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E »r. BV moi sAVOB • ' OF PEOPLE kl'MH CM. federal Unton Established In Federal 1 Southern il” Milledge> JJe, G*., February 13, 1936 Consolidated in ISIS WNTYPRIMARY ; /j|| Nominal' County Officers Next W.-dnndiy. Un- Lppo»o- Ticket is Offered. . ;he county will be V\<,- day. Feb. 19th, for !-A-:n county to go , nominate all county ' . . vur year term, n . : r-t time in the history ’t" -h«- ticket is unoppos- r ^;";, unl v officers «lll be -it r v!-.' .' 1S equivalent to CITY ALDERMAN nthout oppos tick* i offered the voters Is as flr k of Baldwin Ber C Coope enor Cour bic. Ordinary William L. Harrl- Slu-riff; P. N. Bivins, Supcrln- ■ Education; Mrs. L. D. x Collector: Ariseoe Wall, f Reiver: Otto M Conn, County tin*; C. I Newton. Coroner; i Rice. County Surveyor; G. C. dev. County Commissioners. ] candidates arc incumbents ex it Mr Harrison, who is making for Sheriff to succeed . J. Havnie. who declined Lifer for rill be about 2.000 quali- s in the county, but only trail perccntafio of this number •xperted to cast their ballot, t polls at the county precincts open at nine o’clock and close 1? and the city precinct at the : House will open at 7 and gTH DISTRICT RUBAI. MAIL CARRIERS TO MEET HERE SATURDAY . J W. Loir. Atlanta. Will Be Iprincipal Speaker at Gathering ■Here. |The Rural Mail Carriers Associa- i cf the Sixth Congressional dis- * will Rather here Saturday even- ! for the annual banquet of the i. The banquet will be held | Atkinson Hall dining room at 7:30. >’ large attendance is expect- ;e bonquet and carriers from runty in the district have their intention to attend. R in tiie group of distingu- jests will be all the state cers. Hon. J. W. Cole, inspector I charge of the Atlanta district, will " die principal speaker. esting program has been [ranged by Mrs. E. It Hines for occasion. Tlie Georgia Chtixikees ! furnish the music and a num- of novelty stunts and entertain- t features will bo given. * banquet is an aimual affair irriers. tlieir wives and nds gather around the banquet |>le. Jchn W. Riley is president of • district association. Other re E. C. Crawford, vice- D. R. Pearson, secretary treasurer. 1R,0N ALLEN TO BE ON RAT1IO ID 'V evening at 9 O’CLOCK ■ful Mancm Allen. state manager | -ee Hoonn-elt Campaign for re- l* 1011 «* take part on the At- Fia Journal’s Editorial Hour next "™ne from station WSB, 1 21 9 p. m eastern standard Journal editorial hour has II P0 P ular and Milledge- [ to Crt .?* ns w ill listen with inter- ' the presmtation cC the ad- s bv Col. Alien. " IT " °TB advertisers atiing th,. iS0 w *fe, business r. Indian Chief, ind -'dvertisements ‘ w °ek. Just read you will be glad ad f is a n import- 1 : ll >e paper, •^•ting, n ve stories nd you will find ; ' mating as the - story in the r " " Ver s >xty diff- Papcr, attractive • interspersed with •d you find them ,t;i you read your JOHN HOLLOWAY NAMEDALDERMAN Succeed, T H. dark or Cooncil. Tax Aueuc-n NumA and New Ordmaace Pawed. Mr. John H Hclloway. popular young business man, was elected a member cf the Board of Aldermen of the City cf Milledgevillo at a special meeting of the City Council on Monday* night. Mr. Hollcway was named for a feur year term, filling the unexpired term of Mr. T. H Clark, who re signed just after he liad taken office for a new term. Mr. Holloway was sworn ir» immediately following his election and he took, part in the council nr-ceedings Monday night. Mr. Holloway is a member of one cf the county's old families and has been identified in the business life of toe community 'fer a number of rrtifs.'He was ar officer in the artnyt doling the war and served overseas. This is the first oublic office Mr. Hclloway has ever held. The council named Messrs J. A. Horne, L. N. Callaway and J R. Stanley the board of tax accessors for the city. The city tax books will be opened March 1st and close May 31st for property owners to return their taxes. The board will meet to > over the returns in June. The council also created a Board of Health for the city of Milledge- ville at the special meeting. The embers cf the board are: Doctors Sam Arderson. Richard Binion, Dr. Evans. W. M. Scott and Otis Woods. The board will meet av an early date and name a chairman and rganize for their work. The