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Milledgeville, Ga., November 2, 1933
ConcSsUled ia 1172
A BALDWIN COUNTY •
INSTITUTION •
NUMBER 11
Drive for Community Chest
Launched by Red Cross
Splendid Progrew Made in
paign to Raise Funds for Charity
Under Red Cross Supervision.
The reports of the first weeks
reopro- of the drive to provide
»ond« fo- Milledgeville’s Community
f)...: showed splend’d work already
■thieved anl the drive wtll on its
rtV t» the designated goal
father T. J. McNamara, Roll Call
thjiraisr. presided at the meeting
... .i n ;he Baptist Sunday School
’ „ nl Tuesday night. Mrs. Frank
p on . m named secretary and Mr.
I c. Hall treasurer at the meet-
ung Indie - selected irom
w h church wll make a canvas dur-
- , week peeking subscriptions
m people on the streets, while
ibf church organisations will con-
t:nue their w«*rk in the homes and
. houseg.
the meeting Tuesday th6
Catholic group showed their entire
naubership .ubocribed wth an aver-
ip of $5.00 each.
Father McNamara issued the fol-
lowirg statement at the concluson
of the meeting:
While the response to the Red
Prow Roll Call thus .far has been
fpun a Community standpoint. Cer
tainly th- people of Milledgeville
,<!1 rot he found wanting in this
lour of the Community’s need. Our
people are not a selfish people, yet
they cannot escape the indictment of
••Ifishne.tp if they generally, fail in
•he fulfillment of an evident duty.
The relief of the needy of Millege-
o and Ealdwir. County is not n
burden to he carried Iby a few peo-
a burden which should be
willinjrlv and gcneroasly supported
:hi combined cf/orts of every |
i woman, and child of the Com-1
much
s far as pos-ible
»ck Pare)
APPLICATIONS FILED FOR
LOANS ON BALDWIN FARMS
Mr. Andrew* Handling Application!
in Tbit County. Inspector. Visit
ing Here.
A number of loans from the Fed
eral Land Bank on Baldwin county
farms have been filed by Mr. L. H.
Andrew.-, supervisor of the loan
office in this county.
Inspectors, were here this week
inspecting the lands and preparing
to approve the loans. A number of
additional loans are expected to be
filed during the next few weeks.
Under the plan a land owner may
borrow from the government to re
tire a mortgage and make improve
ments on their farms.
BURGLARS CAUGHT IN PIGGLY
WIGGLY STORE FRIDAY NIGHT
our Nogroo Mon Held by County
Authorities for Breaking Into
Four negroes were jailed
week for breaking into and stealing
groceries from the Piggly Wiggly
store.
Tom Mitchell was caught by special
officer Tom Brake Friday night just
after he had entered the qtore and
taken twenty cartons of cigarettes.
Mitchell implicated four others, Ben
Finsley, Johnny Reeves and Milton
W : lhite, and they wer- later arrested
Mite noil is in jail while the others
arc out under bond.
Mr. George iStembridge. manager
of the store, had been missing things
from the store several weeks and
had discovered where the burglars
had entered the store through a
j _v , ... I ond sSory window. They would
the object of this | , ...
■ clrmb on the Union Wart-hou.e build-
'mg rnd walk across to the Piggly
Wiggly budding and enter a window
after the-- had torn out the win
guard. Fo ^several nights Mr. Brak
had been watching the building and
Friday night ho caught Mitchell
coming out with the cigarette.".
POULTRY MEETING
LARGELY ATTENDED
iber of Farmers Hear Inter-
K Talk From Expert at H
r. C. R. Torrence.
largely attended poultry meet
ing wa< held Tuesday morning at
o'clock at the litfme of Mr. C.
R- Torrance in South-west Baldwin.
Mr. John Ivey, of Auburn, Ala.,
formerly wrh the extension service
■ Alabama, was the principal
speaker, d -cussing poultry manage-
in all its phase". He war
throughly familiar with the subject
and his talk was most interesting and
instructive.
