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Milledgcville, Ga., October 23. 1930
NUMBER 10
g aS Turned On In Mains
Wednesday Afternoon
tlivor PenningtoR Turn* Wkeel
j£t Brings NataJ C* t.
City from Lomsiua.
Kington turned the wheel
Natural Gas into thr? mains
Seville to supply the city
•i the burning fuel which hits been
from the fields in Louisiana.
' iVci k thut has required several
was brought to afinish early
fter the necessary
everything was
and the Mayor
v,* the little wheel a quick twist
!t j a m atch a few minutes later
r h:.ii the lirst jet in the drug
,, r . ,.i Harris Hall.
The c mp.tny has spent several
ousand dolUura in laying mains
throughout the city.
jir. & Pf
that -«■"*
0 f Mill' -lire'
preliminary
All Officers
Are Re-Eleced
At Ga. Hospital
Annual Board Meeting Held Last
Wednesday. Doctors Had Been
Elected for Two Years.
All officers at the Milledgcville
State Hospital were re-elected at a
meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the institution on last Wednesday.
Dr. R. C. Swint and the members
df the medical staff were elected
for two years in October of last
year.
WILL ORGANIZE
COUNTRY CLUB
Plans Made to Convert McKinley
Park into Country Chib. Will
Be Known as Echetah Chib.
announced this week
country club
ARMISTICE DAY I Lanier Tablet To Be Unveiled
PLANS ARE MADE Monday Afternoon
— John C. Stiles One Impreuree Ceremonies to Mark
farade 1° Eegm Cala Cclebratmn Q{ Leading Dedication of Room Formerly
The followii
the Hospital:
the officers at
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION 26
“Go Ttach" To Be Theme of Con
vention to be Held at Mid
way mi Sunday.
The Baldwin County Sunday
Sehrol Convention will hold its an-
naul meeting at the Hardwick Meth
odic Church. Sunday afternoon,
October 2Gth. 1930, according to an
iuncement made by Mrs. B. B.
rson. President of the Baldwin
County Sunday School Association,
The Baldwin County officers are
planning to make this a worthwhile
for nil those interested
Sunday School work. A program
full of information and inspiration
being planned. All Sunday
ool worker* are cordially invited
to be present, , Come with the idea
'nd both to help and be helped,
inking the Sunday Schools
Baldwin County better than they
*r been in order that the
prat number who ore not attending
any Sunday School may be reached
and enlisted.
lemo for the day is “Go
Teach,” and assisting the local peo-
ith the program will be a repre-
tive of the Georgia Sunday
School A sociation and several out-
ir.ding Sunday School workers,
pert in their line. These names
nd the program will appear in a
iter issue of this paper. Watch the
aper for the program!
Every school in the county is ex
acted to be represented at this
A Bible instead of the
lanr.er u;i! be given to the school
vith the largest number of delegates
present Sunday School workers,
iperintendents and Pastors are ask-
to take notice of and ,oc
at a fine attendance i# worked up
Mn their school.
-:30 Devotional Service—Conduct-
hy Rev. L. E. Roberta.
-:40 “Establishing a Teaching
hurch"—Mrs. J. J. Simpson, At-
knta, Ga.
•0 “Adult Responsibility in the
i'i School”—Rev. John Yar
brough.
:25 Mu ic (Special) Dr. Mead-
_ "A Sunday Mornnig Worship
■ nice —Mrs. J. J. Simpson, Mrs.
Roach. Milledgeville, Ga.
Music—Dr. Meadows.
“Helping Youth to Solve the
dr, ,. ms oI Life”—CoL Erwin Sib-
I 7 ' ^•Hedgerille, Ga.
3 I’-eport of Officers and Com- 1
4 ’ Record of Attendance of
• Awarding of Bible.
® 0n C— Adjournment.
by War Veteran*. Pageant to
Be Pesented.
