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NUMBER 49
BOARD CONTROL,
ASKSFORMONEY
Fimd Will Provide BaiWinj at
Beys Training Scheol and Im
provements at Stale Hospital.
The state has asked the federal
government for approximately $300,-
000 in relief grants for buildings and
repairs at charitable institutions, it
uas announced yesterday by Chair
men E. E. Lindsey, of the Board of
Control.
Mrs. Albert M. Hill, secretary of
the board, said the “general” pro
gram had been submitted to J. Hous-
tr ,n Johnston, acting state director
(4 - the public Works Administration.
Specifications on individual projects,
however, have not been completed.
“I have arranged to meet with a
federal engineer at the various in
stitutions to go over our needs with
him." Mrs. Hill said.
She plans to go to Augu:
week to confer with an engineer of
th- FERA on proposals for the
Gracewcod School for Mental De
fectives. The Board of Control wants
laundry, repairs to old buildings
enough to complete
unfinished dormitory.
The largest amount is asked for
the Milledgeville State hospital.
? Lindsey said he wanted to lay
feet «.f sewer pipe, repair
[ buildings, cr-ncrete bathroom floors,
officers’ quarters and re-
| model several heating systems.
At Alto sanatorium $7,000 is asked
w laundry and repairs to the
's and main buildings,
nnasium building is planned
Academy 'for the Blind at
Other pro jects contemplated j
NEW LEGION COMMANDER
/
DR. RICHARD BINION
LEGION ELECTS
NEWOFFICERS
Richard Binion Named New
Commander. Club House to Be
Undertaking in Coming Year.
Dr. Richard Binion was the un
animous choice of his “buddies” as
commander of the Morris-Little
Post of the American Legion at the
annual election of officers
Thursday.
The meeting was held at the farm
of Mr. C. E. Smith, past commander
and a barbecue dinner was served.
Dr. Binion accepted the election and
the membership pledged their loyal
oport to him in the work Cor the
*w year. Dr. Binion was elected
P.0. RECEIPTS BUILDING WORK
SHOW BIG GAIN! NOWUNDERWAY
includr replacement ef bath tubs with i commander of the post shortly after
=. new steam boiler and re- I its organization and had a most suc-
| modeled heating plant, new pianos. J ccssful administration.
laundry machinery and plumb- | The thief undertaking for the le-
repnirs. Sion this year will be the erection of
Lindsey said a new dormitory is J a club house. Plans are already be-
letdcd at the school for the deaf at ing made to secure the property
|Care Spring. land build a suitable house for tne
For the Bovs* Trai. ing school, at legion membe r s.
Milledgeville. the state hopes to | Other officers elected and ap-
a workshop, new dairy bams. | pointed at the meeting Thursday
■ laundry and overhaul present were: W. H. Arnall. 1st vice-
■ The Board of Control,
rperatos all of Georgia’s
rsynary institutions, has aban
doned the idea of moving this
school to Clarkesville.
The Girls' Training school could
’ another cottage. Lindsey said,
v projects are planned for
| th? Confederate Soldiers,’ Home, near
| Atlanta, where $37,000 was spent
" on repairs. Its grounds are
* being landseaped by the FERA.
VOTERS TO NOMINATE MAYOR
I « ALDERMEN ON FRIDAY
| C.rnrge Carpenter to Be Named
Mayor Without Opposition. Three
Aldermen C
Judge George Carpenter will
Mayor of Milledgeville
vhen the Democratic pri-
be held at the City Hall
^ the ninety qualified voters will
opportunity to cast their
Judge Carpenter seeks the noml-
without opposition and s
mination is equivalent to elec-
i'Mr. Carpenter will take office
January 1st 1938 as Milledge-
5 chief executive.
!e three aldermen incumbents
*k° seeking the nomination
‘■Jt 'pposition and J. C. Bas-
„ T H Clark and T. B. Dumas
named aldermen of the city
term of four years,
voters will also elect a Demo-
cxecutive committee for the
„ noils will be-open through-
o 0]° r! , iy ' executive commit-
si * members.
^ard
*® fc? ,
OF EDUCATION
■ r, TO plan bus *out*s
f Education will hold
. 1 hly meeting on next
r ,. aji _®t the office of Supt. P. N.
• Th.' meeting will be held at,
‘ n tae afternoon instead
clock in the morning, Mr.
announced.
has
boa otJular routine meeting
v.ill pi an the school bus
5 for the
coming year. Any re-
[ chan 8es should be filed
, arf f- The board will also
to repair and improve j
mander: Grady Keel. 2nd vice-com
mander: John Holloway, finance
officer; Joe Grant, adjudant: C. E.