SINCLAIR DEALEDS ENJOY
BANQUET THURSDAY NIGHT
Talks on
Meeting
n the
SIDNEY McGEE SPEAKS ON
GERMANY BEFORE K1WANIS
Dr - Sidney McGee wa f | the guest
speaker at the regular meeting of
K'aanis the past week. He spoke
°s Germany.
I*r. McGee spent several 'months
Germany and his addrerp gave attractive touch.
■ Kiwanians a clear insight into' Mr. Roy B- Haskins, general
c ra:: nns there. ! gales manager
Sinclair gas and oil dealers
MiHed(Seville and 'Gordon districts
assembled Thursday night at the
Ecietah Country club as the guest*
of Mr. J. B. Mai pass, local dealer
and Mr. Roy Pennington. Gordon
dealer.
There were forty dealers present
to enjoy the delicious barbecue din
ner served earlier in ihe evening.
Mrs. Mnlpass supervised the ar
rangement and serving the dinner.
Hallowe'en decorations gave the
long banquet ha'l an artistic and
CONTROL BOARD
T0ELECTN0V.17
Session Monday Duposes of Rou
tine Bosineis. Heads of Institu
tions to Be Elected.
The Board of Control adjourned
Monday without electing the super
intendents of the several eleemosy
nary institutions under their super
vision and set November 17th os
the day for the moetng when this
business will be disposed of.
The board met on the regular
meeting day but disposed of only
routine matters which dealt chiefly
with the budget for the next quar
ter. The two new member^, Mr-'.
Healey and Rev. Swann, who suc
ceeded Mr. Lucas and Mr McIntosh,
were present. A successor to Dr.
Fhaw had not been named at the
time of the meeting.
There wn. no diqcussion of the
annual election of institution heads
and the board members gave
presdon as to who wonld probably
be elected. There has been much
newspaper talk that Dr. R. C. Swint
will be replaced as head of the State
Hospital, hut this is speculative and
there is no definite or positive proof
that this will be done. The nrmoW
have gone out that Dr. Swint will
he removed along with Dr. Hagood
r.t Alto, but the board has not dis
cussed the matter of the elections
in their meetings nor have they dis
cus* j changes out.s'de their meet
ing is far as we have been able
learr. There ha-: been no poll taken
of th.> board and the Governor has
not expressed his wishes in the mat
ter. !|
Governor Talmadge will have con
trol of the board with seven ap
pointees. The meeting on November
17th will b" for the purpose of dis
posing of annual (business] which
will include the election of superin
tendents for the inftitutions in their
charge.
COTTON NINE AND QUARTER
CENTS
Good middling cotton was quoted
•it nine and one-quarter cent# on the
Milledgeville market Wednesday.
GOLF CONTEST
STARTS FRIDAY
Large Number of Entries I mure i
Most Sncessful and Thrilling
Tournament.
Plans go Forward for Big
Armistice Day Parade
Undo- the direction of R. S. Al
ford, Jr., new manager of the
Echetah Country Chib, the annual
club tournament will ‘begin Friday,
November 3rd. Due to a completi
reorganization of the club, renewed
interest has bec-n taken in the vari
ous activities and an overwhelming
member of entrants arc expected for
the tournament
The date for the tournament wan
previously set for last week but due
to changes being made in the course
qualifying rounds will not begin un
til the third. All plans for the tour
ney were formulated on October 23,
when the golfing committee i
posed of Messrs. Geo. Fisher. Geo.
Florence, R. H. Reynolds, and Sid
ney Jones met to announce the date
and qualifying rules.
Those members expected to
b'cipate in the meet are: Major Geo.
Florence, Major Fred Josey, Major
W. O. Dorough, Major Bryan, Capt.
Mansfield, Dr. W. M- Scott. Rfc-
Comb Hines, J. If. Holloway, Fath
er T. J. McNamara, Messrs. Geo.
Fisher. ,J. A. Horne, J. F. Bell, Jr.,
Geo. Bill, Tom Hall Smith, Wey-
man Sm'th, L. 9. Ttirrer, W. M.
