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BALDWIN COUNTY
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Hundred I
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READ BY THOUSANDS
•ltd Sarrendbk Coen
-^T ' MMsar"** as
Farm Board Chairman
—hAifMi, Ga-, Ftknuj 13, ltM
Consolidated la UTS
Number 26
METHODIST TO
Speaks to Large Audience ASSEMBLE HERE
Advises Decrease in Cotton Acre-
*'ate ard Increase in Uve Stock
cn Georpia Farms
Introduces Mr. Legge
ce that filled the audi-
• rjfia State Col-
< ° r1U \Vomt* T ' heard Hon ' AIexaRllpr
D f the Federal Farm
V^’V rjar. to stablize agri-
**°“ r . n the United States through
l ‘ u *' J ‘ :of cooperative
,fl .°‘ v ,i «•; the Federal
^° a ' ' r ^tablhhed by
i l. ; rr -ir, l.'-tre was presented to
Mr. R. W, Hatcher,
f the National Re*
fintion and one
i ,u iness men of the
hairman Legge,
v n part:
••I: U universally recognized that
Agriculture form- one of the funda
mental supports of our whole indus
trial structure, and that its processes
affect th: welfare of .a larger portion
of the world's population than any
other activity.”
•*! knew of no man in whose abili
ty the country has greater confi
dence, and if he succeeds, which he
undoubtedly w ill, with our co-opera
tion. the croat wave of enthusiasm
that will sweep' the broad expanse
of cur country w ill merit no less re-
Wird than a selection of him by our
prat nr: or. as its chief executive.
i have the great pleasure of pre-
m ntirp to you one who, rrxt to Presi-
diac
boards for
in America today. Chairman
inder Leepi- of the Federal
i Beard."
•. L p.’O strewed the necessity
phase of farming
and apncuUur.il endeavor. He bow
ed the creat advantage that collective
effort had over the individual trying
to compete with ejjfc other for a
wile of their c-’r.mn^ty^
"Mv ad-Sr:- t., yoi peopl^isfPeed
Georgia first," the Chairman stated.
Georgia imports a great majority of
the dairy products con umed and
there is always a demand for truck
CAnlcn product*. dairy and poultry
owed. The
the lowest
the quality
EXTRA TERM OF Delegates Swarm City For
COURT MONDAY Fair Executives Convention
Baldwin Superior Court Opens Ad
journed Term to Clear Criranal
Docket, Judge Park Presides
Judge James B. Park will cprn an
adjourned term of Baldwin Superior
court next Monday morning, the ex
tra session became nece : sary when
it was impossible 'to dispose of the
criminal docket during the January
c rnt which closed three weeks ago.
A l ; st of enseq to be disposed of
have been published ns ordered by
President Georgia Fairs
Mr. R. W. Hatcher, former Presi-
ient of the National Retail liard-
vnre Association, who presented Hon.
Alexander Legge to his Miliedgevillc
tudicnce.
Noted Preachers to Speak at
Gathering to Be Held Tuesday
Evening Feb. 18th
The laymen of the Oxford District,
‘specially those of the Methodist
•hurches of Miliedgevillc and Buld-
■vin county, have been called to as-
mble at the Methodi-t church ir.
his city Tuesday evening, of next
w ek. at eight o’clock.
Arrangements have been perfected
r Circle No. 3 of the Woman's
Mi*-!'nary Society of the Methodist j cou ri and the e will be the only
:hurch to snve a banquet. The plan j CR to be tried. All parties ard
for tho banquet is that each of the i tnesses interested in the culendnr
laymen •..ttending pay for his dinner, have been ordered to appear at ton
The ladies will prepare a mo«-t tempt- '•’clock Monday Fbruury 17th.
ing feast. j amp jurors that were serving
After thw banquet Dr. Wallace - touri adjourned will also serv? ,
«OEtr-. of Atlanta, and Dr. O. E. during tho txtra resaion.