Smith, service officer: Milledge
Leach, chaplain: James Hogan, serg
eant at arms: Joe F. Muldrow, his-
Delegates named to the state con
vention to be held in Macon later
this month were: Joe Grant. Dr.
Edwin Allen. Dr. Binion, Stewart
Wootten. Grady Keel and Ben Har-
A resolution was adopted thank
ing C.. B. McCullar for his work as
district commander ard his efforts
) build the legion membership
■hich is the second largest in the
istory o.’ the post.
Dr. Binion will take office in
September succeeding Ben L. Har
rison, who served as commander the
past year and has had a most suc
cessful and progressive administra
tion. The legion thanked Mr. Har
rison for his splendid leadership
and untiring efforts in the interest
of the post.
Straai Indication of Grelly Im
proved Business Conditions.
Year Skews Increase.
The Milledge vi lie post office
ended the fiscal year through June
30th, 1335, with a dollar and cents
gain in volume of business amounting
to $3,896.60, according to figures
leased this week by Dr. E. A. Tig
»r, postmaster.
Total receipts amounted to $34,-
329.78, with the last quarter show
ing the largest business of the year
with the exception of the Christmas
season. The increase in postal
ceipts is a strong indication of
proved business conditions in
section.
The total business by quarters
as follows: September 1934.
194.14; December 1934. $9,427.65;
March 1935. $8,373.89: June 1935,
$9,334.10 with a total for the year
amounting to $34,329.78.
The figures for the previous
were: September, 1933, $6,120.73;
December. 1933, $8,761.94; March
1934, $7,214.78; June 1934. $8,335.73
with a total for the yea: amounting
;o $30,433.18.
The increase has been steady
hroughout the year whirh shows
steady rise in business conditions
throughout this section. The postal
receipts have always been a strong
indication of the condition of busi
ness and the improvement here gives
further rise to the prediction that
business will show a further mark
ed improvement in the fall. The in
crease in postal receipts with the
large increase in bank deposits, as
shown in a comparison in last
week’s Lssuc of The-Union-Recorder.
doubles the statement that business
in Milledgeville has been improved
by the New Deal.
COUNTY CROPS
REPORTED FINE
Reconstruction of OHunnn Build -
mg it Started. New Bailding for
Ckaodler’t Progressing.
Work was started this week to dis
mantle and reconstruct the Olhman
building for occupancy by Septem
ber 1st by the Rose 5c and 10c store
of Ncrth Carolina.
R. H. Wootten and John Holloway,
occupants of the building, have
moved to their new locations on
Wayne street and have re-arranged
their stocks and are ready for busi
ness. Thr front of the Olhman build
ing has been torn out and the in
terior has be».n wrecked. The work
will be completed by Sept. 1st, with
an entierly new front and interior.
The second floor will be arranged
for offices and a store room will be
built next to the building occupied
by Goldstein's.
Work is also progressing on the
new building for Chandler's on
Hancock street. This building will
be one of the most attractive in the
city.
Other business changes will prob
ably be announced later and other
improvements are rumored before
Sept. 1st.
While the building work is pro
gressing in the busincsss district,
work will be started-on a number of
new homes in the residential section,
of the city.
Soil Erosion Program Discussed
At Meeting Tuesday Afternoon
FIRST BALE OF COTTON
PICKED IN COUNTY
Mr. B. O. Jackson, overseer on
the farm of Congressman Carl
Vinson, has picked a bale of cot
ton on the Congressman’s '.'arm
and has the staple ready for the
gin.
The cotton began fruiting List
week and on Monday picking was
started. Mr. Jackson said that he
believed that all the cotton would
be picked out on Mr. Vinsons
farm by late August.
Mr. Vinson has not said when
he will gin and market the bale.
Other farmers will begin picking
this week.
D.A.R. CAMPAIGN
TO SAVE TREES
Datck Elm Disease Damaging
Trees in Cily and Organisation
Opens to Stop Destruction.
The Nancy Hart chapter. Daugh-
Plana are Outlined for Soil Erosaan
Pre-rani to Be Carried oa by C
C. C. m Tin. County.
Farmers and interested citizens
met at the new CCC camp near
Stevens Pottery Tuesday afternoon
and heard outlined the plans for
soil erosion and reforesty work to be
carried on in this county by the
young men to be stationed at the
CCC camp.
The 200 young men who will make
up the personel of the Citizens
Conservation Corps will arrive with
in the next ten days and will im
mediately begin to carry out the
program. The camp has been com
pleted with the construction of more
than a dozen buildings and every
thing is in readiness to receive the
reforestry workers.