Fraley, C. H. Whitfield, Edward
Robinson, H. G. Bone, Roy Haye*
Lamar Ham, Harris Hall, J. B. Mill-
pass. R. H. Reynolds, A. C. McKin
ley, W. E. Ireland, Dr. D. J. Hunt,
Dr. Raymond Saurex, Dr. G. J- Corn-
well, CJoI. Marion Allen, and Dr.
Davrt«on Allen.
Trophies to be given the winner*
of the first, .second, and (third
fights and consolation are now
display in the windows of J.
Holloway’s Man's store. The e cups
will remain permanently in the pos
ition of the winners.
The tournament this year has
created city wide interest and n
large t:i1 lory i expected to fce on
the course as well as a great Lum
ber of golfers.
KIWANIS b. 'S C. C. C. CAMP
FOR BAL «N COUNTY
Ask Congressman °j«on to
operate in Locating ^np lor Re
forestation in This > ’ oty.
The K,wants Club at thei. editing
Thursday night called on Co ,ee&-
man Vinson to aid them in securing
a Civilian Conservation Corps camp
for Baldwin county to reforest
lands in thkt section.
Several month" ago the club was
assured that a camp would be lo
cated here later in the year to re
forest lands in this section. The
camp now located at Crawfordville
was to do work in tlAi section.
A number of C. C. C. camps are
being moved south for the winter
and the club hope«( to have one of
these camps located here.
BIG QUAIL CROP IN GEORGIA
AWAITS HUNTERS
her 20.
$30,000. Loaned Baldwin
Farmers on.Their Cotton
With the opening of the quaij
son only a month off Georgia sports
men who believe in adhering to the
state game lawij are urging all hun
ters to “hold thedr gun»" until No
vember 20th, the first day on which
it will be lawful to shoot these birds.
While there have been no definite
reports that some hunters are al
ready shooting quail in Georgia,
there have been rumors to that ef
fect. State game wardens are on the
lookout for violations of game laws
regarding the shooting of quail.
When November 20th does roll
around sportsmen will lake to
field with the knowledge that this
year’s crop of birdif is the largest
in a decade in this section. Reports
from all over the territory state
that there arc more birds thi, year
than there have been in several
DISTINGUISHED PULPIT
ORATOR TO PREACH AT
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Over three hundred applications
have been approved for loans of 10
cents per pound on cotton by Horne-
Ahdocws (Jommisrion Co., repre
senting a total of more than $30,-
000 that has gone into the pockets
of farmers this week.
Mr- J. A. Horne, who is aiding in
handling the loan applications, said
practically all the farmers were
availing themselves of the oppor
tunity to get these loans and that
applications were being handled as
rapidly a sponsible. The first blanks
arrived last (week ojpd -luce that
time there has been a steady rush
for *he money.
The government is lending 10c
per pound on 1933 cotton at a
of 4 per cent. A great marjority of
the cotton that was placed on stor
age has been converted into money
th r ough the loans. Mr. Horne said ho
believed those who did not get the
loans would be in the minority.
G - s - C STUDENTS PLAN
PROGRAM OVER RADIO
! ' being made for a G. S.
'-"am over rtat'on W. S. B.
1 in November. The col-,
■'i have thirty minutes and nn be sold in sealed cans, that
' n -’ musical program is be-
„ this division, was xh e County Com'ssionen
the chief .speaker of the occasion, j pcc t: n g a delegation from the Bourd
He told the dealers how Sinclair gn« J of Regents to confer wth them at
was refined and gave then: infer-, t j, e t r meeting next Tuesday to di-»-
mation or the new Sinclair H. C. cu * ,h e sale of the court house and
He also presented to them the new j lo the board for use by G. S.
method of handling oil. The oil will! c w
Commissioners Expect Offer
From Regents for Court House
the college could
arranged.
' WOOTTEN ON REHABILITA
TION COMMITTEE
• oimrander Sidney Camp, of the
r ^ ! 'n Legion, has named Mr.