A parade in which every civic and
unsauiaa m patriotic organization in the city will
membership t„ have take part will begin the ArmBtlce
a exclusive rights to McKinley, Day program which i, being planned
irk which is now under construct-1 by the American Legion and Aux-
[ iliary and i- expected to be the most
The plans stated that a member- , gal* ever P ut on here -
ship of one hundred would be .-.ought! Exercises in memory of the war
and that the club would be known dead and in,celebration of the sign-
the Echetah Club, the name being ing of the nrmistice will be staged
taken from u tribe of Indians that at the entrance to the Memorial
occupied the ground whore the field. Quimby Melton will be the
club property is located. principal speaker and will be in-
Work wa begun several weeks troduced by a war buddy, H. S. 1
o on the construction of a swim-’ Wootien. Commander J. F. Bell, Jr.,
ming pool which is nearing comple- will preside.
tion. The bath houses have also j a pageant will be presented as a j
been completed arfd work is pro- feature on the program by the Le- j
grossing rapidly on the club house. gj on Auxiliary.
The pool will be open to the pub-1 All organisations are invited to
lie it is understood at a minimum have a flout in the parade. hull
fee, but the club house will be the details will be announced next week,
property of the membqys of the
Chain Hotel Owners
Homer Bivins, Steward; Otto M.
Conn. Treasurer; Arthur Faerrll,
Storekeeper; Mrs. George Echols,
Dietician; Mbs Cecile Humphrey
Social Worker; W. S. Jett, Engi
neer; H. S. Jones Secreary; F. C.
Pcnuel, Farm Steward; W. W. Stem-
bridge. Sanitary Salvage officer. . .
Dr. E. W. Schwnll was made a country club.
Junior Physician on the medical, The rite of liu- pool and club
staff, nftcr serving a two’ year in- I house is on the property °' Mr - G - . ~
ternship at the Hospital. Dr. J. C. C. McKinley and one of the most Marriages in Baldwin county were
Statham was also named a junior I beautiful sites in the'statc. less in 1929 than they were in 19-8.
Physician. I)r. John D. Wiley was I At n recent meeting of the owners Figures issued the Department of
added to the Medical staff. Dr. Ray-1 of the property Mr. A. C. McKin- Commerce show that in 1929 there
mond Suarez wa, elected as an in- ley was named president and Mr. wore 174 aiarr.age, and
tcrne | Harry Bone, vice-president, and Mr. In 1929 there wi
The four protestant minister, wm iM. II- Bell, secretary and treasurer, while in 1928 the
continue to fill the office of Chap
lain. They will rotate monthly In .
the duties of the office. !'
The Board received the report of j
the years work and commended the j
i 1928 193.
Garden School To Open On
Next Thursday Afternoon
officers of the Institution. Mr. P. j By Womack Hines
H. Gambrcll was elected secretary of Beginning' on Thursday of next
the Board of Trustees, ucceeding we€ j. 30th—the Garden Club of
the late Mr. C. C. Brantley. Gus c jt y ^11 sponsor the Garden
School which will la3t for three days.
Mrs. Fletcher Pearson Crown of De
catur, will have charge and every-
Milledgeville and Baldwin
County are cordially invited to en-
I. The price for a season tick-
is $1.00 and these may be secured
mi either of the .following; Mr.*
DR. DEMPSEY IS
NAMED EDITOR
be drawn fon are many and varied.
Beginning with a good sized list of
plants donated by Guerry of Macon,
Stubbw of Eatonion and our own Mr.
Jordan that we all know. Practical-
!y all the merchants are giving some
thing—from garden aprons to boxes
of candy—from Bone Meal to Vig-
cro; from pound cake to perfume;
and because we are afraid
iniss some, the entire list will not be
published until Thursday. Remcni
The Baldwin Hotel is undergoing
improvements which will make it
ire up-to-date and better equipped
care for the, traveling public.
The company which recently leas
ed the Baldwin is headed by Mr.
John C. Stiles, a native of Baldwin
county, who has gone from this
ty and fully established himself. in
,ff-the hotel business, having operated
hostelries in Georgia, Alabama, Ten
nesscc, and South Carolina. Mr,
Stiles is now managing the leading
hotel in Murfreesboro, Tonn., which
ha.> recently been completed with
all modern conveniences He, how
ever, comes here tio visit his parents,
Mr. anj) Mrs. John B. Smiles, and
Occupied bp Poet.
