Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, September 26, 1929, Image 1

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VOLUME C Georgia Power Company Begins Erection c MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS CALLED FOR MONDAY NIGHT Immediate Construction of Hydro-Electric Development jrgest Storage Lake in State to 'Be 'Constructed. Concrete Dam Jhrcc-fifths Mile Long to Hold Back Resevoir, Containing Over Five Billion Cubic Feet of Water — DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE CAPACITY OF 60,000 HORSE POWER : Construction at Furman Shoals to Begin in Less Than Month and Complete b 1931 Employing Hnndredi of People. Lake Covers 12,000 Acres. Great bdustrial Eeomp FURMAN SHOALS THE SITE OF THE POWER DAM Ty, Unadilla and Vienna. Announcement of the Oconee river development comes on tfy? heels of inauguration of construction on a great steam electric-generating plant near Atlanta on the Chattahoochee river. The steam plant to be known as plant Atkinson in honor of H. M. Atkinson, chairman of the board of directors of the company, will hav plan.- for immediate construction a new hydo-clectric power deve- in! , :1 - v .ich will be the largest in .tr:ii Georgia .and which will in ly ; .-'.ruction of a 12,000'acre lake, the largest in the state, , :i unced by Preston S. Ark- president of the Georgia .,!■ Company. The development H be on the Oconee river at Fur- in SfconK four miles north of this ._ y; ,rk i- expected to be started than a month and the 400,000 horse power. :r .t i expected to be completed and The company now has 401,351.5 . r.ration in the summer of 1931. | horse power developed in all of its The development will have a ca-1 hydro-elcctric and steam plant! C-v of 00,000 horse power and will Georgia. Completion of the Oconee R. H. Wootten, and Committee Appointed at Special Citizens Meeting, Call Mass Session for Monday Evening at Eight O’clock at Council Chamber at City Hall EVERY CITIZEN URGED TO BE PRESENT FOR THE BIG RALLY Out-of-Tcwn Speakers Invited Here to Speak on Program. Committee Holds Meeting Tuesday Afternoon and Works Out Plan to Be Preferled Before Citizens “Every citizen of Milledgcville ( has been made of the city and the and Baldwin county, men and wo-j committee decided to call a second men, arc urged to be present at the ! citizens meeting Monday night when City Hall Monday night at eight every man and woman in the county The above photograph is a scene of Furman Shoals where the n initial capacity of 100,000 horse Igiganiic Dam. three fifths of a mile long and ninety feet high will be power and an ultimate capacity of erected by the Georgia Power Company, work to begin within the next few weeks. The dam will be the largest in the State. magnitude than any Georgia Power Company cys- *h the exception of the Tallu- 1 Tugalo devopments. rr from this development will ,to the existing network of 110.000 ami 44,000 volt transmission ms in the Macon and Augusta di- r: ns of the Georgia Power Com- mjr, furri«hing many communities ith a new source of power. The ties of Milledgcville, Eatontgn, •elopment and the first of the iteam plant at Atlanta bring this capacity to nearly 559,- 000 horse power. The new plant will be fed by vast leke impounded by a solid co crete dam and earth abutments which will be 3,000 feet, nearly three-fifths of a mile, long .and 90 feet high, This will be the largest power de velopment lake of the company. It will have an available capacity of 5,- Augusta, Dublin, j 500.100,000 cubic feet of vr frishtsville, Vidalia, Swainsborw, i This great new lake will, in fact, . Statesboro, Millen, Louis- have a larger volume of stored water t3k Ilnzlehurstt, Baxley, Claxton, than all of the Company’s North fcbe and other cities in the south | Georgia storage lakes combined. It nd central Georgia section will be | will cover an area of 12,000 inicularly benefited by the new; It will lie chiefly in Baldwin, llan os, of power. | cock and Putnam counties, with per- Ia addition the communities serv- j haps