board will recommend health laws for the doption by the city and act In an advisory capacity for the council new ordinance was added to the city laws Monday night. Beginning March 1st all containers of garbage and trash will be kept in the back vards d* homes and business houses. The law also requires that a fly proof, sanitary trash dentalner be purchased and that the cans be kept covered. The city sanitary depart ment will make all collections from rear of the homes or business houses. The council is expected to hold another meeting before the regular meeting the first Monday night in March. U.D.C. PRESIDENT TO SPEAK HERE Georgia Flag Will Be Given G. M. C., ?nd Birthday of Alexader Stephens Will Be Observed. On Friday morning at 10:30 in the historic chapel of G. M. C , the Rob ert E. Lee Chapter cf the United Daughters of the Confederacy will commemorate the birthday of Alex ander Hamilton Stephens, vice- president of the Confederacy, and present to the college a Georgia flag. Mrs R. B. Moore, president of the chapter, has announced that Mrs. Frank Dennis, cf Eatonton, President cf the Georgia Division of the U. D. C., will make the principal address. She has been a close student cf the life of Stephens and is a most gift ed speaker. Mrs. David Ferguson will present the flag of Georgia to Col Jenkins, president of the college. A musical program has been ar- raneed by Maj. Godfrey Osterman and Mrs. Mildred Porter, members of the music department of the college A leature will be the Georgia Song, written by Mrs. Herbert Franklin, of Tennille, which will be sung bv the student body. The cadet band will play several numbers. The public is cordially invited to these exercises. CORPS AREA COMMANDER TO INSPECT CADETS NEXT MONDAY Col. Gordon R. Catts. Commander of R. O. T. C. for the Fourth Corps Area to Visit College. Col. Gordon R. Catts. commander c.f the Reserve Officers Training Corps, with headquarters at Fort McPherson will make his first offi cial visit and inspection det corps of G. M. C. cn next Mon day. Col. Catts succeeded Col. Reed last year and this is his first visit to the college. He is recognized ROOSEVELT GROUP DEMANDS PRIMARY PRESBYTERIAN MEN NAME COACH RENTZ PRESIDENT OF ORGANIZATION Rev. Janies M. Teres I Principal Speaker at Gathering o€ Organisa tion Last FrMay Evening. The men of the Presbyterian Church named Coach Thomas H. Rentz president of their organization for the coming year at tor annual meeting last Friday evening more than 75 men gathered around the banquet table in the Masonk club. Other officers named were Eu gene Brannen, vice-president and Stacey Bristow, secretary and treas- Maj. Sam Whatley, retiring presi dent, presided. A musical program arranged by Mrs. Mildred Porter, feature violin selections by llaj. Godfrey Osterman, a novelty num ber by George Blanco, Cuban ca det and Mrs. Graham Batchelor, so prano. Rev. James M. Teresi, paster of the Baptist church, was the princi pal speaker. He chose as his subject “ Utilizing Man Power in the Church.” He said there was a chal lenge to men to the service of Christ and appealed to toe men to devote their lives to Christ and his church. A number of impromptu speeches ere made. Rev. Oakey, pastor of the church, made a most interesting and inspiring talk. The dinner was planned and ar ranged by Circle 5 cL* the Presby terian Auxiliary, Mrs. George Carp enter, chairman. A formal demand that the Democratic State Executive Com mittee authorize a Presidential Preference Primary was made by the Gecrgia Rccseve’.t Advisory Committee at its meeting in At lanta. Roosevelt group leaders are shown above at the meeting: le».t to right. Judge Newt A. Morris of Marietta, Secretary of the Roosevelt Committee; Marion H Allen (standing) of Milledgeville, Dircctcr of the Gecrgia Roosevelt Campaign, and Judge A. V. Lovett of Savannah. Chairman of the Roosevelt Committee. —COURTESY ATLANTA JOURNAL Col. Marion Allen to Open Campaign Headquarters in Atlanta PLANS MADE FOR Dmud Mile m Slate CmuhUh for Prafcrcatial Primary. Col. TOURNEY HERE G. M. €. Wfl Play Nma* Pafk Fab. 27 ■ Fnft Cast af Jaaior CaMa«t Basket BalTearvuMat (VfrMi At Mim Telegraph) Plane fer the annual state junior college basketball tournament which will be held on the Georgia Military College court