Goddard, Missionary Secretary of the Solicitor General Joe B. Duke came I
Southcin Methodist church will ad-; ' ;<tv last week .and met Mr. I
dress tho leathering. They wiil di, j -« , I Kr t0 1’kn the calendar. It is I
cuss vital questions relating to the i rstood tint the cases that have ' c B McCuItari President of the
work of tho Methodist church. Both; Mt will protically clear the | Association of Georgia Fair Score-
ore eloquent, scholarly and forceful j itariv,, who ueted as official host to
speakers, and will present their The Grand Jury has adjourned and | th( . , k ,| ti> .ntes who .attended the
theme most interestingly. ‘roD-t" 0 ' °* durlnlr tlM! | nual convention held here yesterday
Xu collection will be taken or sub- | ; and today. Mr. McCullar is secretary
AV a nv . - n _ «f the Middle Georgia Fair Ass’n.
•-WILL OPERATE
veriptions asked.
This should be an
j inter:-st to the local Methodist,
they should join heartily and
thusiastically to mukc it a great
products. Mr.
taminuni :
Plan
evflopment of co-
operatr.. boards throughout the na-
>r w-.jf outlined and the methods
** in th* 1 expenditure of tho
SOO.O09.ooo. appropriated for form
by Mr. Lcggc.
At the conclusion of the-^^M,
•A- asdienee was permitted to ask
Bctionv about the Farm Board
“l its funcUo". Several men ank-
<0hiopinion .vgnrding cotton priors
whil. he expressed his opinion
•nitst an immediate increase in
pntm. he stated that he could not tell
*“> the future held.
. the question of what the
•=4nidual will do hut what can be
rh.'h,.! through united effort.
• t. v.av? n magic wand and
"‘~r:cu!turc conic* out of its rut"
! 'ing words of Mr.
' >tely ar.d positively
F ''K5 t SCH°0L for illiter.
IS ORGANIZED
Q r * ^ urn, *bes Teacher for School
Zed a ‘ Farm Monday
Night
DARTMOUTH CUP
GIVENCADETS
''resident of Atlanta Dartmouth
Alumnae Here Saturday and
Present, Trophy to Team
H. A. Wason, President of the At
lanta Darmouth Alumnae, came to
Milledgeville Saturday and presented
to Cadet Jim Roberson, captain of
tho football t*.—: that won tho G. I.
A. A. championship, the handsome
Dartmouth Cup, offered by the Geor
gia Alumnae of Dartmouth University
to the football team winning the
championship.
Mr. Wason was met .at the college
by Col. Roach, Conch T. H. Rentz,
Coach Johnny Broadnax and mem
bers of the team. In u congratula
tory speech he presented the cup to
the captain of the team wno in turn
handed it over to his team mates for
inspection.
Mr. Wason was honor guest at n
dinner at the Baldwin Hotel Satur
day evening. College officials and
the coaches were present. Praising
the record of the G. M. C. team last
fall, Mr. Wason expressed his great
pleasure in presenting the cup. The
Dartmouth alumnae arc Crying to
promote clean competitive sports,
manship in the Georgia association,
the representative stated.
The cup will be placed with several
other.- that have been won by G. M.
C athletic teams and military com
panies and squads. It is a hand
some silver cup, beautifully engrav
ed and heavily plated. It is being
shown in Williams & Ritchie window.
CADETS TO PLAY RIVERSIDE
FRIDAY NIGHT
MiSS LENI MOORE
DiED IN ATLANTA
'Veil Known Woman of This City
Passes Away at Home ot Her
Brother
Mbs Leni Moore, of this city, died
at the home of her brother, Mr. J.
A. Moore in Atlanta Saturday night,
where she was stricken with her last
illness a few days before.
MLss Moore had been in declining
health for some months, and the past
full spent several weeks at a sani
tarium in Atlanta, where she under
went a serious operation. She re
turned to this city, but never fully
regained her health .and strength.