small portions in Jones county id iy the South Georgia Power j and Greene county. . * my recently acquired by Com-| Two generator* will be installed, i-alth & Southern Corporation Each will have a capacity of 30,000 il o acquired the Georgia Pow- horse power. nr ny. will he especially bene- This is just another step on the by the development. These j part of the Georgia Power Company AtibeviDe, Albany. Ameri- j to supply mli'quatc service to all sec- Arnhi, Ashburu, Baconton.. tions of the state it serves, it was Vista, Butler, Byromvilte, j pointed out by Mr. Arkwright. Cochran. Cordclc, Cmdillo. Development uf this water power rt. Dawson, DcSoto, Donlinp, | project will rtvc ndiled a surance ilo. Findlay, Flintsidc, Ft 11 tot continued, uninterrupted . Georgetown, Grav< will be offered by the company. The iox. Leslie, Lester, Lumokin, ir-hal!ville, Meigs, Montezuma, ee. Ocilla, Oglethorpe, Pel- iia, Perry, Pinehurst, Pitts, it*. Poulan, Putney, Rcy- W-S Richland, ~ Rochelle, Sasser, . v 'hellmnn, Smithville. Sum- ycamore, Sylvester, Tifton, Ty 60,000 horse power from the Oconee development generators will go into the high tension transmission lines already serving Georgia and will be augmented by the great interconnect ed system of power transmission in the southeast of which the company Is n part. COTTON MARKET REACHING TOP Jock," Chairnmn R, H. Wootten declared in calling the meeting Tuesday after a session of a special committee appointed to perfect plans for the organization of the citizens here in a civic body to pro mote the industrial development of the city and county. The meeting Monday night will be jgether, nwal one of the most important ever held tunitie* and could be present "There will be l solicitation of money at the meeting,” Mr. Wootten and members of his committee declared. “If we ever did attract industries here, now is the time, declared, Mr. Lee N. Jordan, and the purpose of this,meeting is to get our people to ri them to the oppor- ork harmoniously and Increases of Cotton Yield. Brings Back Pre-war Days Before Boll Weevil PRICE IS ABOVE 17 CENTS Cotton lining the streets in front of the warehouses, gins surrounded •ith wagons loaded with the white fleecy staple, bring back memories of pre-war days when the boll wce- ras an unknown pest, when this season’s yield is compared to that of the past three or four years. The market was supposed to have ached the top thi- week, although the yield predicted fro Baldwin coun- just half harvested. The num ber o’f bales this week showed the market on a decline, Sept. 14th hnv- een the biggest day to date with 250 bales. » The Sheriff was making a wide The yield wns pushing the four | search for him. hut had been unable onsand mark close as this week -ad-, to establish a trail. The murder dc- inccd and before Saturday night | cured on the edge of Baldwin and the figure was expected to pass on i Jones county at what is known as the ard five thousand. | old Jenkins farm. ’arir?r.' hnve been gathering the j to Like part on the program, that will center around plans for a united effort of the citizens to bring in dustries to Baldwin county. The committee in session Tuesday were, Mr. Wootten, A. C. McKinley, L. N. Jordan, Frank Bell, John Hollo way and L. C. Hall. These men were named at a meeting of the City THE SLAYER ENDS LONG FUDE Council when th« dtiKn, were V*kv,l to meet with them to outline plans MGRO MURDERER Paul Quarker Still at Liberty After Killing a Negro Named Manson Friday Night the city. Speakers from Atlanta j as one man for a bigger and better and Savannah have been invited here city and county." “We can’t sleep over our rights, Mr. McKinley stated. We must be active and alert and let the world know that Milledgcville is progres sive and wide awake." The meeting Monday night will begin at eight o’clock shnrp cud a group of interesting speakers are on the program to make addresses. The Paul Quaker, Jones county negro, was still at liberty today, a« Sheriff Haynie and his deputies continued wide search for him after