Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, December 24, 1931, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'• read by thousands - . of PEOPLE • In Prcgr*«> T « Baldwin • an d Surrounding ' , Counties volume cn Milledgeville, Ga., December 24, 1931 Consolidated in 1872 Christmas Day to Be Quietly C. C. SMITH NEAR State Auditor Adopts G.S.C Celebrated Throughout County DEATH FROM FALL ' System for University System Church Services to Be Held at Episcopal and Catholic Churches Chrie'.nras day will bo quiet >lebrated throughout Baldw co-arty with church service- at tl Catholic and Episcopal churches n< ,rning and home comings every home centering the t p. II. Harding has announced th«t services will he held at Ft. Stephens Episcopa lchurch ChrisU _ fci , morning at eleven\ o’clock, nlibrating the Nativity of Christ. Rev. Mr. Harding will preach a i special Christmas sermon and special I music has been arranged undpr the direction of Mrs. M. H. Bland featur ing the carol music. The public is cordially invited. Services will bo held at the Catho lic church at ten o’clock, Rev. Father Conlin has announced. Father Con- lin will go to Dublin Thursday for the midnight service fcnd no services will he held here. In almost every home in the county there will be home coming for mem bers of the families living in other places will be at home for the day. Bountiful dinners are on the program with the arrival of old Santa Claus the big center of interest for the children. Early to bed and early rise will he the order of the day for the kiddies. A dance will be given at the Echetah Country {Club on Christ mas evening. The club members will gather for the occasion which will be the principal entertainment fea ture of the day. A special picture is being shown at the Colonial Theatre on Christ mas day. BANKS TO OBSERVE SATUR DAY AS A LEGAL HOLIDAY Saturday, December 2Gth, will, by a proclamation issued by Gov ernor Richard B. Russell, he a le gal holiday, and will he observed by the hanks of Millcdgeville The banks will at the end of business houro today (Thursday) close their doors until Monday, December 28th. The merchants w U bear this in mind, and many will make deposit* as late as possible Thursday as their re ceipts on that day will be heavier than usual. G. M. C. CLOSED Work Suspended Fridav Afternoon Until January 4th. Cadets are Off for Home The Georgia Military College cloud Friday afternoon for the Christmas holidays. During the afternoon the barrack cad*!* left (o" their homes in vari ous actions of Georgia and other Btat'i. The term ending with the holidays has been a most successful on*, and the morale of the cadets ha* been fine. Good work has been done. It is probable that the atteh- dances of hoarding cadets will be increased some after the holidays as then an a number of requests for cataloques and other information on the desk'of the President. The teachers of the preparatory department held pleasant exercises, during the closing hours ,and gifts were exchanged. The children left for their homes in the city happy with the pleasant anticipation of the coming of old Santa Claus. The college will resume for the --prng term on January 4th. ALLEN IS NAMED ON COMMITTEES Board of Control Organizes for Work. Judge Shepherd Bryan Elected Secretary Electing Judge Shepherd Bryan Atlanta, chairman, fixing Jan ry 1st as the next meeting date, electing Mrs. Boyce Ficklen a: rotary and naming temporary mittces the new Board of Contnn for Georgia’s ellemosynary insti tiions began work last Friday Governor Richard B. Russell’s fice. Col. Marion Allen was named a member of the organization t law committee which also includes J. E. D. Shipp, A. C. Wheeler and Judge Bryan. Col. Allen’s name was also in cluded on the committee to make an inspection of the Boys Training School and the State Hospital. T^iis le will make its visit to rc- the meeting in January. XTTTfrr committee.,* will visit the other tut ions under the supervision of hoard. be meeting was called on last Friday although the final and com plete organization will,not be made • int : l January 1st when the hoard members will gath-r again Junta. !. Allen left for Atlanta last Thursday and spent two days in th* capital city. He was one of the out standing young members of th* legislature last year and is reco gnized as a leader in state affairs. He is a close friend and personal ad visor of Governor Russell and will be a valued member of the new hoard. Mr. Allen has been deeply interested in the affair of the insti tutions here for many years. Back Injured in Fall From Pecan Tree Tuesday. Little Hope Held for Recovery Mr. C. C. Smith is in the City Hospital in a precarious condition, and it is