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BANK DEPOSITS,
SHOWJNCREASE
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prospect* lor good business nr
./all are mod encouraging as imL-
■ cated by present financial and bank-
ling conditions. The largest deposits
|in Milledgeville’s banking history
■ are shown by report, issued the first
I of this month in July statements.
Deposits in the four banks of Mil-
lledgeville have increased $183,452.95
he past year. Deposits as of June
, 1934 were $1,834,689.04. The de-
ts as of June 29th 1935 totaled
J$ 1.998,140.99, an increase in twelve
I months of over one hundred and
I fifty thousand dollars. With practi
cally two million dollars on deposit
lln this city, indications are that bush
■ ness prospects are bright.
J The increase in loons has been
I small, the reports show. This is due
in part to the fact that numberous
| government agencies are making
loans on farm lands and homtes.
I which have taken out of the banks,
I what might be termed frozen loans
n manv instances.
The banks In this city have out
1 standing records and are in splen-
I did condition. They were the first
| banks to open following the banking
rs ago and are all members
l d: the Federal Depotsit Insurance
■ Corporation. The directors and offic-
? handling the afafirs of the banks
■ here are outstanding men and the
I records of the MilledgevUle banks
e a tribute to not only the men
charge, but the people In this
CITY OFFICIALS URGE
COOPERATION IN
FIGHT ON MOSQUITOES
Inspection WUl Be Blade of All
Property and OrflaiMN Regalr-
The street and sanitary commit
tee of the City Council, H. S. Woot-
ten, chairman, urges the coopera
tion of all citizens in the enfc
merit of public health laws to effect
control of mosquitoes.
The city is spraying all streams
and places where stagnant water Is
found. All side streets will also be
cleaned during the week. The prop
erty owner, especially owners of
cant lots, are urged to destroy all
weeds, empty cans, old automobile
tires and other places where mos
quitoes can breed. The councilman
also called attention to empty cans
and cases in the cemetery, and ask
ed owners of cemetery lots to change
water daily to keep down mosqui
to breeding.
Mr. Wootten said the sanitary of
ficer, Capt. Darden would make
inspection of the city this week and
all violators of sanitary laws would
be docketed.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY ON
HILL SOU) THE WEEK
Itfrs. .Van Barksdale Miller
s Former MeCiaw Home vamm\
Come Here to Live.-
’ Mrs. Nan Barksdale Miller, a form-
• resident of this city and
[Miami, Fla., this week purchased the
stop. - house on the corner of
I McIntosh and Columbia streets form-
I erly owned by the late.Mr. and Mrs.
|M. A. McCraw.
The resident is located in one of
I the most desirable sections of the
I city and is considered a most valu-
I able piece of real estate. The pur-
I chase was made from Mr. Arthur J.
I Carr. Jr., who has owned the prop-
•veral years. The price of the
| property was not announced.
Mrs. Miller will come to this city
lo make her home and will occupy
his home. Mrs. Richardson,
of Montezuma, and Mrs. Ware, of
Coral Gables, Fla., sisters of Mrs.
Miller and also natives o.* this coun
ty. will come back to Milledgeville
and will make their home with their
sister.
The three ladies have a wide Cir
cle of friends in this city who will
give them a cordial welcome back to
Milledgeville.
REVIVAL SERVICES BEGIN AT
MONTPELIER CHURCH SUNDAY
A scries of evangelistic services
will begin on Sunday at Montpelier
church in east Baldwin. Rev. W. C.
Rudd will preach at eleven o’clock
and throughout next week the
vices will be held at eight o’clock
each evening. The public is cordial
ly invited.
Rev. Budd will preach at the
Hardwick Methodist church Sun
day evening.
KIWANIS WILL
FETECADETS
Wert Pairtm to Be Skowa Irter-
erttof Peat* at WUedfenlle
lid Served Cold Driala.
When the members of the first
class from the United States Mili
tary Academy. West Point, N. Y., ar-
in Milledgeville next Wednes
day they will be met by a bevy of
Milledgeville young ladies who will
serve the young men iced cold Coca-
Cola, a “set-up” of the Kihranis
Club.
