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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. ATLANTA’S HOTELS 1000 ROOMS of COMFORT ▼ ‘Each room has Private Bath, Circulating Ice ■Affiliated Hotel um IMPERIAL 1 SO Koomi aod Bath V For Information or Reserratiou Addrru THE MANAGEMENT Water, Ceiling Fan, Radio and Mirror Doors in addition to the usual accommodations. JYou will enjoy the food in our Dining Rooms or Coffee Shops (open 24 hours). J Prices are reasonable, too. J Both Hotels near Theaters, Department Stores and Financial District. Keep up With All The Latest Events GET THEM ALL CLEAR IN FULL VOLUME—Hie easiest way to accomplish this is to buy a— Majestic kadio Ask the man who has one —No other arguments necessary. Prices $116 to $385. Sold on easy terms. R. W. Hatcher Hdw.Co. Wholesale and Retail SEE OUR SHOW WINDOW XXXXXXXXXXTXXXXTXXXXXXTXXX:! Baby Chicks We arc ready to seive you again. Our chciks are really better this season than last- Hatches coming off each week. Now shipping K. I. Red-?. R-»rr**d Rocks and R iff Orping tons at $15.C0 per 100; $8.00 per 50; or $4.25 per Prices on large qunntitiees given upon request. EASTON’S HATCH SRY B 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 POWER COMPANY WILL H 0*II