reported that the physicians attending him hold out no hopes for his recovery. Mr. Smith early Tuesday aft< fell from a pecan tree at the home of his wife’s sisters the Misses Beck, on North Wayne St., and his hack was broken it is stated in three places. •ec shaking down pecans when he slipped an fell, it*is estimated, a distance of forty or fifty feet. was found that Mr. Smith was paralyzed from his waist down, and brought to the Doctor’s •here an examination and ex- made revealing that his spinal column was seriously injured. later carried to the hospital, where ho is lingering hetween life and death. Three of Mr. Smith’s children, who were injured in an automobile wreck several tfreeks ago are still in the hospital. The children, Eva, Dorothy and Charles, were seriously injured and have been in the hospi tal since. Mr. Smith is engineer at the Mil lcdgeville Water Works, and is recog nized as an experienced and expert mechanic. He has held the position a uumher of years and has render ed valuab’? service in keeping the plant up to a high standard of G.S.C.W.HAS HOLIDAY SEASON Students Left for Their Homes Wednesday Morning to Spend Christmas DR. JOE WHITE VISITS CITY i)r Joseph H. White, of Wash- higton, D. C., spent several days 'f the past week in the city. Dr. BOYS AT TRAINING SCHOOL TO ENJOY CHRISTMAS DAY well this embered here Uy our *W‘ r citizens. He has seen sendee t,; b the U. S. Public Health De triment in all parts ef the world. Superintendent William E. Ire land. of the Boys Training School is ready for Santa Claus to visit more than two hundred hoys at the institution and Christmas day will he gent rally celebrated. A big Christmas tree has placed in the assembly hall everything is in readiness f* happy day. Christmas dinner will be served for all thp boys and a gen- eral holiday will be observed. v* Georgia htate College for icn closed Wednesday morning, and more than a thousand of Geor gia’s bright and attractive girls and young women left for their homes to spend Christmas with their pa rents and loved ones. The Beauty Special left the city shortly after eight o’clock Wednes day morning for Macon, where con nections was made for points in South and North Georgia. The regu lar passenger train or. the Georgia Railroad going east was delayed from regular schedule time to carry the students going towards Augus ta. Numbers of the students went to their homes in automobiles. The ssion has been a most successful le, the attendance being the largest the history of the institution. The young ladies were busy when eir college duties permitted, Mon ly and Tuesday, buying presents ’ take home with them, and they , •re happy with pleasant anticipa nts. The college will re-open Jan ;ry 4th. The system of books used in keep ing the records at the Georgia State College for Women has been adopt ed as the official system for all schools and colleges in the Uni versity of Georgia system of state schools, Tom Wisdom, State Auditor stated in a letter to college authon- The system was installed by Mr. Linton S. Fowler, Bursar of the college, several years ago and has been improved upon from time to time He worked the system out with a view of not only making possible accurate and rapid checks of all funds, hut the efficient and prompt service of his office. The system was adopted with u few modi fications and forms have been sent all colleges for adoption. Mr. Fowler is a native of this city and has been Bursar of the college for almost a quarter of a century. ias seen the college grow from isiitution with a few students great university', and has kept his department in step with the th and expansion. COLLEGE HONORS LOCAL TRUSTEES Loving Cup* Presented Miller S. Bell and Dr. E. A. Tigner by GS.C. W. Faculty L. S. FOWLER is a distinct compliment to Mr. Fowler that Auditor Wisdom should ct his system of bookkeeping for throughout the education systi of the state. WANT AUTO TAGS NEW COUNCILMEN MAILED LOCALLY SWORN MONDAY Elkr Suggest That Auto Tags Be Sent Out Through Local Office at Saving to State A resolution passed by the Mil- ledgeville Lodge of Elks suggests that the automobile license tags he mailed out from the Millcdgeville post office instead of being shipped from the prison farm to Atlanta and then distributed from that point. Capt. Ennis, Exalted Ruler of the ks, said that there was much dis- ssion about suitable quarters at ? state crpitol for a place to handle e tags under the reorganization v and that it was the right tinv for Millcdgeville to urge this chang. There arc many advantages to hi gained by having the tags sent from Milledgeville. A savings of approxi mately eleven thousand dollars could be made for the state. It. would mean the