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•cessorj lt <> said Powers, herein, •h su ch 1 pow- 1 a* are avowed simile Present state. -L tioners. August Baldwin he Su- County, hat the correct charter et. als_ in this 935. □ i Ofl*« ®Jjc Unirm-Kcrorticr 1 A MU.«M COUNTY •- Ga, Awl 15, 1*55 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