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SOIL EROSION ,
plansmapped
Charter Asked far Sai Canena*
ties uf fvproTeaaat Associa
tion ■ Caaaty.
A petition hat been filed with
judge James B. Park asking a
charter for the Baldwin County Soil
•enervation and Improvement As
sociation for a period of fifty year*.
The ixtitioners are W. E. Ireland,
M Ennis. Jcc B. Moran. R. W.
v and George W. Hollinshead.
'he association is organized for the
T)osc of engaging in any activity
connection with the producing,
harvesting and marinating of any
""'cultural products, but with the
'i; conservation and improvement
• the chief activity.
The program tn combat soil erosion
n tui*' county with the aid of the
members of the CCC that will be
can ped near Stevens Pottery is
L* rapidly worked out Twenty-
jHand owners have already sign-
t,i follow the five year program.
members o' the CCC will ar-
c tiw latter part of this week to
nart the program which calls for
: eferestation, tapd crtHer
r s that will build up eroded
tep washing, and fill in
ditches.
Thi' the most far reaching and
important program to agriculture
erer undertaken tn this county. It is
hope o( the association to ~
REVIVAL AT HARDWICK
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
On Sunday, August 18th, revival
services will begin at Hardwick
Christian Church, and continue for
about ten days or two weeks.
Service? will be conducted by
Evangelist Duke Jones who is well
known throughout the state.
Curtis Haynes will have charge of
the song services. He needs no intro-
duction to the people here as he has
been with us in revival services
for the past three or four years.
The hours for services will be 11
, o’clock Sunday morning and 7:45
Ihe hope of the association com- g un( j ay evening, a cordial invitation
pleteiy rebuild land, in tai, county ^ M ,ended lo each and every one
to attend.
‘of the program anS CCC CAMP MEMBERS TO
ARRIVE DURING
THE COMING WEEK
.fore the program comes to
Soil erosion meetings are being
eld with the intent of informing
ie land i — -
ecunr.i! the cooperation of the lar.d
iwners. Two meetings Were held
ast wrc fc a t the CCC camp. Meetings
danced to this week are as follows: _
TtM.rstiav ming at ten o’clock Hundred Yc—
.. Cire, Thursday afternoon Er«rt« WUI M«e Into
,, three o'clock at Salem; Friday Camp Near Steven, Pottery,
nc-nins at ten o’clock at George I
H liinshead’s home | ^ v '° hundred members of the CCC
F^ls'ent L. R. Langley said!will arrive at their ramp near
.. m -l ed owner in the county was I Stevens Pottery during the coming
join ihe association and week ready to take part In the sod
conservation program in this county
that is now being mapped.
The new camp is mo6t attractive
complete city. A deep well
supplies the water, a power plant
..•ill furnish lights and modem re-
fregeration. The large kitchen, din
ing hall and barracks arc most
comfortable and convenient. Quarters
for the officers and soil erosion ex
perts are also provided. A community
will be
G.S.C.TOHAYE ,
BIG ENROLLMENT
Flaw Gaug Farwari for Fall Ten
as Ead of Summit Scums
Nun WFA ScWol Sept 2-14.
With the largest enrollment in the
history of G. S. C. W. expected for
the fall term which opens Sept. 18th,
plans are going forward for the new
school year, as the end of the sum
mer session approaches.
The summer term will close on
Friday August 23rd when graduating
exercises will be held and degrees
and diplomas are presented a class
of about eighty members. The sum-
session has been highly suc
cessful.
The fall term enrollment will ex
ceed last year and a record is antici
pated as applications for admission
continue to reach the college. The
freshmen will arrive on Sept. 18th
and the upper class members on
Sept. 18th.
While the college officials are busy
with their plans to close the sum-
term and preparations to open
the fall term, government officials
making plans for the WPA school
that will be conducted for two weeks
at the college opening Sept. 2nd and
closing Sept. 14th.
Government employees engaged in
the adult education progiam and
nursery school work in Georgia will
attend the school. Teachers for the
school will be supplied by the gov
ernment The enrollment is expected
to exceed 150.
year program.
PRESBYTERIANS TO HEAR
NORTH CAROUNA PASTOR
lev. Chester Alexander of Tartar©,
V C.. WUI Preach at Meratag and
Rev. Chester Alexander, an out- *«
standing member of the North Caro- ( house where the young
lina Presbytery, and pastor of the given instruction in the evening
taboo. N. C.. Presbyterian church, will be the center of much activity.
Milledgeville at the in- I The campers will be carried di
ke pulpit committee of j rcctly to the new camp and begin
the Presbyterian church on next!work as soon as possible.
