Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, July 03, 1930, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHREE KILLED IN CAR CRASH AT IRWLNTON Rifle Team Makes Good At Shoot COLONIAL HOME POWER CO. TO Fair Associa- DAMAGED BY FIRF CONDEMN LAND tion Elects New Officers A Regimental Target .^h Lumber Truck and Sedan Col-,he'd ‘hi, .reek at Holu.n tide a, Crossing on Wil- _ 6 D . the purpose of selecting u kinson County Koaa Jordan Slave Quarters Were En- >t wa tirely Destroyed Sunday Target ! Afternoon for DRIVER’S VIEW OBSCURED state ahoot send 16 n Sunday afternoon when news 121st Infantry in a : reached the city, the old Colonial >e held in Atlanta in Jordan home was on Tire, a number The 12!«t Inf. will of citizens ru-hed to this historic c r . n j u J st?,,u 1U mKa and thl * 122nd Inf - p,ace to fi,id the slave d uartpr * wprp Chairman cl County Hoard. Head wl „ send 1(; men to thi8 stalc ahoo . on fire. They were entirely deatroy- of Cham Cang, and Third and the He.-t shots at this shoot will pd * Man Are Dead go to the National Rifle Shoot at A small blaze on the roof of the j Camp Perry, in August. ; residence was quickly extinguished. i. tin.. June 30.—Two nun Company 1 (Baldwin Blues) sent , This P lnce has been recently purchas- .. i»:*t instantly killed and a s nun to the Shoot in Macon. andi ed b >’ Dr - J - L- Lindsley, who with ufn-red fatal injurie- when a six of them got on the team to go . :*.om«»T il>-- collided with a | to Atlanta to try for the Camp loaded with lumber two and a, l» e rry Team. This was a Rood show- mi!i> fr. n. here shortly after ]„ K for the Baldwin Blugs, to get six b»ck tlr :fterroon. 'out of the sixteen places to repre- •• d «> d : j sent the Regiment. The ones mak- vb T. Ix»rd, of Toomsboro, ing the Regimental Team are: Sgt. n f the board of comm is- Eazanos, Frances B. Stg. Holloway, Wilkinson county. John A., SrI. Thompson, William T., U Brooks, of Gordon, super- Pvt. Baugh, Marvin H-, Pvt. Blount,. ■ f the Wilkinson county (Alvin D., Pvt. Myrick, Dudley P. Sjrt. Baza no.-, and Sgt. Thompson Tampa, have both been to Camp Perry in for the beautiful the historic interest U making his summer home there. He expects to rehibiletate thil magnificent property. ELECTION FOR SECOND DEUT Arbitrators Will Hear Evidence at The Court House on Tuesday July 8th The first condemnation case by the Georgia Power Company in the matter of acquit ing title to lands in the basin of the reservoir in connec tion with the development of power on the Oconee River iwll be heard at the Court House in Milledgeville on the 8th. Tuesday. The land to be condemned i. the nroperty of Gus Perdue who is represented by Col. Carlyle Giles. The arbitrators selected are J. S. Lundny and J. I). Wattcrson, these were unabie to agree on the third arbitrator and Judge Park will appoint the third man on Saturday, i The Baldwin County Fair Associa tion at a meeting held Tuesday night discussed plans for the Fair this fall The association is planning several enovationx that will make the Fair unusually attractive and an effort wil! be made to interest the counties neighboring Baldwin in making ex tensive exhibits. Mr. E. E. Bell was elected Vice- President to succeed Mr. Floyd Hendrickson, who recently died. rules Mr. A. W. Watkins was elected Treasurer to succeed Mr. J. T. King. Mr. Jere Moore and Mr. Eddie Wall were added to the Board of Directors. LOCAL LODGE HOLDS CONTEST Masonic lodge No. 3, F. & A. M. Ofers Prize, in Proverb Con ducted All Over Georgia PEACH SHIPMENTS EXCEED LAST YEAR A. A S r. 1-1-, 1 suited aged as it plowed into the light- : Machine. Mr. Lord who was Interested in irly large lumber and mercantile interests at Toomsboro, as well as ad of the board of count}' commi — •ners, left the Lord general store of shipments peache to