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; c. BRANTLEY
P/iSPD MONDAY
Jitor of ihe V ildosta Timet, and
one oi Georgia s Beit Citizen.!
Died After Short Illness
. F antley, editor of
,1,1 •. Time*, died nt the Mid-
• Monday morning.
>j r . BrautUy won stricken with
landy?:- in Bamesville Tuesday
Blues Making Fine
Showing atCamp
Foster in Florida
Range Record Very Good. Com
pany Making Good Record
on Drill Field
Milledpeville’s soldier ho;
Buldwin Jlues, are making
record at Camp Foster, reports from
Capt. Hargrove state.
A week on the target ranee has
nded. The company made a fine
attending the meet- showintr an a un t while Lieut. Thomp-
* rl -’ ia l ’ roB '‘ Aworiatinn, I Dudley Myriclt and Set. Francis
: ied to the Sanitarium in Hazanos were hiyh in the individual
Faring his days of illness I records* The companj kept its repu-
• r.oem was felt by his rela- j tntion for crack shots .and was among
nd friends in Milledgeville* J«hc leading scorers.
The company enjoyed the usual
Sunday holiday. Fishing and swim
ming were on the program with a
fine Sunday dinner. In the after
noon. they joined the regiment in a
parade for the hundreds of visitors
who came to the camp.
This week is being spent on the
drill field. New problems in military
science will be discussed and demon-
started nad the week will come to p
close with a sham battle.
The company is scheduled to re
turn here early Sunday morning on
itore of his uncle Capt. j the Central train.
In early life he zhow- Co ,, t . Hargrove and Lieut. F.d Bell
Jackson expressed complete satisfac
tion in the showing the company has
made. The men have been well and
in addition to the drill routine they
have had a good time.
went from this
e Sanitarium to inquire
ondition from day to day.
| .Mr. Brant I**;, va, born in Milledge-
1 - being the late Rev.
and Mrs. Mary Ann
|ii::ri Brar:>!-y. He was a nephew of
'< Capt W. T. Conn. His boy-
Jay? with the exception of a
'■ar», when his home was Ox-
Mi~ -pent in this city. He at-
the Georgia Military College,
accepting a position as sales-
i:il then traveling sale.man, in
)<l anH iptitude and love for news-
ork and rapidly became a
writer. About thirty-eight
o, he went to Valdosta and
connected with the Valdosta
Mr.
Brantley never lost his love
nterest in Milledgeville, and
missed an opportunity to rc-
o this city, and mix and mingle
pith his friend?. As a trustee of the
Ivdgevillc State Sanitarium his
: here were frequent, and he al-
Fine Faculty Chosen for
Opening of Junior College
Col. Roach Eothuiiaitic Over Prospects for First Year of College Work.
Preparatory School to Have Foil Enrollment. All
Students to Be Under Military Rule
TWO PRISONERS
DID FROM HEAT
Col. George S. Roach is optimistic
over prospects at G. M. C. for the
term of 1930-31 when a Junior Col
lege department will be inaugurat
ed for the fir.-t time at the Military
College.
The enrollment of students for
the new department has gone beyond
expectation*, he stated while the
preparatory department has not
diminished in it popularity over the
state and the enrollment for prep
«chool work will exceed previous
years. ^ _
In announcing the faculty C
Roach expressed the belief that th*
corps of teachers is one of the fin :
in the state. Several new member,
have been added to the faculty to d->
junior college work exclusively while
there have hern additions to the prep
school faculty due to vacancies.
The faculty as announced by the
president is as follows: Col. George
S. Roach. Capt. Frank S. Mansfield,
U. S. A.; Maj. T. H. Rentz, Maj. A.
A. Waters, Maj. Godfrey Osterman.
Maj. Olin Kverette, Maj. Bobbie
Hook?, Maj. F. H. Josey, Maj. G. E.
Florence, Maj. E. C. Ray, Maj. S. J.
Whatley, Maj. R. A. Thorne, Col. J.
