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ALONZO SIMPSON
TAKES OP LIFE
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Alonzo Simpson, assistant manager
pf uie Echetah Counter Club, was
found . minute, .ft*- two
o'clocit Wedn«d*JT by Johnny Daw-
«m . nefro eddy boy. frlM lifc-
]K3 in the caddy houae of the coun
ts dub noth a «un dint wound in
his left chest.
The negro boy called Mr. L«wis
Norwood. life guard at the nrin-
mi „g pool and Mr. Boy Alford, Jr.
manager of the club, who went into
the small dressing room of the
ciddy house and found the body
Mr. Alford srid he had left Mr
Simpson only a short time before and
be seemed to be in good spirits, al
though he had been feeling badly
(or several days, but had said he
tt . a5 “feeling much ibetter today."
w hen Mr. Alford inquired about hia
rendition. The body was brought
ta the funeral home of Mr.
Moore. An inquest was held by
Coroner C. I. Newton at the club
house betore the body waa moved
and the jury returned a verdict of
••micide.” . ...
Mr. Simplon returned to the club
from the home of his mother. Mrs.
A. Simpson in this city, about one-
Ihirtv. Enro ll-: his rar had a punc
ture and he left it at the filling sta
tion of Mr. Bill Harrison. Mr. Jimmy
Estes rode him ♦« the club in his car
and he said , f 3impson took the
shot gun, a tw«l ¥ guage doAle bar
rel. from his own car and held it
while they were rising to the club.
There was no evidence df a rea-
son for the act. Mr. Simpson was
dressed in hlte pants and white
«birt and evidently waa rianding
when he fired the Satal shot. Mr.
Wiori said he had talked with him
\ not acre tl. in twenty minutes Le
tov the young man killed himself.
There were no notes or messages
found in the club or on the person
of Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson was the youngest
son cf the late Mr. Alonzo Simpson
and Mrs. Simpson. He was a quiet,
unassuming young man, who had
made many friends by his accomo
dating manner. He worked for sev
eral years at Allen’s Invalid Home.
He is survived by his mother, one
brother. Mr. Tom Simpson, of Dub
lin. two sisters Miss Mary Simp-
sen and Mrs. Lynwood Smith, of
this city.
Funeral services for Mr. Simpson
will be held Thursday afternoon at
four-thirty at the Catholic church.
Father T. J. McNamara will conduct
burglars enter aw
STORE SUNDAY NKHT
Cut Hole in Back Wall and Take
Merchandise and Cash. Police
Working on Case.
Burglars gained entrance to the
IP store No. 1 some time Sunday
fcuht by digging a hole through the
'•■ck wall a* the store and carried
*ay a small amount of cash and
merchandise.
Ur. M. H. Groover, manager of the
said the burglars turned over
ft ttyihing in the back storage room
kkng for money after they had
f®* in the cash register and found
” enpty and open. Flour, meal and
fa *‘- of goods were turned over in
** floor. The hole was cut through
<n eight inch brick wall and was
kttly large enough for a man to
llietze through.
P'-lico Chief Frank Broome and
' itr iff Maynie investigated the rob-
rv L!id while no arrests have been
Sf " ■ v< ral clues have developed.
A ladder was near the hole where
le burglars entered the storfe.
Board OF education
TO MEET TUESDAY
Thc Board of Education will meet
ts:iay *»t 11 o’clock, the regular
* mh, y meeting date of the board.
J*| ans for the opening of the school
• on Sept. 9th will be completed
. lh '° meeting. A teachers meeting
truck drivers meeting will be
d 'he latter part of next week by
**• P - N. Bivins.
City Council Plans Big Improvement
Program With W P A Funds
MERCHANTS PLAN
FOR FALL TRADE
MilledgeviUe merchants are plan
ning for a record fall business this
year and are going forward with
every detailed preparation to be
ready to take care of the business
that is expected to come to Mil
ledgeviUe.
New merchandise is arriving daily.
Practically aU the merchants have
been to the northern and eastern
markets and purchased large stocks
fer their stores. They are back
home checking the new goods and
arranging their new stocks. The
stores here will present the most
attractive and varied assortment of
merchandise in many years.
The people of Central Georgia are
invited to visit MiUedgeviUe stores.
The people of MiUedgeviUe and
Baldwin county are especially in
vited to inspect the stocks here first,
and the merchants are confident
every need can be met.
