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IiKEAD
BY THOUSANDS •
OF PEOPLE
■ A BALDWIN COUNTY •
INSTITUTION •
’ WilkOnrOHNiMM «
VOLUME CII1
AMWierille, G«., Anfuit 3, 1933
la U72
NUMBER SO
ved.
erchants Fix Code Wednesday Afternoon
|| S. BELL HEADS
[RECOVERYDRIVE
I JobssoB Aslu for Mlk-
ut Organization in Comtj to
Marshall Force* Under N. R. A.
jj r . Miller S. Bell was advised
;,3fr by General Johnson, head
c r : ;e National Recovery Act, ask-
:K -hat he act as chairman in Bald-
Lj f ounty to marshal the force? to
Jirect a drive to put over the Nation-
R#Recovery Act.
I jjr. Bell said that he would ask
L* leaders. Mayor Horwe and the
■ two editors to join him in directing
I ( |,e educational campaign as a part
itional movement to speed
n of prosperity and to re-
|li«\e unemployment. He appeared
is meeting Wednesday af-
■ grown anil made a plea for co-op
eration on the part of the people.
He comjiared present conditions to
days and asked the people to
I r/.j u they did in 1917 and back
I tie President in his effort to bring
I tack prosperity. Mr. Bell said that
people would fall in line with
•e merchants in their effar to line-
I SP under the codes and le asked
| tiat every effort be made to help
Inter unemploye mepi tt
Mr. Bell w : red General Juhnson
tut this comity was back of him and
I would give their co-operation to the
I President.
I FARMERS FINISH
COTTON PLOWING
| Inspection Will Be Made Next
Week of Plowed Lands
Settlements Will Be Made.
Farm' of Baldwin county have
practically finished plowing their
n ‘" n n and Farm Agent Langley
the committee would make in-
•pection.- next week to approve the
plowing. All stalks must be complete-
| ly turned out of the ground and the
tracts will not be approved unless
this is done.
The frnal notice was mailed out
I !il “ wee h by the Farm Agent giving
I the farmers full instcuctions and,
I ’he authority to act
WE DO OUR PAkt
The Union-Recorder has signed
the pledge of co-operation sent out
by our great President and we arc-
proud to display our emblem
loyalty to our country in the effort
to bring bettor more prosperous con
ditions. Our own fraternity ie prepar
ing a code which we expect to sub
scribe to as soon as it is accepted
in the mean time we subscribe
le blanket code and will line
up to do all that we can in our own
community to help stamp our un
employment and to bring about the
retnra of “Happy Days”.
WRECK VICTIM
fie WED’DAY
Mu Who Gave Hb None as D.
B. Mitchell Soconhs fro. In
juries ia Aato Wreck Soaday.
I MISS VIRGINIA LESTER DIES
1 AT OLD AGE LAST THURSDAY
A man who gave hia name as D. B.
Mitchell, elf A/tWnta, died »t the
City Hospital Tuesday night from
injuries received in an automobile
wreck Sunday night when his car
overturned on the Macon highway
about six miles from the city.
Two women in the wreck, one who
refused to divulge her identity and
one who said she was Mrs. Mitchell
were also in the hospital. Mrs.
Mitchell was carried back to At
lanta Wednesday afternoon and the
other woman was discharged from
the hospital as soon as a few min-
■>r cute and bruises were dressed.
A man known to the hospital a.-
Bobby Hunt was discharged Tues
day but returned here Wednesday
claim the body.
The body was prepared for burial
by Joe A. Moore and sent to Ma
con for cremation.
Mystery clothed the incident and
the people were very mysterious- in
their contacts with hospital authori
ties.
Grocery Merchants to Open
At 8:00 a. m. Close at 6:00 p.m.
Dry Goods and Other Merchants Not Yet Decided on Code B«t Adopt
Tents‘ire Code from 9 to 6. Telegram Sent President Pledging
Co-operation in National Recovery Act
More than five hundred people
gathered in the Court House Wed
nesday afternoon, the majority of
them merchants of the city .to work
out a code of business practices to
comply with the National Recovery
Act inaugurated by President Roose
velt a week ago.
J. F. Bell wag named chairman of
the meeting and Jere N- Moore,
secretary. The meeting had
primarily called Iby the grocery
chants to work out their code and S.
E. McKenna, secretary of the Macon
Retail Grocers, was present and ex
plained the code that was adopted
there.