the murder of a negro named Manso:- Friday night at a farm in the Northwest section of the county. The murder of Manson ended what was termed n fude that has existed between the two men for some I They were in n fight when the i der occured it was stated end Quaker shot Manson with a pistol after attack had been made on him with crop fast and bringing to the mar ket from fifty to sixty bales each The price remained above nteen cents, only a few bale* bringing eighteen or better. Rams of the past week hurt some cotton and had the tendency to lower the PITY BUILDS PLANS MADE FOR ROAD TO DAM FAIR OPENING The season’s yield is expected to go II beyond the five thousand mark ire than doubling last year’s out- it TV cotton fa.mer is realizing the CADETS PRIME OPENING GAME OCTOBER 4 Me. Str< for the promotion of the industrial meeting will be largely an open forum for a frank discussion of plans development of the city. A survey I for the building of a greater city. MR. C. D. RIDDLE HERETHISWEEK Officials of Construction in Charge of Dams Erection Spends Several Days Here KiWANIS PLEDGE CO-OP FORCOFC Endorse Movement to Reorganize Chamber of Commerce and Pledge 'Support Exhibi f or> From Five Counties Ex pected to Show Products at Fair Here Week Oct. 7 to 12 Plans were completed this week for the opening of the Middle Geor gia Fair which opens here October 7 and continues through the week, with the largest agricultural exhibit yet to be shown at a fair here. Exhibitors from five counties arc expected to show their products at the fair during the week. The board of Directors and managers are urg ing the farmers both white and col- - ored enter their exhibits for the - • — and hills making the many prizes that will be offered. : «nre direct, and eliminating! The J. 0\ McClellan shows will f“ ac <v that have been impass- J furnish the amusement during t e ln the zniny seasons. ' week. Crowds from throughout he rai, *’oad will be two miles in . Middle Georgia will be attracted ! will go directly to the here by the fall exposition. Mowing the course of °M!ruct'on Begins at Once Grad es and Changing Route to Power Development •ru;, began work necessary to ' ,ut the route of a new road to rr *n •“'hoals, the Eite of the Geor- P«wcr Co., gigantic power de cent, while at the sa.ne time • ,l ’" r "ia Railroad began the preli- ,r >’ ‘Urvtys for the two mile rail- ha<iin e to the development >e county commissioners ordered »ork begun at once Monday 'itur. The road w jjj graded 'hanged at several point* tak- ‘ r - Machinery necessary to truction of the dam is en- ^°>che« R 0I SERVICES AT BAPTIST CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY Rrfrular services vrili be held at the Baptist church nest Sunday morning nnd evening. The pulpit committee will see that provision made for a preacher St these icrvicer. Conch Johnny Broadnax was prim ing his "ndet eleven for the opening game on October 4th, v cust Grove tram comes here to prize off the lid. Season tickets wont on mo.t prosperous »c»-nn in for the six game, in dam will be erected wiil »*■>■ — year, and WPdlflnni throughout the M ., vil i r „f ft „ d „ t week. The surveys for the rad yearn and condition, are promising ; , 4nm| m IoId „ t dniK , have been completed, for the fall 'tason. ! Coach Rentz, chairman of athletics) Mr. Thomas Martin, a high o ic - expected a big sale of the tickets , al of the Power Company, spent sev- BLACK SPRINGS SCHOOL CON- j thil „ clt . !•■«> ■>»**" *“« C0LIDATED WITH UNION The ead-ts face the hardest season point, in Milledgorffle- Mr. Martin -U ltu j:,, years and the team new Inperao- is interested in the ht.tory here and ncll I, expected to he ready for the is gathering data coneemmg the hts- gong next week. NO ANNOUNCEMENTS READY ENDORSE SIBLEY AS GOVERNOR c. D. Riddle, official of the Dixi. Ro .