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UWOlAltCOUU, MILLEDGEVILLE, CA , SEPTEMBER M. IMt UNION RECORDER Entered at Post Office, MiHedgn- rille, aa second-class mail mat tar. Published Weekly on Tberadey .1 Milledgeville, Ga. R. B. MOORE—EDITOR JERE N. MOORE—Business Mgr- SUBSCRIPTION RATES , Ye.r -fl-SO Month. ~ .75 THURSDAY. SEPT. 26. 1929 Ysted on the wise selection of a Commander for the coming year. Dr. Scott possesses qualities of leadership that make him especially fitted for the post and is a man who lives the spirit of the American 1 soldier, which we think can be no j higher tribute. The Union Recorder wishes for I>r. Scott success in his year’s work and offers felicitations to him upcn the honor that has been tendered making plans and the prospects' point to the most successful agricul-! tural display since the organization I began several years .ago. Make plans now to enter an cxhi-j bit and make the fair the most .* restful in the State. AUTO LAUNDBY “Are you still engaged to that What 1 am talking about man we homely Smith boy?” damn automobiles with an nine trie “No, I’m not.” car washer we do it bnttnr. wn «.o ’’Good for you, how did you get | it quicker aeid we do it at tba same .ut of it?’ I price. L. N. JORDAN "Married him.’ HOW ARE YOUR OLD TlRr CHAINS r*t H«nI up f Cr driving. Utter bn safe than " ^ tod inanrance if y OB don’t ^ need them. L. N. JORDAN J*l THE POWER DEVELOPEMENT The ann uncement that has been made that the Georgia Power Com- j pany will build a dam of greater ; horsepower capacity than any of its ■ others in the state i «>f great ini- ! pnrtance to Mill" Igeville, Baldwin county :ir.d the entire lower half of Iif« FORMER GOVERNOR HARRIS Another grand old man, who spent J » day ,and generation in puhtic 1 nice, has passed to his reward, j J Former Governor Nat E. Harris af-i The retiring commander, C. E. | ter a life of great activity and use- Smith. closed a successful year at the• fulness, died Saturday night at his! hiim of the service men’s orginiza-1 summer home in Tennessee, situated! tion *nd to him must go much credit, among the scenes of his childhood I and praise. • and surrounded by members of his j family and others who held him in • REV A. G. ' ARRIS ' highest esteem. The Union Recorder join* the Governor Harris was a Confede- rburch people of Milledgeville in **tc soldier during the war. and welcoming to Milledgeville Rev. A. [went through a baptism of fire on | G. Harii.-. the new pastor of the i numerous fields of battle. His work j jyter.m church and with him in the army was a most praiseworthy j ife and children. j one * “°d at the conclusion of the | Rev. Harris will find a spirit of i conflict between the two contending | rotherly love and co-operation -nl- ; forces, he returned to his native state ..y prevailing. He will find a reads to find his father on his deathbed -:>nn-.* from the people of this city ®nd his mother and six or seven t all time*. ’ | **niall children dependent upon him The new minister is n man who for their support. In East Tennes- •iil tike his place in the Christian where the family resided, there f Milledgeville and give him- was much bitterness It i> important for a number of reasons to the people of South and Middle Georgia—principaly in its mi suing of confidence in the future industrial growth of this section in that it will generate 60,000 horse power to turn the wheels of factories and odther manufacturing enterpris es. But to Milledgeville and Baldwin county js the news of greatest signifi- The future of Milledgeville is un certain. Right at the door almost with in the limits, this gigantic deve lopment railing for the evpend*tur-: ’ • f n - i- than ten million dollars will be mad-. It is the biggest thing Mil- ' ledgeville has ever c-xpern need and it n-.u-t have its influence. Hundreds ' of people will come here to work on 1 rule and give him- was much bitterness over the war. He will not only be ‘ind Governor Harris’ family found i great leader for the members of it so unpleasant that they removed! hi wn church but the -incereness to Georgia and located in the upper; of his character and the fine Chris- P ar t of the state. He was giv< n tian spirit will he felt by people of pome assistance in his effort to get' every denomination. an education by the late Dr. W. H. — Felton, and he later