Many changes are being made in
the business arrangements of the
city. Two new stores are opening
in remodeled buildings and several
have changed locations. Rose Store
wiU open in the completely re
modeled Conn-Woods building about
October 1st. Chandler's will move
into their new and modem store the
first of next week. Holloway’s has
moved into the Fraley Hrarmacy
building while Fratoy’s moved next
door into their new attractive build
ing. Wootten’s has moved on the
east side of Wayne street, Skinners
will open their new shoe store on
Saturday of this week.
Other merchants have repainted
and rearranged their store and every
business man is most optimistic with
the expectations of doing a big bust-
Vfcit Millrigevilie’s stores now
-oull find what you want at to-
price you want to pay from furni
ture to a nlc-nac for the horo^
clothing for the entire family and
every other need you may have.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OPENS
MONDAY FOR TWO WEEKS
One Hundred and Fifty Emergency
Education Teachers to Take
Special Course at G.S.C.W.
A two weeks school for the
struction and training of Emergency
Education Teachers, who are taking
part in the new educational pro
gram and youth movement in Geor
gia. will open at G. S. C. W. Mon
day morning.
150 teachers will attend the school
,/hich is under the direction of the
Department of Education and the
federal education group in Georgia.
The teachers here will receive
special courses in nursery school op
eration and adult education.
The school is operated as a WPA
project by the government. The col
lege will furnish a part of the teach-
and the government will send to
the campus a number of lecturers.
The school will continue through
September 14 th.
SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICES
CHANGED TO EIGHT O’CLOCK
Announcement has been made that
beginning next Sunday evening ser-
ices at the churches will be at
tight o’clock instead of eight-thirty,
the hour of meeting since last spring.
The attention of the people is
called to this change in the evening
hour.
STORES CLOSE AT ONE
FOR LAST TIME TODAY
The stores will close at one o clock
for the last time today.
Throughout the summer the stores
have closed at one to give all em
ployees a half holiday. With Sept,
lit at hand and the fall trade rtriy
to begin, the practice of the half
In mbm to an end.
Engineer Employed at Special
Meeting to Plan Program
The City Council took stops at a
special meeting Wednesday morning
to launch an improvement program
that will effect every section of the
city and bring about many marked
changes for the expansion and bet
terment cf the dty.
Mr. J. D. Teague, Jr., of Winder,
an experienced engineer with WPA
programs, was employed by the
council for a period. 30 days with
the provision that he take over the
job for an indefinite period if toe
program progressed satisfactorily to
the council.
Councilman Stewart Wootten, L.
H. Andrews, T. H. Clark and Mr.
Lamar Ham, City Clerk, spent
Tuesday in Athens where they con
ferred with Mr. Glass, head of th'
WPA in this district. Mr. Glass
recommended Mr. Teague to the
council who came to MiUedgeviUe
and accepted the job to begin work
on Friday of this week.
Mr. Wootten, who has been inter
ested in the program, said the city
expected to push the program as
'apidly as possible with the hope
of having the first project started in
the early fall.
At a meeting of the council Mon
day night, Mr. H. G. Haynes, who
was the city engineer when the city
was paved, talked with the council
about the WPA projects and sug
gested that an engineer be employed
to work out the projects. Mr. Haynes
explained the enure WPA program
to the council.
Mr. Ham said the dty expected
to pave a number of roads and side
walks that were now unpaved. One
«f the Important features of the plan
is a health Improvement program
that will close a number of open
branches and drain ditches in the
dty. Hie council also plans the ex
tension of water mains and sewage
lines in the program and probably
the construction of a play ground in
the dty.
Mr. Ham said the plans were only
tentative bpt the ^engineer would
immediately begin the necessary
survey and make the needed appli
cations and recommendations to the
city council as rapidly as possible.
Mr. Ham also said that the city
would work with G. M. ~C. looking
toward a number of improvements
at toe college and that the engineer
would be available to assist in work
ing out this program for the col
lege. G. M. C. hopes to secure one
or two new buildings, a gymnasium
and renovation of the oid capitol
building.
The planned program of the city
will be the most far reaching and
extensive MiUedgeviUe has ever un
dertaken and will bring about a
number of important and needed im
provements.
Mr. Ham said the entire council
was enthusiastically behind the en
tire program and hoped to bring into
the city a large appropriation from
the federal government.
NEW SHOE STORE WILL BE
OPENED ON SATURDAY
Modern Store With Complete Line
of Shorn for All The Family to
Be Opened in Sanford Building.
Another store will join Milledge-
ville’s business section when Skin
ner’s Shoe Store opens Saturday in
the Sanford building in the rooms
formerly occupied by Stembridge’s.