market, tv- total shipment for the ar of more carlots than •ket during n correspond- i>f last year. The total now stands at 2,219. ns election has been called compared to 2,183 for 1929. for Thur-day night July 3rd to select The daily shipment« fell again to The Mason’c Lodge of thi* city is sponsoring a Proverb Contest that is being put on by practically every town in the state of Georgia. The local committee of the Lodge who have the contest in hand is com- J posed of W. II. Wood, John W. Riley il E. J. Edwards. Information and be secured by applying to cither of them. Next to the salvation of his soul, the mo«t important thing in a young man* life is the ambition to attain financial independence. It is hard to realize thnt there could be r< mpassed into a Vest Pojrkut Size, a code of morals—and Eronomic business Ethics that once acquired, might go Uj to accomplish both. A strong belief in this faith led Students at G. S. C. W. Summer ,he Grand Lodse „f ».«,», of Geer- School Interfaced at Old ■ Bin lo ,pamur lhc IWrb oircl<! SUMMER SCHOOL AT G. M. COLLEGE i; isiting his family at]past years to represent this Com- Baldwin Blues Will Elect Officer Cason died at 7:301 pany, and it is hoped that th-* Bald- on Thursday Night July 3, at 'night in a Mac an hospital, (win Blues will have three of four i Armory I season so irivers of both machine- were j men on the Camp Perry Team thi*; I went to mi uninjured. Forest Horton, year. Lieutenant E. B. Jackson received ! faff period • he lumber truck belonging j his commission as 1st. Lieut last Sat- 1 f°r thii HEALTH OFFICER !,ny driving Mr. Lord's out,,- d ni | Lieut, to fill the vacancy cuused : 180, according to the Market New suffered only a scratch on the IS A C A DIM VET) l,y L 'vnten,nt Jrekson's promotion. Service of yesterday. S hipment. are The truck was only slightly j IJnj AitlU V lit There ore four candidates for the [ Mill of Ilileys with Elborta, not ex- place, and a hot race is expected, j ported to star: before the beginning The following are the candidates: I °f np xl week. st. Sergeant Harrv M. Hargrove, [ New York sales showed Hileys ergeant John A. Holloway. Sergeant j selling ;.t $1.75 to $3.75 and Cur- CaoStal Dr. L A. Bailey, Graduate of Uni versity Medical College Has Assumed Duties n- it $1.25 to $2.50, Dr. L. A. Bailey recently before 4 o’clock with Alex Coney Health Officer for Baldwin Sng his Chevrolet sedan. Hestop-j to SUcce( , d D r. John Wiley, at Irwinton to pick up Mr. ( a-; j n the city Tuesday and began duties and Mr. Brooks to gc to Gor-i a8 Health Officer. ; vhm Mr - Bro " k3 ,iv ? d ' tar “ I>r. Briley is n grartuatu of the orence on county bchum to, Unlvtrrait yof Georgia Mcdcial Col- c before the hoard of commis- | cn , Auguata and comes to his • i- .morrow morning at in j work here highly recommended. ■ : Since his graduation he has been ,,nd “ half ”>«*» from Irwin- >rving us an interne in the City the McIntyre road crosses the Hospital in Augusta. right angles i, r . BoU j. win thc of(ice , nnerly ncupied by Dr. Wiley. Dr. Bailey will make his home at 35 the residence of Mr. and Mrs: E. J. | Liberty street. WILLIS A. SUTTON TO OPPOSE FOR N. E. A. POST l William T. Thompson and Corp. A j 70 R. Minor. Iected The Company is getting ready to ■ounty | to camp at Jacksonville July 19th rrlved ■ „ r 20th. They have u full company duties now. hut it is possible t int there w'll Colun.bus. Gn.. July 1 Willis A. lie a few the., can't go to camp, so Sutton, superintendent of sehonla a they may take- in a few more , Attonto* Ga.. or J.. enh Rosier. men between now and camp. 1 Fairmont, president of thc West Vir- J. R. HARGROVE | t'inia State Normal school, will be CapL 121.