Sunday and preach at both the.
linn and evening services. | SOLDIER INJURED IN TRUCK
..jc members of the congregation | ACCIDENT
especially and the public generally i ' . ..
i.od to hear Dr. Alexander. Y. E. Woollard. a member <x the
young man that has gained 17th Field Arttllery that spent Mon-
unusual prominence in the church
Mr. L. C Hall, chairman of the
. ulpit committee, said Dr. Alexander
had been highly recommended to
the church.
MITII TARRER TRANSFERRED
TO TIFTON
M Mr. Smith Tarrer, who has repre-
_^ated the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
in this territory for several
rs and made his home here, has
n transferred to Tifton, where he
I make his headquarters and
•el several counties.
Mr. Tarrer has made many friends
his city who regret to see hirh
'*• He has been placed in charge
Iho new territory to improve
and it may be that he will be
^turned here after he has done thi*
He is one lot MilledgerilJr'
1 popular young men.
day night here, is in the City Hos
pital sufering from serious injuries
that he received while enroute to
Milledgeville from Fort Benning.
Woollard was sitting on the side of
„ truck and when it crossed a bridge
he was caught between the truck
and the bridge and received painful
injuries, it was stated. His injuries
are serious.
r °l’\TY COMMISSIONERS TO
HAVE SPECIAL MEETING
- 1 ' ' inty Cnmissioners will have
''!W1 mooting Monday morning
" o'clock, Chairman O. M.
ftnss has announced.
A number of important matters,
‘+ich were postponed at the regular
!rr1 Tuesday mooting due to the ab-
if Dr. Moran, will be taken
»er.cy>
r comissioners met Wednesday
tw noon ar|i approved the con-
|/ n fr °m the highway department
• additional work on the Irwin-
FIRST BALE OF COTTON
MARKETED BRINGS 14 CENTS
The first bale of 1935 cotton to
be sold on the local market brought
premium of 14 cents per pound
The bale weighing 503 pounds was
the second ginned in the county and
owned by Mr. John Shinholster
and grown on his Indian Island
farm. The bale was ginned at R. G.
Smith’s gin on Tuesday and brought
o Home-Andrews where it was
sold. The cotton was graded at good
middling.
DR. CORNELIUS TO SPEAK AT
METHODIST CHUKCH
n, r-rnelius. a member of the
facultv of G. S. C. W.. will apeak
at the Methodist churrh on Sunday
morning at the .1:30 o'clock service
Dr. Cornelius is an outstanding
Bible scholar and a m°st inta^mg
speaker. The public is invited to hear
W R«. H. S. Smith, pastor df the
church, who U away « * V *“ U °":
wfflpo. return to the elflr unW ^
FARMERS CLUB SPONSORS
VISIT TO COLLEGE AND
SOIL EROSION AREA
Fifty Farmers Make Tour on Wed
nesday lo Government Soil Erosion
Experiment.
On Wednesday fifty Baldwin
County farmers made a tour,
sored by the Farmer’s Club, to the
Sandy Creek Soil Erosion Area
Athens.
All farmers were impressed with
the tremendous amount of work be
ing done by the Government and
Co-operative farmers in this area
Some of the things noted were
Check dams of several kinds, broad
base terraces, strip farming, pasture
work, re-forestrati on, and many
other experiments. The afternoon
spent at the Fanner’s Conference at
the State College of Agriculture.
The Farmer’s attended a livestock
program at the barns of the College
where they had the opportunity to
the College Dairy, beef cattle
and other herds.
COUNTY GIVEN
ROADCONTRACT
Ceatiautiea ef Weft m InriatM
RmI it PrariM kj New Cm-
tract fraa Kffcway Dept.
The county commissioners on
Wednesday received another con
tract from the highway department
for the continuation of the grading
and surfacing of the Milledgeville
Irwinton highway.
This new contract is sufficient to
complete another half mile of road
this route. The highway depart
ment has been contracting with the
county commissioners for the con
struction of this road for several
months and from time to time con
tracts have been awarded. The con
tract let this week will complete
the road from Hardwick to Scotts-
boro.
Capt. R. W. Aimand has had the
work in charge and an entirely new
road has been constructed over the
four mile stretch. A concrete bridge
with crecsoted piles is being built
Camp Creek on this new road
and the work here is progressing
rapidly.
The new road is one of the most
attractive in the county and cuts
route from Hardwick to Scotts-
boro eleminating the dangerous
curve and grade at Finningan'
Branch and eleminating other diffi
cult grades on the road. The c
missioners hope Lo have another
tract here by the time the work now
in progress is completed that will
carry the work on to the Wilkinson
county line where it will connect
with a new road into Irwinton. As
as this new road is finished,
paving contract will probably be <
tered.