However, >he continued to give di-
p r
•chord for adult illiterate?
zed Monday night at th«
•n Farm with Col. George
* teacher.
Roach volunteered for thi«*
have a number of other
ln thc cit y- Mrs. C. B. Mc-
ated that the fir t class fce-
f «i Jr"' 8 of tw ‘‘nt* lessons Mon-
’ Jtht. Thc pupi , H w<fre 4 , nthusi-
a -a anxious to luarn.
clasps * n tRe county are to
as soon as it can be
v.ants this instruction.
-- are busy making
•t. .ns and are finding
■’ ‘ eh sod Hliter-
r “ "n offered is not
Riverside’s cadet basket ball team
will come to Milledgeville Friday
night ns opponents for Coach Babe
Florence indoor athletes in what
• prom ires to be the big game of thc
j lanta to- purchase her spring and
summer millinery. After completing
I her purchases, she went to the home
1 of her brother, where >be was strick-
The funeral tervices were held
Monday afternoon at Patterson’s A
Sons Undertaking Parlors, Revs. R.
A. Edmondson and V. E. Landford
officiating. The interment was in
West View cemetery. She is sur
vived by six brothers and other rela
tives.
Miss Moore came to this city from
Atlanta several years ago, and pur
chased the millinery store of Misses
veil & Ivey. She was a talented
milliner careful ard painstaking in
her business dealing, and rapidly
.i her clf in the bUBfajea*
life of the city. She was a member
•>: Lho Methodist church, and ?dent ; -
fied herself with its activities, being
a regular attendant at its services,
ltd a member of the Woman’s Mis-
sionray Society, one of thc circles,
and of Mr. L. J. Rozar^ class in the
Sunday School. She was pleasant and
affable in her social relations, and
won the love and esteem of all who
came to know her.
Her death has brought sorrow to
hundreds of friends in Milledgeville
and Baldwin county.
ICE PLANT AGAIN
.VIbniic Ice & Coal Company Will
i Place New Machinery and
J Resume Operation
Sir. W.’ H. Araall, b'cal manager
»f the Atlantic Ice & Goal Co., has
| 'announced that the machinery in
their ice plant will be overhauled,
and new machinery added to resume
facturing ice in this city.
Atlantic Ice & Coal Co., pur-
the plant from Capt. J. H.
jtwo or three years ago. Some
n.ontl% ago its operation was suspen
se for consumption in this
'ity was shipped from thc plant of
the company from Macon. This has
*<roven unsatisfactory, and the local
ice plant will be put in first class
condition, and the manufacture of I second base will hav
’ce resumed here. The best ice will down, the engineer explained. All
be made, and the demand locally anu jef this section will have to be con-
. rounding territory will be supplied, j ditionrd again before the oil treat
ment is put on.
Thc :ection of the road approach
ing the Fis : >*? Creek fill is being
rep-ared for titu base and it is un
derstood that the lime rock base ma
terial will be put down there during
this week. Much work has to be done
•n the fill section before thc first
base can be poured.
It is understood that it will be sev
eral months before this road is com
pleted.
The paving that was begun over
the river last fall was also halted by
rainy weather. This work will be re
sumed and completed with a contin
uance of sunshine.
Capt. Eun Welcomes Delegate;
Here. Prnmiecit Speakers Head
m First Dap ef Meeting
More than three hundred fair exe
cutives of Georgia and carnival com
pany representatives assembled here
today for thc annual convention of
the Association of Georgia Fairs
hich opened at the Baldwin. Hotel
Wednesday morning at eleven o’clock.
President C. B. McCullar openeJ
:..v convention and presented Capt.
I. H. Knnis who mode the official
..Iconic from the city. Mr. R. L.
Van ant. secretary of the Cobb coun
ty Fair ut Marietta, made the re-
Reports of the officers of the As
sociation and the address of the
President concluded the but .ness
tssion for the clay.