borrowed mon- BUSINESS AND THE CHAMBER »*y from Alexander Stephens to fin- OF COMMERCE i*h his college career, at the Uni- The definite derision that the of Borgia. He was first: • lumber of Commerce will be-re- honor m,n in a l« r K* class, and was! organised here meets with great valedictorian at commencement. He' -ati factlan from the progressive laUr located Sparta, Ga.. where merchants and business men of the h, ‘ Uu * ht school and practiced law. city. From there he moved to Macon, ! The enthusiastic endorsement thit and w ’» a l»ter elected to the Georgia ha been pKdged gives hope to the legislature on • platform calling foj ■ ief that the organization will flou- a technological college in this >tate, and prove of great benefit to Mil- wh, n ht first introduced the hill for ledgeville. Business men see the the G *’ ,,r F‘ a School of Techn need of the organization and th f th i defeated but later „, iuable aid that it will be in promot- ‘‘er*ful and bar b increase and bu-iness take on an ! n tf the progress and public spirit of **’•***•* instituti— added life that even during the war , ^ town. Individual effort has never accomp lished much. It takes the co-opera- days, we did not realize. With this developcment in the shadow of our business center—it is a reasonable certainty that industry will sce a place where they may have full advantage of ample power fa- cllitie-. It is true that cities hun dreds of miles awxy will share i the ene rgy that is produced by the dam to turn indu?lrial wheel-, and will also share in the benefits but Milledgeville will have an edge and if the citizens here arise to the op portunity tig* future industrial growth is certain. This new developcment has so nv»ny pleasant angles that it is a difficult matter to enumerate all of them—but the people in Baldwin county can rest assured that the profit to them will be much. The shoals known to us as :‘Fur- man Shoals—" i*. the la: inlind the state, and the particular pet and pride of Governor Harris, who had been a member of its board of trustees since tive team work to really get result* college was founded, nearly fifty! and make the people of the town feel >' ears »nd who was chairmm of j as though they were getting some * oard fit the time of his death.; where. IH** had never missed a commence ment at the institution, until this Miiledgrville" The ye,r ’ when hl * hf,alth Prevented him j attending. Out of his movement for the' Gedrgta School of Technology, i , bie-rv^ 1 , „ o cotn* otte *M»R educe Your Family is Entitled to this Cozy Comfort! Guaranteed to hold fire 36 hours! Burnt any fuel. pOLE’O ORIGINAL kJ A live public spirit has i Iways b a great listlis* and indifference in oppor tunities has been depressing to those who would really he up and doing that it ha, ta-er, tlacided j th * ‘ rr '■* , CoBr,* ! .ind that the Chamber of Commerce will Ih> the force to develop this pub lic spirit and carry Milledgt v.l|< that no opposition the sea. It is as low south i ward, we | is justified. I All of us have wanted to become more prosperous and make Milledge ville a live wide-awake city, taking .uivantage of the opportunities that i come to our door. We have traveled a * ' U ^* in ■ circle in the past We have n t e fall | dreamed the gpr*l things of the fu- ffort to make »uId t . The Oc« the the state mcludir Flint. Ogherchee and th. tour hte border rivers—the Chat- tzhooch e and the S.ivannah are greater, but the Oconee takes the lead in water shed which is the e* «ntra thing for u developcment of thi« kind. Tl Georgia Power To., placed Its faith .>!> the future industrial growth of lhe South. They have been in strument*. I i n jt* developement and to them must go much praise for Georgia’.-, growth industrially. They hav.* creed the people in the true sense of the word and the officials of thi* company have been the ones to di-pei the fefr of the laymen in privat. "wnership and operation of the publir utilities. People of Geor gia havi f.iith in the honesty and integrity of the Georgia Power Co., ami it !. to he hoped that their link ing with the great power >y*tem o! the country—that this faith will no) 1»« dispelled but strengthened. Wi can -ay truthfully that their slogar *’A Citizen Wherever We Serve” hai been fulfilled to the letter and the Union Recorder joins in congratula tions and felicitati. pany for their great program and the w- nderful service they have rendered to Georgia. The dswn of M new day comes with th* cor.