The contract was for $2,500 and
provides for .625 of a mile.
Billie Davis, of Eatonton, hae
shown a slight improvement after
being brought to the City Hospital
sitffering with lock jaw. The child
stuck a splinter in his foot about
ten days ago and blood poisoning
developed. He has been seriously ill,
but hope for his recovery is encour
aged.
County Policeman Sam Terry.
Chief Broome and members of the
city police force made several raids
during the week-end and arrested
four charged with violation of the
city dive act, and several others
charged with minor offenses.
Robert Hogan charged with violat
ing the dive act was found guilty
and fined $35 and bound over to
county court charged with possess'
ing whiskey. Teacup Birdsong wa
found not guilty of the dive act vio
lation, but was bound over to coun
ty court for possessing liquor;
Estelle Burdette pled guilty to viola
tion of the dive act and is serving
a ninety day sentence; Robert
Toombs was charged with violating
the dive act.
Robert Clemons, Teasy Freeman,
Ellen Hill and Champ Johnson,
charged with drunk and disorderly
were found guilty and fined $5.
DR. NOAH TO GIVE RECITAL
Dr. Max Noah, head of the Music
Department of G. S. C. W., will give
the final recital of the year when
he presents a program of organ
music on the evening of August 18th.
The public is cordially invited.
More Than 2,000 Children Go
Back to School Within a Month
In less than thirty days the school
doors in Baldwin county will swing
open os the 1935-36 scholastic year
starts on September 9, and more
than 2.000 children turn their steps
toward the Institutions of learning.
The Milledgeville public-schools
with an anticipated enrollment of
more than 1.500 is tho largest unit
In the county.
Teachers in the Baldwin count>
system will report for a teachers
meeting and conference at the office
of Supt P- N. Bivins “
Sept.
A total enrollment of over 2,000
was reached during the scholastic
year of 1934-35 and this figure may
be exceeded during the coming year,
Supt. P. N. Bivins stated.
All the schools in the county be
gin on the same date and the
scheduled will be followed In all
schools throughout the county. The
opening hour will be 8:45 a. m., fif
teen minutes later than last year.
Two sessions will be operated in all
the schools with the final classes
ending at '-’our o’clock in the after-
MONEY HEREFOR
WPA CONTRACT
Ml Rcleared to Bc,k Wok m
Wok Won Buka at City
Water DgfHkoL
Miss Gay B. Shepperson, head of
the Work Progress Administration
in Georgia, has announced that the
funds for the construction of the
wash water tanks at the city water
plant are now available and will be
released immediately to the county
WPA authorities.
Mr. Arthur Powell, asistant dis
trict engineer in charge of work
in this county, said no direct word
had been received from Miss Shep-
m, but that notice to him would
come from Athens.
This is the first of Baldwin coun
ty’s and Milledgcville’s part of the
four billion work relief fund to pro
vide jobs for unemployed that has
been received. Mr. Powell said work
would be started immediately on re
ceipt of the money. The job will
give employment to about twenty
en for a number of weeks.
Release of the funds for the new
county jail is expected daily. This
project has already been approved
and work is ready to start when
funds come from Washington. The
only other project now pending
provides for the completion of the
air port in this city.
The county has a number of pro
jects practically ready to send to
Washington for approval. Other plans
being considered to secure tb
federal aid for work here.
DR. MORAN BACK AT OFFICE
The friends of Dr. O. F. Moran are
glad to see him back at his office
again, and engaged in his work as
County Health Officer.
Dr. Moran .was out several days
due to illness and was greatly miss
ed.
EDITOR R. B. MOORE
f££T»CR»
The friends of Editor R. B. Moore
regret to know that he continues ill
at his home. Mr. Moore's condition
is somewhat improved, but he is
confined to his bed and it will be
several days before he will be out
again.
GIN TICKETS
ARE RECEIVED
Tu-Jtm Pni
2,7(5 Bik* an KeaJy far
Fanaan at Lugity'i Offica.
After same delay, cotton tax ex
emption certificates were received
on Friday in the of.lce of Cowty
Agent L. R. Langley, and the ap
proximately 1,000 certificates repre
senting 1,391,087 pounds or 2,788
tales are being issued to the grow
ers in the county.
No certificates have yet been re
ceived for cotton growers who have
planted cotton this year on land on
which no cotton was grown during
the base period, neither have any
certificates been received for grow
ers who are planting cotton on land
on which no cotton was grown in
1933 or 1934. These farmers are con
sidered by the state cotton control
committee as new growers. Any cer
tificates issued to these growers will
be taken from the state's allotment
reserve fer new growers and Bald
win county's allotment will not be
affected by such growers.