C. G. Gamer, of the state exten
sion office and Mr. Elrod, soil erosion
expert, spoke at the meeting Tues
day. Work will be done in all parts
of the county, the speakers said, but
the land owners must sign an
agreement with the government be
fore the work can be done. Seven
teen land owners signed the agre-
ments at the. meeting Tuesday. The
of the American Revolution. ,lrst work . " m,int ' d <°
COL CARL VINSON
SPENDSDAYHERE
Visits Mother am! Father. Inspects
Farm and Confers With Consttm-
ents Over Week-end.
Congressman Carl Vinson, who has
been in the thick of the controversy
between Gov. Talmadge and th<
federal government over the expen
diture of nineteen million dollars ir
highway funds in Georgia, cam<
Rapid Growth Since Tke Recent d °»" ,rr - r ’ Washington Friday and
i! . , , spent Saturday and Sunday with
Rains. Cotton Menaced by Bod his pare nts here.
Weevil, Bat Corn Crops Good. I Congressman Vinson spent Sat-
. | unlay morning inspecting his
onea
PART OF COTTON RENTAL
CHECKS ARE RECEIVED
About $1,660 Distributed to Fanners
In Rental Payment*. 256 1
Checks Expected Daily.
Fifty-five checks were received
the Farm Agents office Saturday
in payment of rented cotton i
were immediately distributed to
the farmers.
This brings the total checks
ceived for this years payments to
approximately 400 and total about
$7,000. 250 more checks are expected
daily to g?TO to the farmers ah
$5,000 more money for rented acr
The first rental payments will be
all received by August 10th. the
agent stated. The second rental pay
ments will be made in the fall.
COUNTY
CANNERY WORKING
OVER TIME
The Baldwin County cooperative
cannery is working ov er time in or
der to take care of the demands that
are made for canning facilities.
icfcor.1 v, w ie Fair ana improve| Through Wednesday approximate-
■,Z- houses la preparation for ly 7,000 cans lave been put up at
‘ nt{ c<r s chcol Sept. 11th. { the canning plant.
From Putnam county on the North
to Wilkinson on the South and
Washington on the East and Joro
the West the farmers of Baidu
county report that the
promises to be the best produced
eral years, as the seasons have
been excellent except in a few iso
lated portions of the county where
»re too long delayed. Since
s have fallen, covering the
entire county, there has been
notable improvement in the growth
of the crop which needs constant
showers during its development.
The cloudy weather and frequent
showers has not been quite so favor
able to the cotton crop on account
of the attack of the boll weevil
While the plant has grown remark
ably fast the weather conditions
have been favorable to the propa
gation of this destructive insect
which is attacking the cotton in f "
force and will cause *he squares
drop off rapidly, preventing the n
turity of the first bolls.
The sweet potato, cane, hay and
other crops have also been bene-
fitted by the rains and with the ex
ception of the cotton crop the pros
pects for all others are said to be
most excellent for an abundant
harvest next fall.
TWO WELL-KNOWN EDUCATORS
TO BE HEARD BY METHODIST
Rev. Horace S. Smith, pastor of
the Milledgeville Methodist church,
who will leave early next week for
a two week’s vacation, has an
nounced that Dr. Hoyt Taylor will
fill the pulpit on Sunday morning
August 11th. and Dr. Cornelius on
the 18th. There will he no evening
services. Both Dr. Taylor and Dr.
Cornelius are interesting and enter
taining talkers, and will discuss ap
propriate subjects.
CITY COUNCIL WILL
MEET ON MONDAY
The City Council will hold its
regular monthly meeting on Monday
night of next week. The meeting
will deal with routine matters, Mr.
Ham clerk and treasurer said.
farm and Saturday afternoon
he visited the business section of
the city shaking hands with friends
and conferring with constituents.
Among the visitors here Saturday to
talk to Mr. Vinson was ex-Scnator
Thomas W. Hardwick. Other citizens
from various counties in the Sixth
District also visited Mr. Vinson in
cluding a number cf leading Wilkin
son and Johnson county citizens.
Mr. Vinson would make no com
ment on the fight over the highway
fund but said he would insist on the
construction of the Ball's Ferry
Bridge. He said that his suggestion
that the money be spent through
county and city governments had
met with popular favor and that the
Mayors and County Commissioners
agreed with him on this plan.
Tuesday the highway department
let contracts for the construction of
$450,000 worth of paving in the
sixth district. This road work was
between Dublin and Macon and
Wrightsville and Dublin and Coch
ran and Macon. Mr. Vinson said he
would do all in his power to get
the road from Milledgeville to Dub
lin paved and the contract in an
early letting.
Mr. Vinson is in good health and
despite the long session of congress,
he wants to see the President's pro-
enacted into law.
has inaugurated a campaign
from destruction the proud and
ancient shade trees of “The Elm
City.”
The dread “Dutch Elm Disease’
has come to Milledgeville. Insidious
ly and rapidly it has been going
about its work of destruction. Al
ready its marks are visible
Washington, Liberty and Jefferson
streets and on the campus of G. M.