.notteu a member of the Re-
I '° n . r ° in tnittee of the Legion
^ ? t V ° * 1,s t ^ le Problem of
" "at ng unfortunate veterans
* re dibbled as t result of their
i not.
be used after emptied.
The The Sinclair company will
launch a special advertising cam
paign and the meeting Thursday
night was most enthusiastic.
RIGHT-OF-WAY CONTRACTS
FOR NEW BRIDGE RECEIVED
Just what offer will be made
not known. Earl Cocke, secretary of
the board, said no definite proposition
had been worked out, but he hoped
the board and the commissioner?
could agree on some termr. of a srle.
Mr. Elliott Dunwoody. of the hoard,
inspected the property about two
week: ago to determine its value and
to decide the
make of it.
The cemmisfjoners have conferred
with several architects regarding
plans for the new buildng but have
reached no definite decision a-* to
the type of buildng or its cost. The
matter of a new court houne and
jail hinges on whether the commis
sioners cun agree with the Board of
Regents on a sale price and make
the sale. ‘VfS
Options have been taken or
era! p cceq of property to he
for the new bulding in the event the
commissioners decide to build.
Dedicated.
The beautiful lvfc-sizc Crucifix,
which has been placed in the local
Catholic church by Mrs. Y. A. Lit
tle to the memory of her late hue-
band, Dr. Little, will be dedicated at
a speiia 1 service to be held at the
church, Friday evening at 7:30. The
Dedication Sermon wtfl be preached
by Father William J. Harty, S. J.,
and Father McNamara, Pastor of the
church, cordially invites the people
of Milledgeville to attend the
vice. The Crucifix is a work of art,
showing forth the artists conception
of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
The preacher of the occasion, a
native Georgian, i| one of the most
eloquent pulpit orator of the South.
Formerly of the teaching staff of
Loyola University, New Orlean-
Father Harty i«\ now a member of
the Southern Jesuit Mission Band.
Legion and Auxiliary Plan Filling
Celebration for November 11.
Kiw*BU to Co-operate.
Plans are being rapidly perfected
for the largest parade that has ever
been staged in Milledgeville on Ar
mistice Day when the American
Legion and Auxiliary will celebrate
the day in commemoration of the
close of the war and to pay tri
bute to the men who wore the kaki.
The Armistice Day parade will
probably be the most colorful and
interesting that has ever been staged.
Capt. Frank (Mansfield has been
named Marshall of the Day and will
arrange the line of march. The cadet
hattallion. Gold Star Mothers, Le
gion, Auxiliary, members, clubs, and
school children will make , up the
-main rcction.
At the invitation of the Legion
and Auxiliary the Kiwanis Club la
sponsoring an NRA section in co
operation with the service organiza
tions to add color and beauty to
the occasion. The NRA floats and
display will be a part cf the pa
rade and will come in the rear of
first section that will make up the
main body of the line of march.
Washington and Putnam counties
have beer, invited to send floats for
the perr.de.
Mayor J. A. Horne and the city
council will lead the NRA section
which will he composed chiefly of
floats of business houses in the city.
Every business houqe has been invite^
;o have a car representing them in
the parade.
The parade will terminate at G.
S. C. W where the Armitlce exer
cises will be heid in the college
auditorium Hon Sidney Camp, com
mander of the Gcorga division, will
be the principal speaker. In the even
ing a banquet wll he held and a
dance will follow.
CADETS BATTLE
NORMAN FRIDAY
Strong Junior College Foe to Meet
Cadets on Davenport Field This
Week.
Contracts to secure the right-of-
way for the new bridge
CEORGE MORRIS OPENS
PRODUCE DEPOT HERE
LEGION HOLDS IMPORTANT
MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT
T S.
Thp Rivys Mule Cm, opened
stables this week in the building
the rear of Prosser’q Shop under
the management of Mr. T.
Jeans.