clearing of more than two million dollars through Milledgeville hanks and would also mean the re classification of the local post office to a first-class rating. It would elimi nate the hauhc.g and storing of the tag., from Milledgeville to the state capitol and yet in no way would it interfere with the orderly registra tion of the tags at the Secretary of Mayor Adrian Horne and Tlirce Aldermen Take Oath of Office to Begin Duties Jan. 1st College for Women Is Praised Highly in Recent Report of State Auditor High praise was given the opera tion of, the Georgia State College f ' jr Women at Milledgeville in a re- P’Jrt filed with Governor Russell Wednesday by State Auditor Tom W:*dom. - audit showed receipts of ♦'•GG.727.R0 and expenditures of *••>•16.912.97 for the fiscal year end- ,n * J une 30. 1901, leaving a bal- of $17,836.47 after deduction ,f 40 overdraft carried from the Preceding year. The state still owed nnu KCh ° bl S162 ’ 771 - 09 “"‘1 this "unt wuh other assets gave the hstitution a n excess of $99,849 in -alizable asset* over liabilities of ' •0.661. The G a rfc and $12,500 for e> -ia State College for for each of the years A- th- Georgia Nor- \. mal and Industrial College, is the oldest woman’s college in the state and the second oldest in the south, having been created'by an act of the Georgia legislature in 1889. It conducts an extension division, a *teochers’ college, a college of liberal arts and sciences, summer school, a practice school, and the Parks’ Me morial Hospital. The total enrollment last year was ini excess of 3*000 young women, t’.ire being 1,238 college students, 5^8 practice school students and 1,- 2’il summer school students. I The state appropriation to the lege was $210,000 for mainten- extension work 1930 and Policeman J. II. Thigpo hospital suffering with Local organizations are expected o join the Elks in urging this hnnge. The tags have been made at the State Farm for several years at a great saving to the state and further savings could be made if the taps were mailed out here. .State authorities have had this matter under consideration for some j time and the action by' the Elks wil I tend to help put the change ovei i in the j Cupt. Ennis said that the matte injured would he pressed for immediate j change if possible. Complying with the city charter that the new mayor and councilman shall take the oath of office the third Monday in Decembre Mayor Adrian Horne and Councilman T. H. Clark, E. C. Kidd and T. B. Dumas were sworn Monday morn ing by* R. T. Bnisdenp clerk. The new officers will take over the reins of the city government on January 1st and wiif hold their first meeting on Oio^e vi-rung of the first. A conference held last week result ed in the ironing out of many ob stacles toward organization and when January 1st arrives the four men will be ready to go into their offic- with many plans worked out and ‘ t f, ( Expressing appreciation for the long services rendered the Georgia State College for Women, Hon. Mil ler S. Pell and Dr. E. A. Tigner, local members of the Board of Trustees of the college for more than twenty years, were presented silver loving cups by the faculty of the college during the chapel exer cises Tuesday morning. Dr. Beeson presided during the presentation program and told of the valued assistance these • men had been to the college in building up not only the physical property of the college, but the great influence that it had. He raid tha^ they had made personal sacrifices to r-ake G. S. C. W. the greatest institution in the state. Mr. L. S. Fowler presented Mr. Bell with th - * cup in a brief speech. He told of the financial assistance Mr. Bell had given the college and tl\at although he had called on him foF some service every day for the past twenty-four years he had never been to busy to come to his aid. Miss Gussie Tabb presented. Dr. Tigner with the cup. Dr. Tigner has been a member of the board for twenty-seven years and his closest interest has been in the college. He worked hand in hand with Dr. Parks and throughout his life time he was his closest advisor. Dr. Tigner gave of himself unselfishly foi the col- ready to carry into effect. Mayor Horne said that he not ready to give out his commit tee appointments, but they ready to he rend tfn the first night the council meets. One of th«. urst official duties of the new council will be to receivi the report of the auditors and t< take up their recommendations foi The cups bore the following in- riptioi: Presented to (liere the ime was inserted) As a token o* loving appreciation for his »e«g and fficient services as a member of the Prudential Committee of the Board of Directors of the Georgia State College for