C. Here and there a stately elm al
ready has perished and elsewhere
yellowing branches against a green
background give evidence that the
blight has set in. The winds carry
the gf-rms from a dead tree
directions and it is entirely {feasible
that all the trees of the cHR will
be killed unless the malady
checked.
Mrs. George Tunnell, new regent
of the local Daughters, told today
of her chapter’s hope that the city
will quickly begin work in cutting
away the dead trees and affected
limbs. The blight can be erased if
determined steps are taken, she
said.
Mrs. Tunnell told of the loss cf
the massive elm which inspired the
poem “Trees.” It has been
demned by the authorities in their
fight on the Dutch Elrr Disease at
Larchmont, N. Y.
‘The stately tree which Inspired
Joyce Kilmer to write his famous
poem.” she said. ‘Is being sawed and
chopped away because of an attack
of the blight. Milledgeville should
take warning while there is yet
GINNING TICKETS ARE
EXPECTED DAILY
BY FARM AGENT
Workmen Have Finished Measuring
Colton Land In County and Every I manhood, forty years ago, she
radius of five miles from the camp.
The limit will later be extended to
10 miles and later the work will be
come county wide. The members of
the CCC camp will do work to stop
and prevent soil erosion and will al
so re’prest lands when desired.
Farm Agent Langley said the pro
gram was one of the most import
ant ever launched in this county and
that It would mean a great deal to
the agricultural future of the county.
Lands that are now gulies and all
the top soil has been washed away
will be reclaimed and made tillable.
Hie program will probably con
sume more than two years.
M *
MRS. WM. T. LITTLE MED
SUNDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Wm T. Little peacefully and
quietly passed from life at her home
in this city early Sunday Morning,
July 2flth, folowing an illness of a
year.
The funeral services were held at
the residence Monday afternoon at
four o’clock. Rev. J. M. Teresl, pas
tor a! the Baptist church officiat
ing in the presence of friends qt the
deceased who gathered to join with
the loved ones in their sorrow.
The interment was in the city
cemetery, the following acting as
pall-bearers: Messrs. L. C. Hall, J.
F. Bell. A. W. Watkins. O. M. Conn,
H. Clarke, Chas J. Ccnn and H.
H. Herndon.
Mrs. Little before her marriage
as Miss Dollie Anderson, a daugh
ter of the iate W. C. Anderson, and
Mrp. Mary Frances Lawrence
Andersen, and was born June 15th,
1872 in Putnam county. In early wo-
DR. O. F.
MPROVED
The friends of Dr. O. F. Moran
throughout the counts* are glad to
know that his condition has shown
marked improvement and that he
ill be able to return to his hoi
the latter part of the week from the
City Hospital.
Dr. Moran was taken to the hospi
tal Friday night following a heart
attack at his home in the eastern
part of the county. Dr. Mcran is one
of the county’s most popular end
beloved citizens and his legion of
friends are glad to know his condi
tion has shown such marked im-
thinx is Ready for Picking Time.
Farm Agent L. R. Langley said
Wednesday that ginning tickets were
expected daily and immediately cm
receipt would be distributed to the
farmers of the county so that the
gins could begin operation.
The cotton crop is in splendid
condition despite the fact that boll
plentiful and are doing
damage. Cotton is beginning to open
and within ten days a number of
hales will be ginned and ready for
market. Mr. Langley said the gin
ticket' bed been received in
ber of South Georgia counties and
he was confident they would be here
in time for the cotton ginning
son to start without delay.
Workmen have cc-mpleted the job
of measuring the cotton acres in th*
county both contracted aivi non
contracted acres. These papers wil
«o in immediately.
The local baseball team will play
Eatonton this afternoon at four-thirty
Davenport field. The admission
ried Mr. Little and for thirty-two
years they made their home in this
city.
She is survived by Mr. Little, who
is an inspector in the revenue de
partment of Georgia, and one sister,
Mrs. Julian R. Stanley,, of this city.
Mrs. Little was loved by all who
had come to know her during her
residence in this city for she was
kind and charitable in her relation
ship to her neighbors and friends,
and was a faithful member of the
Baptist church. She was a devoted
and sympathetic wife and* com
panion to her husband, making her
home a happy one. as her interest
centered there. A strong tie cf af
fection existed between the two
sisters as they resided in the same
domicile in this city a long num
ber of years. There was no sacrifice
great for them to make far the
happiness of each other, and the
passing of the elder one comes a sad
bereavement to the surviving one.
The sympathy of our people goes out
to both the husband and sister in
their hour of bereavement.
FEW PEOPLE MARRY
Judge Bertie Stembridge, ordinary
I of Baldwin county states, that she
Is «—»«»y only a few marriage
licenses these days.