Mr. Jeanes is an experienced mule
man and i? well known throughout
this section The firm shipment of
mules arrived this week and a n
ber have already been sold.
Jeanes and Mr. Rives invite their
friends to v : slt their new place.
the
A S S ATTE "D GRAND
l . 0DCE MEETING IN MACON
l, or ' . En ‘ t Grand Master Joe
reville Masons went to
•>ntl Wednesday in
C ■ " icet,n >r of the Grand
Mr v ' ' on there.
,r »mi Ofr! ' va ’honored as a Past
r - Those representing
; l odge were John Riley,
L. L. Beck. W. B.
'I- Bnumgartol, all past
; '‘f 'he lodge, and Sidney L.
- e ' Worshipful Master.
Oconee River have been received
and are now being rigned up. The
land for the new bridge will have
to be given, since th- county -s not
allowed to purchase riglf-of-wny
land. ,
The new brdge will be several
■feet up stream from the present lo-
caton and will require a new ML
The h'ghway department wll send
engineers here during the next ten
day . to make the survey of the
Irwinton road so that right-ofways
mav be secured there. The contract
for the new bridge will be let late
in Nov-ember.
Mr. George Morris has opened i
produce depot for the wholesale
trade in the Sanford building in the
rear of Snow’s Laundry. Mr. Morris
rill bring fruits and vegetables by
truck from Florida.
MILLEDGEVILLE RED CROSS
COMPETES FOR STATE FLAG
■Mr. George Tunnell, head of the
local chapter of Red Cross, received
word today that the progress made
so far in the Red Cront drive placed
the local or.-anizaton well on its
vav io win the flag fur the greatest
achievement in roll call this year.
The American Legion held an
portant meeting Thursday n.ght and
discussed plans for the celebration
of Armistice Day. Dr. Sam Anderson,
commander of the port, presided.
A barbecue supper was served
before the business -TO«ion
started. Dr. Sidney McGee spoke on
Germany and condition there and
gave a very intereting account of
the Hitler government.
The Legion joined the auxiliary in
inviting the Kiwanis to have a place
in »h? Armit/tce Day parade with
an NRA section.
Mr. J. A. Mayfield has purchased
the meat market of Mm W. R. Dun
ham and has taken charge of th.
business. Mr. Mayfield stated thnt
the market would be operated ii
pre-ent location until the building
cn Hancock street, formerly occu
pied by the George Barr Tailor
Shop, could ho remodeled and
changed to aceomodatc the market.
Mr. Mayfield in an experienced
market man and is well known in
this city.
The foot ball eleven from Norman
Junior College will invade Daven
port Field Friday afternoon for their
annual game with the cadets of G.
M. C.
The game will he one of the best
of the season and will bring to Mil
ledgeville one of the strongest junior
college elevens in the state. The
athletic officials have announced
spec : al bargain pricey foi this game
and a big crowd is expected to wit
ness the gridiron classic.
Fresh from their overwhelming
victory over Fort (Bending Coach
Wallace Butts han given his team a
rough week despite injuries that
have invaded the cadet squad. Trout
man, Reed and Jacobs will he out
of the gome and the cadets may he
weakened in their battle with one of
the major juniir college foes.
The game Friday starty a four
game series that will bring to Mil
ledgeville the best of the junior col
lege elevens. November 11th, (Mid
dle Georgia Colege, of Cochran, will
be the oppositon. November 18th
Statesboro Teachcrq will come here
and Thanksgiving Gordon will come
here for the annual turkey day
All of these teamy have a number
of stars of college calliber. The fans
here will have a chance to see some
of the best foot ball that will be
played in Georgia this year in the
next four gamed
Mr. W. H. Odom, manager of the
Colonial, has announced that the
picture starring Mae West, “I’m No
Angel”, will be shown at the
theatre Monday, Tue’day and Wed
nesday of next week at regular
price*
The picture was written and staged
by Miss West and is one of the
great pictures of the year It has
rhown in all the big city theatres
before packed audiences and is by
far the most talked picture of the
year.