--ruction of the dam here. The future brightness and the people of Baldwin county must iwak b*ok and move forward Th. •th of . ' pie should he llreniri h. ned if i| ha, heen .h.ken ■ nil the Union Uncord,r pletlife, it, enntl 'tied .rrvirn to you whu make «, our titlienahip in makinjt this faith more firm. DS. W. M. SCOTT. THE NEW NEW LEGION COMMANDER Th. NnUHtii M > h ti I th« s Women at Milledgevilli Governor Harris was elected •hief executive of the state in 1914 >.v a very large vote, and his admin- stration will rank with the best the fate has ever known. It was during lis administration that the present •exhibition law went into effect, and t wa- Governor Harris, himself, who n discusing the kind of prohibition 1 hill that was to lie adopted, declared that it must a “bone dry law.* Tb«re is no telling the influence that law has bad upon the temperance move nit nt in other states ann through ed it has bten feeble. movement in omer *u Thi, rrit iri.m i> nr. unduly ha. -h 1 "* ,l ' 1 ' but constructive. here are untold Governor Harris . id vantage* at our doutra that are ’ »f th® board of tmsti !cpt over and preach as though we college. Emory Unive may there his been little fruit borne »l»ri»lh University, from th- effort made to make peo- U*e Methodist church week’s pie see these things. The ent husiasm « m »ting will die easily unless it is cultivate and kept growing. Other n etings. mating interest and giving ry business min a part t. perfoi •he I fe ! thing is rained r i big . > will i eded. The mch and the be* the control of Vanderbilt Uni- rsity, out of which grew the aaove- ent to establish the present great iiver*ity in Atlanta. Governor Harris had a wor.der- d a Usk error asure give dier, lawyer ind a Christian gentl-s- to do this His death is regr< tted all over as never Georgia, though it came at an age »t step to when it might have been expertud at ward with almost any time, the organization and plans ind the mapping out of a program for the fall business. There is much more to be done than just trying to induce new busi- hess to cme here. Cultivating that we already have will be a good stimu lator. The organization can begin functioning now. There is no need for delay. A motorcade to the neigh boring towns inviting the people here for their fall trade would be a migh ty good thing to do, and with the invitation stage a big trade week. The only thing neisssary to make the M ilb-dgeville merchants enthus is to show them yon can increase business and bring more money into the trade channels and it can be Let the ham her of Commerce get now, make this their first and the sucres* from thi.- fort is bound to double the •m among the business men. i show them that the organb in and will work. and let us show you this wonderful circulator R. IN. HATCHER Wholesale and Retail Come in c todai\/ FAIR TIME IS ALMOST HERE Fur time is just over the hill. Only t w«» Weeks remain between now j Method: and the opening data of the annual Itll festival. People of MiUedgeville, BaldwinJb« only be of community interest, “So sleep the brave who rest With all ttfclr cuunhy's THE ERECTION OF THE BOULD- The placing of the boulder by the R. E. Lee chapter of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy to mark the site of The First Methodist church erected in thi# city, will be one of the most important events to take place in Milledgeville in many year*. It will perpetuate the spot when thit great religious demm^ination fnft worth.pped in its early days and where its leaders gathered to wor.hip God, and preach the Gospel of repen tance and pestification by faith. J M Then it will bring that great M preach* r Bishop Candler to the city. Bishop Candler stand out today with out a peer a- a scholar, thinker and exponent of that pure and undefil ed religion, which must save the world. It is a rare privilege to have the opportunity to hear him preach, and the review of the history of that he will probably give that occasion wil be inspiring. TBs erection of the boulder will ALL BUSINESS HOUSES IN MILLEDGEVILLE RECOGNIZE THAT TOE CE0R GIA POWER COMPANY IS HELPING TO BRING PROSPERITY TO MILLEDGE VR1E. AND WE EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO THEM. Wootten Chemical Co.