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THE UNION-RECORDER, MILLEDGEVILLE, CA-. FEBRUARY 13, 1(30
MILLEDGEVILLE BOYS ON
EMORY GLEE CLUB
Harry Bon«, Jr., Aafcary Farr, OkU
'• siaxlon. Making Toar of Coorgia,
Florida Willi Ft»o*» SaagiUr*
Three MUIedgcville boys are ac
companying the Emory University
Glee Club on it.- tour this week of
South Georgia and North Florida,
This trip includes the towns of Mu-
*on. Hazel hurst, Valdosta, Moultrie,
Thonm«vi1le. and IhUahusee. Flori
da.
The MilWucville boys are Harry
Hone, Asbury Karr, and Oacie Thax-
ton, junior, sophomore, and freshman
respect' ely, at Emory. Farr is one
of tlic tenors on the club, while Bone
and Thaxton both play clarinet-,
in the orehuitca which is making the
rur with the club.
ILirry has made several trips with
the muscial organization during hia
three years at Emory, even making
the European tour with them in the
summer of 1928. Asbury was a regu
lar member of the club last year and
vint .along on some of the trip. 1 ,
while this is Thaxton’s first tour. A»1
three arc members of the Kappa Al
pha fraternity.
Thu Emory club has succeeded i*
malting quite a name for itself . ■*
college musical circles. Besides mak
ing two European tours, the organi
zation has been to Cuba once and has
made numerous trips throughout the
eastern part of the United States.
The Emory songsters have appear
ed before the president of the Unite I
States and before Mayor Jimmie Wal
ker of New York City, have mode
phonograph records for the Victor
Company in this country and for a
i - mpany in Great Britain, and have
Sung on dozens of radio programs.
RAILROADS NATIONS SHOCK
ABSORBERS. PRES. CLIFT SAYS
The ralironds are the shock ab
sorbers of the nation’s business, is
the assertion of President A. E. Clift
of the Central of Georgia in a state
ment publiihed today.
“The railroads are an important
factor in keeping business on an <
keel.’* says Mr. Clift. “The increased
CIVIL WAR CHIVALRY
By Kathrya Vinson
The Yankees are coming! The
Yankees are coming!
The dread news had spread—by
grapevine telegraph, perhaps—be
fore the advancing army of Sherman.
Barren field- and looted plantations
in the wake of the army bore wit-
necs to the passage of the Yankees.
Humors of desolation drifted
rattled and jerked at their hinges as
if they j-truggled in vain attempt to
follow their young mistress as she,
with tears in her eye*. bid good-bye
to her home.
The light of a lantern cast a feeble
pi* w over the weird procession, which
more trudged across the dark fields,
toward the woods. The back of
Uncle Tom was bowed under the
weight of the hair trunk, and over
j ‘.h? stalwart shoulder of young Ed-
Georgia cToudi of .moke from J »»“1 Story Vie,on n, Hung a Per-
burning homes.
On the night of November 22,
1804, the news reached the ears of
Anne Vinson at her home on the
Vinson plantation, which lay three
miles east of Milledgeville. On her
■lender young shoulders weighed
hcavliy the responsibility of the
iluntation and the care of her young
brother. With her there remained
.wo faithful old darkies. Uncle Tom
and Aunt Suian.
By candle light the brave young
girl gathered together all the family
silver, the coatly china, and some
other articles of value, which sh«
bundled hastily into an old huii
The night was dark and windy
Masses of threatening clouds hung
low. The shutters of the big house |
spetd and dependability of freight
transportation have made it possible
within the last six .stars to greatly
cut down inventories. It is no long*
•■r necfssary to tie up capital by dead
invest me nt in large stocks. This
means le s interest charges, less in-
surance premiums, and quicker turn
over. Commerce has been speeded
up, and the cost of doing business has
be;n reduced.
The railroads, in addition to carry
ing the country's commerce, arc large
purchasers of materials and supplies,
a.« well ns large employers of labor.
They arc going .ahead with programs!
of improvement during 1930. They 1
•re the shock absorbers of the nn-
Alr. Clift states that the first
weeks of 1930 have recorded im
provement in business conditions that
should strengthen confidence in the
economic stability of both the Unit
ed States as .a whole and the South
east as a section.
On the bank of the creek that
marked the eastren boundary of the
plantation, the party came to a halt.
Here, in the thick underbrush, they
concealed the trunk.
About 20 feet away from the edge
sf the water the ground rose abrupt
ly into a small hillock. It was against
this slope that the fugitives crouched
covered by the carpet over which
Uncle Tom had spread pine needle',
brambles, and earth The camou
flaged carpet and knoll of humanity
seemed a part of the landscape, and
the mass blended naturally into the
hillside.
Toward dawn the rumbling of the
artillery and the rattling of the wa
gon trains reached the cars of the
huddled group, as Sherman’s array
advanced along the big road a haif a
mile away. The clatter cf the horses
hoofs and the shouting of the soldiers
rang out in the stillness of the early
morning.