Impressive ceremonies will mark
the unveiling .of a tablet on the
doof of the room formerly occu
pied by Sidney Lanier in Thalian
Hall on next Monday afternoon at
three thirty o’clock.
The program is in charge of the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy who are this month celebrating
Sidney Lanier month. The room to
■ be marked was used by the Southern
poet when a student at Oglethorpe
University prior to the war between
| the states. Ho left the college to
I join the rank.- of the Confederacy
j when Georgia seceded.
Thalian Hall is now a part of Al
len’s Invalid Home and Mrs. H. P.
Allen has given the room as a shrine
to the great poet.
The tablet will be placed on the
door of the room and the interior
furnished in keeping with
the period in which Lanier occupied
looks after the interests of the Bald
win, which is under the management
of Mr. Thos. M. Bonner, an exper
ienced hotel man, who came from
Sparta, Tenn.
Mr. Stiles takeB pride in the fact
that Milledgcville - 4 - i’iv home
and is determined to make the Bald
win Hotel a credit to the city. His
career in The hotel business
marked him ns a progressive and
alert young man, who knows no such
word as fail in whatever he under
takes. He knows the traveling public
and his large experience enables him
it.
The U. D. C. have also declared
their desire to make the room u
memorial to the late Dr. H. D. Al
len, founder 6f the hospital and for
mere than a half century a physician
in this county.
Mrs. G. A. Lawrence b chairman
of the committee that arranged the
program which is as follows:
Ritual—Robert E. Lee Chapter,
U. D. C.
Sidney Lanlet;—Mrs. J, L. Beeson.
Quartette—"Into the Woods My
Master Went;’’ Mrs. Longino, Mrs.
Long, Mr. Andrews and Mi. Hall.
Reading-*-" Jim’s Private Argy-
ment," Mi>s Junita Ingram.
Flute Solo—Cadet Russell An
thony.
Presentation of Tablet—Mrs. Da
vid Ferguson.
.Acceptance of Tatyyt—Dr. Daj*--
sort Al!°n. 1
Unveiling of Tablet--Betty Canty
Allen and Reynolds Alien.
Benediction—Rev. F. H. Harding.
The public has been cordially in
vited to yie exercises.
Of Wesleyan Christian Advocate jj. Yarbrough—chairman of tick-j her—you huv
at a Meeting of Trustees «-t committee; Mrs. W. A. Massey; et ($1.00) in order to be able to
Held in Atlanta Tuesday. .’Mrs. Harry Bone; Mrs. M. H. bland; jdraw for any prise. Mrs. Roge
] Mrs. F. H. Harding; Miss Laura Swint is chairman of prizes am
Dr Elam F. Dempsey was elected! Shurley; Mrs. Edgar Long; Miss will have charge each afternoon. Do to cuter to their wishes,
editor of the Wesleyan Christian Ad-1 Mary Simpson and Mrs. Bradford, not wait for any member of ticket | The othcre that make up the com
vocatc. the official organ of the Get your tickets early so that your, committee to call upon you—but see pany aro Mr Clifford Stiles, who i
North and South Georgia Methodist, name may appeal in the box the j the one living nearest you and *>oy, munaging a hotel in Anniston, Ala..,
at a meeting of the Board of Trus-1 first day for the drawing of prizes— your? at once. | Me. Allen Stiles, who has charge ofjTo Deliver an Addret* Before the
tees held in Atlanta Tuesday. | us only those holding reason tickets Flower Exhibit j the Hotel at Louisville, Go., and Mr. Reterve Officer*. Charter to
will be entitled to draw for them. ■ All members of the club and any | Walter Green of this county.