F. Muldrow, Maj. W. P. Layton and
Miss OniH* Hart.
Capt. Frank S. Mansfield, U. S. A.,
the new in-tructor of Military Selene*
and Tactics comes to the college
highly recommended. He is a worlu
war veteran and came here from the
infantry school at Fort Benning
where he has just completed a course
of study in improved tactics. He
ved
a cordial welcome for Over Come While Working in Hav received his education at the
had hundreds of friends in the
loved him. He was devoted
the interests of the Sanita/ium,
•asingly and untir-
:1y for Its welfare*.
Mr. Brantley was recognized ns
• 'if Georgia’s host known editors.
Indent, a clear thinker and
eful
He
of
leading citizen, and con-
iuch to the upbuilding of
Funeral Services
remains of Mr. Brantley were
•'■m Mncon to Valdosta and
un ‘ : ind burial services were
! -■• -ix o’clock Tuesday nfter-
n. Th, remains lay in State at
•rt house several hcfcrs prior
service , the flags on Valdos-
Public buildings were placed nt
,,,!,< t» and during the hours of
■ervices all business in the city
■uspended. A large number
pie from out of Valdosta wero
nt when the last snd rites
aid.
Field and Live Only Short
WhUe
"wo prisoner* -t ;• ■ fS««nria State j
Farm, overcome by heat in a .hay
field last Wednesday afternoon, died i
in a prison hospital within an hour;
after they had been taken there in j
nn automobile.
The victims were.
I ?ee Military Institute which give*
| him experience in prep school work,
has been in Milledgeville but is
now on leave and will return somi
time next month.
The athletic department has beet
changed in personelle. The new foot
ball coach, Bobbie Hooks, will j^rrivi
here the latter part of August aiu
make preparations for the early
training period. Coach T. H. Rentz
as athletic direct- r. will continue in
the same capacity he has served the
past two y.-ars. Maj. Florence will
direct bask-tball and Maj. Layton
will instruct in boxing and other
minor sports. Col. Muldrow will al
so have a part in the coaching, serv-
;rg os an assistant.
The return of Col. J. F. Muldrow
to the college is received with much
enthusiasm by the friends of the in
stitution. Col. Muldrow is an out
standing teacher and educator. He
will teach in the junior college.
Muj. Ram Whatley has been named
head of the Engli-h department in
the junior college.
“The inen I have selected for the
faculty arc men of force and leader
ship, possessing the highest trails of
character,” Col. Roach stated, “and
I believe we are facing the best year
in the history of the-college.”
Freshman work as approved by the
association of southern colleges will
he done in the first junior college
clas... Many changes have been made
in the class room arrangements to
make room for the new department
and it is probable that another grade
will be added to the grammar school
to give sufficient class room space
in the acedemic building.
Maj. T. H. Rentz, Col. Muldrow
and Maj. Whatley are -till on the
road calling on prospective students.
They will not complete their work
until the latter purt of August.
EATONTONROAD [HEAVY RAINS
OPEN TO TRAFFIC AID TO CROPS
News has been reel
Milled^dville ‘jjeopljP
spending this summer
ived that
kho arc
were not in the storm-stricken
ana of Italy.
Miss Floride Allen, Mr?. Jones
and Miss Isabel Jones, Miss
Elizabeth Jones, and Mrs. Cbas.
Whitfield had visited Naples only
a few days prior to the earth
were not in the earthquake strick
en area of Italy.
Miss-. Emily Hall and Martha
Bass who ore also on a European
tour are safe and are not in the
regions of the worst catastrophe
that has struck Europe in severai
Coach Rentz Talks
Op Plans for Foot
Ball Coming Scc=::n
Froifeoli Good, Mentor Says. Five
Gzr::: to Fh-cd in
Eded'-c-'i.Ho
ALL TEACHERS
From A Large Number of Appli
cations Public School Instruc
tors Have Been Selected
School Superintendent P. N. Biv
ins and the Board of Education of
Baldwin county have announced that
all teachers for the ensuing term of
the public schools have been elected,
and that no more applications will
be received. There were one hun
dred and twenty applications for
seven vacancies in the county schools
this year.