Nearer and nearer came the
sounds. A column of infantry left
the big r&ad and entered the field,
in order to take a short cut to a road
which lay two milts to the east.
Peering out from the shelter of
the artificial mound, the boy saw the
glitter of the rising sun as it shone
upon the muskets of the Yankees.
As the soldiers advanced, they
lir.u at random A bullet grazed the
rug, which covered the refugees. An-
utiier embedded itself in the carpet’s
thick pile.
As the column reached the mound
some of the men filed to the right of
it, others to the left of it, but none
over it. The last Yankee had passed
by without detecting that the mound
was not a product of nature. But to
the eyes of a negro, who was follow
ing in the wake of the column, the
ruse was immediately apparent.
Quickly he notified the captain.
“Bayonets fix! Charge against the
mound!” The voice of the —p%dn
rang clear.
Before a blade had pierced their
cover, the southern rebels had em«n
u from their biding place and ttood
before the on-ru hing Yankees.
“Halt! Lower bayonets!"
The captain advanced .and bowed
low before the young girl. “Madam* ••
he said, “we come not to war Upoa
women and children. It is deplor-
able that we are forced to war at
alL”
From the ranks he summoned an
oiderly.
“IfadM*. allow me „ oH w
an caeort, who will Bee joa aid, o>
yoa, homa.-
Bowing low mala, ha wait'd , M .i
tho girl, the oacort, the hoy, ard tfe
two darfcwa had pawed front aigtu.
Than ha gare the order to march.
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ASTON’S
ST TER
1DDIES
Milledgeville, Georgia
$1,000 in Cash Awards in the interest of
Profitable Farming
in GEORGIA
‘T~'OR years, the Georgia Power Company has car.
jf Tied or, an active campaign to speed the industrial
advance of Georgia. We also have sought to aid in
building up Georgia agriculture. Our business is done
wholly within Georgia, and our prosperity is insepar
ably linked with Georgia's prosperity. So, there is an
obligation upon us—in our own selfish business inter
est, if for no other reason—to endeavor to build up all
the territory we serve.
Without diminishing our effort to bring new indus
tries to Georgia, we take pleasure in announcing an ex
pansion of out ctivities in the interest of profitable
farming in Georgia.
'As one phase of this new activity, there will be of
fered during 1930, in cooperation with and under the
supervision of the Georgia State College of Agricul
ture, the—
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
The spreading of our companies out
of the congested big cities into the small
totuns and the hamlets makes us citi
zens of every place we serve, makes our
every place of business our principal
place of business, and makes us, too, if
you permit me to say it, more in sym
pathy with the smaller towns and their
people, and more appreciative of their
needs. Devotion to their upbuilding
creates in us a passion for the well-be
ing of each place we try to serve.
P.8. ARKWRIGHT,
Proculcrvt
PROFITABLE FARMING AWARD
T HE award offered jointly by the
Georgia Power Company and its
affiliated companies, the Colum
bus Electric and Power Company and
the South Georgia Power Company,
will consist of $1,000 — a grand prize
of $400 and three district prizes of
$200 each — for the most convincing
demonstrations that farming in Geor
gia is profitable, and particularly for
those demonstrations which shall be
deemed by the judges to be of greatest
practical value in stimulating progres
sive and profitable farming by others.
The winders will be determined in a
contest to be conducted by the State
College under conditions prescribed
by tne College and will be decided by
judges selected by the College. The
award will be presented at the convo
cation during the Annual Farmers
Week at the College in January, 1931.
set up forms in various sections of the
state on which the various theoretical
methods of form improvement could
be tried out by farmers themselves
under actual working conditions —
with net profits to the former as the
final acid test of the soundness of the
methods.
It was the wish of the Company to
throw the contest open to any farmer
in the territory we serve. College of
ficials had the same desire, but after
thorough study they decided that
more valuable results would be ob
tained by carefully supervising a lim
ited number of farms and requiring
that accurate and thorough records be
kept on these representative forms. In
the opinion of the College, this will be
the first contest of this nature ever
conducted, and College officials thought
it would be impractical at this time to
give the necessary supervision to a
larger number of competing farms.
The contest, therefore, during 1930
will be conducted in twenty counties
designated by the College, five in each
of the four geographical sections of the
state. In each of the designated coun
ties, the respective County Agents will
select or be responsible for the selec
tion of five farmers, making a total of
100 farms ir twenty counties in the
contest. The contest will be designed
so as to put all farms, large or small,
whether farmed by the owner or a
tenant, and regardless of type of farm,
on an equal footing.
For further information, write Farm
Management Division, Georgia State
College of Agriculture, Athens, Ga.
Georgia
When we went to the State College
asking how we might help, their opin
ion was that an award stressing the
profits that can be made on Georgia
farms and bringing to light actual
provable examples of profitable
money-making Georgia farms would
be most helpful. It would help to re
store confidence in agr-culture—not
only among farmers, but bankers and
business men as well. It would ateo A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
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COMPANY
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