The tickets are not transferable— one else who has any flowers which 1 . . , , ,
only one person whose name appears they would like to have exhibited I n pwv pnAnfl f\| ill
ticket may use it. ,»t this time—bring or senj_thcm to j ^KUoU I LAN
GENERAL ESTES
HERE TONIGHT
| l Be ESON honoreed
T s. A. R. MEETING
Dr.
th,
Beeson, state president
l!ls of American Revolution
i “™’ r nl at the regi 'ar meeting
Ae *| at t ^ 10 f )ar ‘ , ’ n Hotel.
. °'** ■ mptcr has two state
its membership. Mr.
hijjf V; ^ n is State Historian
.jj: \®*esott is, head of the state
r j, r Beeson was pre-
' 0 f hi* office.
Ht'Slc
C LUB to MEET SAT-
URDAY
'"’•'her meeting of the Mil-
■' Music Club will be held
, af ttrnoon at 3:30 at the
or Mrs. Mil | er g BelI
Dr. A. M. Pierce who has been
editor of the Wesleyan a number of
years resigned, and will return into
the active ministry of the* North
Georgia Conference. Dr. J. L.
Ballard, associate editor and business
manager, resigned on account of ill
health, and will probe bly be super-
anuated at the approaching session
of conference.
The election of Dr. Dempsey as
editor of the Wesleyan will be look
ed upon as a wise one by the Meth
odist of Georgia. He is a scholar,
a clear thinker and a comprehen-
s ! vo writer.
Rev. John F. Yarbrough is a mem
ber of the Board «f Trustees, and at
tended the meeting Tuesday.
Be Preseated.
COLONIAL INSTALLING NEW
EQUIPMENT IN THEATRE
Movie House Will be Clo.ed Three
Day* Next Week. Ga* At*o In-
•tallfed.
Ths Colonial Theatre will be clos
ed Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week for the instalation
of the new DeForest Sound equip
ment.
With the new machine the sound
will be reproduced from the film.
The equipment is costing several
thousand dollars and is the roost
complete and modern yet devised.
Gas is also being installed for beat
ing so that un even temperature
will be maintained in the thetre.
The opening picture Thursday will
be all technicolor and feature Bud
dy Rogers and Nancy Carroll.
Mr. Curry stated that the new ap-
uaratus added to the machines
would make possible perfect sound
reproduction.
Mrs. Howard Pert Ennis will have
charge of the poppy sale for the
American Legion Auxiliary on Ar
mistice Day, November lfth. It is
if School
Place—American Legion Hall.
Time—Oct. 30th, Oct. 31st, Nov.
1st, at 3:30 o’clock.
Subjects—Thursday—The Autumn
Made Garden.
Friday—Rock Gardens and Pools.
Saturday—Perennials and Soil
Preparation.
Bring your own |iapiw »iul pencil
for notes.
School opens at three-thirty
Beginning with u good rized list of
sented at door.
School closes at five—
Five-o’clock—drawing of prizes.
Prixe*
The list of prizes which are to
be given to the 'Garden Club to
FOR ROLL CALL
Executive Board Meeliaf Held
Last Wednesday Night. Drire
Begins Armistice Day.
chairman
(Com
s. Mrs. W. F. Little i>'
this committee and will |
tued on back page.)
General George H. Estes, director
of the Reserve training in the Fourth
Corps area will deliver an address
before the Reserve Officers Associa
tion tonight at seven thirty
the charter will be presented to the
urganiation by Maj. George L. Blos
som, state president.
General Estes is a war veteran
and has been in this city before
having addressed the Kiwanis club
last spring. A supper will be serv
ed in honor of the army officer and
n large attendance of the reserve
oficers is expected.
The speech will be devoted to re
serve activities in middle Georgia.
CADETS BATTLE LEGION OPENS
riverside frit member drive
Strong Team nf Cnach Dnwii tn Enrollment nf Twn Hundred Gnal
be Played in GainewiBe. by Aimiatice Day. Commaa-
Crowd tn see Game der Bell Urges Enrollment.
Coaches Bobhy”Hooks and Slap A goal of two hundred member.