in Milledgeville, Feb. 27, .28, 29, were completed Monday by representatives of the Associa tion of Georgia Junior Colleges as they met in Macon. Coaches and athletic directors cf schools holding membership in the recently reorganized group drew pairings for the basketball tourna ment; discussed adopting a constitu tion at their next meeting; rules for the basketball tournament tourna ment officials, and trophies for toe Milledgeville court event. T. H. "Slap" Rentz, G. M. C. ath letic director and chairman of the basketball tournament’s arrange ment committee presided over the group and the representatives first (Continued on back page) Union-Recorder Becomes A Member of Associated Press By W. F CALDWELL, Southern Division News Editor (The Associated Preoo) Atlanta, Feb. 12—(AP)—The Un ion-Recorder, one of toe outstanding weekly newspapers of Georgia, ha*: been elected to membership in the Associated Press It is the first weekly newspaper in the state to join the great world wide organization which the news papers formed to insure the free flow of news—truthful, unbiased, uninfluenced. non-partisan and non-political. This brings the paper into that eriat family of newspaper, banded together in a non-profit organization to exchange among thcmseivi one of the outstanding officers of plrte and accurate accounts of the the army. He will -pend all of Mon- | news- state, national and world- day here and make an inspection wide. of the cadets and college. This in- 1 In it mere than 100 years section is preleminary to the Hon-1 vice to the people cf Baldwin and or School inspection which come*? in surrounding C{ ^ un i Recorder and its predecessor sled in I evrrvthing that pertained to the up- Maj. Frank Mansfield. P.M.S.&T.' ending of this section, and the at the college said the ntspection s t a te. would consume all of Monday. Joining the Associated Press Is continuation of the paper’s unbroken record of progressive improvement. The Georgia Press Association last year honored Robert Boling Moore among the 50-year Editors in this State. Mr. Moore has been connect ed with The Union-Recorder since 1884. when he was 16 years of age. He was made Associate Editor with | The Laur» his father. Jere N. Mocre. in 1880.! domandim! a primary in Georgia ami and became editor on the death of | pledgcd their support to the re-elcc- his father Ui 19 J>2 tion of President Hooscvelt. Co! Associated with Mr. Moore is his son, Jere N. Moore, who bears the; was the principal speakei at same name as his grandfather. He j this meeting and was repeatedly ap- Col. Marion Allen Atlanta Tuesday after conferring with the committee of 28 named to plan for the re-election of Preaident Rosevelt and announced that velt Headquarters would be opened in the Henry Grady Hctel next Monday morning. Col. Allen said today that o.tly volunteer workers would be used in toe office and that already there had been more offers than were need ed. With hundreds of telegrams and letters yet unanswered, the local at torney tackled this job Wednesday in an effort to clear his desks so that he can return to Atlanta Fri day a.’temoon. Formal demands were rradv 03 Col. Allen upon Hugh Howeii, chair- of the Democratic Executive Committee of Georgia, asking that presidential preferential primary be called In Georgia In order that the voters might express their choice for the Democratic nomination at the ballot box. Chairman Howell said the committee would meet soon and give due consideration to the de mand. Cd. Allen said Mr. Howell gave no answer at all and that it would appear that the state com mittee will not conduct a primary. At the meeting in Atlanta, the committee of 28 Georgians passed a resolution giving Col. Allen “full complete and plenary powers’* to manage and direct the campaign. The committee pledged its full co operation. Cel. Allen concluded n busy two weeks last Saturday with an ad dress before the Laurens Countv Roosevelt Club, of 3,000 members, in a rally at the Dublin court house. Club passed resolutions NUMBER 25 'MSS. ANNA COOK LAID TO REST ; Beloved Citizen Pxxiei Away at Home Sunday Afternoon, Fob- eral Services Held Tmesday. Hundreds cf srrrowing friends paid a final tribute to the life of one cf Baldwin county’s most beloved citizen^ Tuesday morning February 