Wmen, Milledge- ville, December, 1931. His co-work- ers on the campus. Those he ha* nr sisted so materially in their efforts to maintain a great institution of learning. Mr. Bell and Dr. Tigner respond ’d with happy speeches, pledging intinued efforts to serve the SCOUTS TO ORGANIZE ON JANUARY j college' although their official con- | nections have been fievered. ‘ Dr. Tigner said that although it was the shortest day in the year it would remain longest in his memory. Mr. Bell and Dr. Tigner will end their connection with the college on January 1st when the Board of Reg ents will take over the affairs of the institution. They have served on the hoard for a longer period of years than any other membei and have been closely identified with its rill* Tr< with all Patients at State Hospital To Enjoy Christmas Feast Christmas Tree and Pageant Began Celebration Monday Afternoon. Mail Brings Hundreds of Gifts to Institution. Christinas Trees on All Wards Georgia’s Greatest; Charity, the Milledgeville State Hospital, is in a holiday mood and the Christmas spirit is evident everywhere as prepa rations are made to entertain the more than five thousand patients that are there for treatment. Monday afternoon a Christmas tree and pageant were giveh under the direction of Miss Cecil Hum phrey in the amusement hali. Ihe patients gathered around the big lighted tree and after the program of music. Santa Clause came and halfded out gifts. On every ward in the hospitul decorated trees will be iq evidence and everything possible to bring happiness to the unfortun- On Christmas day a dinner fitting son will he served. Turkey accessories Will be on the menu and nuts, candies and fruits will be dis tributed. The Christmas dinner at the hos pital requires quite p large supply of food in order that none may go hungry. 275 turkeys; 1500 hens; 75 boxes of oranges; 75 barrels of ap ples; 1500 lbs. of raisins; 6.000 lbs. of mixed nuts; 1,000 lbs. pound rake; 250 lbs. fruit cake; 2,500 lbs. mixed candies; and 65 3 quarts of cran berries will be required to supply the needs. All this week the mails have been heavy with packages for the pati ents at the hospital from relatives and loved ones, or.d this Christmas promises to bo a mo t enjoyahlc one Milledgeville’s Boys Scout Troup •ill be organiied on January 8th, >r. C. W. Frambrough, Scout Mas- ;r has announced with a meeting t the American Legion Hall at eight o’clock. Twenty-five boys have joined the organization meeting and troup leaders will be selected at the meet ing next month. Mr. Sullivi leading Scout executiv COUNTY TEACHERS RECEIVE SAURIES FOR HOLIDAYS $7,500 raid Teacher* by Su Biv Tu.tda; Supt. P. N. Bivins carried out a policy adopted by him several years ago. and paid the teachers and truck drivers of the county their salaries foj December. et- j The pay roll was made possible by of | Mr. L. D. Smith. Tax Collector, who JITacon, leading Scout executive, will ’ iade special effort to get the funds come here and assirt in the organ-1 for Mr. Bivins. $7,500 was paid out ization ar.d speak to the boys. j to the teachers and drivers. The boy scout movement was . The schools closed Friday for the started by the Kiwanis Club several hoiiduy* and will open again oh weeks ago and plans have been tak- January 4th. ing form to complete the organize- I — tion. All boys who want to join Mr. Arthur Butts of Gainesville, the troup are urged to attend the j will ..pend the'holidays with his eting on January 8th. (parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L Butts. Man Doomed To Die Refuses To Take Advantage Of Chance To Escape Judge B. H. Dunnawny was seated hi* office late Friday afternoon ten a man walked in w ith suit case hand and stood around a few minutes warming by th*- stove when he was asked his business by the Superintendent of the prison. "What can I do for you?’’ asked the Judge. “My name la Gay and I came out here to be electrocuted m» I suppose I belong in the death cell.” Came Gay had been brought to the farm and released by the sheriff of ■Lanier county ir.sido the wire in closure. He was told to go in and he would be shown whet*.- to go and what to do When Judge Dunnaway inquired about the sheriff he was told he had gone, so prison aides were dispatched to ca*ch him and get the customary check .to bear the expense of the execution. Gay seemed to be sincere m his effort to live up to the law and al though the chance to escape came, confident is that he is innocent and that the Governor will respite him, he refused to take it. Monday afternoon he received a resp : t? of thirty days.

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Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, December 24, 1931, Image 1