-t. Inf. Ga. N. G. thc nrlrt president of thc National | Education association. ! Their names were placed in noini- ; nation today at the first busine- I meeting of the association’s repre sentative as-embly. ! Until the MINA LURE GOLF COURSE OPENS movement, that in a few months has spread over the state like a pniric On Inst Friday afternoon from five to six o’clock q«e Geoipia Military An >’ I-"dge in Georgia can College entertained the G. S. C. W. qualify by appointing a Proverbs Summer School at „ reception in the CommltUe of three, und providing General Assembly Hall of the old| the local P rirca of Tcn Dollars, Pock- C ;pital which is now the Auditorium et Co P‘ e * of Proverbs with display of G. M. C. j bulletin posters, and full directions The Auditorium was appropriately} wil1 bc furnl bcd fre * request decorated in flag., and ,ymboIa of]?'™ th '' L " d ‘"' A - «• M,llcr ' the day, of the Confederacy. ! Secretary. Moronic Temple. Macon, The gueat were ahown the poinU Ceonru ‘' nd around ! R-i'*:; for the contest ore on the of. the Cn-' book covers. It requires ten boys ages :• to 19 to enter fer the three iu»ic added 1 ,r ** ps ° r f°r best 100 ision. word paper on “How Proverbs Can ; Help Me Make My Life a Success.’ , These papers to be in hands of local I committee by July 30th. I Two lycel winners can enter for the GraMl Prizes of $50, $25. $10, in .11 $200.00 offered by the Grand “f'Lodge, open uotii .IKpK'o-bt-r lf»:h. Following The Banks Throughout dr. dfmpsIy announces the State Local Bcnks Will Clow dates of quarterly Friday and Saturday 1 CONFERENCES of historic interest in the building by mcmb** det Corps. Punch was served and mus to the pleasure of the occasi* BAMS CLOSE FOURTH-FIFTH on-Macon n one side leading i rond to u steep incline. Coney, g the Lore miles an hour, he said, Flcmister ■ see the loaded lumber truck •on Chevrolet—coming up- Che McIntyre rond. ami thc NATIONAL COMMITTEE CoBrse . Wa! 0 P encd to ”*1° Public on Tuesday Night all of the MRS. J. L. BEESON NAMED The White Rabbit Minature Golf j third candidate. Dr. John W. renched 1 The Banks of this I closed on Friday and j fourth und fifth. A he clearing house th city Rill be ver, seated in the crotch of - hoped road, did not see the ! pproaching. Shot iing to the Stop . driver, M Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, President , General of thc National Society of the Daughters of the American Re ■crombie, of Montgomery. Ala., being considered but the Ala- delegation withdrew his name vor of Sutton, serving notice at anu* time that Dr. Abercrombie opened to thc public < L'-r-i, who wa- on the front seat with * ut ‘ on * bos honored Mrs. J. L. Bee- Tuesday night The coursi . houted to step, but it • The lumber truck front fender n 'i t, imper and the front wheel of m dan came in contact The *e- n was turned over and badly wreck- all the occupunt* except the river being thrown out and Mr. • !■'! being badly mnrhed about the • t and face by the car falling on ’ir. Brooks’ head was/'crushed, Hing him almost irstantly. Mr. Cason apparently wns thrown | • r of the touring car anil evident- truck on his head. He was un- sp lous on the roadside when aid ved: Mr. Lord, fatally injured, lying under the car. and Mr. Its, dead, alongside it. >i,. d t 0 Macon following an au- ni"l, i,. accident near Irwinton that d hi - two companions. Marcellus f usoI-.. 41-year-old salesman, died 1 local hospital at 7.30 o’clock last He zuffered a fractured skull. " :,r!es T. Lord, chairman of the ,un, y commission of Wilk'nson ,uaty * w; » s reported also en route •lacon. but he died shortly after! 1 >,0 n. it was learned. He also 11 < ru»hed skull. * r - a salesman for the n>e can Thr -,,1 company, leave* a . and daughter of Tampa, where ne . madp his home. He was on va- i.. 1 ' 0,1 relatives at Tooms- fi . r ° lb e tinu* of his death, it was fe was a Shriner and by State Historian, Ga. D. iviting her to serve as a mem- bi of the National Committee of Historical Research of which Mrs. Flora Myers Killentine of Nnshville Tenn., is chairman. The .