11th, when funeral services wrere held fer Mrs. Anna Mariah Green Cock at the Methodist church. Mrs. Cook passed away quietly at ler home in Midway, close to the cones where she had spent almcst i hundred years, late Sunday after noon after an illness of a week. Mrs. Cook was stricken last week with an heart attack, but she was thought to improve and hope for her recov ery was strenghtened by her indomi table courage, but her vitality grad ually yeilded and the end came. Tuesday morning th** bedy was brought to the First Methodist church fer the final rites. The casket was banked with floral tributes that came from people of every walk in life as testimonial of love and es teem. The church that she loved and served was the scene of the service. Rev. Horace Smith, pastor of the church. Rev. John Yarbrough, form er pastor and Dr. Elam F. Dempsey, also a frrmer pastor, conducted the services. Rev. Smith read the scrip ture lesson and Rev. Yarbrough said the prayer. Dr. Dempsey de livered the eulogy. Dr. Dempsey paid a tribute to the life of Mrs. Cook that was devoted to the service of her Master. She had been a member of the Metho dist church for more than 75 years and was always present' at every rervice. She was a devoted mother and was always an example of Christian wetpanhood in toe family circle, 'fire minister reviewed the long and useful life of Mrs. Cook which fcogan on jbfp, IMA. 82 years ago. The body was bone to its last resting place by her grandma. Messrs Ansell Cook, Atlanta; Sam started work on the paper in 1921 and has been associated in the edi torial management since 1926 Jere Mocre is outstanding among ihe yrunger newspaoriTnen of Geor gia. He was unanimously elected vice-nrerident of the Gecrgia Press Association at its convention in Carrollton last June. The Press Association will hold its nr**t mreting in Milledgeville and The Union-Recorder .*nd the citizens of Milledgeville arc plan ning a great program for that oc- koefc page) plauded as he declared Rocsevclt would be renominated and re-elect ed. He said the delegation to the national convention frem Georgia would vote first and last for Presi dent Roosevelt, but only one ballot would be needed for his renomina tion. Col. Allen has conferred with the President in Washington and last Friday met General Farley in Sa vannah for a conference. He has been literally swamped with tele grams and letters pledging support. CANNNG PLANT TO OPEN AGAIN NEXT SATURDAY 'arm Ageat Urges Farmers to Hate fer Canning Days and Says Want Will Operate Weekly. The canning plant at the fair ground, that was opened last year as a community project in this coun ty, will be opened for the first tone this year on next Saturday, Mr. W. Y. Cook, farm agent, has announced. Mr. Cook said a number of farm ers had already announced plam to can beef of Saturday. He said toe plant would be operated as many days and as often as necessary to meet the needs and demands of the farmers. He asked all fanners to notify him when they would be ready to can and on what days they desired to do their canning. The county purchased a modern cannery last year and installed it in one of the buildings at the fair ground. Several thousand gallons of vegetables, meat and other farm products were canned (Jurlrg toe year. The plant gave the farmers an ooportunity to utilize and save their surplus products of the farm and was one of the most important im provements in this county for the benefit of the farmer during toe year. Mr. Cook says he hopes the farm ers will make their plans to use the cannery more this year. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA TRANSFER CO.. 1IA8 LARGE FLEET OF TRUCKS The Central of Georgia Transfer Co., has this week added a new truck to its fleet that is one of the largest and best equipped in toe state. Mr. Charlie Pennington, manager, maintains a complete hauling and moving services for this city and county, the trucks handling a large volumn of business locally and transported freight from this citv to other points for local concerns. The trucks are all enclosed and have large van cabs to insure protection to the freight and exoress. The companv has this week added vo cabs and have opened the Dime Cab Co., offering taxi service any where in the city Cor 10c. I ----- ^