Rente will le.ve Milledgeville Thurx- ho» been set by the Momx-LiWe
J.v afternoon with twenty foot ball Post in their, drive for memberahip
players for Cnin-»ville where they which will clone Armistice day when
will meet the Rlvervide team on Fri
day afternoon in one of the biggeat
games of the G. L A. A. season.
After defeating Madison last Fri
day the G. M. C. team haa been put
back in the race for the G. L A. A.
championship. Riverside haa one of
the best teams they have had in
doped to
at this time—bring or send them
the American Legion hall Thursday
morning—Oct. 30th—Mrs. Frank
Bone is chairmali of that committee.
Since it is not a regular flower show
—you need not think your flowers
are not pretty enough to exhibit.
They aro all beautiful—so help make
our exhibit a success by sending
yours. Phone Mrs. Bone and tell
her yon will. Be sure tn tie . card ^ ^ ^ by ^ Ex „.
on >our 1 n • ^ ^ ^ stive Board of the Red Cross at a
Any merchant in the city who has!meeting Uat Wednesday night ,
anything which might pertain to the | "Pen the annual Roll Call »h.ch will
g«!den in any way is cordially in- ^ln on November lltn and close
•ited to make an exhibit of same Thanksgiving day.
Committees were named by Chair-
an D. M. Rogers and matters per
taining to the work were discussed
at the meeting..
The committees nemed were: I , . _
Home Service—J. A. Horne. Geo Rspre.e.lal.v. and Prom.
H. Tunnell, and Rev. L. E. Roberts.
Disaster Prepardncss—Dr. L. A.
Bailey, L. N. Jordan and Geo. W.
Barr. P*
Public Information—Rev. A. G.
Harris, Mrs. C. B. McCullar and J.
N. Moore.
Roll Coll Chairman—Mrs. R. B.
Moore.
Closet Committee—Mrs. David
Ferguson, Mrs. C. P. Crawford, and
Mrs. M. S. Bell.
many years —
the game over their Milledgcville op-
ponents.
The G. M. C. team is in good con
dition and will enter the gome to
fight to the end. A large delegation
expected that every man, '7 jjuiedgeville people will to to
and child buy and wear a poppy on 01
that day.
Gainesville with the
the ex-service men plan the most
gala celebration since the war closed
twelve years ago.
J. F. Bell, Jr., commander of the
post, declared that the present mem
bership of sixty should be more than
tripplcd. Every member has pled
ged to bring in a new member at
the next meeting of the post.
ExWrvice men throughout this
section have been solicted to join
the local chapter. TJie drive for
new member* will reach’ a climax on
the Thursday before Armistice day.
who are elegible have been
BALDWIN CITIZENS AT*
TEND MOULTRIE MEETING
A delegation of Baldwin county
citizens went to Moultrie Wednesday
to attend the barbecue and special
demonstration put on there, demon
strating the Colquitt county plan of
farming.
They were: G. E. McWhorter, H.
DR. WALTER H. MINOR IS
VISITING PARENTS HERE
Dr. Walter H. Minor, wfcb h£a
been a physician in the city hospital
In Mobile, Ala., is spending several
weeks in the city, visiting his paretns
Mr. and Mrs. W. d. Minor.
De. Minor on the first of Novem
ber will go to Atlanta, where he
will be a resident physician in ob
stetrics at Grady Hospital. He is a
G. ^anks^Wat*^Evans? (T T ‘ Ewing“, of the medical department
Dr. H. D. Allen, Bloomer Dumas, ■ at Emory University.
George Tunnell and Hugh T. Cline.
MARION ALLEN NAMED ON
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
tornejr Represent* Tenth Di*-
trict on Democratic Board.
Col. Marion H. Allen was named
a member of the Democratic Exe
cutive committee from the Tenth
Congressional district at the State
convention held in Macon Friday.
The appointment was made by
Chairman Camp.
The friends of Mr. W. A. Cook
All men wno are ewgune m
asked tc file their applications im- regret to learn that he ba* boea
Mrs. David Ferguson and Mrs. R.
B. Moore are attending the U. D. C.
Convention, which ha* boon in sea-