The cadets will come into Mil
ledgeville 450 strong from Savannah
and will go to the G. M. C. bar
racks where they will be served
dinner by a staff of cooks from Fort
Benning. The cadets will travel in
type fast army trucks and
immediately after their luncheon
they will be taken on a sight seeing
trip of Milledgeville as they leave
the city.
The Kiwants plan to have the
group of young ladies meet the
young men and assist in entertaining
them while here. The stop-over
Milledgeville will be as brief
possible, the army having announc
ed that the trip from Savannah tc
Fort Benning is a test trip to de
termine the speed with which troops
be meved with the new type
trucks.
The young cadets, future officers
of the army are members of next-
i senior class at the academy
are going to Fort Benning. the
largest infantry school in the world.
>e the new type of war
chines in action.
President Joe Andrews, of the Ki-
anis Club, said the club wanted to
let the cadets, who come from every
state in the union, see Georgia’s most
historical city and let them have
example of real southern hospitality
and at the same time show them
a group of the prettiest girls ii
MRS. CAR AKER
DIES WEDNESDAY
Life Laa| GHna of MilWfirilo
Punt Awiy Aftir StMit At
tack. Foaral Srtricet TWifiy
Mrs. Mary Estell Caraker. widow
f the late Mr. Chas. T. Caraker.
died at her home in this city Wed
nesday afternoon after an illne*
of only three days.
Mrs. Caraker was stricken Sun
day afternoon with a cerebral herm-
orage and did not regain conscious-
Shc gradually became weaker
and passed away quietly Wednesday
afternoon. Funeral services will be
held at tke chapel of Joseph
Moore Thursday afternoon at five
u. Rev. Horace Smith officiating.
Internment will be in the city ceme
tery with the following acting
pall-bearers: O. M. Conn. L. C. Hall.
N. Chandler. M. S. Bell, R. H.
■Lawrence. Roger Stembridge, <
Conn. J. C. Black. J JI. Ennis.
Mrs. Caraker was Miss Stella
Hass before her marriage to Mr.
Camker and has been a life long
resident of this city. She would have
celebrated her 66th birthday
Nov. 3rd of this year.
She is survived by the following
children: Dr. C. T. Caraker. of Dun
can. Oklahoma; Mrs. H. G. Lawrence,
of Macon.
C.C.C. CAMP WILL HAVE FULL
ENROLLMENT BY AUG. 1ST
BaDdlngs are Completed and Prac
tically All Fnpplles Have Been
Received for Arrival of Men.
Baldwin county’s Citizen Conser
vation Corps camp near Stevens
Pottery will be populated with over
hundred young men by next
Thursday when the main body of
CCC troups arrive at the camp.
A small detachment has been
busy since’late June "^constructing
the camp that will house the CCC
boys. The buildings have been fin
ished. a water and light plant in
stalled and equipped, and other
equipment added to make the camp
modern city with all conveniences
for the young men.
In the party will be a number of
soil erosion experts who will have
charge df the work. The work of
the young men will be devoted
tirely to soil erosion projects. The
camp has the appearance of an army
enntonement and the daily routine
will be similar to that of the a
camp except there cr no drills and
the work period is devoted entirely
to constructive work.
6. ML C TO HAVE
BIG ENROLLMENT
CaL Jm Jaakia, Planed W*k
Pi«f«b far 1S3S-36 Tana at
G.M.C. Wkick Opeu ia Stfi.
Col. Joe Jenkins, president of G.
M. C„ took time out Saturday and
Sunday from his traveling program
and visited his office to check up
prospects for the enrollment at the
college for the next term. The presi
dent Is highly pleased with the pros
pects and expects an enrollment
that will fill the barracks beyond
its capacity. Additional boarding
Quarters will probably have to be
secured.
CoL Jenkins returned from
vasing tdur through South Geocy
gia and Florida and brought with
him a' large number of applications
for enrollment. The inquiries
ing to the office which are being
handled by Mrs. Elizabeth Brow-
are greatly in excess of previous
years.