„ lut l,n„ were tpnraed at the Construction, was here several JsJ™Lmattog of Kiwanis Club, pledging this week conferring with Mr. I* or "; t|, e c o-opcration of the organization ter, director of the preliminary sur- ^ reor(ran j 2e n Chamber of Com- veys of the site for the Georgia Pow-1 merce fa MilledgevUle, the resolu- er Dam at Furman hhoals, prepara- cornmctlc | e( j the idea had gave tory to begining construction of the a(WUrancc of the c5vic c i ub *« work dam at an early date. harmonizing with that of the Cham- Mr. Riddle spent Tuesday and b€r Wednesday in the city, and went, EndoT8cment was given Col. Er- over the hituation at Furman Shoals. ^ sib , ey fof L i,. utcnant Gov- Mr. Riddle stated that all details j ernorab j p o{ tb5s ^strict and in here being worked out in Atlanta ftructpd thc name c f the proftiinent and thnt he was not prepared to give | i|ied«cevllte lawyer to be placed in further information «*» ydin « L omina Uon at the Valdosta ccnwh the dams erection. | tion at t he meeting next month. Dr. Construction of a ttfb mile stretch 1 w T Wynn will be the principal of railroad from the Georgia Rail- de l C gate to the convention although road main line to the site when- th* other members will be in attendance. Col. Sibley has been active in Ki wanis for a number of years and ha3 served in the district organization Lieut, and Mrs. Thomas Blnf*ird are in the city, visiting Lieut Bin- ford’s mother, Mrs. B. W. Binford. They have just returned from the force that will erect the dam. Hawaaian Islands where they have The officials visiting th? city have year Ladies night will be a feature New Schcol House at liman foial to Be Rurhed to Rapid Completion. School Now One of Largest The consolidation of the Black Springs school and Union Point v*rnt into effect today, Wednesday, by an order issued by the Executive Com mittee of the Board of Education, the change becoming necessary when only three pupils reeistered at the Black Springs school this year. The pupils have been transferred with their teacher, Mrs. J. H. Under wood, to the Union Point school where a new building is being con structed for tlje first grade pupils. The Union Point school is one of the largest in the county with 150 pupils md five teachers, and is doing some of the best work in the county. Professor Holland .Strother is principal of the-schools and the fol lowing teachers arc assisting him: h:;„ Wilson, Mrs. n i ^ of p.cnic goodies. actively. Dr. Francis Daniels was the princi pal speaker on the cvenii.g’s program Dr. Daniels gave interesting events occuring on his trip by bus from Mil- ledgevillc to Michigan where he -pent tory of the city. Mr. Martin will b j s vacation. He gave both advant- makc other visits to the city with | aJfeg and disadvantages in the motor other officials during the course of transportation service, the dams construction. j ^ £rvfin Sib i ey gp oUe pn the Mr. Porter has been here several Constitution in the club's observ- weeks and has had charge of the ance Constitution week, preliminary survey* and other work Mr ^ c jjall, President of the to make ready cons truct,on c lub stated that many activities were planned during the remainder ^»f the been the pa*t four years. Lieut. Binford is a graduate of West Point, and has recently been appointed a first Liutenant in the United States Army. He will go from here to an a*any port in Oklahoma. Lieut. «and Mrs. Binford are re ceiving a cordial welcome. announcements make and to Milledgcville in their official ca pacity to complete details for the erection work. later in the fall. STUDENTS TO TAKE ANNUAL HIKE MONDAY AUX1LLIARY MEETING POSTPON- The students of the Georgia State College for Women will take their The regular monthly meeting of annual hike Monday afternoon. The the American Legion Auxiliary will young ladies will leave the campus held next Tuesday. It and go to the meadow on Fishing Mrs. Richard Smith. Appointments have been made for Elder R. H. Pitman of Luray. Va., to preach at Camp Creek Primitive Baptist church on Friday, Sept. 27th at 11 o’clock and at Midway chanei opposite Mrs. Will Bloodworth’s Friday night at eight o’clock. Elder Pitman is editor of the Advocate and Messenger. The public is cordially invited to these service*.