All cotton certificates are issued
from the county agent's office by
cotton assistant. Geo. La vis. Every
grower to whom a certificate is
issued must receipt in duplicate for
the certificate. No transfer or sale
of certificates can be made except
by the cotton assistant and every
transaction effecting these certifi
cates must be made in his office. No
grower can sell or dispose of any
certificate in whole or In part until
he has finished ginning all cotton
produced by him. then this sale or
transfer must be made under oath
stating that all cotton grown by him
has been ginned.
The 1935 cotton certificates differ
from the 1934 in that the 1935 certifi
cate is issued for six bales rather
than ten. No interim certificates will
be issued as in 1934. This will elimi
nate much oi the* laborious .work en
countered both by the gtaner and
the cotton assistant.
Certificates representing 213 more
bales were received this year than
in 1934.
INVITATION TOURNAMENT
POSTPONED
Mr. A. C. McKinley, president of
the Echetah Country Club, has
nounoed that the Invitation Golf
Tournament planned for August 25th
has been indefinitely postponed and
probably will not be held.
35 BALDWIN COUNTY FAMKXS
VIST EXFUUMENT STATION
NEGRO WELL DIGGER
RE8CUED FROM WELT
Kin" Frazier, Negro well digger,
was rescued from a well Monday by
Grant Mims after he had been in
the well for almost an hour when
he had lost consciousness from car
bon monoxide gas.
Frazier was engaged in bricking
up a well in West bid when h
was overcome by the gas. Helpers
were summoned after the assistant
failed to get the man back to the
surface. Grant Mims came to the
scene and was lowered into the well.
Tieing a rope around Fraziers body
he was pulled to the top.
Dr. Richard Binion and Dr. O. C.
Woods were at the scene when the
negro was brought out and began j Interesting ar*l eduna*onal. After
applying artificial respiration. With- '
Last Wednesday. August 7th, L. R.
Langley. County Agent Ed Downs
District Rural Rehabilitation Super
visor. Messrs. Willingham and Wil
liamson, County Rural Rehabilita
tion Supervisors, led thirty-fiv'e
Baldwin county farmers on a tour
to the Griffin Experiment Station.
The crowd left the local Cburt
House grounds at 7 o’clock in the
morning and went by way of Eaton
ton, Monticello, Jackson and on to
Griffin, arriving at the Experiment
Station at 11 o'clock. On this trip,
the canning plant at Monticello and
other places of interest, were visited.
After reaching the Experiment
Station, Director Stuckey assigned
Mr. Hale in the task of directing the
crowd over to the Station. For four
hours they were shown Variety testa.
Fertilizer tests, Rotation Experi
ments and other practices that i
short time life returned to the
Negroe’s body and he began breath
ing normally. He was taken to the
City Hospital and reports Wednes
day said he would be dismissed that
day.
The lire department was called to
give assistance with ladder’s in an
effort to get the negro from the
well.
this visit, those on the trip have a
much higher regard for the work
that U being done at this station.
before active school work begins n
on Monday morning Sept 9th. Col. During .ho summer while the
Jce Jenkins will have a similar eon- 1 children have been enjoying a vara-
J the teachers In thc;tion and many teachers have been
this date. The attending summer school, needed re
pairs have been made on the school
houses and many of them have
ference
Grammar School
teachers in the Peabody Practice
School will arrive several days prior
to the opening tor meetings when
all plans will be worked out.
G. M. C. will open on Sept. 11th
Mid the first faculty meeting of the
college will be held on Sept. 9th. C.
S. C. W. does not open until lale
In the month.
been renovated so that September
9 will find school buildings in first
class condition.
The Board of Education will meet
Tuesday August 28th to compV'
bus routes and make other plans for
negro house destroyed by
FIRE SATURDAY MORNING
The fire department was called
to the northern section of the city
early Saturday morning to a fire
that completely destroyed the house
occupied by Sam Jones, a Negro.
The house was engulfed in flame?
when the firemen arrived. The house
wa3 the property of Mrs. W. A.
Walker.
Mr. Joe Bales, secretary of the
Southland Coach Gx, attended the
meeting of the American Bus and
Truck Association at the Tytae Ho-
Supt. P. N. Bivins will be awarded
Batchelor of Arts in Education de
gree from Mercer University on
Monday morning.
Mr. Bivins has attended Mercer
summer school for the past three
years working towards the degree
and completes his work with the
summer session which closes this
week.
Mr. Birins taught school after
graduating at G. M. C., and later
came back here to work alter ser
vice in the army. He was elected
superintendent of education over
fifteen years ago and has served
the county continuously since that
time. Under his administration one
of the best county school systems in
