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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-