<tate delegatior *‘d 13 candidates f< yhtcen hole mi.no beautifully la!-! : dont, of whom 11 will bo olootod thi it in We t End on the Macon High- year, and one candidate for ‘rcas- ay. A la**ge crowd of enthusiasts j urer. boro; a brother, Levi R. Toomsboro merchant: and fo' ters. Mrs. T. F. Henninger . lanta; Mrs. D. Stone, of Toomsboro; ceivi Mis. A. C. Todd, of Mclntvre and that i A. Cason, of Toomshoi went out on the opening evening for j The < lection will be held Thursday, j f, their first fling at the fascinating Mr. Jnrdnn Ennis, manager of Mil- his patrons cordially and sav- j Monday afte n are ilreatly dc-ilor at four i bulletin issued this week Dr. aturday, July Elam F. Dempsey, Presiding Elder a nieet;n$: of | of the Oxford District, announces decision wax his third round of quarterly confer- In closing for ,. n cea for the year. The Milledgeville circuit confer ee will be held at Bethel Friday, July 25 at eleven A. M. Midway cir- c '* conference at Oak Grove church on Thursday, July 24 at eleven A. M. The Milledgeville conference 'will be held on August 24 at eleven „ o’clock. Dr. Dempsey will preach at .u the Library of the Georgia - prcs ‘' !State College for Women, a Inrge wainut book case containing one hun dred and twenty books which be longed to Dr. M. M. Parks, beloved days the local banks i l»w:ng the decision of the bank- throughout the state. The two days at the end of th<- week will enable the employees to cet away for a week-end trip; Mrs. M. M. Parks has graciously ; all three place- college. arly elopirg expert playc : former Per ident of the Mrs. Parks will add to thest j WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY ,ther values of Dr Parks, at i The Woman’s Missionary Society The hooks will be kept together (of the Methodist church will moot nr.d known ns the Marvin M. Parks the ladies par- collection. Dr. Beeson, President thc An interesting faculty and the stud nts greatly r.p-, prepared. predate Mss. Parks loving deed. MRS. ATKINS SPEAKS AT MISSION MEETING Mrs. Florence Ewell Atkins, of Milledgeville, was the speaker at the Ohorokec Heights Methodist church Woman’s Missionary society yester day afternoon, coming as a W. C. T U. lecturer by special invitation fron thc organization, to address them on temperance. ' a Ma-an. j, UJ y ' V *N cave Hart’s chapel '' 1 at noon today for. Toomsboro, v 'ire funeral services and inter- n>< nt win take place. Besides his i* ' ' ,rme riy Mus Mary Spitler, ' hu daughter. Miry Ellen Caxon, L ' Cason “ aurvived by his moth- r ' Mrs \ Martha V. Cason, of Tooma- In Petersburg Virginia about the year 1802 there were two little boy.- For Peter who named Peter and Thomas William-, und fortune f< Their mothi ds I and thc step-moth- took for his o er who filleo :• place, loved the big loved, handsome Pei* but was cruel to the little Thomas. So the boys ran away and came to Georgia. I wish I knew whnt they worked at and where they ived, for they were valiant little lads and amassed some wealth and generation fame in very early manhood. Peter ! house with fe ll il! when he was about twenty- < lade of w fix e nnd sailed for the West Indcex to recover his health. Upon his re turn he found Thor.ia-. engag'd to the belle of Greene county, Lucin da Parke of Greensboro, daughter of Ezekiel Evans and Susan Smith Parke. Peter fell in love with Lucinda, and she with him. and they were married in 1816 when Lucinda was just sixteen. This was the parting of the iways for these devoted brothers. Thorwfis wen,t to South Georgia and Peter and Lucinda came to Milledgeville the capital to build is long as they lived, apron* of little children passing by Mainod had given up home with golden