Mr. Miller S. Bell spoke to the
gathering and urged that the people
of the city line-up in the drive to
<ring back prosperity. He said that
he represented General Johnson and
he felt sure the people of this county
would respond cm the war against
he depression as they did in the
ar days.
Mr. R. W. Hatcher also urged co
operation and said it was the patri
otic duty of every citizen to co-oper
ate with the merchants in their ef
forts. The convention adopted a reso
lution endorsing the N. R. A. and
wired the President pledging their
co-operation and efforts in the en
forcement and carrying out of his
31 VOTE IN CITY CONTROLBOARD
PRIMARY AUG. 2 ASKS FOR FUNDS
program. -
A resolution was also passed ask
ing the city council to enact lays
to enforce the codes that would be
adopted. Mayor Horne said that he
would call an extra scraion of the
council and enact a law as soon as
it could be prepared.
The merchants separated into
groups to agree on their codes. The
Dry Goods merchants named E. E.
Bell chairman and adopted opening
and closing hounr as follows: Open at
nine a. m. every day in the week
and to close at six every afternoon
except Saturday when the closing
hour will be eight o'clock. The
Thursday half holidays will be dis
continued after today. The dry
goods code will go into effect this
morning. This code will also con
trol other lines of busineta it was
understood which includes hardware,
jewelry, milinery, ten cent stores
and furniture stores.
Tthe grocery merchants adopted
opening hours at 8 a. m- and cloring
hours at 6 p. m. -very day in the
■week. The code will go into effect
next Monday morning.
The drive is expected to increase
employment and wages. The people
of this section were asked to co
operate with meschants.
Mayor Horae and Aldermen An
drews, Wootten and Stembridfe
Un-Opposed in Primary.
their
Thirty-one voters went
polls Wednesday am! ca:
•otes in the city primary
Mayor and three Aldermen and at
ie time elected an executive
committee that will control demo
cratic affairs in the city. The nomi
nation in the primary ie equivalent
an election.
Mayor J. A. Horne was un-op-
posed in the race for Mayor and L.
H. Andrews, S. D. Stembridge and
Stewart Woolten were un-opposed
as candidates for Alderman. Three
Aldermen were to be elected. The
executive committee named was as
follows: J. R. Stanley, J. H. Hollo
way, J. C. Ingram, W. J. Chandler,
J..A. Mayfield and J. T. Andrews.
This committee was named for a two
year period beginning January 1st.
Mayor Ityroe will take office
January 1st for two more yeabs as
Mayor of the city. The law prevents
him seeking the office for more
than two terms. Messrs Andrews,
•Stembridge and Wootten will take
office January 1st for a four year
period. Messrs Andrews and Stem-
bridge are veterans on the council
while Mr. Wootten ir a new member
and enters city politics for the first
time.
HARDWARE MEN
| F#d *™ 1 Service. Held on Frida;
*' Of Mr. San Terry. Was
"t of Late Sheriff Tarty.
Mi.«- Virginia Lester, eighty-eight
.-t-aiy of age, died at the home of
• Fam Terry Thursday, July 27,
f. fur ' rn| services were held at
ore ’* Funeral Home on Friday
eleven o'clock, Rev. L. E. Rob-
fficiating.
Lester hud been in ill health
■veral months and while her
h wae not unexpected it brought
<»w to a large number of friends
| ®nd relatives.
Interment was in the city ceme-
I ' rj an ' 1 l1 "' following acted as pall-
I " rerii: J - C. Cooper, W. J. Haynie,
I ™«ur Smith. Seaton G&man.
■ onnre Ke mp. E. J. Smith and J. M.
I F"' - '' *'* survived by a number
cc,- s and nephews and grand-
; and nephews.
Lester was born in Jones
I hut ! ‘ pent ,he sreator part
I f 7 We in this oounty living
I t “h her nephew, the late Sheriff S.
I T- , erry - ■S he was * kind, generous
-ympart.etic woman and made
friends.
R SAM ANDERSON INSTALLED
As LEGION COMMANDER
Anderson was formally
i ~'- officially inducted into office as
^".tiiander of the Morris-Litlte Post
• American Legion at a special
' ' n,r l*st Thursday evening.
, he mecling was held at the farm
_ C. E. Smith.
THE CHICAGO PARTY REACHED
HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Every Feature of The Trip We.
Filled With Interesting Eveet»
end The Crowd w»» Enthusiastic.
The train, bringing the crowd back
from the Century of Progress Ex-
porition at Chicago, arrived in the
city at 3:30 o'clock Friday aft-moon
about four hours later than schedule
time. The delay was earned by a
freight train wreck on the Central
of Georgia Railroad a few milei
above Macon.