Baldwin county ha. - * one of the
best school systems in "the State,,
which is being most successfully op
erated under the direction of Super
intendent P. N. Bivins, who has held
tho petition for ten years.
The teachers are always paid
promptly each month*, and the fi
nances of tho scholia are well man
aged.
Thcro are one senior high school,
three junior high schools and two
grammar schools. Fifteen trucks arc
operated throughout the county car
rying the children to the various
schools.
The schools will open September
10th, and the full list of teachers
will be announced in a few weeks.
While in Milledgeville th?*» week.
Coach Slap Rentz, the director of
athletics at G. M. C.. talked about
football plans at the college this fall
and was optomistic over prospects
and much pleased with the schedule
arranged.
The season will open Sept. 20th,
with the Mercer Freshmen, and then
the cadet-; will jump into a series that
will find eight G. I. A. A. teams as
their opponents.
Five games are to be played in
Millegcvillc. Savannah High, Doug
las, Monroe, U. S. B., and Gordon
will come here while Mn.lis.rn nn.l 0lu ‘ comict *« del “"d another
Roverside will be ployed ..n foreien I is <" ,h « Roldwin county jail for
soil, I action of the Baldwin County grand
Milledgeville boys will be relied i J ur V *» » r '" ul; of « quarrel i.e-
upon to help carry the Ci. M. C. ‘-« n Prisoners at the State Prison
championship this fall. Jordan Ennis I Kllrm Wednesday,
who showed much ability i> a hail-1 J »l"’ Johnson, negro, sentenced to
buck prospect i* expected to be a stai
this fall. With tBc introduction u
CONVICT KILLS ANOTHER
AT STATE PRISON FARM
Blew .
D. M. ROGERS IS IMPROVING
AFTER OPERATION
D. M. Rogers, local Agent of
Vntral Railroad, who under-1
operation at John Hopkins
liftT'm.i
ly according
* family here
• M tiledge villi
ral years ago
known ager
arion Wilson, 30, white man of
leifci, Gn., serving eighteen
months on a charge of larceny,
m Jackson, 20, negro, serving: a
year’s term from Baldwin county for
bootlegging.
Judge B. H. Dunaway, superinten
dent of the state prison farm, had is
sued instructions to all guards not
to overwork the men on the farm
during the excessive heat, it was
learned. t . Notwithstanding the pre
cautions that were taken the two
pros truth ns developed.
The r .en were part of n force en
gaged in gathering the farm's hay
crop. They toppled over ns they were
pitching hay.
Both men were placed in an auto-^ t hi
mobile and rushed to the prison ho«- ram counties that
pita!. Dr. W. O. Woods, of Mil-, by the back waters
ledgeville, one of the prison farm’s f Shoals dam.
physicians, was summoned. He The survey was
found that the temepratures of both bids were received
men were 108. They never reg.iin- i niediately on the cc
Paving to Baldwin Line Opened Drought Broken Sunday When
Saturday. Work on Baldwin ; Thunder Storm Brings Heavy
Section Has Been Delayed ' Rains to County
WORK ON BRIDGE POSTPONED CROP SHORTAGE EXPECTED
The new paved road from Eaton
ton practically to the Baldwin coun
ty line was opened Saturday; thui
another link in the net work of pav
ing that has been in progres.
this city, was completed.
A continuation of the plan
Rains which begun Sunday and
have continued through Tuesday
brought relief to Baldwin county
ending a dry ?eason that was damag-
I ing to crops and endangering the
j yield ;*f the major money cron? of
J the agriculturists of the county.
to Milledgeville has been delayed due
to the decision of the Allied En
gineers to hold up work on the Li*-
brldge and the section of
According to Julian I.