During the morning session F. N.
Harris, President of the Georgia
State Fair at Savannah, addressed the
convention using as his subject "Busi-
nifs of making a Fair a Great asset
to the community which it serves.”
Dr. J. M. Sutton, State Vettncrian.
also spoku to the delegates diseas
ing the regulations and requirements
governing live stock for exhibitivc
purposes.
During the afternoon session, the
principal address was made by Ho^.
Alexander Ligge, chairman of thc
Federal Farm Board of Washington,
D. C.
The address of Mr. Legge was fol
lowed by Kpeecho.i of Mr. v .. D. Riv
ers, Mr. Eugena Talmndge and Dr.
Andrew M. .Soule, who discussed
various airdcultural problems of the
state.
Wednesday evening the delegates
•vere the guests of the Middle Geor
gia Fair Association at a banquet at
the Methodist church.
The program Thursday will include
speeches by .Oscar MilK of Atlanta,
Dr. E. H. Scott, of the Georgia State
College for Women, Dr. A. D. Wil
liams of Folkston. A. E. Gibson of
WORK RESUMED
ON G .S. S. ROAD
lime Rorrk Base Bein'? Laid on
Approach to Creek Fill Treat
ment to Be Applied to Ave.
Work was resumed last Friday on
thc Milledgeville State Hospital road,
a section of the lime rock base is be-
: ng laid while the lx.se that was put
down in the fall on the avenue and
in the front of the buildings at thc
hospital i« being prepared for thc
oil treatment necessary before the
surface covering is put on.
Th- lime rock ba» was apiyaJ on Dawaun^J. P. Wnaoa, Jr., qJ Uqnrk-
the avenue section of the road last - — - - - — - ^
fall, but work was halted by exces
sive rains. Thi section will have to
be gone 'over and in many places a
.. .. ------- EVERY CHILD IN BALDWIN
irr.:: h Z*Z%T»t. COUNTY MUST ATTEND SCHOOL
Superintendent Bivins to Enfot
The Compulsory Attendance Law
Asks Corporation of Pnblic
Mr. P. N. Bivins, School Superin
tendent of Baldwin county, has an-
nou «d that in connection with the
presmt adult illitearcy campaign, a
drive is underway to qnforce the
compulsory attendance Law, and get
every child of school age in the
schools throughout the county.
Superintendent Bivins in this ef
fort is receiving the co-operat ? on of
Mrs. C. B. McCullar, chairman of
»he illiteracy drive, and her assist
ants, and thc prnicipals and teach-
°rs of the schools, and he is asking
♦he public to a sist, by reporting to
l ;n nil children they know that are
not in school
The*-e oar::ot be any vxcuae for
inville, and Jack V. Lyles.
The speakers will discuss various
problems of the Fair officials prior to
a round table dutcuiston and open
forum.
The
"ENTRAL PRESIDENT AND GEN.
MANAGER HERE WEDNESDAY
Mr. Clift Herr fer AtMr,
Alexander Legge. Cue
* * Frank Bone
MR. HATCHER ENTERTAINS
FARM BOARD CHAIRMAN
ion. Alexander Legge, end Mr. Con-
wall, Head of American Cottan
Association Visit ‘‘Lockerty"
1
Undefeated by a big number of
N’orth Georgia schools, the Gainsville
*-am is the favorite in the second
:nme of the season with G. M. C. The
*ed and black team lost to Riverside
r. Gainsville two weeks ago, but
Coach Florence has a greatly improv
’d basket hall team to meet the in
vaders Friday.
Before the game begins a series of
boxing bouts will bo staged. Three
prclcminary bouts will be' put on as
hii appertizer for the main boot.
Donnally, the cadet champion will
meet) the champion of the Riverside
campus in thc main bout. The box-
ng will begin ct seven-thirty and the
'.lit ball game gets under way an
hour later.