Coach Graham Batchelor and
Maj. Joel Kennedy, new members
of the faculty, are also soliciting
students and are meeting with suc
cess Coach Batchelor has been in
Georgia and Maj. Kennedy in the
Carolinas.
Coach Batchelor plans to call the
football candidates for the football
team to practice the first of Septem
ber. The cadets will face a most
difficult schedule with the second
game of the season coming with the
Naval Academy plebes in Annapolis,
Maj. Kennedy and Maj. Ben
Bryan will assist Coach Batchelor.
The college will open on Septem
ber 11th for the regular term. Stu
dents will arrive the day before.
COUNTRY CLUB PLANS
INVITATION TOURNAMENT
Final plans will be made for tl.e
Echetah ’qbuntry Club invitation
golf tournament which will be held
at the club in August at a meeting
of the club golf committee Friday.
Major J. A. Home. George Fisher.
Rev. Horace Smith. Wilson Mason
and R. H. Reynolds are the com
mittee in charge. Rev. Alford, Jr.,
the club manager said invitations
would be mailed to over two hun
dred clubs inviting ther.i to send a
team to play in the two day tourna
ment. Prizes will He offered the
winning club and also the Iota*
medalist.
The tournament cammilttee will
arrange a program of enteraainment
for the visitors while the touma-
nent Is in progress.
CITY AND COUNTY ASK PAVING U/pi MONTY K
AS COMPROMISE FOR FERRY Wifi lUUlWi 10
ROW
Services will be held at the Hard
wick Christian church on next Sun
day at if a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Rev.
Cunningham, the pastor, will preach
and the public is Invited.
EDUCATORS ATTEND
CONFERENCE IN ATHENS
Dr. Guy Wells. Dr. Harry Little.
Dean Hoy Taylor' and Prof. O. A.
Thaxton attended ttfe educational
conference in Athens the past v
Dr. Wells and Dr. Little ’
speakers on the program.
Grave of Capt Abner Hammond
Revolutionary Soldier Found Here
JORY RETURNS NOT GUILTY
VERDICT IN FRANKS CASE
After deliberating more than ten
hours, the Jury trying the
Mrs. Cattle Franks Booth charged
with the murder of Luther Maddox
Central Railroad employee, return-
verdict of "Not Guilty” about
Thursday
There is romance oftentimes in
finding an old grave, as was proved
on Tuesday, when Mrs. George
Tunnell, Regent of the Nancy Hart
Chapter, Mr. Bloomer Dumas and
Mrs. J. L. Beeson stood on the site
of the old Abner Hammond home,
and found in the garden where he
was buried one hundred and six
years ago. the “dent in the ground”,
and the stumps of the big cedars at
the head aqd the foot of the grave.
Abner Hammond was on® of five
The ease consumed all of Wed- distinguished brothers in ‘ he ' Rl 'T
V’nrk was started this week at
thp state prison on the 1936 auto-
T -' r >biles for Georgia. Mr. George
Fisher, who has charge of. the plant
nid the order this year calls fr
425 000 tag Beta.
The 1936 tag will be a reversal o
,Mp 1935 tap in color. The new tag
will be blue with gold numerals. Hie
: ut° tags have been manufactured
the prison for six years and each
year a reduction in the costs per
* a C has been shown, Mr. Fistu
*® id - Last year 424,499 sets were
Manufactured at a cost erf .066 per
tag. The last year that the tags
purchased from au outside concern
'' the state the cort was 12.4
cents.
Mrs. Booth shot Maddex in a fit of
ealous anger while the defense de
clared the shooting an accident.
Mrs. Booth made a statement declar
ing the shooting accidental.
MRS. LAMAR TO CELEBRATE
85TH BIRTHDAY
The Union-Recorder joins the
many Wend, of Mrs. I* J. Um*
In wishing for her a happyb.rth-
day on next Sunday. July 2tth when
she celebrates her 65th birthday.
Mn. Lamar has been in declining
health several yearn W keeps ™
Interest in affairs. She is one of the
county’s oldest citizens.
when he was 20 years cld.