The store is under the manage
ment ot Mr. Arthur J. Skinner, who
has had many years experience in
the shoe business. For several years
ho was rn the read for a leading
shoe ccvncem. The store will be
Milledgovilles only exclusive shoe
store and a complete "tine of shoes
for men. women and children will
be shown.
The store has been remodeled
throughout and new fixtures and
shelving have been-installed. Mr.
Skinner invites his friends to visit
the new store.
MR. GLEN HARRINGTON
INJURED IN GIN
Mr. Glen Harrington, a promin
ent farmer of the Hopewell com
munity. was injured Saturday when
he had his hand and fingers cut in
a cotton gin at Coopers
Mr. Harrington was brought to the
City Hospital where his injuries
were treated. The injuries will not
be fatal, but Mr. Harrington re
mains at the City Hospital. He will
not loose any of his fingers it is
thought.
WORK BEGINS ON WASH
WATER TANK TODAY
First WTA Project In Baldwin
County b Started Employing
Eighteen Men.
Work begins today on the con
struction of the new wash water
tanks at the city water plant.
This is the first WPA project to be
started in Baldwin county and will
give employment to 18 men for sev
eral weeks. The project calls for
the expenditure of about $3,000.
The project which provides for the
construction Of the new county jail
is expected daily The project has
been approved and all plans are
ready so that immediately on the
arrival of the money work will be
started.
COUNTY ASKS FOR
PAVING PROJECT
A»pfc»H.» FM WIU WPA
Pin Rm4 fnm Rm4
An application was filed with the
WPA Tuesday by the County Com
missioner* for funds to pave the
road from toe Irwinton Highway
leading through Hardwick to Alien’!
Invalid Home, a distance ot about
one mile.
The district engineer said he would
forward recommendation for ap
proval of the project* at once and
hoped to have the funds available
within a few weeks so that work
could be started.
The commissioners have also filed
application for funds to remodel and
enlarge the Court House. This pro
ject calls for the expenditure of
about $30,000, and will require about
six months to complete.
The plans approved by the com
missioners will remodel the building
both inside and out and will also
add a number of offices which will
be used by county officers now
housed outside the court house.
Approval of these projects has
been been requested as quickly as
possible so that the men on WPA
rolls can be put to work.
Supt. P. N. Bivins and the high
school principals of the schools in
the county attended a conference
of the National Youth Administra
tion which was held in Macon on
Wednesday.
The federal agency proposes to
give financial assistance to nigh
school pupils in order that they may
attend school.
Detailed information on the plan
can be secured at Supt. Bivins
office. High school pupils will be
given aid by the purchase of books,
lunches, care fare. etc. Applications
for this aid must be filed at Mr.
Bivins office at once.
Union-Recorder Begins lo6th
Year of Service With This Issue
DR. JOE SMITH JOINS STAFF
OF CITY HOSPITAL
Graduate of Emory Unlrc«fty
School of Medicine WU1 Begin
Practice Here Sept. M.
Dr. Jce P. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga..
graduate of Emory University in the
class of 1933, will move to Milledge
viUe on September 1. He will be as
sociated with Dr. Richard Binion
and Dr. O. C. Woods in their prac
tice. Dr. Smith will reside In the
City Hospital.
Dr. Smith served a year’s intern
ship in Internal Medicine at Saint
Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta and ro
tating service of one year at Grady
Hospital. Dr. Smith will do general
practice of medicine and will give
|the major portion of his time to
diagnostic and T ntemal Medicine.
Dr. Smith com. to Milledgeville
with excellent recommendations.
40SP1TAL PLANS TO
ENLARGE DAIRY HERD
Plans Calls for Addition of Many
Cows and The Practice of Baying
MUk
Another year has passed in The
Tnion-Recorder’s uninterupted record
of public service and this issue be
gins the 106th volumn.
From year to year the paper has
grown as times have changed and
today is one of the best equipped
and most modern weekly papers in
the state. The past year has seen
many improvements in the equip
ment and plant of the paper. But
toe most satisfactory progress of the
year to the management of the paper
has been the large increase in circu
lation which evidences the continued
popularity of the paper throughout
this section.
The Union-Recorder is happy
take its place with the other busi
ness houses of the city to work for
toe advancement and progress of
MiUedfrrille and Baldwin county.
We are interested in every person
every business, every firm and every
undertaking in the county and it is
always a pleasure to be a part of
any worthy enterprise.