Mr. L. S. Fowler, who directed the
trip, had mapped out a program that
kept the crowd on the go while in
Chicago and at the exposition, and
for their entertainment. Those who
made the trip were delighted
every feature and the entertainment
they received. Of course, the ex
position was too large for them to
get anything but a bird’e-eye-'
of most of the displays in the few
days spent in Chicago. But every day
was filled with interesting events.
All were delighted with the trip,
ind although tired out, when they
-ached home they were enthusiastic
\n their comments and praise of what
hey had seen.
HOPEWELL SINGING
ATTRACTS CROWD
great throng of people gather
ed at Hopewell church last Sunday
an all day singing and dinner on
the ground 1 -. The day was an enjoy
able one and the old hymns were
sung with great enthusiasm. A bas
ket dinner was served at noon.
Adopt Practices Governing Open
ing Honrs and Trade Regula
tions Effective Last Tuesday.
The three hardware stores in Mil-
ledgevillc were the firrt retail stores
the city to comply with the re
quest of President Roosevelt and
adopt a code of trade practices and
put them in operation.
R. W. Hatcher, head of R. W.
Hatcher Hardware Co., T. B. Dumas,
head of People 1 * Hardware Co., and
D. W. Brown, of D. W. Brown Co.,
met on Monday and adopted the
code approved by the Retail Hard
ware Association and immeditely
put it into prartice. Tne code re
quires the stores to open at nine
and close at six in the af
ternoon on every day except Satur
day when the cloring time is moved
up to eight. The code alao gov
erns the persons employed and the
wage schedule.
The hardware men had their N.
R. A. ensignias on display and Tue*
day morning opened their stores at
nine o’clock. Promptly at five-thirty
I they closed.
The hardware store owners pledg
ed their full co-operation with the
President in carrying out his nation
al recovery act and declared that it
was of great importance for all re
tail business to comply with the
plan* and immediately sign the
blanket code sent out last week by
the President.
MACON PEACHES
1ST UNDE CODE HERE THREE DAYS
100 CARS OF MELONS
SHIPPED FROM COUNTY
Blues Leading League to Play
Host to Macon Team Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
Short of Lett Year. Shipmi
Price. Good end Quality -f Melee.
He. Been Good.
VINSON SAYS BRIDGE
WILL BE
BUILT
Congressmen Announces That The
Oconee River Bridge is on Federal
Highway Program.
Congressman Carl Vinson said on
his retr-n from Washington where
he conferred with the chief of the
bureau of Federal roads, tha* the
bridge over the Oconee would be
built as soon as the Highway con
troversy with the Governor was
cleared up-
The new bridge will ibe of con
crete and steel and the contract?
will be let immediately after the
federal funds are made available to
Georgia. Other roads in this section
8 ]co included in the program.
Walter Hunter, genial but firey
pilot of the Macon Peaches,
bring his baseball team to Milledge-
ville Thursday for a three game
series with Coach Wallace Butts
Blues.
The Blues are leading the league.
The team is playng in jam-up style
and the series ahead is a crucial
in the pennant race. The second
half ir nearing tl.e half-way mark
and the viritora from Macon would
delight in tripping the Blues and
breaking Into their winning streak.
Coach Butts ha* West, Bray and
Epps ready for the soVies with
Rhodes to do relief work. Negotia
tions are under way for a new
pitcher that might arrive in time for
the series.
The games will start u
o'clock each afternoon. For fight
md rivalry the games this wee
stipuld equal any college game,*
Macon delights in drubbing the local
team and they come here today to
do everything in their power to take
the three gomes in a row.
Coach Butts said he hoped the fans
would give the team their backing
and attend each game. He declared
that a team could naturally play
better ball with full standf and the
home town help and he urges all
fans to be on hand for every game
and help the team on to the pen
nant
filarion Ennis, president of the
team, added his endorsement to
that of Coach Butts and urges the
people of Milledgeville to attend the
games this week-end.
100 cars of watermelons have been
shipped from Baldwin county this
season up to Wednesday, the reports
showed.
This figure ip for short of last
year shipment*, although many mel-
-.ns have been moved by l ruck this
year which probably reduced the diff
erence some. The prices have been
unusually good and the net return
-« been far above the past few
years. Growers said the quality of the
melon*; this year have been very
good. Hail storms earlier in the
year damaged the crop some.
There will probably be a few more
rs to go from the county within the
■xt fev weeks.