and purple plums nnd ' i*’ 1 r hi- little bi other -raize*. So polite he was she said rn his brother's bc- ( that he took off his hat to a pet! j coat hanging on the line. He mad j i Last Thursday when- I gave aw*y •l to a raven headache I felt as though the old i . .. inttr ULBU.S bo ui« uw.r carnage • - U1 to me the words of that nob’.? R. •h- uld bc perfect- He died when my a .. m " m when tbu carl,cst who said, u be lav dying wt: father was a little boy. But it Is I bl TO m ' d - Her daunh- L rrow plerci „ K hi , , id e. -The c. 1 Lila, used to go to the cemetery | ia ugh ter of ihe house, I ranees William- Way presented the Star,, and Bars to the Baldwin Blues when they left for the front. After the war the nephew In 1818 Lucinda and Peter built his beautiful daughters walk up and ; of the oldest son, Mary Ann Howard the old house in which I live with my down the broad hall with book piled Williams formulated and wrote and childer.. My granddaughu^- played on their heads so that their carriage | had l»ri«t pd the firstT suggestion of in thc old garden this spring thc 5th b this pleusant old grace rooms multi chimneys with enough brick in them to build a bungalow. My grandfathers slaves made the brick and haped the fine old timers and some master work men caned the base boards and tola and put on every door the Crusaders Cross to keep the witches out My grandmother ' Lucinda planted the boxwood formal garden in front and bordered the vegetable garden beds with old fushioned shrubs and herbs and fern, of every hue. My grandfather planted fruits and trees that he had brought from the West Indies, and Mr. W. H. Roberts 1 had been dissected or at ieast par tially so from the amount of pain that whs serging through my body, as I gallantly tried to stick to my post of duty, the jolting throbbing piercing, anguishinig pains that leapt and counter leapt from one end of this beings to the other recalled f that nob’.? Roman I.uclnda—I adored. I wns just fou; , . ” hen ri„ died- but .he i» my greet ] m , ^ ol ° mbul1 *° d memory. I tried to be just like her and I hope I am in some small degree. For I find little tender verse* scratch ed in her cook book-, and clippings - about every thing under the sun, and if my little granddaughter ever owns my treasures she will find just that ame thing. I find this precious super grandmother in the old garden she planted and loved and tended; it makes it more than a house and gar den, it is a part of herself she has left for me. From this old house four splendid to Virginia to follow Lee, i her idiers grave-, and this inspired the mother. During the war the treasurer of the- state of Georgia my uncle John Jones and after, wards for many years his widow Susan Williams Jones lived here. Genl. Kilpatrick’s staff was quart ered in this old hou*e when Sher man’s army passed through. in 1808 it came into my possession by purchase by my husband David Ferguson from my aunt’s estate. It has been continuously in our family 1818—112 year*. their home and the brother, held no! told me that he loved to fill thelonly one, my father, cm. b.ck. . FRANCES WILLIAMS FERGUSON nndle n’t worth the wick." Thc .wild rumors that have been the rounds this week relative to the number of the typhoid cases in the county brought me to the conclus ion that I hud become sufferer num ber i*99 nnd that whether it was typhoid, malaria, yellow hay, typhus, parrot, dengue, or plain fever, I had it. A week is past and I am still in a reclining position, anxious, yea, ex ceedingly anxious, to get back into the busy marts of trade. Believe it or not this fever busi- ss is no Urifling matter and my brief acquaintance is sufficient for life time.

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Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, July 03, 1930, Image 1