His Baldwin county descendants
arc Mrs. A. F. Latimer and Mr.
George Holinshead and it is due to
the former’s discovery, that the
grave could be located. Both of
them. Mrs. Latimer and Mr. Hollin-
shed have made a deligent search,
but Mr. Dumas knew the land.
Formerly, the Abner Hammond
house stood on the .stage coach road
leading from Fort Wilkinson to Fort
Hawkins, the remains of which may
still be seen.
Abner Hammond became Secretary
of State and it was he who on Oct
8. 1807, accompanied the troop of
horsemen from Washington. Ga., in
bringing the Treasury and the Pub
lic Records from Louisville to Mil
ledgeville. the new capital.
In 1829, when going from
capitcl to his home across Fishing
Creek, which was greatly swollen, he
was drowned. His horse, riderless,
appeared at his home, and after
search, his body was found. On a
count of the high waters he could
not be buried in Milledgeville ceme
tery and the grave was madi
the garden.
Years passed, the land went into
ether hands and the house fell into
decay.
But Mrs. Latimer was told by ar
old family servant, who now is 9<
years old. who lives in Rome. Ga.
that Abner Hammond was bttrta
near Fishing Creek, at the old house,
and if "old Mariah” had actually
been with those who found th<
grave.- she could have giv
City and County Suggest Paving from
MUledgevtlle to Dublin as Cmm-
1 rimlif for Balk Perry DkpnU.
Congressman Carl Vinson and
Governor Talmadge have been asked
to pave the road from MUledge-
vUle to Dublin ms a means o f bring
ing to conclusion their misunder
standing over the Balls Ferry bridge
which has held up nineteen million
dollars for Georgia’s highway de
partment.
Congressman Vinson wants the
bridge at Ball’s Ferry and Gov. Tal
madge says he will not yield despite
several comprimises suggested by
Congressman Vinson. All *hi* time
Congressman Vinson is holding up
the payment of money for highway
construction in Georgia and says he
will not yield one inch until the
Balls Ferry bridge is included In the
highway program.
City and county officials have
both written the authorities suggest-
I ing the paving to Dublin as a means
to settle the dispute.
COURT ENDS JULY
TERM SATURDAY
Special Term May Be CaleJ.
Ccart CU»« After Twe Week,
Wark WHk CrhsRil Deckel.
Judge James B. Park adjourned
Baldwin Superior Court last Satur
day after two weeks devoted to the
trial of crimnal and civil business
the docket of the court, but when
the court session ended a crowded
crimnal calendar had not been dis
posed of.
Judge Park discuss the possibility
of a special term of cougt for
week In order to clear the heavy
crimnal docket, but made no decis
ion. ’Die second week of court was
devoted to the crimnal business.
Two murder cases consumed over
three days. Judge Park said that
all prisoners held in jail had been
tried and that all cases on the docket
the defendants were out on bond.
Aftei more than a day o7 delibera
tion the jury trying the cases of the
state vs. C. R. Buttersworth failed
to reach a verdict and Judge Park
declared a mistrial. Buttersworth
was tried under indictments charg
ing assault with intent to murder
and unlawfully pointing a pistol at
another. The two cases were tried at
the same time bv the same jury.
J. W. Ayco Wilkinson county
farmer, was ordered to pay all costs
in trial in which he was charged
with assault with intent to murder
plus $10.00. Aycock was driving a
truck that struck the mule of Rev.
J. F. McCluney on which his son was
riding. Eli B. Hubbard of Irwinton
defended Aycock. The jury recom
mended in their verdict that Aycock
be punished as for a misdemeanor
and the judge imposed the fine.
Solicitor General Shop Baldwin
will discuss with Judge Park later
the advisability of a special term of
court to clear the crimnal docket.
If the special term is called, which
is not probable, it will not be held
until late fall.
EXPECTED DAILY
H. J. PmR, Aairtaat Krtrirt
EspMCT Say, EnryRisg
RcsAy to Btfai Prajada.
