other bruises on the face. The other members of the party were not injured. The automobile va.; badly damaged. ndeavoi ■ and had struck him 1 tile butt of the gun w-ith suffici- I’urco to break the weapon. The '•mi nt of Yasser was corroborated •jtneases. The row occurred in northeastern part of the county Spring Hill church. '■' | 0 R ORDER MEETS IN savannah next week The •htate Council of the Junior HOWARD UNDERWOOD ACCEPTS POSITION WITH BU1CK DEALER present and the keen regret that was felt on account of the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Wamoek from the city. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wamoek respond ed to the sentiment of the talks in a few impressive words. ROSES OF PUTNAM WORN BY SOIONS Members of the Georgia Legisla ture today were wearing Georgia roses. They were grown by Repre- * -"ntative J. O. Wall, of Putnam Mr. Howard Underwood, prominent County, who is recking to have thc Baldwin farmer, will become service rora made Georgia’s official flower ill in SL n Atlanta, n operation Mrs. Winston Layfield, widow of the late Mr. J. N. Layfield. died at her "home at Hardwick Thursday, August 1st, in the late afternoon. Mrs. Layfield, who had reached a ripe old age, happened to an acci dent, dislocating one of her hips, two weeks prior to her death. The acci dent on account of her old age was a serious one, but only a short while before her death, which was due to heart failure, she was apparent- ly getting along well. The end xpcctedly, and was a great shock to her loved ones. The funeral services were held at the Midway Methodist church Sat urday morning, at eleven o’clock, Rev. J. F. Yarbrough officiating. The remains were interred in the city cemetery by the side of those of Mr. Layfield, who passed away several years ago. The services were largely attended by friends and ac quaintances. Mrs. Layfield before her mnrriage was Miss Winston Layfield and was born in Hancock county, her rodent- being Mr. and Mrs. BosweM Hutch ings. In early womanhood she mar ried Mr. J. N. Layfield, and the greater portion of her life of more than eighty years was spent in the neighborhood in which she died. She was a member of the Midway Methodist church, and her life was consistent with her profession, as she performed life’s duties faithfully as a devoted and sympathetic wife and mother, and ns a neighbor and by the /•^r of United Mechanics will meet assistant manager to Ralph Simmer- av »nnah next week. The Coun- son on Monday of next week succeed- ' n this city and Hardwick will ing Mr. Nat Knight, w h° represented. Mr. Dawson connected with the Mllledgeville *' n will attend as a nember of Telephone Co. St **e Council, and the delegates Mr. Underwood will have complete m -he Milledgeville Council are charge of the service department. ! F - C. Batson and J. A. Smith, He has operated a small store nor * Ir A. J. s m ith will go as an this city and farm extensively for . for securing thirty-five mem- number of years.- -J* p * f °r the local council. Mr. Knight wil be connected with h( - Hardwick Council will be the service department of the tele- d by Mr. D. C. Lcaptrott. phone company. instead of the Cherokee rose, which, he says, is not a rose at all. There are more than 200 roses in commer cial cultivation in Georgia -at the present time, Mr. Wall says, and this can be made one of Georgia’s best-paying crops. He will introduce in the House in the next day or two a joint resolu tion declaring the rose the official flower. The Cherokee rose, he say?, is n foreign flower.—Atlanta Geor- proved the opportunity by going to Miss Leni Moore i the State House, where he met many Joseph's Sanitarium old friends and former legislative where she underwent colleagues ... As president of the the past week, senate Eome years ago, Mr. Ennis Tho latest news from the San was a prominent and influential fig- tarium i> that her condition is ser urc in the politics of Georgia, and ous on account of tho weakened coi although he has not been active since dition of her heart, but that it is es his retirement he has lost none of pected by physicians and nurses that hi. interest in legislation and taP-jlb. will recover. j Mr ^ ia , urviv lat0rt - I Her many friends deeply reprot he- fol i ow i n[ . cbi]dre n: Mr. L. C. All we are asking in Buldw-m conn-' illness and wish for a restoration to Stricklandi Mra . J, E . B abl . Mrs. M. ty, nnd generally in middle Georgia, health. Mender, Miss Grover laylield. all of is ten days more of good weather,''I st Augustine, Fin.; Mrs. H. E. Free. said Mr. Ennis. He defined “good PREACHING AT BAPTIST man of Atlanta Mr M F Layfield weather" a. thc sort we've had fori CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY A ' u( , uala . Misses Emmie'and Snsie' the past week or so in Atlanta, more Layfield and Mr. B. L. Layfield of especially Friday and Saturday. Rev. J. C. Jackson, of Cartersville, Hardwick. She is also survived by “Good weather" to a colton grower,! Ga., will fill pulpil at the Bapti-i onc brotber , Mr. Senborn Hutching... you know, is a broiling hot sun, ami church next* Sunday morning and Hancock county. not too much rain,” said he. “We’ve evening. Mr. J .ckson is an exccll- j been favored thus far, and if it holds ent preacher, .and the public is invit- out we’ll make splendid crops in mid ed to both aerviges. die Georgia.” Mr. Ennis says that already the MR. B. C. ROBERSON BUILD1NC corn is nude, and along ■with it the NEW HOME farmers have cashed in on water- melons, too! “We have shipped quun- Mr. B. C. Roberson is construct tities of them, and at remunerative ing a new home on the Scottsboro prices,” is the way he put it, “and road just at the peak of the Hollin- now we are concentrating wholly on *hed hill. This is one of many nomes our cotton, which is in excellent that are being built in and around shape.” Hardwick. Mr. J. T. Gheesling and family have gone to Atlanta, where they will make their home. Mr. Gheesling has been engaged in the dry goods business in Milledge- ▼flie lor several years past. Thir business is being closed out by a. liquidating agency.