As the new year begins the editor
and every member of the staff of
employees pledges a continued ef
fort to give Milledgeville the best
newspaper in the state. We ap
preciate the generous patronage and
friendship of the past and invite
uie continued support of the peo
ple of this section.
The Union-Recorder has a record
of public service of which we are
proud and « heritage that calls upon
the present management to give toe
best of every effort in order to main
tain the high standard the paper has
Plans are being made to build up
the State Hospital dairy herd to
sufficient size to cleminate the pur
chase of milk from neighboring
dairies, it was announced this week.
A number of cows have already
been added to the dairy herd, and It
is understood that other pure bred
nilch cows will be purchased from
time to time until the production will
be sufficient to meet all the hospi
tal needs.
At present the hospital purchases
a large quanlty of milk and butter
from neighboring dairies. This in
come has been an Important factor
in the dairy industry in this county.
NEXT MONDAY 18 LABOR DAY
Next Monday, the first Monday in
September, is Labor Day and a holi
day will be observed by the four
banks and the Post Office.
Other business will continue as
usual. The banks and post office
will remain closed throughout the
day.
CONGRESSMAN VINSON
EXPECTED HOME TODAY
Congressman Carl Vinson is ex
pected to arrive at heme today to
spend several weeks.
Congress adjourned Monday night,
and although no direct word has
been received from the Congress
man. his parents said he would ar
rive at home today.
Congressman Vinson will begin
conferences with friends through
out -1
STAR TO BUILD
POWER PLANf
t«r l —m‘.|ji. Hal, „ Gap.
TV* Caakal lima*
aaj Fmnr PW W Sdh.
Following a survey of the Stole
Hospital last week by Mr. H P.
Meikleham. of the Peppered MUM,
Undale and Mr. 4)pMr Turley.
TRgtneer of the mills. m mi mis
Ben waa made to the Governor by
E. E. Lindsey, chairman of the Board
of Control, that a central haathg
plant and electric power plant be
built at the hospital.
Engineers are studying the plana
and will draw the specifl rattans m
that application can be made for a
WPA project to construct the plant.
The plant will coat about $750,0M.
Under the plans a bleeder typto
turban will be installed to genfral#
the electricity and the exhaust wiB
be used to supply the steam needed
for heating, cooking and the laun
dry. A saving of about $40,000 an
nually can be effected by toe near
set-up it was stated. Under the plan
all pipes and wires will be placed
under ground. The power will coat
practically nothing, the engineer
stated.
It is planned to furnish poorer for
the Womans College, State Prison
and Boys Training School from the
plant.
G.M.C. READY FOR
BIG ENROLLMENT
CaBcfe Open m StptfWr 11th.
Kfii ScWtl «4 Cdbn Ste-
Vh to Rcfiater Sept. M.
With a week remaining before the
Georgia Military College begins the
1935-36 term final plans are being
completed by Col. Joe Jenkins and
his staff of assistants to welcome
the largest enrollment the college
his had since the days of war pros
perity.
Applications on file from boarding
students is far ahead of last year,
when the college had 150 boarding
students. Applications have come
from all sections of Florida, Geor
gia, Alabama, the Carolinas and a
number of northern and western
states. Cuba will send a large num
ber of students this year.
Registration for high school and
xsllege students will begin on Sept.
Pth and the first classes will be held
September 11th. Town and county
students are instructed to register
Monday Sept. 9th.
The college will operate as a full
junior college this year, the work
for the second college class beginning
at the opening of school. G. M. C.
will offer freshman and sophomore
college work to the students this
year and will award junior college
certificates.
The barracks has been put in
readiness for the students, and meals
will begin Monday when the stu
dents who will try for the foot ball
team arrive.
Col. Jenkins is highly pleased with
prospects for the t-*rm and antici
pate one of the most successful years
the college has ever had.
Grammar School Opens Sept fth
The G. M. C. grammar school
will begin the new term on Monday
September 9th. All students are ex
pected to report at nine o’clock. Two
sessions will be operated, school
opening at 8:45 in the morning and
closing at four in the afternoon.
:e to the absence from the city
-veral members of the Presby
terian church the congregational
meeting held last Sunday was post
poned until Sept. 8th when the mem
bership of the church hope to call a
The meeting Sunday was called to
select a pastor, but Mr. L. C. Hall,
chairman of the pulpit committee,
and other prominent members of the
church are away on their vacation
and it was decided to delay the
meeting until the second Sunday in
September.
Judge George Carpenter was
named Mcderator and W. B. Mc
Kinnon clerk of toe session.