The way is cleared for full speed
teed on Baldwin county's Work
Progress Administration pro! act* and
word from Atlanta is expected daily
for work to start, H. J. Powell, as
sistant district engineer, in charge
of work relief in this county, said.
The local office is already to trans
fer people from the relief roils to the
WPA. The construction of s jail by
the county and wash water tanks
by the city have already been ap
proved and the money appropriated.
All that now delays the atari Is
word from Miss Sheppereon in At
lanta that says the money is in hand.
Mr. Powell said he hoped to get
the work started not later than
Monday morning and e very detail
was completed for the work to go
forward. The office here has marked
time for several days awaiting in
structions. Mr. Powell said over a
hundred people will be given work
immediately. Workmen will be paid
wages from $19. to $75. monthly.
SUMMER SCHOOL
OPENSjND TERM,
Practically Tfcrce HhM Sta-
fcata Earofej for Sacowl Half
of G. Si C. Samar Ten.
BURIAL SERVICES TO BE HELD
TOMORROW FOR FORMER
RESIDENT
Burial services will be held to-
For the first time in history the
G. S. C. W. summer school is con
tinuing for twelve weeks and the
second half began Monday morning
with practically three hundred stu
dents enrolled. The first half closed
Friday when graduating exercises
were held and Dr. Hoy Taylor de
livered the principal address.
285 students were registered far
the first extra term the college has
held and this number is ex
pected to reach 300 before the week
is out. This is a splendid enrollment,
due to the fact *hat the last term
always attracts a smaller number of
students.
Dr. Guy Wells said practically the
same courses would be offered the
second term. The faculty is smaller
than the first session faculty.
Dr. Wells said a get-together party
would be held for the students on
Friday evening and other entertain
ments would be given during the
six weeks period. The session will
come to a close August 23,'d. a week
earlier than previously planned, but
classes will be held on Saturday.
Dr. Wells is most pleased with the
enrollment and the outlook for a
most successful term.
Announcement was made this
week by Dr. Guy Wells that a de
gree in music would be offered by
G. S. C. W. in the future.
The department oC music has been
enlarged with a complete conserva
tory for instruction. This is the first
time the college has offered a full
course in music leading to a degree.
In the department are Dr. Max
Noah. Mrs. Wiles Homer Allen, Miss
Alice Lenore Tucker, Miss Maggie
Jerkins. Mrs. Nelle Womack Hines,
morrow afternoon at three o’clock Miss Beatrice Hosbrough. Courses
the city cemetery for Mrs.
Chandos Haney, of Manchester, Ga.
Mrs. Haney is remembered here as
Miss Ethlyn Gillespie, daughter of
Mrs. Dassah Gillespie, who made her
home here with her mother for many
Th' fr'er.ds of Mrs. Hancj^and
her family are asked to meet at
Moore’s Funeral Home where the
body will be brought before the
commitment services.
Mrs. 'Haney was thirty years of
in voice, violin,
In this weeks issue of The Union-
Recorder Chandler’s Vafiety Store
announces a big Removal Sale. The
event is staged in preparation to
move into their new store about
Sept. 1st.
Mr. Chandler said the sale would
> and died at an Atlanta Hospital be store wide and every item will
Wednesday morning. Death
j following the birth of a
Mrs.
accurate description than when she
said “the grave is a dent in the
ground between two big cedars.”
There is to this day, that dent in
the ground between two large cedar
stumps, eight feet apart, and strange
as it may seem, this spot has never
had the cotton furrows in the big, from the news
field run across it . L. & B.
Haney is survived by her husband
and little son, William Scott Haney,
who is now three days of age. her
mother, Mrs. Dassah Gillespie and
one sister. Miss Elizabeth Gillespie.
The friends of the Gillespie fam
ily were greatly shocked and grieved
Mrs. Haney’s
be drastically reduced. The sale will
continue through the next few
weeks.
LEGION TO HAVE CUE TODAY
The American Legion will have a
barbecue today at the farm of Mr.
C. E. Smith near Merriwether. The
cue will be served at two o’clock and
all tegtonaires are Invited.
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