•outhefr conditions
y. .73 inches of r
fall
ckhart w u o
and otr
Baldwin coun-
had fallen up
road in both Baldwin and put- | untl l Tuesday morning. While th :
figure does not establish a record, i
is sufficient to give *he ground i
the county a good drenching and t
pletcd ami su PP , y a much needed supply of wn
ter to wiltering plant life.
- , ar.d other too..' rrop, wer
All other prisoners working in the
* fields were called in after the two
‘ 1 prostrations ami further precautions
the
Georgia R. R. He is a member
Milledgeville Kiwanis Club.
an of the local Rod Cros?, ami
in other civic . rganizations
bridge at Little
rhsrifi ig of the
miles. The'jdan i
tee has been aban
tin nance of the highwj
1 on through t
j been delayed,
ably not he
ruct’un of the
l.ver and for
>ad for about
> do this work
oned and con-
i Milledgeville has
This work will prob-
A meeting of the Huff-Vinson
^PERV-! LE BAPTIST CHURCH 1
'#JFn cimiwv *i?- ER? in0N | fOT Wodm , a , y nWll . Aug tut .sixth.!
! by Dr. J. C. Adcock, Commander of
if Worship 1 Chapter.
slowed up on the da'
B “ Ic'ing » Totally De.
oyed
has been visited by
■ocently one of the
*h came Sunday af-
r hiring th e
lightning
■rm Sunday after-
^ -truck and destroyed
’ church at Cooperville.
’porvillp church is one of the
among the country churches
tt,n l °unty, and the destrue-
he building leaves the congre-
Th_- meeting wil be held in the
office of Attorney C. B. McCulIar in
Milledgeville, who is Adjutant of the
local Chapter and formerly State
Commander of the organization.
The Huff-Vinson Chapter is one
of the most active DAV Chapters in
the State, and an intensive member
ship drive will be staged. Veterans
from Baldwin and all adjoining coun
ties are invited to attend, according
to Commander Adcock.
'vitho
figre- | Mrs. W. G. Crawley and Mr. Joe
place of worship. .Crawley, of Augusta, and Mrs. R. B.
■>t some damage was Moore and Wm B. Moore went from
'bc neighborhood of Carrs ■ this city Tuesday to V.aldosta to at-
‘j the storm, but have not tend the funeral, of Mrs. Crawley’s
to karn of what extent j and Mrs, Moore's brother, Mr. C. C.
\ Brantley.'
FIRST OPEN COTTON BOLLS
BROUGHT TO Cin MONDAY ing reports, they
— their success.
fming ruin when the rains.cam*.
Cotton was thriving under the broil
ing sun rays, but it was admitted that
a shower would do no harm and
would not start the bell weevil on a
The yield of all crops has been
materially rut, fanners believe. The
watermelon season was a disapoint-
ment, hut experts admit it is diffi-
•ul» to give an exact estimate.
Farmers of Baldwin county have
worked harder this year than ever
before. They have been more en
thusiastic and optimistic in their
work. All people have wished for
•hem success, and desp
the jr.tior college. Red Henderson,
Hazanos, and Earl Roberson can take
another year .at G. M. C. What the
plans of these young men are is not
known. From the scrubs, Fierce
Walker, with a summers growth,
should pu?h his way in as a strong
candidate for a plucc. Other MiJ-
ledgeville and Baldwin county boys
who have scrubbed will help out while
others will try football for the first
time next year.
The schedule announced b os fol
lows :
•Sept. 20, Mercer Freshmen (Ten
tative) Macon; October 4. Savannah
High School, Savannah or Milledge
ville; October 10, open; October 17,
Madison Aggies, Madison; October
24, Riverside, Gainesville; Nov. 3,
Douglas A. & M., Milledgeville; Nov.
14. Monroe A. & M., Milledgeville;
Nov. 21, U. S. B., Milledgeville; Nov.