DEGREE TEAM FROM MACON
TO COME HERE THURSDAY
E.it.rn Star t. H«»e Sq~tal Vi.iU
Meeting Tki. We.lt. D.jr.e
Work I. B. Demoo.tr.taJ
At the rcqul.r mert:nr of the Mil-
tcdttevllle chapter of the Eutim
Star on Thursday evening, a decree
team from Macon -till come here and
nut on special deprre work to inatrnct
thc Milledpeville chapter.
Mrs. John \V. Riley, Worthy Ma
tron, urqea all members
to witness this work.
. Hon. A. E. Clift, President of th
h.ld ir r jti . county not to tV- . t|r , of (: . orK „ Mrrnl with
1 nchool as thi system ,.f die | <art v of officials of the railway cm
county is so conducted to make n j... nv „ me hoi .. Wednesday to he.
accessible to every child in thc j lh( „ l!Hrl L . s „ f Ho „. Al, Sander Loirm
county. j who spoke before the Georgia Fai
Every par nt in the county should I Association
lend every a riatance to the authori-
t, and do all in their power to
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hatcher enter
tained Hon. Alexander Legge and his
party on their v»it here Wednesday,
at their country home “Lockerly."
Mr. Legge in company with, Mr.
A. B. Conwell head of the American
Cotton Association and Mr. Mercer
Lee, District Manager of the Inter
national Harvester Company, arrived
in Milledgeville about noon and were
takn immediately to Lockerly where
they were honor guests at a luncheon.
Mr. Hatcher, former President of
National Retail Hardware Associa-
jt'rn and for more than quarter of a
i y i. c il representatives of thc
l::tvrnatiosal Harvester Company,
1 n a warm friend of Mr.
to learn.
Accompanying Mr. Clift were Mr.
.. ... ..... • . . ,i*. D. Pollard, Vice-President anti
that their child is ffiven advantme | Genora | Manager, and Mr. W. E.
j Stewart, General Freight Agent and
Mr. Jack McCartney Secretary of
President Clift. Mr. Clift and Mr.
Pollard came to Milledgeville on a
*pec ! al car. While here the railroad
men were the guests of Mr and Mrs.,
Frank Bone.
CADETS WIN THREE STRAIGHT
BASKET BALL GAMES THIS
WEEK
Defeat Gordon, Cola mhos High mmd
Mercer Cube in Decisive Fashion.
Team Improved
An almost overnight transforma
tion has taken place on the G. M. C.
campus, Coach Babe Florence's bas
ket boll team charging from a green
mediocre team to a championship
contender.
Thc cadets defeated Gordon on
Wednesday night 39 to 26; Colum-
High was taken into comp on
Friday night, 84 to 16 and Monday
be present j n ; K ht the Mercer Freshman were
defeated 21 to 12.
•STRICT GOVERNOR MAKES
OFFICIAL VISIT TO K1WANIS
Sibley Outline! Work .1
Friday’s Meeting. Third
Club Visited
Col. Erwin Sibley, District Gover
nor of Kiwanis attended the Friday
meeting of the Milledgeville club as
tho district representative o£ Inter-
rational.
Col. Sibley is Governor of the
driven over to the Dixie Construc
tion where Mr. Riddle showed them
over tin work. The State Sanitarium
was also visited. In the evening the
party were the quests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Bone at a delgihtful
dinner at their boose on the hilL
Rjv. J. F. Yarbrough went to
Griffn Tuesday to attend a Georgia
product dinner, given by the Rotary
club. He wow accompanied by hi’
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Yarbrough
and Miss Dot Smith.
prior to his visit here Frday. Last
week he poke before the Augusta
club and a few weeks ago he wits
sn offeial guest of the Midvillc
club.
CoL Sibley disarmed the purpose
of Kiwanis and its work. His address
one of advice and very enthusi
astic.
Senator Adams, one of the edi
tors of tho Eatonton Mcsocng^r was
10 city Wednesday.