New Buildings for Hospital tad
Boys Training School Wifl Be
Inchitied in Federal Moaey.
Application will be made this
week to the State Public Works
Advisory Board for *3.900.000 of
federal funds for projects to im
prove the Georgia eleemosynary in-
r'Jtutions, Dr. H. W. Shaw, head of
imittee to investigate the
needs of the eleemosynary institu
tions .announced Monday.
survey was conducted by a
special committee and architects
were employed to prepare a proposal
for the construction of buildings at
institutions under the jurisdiction of
the Board of Control,
Col. Marion Allen announced a
few weeks ago that the survey had
been completed and that the hoard
would try to get the needed money
for the construction of the build
ings.
The plans wll call for a new
building at the Boys Training
School to house the mechanical'
trades departments and to provide
an auditorium and modern school
rooms for the institution. Four build
ings at the hospital aro included in
the program. Just whst these build
ings will be are not known, but it
is understood a central heating plant
will be one of the items on the list
•>f improvements.
Governor Talmadge will call Dr.
Shaw to Atlanta this week tc place
Vs approval on the proposal and
prepare the petition for the money
*rom the federal advisory board.
Thp work will Dogi- immediately*
'f the money is secured.
HOME LOAN BUNKS ARE
RECEIVED BY JUDGE HINES
ir.t Application, front Hone Own
er. Here Will Go Oat at Once,
Attorney Stated.
REV. WILLIAM A. MAXWELL
BURIED HERE TUESDAt
Judge E. R. H'ncs, attorney for
the Home Loan Bank, established un
der the federal recovery program, re
ceived application blanks TueWay
and is ready to receive appl'calioi.s
for loans.
The firrt applications will be made
this week, Judge Hines said and the
petition will be sent out at once.
Judge Hines said he had had a num
ber of inquiries and expected to
have several application? in during
the week.
GOVERNOR GRANTS BILL
GREEN A PARDON
Bill Creen, life-term murderer,
who came Into prominence aftep he
became a prisoner because he cut
Leo Frank’s throat, was pardoned
this week by Governor Talmadge.
Bill Creen, lover of dogs, and
unique character, kept the front
gate for a number of years and his
health had rapidly failed. He will
pend the remainder of hia days in
a Catholic home.
anuated Methodut Miaiete
. in Atlanta Hospital Sunday.
Rev. William A. Maxwell, father
of Mrs. Roy Haye« and a superanuat-
ed Methodist minister. was buried
here Tuesday afternoon.
•Rev. Maxwell d : ed in an Atlanta
hospital Sunday after a long illness
and funeral servicer were held in
Johnexboro Tuesday morning before
the body was [brought here for inter
ment. Briel services were held at the
Methodist church in this city before
the burial services.
Rev. Maxwell is surwed by hi*
widow, his mother, Mrs. W. A. Max
well, of Elberton; two daughters,
Mrs. Roy Hayes, of thi scity, Mrs.
Mary Sue Sidwell, of Salina Tenn.,
da brother, QuiUian Maxwell, of
Narhville, enn.
Rev. Mr. Maxwell served the
Devercanx church for several years
was at one time pastor of the
Gray Methodist church. He visited
here frequently and had many
friends in this city. He had been in
the ministry for thirty years mno un-
few years ago was active filling
many charges* in both north and south
Georg-a. He was burn in Elberton,
Ga.
Rev. Mr. Maxwell was a conaecrat-
[ rpan and devoted hi* life to the
service of his Master.
CANNING MACHINE TO BE AT
UNION POINT WEDNESDAY
The canning machinery that hag
been busy at work since it was re
ceived and has canned practically
2.500 quart- of fruits and vegetables
will be In the Union Point com
munity next Wednesday fo- the first
. All people of that community
urged to be on hand to have
their canning done.
AIR CIRCUS SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY AT AIR PORT
Celebrating the opening of the
Case-Fowler Field Club House abd
Fli ng Station, an air circus will
be staged Saturday and Sunday of
this week.
Mr. I. H. Fann said a number of
licensed plane* would be here to
take passengers for rides over the
city. The new house and filling sta
tion arc modem and will be opened
for the first time this week.
The circus will have many inter
esting events.
DRUGGIST TO CONFORM TO S3
HOUR CODE
The druggist of the city met
Tuesday night and worked out a
code. Mr. E. C. Kidd attended the
ate meeting in Macon and got the
formation necessary for the drug
gist here to comply. They will com
plete their plans this week and
adopt unform hours for opening
closing.
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