J7. (Thank-civiniD Gordon, MilUdite-1 lo ° k
ville. Molt'
RIVERS CLUB IS
ORGANIZED HERE
serve two years on a charge of lar-
-Y-m Athens, Ga., *. •• :
with a piece of wood by James Bailey
lifetime negro prisoner. The men
were working in the barn stacking
wheat when they had words. Bailey
picked up a piece of board which was
being used to push hack the piles of
grain and before the guard could in
tervene, hit Johnson on the head.
The man fell unconscious with a skull
frartured at the base of the brain
and despite the efforts of Stato
Farm physicians, never regained con
sciousness, dying in the Prison Hos
pital tidy Thursday morning.
Bailey was sentenced to life im
prisonment from Jesup, Ga„ far hav
ing killed Dan Carter, former tax col
lector of Wayne County, in 1917.
After shooting the white man, Bailey
fled to Florida, where he was arrest
ed in 1927. He wa* condemned to
death at his first trial, but won an
appeal. He then pleaded guilty and
life sentence. Sheriff J. C.
, who effected Bailey’s arrest,
his fellow prisoner, serving
-•e months’ term for embezzle-
J Capt
J. M. Burke, a warden at
i came to the city Saturday
Bailey, chari
with
I murder. The warrent was served by
An Active Can.paizn Will Be Made Sheriff Huynie, who brought the
To Swing Baldwin County to negro to the Baldwin county • jail
His SuDDOrt where he will remain until the Janu-
= , ary term of Superior Court when he
A number of friends of Senator | w ill be tried.
Ed Rivers met Monday night at the!
led f.n
the
ie Field, of Indian Ri
Owned by Mr. John
ShinhoWer
year than ever before
of the county.
itill pulling for jdacy for Govi
splendid impre:
dnnted this
tlje history
interest of
i candidacy for Governor.
Senator Rivers ts well known in
Jl.’ildwin county, having delivered two
city in recent
against the Chain Stores, and fob last
the interest of his candi-
He
both speeches.
In a page advertisement in thb
paper, his friend?, give their reasons
why the voters of Baldwin county
should give him their support.
Two open cotton bolls were brought | REPRESENTATIVES OF STATE
to the city Monday morning by Mr.; HOSPITAL ATTEND BRANTLEY
N. R. Jackson from Indian Island FUNERAL
Farm and Ranch, owned by Mr. Dr. R. C. Swint, sup ‘rintendent. Coach T. H. Rent. Maj. Sam What
John Shinholser. Mr. .Jack**>n stated, Mr. Homer Bivins, steward, and Mr. ley and Col, J. F. Muldrow who have
that he had no idea "f the number, Otto Conn, treasurer, representing , been traveling in the interest of G.
of bolls opened in the field at this j the Milledgeville State Hospital, at- j M. C. are spending this week in the
t j me j tended the funeral of Mr. C. C. city.
— | Brantley in Valdosta Tuesday. Maj. Whatley is -pending several
Mr H. S. Wootten plans to visit i Mr. Brantley was a member of the days in Bamesville with Mrs. What-
his wife in New York City. «" '
IN MACON
News has been rect ived thi
Joe Duke, the popular oliei
the OcmUlgee circuit, is
thorpe Sanitarium in Muco
he is resting to completely
the
fror
t lilnei
Col. Duke ha, been ordered by
physicians to rest for several days.
He is popular throughout the state
and has a legion of friends in thi*
city wrho wish him a speedy recov
ery.
Wootten spent the early
tudy at Columbia.
j board of trustees for about twenty icy and Coach Rentz will visit hi*
years and had a deep intere?t in the . family who are spending the sum-
affair* of the institution. mer in Macon.
COACH RENTZ MAJ. WHATLEY j NURSES WILL MEET’FIRST
AND COL. MULDROW IN CITY SATURDAY IN AUGUST
The third district of Georgia state
a-sociation of graduate nurses will
meet at three o’clock next Saturday,
August 2nd, at Macon Hospital
Nur?e< Home, Mncon, Ga.
The program feature of the meet
ing will be the report of delegate
from the American Nurses_ Arsocia-